Chapter 35 Sarcophagus and Coffin

Noise is sometimes a terrible weapon of destruction.

It's hard to describe what kind of sound this is.

It's like people whispering in an incomprehensible language, like the shrill wail when the strong wind blows through the window at night, or countless people screaming together.

It was just noise, a mix of sounds, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes like the friction of countless beetles passing through in one piece.

However, the sound was infinitely loud, as if a noise source was inserted into my ears and the volume was turned up to the maximum.

At first, I was a little confused. I didn't know why I heard such a sound when the Earth Spirit Pearl was touched. But as the noise continued to torture me, I gradually lost my ability to think. It felt like my head was about to split. This kind of pain was completely suppressed.

The previous fall caused pain. I covered my head with both hands and rolled on the ground until I was numb from the pain. A little bit of light gradually bloomed in front of my eyes. Those light particles were only the size of rice grains, but they exuded a super strong halo, gradually filling up everything in my sight.

and everywhere...

Snap!

Suddenly, two heavy slaps fell on my face. The halo in front of my eyes gradually dissipated, and the noise gradually subsided.

The miner's lamp illuminated the dark tomb, and several anxious faces appeared in front of me...

It was my master and the others who came down at some point.

"Look, I'm just saying, in this case, you have to fight, you need stimulation!"

Lao Bai grinned, stretched out his hand to pull me up from the damp tomb floor, and said with a smile: "Little Weizi, thank me quickly. If my brothers hadn't dumped you two big mouths, you would have passed by now.

You don’t know, your pupils have just started to dilate, and you’re going to burp just looking at it…”

Lao Bai spoke with great passion, and was about to exaggerate how he saved me with two big mouths, but was suddenly pushed aside by my master.

"What happened?"

My master grabbed my hand, checked my pulse, and frowned: "Why is the pulse so fast? Although it has gradually dropped, it is still very abnormal. Please tell me carefully what happened just now? The situation is too dangerous.

Such a fast pulse means that your heart rate has exceeded your body's load just now, and it almost caused a myocardial infarction."

I shook my groggy head and wanted to stand up, but found that my legs were shaking lightly, and I felt an indescribable nausea. I touched my lower abdomen almost subconsciously, and then hesitantly said:

"It seemed like something was calling me, and the Earth Spirit Pearl also reacted, but I heard a lot of noises, and then I didn't know anything anymore..."

"call?"

My master's brows jumped, and he thought for a moment and couldn't figure it out. Then he sighed, patted my shoulder and said, "Be careful. If something happens again, tell me immediately. I suspect... maybe the real owner is causing trouble.

The Earth Spirit Pearl in your belly must have been obtained by something in the Demon Burial Tomb, and there was some connection, which led to these situations..."

He pondered for a while and then said with a smile: "This is a good thing. At least with this intermittent induction, I can directly find the real owner!"

I nodded and struggled to stand up. Zhang Xinya had already turned on the waterproof miner's lamp light, and I roughly scanned the tomb chamber.

This tomb is not big, only about a hundred square meters at most. As I guessed, this tomb does belong to the wife, and there are many funerary objects in it. However, after all, this is not the tomb of a prince or general, but it is not that big.

There was a lot of gold and silver jewelry, and most of them were old wooden furniture that was in a state of decay, and basically nothing valuable.

However, there was a lot of water on the floor of the tomb.

Before the corpses in this tomb were covered with soil and bleeding, this was a brine tomb. Water must have seeped in and directly flooded the entire tomb. Even now, there is still a lot of it on the pitted ground of the tomb, which is green and fishy, ​​but

Not smelly.

"It seems that Xing Wei helped us navigate the way forward. Once the tomb was opened, the evil spirit leaked out and became much less ferocious. Originally, we could see green water when we shoveled it, but now it has disappeared."

Brother Yao Zi is well-informed and has already seen the clues. He said with a smile: "However, we should try to avoid contact with the water on the ground. It is fermented by the water used to soak corpses. It is poisonous and can easily lead to many strange diseases."

While they were exploring here, I took a quick look around, and after finding nothing, my eyes finally fell on the coffin in the middle of the tomb.

This is a stone coffin, and its volume is much larger than ordinary coffins. I can tell at a glance that this is actually an outer coffin and an inner coffin. In ancient times, only some wealthy families could afford such coffins. There are two layers in total.

There is a small coffin to hold the dead person, and a large coffin is placed outside. Some funerary objects are stuffed in the gaps between the coffins. Most of the valuable ones are here, and they are all soft.

However, the texture of this coffin is quite interesting.

As far as I know, this kind of stone coffin was only used in the ignorant period when human production technology was very limited, such as some cultures in the Neolithic Age. By the Shang and Zhou dynasties, most of the coffins of dignitaries were made of bronze. Until the Han Dynasty,

Wooden coffins appeared on a large scale, and stone coffins were completely eliminated. Only some poor people who could not afford a thin-skinned coffin would use such coffins, and the ones used by the poor were called stone troughs. They were not like this at all, just a piece of coffin.

A groove is dug in the middle of the big stone for a person to lie down. The shape is similar to the manger used for drinking horses in ancient times. The outside is covered with a layer of broken mats. It is similar to this sarcophagus coffin. There are reliefs on the outside and a lot of carvings are used.

, the cost is high, far more than ordinary expensive wood coffins, labor-intensive and labor-intensive, not as beneficial to the preservation of corpses as rare wooden coffins, it is completely thankless, such a coffin appeared in a tomb in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, could it be

Isn't it a very novel thing?

"The person lying inside may be a Featherman."

Zhang Xinya probably saw my doubts and said with a smile: "The Yu people prefer stone products."

I nodded. This was a reason. Perhaps as Lao Bai said, we ritual officials have special feelings for this kind of tomb. In addition, it was my first time to visit this kind of ancient tomb.

It was really novel, and my desire to explore was extremely strong. I saw that the relief carvings on the outside of the stone coffin were quite interesting. Except for some cloud patterns, it seemed to be a bird with only one wing. It seemed like a flying bird, but it had two eyes.

.

According to legend, the winged bird has only one eye and one wing, so it can only fly side by side with male and female birds. People often use it to describe the deep love between husband and wife. No matter how you look at it, the bird on the coffin is the legendary winged bird. It only has the right wing, so it should be.

It's a female bird. If nothing unexpected happens, the coffin in the main tomb next door should be a male bird. This does have some meaning, but I can't figure out these two eyes. Could it be that even couples should be more careful?

?It shouldn't be so boring. As I stared at this strange bird, I always felt that it seemed to be pointing to something.

However, when I walked less than seven or eight steps away from the sarcophagus, I was enveloped in an unreasonable panic, and my heart rate accelerated instantly, so fast that I could hear the sound of "plop, plop, plop", and a series of murmurs appeared. , I even had a trance for a moment,

Coming again?

I was completely panicked. I thought the Earth Spirit Pearl was reacting again, so I let out a low cry and quickly backed away. Unfortunately, the noise didn't disappear. It was "buzzing" next to my ears, but it didn't get stronger. Stop, it seems like there are many people whispering in my ear, but I can’t hear what they are saying clearly.

"Hello!"

Lao Bai was the first to notice that I was abnormal and gave me a hard push. The whispers were immediately interrupted.

"What's the problem again?"

Lao Bai asked: "Look at you, it's like you've been seduced!"

"I heard that sound again..."

I shook my head hard, looked at the coffin in surprise, and said hesitantly: "The sound... seems to be coming from under the coffin."

My master and Brother Yaozi looked at each other, and their eyes lit up obviously. Then Brother Yaozi took out the crowbar and strode towards the coffin. It was obviously not the first time he had done this kind of thing, and he looked like he had no inhibitions. I spent a long time banging on the bottom of the coffin and studying it.

"Can't move!"

After a while, Brother Yaozi shook his head at my master and said: "This coffin platform is made by mixing furnace ash and glutinous rice paste, and pestling them together, just like a Shanxi stew, and then put the coffin on it. The top said that once it dries, you can’t even open it with a sledgehammer, let alone a crowbar. The three towers on the other side of Dali all have this kind of structure. The battle that nearly destroyed Dali more than a hundred years ago Even the big earthquake that buried it failed to collapse it, so if you want to move this coffin, you can only use explosives to blow it up!"

"When the dynamite goes off, there's a lot of soap."

Lao Bai said angrily: "Although it is in the wilderness, the movement of the explosives is too loud. Our brothers went to the grave to save lives. If they were really pressed down, it would be yellow mud that would fall off their crotches. It is either shit or shit. You Do you want to go to a dormitory?"

This time Brother Kitale couldn't say anything. It's really unreliable to blow it up with explosives.

"It shouldn't be possible, right? Since Jingzhe has feelings, the clues to the Demon Burial Tomb should be under this coffin!"

My master frowned and said, "This family placed the tomb here just to cover up the monster burial mound below so that the descendants of the Yu people can easily retrieve the forbidden artifacts without blocking the road!"

"Could it be inside the coffin?"

Brother Yao Zi muttered, this is a ruthless person. He just had an idea and immediately aimed at the gap in the coffin lid and inserted the crowbar into the gap. He directly lifted the coffin lid and pushed it open with a "bang".

Lao Bai kept saying that he went to the tomb to save my life and not for money. However, at this moment, his legs and feet were more agile than anyone else. He looked straight into the cracks in the coffin. He was a good person and knew that valuable things were stuffed in the cracks. However, he soon gave up and sighed. It was obvious that there was nothing valuable in there, so he He was very disappointed, and then his eyes drifted into the coffin.

"Hahahahaha..."

Lao Bai laughed like crazy. I thought he had found something valuable, and I was about to go up and take a look, but I saw him pointing to the inside of the coffin and saying, "Your classmate's great-great-grandfather tastes pretty good." Seriously, I am marrying a female eunuch!!"

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