Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 104 The Golden Coffin Double-Headed Corpse

Feng Guishou stared closely at the stone coffin, and said: "Don't move yet, this stone coffin seems to be wrong." As he spoke, he stepped back, gradually retreating to the edge of the Bodhisattva statue, which seemed to be out of sight. what's up.

Seeing that his behavior was very strange, I couldn't help but stop the movement, holding the rope in my hand, and didn't rush down.

Immediately afterwards, Feng Guishou said again: "Listen, what is the sound inside the stone coffin?" At this moment, the whole cave was dead silent, and following Feng Guishou's voice, I subconsciously pricked up my ears to listen to the surrounding movement.

There was silence all around, except for the sound of my own breathing, there was no other sound.

What kind of tricks does this Feng guy want to play?Where is the sound?
As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, I suddenly heard two bangs in my ears.The sound was very weak, but in the silent cave, it seemed very abrupt.After careful identification, the sound came from the stone coffin.

Tofu was startled, almost jumped, and lost his voice: "Why is there a sound in the stone coffin? Could it be that Princess Gegeer's body was raised inside? We haven't done anything yet!" The voice was very faint and vague. It was as if something was knocking in the stone coffin, as if it wanted to push the stone coffin away.

For a while, everyone held their breath, and did not dare to speak out of the atmosphere.Lu Su still had a smile on his lips, but it was not so obvious anymore. He stared at the stone coffin above, and said to Tofu and me without turning his head: "Two brothers, it seems that you two are going to be friends for a while. I can’t leave, I’m afraid there is something fierce in this stone coffin.”

Tofu nervously said: "Then what should I do? Do you want to open the coffin to get something?"

Hearing this, Feng Guishou above said with a sneer: "Of course you have to take things, otherwise, if you are so courageous, you won't be able to eat this bowl of rice." Then he said to me and Tofu: "This stone coffin is very heavy. Brother Lu and I alone may not be able to solve it, so you two should stay here to help." I was originally driven by old man Zhao to get the Eight Carp Doujiao Zhenhai Stone, and now I have to help if I don't want to help. When even said to Tofu: "I'm not in a hurry, it's better to look at the objects in the coffin first."

Tofu rolled his eyes, lowered his voice, and said: "The matter of the curse is important, Miss Gu, we can only do our best, obey the destiny, and see her own good fortune. I want to see, this princess Geer is It’s not someone with three heads and six arms.” After saying that, he also rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the rope.

Except for the woman from the Ren family who was tied up, the four of us quickly climbed onto the lap of the Bodhisattva statue.Looking closely, the stone coffin is more than two meters long, square, off-white in color, exquisitely decorated, and the seal of the stone cover is very tight, just like strands of hair.

If this kind of stone coffin is to be opened, a chisel must be used to cut a few small holes at the junction of the coffin cover and the coffin body, and then a pry bar can be used to pry the stone cover up.If it is directly a wooden coffin, it will be easier to handle, without the trouble of using a pry bar, just use the claws to hook one end of the wooden coffin lid and force it, and the entire coffin lid will be lifted.

This was done by Feng Guishou. His pair of mechanism hands were extremely dexterous, and the holes he made were not too big and not too small. There were exactly four holes. The four of us each had a crowbar, and we were about to use our strength. Inside, there was another muffled sound.The sound was more urgent, as if something inside was impatient to come out.

The sound made the four of us pause, with an ominous premonition in our hearts, until Lu Su reminded us that we all exerted our strength together.

The stone coffin is very heavy, even if we four big men worked together, it took a lot of effort to open it.

As soon as the stone coffin was opened, we only felt dazzled for a while, and the golden light in the coffin was charming for a while.I saw that in the stone coffin was a black gilt wooden coffin with animal inscriptions.Since the stone coffin was sealed, the gold-plated pattern on it was still shining, but it was only preserved for a moment.As soon as the stone coffin was opened, the gilt on the wooden coffin touched the air, and the light immediately dimmed, losing that eye-catching magnificence.

The corpse is the coffin, and the hidden coffin is the outer coffin.

This stone coffin is covered with the golden coffin of Princess Gegeer we are looking for.On the golden coffin, there are auspicious clouds of hundreds of birds, fairy bridges and fairy ponds carved, auspicious animals playing, and lifelike shapes, which are not suitable for ordinary people.

Strangely, as soon as the stone coffin was opened, the sound inside disappeared, and the wooden coffin was quietly placed in front of us.

At this moment, Feng Guishou began to light the incense again. This was the third stick of incense that was needed to dig mushrooms, and it was the incense for the owner of the tomb.

Tofu muttered, "I'm playing tricks again."

Lu Su didn't mind. He smiled slightly, turned his head and said to Tofu in a low voice: "It's not all pretending to be a ghost. Some things can be passed down from generation to generation. There is always a reason. Leaving aside the superstitious point of view, before opening the coffin, click A stick of incense has two uses. The first is to play a psychological role and strengthen people’s courage. Second, if the corpse’s breath in the coffin is too heavy, it is easy to be poisoned by the corpse. The ingredients in the incense can sense the corpse’s breath. If it is too heavy, the incense will not burn.”

Tofu looked suddenly enlightened, and flattered him, saying, "Gao, experts are different."

Lu Su was quite able to pretend, he smiled slightly, showing eight white teeth, patted Tofu on the shoulder, and said nothing more.

On the other end, Feng Guishou had already lit the third stick of incense, which was neatly inserted in the crack of the coffin. The incense burned relatively normally without any abnormalities.But I always felt that something was wrong, and I subconsciously remembered the long and short stick of incense before going down to the tomb, feeling very unlucky in my heart.

My intuition has saved me many times, both in business and recently.So I whispered to Tofu and said, "Open the coffin later, you hide behind."

Tofu frowned and said, "I'm not a girl, what are you doing hiding behind?"

I said, "I don't know if you are a girl or not. I only know that you are very capable of causing trouble. If something happens, I have to bother to save you, so you better not cause trouble for me."

Tofu was hit by me, and he walked to the back obediently with a mournful face.At this time, Feng Guishou signaled that there is no problem, let us open the coffin.We first pried open the coffin nails one by one. The black coffin nails were nine inches long, and it took a lot of effort to pull them out one by one.

The specifications of coffin nails among the people are not uniform, but there is a saying about the nine-inch coffin nails.Because nine is the highest number of all singular numbers, it is the highest number, so the emperor in the past was also called the emperor of the ninety-five. Not everyone can use nine-inch coffin nails.

After a while, when all the eighteen coffin nails were pulled out, we took out the corpse-touching gloves and gas masks that we had prepared in advance, and put them on.

Because the coffin has been sealed for hundreds of years, there must be many deadly germs inside. If you accidentally inhale it, you will get a serious illness at most if you are lucky, and you may die if you are unlucky.It is said that the predecessors who dug mushrooms in ancient times did not have gas masks at that time. When they opened the coffin, they would hold a piece of secret ginger under their tongues.

The folks also use ginger to treat diseases, that is, cut a piece of ginger, soak it in different medicines for seven days, and then dry it. If there is any headache in the family, take a piece of dried ginger under the tongue. Can heal.Of course, there are very few people using this method now, only some remote rural areas are still using it, and only some elderly people know about it. Young people like me have only heard of it, but have never seen it. .

The medicinal ginger made by the mushroom diggers has the same principle, but the secret recipe of the potion has long been lost, not to mention that in modern times, gas masks are much more reliable than medicinal ginger.

After we put on our gas masks, we pushed the coffin together.

There was a strange noise in the golden coffin before, so we paid special attention to it, and got up to 12 points. As soon as the coffin was opened, we felt a gloomy air in the coffin. But it is also conceivable that the taste is definitely not worse than the taste in the sacrificial pit.

This bad luck lingered for a long time, and everything in the coffin was obscured for a while, except for a vaguely human-shaped thing lying there.The few of us hurriedly fanned it vigorously with our hands, and after a while, the bad luck dissipated, and everything in the coffin became clear.As soon as our eyes were on the corpse in the coffin, Tofu shouted tremblingly: "This, this Princess Geger, actually really has three heads and six arms!"

It’s not quite accurate to say that it has three heads and six arms. The corpse in the coffin was dressed in a shroud of gold and silver thread, and was covered with a brocade quilt. The quilt had already faded and turned into a pile of gray things, but the bulge under the quilt was obviously buried with him. There are many things.But these are secondary things. It is this princess who really makes us feel like our scalps are blown up and our hairs stand on end. She has two heads!
I said, "It's all your fault, crow's mouth. Before I dig mushrooms next time, I have to find something to cover your mouth."

In Chinese burial customs, there is a habit of covering the dead with a fig leaf, that is, when the coffin is buried, a piece of yellow cloth is put on the face of the dead body to hide the shame. The meaning of covering up the shameful things done in one's lifetime.Generally, people put up a piece of yellow cloth to finish the work, but princes, generals or wealthy families usually use masks to cover the face of the dead.According to different identities and economic conditions, the specifications of the masks are also different.

The corpse in this coffin is lying on its back, everything is covered under the brocade quilt, and it cannot be seen. There are only two heads, which make it difficult to look away. The weird double heads make people shudder.

I couldn't help but think, could it be that Princess Geger is actually a two-headed person?In fact, there are also examples of two-headed people in modern times. According to scientific explanations, it is due to an error in the development of the embryo that the two embryos develop together, which is what we commonly call conjoined twins or parasitic fetuses.

Tofu obviously thought of something with me too, shivered, and said: "No wonder this Tatar princess was not favored after she got married. How can the emperor talk when he sees it? Two heads, no matter which one to kiss, I feel scared." .”

(End of this chapter)