Generally speaking, whatever the top looks like, the tomb below must look like this, and it is rare to get it wrong. But when I looked at this outline, I felt something was wrong. Most Han tombs don't have underground palaces, but this one obviously has one underneath, and it has a brick roof. It's really unusual.
Lao Ji measured with his fingers and finally determined the position of the coffin, "There is a brick roof below. I can't get through it with the shovel head, so I can only mark the approximate location based on experience. This underground palace is too weird. I don't know where it is." The bricks are thin, so we can only follow the experience of Song Dynasty tombs and drill in from the back wall first. If it doesn’t work, you have to start over, so you have to be faster."
Lao Ji and the others have been digging holes for more than ten years. They were very fast. The three cyclone shovels were flying up and down, and they went down seven or eight meters in one go. Because we were in this wilderness, there was no need to do soil, so we just went straight Turn the mud outside, and after a while, Wang Mian shouted from below: "It's done!"
Wang Mian had dug a large hole underneath and cleared out a large brick wall. We put on the miner's lamp and went down inside. Lao Ji saw Wang Mian knocking on the brick wall with his hand and hurriedly held him down, "What?" Don’t even touch it!”
Lao Ji's eyes were extremely sharp, which frightened Wang Mian. He stretched out two fingers, put them on the wall, and touched along the cracks of the bricks. He touched for a long time before stopping, "There is an anti-theft mezzanine inside. When moving, all the bricks must be taken out. You cannot Push it inside, let alone smash it!"
Lin Xiaoyu touched the wall, "How is it possible? There is not even a crack. How is it possible to get these bricks out?"
Lao Ji didn't say anything. He touched a brick, and with a sudden force, he pulled the brick out of the wall. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is really unbelievable. After all, the adobe bricks are so strong. It takes just two fingers to pull a brick out of the wall. I don't know how much strength it takes.
In fact, these two fingers of Lao Ji are really extraordinary. What he practiced was the 'Golden Dragon Exploring Claw' in Xunlong Fist. This move is used in martial arts routines and is also a killer move. In today's society, isn't it being ridiculed that traditional kung fu is a dirty trick? The so-called killer moves are nothing more than "poke in the eye and kick in the crotch". If you have heard this, just take it as a joke. You have to know the skills of masters. If you poke the eye and want to hit it with one hit, this finger strength is not something that can be achieved overnight. Every twenty or thirty years of skill will not be successful at all.
Our Li family's "Xunlong Fist" combines "tomb robbing techniques" with "martial arts moves", and almost all moves can be used in reverse fights. Lao Ji carefully placed the bricks on the ground and pointed to the back of the bricks. We saw a dark red wax wall behind the bricks and said, "This wall is full of alumic acid used in alchemy. If it is broken, these walls will be destroyed." Organic strong acid will be poured on us instantly, burning even our skin immediately."
I swallowed, turned around and said to Lin Xiaoyu: "Follow me later and be sure not to touch the things inside."
Lao Ji asked Wang Mian to dig a vertical well more than three meters deep, and then took out an injection needle and a plastic tube from his bag. He connected the tube to the needle, and then put the other end into the deep well. pit. Lao Xuan took out his flamethrower and burned the needle red. Then Lao Ji carefully inserted it into the wax wall. Immediately, red alumic acid flowed from the other end of the pipe into the vertical well.
Soon, the dark red wax wall turned white, and it seemed that everything inside had been drained away. Lao Ji nodded and said, "Okay!"
"Move the bricks." Lao Ji gave the order.
A few of us worked together and quickly moved a hole in the wall that could allow one person to pass through. Lao Ji threw a fire folder into the hole, followed the light of the fire, and observed the environment inside.
Lao Ji's operation can be described as smooth and wonderful. Even Yan Yunshu, who had always been aloof and arrogant, could only shut up after seeing it. We penetrated from the north side of the tomb and saw that there were whole stone slabs on the ground, which were engraved with ancient characters. These stone slabs were arranged in a pattern similar to Bagua, with the ones on the outside getting bigger and the ones in the middle getting smaller. The tomb was surrounded by The eight everlasting lamps have of course been extinguished. There is a four-legged square tripod in the middle of the tomb. The sun, moon and stars are carved on the top of the tomb above the tripod. On the south side of the tomb, facing us, there is a sarcophagus. There is a walkway behind, which seems to be going downwards. I don't know where it leads.
Lao Ji put his head in and smelled it, then waved and we got in one by one.
Lao Ji looked at the words on the ground and said to me: "Boy, look at these words and see if you can tell who is buried here?"
I shook my head, "You really looked up to me and deliberately asked me to make a fool of myself in front of everyone, didn't you?"
We made several mistakes and threw them into the ever-burning lantern, and the whole tomb lit up. At this time, Lao Xuan actually climbed up to the cauldron, wanting to see what was inside. Suddenly, he cheered, "Uncle Ji, there is a treasure here!"
We all climbed up and saw a headless mummy in the cauldron. Its clothes were all torn. There were some jade jewelry on the corpse. Lao Xuan was so polite that he took it off and put it in his pocket.
"This should be the torso of a human being left after the human sacrifice. They chopped off the head to offer sacrifice to heaven, and then put the body here to offer sacrifice to human beings. These should be prisoners of war. It is impossible for slaves to have jewelry on their hands."
Lao Xuan jumped into the cauldron to see what else was underneath, but it was too late for Lao Ji to stop him. He looked back at the stone coffin, but luckily there was no reaction. Lao Ji yelled: "You kid! This cauldron is used for sacrifices, do you want to be used as a sacrifice?"
Lao Xuan chuckled: "Uncle Ji, I'm not Wang Mian, don't scare me." He took out a big jade jue from inside, "Look, there are quite a lot of good things. Let's turn this cauldron over and look at it. Let’s see what else there is?”
"Stop messing around and come out!" Lao Ji said. His face had turned pale and his eyes were fixed on the sarcophagus, as if he had a premonition that something was going to happen.
At this time, I heard a "clucking" sound. When I turned around and listened, I felt a chill. Lao Ji couldn't help but pull Lao Xuan out. Suddenly, the sound stopped. There was no sound at all in the tomb. I don’t know how long it took, but I got a little impatient. Just when I was about to ask him what was going on, the coffin board suddenly turned upward and began to shake violently.
Then an eerie and chilling sound came from the sarcophagus. The sound was very similar to what was described in my grandfather's notes. It really seemed like the sound of a toad.
When Lao Xuan saw this, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground. My feet softened and I almost sat down. Fortunately, Lao Ji had seen the world, and although his feet began to shake, he didn't fall down.
Yan Yunshu and Mu Yunhe were naturally very frightened. They were originally very pushy and disliked everyone in the team, but now they were no longer arrogant. They stayed close to us, for fear of being hit by something. Picked it up.
"Follow me!" Lao Ji shouted, then fell to his knees and took a heavy bite towards the coffin.
As soon as we saw each other, we immediately imitated each other and knelt down and kowtowed. Lao Ji broke into a cold sweat and kept mumbling something. Only I knew that he was chanting a spell. As for what kind of spell it was, I was not good at studying and couldn't hear it.
Lin Xiaoyu asked softly: "Li Rui, isn't Lao Ji talking to it?"
"Shhhh, don't talk!" I stopped him.
The sarcophagus finally stabilized and stopped shaking. Lao Ji kowtowed again, then stood up and said to us: "We must leave here before dawn."
I wiped my sweat and asked, "Old Ji, were you bargaining with Grandpa Zongzi just now?"
"I don't have time to joke with you!" Lao Ji was uncharacteristically serious and said, "Don't touch anything here anymore. The master in this coffin is very powerful. If he is released, even the Great Luo Immortal will not be able to get out."
Lao Xuan still didn't know what was going on, so he asked: "Uncle Ji, where is that foreign language you just spoke?"
Lao Ji glared at him, and Lao Xuan finally became honest and stopped talking. Wang Mian pulled him, and the two of them walked to the front of the team to explore the way for us.
"Wait!" Lao Ji stopped the two of them, pointed to the passage behind the coffin, and said, "Go over gently, don't touch the coffin!"
"I understand, Uncle Ji." Wang Mian nodded.
Although Lao Ji is a descendant of the Xunlong sect, the Xunlongjie that symbolizes the status of the Xunlong Taibao in their clan has long been lost. As for the "Xunlong Sutra", there is no way to talk about it, so strictly speaking, Lao Ji is not a real dragon-hunting Taibao. However, if someone like him, who has already entered the palace but has not yet entered the house, has such abilities, wouldn't my grandfather's methods back then be even more outrageous?
With Lao Ji stepping in, everyone feels confident. So we packed up the guys, Wang Mian, Lao Xuan Datou, and Lao Ji led the large troops. We turned on the miner's lamp and went straight down to the tunnel behind the coffin. When Lao Mu walked past the coffin, he pressed his back against the wall and tried to keep his distance. He looked very funny, but I had no interest in laughing at him at this time.
The tomb passage slopes downward. There are inscriptions and some stone carvings carved on both sides of the tomb passage. I took a look at them, but I don’t understand what they mean.
Although I am in the antique business and have done some research on these, I can indeed understand a few words. But I can say this, even if I understand all these words, it is very difficult to understand the meaning. For example, the word "wei" has at least 17 meanings in ancient times, including becoming, doing, and acting. This does not include those obscure words and sentences. Therefore, it is undoubtedly a fantasy to easily understand it with just a few words.
Lao Ji walked very carefully. Each step took a long time. The penetrating power of the miner's lamp was not very strong. The front was made of black lacquer and the back was also made of black lacquer. This feeling was the same as when we were in the water cave. I felt it was very strange. We felt uncomfortable. After walking for about half an hour, the tunnel started to go upwards. We knew that we should have walked halfway. At this time, we saw a robbery cave. Lao Ji couldn't help being surprised. He was most afraid that someone else would get in first, so he hurried over. Check.
