I laughed at Fatty Yu, who was still trying to get hold of Colonel Jin after all. How could he be so cowardly? We hadn’t seen him for only two months, and he was no longer as brave as he once was. But when I came back to my senses and looked at the pile of things, I was stunned.
It turned out to be the skeleton of a child, curled up there like an unborn fetus in its mother's womb.
"Fuck!" I cursed secretly.
I had no choice but to squat down and get rid of the bones. At this time, I found that the dagger in Huai Rujin had been inserted into its forehead bone. There was a scale-like bump at the wound. I touched it with my hand and said, "I heard that this thing can heal wounds." , let’s cut it off.”
Fatty Yu was watching me in confusion as I cut off the scales with great interest, when suddenly he heard Huai Rujin say not far away: "Look, there is a tomb."
I had suspected before that there might be a tomb below. I was too busy dealing with the snake just now and didn't have time to carefully examine the surrounding environment. "Our previous judgment was correct."
"It seems that we have entered the depths of the tomb." I turned around and saw that there were some simple steps with a platform above where Huairu Jin was standing.
Huai Rujin walked onto the platform and scanned it with his flashlight. Reliefs could be seen on the walls. There is a passage on one side, and the tomb is dark inside.
This tomb should be later than the general's tomb above. It can be judged from its location below the tomb. The space is quite spacious. The relief style on the wall is different from that in the Central Plains area, but there are also traces of cultural blending. It pays attention to realism and is full of carvings. There are flowers, plants, birds, animals, insects and fish.
I guess I was so uncomfortable with the fetal skeleton just now that I didn't have the heart to take a closer look. Huai Rujin noticed my thoughts, took out a small metal box and let me smell it. As soon as I smelled it, I immediately felt refreshed.
"Snuff bottle?" I asked.
Huai Rujin smiled and said nothing.
This is the first time I've seen Hua Rujin's smile. Generally, only friends can trust each other like this and gradually lose their grudges.
There was a low stone wall on the platform. I stood in front of the stone wall and looked at it for a while. I couldn't quite tell what this stone wall meant. There was a small tomb at the end, with some burial objects scattered in it. In the center of the tomb, there were A mahogany coffin.
The shape of the coffin is very different from the Yuanbao coffins in the Central Plains area. It is square and relatively simple, made of wooden strips spliced together one by one. However, the shape of this redwood coffin is still very large. Such a large coffin is rarely seen in other places, and it can even be compared to the coffin set outside the coffin.
"Such a big coffin?" Fatty Yu looked at the coffin and asked, "There should be a lot of treasures in it, right?"
The coffin lid is rather elegant. There are several snakes carved on it, all with legs. The snakes' bodies are connected end to end and circle around the coffin lid. However, this carving is not really exquisite, it only gives a rough appearance.
I rolled my eyes at Fatty Yu and said mockingly: "Take a good look at the rags on the ground. How much money does the owner of this tomb have?"
"Yes!" Fatty Yu nodded and said, "It looks really shabby."
Huai Rujin on the side looked at it with a flashlight. The wood of the coffin was said to be made of mahogany, but it was not well preserved. There were signs of swelling and decay, and some of the nails on it were warped.
"Miss White, what do you see?" I asked.
"Why do I feel like this coffin is nailed from the outside?" Huai Rujin said.
"Yes, these wooden bars look like a cage. How can there be such a coffin?" Fatty Yu added.
After listening to their analysis, I nodded, "What you said makes sense, not to mention that it really means something like this."
"Could it be the coffin outside the coffin?" Fatty Yu asked.
"No." I said bluntly, "Come and see."
I bent down and took a photo next to the coffin, and I seemed to see something. "This coffin is nailed to death. Even if you look at it, the strips are quite neat, but if you look closely, the wood can be dismantled." Yes, it’s a bit like a machine box.”
"Hey!" When Fatty Yu heard this, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said happily: "Li Rui, you are really right."
He shined a light on a piece of rotten wood. There was a wedge-shaped groove on the inside of the wooden strip, which was obviously used for the wood to be joined together. Huai Rujin couldn't help but admire me, "How did you see that?"
I waved my hand and said with a smile: "There are two reasons. The first is that no matter what kind of coffin there is, there is a lid, but the lid of this coffin is connected to several other sides, so if you want to open it, you must open it in another way. There is a way. The second thing is what the fat man reminded me just now. I have also doubted whether it is a coffin, but it is unlikely. The tomb is so shabby, and the use of mahogany is very sophisticated. It cannot be a coffin. With these two points of analysis , I looked for traces on it, and sure enough I saw the clues."
"Then what are you waiting for? Open it now?" Fatty Yu said eagerly, "I'm not bragging, this Rubik's cube, the mechanism box, Fatty, I am a senior player who has been playing since I was a child. I am the best at opening this kind of thing. You’re an expert, don’t try to rob me!"
As he said that, Fatty Yu held the flashlight in his mouth and began to fiddle with the coffin. "You are stupid!" But I pulled him away.
"What happened again?"
"How can such a good person create such a mechanism?" I reminded, "I'm going to tell you clearly that there's something wrong with something inside!"
"Yes, yes, you are right to remind me. How could I have forgotten such an important point? Li Rui, you should treat me with admiration on the third day of separation. Didn't you go to the tomb robbing cram school in the past two months? Alright?"
"roll!"
Fatty Yu looked at me hesitantly, "What should we do? Can we still open it?"
"We must open it, but we still have to be careful and do it bit by bit so that if there is any movement, we will have time to react."
"Ah, I see, you are the only one who talks a lot."
After all, Fatty Yu is the captain of the Golden Academy, so he is really good at tinkering. I saw him walking around the coffin up, down, left, and right, knocking here, touching there, I don't know how he figured it out, but suddenly he found a wooden stick that didn't look strange anywhere, and pressed it hard. When you pull it, the wooden strips above it will change, some extend, some retract, and then the entire coffin magically unfolds.
Fatty Yu and I immediately took a step back, worried about something coming out of here. There was a female corpse lying inside, with no sign of transformation. She was dressed in plain clothes, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a beautiful face, as if she was sleeping.
"Wow, this ancestor is still a beauty!" Fatty Yu said happily.
"You kid, be more serious!"
"I'm just complimenting you. Where are you thinking about that?"
There are some burial utensils inside, which are slightly better than the bottles and jars outside, such as the eight-way incense bucket, the two-legged plate, the silver ingot-style plate, the petal-style plate, the melon-edge pot, and the rhombus style. Disk and so on.
"I thought there were some gold and silver jewelry?" Fatty Yu said disappointedly, "It turned out to be just pots and pans."
"Just be content, I've warned you a long time ago." I smiled, "Why don't you just go up there with some good things? Why worry about this family."
"Yes!" Fatty Yu thought, but suddenly he remembered that the tomb above was flooded, "Good boy, you are teasing me again!"
I rummaged around inside, but couldn't find anything. I thought to myself: "How on earth did this female body remain so well preserved in such a loose coffin? Could it be that there is some special substance in her body?"
Just when I was puzzled, someone approached from behind. Of course I knew it was Huai Rujin, so I didn't look back. I just felt her hand was gentle but strong, and she pulled him up in one fell swoop. I was a little confused about the situation and looked at her blankly, "What's wrong?"
"careful!"
I was stunned, but there was no movement inside, "Is there any problem?"
Huai Rujin pointed to the wrist of the female corpse hidden under the sleeves and said: "There must be a reason why the female corpse is immortal. If it is not related to the environment of the tomb, then it must be related to the things on her body."
I seemed to understand what she meant, and I lowered my head slightly to look under the sleeves of the female corpse. There was a black jade bracelet on her wrist.
"Hey, it's a jade bracelet." Fatty Yu also discovered the bracelet and was about to take it off, but I stopped him and shouted, "Fat man, don't touch it!"
Huai Rujin's eyes were so sharp that Fatty Yu was startled, "What happened?" He immediately stepped back obediently and asked, "Why are you two so nervous about what you are doing?"
"Did you see the black jade bracelet on your wrist?" I said, "If I guessed correctly, this thing should be something called fuyu, which is very evil and poisonous."
Rotted jade is a type of insect jade. There are many types of insect jade. Due to the different effects they produce, they can be roughly divided into three types: rotten jade, corroded jade, and dry jade. Insect jade has many strange properties and is extremely rare. The secret of Insect Jade is similar to the Cordyceps that people eat daily, but it cannot be generalized. After all, Cordyceps is a fungus that parasitizes in the insect body, but Insect Jade is the product of suspended animation, and the principle of its formation is closer to that of coral polyps.
Ancient people believed that insect jade was alive, and even thought it was because evil spirits were attached to it. The tomb craftsmen and alchemists took advantage of these characteristics of insect jade and put it into the tomb to become a mechanism.
This kind of rotten jade is also the most common type of insect jade. Most insect jade has the effect of antiseptic and insect repellent, so if it is placed on a corpse, the corpse can be immortal for thousands of years. However, compared with corroded jade and dried jade, corroded jade has relatively many shapes and can be made into many different shapes. shape. The other two types generally can only exist in the form of raw stones. Once they are polished into tools, they are likely to disappear.
"I'm right. This kind of black jade-colored rotten jade is also called jade stone. It looks like black jade at normal temperature, but once the temperature rises, it turns into a group of black bugs, called ' "Crickets'." Huai Rujin added, "Individual crickets are extremely small and difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. They are usually in a state of death, stacked together in large numbers, and a kind of colloidal silicon is secreted between their bodies. Acid, after cementation, it looks like black jade, but once the temperature rises, the crickets inside will immediately wake up, start to grow and develop, accelerate their metamorphosis until they mature, and then gather together and fly out."
