The hole in the brick wall is about three meters from the ground. Lin Yan has experience. When he fell, he bent his knees and curled up. His feet were slightly numb from the impact, but he landed firmly. A Che and Yin Zhou followed and stood still. I looked around the environment.
They seem to be in a stone room, surrounded by deathly silence, and they can’t see their fingers. This kind of darkness is completely different from the darkness in the room after the lights are turned off. It is airtight, like a cave sealed in time and space, swallowing all the light. do.
The light of the seven wind lanterns here is not as good as the wolf's eyes flickering in the mountains and forests. It can only illuminate the blurred facial outline of the lantern bearer. Looking up, a beam of square and thin blue light penetrates the hole where the dust has just jumped. Floating and sinking in the beam of light.
"Where is this place..." A Yan suddenly stopped before finishing speaking, and raised the lantern in surprise.
Lin Yan also immediately felt that something was wrong.
Echo, talking here actually produces a buzzing echo.
The Ming and Qing dynasties paid more attention to accompanying burials than tomb chambers. Each tomb chamber in the large tomb was only 20 to 30 square meters square. Even if the emperor's mausoleum is built, the size and specifications of the underground palace are only twice that of Xiao Yu's tomb, which seems to be far behind here.
Lin Yan swallowed, and heard a gurgling sound in his throat clearly, the surrounding was too quiet, it was so quiet that one could feel flustered, one could hear the sound of his own heartbeat, there were cars roaring in the city, and chickens and dogs were heard in the countryside , Even the barren hills have the chirping of birds, the sound of wind blowing trees, but the darkness and silence and absoluteness here, it reminds people of death, of the underworld, of unfathomable danger and fate, and of endless Lonely.
Unknowingly, cold sweat oozed from the palm of his hand, and the cold breath approached, Xiao Yu touched the back of Lin Yan's hand: "Afraid of the dark?"
Lin Yan wanted to avoid him, but Xiao Yu couldn't help but grab his hand: "I've lived alone in this kind of place for more than five hundred years, so I'm more familiar with it than you."
"Follow me, don't go far."
With a click, Ayan turned on the switch of the flashlight, and everyone came back to their senses and followed suit. Seven beams of light swept back and forth. Lin Yan's judgment was good. This is a square hall artificially built with blue bricks. Masonry, the burial roof is arched, the dome and the wall are connected by wooden components, a thick layer of gold powder is applied, and the details are inlaid with gold leaf, and the flashlight will reflect a warm orange light.
The burial walls around the main hall are embedded with lampstands every few meters, which are made in the style of Buddhist lotus flower stands, containing the oil refined by animals.
There was a choking smell of decay in the air, but there was no smell of corpses, and the coffin bed was still far away.
"Is anyone there?" Yin Zhou shouted towards the depths of the hall, and there was an empty echo.
No one answered.
A Che shuddered: "Shut up, you recruited everything out of nothing."
Yin Zhou muttered something disrespectful to his elders, swiped his flashlight forward, and suddenly took two steps back in shock: "Quick... hurry, go, go... Yes, there are ghosts!"
The flashlight flashed up, and there was a female corpse with disheveled hair standing on the height of the gloomy hall, dressed in white, glaring at them, as thin as a pair of dry bones, but her belly was swollen like a drum. A pair of heart and soul was put into the mouth, and a group of little ghosts squeezed up behind them, covering their ears with their hands, their mouths opened into black holes, all screaming upwards, with stern faces.
Ah Che yelled out, scrambled and ran backwards, and bumped into Yin Zhou, and the two fell into a ball.
Lin Yan grasped Xiao Yu's hand tightly, Xiao Yu frowned and looked at it for a while, then said softly, "It's not a ghost, it's a wall carving."
"There is a jade gate here."
Looking in the direction of his finger, no matter how everyone's flashlight beams moved, the female corpse and the little ghost did not change. It turned out that everyone did not really enter the tomb. There are two white marble doors facing each other, and the gate tower is carved with yaksha evil spirits, which are lifelike and glow with phosphorescent cold light in the dark.
The ghosts that Yin Zhou saw were these white marble statues, embedded between the gate tower and the dome, overlooking the crowd.
"What are you shouting, coward? You scared me to death!" The fox's voice was full of tears, his ears and tail were exposed, and he slapped Yin Zhou fiercely angrily.
"Don't think that I have to let you go because you are talking about protecting animals." Yin Zhou covered his head, "Just now you ran so fast that you screamed loudly! Ouch, your paws hurt like hell!"
Lin Yan held up a miner's lamp and went up to check. He saw a white marble gate about four meters high and six meters wide, clean and shiny, with a row of cat's head tiles and white jade dripping water carved in the same style on the gate tower, and four bucket arches carved with pixiu pattern bricks below. The meaning of eating money from all directions, there is a pair of stone carvings hanging on the left and right, and the mastoids on the jade gate are polished extremely smooth, as greasy as suet.
Now even Lin Yan was surprised. He had been to many ancient tombs, but he had never seen such a large gate in a tomb after the Han and Tang Dynasties. It's all because if Duan Ze's tomb is in the world, it may subvert the archaeological world's cognition, but now he is actually stepping on this ancient palace that archaeologists have no chance to set foot in...
"My God, how rich was the Duan family back then..." Yin Zhou's voice trembled with excitement, and he looked at Lin Yan with burning eyes, "Ancestor, please give me a note. According to this scale, the burial in the coffin is not inferior. Yu Huangling, let's take a few things out and make a fortune!"
Ayan suddenly gasped, and pointed forward: "You, look, there are words on this door!"
On one side of the two gates, there is a line of Yang engraved official script written vertically, which is the same Buddhist saying as the blue bricks on the outer wall: "The sea of bitterness is boundless, turn back and see the shore".
Next to it is another small painting, with a small boat floating on the overlapping clouds and water patterns: "Three thousand mortals want to sail on the sea, and if they sow evil causes, they will bear evil fruits."
"Duan Ze believes in Buddhism, and firmly believes in reincarnation of cause and effect. This time he really answered his words, and it took me five hundred years to clean up his mess." Lin Yan sighed.
"Let's just go in like this?" Yin Zhou glanced around with a flashlight, "The door doesn't seem to be locked."
"No, it's not that it's unlocked, it's locked from the inside." A Yan pointed at a piece of stone exposed from the crack of the door with a beam of light, "This is a natural stone, which was invented by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty. Close the door of the tomb, it will automatically get stuck from behind the door, and unless the corpse inside is alive and opens the door for us, no one will be able to enter.”
A Yan took out the compass, and suddenly changed his face, and saw that the pointer was pointing straight to the gate as if being pulled by something, and the top tip was tilted in the direction of Xiao Yu from time to time, and then bounced back: "Those sculptures have been lowered. There are quite a few of them that bind the ghosts and souls."
The door of the tomb is tall, and Lin Yan looked up at the decorations on the top of his neck. For some reason, after looking at the numerous carvings and wall carvings on the door for a long time, he felt a little dazed. He vaguely heard someone calling his name in his ear. He couldn't help but reach out and touch the small boat. …
A Yan's expression changed in fright, and she yanked the people around her back, "Get out of the way, be careful of backstabbing!"
A group of people were pushed by A Yan and fell to the ground one by one.
It was already late here, Lin Yan's hand pressed against the door leaf, it turned out to be warm, as if it was human skin, breathing and breathing in the darkness, the palm of his hand tentatively pushed forward, and the two doors in front of him suddenly opened. As if inspired, there was a long and deep rumbling sound from the depths of the tomb passage, the floor tiles under his feet shook slightly, smoke and dust filled the hall, and accompanied by harsh creaking noises, the bolt of the Baiyu Gate moved out from behind the door little by little, with a click Dropped on the floor.
The two doors seemed to be pushed by an invisible person, and slowly opened inwards, revealing the ink-like darkness behind them, like a giant mouth exhaling a rotten breath, letting out a long, slow and deep sigh.
Lin Yan stood quietly in front of the door, examining the ancient tomb passage that suddenly appeared.
A Yan raised her head, and murmured softly in disbelief: "Blood Curse."
"Using human blood to descend and seal the door, only the tomb owner himself can open the tomb door, otherwise the mechanism on the door will be triggered and the ghosts and souls inside will be released." Ayan said in surprise, "You are the living tomb owner, This is your own tomb!"
"Just now we, we were able to pass the first burial wall, probably because the rooster scratched your hand."
Lin Yan didn't answer, and he didn't know why. Facing the dark tomb passage, he didn't have a trace of fear. After waiting for too long, Lin Yan looked back at Xiao Yu: "Let's go."
Yin Zhou burst out laughing, and picked up his backpack to catch up: "Linzi, I now think you look like a pharaoh, very domineering."
Lin Yan hummed lightly.
Under the illumination of seven strong-light flashlights and a special miner's lamp for outdoor survival, the field of vision is suddenly much clearer.
Compared with the grandeur of the outer hall, the inside looks strange and deep. Behind the stone gate is a naturally formed corridor. The stone wall is smooth and smooth, and there are stalactites on both sides. At this time, everyone understands why only the Duan family can build such a magnificent mausoleum. It turns out that the interior of the west mountain of Mausoleum is actually a natural karst cave with a flat ground and a high dome. When the tomb was built, explosives were used to blow up the underground water veins, and the riverbed and underground lake were all dried up to ensure that the tomb was dry. Plug the cracks in the wall and make a little repair to become a ready-made underground palace.
From this point of view, the most expensive part of the entire tomb is the artificially built outer hall and white marble gate.
The corridor is long and narrow, with one bend after another. The only artificial traces are the lampstands on both sides.
"Duan Ze probably knew some people with good Fengshui skills during his lifetime. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was very difficult to find such a suitable tomb site in the Ming Dynasty." Lin Yan said thoughtfully, "He is just a businessman. People are not princes and generals, why do you spend so much attention on the affairs behind you?"
"Maybe he actually has a mysterious mission to protect the sky-replenishing stone left by the ancient gods. Once the world is alive, it will cause floods and plagues, and demons will come to the world!" Yin Zhou was very excited. Dong suddenly stumbled and threw himself face down for a long way, and fell like a dog eating shit.
"This person is under the eaves, so he has to bow his head and speak bad things in front of the master. You will be punished." Lin Yan mocked, "This is a grave, if you don't shut up and watch me make two dead people scare you to death !"
Yin Zhou groaned twice, looking for a flashlight in the dark, and suddenly came across a dry round object, raised his hand to touch it, there were two big holes in the ball, and some firewood sticks were scattered on the ground, he picked up the flashlight and took a photo...
"Fuck! Human head! There is a human head here!" Yin Zhou moved his hands and feet back a few steps, pointing in horror at the location where the flashlight light was shining.
When he fell down, he was stuck face to face with a completely decomposed corpse. He had already turned into a skeleton, and his clothes were rotten to cover his body. At first glance, he still kept his shape when he was alive, lying on the ground, with a The hand stretched forward, the phalanges curled slightly, digging a small crack on the ground, and the other hand was messed up by Yin Zhou. The firewood stick he touched just now was the hand bone of this skeleton.
The white bones are dense, emitting a strange blue phosphorescent light.
The corridor was too dark, and everyone's flashlights could only illuminate a small area in front of them. If it weren't for Yin Zhou's fall, no one would have noticed that there was a corpse next to the stone wall. Everyone became nervous now, Da Chuan and Xiao Chuan I was used to seeing ferocious beasts, but this was the first time I saw a dead man, so I was so frightened that I suddenly put the shotgun across my chest.
"Don't panic, it might be a tomb robber." Lin Yan tried his best to calm down his heartbeat, and took out a corpse-suppressing talisman to visit.
"You...you are really the ancestor of the Duan family. If you say that the dead come to die." Yin Zhou got up, took a step forward and leaned against the stone wall, and put his hand on his chest, "Fortunately, you said that there are only two dead people, and here is only one, otherwise I really think of you as a hundred-year-old zombie."
"There are two." A Yan answered, "Don't step back, there is another one at your feet."
As soon as Yin Zhou lowered his head, he saw Ayan's flashlight shining on his feet, a skeleton with its head tilted, two rows of yellow teeth facing his ankle, and the bones of his hand were only an inch away from the tip of his shoe. Suddenly, his hair stood on end. With a cry, he ran towards Lin Yan, and slammed on the brakes when he rushed in front of him, and said vigilantly: "Lin Zi, you don't really have Duan Zuzu's possession, do you?"
"He's not." Xiao Yu couldn't help frowning.
"I said Comrade Xiao, don't favor anyone at this juncture. You are happy when your wife is here. What about my Linzi?" Yin Zhou yelled, "A body can only have one soul."
Xiao Yu didn't bother to pay attention to him, covered Ah Che's eyes, and pouted forward: "It's not two people, it's three. There are two heads here, but five arms. Someone's hand was cut off here, and I don't know where they fled to." went."
Not far from the first skeleton, there is a small pile of arm bones scattered alone, connected with bare withered hands, while the arms of the other two withered bones are intact.
Lin Yan carefully fiddled with the first corpse that Yin Zhou stepped on with a dagger. Judging from the size of the skeleton, it was a male corpse. The skeleton was complete and no injuries could be seen. Fingers digging at the cracks in the ground, knees bent and hands stretched out, as if trying to crawl out of the grave before death. Lin Yan picked up a large piece of rag from the leg bone, checked it repeatedly with a flashlight, and let out a slight surprise.
"It's a modern person." Lin Yan showed the piece of cloth to A Yan, "Here is a man, wearing jeans and pull-back shoes. Judging by the degree of decay of the bones, it must have been twenty or thirty years old."
A Yan squatted next to another corpse, nodded when she heard the words, and picked up a small yellow-orange ring with the blade: "I am a woman, no, but it's not like killing people for money, gold rings and necklaces are not take it away."
Yin Zhou hid far away, unwilling to look at the dead, and said disgustedly: "This is a tomb, so why not have a honeymoon if you don't rob the tomb? I guess they are making a lot of money. The three of them disagree on how to divide the spoils. One kills the other two. Also caught fire and broke an arm, then ran away with the money."
"Antiques are sold for tens of millions, and the ring is only worth a few dollars. I don't want it for me."
People who study archeology don't wait to see the word tomb robbery, Ayan couldn't help frowning: "The prosperity of the world is for fame, and the chaos of the world is for profit. Tomb robbery takes ill-gotten gains, and death will not be punished."
Lin Yan was noncommittal, carefully observing the shape of the corpse with a flashlight, and said slowly: "If the tomb robbers are fighting among themselves, the tomb is not afraid of the police chasing us, we must make sure that the enemy is dead before leaving, but these two people crawled for a while before they died. , and the man with the broken arm is even weirder, he didn't even pick up the broken limb, you know the broken limb can be brought back within eight hours, why is he running so fast?"
Xiao Yu looked at the male corpse, and said softly: "It was dangerous at the time, they were running for their lives, they had no time to pick up their arms, and they didn't have time to deal with two seriously injured people..."
Seeing that everyone was serious, Yin Zhou thought about it along the way, and when he looked up at the corridor ahead, he couldn't help but gasped.
Lin Yan's expression was solemn: "When we entered, the white jade gate was still locked, which means that they did not enter the tomb through the main entrance, maybe they entered the coffin chamber directly through a robbery hole. As for why they didn't leave through the robbery hole and went outside... I guess the situation In danger, they couldn't go the same way, they could only look for the life gate with the least number of traps like us, but they still didn't escape."
"What happened to them?" Lin Yan fiddled with the broken bag next to the corpse with the tip of his knife. There was only a military kettle, rope, hook, candle mask and other tools in it. You see, there is not a single artifact in this bag, and the scale of the tomb is so large, they ran here without stealing a single treasure, and lost money and lost their lives."
"Wait." A Yan interrupted Lin Yan: "Two questions, first, whether the one who killed two of them and injured the other is still in the tomb, and how it will treat us, and second, the broken arm The people... where did they go?"
"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time." A Yan showed worry.
The tunnel was quiet and inexplicable for a while, everyone was staring at the darkness ahead, and a sense of fear rose for no reason. Indeed, as A Yan said, they are also intruders now. Won't the stuff in it haunt again
A timid voice sounded, Ah Che tugged at the corner of Lin Yan's clothes: "Let's go, this place... smells like death."