Volume 1 Chapter 9: A Tomb Within a Tomb

There are many branches of carpenters, and coffin makers are a branch of carpenters.

It is rumored that the coffin maker of the Song Dynasty usually received an order from a family, and one person would complete the order, even if the order was too large, he would never use helpers.

According to Master Cao, if this tomb was from the Song Dynasty, it stands to reason that these six coffins should all come from the hands of the same coffin maker. However, Master Cao found that although these coffins were exactly the same, if you looked closely, it was easy to find that many details of these six coffins were not the same, and it was easy to deduce that this was not made by a coffin maker.

I still don't understand what Master Cao means, even if these six coffins are not made by one person, what can they represent?

"In my judgment, these six coffins should have been made by at least three coffin makers.... Therefore, I think that the people lying in these six coffins were not buried at the same time. ”

Dawu pursed his lips and said, "Even if this is due to the hands of the three coffin makers, it cannot be concluded that these people were not buried at the same time, maybe they were put in coffins before their deaths and used them after their deaths." ”

At this time, Baisha, who had not spoken, spoke.

"No, this coffin must have been made for them by a coffin maker after these people died. The coffin maker has a very strict rule, only the dead are coffined, not the living, which is a big taboo.... What Master Cao means is that these people did not die at the same time, and naturally they will not be buried at the same time.... Since there is an interval between burials, it means that after the tomb was built, the six coffins were carried in one by one. ”

Hearing this, I suddenly realized that I had already understood the reason why Master Cao told us that these six coffins were created by different coffin craftsmen.

According to Master Cao and Bai Sha's thoughts, since the owners of these six coffins did not die at the same time, they naturally have an age difference. It is possible that the coffin maker who made the coffin for the first person who died had already died when the owner of the second coffin was buried, so there was no way to create a second coffin, and the descendants of the deceased had to find another coffin maker to make the coffin.

But once the tomb is sealed, it is impossible to open it again and bring the coffin back in. Therefore, it is very likely that after this ancient tomb was built at that time, it was not sealed for a long time, but it was completely sealed after the six coffins were brought in.

"It's a day, and there are such strange tombs?" Dawu exclaimed.

Master Cao looked at Baisha with appreciation, and then nodded to us: "Actually, there should be a lot of such tombs, they are not strange tombs, if you want to talk about strange tombs, it has to be the Mausoleum of the First Emperor..."

However, even though we knew the story of this tomb little by little, there was still no information about the exit, and several of us had a gloomy face.

Dawu sighed and said, "If it weren't for the explosives to kill that armor corpse, I would have to blow up the explosives directly!" ”

"Are you a tiger, we still have a layer of grave on our heads, and we won't have to bury it here if it collapses?"

It suddenly occurred to me that Master Cao said before that the upper and lower floors here may not be one tomb, but two tombs, if this is the case, then the upper and lower floors, which tomb existed first?

I asked the second brother about the doubts in my heart, and after the second brother pondered for a while, he replied: "If nothing else, it must be that the lower layer was built later, and the general tomb will not be dug so deep, this tomb has exceeded the normal depth, and I want to come to this tomb in order not to be discovered by others, so I deliberately do not taboo Feng Shui to build under the tomb." ”

Suddenly, the second brother patted his head and said excitedly: "If there was a tomb here at the beginning, and you want to build another tomb under this tomb, the amount of work must be huge..... According to our previous inference, this tomb belongs to the tomb of a certain eunuch, and he must be a huge greed, otherwise the emperor at that time would have to dig him out and feed the dogs..... It can be said that it was very difficult to build a tomb within a tomb, and when they built the tomb, they had to dig a big pit from the ground, and we dug down little by little to build the current tomb....."

The second brother swallowed excitedly and continued.

"In order for these craftsmen to expose the information after building the ancient tomb, the extremely greedy eunuch will definitely kill these craftsmen, but the craftsmen are not fools, they must have left a secret passage for themselves in advance before building the ancient tomb, so as not to be sealed in the tomb.... Let's find out, is there a way back for these craftsmen, if there is, isn't it easy to get out? ”

Master Cao smiled bitterly: "My good second master, the craftsmen of the general emperor's tomb will also face the consequences of being wiped out, there is really nothing wrong with them leaving a way back, and they may really be able to find an exit..... But as we said just now, this tomb has not been sealed for a long time, so there is no need for the craftsman to leave a secret passage for himself, and he can find an opportunity to go out from a place where there is no seal. ”

As soon as Master Cao's words came out, the second brother also reacted, and his face sank again.

A few of us just sat on the ground, thinking about the possibility of going out, and the water was gone, and the last food was eaten, which meant that we would hold on for another two or three days at most, and then we would die completely because of the lack of water and food.

Actually, if we didn't have that grave beast, we could have gone back the way we came and found the hole where we fell earlier. It's a pity that the tomb beast is always wandering around in the ancient tomb, and if we run into that tomb beast again, I'm afraid we'll have to leave it here.

After I was free, I remembered the incident of getting separated from my second brother and Master Cao in the tomb before, and I couldn't help but ask.

Master Cao just told me about my experience after I was separated from them.

At that time, not long after I walked at the end of the team, Master Cao blinked his eyes, and the flashlight of the second brother who was walking in the front suddenly disappeared, and Master Cao was startled, he thought that he was blind in an instant, and it was pitch black in front of him.

But when Master Cao shouted a few times, he found that it was not he who was blind, but everyone who suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Master Cao's experience is similar to mine, all of a sudden, I found that the people around me disappeared.

After all, Master Cao was a seasoned native master, so he quickly calmed down, walked forward in the dark, and soon arrived at a new burial chamber.

Master Cao stopped where he was, took out his lighter and looked around, then walked in the direction of the flames according to the fluctuation of the lighter's flames, and then returned to the cemetery where we had been unable to walk out at the beginning.

The strange thing is that Master Cao found that the second brother, Dawu and the two guys had been spinning in place with empty eyes, circling in circles, and Master Cao suddenly noticed it. Maybe just now, all of us have been spinning around in the same place just now, just like the second brother, but no one has noticed because of something.

Master Cao guessed that maybe he had done something special to get out of this cycle.