Chapter 21

c Tomb robbing is not just a child’s play, it also involves scientific reasoning, and it is not like the fake corpses on TV, with rice dumplings jumping all over the floor and corpse crickets crawling everywhere.

Over thousands of years, most of the bones would have rotted into dregs.

Following the initiation to the tomb passage, Sister Yu swung her headlamp back and forth, observing some details that we might have overlooked.

If not for the fact that people in the world of tomb robbers say that Master Yao is awesome, just looking at this woman Yao Yumen is not easy. When she walked to the end of the tomb passage and looked at the stone wall for a while, she discovered another problem.

"Look, look here," she squatted on the northwest corner of the stone wall and turned to wave us over.

"Yumen, is this handwriting?" Yao Wence, who had not spoken much before, said at this time.

I knelt down curiously to take a look.

I saw part of the stone skin peeling off where Sister Yu pointed. After the water under the pit receded, some mud dried on the corners. I could vaguely see it like writing.

She took out a bottle of water from her bag and poured some on the wall.

The stone wall absorbs water quickly. After wiping it back and forth with your hand, a piece of handwriting slowly appeared.

"This... this is ancient bronze inscription... nine-fold seal script!" Boss Sun exclaimed when he saw the handwriting clearly.

Sister Yu frowned: "Curious Tomb, as far as I know this kind of writing has been discontinued in the late Shang Dynasty. How come people are still using it in the Western Zhou Dynasty?"

We splashed water again.

Then we discovered that the entire stone wall, well-proportioned, was actually engraved with nine folds of ancient bronze inscriptions!

Everyone was startled, and Boss Sun immediately came up with a guess. Could this be the epitaph of the tomb owner?

"Yes, is it possible that it is an epitaph?" Lao San also agreed.

Sister Yu shook her head after being shocked and said: "It's unlikely. Epitaphs haven't become popular in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Have you ever thought that this wall... might be a door?"

"Door? What do you mean?" I didn't understand.