Chapter Seventy-Five: The Coffin Trap
"What??" Zhang Mian and Liu Zhaohui on the side both showed puzzled and puzzled expressions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Yes, it's a coffin with a mechanism. Li Xuyang looked at the coffin in front of him and said.
"There are many types of coffins, but there are only a few I know. Sarcophagi, wooden coffins, carbon coffins, coffin-in-coffins and, of course, trap coffins and so on. Generally speaking, the use of organ coffins is only to prevent tomb robbers, for fear that the tomb owner's burial goods will be stolen by tomb robbers, so someone took great pains to invent the trap coffin. Li Xuyang explained.
"In order to prevent tomb robbers, why was it opened so easily?" Zhang Mian couldn't help but be curious when he heard that the coffin was to prevent tomb robbers, but the coffin lid just now was easily opened by himself, and his hands didn't touch anything like that.
"I don't know. Li Xuyang shook his head and continued to look around the coffin.
The coffin looks relatively large on the outside, but the space on the inside is much smaller, of course, the reason for this is that there are things in the side of the coffin, and all the organs may be there.
Since it's a coffin, it's a coffin, but why is it empty? It's a bit unreasonable, even if there is a gold bar or something else in it, is it just silk embedded in the coffin?
Or maybe there were corpses in it, but they were corrupted, or ......
The drivers of the traps all have the same reason, especially the ancient traps, which generally used wood to make various traps, such as trap birds, traps, traps, etc.
Each of these traps has the ability to trigger traps and control the main mandrel of the traps. The entire manufacturing and construction of the mechanism is also completely controlled by this main mandrel, which plays a large role. It's like the human brain, and only after the brain gives instructions to various parts of the body can people make all kinds of actions.
This coffin is no exception, and it is also controlled by the main mandrel. As soon as someone touches the main mandrel, the mechanisms on the coffin will be activated.
The main mandrel can be divided into more than ten or dozens of distraction axes, and this one distraction axis can control a mechanism, such as the coffin lid automatically closes, then it means that Liu Zhaohui touched one of the distraction axes just now.
How many distraction shafts were in the entire coffin, Li Xuyang didn't know. But there is only one person in the main mandrel, and if the main mandrel can be found, and then it can be removed or destroyed, it is equivalent to this coffin becoming an ordinary coffin.
"Where did you just touch?" Li Xuyang raised his head and suddenly asked, Liu Zhaohui, who was still standing in place, was still stunned.
"At the edge of the coffin right in front of me, I only touched somewhere. Liu Zhaohui pointed to the top in front of the locked coffin.
Li Xuyang turned back to the front from the end of the coffin. Staring at the front of the coffin and looking carefully, even the strokes on it were very carefully.
Just now, Li Xuyang was just thinking about the mechanism and what was in the coffin, but he ignored the painting outside the coffin, which was already a little blurry and incomplete.
On the front of the coffin, a dragon and a phoenix are painted, although it is a little blurry, but from the outline it does look like the legendary dragon and phoenix, the painting is lifelike, if it is not for the lower body is a little blurry and can't see clearly, it is like the real thing. Instead of being painted on it, it looks like a dragon and a phoenix have landed on it.
On the left side of the coffin, it was a different one, but judging from the notes of the portrait, this painting and the dragon and phoenix on the front he saw earlier did not look like it was made by a single person. The former has a powerful brush, and relatively speaking, the dragon and the phoenix are both mascots, and the person who painted the dragon and phoenix also often painted. Therefore, the pen is not delayed, and it is basically completed in one stroke, and none of them have been modified.
Although the side is painted with a painting that Li Xuyang can't understand, judging from the picture, there are several places where it has been modified, especially when it is near the end, where there is a child, a boy, holding a stick in his hand and playing.
Under the puzzled gaze of Zhang Mian and Liu Zhaohui, Li Xuyang went around from left to right, and then squatted down again, carefully looking at the painting on the right side of the coffin. It's exactly the same, almost exactly like the one on the left, except that there is a girl at the end, who is also holding a small stick in her hand.
Wait, when Li Xuyang was about to get up, he found something that was very unnoticeable, that is, there was a place on the left that Li Xuyang thought had been modified, and it also existed on the right side. If this is the case, then it means that the lines that have been drawn a little thick are not the place to be modified, but the artist did it on purpose.
But what is the purpose of the painter's deliberate blackened lines?
Li Xuyang didn't understand that if the owner of the tomb found someone to make this coffin and found a painter to paint from it, then the whole process might not have been seen by the owner of the tomb. But when everything is done, the owner of the tomb or the family of the owner of the tomb should have seen the paintings and the bold lines.
"Guan Ling?"
When Li Xuyang had been looking at the paintings on the left and right sides of the coffin, Zhang Mian had also been watching, but after a long time, these two words suddenly came out of his mouth.
"What?" Li Xuyang asked as he stood up and looked at Zhang Mian.
"This seems to be a word, it seems to be the word 'Guan Ling'. Zhang Mian pointed to the thickened line on the left side of the coffin.
Li Xuyang immediately came to the left side of the coffin, looked at the thickened line on the coffin, and then nodded and said, "Indeed, if it is according to the current simplified Chinese characters, those two words should be 'Guan Ling'." It's just that the font has been disassembled, and the traditional characters are also used. ”
"No, probably not. As soon as Li Xuyang said those words, he immediately overturned his guess.
"Why?" Zhang Mian was slightly surprised, this was the only clue that was finally found, maybe it was a breakthrough in the whole case, and he didn't believe that it would be overturned so easily.
"From the simplified and traditional characters, it is indeed Guan Ling's two words. But you ignore one point, and that is the ancient battlefield that Liu Zhaohui saw. According to what Liu Zhaohui sees, we speculate that the time is in the Han Dynasty, but the characters used in the Han Dynasty are Lishu, and simplified characters have not really been used. Li Xuyang explained, but there is some truth in his analysis. But what Zhang Mian said can't be completely wrong, if later, after having simplified characters, this coffin was discovered and added, it is not impossible.
"Xiao Liu, then write down these words and go back to study them. Zhang Mianchong waved his hand at Liu Zhaohui on the side and said. After Liu Zhaohui received the order, he immediately got busy.
But Li Xuyang turned his mind back to the beginning, what was in this coffin, and what made those four people die in horror?
Li Xuyang fumbled and wanted to open the coffin again, but this time he couldn't open it no matter how he tried it. According to Liu Zhaohui's words, there should be a distraction shaft directly in front of him, but the distraction shaft was indeed found, but the coffin lid did not move at all.
"Let me try. Zhang Mian came to Li Xuyang's side and said.
"Good. After Li Xuyang agreed, he stepped aside and looked at Zhang Mian.
Zhang Mian took a deep breath and opened it with the same action as he pushed open the coffin for the first time, his legs arched, like a horse step. The hands reached out to both sides of the coffin lid at the same time, their teeth clenched, and the expression on their faces was serious. Of course, his actions also made Liu Zhaohui on the side stop his movements and stand there looking at him.
"Squeak. The coffin lid was opened by Zhang Mian again, this time Zhang Mian opened only a gap, and did not open the coffin lid as easily as the first time.
Seeing Zhang Mian push open a crack, Li Xuyang hurriedly stepped forward and shone a flashlight through the gap.
Li Xuyang was surprised and looked inside the coffin again, but there was still nothing. Thinking of this, he quickly put the flashlight in his hand on the top of the coffin, and then went to push the coffin lid with Zhang Mian, and this time with the joint efforts of the two people, the coffin lid was completely opened.
This time, the internal space after the coffin was opened was completely different from the original internal space, the silk was gone, and the space became much larger than before. This time, even if it was a slightly fatter corpse, it would be no problem at all.
"It's not just a coffin, it's a coffin. Li Xuyang's eyes stared at the inside of the coffin and said.
"What is a coffin?" Zhang Mian didn't understand this, so he asked.
"Even if there is a coffin in the coffin, it is a coffin within a coffin. After the coffin is opened once, it is closed and opened again. What you see after opening it a second time is not the same space as what you see when you open it the first time.
The coffin in the coffin is a coffin with a coffin inside, usually a wooden coffin in the sarcophagus, which is only to better ensure the integrity of the corpse, not easy to decay, and of course, the theft of the corpse and the burial goods in the coffin. ”
"Instead of solving the puzzle, it became more confusing and more puzzled. Li Xuyang said, patting his forehead with his hand.
"Are you okay?" Zhang Mian said with good intentions after seeing Li Xuyang's movements.
"Nothing. Li Xuyang waved his hand, and then rubbed his eyes, and suddenly there was a pain in his eyes.
After blinking his eyes, another burst of familiar black gas appeared in front of Li Xuyang's eyes, this time it was not only black gas. And behind the black qi, there was a corpse that had decayed into white bones, and the black qi was slowly burrowing into the white bones under Li Xuyang's gaze.
"White bones, moved. ”
After the black qi completely penetrated into the white bones, Liu Zhaohui, who had finished recording on the side, was about to stretch his waist, but he happened to see the white bone skeleton lying in the coffin moving. After the black qi penetrated into it, the white bones also turned completely black, turning into black bones.
Liu Zhaohui shouted the black bones in the coffin, and then stammered, "The skeleton moves...... Moved. ”
"It's not good, run, it's a trap. ”