Tomb Raiders

The few shriveled corpses were lying not far from the corner, maintaining a dying posture. Shen Liaobai was not far away from them, and one could even see the dehydrated faces of the corpses distorted to an inhuman level, limbs Curled up, with both hands tightly pinching his throat, it can be seen that he suffered great pain during his lifetime.

Chu Yuyang covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and went to the corpses to examine them. These corpses were dressed in Lingnan costumes. They looked like locals, their complexions were gray, and their muscles were tightened into a ball. Looking at their hands holding their throats, they seemed to be unable to breathe. , seems to be a sign of poisoning, but something is wrong.

Several of them stared wide-eyed, their fingers were stuffed in their mouths, and their faces were terrified.Chu Yuyang tore off the fast cloth and grabbed one person's wrist. The corpse's teeth were clenched tightly. For this reason, he took some effort to pull out the corpse's fingers. There were two tiny red spots on the fingertips of the corpse. , as if pierced by something sharp, there is a trace of dried blood near the red spot.

Chu Yuyang turned to lift the corpse's lower jaw, the corpse's mouth could not be closed anymore, he held up the cannon to look inside, and frowned slightly.

"What's the matter?" Shen Liaobai was ordered to stand at the corner, and now leaning against the stone wall, he poked his head out and asked.

"It's not poisoning," Chu Qianyang said, "You can come here."

Shen Liaobai walked up to Chu Yuyang's body, Chu Yuyang slightly opened the mouth of the corpse, Shen Liaobai could see it more clearly, the mouth of this corpse was almost smashed, the flesh on both sides of the cheeks was extremely thin, It can be pierced with a poke. The strangest thing is that this corpse has no tongue, and the whole tongue is missing, leaving only a dark pothole. He can only judge the corpse from the remaining bit of the tongue. His tongue seemed to be bitten off by something.

Qin Zhaonan checked the other corpses, threw the rags in his hands aside, and said, "To be precise, none of these corpses have tongues, and they have been broken from the root of the tongue."

Shen Liaobai suddenly became suspicious. It seemed that the severed tongue was the cause of death of these corpses. However, since he entered the robbery cave, he did not see a trace of blood in the corridor, and the corpses themselves were not stained with blood, except that the wounds were full of blood. With finely minced meat, their mouths were clean without any trace of blood.

Chu Yuyang pondered for a moment, frowned and muttered: "Could it be..." He turned his head to look at Qin Zhaonan.

Qin Zhaonan looked at him, nodded and said, "It's very likely, we'd better be careful, this thing is small, if you don't pay attention, it will be dangerous even if you speak, it can be called pervasive."

Shen Liaobai didn't listen carefully to their conversation, his eyes glanced at the waist bag of the corpse, Chu Yuyang obviously noticed it, took off the waist bag, and poured out the contents.

Hanzhang looked at the bottles and cans poured out of his waist pocket, as well as a short dagger, and said, "Although I don't know their identities, what is certain is that they are not woodcutters who strayed into this place. "

Wen Hao opened one of the bottles and smelled it, and said, "It's corpse water."

Qin Zhaonan rubbed his chin and said: "It seems that they are our colleagues. This tomb passage is so difficult to find. We stumbled in by accident, and we didn't see any trace of them on the road. It seems that they walked in smoothly. But how could you be so careless and die here right after entering the robbery cave."

Shen Liaobai was still thinking about the strange pattern on the robber's hole, and said: "Could they be with Yingqing?"

There was a faint expectation in his tone, Chu Yuyang nodded, and said: "It is possible, my father is a cautious person, and Shen Yingqing was injured again, he will definitely not rashly invite two people to the grave, these people It may be the local counterparts in Lingnan, the Chu family has lived in Chang'an for a long time, but they are not familiar with these native masters, if they go to the grave with my father, it is normal that I have not heard the news."

"That's true," Qin Zhaonan agreed, "With Uncle Chu's unique skill in geomantic exploration, it's easy to come here."

"If that's the case, wouldn't we hope to find clues about Yingqing in the tomb?" Shen Liaobai said.

"I hope." Chu Yuyang stood up, pulled Shen Liaobai up with one hand and said, "Don't delay, just keep walking inside."

Chu Yuyang finally looked back at the corpses lying on the ground. He did not tell Shen Liaobai that according to the degree of ossification of the corpses of these people, they had died for at least half a month. No one would stay in the tomb for such a long time. Therefore, if they really want to meet Shen Yingqing and the others, the only possibility is that they died in the tomb.

After coming down from the robbery cave and walking around the corner for a while, a jade arch suddenly appeared in front of it. After entering the arch, the corridor became very gentle and wider. At first, the mud under the feet also turned into bluestone bricks. It is obvious that this is Nanyue The entrance to the king's tomb.

"There is light ahead." Chu Qianyang said.

Shen Liaobai and the others quickly walked two steps, and sure enough, they saw a bright light at the end of the corridor. Wen Hao squinted his eyes for a while, and said, "Is it the Cave Grass? Well, it doesn't seem to be the light of the Cave Grass." Brighter than this."

After getting out of the tunnel, Shen Liaobai discovered that it was really the light of the Underworld Cave Grass, and the reason why the light was weakened was because the Underworld Cave Grass was placed in a huge lantern, and the lampshade blurred the light, making the light not so bright.

At the exit of the corridor stood two figurines of young girls, made of unknown material, with lifelike faces, jade standing at the exit, holding two palace lanterns, and the cave grass growing from the wall was just put into the palace lanterns , became the wick, which is really an extremely delicate design.

The two maidservants had their eyes closed, with thick white makeup on their faces, only their lips were bright red, and it seemed that they hadn't changed after hundreds of years.

"Qianhao, why are you still standing there?" Hanzhang joked, "Don't just look at the two servants."

"This lantern doesn't seem to be made of paper." Wen Hao pointed to the lantern and said.

Chu Yuyang and the others had already walked to the front, Shen Liaobai fell two steps, and was very close to the lantern. Hearing what Wen Hao said, he leaned closer to the lampshade to look. The light made Shen Liaobai see the clear texture of the lampshade, which is different from the texture of paper, so white that there are no impurities.But he still remembered Chu Yuyang's exhortation, and didn't reach out to touch it.

When Chu Yuyang came back, he only glanced at it for a while, then pulled Shen Liaobai to his side and said, "It's probably made of other things, isn't there a lot of weird things in this tomb?"

"What's so strange, isn't it a human skin lantern?" Qin Zhaonan used the tip of his fan to pick off the girl's wrist, which was covered by the sleeve. The meat there had been dried, but it could still be seen that there was no skin on that piece of meat , "It is said that human skin lanterns can survive thousands of years of immortality after being soaked in a special potion, especially the girl's skin is fair and tender, making the light coming out hazy and just right, which is just right for making lanterns. But the poor thing is While they were alive, they were…”

He waved his fan and wanted to say something, but he shut his mouth tactfully after seeing Shen Liao's pale face and Chu Yuyang's sharp eyes.

"It's too cruel." Shen Liaobai said in a low voice.

Chu Yuyang held his hand tightly, which was silent comfort.

There is a row of lamp holders hanging on the wall here, above each lamp holder there is a place not inlaid with bluestone slate bricks, which is a relatively loose earth wall, with cave grass coming out from it, hanging down on the lamp holder, forming a With the light like a torch, it illuminates the huge room, to be precise, it should be the lobby.

Leaving aside how exquisite the decoration inside is, most of the funerary utensils on both sides are inlaid with gold and silver, but the high platform in front of them, the railing on it is actually carved with jade, the hazy When the light passes through the jade, you can see the inside of the jade without impurities.

Standing below this high platform, you can't see the top at all. It is completely in the middle of the lobby. Currently, if you don't climb the high platform, there is no way to go.

Fortunately, there were stairs on both sides of the high platform, and when he walked to the top of the stairs, Chu Yuyang stopped suddenly, Shen Liaobai didn't expect it, and bumped into his back, causing his nose to hurt.But after he saw the scene on the high platform, he was as stunned as Chu Yuyang.

There are about a hundred coffins, neatly placed on this high platform.These coffins were not covered with coffin lids. Shen Liaobai could see that there were people lying in these coffins. They were all girls of fifteen or sixteen years old. Lying on his own bed as if he had just fallen asleep, except for the bursts of Yin Qi blowing towards his face.

"These are all... all..." Shen Liaobai was speechless in a daze.

Chu Yuyang narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "It must be buried with him."

There is another corridor in the middle of the high platform, Chu Yuyang patted Shen Liaobai's cheek to bring him back to his senses, and said: "Don't look too much, just keep walking."

Shen Liaobai closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded slowly. Chu Yuyang was still a little worried about him, so he simply wrapped his arms around his waist and let him walk by his side.

But Shen Liaobai's attention was not on this at all, so he didn't care.His eyes fell on one of the girls, probably because the girl's face was so real that he was about to have the idea that these people were still alive, they were still breathing, and a small dimple appeared at the corner of their mouths slowly rising.

Shen Liaobai was stunned again, and stood still.

Chu Yuyang frowned suspiciously, and asked, "Liao Bai, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Liaobai pointed blankly at the woman in the coffin beside him, and said, "Look at her...is she smiling?"

Chu Yuyang looked at the person he was pointing at, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and drooped the corners of his mouth, nothing unusual, so he said: "You are just overly nervous, they have been dead for a hundred years, if you care too much, you can It is easy to have hallucinations in this tomb, and it will not only affect you, but also us."

"Yes... I'm sorry." Shen Liaobai pursed his lips and turned his head away.

"It's nothing." Chu Yuyang smiled, rubbed his black hair and said, "Don't think too much about it."

Maybe I really misread it, Shen Liaobai thought so, and followed Chu Yuyang into the corridor in the middle of the high platform.

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