I said in horror: "It's so deep! Head! This... this is at least dozens of meters deep! It seems to be a naturally formed cave!"
Dou Sprout said excitedly: "Whatever, Fengzi! I'll do it! I'll get off first! Maybe the treasures are hidden down there!"
Brother Yu said don’t be impulsive! It's so deep, there may be a lack of oxygen underneath! Let’s wait and see.
It's a blessing, not a curse. It's a curse that you can't avoid. If you don't go down, you won't know what's underneath! After discussion, we unanimously decided to go take a look.
We found all the ropes we could and tied them together! Smash the two crowbars into the ground in a cross shape! Tie the rope tightly to the crowbar.
Working in a group of two, Douyazai and I decided to go down first to get a feel for the situation. It would be too risky to do it alone, so the two of us could at least take care of each other.
After checking the equipment, Douyazai and I grabbed the rope and started to climb down. Brother Yu and Baotou used flashlights to help us light up.
When he descended to a depth of more than 20 meters, Dou Sprout suddenly shouted: "Fengzi, look! What the hell is this!"
Let me take a look! I saw several insects covered with legs crawling slowly on the wall, like cave millipedes or centipedes.
But these insects are white. Where are the white centipedes? It is simply an unknown creature. I still don’t know what this thing is called. Let’s just call it a white centipede.
I told Bean Sprouts not to touch these bugs, as they might be poisonous, but Bean Sprouts didn't listen to me. He stepped on the wall with his feet, grabbed the rope with his left hand, pulled out a knife from his waist with his right hand, and cut a white centipede into two pieces.
Later, Dou Sprouts happily let me watch, but just then! The white centipede with only half left on the bean sprout knife suddenly moved, crawling very fast, in the blink of an eye! He followed Dou Sprout's wrist and got into his sleeve!
Bean Sprout yells! Suddenly the rope was dangling! He shook his arms desperately!
"coat!"
"Fuck! Take off your coat!" I shouted anxiously while watching.
Dou Sprout quickly took off his coat and threw it away. At this time, I saw half of the white centipede lying on the back collar of Dou Sprout's sweater. I didn't know whether it was dead or alive. I told him not to move! Then I grabbed the rope, swung it over, and knocked the thing off.
Dou Sprout was covered in sweat and gasped: "Fengzi! I feel like I was bitten! What should I do? Is this thing not poisonous?"
I yelled angrily: "You deserve it! Who made you move! I'm not a biologist! How the hell do I know if it's poisonous or not!"
"You asked me what to do! What if it's poisonous! Just follow your local customs!"
After listening to my words, Dou Sprout became very angry.
Encountering this unexpected situation, Dou Sprout became a lot more honest and continued to slide down. During this period, he saw several identical white centipedes, and Dou Sprout did not dare to touch them again.
It took a full forty minutes to get to the bottom. If it were deeper, our rope would not be long enough.
After coming down, I straightened my headlamp and looked at my surroundings.
The light of the headlight flashlight dispelled the darkness inch by inch, and suddenly! I saw the coffin! It was a huge granite sarcophagus!
On the left and right sides of the sarcophagus, there are two ferocious-looking painted human-shaped tomb stone sculptures! The size is as big as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses! When the flashlight shines on the face of the stone sculpture, it gives the impression that the eyes are protruding! The evil spirit! very scary!
After hundreds of years, the paintings on the stone sculptures are still very bright, especially the cinnabar red, which is exactly the same color as human blood!
This kind of large stone sculpture, one on the left and one on the right, guarding the coffin is very rare! This is no ordinary tomb-suppressing beast. Grave-suppressing beasts are usually placed at the door or in the tomb passage. This kind of painted one is called a "tomb-suppressing spirit"!
It can occasionally be seen in the Shinto of some large underground palaces in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that there are 160 tomb guarding spirits in the Qianling Mausoleum of Wu Zetian! They were all made of living people sealed in clay figurines and burned! Because no one has gone to Qianling to see it, we don’t know whether it is true or false.
Let’s not talk about the huge sarcophagus in front of us! Just looking at these two tomb-killing spirits makes me tremble with fear! I doubt it was made of living people.
This is a national treasure. If it can be shipped out, it will definitely sell for a sky-high price! I have been in the industry for more than five years, and this is the first time I have seen a complete painted large-scale tombstone with my own eyes. From this, it is not difficult to judge how rare this thing is.
Dou Sprout was dumbfounded. When he realized what he was doing, he was about to go over. I stopped him and told him not to act rashly. The sarcophagus in front of him was not trivial. He had to wait until his head came down before he could make a decision.
After saying that, I took out my mobile phone and took several photos of the painted tomb spirit, preparing to send them to the buyer in the future.
After waiting for a long time, Baotou and Brother Yu came down. Even though Baotou was well-informed, he was very excited after seeing everything in front of him.
Needless to say, the person lying in the sarcophagus is either rich or noble.
There is an 80% chance that he is the Southern Song Dynasty general Lu Wende!
