Tomb Raiders: Beginning Qinglong Bloodline

Chapter 77 Chapter 77

The fat man said excitedly when he saw these coffins.

"Lao Ye, Lao Hu, is this the legendary cellar coffin? That is really a treasure! I heard that this thing is worth more than gold in terms of volume!"

"Let's carry it back, why don't we send it?"

Hu Bayi heard the words and said: "Vulgar! How can gold compare with this thing, even ten gold coffins can't be replaced. The coffins are made of the best ten-thousand-year-old tree core. I think the Empress Dowager Cixi , and no such treatment, because the tree was extinct in the Han Dynasty, and there is no way to find it.”

Yang Xueli looked at the coffin hanging in the air and asked: "What's the matter with the bronze coffin hanging in the mid-air of the tomb? There is another coffin with a strange shape over there. Could it be that this is King Xian and his two wives?"

Hu Bayi shook his head, "I don't know, this bronze coffin is also a different type in the mausoleum system.

"According to legend, only those who committed the most heinous crimes, or nobles who contracted infectious diseases, would be buried in a copper coffin."

"It is also said that those who showed signs of corpse transformation before entering the cave will be buried in a bronze coffin to prevent the dead from turning into zombies and breaking out of the coffin."

"So that's the case. I only know that there is a kind of coffin with copper horns and gold that can prevent corpses from turning into corpses. I didn't expect this hanging bronze coffin to be the same."

Then the four looked at the sarcophagus placed in the deepest part of the tomb.

This is a ground sarcophagus directly made of "twist stone", carried by four monoped stone men.

The twisted stone coffin slab is very simple, even primitive.

Hundreds of interlocking circular chisels gathered together to form a black monster. It is impossible to recognize what it is. It looks like a dragon and a tiger, full of ancient and mysterious colors.

The outside of the seamless sarcophagus is sealed with a layer of translucent red lacquer, and the coffin seams are sealed inside, making it impossible to see its internal outline.

The fat man said at this time: "Why is the third coffin here so much shorter than the first two?"

Hu Bayi explained: "The reason why the sarcophagus is short is that it probably didn't contain the whole body, and the sarcophagus was probably used for burial.

The so-called curled burial refers to criminals who died under torture.For example, if the body was divided by five horses, it is necessary to find a special seamstress to splice the separated pieces of meat into an adult when buried.

Due to the loss of flesh and blood that may be caused by torture, or the limbs are stiff and cannot be stretched, coupled with technical deficiencies, the spliced ​​corpses are often in strange shapes, or curled up or lying down, so it is called curled up. "

"I'm going, it's so cruel!" After hearing Hu Bayi's words, the fat man felt a chill in his heart.

"Don't talk about these useless things, let's open the coffin!" The fat man said at this time.

"Okay, fat man, go to the southeast corner and light three candles."

"Got it!"

Fatty was at the southeast corner, and after lighting three candles, the four of them started with the most valuable cellar coffin.

At this moment, Ye Haochu found out that Hu Bayi was thinking about something while looking at the three coffins.

Of course Ye Haochu knew what Hu Bayi was thinking, it was nothing more than:
Sanshi Bridge, Sansheng coffin.

Life is three times, death is three prisons.

Taoism has always had the saying of "becoming immortal and transforming into three lives", that is, if a practitioner of Taoism wants to ascend to immortality and become immortal, he needs to experience three lives in the world.

And there are strict rules.

It is required that the soldiers be dissolved in the first life, die in the second life, and be divided into corpses in the third life.

The three coffins in front of him corresponded to the "Three Generations" of King Xian. In fact, the coffins inside were all ancient corpses that he dug up from other ancient tombs and barren mounds.

Unsurprisingly, the bronze coffin hanging in the air contains an ancient corpse that died by a sword, representing Xian Wang's previous life.

What was contained in Xingzi's coffin should be a baby boy who died prematurely, representing the present life of King Xian.

The last seamless sarcophagus used "curved burial".Therefore, the body buried in the sarcophagus is likely to be a corpse assembled from countless corpses, representing the later life of King Xian.

The above contents are all known by Ye Haochu after reading the original work.

King Xian gathered the three dead bodies into the coffin and placed them here, which meant that the catastrophe had been repaired and the mortal world was cut off, while he and his wife were buried in the Yin Palace, ready to ascend to the immortal, and only waited for the summon of the immortal.

At this time, Yang Xueli made a gesture to lower her voice: "Listen, is there any sound in the bronze coffin?"

After several people listened carefully, they heard the sound of steel rubbing against each other in the hanging bronze coffin. Could it be that the zombie in the coffin was grinding the coffin lid and wanted to come out?

"Old Hu, do you think there will be any big zongzi in this coffin?" Fatty also heard the voice inside the coffin, so he asked in fear.

"How would I know! But the candle we lit didn't go out, so it should be fine in theory." Hu Ba glanced at the burning candle in the southeast corner, and said.

"What do you mean in theory? In practice?"

Hu Bayi shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

Then the voice in the coffin disappeared again.

Ye Haochu looked around the tomb, and saw four guide boys beside the seamless sarcophagus, standing side by side in a row, all holding lanterns in their hands.

He remembered that there were only three guide boys in the original book, but now because of his appearance, there were four guide boys.Does this have any implications?

Or King Xian had expected the four of them would come?
I can't figure it out, don't think about it, let him go!Can he still be afraid of a poor wretch who wants to live forever? !
So, Ye Haochu took out the torch and lit the lantern.

In an instant, a faint candle flame rose in the pitch-black tomb.

Under the reflection of the fire, you can clearly see nine faint blue light spots on the copper pillars on one side of the tomb.

Go over and take a look.

I saw two thick copper pillars embedded in the wall, and each copper pillar was divided into top, middle and bottom, and there were nine half-man, half-fish monster corpses tied together.

The nine corpses seemed to be women, with a naked upper body and a fishtail with black scales on the lower body.

It seems to be the corpse of the Black Scale Merman from the East China Sea.

These black scale merman corpses seem to have undergone special treatment, and they have not rotted after so many years.

It's just that the chain on the copper pillar pierced the nine merman's lute bones, making them crouch and kneel. What's interesting is that their mouths are surprisingly wide open. I took a flashlight and saw the merman's mouth. Something similar to asbestos was blocked in his throat, and a piece of tinder was stuck in his dry and stiff tongue, which was burning with a faint blue light.

Seeing this, Hu Bayi and the others also came over.

"This is the black scale merman, but they are all dead. It turns out that this is the ever-burning lamp and the candle of the past life in the ancient tomb." Hu Bayi said.

"This shark must be very valuable, right? If you get it back, you can sell it for a good price!" the fat man asked.

Fatty did not forget what Da Jinya said, there are many collectors who like to collect corpses very much, not to mention the corpses of mermaids which are rare in the whole world.

"Did you lose your money? Can you move such a heavy corpse?" Hu Bayi said angrily, and patted the fat man's head.

The fat man rubbed his head, and muttered in a low voice: "I mean, I don't really move, and besides, if you really move, you don't need to move."

But the fat man didn't dare to say this, otherwise he would be educated by Lao Hu for a long time.

Yang Xueli looked at the four guide boys and sighed, and said regretfully: "Hey, these children have become victims of the ancient emperor's longevity at such a young age."

Hu Bayi also felt melancholy when he heard the words: "In ancient times, it was very common for boys and girls to be buried. The nobles at that time regarded human life as nothing."

At this time, the fat man looked back and forth at the four receiving boys with a flashlight, and said, "Lao Ye, Lao Hu, this kid is still holding a sign in his hand. What does the word on it mean?"

Several people heard the words and took a look, and sure enough, each guide boy was holding a bronze medal with four strange ancient characters written on it.

Yang Xueli looked at it with a flashlight, and said, "The four characters on it should be Jiexianyinsheng."

Hu Ba nodded and said: "I dare to assert that, it is exactly the same as in the legend, these four living candles, that is, the boy who leads the way for the immortal, is a kind of messenger As for the role, Xian Wang, that bastard, is very thoughtful."

(End of this chapter)