Archaeological Notes

Chapter 36 is a man or a ghost
I was cheated once before, and I will never be so stupid as to repeat the same mistakes. Presumably the dead old woman told Master Shuanzi that Squinted Eyes really entrusted me with something. I can't justify it.Seeing that Master Shuan was getting annoyed, I wanted to open up and say that you can't do anything to me anyway, so I made up my mind and said, "Master Shuan, I won't hide it from you, squinting because something was entrusted to me. , but I am a principled person, whoever gave it to me, I will return it to him with my own hands. Although I don't know what it is, don't you old man just use these few words to fool me , this matter is not discussed."

"I said you young man, you seem to have read some poetry and books, why do you have such an elm head." Seeing that I insisted on not revealing the box, Master Shuan immediately removed his kind disguise, and his face became stern: "I was entrusted by San'er. He couldn't come because of something. Let me bring you a message and hand over the box to me. I think you'd better be sensible."

I still insisted on my opinion: "I can't give it to you if I don't see the person with squint-eyed three, and it's impossible to carry that thing with you, that's all I can say."

"In that case," Master Shuanzi's eyes lit up, "if you see San'er himself, you will offer the box with both hands unconditionally?"

I nodded: "You can say that."

Upon hearing these words, Master Shuanzi immediately showed a gleam of joy on his face, which was fleeting.He hesitated for a moment, then turned his body to one side, looked at the brick room behind him, and made a gesture of invitation. "I'll tell you the truth. San'er came with us this time. The reason why he couldn't ask you for the box face-to-face is because he can't remember many things from the past. You stand in front of the cave and face the brick. Take a look in the room, San'er is inside."

I looked at Master Shuanzi's face, and suddenly hesitated, wondering if I should go into the brick room to have a look, if I invite you into the urn, I will be in big trouble.While I was thinking about it, Brother Liu Mao, who had been silent beside me, was extremely excited, and Mao suggested himself, "Why don't I help you go in and take a look? If the third brother is still alive, this matter can be discussed."

I still kept silent, just looked at Master Shuanzi defensively, and the old lady next to him also pulled a face and looked at me resentfully; these two are both human beings, and no one can touch the bad ideas in their stomachs I didn't understand, I paused for a few seconds, and planned to go into the brick room with Liu Maodi, but Liu Maodi couldn't wait any longer, and ran to the brick room like flying without Master Shuanzi's consent.

There is a large hole in the wall of the brick room. I guess this brick room was used for rest by the craftsmen who built the ancient tomb, and it was abandoned after completion.There seemed to be a horse lantern in the brick room, but the light was very weak. Through the hole in the wall, I saw a vague shadow inside the brick room, sitting there silently, not sure if it was squinting or not.

Brother Liu Mao rushed to the brick room in a few moments, stood at the door and poked his head to look inside. He was stunned for a moment, obviously surprised.Then he lowered his voice and called softly: "Third Brother? Is that you?"

There was no sound in the brick room, Liu Maodi looked puzzled, not sure what was going on, and he was not sure whether he should go in or not.After hesitating for a moment, he made a sudden movement and headed into the brick room.

As for Master Shuanzi standing in front of the brick room, he seemed a little unsteady at this moment, and looked at the old woman, as if he was worried about something.I felt my heart stop for a moment, and when I recalled it suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, and I was about to rush in to have a look, when there was a roar in the brick room.At the same time, I saw Master Shuan slap his thigh and said angrily, "It's revealed!"

This familiar sound has been deeply engraved in my mind. It is made by the chainsaw motor rotating at a high speed. By the time I realized that Liu Maodi was in danger, something had already happened.

"Ah~~~ Wow!" At the next moment, Liu Maodi's screams like killing a pig came from the brick room. The level was creepy and his scalp exploded. It was when the liver and gallbladder were split The sound that can only be made!
At that time, I felt my legs were a little weak, and I forgot to escape at the first moment, and looked at the brick room in horror.Immediately, I really saw a bloody hand grabbing the door frame, and a headless Liu Maodi came from inside!There is blood all over the body!Shockingly, from the cut off of Liu Maodi's neck, unstoppable blood flowed out and splashed in all directions.But before he took two steps, he fell limply on the ground. A round head was rolling out of the brick room, with a terrified expression on his face, and he didn't even have time to close his eyes.

When I was in extreme shock, before I could react, a man rushed out of the brick room. He was tall and strong, and his burly body was no longer like a normal person.Holding a chainsaw in his hand, he rushed out in a menacing manner, full of murderous intent. When he looked up, the first thing he saw was me.

Likewise, when I saw that face, my surprise far outweighed my fear.That face has appeared in my mind countless times, as if you only need to uncover it to see the mystery hidden behind it.The giant who rushed out of the brick room had a squinting face, but the skin of that face was rotten and torn, and it was covered with dense threads and stitches.The face of the squinting three!It was actually worn on his head by him!

All in all, many things suddenly become clear, why the human skin in the refrigerator in the hotel kitchen has no face; why the dead people can come back to life and appear in the basement of the cabin; Said that Squint Three is dead, and there is no such person in the world anymore.Why can't we get out of the Hades, and the mysterious footsteps suddenly echoed in our ears; it turns out that everything is so weird and frightening, so perverted that it is so heinous!

The bottom of my heart was completely surprised by the truth, and I almost couldn't recover, and I was a little numb to the feelings of the outside world.Master Shuanzi seemed to be calling the perverted murderer's name, but he couldn't hear clearly, as if he was calling him to do something.It just so happened that I reacted, and then my eyes widened immediately, because I saw a burly figure running towards me!
Naturally, I didn't want to move my head and neck, and I didn't know where the strength came from, so I turned around and ran back.The soil hole is slanted downward, and you can't see the road clearly in the dark, you can only run by feeling, and after a few strokes, your shoulders and face are all scratched by sand and stones, which is burning and painful.The murderer at the back pursued closely, making the ground thump loudly. Master Shuan and the old woman were also carrying lanterns, and their bodies were hunched over. Judging from the light transmitted from behind, their chasing pace was not as slow as ours.

Later on, the hole became narrower, and I could only walk low. The murderous eyes seemed to be very different from ordinary people in the dark, and he could see things clearly, and he followed closely behind me.Fortunately, he was tall and not as agile as me, and he was carrying a chainsaw, so he couldn't catch up to me for a while.

The roar of the chainsaw at the back has never stopped. Later, I was completely in a panic, and I felt a wider hole in the soil and drilled in.After running like this for more than ten minutes, I felt that this passage was very spacious, and the construction was very particular. When I touched the wall, I found that it was actually a stone wall, which should be a corridor.This time I spread my feet and ran, panting without feeling tired, and I kept thinking about the terrifying roar in my ears, but I ran out of my head all of a sudden. I don't know if it was an illusion, but I was hit by the sound of running water.

But at this time, the strong inertia caused me to fall into the water before I could stop my feet. I only felt a biting chill all over my body, so cold that I almost didn't come back up.The current was very fast, and it rushed me four or five meters away in the blink of an eye. Looking back, I saw Master Shuanzi and the murderer chasing to the bank of the river and stopped, not following.

This seems to be an underground river. The snow in Daxingan Mountains does not melt all year round in winter, and the groundwater is particularly abundant. It is not surprising that there are often underground rivers flowing between the cliffs of the mountain.I was dizzy by the rushing water, and tried hard to get my head out of the water, but a drop in the water still made me choke into my lungs, and I just flopped about in the water, and gradually lost consciousness and passed out up.

This time, I was filled with water, until I slowly woke up, the moist and thick breath kept pouring into my nostrils, and the lower body submerged in the water was constantly washed, making me confused and at a loss.But the surrounding area was still in the dead darkness. At first, it was because of the light, and then I gradually realized that it might be because of my extreme weakness that my eyes were dark.At the same time, I also felt that my headache was severe, and I may have been hit by a rock when I was "drifting" in the river.

I struggled to get up and went ashore, sat on the ground for a while, and then gradually recovered my consciousness, and began to study where I was.The place where I stayed was a stone step by the river. Looking up obliquely, a huge round arched door appeared.I approached along the stone steps and found that there were some ferns growing around the door. Surprisingly, the leaves were faintly glowing.This is a wall made of irregular round-headed stones. In the crevices of the stones, you can even see a finger-long centipede running through it. I didn't expect that there are still living things underground tens of meters above the ground. .

This giant arched gate aroused my great interest. With the faint light, I saw a huge tripod the size of a locomotive engraved on the stone gate.Some big-headed villains, beating gongs and drums, danced to the big gods with different expressions, surrounding the big tripod in the middle.I looked up along the tripod, and found a strange image engraved at the mouth of the tripod. It was a one-eyed monster with scales all over its head, a horn growing on its head, and half of its body shrunk inside. In the tripod, only the huge head was lying there, staring at it coldly, making me tremble all over.

At first glance, this door seems to have a great background, ingeniously crafted, and magnificent, unlike ordinary tomb doors.I wanted to tear off those glowing ferns for lighting, but after thinking about it, I still didn’t dare to do it. If I was stung by those poisonous insects and spiders while scratching, I might die. The funeral was on the spot, so the idea was dismissed.For a moment, he didn't know what to do, and he was so tired that he just sat down in front of the stone door, thinking wildly, but saw a dark hole at the bottom of the door.

I took a closer look, and it was a circular hole. It would not be difficult for a person to climb in.In this regard, I suddenly became very interested in the things behind the door. With such a rich cultural background, I think there is something special behind the door.Thinking of this, I found that I have one and only one way to go. Obviously I can't go back along the underground river original road, and it will be even worse if I go downstream. I can't guarantee that I still have such good luck. Even if it is not good, it is possible to drown.

Since there is a hole, the imposing seven-foot man doesn't care about his face anymore. I lay down on the ground and looked in the hole at the bottom of the door, but there was no result.This hole seems to have been blasted out by explosives. These tomb robbers are getting more and more clever. Even if the tomb is thousands of years old, the tomb will not collapse if the hole is blown up; and the blasting technology is becoming more and more mature, only you can't think of it, without them Impossible.I wrapped the clothes around my body, they were all soaked, and I was shivering from the cold, so I twisted them hastily.Gritting his teeth, he crawled into the hole.

The door is thicker than I imagined, and the hole is about one meter long. It took me a full minute to finally enter.After standing up, I still couldn't see anything, I just felt that this should be a very large space, and there were no glowing ferns in it, and I started to get nervous again, it turned out that the darkness would make people so uneasy.

I started to move forward tentatively, but within two steps I bumped into a bar on the wall and fell to the ground with a bang. I knelt down and picked it up with my hands. Excited, it seemed like an unburned torch.Trembling, I fished out the box of matches from my underwear. Thank God, there were still a few of them and they were not wet.Since the encounter in Hades, I realized how important fire is to people in the dark, so I specially wrapped it with that parchment map and hid it under my armpit. The old man has eyes, and it can finally be of great use at this moment up.

With a puff, the match head ignited, and the strong and pungent smell of gunpowder made people want to sneeze; the simple torch was shown, a very ordinary firewood stick, one end was tied into a ball with rags, and the top was covered with turpentine.I tried my best to ignite it with a match, but it took two but failed. It was not until the last one that I finally caught a small piece of cloth on the turpentine ball, and slowly the torch began to ignite, and it became more and more prosperous. , and I can see things further, this should be a tomb with extremely neat specifications.

The light source of the torch is only within a few meters. With the light, I was surprised to find that this tomb is bigger than I imagined. The domed roof, the round single-chamber brick tomb, and the length, width and height are larger than ordinary tombs. If you want to be good at it, it is not a problem to put down fifty large tables.Moreover, the tomb chamber is nearly square, with a height of four or five meters, covered with a douba algae well, and the walls are carved. Every structure has an extremely strict and neat structure.

I went on to the depths of the tomb, only to find that the surrounding walls were all ceremonial performances of shamans holding religious activities. The murals and stone carvings were all over it, and there were many ritual objects in relief, such as divine tables, waist bells, bronze mirrors, Grabbing drums, drum whips, etc.And the patterns of various gods are engraved on the instruments, and there are even colorful wizards wearing masks of gods and posing in various strange poses.In addition, on both sides of the main tomb chamber, there is a corridor, which may lead to the left and right ear chambers.

For some reason, the tomb was very chaotic, and many clay statues fell to the ground, dilapidated, as if they had been looted by grave robbers.While I was wondering, I walked forward slowly, and unknowingly approached the center of the tomb, but saw a huge stone coffin, parked on a table, quite eye-catching.

Just when I wanted to take a closer look, in a corner where the torch could not shine, I suddenly saw that there seemed to be a corpse lying beside the coffin.It was wearing a cloak, and a big hat covered its head, but the clothes on it were so rotten that they were almost torn into cotton wool, so it must have been there for a long time.

It was just an ordinary dead body, there was nothing to study, so I turned my attention back to the coffin.This is a well-preserved white marble coffin with phoenix patterns. The cover of the coffin is engraved with dragon patterns and the front is engraved with flowing water patterns. However, the coffin lid has been pushed out by a third, exposing the interior of the coffin. The scene seems to be covered with a wooden coffin.

I stretched my neck, stood on tiptoe, and looked inside the coffin by the firelight.I didn't want a strange feeling, but it almost didn't scare me out of my wits. Immediately, I felt flustered, as if my calf was tightly grasped by some kind of claw. When I looked down, my body became stiff immediately.

I don't know when, the corpse just now crawled to my side silently, stretched out a black claw like a ghost hand, and was grabbing my trouser leg tightly.

Human or ghost?

(End of this chapter)