This usually means that the tomb has been ransacked by tomb robbers.

However, the main burial chamber, which is still closed, seems to overturn this common sense, and there is no reason for the grave robbers who have dug through the tomb to spare the main burial chamber full of burial goods, unless they are all dead.

But where they died, no remains were found in the burial chamber.

"I remember, two of my colleagues were unconscious in this side room." Fang Yuan said suddenly.

"Could it be that there is something strange about this side room," Ji Yueru immediately ordered Huang Qiuding, "Qiuding, release Gu." ”

A few small sounds of breaking the air sounded immediately, and although the appearance of the Gu worms could not be seen in the darkness, it could be imagined that those multicolored beetles were flapping their wings and flying to every corner of the side room.

Soon, Huang Qiuding withdrew the Gu worm, pulled the corner of Ji Yueru's clothes, and shone the flashlight in her hand to a corner of the side room.

Soon everyone's flashlights shone along with them.

The four circles of light were stacked on top of each other, illuminating the corner clearly, and I saw that there was a piece of ground there that looked a little awkward, and it was not in harmony with the surrounding masonry floor.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a blue brick floor, but a hole filled with a single stone.

There was actually a thief hole on the ground of the tomb, and Ji Yueru and Fang Yuan glanced at each other, both of which were a little incomprehensible.

If you want to make a hole to enter the main burial chamber in order to avoid the boulder that seals the door, you should not choose the side chamber farthest from the main burial chamber, and it is much more convenient to dig a hole directly from the wall of the adjacent side chamber than to dig it from the ground.

Judging from the extent to which the cave on the roof of the tomb is filled with mud, this is not a group of modern tomb robbers, and the age of the cave robbery is at least a few hundred years ago.

"The main burial chamber full of burial goods is not moving, and we have to dig through the ground of the tomb to dig a hole downward, are we not meeting a group of tomb robbers who don't know how many years ago, but a geological exploration team member who has traveled through the times" As a special member of the archaeological team, Ji Yueru was at a loss for a while with extraordinary experience.

"It's unheard of."

"Unless there's something hidden behind it." Ji Yueru had such a hypothesis in her mind, "Is it because of him?"

Ji Yueru had visited Longling before, but she returned in vain, because long before she came to Longling, the silk book hidden in Longling had been stolen, and the initiator was the local Tusi.

At this time, what made her deeply suspicious was another person she met in the ancient tomb, and this person was also the same person I met in Longling later.

I was impressed, and the man did admit that she had already been there before we got there. And the loopholes in his exposition before and after have puzzled me to this day, which is probably what Ji Yue thought at the time.

"The Huling clan of Longling has guarded Longling for generations, but the silk book of Longling has still been stolen, and the resentment is not dispersed, and the ghost dies as a curse, presumably, his people should have not given up looking for the whereabouts of the silk book for many years, so this robbery hole is very likely"

The four of them walked over and crouched down to take a closer look at the robber hole that had appeared very abruptly.

"Corpse poison, reaction, very small." Huang Qiuding's unique short words came from his ears.

Huang Qiuding's sudden words startled Fang Yuan and Ma Weiguang, and both of them couldn't help but shrink their bodies back.

Especially Fang Yuan's face turned white.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, there is very little corpse poison left here, only Gu worms can smell the smell, and they can't infect people."

Hearing everyone's words, Fang Yuan barely breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone turned their attention back to the cave, obviously, the stones

Someone deliberately put it into the hole, the purpose is to seal the thief hole.

An inopportune cave robbery brings one mystery after another to the trip to the tomb. Ji Yueru vaguely felt that this thief cave full of mysteries would lead them into a completely unpredictable direction.

"Captain Ma, you give me a hand, let's carry this stone out, Fang Yuan, Qiu Ding, you two retreat some." Ji Yueru stood up and said to the three people next to her.

"Okay." Ma Weiguang naturally responded.

"One, two, three, up."

With the strength of Ji Yueru and Ma Weiguang, the stone was lifted up and placed on the edge of the cave.

A bottomless deep hole appeared in front of the four of them.

Under the illumination of four flashlights, the entrance of the thief cave revealed its full appearance.

The entrance to the cave is small, barely large enough for an adult man to enter with his knees bent.

It went deep into the ground at an oblique angle of about sixty degrees, I don't know how deep, the light of the flashlight could only shine more than ten meters away, and then there was endless darkness, as if it would never reach the end.

The four of them glanced at each other, and they were a little stunned in their hearts, where is this a thief hole, this is simply a passage straight into the Nine Shadows, and it should not appear in the world at all.

However, at this time, curiosity about the unknown obviously overcame fear of it, and the four of them exchanged glances again, reading their respective thoughts, no matter what, this thief hole must be lowered.

"I'll go first, Captain Ma will follow me, then Fang Yuan, and you will be decided." Ji Yueru became the absolute core of this team, and arranged the order of entry in a few words.

She and Huang Qiuding are knowledgeable, Huang Qiuding is a niece of Huang Mingda, the head of the Huang family of the Five Veins Yellow Gate, who has participated in archaeology since childhood, one of them explores the way, and one person breaks off, which can ensure that the end is taken care of, in case there is an unexpected situation, the other person also has time to react, let Ma Weiguang follow me, is afraid that in case there is an accidental slip in front of him, he can pull it in time.

Looking around, seeing that several of them nodded, clarifying their respective order, Ji Yueru did not waste any more time, and took the lead in the thief hole.

Others followed.

The robbery hole was small and steep, and Ji Yueru bit the flashlight in her mouth, propped her two hands on the wall of the cave, bent over, and carefully moved down step by step.

The cave was very quiet, except for the sand and gravel brought up under the feet, rolling down the slope, making a small sound of a rope.

In this almost claustrophobic space, the sounds of breathing and heartbeat are lowered countless times, thump, thump, and hit the eardrum.

In the claustrophobic and dark space, time seems to pass extraordinarily long, and the endless thieves almost give people the illusion that there will never be an end.

If it weren't for Ma Weiguang's back from time to time, she almost doubted that there was anyone behind her.

Just when Ji Yueru couldn't help but say something to break the suffocating silence, the flashlight suddenly shone on a piece of blue brick ground.

The end of the cave has finally arrived.

She reached for the sides of the hole and looked down.

Below the cave is a brick and stone structure of the tunnel, about two meters high, about four meters wide, such a specification of the corridor, in the underground tomb, can definitely be called spacious.

The end of the tunnel disappeared into darkness, and there was no way to see where it led.

Climbing the side wall of the thief cave, Xi Yueru lowered her body and landed gently on the road, and after Ma Weiguang also jumped down, they helped Fang Yuan and Huang Qiuding fall to the ground safely.

"Is there such a place down there, is this still the ancient tomb above?" Ma Weiguang shone a flashlight

Around, asked curiously.

"It must have something to do with the Tusi tomb above, the age interval between the two ancient tombs is far apart, but the load-bearing structure is very symmetrical, like a tower, the ancient tomb below is the base of the ancient tomb above, this tomb structure has been spread in the Miaojiang region, this place should be a family cemetery, their people are buried in the same place, the earliest ancestors are buried at the bottom, and then they are superimposed in turn." Ji Yueru observed the structure of the Yongdao Road.

"A single tomb has such specifications, so how big should the scale of the entire tomb be" As a researcher in the cultural relics department, Fang Yuan's mood was very shocked now, the tomb in front of him, which had not yet revealed its true face, was completely beyond his imagination.

"Generally speaking, the size of the tomb depends on the status and power of the tomb owner during his lifetime. This is not only a question of whether there is an exceedance, but also related to the huge cost of building underground tombs, in a feudal hierarchical society, the level of status also determines the amount of wealth in the hand. Ji Yueru said.

"If you don't have the financial resources, you can't afford to build a larger tomb."

"Especially the palace-level underground tomb group, it can no longer even be measured by money, and the unimaginably large amount of work alone often requires hundreds of thousands of people, which in history, only a few emperors can do."

The most well-known is naturally the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, which was built by the unprecedented First Emperor more than 2,000 years ago, at the foot of Lishan Mountain.

After a short rest, the four of them followed the corridor and went deeper.

After walking a distance of about a few tens of meters, the flashlight inadvertently shook a white flower, and their footsteps suddenly stopped again, and the four flashlights shone together.

What caught my eye was the remains of four or five corpses that had long since turned into white bones.

The corpses sat and leaned on top of each other, and some rusty iron tools were scattered around them.

No wonder there are no corpses on it, it turns out that these tomb robbers from hundreds of years ago ended up dying here.

Ma Weiguang walked to the side of the white bones, squatted down and observed for a while, "The skeleton is basically complete, there is no trace of external force on the bones, judging from the position where they fell to the ground, these people were either thrown together after death, or they were killed together in a very short period of time." ”

"As for the cause of death, there is no way to confirm, but the possibility of death caused by external force can be ruled out." Ma Weiguang added.

"How did you come up with such a judgment" Fang Yuan was a little skeptical.

"Hehe, it's not hard to deduce. If you were one of them, when someone died, would you stay so close to the corpse," Ma Weiguang pointed to the white bones on the ground, "These corpses are almost all intertwined, I don't think anyone will hold the corpse and wait for death." ”

"Actually, it doesn't matter how these people died, the key question is, what are they doing here"

Ji Yueru interrupted Ma Weiguang and Fang Yuan's small argument, and continued, "The tomb robbers are just asking for money, there is no reason to let go of the tomb above, even if they know the existence of the tomb in this tomb, it is not better to steal the tomb above first, and then dig this tomb next time."

"That's right," Fang Yuan nodded, "What Yue Ru said is what a normal tomb robber would take, not like now, digging two robbery holes to get here, and finally leaving his life behind." ”

"That can only show that this group of people is not ordinary tomb robbers, their purpose is here, and there must be something hidden in this tomb that is enough to attract them." Ma Weiguang concluded.

But what exactly is it?

A strong curiosity prompted them to speed up their quest for the tunnel, but this enthusiasm lasted only a few minutes and was quickly shattered.

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