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Xu Tianchuan's professional knowledge is not geology, and he doesn't know much about geology, if you look at it from the perspective of ordinary thinking, you may feel that the inside of the mountain is cracked, but the surface is not cracked, and the phenomenon is very rare, and even the word 'treacherous' will be used.

Why does it feel so strange? Because I haven't been exposed to geology, I can't see it on the surface.

But for professional and experienced tomb robbers, this geological phenomenon is not very unusual.

Because the tomb itself is something buried underground, tomb robbers must not only understand feng shui, but also geology.

That's why some people jokingly call veteran tomb robbers 'feng shui masters'.

In fact, in addition to the 'Feng Shui Master', there is also a nickname called 'Geology Master'.

Before liberation, many tomb robbers disguised their identities as feng shui masters with a compass and went around looking at feng shui, actually looking for tombs.

After the liberation, there were some tomb robbers who disguised their identities as geological prospects.

In short, a senior professional tomb robber is a very magical profession, knowing astronomy and geography, and air in the middle......

Otherwise, you really won't be able to eat this bowl of rice.

Sonor!

Xu Tianchuan carved a hole in the cracked stone wall, then inserted a chisel into it, tied a rope, and tied the other end to his waist.

Safety precautions must be done well, in case of any accident in this narrow place, it can be used to save life, and there is a safety rope so that you will not fall into a crush.

Although the rope cannot be so long, Xu Tianchuan used a very special binding method, pulling a single rope to pull it tighter and tighter, but the two ropes can be easily untied when pulled together.

When the rope is not long enough, pull two ropes at the same time, untie the rope and re-tie it to the stone wall, so that you can always have a safety rope and add a little more security to yourself.

After tying the safety rope, Xu Tianchuan began to walk down cautiously step by step.

&bsp; The narrow steps that are almost vertical, the dead silence of the space, the eerie and eerie atmosphere, Xu Tianchuan can make a slight footstep every time he takes a step, because the space is too quiet.

Probably walked down more than 30 meters, the safety rope is not long enough, there is still endless smoke below, look up and go up, it is still endless smoke, but the scene around is the same, if it is not for the safety rope to test the distance, Xu Tianchuan still thought that he was walking in place.

After putting away the safety rope, reattach it to the stone wall next to you and continue to walk down.

Xu Tianchuan felt that with his own speed of going down, such a deep crack would take at least a whole day to reach the bottom.

However, after walking down for nearly ten meters, Xu Tianchuan found a different .jsshcxx.

There is a hole in the cracked stone wall at the foot with a diameter of almost two meters, and the edge of the hole has obvious traces of artificial excavation, which is not naturally formed.

Xu Tianchuan remained cautious and went down two more steps, only to be surprised to see a smoke-colored coffin in the hole dug in the crack stone wall!

This is the real sense of the 'hanging coffin', which belongs to a kind of cliff burial, that is, a coffin placed in the cliff cave, but this kind of burial style is generally more common in the ethnic minorities in the ancient south, and it is not very common.

In addition, the cliff burial hanging coffin belongs to the minority culture, although the burial method is unique, but the coffin is exposed, the standing position is steep, it can be seen under the cliff, and more importantly, there is basically no burial goods, so the tomb robbers passing by may not be too lazy to look up, from ancient times to the present, I have not heard of the deeds of robbing the cliff burial hanging coffin.

Although this is not a cliff, but a crevice cliff, it is only an upper and lower difference, and theoretically it is still very similar whhryl.

Xu Tianchuan cautiously descended another step, and his body came closer to take a closer look.

The coffin was made of wood, but because of the time, the coffin had been severely corroded, and even cracked out, and the degree of corrosion could even be broken with a finger.

But Xu Tianchuan didn't do this, but squinted one eye, carefully pressed his face over, and took advantage of the crack to look at the situation inside the coffin

The gap was narrow, but it was roughly clear that there was a white skeleton lying inside.

Nothing beyond that.

There are no burial goods in the cliff-like hanging coffin, and it seems that this is still true.

In addition to this cliff-like hanging coffin, Xu Tianchuan also noticed that on the outer stone wall of the cave entrance, a simple mural the size of a palm was also carved.

The mural depicts a man prostrate on his knees.

Generally, this kind of mural appears in tombs, then there is only one interpretation, which means that this is a slave burial coffin!

The Qin Dynasty was a feudal society, while the Qin Dynasty was a slave society before the Qin Dynasty, and slaves at that time could be pulled to the bazaar like commodities for sale.

The slave society was also the heyday of the burial of the living, so many tombs before the Qin Dynasty can see the burial pits of the living, and similar murals are used as 'markers'.

In addition to this mural, Xu Tianchuan also saw a more special inscription at the top of the cave entrance, which was simply carved with three horizontal bars of the same length.

The ancients did not have the habit of graffiti in the tomb, so every pattern in the tomb has its meaning, especially the one in front of you.

And seeing these three horizontal bars of the same length, the first thing that came to Xu Tianchuan's mind was the hexagram that represented the gossip 'Qian'.

The 'Qian' in the Bagua is three horizontal bars of the same length, also known as the 'Qiansanlian'.

However, Xu Tianchuan is not sure, after all, three horizontal bars of the same length can represent many things, maybe there are other meanings.

It's best not to define it until it's 100% sure, which is also one of the taboos of tomb robbing.

Xu Tianchuan retracted his gaze and continued to walk down.

There is no need to move him in this broken coffin, a slave burial coffin is just a pile of white bones in it, although it is only through the gap and does not see all of it, but there must not even be a single hair, and even if there is, it should have weathered into scum for so many years.

As for the system reward, such a broken coffin, even if the system really gives the reward, he is embarrassed to accept it......

Since there is a cliff-like burial hanging coffin here, Xu Tianchuan guessed in his heart that if nothing else, there must be something below.

In ancient times, slave burials were basically massive.

Sure enough, there are still below.

It's just that it's far from the first burial coffin that appeared.

Xu Tianchuan walked down about ten meters again, and saw a scene that made Xu Tianchuan feel extremely shocked.

As far as the eye can see, on the stone wall on the left side of the crack, down the stairs, all of them are densely packed, and the holes dug out by hand are like a huge beehive!

But these artificially dug holes seem to be very chaotic distribution, there is no regularity, some are separated by seven or eight meters, and some are only separated by less than two meters, from top to bottom, it looks extremely spectacular!

This irregular distribution is due to geological constraints, and some places are not suitable for excavation.

As for the cave, all of them were wooden coffins that had been severely decomposed, and some had even collapsed, revealing a pile of messy white bones.

Xu Tianchuan looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but gasp: "This is equivalent to a cliff-like burial tomb, right?" ”

Although Xu Tianchuan had thought about it before, he didn't expect it to be so large and so large!

And each cave has the same simple frescoes carved with them, representing the status of all of these martyrs.

Strangely, there are no three equally long bars.

A few meters further down.

Xu Tianchuan saw that in the smoke below, a part of it protruded along the stone wall of the ground crack, it was a long part, because the distance was far away, and there was an outline exposed in the smoke at the end of the line of sight as far as the eye could see, and it was not very clear, and it did not look like a step.

"Could it be a coffin placed outside?"

Xu Tianchuan had a guess in his heart, and in order to be more sure, he accelerated his pace downward.

Descending to a position about ten meters away, Xu Tianchuan finally saw clearly that the behemoth protruding outside the stone wall was indeed a coffin.

And it's a huge iron coffin.

Underneath, there are a lot of arm-thick iron rods inserted horizontally into the stone wall as platform supports.

This is also a type of cliff hanging coffin, except that it is placed directly against the steep cliff outside.

"Interesting......"

Looking at the iron hanging coffin placed outside in the distance, Xu Tianchuan felt that this was really interesting.

The other funeral coffins are all wooden and placed in the excavated cave, but such a huge iron coffin is placed outside, which is extremely special and abrupt, which does not match this place, but is unique!

It is well known that in the tombs of the past dynasties, gold, copper, jade, stone, and wooden coffins are more common and ordinary.

Only iron coffins are extremely rare.

Because the quality of iron is very heavy, and forging is relatively difficult, the key is that there is no meaning, and it belongs to the embarrassing situation that ordinary people can't afford to use, and they can't afford to use it, which leads to extreme rarity.

Just because it's rare doesn't mean it's none.

There are also records of iron coffins unearthed in previous dynasties, but basically before the Qin Dynasty, including the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and only people with extremely prominent identities can be qualified to use them, especially the generals who died on the battlefield.

The iron coffins unearthed in the past dynasties, almost certain of the identity of the tomb owners are military generals.

Because before the Qin Dynasty, iron was a precious metal, and at that time it was more valuable than bronze, mainly because iron could create tougher weapons.

"The owner of this iron hanging coffin must have an extraordinary identity!"

Xu Tianchuan looked at the iron hanging coffin in the distance, and was extremely sure of this guess in his heart.

And Xu Tianchuan also felt that this iron hanging coffin carried an invisible momentum, a strong oppressive aura, although it was only quietly placed on the cliff, but it suppressed the air in the whole area, and it was cold......

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