Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 467 Siguniang Mountain (27)

467 Chapter 467 Siguniang Mountain (27)
We waited until the opening mechanism of the outer coffin stopped until there was no movement at all, and then we approached it again.

At this moment, the coffin that originally wrapped the main coffin in layers, with no specific number of layers, has completely turned into a square platform with steps and masonry patterns. The platform flashed out of metal under the illumination of our lights. Glossy, this material always looked familiar to me. In the center of the platform, a huge black rectangular box-shaped sarcophagus came into view.

This thing that has just been wrapped tightly is the main coffin. The coffin is inlaid with various colored stone decorations. Judging from the distribution of the gems, it must have very delicate carvings on it, but because the material is dark and ink-like, It seems that although there are carvings, you can't tell what the carvings are. Even most of the lines look lumpy, which makes it a bit ugly.

In addition, at a quick glance, I feel that although the material of its main body is jet black, which does not seem to be much different from the black stones around the tomb, it is somewhat different from the platform.

Gou Wuye squinted his eyes and looked at the coffin lid with a flashlight, his brows furrowed and he looked at it very seriously.

Then he put the head of the flashlight on the stone and observed it more carefully. I remember that I used to ask those who looked at the quality of raw ore to take photos like this.

As soon as he shined the light on it, the black stone used to build the main coffin actually showed a faint dark green when viewed under the transmitted light.

Qi Tiezui looked at it and said "yo" and said: "I thought the things in this tomb were only black and white. It turns out there are some black ones. The material is green and black. Does the color look like jade? ?”

Gou Wuye squinted his eyes, then held his sleeves and carefully wiped the smooth surface on the edge of the coffin lid a few times. The surface of the black stone on the coffin lid immediately became much more delicate and smooth.

He paused while looking at the surface of the stone, as if he was thinking of something, and rolled his eyes while thinking about it. Then he rubbed the surface of the stone again as if polishing it. After many times, the black The stone has a strong vitreous luster with oil.

He said "Ouch", and it could be heard from his tone that he had become interested in the material of the main coffin.

As the light got closer to the stone, the emerald green color was revealed in the bright areas. It was a green that was very attractive and eye-catching. The pattern carved on the coffin lid was also clearly displayed at once. When I saw it, those bumpy bumps were carved with layers of scales. I felt that more people’s eyes were shining brightly when they looked at it.

I thought to myself, this must be my old habit again. I tugged my brother's hand, meaning "Don't you care about them?" "Is it okay to touch them like this?" However, my brother was standing in front of the main coffin like a statue. Just watch quietly.

Qi Tiezui looked at the emerald green and said: "The colors on the innermost main coffin are quite colorful. The characteristics of the material of the main coffin are really surprising. It looks really beautiful like this." He used He knocked on the black stone on the platform and then on the coffin and said, "They all look like black stone, but the materials are actually different. The coffin made on the ground contains metal, but this one doesn't."

Gou Wuye's flashlight shone on the sarcophagus cover inch by inch. He said: "This material does not look very pleasing at first glance, but this photo is different. The texture is fine, the particles are dense, and the light transmittance is very good." Okay, it looks like jade." He looked at the pattern on it again and said, "This coffin is well preserved, and there are no obvious flaws or flaws for the time being. The carving is exquisite, and it is a good thing. This material is the most popular on the market. It’s rare to get up there.”

I thought to myself, if the things here were not covered tightly with alkali powder, there might be more good things in this room. They would have been unable to hold back their boiling mood for a long time. Even if they could see but not take them, I guess they It will definitely be very disturbing to watch.

As I was thinking about it, my brother suddenly took my hand and started walking. He led me toward the narrower end of the coffin.

I had seen coffins a lot when I was in the Zhang family, but my brother never let me touch these things, so I knew very little about them, but he still taught me some knowledge.

I remember saying that the coffins are all with one end high and the other low, one end wide and the other narrow. When the corpse is lying inside, the head is high and the feet are low. It is said that it is called "head resting on the mountains and feet stepping on the river." Also, the feet are He placed it on the wide end of the coffin, with his head resting on the narrow end. I remembered correctly, and when the coffin lid was finally pushed up, it was also on the narrow end. I naturally knew what he was going to do.

When he reached the ground, he hugged me behind him and held the knife in his hand. The atmosphere around him suddenly changed. Everyone seemed to be still and looked at him slightly nervously.

He used his flashlight to shine on the gap where the coffin lid connected with the body, and from time to time he touched the gap between the stones with his long fingers. He was looking for a way to open it.

I thought about it, the coffin is the tomb owner’s tomb, and there are many things to pay attention to. It is said that regardless of the size and shape of the coffin, the inner diameter of the coffin is the same. I remember that there seems to be a guide for the thickness of the coffin, which is a few numbers. , "Two four, three five, four six" refers to the thickness of the coffin board. The thickness of the back board is less than the thickness of the front board, which means that the stone board coffin should also be made according to this specification.

The material of this coffin is quite transparent under strong light, but what I just looked at was the slightly thinner side of the big coffin. If the light were brighter, the shadows of the things inside could be faintly revealed, but in this position The coffin wall is indeed thicker than that end, and when the light is turned on, it only shows a deep dark green color, which is not very transparent. To sense the mechanisms inside, it depends on my brother.

Everyone looked at each other and seemed to be ready to open the coffin. I was also telling myself that I had never seen anything like monsters, coffins, or just ancient corpses. There was nothing to be afraid of, or so I thought. , but I couldn’t get excited, and I felt very guilty. I was already breaking out in a cold sweat before he even made a move.

My brother suddenly exerted force, and I trembled in shock. I watched him insert the knife in his hand horizontally into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body. He took a step forward, holding the handle of the knife in his hand and sliding it along. The gap slides parallel to the other end of the coffin.Before sliding very far, he felt that his knife seemed to hit something stuck in the gap, and then he paused. Then he saw his wrist moving the knife slightly, as if he was using the tip of the knife. There was something prying inside. After a few obvious twists of his wrist, a few "Gada" sounds came from the coffin. It should be that the buckle of the mechanism, which was used for the same purpose as the nails in the coffin, was opened by him. After the sound stopped, my brother pulled out the knife, took back his posture, and stood back in front of me.

I saw him looking at the coffin quietly, not nervous at all, as if the coffin had nothing to do with him. I felt that the thing inside was not very dangerous, at least not for the time being.

Seeing that the patriarch had turned on the mechanism, Zhang Rishan called on a few people to gather around the coffin. They held the coffin lid in a posture of exerting force, shouted neat slogans "One, two, three..." and began to push. The coffin lid, this coffin lid looked really heavy, but with the strength of the crowd, it was pushed quickly.

As the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin lid got wider and wider, a smell I hadn't expected came from inside the coffin, and it became stronger and stronger.

At this time, Qi Tiezui said: "It's not a rancid smell, but a faint fragrance, a bit like some medicinal soup. This fragrance should not be poisonous."

I huddled behind my brother and followed him to the edge of the coffin. I was afraid that there would be some exciting scenes inside, so I tried my best to be relatively fully prepared mentally. Then I leaned close to his arm, looked over and said, "What's in the coffin?" There is nothing that is not poisonous. There are bacteria and toxins everywhere on the surface of the objects in the tomb and in the air. It depends on whether the poison is strong or not."

Zhang Rishan said: "Master Ba, you can only try to take a few less breaths and reduce your intake of air here."

Qi Tiezui said to him: "Please take a few puffs first and let me take a look."

I glanced at each of them and thought to myself that if these two came to work in our teahouse, they would definitely let them talk cross talk. Instantly I wasn't so nervous anymore and looked inside the coffin again.

As soon as the coffin lid was opened, there was a thick layer of gas that looked like white mist, but as the coffin lid continued to be opened, it quickly dispersed.

There is an ancient corpse lying in the center. On the corpse, you can see incomplete pieces of cloth, which should be his clothes, but they are so broken that the original color and style can no longer be seen.

His skin was almost exposed, with a shiny, waxy film attached to it. The flesh of the corpse still looked very elastic, but after all, it had been so long that the internal organs should have shrunk, and the body as a whole was still shrinking. There are a lot of signs of decay. These are normal phenomena for ancient corpses. His overall outline is quite rough, so I feel that this should be a male corpse. At first glance, there are no obvious signs of decay, but his color is very... strangeness.

Qi Tiezui looked at it and said, "The texture should be waxed, but isn't it usually brown? The color is like grilled sausage."

Gou Wuye said: "It probably has something to do with this fragrance. I think those things may be the source of the fragrance."

In addition to a lot of jars, jewelry and funerary objects placed around the ancient corpse, there were also some strange black and sticky paste-like objects stuck to these things, including the corpse.

Zhang Qiling observed for a moment and said: "Carry out the body first."

At his order, Zhang Rishan immediately led people to start cleaning up. They first gathered the black goo inside and put it into the sealed jar they brought. After they were done, they brought it to Zhang Qiling.

Zhang Qiling looked at it and handed it directly to the girl next to him. The girl suddenly turned back and looked at the jar with a surprised face, then looked at Zhang Qiling and said, "Whether the sealing of this jar is good, you wait. "

Zhang Qiling watched the girl hurriedly fumble in the bag, and soon took out a sealed jar that was one size larger than the jar in his hand. He unfolded the lid, winked at him and asked him to put it in. After fastening the lid, the little girl finally Ken took it completely, but the little girl seemed to still have doubts, so she stuffed the jar back to him, then reached out to fumble in the bag, and after a while she took out a transparent sealed bag and opened it for him After putting the double-layer jar in, the girl took out the opening of the Kirin treasure bag and put the jar away.

Zhang Rishan and the others laid a tarp on the ground, mainly to isolate the alkali powder on the ground. That thing should not touch wet things.

They first placed the funerary objects that weighed on the body and affected the lifting of the body on the cloth on the ground, and then took another piece of cloth. One person entered the coffin first, carefully lifted the body, moved it to the cloth, and pulled the cloth. Jiao, picked up the body, and the people inside carried it, while the people outside placed it steadily on the ground.

Some of them were looking at the utensils and jewelry they took out, but they didn't even dare to touch the body. I kept looking around, but my brother patted me and walked over to the body, squatted down and started to look at it. I got up and followed him, but my head was turned aside.

(End of this chapter)