Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 304 The Unbreakable Coffin Lid

More than half of the corpses, river mud, and aquatic plants above the coffin have been cleaned up. At this time, a Luoyang shovel suddenly appeared. It's all dumbfounding.

Xiao Ran helped Xu Er up, checked his body, and found that there was no skin trauma, and there was no slight swelling or strain, thanks to the fact that it was winter and the clothes were relatively thick.

Hu Bayi and Fatty looked at the stick at the bottom of the sarcophagus and studied it carefully.Hu Bayi turned his head and asked Xu Er: "Xu Er, are you sure it's Luoyang shovel? How did you know it? There's only half a stick outside."

Xu Er endured the pain and said: "This Luoyang shovel is the one I found when the black blind man asked me to look for a stick. The wooden handle of this shovel broke off a small section at the top. I almost cut my hand at that time. It can't be wrong... ..."

Hu Bayi's flashlight shined on the top of the stick, there was indeed a piece missing, like a rough bamboo gun.

More than half of the Luoyang shovel was embedded under the sarcophagus. If it was left by the blind man, could it be that he dived into the bottom of the river to dig out the coffin?

The more people watched, the more confused they became. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Xu Er, they decided to continue digging first.

Xu Er leaned on tiptoes to rest. Fortunately, the range of the flashlight was far away. Just holding the flashlight back and forth like this was enough to illuminate the eyes of several people.

The three of them dug and cleaned with their heads sullen, finally clearing away all the remaining bones and mud mixture on the top of the sarcophagus and around it, exposing the body of the sarcophagus.The sight in front of them made several people amazed.

It turned out that the metal chains that tied the feet of the bones were fixed around the sarcophagus at the other end.It is not difficult to imagine that when the pit was still a pool, the bones were floating above the sarcophagus like kites or balloons.

The fat man raised his flashlight to shine on the animal head locks with iron rings on the four sides of the coffin, and asked Hu Bayao: "Old Hu, the things embedded outside the coffin to bind people to death must not be gems and agates. something?"

Hu Ba took a look and said simply: "Broken stones are worthless."

He knew what the fat man was thinking about, and he wanted to dig out the animal head locks on the coffin wall and sell them for money, so he dismissed the fat man's thoughts with one sentence.The fat man curled his lips and returned his attention to the sarcophagus.

"Old Hu, since there is nothing valuable outside, let's stop standing there and open the coffin quickly? The baby doesn't wait for anyone..." The fat man rubbed his hands and said.

Hu Bayi looked around the coffin, raised his head and said, "Baby really doesn't wait for anyone, especially us. I think that the black blind man who touched the bottom of the pool before may have come for this coffin. He wants He really has the ability to pry open the coffin under the water by himself, I guess even if we open the coffin now, there is nothing to touch..."

When the fat man heard this, he was a little annoyed: "We have come here, it took a long time, and we must not come here in vain. Even if it is to see what kind of heads and six arms the corpse inside has, I have to take it Pry the coffin open. Brother Xiao, what do you think? And Xu Er, did your fall go for nothing?"

Xiao Ran and Xu Er smiled awkwardly, because they didn't know what Hu Bayi was thinking, so they didn't know how to answer for a while.For Xiao Ran, it was no longer possible to open the coffin to touch the gold, except for the "one breath" mentioned by the Soul Locking Lingzhu before, he did not hear any antique voice, which meant that there was at most only one corpse in the coffin.

But if Hu Bayi decides not to open the coffin, he will have to convince him, after all, the blind man must have found something when he plunged into the pool, and this is related to their next direction.

Hu Bayi saw the fat man's yelling in a hurry, raised his head and scolded: "Why are you in such a hurry? Can't I just open the coffin? It's just that I have heard of water burials, river burials, and sea burials. The coffin sank into the pool What's the matter with so many dead people hanging there? This is obviously the same as the previous T-shaped array and the coffin of ghosts, it's for some shady things, so we shouldn't be more cautious before opening the coffin?"

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard what Hu Bayi said.It seems that Hu Bayi is also determined to open the coffin, but he just feels that he should be more cautious.

Several people circled around the sarcophagus, Xiao Ran saw Hu Bayi frowning and thinking, obviously this time he really couldn't figure out what kind of feng shui secret the sarcophagus at the bottom of the pool was still tied to dead people.

"Come on, let's do some research first. Fatty, go and light the candles, we are going to open the coffin!" Hu Ba ordered.

When the fat man heard about the opening of the coffin, he immediately regained his spirits: "Okay! Southeast...Southeast...Oh! This way!"

This time, Hu Bayi didn't need to calculate the direction, not even a compass.They walked all the way from east to west. After leaving the cave, the big stone ditch in front of them was basically in the direction of south and north. It was not difficult to determine the southeast corner of the coffin.

While lighting the candles, the fat man murmured: "Formalism is annoying, knowing that there is nothing inside, but opening the coffin to see what's new, and you have to light candles..."

Hearing the fat man's muttering, Xiao Ran smiled beside him and said, "Fat brother, since we bear the title of Lieutenant Mojin, if we open the coffin, we have to follow the rules, otherwise the patriarch will not protect us..."

The fat man chuckled and said, "Okay, okay, listen to Lao Hu, listen to General Faqiu Zhonglang, listen to Patriarch, and I will work honestly... Let's work together!"

The candles in the southeast corner had already been lit, and the fat man placed the candles on the edge of the pit wall in the southeast corner in such a way that no wind could blow them.

The sarcophagus lies in the center of the pit, with its tail facing south and north.Hu Bayi called the others to go to the side of the sarcophagus facing south, and together they inserted the tip of the engineering shovel into the gap in the sarcophagus. As Hu Bayi yelled, the four of them "Hi Yo Hi Yo" After repeated rounds of strength, the lid of the sarcophagus remained motionless.

The fat man was sweating from exhaustion, sat on the ground shaking his head and said, "No, no, this sarcophagus is different, it can't be opened."

Hu Bayi and Xu Er also sat down to rest, while Xiao Ran panted heavily, and walked around the sarcophagus again, wondering: "Do you want to open the coffin, do you have to find some mechanism? This sarcophagus is indeed the same as before. What I see is different, much more detailed than those."

As he spoke, he squatted down and studied the corners of the sarcophagus.The fat man complained from the side: "If you want me to say, it's better to dig out that row of black stones and bring them back to Panjiayuan. They say it's a belt buckle from the tomb of the prince, made of black jade unique to ancient my country." , specializing in selling foreigners, you can definitely make a lot of money..."

Listening to the fat man chattering aside, Xiao Ran subconsciously glanced at the animal head stone buttons on the coffin wall, and suddenly found that these animal heads were not exactly the same.Although it was impossible to tell what kind of animal it was, Shi Kou's eyes were carved vividly. Some looked up, down, left, and right in different directions, while others stared straight ahead.

Xiao Ran grabbed one of the stone clasps looking forward, and pulled it lightly, only to hear a "click", the stone clasp was pulled out a few inches away from the sarcophagus.

(End of this chapter)