This usually means that the tomb has been looted by tomb robbers.
However, the main tomb chamber that is still closed seems to overturn this common sense. The tomb robbers who have dug through the tomb have no reason to let go of the main tomb chamber filled with funerary objects unless they are all dead.
But where did they die? No corpses were found in the tomb.
"I remembered that two of my colleagues were unconscious in this side room." Fang Yuan said suddenly.
"Is there something weird in this side room?" Si Yueru immediately ordered to Huang Qiuding: "Qiu Ding, release the gu."
A few tiny sounds of breaking through the air immediately sounded. Although the appearance of the Gu insects could not be seen in the darkness, one could imagine that the colorful beetles were flapping their wings and flying to every corner of the side room.
Soon, Huang Qiuding took back the Gu worm, pulled the corner of Si Yueru's clothes, and shined the flashlight in her hand towards a corner of the side room.
Soon everyone's flashlights were shining together.
The four apertures were stacked together, illuminating that corner clearly, and there was a piece of ground there that looked a little awkward and was not in harmony with the surrounding masonry ground.
If you look carefully, you will see that there is no green brick floor, but a hole filled with a whole stone.
There was actually a robbery hole on the ground of the tomb. Si Yueru and Fangyuan looked at each other, both of whom were a little confused.
If you want to dig a hole into the main tomb to avoid the huge stone sealing the door, you shouldn't choose the side room farthest from the main tomb. Moreover, digging a hole directly from the wall of the next side room is better than digging from the ground.
It was much more convenient in the past.
Judging from the degree to which the hole on the top of the tomb was filled with soil, this was not a group of modern tomb robbers. The hole was stolen at least several hundred years ago.
"The main tomb filled with funerary objects is left untouched, and a hole needs to be dug through the ground of the tomb. Could it be that what we are encountering is not a group of tomb robbers from who knows how many years ago, but geological geology that has traveled through time?
Exploration team?" As a special member of the archaeological team, Si Yueru was at a loss for a while despite her extraordinary experience.
"This is simply unheard of."
"Unless...unless there is something hidden behind this." Si Yueru had such a hypothesis in her mind, "Is it because he..."
Si Yueru had gone to Longling to investigate before, but returned without success because long before she came to Longling, the silk books hidden in Longling had been stolen, and the culprit was the local chieftain.
But what made her deeply suspicious at this time was another person she met in the ancient tomb. This person was also the person I met in Longling later.
I was very impressed. The man did admit that Si Yueru had already been there before we got there. And the loopholes in his explanations have puzzled me to this day. I am afraid this is what Si Yueru was doing at that time.
Whatever comes to mind.
"The Huling clan of Longling has been guarding Longling for generations, but the Longling silk books were still stolen. The resentment persists, and ghosts die for the sake of evil. Presumably, his clan members have not given up looking for the whereabouts of the silk books for many years, so this
Cave theft is very likely..."
The four of them walked over, squatted down around it, and carefully examined the burglary hole that appeared very unexpectedly.
"Corpse poison, the reaction is very small." Huang Qiuding's unique short words came to his ears.
Huang Qiuding's sudden words startled Fang Yuan and Ma Weiguang, and both of them couldn't help but shrink back.
Especially Fangyuan's face turned white.
"It's okay, don't be afraid. There is very little corpse poison left here. Only the poisonous insects can smell it and cannot infect people."
After hearing everyone's words, Fangyuan breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone turned their attention back to the robbery cave. Obviously, Stone
Someone deliberately put it into the hole, just to seal the hole.
An untimely appearance of the robbery cave brought one mystery after another to the tomb exploration trip. Si Yueru vaguely felt that this mystery-filled robbery cave would lead them into a completely unpredictable direction.
"Captain Ma, give me your hand and we will lift this stone out. Fangyuan and Qiuding, you two should step back." Si Yueru stood up and said to the three people next to her.
"Okay." Ma Weiguang responded naturally.
"One, two, three, get up."
As Si Yueru and Ma Weiguang worked hard together, the stone was lifted up and placed next to the entrance of the cave.
A bottomless and deep cave appeared in front of the four people.
Under the illumination of four flashlights, the entire entrance of the Thief's Cave was revealed.
The entrance to the thief's cave is very small, barely large enough for an adult man to bend over and bend his knees to enter.
It penetrates deep into the ground at an oblique angle of about 60 degrees. I don't know how deep it is. The light of the flashlight can only shine into the distance of more than ten meters. After that, there is endless darkness, as if it can never reach the end.
The four people looked at each other, feeling a little scared. This was not a thief's cave. It was simply a passage leading directly into the Netherworld. It should not appear in the world at all.
However, at this time, the curiosity about the unknown clearly defeated the fear of it. The four people exchanged glances again and understood their respective thoughts. No matter what, this robbery must be done.
"I'll go first, Captain Ma will follow me, then Fangyuan, Qiuding, you take the lead." Si Yueru became the absolute core of the team, and she arranged the order of entry in just a few words.
She and Huang Qiuding know each other well. Huang Qiuding is a niece of Huang Mingda, the head of the Huang family of the Wumei Huangmen. She has participated in archaeology since she was a child. One of them explores the path, and the other cuts off the rear. They can ensure that they will take care of each other. If there is any unexpected situation, the other one will
I also had time to react and asked Ma Weiguang to follow me, because I was afraid that if someone in front of me slipped accidentally, he could catch me in time.
After looking around and seeing them all nodding and clarifying their order, Si Yueru didn't waste any more time and took the lead in getting into the robbery cave.
Others followed soon after.
The cave was small and steep. Si Yueru held the flashlight in her mouth, put both hands on the cave wall, bent down, and carefully moved down step by step.
It was extremely quiet inside the Thief's Cave, with only the sand and stones picked up under the feet rolling down the slope, making a small rustling sound.
In this almost claustrophobic space, the sounds of breathing and heartbeat were muted countless times, banging, banging, hitting the eardrums.
In the claustrophobic dark space, time seems to pass extremely long, and the endless holes almost give people the illusion that they will never end.
If Ma Weiguang hadn't touched Si Yueru's back from time to time, she almost doubted whether there was anyone behind her.
Just when Si Yueru couldn't help but wanted to say something to break the suffocating silence, the flashlight suddenly illuminated a piece of blue brick ground.
The end of the robbery cave has finally arrived.
She stretched her hands on both sides of the hole and looked down.
Below the robbery cave is a masonry corridor, about two meters high and four meters wide. A corridor of this size can definitely be called spacious among underground tombs.
The end of the corridor disappeared into darkness, and it was impossible to see where it led.
Clinging to the side wall of the robbery cave, Si Yueru lowered her body and landed gently on the corridor. After Ma Weiguang also jumped down, they helped Fang Yuan and Huang Qiuding fall to the ground safely.
"Is there such a place down there? Is this still the ancient tomb above?" Ma Weiguang took a flashlight and shined it.
Asked around curiously.
"It must be related to the chieftain's tomb above. The two ancient tombs are far apart in age, but the load-bearing structure is very symmetrical, like a tower. The lower tomb is the base of the upper tomb.
This kind of tomb structure is spread in the Miao area. This place should be a family cemetery. Their clan members are buried in the same place. The earliest ancestors are buried at the bottom, and then they are built on top of each other in sequence." Si Yueru observed.
Let’s talk about the structure of the corridor.
"A single tomb passage has such specifications, so how big is the scale of the entire tomb?" As a researcher of the cultural relics department, Fangyuan was in a very shocked mood. The tomb in front of him, which had not yet revealed its true appearance, was completely beyond his imagination.
"Generally speaking, the size of the tomb depends on the status and power of the tomb owner during his lifetime. This is not only a question of whether the rules are exceeded, but also related to the huge cost of building underground tombs. In a feudal hierarchical society, the level of status also determines
It depends on the amount of wealth you have." Si Yueru said.
"Without enough financial resources, we naturally cannot build larger-scale tombs."
"Especially the underground tombs at the palace level can no longer be measured in terms of money. The unimaginable amount of work alone often requires hundreds of thousands of civilians. In history, only a few emperors can do this.
Do it.”
The most well-known one is naturally the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang at the foot of Mount Li built by the unprecedented First Emperor more than two thousand years ago.
After the four people took a short rest, they followed the corridor and entered deeper.
After walking about a few dozen meters, the flashlight accidentally hit a field of white flowers. Their footsteps suddenly stopped again, and four flashlights shone together.
What came into view were four or five corpses that had long since turned into bones.
These corpses were either sitting or lying on their backs, stacked on top of each other, and some rusty iron tools were scattered around.
No wonder there are no corpses on it. It turns out that these tomb robbers from hundreds of years ago finally died here.
Ma Weiguang walked to the bones, squatted down and observed for a while: "The skeleton is basically complete, and there are no traces of external force on the bones. Judging from the positions where they fell to the ground, these people were either thrown together after death, or they were in the extreme
They were all killed together in a short period of time."
"As for the cause of death, there is no way to confirm it, but we can rule out the possibility of death from external force." Ma Weiguang added.
"How did you come to such a judgment?" Fangyuan was a little doubtful.
"Haha, it's not difficult to deduce. If you were one of them, when someone died, would you stay so close to the corpse?" Ma Weiguang pointed to the bones on the ground, "These corpses are almost all intertwined.
Together, I don’t think anyone will hold the body and wait to die."
"Actually, it doesn't matter how these people died. The key question is, what are they doing here?"
Si Yueru interrupted the small argument between Ma Weiguang and Fangyuan and continued: "The tomb robbers are just looking for money. There is no reason to let go of the tomb above. Even if they know the existence of the tomb in the tomb, they will steal the top one first.
Wouldn’t it be better to dig this grave next time?”
"That's right," Fangyuan nodded, "What Yueru said is the action that a normal tomb robber would take, instead of digging two robbery holes to get here and leaving his life behind in the end."
"That only shows that this group of people are not ordinary tomb robbers. Their goal is here. There must be something hidden in this tomb that is enough to attract them." Ma Weiguang concluded.
But what exactly is it?
Chapter completed!