Chapter 41: Whose Hand
The material of the rope is different from the one we carry. It's pitch black, it looks shiny, and I don't know how the lazy thing held it before. At this moment, the lazy man and Hari Chagai and others also climbed up, and we had more or less the dirt from before, which was really unbearable, so we threw away our coats, and the weather suddenly became a little cold.
The one-eyed dragon was knocked unconscious at this moment, and Harichagai sat on the shoulder of the stone statue with a wolf face, and the equipment bag on his back kept agitating, as if it contained a bag of wriggling snakes. I said, "What to do with this?" "Such a time bomb, always on my back, always makes people feel worried.
The lazy man took the hanging rope in his hand, then used the end of the rope to tie the strap of the equipment bag, and then threw the equipment bag down. As a result, the thing was wrapped in equipment and hung in mid-air.
I suddenly felt that it was not appropriate, what if someone like an archaeological team came in and found an equipment bag hanging in the air, and then opened the bag to take a look, wouldn't it be ......
Of course, this idea is a bit far away, maybe time changes, and when this place collapses, it may not be discovered by the archaeological team.
Thinking of this, I turned my gaze to the black, oily rope above my head, apparently with some special treatment, and to this day, it is still extremely flexible, and I scratched it twice, and it was indeed very slippery. This kind of rope doesn't seem to be used for people to catch, it's so slippery, and it's too unsafe to grab.
Thinking of the way the lazy guy dragged this rope around in the air before, I couldn't help but secretly admire.
When the lazy man saw me looking at the rope, he said, "This rope is supposed to be used to transport things, and there used to be baskets or something like that at the end." "I thought about it, judging from the height of the stone statue, it is indeed impossible for people to enter and exit by hand. What's more, since this kind of peculiar human statue has a special meaning in the ancient Shu Kingdom and has been deified, it is impossible for them to crawl around on their own gods.
In this way, you can only use tools such as ropes to go up and down, and the upper wheel is the best proof, but the end of the rope should be a basket and other manned vehicles, but I am afraid that it has already decayed.
And this slippery rope also just reduces friction, which will be much more convenient when retracting and lowering.
The lazy man had gloves on his hands, and climbed up the rope first, and finally climbed the bronze wheels in his hands, and with his legs closed, he stood on the edge of the entrance above. From our vantage point, from a straight perspective, only his jaw can be seen.
The light in the lazy man's hand waved, as if he was checking his surroundings, and his expression was lazy, as if he didn't notice. After a few moments, he gestured at us and motioned for us to go up.
I walked in the last formation, letting the unconscious One-Eyed Dragon and Hari Chagai go up first, and I was the last.
When I went up to the top, I saw that this was a huge space, it was pitch black, and the flashlight was turned around, but I couldn't see the head, and the light went up, and I couldn't see the top.
Hongmao calculated our journey and said, "We started to go down, and now we are climbing up this stone statue, and I guess it's time to reach the ground." This place is so big, could it be the thing that Team Liu described? ”
Team Liu said that when they were a group of four people shuttling through the ancient city, they found a bronze tripod, and the inscription on the tripod recorded. In order to suppress 01, the people of the ancient city of Silkworm Swallowing started a grand project. This project consists of two parts: underground and above-ground, the underground is where we walked before, and the ground should be where we are now. Team Liu described it as a quadrangular flat-topped pyramid.
This ground building is a huge altar, and at a specific time, the sacrifice of the ancient city of Silkworm Swallowing will hold a large-scale sacrifice activity, and the object of sacrifice is the eye of the sky. They use this ritual to stimulate the power of the Eye of Heaven to suppress 01.
It suddenly occurred to me that 01 would escape later, could it be because the people in the ancient city of silkworms suddenly disappeared, so that Tianyan lost the power of sacrifice, so 01 escaped?
So why did the people of the ancient city of silkworms suddenly disappear?
I don't know what kind of structure this pyramid is inside, but according to Team Liu's previous description, what we see now must only be a part of the pyramid, and I don't know where Wen Min and the others are now.
I carried the one-eyed dragon on my back, and Hari Chagai used his staff as a crutch, walking slowly, the lazy man opened the way in front of me, to be honest, this time thanks to the lazy man, otherwise, we may not have survived until now.
Not long after walking, some shadows suddenly appeared in the dark space, like something was piled up, we couldn't help but speed up our pace, and as the distance and light got closer, the three of us couldn't help but be taken aback: coffin.
To be exact, not an ordinary coffin, but a black coffin. This kind of coffin is very precious, and only princes and nobles have always been eligible to enjoy it, but we didn't expect that there would be so many black kilns in front of our eyes.
This kind of coffin is very hard, buried in the ground or even put in water, it will not rot or moth for thousands of years, and the body can be protected from being eaten by maggots. If the burial place has excellent feng shui, it may be possible to keep the state of the wet corpse and lifelike.
At this moment, we had already reached the place against the wall, which was made of large stones, and on one side of the wall, there were no less than fifty or sixty black coffins neatly arranged. The coffin is not painted with black paint, but the color of the coffin itself, there is no smell in the air, but a unique fragrance of black kiln.
I took a deep breath, and I just felt refreshed, and the whole person felt refreshed for a moment. The smell of the coffin can smell so good, in addition to the pattern of 'yellow intestine inscription', it is estimated that only this kind of black kiln can be found.
Yellow intestine inscription is a kind of ancient royal burial system, yellow intestine refers to the yellow heart in the middle of the cypress, the coffin is surrounded by a wall with yellow intestine, covered with a roof, just like a house, as for the size of the house, it is set up according to the specifications of the tomb owner.
Think about it, the cypress has grown white for thousands of years, and the yellow heart in the middle is only a few centimeters or more than ten centimeters. If the size is larger, an entire area of primeval forest is often cut down.
Because there are too many cypress wood used in the yellow intestine inscription, and the cypress itself is insect-proof and moth-proof, with a fragrance, so when opening the underground palace, there is often a burst of fragrance attacking, this process, some people describe it as 'smelling a fragrance for a thousand years'.
The coffin in front of him, all of them are tightly sealed, look closely, all of them have been nailed, the boxy black coffin cover, there are vaguely many runes and other things, at that time it should be painted with cinnabar and other pigments, but at this moment it has faded, in the dark, the runes on the coffin, giving people a strange feeling. I couldn't help but think to myself: Could it be that these coffins contain the corpses of some evil sects, so they have to draw talismans on the coffins?
Our eyes swept over these coffins in turn, and soon, the eyes of the three of them were focused on one of the coffins at the same time, for no other reason, because the lid of this coffin was staggered, obviously opened by artificiality.
The most bizarre thing is that in the opening on the side of the coffin, a human hand is prominently pulled.
It was a human hand with slender fingers, small, slender, apparently a woman's hand.
The hand was already a little blue, and in some places, the tender white color could still be seen, and it was obvious that the owner of this hand was a woman who had died, and it should not have been long in death.
I chuckled in my heart, and then I felt my heart beat uncontrollably.
Who will be the person in the coffin?
Obviously, she can't be an ancient corpse, we are all experienced people, and we can almost tell the approximate time of death by looking at the color of that hand. It should be about a day, which is about the same time as Team Liu's mouth said.
Is it Lili, or Wen Min?
At this moment, the only thought in my mind was, don't be Wen Min. People are selfish, and most people hide this selfishness in ordinary times, and once they touch some bottom line or secret place, this selfishness will be completely exposed.
I don't even have the courage to take a step forward.
Hari Chagai looked at me, and when he saw that I didn't move, he said: "I'm afraid that there is a problem with these coffins, hurry up and see who is inside, you won't let me do anything with this sick number, right?" When he reminded me, I had to pull out my weapon and move forward.
Although her exact identity is not yet known, a person will die in a coffin, and it is obvious that something has happened. Thinking of the runes on the coffin, I couldn't help but wonder, could it be a corpse? So he was dragged into the coffin by the zongzi and killed?
When I walked towards the coffin, the lazy man was not idle, there was only a distance of about two steps between him and me, and soon, we stood next to the coffin, one left and one right. I took a deep breath and said to the lazy thing, "Open the coffin." ”
The coffin had already been opened, and on the ground next to it, there were a few scattered coffin nails, and in addition, there was a pool of blood.
The blood stains spread all the way to the coffin, but on the black coffin, the dark red blood was inconspicuous, so I didn't pay attention to it just now, but when I got closer, I could see very clear traces of the fight. On one side of the coffin, there were bullet marks, and apparently, there was also a shootout here.
Wen Min is a good hand at making guns, and seeing these bullet marks, I am even more worried about her.
Immediately afterward, the lazy man and I began to push the lid of the coffin, and we were careful throughout the process, and the lazy man's ears kept moving slightly, apparently listening to the movement in the coffin. If there was something like zongzi hidden in the coffin, he should have been able to find out in advance.