Chapter 7: Bones
I shine my flashlight on the walls around me, and the paintings on the walls are very regular, and there is not a single trace of chiseling.
I looked at the top of the corridor again, and there was a lot of space at the top, and there could be a trap, but the top was too high, and even if there was, if I reacted quickly, I could still escape, so I didn't worry about the top of my head.
The guy in front of me was a little far away from me, and the flashlight shone past, and I couldn't see it very clearly. So, I had to let him shine his own flashlight around and see what the difference was. He replied that he didn't see anything different. I asked him to double-check his surroundings for anything he could touch, such as silk threads or raised walls, and he said no.
It seems that these mechanisms should be touched by the soles of the feet, or by vibrating the balls. If the soles of your feet touch it, it's easy to get it, but I'm afraid that it will vibrate the ball, and once you feel a shock, it will trigger the mechanism. The mechanism of vibrating balls has been more popular as early as the Warring States period, and the Warring States period is the early stage of the invention of this kind of mechanism, and its principle is not complicated, and it generally uses a single-point vibration to trigger the mechanism. But in the Tang Dynasty, this kind of mechanism improved a lot, and it began to become complicated, and a multi-point vibration trigger mechanism appeared.
I was still looking around carefully, but I saw An Tong suddenly running back in our direction, extremely fast. Before we could see what was going on, An Tong had already arrived at our side.
He sneered and said to me, "Uncle Seven, are you nervous again? The wall may be bluffing, how can there be a mechanism in the tomb and draw the truth for you?"
I was angry and said, "What do you know? You think this is a reminder to you, this is to inform future generations how to avoid triggering the mechanism when sacrificing. ”
An Tong saw that I was really angry, and didn't dare to say anything more. Actually, since An Tong ran over, I have been observing, I thought that his running would touch the mechanism, but I didn't expect that after waiting for a while, there was no change, so I put my mind at ease.
Seeing that the guy in front of me also wanted to run back, I told him that it was better not to move. I was looking carefully at the first dead man painted on the wall, he was killed by several arrows, and if that was the case, then the arrows should have been hidden on both sides of the wall. I looked at the two walls beside the guy from afar. If there is a mechanism, there should be some traces. At least there must be a firing point, and you can't let the arrows get through the thick walls, which doesn't make sense. The fellow was probably too frightened, but he couldn't hold back and ran towards us.
I tried to stop it, but it was too late, and suddenly my ears rang with the sound of "bang, bang, bang, bang". I yelled, "Oh no!"
I saw that the guy hadn't run two steps, and a lot of arrows had already flown out on both sides of the wall. He was hit by several arrows and fell to the ground with a "thud", and blood flowed all over the ground in an instant. Seeing this scene, everyone instinctively took a few steps backwards, and after dozens of seconds, the sound of the chain finally stopped. I looked at the walls on both sides with my flashlight, and it was still the same as before, and there was not the slightest change, and I couldn't tell where the arrow was fired from.
I was sad to see the guy lying in a pool of blood. I asked An Tong what his name was, and An Tong told me that his name was Li Ke. It wasn't until after he died that I remembered that I should ask him what his name was. I bowed my head and sat down on the floor.
I told An Tong that I had never broken a buddy in all these years of digging hills, and this was the first time I had broken a buddy. I asked An Tong again who was in his family, and An Tong told me that he didn't know very well, and this person was the third uncle's buddy. As soon as I heard that it was the third senior brother's buddy, I raised my eyes to the other guy and asked him, "What's your name?"
The guy replied that his name was Ma Tianming. It's also an unfamiliar name, and I've never heard it before. I asked him how many years he had been in the company, and he said he wasn't from the company.
I looked up at the senior brother, who understood what I meant, and said to me, "This time it is not from the company, they are all found from outside, and the one who died is the third person." ”
As he spoke, he pointed his finger at the guy and said, "He is the fifth apprentice, but he didn't enter the company." ”
I didn't ask why I didn't have to come with my own people, I knew that the senior brother must have a reason for doing this. But after all, it is broken, no matter who this person is, my heart is not good.
An Tong comforted me next to me: "Uncle Seven, do our business, sooner or later there will be such a day." Don't be too sad, I don't think the third uncle will mind too much. ”
After a period of soreness, gradually, I also understood what An Tong said just now, this is our industry, we will all have such a day, maybe I will be the next to fall. Seeing that I was still in a sad atmosphere, An Tong wanted to play a joke with me to improve my current mood. He jokingly said to me, "Uncle Seven, don't you care so much about your place? Isn't it just a broken place? Sooner or later, there will be a first time." ”
I didn't react, but I saw the senior brother coming over, and he was a big mouth at An Tong. An Tong, who was beaten, didn't dare to speak for a long time, although this guy wanted me to open up, but he really should be beaten when he said this.
I relented, tried to stand up, looked at the painting on the wall again, and asked, "What are we going to do now?"
"What else can I do? Didn't you see the picture on it? There are two big monsters behind us. Tianxiang looked at the painting and said.
The senior brother also said: "There is no fear of death in digging the mound, which tomb is not full of mechanisms?"
"Okay, let's move on, but everyone be careful. You all come and look at these 7 locations painted on the wall, remember them all, and be careful when you get to these positions. Not all traps are unbreakable, as long as you find the trigger point of the trap, no matter how superb the trap, it is not so scary. I pointed to the picture and told them.
In fact, I am saying this to myself, hoping to encourage myself. Because I still haven't figured out how the mechanism was triggered, and what happened to the last headless corpse, what kind of mechanism would it be that would make that headless corpse stand and die?
After thinking about it, in the end, I didn't ask everyone to go any further, but decided to go over and see if this mechanism would be opened continuously, and I was still looking forward to this mechanism being a one-time commodity. I fumbled a few steps forward to where the guy had been standing first, and I tried to run back as fast as I could. Fortunately, the mechanism was not touched again, so everyone followed.
When passing by Li Ke's corpse, Ma Tianming took off Li Ke's flashlight and searchlight. He shouldn't have touched the contents of his brother's corpse. But it can't be helped, we need lighting now, and we can't afford to worry about it so much. After walking a short distance, another room appeared, which was the same size as the room where the baby girl was drawn. But this room is also strange, although there is no door where we entered, but now, there are 3 doors inside. One of the doors was half-pried open. The murals in the room are all patterns of flowers, and there is no hint of any hints.
I said curiously: "It's strange, according to the pattern I just saw, there is only one Wangxiang corridor directly leading to the sacrificial hall, how can there be 3 doors now?"
Tianxiang walked to the half-pried open door, examined it carefully, and shone it in with a flashlight and said, "This road should have been walked by someone too." ”
After saying that, he walked in first. This road is as wide as the space just walked, although the sides are not very wide, but the distance between the top and bottom is very large, so it seems that the roof of the cave is particularly high.
Something strange happened again! Just about 10 steps away, we saw several skeletons on both sides of the wall, and the skeletons were surrounded by scattered fragments, probably the clothes worn by the deceased before his death. We all stopped and didn't dare to go any further, and An Tongwu counted freely: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...... When he counted to eight, he stopped and said to himself, "Do these two count?"
I heard him wonder something, and walked over. At first glance, the skeleton in front of me was very different, this skeleton was twice as large as that of ordinary people, tall and thick, and it looked very wide, but strangely there was no head, I looked around, and found nothing else. Where is its head? It's weird! There was a normal human skeleton underneath the big skeleton, twisted together with this skeleton, as if one skeleton was circling another skeleton. Everyone came over to look at the two bones.
An Tong said on the side: "Look at it, does it look like 9 people are fighting here with this one?"
Something suddenly occurred to me, "Wait, how many people are you talking about?"
"Nine people. An Tong replied to me.
The senior brother was also sensitive, "Nine, weren't there exactly nine who went to the sea back then?"
Hearing this, Tianxiang couldn't bear it anymore and ran over to carefully inspect the bones, and my senior brother and I also went over to carefully examine them one by one. I remember that the master was shot in the thigh by a colleague with a gun, and the bullet was hitting the thigh bone, so the master will definitely leave marks on the thigh bone. I carefully identified each bone, but I had seen all nine of them, and none of them had been beaten on their thighs.
Tianxiang was also looking for the bones of Tian Tian Lux, and after reading it, he also said no. I asked him why he concluded that there were no bones of Pastoral Lux, and he told me that Pastoral Lux's left foot had 6 fingers, and none of the bones in front of him had 6 fingers. This is really a direct criterion for judging whether it is those people. If the injured bones can be restored, then these 6 fingers should not be able to be changed. So the nine skeletons in front of you shouldn't be the master's own? Could it really be such a coincidence that there were nine people who came in, and none of them went out? This is too much of a coincidence! The more everyone thought about it, the more strange it became. In the end, I think maybe we really thought too much, but it was really just the same 9 people who died here.
I asked An Tong to look carefully to see if there was anything worth referring to from these people, An Tong looked around and came back, shook his head and said, "Except for some, there is nothing but dust." ”
"How is that possible? Since we are fighting here, it is impossible that we don't even have some weapons and equipment?" I asked, confused.
An Tong said with certainty: "Seventh Uncle, in such a big place, if there are iron tools and equipment, you can see it at a glance." ”
I think about it, An Tong said the same, but I just don't understand, fighting here, don't take anything? Is it possible?
Tianxiang pondered for a moment and replied, "There may be three possibilities here, the first is that they did not take anything, maybe they built a tomb and were killed here. But that's unlikely. The second is that there are more than 9 of them, someone has taken other things. There is also the most terrifying, and the most realistic, that is, they did not die here, and that their bodies were deliberately moved here. ”
Tianxiang pointed to the wall and said, "You see that the mural is intact, there is not even a single scratch, if it was fighting here, it is impossible for nine people to die without even a struggle? At least there should be scratches on the wall." ”
I looked closely at the walls, and sure enough, the mural was intact and there were no scratches. He's right, this shouldn't be the first scene.
So, how did these people die? And why did they die here? Is it because of profit, the law that has remained unchanged for thousands of years?
Looking at these bones in front of me, I thought of a passage that Yixiu Zongchun said back then: "People are just secondary skeletons, covered with colorful skins on the outside, men and women love each other, and they only see the hue." Once you stop breathing, ****, the color is lost, and the eros is gone. You can no longer tell who was rich and powerful and who was poor and low, and remember, under your stinky skin is a skeleton waiting to be revealed. ”
This passage has always felt me, so I yearn for a free and easy life, not that I am noble, but at least I am not a person who will fight for that benefit.
"If you think too much, you will get tired. Don't think about it, just keep walking!" said the elder brother, patting me on the shoulder.
So, we moved on. This time, I feel that the hardness under my feet is different. This is no longer the kind of mountain and stone road, it is actually soft sand! This tomb is so strange, not to mention that it was built in the sea, there is even a soft sand road. It's no wonder that so many well-known seniors were attracted to gather here.
As soon as I thought about it, I felt my feet go limp, and my whole body began to tilt, as if something was pulling me down. I reached out and scratched at something, but nothing could be caught. I only heard the sound of "plop" twice, and I fell into a place where I don't know where it was. The pain of being beaten by the water King Kong has not yet eased, but this fall, the pain in my whole body has become more intense. However, I couldn't take care of these anymore, and I looked up and around, and Tianxiang also fell. Like me, I was thrown and gnawed on the ground, and I was worse than me. When I looked closely, it was as tall as a 4-story building, and I was lucky that we didn't fall to death.
An Tong poked his head out of it and shouted, "How is it?
I replied, "It's okay, it's alive." ”
An Tong told us not to worry, saying that they were trying to get us up there.
Tianxiang also turned on his searchlight, shining around, this pit is very large and square. Our feet are all soft sand, and if it weren't for this, I guess Tianxiang and I would have been crippled if we didn't die.
We took searchlights to look around, and the walls around this area were also sandy, and it seemed that this part of the tomb should be sandy. The wall was almost at right angles to the ground, so steep that we couldn't go up on our own without the help of outside forces.
When the searchlight shone into a corner, we found that there were still several bones here! These three bones were lying side by side, and the bones were a strange black and brown color, and they should have died of poisoning. It doesn't look like he died here, if he was waiting to die here, his body should be irregular, and the three corpses in front of him were very neat and orderly. I found that there was a silver box on the head of one of the bones, and although it was very old, I could still see that it was engraved with a dragon and phoenix.
I've always been very curious, and I reached out to get it, but was stopped by Tianxiang.
I asked Tianxiang, "Is there anything wrong, or is there something wrong?"
Tianxiang motioned for me to recall the seven methods of death depicted on the mural. Based on this scene, I think of the third way of dying and the fifth way of dying. The third law of death is trapped alive in a space, and the fifth law of death is poisoned. Could it be that these two ways of dying would have appeared in the same place? Could it be that this box is poisonous? Probably not, this box should look like silver on the outside, and the silver stuff is stained with poison, and you can see it at a glance. But I think it's better to be careful to sail the ship of 10,000 years and not touch it.
I circled around again, and found that there was a small mound of dirt where I had just fallen, and I stepped over the small mound to see, and by the way, I didn't even see a robbery hole here just now, so I was too panicked when I fell down just now.
I asked Tianxiang to come over to see the thief hole, but Tianxiang stood there without moving, his eyes staring straight up. I saw him look up, and I followed suit, but I couldn't see any way out.
"What are you looking at? Come over to me. "I yelled for him to come.
"Look at the top. Tianxiang stared at it without moving.
I looked up again and asked, "It's nothing, what the hell are you looking at?"
Tianxiang's voice sounded a little trembling at this time: "If you look carefully at the opening above, is it moving, and it is getting smaller little by little?"
When he said this, I was taken aback, and quickly looked up at the edge of the opening above. Sure enough, this look really scared me, and the hole on the top was really shrinking little by little.