The Huai Shui God's Cave

Chapter 18

1. Magnetite
The professor said: "I have devoted my whole life to the study of Chu culture in the Warring States period, and I have been perplexed by many doubts. I did not expect that today, Jiuding will solve many mysteries."

For example, why the mighty Qin State has been entangled with King Huai of Chu?After he was lured and imprisoned, King Xiang had already ascended the throne. At this time, King Huai was no longer worth using, but he was unwilling to return to Chu State. It turned out that it was because of a woman named Xiyao.After the state of Qin occupied the territory of the state of Chu, they wanted to destroy King Xiang's Yiling, in fact, they wanted to find the secret left by Xiyao, that is, the art of witchcraft.

After the death of King Xiang, the state of Chu was obviously devastated.According to historical records, after the death of King Xiang, all the troops gathered were no more than [-] people, but at this time, Qin State did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it.It turned out that it wasn't King Qin's benevolence, but the witchcraft soldiers left behind by Xi Yao played a role.

After the death of King Xiang, his son King Kaolie sent troops to rescue Zhao in 258 BC. At the same time, the Wei army led by Lord Xinling cooperated in the north and defeated Qin in Handan in 258 BC. .

The two generations of kings, King Huai and King Xiang, were defeated by the Qin State throughout their lives, but King Kaolie was able to defeat Qin in Handan. Why did he have such a powerful force? This was originally a big question in history. The role of Gu Qibing.

It's a pity that Xi Yao has already seen through the future. In her own words: Destiny is fixed and no one can change it.The Qin State finally unified the Central Plains, and even if the Chu State had witches and strange soldiers, it was hard to escape perdition.

Speaking of this, we are all embarrassed.

Yang Xiaoxie suddenly mentioned something, he said: "Professor, are you sure you read it correctly? Xi Yao will use supreme magic to protect King Xiang's body from damage? That is to say, we will not be able to enter the main body." Tomb?"

His words made us all stunned for a moment, but everyone didn't pay attention to it. I smiled and said: "The owners of ancient tombs often like to make some scary warnings to scare future generations from entering his burial place. The supreme spell, after more than 2000 years, has long since failed. Xi Yao, as the caster, was buried with her, so is the spell still effective?"

Everyone felt reasonable and moved on.Walking through the main hall, I passed a long corridor.This corridor is very simple and wide, about five meters wide, and the top is pitch black, and the height cannot be seen clearly. It is made of gray-brown bricks and poured concrete, and it is about two to three thousand meters long.We were all cautious along the way, fearing that we would encounter some kind of mechanism again, but fortunately, there was nothing.

Then we came to a stone gate, with a lamp figurine above the walls on both sides, and eight bird characters on the gate.The professor explained: No entry, trespassers die!

We were all stunned and glanced at each other, our faces were all ugly.I had an ominous premonition in my heart, remembering that when the professor told the story of Nine Cauldrons, Xi Yao used the supreme magic to protect King Xiang's body.

If it were changed to before, I would think this is just a story, or a legend.I am an atheist, and I always feel that these witchcraft things are absurd.However, what I have seen and heard in the past few days makes me have to admit that there must be a reason for the groundless rumors. Some ancient legends are based on evidence. Some things sound incredible. Facts are beyond human comprehension.

For example, in ancient times, when people saw a person flying down from the sky, they thought it was unbelievable. He must be a god, but in modern times, we have airplanes, and all this seems very simple and ordinary.

Perhaps, Xi Yao's so-called magic is just a relatively advanced anti-theft method in the eyes of the ancients two or three thousand years ago. It was used by the owner of the tomb to predict and warn the tomb robbers.

It's just that the door of the tomb was closed tightly. I stepped forward and knocked with the paratrooper knife. It seemed very heavy, and it didn't seem like it could be opened easily.Yang Xiaoxie asked Tang Mei anxiously: "Brother Tang, you have been a prophet all along the way, can you tell us this time, can you enter this tomb?"

Yang Xiaoxie's words really touched our hearts.Along the way, Tang Mei seems to be very familiar with this ancient tomb, which makes me wonder if he has entered it before; and he is so similar to the general on the mural, not only looks similar, but also holds the same weapon , making people wonder if he walked out of the painting.

We looked at Tang Mei together, but he turned a blind eye, frowned, as if thinking hard, and then said: "There should be no danger..."

Lin Xiaowei asked, "Are you sure?"

Tang Mei regained his indifferent expression, and said, "I can't be sure, I'm just a hunch." After finishing speaking, he reached out and pressed under the base of a lamp figurine on the right, and moved a stone broad with force, only a few clicks were heard. With a sound, the stone gate in front of him rose slowly, and a stone room was revealed in front of him.He always seems to know how to open the secret door in every place.

The tomb had not been ventilated for a long time, giving off a musty and damp smell.We waited a while before going in.During this waiting time, I suddenly felt a thick mist gradually emanating from the tomb. This mist is colorless and odorless, just like the air, but with a little water vapor. The bright flashlight he was holding dimmed faintly.

You must know that this kind of strong light flashlight can be used continuously for 72 hours. This one has been used for less than 12 hours so far, and it is impossible to run out of power.

I asked Lin Xiaowei to take out another unused one from the backpack, and it was very dim when I opened it.He said it was "strange", so he shone the flashlight around. He wanted to test how far it could shine, but when the light hit the walls of the corridor, we were all surprised: there were a lot of murals on the walls.

I also quickly shone my flashlight, and found that there were such murals on the walls of the corridor on the left and right: on the right was a sacrificial picture, the leader was a wizard in a robe wearing a gold eyepatch, with his hands outstretched and dancing. The mouth under the blindfold is wide open, as if muttering words, which looks very vivid.Behind him are countless small people with simple lines, some carrying three animals and five animals, and some bowing down to worship.

On the left is a picture of the emperor ascending to heaven. There are many civil servants, generals, soldiers, and people kneeling on the ground. There is a beautiful and beautiful concubine on the left and right of the ascending emperor.There are lingering clouds and mist beside, and there is a bright moon ahead.

I clearly remember that when we just passed by, there was nothing on the walls on both sides of the corridor, and in a blink of an eye, such a huge mural appeared, which is simply unbelievable.Yang Xiaoxie's teeth were chattering and he said, "It's not that fast to find someone to paint it in just a short while, buddy, there must be ghosts, let's run!"

Ma Chuchen smiled coldly, and said, "You still have to come out with us to investigate, but I can tell you with certainty that there are absolutely no ghosts here."

The professor said: "People in Chuchen's family can have psychics. If there are ghosts, she can feel them."

Yang Xiaoxie scratched her head embarrassingly, and said, "It's easy to say that it's not a ghost, so what's the matter with the mural that suddenly appeared?"

I thought for a while and said: "Xiaoxie is right in saying that it is not so fast to find someone to paint in just a short time, so this mural must have been painted a long time ago."

But why didn't we find it when we just passed by?It must be for some reason, the murals were hidden, but the murals reappeared later, the appearance of the murals must be because we touched some mechanism.

I remembered that when the door of the tomb was opened, the light of the flashlight became dim, and I seemed to feel a kind of misty water vapor.It seems that everything has something to do with this water vapor.I have expressed my thoughts and analysis.

The professor nodded and said: "Xiao Wu is quite careful. It seems that the murals appeared behind the tomb door. It should be that there is a special substance hidden in the tomb chamber. When the tomb door is opened, this substance spreads to the wall of the tomb passage. , let those murals develop."

This should be an anti-theft method for the owner of the tomb. Through various strange phenomena, the tomb robbers will feel fear and dispel the idea of ​​entering.Yang Xiaoxie is a good example.

The professor went on to analyze and said: "This substance can dim the light of the flashlight. If my guess is correct, it should be a magnetic substance. If you want to know what causes the magnetism, you must go in and have a look."

In this way, we all feel very reasonable.Lin Xiaowei turned on the flashlight for help, and the professor took pictures of the murals.

Then, we walked in one after another. As soon as I entered the door, I had an extremely bad feeling, and I couldn't tell what it was.In short, a faint uneasiness was lurking in my heart at that time.

The stone room is about [-] square meters in size, surrounded by piles of funerary objects, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments, wine vessels, weapons, chariot and horse vessels, bath vessels, chime bells, harps, chime chimes, etc. Some bamboo slips have been dilapidated. Gold coins, precious stones, pearls, and beautiful jade piled up like hills.

The most conspicuous of these is a chime bell, which is composed of thirteen pieces, decorated with the pattern of coiled snakes, and hung on the frame with nails piercing the face of an animal.The decoration on the largest bell is slightly different from that of the others. The inscription says, "Only Jing lived in Qu Luan, and the people of Jin rescued the soldiers in Chu."

The professor stretched out his trembling hands, touched it cautiously and said, "These are all real national treasures! This is the essence of the national treasure donated by the Jin State after the war between Jin and Chu for hegemony, and it is also a historical witness of Chu's dominance of the Central Plains."

Yang Xiaoxie ran to a pile of gold wares, grabbed a handful of them with his hands, and said with a big smile, "Wow, there are so many good things. These are real antiques!" Grab those jade pendants, gems, etc., and throw them down to pick up others. Many monkeys went down the mountain, picked up sesame seeds, and saw the posture of watermelons.

The professor was very distressed, and let him handle it gently with a sigh; he turned a deaf ear, and his eyes turned green.Ordinarily, Yang Xiaoxie's family conditions are very good, but people have a natural desire to pursue money and wealth.Facing the wealth, we were all stunned. What we thought in our hearts was that if we take a little and sell it, I will be rich, and I won’t have to work hard from nine to five in the future.

At this time, I suddenly found that there was a person who turned a blind eye to these treasures, and this person was Tang Mei.He stared at the center of the stone chamber, where there was a huge stone platform with a bronze coffin on the stone platform.

Standing beside the stone platform is a huge copper lamp with a strange shape. The lamp is shaped like a tree. There are monkeys playing games on the lamp branch, golden birds singing, and Kui dragon coiling branches. The man throws food to attract monkeys, and the base has three tigers as its feet.The whole lamp is made of eight large and small joints, and each joint has tenon and riveting, and the tenon and tenon are different.

We temporarily put the treasure aside and walked to the side of the stone platform.The professor was amazed and said: "This is called a bronze branch lamp. In ancient times, it was also called a money tree, which symbolized the status of the owner of the tomb. At present, no more than three have been unearthed. They belong to the national first-class cultural relics and are absolutely priceless National Treasure." He and Lin Xiaowei were so excited that they hurriedly took pictures and took notes.To be honest, along the way, I have seen a lot of cultural relics and historic sites, and many of them are well preserved, but such national treasures are really rare.

Then, he touched the stone platform where the coffin was placed with his hand, and took a closer look with a magnifying glass.The stone platform was about one meter high and three meters wide. It was not a very regular cuboid. It was dark overall, and there were many small pits on the surface that looked like fingerprints.The professor and I each held a strong flashlight. When the light hit the stone platform, it became dimmer and seemed to be absorbed.

The professor said: "This is an iron meteorite, and the pits on it should be the gas imprints formed by intense friction and combustion with the atmosphere during the fall. The murals in the tomb passage should be related to this meteorite iron."

When meteorites fly at high altitudes, their surface temperatures reach several thousand degrees.The high temperature can melt the surface of the meteorite into a liquid.In the process of continuing to fly, encountering the obstruction of the atmosphere of the big ball, the speed becomes slower and slower, and the melting surface cools down, forming a thin shell called "melting shell".The fusion crust is very thin, generally about 1 mm, and the color is black or brown.During the cooling of the fusion shell, the traces of air flow blown on the surface of the meteorite are also preserved, which is called "air imprint".Air imprints look much like finger prints pressed into dough.Fusion crusts and gas imprints are the main features on the surface of meteorites.This is the standard for judging meteorites.

This huge meteorite has a history of thousands of years, and because it has been in a sealed space, the surface air imprint has not disappeared.

I picked up a paratrooper knife and leaned over it, but I didn't expect to be sucked up immediately, as if someone had yanked it out of my hand. It turned out to be a piece of meteorite with strong magnetism.

2. Millennium Corpse
There was a bronze coffin on the stone platform, and we stood below and stared at the coffin together.Now that they were getting closer, they realized that the coffin had been opened, and a gap thirty to forty centimeters wide was exposed at the top.

This coffin looks majestic, and there are so many funerary objects in the tomb, which makes people think that there must be more valuable things or more secrets inside.

Yang Xiaoxie said: "Let's not stare here too, we will know if it is a mule or a horse, just open it!" Then he climbed to the stone platform, ready to open the coffin.

At this time, there was a "hang" sound suddenly, I thought I had heard it wrong, but then there were several "hang" sounds.That's right, it did come from the coffin.Several people took a few steps back at the same time, and my heart skipped a beat. Could it be a fraudulent corpse?This is King Chu Xiang who died for more than 2000 years!

"There are thousand-year-old zombies in the coffin?" Yang Xiaoxie exclaimed with a pale face.

Lin Xiaowei also trembled and said, "Let's get out, wait until we get back to make a report, and bring more people to dig."

I shook my head and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. If we don't know what's going on, maybe we won't even be able to get out of this tomb."

As soon as I said this, everyone leaned forward again and listened carefully. This time they heard clearly, and there were a few more sounds, like the sound of someone coughing hard because their throat was blocked by phlegm.

Tang Mei said: "It's not in the coffin, but behind the stone platform."

He took the flashlight from me in one hand, held Yu Wang's lance in the other, put himself on alert, and slowly stepped into the stone platform. After a while, he heard him exclaim: "It's a person, Taoist Qingfeng!"

We walked over and saw that there was a gap behind the stone platform, Taoist Qingfeng was lying motionless on the ground half dead.I went up to touch his carotid artery, it was still beating slightly, his breathing was very shallow, he should be in a coma due to lack of oxygen.

Yang Xiaoxie looked at it, and said angrily: "I have long thought that this crazy old Taoist is not a good person. He used to steal jade clothes from a hole before, and this time he got here before us. I think it's better to get him out of here." Die, so you don't have to worry about it!" He was about to step forward and pinch Qingfeng's neck.

The professor hurried forward to stop him, saying, "Xiao Yang, whether this veteran is a tomb robber or not should be handed over to the relevant departments for review and handling. We can't treat human lives lightly."

In fact, Yang Xiaoxie is just talking about it, he has the heart but not the courage to kill and set fire.He was very unconvinced and said: "Wu You and I are from the relevant department, I think we should tie him up first and then talk about it."

Lin Xiaowei took out a bundle of ropes for mountaineering and tied Qingfeng tightly, then Ma Chuchen went over and massaged Qingfeng's back and chest a few times, he coughed a few times, woke up leisurely, saw We were shocked at the end, and soon he closed his eyes again, probably not yet relieved.

After a while, he opened his eyes again and said nervously, "This place is too weird, let's leave now."

Yang Xiaoxie sneered and said, "What about us, you should first explain what you want to do after following us. If you don't make it clear, I will take you... and throw you into the coffin."

Qingfeng was so frightened that he trembled all over. In fact, Yang Xiaoxie was just talking nonsense to scare him. He didn't expect him to be so frightened. His teeth were chattering up and down, and he stammered: "No, no. In the coffin There are ghosts."

His words surprised us all, and we all turned to look at Ma Chuchen.Because she can psychic, can feel the breath of ghosts.Ma Chuchen looked at us, shook his head, and said, "This tomb is very quiet. I took a look as soon as I entered. There are no ghosts. There should be a corpse in the coffin. How can you believe what this Taoist said?"

I thought about it, too, who is this Taoist priest, how can he believe his words, but judging by his appearance, he should not be talking nonsense, the corpse in the coffin should not be that simple.

Seeing that he was dishonest, Yang Xiaoxie made a gesture to hit him again.Qingfeng said with a mournful face, "I really didn't lie to you, I saw the eyes of the dead man in the coffin move."

I thought things were not that simple, and I wondered if the Taoist priest was crazy, so I asked Qingfeng coldly, "How did you get here? We didn't feel the air flow when we opened the door of the tomb. It should be closed. I also looked at it just now, and there are no robbery holes around, so I said, how did you get in!"

The old Taoist was taken aback for a moment, then grinned again, and said with an expression uglier than crying, "Do you believe me when I say that I came in out of nowhere? You better stop asking, let's escape quickly."

As he spoke, he struggled to stand up and move towards the door.I grabbed him, pushed him to the ground, and said, "Didn't you say there was a ghost in the coffin? If you don't tell the truth, I'll throw you in!"

The old Taoist priest was completely out of luck this time, sighed hard, and said, "Okay, okay, let me tell you, you won't believe me when I say I don't know how I got here, but I really don't know how I got here! "

The old Taoist almost cried.He said that when he was fighting Tang Mo for the jade dress by the lake, he suddenly saw a ghost building floating on the lake. There were not only lights on it, but also people's voices. The lance stabbed at him, he subconsciously dodged to the side, unexpectedly fell into a dark abyss, he spun countless times in mid-air, his head was dizzy, and suddenly fell heavily to the ground, After he regained his composure, he took out the torch on his body to polish it, and found that he was in a tomb.

(End of this chapter)