Chapter 139: Murals
Demon Ancestor Peng Zu?
Yang Chen didn't know much about the things in the Xiuzhen world, but Peng Zu was also famous in history.
It is rumored that he is more than 700 years old, has no aging appearance, often takes water cinnamon mica powder and elk horn powder, and is good at atrial surgery, guiding the qi, and passed it to Cai Nu, Yin Wang and others, and then traveled around the world, ascended to the immortal and left.
"In folklore, Peng Zu has always been known for his longevity, how did he become a demon ancestor?"
"And ...... Does he also have something to do with the Demon Kingdom? ”
"What's more, Liu Bi is a figure in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bowen only killed the dragon vein after he died for more than 1,800 years, how could Xuanyuan's broken sword appear in Liu Bi's tomb?"
Yang Chen was puzzled, and suddenly a noise of the crowd disrupted his thoughts.
"It's out...... Rough is coming, alive! ”
Yang Chen was curious to squeeze through the crowd, only to see a duck tied with a red rope walking out of the tomb with steps that his relatives did not recognize.
"Professor Yang, what does this duck say?" Yang Chen asked curiously.
"These underground mausoleums have not been opened for 2,000 years, the air is turbid, and there are toxins and miasma, so let a live duck go in to explore the way."
"I see, the duck can come out alive, which proves that the air inside the mausoleum is not poisonous."
"That's it, let's go inside."
As soon as Yang Xiong finished speaking, Sun Yuming's two bodyguards couldn't wait to enter first.
Yang Chen followed Yang Xiong's side into the mausoleum, calling in his heart:
"Sword Spirit!"
"Master, I'm here."
"Sword Spirit, do you remember what happened after Liu Bowen cut off the dragon vein?"
"Master, my memory is only after I woke up, and I don't remember anything from the past."
"Don't remember anything?"
"Yes."
Yang Chen still wanted to ask, but suddenly a yin wind blew in the tomb passage, and everyone shivered in unison, which made the tomb even more eerie and terrifying.
"Light the torch!" Yang Xiong ordered loudly.
"Professor Yang, aren't we all carrying headlamps, why do we still light torches?" Yang Chen asked puzzled.
"I don't understand this, the torch is not for lighting, but to determine whether the oxygen in it is sufficient, I really don't know what Professor Yang brought you over!" Sun Yuming said with a sneer.
Yang Chen blushed, but he was not convinced in his heart, so he was about to sneer at each other, when suddenly Ah Leopard, who was exploring the road in front, shouted loudly: "Boss, there is no way!" ”
"The Han tomb system is generally divided into two parts: the front room and the back room, and there is a tomb road in the middle to connect it. Sun Yuming said.
"There's really no way, I don't believe you're coming!"
Yang Chen followed everyone and hurriedly walked through the corridor to the front tomb, only to see a black wooden coffin placed in the middle, with no doors and no windows on the surrounding walls, and sure enough, there was no other path.
"Is this the main tomb?" Sun Yuming said suspiciously.
"Impossible!"
Yang Xiong shook his head and said:
"Although Liu Bi rebelled and was defeated, the history books record that the mausoleum where he was buried was extremely extravagant, and it was absolutely impossible to be such a small mausoleum!"
"Could it be that this is also a grave of doubt?" Captain Wang said puzzled.
"This is also impossible, the feng shui here is the best in the nearby mountains, and Liu Bi can't be extravagant enough to use such a feng shui treasure to make a doubtful tomb."
Yang Xiong pondered for a while, and suddenly said:
"I have excavated a Western Zhou tomb before, and in order to prevent theft after death, I adopted the pattern of a tomb within a tomb."
"Liu Bi's rebellion failed during his lifetime, and he may be afraid that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty will liquidate the whip corpse afterwards, and his mausoleum may also be the pattern of a tomb."
"Look around and see if there's a trap around!"
"Yes!"
Yang Chen also followed everyone to check around, it was the first time he had entered the interior of the mausoleum, and he was full of curiosity about everything.
I saw that all the surrounding areas of this kind of tomb were cut with bluestone, which was extremely hard, and each piece was carved with the pattern of bats and gourds, and I couldn't help but secretly exclaim: "To carve such a beautiful pattern on the bluestone, not to mention that the number is still so much, it is a big project in modern times." Two thousand years ago, this amount of work was unimaginable! ”
"Professor Yang, come and see here!" Suddenly, a member of the archaeological team screamed.
Everyone walked in unison, only to see him pointing to a bluestone wall and shouting, "What do you think this is? ”
Seeing scratches all over the bluestone wall, Yang Chen couldn't help but be curious and put his hand on a group of scratches, and his face changed suddenly.
"This ...... This is a trace made by human hands! ”
Everyone's faces turned ugly.
"This ...... Could it be that the people accompanying the funeral wanted to escape from the mausoleum and wanted to pick up the scratches left by these big bluestones with their hands? ”
"No...... No, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty had abolished the custom of burial of the living, and it was impossible for Liu Bi to be an exception. ”
"That's not necessarily, Liu Bi's mausoleum was built before his death, how could a mad king like him still listen to Emperor Han Jing's orders and use a living person to be martyred."
“……”
When everyone was talking, Sun Yuming's abrupt voice sounded.
"Dead ...... Dead people, there are dead people here! ”
Looking in the direction pointed by Sun Yuming, I saw a skeleton curled in the southeast corner, and the clothes on the body were rotten, and it looked like a braid from the hair.
He ...... He was from the Qing Dynasty? ”
"How is this possible, how can there be Qing Dynasty people in this Han tomb."
"I'm afraid it's not a tomb robber?"
"It's really possible, it's estimated that he is trapped and can't get out here, and the scratches on the wall are left by him!"
"Makes sense!"
“……”
Everyone was discussing happily, and when they thought they had found the truth, an abrupt voice sounded.
"It can't be a tomb robber!"
Yang Chen looked for the sound, and saw that it was the black and thin man who was very good at stealing holes.
"Wang Ming, how can you be sure that he is not a tomb robber?" Yang Xiong asked strangely.
"Professor Yang, we came in through the tomb door, and the tomb door was intact before the blasting, which means that if he is a tomb robber and wants to bypass the tomb door and enter the tomb, the only way is to make a robbery hole."
The thin black man pointed to the walls and the dome, shook his head and said affirmatively:
"There are no signs of a big hole in this tomb."
OR ...... Maybe the grave robbers went out and filled the hole back? Someone wondered.
"The backfill of the thief hole has been renovated, and it can't escape my eyes, I'm sure this tomb has never been stolen!" The thin black man said confidently.
The crowd was even more puzzled.
How did a Qing Dynasty man run into an intact Han tomb?
Could it be that the escape technique is not successful?
For a while, there were many suspicions, and the temperature of the catacombs was lower than the surface, which made people shudder, and several timid archaeologists couldn't help but shudder.
cough, cough......
Yang Xiong coughed dryly, attracting everyone's attention.
"Don't think nonsense, everyone, our first task is to find the passage to the main burial chamber, quickly look for the mechanism there, knock every brick on the wall and the ground to see if it is hollow!"
"Yes!"
The crowd scattered and took out hard objects to strike each piece of bluestone.
Yang Chen also took out his mobile phone and turned on the flash to shine on the bluestone wall full of scratches, and soon found the clue.
"What is this?"
Yang Chen pushed a few steps away, and when he looked around, he saw several large bluestone edges, and there were some blue-red, green-purple dyes where they couldn't be scratched.
"Could it be that this stone wall turned out to be a mural?!"
Yang Chen suddenly remembered what Sun Yuming had said about the mural of the general's tomb before, and looked back at the bones in the corner, and suddenly felt a chill rush from his heels to the top of his head!
"Could it be that he is desperately scratching at the wall not to find a way out, but to destroy this mural so that future generations will not see it?"
"Why would he do that?"
"What the hell is on this mural?"