Mystery Leaks

Chapter 109 Mrs. Golden Flute
It was pitch black inside, the glow sticks that had been thrown in had already exhausted the light source, the snakes were gone, the flashlight shone in the distance, and the sarcophagus that had been opened before was also strangely closed.

I swallowed, there are too many ghost things here, and I don't know what closed the sarcophagus.

Cao Nan looked at it, then turned to Tu Bao and said, "Are you planning to let us go in in the dark? Hurry up and let me shine."

Tu Bao's face was angry, but he didn't want to be angry, he took out the backpack containing the fluorescent sticks and threw it to Liu Erlong, saying, "Go!"

Liu Erlong shivered for a moment, but he didn't dare to refuse, so he walked to us with a bitter face, folded up the light stick, and threw it into the snake mound.

The fluorescent light first came on, and the light was very good, illuminating the entire snake mound.Everything was back to normal, the snakes were gone, and the sarcophagus was closed.If it weren't for the dozen or so human-shaped black marks on the ground, I'm afraid I would have thought I had never been here before.

"Go in and have a look, we'll wait for you." Tu Bao seized the opportunity and said immediately.

Cao Nan and I secretly hated each other, but we had no choice but to walk towards the snake mound step by step.

It wasn't until we reached the middle of the coffin that everything was safe and sound, then Tu Bao said, "Everyone go in, those who don't want to die should stay away from the sarcophagus!"

Cao Nan and I also breathed a sigh of relief. The snake came out because the coffin was opened and something similar to a black cocoon was cut. As long as you don’t move, you should be fine. After all, there were so many people inside before Some people are curious to knock here and touch there.

This is clearly a trap to deal with greedy tomb robbers.

Curiosity killed the cat, and it killed people!

Apart from the coffin, there is nothing else in the snake mound. Remembering the name here, I asked Cao Nan curiously, "How do you know this is called the snake mound?"

Cao Nan was taken aback, and then said: "I called it casually, I heard my grandma mentioned that there is a snake called coffin head on Jinpen Mountain, which makes nests inside coffins, and that kind of coffin grave is called snake tomb. I subconsciously shouted out at that time."

I nodded. Cao Nan heard many strange things from his grandmother. His grandmother is already over 80, and she is of the same generation as Grandma Qiu.In today's terms, the grandmother is very "superstitious", and she speaks clearly about those "superstitious" things; but basically no one believes it.

Obviously, Cao Nan's grandma was not talking nonsense, although she might have heard it from others.

The first is the snake. The head of the snake is indeed like a coffin. It is not wrong to call it the head of the coffin. It is also true that this kind of snake lives in the coffin.

I guessed a possibility, could it be that some snakes ran outside, found some coffins in graveyards to make their nests, were discovered and passed down the mountain?Otherwise, there is no reason to let the villagers know.

……

Afterwards, we passed the snake mound and headed towards the depths of the snake mound.

There was still a long corridor inside, and the tomb robber, Tu Hu and others were forced into it.

Cao Nan and I led the crowd down step by step carefully.

The corridor is very long, almost no different from the previous one. After walking for half an hour, the inside opened up again, revealing a large dark space.

Liu Erlong folded a few light sticks and threw them in again, illuminating a large space on the side of the mountain, where there were finally something else, stone pavilions and reliefs, completely like a small palace.

At the top is a high platform, on which stands a sculpture of more than two feet, which looks like a woman.

Afterwards, Liu Erlong threw seven or eight light sticks, and only then did the entire space be illuminated. It seemed that he was approaching the core of the tomb.

"so big!"

"It must be the main tomb!"

"If you take anything, you'll probably get rich!"

"Be careful, there may be another trap!"

"..."

The crowd gasped in admiration, and some began to weigh their treasures again.

I am also amazed. I am afraid that only the imperial mausoleum has such a scale. This is probably the entrance gate.It was just a small gatekeeper snake mound before.

But what I care about is not the treasure of the tomb, but the exit, but it doesn't look like there is an exit here.

Cao Nan and I walked in cautiously, keeping an eye out for everything around us. When we came to the high platform, we looked up and saw that it was really a stone sculpture of a woman.

Her eyes are slightly closed, she holds a flute in both hands, and she is playing with her head sideways. The clothes are typical wide-sleeved gowns, the big sleeves almost drop to the ground, and the back hem falls to the ground for several meters. She looks elegant and sassy.

She has a pretty face, and the wide sleeves set off the two jade arms holding the flute. If she is alive, she must be a beautiful woman.But what caught my attention was a turban crown on her head, which is very similar to the headgear of ethnic minorities today.

"Madame Jindi!" Cao Nan said.

I was taken aback, and turned to look at Cao Nan, and saw him pointing to a stone tablet on the steps.

I took a look, and the font on it was still in Qin Zhuan, which I didn't recognize at first glance, but according to Cao Nan's reading, it was still really the words "Mrs. Jindi".

I suddenly wondered, didn't it mean that the tomb of King Wu of Dayue, why did Mrs. Jindi appear so well?
The ancients valued status very much, especially during the Qin and Han Dynasties, common people didn’t even deserve their names, and if they had a name and a surname followed by a title of “Mrs.”, they were by no means ordinary people, they might be famous ladies.

This makes no sense.

If it was the tomb of King Wu of Dayue, how could there be a statue of a woman erected in front of the tomb, and it was built so big?
Isn't this preposterous?

Even in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, all generals and pawns are used, that is, terracotta warriors and horses. Women have never been seen.

More stone carvings of exotic animals are used, such as lions, unicorns and so on.

"Go up and have a look, be careful!" I said to Cao Nan, the platform is a bit high, you have to go up to see everything.

Cao Nan nodded, and walked up the stairs with me step by step. When he could see the statue approaching, he jumped down.

There are people on it!

After a closer look, it was the guy who was frightened and went crazy, yelling and running inside. He was a forest ranger.He was kneeling in front of the statue of Mrs. Jindi, holding his hands together as an offering, motionless.

Cao Nan and I didn't dare to move forward. This person had an accident in all likelihood, and it would be terrible if he cheated on the corpse.

To make sure, Cao Nan and I "shh" him twice, but there was no response.

"What's the situation?" Tu Bao asked from behind.

Cao Nan turned around and said angrily, "The leg is on your body, so you won't come up to see it!"

"You..." Tu Bao's face was sullen, but he held back. He exchanged a glance with Tu Xiong, and when he came up to have a look, his expression also changed.

Seeing that nothing happened, the people behind all bravely went up the steps. After seeing it, they looked at each other and said, "Isn't that the one who was frightened?"

"It's Tang Mu!" Someone recognized him and said.

"Are you afraid you're dead?"

"It's crazy to run in alone!"

"Who's going to take a look?"

"..."

The crowd began to speak in a low voice.

"Shut up!" Tu Bao shouted, turned his head to look at Liu Erlong, and said, "You, hit him with something."

Liu Erlong was full of reluctance, and just about to speak, he was stared back by Tu Bao's fierce eyes. He searched and couldn't find anything to throw, so he simply pulled out the sheath of the dagger, aimed at the man's back and smashed it.

"Snapped!"

The scabbard was very accurate and hit the vest, but the man remained motionless like a wall.

Seeing this, Tu Bao said to Cao Nan and me, "It's your turn!"

Cao Nan glared at him bitterly, and leaned against me on both sides.When we got closer and took a closer look, we were both frightened by this man's appearance and felt chills all over our bodies.

The person is indeed dead, but he died with his heart gouged out, staring at a pair of terrified eyes, the bloody and empty heart, and the heart is gone.

His posture was like a hoisting offering, like a pious believer offering tribute to the Lord, his hands were bloody, and the tribute was probably his heart.

"Fuck!"

Cao Nan swallowed, and instinctively took two steps back.

I also had a scalp explosion. Looking at this person's appearance, I can completely guess what happened at that time.

He was possessed by something, his body was out of control, but his mind was very clear.

He watched helplessly as he knelt down, then used the dagger to cut out his heart, and held it up as an offering to Mrs. Jindi.In front of him was a bloody dagger and two burnt sticks of white wax.

Perhaps at the moment when the heart was pulled out, he was still alive.

It's hard to say whether he was frightened to death, and the pupils shrunk into the eyes of a needle, talking about the horror at that time indifferently!
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(End of this chapter)