Chapter 2: Past Events 2
Picking up a plate is a special term for eating stinky people, but whenever there is a more difficult tomb, it is usually two or three people who cooperate, one person throws the valuable tomb goods to another person, and the other person catches the thrown items in the thief hole or closer to the thief hole, and then quickly moves away from the tomb.
In this case, even if the trap is triggered when the burial goods are held, because the traps in the tomb either take a certain amount of time to function, or they fail for a long time, and there is a little time between triggering and the actual effect, so this is enough time for the person receiving the plate to run into the thief hole or away from the tomb. In this way, even if the mechanism is triggered, one person will survive and take a few valuable things out.
Because the work of receiving the plate is to prepare for the sacrifice of a person in exchange for the burial goods, this way of taking the burial goods is usually only done voluntarily by the person who robs the tomb or throws the plate.
Of course, it is not always possible to catch the plate, if the place where the tomb goods are taken is far away from the robbery hole, and the person who receives the plate after triggering the mechanism does not have time to run into the robbery hole, or triggers the mechanism that is sensitive and takes effect immediately, this method is basically useless.
But most of the time, the plate is very effective, because the hole is dug later, and there is no mechanism to work on the hole, so as long as you take the plate into the hole, basically the plate is successful, and the rest is to evacuate the person who threw the plate quickly, and at the same time observe whether the mechanism is triggered or how to rescue the person who threw the plate after the mechanism is triggered.
The two-foot-long part of the cave next to the tomb was dug wide so that the tomb robbers could turn around. Usually, the width of the hole is only for one person, so it is faster to dig it and not easy to collapse.
And this place, which is wider than the rest of the cave, is called "living mouth". The original meaning refers to the "gap", referring to a relatively wide place, and later was called "living mouth" by homonym, taking a "live" good fortune head, doing tomb robbery, are nine deaths and one life, every time Tao Leizi hopes to go back alive. The width of the mouth is enough for two people to stagger sideways. The second child followed the middle-aged man's words, climbed into the living mouth, and turned to look at his father.
The middle-aged man slowly circled around the eight sarcophagi, observing whether the eight sarcophagi would have any mechanisms hidden on the lid of the coffin, or if there was a sarcophagus that was different from the others.
This difference can only be the difference in details, if there is a sarcophagus with other sarcophagi has a less obvious place, but it is easier to be observed, such as the size or shape of one of the sarcophagi is slightly different from other sarcophagus, then nine times out of ten this sarcophagus is a fake coffin, the owner of the tomb deliberately made you think that it was a real coffin.
But it is also possible that the owner of the tomb is suspicious, that is actually the real coffin, and the owner of the tomb wants you to think that the real is fake, so as to choose a trigger mechanism from other fake coffins. So the kind of different details that middle-aged men are looking for are the kind of details that cannot be artificially made. Only that kind of detail can tell which sarcophagus is the real coffin.
The middle-aged man circled around the entire burial chamber and planted seven small torches on the ground, which were inserted directly into the cracks in the stone bricks on the ground. The position of the torch insert is also very particular, the torch insert is not far from the sarcophagus, too far away the fire light is not clear, too close and it may trigger the mechanism.
Torches were inserted in the same straight line in the space between each two coffins, so that the rest of the sarcophagus could be seen except at the end of the coffin.
But there is also a downside to the fact that the oxygen in the burial chamber burns too quickly, and the temperature of the burial chamber rises. If it is in some large tombs, it is nothing, but the tomb of this Seven Dead Guardian is relatively small and low, although it has been windy all night, and the oxygen is still sufficient at this time, but the seven torches forked on the ground plus the ones in the hands of two people, the nine torches burn together, and it will not last long.
It would have been nice to have a few more torches if you could dig another hole in the other direction to get the air circulating, but this one obviously won't work. The middle-aged man knew that there was not much time left for him, so he quickened his pace and circled the sarcophagus a few more times.
First, because of the torches, the temperature of the tomb rose, and secondly, because the middle-aged man's heart was anxious, and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. The middle-aged man held the compass in his hand, and wanted to quickly show the eight sarcophagus seats, or see if there was any change in the pointer of the compass Tianchi, but he found that the pointer of the compass was greatly rotated, and the compass was useless at all.
This is also expected, how could a person who can put on a top-level anti-theft formation like the Seven Dead Guardian Spirits not think of affecting the compass. There must have been some iron or magnet buried around the burial chamber that could affect the compass pointer.
The middle-aged man put away the compass, his feet quickened, and his brain was racing at the same time. "Where is the breaking point? The eight sarcophagi look exactly the same on the outside, but what's different? What about the outside, but the inside?
That's right, inside! The sarcophagus is not the same! There should have been a large number of funerary goods in the sarcophagus of the tomb owner! This burial chamber has nothing but a sarcophagus, and the burial goods should be in the sarcophagus of the tomb owner. There should be a lot of gold and silver in the funeral goods, and, depending on the size of this sarcophagus, this sarcophagus may also be a coffin, and there may even be a coffin in the sarcophagus of the tomb owner!
And the seven sarcophagi of the Seven Dead Soul Protector Formation should only contain the corpse of the Dead Spirit. What is a mourning spirit? After the generals died on the battlefield, they used magic weapons to summon their souls into it, tortured and refined the souls of the generals with secret methods, and stimulated the resentment and unwillingness of the generals' souls and refined them into souls. The spirit is then sealed into a container made from the corpse of the original general.
The Dead Spirits are extremely brutal, but the seven Dead Spirits are imprisoned together with spirit runes and formations, and the tyrannical aura of the Dead Spirits will temporarily reach a balance, and the Dead Spirits will fall into a deep sleep, and will not wake up until this balance is broken. There will be no coffins or some burial goods in the sarcophagus of the dead spirit, and it is even more impossible to fill in some weight-like things like stones to pretend to be a real coffin, because the sundries will weaken the effect of the formation, and it is easy to make the dead spirit wake up on its own, and if the awakened dead spirit does not eat the human soul for a long time, it will slowly dissipate, so it will not achieve the effect of using the dead spirit to protect the soul.
Therefore, the sarcophagus of the real tomb owner must be heavier than the other seven sarcophagi. Although you can't see anything in a short time, if the sarcophagus is placed on the ground over the years, the place where the sarcophagus touches the ground will definitely be different.
Thinking of this, the middle-aged man hurriedly looked carefully at the places where several sarcophagi came into contact with the stone bricks. This really made him realize that one sarcophagus was different from the others, and the stone bricks under the sarcophagus were slightly more uplifted than the others. Such subtle differences cannot be detected without the extraordinary observation of ordinary people.
Success or non-achievement is in this fight. The middle-aged man leaned against the coffin of the sarcophagus, squatted into a horseback squat crotch pose, pressed the corner of the coffin lid of the sarcophagus with his shoulder, and slowly stood up. As he got up, the lid of the heavy sarcophagus was slowly lifted.
Just as the middle-aged man was about to stand up completely, he jerked his strength and shouted, and with the shout he quickly stood up, and after a boom, the lid of the sarcophagus leaned against the sarcophagus to the side.
Watching his father use this trick to "raise the coffin on his back", the second child's eyes were a little more proud and admired. Lifting the coffin on the back is one of the most difficult skills they can practice in the line of dry and smelly, and the user's lack of strength, poor timing of getting up, or unclear grasp of the weight distribution of the coffin lid cannot achieve the effect of opening the museum. Because this trick is only useful for the sarcophagus that does not wedge nails, and the difficulty is high, there are very few people who can use this trick to open the sarcophagus now.
The sarcophagus landed on the ground and did not stir up much dust. As the lid of the coffin landed, a yellow-white color burst out of the sarcophagus under the reflection of the firelight.
There are no other coffins in the sarcophagus, and it seems that this sarcophagus was not used as a coffin. The middle-aged man didn't have time to look closely at the funeral objects, his eyes were first attracted by the body in the sarcophagus and a blue cloth bag in the corpse's hand.
The corpse does not rot! The middle-aged man was very surprised, and then thought that this tomb was unusually dry, and it should be a place to raise corpses. This is also reasonable, the corpse raising ground is the most suitable for the use of the Seven Deaths Guardian Spirit Array. The corpse raising ground is the easiest to produce zombies, and this tomb owner will not become a zombie!
This blue cloth bag was held in the hand of the corpse, and it must be the most valuable thing. Thinking about these things was just a thought, then the middle-aged man grabbed the blue cloth bag in the hand of the corpse and shouted: "Second brother, take the plate!" Then he threw the blue cloth bag at the second child in the living place.
Just as the blue cloth bag was thrown, the middle-aged man heard a stabbing sound and felt a light touch on his hand. Because the blue cloth bag has been a little long, the fabric has become brittle, and the things in the cloth bag are relatively heavy, so as soon as the cloth bag is shot, the things in the cloth bag will be torn out.
Fortunately, the thing in the cloth bag was a relatively heavy wooden box, although the box was torn out, it did not change the direction of being thrown, and it still fell accurately into the hands of the second child. But a pamphlet that came out of rags along with the box fell on the stone bricks between the middle-aged man and his son because of its light weight.
The middle-aged man was first anxious because he had not enough oxygen due to lighting a few more torches, and then he was anxious because he found that the body was not decomposing. That's why I made this mistake in the midst of my hectic. Just as he ran to the booklet on the ground, trying to pick it up and climb up the hole, he suddenly noticed that the booklet was moving on its own!
Then the middle-aged man found that the pamphlet did not move on its own, but that a large amount of liquid had spilled from the cracks in the stone bricks on the ground. Just as the middle-aged man was wondering what these liquids were, he suddenly heard a long series of sounds of metal rubbing against stones, followed by a series of sounds of "dangdangdang......".
"Daddy! It's mercury! “
The middle-aged man heard the shout and looked up, a series of iron bars surrounded the entire tomb near the stone wall of the tomb, the iron bars were originally hidden in the stone cracks at the joints between the curtain wall and the vault, I don't know which of my own touched the mechanism, this mechanism is really powerful, not only has it not failed for so many years, but it is also very fast and abnormal, and there is no sound at all when it is activated.
One end of the iron bar was pestled in a gap in the stone bricks in the ground, and the other end protruded from the stone crack in the vault at the top of the burial chamber. The sound of "dangdang" just now was the sound of iron bars sliding down from the top of the tomb and plunging into the ground.
At this time, the middle-aged man threw himself to the ground at this time, the designer of this tomb admired the five-body body, it turned out that the gap in the ground was used in this way, which could not only jam the iron bar, but also make it impossible to pull it out for a short time, and at the same time it was an overflow of mercury, and I didn't know how so much mercury was hidden before the mechanism was launched, and there was no smell at all.
At this time, the mercury had already reached the middle-aged man's feet, and the middle-aged man was already dizzy and nauseous from the smell of mercury.
The iron bar is not too thick, if in normal times, it can be sawed in a while, as long as the one in front of the thief hole is sawed, the middle-aged man can squeeze into the thief hole. But at this time, the iron bar that was slightly bent under the violent shaking of the second child cut off the middle-aged man's vitality.
"Second, run, run with the fifth, remember what I said! Don't eat it in the future! ”
The second child wanted to let his father think of a way again, but his years of tomb robbing made him understand that if he didn't leave, he wouldn't be able to leave when the mercury reached the height of the robbery cave. And at this time he was also smoked with mercury and his head was heavy.
The second brother once saw his eldest brother and third brother die in the tomb one by one, but he didn't expect that now it was his father's turn. Without useless words, the second child took one last look at his father, took the box and turned and went into the thief's hole.