As soon as we walked in, we found some anomalies in this side room, on the ground near the stone wall of the side room, there was a small dirt bag dozens of centimeters high, and there were also fragments of blue bricks scattered next to it.

"It's not good." This wasn't what a well-preserved masonry tomb should have been, and I had a split second in my mind as I raised my flashlight and shone it over the dirt bag.

Sure enough, directly above the bag was not a green brick, but a layer of soil the size of a wellhead.

"Cave Robbery!" Xu Yaxian also saw the layer of dirt illuminated by the flashlight, and let out an exclamation, as a former cultural relics researcher, she certainly knew what it meant to find a thief hole in an ancient tomb.

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 did they die? No remains were found in the burial chamber.

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

"Could it be that there is something strange about this side room?" I immediately commanded Caiyun, "Caiyun, release Gu." ”

A few small sounds of breaking the air sounded immediately, and although I couldn't see the appearance of Gu worms in the darkness, I could also imagine that those multicolored beetles were flapping their wings and flying to every corner of the side room.

Soon, Caiyun withdrew the Gu worm, pulled the corner of my clothes, and shone the flashlight in her hand to a corner of the side room.

Without waiting for my orders, along with me, Xu Yaxian and Ren Yonghai's flashlights also shone together.

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 a thief hole on the ground of the tomb, Xu Yaxian and I looked at each other, and it was 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, which was full of burial goods, was not moving, and the ground of the tomb had to be dug down to dig holes, did we not meet a group of tomb robbers who did not know how many years ago, but a geological exploration team member who had traveled through the era?

"It's unheard of." For Xu Yaxian, her experience is limited to this, and she cannot understand the purpose of doing so.

And I clearly knew that there was another possibility, and that was a tomb within a tomb.

"Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Xu Yaxian cast a curious look.

"Unless there is something hidden under the tomb of the nobles of this Chu State! And this thing is far more tempting to this group of tomb robbers than the main burial chamber full of burial goods. "I really can't think of a more plausible explanation than this possibility." ”

The four of us walked over and crouched down around it, taking a closer look at the hole that had appeared very abruptly.

"Corpse poison, reaction, very small." The whispers that are characteristic of Caiyun came to his ears.

Caiyun's sudden words startled Xu Yaxian and Ren Yonghai, and both of them couldn't help but shrink their bodies back.

Especially Xu Yaxian, this girl, probably thought of the scene of the corpse in the hospital before, and her little face turned white.

"It's okay, don't be afraid," I held her hand and comforted, "There is very little corpse poison left here, only Gu worms can smell the smell, and they can't infect people." ”

Hearing my words, Xu Yaxian reluctantly squeezed a smile at me, but she couldn't see where to go if she was better than crying.

I turned my attention back to the robbery hole, and it was clear that someone had deliberately put the stone into the cave in order to seal the robbery hole.

"Who dug this thief hole, and who blocked this thief hole, what is there down here, so that people can turn a blind eye to the treasures of the tomb that are already at their fingertips?" My heart village road, an inopportune appearance of the robbery hole, to today's trip to the tomb, brought one mystery after another.

I have a vague feeling that this cave full of mysteries will lead our trip to the grave today into a completely unpredictable direction.

It's just that now, I was not interested in this trip, but I was also aroused by the unexplained phenomena in front of me.

"Officer Ren, you give me a hand, let's carry this stone out, Xu Yaxian, Caiyun, you two retreat." I stood up and said to the three people next to me.

"Okay." Ren Yonghai naturally responded.

"One, two, three, up."

As Ren Yonghai and I worked together, the stone was lifted up and placed on the edge of the hole.

A bottomless deep hole appeared in front of the four of us. 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 us glanced at each other, and we were a little stunned in our 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 clearly prevailed over fear of it, and the four of us exchanged glances again, reading each other's thoughts, no matter what, this thief hole must be lowered.

"I'll go first, Officer Ren will follow me, then Xu Yaxian, Caiyun, you will break off." In a few words, I arranged the order of entry.

Caiyun and I are knowledgeable, one person explores the way, and the other breaks off, so we can ensure that we take care of everything from beginning to end, in case there is an unexpected situation, the other person also has time to react, and let Officer Ren follow me, because I am afraid that if I accidentally slide down, he can hold me in time.

Looking around, I saw that several of them nodded, clarifying their order, and I didn't waste any more time and took the lead in getting into the thief hole.

Others followed.

The cave was small and steep, so I bit the flashlight in my mouth, propped my hands on the wall of the cave, bent over, and carefully moved it downwards 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 Ren Yonghai touching my back from time to time, I would almost doubt that there would be anyone behind me.

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

The end of the cave has finally arrived.

I reached over 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, I lowered my body and landed gently on the road, and after Ren Yonghai also jumped down, we helped Xu Yaxian and Caiyun fall to the ground safely.

"Is there a place like this down there? Is this still the tomb above? Ren Yonghai took a flashlight and looked around and asked curiously.

"It must have nothing to do with the tomb of the nobles of the Chu State above, the scale of this underground tomb is not something that a nobleman of the rank of a liege can build." Xu Yaxian observed the structure of the corridor and shook her head back.

"A single tomb has such specifications, so how big should the whole tomb be?" Xu Yaxian's mood is very shocking now, and the tomb in front of her that has not yet revealed her true face has completely exceeded her 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.

Without sufficient financial resources, it is natural that there is no ability to build a larger tomb.

Especially the underground tombs at the palace level, even can not be measured by money, just the unimaginably huge amount of work, often need to use 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. Of course, the Lishan Qin Emperor's Mausoleum is not Qin Shi Huang's handiwork, but his stand-in alien fake, but even so, the mausoleum built by Zhao Ji for her baby son is definitely comparable to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

This catacombs may not be comparable to it, but the specifications of this catacombs alone are at least the existence of a prince and a king.

Whose grave would this be?

With such doubts, the four of us rested for a while, and then went deeper along the corridor.

After walking a distance of about a few tens of meters, the flashlight inadvertently shook to a white flower, and our footsteps suddenly stopped, 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.

Ren Yonghai 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." Ren Yonghai added.

"How did you come up with such a judgment?" Xu Yaxian was a little skeptical.

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

"Actually, it doesn't matter how these people died, the question is, what are they doing here?" I interrupted Ren Yonghai and Xu Yaxian's small argument and said: "The tomb robbers are just asking for money, there is no reason to let go of the noble tomb above, even if they know the existence of this tomb in the tomb, wouldn't it be better to steal the one above first, and then dig this tomb next time?" ”

"That's right," Xu Yaxian nodded, "What Lin Kun 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." ”