Chapter 28 Burial of Thousand Bones
"It could be Uncle Ming, he is the only one who is so familiar with this place!" I said loudly.
Lao Jintou's face immediately turned gloomy. He squinted his eyes and said, "You'd better be careful about this guy. He has a bad reputation on the road."
I saw that Lao Jintou seemed to know the details of Uncle Ming, so I quickly asked.
But for some unknown reason, Lao Jintou has remained silent about Uncle Ming's affairs.
"Let's follow! Regardless of whether it's Miss Fourth and Uncle Ming or not, since these two people can find this passage, it means they must be very familiar with this place. It's definitely better for us to follow and try our luck than to hit it blindly."
I thought about it and said.
The fat man got through first, and Lao Jintou was the second. Wang Yuanchao said to me: "Dingdang, you go over first, and you have to pull Chen Tuozi down in front later."
I nodded and walked through the passage.
Chen Tuozi wore a hemostatic bandage and, with Wang Yuanchao's help, moved behind with a grin on his face.
Fortunately, this narrow passage was not very long, so we were able to pull Chen Tuozi out in three strokes.
Then Wang Yuanchao and Lao Jintou also came out of the cave. Lao Jintou pointed at the hole we drilled out and said: "Did you see the circle of iron pieces on the edge of the hole? This place was originally sealed by iron plates, but it was
A hole was made by melting the person with strong acid. It must have been done by Cao Sizhi's son. Fortunately, he was prepared, otherwise if we had to drill, we wouldn't be able to get out even if we drilled through our heads..."
"Hey, what does this smell like? Everyone cover their noses, be careful of the poison."
Suddenly, my nose smelled a strange smell.
I quickly frowned, feeling wary. The smell was a bit like a rotting corpse, but I couldn't tell if it was exactly that, so I had to ask the fat man in front of me.
"Fat man, what's going on there?"
When we walked out of the cave, there was a huge stone chamber, but there was a stone slab between the cave entrance and the stone chamber. Our line of sight was also blocked. We had to walk more than ten meters to get around. At this moment, only the fat man who was the first to come out of the cave was blocked.
He could see it most clearly, but the fat man didn't say a word, and his whole body seemed to be petrified.
I suddenly felt something bad, so I subconsciously took out my pistol and rushed forward.
When I rushed to the fat man, I was completely stunned. I finally understood where the smell came from. It was this huge stone room!
At a glance, the stone chamber in front of me was densely packed with rotten bones.
This place is at least a few hundred meters in radius, but the skeletons are piled up to above my knees. You can imagine how terrifying the number of dead people here is, thousands of people?
Or five thousand or ten thousand!
I just felt like my scalp was exploding. Such a large number of corpses and skeletons were all piled up in front of me, which was a huge shock to everyone.
"Damn it, are these people the craftsmen who build tombs? Li Si is not afraid of annihilating his descendants. He killed so many people at once. Even if this place is a geomantic treasure land, if so many people are killed, it will turn into a vicious tomb.
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The fat man finally came to his senses and said in a daze.
"I once dug through the tomb of a prince. The tomb was not small in size. I also saw craftsmen who were killed, but the total number of people was not even one-tenth of the number here! Is this tomb really that big?
?So many people are actually going to die. This skeleton is a living human life..."
Lao Jintou also rarely sighed with emotion.
The fate of the craftsmen who built tombs in ancient times was generally not good. When the tomb was about to be completed, the owner of the tomb would often kill these craftsmen and bury them together in the tomb to prevent them from leaking information about the tomb.
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What the tomb owner fears most is that others know the location of his tomb. How could he let these craftsmen go out?
When some experienced craftsmen were building imperial tombs, they would often leave a way out for themselves to escape. Some even stayed dormant for a few years after escaping, and then returned to the same place after the owner of the tomb was buried.
The treasures were looted.
"Look at the fabrics left on the skeleton. Not only the craftsmen were killed, but also the soldiers guarding this place."
I suddenly discovered that under a pile of bones, there was a skeleton wrapped in iron armor. His clothes were obviously different from those craftsmen wearing cotton cloth, and he also wore a scabbard around his waist.
"It's true! Look, there are a bunch of people over there, all wearing iron armor. These should be guards. They were all killed here by Li Si..."
The fat man put on his gloves and wanted to pull the top skeleton over, but he didn't expect that the threads wearing the armor were broken, and the whole armor fell to the ground.
"There are also women's clothes. Look at that black dress. It is clearly the 'wrapped skirt' worn by the palace maids of the Qin Dynasty. How can there be a woman here?"
What I saw was really baffling. If it was a craftsman, then I might not be so surprised.
But now I see soldiers wearing iron armor, palace maids wearing wrap-around skirts, and an astonishing number of craftsmen. The combination of these is a bit confusing.
"Could it be the female cook?"
The fat man thought for a while and said.
"This is impossible. Look, there are at least several hundred of them. Moreover, this kind of clothing can only be worn by women of high status. It is impossible for a cook to wear such a large wrap skirt."
I am relatively familiar with the history of the Qin Dynasty, I frowned and said.
"He's not a cook, and his status is not low. Damn it, couldn't it be that Li Si killed all the servants in his family? Look at these skeletons, it seems that they were all driven to this stone room and gassed to death.
Many bones have turned black."
The fat man said inexplicably, and he subconsciously glanced at Chen Tuozi next to him.
Chen Tuozi was familiar with these historical materials, and he would definitely be able to discern some clues. However, at this moment, he fainted from the pain again and could not speak at all.
"Don't say it's really possible. Didn't we see that hanging coffin before? Li Si can even turn his wife into a white-haired zombie to guard the tomb, there's nothing he can't do." I said.
Although Li Si's fate in history was that Qin II implicated nine clans, aren't things like history books written by humans?
With Li Si's brilliant IQ, such an eternal wizard who helped Qin Shi Huang step by step to stabilize the country, would he not be able to detect Qin II's murderous intention towards him?
It is very possible that Li Si was not dead at that time, but just played a beautiful trick of golden cicada to escape from the shell, otherwise this tomb would not have appeared.
Judging from the current situation, in addition to killing the craftsmen, Li Si seemed to have killed everyone who knew about it! According to normal logic, such a large-scale massacre just to protect the location of the tomb seems unjustifiable.
It is very possible that he did this kind of silence in order to hide a huge secret.
"Old Jintou, can you tell me what happened to you back then? You said before that my grandfather and the others did not go to the tomb for the gold, silver and jewelry in the tomb, so what were they looking for?"
Chapter completed!