The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 20 Chiwu Tribe (2)
There is a beast statue embedded in the cave, which is covered with a layer of dust, so it cannot be seen from a distance.I went up and wiped it with my hand, it didn't matter, the beast statue turned out to be gold!

I couldn't help screaming, and everyone ran over, but this golden beast statue that was completely inconsistent with Loulan culture made everyone frown again.

The fat man was the first to run over when he heard the sound. Seeing that it was gold, he wanted to go up and move it without saying a word, but the pure gold animal statue didn't move at all.To me, it looks like a statue of an eagle, but it seems to be smaller than an eagle. Its beak is also different from that of an eagle, and it has three claws, one of which has lost its knuckle.

I hastily asked the fat man to take out the gold finger from the piss, and gently pressed it against it, and it was seamlessly closed immediately.I seem to understand something, but it's still a little bit. When I continued to think, the fat man had already pulled out the golden finger, ran to the side of the coffin and smiled at me, and gave a nod to Professor Chen who was stunned by the side. Eyebrow.

I understand what he means very well. He wants to open the coffin while everyone is thinking hard, and get some valuable things out first.

I can't help but feel a little bit moved. We can't move the golden statue, so it's okay to drag something that can move and go back, right?After thinking about it, he pulled Xiang Ru over to help the fat man grab the copper ring on the coffin lid and lifted it up.

The three of us spent a lot of effort, only to hear a bang, the heavy coffin lid has been lifted by us, and the inside of the coffin did not emit the smell of corpses, but it smelled worse than when I was close to the coffin. That strange and strong fragrance.

"What are you doing!" Professor Wu and the others heard the voice and ran over yelling.

"Who told you to open the coffin?" Song Bijun suddenly became angry, and Zhou Dawei stood beside him.

"We just want to open it and have a look, hehe!" The fat man began to use his trump card "hippie smiling face" again.

"Huh?" Professor Wu ignored Fatty, but was attracted by something in the coffin.

I looked carefully, and it turned out that there was an exquisite rosewood coffin inside the coffin. This rosewood was originally one of the extremely expensive woods. The wood itself has some fragrance, which is the so-called "sandalwood". The chicken wing wooden coffin has been covered for a long time, but the fragrance is even stronger.No wonder I smelled a fragrance when I opened the coffin lid just now.

The fat man was about to pry the lid of the coffin again, but I secretly stopped him. I winked at him and asked him to see Professor Wu's reaction.

"Good guy! This is a set of coffins!" Professor Chen exclaimed in admiration, and actually called us all to pry it open together.

Unexpectedly, after a long time, the coffin lid did not move at all.Professor Chen felt that something was wrong, and looked carefully around the coffin lid of rosewood, only to find that there were several copper buckles on each side of the upper coffin, which were nailed to the edge of the upper coffin lid, and buckled down several pins on the body of the coffin. .

Everyone hastily opened the clasp and worked hard together to pry open the lid of the coffin. Suddenly, the golden light shone, which made us unable to open our eyes.

Time seemed to freeze, we stood there in a daze, staring straight at the corpses lying in the coffin, our jaws almost dropped.

I saw that the corpse was surprisingly tall, and he didn't wear any clothes on his body, but a short skirt with jade pieces hanging on his genitals. It can be seen that the characteristics of this corpse are male, so the short skirt with jade pieces strung with gold threads It should be his armor.

The whole body was blue, with his hands crossed on his chest. Although his muscles had shrunk, it was still visible that he was an extremely burly man before his death. He wore a gold shoulder armor and a wide gold band around his neck. Necklace with a dazzling ruby ​​inlaid on it.

However, what surprised us the most was not these, but a mask made of gold on his head!

The shape of the mask is not a human image, but an image similar to some kind of big bird.The entire mask is extremely finely crafted, as if it is not something in this world.The beak of the big bird is long and pointed, protruding outwards, and even the feathers around it are carved out with gold pieces. The two eyes made of sapphire are shining under the light of the lamp, as if they have been glaring at us all the time, in a trance I seemed to see it move a bit, then I rubbed my eyes and found that it didn't move at all. Could it be that I was delusional?

When I saw this, I suddenly remembered the record about the "Chiwu tribe" in "The Record of Ancient Gods and Monsters": "On the top of Kunlun, there is a tribe of Chiwu tribes, with the head of a bird and the body of a human, with three legs. If you see it, there will be a severe drought in the world."

"I understand!" I looked at the painted story on the wall again, and suddenly exclaimed.

"What do you understand? Why don't you hurry up and take it apart?" The fat man was about to pick off the stuff on the zongzi, but I stopped him.

"This guy is not King Loulan!" As soon as I said this, everyone was dumbfounded.

The Chiwu tribe worships a three-legged crow. If the sun in ancient Chinese myths and legends is a three-legged crow, then it is likely based on the totem of the Chiwu tribe. As for this kind of Whether or not there are crows is another matter.

It is not difficult to understand by connecting those pictures together and combining with this record.The last one is about the new king ascending the throne. It is very likely that he is building his own underground dynasty and mausoleum to avoid the invasion of the Chiwu tribe. Killing and looting, and their leader put his own body in after death, which is a bit like occupying the magpie's nest, but why did the Chiwu tribe come down from the top of Kunlun?But I couldn't figure it out.

"I think everything else you said is correct, but I disagree with one point!" Professor Wu said: "According to years of research by me and some colleagues, it was not racial invasion that caused the Loulan people to migrate underground, but The lack of water sources and the resulting rise in temperature in the area. It is likely that the king of Loulan built this underground city when he saw that Lop Nur was drying up day by day, and the surrounding area was surrounded by other countries' territories and deserts, and there was no place to migrate. .”

"Then what's the use of building an underground city? At best, it can only be used to cool down the heat?" I asked back.

"Underground water!" Professor Wu's words made me suddenly enlightened, and he continued: "Didn't you find that the underground city outside has all the drainage facilities?"

I have to admire Professor Chen's theory. It is indeed impeccable. The fact is that the water level in Lop Nur has dropped blindly, and it is estimated that it has seeped into the ground, forming an underground lake.In order to solve the problem of drinking water, King Loulan probably detected the existence of an underground lake, so he built the kingdom underground. This is indeed a smart approach, but it was later invaded by the Chiwu tribe.

"Damn it, how many people have been killed by this evil old society! Look at the fat man picking up all the people's fat that you have collected!" The fat man spat on his hand twice as he said, ready to pick it up. That golden mask on his head.

The moment the fat man was about to take off the gold mask, I found that there were several gold chains under the mask protruding into the coffin through several small holes, and suddenly felt a shadow of death shrouded our heads.

"Don't pick it!" I quickly stopped him.

But it was too late, at the moment when the fat man just picked it up, the gold chains under the mask pulled some kind of mechanism, and suddenly there was a deafening sound around us like rumbling thunder, and the whole kingdom was shocked. trembling.

We were stunned by this sudden situation. No one knew what was going on. Of course, an earthquake is impossible. No matter how well-designed the mechanism is, it is absolutely impossible to cause an earthquake.

Suddenly there was a loud "bang", a big hole burst out in the wall in front of us, and a huge water column rushed out like a flood.

"Underground water!" I suddenly realized that the damn King Loulan might have made a design mistake and actually built his dynasty next to the underground lake. It might be his mistake but was discovered by the Chiwu patriarch, and he turned his mistake into Found a mechanism to protect his golden mask!

The rushing groundwater flooded our insteps instantly like a waterfall. I pulled up Xiangru and ran outside without saying a word. I suddenly found that there was one person missing. When I turned around, I saw Professor Wu was hit by the bursting bricks. On the forehead, he fell into the water in a trance.

"Run first!" I yelled at Fatty and the others, and ran back to help Professor Wu, and Fatty followed. The two of us supported Professor Wu one by one in the deeper and deeper water.

"I, I can't do it anymore, let's go!" Professor Wu murmured, and I saw that he was severely smashed. The hard bricks and stones burst out from the explosive force of the groundwater smashed a big hole in his skull, gurgling Blood was coming out.

"Old man! Let's go together!" Fatty and I said.

"Don't, don't worry about me. This is my life's work. I want to be with Loulan even if I die! You go! Get lost!" Professor Wu saw that we were holding on to him, and he didn't know where he came from. Pushing me and the fat man away, I hugged the coffin tightly, fondling the fruit of my lifelong search reluctantly.

(End of this chapter)