Chapter 66: The Stone Toad

My heart trembled, it seemed that there was really no way back, but the direction of this graveyard under our feet was inclined downward, which means that we would go deeper and deeper, would there really be an exit ahead?

Zhang Jiande was also walking forward at this time, and he said as he walked: Two bosses, don't ink! If this road doesn't work, it's a big deal that we go back the same way, anyway, this cemetery road won't get lost!

I thought about it, so I followed with Ye Lingwen.

In this way, a group of five of us walked through this narrow cemetery.

At this time, I noticed the murals on both sides of the tomb, these murals were carved in stone, and then painted with paint, and the carvings were all high-nosed, deep-eyed, burly nomadic warriors, some of them rode horses, some stood, some drew bows and arrows, and some held scimitars. Some of the murals are broken and falling off, but most of them are still intact!

It seems that the scale of this mausoleum is not small! Could it really be a royal tomb! But before I came, I also checked on the Internet, and I didn't find any emperor buried in Qinghai in history! When it comes to the tiger-headed monster I saw just now, the only explanation is that this is really the mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West!

In my heart, I want to see the true face of the owner of this tomb, and I don't believe that there are really tiger-headed monsters in this world!

Just as I was paying attention to the mural, a figure suddenly appeared in the circle of flashlight projected on the wall of the tomb, and quietly followed me, and I was the last person walking in the line.

I was so frightened that I turned my head sharply, and behind me was an endless tombway, and the light of the flashlight did not shine far before it was swallowed up in darkness, and in the distance it was pitch black, and there was nothing in the empty tombway!

When I looked back at the wall, the figure was gone!

"Is it dazzling?!" I muttered to myself.

At this point, the spirit pattern in front of me stopped. When I looked, it turned out that Wang Haiyang, who was walking in the front, stopped. I knew he must have seen something.

I stepped forward only to find a faint blue light in the dark tomb in front of me.

My heart suddenly tightened: something would glow in this ancient tomb that had been isolated from the world for thousands of years. Could it be the everlasting lamp in the tomb, but the everlasting lamp will not emit blue light.

"Why don't we go back the way we came! Forget it about this glow! And blue light! Behind him came the trembling voice of Geril!

"Go back? Where are you going? Even if those spiders retreat and the stone wall is closed, I see that the scale of this tomb is not small, and the front is glowing, could it be a pearl of the night! Zhang Jiande deserved to touch the gold, he walked towards the blue light as he spoke, and muttered in his mouth:

"If this is really the pearl of the night, don't rob any of you, then it's mine"

There was this man who wanted money and didn't want his life to take the lead, and several of us followed.

After walking twenty or thirty meters, there was a larger burial chamber in front of it, and the whole burial chamber was circular, with an area of no less than 100 square meters and a height of about ten meters. The burial chamber is surrounded by four thick stone pillars. The dome of the burial chamber is engraved with the sun, moon and stars, and there is even a faint glow. And in the middle of this large burial chamber, there is a huge stone toad, with its large mouth slightly open, and on the toad's head, there is also a lifelike snake, which is also carved from stone! It was the two eyes of the big toad that emitted the blue light.

In front of the toad, there was a coffin that had been burned to the point of only a few pieces of charcoal, and there were no corpses in the black charcoal, and under the bright light of the flashlight, there seemed to be some shimmering funerary goods scattered among them.

However, the few of us were not attracted by the big toad that was three or four meters high, because in addition to the huge stone toad and the charred coffin in this burial chamber, there were no less than twenty dried corpses inlaid on the circular stone wall around it, and these corpses had already dried and blackened, and one by one they were embedded in the human-shaped grooves on the stone wall, and there were thick iron bars nailed to the stone wall outside the grooves! These dried corpses opened their mouths one by one, their faces were hideous, and they all looked at the big toad in the middle of the tomb, which looked strange and terrifying.

I was terrified to see, and after more than twenty years of life, I saw a dead man for the first time! And it's to see so many horrible dried corpses at once! Or such a horrible way to die!

"These people look like they're martyred!" Wang Haiyang pulled out his dagger.

"In ancient China, some remote ethnic minorities have a kind of martyrdom called martyrdom, which was first seen in the Warring States Period, although it is powerful, but because it is very cruel, so few people in later generations use this method to guard the tomb, the so-called martyrdom: it is to chisel out the wall one by one human-shaped grooves, and then tie up the living people and embed them into the groove, the groove is one size smaller than the person embedded in it, so it is very painful for people to be embedded alive, after the inlay is completed, the outside of the groove is nailed with iron bars, and then the tomb door is closed. And these people who died of squeezing and starvation are commonly known as "Khotanese ghosts", and they are one of the most difficult evil ghosts. Mainly used against tomb robbers!

"Is that ghost real or fake!" Geril asked in a trembling voice.

"I didn't believe that! But the two brothers, the three guns and the stick, died and went crazy after going to the grave, and I can't say for sure" Wang Haiyang stared at these dried corpses intently, as if he was on guard against something.

Zhang Jiande walked to the coffin and picked up the burnt black burial goods from it, which seemed to be some jewelry or something

"It's not in vain, these should be golden! Such a big fire didn't burn out! ”

I didn't stop him, but my heart was cold, if there were bamboo slips and silk books in this coffin, it would have turned into ashes a long time ago!

At this time, Ye Lingwen walked up to me and asked me quietly: This tomb road is gone here, how can we get out!

That's what worries me the most, this chamber is much deeper than the previous one!

"If that burial chamber was a side burial chamber just now, then this should be the main burial chamber now! Could it be that this burned is the coffin of the tomb owner? This mausoleum is so large, this coffin is too simple! And this funeral goods are pitiful," Geril said, pointing to a few funeral goods picked out by Zhang Jiande.

"Look at the ground," before Geril finished speaking, Ye Lingwen suddenly pointed to the ground and shouted.

I raised my flashlight and saw a charred figure on the ground in front of the burned coffin, and I could see that it was a corpse that had been burned to the point of a pile of slag.

I was stunned, and maybe they had the same question as me:

Could it be that this charred person is Hu Sanpao? The coffin and the man were burned like that, so why is there no trace of burning in the rest of the tomb?

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and then I looked at the huge stone toad standing in the middle of the tomb with a snake coiled above its head, and I only felt that there was something strange everywhere here.

Wang Haiyang circled around the charred black figure twice: "If I am not mistaken, this should be the legendary ghost kiln, which is the most vicious anti-theft method of the tomb owner, and all those who enter the periphery of the tomb will be burned alive by the ghost fire." ”

"If you say so! Those spiders are afraid of this ghost fire so they don't dare to follow? But now that we're in, why haven't we been burned to death by the fire? Zhang Jiande put everything in his backpack and walked over to the big toad to look up and down.

"The dried corpses and ghost fires on the walls are all guarding the mausoleum, so what is this big toad for? Could it be the Tomb Beast? I've never heard of a toad as a tomb beast from ancient times to the present! ”

Zhang Jiande said that he was about to climb on the stone toad.