Volume 1: The Mystery of Dunhuang Chapter 28 The Evil Beast of the Tomb
The moment I opened the tent, the yellow sand poured into the tent like a flood, and it didn't take long for my calves to go, but it didn't stop.
It wasn't until I was buried in the yellow sand from the waist down that the flow stopped.
The mouth of the tent was not completely exposed, and most of it was yellow sand, and it was less than one-fifth the size of the one that could be seen outside.
I picked it up with my hands, barely enough for a man to climb out.
When I climbed out of the tent, I found that the storm had gradually decreased, but there was no intention of stopping, and the air was still full of yellow sand.
I don't know if God is tired of blowing and is at halftime.
Turning her head, where is there still the shadow of the tent, there is a small opening under a huge sand dune, and Liu Tingting is climbing out of it at the moment.
After a while, everyone, including Wu Fatzi's fat pig, climbed out of the tent safely.
I don't know if the yellow sand pressed on it is too heavy, and I don't know if it was Wu Fatzi who tossed it out with great difficulty.
Anyway, in the end, the tent completely collapsed, and it was completely buried by the yellow sand.
Seeing that everyone came out safely, I had nothing to worry about, and according to the memory of groping before, I took a flashlight to find the stone gate.
Soon, ten meters away from the tent, I found the stone door.
For the stone gate, Hanzi didn't introduce too much, he only said that there were a lot of patterns on the stone gate, and he didn't observe too much.
Soon, all the people gathered in front of the stone door.
The stone gate is about three meters high and two meters wide, and it is made of bluestone bricks unique to the Warring States period.
The structure of the stone gate is peculiar, a scene of carved beams and paintings, and the top of the stone gate is a structure similar to a roof, which is raised and leaned forward, somewhat like the rain in front of the modern door face.
On both sides of the so-called rain ride, there are stone birds carved with the rain ride, which are quite large, the size of adult chickens and ducks, but some wind and sand erosion, and it is impossible to distinguish what kind of bird it belongs to.
On both sides of the stone gate, there is a raised arc-shaped stone pillar, on which the carved graphic patterns are somewhat like vines, and there are grooves of different shades on the stone pillars on both sides, which seem to have words on this stone pillar, but now it is also unrecognizable.
As for the stone gate, it is about two meters high, and if it is only a little more than half a meter wide, it looks a little restrained.
"This is a tomb from the Western Han Dynasty!"
The old man spoke suddenly.
"Sir, how did you determine his age based on this stone door alone?" I asked.
To tell the truth, although I have nearly 100 tombs in ten years, most of those tombs are mainly in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they are basically the tombs of some ordinary people, and occasionally I will encounter some tombs of landlords, but they are basically the structure of a pit underground.
And when I touched the tomb, this is the second time I have grown so big, and the first time was when I was in Luoyang.
Seeing that I opened his mouth to ask him, the old man was a little proud, raised his hand and stroked his beard and said: "Standing high and narrow, this is the typical structure of the Western Han Dynasty tomb door, according to legend, the whole world in the Western Han Dynasty was addicted to the fairy road, and the cultivation of immortals is to go straight to the nine heavens, away from the world, this stone gate is this truth, if you don't believe it, you can look at the top of the door, to see if there is a stone carving of auspicious clouds on it." ”
Suspiciously, I shone my flashlight towards the top of the stone gate, and suddenly found a pattern of auspicious clouds carved in stone.
It's just that there are two more points in this auspicious cloud, at first I thought it was a pattern of the sun and the moon, because the alternation of the sun and the moon is not uncommon in many tombs.
But when I looked closely, I felt that the protrusions of the two points did not seem to be the pattern of the sun and the moon, but rather a pair of eyes, but the distance between the eyes was a little too wide.
Wu Fatzi obviously noticed this, but he didn't understand it as well as I did, and he understood it as a pair of scumbags.
"My grass, master, you are really a god, sure enough, there are auspicious clouds, hey, why are there two scum heads on it?"
Wu Fatzi thought of what he said, completely ignoring whether the people present liked it or not.
Hearing the word scumbag, as the only woman in the team, Liu Tingting was immediately unhappy, gave Wu Fatzi a fierce look, and scolded a hooligan.
The question raised by Fat Wu was also what I wanted to know, so I turned my head to look at the old man and waited for him to popularize it for us.
"Little fat man, those two are not scumbags, they are the sun and the moon, and they are also a pair of eyes, if the old man remembers correctly, there should be two tomb beasts on both sides of this stone gate, dig and dig."
The stone gate is almost completely exposed, but the place is still buried under the yellow sand, more than 20 centimeters.
Tomb beasts, I know, but in my impression, tomb beasts are used to guard tombs and protect tomb owners from any evil spirits, so they are often very huge, and the smallest one I have seen is at least half a meter tall.
But right now, my feet rubbed hard to reach the bottom of the blue bricks in front of the stone gate, such a shallow depth, how could there be a tomb beast, even if it was washed by the yellow sand, it would not even reveal a corner.
I was beating a drum in my heart, and I wondered if this old man was talking nonsense with his eyes open.
I thought to myself but didn't say it, and my feet instinctively kicked over on the side of the stone gate.
Boom!
Accidentally, I seemed to kick something hard at the stone gate, causing a tingling sensation on my toes.
I hurriedly squatted down and probed with both hands, and sure enough, I cleared out a strange stone statue of the Tomb Beast in the yellow sand, which was only twenty centimeters deep.
Seeing that I had really found a tomb beast on my side, Wang Fatzi also sped up on the other side, and it didn't take long for another tomb beast to appear.
"Well, I found it."
The old man looked up at the sky, looking confident.
"Master, the tomb beast has been found, but this is inevitably too small, and it seems that it only has one eye......"
"What......?!"
The old man bowed his head abruptly and looked at the two small tomb beasts on either side of the stone gate.
When he saw the two tomb beasts, his face turned pale with fright, and his body shook backwards and retreated a few steps.
"This ...... This isn't a grave beast...... This is a dragon...... This is an evil ghost, and this stone door cannot be opened! ”
Before, the old man still looked like a man of the world, but now he was like a cat and a mouse, and he was frightened by two palm-sized tomb beasts.
This made me feel dazed and puzzled for a while, so I hurriedly asked: "Old man, isn't the tomb beast like this, why can't it be opened?" ”
"Yes, master, aren't they just two stones, are you old enough to react so much?" Wang Fatzi echoed.
From the moment I saw the old man for the first time, I had a good impression of him, not to mention helpfulness, and he was also pleasant on weekdays, not to mention his amazing ability.
But at this moment, the old man changed his previous kindness, and yelled at me and Wu Fatzi, "You two little hairy cubs know a hammer, and the elephant is the first fierce beast in ancient times, eating human internal organs and brains, and you will die if you enter this tomb." ”
I didn't expect the old man to have such a big reaction, if it had been a discount on my leg before the change, I wouldn't have believed such an outrageous statement.
But since the last time I encountered the horrific female corpse in the Western Zhou Tomb in Luoyang Shuiao Village, I began to have a new understanding of the strangeness and many taboos in the tomb.
Although the female corpses disappeared before my eyes and became skeletons, I knew that they were not hallucinations, they were real.
Among the five people, Gouzi and I have personal experience of weirdness, and Liu Tingting was a direct participant at that time, although she didn't remember anything at the time, it didn't mean that she didn't believe in weirdness.
was so troubled by the old man, except for Wu Fatzi, the other people were embarrassed, and they all knew that the old man would not make up a story to scare everyone for no reason.
"I'm grass, it's really fake, is it so evil, if you go in, you have to die?"
Wu Fatzi saw that we all had a gloomy face, although he didn't believe in anything weird, but he was a guy who was afraid of death, and he couldn't help but have a hint of retreat.
We traveled thousands of miles to the Gobi Desert in order to find the stone gate, and then go deep into the tomb to find what we each need.
But now, before the battle is fought, his own people will be instigated first, which is inevitably too cowardly, if this is spread out, he will not be laughed out of his peers.
The most important thing is that when I was leaving, I patted my chest in front of Liu Baye and promised that I would definitely bring this second dragon soul thing back to him.
was frightened by a stone door, this is not my Xie Dongzi's style.