Chapter 41: The Earth
Fortunately, everyone was not a timid person, except for Tofu, of course, and after calming down, he regathered in one place, turned the light on the female corpse, and walked next to her. At this time, I took a closer look, and I immediately found that this was a genuine ancient corpse, but the bizarre thing was that although the face of the corpse had been bruised, the muscles were still plump, as if she had not died soon, and the clothes she was wearing were also skirts from the Ming Dynasty, with gold and silver threads embroidered with peonies. Zhen Ji blinked, couldn't help but reach out and touch the clothes of the female corpse, and said in a low voice: "It's the real thing of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that this is an ancient corpse." ”
At this moment, due to the close proximity of us, the angle of examining the female corpse also changed, and in an instant, we found another unusual place. The female corpse was sitting on a dark wooden chair, and there was another dark wooden chair next to her, which seemed to be intended for other people to sit on, but there was no one in the chair, but it was covered with a large black cloth torn from nowhere, as if something had been placed in the chair to cover it.
Gu Wenmin's eyes were sharp, and suddenly he sighed, his fingers trembled a little, pointed to the side of the female corpse's ear, and said, "Look, her face is sewn up." ”
Sewn up?
These words frightened me, and I couldn't help but look away at the female corpse's ear, and sure enough, I saw a seam in the forehead, hairline, ears, and jaw, sewing a whole circle, as if a human face was sewn on it. Seeing this, I suddenly had an idea in my heart.
To confirm this idea, I immediately grabbed the woman's hand and smoothed her sleeve.
This bold move puzzled Zhen Rui next to him, and said, "What to do?" ”
I said, my men didn't stop, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be one of the two corpses." Everyone was shocked, and they also followed my movements and looked down, but when they saw that the sleeves were smoothed up, they saw that the hands of the female corpse were also sewn together with needles and threads, and the broken bones were also nailed up by a thin iron nail.
Then we looked down one by one, and the clothes on the female corpse were a little messy by us, and soon, we searched from head to toe, and the results were shocking, because this female corpse even had signs of stitching on the stomach.
Tofu looked puzzled and said, "Lao Chen, didn't you say that the two corpses were in trouble, and the corpses were decomposed and buried?" Why was this woman's corpse sewn back and placed here? ”
I didn't answer, I already had the answer in my heart, Zhen Rui is a smart person, obviously understood, and answered the question of tofu.
Just now, we saw so many traces of life on the ground, and we couldn't figure out why Grandpa's group stayed here for so long, but now that we think about it, things are clear at a glance. My skills are all taught by my grandfather, and even I can see this pair of corpses, how can my grandfather not know it? The group of them must have to break the evil situation of the double corpses first, so they used this room as a base to start collecting the scattered corpses.
Of course, how did Grandpa accurately find the burial place of the Double Corpse Ground, this is a very puzzling question, maybe some of them know the overall situation of the Yashan Treasure Palace, or it may be that they are a group of capable people who have figured it out by themselves, but now they don't know what the truth is.
And the female corpse in front of him, which was re-stitched, is obviously the credit of grandpa.
When Tofu heard this, he seemed to remember something, his eyes suddenly turned to the side of the female corpse, and said, "On the chair next to it, could it be ......" I nodded, didn't say anything, walked to the chair next to the female corpse, suddenly stretched out his hand, and lifted the curtain above, and in an instant, a thin male corpse appeared in front of us.
The male corpse was no more plump than the female corpse, with a rickety body, atrophied muscles, no clothes on it, and its hands and feet were sewn together in the same way, and the feet with black boots were the same ones that everyone had seen before. I was shocked, and when I looked up, I saw a familiar face, the face of the human skin lantern, with a stiff and numb expression, and a slightly open mouth, as if to tell of silent pain.
Tofu was startled, and while chanting Amitabha, he said: "These two corpses seem to have been collected by Old Man Chen, in this case, what is the matter with those we met before?" Why do they still come out and make trouble? I was also a little puzzled for a while, and after thinking about it, I said: It stands to reason that in order to completely crack the double corpse land, the corpses must be burned in the end.
It's impossible for Grandpa not to know this, so why didn't he burn the body?
I looked at the stitched corpses of a man and a woman in front of me, puzzled, and at this moment, Gu Wenmin said the key in one word, saying: "These two corpses, why are the male corpses not wearing clothes?" Could it be that there are still some parts that have not been collected? Her words reminded me that everyone's eyes searched the man's body like a brush for a while, with hands, feet, face, and eyes.
My eyes rested on the corpse's crumpled form, and it suddenly occurred to me that there was one place we hadn't checked, and that was the corpse's belly.
Thinking like this, I put on my gloves, grabbed the corpse's shoulders and pulled them up, so that his rickety body stood up, and this upright, the rest of the people changed their faces, Tofu covered his mouth and took a step back, and said, "There are no intestines." When I heard this, I understood, let go of my hand, and said, "It seems that this double corpse game has not been completely broken, and there is still one thing that has not been collected." ”
Gu Wenmin's expression was worried, and he said, "Old Man Chen and the others used this as a base, but they didn't come back, could it be ...... Could it be that something went wrong on the way to find the last thing? "What she thought was exactly the same as what I thought, when I thought that my grandfather and others had collected these two corpses, but failed in the last step, my heart suddenly sank, and I had the urge to skin and tear apart the bones of the people who built this Lishan Treasure Palace.
Of course, Wu Yanshi has been dead for hundreds of years, maybe the white bones in the coffin of the snake's nest belong to Wu Yanshi himself, and after his death, he was occupied by a poisonous snake, which can be regarded as his own sin.
It was Zhen Rui who reacted first and began to plan how to get the contents of the man's corpse back. Things are back to square one, we don't know the structure of the Yashan Treasure Hall, so we can't determine where the rest of the things are buried, perhaps, by following this clue, I can find my grandfather's bones.
After thinking about it, everyone couldn't do anything, so I could only say: "Let's follow the original plan, find a high ground, and take a look down on the situation before making plans." Just as we were about to leave, Zhong Gong suddenly found that the female corpse, at some point, turned her head.
He had always been calm and reliable, and when he saw this, he screamed in fright, and the rest of us turned back in shock. Zhong Gong hadn't seen Zongzi deceive the corpse, so after a short period of fright, he had already recovered and pulled out the cold weapon he was carrying.
However, what makes us strange is that the female corpse did not move except for her head inexplicably. Gu Wenmin's mind was quick, and he suddenly said: "Before, it was the singing that attracted us, and then Xiao Dou was pushed by something unknown, as if something was deliberately leading us into this place, and the Eight Achievements were it." ”
When Tofu heard this, he said, "Could it be that this tragic beauty wants to sue us for something?" ”
When I heard this, I couldn't help but look closely at the face of the female corpse, because of the blue face, I couldn't see it if it was not beautiful, but in terms of face shape alone, it was a beautiful melon seed face, at this moment, it was originally facing the head of the mirror, slightly biased to the left, sunken eye sockets, a pair of shrunken eyeballs, and looked at the darkness on the left side without blinking.
When I looked into her gaze, I saw that there was a pillar in that place, and a curtain was tied to the pillar, which blocked most of her vision. We hadn't had time to explore that location before, but now we saw the female corpse staring straight at that place, and several of us glanced at each other, and then we all walked towards that location.
Several headlamps were turned on at the same time, and the light was still sufficient, and as the distance closed, the place was revealed, which was a table, surrounded by several stools, and on which there were some half-used pencils and a blank piece of paper.
Pencil?
White?
My heart moved, of course, paper is used to record things, these pencils and white paper, I think it was left by my grandfather and his party, and it is very important for us to be able to see the text information here. However, when I took a closer look, I was stunned for a moment, only to feel that my heart was pounding, there was not much text on it, but it was a floor plan, and at the top, the words "Yashan Treasure Palace" were written.
Gu Wenmin exclaimed in a low voice: "It's the map of the Yashan Treasure Palace, oh my God, how could they have this." ”
This is a plan, the drawing is relatively rough, but I look at it from my grandfather's handwriting, because archaeologists often draw the structure of the tomb, so they are very good at plane drawing, even if the map is scribbled, but the important places are clearly marked.
According to the floor plan, the structure of the whole Lishan Treasure Palace, composed of six parts, is the pattern of three palaces, three sides of the east, west and south, and there are three rectangular buildings arch guards, and the treasure hall in the center is divided into three large buildings like the Forbidden City, with a very typical palace-style architectural style in the late Ming Dynasty.
At this moment, we are located at the junction of the first and second houses, and the rest of the palace buildings are replaced by dots, which seem to be inconsequential, roughly representing gardens and plants.