Chapter 179: The Mysterious Tomb
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Hengshan Town, Hengshan County, is located in the narrow strip of northern Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia on the left, Shanxi on the right, the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert, at the foot of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, in the middle reaches of the Wuding River.
As we said earlier, this Hengshan County was once called Huaiyuan County, which has a long history dating back to the Xia and Shang periods, and its historic sites and civilizations are numerous, and later even the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang that shocked the world was found in Shaanxi. But as everyone knows, just a few decades ago, in Hengshan County, Shaanxi Province, a double-layer tomb pit with no date was found, which was far larger than the area of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but because of some of these reasons, it is still a state secret and has never been obtained by ordinary people.
Hengshan County has jurisdiction over the Wei wall to the south of the Mu Us Desert, encountering bad weather, yellow sand is flying all over the sky, and people who hang can't open their eyes and can't go out at all. Just on the edge of the desert near the county seat, there is a spectacle, commonly known locally as Shaba, which is a pile of sand that is blown by the wind. This sand bar encloses a small village with only a few dozen people, but leaves a flat exit in the east, from the exit due east, the sand bar that surrounds the village on three sides is particularly neat, the length and height are basically equal, and it seems to be artificially constructed, people who are familiar with this place will subconsciously understand that this sand bar is only built by the people who lived in the small village in the past to resist the wind and sandstorm, but this matter is far from so simple.
It happened that an archaeological team was excavating a monument near the Wei Wall, and while chatting with nearby villagers, they overheard about Nashaba. It can be said that the speaker has no intention of listening, and the archaeologists are particularly sensitive to those monuments, so they quickly took out their notebooks to record them, and got many useful clues from the villagers present.
The annular sand bar is about a dozen square kilometers of flat terrain, because the sand bar can indeed resist the fierce sandstorm attack, since many years ago there have been many herders settled in it, and then gradually formed a small village, the population is not too much, and there is a strange village name, called the thunder village.
Generally speaking, the name of this place is related to certain events, people, or geographical topography, and this thunder village is the same. Although the sand bar can withstand strong winds, there will be lightning strikes from time to time, although no one has been injured, but there is always a knife hanging over the head, maybe one day unlucky will let the thunder chop to death. Occasionally, you can see the rare lightning ball drifting through the house and into the ground, and then you can feel the sand and gravel shaking under your feet, and if you listen carefully, it seems that there are many people screaming and howling, which is really a little scary.
Because of all kinds of incredible descriptions, the curiosity of the archaeological team increased more and more. The next day, they went to the village of Thunder in Shaba, and after some visits and field investigations, they came to a surprising conclusion that the circular sand bar here was artificially constructed, and it was actually flowing sand on the surface, but inside it was a special red clay that had hardened, presumably before the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, when the sand bar monuments were identified, an old expert was trapped in the quicksand, but after being rescued by others, he found that it was not quicksand, but a layer of earth shell that was trampled on, revealing fragments such as bricks and tiles, which led to the large-scale archaeological excavation in full swing later.
At first, this was defined as the ruins of the ancient city of Border Pass, but through preliminary excavations, some human bones, horse bones and a large number of utensils were unearthed, all of which were in the burial pit, one pit after another, and I don't know how big the scale is. But just as the excavation took place, as soon as a slightly larger burial pit was dug up, a large amount of blood and water immediately gushed out of the pit, instantly filling the excavated pit, and many strange things seemed to be wriggling in the muddy water, which scared away the peasants who were working on the scene, and also alarmed the central leadership, who sent researchers, scholars and soldiers who had returned from overseas to take over the place, and ordered that no information about the ancient tomb be revealed. Because of this order, those locals naturally could no longer use it, so they called the grave relocation teams of nearby provinces and cities to carry out excavation work, which is why the fourth child was called to work.
Because strange phenomena have appeared, great care has been taken in the process of excavating the ancient tombs. The red water gushing out of the grave and the wriggling strange things were also investigated, but the groundwater was mixed with some minerals and some strange insects poured out of the ground, and there was nothing too strange about it, which made the archaeological team feel relieved.
But there is a problem, there are so many experts present, but it has never been known what period and which dynasty built this ancient tomb, and the tombs of the ancient tomb are also very strange in form, completely different from the ancient tombs of the past dynasties they know, and it feels like it is a school of its own, but there is a strong Han culture in it.
There are two heavyweight archaeological experts who have returned from abroad, and the small team composed of them has been making good progress, and the fourth brother and his brother are lucky to be selected by one of the professors surnamed Guan, who are doing fine work, and there are also sheds blocking the sun, and the food is good, in short, it is much stronger than those who pick soil all day long.
One day, while cleaning a burial pit with Professor Guan, they found a stone slab lying flat, carved into the shape of a door that could be pushed open. Professor Guan studied for a long time and said that this may be some kind of symbolic door, connecting to a certain world underground, and the most likely is the Shura Hell. I felt that this stone slab had special research value, and I was going to carry it out for more detailed research, but what I didn't expect was that after the stone slab was removed, there was a passage slightly smaller than the stone gate below, leading straight to the ground, and I couldn't see what was underneath.
After some discussion, it was thought that it should be the first level of the burial chamber or the double burial pit, but I had to send someone down to check it out in person. Professor Guan is a doer, he does his work by himself, because this hole was discovered by his team, so he personally brought a few people to be put down by the rope to check, just brought four brothers from the grave team, a total of five people were put down in turn.
The rope was put for more than ten meters before it came to an end, and the people on it were a little expecting Professor Guan to find out, but just after they went down, the sky suddenly darkened, and after a while, the clouds were thick, and the gray and lead-colored thick clouds floated from the northwest, and there was a thick moisture, which looked like it was going to rain heavily.
But the people at the scene were not too worried, because they were prepared for the rain in advance, but just when the lead cloud was at the top, the sky rumbled, and the ears of the people who shook were painful, and then a red bright spot fell from the clouds, which seemed to be very light and slow, and fell slowly, and actually passed through the shed in front of everyone's eyes, and got into the dirt under their feet, and then the earth trembled, and a piercing cry like a ghost crying wolf came up from the hole where Professor Guan had gone down.