Chapter 1192 The Returnee's Notes 266
First, they threw down a handful of talismans, and then the group stared at the cave entrance. After about a minute, a breeze began to blow up from below.
Yuan Ming nodded. "You can go down now."
After he was ready, he went down first, followed by Snow Fox.
Going down into the cave was not easy, but fortunately, because of the cold weather, everyone was not only dressed in thick clothes, but also wore gloves.
Xie Ning followed behind Xu Jiu. As soon as her foot touched the ground, she heard a cracking sound. Xu Jiu cursed under her breath and then removed her foot from the human bone.
Unlike the skeleton above, this skeleton was clearly much older. Yuan Ming paused, held up the lamp for a glance, and then squatted down to collect the skeleton to the side.
When he stood up again and met Huifa's gaze, he couldn't help but give a bitter smile; he had a bad feeling.
He needs to look further ahead.
Xie Ning brushed the dirt off Ouyang Lin, then glanced at the skeleton on the ground. "These should be the remains of tomb raiders from the past, probably from the Song Dynasty."
"How do you know?" Ouyang Lin raised an eyebrow. "It's just a pile of bones, and the clothes are rotten beyond recognition."
She didn't have the ability to determine the age of a body solely based on its remains. Xie Ning picked up a shard of porcelain from the ground. "This is an oil lamp from the Song Dynasty."
She has some knowledge of porcelain from that period.
Therefore, this tomb may have originated before the Song Dynasty, and it must have been visited by tomb robbers from various periods.
The Song Dynasty was a typical period when tomb raiding was rampant; as the saying goes, "Where there is a desire in the upper class, there will be something else in the lower class to follow suit."
At that time, emperors began collecting cultural relics and artifacts. Cultural relics were quite valuable at the time, so many people took things out of tombs and sold them.
"Wouldn't the tomb have been hollowed out?"
After Ouyang Lin finished speaking, she realized the purpose of their visit and couldn't help but wipe her nose. "Those tomb raiders were just unlucky."
They encountered three skeletons along the way, and besides the one Xu Jiu just stepped on, there was another one below.
I don't even dare to think about going any further.
If there really is something big here, and those tomb raiders are bold enough to go deep inside, there must be even more skeletons inside.
Huifa looked at the sweat on Yuan Ming's forehead, lowered her eyes, and said, "Tell the truth."
"What do you mean by telling the truth?"
Snow Fox stared at Yuan Ming, and the others who were still talking about tomb raiders also looked over.
Yuan Ming swallowed hard and said with some difficulty, "I've fallen into their trap."
"What's the meaning?"
“I felt something was wrong when Xu Jiu stepped on that skeleton, because there were no skeletons down in the tunnel I went down earlier.”
Yuan Ming took a deep breath, "Didn't I tell you before that I didn't go too deep back then? I just started from that tunnel..."
At this point, Yuan Ming paused for a moment, "I'm certain that the tunnel is correct, but the point where we came down has changed. Perhaps it's a formation, or maybe it's that thing..."
He couldn't explain what that thing was, nor how many there were. Only then did he feel a mix of regret and relief. He regretted not bringing more people with him, and he was relieved that he had escaped alive.
But today he went down into the tomb again, which is a very dangerous act. However, he consulted the oracle and it was said that although the trip was extremely dangerous, there was a chance of survival.
That's why he decided to take the risk and give it a try.
"I went down into one of the small tombs. There was nothing there. Neither tomb raiders nor ghosts saw anything. Of course, there was no treasure either."
Actually, there were some, but he dropped them on the way when he was running away. Now, on his way back to the tomb, he hasn't seen any of the things he dropped.
Yuan Ming glanced at Xie Ning, then continued, "Didn't you ask me before why this place is called the General's Tomb?"
Actually, this name isn't quite right. I called it that because I was walking along the tomb passage... The tomb passages here are intricate and chaotic, and it's easy to get lost.
However, I still ended up in a large tomb chamber, where a general from ancient times was buried.
I just mentioned that it's easy to get lost or blocked in the tomb passage. Now that I think about it, we probably fell into their trap the moment we came down from the tomb.
The tomb-raiding hole was like a door, and the burial chamber below was like a series of small cubicles; the descent was random.
He only just realized this and had this suspicion.
Logically speaking, the tomb chamber should not move, but their landing point can be changed midway through the process.
A chill ran down their spines. If it was just a formation in the tomb, that would be one thing, but if it was the work of ghosts...
"It shouldn't be a ghost..."
Snow Fox didn't think it was the latter, after all, if it were the work of ghosts, how could they still be standing here safely?
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