[Chapter 391, The Secret of the Sarcophagus]

After coming out of the cold stone room, six people from Xiao Lou and six people from Gui Yuanzhang continued walking towards the depths of the maze.

The cold wind blew gusts in the corridor paved with stone slabs, making everyone's skin crawl. In the quiet corridor, the only sounds left were everyone's breathing and footsteps.

Lao Mo kept checking the direction with the compass. Their route was still heading east, but it was not due east, but slightly shifted by about 10 degrees to the east.

After walking for a certain distance, Lao Mo stopped and looked around, and said, "How big is this ancient tomb? We have been walking for ten minutes after coming out of the stone chamber, but we still haven't found anything?"

Xiao Lou was also confused. He looked at the floor plan drawn by Lao Mo. Since leaving the Six Paths of Reincarnation Secret Room, they had been walking in a straight line. They walked about 500 meters and found the first sarcophagus. Then there was another long straight line, and there was no

Any fork in the road.

He pressed the voice earpiece to ask about the situation on the other side: "Senior Gui, have you found anything over there?"

Gui Yuanzhang said: "No, it's a straight corridor, there are no murals on the surrounding walls, and there are no mechanisms."

Xiao Lou asked again: "What about the direction? Still the same?"

Gui Yuanzhang looked down at the compass in his hand and said, "Yes, it's the same as before."

Xiao Lou said helplessly: "Keep walking and keep in touch."

After everyone walked forward for a few minutes, they finally discovered that there were once again colorful murals on the walls.

Yu Hanjiang held up the luminous pearl for illumination, and Xiao Lou walked over to observe carefully.

The content in the mural still depicts the period from infancy to adulthood, but this time there is no wedding scene in the mural. Judging from the clothes and hair, the protagonist of the mural seems to be a man.

Since he had just discovered clues to the mother clan's totem in the mural, Xiao Lou observed the mural more carefully this time. The man's black hair was tied into a bun on top of his head, with a simple and elegant wooden hairpin inserted, and he wore a jade pendant on his waist with a painting on it.

It has the shape of a crescent. The last mural seems to be a scene of joining the army? The man is wearing the armor of an ancient soldier.

Xiao Lou was startled: "Isn't it a woman this time?"

It was previously speculated that the tomb owner married young girls from many tribes for sacrifices and buried them alive in the ancient tomb... Now that men appear in the murals, it shows that this speculation is wrong.

After looking at the mural, a stone door appeared in front of me.

There is a simple Tai Chi diagram on the stone door. As long as the pattern is restored, the mechanism can be opened. As Xiao Lou guessed, there is still a stone coffin in the stone room, and the blood seeping from the gaps in the coffin has long solidified and turned black.

Will he fall into a hallucination again this time and another resentful spirit will appear?

Everyone took a step back warily and stared at the sarcophagus warily.

However, a minute passed and nothing happened.

Xiao Lou said: "Let's open the museum and have a look."

Yu Hanjiang pulled out his saber and split open the lid of the sarcophagus.

Inside the coffin lies a white skeleton, wearing armor. Due to the age, the metal armor has long been oxidized and turned black. He is holding a jade pendant in his hand. Just like the one in the mural, the jade pendant is engraved with a crescent-shaped mark.

Xiao Lou leaned over and took a closer look at the condition of the bones, and speculated: "An adult male, he should be around 25 years old. There were signs of a fierce struggle before his death, and all the bones in his hands were broken."

Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at the bones in the coffin: "The bride was in the sarcophagus just now, but this time it seems to be a soldier?"

Xiao Lou couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he asked Gui Yuanzhang in a low voice: "Senior, what did you find over there?"

Gui Yuanzhang happened to enter the stone chamber. Chu Huaying opened the coffin neatly and found a white skeleton lying quietly inside. There was a necklace hanging around the neck of the skeleton. The pendant looked like a wolf's tooth, with strange totems painted on it.

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Guiyuan Zhang said: "I found a corpse and a totem necklace. The clothes should be coarse cloth."

Xiao Loudao: "Look at the pelvis of the corpse. Is the upper part peach-shaped or oval-shaped? Is the angle at the bottom of the pelvis an acute angle of about 70 degrees, or an obtuse angle greater than 90 degrees?"

Chu Huaying was right next to the coffin. When she heard this, she said: "Peach-shaped, the included angle is an acute angle."

It seems to be a male again.

When the body has decomposed to the point where only the bones are left, the most important thing to identify the gender of a man or a woman is the pelvis. The female pelvis is oval, and the angle between the pubic symphysis below is more than 100 degrees, which is convenient for giving birth to children. Men do not need to give birth.

Therefore, the angle below the pelvis is sharp and sharp.

Xiao Lou told the other party this conclusion: "The newly discovered bones in the secret rooms on both sides are all male. Ours seems to be a soldier. Senior, the one on your side should be a scholar?"

Ye Qi said: "The mural we just saw seems to be the scene of the number one scholar in high school?"

Everyone looked at each other in shock.

This underground tomb is full of weirdness.

When the corpses of the two brides were first discovered, everyone thought that the owner of the ancient tomb had deliberately married some young girls and buried them alive. Since the owner of the tomb was a general, he might have been a lecher who had taken some women with him before his death.

Accompanying him to hell, maybe there is also a point of "sitting back and enjoying the happiness" after death?

Now it seems that this is not the case.

Two more male corpses were found in the tomb. Judging from the jade pendants and necklaces left on their bodies, they still belonged to different tribes. The only thing they had in common was that the people buried alive were very young.

So, what does this priestly ceremony represent?

Xiao Lou could not come to a conclusion for the time being and said: "Everyone, let's keep looking. We have to find all the sarcophagi."

After leaving the stone room, everyone walked forward for some distance. There was a corner in the corridor ahead, and the angle between it and the road was about an obtuse angle of 135 degrees.

Xiao Lou stopped at the corner and said: "Old Mo, check the direction."

Lao Mo picked up the compass and checked it carefully, and said: "The compass pointer, this direction...should be true north."

True north?

The direction suddenly changed, and everyone couldn't help but be more cautious.

Along the way, some murals appeared on the walls on both sides of the passage. This time, the protagonists of the murals were two children, who were jumping and playing. They looked very lively and cute.

There is only one mural, and a stone door appears next to it.

Xiao Lou pushed the stone door gently, and it opened directly without any mechanism.

There was still a sarcophagus in the house, so Yu Hanjiang took a saber and split open the lid of the coffin without Xiao Lou reminding him.

The scene inside the coffin made everyone’s scalp numb——

I saw two cute children sitting in the coffin. They looked to be only seven or eight years old, one boy and one girl. The girl was wearing bright red clothes with two small braids on her head; the boy was wearing white clothes.

The hair was tied up on the top of the head, and the skin of the two children was not rotten. They looked like... alive!

Two vivid children suddenly appeared in the coffin in the tomb, and Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but take a step back quickly.

At the same time, Ye Qi's voice sounded in Xiao Lou's ears. He was obviously frightened, and his voice trembled slightly: "Professor Xiao, there are two children in the coffin this time, a boy and a girl!"

The next moment, the boy and girl suddenly opened their eyes, leaving two lines of blood and tears in their eyes.

The two children were crying "wuwuwu", and the cries were sad to hear. They stood up, stretched out their arms, and seemed to ask Xiao Lou for a hug.

Yu Hanjiang drew out his saber on guard and guarded Xiao Lou behind him.

Seeing the two children walking towards everyone step by step, Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but feel numb: "This secret room is like a ghost movie! How come the children in the coffin are still moving? Is this another hallucination?"

Xiao Lou took a deep breath: "Everyone close your eyes, don't look, don't listen."

Everyone immediately obeyed. After a while, the strange children's cries disappeared. Xiao Lou opened his eyes and saw that the two children were still sitting quietly in the coffin without moving at all.

He whispered: "These are the boys and girls who were sacrificed alive."

When Ye Qi heard this, he also opened his eyes and said, "I have heard a saying that when many dignitaries died in ancient times, they would find some boys and girls to bury alive to accompany them, just like taking maids.

Like going underground to serve them?"

Xiao Lou explained: "The ancients believed that even mortals would have immortal energy in their bodies. Especially boys and girls, who had spiritual roots in their bodies, and their immortality and luck were stronger than those of ordinary people. Therefore, the ancients liked to use boys and girls.

Bury yourself and help you become an immortal after death."

He looked at the two cute children in front of him, tightened his fists slightly, and whispered: "After death, when the body rots, the immortal energy will leak out. In order to prevent the immortal energy in the bodies of boys and girls from leaking, they

They would forcefully pour a large amount of mercury into the children's bodies while they were still alive, so that their bodies would remain as they were, as if they were still alive."

"..." Lu Jiuchuan gasped, "In other words, capture living boys and girls and pour mercury into their bodies? How do you do this?"

"I have read some information. Usually, mercury is poured into the child's mouth, and a hole is dug in the top of the head, back, soles of the feet, etc., and the mercury is slowly poured in. After the mercury enters the body, these children will not immediately

To die, let mercury flow throughout the body, slowly suffering until death. Mercury has a strong antiseptic effect, so the body will stay fresh for a long time." Xiao Lou's voice couldn't help but tremble, so cruel

It was also the first time for him to see the burial system of sacrifice with his own eyes.

"Fuck!" Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but cursed, "These beasts slowly torture children to death, and they still want to transform into immortals? They should go to the eighteenth level of hell for such evil!"

"It seems that these two children also looked like living people because mercury was poured into their bodies." Yu Hanjiang was also refreshed. Some of the burial systems in feudal society were really ignorant and cruel.

Xiao Lou's words were transmitted to the ears of the six people in Guiyuan Zhang through voice earphones.

Qu Wanyue looked at the two children in the coffin and clenched her fists tightly: "Did this tomb owner really want to become an immortal? That's why so many people were buried alive for him?"

Guiyuan Zhang said: "There is also a saying that if you let living people bury you, it will not only help you become an immortal, but also allow these people to serve you in another world as servants and maids."

He glanced at the cold sarcophagus, looked at the two children in the coffin, and said in a deep voice: "The living burial coffins we have discovered so far include two young and beautiful brides, two strong young men, and two pairs of

Boys and girls, according to this logic, after the tomb owner dies, he will have wives, concubines, servants, and boys and girls to help him cultivate immortality, which can be said to be very complete."

Everyone: “…………”

Such a person still wants to become an immortal? He should go to hell and undergo 18 kinds of torture, right?

Gui Yuanzhang leaned over and took two pieces of talismans from the backs of the two children.
To be continued...