Bai Yi's sudden reaction caused the people behind him to stop. Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Xiao Ning was a little confused: "Bai Yi, what's wrong?"
Lei Zi said: "The smell is wrong. This smell is terrible. Everyone, step back. It's mercury!"
Even though he was wearing a gas mask, Lei Zi's reaction was still so fierce. Just when Tang Sancheng was about to sarcastically tease Lei Zi, he suddenly felt uncomfortable and his throat was so dry that he was so frightened that he quickly pulled Xiao Ning back and returned to the place where he was just now.
It's in the tomb of corpses.
"Lei Zi, mercury is not liquid." Xiao Ning still has some common sense, much better than Tang Sancheng and Xiao Shan: "But I didn't see the mercury at all. How can Liu Zhixi's gas mask let the smell in?
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"I'm afraid that the mercury inside has become gaseous, which is why the smell is so strong. The gas mask actually isolates toxic substances in the air, but it cannot do it 100%. The toxicity of mercury is very huge, even a little bit,
It will also cause discomfort to people. If this was done in the past without any protection, it would be over as soon as it gets close." Lei Zi glanced at Bai Yi: "But this just shows that the things inside are not simple, that's why there is a mercury pool.
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"That's right." Bai Yi's voice was a little excited: "Now the connection between here and the ground has been completed. Even if the mercury has vaporized, it only takes a little time and we can go in after putting on the gas masks."
Shouhou suddenly bent down, looking very uncomfortable. Tang Sancheng was a little worried: "Are you okay?"
Bai Yi glared at him. He was still unsure whether the skinny monkey was an enemy or a friend. Tang San had become kind-hearted: "He will be fine. Mild mercury poisoning can be cured. Milk and egg whites will do. More
Besides, do you think his gas mask is just a decoration?"
Sure enough, the skinny monkey regained his composure after a while, and he cursed: "Damn it, this mercury pool is really powerful!"
Bai Yi looked at his watch. This watch was brought back from Switzerland. It is purely handmade. Even in the underground, it still maintains its pace. This is a mechanical watch, waterproof and fireproof: "Wait a minute.
After a while, the gaseous mercury will blend into the air and be slowly diluted. If you get closer like this, it will act like a gas mask and there should be no reaction."
After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Lei Zi couldn't hold himself back, so he ran over and tried it first, then stood at the door and took several deep breaths: "It seems like everything is fine, come here!!"
Everyone approached the tomb and saw that there was a stone door here. The stone door was not completely sealed. To be precise, a gap was opened maybe due to some external force. The smell just came from here. Now the smell is
A little calmer, Qixie and Lei Zi came over to help push the stone door open. After pushing it, the three of them were a little stunned, "Shen, this stone door is not ordinary heavy!"
Bai Yi stretched his fingers into the gap, explored the back of the stone door, wiped it, took it out, and smelled the smell on his hand: "There is also a layer of clay cast behind this stone door."
"It should be waterproof." Shouhou was very professional: "Moisture cannot easily pass through clay."
"When it's wet, it's a mess, but when it's dry, it's a knife." Lei Zi spat on the ground: "I really think about it, no wonder it's so heavy. Even if everyone gets in, it can't open a door."
With the combined efforts of everyone, the stone door slowly opened, revealing the situation inside. A one-meter-long and wide pool was right in front of the official coffin, which was full of mercury!!
"It seems that the mercury has not vaporized much." Lei Zi was somewhat thankful.
Bai Yi nodded: "Mercury will vaporize only under certain temperature conditions. The vapor produced by vaporization is highly toxic. The ancients made a big fuss about this and built mercury pools in tombs after their deaths. I don't know what's inside the coffin.
There’s no big fuss yet, Lei Zi!”
After passing through the mercury pool, we came to the coffin. This coffin was not made of stone or wood, but made of pottery. On the surface, the structure of the pottery coffin was quite complete. From the lid of the pottery coffin,
Look, the texture on the outside is relatively smooth, and the color is deep black, without fading at all. "This pottery coffin has been here for so long without losing any color. It's really amazing." As soon as Tang Sancheng finished sighing, he saw Bai Yiyao
He shook his head, this was another lesson he had to teach himself.
"This layer of black should have been painted on before firing. If it was painted on later, it would be impossible not to fall off. This dark coffin really looks like the current black coffin." Bai Yi said: "
Unfortunately, cracks have appeared in this black pottery coffin."
Sure enough, although it was not serious enough to break, there were many cracks on the coffin lid. Bai Yi and Lei Zi carefully moved the coffin lid down. As soon as it was placed on the ground, the coffin lid broke into countless pieces. Lei Zi
He spat on the lid of the coffin: "What kind of clay coffin are you using? In a few years, the corpse will be sleeping on the ground."
"Leizi!" Bai Yi suddenly said: "Look..."
The thin monkey came over, took a look at the corpse in the pottery coffin, and said with excitement: "The protrusion in his mouth must be something in his mouth." The thin monkey was obsessed with money and was about to dig it out. Bai Yi was cold.
He glanced at him with a cold look, reminding the thin monkey: "What's the problem?"
Lei Zi shrugged: "No problem, we are waiting for you to pay for it."
The skin and flesh of the corpse in the pottery coffin has lost its moisture, and it looks like a mummy. It is not easy to find mummies underground in the south. After all, the groundwater is rich and there is a lack of geological environment to form mummies. The skin and flesh of the corpse are wrapped around the bones.
Although the clothes on his body were filthy, he could vaguely see the color, which was yellow, with dragon-shaped patterns on it. Bai Yi looked at his limbs again, his hands were clenched, and his fists were protruding. It was clear that both hands were holding something.
Look at his face, his cheeks are protruding, and he has objects in his mouth.
However, Bai Yi and Lei Zi were disapproving of Shouhou's move to check the mouth because of the belly of the corpse. Shouhou was also an experienced person and immediately understood: "He has swallowed mercury."
Lei Zi shrugged: "If you don't mind, I support you being the first to go."
Mercury is often used to embalm corpses. After a person dies, as soon as he holds his breath, he immediately pours mercury into his mouth. This is what Emperor Zhao Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty did. In ancient times, because mercury is a precious metal, the tomb robber Yang Nian, the Bald Donkey of the Western Regions,
When Zhenjia was robbing the mausoleum, he specially asked people to hang Zhao Lizong's body upside down, lower it into a basin, and drain out the mercury.
Bai Yi shook his head: "It should be more than just mercury, otherwise my stomach wouldn't be so bloated."