Chapter 32: Soul Gathering Nails and the Bronze Coffin
Different from the mummies I saw in Shuilian Cave a few months ago, I don't feel the gloomy and violent atmosphere here. I scanned around with my eyes and found that these corpses were clean and there was no residual soul.
Even if there are traces of wronged souls, they were reincarnated thousands of years ago. The thousands of corpses left behind can only be regarded as dehydrated dried meat.
With Hao Wenming and Po Jun by his side to gain courage, Fatty Sun also learned to look through a few corpses. After looking at five or six corpses, Fatty Sun discovered a problem. Hao Wenming said before that three thousand children were buried, but what he saw in front of him was
Most of the corpses had beards on their faces. Tongzi and the others were definitely not qualified, but they were definitely rich enough to say that they were Tongzi's father.
Director Hao noticed when he entered the door. It seemed that the legend had changed after thousands of years.
The documents handed down from the ancient Zhi Kingdom were originally very limited, and after nearly three thousand years of loss, there are very few left. As for the burial of three thousand "boys", it is still through a pair of murals in the Longmen Grottoes
I learned about it. Now it seems that the interpretation of that mural was mostly based on elements, and it is not very reliable.
Hao Wenming ignored Fatty Sun and said, "Don't worry about it. Let's find a secret passage first. When we get out, we'll think about how a boy became an uncle."
Because the tomb was too big and there were many corpses inside, there was no direction to search for. Po Jun walked to the center of the tomb, patted the coffin, and said, "Hao Tou, why not open the coffin first, otherwise there is a secret passage inside."
Hao Wenming hesitated and said, "Be careful when you start, don't hurt the funerary objects inside. It won't be easy to explain when you get out."
When Fatty Sun heard that the coffin was about to be opened, he suddenly became energetic: "No problem, I promise to handle it with care. Lazi, let's help each other."
I reluctantly walked up to him, lowered my voice and said, "Are you out of your mind? Or is the Baijie King in the coffin a relative of yours, and he is just opening the coffin, are you so excited?"
Fatty Sun rolled his eyes at me and replied in the same tone: "You're just out of your mind. The ancient curtain of the Shang and Zhou dynasties was still a royal tomb. What do you think there could be in it? A chamber pot can be worth several bucks.
100 million!"
"Even if there is a money tree inside, you still have to hand it over. Does it have anything to do with you?"
Fatty Sun laughed slyly: He ignored me and walked straight towards the big coffin.
I followed him. There were too many corpses on the ground. When I stepped over, I didn't lift my foot high enough and rubbed the hair of a corpse. There was a "tear" sound, and a slit was opened in the pants.
Is this hair or a steel wire? Why is it so hard? I thought it was incredible. I squatted on the ground and pulled off the hair of the corpse. What was inside shocked me: "Hao Tou, come here and take a look. Why is there still something in his head?"
Is there a big nail?”
"Nail?" Hao Wenming frowned and walked over. Following my gesture, he saw a yellow nail head exposed on the corpse's sky cover.
Po Jun also came over and said, "What is it? It can't be a soul-gathering nail, right?"
Hao Wenming said with a gloomy face: "If you can't tell if you look at it like this, take out the nails."
Po Jun nodded, took out a dagger, clamped the nail head on the tip of the knife, and slowly used his hand to pull out a nail that was more than nine inches long and as thick as a pen: "It's really a soul-gathering nail, it's impossible.
"When the soul-gathering nail is nailed, shouldn't the three souls and the seven souls stay with the body and become a living corpse?" The last sentence was meant for Hao Wenming. Hao Wenming looked at the nail in trance and did not answer Po Jun.
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This nail had been stuck in a dead man's head for thousands of years. When it was pulled out, there was no rust at all. Only now can I see clearly that the nail is actually made of gold. The nail is also engraved with talismans similar to those on the pistol at my waist.
The nail was handed into Hao Wenming's hand. Director Hao's eyebrows almost knitted together: "Let's see if any other corpses have such nails?"
After pulling out the hair of more than a dozen corpses, another dozen nails were pulled out. Each nail was almost identical to the first nail.
Fatty Sun also picked up a nail and weighed it in his hand: "It's not pure gold, the weight is wrong."
"Of course it's not pure gold," Po Jun said: "Each of these nails has two taels, and three thousand nails equals six thousand taels of gold. There are only a few hundred thousand people in Guzhi country, and the territory is more than a thousand miles away. Six thousand taels of gold
Even if they exhaust their treasury, they still won’t be able to raise the funds.”
As he spoke, he took out his swinging stick, stretched it out, and smashed it against a nail. The nail broke with a snap, revealing the lead core inside: "Did you see it? It's gilded on the outside, and it's lead on the inside." He turned around.
Then he asked Hao Wenming: "What does King Baijie mean by nailing all the people buried with soul-gathering nails on them?"
Hao Wenming said quietly: "It's not the King of Hundred Festivals." As he said this, he tore the clothes of a corpse next to him. He said he was tearing apart, but in fact, the fabric of the clothes was already rotten, and it turned into powder when he twisted it with his fingers. The throat of the corpse,
There was a small wound on the heart and belly button.
"It is indeed like this..." Director Hao sighed, pointed to the three wounds and said: "These three positions are the soul exit positions. In the past, after someone died, the soul could not leave the body and would act like a corpse. As long as these three positions are used,
Use a sharp weapon to make an opening, and the soul will leave the body uncontrollably."
"Wait a minute, I'm a little confused." I interrupted Hao Wenming: "Hao Tou, the nail that was pulled out just now is for soul gathering. The wound on the body now is the soul release position. Is it a tool or a release?"
Hao Wenming stared at the three soul-returning positions in confusion. It took him a few seconds to regain his composure: "There should be two groups of people, one group of people hammering in the nails, and the other group of people opening the soul-removing positions."
Fatty Sun curled his lips: "Really or not? It's like seeing it with your own eyes." Po Jun poked him in the back: "Stop talking nonsense, listen to Hao Tou."
Hao Wenming continued: "The iron sword found in the small room just now should have been abandoned by the second group of people. These wounds in the soul-exiting position are from that iron sword."
"Forget it, let Ouyang Zuanzuo and the others worry about these things after we get out." It was important to get out. Hao Wenming stopped paying attention to the corpse on the ground. He turned around and pointed at the huge coffin and said, "Open the coffin and see what's inside?"
He said that, but I saw him secretly hiding a soul-gathering nail
The four of us each took a corner, and Hao Wenming shouted one, two, three. We pressed hard at the same time. Unexpectedly, the coffin lid was so heavy that it seemed like it was directly welded to the coffin and did not move at all.
Fatty Sun slapped the coffin: "Is this coffin made of wood or cement? There is no reaction at all."
These words reminded Hao Wenming, and he flicked the coffin a few times with his hand: "Dang..." There was a metallic echo.
Fatty Sun was startled: "Is it an iron coffin?" "It's not iron." Hao Wenming picked up a soul-gathering nail and scratched the patent leather on the surface of the coffin with the tip of the nail, revealing a bronze pattern: "It's made of copper.
Why isn't it a moon-holding jade coffin?" Hao Wenming glared and patted the copper coffin lid hard: "Damn it! It's a bronze coffin for corpses! I understand. The legends are all false. King Baijie was killed.
Yes! The people in the tomb are not some buried children, but soldiers, soldiers monitoring the body of King Baijie."
As soon as these words came out, the face of Po Jun next to him began to turn blue: "Who has such a big hatred against King Baijie? They used a bronze coffin to hold the corpse. If he dies, he will not be reincarnated."
I listened to it half-understood, and Fatty Sun was scratching his head. He came closer to Po Jun and said, "Take a mirror and look at your face. It looks like blue and white porcelain. Is the copper coffin for setting corpses very powerful? Does it scare you like this?"
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"It's not that it's powerful, it's that it's immoral. It lacks great virtue," Po Jun explained angrily. It turns out that the bronze coffin for corpses was originally the most severe punishment method in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. In the Shang Dynasty, there was already a theory of reincarnation.
It is just the beginning of the next reincarnation. People with this kind of thinking have no scruples, killing people, stealing money, and even rebelling. Anyway, if they fail, they will die, and they will be reincarnated after death. In today's terms, ten
Eight years later, he is a good man again.
These people who easily went to extremes gave the people in power in the Shang Dynasty a headache. They were not even afraid of death, so what else could they be afraid of? Later, an alchemist gave King Xuan an idea. Since they were not afraid of death, then
Let them die.
Strictly speaking, these people will still die, but their souls will be trapped in a special copper coffin after death. Their souls and bodies will be trapped together, and they will watch their bodies slowly rot, and their bodies will not suffer any consequences.
The pain will be reflected in the soul. The worst thing is that the soul will be trapped in the copper coffin forever and cannot be reincarnated. Later, Shang Dynasty destroyed Zhou Sheng, and this punishment was abolished by King Zhou Xiao.
"Isn't that similar to the function of the soul-gathering nail?" Fatty Sun also came closer and said.
"It's different. Strictly speaking, the soul-gathering nail is used to extend your life. After being nailed by the soul-gathering nail, you can also control your own body. If you live enough, you can even pull out the soul-gathering nail and reincarnate. And.
This bronze coffin is passive, equivalent to the last sentence when a prisoner is sentenced to death: deprived of the right to reincarnation for life!"
"Then what should we do now? Open the copper coffin and let King Baijie come out and loosen it quickly?" I said.
Hao Wenming gritted his teeth: "Open the coffin first and see what's inside!"
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