Chapter 41
In the darkness, Gu Meidi's scream suddenly came: "Ah?! Who touched my chest? Hooligan!"

chest? !

OMG!

I trembled all over, the soft thing I just touched was Gu Meidi's chest? !
I quickly retracted my hand and kept silent.

But I changed my mind, there are only me, Gu Meidi, and Professor Ye here. Should Professor Ye be accused of hooliganism?This is not good!So I gritted my teeth and said, "Uh, are you awake? Just now... I'm sorry... It was dark, I... I didn't see it... It wasn't on purpose... Don't take it to heart..."

Gu Meidi said: "I think you did it on purpose, attacking me while I can't see!"

"I..." I was speechless for a while, "Don't wrong a good person, I really didn't mean it!"

"You two are still in the mood to flirt!" Professor Ye's voice came from the darkness, followed by a faint fire, and his face appeared in the fire.

"Are you injured?" Professor Ye asked.

I touched my whole body and found nothing serious, so I hurriedly said, "It's just that my head hurts badly!"

Gu Meidi scolded: "Wan Juncheng is that old bastard, thanks to him still holding the title of professor, he actually... actually did such a rotten thing! When I go out, I will definitely beat him to the teeth!" As he spoke, he squeezed his fist bitterly, and his knuckles made a crackling sound.

I shook my head and said, "I don't understand why Professor Wan drugged us, what does he want from us?"

Professor Ye said: "I think this matter is still related to the eyeball tattoo. When I passed out, I saw Wan Juncheng also had an eyeball tattoo on the back of his neck. That means Wan Juncheng is also a member of 'Xixia Yipintang'!"

"Yes!" I remembered, before I fell into a coma, I also saw the eyeball tattoo on the back of Wan Juncheng's neck, and that eyeball tattoo was blood red. Professor Wan turned out to be from Yipintang Tianzitang?Why did he want to kill us?
Professor Ye pondered: "I guess they may be guarding the secret of the treasure of Heishui City, and all people related to this secret will be silenced. Remember the cultural relic dealer Fat Toutuo in Xi'an City before? Isn't he also arrested by Yipintang?" Has anyone silenced you? In my opinion, the secret organization of Yipintang was not completely wiped out back then, but passed down from generation to generation, and it is still performing the duties of the ancestors until now!"

Gu Meidi said: "According to this statement, Wan should kill us directly, why should we keep us alive?"

Professor Ye said: "Maybe they are waiting to interrogate us, so we have to get out of here before he comes for interrogation!"

"Where are we? What the hell kind of place is this?" I looked up and looked around. With the help of the faint light, I found that we were in a dark room with a very low space, no windows on all sides, airtight and cramped. , There is still a pungent musty smell in the air.

"This is a cellar!" Professor Ye said flatly.

cellar? !
The fucking Wan Juncheng actually threw us into the cellar of his house!
Looking at the solid walls on all sides, I feel like we are trapped in an airtight cage. How can we get out of here?
Gu Meidi leaned closer to me, "I... I'm suddenly a little scared..."

In fact, I was also a little scared, but I wanted to show my masculine side in front of women, so I forced a smile on my face and said, "What are you afraid of? It's just black spots. There's nothing to be afraid of!"

Gu Meidi pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "Will that man surnamed Wan be a psychopath? He locked us here just to torture us slowly? Hey! Have you watched "Chain Saw"? I Now thinking about the episodes in "Saw" makes me cringe!"

It’s okay if Gu Meidi doesn’t say it, this statement also drew out my sense of fear from the bottom of my heart. I have watched the classic horror series "Chain Saw", and even watched it several times, and I am very impressed by the bloody pictures in it.Now that Gu Meidi suddenly mentions this, my heart is also up and down. It would be fine if Wan Juncheng killed us directly, but if he is really a perverted murderer, he will slowly torture and kill us... Oh my god, I just can't keep thinking about it.

"Tuobagu, look around for any flammable objects, my lighter won't last long!" Professor Ye said.

I took the lighter that was scorching hot, wandered around in the cellar, found an abandoned cardboard box, lifted it up and said, "Professor Ye, what do you think of this?"

"Are there any sticks and ropes?" Professor Ye asked.

I searched around again, and found a broken wooden stool, and a small bundle of rusty wire, and said, "The rope is gone, is the wire good?"

"Follow me and make some torches!" Professor Ye tore the carton into pieces of paper, then dismantled the wooden stool, crumpled the pieces of paper, and tied them to the legs of the bench with scrap wire. A simple torch would It's done.

We followed Professor Ye's method and made five torches in total.

Professor Ye lit one of them with a lighter, and the flame ignited, quickly driving away the darkness and illuminating the cellar brightly.

"Professor Ye, how can we get out from here?" Looking at the four walls, I couldn't find any hope in my heart.

Holding a torch, Professor Ye paced back and forth not far away, saying, "Just now I found that the soil layer under the cellar is relatively soft, and no concrete has been poured in. I wonder if I can find a way out from below!"

"Get out from under the cellar?" I opened my mouth in surprise, "This...how is this possible?"

Although the method Professor Ye mentioned has some truth, it faces two problems.

First, there must be enough digging tools; second, there must be enough time, before Wan Juncheng comes to interrogate us.

Gu Meidi was also in trouble, and said, "Professor Ye, we don't have any tools. Should we dig by hand?"

"This tool is enough!" Professor Ye conjured up a shovel.

"Luoyang shovel!" Gu Meidi and I called out in unison.

The Luoyang shovel, also known as the exploration shovel, is an archaeological tool and a favorite digging tool for tomb robbers.Wan Juncheng is an expert in ancient writing, and his work is all related to archaeology. It is not surprising to find a Luoyang shovel in the cellar of his home.

"Can this thing help us escape from here?" Gu Meidi and I were full of doubts.

Professor Ye is not as pessimistic as we are. He smiled confidently and said, "Maybe we can escape from here by digging a hole!"

"Break a hole?" Gu Meidi and I looked at Professor Ye in surprise, "Professor, you still know how to make a hole?"

In our impression, isn't digging holes the exclusive skill of tomb robbers?Most of the large tombs in ancient times had traps, and first-class tomb robbers would not force their way into ancient tombs, they would use superb skills.They determined the location of the ancient tomb's tomb on the mound in advance, and then drilled the robbery hole directly to the main tomb to avoid triggering the mechanism.

Professor Ye seemed to see through our thoughts, and hurriedly said: "As an expert and professor in the field of archaeology, it is not uncommon to be able to dig a hole. We are in this line of work, so we must clearly understand all the methods of this line of work. For example For example, the best policeman is also the most terrifying master criminal, because the policeman can only successfully solve the case if he knows the criminal's criminal methods. In the same way, we who study archaeology are also very clear about the way of tomb robbers! It's so good to be next to you Look, at least he is a talented student in the Department of Archeology, he can't even use a Luoyang shovel, and he will be laughed at when he goes out in the future!"

"Okay, here it is, the soil here is the softest!" Professor Ye inserted the Luoyang shovel into the ground while talking.

After going down a few shovels, Professor Ye stopped, leaning on the Luoyang shovel as if thinking about something.

Seeing Professor Ye's expression changed, we couldn't help asking, "Professor Ye, what's wrong?"

Professor Ye frowned: "The bottom is very hard, like a slate or something!"

"So, the method of digging holes won't work anymore?" Gu Meidi looked disappointed, and the little hope that had just been ignited was shattered again.

"That's not what I'm thinking about now!" Professor Ye muttered while resting his chin, "Do you think the structure of this cellar is a bit strange? Why is there a layer of loose soil on the top, but a hard stone slab buried underneath? Why not pour the concrete directly? Why bother?”

Hearing what Professor Ye said, we also felt a little strange. With doubts and curiosity, we continued to dig down.

Professor Ye said while digging: "The surface here is very loose, I feel like I am often turned over!"

I jokingly said, "Professor Wan, that bastard must have hidden some treasures under here, right?"

"It's hard to say!" Gu Meidi interjected, "That old bastard has ulterior motives, maybe he found some good treasures at work and kept them for himself, but he was afraid of being found out, so he buried them under the cellar. Hmph, a guy who wants to be famous !"

Gu Meidi hates Wan Juncheng very much now, so he speaks mercilessly, with thorns in every sentence, it feels like he really wants to tear Wan Juncheng into pieces.

We worked together and dug down to a depth of almost two meters, but the Luoyang shovel could no longer go down.Professor Ye asked me to turn up the surrounding soil, and soon a circular pit with a diameter of about one meter appeared in front of me.

Professor Ye squatted down and held up a torch to shine down. Gu Meidi and I exclaimed at the same time.

Under the bottom of the pit, there unexpectedly appeared a square brick of bluestone, on which some strange ancient patterns were engraved. When we saw these patterns, our faces changed.As talented students of the Department of Archeology, we know very well that these patterns are—Zhenyin patterns.

The so-called Zhenyin patterns are the decorations carved on tombs or coffins. These decorations are not the same as the usual decorations we see. They have their own unique structure and exquisiteness. According to the cause of death or the identity of the deceased, the decorations of Zhenyin patterns are also different. .For example, for some deceased who had a lot of resentment, the suppressing Yin patterns on the coffin are specially used to suppress evil spirits and prevent corpses from turning into corpses.

We stared blankly at the bluestone slabs underground, how could there be Zhenyin patterns here?
Gu Meidi and I looked at each other, a chill rose from the soles of our feet, I couldn't help shivering, could it be... Could it be that there is an ancient tomb hidden under this cellar?
"Tell me, does the surname Wan know about this?" Gu Meidi asked.

Professor Ye replied: "He must know! This piece of soil is very loose, he must often come here to dig the soil!"

We were worried. There was an ancient tomb hidden under the bastard's villa of Professor Wan. This... This is terrible. What exactly does he want to do?
"Do you want to go down and have a look?" Professor Ye suddenly asked us.

Gu Meidi and I didn't make a sound, Professor Ye said: "Don't you want to see his secret? Maybe the answer we want to find is right under the cellar!"

"Go! Why don't you go!" Gu Meidi tossed his long hair, and with a womanly look, grabbed the Luoyang shovel from my hand and quickly dug the soil.

"Quick! We must dig here before Wan Juncheng goes down to the cellar!"

The three of us took turns to fight, without rest for a quarter of an hour, we were so tired that we were sweating profusely, and our whole body was drenched.

After about 10 minutes of touching, the diameter of the circular pit has expanded to more than two meters, and the bluestone slab below is completely exposed.

I poked the bluestone slab with a Luoyang shovel, and there was an empty echo from under the bluestone slab, so I said, "The bottom is empty!"

"Look carefully. If I guess correctly, the entrance to the ancient tomb should be under the bluestone slab!" Professor Ye jumped down.

We knocked it again carefully, and determined that the sounds from the four bluestone slabs were different.

"It's here!" Professor Ye was overjoyed, and squatted down to take a closer look. "There are gaps on the edges of these four bluestone slabs, and they should be able to be pried up!"

The three of us worked together and quickly pried up the four bluestone slabs.

A gust of dark wind blows up from below, making a ghostly sound, which makes people feel chills in the bottom of their hearts.

A square hole appeared in front of us. The bottom of the hole was dark and silent, and it seemed that the space below was still a bit large.

Professor Ye held up a torch and shone in, and the light of the fire dispelled the darkness at the entrance of the cave.At this time, we were surprised to find that a gray-white stone step spiraling down appeared in the flickering firelight, just like a road leading to the underworld. come out.

The three of us glanced at each other, and our hearts jumped up, which was very clear in this silent cellar.

After a moment of silence, the torch in Professor Ye's hand suddenly went out.

When the fire came on again, Professor Ye was already standing by the entrance of the cave.

The torch just now was extinguished, and Professor Ye lit another one: "Let's go! We have a limited number of torches, so we can't waste too much time!"

Professor Ye took the lead in the front, Gu Meidi walked in the middle, and I was in charge of the rear. The three of them lined up and got into the entrance of the cave.

As soon as you enter the entrance of the cave, you will be greeted by a cold and gloomy atmosphere, giving you an invisible sense of oppression.

After walking a few steps, Professor Ye in front suddenly stopped in his tracks. I was about to ask why he stopped when I heard Professor Ye say in a deep voice, "There seems to be someone in front!"

anyone? !
How could there be anyone down here in the cellar? !
I couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva, my heart was furious, wouldn't I encounter evil things like big zongzi?
"You two stay here and don't move, I'll go over and have a look!" Professor Ye slowly groped over with a torch.

Both Gu Meidi and I were a little moved. Although this was just a small gesture by Professor Ye, it can be seen from this gesture how much he cares for his students.Whenever there was danger, he rushed first and never let us put ourselves in danger.

"You two come here!" Professor Ye called us from the front.

We walked over, and Professor Ye held up the torch: "Look!"

I saw two rows of warrior sculptures on both sides of the stone steps, and there were two such sculptures on every stone step.The costumes of these warriors are exactly the same as those we saw in the Fishbone Temple. They are a group of Xixia warriors.These sculptures are lifelike, about the same height as real people, and they look like real people. They stand quietly on both sides of the stone steps of the secret passage, which is very frightening.

At first, Gu Meidi and I were taken aback, but we soon calmed down.I reached out and touched one of the warrior sculptures, and exclaimed: "This sculpture is too realistic. Look, the eyebrows, eyes, and nose are all clear, and even the strands of hair can be seen. The carving skills are really superb!"

Gu Meidi interjected: "And this is not carved out of stone or wood. I have read it carefully. These are wax sculptures. They are statues made of wax. They are quite creative!"

Gu Meidi and I commented and praised these sculptures, but Professor Ye kept shaking his head beside him: "Have you returned all your knowledge to the teacher? What kind of statue is this? This is a wax corpse!"

"Wax corpses?!" Gu Meidi and I stopped talking at the same time, no wonder these sculptures look lifelike, so they are wax corpses.I have only seen the introduction of wax corpses in archaeological books, but this is the first time I have seen wax corpses in practical archaeology. Because the wax corpse production process is very complicated and mysterious, it is almost difficult to find it in ordinary ancient tombs. Looking for its trace, I didn't expect to bump into it here today.

"Wow, so this is the legendary wax corpse!" Gu Meidi stroked the wax corpse in front of him, amazed again and again.

(End of this chapter)

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