14 Burial of the corpse
Shang Buqi couldn't help but sneer: "You girl, but you are a little fox." But he refused to say anything, deliberately wanted to hang her appetite, and said: "If you want to talk about the art of organ information, looking at today, except for the Mo family, I am afraid that I will not abandon the first in the world." I think that in order to learn this skill, I did not hesitate to go through a lot of hardships, and finally entered the disciple of a master surnamed Zeng, and studied hard for two or three years. As for my methods, you've already seen them. β
Xie Yixiang said in her heart: "I don't know anything about the information technique, and I don't know how many masters of this way there are in the world, but the 'Rose Thorn' of the Mo family that I met in Yueyang City that day, with her wooden bird 'Flying Magpie' alone, is a hundred times better than you." But she said: "In Lanzhou City and Yumen Pass before, we were able to find the secret path by relying on the ability of the business to catch the news of the head arresting agency. In my opinion, even if it is the world-famous Mojia organ information technique, I am afraid that it may not be as good as the business catcher, and it is reasonable to say that it is the best in the world. So now, I have to ask the head of the merchant to give me some guidance, have you found any secret room secret passages?"
She was so upset that she immediately took out a shovel left by Sadiq from the tent and said with a smile: "You come with me." After that, the two set off from the camp, all the way to the foot of the mountain wall of the "Suli Tang Peak", and walked more than 20 steps south along the mountain wall. β
Xie Yixiang saw that it was just ordinary sand and gravel under his feet, and he couldn't see the slightest abnormality, so he couldn't help but wonder a little. Shang Buqi used the shovel in his hand to dig into the sand and gravel, and said with a smile: "Although the sand and gravel here can't see any clues, the feeling of stepping on it is clearly different; We've been here a few times in the past few days, and I didn't notice it until this morning, when I realized something was wrong, and then I noticed something unusual. As I expected, the reason why the sand and gravel here are relatively hard is that there is a hard object similar to a stone hidden under the sand, which is only a foot or two deep at most. β
As he spoke, Shang Buqi's movements were extremely fast, and under the sand and stone that he had dug up, a flat stone was indeed exposed at a depth of two feet; Xie Yixiang hurriedly used the chaotic scabbard to cut the sand and stone with him, and after half an hour, the whole piece of sand and stone had been cut open by the two of them, revealing nine flat square stone slabs from the ground, each of which was an accurate three-foot square, and every three pieces were combined into a column, forming a large square of three zhang square.
In this way, it should be a dark room or passage under these nine stone slabs, but in this inaccessible Tianshan Mountain Range, how can there be such exquisite artificial traces? The two of them did not think much about it, and carefully uncovered the nine stone slabs one by one, and it turned out that under the stone slabs was actually a stone chamber three zhang square, but it was only four or five feet deep, and the bottom and four walls of the stone chamber were paved with stone slabs, and there were four stone pillars the size of bowls in the middle, which were at the mercy of a squareββ With the help of the sides of the stone slabs of the four walls and the four stone pillars in the middle, they just support the nine stone slabs that originally covered the top of the stone chamber. Looking at the middle of the stone chamber, it is clear that there is an unadorned sarcophagus, which is sandwiched between the two sides by four stone pillars erected in it.
Xie Yixiang and Shang Bu glanced at each other, and were stunned on the spot. Obviously, this stone chamber hidden deep underground is clearly a burial chamber, but I don't know who the deceased is, and he actually chose to bury him underground? Fortunately, both of them were born as headhunters, and they did not shy away when they saw the sarcophagus, so they immediately opened the sarcophagus together. With a strange smell of flesh rising, I saw that in the sarcophagus was the body of an intact man, about fifty or sixty years old, wearing simple black clothes and black shoes, but the skin was purple-red, even a little black, and there was a faint layer of crystal oil on it. The two of them have been handling cases for many years, what kind of corpse have they not seen? Now seeing this strange man's corpse, they can't help but say in unison: "Wax corpse?"
The so-called "waxed corpse" means that the dried corpse has not decomposed because it has been properly stored, and can be preserved intact; if it is put in layman's terms, it is equivalent to the principle of "bacon". However, for corpses, decomposition is an inevitable result, so the phenomenon of "waxing corpses" is extremely rare. As for the current corpse, I think it is because it has been specially treated and buried in a cold place like the Tianshan Mountains, as if it is stored in a natural ice cellar, and this well-designed burial chamber can be airtight, so the corpse has not decomposed, forming a rare "wax corpse" spectacle. But in this way, even if Shang Bu, who claims to be "the first god in the world throughout the ages", cannot judge the burial year of this "wax corpse".
Looking at the ten fingers of the hands of this "waxed corpse", its nails were more than a foot long, hanging softly in the sarcophagus, and its toenails were also half a foot long, and they had already broken through the shoes on their feet, and they pierced straight out, and their appearance was very terrifying. You must know that the deceased will trim the nails of the corpse before burial, so the current appearance is clearly the nails that grew after the burial. Xie Yixiang suddenly recalled that on the night when he left Yumen Pass with the caravan, he had bumped into a walking corpse in the desert moonlit night, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid. Fortunately, Shang Bu was well-informed, and said disapprerovitically: "What are you afraid of? If the corpse is stored properly, hair and nails will continue to grow, which is not uncommon. β
At that time, Shang Buqi carefully checked in the sarcophagus again, and did not find any burial objects, and the four walls of the tomb were also bare stone slabs, not only did not have written records, but even the patterns were not placed, and it was impossible to guess the identity of the deceased. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but groaned: "Ning Cui used the map to lure us here, but after these days of searching, we only found such a strange tomb, what does it mean......?" If this 'dragon' refers to the Ninety-Five Emperor, could it be that this 'wax corpse' is actually the emperor of which dynasty and generation of the countries in the Western Regions?"
Shang Buqi was also clueless, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at the mountain wall not far away, and muttered: "Don't you think this 'Suli Tang Peak' is a little weird?" Xie Yixiang heard him suddenly come up with this question, and asked puzzledly: "What's weird?"
Shang Buqi shook his head and said, "I can't tell, every time I see this mountain, I always feel that there is an indescribable strangeness, as if ...... It was as if the mountain was looking at me, but upon closer inspection, there was nothing. If you want to say that the cases I have handled, if not 1,000, but 800, it is inevitable that there will be some premonitions that ordinary people can't understand. If I expected it to be true, on the summit of this 'Sulitan Peak', there are probably some unsavory secrets. But the mountain is surrounded by such steep walls that no one can climb it......"
Speaking of this, he suddenly asked Xie Yixiang: "Assuming that there is really some secret hidden on the top of the mountain, and Ning Cui's original intention is to let us climb this 'Suli Tang Peak', then what do you think the red circle mark she drew at the foot of the mountain on the map will mean?"
Xie Yixiang was stunned for a moment and said, "This ...... This ......" she immediately understood what Shang did not give up, and blurted out: "If there is a secret hidden on the summit of this 'Sulitang Peak', it means that someone can climb it, or someone has climbed to the top of the mountain. Since the outer walls of the mountain cannot be climbed, it is only possible that the mountain is in the middle of the mountain, assuming that there is a way up the mountain. Do you mean that there is a passage up the mountain hidden inside this peak, and this red circle left by Ning Cui is actually the entrance to this passage?"
Shang Buqi immediately slapped his palms and said, "Yes, that's exactly what I meant! If there really is such a passage up the mountain inside the peak, then the tomb we find now is very likely to be the entrance to this passage!"