Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 34 Longevity Coffin

Hearing this, everyone gathered around Hu Bayi, and saw him pick up a simple copper key with that broken bone.

"This is probably the key mentioned in the letter, but I don't know where the lock this key can open." Hu Bayi said.

Xiao Ran listened intently, the key didn't have any words, it seemed like an ordinary key.It's a pity that the Japanese he knows is only the ones commonly seen in movies, otherwise there may be explicit clues in that letter.

"If you have a key, you must have a lock. Hu, have you looked carefully? Is it in the coffin?" the fat man asked.

"I've been searching for a long time, and there's nothing else but these rags," Hu Bayi said.

Fatty didn't give up, he wasn't as fastidious as Hu Bayi, he took the bone in Hu Bayi's hand and scratched it randomly in the coffin.

After swiping and pulling a few times, he seemed to have thought of something suddenly, picked up the skeleton of the Onmyoji, and threw out the clothes and bones.

"A little devil laying around pretending to be an uncle, don't say that you are not the owner of the tomb, even if you are, I will still bring you out for doing these harmful things!"

The skeleton fell apart in mid-air, and fell to the floor of the room with a crash. Not only was there no dead body, there was no place to bury it.

The fat man continued to rummage through the coffin, but apart from those bug corpses, broken bones and dust, there was really nothing else.

The bone scratched across the inner wall of the coffin and made a "squeaky" sound, and the fat man seemed to notice something strange.

Holding half of the bone, he scraped vigorously as if venting his anger, and even greater doubts were written on his big fat face.

He carefully shined the flashlight on the gap in the coffin wall, as if he suddenly discovered something, he stabbed the tip of the bone hard, and then shook it a few times.With such a toss by him, the inner lining of the coffin wall was separated from the coffin by a small opening.

Fatty's expression froze instantly, and everyone else was attracted by his rare seriousness.

"Fatty, you don't feel like you're touching a baby, it's like digging up earth and melons and digging out shit when you jumped in line..." Hu Bayi laughed.

The fat man's face was full of seriousness: "Old Hu, it's strange that this coffin has a lining. But the lining material looks even weirder to me. Come and give me a hand to take this thing off!"

Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran saw that the fat man was so serious, so they didn't talk too much, they each imitated the fat man's appearance, found some bone sticks and inserted them into the inner lining seal, and began to pick and scrape carefully.

"Be careful, slow down, don't break it..." Fatty reminded.

Not to mention Xiao Ran, even Hu Bayi, who played with him since he was a child, has never seen a fat man so patient and careful.

After a while, a coffin lining was completely peeled off along its original edge.

Or should say "she" or "he".

The fat man picked it up carefully, and flashed it with a flashlight. Yingzi was startled. After this day's events, although the scene in front of her was weird, it didn't make her scream.

It was a small piece of human skin, even if factors such as dehydration and nearly a thousand years of wear and tear were counted, it should be the size of a child.

"I X!"

The fat man put down the skin carefully, and ran to the coffin to pick and scrape it. Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi also remained silent, and went to clean the inner lining of the coffin wall together with the fat man.

After a while, three small human skins were spread out in front of them. The sizes were slightly different, but they were obviously all children.

On the four pieces of human skin, there are patterns of green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, and basalt tattooed on each of them, which are clearly visible even after so many years.

"This is the four elephants, representing the four directions of east, west, south, east, and north. They are Shaoyang, the sun, Shaoyin, and Taiyin. If I guessed correctly, these four... children should be six-year-old and eight-year-old girls, and Seven-year-old and nine-year-old boys. They should have been skinned alive after being tattooed, and the blood was directly stained on the coffin wall..." Hu Bayi explained.

The fat man gritted his teeth. He looked left and right and found a skull that had been crushed by Xiao Ran.

"This bastard! He has harmed so many children! This is a child!"

Hu Bayi said: "This old tortoise and bird egg wants to become a fairy. I thought of it when I saw the patterns on his coffin, but I didn't expect him to be so mad. I heard from my grandfather that skins were skinned alive as the lining of the coffin. Wrap yourself up, this is an evil method called "longevity coffin". In fact, it is useless, it is completely harmful to the living. For these old feudals who are extravagant and want to build their own private houses, we really don't need to dig their graves A little polite..."

Xiao Ran kept silent, and packed the four small human skins together in his military overcoat, and waited to take them out to be buried with the two boys.

Hu Bayi looked at the dignified people, and slowly said: "If this is really a coffin of longevity, then there should be more than these four pieces of human skin..."

Several people looked at each other, and without any unnecessary words, they went to the coffin to examine and scratch carefully.Yingzi also deliberately went to check the coffin lid that had been turned over on the ground. She was surprised at first, and then became busy silently.

After a while, a few more pieces of human skin were removed. Although they were not children, they should be teenage girls.There are many patterns on the skin, such as Nandou, Beidou, Liangyi, sun and moon, and auspicious clouds.

There was nowhere to vent their anger, and they could only wrap up their human skin silently. Fortunately, no one would die so tragically because of this almost perverted selfish desire.

The fat man said: "The hermaphrodite probably also believed that this thing would have the effect of longevity, at least it would make him die later, so he snatched the coffin of that old bastard. His grandma's, imperialism and reactionary feudal dog eat dog..."

Hu Bayi said: "I took a closer look just now. This secret room and the stone cave outside are completely natural. Except for the airtight door in the middle, there is no trace of man-made repairs. And the location of the stone coffin is quite correct. , I feel that this secret room is the original tomb of the stone coffin, and the other coffins were brought in later."

Xiao Ran also suddenly thought of a strange point, and said to everyone: "I cleaned the coffin just now, do you feel that the human skin at the bottom of the coffin is not as difficult to peel off as the side? It seems that it was peeled off and then glued on again with something else .”

With a word that awakened the dreamer, several people rushed to the coffin again, carefully cleaned the broken soil at the bottom of the coffin, and indeed saw a circular pattern in the middle, and a small handle in the middle, like a stopper.

Xiao Ran grabbed the handle and pulled it out forcefully, the round cork was pulled out, revealing a small keyhole.

"Old Hu! Quick! The key! Where's the key!" Fatty Wang became excited again.

Hu Bayi took out the key he found from the Onmyoji just now, took a deep breath, inserted the key into the keyhole, and turned it hard.

One second, two seconds... The air seemed to freeze, and several people stared wide-eyed, wondering why nothing happened.

"Hey, I was so excited for a long time..."

The fat man got up and stretched his muscles, and leaned lazily against the wall behind him.

Suddenly there was a roar from the wall, and a stone door was raised behind him, and the fat man fell backwards without guarding against it.

(End of this chapter)