Chapter 232: Notes on Tomb Robbery (2)
"Look, there's something in that corner!"
Shi Ji suddenly made a sound, and stretched out his hand to point to the pile of broken bottles and cans in the corner.
Tan Xiao was not frightened by this tomb, but was startled by his sudden voice.
As soon as he lifted the candle in his hand, Shi Ji had already thrown out the Pu knife in his hand.
Throwing it forward, he slammed the Pu knife directly into the stone wall in the corner, and the tail of the Pu knife was still trembling.
Tan Xiao had already walked over with Shi Ji.
When I got closer, I saw that the one who was nailed to death by Shi Ji with a simple knife was a small spotted snake.
He threw the knife very accurately, and directly split the little snake in half from the middle of the head.
"It's very profitable." Laughing and complimenting.
Shi Ji was a little embarrassed, he thought he had seen something, and a black shadow swished past, but he didn't think about it......
"You just say, is there something to talk about?" Shi Ji pulled out the Pu knife.
"Yes, yes, yes."
Tan Xiao had already raised the candle in his hand and began to look at the pictures carved on the tomb wall on the right.
As long as it is a slightly larger tomb, the tomb often has such a picture of the life of the owner.
Tan Xiao just glanced at it a few times, and he saw a rough idea.
"This tomb belonged to a large landowner, and when this landlord made a fortune, he also relied on the clan, and there were many people in their branch, and then gathered together, and when the natural disaster came, he began to plunder the wealth of other villagers."
"In this way, two generations have been accumulated, and when the third generation is reached, the person who is the most skillful among them will become the landlord."
Shi Ji also followed to the side, and in his eyes, these patterns were a group of chaotic villains.
Not to mention trying to see the content, Shi Ji couldn't even understand what they were doing, he just felt that they would fight for a while, and they would still fight for a while.
"Let's go, there should have been a few burial goods here, but they have all been emptied, let's take a look elsewhere."
Tan Xiao held a candle, and took out a candle and flint from the bag he carried with him and gave it to the stone table in case of emergency.
Unlike carrying a simple knife, Tan Xiao is holding a small slippery Tianzi (iron hammer) in his hand.
In this kind of small tomb, the Pu knife in the stone belt is still too big to operate.
Out of this transept, a circular corridor passed, and they happened to be at the corner on the right side of the corridor, and not far in front of the corridor, there was a large stone chamber.
It is said to be a stone chamber, but from the outside, it looks like a large sarcophagus.
"This is the main tomb?"
Shi Ji can still understand some of this, and after understanding it, he is a little eager to try.
This is the first time he has done this to dig someone else's grave.
Lack of virtue.
He likes it enough!
But Tan Xiao didn't answer him immediately, but looked at the compass in his hand, and then looked around the stone room in front of him.
"Let's go, let's go in and see first."
The main hall also has a door, just like a real room.
When I walked through the corridor, there was a dark wind blowing from the bottom of the field, and in the flickering candlelight, it was as if a grimace appeared next to the candle, blowing softly.
Stepping into the main hall, the flames that had been jumping and flickering returned to normal.
The candlelight shone all around, and there were cobwebs everywhere, and some of the mud seeped in from the rammed earth layer above, and there were some plant roots.
This tomb is obviously a long time old.
Of course, the first thing that really attracted the attention of the two was the sarcophagus coffin located in the center of the stone room.
The lid of the coffin had long since been opened, and it was deviated to the side.
"It seems that our seniors don't seem to be very rude, they opened the door to someone else's house, and they didn't close it when they left."
talked about laughing and made a joke, which made Shi Ji feel a little creepy.
And the best way for him to face his fear is to face it.
So he carried the Pu knife, stepped on the dirt scattered on the ground, and walked directly to the coffin.
At a glance, even Shi Ji found a trace of doubt.
Not to mention laughing and talking.
"Dao Chief, this corpse is a bit new."
Shi Ji has little experience in tomb robbing, but he is still very insightful about killing.
For example, he could see at a glance that the white bones lying in this coffin had definitely not been dead for more than six years.
There is no frame with this tomb at all.
"It's a bit too much to be new."
"Then he is not the owner of this tomb?"
Shi Ji was puzzled, Tan Xiao had already bent down directly, put his hand into the coffin, pinched the head of the white bone, and turned it over gently.
The head fell straight off.
"He who was torn his neck and died, and it seems that the man who killed him ...... The strength is not small. Shi Ji analyzed: "And Daoist, didn't you just say it, there is a ghost in this tomb, it shouldn't be the person who killed the ghost." ”
Looking at the stone table that was getting more and more outrageous, Tan Xiao retracted his hand and wiped his hand with an unknown animal skin, as if to get rid of the filth on it.
"This man is our predecessor, and most of them are accomplices who saw the wealth and divided the spoils unevenly, so they left him here to make amends to the tomb owner."
"What does the Taoist mean, black eats black?!"
Shi Ji's eyes lit up, he was familiar with this matter.
In his early years, he didn't have an immortal ghost, and when he was still a splasher, he didn't do anything lacking in virtue.
"Hmm."
"What about the original bones in this tomb, I don't see any bones underneath it."
Shi Ji said and looked sideways.
"Don't worry."
After talking and laughing, he got up again and looked around, he held the candle flame, his brows furrowed slightly, and waited for him to finish a circle.
The frowning brow relaxed.
Shi Ji is holding a simple knife, poking here and poking there.
"Dao Chief, there's nothing here, did we run for nothing, this has been emptied."
Tan Xiao smiled: "No, Poor Dao will take you to meet the real good things." ”
"Huh?"
Shi Ji was puzzled, Tan Xiao had already left the stone room with a candle, and he hurriedly followed.
Coming out of the gate and into the hallway, the wind was blowing, and the fire was swaying again.
Tan Xiao thrust the son of the sky into his waist, and with one hand to protect the candle, he walked along this corridor against the wind.
Shi Ji followed him step by step, and when he came to the corner, the corridor became deeper, but the wind was stronger.
Faintly, the flames poured out, as if they were about to be extinguished as they followed.
"Dao Chief, let me go ahead."
"Okay."
After Shi Ji walked forward, the wind suddenly became much lighter, and he had time to talk and laugh and look at the surrounding situation.
This stone chamber was built with the accumulation of huge stone bars, just looking at the amount of work, you can know.
The status of the owner of this tomb is definitely not low.
"Dao Chief, where are we going?" Shi Ji saw that he had already reached the corner of this corridor in front of him, so he asked out loud.
"The coffin above is fake, it's a fake tomb, and the real tomb is somewhere else." Talking and laughing told the truth.
"What?"
Shi Ji was obviously a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he didn't ask how Tan Xiao knew about it.
Anyway, the chief of the conversation knows that it is not unusual.
If he didn't know, it would be surprising.
"Right here, stop."
Talking and laughing made Shi Ji stop, and the position of the two of them was at another corner of this corridor.
In front of me, there are still stone walls all around, and there is no road.
Shi Ji didn't ask either.
There will be a way to talk about it.
Sure enough, after stopping, Tan Xiao handed the candle to Shi Ji, and he himself took out the slippery heaven from his waist.
A small hammer.
The mottled abrasion marks on the top show how many years it has passed.
"Dao Chief, where the hell did you get so much?"
This Shi Ji couldn't help but ask.
Both of them are in the same town, and Shi Ji can naturally know through his memories that Tanxiao's family is just a shortbread seller.
Where do these things come from?
I can't buy it now.
"Oh, this, Poor Dao has brought over the old master's set of things."
"He's willing?"
"Will he fight with me?"
Shi Ji was speechless, so he had to give him a thumbs up.
Tan Xiao kept knocking on the stone wall with the Slippery Son, as if looking for a location.
Shi Ji didn't say anything.
For a moment, only the sound of chatting and laughing against the stone wall echoed between the corridors.
"Boom-"
"Knock-"
The sound is sometimes crisp, sometimes dull.
He knocked very quickly, and often the previous sound was still in the corridor without dissipating, and the echo was still there, but the next sound had already come.
There were more and more voices, just when Shi Ji was a little upset.
Tan Xiao suddenly slammed the hammer in his hand
A loud, dull sound came, followed by a "boom".
The two took a few steps back in quick succession.
Because the stone wall that had been knocked on by the conversation and laughter collapsed with a bang, revealing a swarthy portal.
"This ......"
Shi Ji was a little stunned, such a thick stone wall, the chief of the talk just struck a few times with a small hammer, and then smashed it open?
"Behind this is the real tomb, if you put a little light, it may be dangerous."
"Good!"
There are unknowns, there are crises, there are adventures.
Shi Ji's originally plain heart instantly became hot, and he stepped over the pile of stones with the Pu knife.
Behind the rocks is a long and narrow stone chamber, which is full of stone carvings.
The shape is quite strange, not a man, not a beast, but a carved door.
It's all stone gates.
The partition door, which is composed of a lattice center and a skirt, is also carved in stone relief, and many heads are open-carved.
There are also square doors with straight sides, equal width above and below, and usually one door and one pair.
There are arched doors with an arched upper part and a right-angled or beveled lower part.
In addition, on the other side, there are also wall doors, hanging flower doors and barbarian doors and so on.
The two of them walked through the middle of the portal.
"What's the matter with this person, why do you bury yourself so much? Is this because the door was stolen by others before his death? ”
Shi Ji muttered while looking at it.
Tan Xiao held the candle that had burned most of it, and also looked at the stone doors on both sides, and said at the same time: "After going down to the tomb, try not to talk nonsense, especially not to say something very disrespectful to the owner of the tomb." ”
"That's the rule?"
"The rules of the predecessors who took their lives to find out."
Shi Ji immediately shut up.
The two of them passed through the burial room without danger, passed through the side door next to it, and came to a stone room, which was different from the burial room next to it...... This burial chamber is a bit strange.
It was about the same size as the previous burial chamber, but the contents were wooden shelves.
Talking and laughing roughly scanned, two columns, nine each, a total of eighteen.
And on each shelf, there are clothes tied up, even though it has been a long time, but it may be because of the storage in this underground stone room.
The damage to these clothes is not serious, even if it is just a glance, you can see that these clothes are worn by women.
From the innermost belly pocket to the outermost shirt.
"Do you feel that these clothes are hanging here, like the wives and concubines of the owner of this tomb?" Talking and laughing suddenly sounded.
Shi Ji straightened up in an instant, and replied: "Can't you see the Taoist chief, these were originally the wives and concubines who accompanied the funeral, and you see that one is still smiling at you." ”
He pointed to the column on the left, the penultimate piece of clothing.
Talking and laughing, "hehe" laughed.
He naturally knew that Shi Ji was joking, "It is estimated that the valuable things are in the main tomb, and there is nothing here." ”
"Let's go."
With that, he held the candle and just wanted to walk through the tomb.
But a sudden sound made both of them stop.
"Dao Chief, did you hear that?"
Shi Ji, who was walking behind, asked aloud.
"Hmm."
Tan Xiao nodded his head, because just now he heard the sound of the door opening, not only him, but Shi Ji also heard it.
The sound came from behind, and inside the funeral chamber that I had passed by earlier, there were indeed doors.
But those were models of stone doors, and under normal circumstances, it would be completely impossible to open or close.
Not to mention the sound of the door closing.
So...... There are quirks.
"If you think it's strange in a place like this, you have to see for yourself, otherwise the thing will always haunt your heart like a shadow, and you won't be at peace."
Tan Xiao explained to Shi Ji as he pulled out his hammer.
Shi Ji followed closely.
The two of them returned to the burial room full of stone gates, and unsurprisingly, all the stone doors were intact.
Not to mention that it was opened, it didn't move at all.
But above the square door, there was a round mountain mouse eating on its stomach.
Just when the two of them were a little confused, the mountain mouse suddenly raised its nose, opened its mouth, and made a "squeak" sound, a little hoarse, but it sounded exactly the same as the sound of opening an old wooden door.
"yes, so a lot of the time it's yourself scaring yourself."
It's easy to talk and laugh.
But Shi Ji couldn't see it, he threw out the Pu knife in his hand again, and directly stabbed the mountain mouse to death on the wall.
"What the hell, even my stone can dare to scare?!"
He took a few steps and pulled out the sword.
"Scared!"
As soon as he looked down, he was startled by the situation beneath his feet.
"What's wrong?" Tan Xiao walked over in a few steps.
"Dao Chief, look, why are there so many white bones here?!"
Shi Ji pointed to the back of the square door and said with a surprised expression.
Tan Xiao walked over, and by the candlelight, he could also see clearly that on the ground behind the door, there were really a bunch of white bones, and judging from the shape and size of the bones, it was estimated that they were all small animals in the mountains, such as the long-tailed rabbit who had just been stabbed to death by Shi Ji.
"Whatever, a few rats died, it's normal, let's go."
Talking and laughing, he seemed to be very open, turned around and left.
Although Shi Ji also had some doubts in his heart, he couldn't say anything, and if he talked too much, he seemed to be weak and afraid.
The two of them passed through the stone door and came to the stone room where the woman's clothes were placed again.
But when he came to this, the conversation and laughter that was originally relaxed suddenly stopped, his face was full of caution, and even his brows were furrowed.
"Huh?"
Shi Ji noticed his strange appearance, and even tightened the Pu knife in his hand, "What's wrong?" ”
Tan Xiao's eyes swept over the shelves with clothes, and then he stretched out his hand, pointing to the penultimate piece of clothing on the left, and the third piece of clothing on the right, and said, "These two sets of clothes have just changed positions." ”
"What?"
Shi Ji looked left and right, and couldn't remember what the situation of these two clothes was just now.
"Are you sure?!"
Shi Ji said that he had already picked up the Pu knife and was about to go up and take a few clicks, but Tan Xiao stretched out his hand to stop him.
"This ghost seems to be really around us." The tone of conversation and laughter is firm.
"Where?"
"I don't know."
Talking and laughing, he handed the candle in his hand to Shi Ji, and he himself took out a brush stained with scarlet cinnabar from the bag behind his back, and he scribbled directly on his clothes, as if outlining a talisman.
"Turn around."
He asked Shi Ji to turn around, and on his back, he also scribbled a few strokes.
"Daoist, what are you?"
Tan Xiao put the cinnabar soft pen back in the bag, "I just tried it, this ghost is weird, and the poor road can't even find its traces, so I can only wait for it to show up on its own." ”
"Let's go first."
After saying that, Tan Xiao turned around and left the tomb, and after passing through this door, what he saw was finally no longer a tomb, but an ear chamber similar to the one that the two had just entered.
What is placed here is no longer a burial object, but two sarcophagi.
The chamber was not large, about half the size of the two burial chambers.
There was nothing in the chamber other than these two sarcophagi.
"It's been fucking for so long, and it's finally going to be shipped." Shi Ji stepped forward and said with his hands in a hurry.
He walked to the middle of the two sarcophagi with a simple knife, and looked left and right, "Dao Chief, I will open whichever you say." ”
Tan Xiao saw these two sarcophagi, but he didn't have the joy when they were shipped.
He just felt a little strange, if there was a burial companion, then the coffin of the burial companion should not be placed in this ear chamber.
"What, can't you open it?"
Shi Ji saw that Tan Xiao didn't speak, and asked again.
"It's not."
Tan Xiao looked left and right, and finally pointed to the coffin on the left and said, "Open this." ”
"Okay!"
Shi Ji immediately put the Pu knife aside, then sank down slightly, put his hands on the edge of the coffin lid of the sarcophagus, and immediately let out a low roar and exerted force.
The coffin lid, which originally required several people to push, was gradually pushed out of a gap at this moment under the force of the stone table.
There was only the sound of rubbing and colliding between stones, and the gap became bigger and bigger.
Shi Ji gradually saw the situation inside the coffin, but as soon as he saw it clearly, he was stunned.
"Dao Chief, the ...... inside It's a stone man! ”
"Stone Man?!"
Tan Xiao also came over with a candle, but he had just arrived closer, and he hadn't had time to see the situation inside the coffin.
The flame of the candle...... Extinguished.
Inside the ear chamber, it suddenly became pitch black.
Talking and laughing, he only felt that his neck was cold, as if a cold little hand was pinching his Adam's apple. (End of chapter)