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Every terracotta warrior is lifelike, like a living person.
Even the clothes he was wearing and the color of the inner lining were extremely gorgeous.
It proves that the Qin Dynasty had already mastered complex printing and dyeing techniques.
However, because the technology was not perfect at that time, we did not know how to protect it.
After the terracotta warriors and horses were excavated, they reacted chemically with oxygen. After just one night, the paint on the terracotta warriors and horses fell off, and they became today's monotonous gray clay sculptures.
Chapter 104
Everyone agreed that the bronze coffin should be put down first.
Xiaozhuang volunteered to climb to the copper beam in the tomb and put down the copper ring.
So, several people divided their work.
Zheng Xuan took out the rope, tied up the bronze coffin, and made a simple triangular suspension ring to ensure that when the iron chain and copper ring were removed, the bronze coffin would not be smashed.
After the ropes were tied, Xiaozhuang had already climbed onto the copper beam.
Seeing that Zheng Xuan signaled that it was time to start, he took out the engineering shovel and tapped it lightly, and a copper ring fell off.
Xiao Zhuang was stunned, and hurriedly said to the people below: "Professor Xiao Su's guess is right, these copper rings are rotten, we have to move a little bit more just now, I am afraid that the coffin will fall to the ground and be smashed."
While speaking, he kept moving.After a few bangs and bangs, the copper rings were knocked off one after another.
On the other side, Zheng Xuan and Chen Jianbing carefully lowered the bronze coffin using the set pulley device.
And Li Qiangguo was in charge of pressing the Sixiang coffin mirror to prevent the coffin mirror from accidentally falling off when several people did their work.
The big zongzi in the bronze coffin put a lot of pressure on everyone, and Li Qiangguo didn't want to see the scene of the big zongzi being lifted up.
Therefore, he did not dare to relax at all during the whole process, and pressed his hands firmly on the corpse mirror.
Fortunately, nothing happened in the end, and the bronze coffin landed safely on the ground!
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief!
Although in the plot of the original book, the Sixiang town coffin mirror is very powerful, until Hu Bayi and the others burned the zongzi in the bronze coffin, there was no corpse change.
But just to be on the safe side, Su Chen added an insurance measure.
He stuffed the Faqiu seal into his backpack, and placed it beside the coffin at will.
With the suppression of Faqiu Yin, it can be said that it is basically foolproof.
quickly!
When Xiao Zhuang jumped off the copper beam in the tomb, everyone gathered around the bronze coffin.
Then they worked together to pry open the bronze coffin.
There is a wooden coffin inside the bronze coffin. Judging from the material and color, it should be part of the sinking wood.
Song Ying and the others don't know the value of the sunken wood, but Su Chen knows that this kind of wood has long been extinct.
It is an extremely high-quality coffin that is rare in a thousand years. Looking at the entire Ghost Blowing Lamp, probably only the Kunlun Shenmu coffin of the Queen Jingjue can be more advanced than it.
Everyone has come to this point, and no one has the intention to stop.
Xiao Zhuang and Zheng Xuan leaned down at the same time, and pried open the lid of the wooden coffin again!
After opening the lid of the coffin, everyone saw the situation inside. Except for Su Chen who had expected it and looked calm, the rest couldn't help being scared and took several steps back.
This is because!
Inside the wooden coffin is a mummy!
On the dry and sunken cheeks, only some wrinkled flesh sticks.
But what is frightening is that the hair of this mummy is still growing, almost covering the entire coffin.
In addition, there are long nails on his two palms.
Because the nails are too long, they are curled and twisted, which makes people seep through.
And on the lid of the wooden coffin, there are many scratches made by the mummy with his fingernails.
There are a few of them, the traces are very new, it is obvious that they were drawn just now.
In addition, except for the arms and head, the body of the mummy was wrapped in something similar to asbestos.
Xiao Zhuang and Zheng Xuan didn't dare to do anything, Su Chen didn't think much about it.
He directly used a military shovel to lift off the asbestos covering the mummy.
I saw another strange scene under the white asbestos.
The torso of the mummy is still there, but the two legs are missing and replaced by two stone legs.
Seeing this scene, both Song Ying and Zheng Xuan were taken aback, wondering, "Where did the legs go?"
Song Ying thought for a while, and asked Su Chen: "Professor Su, I came in just now and I have a problem that I still can't figure out. Isn't this the tomb of King Xian? Why are there three coffins?"
"Even if it's a husband and wife tomb, there are only two coffins at most. Who is in the third coffin?"
Xiao Zhuang at the side thought for a while, and said casually: "Maybe it is the concubine of Xian Wang. In ancient times, there were three wives and four concubines. It is not surprising that Xian Wang has two wives!"
Song Ying shook her head and refuted this statement.
"If there are two wives, why are there only clay sculptures of King Xian and his wife in the Lingyun Immortal Palace in front, and only King Xian and his wife appear on the murals, and there are no other wives and concubines of King Xian!"
Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Su Chen nodded.
"Actually, both of you guessed wrong. These three coffins are all dedicated to the king, and at the same time, none of them are dedicated to the king!"
"This……"
Hearing Su Chen's words, Xiao Zhuang was confused, scratched his head and said, "Professor Su, you are right and wrong. What do you mean? Is the coffin filled with Xian Wang?"
Su Chen smiled slightly and said, "Yes, and no! Do you still remember the Stone Bridge of the Third Age on the way here?"
"Well, of course I remember!"
Song Ying and Zheng Xuan nodded together. At that time, Su Chen gave them a popular science about the meaning of the Sanshiqiao.
Su Chen pointed to the bones in the bronze coffin and explained:
"If King Xian wanted to become an immortal, he had to cross the bridge of the third generation and get rid of the entanglement of the secular world. So King Xian found what he thought was his previous three lives, and placed the three bones in the main tomb to suffer for himself. "
"Xian Wang himself stepped across the Sanshi Bridge and went away to become an immortal. This kind of saying also exists in Taoism. It is called cutting the three corpses. If you kill the three corpses, you will be certified as a golden immortal."
"I want to come to Xianwang to make an arrangement based on this theory. The three coffins are not Xianwang, but three substitutes he found!"
Hearing this, Song Ying and the others suddenly realized why there were three coffins in the tomb.
However, Song Ying still couldn't figure it out, pointing to the bones in the bronze coffin, he said, "But, why is this bone missing a thigh? Is there any explanation here?"
Su Chen nodded and continued: "If I'm not mistaken, after King Xian found these three corpses, he regarded them as his previous three lives, and cut off a part of each corpse, and forcibly pieced together the fourth corpse. Come be your shadow bone!"
"Shadow bone, the fourth corpse?"
Hearing Su Chen's explanation, everyone was surprised in unison.
Song Ying's eyes widened even more, and he looked around for a long time.
"But Professor Su, we've searched all over the tomb. Apart from these three coffins, there are no other coffins!"
Su Chen waved his hand and said, "There may be other secret rooms or other places. Let's open these three coffins first to see if there is a part missing from each corpse. If there is a part missing, it means There must be a fourth coffin in this tomb!"
Hearing Su Chen's words, everyone's faces were excited, and they hurried to the other two coffins!
The other two coffins are a wooden coffin and a sarcophagus.
The missing part of the body in the wooden coffin is the head, and the missing part in the sarcophagus is the ribcage.
Therefore, these two corpses did not have the conditions for corpse transformation, and they had already decayed into bones.
But after confirming what Su Chen said, everyone had hope, and carefully searched the surroundings for possible secret rooms and the like.
On the other hand, Su Chen asked Li Qiangguo and Xiaozhuang to burn the bronze coffin!
Although Zheng Xuan and Song Ying didn't want to see the cultural relics damaged, they also knew that the zombie in the bronze coffin had turned into a dead body. If it wasn't dealt with, it was hard to guarantee that one day it would come out of the tomb and do harm to one party.
Li Qiangguo and Xiaozhuang didn't have so many worries. When Su Chen said that he wanted to burn the zombies in the bronze coffin, the two of them were more active than anyone else.
After all, when the two of them were in the Pingshan Ancient Tomb, they had actually fought against the corpse king, so they knew how powerful this thing was.
Soon, Li Qiangguo poured gasoline on the coffin inside the bronze coffin.
After igniting, the entire tomb immediately became brighter.
At the same time, Zheng Xuan, who was inspecting near the sarcophagus, suddenly screamed, and shouted: "Professor Su, Captain Song, come and have a look, there are discoveries here!"
Everyone gathered around one after another, only to see that on the stone wall opposite the sarcophagus, there were actually three children dressed as guide boys!
The receiving boy was kneeling on the ground just like those black scale sharks.
It's just that the black scale sharks ignite the oil from their mouths.
And these three guide boys had their internal organs emptied out, a cotton thread was pulled out from the navel, and the long lamp was ignited.
The receiving boy is a human child, and does not have the characteristic that the oil of the black scale shark can burn for thousands of years.From the hole made by the cotton thread, it can be seen that in the boy's hollowed out internal organs, the grease has completely dried up.
Chapter 105 Finding the Shadow Bone, Corpse Killing Moth
Seeing this tomb, Song Ying blushed and said angrily: "Xian Wang is really not a thing, such a small child can do it."
Zheng Xuan was much more sensible, sighed and said: "There are many things like sacrificial burial in ancient times, but this king offering is indeed the cruelest one."
After hearing what the two said, Su Chen nodded and said, "The sacrificial burial system existed thousands of years ago, and it lasted until the Yingzong period of the Ming Dynasty before it was abolished."
Speaking of Ming Yingzong, I have to mention one more thing.
He is the famous God of War of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhu Qizhen whose spine was broken in the first battle of the Ming Dynasty.
His life was full of slots, so he abolished the sacrificial burial system, which is one of the few advantages, which can be used to boast.
After sighing, several people started searching again.
It didn't take long for Chen Jianbing to find the tomb and a lower level.
He used a military shovel to knock a hole in the ground, and shone the flashlight, and he could see a small tomb of about seven or eight square meters on the lower floor.
There is a crystal coffin inside!
Everyone looked happy, and they went down the secret tomb one after another.
After opening the crystal coffin, everyone found that the bones inside were indeed as Su Chen said, they were pieced together by taking parts from each of the three bones above!
In this small tomb, in addition to the skeleton, on the outer wall of the crystal coffin, there are carvings of the process from the construction of King Xian's tomb to the burial of King Xian in it.
There is even a record of King Xian dealing with mandrills, but this King Xian would put gold on his face, just bragging that he defeated three mandrills and rescued the mountain people here.
But he didn't mention that he treated the mountain people as slaves and drove them wantonly.
During the construction of this tomb, tens of thousands of mountain people died.
Even the people of the ancient country in southern Xinjiang who migrated with King Xian fled to the death. In the end, all [-] slaves were killed.
Although the mandrill is cruel, it can eat one person a month.
King Xian killed nearly 10 people in just a few years!
It's clear at a glance who is more harmful!
Song Ying took a picture of the crystal coffin with a camera, including the patterns on the coffin wall.
After taking the photo, she pointed to the last picture on the wall of the coffin and said, "Professor Su, look at this picture, it seems that King Xian's coffin is buried on it, and it's not in our current tomb!"
Su Chen nodded, pointed to the bones in the coffin and said, "The three bones in the upper tomb represent King Xian's previous three lives, and this hidden shadow bone represents King Xian's present life! King Xian wants to get rid of his former life." The third life and this life are completely separated from the secular world, so his coffin should be on top of our heads, facing the shadow bone!"
After finishing speaking, everyone returned to the tomb, and then turned their attention to the copper beam that Xiaozhuang had climbed just now.
After getting on the copper beam and observing carefully for a while, they saw an inconspicuous passage on the top of the white tomb!
Xiaozhuang used a military shovel to pry open the passage and dug a hole for adults to pass through.
After several people went up one after another, they found that there was an upper floor to the tomb.
There is a spiral upward ramp on this floor, which is very narrow at the beginning, but it becomes much wider at the back.
After walking for more than 30 meters, there was a wall blocking the way of several people.