Immortal Sand Sea Chapter 19: The Ancient Tomb

I said that even if all this is true, it is untenable, and I came from the Soviet Union thousands of miles to this ravine just to rob the tomb under the temple?

He didn't explain, but unhurriedly took out a folded silk handkerchief from his inner pocket, carefully spread it out, and held it in front of me and said, "The silk of the Western Han Dynasty will open your eyes." ”

The silk is covered with yellow stains, painted with a red mountain pattern, I can recognize at a glance that the mountain is the Wuxi Mountain where we are located, and even the winding Yellow Dragon Pond is outlined, the back of the Yellow Dragon Pond is painted with the complete and incomplete Yellow Dragon Temple, and the top of the silk is also described in four ancient sentences.

"A yellow dragon enters a deep pool,

The branches of the mountains cover the soil cold,

Famous teachers can point to the temple acupoints,

Ancestral Mountain starts in the north from the south. ”

He gestured with his hand and read it out on the words.

I wanted to take it closer, but he retracted his hand and folded the handkerchief and put it away: "Look at it, don't do it, this cost 20,000 rubles at the auction, and you can't afford to pay it." ”

20,000 rubles is enough for seven or eight years of life in a village, it is too worthless to change such a piece of silk, I asked him if there is no tomb or someone stolen it will be a loss, he waved his hand and said absolutely not, there is no trace of the thief hole, this silk handkerchief is from the Western Han Dynasty, no matter how the age will not be shorter than it.

"So how are you going to go down? We won't be here for long. I asked.

He seemed to be confident, and he had studied it before he came, and the specific location of this tomb was in those four sentences.

He didn't go on, but looked around first, then climbed up a steep slope and looked again.

"Come up," he called to me.

I learned him to climb up the steep slope, and he pointed to the bottom where we were standing and said, "See?" ”

I looked closely and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, just a few trees growing on the wasteland.

"I didn't notice that the trees on the side were thousands of years old, and the trees on the ground looked smaller, not a group of them." He continued.

This reminder immediately noticed the abnormality, no one will cut down and plant the trees in the deep mountain forest, they are often thick and leafy, and the trees on the ground are indeed smaller than the others, and there is only one reason for this situation, this is a cemetery.

I know a little bit about the feng shui of the cemetery, according to common sense, there will only be two kinds of trees planted, one is to plant a few pine and cypress trees in the green dragon and white tiger of the tomb, such as the civil and military ministers to protect each other, meaning longevity and blessings; The second is the basalt position behind the tomb, where the tree is planted and future generations will be helped by nobles.

But the top of the tomb is not planted, too close to the tomb, the root system of the tree will go deep into the tomb to cause water seepage to change the auspiciousness of feng shui, which will lead to mental disorders and hindered fortune of the descendants of the family.

"Let's go, while there's still time." He left the last sentence and ran down the slope neatly.

I had a fear of heights, so I could only follow the footsteps and step on the lump of soil and slowly descend, and halfway through the soles of my feet slipped, I suddenly sank down, and half of my body sank directly into the soil.

I stepped into the swamp, I heard Lao Li Tou say that some tombs will artificially create some traps near the tomb, the more I struggle, the more I sink inside, I didn't expect this time to happen to me.

I tried to put my hands on the soil and pull my feet out, but the floating soil immediately sank into it again, and my body fell a little more, and the cold air in the soil forced my chest, and I didn't dare to breathe now, so I tried not to make a move.

Qian Jin saw that I didn't follow, and looked back, only to realize that I was trapped in the swamp.

He made a silent gesture to me, then picked up a broken branch and ran to two steps away from me, stretched out the branch and said, "Don't panic, hold on slowly." ”

I reached for the branch, but fortunately my arm was not short, and I twisted it with two fingers and made a circle and buckled it into the tiger's mouth.

I didn't dare to push it out any harder, so I could only rely on him to pull the branch back, and it was easy for the sink to sink down, but it was much more difficult to come up, and the dirt had poured into half of my body, and the weight had increased sharply.

"You're trying hard."

I panicked when I saw that he couldn't pull back half a step, and my legs and stomach were already a little numb at this time, and if I continued to spend it like this, I would have to be buried alive.

"Don't argue, trust me."

He gritted his teeth and returned, leaning back and pulling at the branch, and now my body slowly rose up with the dirt, and finally there was some good sign.

The sooner I succeeded, the faster my heart beat faster, and I recited the Buddha and Bodhisattva in my heart, this time I really want to bless me safely out of trouble, at this time, the branch in my hand suddenly snapped, I lost the center and fluttered, the floating soil next to me sank suddenly, and my body fell rapidly.

Seeing that his neck was about to sink in, he quickly pounced forward, stretched out his hand and grabbed my big arm to stop the sinking momentum.

But before I could take a long breath, the soil that had been padded under my feet fell deeper, and I could no longer exert my feet and my whole body was planted into the pit.

The body fell rapidly, and it was pitch black in front of him, and layers of dirt wrapped around his body until it fell into an underground space.

"Phew...... Phew......"

With a sigh of relief, I quenched my mouth full of dirt and tried to twist my waist and shake my shoulder, but fortunately it didn't break or break.

"Brother Qian? Are you there? "Since it was too dark to see anything in the cave, I tried to call out to see if he had fallen into the hole as well.

As soon as I finished speaking, there was a cough in front of me on the right, followed by a gasp for air.

"Damn, I almost bore Lao Tzu ......"

It was his familiar voice scolding my mother, and I felt a little more stable, but fortunately someone lined me.

Immediately after two clicks of the grinding of foreign fireers, a flame burst out of the darkness, illuminating his face full of muck.

"It's good that the rain has frozen some of the floating soil, otherwise we would all have gone to Hades to report." He held up the lighter and looked upwards as he spoke.

After recovering from the thrill, I looked around, although the mud wall was unusually smooth, not as it had been formed by nature, and on the wall to my left I could see a square hole.

"Could this be a thief hole?" I asked.

He looked in the direction I was pointing in, and immediately threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground and hurriedly approached to observe.

He said that it is not far from the underground tomb of the Yellow Dragon Temple, and it looks like a hidden robbery cave in terms of distance.

I was a little puzzled, and asked him if it was a bit of a mistake to do this, since I had already guessed the specific location of the ancient tomb, why did he still run so far to do such a big project, and besides, there was an earth swamp on it, which was too dangerous.

Qian Jin said that this is where the tomb robbers are clever, not only hiding from the eyes and ears of ordinary people, but also guarding against other peers, making us mistakenly think that it is a trap and will not think that there is a hole in the hole.

"It's still a miscalculation, it seems that it's a step too late, and I exchanged 20,000 rubles for a rag cloth." He always thought that no one had ever gone down to this tomb, but he never thought that the tomb robber would cut off his beard, if he hadn't accidentally stumbled into it and would have been in the dark.

If it is said that this is just a harmful swamp, we will never bother to dig carefully, we found a few burnt white wax in the corner of the wall, Brother Qian used a foreign fire machine to try to ignite and found that it can still be used, we are more sure that this is an extremely clever "living trap", using a false impression caused by the unknown light, as long as a specific climate and temperature can be found to be hidden, we are stuck on the point by mistake, such a means of robbing tombs are really admirable.

I held the lamp and shone into the deep dark cavern, and found that it was a passage that was diagonally upward.

"The hand work is very neat, and the edges and corners of the hole digging are not much worse than that of a machine shovel." He praised there.

After speaking, he did not go directly in, but slowly stretched the candle into the cave, the flame shook a little but did not extinguish, and said: "The old man should have told you, I don't know how long there has been no living creature in the cave, and a lot of filth has been accumulated over the years, and the smell of corpse decay is just that, if you hit the evil qi, it will be more troublesome." ”

I don't understand, Lao Li Tou didn't say that you can distinguish whether there is evil qi with fire, and there is no relevant description in the book "Searching for Mountains and Determining Coffins", so I asked one after another.

He replied: "The main carrier of evil qi is the wind, and when the wind encounters evil, the fire will change in a variety of ways, such as the color turns green, and the flame suddenly lengthens and becomes thinner. ”

Seeing that the fire did not change as he said, his hanging heart immediately fell to the ground, and he climbed into the cave with a candle, telling me not to follow too closely, so as not to evacuate in case of an emergency.

I nodded in response, and only went in when he crawled a distance of four or five meters, because the thief hole was diagonally upward, then I found that it took a lot of effort, and I had to put my toes on the ground to avoid slipping and falling, but the further I went, the more I could smell the smell of mold, and the cold of the air made the environment a little dark and depressing, and even breathing felt a little difficult at this time, I knew that this was caused by the lack of oxygen in the surrounding environment, and once the time was too long, there would be a risk of hypoxic shock to the brain.

He was thin and weak, and he was probably not good for Soviet food, and he was already panting there, and I could only call him from time to time to see if he was still in a conscious state, otherwise I would really want to drag him out.

The cave was not in a straight line, and we had climbed about 50 meters before there was a turn to the right.

He slowly turned around and said to me: "When I arrive, there is Shimenzi in front, and the little brother holds on." His face had turned pale, and he was panting as if he were going to fall at any moment.

I didn't care about the distance, so I quickly climbed up to him, and saw two neat stone bricks in front of me.

"These people don't have clean hands and feet, and they open the door but don't close it." He said something stupid.

I thought to myself, it's good that it wasn't sealed, otherwise we really wouldn't be able to advance or retreat, and we would have to suffocate to death in the hole.

Seeing that he didn't move forward, I reminded me that I was going out, and at this time I was already dizzy, but he didn't hurry to take out a yellow talisman folded into a triangle from his pocket and handed it to me, saying that this was an evil talisman drawn by the old man, and that if I ran into something evil after entering, I could protect myself at a critical time.

I took the yellow charm and looked at it, the yellow paper has been old and can still see some red marks, I said to him that this thing gave me what to do, he still kept the first battle for himself, I didn't expect him to grin and take out a dangling in front of my eyes, saying that this thing The old man has not made a hundred or dozens of them, and there are still a bunch in his bag outside.

I thought it was a rare item, but I didn't expect there to be such a large number, and I didn't bother to say anything and put it directly into my pocket, signaling him to hurry in.

I reminded him vigorously that he slowly climbed into the stone gate, and as soon as I followed in, I felt a wind blowing in my face, and in front of me was a narrow hole high for one person, and all sides were paved with green bricks, and I knew in my heart that this was the tomb road.

The shrunken body suddenly unfolded, not to mention how comfortable it was, and the oxygen content in the tomb had increased a lot compared to before, so I took a few breaths and felt dizzy.

After settling down, continue to move forward, walked a distance of 100 meters, there was a stone frame made of blue bricks, walked out of the stone frame, went down two steps and there was a huge underground space in front of him, the scale of this tomb is really not small, the candles in the hands of the two of us can not fully illuminate the tomb.