Uncle Mei has always been the calmest of our group, and he is rarely startled, so when I heard him shout, I realized that things were not simple.

I followed his guidance to the neck of the deceased, and found a bronze dagger stuck in his throat, which was obviously the murder weapon that killed him.

But what surprised Uncle Mei was not the death of the earth dog, but the murder weapon that killed the earth dog!

That bronze dagger!

A shiny, sharp bronze dagger!

The first time I saw it, I recognized it - the one who killed Aunt Mei and nailed Aunt Mei's body alive to the chair was a bronze dagger of the same style!

No wonder Uncle Mei exclaimed, and I couldn't help but gasp.

Among the group, only Sister Hong had no concept of this bronze dagger, and she didn't know what our two were surprised about, I am afraid that she thought that we were frightened by the death of the earth dog.

She looked at the body of the earth dog blankly, frowned, and said, "It's strange, how could the earth dog die in such a place?" And it seems that someone has plotted against it......"

I immediately pointed to the bronze dagger on the neck of the earth dog and asked Sister Hong, "Sister Hong, have you ever seen this kind of murder weapon?" ”

Sister Hong shook her head decisively without thinking about it: "I haven't seen it, could this also be some kind of hidden weapon in the ancient tomb?" ”

Uncle Mei was unwilling, and asked loudly: "Take a closer look, has anyone in the group of shopkeepers ever used this kind of murder weapon?" Think about it! ”

Because this matter involves the culprit who killed Aunt Mei - after all, we all suspected that Aunt Mei was killed by the king's shopkeeper's men - so Uncle Mei lost his sense of proportion for a while, and his tone of voice became a little irritable.

Sister Hong was taken aback by him, glared at him resentfully, and muttered, "What are you yelling at?" I said I haven't seen it, I'm sure I haven't seen it, why am I lying to you? It's really ......."

I was worried that Uncle Mei would lose control of his emotions and leak his mouth, which would lead to a startling of the snake and expose the true identities of the two of us, so I hurriedly reassured: "Uncle, Sister Hong is just a loose wind, and she usually doesn't follow the king's shopkeeper to act, what can she know?" It is natural that we have not seen this bronze dagger, and after a while, we will be able to find out the truth when we meet with the king's shopkeeper. ”

The implication is that only by breaking into the inside of the king's shopkeeper can there be hope of finding out the culprit who killed Aunt Mei.

Uncle Mei really understood my voice, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff, and stabilized his emotions.

I took a closer look at the dog's wounds, and saw that the dagger was plunged into his throat from the front, and the knife was steady and ruthless, without any hesitation, and it should have been a fatal blow.

"Attack from the front, and you can kill with one blow, and the one who strikes is a ruthless person." I whispered.

"Could it be that an acquaintance did it, so the earth dog is defenseless?" Uncle Mei took a puff of his cigarette and asked in a deep voice.

He apparently still thinks that the one who killed the earth dog was a member of Wang's shopkeeper's gang.

Sister Hong shook her head and said, "Won't it?" In our group, the popularity of the earth dog is good, and I haven't heard that he has offended anyone. The king's treasurer also valued him, and took him with him wherever he went, like his own son. Others wanted to move the dog, but the shopkeeper Wang would never agree. ”

"That's weird, how the hell did the earth dog die?" I frowned and muttered.

Sister Hong glanced at the bronze dagger inserted in the neck of the earth dog, and began to think about it again, saying, "This murder weapon is a bronze dagger, I'm afraid it's a dark weapon in the ancient tomb, right?" If you want me to say, either the earth dog touched some trap, or it was retaliated against by the owner of the tomb! ”

I couldn't help but shake my head helplessly, Sister Hong always likes to think about things in terms of ghosts and gods.

If it weren't for her vigorous management of Professor Xu as the "Tomb Guard" just now, we wouldn't have been so frightened that we fled, and now when we saw the dead earth dog, she began to talk nonsense again.

I hurriedly denied it: "It must not be the revenge of the owner of the tomb, either the infighting of the king's shopkeeper gang, or the trap in the tomb." ”

After saying that, I cautiously walked around the area, looking for traces of the mechanism, but the tomb in this area was bare, and there was no trace of the mechanism at all, which meant that the earth dog did not die from the mechanism, but more like died from internal strife.

The three of us stood in place and discussed for a long time, but we couldn't get any results, and next to us were the corpses of earth dogs and the remains of Professor Xu, which looked gloomy in this dark and deep tomb.

Sister Hong couldn't bear it first, tugged at my arm, and said, "Rong Sheng, don't stand stupidly here, let's go quickly, stay with the two dead people, sister is a little scared......"

My heart says not only that you are afraid, but I am also afraid!

Dang even nodded and said, "Then let's continue to move forward, and strive to meet with the king's shopkeeper as soon as possible." ”

Uncle Mei didn't say anything, just finished smoking, stepped on the cigarette butt, pointed to the front of the tomb, and motioned for us to go on the road.

The three of us left the corpses of Professor Xu and the earth dog, and continued to walk forward.

When I was hurrying, I noticed that this graveyard was still all the way down, and the slope was steeper than the one on the left, considering the situation encountered in the previous graveyard, I couldn't help but have a long mind, always pay attention to the situation in front of me, and if I encountered a cliff, I must brake in time.

The same situation was not encountered here, and soon we came to the end of the burial path, which ended in a spacious burial chamber with several tall and magnificent sarcophagi in addition to a few bronze objects.

Seeing these sarcophagi, Sister Hong immediately became very excited, because finding the coffin is equivalent to finding a priceless burial item.

For tomb robbers, the coffin is simply a treasure chest.

She excitedly ran to a sarcophagus, stroked the thick and hard body of the sarcophagus, and turned back to me: "It turns out that people in this era use sarcophagi!" Such a big coffin must be filled with a lot of treasures, right? ”

I nodded slightly, recalling what Xiao Liang had said to me before, according to the record of "Huayang National Chronicles": "There is a silkworm cong of the Marquis of Shu, and the death is made of a sarcophagus and a coffin, and the people of the country come from it." ”

In other words, the use of sarcophagi for burial in the ancient Shu Kingdom should be a custom that began from the generation of silkworms.

This also confirms from the side that the two underwater tombs of Tuojiang River and Yazihe River are indeed tombs of the ancient Shu period.

And just when I recalled the historical knowledge that Xiao Liang gave me about popular science, Sister Hong shouted again: "Rong Sheng, Rong Sheng, come and see, there are many paintings carved on these sarcophagus, look at what these paintings mean!" ”

I hurriedly stepped forward and looked at the sarcophagus in front of me by the light of my headlamp.

I saw that the tall sarcophagus was indeed engraved with some reliefs, which should depict the scene of the ancient Shu Kingdom.

It was a group of luxuriously dressed ancient Shu people, dancing under a towering tree, which was supposed to tell the warm picture of the people of Shu living and working in peace and contentment, but it was full of creepy weirdness!

Because

The trunk of that towering tree was covered with dense human faces, and the ends of the branches were covered with stiff dead people!

I am afraid that this relief depicts a peaceful and prosperous era of singing and dancing, but a tragic and evil sacrifice!