Human bone cart
I don’t know whether they will be allowed to open the business or not, but for them at the moment, they have no other choice but to take this path.
Gao Wenwen had already put his hand on it: "Then let me try?"
Several people agreed without saying anything, but they all held their breath involuntarily. After all, no one knew what would be waiting inside.
The copper ring on the door looks huge, but when you pick it up in your hand, it actually doesn't weigh much. It must be hollow inside.
The special hollow structure makes it make a loud noise when it hits the stone door. After it reaches the ears, it spreads to the tomb passage behind and reaches a far distance, even causing an echo, which takes some time to disappear.
The time waiting for a response was unbearable. Ding Can focused his eyes on the bronze pattern carved on the stone gate. The pattern was some kind of auspicious beast with rare significance, a style that can be seen in ordinary tombs.
She hoped that the bones living in her body would have some reaction when they saw the door, and maybe they would be able to find a way to enter the stone door quickly.
But for me now, apart from the hunting and boning scenes that often float before my eyes like slides, no other useful information has appeared.
Logically speaking, the leg bones have had self-awareness for a long time and cannot go out of the tomb. They should also know the location and various passages of the entire tomb very clearly.
However, there was no revelation, which, in a sense, was not a bad thing. Perhaps it was because behind this door was actually an area that the leg bones could not reach.
There, there will be something that can resist the human bone cart.
Ding Can raised her hand and rubbed her solar plexus, then leaned unassumingly against the nearby stone wall. She could only think simply, "How about we just score a goal?"
Although the feeling of discomfort was not too strong, everyone could see that her mental state was not very good. There was obvious fatigue on her face, and even her speech was slower than usual.
They didn't have much time to waste, and the stone gate didn't seem to respond to being knocked.
Just to prevent the tomb passage from collapsing when the door is broken, the method of entry should not be too direct and violent.
The two stone doors fit together tightly, and when you look inside at the joint, you can't see any useful information. Ding Can, who looked from top to bottom, noticed that there was a subtle dark stain on the ground near the edge of the stone door.
At first she thought it was a water stain or something, until she squatted down, picked up a piece with her fingertips, and rubbed it on her fingertips. It was a bit sticky, not the feel of water.
Ding Can frowned and put it to his nose and sniffed it. A barely perceptible pungent smell entered his nasal cavity: "It seems there is kerosene in it."
This special smell is very easy to identify, and the reason they were able to escape the disaster just now was due to the limitations of the knowledge of the ancient working people.
The workers probably could not have imagined that many years later, the lighting tools would have changed from torches to something more advanced.
If someone were walking forward with a torch, a small spark might ignite the kerosene, causing a huge explosion that would instantly engulf everything in sight.
Even without a torch, the friction between the stones might create sparks, and the door would have to be opened slowly from the outside.
"If it can seep through, doesn't that mean there's still a gap under the door?"
Yu Fu thought of a solution in the blink of an eye, "You guys step back a little."
He squatted down, turned his palms upward, and probed inward along the frame of the stone door with his fingertips. He first felt more kerosene, shook it a few times, and rubbed off the layer of sand on the surface. As he had imagined, the stone door was not completely closed.
In addition, the fingers have a certain degree of ductility, which is just enough to get stuck in. Then use the props to apply enough gravity on the hands, and the stone door will be lifted up an inch.
Such a heavy stone door was tightly closed, making it difficult to push or pull it inward or outward, so he guessed that if it could not be pulled open to the sides, it could only be pulled up.
As the door was lifted upwards, the kerosene inside did not spread out in large quantities, only forming a thin layer on the ground.
Only a few dozen centimeters high was enough for everyone to bend over and enter. After stepping on the kerosene, they rubbed it against the ground a few times, making the soles of their feet cleaner.
"Since it's connected to the tomb passage where the workers left, this must be just the side chamber of the tomb, not the center."
Yang Qi shone the flashlight across the tomb chamber. There were only some farm tools and clay products placed there. At first glance, there was nothing valuable.
It is more likely that the sacrificial items used by the wizard are together with the coffin of the tomb owner, and the upper layer may just be a cover to prevent tomb robbers from entering.
Fortunately, the passage here is not complicated and the way in is easy to identify. After walking a few steps, the exit of the room begins to split into two.
The door is specially designed to open in two directions, but once you select it and push it, the open door will get stuck in the slot, leaving only one way to go.
"I seem to have seen this pattern on previous murals. It should be related to witchcraft."
Yu Fu looked at the painted patterns surrounding the door frame. Although they had faded a lot after thousands of years, he could still tell from the direction of the patterns that they were the talismans drawn by the wizards of Nanhu Kingdom in the past.
This door may also be blessed with the witchcraft of the past.
Ding Can actually believed what he said to some extent, because from the moment he entered the tomb, he began to feel obviously uncomfortable, especially in the parts of his leg where the parasite had previously parasitized.
It was the lingering fear of wizards that caused the leg bones to subconsciously react when they approached.
She patted her arms, feeling something stirring beneath her skin again, so she took a few steps forward and placed her hands on the door panel. After testing both sides, she confirmed that her leg bones felt more uncomfortable when facing the door on the right.
There is something there that the leg bones are afraid of, and it must be somewhere closer to the main coffin.
"Let's go this way."
The moment the door was opened, the central hub rotated and a sulfur smell came from the other tightly closed door. It could be smelled from here. If I had chosen that door just now, I would probably have been accidentally injured by the poisonous gas before I even walked in.
The light grew brighter. This was a corner of the main tomb chamber, which looked even more spectacular than the underground palace on the upper level.
Several red and black prayer flags hung down from the dome, connected to a huge coffin placed in the middle of the ground. From a distance, it looked like they had grown countless branches.
There is no wind here, and the prayer flags are stuck in one place lifelessly. Looking at them for a few more seconds just makes people feel depressed.
The nanmu wood of the coffin was inlaid with gold and jade, and it looked very luxurious at first glance. Ding Can was just standing at the door, and when he was about to take a step closer, he found that his feet could not move.
There are two energies in the body that are resisting each other, as if there is an inexplicable fear of something inside.
"Can we still go?" The other two had already approached, and Yu Fu was waiting for her behind.
Ding Can nodded and stretched out his hand, "Help me up."
She still has control over her body now, she just needs a little help to make it feel more relaxed.
When Gao Wenwen walked around to the front of the coffin, he saw a scepter. The scepter was black and gold in color, with a tiger head carved on the top. It stood on a square base on the ground.
Even the base is very delicate. If you look closely, you can see that there are two ears on it in the shape of snakes, with beads in their mouths.
Although there were not many details on the murals, the styles were basically the same, and he could basically be sure that this was a staff from a certain wizard.
With the blessing of the wizard's Taoism, the witchcraft contained in it must be very profound. If they really encounter those leg bones again, they will only retreat and there is no chance for them to hope for any parasitism.
He turned around and looked at the two people not far away: "Sister Can, come and feel it, is the leg bone here most afraid of this scepter?"
He didn't need to tell him, Ding Can was actually walking towards him slowly. It was as if the leg bones in his body had their own navigation function. Every time he approached a place, he would try to pull himself in the opposite direction.
"Look," she raised her arm. The thin layer of leg bone inside had caused a large bulge in the skin, and her forearm had begun to turn red. "I'll stay away from it later. Otherwise, I'm really afraid it will fly out of my arm."
She stopped less than two meters away from the scepter.
The base is wrapped with several red chains. Rather than being sturdy, it seems as if they are somehow suppressing the power inside to prevent it from escaping.
The cursive-like incantation on it was written with a pigment such as cinnabar after the scepter was placed in. It started from the bottom of the scepter and continued without interruption in the middle.
Gao Wenwen put his hand on it. Apart from the fact that the scepter itself was a little cold, he didn't feel anything strange.
But the next second he used force, but couldn't move it at all: "Is it so heavy?"
Yang Qi came over and tried with him, but still no results. This thing was right in front of them, and even if it was made of black iron, it couldn't be that heavy. It seemed that there was a restriction inside, and it needed a corresponding solution to open it.
"Is there some kind of mechanism? There are so many things in this room. It would take a long time to try them all out."
Speaking of which, it is placed in such a conspicuous position. In order to prevent tomb robbers from taking it directly, a lot of thought must have been spent on its original setting.
Although the search in the tomb was fruitless, they did have a rough idea of the identity of the tomb owner. He was not a member of the royal family of Nanhu Kingdom, but a great wizard who was at the peak of power at that time.
After his death, the great wizard buried the human bone cart he had made, which had once been used for his great military exploits, with him as a burial object.
But he never thought that many years after his death, it was the leg bones that were once controlled by the evil spirits that became the controllers of the tomb.
The great wizard cannot come back to life, but the scepter he left behind is the key to breaking the deadlock.
Yang Qi took out a small iron spray bottle from his backpack. It was some kind of special additive. The talismans written on the scepter were, to put it simply, just some kind of pigment that could be blended through chemical reactions.
He squatted down and sprayed it a few times. The words on it were indeed visibly blurred. There was no need to rub them with hands before they were smudged into small patches.
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