Chapter 90: The Coffin Bed
The little brother's sudden warning made the Huo family a little frightened, thinking that something terrible might also pop out of the coffin of the two of them, so they hurriedly moved away.
Huo Xiangu spoke slowly, breaking the somewhat stiff atmosphere, "It's just a joint burial coffin, if it can be placed here, there must be nothing of value in it except for the body." β
Zhang Qixun leaned closer, trying to distinguish something from the pattern of the coffin, but he couldn't see anything, so he had to ask the little brother, "Do you feel something?" β
The little brother shook his head uncertainly, but repeated it again to stay away from them, and walked straight forward after speaking.
After that, the tomb road was very empty, the stone slabs were tiled, and after walking about fifteen meters, I came across another tomb door.
This tomb door is also opened by gravity mechanism, and when the stone door is raised, the front left side room is presented in front of you, and there is a pitch-black corridor leading to the back.
It was almost close to the center of the ancient building, and the surrounding walls were no longer volcanic rock, but ordinary stone bricks.
There are no hanging niches in the burial chamber, only a coffin parked in the northeast corner of the room, no epitaph, and many stone boxes smaller than the tezuka seen earlier in the mezzanine are scattered on the floor.
These boxes are basically open, scattered on the ground, Zhang Qixun picked up a lid, scraped off the sealed beeswax, inside is a dry right hand, can clearly see the index finger and middle finger hand bones have repeatedly cracked and then healed.
This is the tezuka of someone in the Zhang family.
The little brother also saw the scene in the box, and his eyebrows frowned slightly.
"Someone once stole a lot of Zhang's family bones after entering here." Looking at the stone boxes scattered on the ground, Zhang Qixun said in a deep voice.
It is very likely that Chen Wenjin's group took out the hand bones in a certain mezzanine and took them out, and the box was discarded here at will.
Could it be that the people behind it are trying to extract something from these bones? Those people are really stupid.
Zhang Qixun was very unhappy in his heart, this disgusting behavior was even more hateful than tomb robbers like them who only wanted money.
The coffin parked in the corner also showed signs of being opened, and the bones inside may not have been spared.
The little brother pressed on his shoulder and said, "Go." β
Zhang Qixun nodded, covered the box, placed it in the corner of the wall, and then commanded the Huo family to sort out the stone boxes scattered on the ground and put them aside against the wall.
Coming out of the passage at the back of the side room, you will be greeted by a Han-style wooden octagonal building with carved flying beams, and they are standing on the cloister at the edge of the patio.
Looking up, there is a huge seven-star top, and under each stretched eaves hangs a bronze bell the size of a football.
Outside the cloister, there are eight stout golden silk nanmu pillars, with a bright red lacquer surface, on which a new hybrid beast like a dragon and a pixiu is carved, but on the scales covered by the beast, some of them are still engraved with the pattern of a small unicorn.
The little brother stretched out his hand and touched one of the pillars carved with gold and jade Pixiu, and finally his finger stopped on one of the scales of the Pixiu pattern, and said a string of numbers, "One-thirteen, two-six, three-seven." β
The Huo family was confused and didn't know why, but Zhang Qixun knew that this was what the little brother said to him, so he nodded.
The little brother tapped on several of the scales of Pixiu very quickly, Zhang Qixun turned to the corridor pillar on the other side, and after touching the first abnormal scale, according to this rule, knocked out "one-nineteen, two-eight, three-eleven".
After he finished knocking, the little brother, who had already walked to the edge of the third pillar, knocked out three more numbers, "one-seventeen, two-four, three-thirteen".
There are a total of eight columns, and only these three have mechanisms, and the rest are all supporting roles.
With a final knock, the three pillars suddenly began to rotate slowly.
Turning around, there was a gap on the pillar in front of Zhang Qixun that could only be passed sideways, and the probe looked down, only to find that the structure inside the gap was stone, all the way down, pitch black, the visual depth had passed through the patio in front of him, and there was a vertical row of small bricks that could only step on one foot on the inner wall.
"Let's go, get down from here." Zhang Qixun greeted.
After saying that, he climbed over the railing first, stepped on the first brick, and then continued down, and after two minutes, his foot stepped on the ground.
Below is a large stone chamber, with the sound of gurgling water reaching everyone's ears, and the air is much wetter than above.
The little brother waited for the last person to climb into the dark passage before he followed, and then knocked on the pillar, and the dark passage spun and retracted.
The Huo family just wanted to stop them, but they were looked at by Zhang Qixun, and immediately shrank to the back, not daring to let go of half a fart.
The place where the sound of water comes from is the aqueduct on both sides of the stone chamber, which is half a meter deep, and it is said to be a stone chamber, but it is actually a tomb road, because the specifications here are very similar to what Zhang Qixun has seen in the submarine tomb before, and I don't know what is the relationship between Style Lei and Wang Zanghai.
The little brother walked in front, and there were many large-petaled nine-turn lotus flowers on the stone slabs on the ground, and some small lotus flowers were dotted around the edges.
I don't know if there are any arrows here, the Huo family probed their footsteps one by one, and walked forward step by step.
As soon as everything was normal, they walked smoothly through the stone chamber, and in front of them was a boxy one-meter hole, and everyone entered it.
The first 100 meters of the stone path are specially repaired, very symmetrical, and then directly shuttle between the cracks in the mountain, and the sound of water can always be heard between walks, sometimes large and sometimes small.
After walking for more than an hour, my eyes suddenly opened up.
Here again, there is a karst cave, and the water flows from a dozen or so dragon heads carved into the stone wall and into the waterhole below.
The water in the pool is very clear, and the bottom of the pool is shining with jade light, standing on a high place, you can see that the pool below is a huge unicorn outline.
There is a stone platform in the center of the waterhole, the upper part protrudes from the water surface, the edge is set up with steps, and a jade bed with white marble sitting lotus carving is placed on it, which is quite holy against the backdrop of the water waves of Qing Lingling and the jade light at the bottom of the water.
It was a coffin bed, three meters long and two meters wide, very large, and it was more than enough to stand on it and dance four little swans hand in hand.
There are also four white marble pillars on the edge, and the curtains and gauze tents that originally hung around have been destroyed and hung crumblingly on the silk thread.
Using the telescope, you can see that there are deep traces of the coffin bed being weighed down by a heavy object for a long time, and it is obvious that a very heavy coffin was once placed on it, but now the coffin is gone.
Zhang Qixun looked at the opposite side of the waterhole, where was the tomb gate that entered the cave, and from this angle, the tap stone behind the tomb door had no traces of destruction.
"Are we going down?" Huo Chu asked.
"So far, that's the case." "This is already the main burial chamber, but it is obvious that the things have been taken away. β
"You mean...... Ahem...... "The air here is humid, and Huo Xiangu coughed a little more than before," that archaeological team in Banai? β
"Perhaps." Zhang Qixun's voice cooled down.
Huo Xiangu took a sip of the medicinal tea that had cooled down and suppressed the itch in her throat, "That means that the thing I want is not in the coffin that they took away, or something has happened, and the thing was left in the ancient building by them." β
Zhang Qixun didn't want to say more, turned his head to look at the side, "Little brother, go into the water?" β
Seeing the little brother nodding, Huo Chushi immediately took out the things in his backpack to test the water quality, tied an empty kettle with a rope, hung it down and drowned some water, and after hanging it up, he took out a few acid and alkali test strips to test the pH value of the water quality here.
"Weak alkali, no more than 8.5, can go down." Huo Chushi said happily.
Everyone changed into diving suits and descended down the rope into the pool.
As soon as he entered the water, the icy chill instantly swept over his whole body, causing people to gasp.
Quickly swam to the stone platform, climbed the steps and stood on the white marble coffin bed, out of the ice water, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the jade bed was in the middle of the pool, they were still five or six meters away from the stone steps on the other side of the tomb gate, and they might have to swim over it later, and it was too time-consuming to change clothes, so they could only rub their arms together to keep warm.
Someone took out a smokeless stove from a waterproof backpack and lit it, although it couldn't dispel much cold, but it was better than nothing.
Zhang Qixun squatted on the edge of the coffin bed, staring at the jade light at the bottom of the pool, and suddenly found that it was not white jade that was glowing, but a layer of luminous stone under the white jade, and the layer of white jade on top was actually not jade, but a very high-grade and rare, close to snow-colored glass.
sighed softly in his heart, worthy of the chessboard Zhang family's handwriting, the use of such a large piece of glass in the tomb, he only heard of it in his previous life in later generations, when the tomb of Yelu Pugu of the Khitan royal family found in the archaeological Kailu Jinbaotun was found, not only a large number of glazed products were found inside, but even the tomb was made of glazed bricks, which was more luxurious than the emperor's mausoleum.
When the others were resting, the little brother was not idle, he was studying the white marble pillars.
After looking at all four pillars, the little brother walked up to one of the pillars in the northeast corner and reached out to pluck the balls on it.
The white jade ball spun around like a globe and locked with a click.
At the same time, the waterhole began to tremble, and the waves rolled, so frightened that the Huo family shrank to the center of the coffin, at a loss.
At the same time as the water trembled, a large black and oppressive object gradually rose under the water near the tomb door, and when I looked closely, I found that it was actually a dozen neatly arranged stone pillars.
The Huo family looked at each other, reacted and immediately began to change the dry clothes in the backpack, damn, who would have thought that there was a dark bridge under the water.
The stone pillars rise to a centimeter above the surface of the water before stopping, and the two rows of stone pillars are separated by one meter from each other.
The little brother took the lead in stepping on the stone pillar and walked over to the stairs behind him.
Everyone hurriedly followed, and when they came to the tomb gate, Huo Chushi commanded people to use special hook tools to the tap stone, open the tomb door, and walk out from the inside.
After passing through a stone road, there was another side hall in front of them, and after seeing the layout inside, the Huo family couldn't help but be ecstatic.
"Zhangjia Ancient Building!"
"Damn, that's the Zhangjia Ancient Building, right?" Looking at the simple and intricate wooden model on the circular stone platform, Huo Xiaoli exclaimed.
The model in front of me is a microcosm of the entire Zhangjia Ancient Building and the nearby mountain stones, which are more than two meters high, and the main building in the center has a total of seven floors, and every minute of detail is extremely fine.
The underwater Yao Village is the top two floors of the ancient building, and their current location is on the seventh floor of the ancient building.
"Shoot it down." Huo Xiangu's face couldn't hide her joy, her emotions surged up, and she immediately covered her mouth with a handkerchief and began to cough, Huo Xiuxiu gently patted her on the back.
Zhang Qixun frowned, but after thinking about it, he didn't stop it.
"Okay!" Huo Xiaoli responded, took out his baby camera, and leaned over to take a picture of the model Kaka of the ancient building.
But as soon as the stone slab under his feet was loosened, the whole person was slapped below by the overturned stone slab, and the figure disappeared.
This sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard, and they immediately retreated to safety.
Huo Chushi shouted a few times at the place where Huo Xiaoli fell, and when he heard the faint cry for help from inside, he immediately discussed how to save people.
This kind of stone turning is usually an anti-theft mechanism set up in the ancient tomb for the main burial chamber, and the trap is set near the coffin of the tomb owner.
This mechanism is set up in the same principle as a seesaw, and is also called a chain flap.
That is, dig a pit about three meters deep in the tomb, the length and width depend on the specific situation of the tomb, and the knife cone stab sharp weapon of about 10 centimeters is distributed under the pit.
Then the pit was flushed with the tomb with two movable stone slabs, and then a crucial temporary support plate was placed underneath the two stone slabs, each with a rotating roller in the center.
When the intruder first stepped on the first stone slab, he was fine because of the support on both sides, but when he continued to walk, he stepped on the edge of the third trap laid below, and the roller turned, and the board tilted down at a very fast speed, and the person above was slapped directly into the pit with thorns.
Either you are pierced and you are killed, or you are seriously injured, and you are trapped in it for life, and the chance of survival is almost zero.
After Huo Chushi and the others confirmed that the person was still alive, they used the person as the stake in the middle, tied one end of the climbing rope to the tomb door, and then, Huo Chushi carefully raised his feet and walked towards the stone slab that had just been turned over.
After walking five or six steps, as soon as I felt that there seemed to be a movement under my feet to flip, I immediately leaned down to increase the force area, and then rubbed towards the edge of the stone slab little by little.
Under gravity, the slate gradually began to tilt, and soon opened an angle, Huo Chushi threw another rope prepared in advance into it, and let Huo Xiaoli at the bottom grab it, and then the person pulling the other rope on it began to exert force, and it didn't take much effort to pull Huo Xiaoli up.
The two of them were lying on the edge of the crumbling stone slab in fear, and after being pulled to a safe position by everyone little by little, Huo Xiaoli began to cry out for leg pain.
"it, damn it, I'm scared to death."
Huo Xiaoli was covered in cold sweat, and he was afraid, "If I hadn't subconsciously grabbed the edge of the board when I fell, and it happened to be thrown out this time, the spikes below would have pierced me directly." β
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