The candlelight in the corner of the tomb, the closest to us are the three candles that are placed in the same position as the three demon coffins in the room and arranged in a shape; this kind of light is familiar to me, and it must be the three candles that the fat man just lit.
However, to the right of these three candles, there are two rows of weak blue lights standing vertically on the wall, three by three. This kind of light can only make people perceive that there is light in a dark place, and the faint blue light source
There is no illumination in itself; the dark place is still so dark, but there are six more dark blue will-o'-wisps in this darkness.
The huge bronze coffin hanging on the copper ring was also making sounds of friction of copper and iron. I thought to myself that this must be the sound of zombies scratching the lid of the coffin inside. Why did I encounter corpses as soon as I entered the underworld?
Could it be that I wiped off the dust on the copper coffin with my hands just now, and the ancient corpse in the coffin felt the anger of the living person? I remembered that I wore gloves.
Then I thought about it again, not to mention where those six will-o'-wisps came from, the three of us who touched Captain Jin's life lamp were still there, and their position was not bad at all, so at least there were no corpses or corpses in the tomb so far.
It's a sign of evil things like ghosts and ghosts, but I don't know what is causing the trouble.
Thinking of this, I calmed down and shouted in the tomb: "Commander Wang, what kind of rags are you picking up? Get out of here now, otherwise I will be punished by military law."
I saw the fat man's head peeking out from the other end of the bronze coffin and asked: Commander Hu, you came to me. I opened a good thing on this copper coffin, it seems to be gold. After saying this, he held up a round
A metal object came over.
I took it and took a look, and saw that it was a bronze mirror. I wiped away the dust on it. The surface of the bronze mirror was still shiny and not very rusty. The back of the mirror was stained with patina, and there was a circle of golden jade stones around the mirror as decoration.
These round stones can easily be mistaken for gold. Although the back of the bronze mirror is tattered, it gives people a decadent beauty unique to ancient cultural relics. What is the purpose of the bronze mirror on the bronze coffin? Is it to suppress the inside?
Thousand-year-old corpses have never heard of such a thing. I handed the mirror to the fat man and said: This is a bronze mirror. The back is inlaid with jade stones, not gold. Put it back where you got it from.
Go, we have important matters at hand, don't delay the business for these insignificant weapons.
I asked the fat man from the side: How many candles did you light in the southeast corner of the tomb just now?
When the fat man heard about this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Three candles! After all, I am also a cultural person, how can I not know how to count?" After looking at it, he turned around and was dumbfounded. He also saw that besides the three candles
There are also six points of dim blue light that seem to be firelight. Because the fire source is too weak to fully burn, the light that comes out is blue, just like the will-o’-wisps in the wilderness.
I saw that the six will-o'-the-wisp blue lights were indeed not the work of the fat man, but as long as the three candles stayed on, there wouldn't be much danger. I'd better go over and have a clear look. The three coffins in the tomb were very strong, so it would take some time.
Only then can it be opened, so if there is any sign of evil, nip it in the bud as soon as possible.
Candles can be lit in the tomb, indicating that the oxygen is gradually increasing. I scanned it with a flashlight first, but the tomb is buried deep underground in an absolutely dark space, and the air has some impurities. After shining it for a long time, I couldn't see anything there.
I felt that the heavy sight glass of the gas mask could not be seen clearly, so I temporarily took off the gas mask and hung it on my chest, put on another mask, and walked over with the collar and the fat man to check.
The weird blue light was on the side of the tomb chamber door. Since the tomb chamber in the underworld was not small, the candles that the fat man lit in the corners were relatively concentrated, and the light from the candles was very limited. The distance between the two light sources was about meters. Who knows?
No one can be photographed.
When we walked five meters away from the will-o'-the-wisp, the wolf's eyes could already clearly illuminate the tomb wall. As soon as we entered the tomb, our eyes were attracted by the three coffins in the middle. The range of the light source we carried with us had its limitations, so we didn't notice it.
There is something else beside the doorway of the inner room.
The first thing that entered the range of the wolf's eyes was a strange face covered with black scales. This face had no lips and only had two rows of sharp teeth spread out. The faint light of the will-o'-the-wisp came out of its mouth.
When the fat man and I first saw such a hideous and terrifying appearance, the first thought in our minds was that of evil spirits. We forgot to think about whether the bullets would work. We raised the Chicago typewriter that had been on fire for a long time and were about to shoot.
She has a pair of night eyes and her eyesight is extraordinary. She can often see clearly in the dark better than Fatty and I. She suddenly said: It doesn't matter if they are black-scaled sharks, they are all dead. It turns out that this is the eternal candle in the ancient tomb.
I slowly lowered the muzzle of the raised gun. We had talked about the eternal lamp in the underground palace not long ago. Unexpectedly, we met it as soon as we entered. I couldn't help but wonder: Are there really mermaids in the world? They are not just ancient manatees.
He took a few steps closer to see what the black-scaled mermaid looked like.
What I saw were two copper pillars embedded in the tomb wall. On each copper pillar were tied a total of six half-human, half-fish monster mummies. The upper bodies of these sharks looked like women, and there were two of them with very thin necks.
The gills are on the neck; but they don't have human skin, their whole body is covered with large sparse black scales, and only their belly is scale-free.
The corpse seemed to have been specially treated. It was dry and hard and black, and had not rotted in the underworld. There were chains on the copper pillars, and the six sharks were pierced through the bones of the lute, and they were locked in a crouching and kneeling position on the copper pillars.
, they lined up evenly from top to bottom. Their mouths were surprisingly big, and they were all wide open. I looked inside with a wolf-eye flashlight and found that the sharks’ throats were blocked by a white substance that looked like asbestos.
, there is a piece of tinder stuck in the dry and hard tongue, which is burning with a dim blue light.
The fat man curiously poked the mermaid with the barrel of his gun. The corpse was already hard: It was not the same as the mermaid I imagined, but it looked strange and was still stiff. It seemed that there was no chance of selling it to the zoo; we all
The Natural History Museum really lacks such a specimen.
I saw that although the black-scaled shark was strange, it was just an ordinary longevity candle in this underground palace. It was a tool used to symbolically express that although the body of the tomb owner was destroyed, the soul still existed. I immediately felt relieved.
He took out a cigarette, lit it with the blue fire in the mermaid's mouth, blew out the smoke ring on the fat man's face, and said to him: Commander Wang has a relatively high consciousness this time. He does not only think about himself, but thinks about the country first.
Great collective. You can take it back and give it to the Museum of Natural History, filling a gap in this field, and maybe you can even hang it with a certificate.
Tell me: This is not a new discovery. Many people have discovered the bones of mermaids in the world, and the U.S. Navy once caught a living one. It is said that the ointment of the sea mermaid not only has a low ignition point, but also only one drop can burn it.
It will last for several months. In ancient times, nobles’ tombs often used its grease as ten thousand-year lamps. However, I have never heard of directly using the corpses of sharks to make candles. I think this has something to do with the legendary fairy mountain in the sea during the Qin and Han Dynasties.
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I thought about the detailed records of the longevity candle in the ancient Chinese mausoleums, and suddenly my heart sank and I said: You only know one and two, but you don’t know the third. It is said that the sharks of the East China Sea have the most lustful nature, and they all live in the
Under an island made of dead coral in the sea. Coral caves under the island are criss-crossed with unknown depths. This is the nest of mermaids. They make noises in the nearby waters, attracting passing merchant ships, and all the victims are eaten even to the bones.
There was not much left. Someone caught the black-scaled shark alive, slaughtered it, dried it, poured its ointment into it, and made it into an eternal candle worth three thousand gold beads. I have heard these stories from my grandfather before.
I thought it was just a story, but now it seems to be true. In addition, the closed and stable micro-environment in this tomb has been broken by us. Tinder ignites when it touches the air, so these will-o'-wisps suddenly light up. I don't think this is surprising.
The strangest thing is that there are six longevity candles in total. According to the mausoleum system, the longevity candles in the underground palace are only found in the tomb chamber. Unlike the ten thousand year lamp, one longevity candle corresponds to an important corpse in the tomb. Of course, the person who was buried is
For example, when a couple is buried together in a tomb, there are often two longevity candles in front of the coffin.
The fat man counted on his fingers: there were only three coffins in the tomb, and the three of us living people could count them. Could it be that the coffins of his ancestors were also included in ours?
He shook his head and said: No, I don’t think King Xian is in the three coffins in the middle of the tomb; although his coffin cannot go out of the scope of this tomb, it must be hidden very deep. And among the three older sets of coffins,
The bones represent the previous life of King Xian, and together with King Xian, there are four corpses. Old Hu once said that the animal carvings on the Sanshi Bridge all have a male and a female pair. This king's tomb is a joint tomb, so that's it.
That is to say, there are at least five corpses here, but calculated this way, the number of corpses and longevity candles still does not match
As he was talking, a gust of wind blew by, and the three candles in the southeast corner of the tomb were extinguished. There was a harsh sound of nails scratching metal from the bronze coffin behind him. In the quiet and gloomy underground palace, this sound is enough to deeply impact the human body.
The brain's cerebral cortex produces a strong and overwhelming sense of fear from the inside out. We immediately turned around, and the fat man said to me: Proof, it really wasn't me this time.
I said to him: The organization has always believed in you, but now the time has come to test you. Go and see if there is something wrong in the bronze coffin. Damn it, look at that end of the coffin. Why are there three more lights?
The large group of will-o'-the-wisps with words juxtaposed. Could it be that there are nine corpses here?
Chapter completed!