Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 43 Jade figurines (1)
After a short rest, Professor Ye lit the third torch, and the light drove away the darkness. Professor Ye waved to us: "Time waits for no one, let's go!"

Gu Meidi and I stood up, followed Professor Ye, and walked in slowly.

This is a tomb with an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters. The tomb is dead silent, like a completely isolated dark world.

A row of niches are chiseled on the walls around the tomb, about half a person's height from the ground, and there are more than ten in total.Inside each niche is a copper lamp in the shape of lotus petals.Professor Ye walked around the tomb and lit all the copper lamps.More than a dozen copper lamps lit up together, exuding a strange blue light, like more than a dozen devil's eyes, staring at us coldly, making people feel chills down the spine.

The eerie blue light reflected on the walls of the tomb chamber, giving off an indescribably weird feeling.These niches are like show windows, and in each show window are various antiques besides copper lamps.In some niches there are tablets engraved with Xixia characters; in some niches there are scriptures inlaid with gold threads; These things became funeral objects after his death.

Gu Meidi said: "In the ancient tombs we explored before, the funerary objects were randomly piled up in the tomb. It was the first time I saw someone arrange the funerary objects so neatly. If we don't say that this is a tomb, I really thought I entered a Xixia Museum.”

Professor Ye pointed to the top of the tomb: "The guy surnamed Wan above must have often descended into this ancient tomb!"

"How do you know?" I asked curiously.

Professor Ye said: "It's very simple. When I was in the cellar just now, I found that the soil was very soft, which was obviously the sign of frequent turning. Besides, look at these funerary objects. There is no dust on them after so many years. Especially It’s the tablet, and it’s as bright as new. What does this mean? It means that people often enter the tomb for cleaning!”

"Good eyesight!" I sincerely admire Professor Ye's observation ability.

Gu Meidi said: "It's strange, this ancient tomb is under Wan Juncheng's villa, could it be that Wan Juncheng built it secretly? But it seems that it doesn't make sense, how to explain the thousand-year-old wax corpse outside the tomb ?”

I said: "Then there is only one possibility. This Xixia ancient tomb was not built by Wan Juncheng, but built thousands of years ago. As a descendant of Yipintang, Wan Juncheng should know this ancient tomb, so it is called After transforming it into a villa area, he deliberately chose this villa built on top of the ancient tomb!"

"En!" Professor Ye nodded, "It seems that this ancient tomb has a great relationship with Xixia Yipin Hall!"

After we glanced around in the tomb, we turned our eyes to the center of the tomb.There is a sunken square pool in the center of the tomb. Surprisingly, the water in the pool is blood-red, with a strong smell of blood floating around.In the center of the blood pool, there is a black sarcophagus.The body of the coffin was soaked in blood, only the dark coffin lid was exposed, which looked ghostly.

"Why is the water in it red?" I asked suspiciously.

Professor Ye said: "This is a pool of blood, these are not water at all, but blood!"

Gu Meidi asked Professor Ye for advice: "Why did they soak the coffin in blood? I have never seen such a weird way of burial!"

Professor Ye stared at the pool of blood in front of him with a torch, squinted his eyes and asked, "Do you think this sarcophagus looks familiar?"

"Aha!" Gu Meidi was the first to react, "This sarcophagus is almost exactly the same as the hanging sarcophagus we found in the Yellow River Fish Bone Temple!"

Professor Ye nodded, with an unconcealable excitement on the corner of his mouth: "The sarcophagus of the Fishbone Temple contains the bones of the master of Yipintang Dizitang, so this same sarcophagus..."

"The one buried is also the bones of the hall master!" Before Professor Ye could finish speaking, I had already answered.After a pause, I thought about seeing the eyeball tattoo on the back of Wan Juncheng’s neck before I fell into a coma, and then said, “It’s the bones of the head of the Tianzitang! Didn’t Wan Juncheng say that before? The eyeball tattoos in the Tianzitang are red, Wan Juncheng There are red eyeball tattoos on the back of Juncheng's neck. Since Wan Juncheng wants to guard this ancient tomb, it must be the tomb of Tianzitang!"

"Tuobagu, pass me the Luoyang shovel in your hand!" Professor Ye said.

"Professor, what are you going to do?" I asked suspiciously.

Professor Ye gritted his teeth, and two words popped out between his teeth: "Open the coffin!"

"What?! You...you want to open the coffin?!" I looked at Professor Ye in astonishment, not understanding why he made this decision.

Gu Meidi also felt that something was wrong: "If... if we rashly open the coffin, if an old rice dumpling crawls out of it, we... may not be able to clean it up..."

"What? Are you scared?" Professor Ye looked at Gu Meidi, then at me, and said slowly, "Don't you want to pursue it? This matter has already started, and we are also being targeted. I can't stop. The bones of the master of Tianzitang are placed in the coffin. Maybe we can find some useful clues from the dead body? Now any clue is very important to us! What are you doing in a daze? Let's do it! "

I pursed my lips. Professor Ye was right. At first, we were just investigating the ancient corpse in the tortoise coffin out of curiosity. We never thought that the Xixia Dynasty and the mysterious Yipintang organization from thousands of years ago would be involved. We are already riding a tiger. It was impossible to let go.The only way to survive is to continue to investigate, reveal all the secrets about Yipintang and the Xixia Dynasty, and fight bravely with the remaining forces of Yipintang.

Thinking of this, I nodded to Professor Ye: "Okay! I'll go with you and open the coffin together!"

"Hey! Wait!" Gu Meidi stopped us, "The blood in this pool looks scary, it won't... it won't be poisonous?"

"Haha!" Professor Ye smiled freely, "We are already poisoned by the dark flower, what kind of bird are we afraid of?"

Professor Ye, who has always been gentle and refined, suddenly burst out with a swear word, and such a free and easy heart suddenly aroused my pride.

"Yes! What kind of bird to be afraid of!" I roared and jumped into the pool of blood. The smelly blood splashed on my face. I shook my hair and said to Professor Ye, "Professor, let's go!"

"Tuobagu, you foolish person, you can just jump!" Gu Meidi looked at me worriedly. Although she was scolding me, it sounded like I was enjoying it.

I waved to her: "Xiao Nizi, don't come down, you just stand up and give us a guard!"

No one knows whether the muddy blood is fatal, let alone whether the dead body in the coffin will become an old rice dumpling. I let her stay on the blood pool to protect her safety.

thump!
Professor Ye also jumped into the blood pool, beckoned to me, and we walked towards the stone coffin in the center of the blood pool together.

The pool of blood was not too deep, and the blood probably covered half of our waists, so it was a little strenuous to walk.

The sarcophagus that has been sleeping for thousands of years exudes a cold atmosphere. Standing next to the sarcophagus, it seems that the surrounding temperature has dropped a lot.

Professor Ye and I walked around the sarcophagus, and Professor Ye gave me a wink: "Do it!"

I nodded, raised the Luoyang shovel, picked out the coffin sealing wax, and inserted the blade of the shovel into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body.After most of the shovel blade was inserted, I took a deep breath, stretched my arms, and yelled loudly: "Get up!"

The heavy coffin lid was slowly pushed up by Luoyang shovel. Professor Ye quickly stepped forward to put his hands on it, grabbed the edge of the coffin lid and pushed it hard. High bloody spray.

When the coffin lid was removed, Professor Ye and I took a step back at the same time, in case some hidden mechanism would pop up inside the sarcophagus.

After waiting for a while and finding nothing unusual inside the sarcophagus, Professor Ye and I put down our guard and slowly approached.

The structure of this sarcophagus is exactly the same as the sarcophagus in the Fishbone Temple, with a black stone coffin on the outside and a rare black yin wood coffin inside, and the space between the coffin and the coffin is filled with blood.

Professor Ye and I glanced at each other, and now we are completely sure that the owner of this coffin is the head of the Tianzi Hall.

We worked together to open the Yinmu coffin, and a lifelike corpse of a Xixia warrior came into view.When the coffin was opened, Professor Ye and I let out low exclamations at the same time.The body of the master of the Dizi Hall of the Fishbone Temple was wearing a precious gold-thread robe, but the body of the master of the Tianzi Hall was actually wearing a jade robe.This kind of corpse is called jade figurine, which is extremely precious, and only the relatives of the emperor can enjoy the burial method.

I took a closer look at this jade figurine. The jade clothes on his body are composed of at least a hundred pieces of emerald green high-quality jade in series. The largest of those beautiful jades is as big as a palm, and the smallest one can be as delicate as a fingernail. The workmanship is extremely exquisite. The corpse was full of light, and the emerald green light poured out like flowing water, blending with the blood outside the coffin, and emitting a strange luster.If this jade garment appeared, it would definitely be a priceless treasure.

Looking at the corpse under the jade clothes again, it was so lifelike that thousands of years had passed, it seemed to be alive, and at a glance, it seemed that he had just closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

"Wow!" I couldn't help stretching out my hand, wanting to touch this expensive jade dress.

Suddenly, Professor Ye grabbed my wrist: "Don't move!"

I was startled and looked at him suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

Professor Ye pursed his lips: "There seems to be something on the jade clothes!"

"What?!" I retracted my arms tremblingly, lying on the edge of the coffin, and focused my eyes on the jade clothes.

I saw that the top of the jade clothes was vaguely covered with a layer of white film-like substance. Because the green jade light was too dazzling, I couldn't see anything on it unless I looked carefully.

I picked up the film-like substance with a Luoyang shovel, and saw that it was crystal clear and white, like a layer of skin, which looked sticky and disgusting.

"What the hell is this?" I held up the Luoyang shovel and watched the thing dangling on the tip of the shovel.

Professor Ye squinted his eyes for a while, then blurted out, "This is snake skin!"

Snakeskin? !
I was startled for a moment, then took a closer look, and found that the white membranous thing really looked like snake skin. I felt scared and disgusted for a while. Could there be a snake in the coffin?If I had put my hand into the coffin rashly just now, if a poisonous snake suddenly jumped out and bit me, I probably would have died.

I swung the Luoyang shovel twice, and threw that disgusting snakeskin far away.

Professor Ye said to me: "Be careful, there may be snakes in the coffin!"

I nodded, took a deep breath into my palm, gripped the Luoyang shovel again, put the blade of the shovel into the coffin, and patted the jade warrior's body lightly.

Bang Bang Bang!Bang Bang Bang!
I tried to lure the poisonous snake out of the coffin with a sound, but after knocking for a long time, no poisonous snake crawled out. Could it be that we misread it just now, isn't that a snake skin?But what could that thing be if it wasn't snake skin?

"Professor Ye, there seems to be no snake in the coffin!" I said.

Professor Ye nodded, and held up a torch to shine a light inside: "Have you noticed that the mouth of the ancient corpse seems to be a little bulging?"

When Professor Ye said this, I also felt that the mouth of the ancient corpse was swollen, as if something was stuffed in it.

"Let me see!" I extended the Luoyang shovel to the mouth of the ancient corpse, and slowly pried open the mouth of the ancient corpse with the tip of the shovel.

Jingle!

There was a crisp sound from the mouth of the ancient corpse, and the tip of the shovel seemed to have touched some kind of hard object.

"There's really something in my mouth!" I said.

"Pry it open and have a look!" Professor Ye asked me to continue.

I nodded, and with a little more force on my wrist, the entire mouth of the ancient corpse was pried open by the tip of the shovel.

Professor Ye held up a torch to take a photo near the mouth of the ancient corpse, and said in surprise: "Look! There is a bronze vessel stuffed in his mouth!"

I took a closer look, and saw that there was indeed a round bronze vessel stuffed in the mouth of the ancient corpse, glowing with a faint light.

"Take it out!" Professor Ye said.

"Are you sure?" I thought of the corpse of the hall master of the Dizi Hall before, and a demon flower that could spray poisonous mist came out of his mouth, making us poisoned by the flower of the underworld. What the hell is going to come out?
Professor Ye nodded, staring at the mouth of the ancient corpse with piercing eyes.

In order to avoid danger, I did not directly use my hands, but used the tip of the shovel to dig out the bronze vessel from the mouth of the ancient corpse.

Huh? !

The bronze vessel is oval in shape, about the size of a fist, and looks like an eyeball.

Bronze eyeballs? !
I looked at Professor Ye in surprise. This bronze eyeball was exactly the same as the one we found under the Tianshu Monument. We never knew what that bronze eyeball was for. We didn’t expect to find another one here. It's really strange.

When Professor Ye saw the bronze eyeball, his eyes burst out with surprise, and he stretched out his hand to hold the bronze eyeball in his hand, and murmured, "Finally found another one!"

Finally found another one? !

What does Professor Ye mean by this sentence?
When I found the first bronze eyeball, Professor Ye also said something strange, but I didn't take it seriously at the time.But today, Professor Ye said such a strange sentence again. Thinking back and forth, I couldn't help but feel a little bit in my heart. Could it be...Professor Ye knows the secret of bronze eyeballs?He has something to hide from us?

Before I could open my mouth to ask, the facial expression of the ancient corpse suddenly changed. Professor Ye suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled it back hard: "Tuoba Gu, get out of the way!"

The two of us jumped back, almost at the same moment, an inch-long golden arrow swished out from the mouth of the ancient corpse.

I shuddered suddenly, I didn't expect that there was a hidden weapon in the mouth of the ancient corpse, but could the shooting mechanism be hidden in the stomach of the ancient corpse?
The golden sharp arrow soared into the sky, turned into an "S" shape in the air, and then fell into the pool of blood.

In this way, Professor Ye and I could see clearly that it was not a golden arrow at all, but a small golden snake.Thinking of the snake skin I found on the jade clothes before, I felt a chill down my spine.There really was a snake in the coffin, and it was hidden in the stomach of the ancient corpse.Fortunately, I was careful just now, if I used my hands to take the bronze eyeball in the mouth of the ancient corpse, I would definitely be bitten by this little golden snake.Although I don't know what kind of snake it is, the snakes hidden in the stomach of the dead body must be extremely poisonous.

In just the blink of an eye, something unexpected happened.After the little golden snake fell into the blood pool, for some unknown reason, it quickly grew bigger and longer like a balloon. In just a few seconds, the little snake that was originally only inches long unexpectedly grew to a length of three meters. Yu Yu turned into a golden python.The golden scales all over his body shook like a gleaming golden armor.The golden python circled its body and raised its head high, like a king who ruled the world.I clearly saw that the eyes of the giant python were blood red, as if filled with endless resentment and death.

I admit that I was scared stupid, really scared stupid, my legs were like two wooden stakes nailed to the ground, and I couldn't move.

"Tuobagu, what are you doing standing there? Run quickly—" Professor Ye yanked me, and dragged me staggeringly towards the bank of the blood pool.

The golden python slammed the snake's body, opened its mouth wide, spewed out a cloud of black poisonous mist, and then plunged into the water, chasing after it like a high-speed sneaking nuclear submarine, stirring up the bloody water.

"My god!" At this moment, all six of my seven souls were scared away, and ran towards the shore without thinking.My mind went blank due to excessive fright, I didn't know anything, I just ran mechanically, looking indescribably embarrassed.

run!keep running!

(End of this chapter)