Chapter 52 Jade figurines
After a break, Professor Ye lit the third torch, and the light drove away the darkness. Professor Ye waved to us: "Time doesn't wait for anyone, let's go!"
Gu Meidi and I stood up, followed Professor Ye, and walked slowly in.
This is a tomb with an area of nearly 100 square meters. The tomb is silent, like a completely isolated dark world.
There were a row of niches carved on the walls around the tomb, about half a person high from the ground, and there were more than ten in total. Each niche was filled with a lotus-shaped copper lamp. Professor Ye walked around the tomb and lit all the copper lamps. More than ten copper lamps were lit up together, emitting strange blue light, just like the eyes of more than ten devils, staring at us coldly, making the backs chill.
The strange blue lights reflected on the walls of the tomb chamber, giving a strange feeling that was indescribable. These niches are like windows, and in addition to copper lamps, there are also various antiques displayed in each window. Some niches are placed with tablets engraved with Western Xia characters; some niches are placed with scriptures inlaid with gold silk; some niches are placed with bright scimitars, which may be the personal weapon of the tomb owner during his lifetime. These things have become burial objects after his death.
Gu Meidi said: "The ancient tombs we explored before were piled up in random places in the tombs. This is the first time I saw someone put the burial objects so neatly. If I didn't say that this was a tomb room, I would have thought I had entered a Xixia Museum."
Professor Ye stretched out his finger to the top of the tomb: "The guy named Wan above must have been in this ancient tomb often!"
"How do you know?" I asked curiously.
Professor Ye said: "It's very simple. When I was in the cellar just now, I found that the soil was very soft and obviously it was a sign of frequent flipping. Besides, look at these burial objects. After so many years, there was no dust on it. Especially the tablet, it was as bright as new. What does this mean? It means that people often enter the tomb to clean it!"
"Good eyesight!" I sincerely admire Professor Ye's observation ability.
Gu Meidi said: "It's strange. This ancient tomb is under Wan Juncheng's villa. Could it be that Wan Juncheng secretly built it himself? But it seems unreasonable. How should we explain the thousand-year-old wax corpse outside the tomb chamber?"
I said, "There is only one possibility. This ancient tomb in Xixia was not built by Wan Juncheng, but was built a thousand years ago. As a descendant of Yipintang, Wan Juncheng should know about this ancient tomb, so after it was transformed into a villa area, he specially chose the villa built on the ancient tomb!"
"Yes!" Professor Ye nodded: "It seems that this ancient tomb also has a great relationship with Xixia Yipin Hall!"
After scanning the tomb room, we turned our eyes to the center of the tomb room. There was a sunken square pool in the center of the tomb room. Surprisingly, the water in the pool was blood-red, with a strong smell of blood. In the center of the blood pool, a black sarcophagus was placed horizontally. The body of the coffin was soaked in the blood, only the black coffin lid was exposed, and it looked very ghostly.
"Why is the water here red?" I asked in confusion.
Professor Ye said: "This is a pool of blood. These are not water at all, but blood!"
Blood?!
I couldn't help but shivered. The side of this blood pool was at least about twenty meters long. How much blood was needed to fill this pool? I smelled the choking smell of blood in my nose, and I felt a burst of nausea.
Gu Meidi asked Professor Ye: "Why did they soak the coffin in blood? I have never seen such a strange way of burial!"
Professor Ye held the torch and stared at the blood pool in front of him, squinted his eyes and asked, "Do you think this sarcophagus looks familiar?"
"Ahha!" Gu Meidi reacted first: "This sarcophagus is almost exactly the same as the hanging sarcophagus we found in the Yellow River Fish Bone Temple!"
Professor Ye nodded, and an unconcealed excitement appeared on the corner of his mouth: "The sarcophagus of the Fish Bone Temple are buried with the corpse of the Lord of the Yipintang, so in this same sarcophagus..."
"The burial of the master is also the corpse of the master!" Before Professor Ye finished speaking, I had already answered first. After a pause, I thought of seeing the eyeball tattoo on the back of Wan Juncheng's neck before I was unconscious, and then said: "It's the corpse of the master of Tianzitang! Didn't Wan Juncheng say it before? Tianzitang's eyeball tattoo is red, and Wan Juncheng's neck is red eyeball tattoo on the back of Wan Juncheng's neck. Since Wan Juncheng wants to protect this ancient tomb, it must be the tomb of Tianzitang, that's right!"
"Tuoba Gu, hand me the Luoyang shovel in your hand!" said Professor Ye.
"Professor, what are you going to do?" I asked in confusion.
Professor Ye gritted his teeth and two words popped out from his teeth: "Open the coffin!"
"What?! You... are you going to open the coffin?!" I looked at Professor Ye in surprise, not understanding why he made this decision.
Gu Meidi also felt something was wrong: "If... if... if we opened the coffin rashly, if an old rice dumpling crawled out of it, we... wouldn't be able to clean up..."
"What? Are you afraid?" Professor Ye looked at Gu Meidi, then looked at me, and said slowly: "What? You don't want to continue tracing? This matter has begun, and we are also targeted, and no one can stop. The corpse of the Lord of the Heavenly God is placed in the coffin. Maybe some useful clues can be found from the dead body? Now any clue is crucial to us! Why are you still standing there? Take action!"
I pursed my lips. Professor Ye said nothing wrong. At first, we just investigated the ancient corpse in the tortoise coffin out of curiosity, but unexpectedly it involved the Western Xia Dynasty and the mysterious Yipintang that were thousands of years ago. Now we are in a difficult situation, so it is impossible to let go. The only way to survive is to continue tracing, reveal all the secrets about Yipintang and the Xixxia Dynasty, and bravely fight with the remaining forces of Yipintang.
Thinking of this, I nodded to Professor Ye: "Okay! I'll go with you and start opening the coffin together!"
"Hey! Wait!" Gu Meidi called us: "The blood in this pool looks very scary, it won't... it won't be poisonous, right?"
"Haha!" Professor Ye smiled freely and easily: "We are now poisoned by the Nether Flowers, so why are you afraid of?"
Professor Ye, who has always been gentle and elegant, suddenly swears, and his free and easy nature suddenly aroused my passion.
"Yes! What kind of birds are you afraid of?" I roared and jumped into the blood pool. The smelly blood splattered on my face. I shook my hair and said to Professor Ye: "Professor, let's go!"
"Tuoba Gu, you, the second-hand man, can you jump just by saying that!" Gu Meidi looked at me with a worried look. Although she was scolding me, I felt very helpful in my heart.
I waved to her: "Little girl, don't come down, just give us the wind!"
No one knows whether the chaotic blood is fatal, nor does anyone know whether the dead body in the coffin will turn into an old rice dumpling. I asked her to stay on the blood pool to protect her safety.
thump!
Professor Ye also jumped into the blood pool and waved at me. We walked towards the stone coffin in the center of the blood pool.
The blood pool was not deep, and the blood was about halfway through our waists, and it was a little difficult to walk.
The sarcophagus that had been sleeping for thousands of years exuded a cold breath. Standing next to the sarcophagus, it seemed that the temperature around it had dropped a lot.
Professor Ye and I walked around the sarcophagus, and Professor Ye winked at me: "Go on!"
I nodded, raised the Luoyang shovel, picked out the coffin sealing varnish, and inserted the shovel blade into the gap between the lid and the body of the coffin. After almost half of the shovel blade was inserted, I took a deep breath, exerted force with both arms, and shouted suddenly: "Get up!"
The heavy coffin lid was slowly pushed up by the Luoyang shovel. Professor Ye hurriedly stepped forward and helped him to grab the edge of the coffin lid and pushed it hard. The coffin lid was moved away and fell into the blood pool, splashing the blood-colored waves of Lao Gao.
While the coffin lid was removed, Professor Ye and I took a step back at the same time to prevent any hidden mechanism from popping up inside the sarcophagus.
After waiting for a while, after finding nothing unusual in the sarcophagus, Professor Ye and I let go of our guard and slowly moved closer.
The structure of this sarcophagus is exactly the same as that of the Fishbone Temple. The outside is a black stone coffin, and the inside is a rare black yin wood coffin. The coffin is filled with blood.
Professor Ye and I looked at each other and now we can fully confirm that the owner of this coffin is the owner of Tianzi Tang.
We worked together to open the Yin Wooden Coffin, and a lifelike corpse of a Western Xia warrior came into our eyes. While the coffin was opened, Professor Ye and I both exclaimed quietly. The corpse of the Lord of the Earth-Character Temple was wearing a precious gold-stretched garment, while the corpse of the Lord of the Heaven-Character Temple was actually wearing a jade garment. This corpse is called a jade figurine, which is extremely precious and is a burial method that only royal relatives can enjoy.
I looked at the jade figurine carefully. The jade clothes on my body were at least composed of hundreds of pieces of green and high-quality jade. The largest jades were as big as the palm of the hand, and the smallest ones could be as delicate as the nails. The workmanship was extremely exquisite. The body of the corpse was filled with brilliance, and the green light poured out like flowing water, blending with the blood outside the coffin, illuminating a strange luster. If this jade clothes were spread to the world, it would definitely be a priceless treasure.
Looking at the corpse under the jade clothes, it was lifelike. Thousands of years have passed, as if it was fresh. When he saw it, he seemed to be asleep peacefully with his eyes closed.
"Wow!" I couldn't help but reach out and wanted to touch this expensive jade dress.
Suddenly, Professor Ye grabbed my wrist: "Don't move!"
Chapter completed!