Volume 2 The Eye of the Deep Chapter 84 Moonstone

In fact, I still have a grudge against Yuan An, and I don't believe too much in his words, so I looked at the second uncle, and the second uncle nodded lightly at me. I did as Yuan An said, so I followed him to the entrance of the cave.

Yuan An took the lead and jumped in one step. I pulled Lantern Xiao over, and Lantern Xiao waved his hand again and again, "I'm still the last ....." I knew what he wanted to say, and I didn't wait for him to finish speaking, so I stuffed him into the hole.

Only me and the second uncle are left outside, and I feel that I have always been the object of care and accommodation all the way over, so this time I can't help but insist on the queen of the palace, and the second uncle has no choice, as long as I go into the cave one step ahead of me.

I was going to see where the dried corpse had gone, but as soon as I turned around, a shriveled face almost touched my nose. I felt my scalp explode, and for a split second I felt my heart stop. Before I could make a sound, I was knocked into the hole by a corpse.

I stumbled into the hole, my head hit the cave wall hard, and I immediately felt a gold star in my eyes, thanks to the second uncle below who held me up.

I felt dizzy and looked up, only to see a shriveled head poking out of the hole, opening two black holes and looking at me.

Although these eyes have no eyeballs, these two deeply sunken eye sockets highlight a sense of depth, and I feel that these two hollow eye sockets exude an eerie chill, a chill that invades the bone marrow. I can't help but feel soft under my feet.

I pointed to the dried corpse lying at the entrance of the cave, "Is that thing going to follow?" ”

The second uncle shook his head, "Don't worry, the dry corpse is hardened, most of the joints on the body can no longer be bent, this hole is so small, it can't get in!" ”

I was a little relieved and followed them along this yin and yang road, but I still looked back from time to time, for fear that the shriveled face would suddenly appear behind me.

This so-called yin-yang road is wider than I imagined, and although I can't stand up straight, it's still much bigger than the average thief hole.

The Yinyang Road was originally built to connect the outside world with the main burial chamber, so there are generally no mechanisms set up in it. So we had a smooth journey and soon came to the other end of the road.

The exit of this road was pressed with a bluestone slab, and several of us pushed it up together, and with a "rumbling", the bluestone slab was lifted aside.

We first tested the air quality of the tomb above, this step can not be forgotten at any time, a little careless, may be wasted, the whole army is wiped out.

Seeing that there was no problem with the air quality, we crawled out of the hole one by one and began to look at the tomb in front of us. According to our speculation, this is the main burial chamber in the entire underground part of the mausoleum.

And the burial chamber in front of us does conform to some of the characteristics of the main burial chamber, the space here is the largest of these burial chambers we have passed, both in height and width, can only be described in two words, that is, magnificent!

We were sighing, and suddenly we heard the second uncle say, "Look at the top." "When we looked up, we saw a little starlight on the top of the dark tomb, dotted with stars, shining brightly. We seem to be under the vast sea of stars, which is really refreshing and exciting.

Lantern Xiao stared blankly at the strange scene on the top of the tomb, and muttered to herself, "Could it be that we have already reached the ground?" ”

"No," I said, but I couldn't take my eyes off the scene above my head, "This should be the ancient Chinese star map, I read related books when I was in school, but the earliest Chinese ancient star map that people found was from the hand of Li Chunfeng in the Tang Dynasty, but I didn't expect that such an ancient star map had appeared as early as the Qin Dynasty." If this spreads, the entire world archaeological community will be a sensation! ”

Lantern Xiao sighed and said, "What kind of gem is used as a star on the top of this tomb, it can shine in such a dark place, it can't be the legendary pearl of the night!" ”

I smiled, "If we can find so many night pearls at once, our wealth will be able to enter the 'unconvinced' ranking!" ”

Lantern Xiao also smiled, "Then our buddies will make a fortune!" ”

Yuan An suddenly sneered, "Stop daydreaming!" It's not a pearl of the night at all! ”

My expressions and Lantern Xiao's expressions immediately froze, "Then what is this?" ”

The second uncle said next to him: "This is actually a moonstone. ”

"Moonstone?" Lantern Festival and I looked at each other.

"Yes," the second uncle nodded, "This moonstone is a kind of gemstone, it has a moonlight effect, its indication can scatter and diffract visible light, so it can achieve an effect similar to the night pearl, but this kind of stone is still very different from the night pearl, the night pearl itself can emit light, but the moonstone shines because of the visible light around it, such as the electric light in our hands now." ”

After listening to the words of the second uncle and Yuan An, Lan Xiao and I were both a little disappointed, "Second uncle, what you said is true or false, you can't be mistaken, right?" ”

The second uncle said: "Actually, it's very simple, as long as we turn off all the flashlights and plunge the tomb into absolute darkness, these moonstones will no longer shine. As he spoke, the second uncle turned off the flashlight, and the others also turned off the flashlight one after another, and suddenly the tomb became pitch black, and when we looked up at the top of the tomb again, the ancient star map that was still shining just now was completely dimmed at this time, without any light.

The results of the experiment were already very obvious, and we turned on the flashlight again. Lantern Xiao looked a little depressed at this time, "Alas, how much can these moonstones be worth?" ”

The second uncle looked up at the moonstone on the top of the tomb and said, "Moonstone, like this size, is almost worth a few thousand pieces!" ”

Hearing the second uncle's answer, Lantern Xiao was immediately deflated, "Forget it, I still don't want to waste my efforts, even if I take it all, it's not worth much!" I'll take a look at something else! ”

So, we continued to check the entire tomb, but it was difficult to see the whole tomb with just a few flashlights in our hands. In fact, when we arrived here, we had already reached the heart of this tomb, which was also the destination of our operation. So we don't have to use the equipment in our hands sparingly, and the Lantern Festival lit three or four cold fireworks one after another and threw them in different directions.

In an instant, the whole tomb became brighter, so that the whole main tomb was presented in front of our eyes, we looked around, the main tomb was very exquisitely carved, and there were a large number of colorful murals around it, and the whole main tomb was gorgeous and magnificent. And in the middle of the burial chamber, a large coffin was placed there.

And I'm not interested in the coffin in the middle, but in the murals around it. The frescoes are an expression of the history and context of the time, and are the only way for us to know the owner of the tomb. Based on a lot of effort in front of us, we got a lot of extremely valuable information through the murals.

I walked to the tomb wall and looked up at the murals on it, and I found that Yuan An and the second uncle were also observing the murals around them, and it seemed that we had similar ideas.

Only Lantern Xiao was a little restless, looked at the surrounding murals, and then looked at the coffin in the middle of the tomb, and finally came over to us and said: "I said everyone, we have worked so hard to come here, not to see the art exhibition, we are here to fight, should we open the coffin first?" Let's finish taking the artifact, it's not too late to appreciate these again! ”