43.Chapter 43: Laughing
When I heard it, I had a foggy feeling: "Dig iron, what kind of thing?"
"It's terrible to be uneducated," Xiaowei decisively rewarded me with a hygienic eye: "Gluttony, not iron." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info is said to be one of the nine sons of the dragon, the body is like a cow, the face is human, the eyes are under the armpits, the head has two horns, the back has meat wings, likes to eat people, and is particularly greedy. ā
I'll rub it, this thing is very awesome when I hear it.
I leaned over to the stone gate in front of me and looked at it, and sure enough, the relief on the stone door was indeed an animal that looked like a cow, with a big face full of fangs, and it looked extremely vicious.
"It's a very unique totem worship. Xiaowei stretched out her finger and crossed the gluttonous pattern, her face full of excitement that could not be concealed: "You must know that every ethnic group has its own unique totem culture, the most typical is the Han nationality, with the dragon as the totem." Others, such as waist drums, tigers, or reindeer as totems. But with gluttony as a totem, this is the first time I have seen it. ā
She said very profoundly, what a totem and what worship, anyway, I don't have the slightest interest in this thing, I just want to get out of this hellish place now.
Looking at Xiaowei's expression, she is very willing to study this bird's gluttonous totem carefully.
I don't know what kind of oil is in the oil lamp, but when it is lit, there is a light fragrance in the dim firelight, a bit like the smell of jasmine.
Reaching out, I pressed my hand against the edge of the stone door and pushed hard.
No response.
"Hey, Xiaowei, don't be busy studying the patterns and see how to open this door. I patted Xiaowei's shoulder and said.
Xiaowei was slapped by me, turned half of her face sideways, and replied, "Got it." ā
In the dim light, I noticed a detail: the corners of Xiaowei's mouth suddenly curved up on the half of Xiaowei's face, and at the same time, the corners of her eyebrows actually pulled down, revealing a very weird-looking smile!
I felt a little strange in my heart: "What are you laughing at?"
When I asked, the weird smile on Xiaowei's face disappeared immediately, and she looked at me strangely, feeling a little inexplicable: "When did I laugh?"
Perhaps, it was her psychological effect, and she didn't know when she laughed.
I thought, don't dwell on this anymore, it's important to open the door.
Xiao Wei no longer studied the matter of gluttonous totems, but stood up to check the cracks in the stone gate.
She looked at it and said with great certainty: "During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the technique of the mechanism was extremely mature, if those tomb robbers really passed through here, then this door would definitely be able to be opened and closed many times, instead of a one-time tombstone." ā
I was a little curious: "And this difference?"
"Of course. Xiao Wei pointed to the stone door: "If the tombstone is sealed, after the first tomb robber enters, the mechanism will be triggered, and the tomb robber's retreat will be directly sealed, unless it is forcibly broken from the outside, it will definitely not be able to get out."
Judging from the decorations of the tomb robbers just now, the difference between them and them is hundreds of years, which proves that this stone door must have been opened many times. But ......"
"But what?"
"Normally, even if the stone door can be opened, it should be opened from the outside, not from the inside. Xiaowei frowned and replied.
That's right, since it's called "tomb", I don't want to be "disturbed", I can't figure it out if I leave a door that can be opened, where will I leave a mechanism that opens from the inside out?
"Unless ......"
"Unless this tomb owner has set up some secret technique that can 'resurrect from the dead, such as turning into a zombie or something, this path is left to him 'for himself'!" I said.
Hearing me say this, Xiao Wei was scared enough, stretched out her little fist and hammered my chest, and scolded: "This kind of place, don't say this kind of scaring thing, is it good?"
"Hey, hey. I laughed and didn't explain much.
After pondering for a while, Xiaowei went over to look at the two small stone bowls again, stared at them for a while, and I noticed that the corners of her mouth showed that weird smile again!
I chuckled in my heart: Was she "possessed"?
This place is originally very gloomy, and any tomb owner or those tomb robbers will not disperse, and when facing such a big living person as her, they may possess her.
I thought so in my heart, and I didn't say it explicitly, but I had an extra heart, and I borrowed the peripheral light of my eyes to see Xiaowei's swaying shadow under the light of the oil lamp.
If she is really possessed by evil spirits, the shadow on the ground must have changed.
Her shadow was dragged by the light, and she couldn't see anything strange.
Soon, the weird smile faded from the corner of Xiaowei's mouth, and her expression returned to normal.
I saw her fiddle with her fingers under the small stone bowl a few times, and said to me, "You go and try to twist the bowl over there, there is a palm print in it, hold it down." ā
I let out an "oh", walked over to another small stone bowl, reached inside, and sure enough, I touched something that resembled a palm print.
"You hold down, listen to me, and turn three times to the left. Xiaowei said.
This made me more and more suspicious of Xiaowei's identity: even if she was a graduate student in the Department of History and Archaeology, could she have studied the mechanisms in this kind of ancient tomb?
I think it's unlikely.
I don't learn much useful stuff in school, at least I've never seen a description of a mechanism in a history book, at most it's just some weapons, vehicles, ships, etc.
Well, I'd like to see what the hell she's up to.
Even if she is possessed, with her weak physique, she can't threaten me, let alone a hidden little red in my backpack.
Xiao Wei said over there, "One, two, three!"
I followed her command and slowly turned the palm print in my hand.
At the same time, looking through the peripheral vision of my eyes, Xiaowei over there was also like me, except that she was turning to the right.
"Click!"
As the hands of the two of us twisted at the same time, we heard the sound of a steel wire string tightening from the inside of the small stone bowl.
Immediately after, there was another roaring sound, and the stone door in front of us suddenly cracked in the middle!
To be precise, it's the pattern of the gluttony that has changed!
Just like a flower, the whole gluttonous body actually moved slowly, constricting the meat wings and double horns, and the whole mouth opened bigger and bigger, and in the blink of an eye, the position where its mouth was located was actually opened to a small half a person high, revealing a swarthy hole!
This exit is actually a gluttonous mouth!
I vaguely feel that something is not good: there are many taboos in Feng Shui, such as the tiger's mouth in the "White Tiger Corpse", if a person is buried in the position of the tiger's mouth, it is a big taboo.
In the same way, many things are hidden ditches, the essence is the same, this tomb has such a cleverly designed mechanism, I don't believe that there is no feng shui or qi men in it.
The existence of gluttony is originally to feed on people, and to enter through its mouth, it is obviously -- there is no return, and it is self-defeating!