Seeing that I had cracked the mechanism in the tomb with my own hands, Uncle Mei and Sister Hong all showed expressions of sudden realization.

No wonder Xiao Shuai was nailed to the wall of the tomb road, it turned out that he was unlucky enough to step on the trap in the ancient tomb.

This is not a tomb guard at all.

But if you don't find this trap, you only see Xiao Shuai, a young man of more than eight meters, nailed to the wall with his feet off the ground, which will inevitably make people think in the direction of the supernatural.

That's where the rumors came from.

That's why there are always endless ghost stories in the tomb robbing industry.

After figuring out how this trap works, I turned back to everyone and said, "Be careful when you walk, if you accidentally step on the trap, don't panic, you must squat down immediately, and then you will be fine." ”

Uncle Mei and Sister Hong hurriedly nodded in memory.

But at this point, I find it strange.

Jiang Yongguang also told me that more than 4,000 years ago, the Shu people were simple and simple, and there were no tomb robbers among the people, so there was no need to prevent theft.

But why is there suddenly an extra layer of mechanism outside this ancient Shu tomb in the Duck River?

Could it be that the specifications of this ancient Shu tomb are higher than those of the ancient Shu tomb in Tuojiang?

Or is there some kind of treasure buried in this ancient Shu tomb, so that even 4,000 years ago, when tomb robbers were not rampant, the owner of the tomb had to find a way to protect the tomb?

But these are just my assumptions, and the specific truth will not be known until I enter the mausoleum.

We cautiously walked through the trap and soon saw the outer wall of the mausoleum.

But before I reached the outer wall, I suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the darkness, which was like the fluttering of the wings of a bird, mixed with the crow of a chicken.

I was attracted by this strange sound, and swept it away by the light of my headlamp, and by the miserable white light, I suddenly saw two black shadows suddenly emerge from the depths of the tomb!

"it!"

I couldn't help but curse in fright, and I almost pulled out my diving blade and slashed it.

At the critical moment, Uncle Mei stepped forward and blocked in front of me, he squinted his eyes and looked at it, and hurriedly whispered to comfort me: "It's okay, don't be afraid, these are two big roosters!" ”

I took a deep breath and looked closely, only to see that these two black shadows were really two big roosters.

They are energetic, brightly colored, and are scurrying around the graveyard with their wings fluttering.

I wondered for a moment and asked curiously, "Why is there everything in this ancient tomb?" First bumped into a piranha, and then met a big rooster, what an evil door! ”

Lao Wu smiled and said, "You don't understand this, do you?" This big rooster was brought down by the king's shopkeeper, and this is a necessary magic weapon for tomb robbery. ”

I was confused and asked, "What kind of magic weapon is a big rooster?" Is there anything special about taking it upside down? ”

Lao Wu said with a mocking face: "A layman is a layman, and he doesn't even understand this!" As the old saying goes, there are clouds - three animals lead to the sky, and three birds lead to the earth. The three animals are pigs, cattle and sheep, and the sky is to reach the heavens and listen to them, and communicate with the gods. Therefore, in ancient times, three animals were used to worship the heavens. The three birds are chickens, ducks and geese, and they pass through the ground, which means that they can communicate with the ghosts underground. ”

Sister Hong on the side also added: "Tufuzi often brings a few chickens and ducks when he fights backwards, digs a hole and throws them in first, so that they can deal with the owner of the tomb." If the chickens and ducks are unharmed, it means that this bucket can fall, if the chickens and ducks die violently, it means that the tomb is a big murderer, and the tomb owner must respectfully kowtow three times, fill in the robbery hole and leave, otherwise he will be killed by the ghost and died tragically. ”

Uncle Mei and I were stunned by these two professional tomb robbers, and we both believed their rhetoric at the time.

Of course, I later discussed this issue with Jiang Yongguang, and Jiang Yongguang gave a more scientific explanation.

Ancient tombs are buried deep underground all year round, and the oxygen content in the tombs is often very low, and even contains some dangerous gases.

In ancient times, there was no air composition detector, and tomb robbers often died violently due to lack of oxygen or inhalation of toxic gases.

Over time, they grew wise and wise, and when they saw the thief hole, they were not in a hurry to go down, so they first threw in some live creatures to test, and these living creatures were poultry.

This is not because of any "three birds on the ground", but simply because the poultry is light and easy to carry, which is more convenient than bringing pigs and sheep, so they are used for testing.

If the poultry thrown into the grave survives, it means that the air inside is harmless and can be put to the grave. If the poultry dies, the oxygen concentration is too low, or there is a toxic gas, so the robbers give up the tomb and go home.

However, the ancients were superstitious about ghosts and gods, and they had to explain this behavior of detecting the composition of the air in the direction of the supernatural, so there was a saying that "three animals lead to the sky and three birds lead to the earth".

There is another saying of the same kind, because it was later written into the novel, so it is even more widely circulated, that is, "the rooster cries and the lamp goes out and does not touch the gold".

It is true that when you hear a rooster crow, you don't touch gold, and when a ghost blows out a lamp, you don't touch gold.

The specific operation is to light a candle on the southeast corner of the burial chamber, if the candle does not burn for a long time, it means that the bucket can be poured; If the candle is extinguished suddenly, it means that the tomb robber has angered the tomb owner, and must return all the artifacts to their original places, and then respectfully kowtow to the tomb owner three times, and return the same way.

This started as a way to detect the composition of the air.

If the oxygen content in the tomb is too low, the candle will go out automatically after not burning for a while, indicating that the tomb is dangerous and must be evacuated quickly.

Originally, this had nothing to do with the supernatural.

It's just that the folk use false rumors to cast a strange veil on this kind of scientific test, which gives this simple air test a sense of ritual and mystery, and gradually forms the saying that "the rooster cries and the lamp goes out and does not touch the gold".

Straight to the point.

When we saw these two big roosters jumping around, we knew that they had a good "communication" with the owner of the tomb, at least we would not die suddenly.

Uncle Mei grabbed the wings of a big rooster and asked Lao Wu and Sister Hong: "Since this thing is an inverted treasure, do you want to take it with you?" ”

Unexpectedly, before Sister Hong and Lao Wu could answer, they saw that the feathers on the wings of the big rooster suddenly fluttered and fell, like a dead tree and leaves in autumn, and at the same time, the chicken writhed all over and screamed desperately, as if it had suffered some bone-eating pain!

Uncle Mei was startled, quickly let go of the big rooster, and clarified: "I didn't it, why did this chicken lose its hair on its own?" ”

Before the words fell, Uncle Mei suddenly frowned, "sigh".

He looked down at his palm, and then gasped!

I was worried, so I hurriedly gathered enough to observe, only to see that Uncle Mei's palms were scarlet, and they were all chicken blood! In addition, the skin of his palm seemed to be burned, and several larger and larger blisters appeared visibly with the naked eye!

I asked Uncle Mei if his hand hurts, Uncle Mei nodded and gritted his teeth and said, "It's hot, it looks like it's scalded by boiling water, Rong Sheng, there's something weird about this big!" ”