Zhang Haitao shook his head and said, "I don't think it's the tomb of Master Guigu..."
I said helplessly: "No matter whose tomb it is, let's go down first and discuss it later, okay?" All I was thinking about now was Su Xiaoniu, so how could I care who the owner of this tomb was?
Zhang Haitao and the other two nodded, agreeing with me. Their purpose for coming to Tianmen Mountain was obvious. So, we walked to the front of the tomb. There was a stone gate. We didn't know if it had been visited by tomb robbers before, or if there were problems during the construction of the tomb itself, but the stone gate we saw was incomplete, with half of the entire stone gate damaged.
We were all stunned when we saw it, and almost simultaneously thought that someone had entered the tomb long before us, but whether it was the work of the people who built the tomb or other tomb robbers who entered later, no one knew. But after we went down to the tomb, we would know the answer by looking at the situation inside.
"Lao Sha, I leave it to you." The madam patted Lao Sha on the shoulder.
Old Sha flexed his muscular build, walked up to the stone gate with a fierce, imposing manner, and pressed his hands, like iron arms, against the cracked half of the stone gate. He then shouted, and with a loud boom, the entire stone gate was forcibly lifted from the ground. The tomb chamber instantly began to leak air, as if its front teeth had been pulled out.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Beneath the pitch-black tomb, the sound of wind was faint and spread intermittently upwards.
If I am not mistaken, this should be a "backward wind" without a doubt.
I'd already witnessed the "hole wind" and "reverse wind" when I went to Loulan with Zhang Haitao and the other two. The hole wind was intentionally created during construction to provide ventilation for the tomb's builders, while the reverse wind was different. The reverse wind was left behind by tomb robbers after they entered the tomb. Later tomb robbers could accurately determine whether the tomb had been robbed by simply distinguishing between the hole wind and the reverse wind.
What I feel now is very much like the reverse wind, because the wind from the grave is of yin nature and has a strong smell, while the reverse wind left by tomb robbers is of warm nature and has a light smell.
I sniffed the faint breeze blowing from the bottom of the dark tomb. The wind was indeed a little warm and the smell was very light, so there was no doubt that it must be a backdraft!
"The wind blowing down here is a backdraft. It seems someone has gotten there before us. What a pity." The madam shrugged her shoulders helplessly.
I was delighted. Sure enough, I was right! It seemed my tomb-robbing skills were improving.
"Then do we still need to go down?" Lao Sha seemed a little reluctant, with a hint of unwillingness on his dark and rough face.
Zhang Haitao hesitated for a few seconds before speaking firmly, "Since we've come here, there's no reason to return empty-handed. This tomb is hidden in the Ghost Gate Bagua Dun. Even if someone really got in before us, they definitely wouldn't take much valuables. Furthermore, only a small part of the tomb's front door is damaged. A normal person wouldn't be able to enter through the front door at their height. So there must be other robbery holes nearby. If not, then there's only one last possibility..."
We were all surprised and asked him: "What's possible?"
Zhang Haitao said with a hint of fear on his face, "The wind blowing up from the bottom of the tomb is most likely not a downwind wind, but a 'family-destroying wind,' also known as a 'corpse wind.'"
I asked curiously, "Corpse wind? What kind of wind is this?"
The madam said gravely, "Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty, a prince killed 999 people before his death. 333 of them were men, 333 were women, and another 333 were children. He buried them all together, and the blood and corpses spread all over the ground. Over the years, a bloody grave has formed."
I shuddered all over. According to the brothel owner, those 999 people were to be used as burial companions for that prince! But what did this have to do with the corpse wind?
Zhang Haitao continued, "The wind hole was dug behind the blood and corpse ground. When the wind blows, it forms a hole wind that blows over the blood and corpse ground, turning into corpse wind. The nature of corpse wind is exactly the same as the back wind. This is why the tomb owner deliberately designed it this way when he ordered the construction to prevent tomb robbers from visiting the tomb chamber."
I nodded. Now I understood. To prevent tomb robbers from robbing the tomb, the tomb owner had created a bloody corpse field to create a corpse wind. This corpse wind had the same properties as the downdraft wind. As soon as tomb robbers smelled the downdraft wind, they would stop and avoid the tragedy of being robbed.
While I secretly admired the tomb owner's wit, I was also very curious about who this tomb owner was.
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