Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 70 Amber Corpse Cocoon
070 Chapter 70 Amber Corpse Cocoon
The little brother said: "The thing down here should be an amber corpse cocoon."

The fat man responded: "Amber corpse cocoon, oh, I have never seen this thing, but I have heard that corpse cocoons are usually as big as a basin, some are like jade, some are like amber, and they are wrapped in The corpses of shriveled small animals or children, rarely adults, are usually unearthed as funerary objects, and no one knows how they were made.”

The younger brother said calmly: "According to ancient records, the amber corpse cocoon may be the medicine primer used by alchemists to make elixirs in the pre-Qin Dynasty. Pregnant women who were less than a month old were immersed in the medicine to kill them, put them in a jar, and buried them for 17 years before digging them up. , the child in the belly will turn into a corpse cocoon. The outer layer is the petrified material of the pregnant woman’s placenta. The amber color you see is actually the solidification of the amniotic fluid inside. Some people say that this is a The body embalming technology is used to wrap the body with a special resin mixed with traditional Chinese medicine so that the body does not lose moisture."

I asked slightly, "Why are they looking for this?"

The fat man smiled and said, "Of course I am rummaging in the tomb for money."

The little brother shook his head and said: "No matter how valuable the corpse cocoon here is, they can't take it out. I just vaguely remember what else..."

As he spoke, the little brother looked at the coffin. At this time, the little brother already knew that it was a coffin shaft that went straight down. He saw that the edge of the coffin cover was engraved with a circle of twin snakes like the one on the bronze tree. Then I looked at some of the reliefs on the inner wall of the coffin and cut off some tree roots that blocked the view as much as possible, so that I could see more clearly and carefully, and understand more.

At this time, Wu Xie heard the strange sound and trembled all over. A chill ran from head to toe. His whole body was frozen and he did not dare to move. The coffin was about six or seven meters long. He felt that the source of the sound was far away from him. When he was no more than one meter away, he always felt like he was being stared at by something. The sound was like "..." He sighed, clenched the short knife in his hand, and wanted to be brave enough to see what the hell was behind him.

He turned around suddenly, and the strange noise suddenly stopped, but there was nothing in the direction of the strange noise behind him. He only saw thick gray fog and the mist airflow that instantly returned to calm.

I couldn't help but be surprised, just for a second or two, how could something disappear so quickly? I was scared, but I couldn't control my curiosity, so I subconsciously took a step forward to find the source of the sound.

Suddenly, Wu Xie noticed that the fog beside him was disturbed, and a figure in the fog rushed toward him. He hurriedly ducked to avoid it, but he was still knocked to the ground.Wu Xie rolled on the spot, and when he looked back, he saw that the person who bumped into him was Boss Wang who had dragged him here.

The fog here is as thick as water. Whenever something moves, a very obvious trajectory will appear.

I thought to myself, this damn fat guy is so shady, he actually attacked me secretly!Wu Xie just had a sudden thought and started fighting with him, but the fat man dodged and hid in the fog again. Wu Xie secretly cursed in his heart, "What a fucking villain."

Wu Xie just wanted to find a way to climb back up as soon as possible, so he continued to observe.

This place is not big overall, and it is located almost in the center of the coffin.Through the mist, I saw what seemed to be a shadow in the center. As I got closer, I saw that the top of the coffin was covered with wrist-thick bronze chains, which were connected to the bottom of the coffin. They were covered with fungi and fibrous roots of the banyan tree. , has been wound from the top to the bottom, but the chain seems to be only fixed between the top and the bottom of the coffin, and there is nothing tied below, which puzzles Wu Xie.

He couldn't help but think of the huge stone coffins called coffins that were found in several tombs of nobles in the Western Han Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.If the tomb is buried in the earth, the formal inner coffin should be placed in the center of the coffin room. For those with strong financial resources, there will be more than ten layers of wooden coffins in the stone coffin room, all the way to the edge of the innermost coffin.

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, then took another step forward, wondering if there might be some kind of trap door on the bottom of the coffin tied in the middle of the bronze chain.

As soon as Wu Xie took a step forward, his feet suddenly became empty and he fell down. In a hurry, he quickly grabbed the bronze chain in front of him and slid down a few meters before regaining his balance. He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly used his hand. Shining the flashlight downward, he could not see anything in the thick fog. It seemed that there was a deep depression below.

The little brother looked at the paintings for a while, and suddenly his expression changed drastically.I saw something wrong with his expression, so I tugged on him.

The little brother looked at me slowly and suddenly said: "Girl, let me go down and take a look. You and the fat man are waiting for me here." Naturally, my expression was unwilling, so the little brother then said to me: "Be good and be obedient." Anyway, I couldn't resist. He could only purse his lips and blink to express "Okay".

The fat man waved his hands, greeted me and said to me: "Come here, girl, he will be back in a moment. Don't worry, he is so powerful, right." I looked at the fat man, then looked back at the little brother, He passed by the fat man.

The little brother felt relieved when he saw me sitting next to the fat man, turned around and jumped into the crack in the coffin shaft.

The fat man looked at me, smiled and said to me: "Look, your little pouty mouth can hold a bottle." He reached out and patted my shoulder and said, "Come, drink some water and take a rest."

Wu Xie thought about it carefully. The sacrificial platform on the top of a bronze tree was embedded in the coffin room for two meters, with nothing in the middle. It might be a multi-layer built-in coffin method like the Warring States Period.This is called a coffin well, and the actual coffin position is underneath.I thought to myself, it was really dangerous just now, and I didn’t know how deep it was down there. Fortunately, I didn’t miss the mark just now, otherwise I might have fallen to my death.

Wu Xie thought that the several bronze chains here might be part of the lifting device used to lower the coffin into the coffin well. The inner coffin containing the body should be right below him.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was another disturbance in the fog beside him, and Boss Wang rushed over again. This time he seemed to be holding some kind of weapon in his hand, and he rushed towards Wu Xie fiercely.

At the same time, the little brother quietly slipped through the crack of the coffin well and landed quietly in the depression of the Qingtong tree. The fog here was thick, and the little brother didn’t want to be discovered, so he went down in the dark. He could vaguely hear something in the distance. Wu Xie shouted: "No! Stop!" followed by the stranger's "Ouch", as if he encountered some difficulty, followed by the sound of the chain vibrating, the sound went from top to bottom, and the little brother confirmed that he was with From the position and distance between the two of them, he knew that they should have fallen further down. He recorded the position and steps in his mind, felt in the dark, and walked quietly towards the location where they fell.

Wu Xie felt that he should be caught by Boss Wang. He let out a "gurgling" sound in his hand and began to slide down. The fungus on the bronze chain caused Wu Xie's hand to squeeze out a lot of greasy oil-like fluid. The wax-like juice made the bronze chain slip as if it were lubricated.

Wu Xie thought to himself, it’s broken!He hurriedly inserted the short-handled knife into the hole of the chain, but it couldn't be inserted. The knife got stuck in the root of the tree. He had to twist it hard to stop his body?It felt like I had slid down no less than ten meters and entered the interior of the coffin shaft, inside the trunk of the Qingtong tree.

Wu Xie turned on the flashlight and saw that Boss Wang was hanging on a bronze chain below him, about a foot away from him. His hair was covered with blood. He put his belt through a chain hole and reluctantly stopped. .He turned around to scold Wu Xie, who happened to shine a flashlight into his eyes, and he quickly turned around to avoid the dazzling light.

Wu Xie saw that he did not pose a threat to him for the time being, so I turned to look at the situation in the coffin well. The inside of the trunk of the bronze tree was the same as the outside. Both were engraved with double snake patterns that went deep into the ravine. The tree roots snaked down from the top, along the way. Follow the lines all the way down.The fog inside was much thinner than above. Wu Xie looked around, and what he wanted to know most was how to get out of this damn place.

The coffin well is a rectangle, four meters long and two meters wide, which can accommodate a coffin loosely.Wu Xie touched the wall of the coffin well with his hand. The tree roots here did not harbor a large number of fungi, and the true colors of the tree roots could be seen.There was just a peculiar smell floating in the air in the coffin well, and the smell was getting stronger and stronger. Wu Xie felt that it was irritating his nose. Looking down, he saw the iron chain hanging down into the darkness below, and the entire coffin shaft was completely invisible. I feel more and more unsure of myself.Wu Xie and Boss Wang are very confused now. They are afraid that the entire bronze tree is hollow. The height climbed up is no less than 300 meters. If this bronze tree is really bottomless and hollow, then what is the bottom of it? Where could it be?What's the point of inserting it here?

As he was thinking about it, suddenly there were two sounds of "of...of...", and that eerie knocking sound suddenly appeared around them again.

When we got down there, the weird sound became clearer and clearer. The sound came from the dark abyss in front of us.

While listening to the strange sound, the little brother recalled that the strange smell in the air seemed familiar to him.

Following the rhythm of the sound, Wu Xie clearly felt that the bronze chains were vibrating slightly and briefly. He felt like he was holding a stethoscope and listening to the heartbeat of a giant. What could be affecting these bronze chains? , he became more and more curious.

Wu Xie originally thought that Boss Wang would be more scared than himself at the moment, but unexpectedly, he listened thoughtfully and quietly, surprisingly calm, as if he was judging something.

After some time passed, the voice finally fell silent and the bronze chain stopped vibrating. Boss Wang seemed to be thinking quietly about something. He suddenly took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep puff, and then took it out of his pocket. I bought a small fluorescent stick and shook it twice to brighten the fluorescence inside.

Wu Xie didn't know what he wanted to do, so he could only look at him coldly.When the glow stick reacted to its maximum brightness, he suddenly threw it down the bronze chain, and the green light beam fell in circles.

The little brother frowned and looked down. He saw the light spot of Wu Xie's flashlight. At this moment, he saw the light stick thrown by Boss Wang, which kept falling downwards. The aperture became smaller and smaller, and quickly disappeared in the In the field of vision, suddenly, at the visual limit of what can be seen and what cannot be seen, the fluorescent rod seemed to hit something, flew to the bronze wall on one side, fell again, and disappeared in an instant.

The little brother knew that the thing hanging about five or sixty meters below the bronze chain was the amber corpse cocoon he had just told Xiaoxun and Fatty.

Boss Wang raised his head and looked at Wu Xie provocatively. He suddenly let go of the belt in his hand, turned on the lighter, and began to slide down. Soon, he entered the darkness, and could only see a shrinking firelight.

Wu Xie didn't know why, but he always felt that this guy seemed to be confident. He was familiar with all kinds of strange items. It seemed that he might know what was underneath. Thinking of what Lao Itch said to him, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. I was willing to let things fall into the hands of such a person, so I pulled the hunting knife in my hand and slid down with him.

It took them about ten seconds to descend to the height they had just estimated.When Wu Xie saw that Boss Wang's light had stopped, he quickly tightened his legs, clamped the chain and stopped. When he lowered his head, he saw that Boss Wang had reached the end of the chain. A few meters below him was the place where the glow stick had hit. He He leaned down and used his lighter to illuminate it, but because the light was too weak, Wu Xie couldn't see the overall shape of the thing. He only saw a yellow crystal-like object hanging in the air.

Wu Xie turned on the aperture of the flashlight. Under the strong light of the flashlight, the full picture of the thing suddenly appeared. Wu Xie had always guessed that what was hanging under the bronze chain was a Shang stone coffin. Unexpectedly, it was a huge amber-shaped coffin. boulders.

The boulder seemed to be formed naturally and was very transparent. Under the light of the flashlight, it reflected the light of glass like gold. As long as the angle of the flashlight was slightly turned, the entire space showed a brilliant and magnificent scene.

The four bronze chains hanging from the top are cast into the inside of the amber. Looking inside along the chains, you can also see a very vague black shadow of a humanoid figure inside the amber. The head and shoulders can barely be distinguished. The shadow's shoulders were raised high, like two humps, and the whole person was curled up, like a fetus in the mother's body.

Wu Xie had never seen such a thing before and was stunned when he saw it, but Boss Wang was surprisingly calm. After observing it for a while, he slid down.

Wu Xie wanted to tell the fat man to stop, but he was afraid that if he stepped on the amber or rosin stone, it would be crushed by him.

As a result, Boss Wang smiled contemptuously and said, "You know nothing about amber, this is a cocoon." He stepped on it.

When Wu Xie saw that he was fine, he was not willing to lag behind. He loosened his legs and slid onto the amber corpse cocoon. The amber corpse cocoon was slippery and he was afraid that it would be difficult to walk. He wanted to insert the knife back into his waist, but it didn't work. Thinking that Boss Wang thought Wu Xie was going to fight with him, his whole body went on guard. Wu Xie was startled, and the short knife that was about to be inserted back into his waist was raised again.

For a moment, the atmosphere was quite tense, but Wu Xie thought to himself that there was an abyss below, and this guy was also an old man. Naturally, he knew that he would be dead in an instant if he fell, so he would not dare to act rashly.

After a stalemate for a moment, Boss Wang waved his hand and said to Wu Xie: "Young man, when it comes to this, we all need to step back and die together. If anyone dies, it will be of no benefit to anyone. This place cannot be reached by just one person." Go."

Some people looked at their heads and knew that what he said was right, but this man was very cunning and could not be trusted easily. He just slowly put down his hunting knife, made a conciliatory gesture, and briefly told about the radio interference just now. So that both sides can have a step down.

Boss Wang was dubious, so he took out his walkie-talkie. After turning it on, a series of high-decibel static noises suddenly exploded. The sound was extremely harsh, as if a person was tearing out his throat and screaming.Boss Wang was frightened when he heard this. He quickly turned off the intercom and cursed: "Oh shit." Wu Xie was also frightened to death for a moment. He really didn't expect there to be such a terrifying sound in the world.

Boss Wang put the belt back on his waist and said, "I'm wrong this time. You know, there are not many of us who run around in the world with bad intentions." He pointed to the part of his face that was swollen by Wu Xie. Together, "Young boy, you're not easy on your hands. Let's make it even this time and let's settle our personal grudges. How about that?"

Wu Xie sneered in his heart, this guy's true nature has been exposed just now, he can tell that this damn fat guy must have planned to kill them after he goes out, now they are just using each other, a delaying tactic, but this superficial effort still needs to be done. Do it, otherwise it would be really over if he was killed before he even got out, so he nodded and threw the flashlight to him to show balance.

The two men temporarily reconciled, but they were still wary of each other. They carefully knelt down and took a closer look at the corpse cocoon under their feet.

Wu Xie muttered: "There are many naturally formed lines on the surface of this corpse cocoon. The transparency inside is not high. It is impossible to see the corpse from the outside. It may be done through X-ray scanning or breaking the cocoon. ." But Wu Xie thought the shape of the corpse was too strange, and said with confusion on his face: "This corpse doesn't look like a human being."

(End of this chapter)