Archaeological Notes

Chapter 38

It was a dry map, all wrinkled, cut from some unknown animal.It is recorded that in the hinterland of Daxing'an Mountains, there used to be such an ancient tomb, which Hu Qiandou called "The Lost City of Jinnai"; it was even more exaggerated, saying that there were inexhaustible treasures in it. It's not a problem to squander a few lifetimes.

You must know that Xinjiumen also accepts orders. For ancient tombs, one is dug and one is missing. Tomb robbery has always been rampant, and it is getting worse; if you are not lucky, the company will use a lot of manpower and financial resources to pour out For a bucket, there are only some pots and jars left, and people have already stepped on it first.Because the ancient tombs have been excavated less and less in recent years, the company can only send people to steal the tombs of Qing Dynasty officials and nobles. In a year, it is rare to come across a few large tombs.As a result, the company's model is also diversified. Some people on the road have their own means. They naturally know the location of some hidden ancient tombs in the deep mountains, but they don't have the ability to dig them out, so they can only find new ones. There are nine doors.

This model is called "building everyone".If you want to rob the emperor's tomb, the tomb of the prince, the giant tomb of the rich family, or the ancient tomb group, this is not something that a few people can do, and more people need to be added. This is the professional tomb organization of "Jian Da Dao". Nine Gates is the old-fashioned gate in Changsha.Moreover, this kind of organization is also temporary, with as few as dozens of people and as many as hundreds of people. Generally, there will be officials who participate in the shares openly or covertly.In addition to the "Jian Da Dao", several other forms of tomb robbery organizations exist in modern times.In particular, the "hunting team" set up by antique dealers became popular during the Republic of China and is still very popular today. It is the prototype of the modern tomb robbery group's "one-stop production, supply and marketing".

Judging from Hu Qiandou's tone, it must be Jian Dao, but there was one thing about Hu Qiandou that made Xieqiu Liu feel quite abnormal.Daxing'anling is located in Heilongjiang Province, in the northeast. It stands to reason that he should go to Sanyingkou in Beijing. Sanyingkou and Xinjiumen are roughly of the same nature, and they will also accept this type of list.However, Hu Qiandou's move was obviously a matter of looking far away, entrusting Sanyingkou to build a group, which naturally saved a lot of trouble compared to Xinjiumen's labor and mobilization. Xieqiu Liuyi did not agree to this at first.

But Hu Qiandou has his own explanation, saying that he is from Hong Kong and has no acquaintances in Beijing. He invited someone from Xinjiumen to be a lama. The Lost City of Jin Nai is a big cake, whoever fights against it will not be defeated.Xieqiu Liu hesitated for a while, but the price Hu Qiandou offered was really high, so he went straight to the eight-figure figure, and promised to make five of the things poured out, and give half of it to Xin Jiumen. Thinking about it, I took the order.

Who knew, for Xieqiu Liu, this meant the beginning of a nightmare.

After preparing for more than a month, Xinjiumen and his party of more than [-] people took their equipment and went to Heilongjiang Province in a mighty manner.This time, all the local masters, the elites in the company, moved swiftly and arrived at the ghost village in just a few days.It was the closest village to the hinterland of Daxing'an Mountains, and it was only a day or two away from Jinnai Lost City. It could be used as a supply point for logistics purposes.

Xieqiu Liu, as the supervisor of the New Nine Sects, does not need to do many things by himself, but on the first day in the corpse ghost village, he found that things were a little abnormal. It was a very strange feeling, as if he was being used by others , but I can't tell what's wrong.As soon as we arrived at the Ghost Village, all the people in the village were mobilized. All the young and old came to help move equipment and arrange accommodation. They were very busy, as if they had been arranged in advance.Xieqiu asked Hu Qiandou six times, but he just smiled and said nothing, saying that money can pass through the mind, so there is no need to make a fuss.

That night, Xieqiu Liu and Hu Qiandou began to draw up a plan. How to open up this Jinnai tomb became a problem.Although Hu Qiandou did not have a clear understanding of the structure of the ancient tomb, he still had a certain understanding, which shows that he had done a lot of work before.Hu Qiandou said that in the hinterland of Xing'an Mountains, the first place to find is Buddha Ridge. Nine out of ten tombs of Jin Nai are located in this mountain range.After the Japanese besieged and suppressed Guo Erbangzi back then, they did not find half a penny. It may have been hidden in this ancient tomb, and it was preserved by the protection of the ancestors.To get it now, one needs to be cautious and well-planned, unlike in the past at Xinjiumen, what was dug this time is a big tomb.In the end, the plan they drew up was that Hu Qiandou would lead a team of seasoned Tu Fuzi into the mountain, and Xieqiu Liu would sit on the ground in Shigui Village to command, so as to ensure that after the first group of people went in and had an accident, there would still be someone to rescue them. .If Xieqiu Liuxian leads the team to have an accident in the ancient tomb, there will be a situation where there will be no leader. With Hu Qiandou's ability, he can't control the people of Xinjiumen, and he can't deal with emergencies.

Unexpectedly, on the first day Hu Qiandou led his troops into the mountain, something happened. For some reason, a large group of policemen suddenly appeared in the village.One must know that a place like Ghost Village might not even exist on the map. This group of people came so suddenly that the people of Xinjiumen were caught off guard.Xieqiu Liu led the Xinjiumen people into Daxing'an Mountains overnight, and hid in it. The direction was naturally towards Buddha Ridge.This night, the people of Xinjiumen survived the most difficult night. It was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and this group of people almost died of freezing inside, suffering unspeakably.

After daybreak, Xie Qiuliu discussed with the elders of Xinjiumen that it would be unwise to go back to the village, and the policemen were still standing by to wait.But this time he fled into the mountain in a hurry and lost most of his equipment. If he continued to walk in the direction of Fotouling, there would be certain risks.Fortunately, the guide brought by the village said that there is a forest farm ahead, and some illegal logging workers have a place to live. He has acquaintances who can go there and set up camp temporarily. If the first group of people return triumphantly, they will definitely pass by this place.

The crowd had no choice but to go to the forest farm with the guide, but after the people from Xinjiumen waited for a week, the first team still didn't return.Everyone couldn't sit still, so Xieqiu Liu sent out the second echelon, but he didn't expect this team to enter the mountain and never come out again. The situation has reached an unimaginable level.

Now Xieqiu Liu couldn't wait any longer, and the two groups of people who entered the mountain had no news, which showed that they must have been trapped in the tomb of Jin Nai.A feeling of being tricked rose up in his heart, but he couldn't just turn around and go back to Changsha. He lost his troops and lost his generals but didn't get any benefits, and he couldn't hold back his face.Finally made a decision, took all the troops and equipment of the camp, and found the location of the ancient tomb marked on Hu Qiandou's map, but unexpectedly, a group of professional Tufuzi couldn't find the passage to enter the ancient tomb .

An ancient tomb was turned into a mausoleum, and the robbery would have to be done in the year of the monkey. Xieqiu Liu divided a dozen people into several teams and searched separately. He never thought that something horrifying would happen again. up.After searching almost every piece of land in Buddha Ridge, Xieqiu Liu led the team back to the original agreed location. After waiting for a long time, the rest of the people did not come back. These people also mysteriously disappeared. !A few people searched again and again, only thinking that they had encountered a mountain disaster, but this time they couldn't even find the body. The good-looking person disappeared without a trace.

Accompanied by a whole night of sleepless nights, Xieqiu Liu was restless and sleepy, and suddenly felt that the underground tomb was terrifying, mysterious and changeable, and the enigmatic location had not yet been revealed. The veil shows some clues, and the people of Xinjiumen have almost been wiped out.However, the weirder thing was yet to come. After waking up the next day, Xieqiu Liu almost went crazy. The guys who slept with him last night didn't even say hello and disappeared. Wherever I went, the equipment was not there, and the person said it was gone.

So far, all the people brought from Xinjiumen disappeared, only Xieqiu Liu was left.

Xieqiu Liu regretted his mistake at the beginning, and began to reflect on what was going on; if he stopped here and went back to Changsha, ignoring everything, maybe he had nothing to do with him at all, but he didn't know how much he had to deal with, and he was gone. Xie Qiuliu, who was in the sand a few times, out of an instinctive thought, he was eager to figure out the ins and outs of the whole thing, and when he fell into this Jinnai tomb, he would have a strong sense of conquest, and he could not give up.

For three whole days, Xieqiu ran around Foduo Ridge alone, but he did not find a person from Xinjiumen. Until the evening of the third day, when he was passing through the snow valley, he suddenly saw a person stuck there from a crack in a cliff. , It almost didn't freeze into an ice edge.He was familiar with the equipment on that person, he seemed to be from Xinjiumen, but when he went to rescue him, he found that it was Hu Qiandou, his whole body was covered in blood, but he was already on the verge of death.

Xie Qiuliu carried Hu Qiandou back to the forest farm on that snowy night, and tried every possible means to rescue him, because the secret behind everything about this incident was really too weird. Why all the people disappeared, he had to know the answer from Hu Qiandou.Unexpectedly, Hu Qiandou was already in a trance, and the things he learned from him were so creepy and unbelievable after Xieqiu Liu repeatedly pressed him.

Hu Qiandou said that in the underground Jinnai tomb, there was a huge bloody mouth at the bottom, and the people who walked in, except for him who escaped by chance, had no bones left, and all died in it.Xieqiu Liu didn't believe this at first, but after Hu Qiandou practiced for two days, he insisted on asking him to take him in. If he didn't turn this ancient tomb upside down, Xieqiu Liu would like to piss and drown himself. It is unacceptable for so many people to have no benefit at all.

In fact, in Hu Qiandou's wishful thinking, Xieqiu Liu has unknowingly turned into a pearl on the top. He clearly feels that this person is unreliable, but he still has no choice.

Hu Qiandou said that it is not impossible to take Xie Qiuliu down, but all actions must be obeyed by him, otherwise he will never be able to go there.Unexpectedly, after Hu Qiandou entered Jin Nai's tomb, the two of them turned around like headless chickens and found the main tomb.It was a magnificent tomb, the ground inside was full of gold and silver treasures, and the bright yellow light was so overwhelming that people couldn't open their eyes.For the first time in their lives, both of them saw so much money, they even forgot their surnames, and stuffed those artifacts into their pockets in the main tomb as if in a fit of madness.As soon as the excitement passed, the eyes of both of them fell on the sarcophagus in the middle of the tomb. Hu Qiandou proposed to open the sarcophagus, saying that the priceless treasure was inside.Xie Qiuliu didn't know there was any deceit, so he readily agreed, and went up to push the lid of the coffin, but just as he got close to the coffin, a pair of shackles suddenly popped out from under his feet, and locked onto his ankles with a click.

Seeing this, Hu Qiandou immediately revealed his fierce face. The moment Xieqiu Liu was locked beside the sarcophagus, he suddenly realized that he had fallen into this man's trap.But by this time it was already too late. A group of people suddenly rushed in from the tomb. Xieqiu Liu knew everyone, and they were all from Xinjiumen. Looted and left.

As Xie Qiuliu said, Hu Qiandou was responsible for him falling into such a state in the story. After being shocked, I couldn't help but wonder why Hu Qiandou tortured Xieqiu Liu so much.After thinking about it for a long time, he still pulled back to reality. The light on the six torches of Xieqiu became weaker. He rubbed his ankles with his hands, frowned and said, "Then Hu Qiandou must have known about the mechanism next to the coffin for a long time. , deliberately keeping it from me, this thing is a tricky thing, the designer has already calculated it, taking into account the posture and body shape of the person who pushes the coffin, once it touches the mechanism, it will move from the bottom of the foot. The shackles popped out from the stone slab and locked the person. I think I react quickly," he moved his wrist, "the left hand and left foot were shackled, but the right and right feet were not caught. If all four limbs were shackled , How can my old bones be so tossing."

"I still don't understand one thing." I looked at Xie Qiuliu's extremely despondent appearance, and my heart suddenly softened, "The person who hurt you, Hu Qiandou, why didn't he just lay hands on you in the first place?"

"He doesn't dare!" Xioqiu Liu decided, and suddenly turned his head to look at me with a strange look in his eyes. "Do you believe that at this distance, I can cut your throat?"

Seeing him like this, but full of energy, I suddenly smiled awkwardly, so I nodded and said I believe it.As the leader of Xinjiumen, there is no reason for him not to be capable of a few pounds and a few taels. This thing doesn't seem to be built indiscriminately.

Xieqiu Liu put his hands into the dirty clothes, as if his body was itchy, rubbed for a while, and finally rubbed out a small ball of mud.He clapped his hands as if nothing had happened, and then said: "At that time, he didn't kill me, maybe he was afraid of my skills. In the situation at that time, he was not sure that he would be able to retreat unscathed after attacking me. On the other hand, I guess I may have another meaning of existence."

I pretended to be very serious and listened, this person stayed in the ancient tomb for so long, seeing him, he couldn't help but talk a lot, and he talked a lot.Besides, I was quite willing to listen to what he said, so I signaled him to continue talking.

Speaking of this, Xieqiu Liu's eyes suddenly flashed a hint of sternness, "I have been meditating here for three whole years, but I can't figure out why all the people from the New Nine Sects would turn against each other. It's not been a year or two since the mountains and mountains, I haven't seen any big storms, the reason why what happened this time may have something to do with the background of Xinjiumen. Damn Hu Qiandou!" Xioqiu Liu was cursing, and he couldn't help feeling angrily in his heart : "He kept me, maybe there are still some veterans in the New Nine Gates. They all rolled out of the same mud pit with me, and they will definitely not be restrained by Hu Qiandou. Now he can use me as a threat to help him work."

Speaking of this, Xie Qiuliu looked melancholy, leaned his body on the sarcophagus, and sighed with pain on his face: "I am getting old, horses always stumble, and people are old and confused! Little brother, you don't even know how many times I have been here!" How did Nian survive? Fortunately, in this tomb, the humidity is heavy, and there are many living things such as snakes, insects, rats and ants. Every time I catch them and eat them, I keep some of them in what I can get. Range and the like, pretending to doze off, eat whatever they catch, never shy mouth. Centipedes, millipedes, mice can eat everything, hungry and full, drink water dripping from the rocks above their heads when thirsty ,pitiful."

After Xieqiu Liu finished speaking, he moved his body and rubbed his back vigorously against the coffin to relieve the itching. A foul smell mixed with rotten smell rushed straight to my nose, and I couldn't help but stay away from him. He didn't expect this little move to be noticed by him. "I still want to be clean, but I can't help it. Every time after defecating, I have to scrape the excrement and urine into the soil with stone flakes and bury it. Sometimes when hemorrhoids occur, ouch, it hurts so badly. He Damn, I really wanted to..."

He suddenly stopped talking here, and made a gesture to tell me to keep quiet, and I didn't move at once, not knowing what was going on.Xioqiu Liu looked ecstatically, and swept the ground with his eyes. I looked down, but saw a fat mouse appeared on the ground, sneaking up to me, eating those that Xioqiu Liufang had just dropped. cookie crumbs.

All of a sudden, Xieqiu Liu made a move, as fast as lightning, and there was a sound of iron shackles. After I realized it, he flicked his hand away and handed it to my chest.The mouse was already lying on his palm, obviously crushed to death by him, so fast that I couldn't even hear the mouse's wail.He grinned and teased me: "I'm a guest from afar, do you want to come with me, little brother..."

I waved my hands again and again, shook my head and said no, you should keep this thing for yourself.After hearing this, Xieqiu Liu smiled, and greedily looked at the fat rat in his hand, almost in a hurry. "You don't understand. In this place, rats are my most luxurious meal. In fact, the delicacy of cooked meat is no less than any delicacies from mountains and seas. It's all your own preconceived ideas."

Xie Qiuliu couldn't wait any longer. He moved swiftly and skillfully in front of me, and tore off the mouse's skin, exposing the red flesh inside, which made me dumbfounded and disgusted.He seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, opened the upper and lower jaws of the mouse, and even brought his mouth closer to suck the brain, and made a "squeak" sound on purpose.I quickly turned my head away, stood up and stayed as far away from Xiongqiu as possible, hoping to look around in this tomb, maybe there is any tool available that can release the shackles on his feet.

The entire tomb was searched, and there was nothing to use except for some broken stone statues and some worthless magic weapons.After eating the mouse, Xieqiu Liu looked at me rummaging in the tomb with unsatisfied interest, and seemed to see that I wanted to rescue him, so he said: "The shackles on my feet may be from the iron smelting in Xiaoling and Dongchuan in the Jin Dynasty. The sponge iron produced by the furnace has been produced for so many years, and there is no rust on it, and it cannot be opened under normal external force."

Hearing what he said, I had no choice but to stop and approach him, and asked a very idiotic question out of my mouth: "Is there a key?"

Xieqiu Liu laughed and said: "Little brother, don't be ridiculous. The craftsman who made these shackles tried every means to lock you up. And he was so kind as to give you a key to open it? You are so naive. Use your Even if I think about any part of my body, I know that there is no possibility.”

I was a little at a loss, thinking that I was trying to help you, and you still made fun of me, so I felt a little uncomfortable.At this time Xieqiu Liu scratched his head, and continued: "Maybe there is a way to try, but I'm not sure if that thing is still there."

(End of this chapter)