Guigu Wormhole Chapter 21 A Special Ancient Tomb
After listening to this, we felt that we really couldn't act recklessly, there were dangers everywhere in this ancient tomb, and if we were not careful, we might die. It's just that the scholar is a little dismissive of this, he said that he once found a famous gentleman to tell his fortune, and the fortune teller said that the storyteller is destined to be rich and noble in life, and he will live a long life. Since then, the scholar has lived more unscrupulously, completely with the face of a local tyrant.
After chatting like this for a while, there were a few words with the scholar, and the fourth master said that it should be about the same, so the four of them prepared to enter the dormitory to see who built the ancient tomb of the girl.
The four of us followed the previous method and pulled the bronze gate open with force. Then Yuguan entered the dormitory. The chamber was not as big as we thought, and the whole chamber was square. The flashlight shone past, and you could already see the surrounding stone walls. The top of this dormitory is actually arched, Lao Xu said, the ancients believed that the sky is round and the place will be built after death, and some exquisite tomb owners will also ask the craftsman to paint the stars into the top of the tomb when building the tomb, which is used to symbolize the sky, which means that the deceased can fly into the sky in the future and obtain eternal life.
The scholar didn't care whether the cemetery was round or square, his flashlight beam just swept back and forth in the tomb, turned around several times, and said, "Hey, that's not right? It stands to reason that there must be a coffin of the tomb owner in this dormitory. Why haven't you seen it at all? β
When I, Fourth Master Long, and Lao Xu heard the scholar's words, they also began to talk about shifting their attention from the top of the Vault Tomb to the interior of this dormitory. However, the light swept several times, and the coffin of the tomb owner was not found. It's weird. The tomb owner designed so many elaborate mechanisms in front of him, could it be to protect an empty house? This is also too counterintuitive.
We walked around the dormitory for a week, but we didn't see the coffin. There is nothing except that the four corners of the burial chamber are protruding yang corners and there is a stone tablet in the middle that resembles a god's seat. I originally wanted to study the stone stele, but before I could walk over, the fourth master suddenly called for us all to go over. I saw that the fourth master was in a corner, looking at the wall. It turned out that there was something strange on the stone wall. I shone my flashlight on it, and I saw that the stone wall was pitch black, as if ink had been spilled on it. Lao Xu looked at it and said, "It's nothing. The ancients knew how to obtain dyes from the sap of trees and use them to color utensils. Lacquerware already appeared in the Xia and Shang periods. In the Qin Dynasty, it was also a popular practice to paint utensils with black and vermilion. β
The fourth master said: "I am not interested in the history and development of lacquerware. Take a closer look. β
We all looked closely at the stone wall, and there was nothing mysterious about it except for the black. I was just about to ask the fourth master, but Lao Xu said in surprise: "Ah! Could it be... Yin-yang wall? β
"What is a yin-yang wall?" The scholar asked.
"Actually, it's simply two walls. In some ancient tombs, the tomb owner will build two layers of walls in the tomb for some considerations, so that it can prevent moisture and insects, and secondly, it can set up traps or hide treasures between the two walls. Lao Xu said.
I stared at the stone wall that the fourth master began to point out to us, and after Lao Xu's guidance, I found that there was a very small hole in the stone wall as black as ink. If you dig such a small hole in your own wall, it will still be obvious. It's just that in the ancient tomb in this cave deep in the mountain, the light is not enough, and the outer wall is painted black, and it is difficult to find it by flashlight, and I don't know how the fourth master found such a small hole in these four walls. The hole is smaller than the little finger, and when you shine a flashlight on it, you can look through it as if there is still room inside.
This stone wall is very hard to the touch, but when you dig it hard with a dagger, it is very brittle. It didn't take long for the four of us to dig a large area around the small hole. The tomb wall really has a mezzanine! It seems that this tomb owner really adopted the yin and yang wall that Lao Xu said. At first, we were always worried about something, but then we found out that there was nothing abnormal, so we were relieved to do it boldly. The four of them took turns working and soon almost completely peeled off one wall. The wall of the tomb, which had been hidden for 2,000 years, was finally revealed.
The interior walls are not painted in any color, they are original stone walls. The dagger drew vigorously this time, but it was only a faint white mark. However, there are many murals painted on the inner walls. On this inner wall we are facing, three paintings are painted in vermilion color. It seems to describe a tall man, riding a large bird, directing a large number of people on the ground to dig a mountain in mid-air. Later, the bird rider went by boat to a distant place. At the foot of the mountain, the people who had been digging the mountain knelt down together to worship a person sitting at the top of the mountain.
The paintings on this stone wall are completely different from the murals we saw when we first came down from the gourd cave. The figures in this mural are delicately depicted, and the rendering of colors makes the mural more visually impactful. We wanted to scrape all the other walls open to see if there were murals on the other three walls. But as soon as he tried to chisel open the sunny corner of the building where the two walls intersected, a vision appeared.
I don't know if we triggered some mechanism or something else, but a sigh was clearly heard in the dormitory. This sigh is like the voice of a man in a very helpless and desperate situation. We all stopped our daggers and looked around for the source of the sound. It's just that after this voice came out, it actually fell silent. The fourth master said: "Everyone be careful, this voice is not far from us." β
The four of us didn't dare to be careless, and we formed a circle back to back, vigilantly on guard. Suddenly, the yang horns in the four corners of the burial chamber cracked together, and then there were several loud bangs. We were all taken aback by the sudden situation, and when we reacted, it turned out that the four corners of the tomb, between the yin and yang walls, were actually sandwiched between the yin and yang walls, and each was a bronze coffin. Now the corner of the sun is cracked, and all the vertical coffins have fallen, just enclosing the stone tablet in the middle.
"Heyβ" We heard the grumbling sigh again, and this time, because of our high concentration, we finally made out the place where the sigh was made, and it was none other than the stone tablet in the middle.
"Holy shit, it can't be the owner of the tomb who woke up, right? We are uninvited, and we have made the master unhappy. The scholar stared at the stele closely. The fourth master ignored the scholars, but focused his attention on the bronze coffin closest to us.
"Is this bronze coffin sleeping the fourth aunt of the tomb owner? Let's stop watching other families quarrel here, or let's withdraw first? The scholar was a little scared.
In fact, I also beat the drum in my heart, but in front of the fourth master and Lao Xu, I didn't want to show my cowardice easily, and I was still stiff. This is so fucking evil. Now that the scholar has given a step, I will go down the slope and get off the donkey, and I also propose that the hero should not suffer the immediate loss, so it is better to preserve his strength first and avoid the enemy's edge.
But before I could finish speaking, I didn't know what was going on, and the door of the dormitory suddenly closed automatically! This is a fucking play of shutting down the door and beating the dog. I couldn't take care of it anymore, so I ran over and pushed the door hard, but I couldn't open it at all. Finished! This is really called the heaven and the earth. Immediately after, there was movement in the four coffins, as if someone was constantly beating the sealing plate inside. I broke out in a cold sweat all of a sudden, and among the four people, except for the fourth master, who still had the usual cold expression, the faces of the three were green.
"Old... Lao Xu, you tell the truth to the Sprinkle family, have you ever encountered it when you were archaeology... Ghost? The scholar was obviously too nervous, and his voice began to be out of tune, especially the word "ghost", which was simply said through gritted teeth.
"It's all about now, and you're not serious yet. Timid is not archaeology, archaeology is not afraid of ghosts. What the hell is it, I met it today, so I'll fight to the death with him. Lao Xu's words were very uplifting, which made us feel a little confident all of a sudden.
The four bronze coffins turned into bumps from the slapping just now, as if the contents were suffocated, and they kept tumbling and tossing. Then I saw as if the bottom of the coffin was starting to ooze black liquid. The liquid grew more and more, and began to spread along the smooth ground. Behind us was the door of the dormitory, but we couldn't push it open, and seeing that the liquid was about to flow over, everyone had to abandon this retreat, which was no longer a retreat, and instead walked towards the stone tablet in the middle.
But the black liquid spread faster and faster, and we all had to stand on the stone monument one after another. I didn't care about any sighs at the moment, at least I avoided the black liquid that didn't look like a good stubble. As if agreed, the lords of the four coffins broke the lid of the coffin almost as the black liquid filled the entire tomb floor! The four of us were each in one direction, shining a flashlight on the coffin facing each other. The lid of my coffin has been pushed aside, and at this moment it seems that a pair of miserable white "hands" are towering on the coffin. My heart was in my throat, and my eyes could no longer leave those "hands", and I didn't care about the situation of the coffin that the three of them were facing. The coffin I was facing didn't appear as I imagined, a zombie with unkempt hair and a pale face. Due to the lack of lighting, the vision was blocked, and I could vaguely see that it seemed to be a ball of flesh that bounced out and fell to the ground.
I quickly shone a flashlight on it, and what was lying on the ground was a white ball of flesh with five or six things that looked like hands. I yelled and turned around and pulled the three of them over to take a look. The three of them had no time to take care of me, and I followed their flashlights to see a monster lying on the ground on the other three sides of the ground that looked exactly like me.
"What the fuck is this?!" I tightened my grip on the dagger and leaned back hard, trying to maintain a defensive formation with the three of them back-to-back.
"Holy shit! There's this stuff here! It's troublesome..."The fourth master saw these four white meat balls, and his expression also changed. Although the fourth master's position in the team is not as professional as Lao Xu, his skills and experience far exceed the three of us, and he has always had a confident and worldly expression, which makes us feel very secure. Now his expression and tone have changed, and it is enough to break the faith we have just built. It can also be seen from this that the four white meat balls in front of him are definitely not idle people.