Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 391 Funeral Coffin

From the point of view of time, except for the statement, he hardly thought about it.When I was observing the residue, I suddenly heard Tofu gulping in my ears. The sound attracted my attention, but I saw Tofu staring nervously at a place not far from the residue. .

Looking at the boundary line between light and darkness on the arm, following the obscure light, there seems to be something there.The silhouette vaguely resembled a human figure.I knew in my heart that it must be a dead person. If it was a living person, how could I keep silent.To be honest, I am not afraid of the dead, as long as there is no dead body, everything is easy to talk about.

I immediately held the lighter and walked towards that thing.Taking a closer look, it was a frozen hard male corpse, and there was a bun on the head of the corpse, which was obviously an ancient corpse.

In an instant, I realized that the No. 18 corpse that disappeared in the bronze armor should be it.

Strange, how is it placed here?
Could it be that it crawled here by itself?It's so hard to freeze, it's not easy to pick up the corpse.As I thought about it, I looked at the ancient corpse with my eyes, and when my eyes stopped on its legs, I saw a creepy scene.

The flesh from its legs disappeared.There are only two dark red and blue skeletons left on the calf. From the remaining flesh of the skeleton, it can be seen that there are neat scratches on them, like a layer of fish scales.From this appearance, one can tell at a glance that the flesh on this ancient corpse's leg was sliced ​​off piece by piece with an extremely sharp knife.

Tofu looked at the shredded calf of the corpse, then at the pile of fuel not far away, swallowed hard, and said, "Tell me, what do you use the meat for when you cut it off?"

I said lightly: "Barbecue human meat slices."

Tofu said: Can you stop talking so disgustingly? "

I didn't make a sound. In fact, these two human leg bones can already explain everything. Its meat was sliced ​​like a piece of sashimi.What I'm thinking now is, who did this?The first is the weapon. This corpse has been frozen as hard as a rock. It is really not easy to slice the meat so neatly; secondly, judging from the missing parts of the ancient corpse, the person who ate it at that time should not have eaten it. Not much; coupled with the pile of old-fashioned fuel wreckage next to it, I can almost infer a story, that is, when Chen Ci first came here, there was a food crisis, so he pulled out an ancient corpse in a bronze armor... …

When I thought of the scene of the expressionless grilled 'kebabs' in this dark, gloomy and cold tomb with a pile of fire in between the statement, I felt uncomfortable and disgusted for a while.

Tofu also understood, stared at me like a monster, and said: "Old Chen, your father is too heavy, this... I want to throw up, what should I do?"

I was very angry and said, "It doesn't matter to me if you die." At the same time, I remembered the scene that happened in Xu Fu's tomb. In the dark, the dumb eyes were indifferent and gloomy, instigating me to eat. tofu.

The scene in my mind overlapped with the scene of Chen Yu's kebab, the guess that I have mentioned countless times with Tofu became clear again.Dumb is cliché!
I have to figure this out.

The two of us ignored the ancient corpses on the ground, and while calling the names of Lu Su and the others, we leaned on the faint light of the lighter to look around.Walking down the warrior formation, there is a large ice cave, which also has a small illuminated bird's nest.I put the lighter under the bird's nest, and the light was refracted layer by layer and magnified infinitely. At this moment, the entire ice cave was as bright as day, and the moment my vision was clear, I saw not far in front of us, standing impressively. With two people!
I was startled at first, and then I realized that one of the ice walls of this ice cave was inlaid with a huge bronze mirror, and the two people I saw were the shadows reflected in the bronze mirror .

The bronze mirror is relatively blurry, and the tofu and I are relatively blurred in the mirror. Apart from this, there is no other entrance and exit to the ice cave.Tofu said: "It seems that there are more ice holes, and we have to continue to adjust the route."

I said: "Don't worry, if it's extra, just ignore it, why install such a bronze mirror?"

Tofu speculated: "Could it be to look in the mirror for the dead in the ice cave?" He reminded me suddenly when he said this, at the same time, I found a tiny black shadow in the lower right corner of the bronze mirror. It's easy to ignore the past,

Judging from the size and blurriness of the bronze mirror, the shadow in the mirror should be on the upper right far away from us.I recalled the surrounding environment. Based on this estimate, isn't the black shadow behind our heads on the right hand side?
I immediately turned my head and looked towards the diagonal line of the bronze mirror, and suddenly found a black wooden coffin suspended in the upper right corner of the ice hole.
A small platform was cut out above the ice wall to serve as the coffin bed, and the flat top of the coffin was faintly exposed on it. It was a typical Chinese material with sharp edges and lines, but it was so high and far away that it could not be seen clearly. Material, at a glance, the paint on it is thin, and there is not much painting, it looks like a funeral coffin.

Tofu hissed, stretched his neck to look, and said, "What kind of coffin is this? Why put it so high? Do you think it's Puzhen's coffin?"

I said: "If it's Puzhen's coffin, it's a bit shabby, and it doesn't match the structure of this Xuanbing ancient tomb. I don't think so."

Tofu said, "Shall we go up and have a look?"

I found it strange and asked him why he suddenly became bolder.Tofu said that he summed up an experience, that is, this place is too cold, the corpses are frozen into iron bumps, and there is no way to pick up the corpses. As long as the corpses are not removed and the rice dumpling is not changed, there is nothing to be afraid of. "Although he summed it up by himself, it is also wrong, because in Yang Fang's notes, there is an introduction about the corpse removal: extreme cold and heat are better than no corpse. That is to say, places that are too cold will freeze the corpse At the same time, it also freezes the wandering of corpse aura; and in a place that is too hot, the corpse will rot quickly, without the support of skin and flesh, the bone frame cannot store corpse aura, so the corpse will not rise.

With Tofu's instigation, I also thought of opening the coffin.Xin said: This Puzhen is just a tomb repairer, and he is not a nobleman. After his death, he has such a good fortune, which is already enviable. What's more, there are eighteen warrior corpses guarding him. What kind of ability does he have when a funeral coffin comes out?
Who was buried in this coffin?Will there be information about Puzhen in it?
Thinking about it this way, I didn't object to the tofu, and the two went under the ice wall.The ice wall in front of us is not vertical. There are many protruding ice cones on the surface, which are more convenient for climbing. So Tofu and I climbed along these ice cones. After a while, we landed on the ice bed.

Observing the coffin closely, I immediately found that the coffin had been tampered with.The coffin nails had been pulled out, and the lid was not closed.The place is bright because of the reflection of the light from the bird's nest, and through the cracks in the coffin, it can be seen that the black wooden coffin is dry.It is not the first time that Tofu and I have opened the coffin. The two of us each occupied one side and pushed the lid of the coffin away.

There was indeed a person lying in the coffin, but it was a dummy.

The dummy was made of five grains, and was dressed plainly. The body was covered with several layers of quilts, which were thickly covered on the dummy, only the face of the dummy was exposed.

This is strange, I have never seen a dummy in a coffin.

At this moment, I found some words embroidered on the outermost green quilt. Looking carefully, it turned out to be a section of birth date, and Puzhen's name was impressively written on the place where the date of birth was signed.

I thought of a method of bringing death in ancient times, such as cutting hair instead of death. The 7th chapter of Xiaojing said: the body and skin are affected by parents. The ancients regarded hair very seriously, and hair loss is a very serious disease. punishment.Similar to bringing death, there is also the so-called "blocking evil spirits" of the Yin Yang family.The ancients were superstitious about the four-pillar fortune-telling theory, and the birth date represents a person.If it is calculated that someone has a disaster, an expert will borrow some fake things and paste the birth date to block the evil spirits. In this way, all bad luck will be replaced by fake things.

The dummy made of five grains in front of him sang the horoscope of Puzhen's birthday, as if he was dying, that is to say, when the Xuanbing Tomb was built, Puzhen was alive!

How is this going?

And this dummy was placed in a thin wooden funeral coffin, which meant that Puzhen was buried with him.In this way, Puzhen is not actually the real owner of the Xuanbing Tomb, so who is buried in this place?
I immediately uncovered the surface layer of green cloth, and began to search through layers of quilts.The quilt is also called the quilt. In ancient times, the ordinary and poor people often covered the corpse with an old and thin quilt.Those who have a little money can buy new quilts, and those who are officials or higher up are even more serious. Those who embroider dragons and phoenixes with gold and silver threads, and those who embroider heaven and ghosts, and so on. Embroider some important deeds of the deceased during his lifetime.

The quilt is well preserved, but it has been frozen into a rubber-like touch, which is not easy to unfold.I peeled off the first layer, and immediately saw the embroidery picture recorded on the quilt.

I saw a person holding a compass on the first layer of quilt, and the public judge was listening to a warrior speaking. Judging from the clothes, it should be a certain ethnic minority.

I reckon that the person holding the compass should be Puzhen, and the background is a palace-shaped garden with an elephant figure beside the garden. I speculate that the embroidery on it should be the order for Puzhen to build the Queen Mother of Giant Ears. scene.

The content of the second layer of quilt was beyond the surprise of Tofu and me. This layer of quilt was put on by Puzhen with a big bowl.

I know this bowl, it is exactly the same as the bowl that grandpa made in the Baoxiang Queen's tomb, and I reckon, [-]% of it is still the same.

(End of this chapter)