Chapter 030 Seven Star Suspicious Coffin
"Brother, the one behind..."
Seeing that Zhang Qiling was only concerned about the things in the sarcophagus and didn't say a word about the thing that was making a "clucking" sound on the road behind them, Wuxie wanted to ask how to deal with the thing that was making a sound behind them, but Wu Sansheng pulled him to stop talking.
Zhang Qiling turned around and looked over. Wu Sansheng gave him a friendly smile and spoke in an understanding manner.
"Brother, I'll do as you say."
Wu Sansheng suspected that the person following them was someone Zhang Qiling had called over, and that he had extraordinary abilities.
He felt that it was most likely the legendary Southern Blind Man and Black Blind Man. After all, there were only a few powerful people in the underworld, and he knew them all. Among them, only Black Blind Man had a good relationship with Zhang Qiling.
Although I have never heard of anyone as ostentatious as Nan Xia claiming that he can communicate with Zongzi, since Bei Ya can communicate with Zongzi, there is no reason why Nan Xia, who is as famous as him, cannot do the same.
Who knows what the giggling at the back might be saying: If you keep on talking, old man, they will lose all moral integrity and fight two against one.
I feel that this is something that Nan Xia would say, and it fits the current situation very well. Didn’t you see that Zongzi immediately became quiet after hearing it? He definitely can’t beat the two of them together!
Wu Sansheng felt that his idea was logically sound and was probably true.
Zhang Qiling was originally thinking about how to make up... how to explain so that Wu Sansheng, the old fox, would not be suspicious of him and save more trouble, but he didn't expect Wu Sansheng to convince himself.
This was perfect, he didn't have to rack his brains or talk too much. Zhang Qiling expressed his satisfaction with Wu Sansheng's understanding, and gave him a look to let them follow on their own.
Wu Sansheng and his companions lined up obediently in a row, and one after another followed Zhang Qiling out like elementary school students.
Several people followed the tomb passage and went down again. After a few minutes, the road became flat again. Just when they were getting a little impatient, they suddenly found a hole dug by robbers on the side of the tomb passage.
"Uncle San, this isn't the hole those foreigners dug in, is it?"
Wu Xie approached with some curiosity, but was pulled over by Wu San Sheng. Wu San Sheng carefully looked around the tunnel and rejected his idea.
“This hole was indeed dug from the outside in, but it shouldn’t have been dug by the foreigners who came in to steal.
You see, this hole was clearly dug in a hurry. They must have encountered some danger in the tomb and had to dig a hole to escape."
"It seems that even though those foreigners came in earlier than us, they didn't get anything good. The treasures inside must still be there."
After reaching this conclusion, the group quickened their pace, eager to enter the next tomb chamber.
Soon they saw a huge jade gate, with a statue of a hungry ghost with a hideous face and a pitch-black body on each side of the jade gate.
However, at this moment, everyone's attention was not on the expensive-looking Jade Gate, nor on the scary-looking hungry ghost statue. Instead, it was on the crack in the Jade Gate that was just big enough for one person to pass through.
"That group of people have explored the road, so there's no need to be too cautious. Let's go in quickly and see what's going on."
The main tomb chamber should be behind this door, and everyone perked up.
After entering, they found that this tomb was really unusual.
Generally, there is only one coffin in a tomb, but here, at a glance, there are seven identical coffins.
These seven coffins were arranged in a certain pattern. Wuxie felt that they looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.
The tomb chamber was covered with a large, imposing ceiling covered with murals, and surrounded by stone slabs of the same size, densely engraved with characters.
The light from several people's flashlights scattered around, illuminating other chaotic places. Only then did everyone see clearly that there were two attic chambers next to the tomb chamber.
"Seven Star Suspicious Coffin."
At this time, Zhang Qiling looked at the seven coffins and said the name of this layout.
Upon hearing these four familiar words, Wuxie suddenly understood and finally remembered where he had seen the layout of these coffins.
Isn’t this the Seven-Star Coffin designed by the ancestor of tomb robbers as recorded in his grandfather’s notes?
"I know this. The Seven Star Coffins were created by tomb robbers in ancient times. Because they had robbed so many tombs, they were afraid that their tombs would be robbed after their death, so they deliberately placed seven coffins and set up a maze.
According to legend, only one of the seven coffins is real, and the others are traps and other means of killing people."
Hearing Wuxie's logical and organized words, Wu Sansheng nodded in satisfaction. It seemed that Wuxie was reading the notebook very seriously.
At this time, Zhang Qiling spoke again unexpectedly.
"If you don't want people to steal it, there won't be any real ones."
Wu Sansheng felt that Zhang Qiling seemed to have said too much today, but he was right, so he said something to Wuxie.
"Yes, it's better to have no books than to believe everything in them. Don't you understand, nephew?"
Wuxie rolled his eyes at Wu Sansheng, thinking that he was just parroting what others had said.
Wu Sansheng was not embarrassed either. He turned around and gave Pan Zi a wink. Pan Zi nodded slightly and then waved to Wuxie.
"Master San, there are so many inscriptions here. What do they mean?"
When Wuxie heard that he was needed to translate inscriptions, which would allow him to show his skills, he instantly became interested.
These inscriptions lived up to his expectations, recording strange and bizarre things full of mythology.
"According to the records above, the owner of this tomb was a prince of the State of Lu.
He was born with a ghost seal, which he could use to borrow ghost soldiers from the underworld to help him fight. He made great contributions to the Duke of Lu and was later named King Lu Shang.
Then suddenly one day, he told the Duke of Lu that there were ghosts rebelling in the underworld, and he had borrowed ghost soldiers before, and now he had to go back to repay the favor of the God of the Underworld.
After Duke Lu approved the request, he kowtowed and passed away on the spot.
The Duke of Lu really believed that he could communicate between the Yin and Yang worlds and would continue to serve him after his return, so he built this underground palace for him to preserve his body.
But judging from this, he probably didn’t come back.”
"This ancient man is really good at making up stories. He even borrowed ghost soldiers. Why didn't he just say that he was a general from the underworld who reincarnated into the human world to gain experience? That would have fooled those ignorant ancients."
Pan Zi's face was full of disbelief, and Wu Sansheng followed suit.
"Borrowing ghost soldiers is definitely impossible. There must be another hidden story here, but it's none of our business. Let's open the coffin first."
Pan Zi approached a coffin with tools and was about to open it when he found an obvious gap between the coffin and the lid.
"Third Master, this coffin has been opened!"
His shout attracted the scattered people to gather around, and Pan Zi and Da Kui worked together to push down the coffin lid.
There were a lot of jewels in the coffin, but lying inside was a yellow-haired foreigner.
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