Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Death...it's a dead head!" As soon as I touched the two holes, I knew that the ball contained a skull.

The complexion of a mole changed slightly, but she reacted better than me.

She insisted and said: "Yunfeng, you are a big man, thanks to you, you are still a grave robber, what are you afraid of! If the second child is here, you dare to kiss this thing."

"Get up! I'll do it!" She frowned slightly, and started directly.

Because the ball had already been opened a big crack by me before, this time she didn't need much effort, and it was straightened after a few hits with stones.

This time I saw it for real. I guessed it right before. There was indeed a dead man's skull inside the ball.

Part of the skull has been weathered. What is strange is that there are some gilt layers on the surface of the skull. These gilt layers are patchwork and look like some kind of pattern symbols rather than words.

In ancient crafts, I have heard of copper gilt, silver gilt, thin gold hairpin, mixed gold and silver, gold and silver shredded silk, etc., but I have never heard of the use of gilt technology on the skull of a dead person.

The gilt layer around the skull's eye sockets is golden, matching with the pure black skull, the style is quite weird.

A mole frowned and said: "I saw something similar when I was doing logistics for a Chengde gang in the early years, but that thing was not a skull, but a small piece of human finger bone. Period."

She looked up at the trapezoidal bronze wares on the roof of the cave and said, "Yunfeng, you can be sure. At a glance, there are dozens of these things. You smash one down, and we will study it."

"Well," I nodded in agreement.

This height cannot be reached by jumping, so I still use the old method of hitting it with a stone. I deliberately picked a bigger stone.

"Bang!"

I hit it the first time, and the stone and the bronze ware collided together, making a long and clear echo.

Hearing this sound, I already agreed with a mole's previous conjecture that 90.00% of this row of trapezoidal bronzes are chime bells.

"I'm working harder," a mole looked up.

"Bang!" The last hit came solidly.

With a plop, the chime fell into the river. A mole was already prepared, and she fished it out in less than a minute.

After catching it, the two of us will study it.

This bronze ware is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with some red spots and green rust on the body. Besides, the waistline, fan line, and cloud and thunder pattern are all done in a regular manner. This is an old product from the Western Zhou Dynasty that opened the door at a glance.

I weighed the weight, and felt that the weight was a little too light, so I got up with a light lift.

"Sister Hong, try it, why do I feel that the weight is not right?"

A mole reached out and took it, "Hey, it's so light, isn't it bronze?"

A mole is older than me. She has been in this industry all year round and has seen more things than me. She used her fingernails to button the green rust on the copper chime. The green rust is very floating and will fall off with a light touch. up.

Once the green rust is gone, the gray-black background color is exposed inside the trapezoidal chime.

A mole frowned after seeing it and said: "It's not bronze, it's a good thing, if I'm not wrong, it should be Tiantie..."

"Iron chimes?" My eyes widened, and I said in disbelief: "Sister Hong, there were iron artifacts in the Western Zhou Dynasty? No? Did you admit it wrong?"

She shook her head, "You didn't understand. What I said was Tiantie, not pig iron. Ironware appeared in the late Spring and Autumn Period. To put it bluntly, Tiantie is meteorite, a meteorite mine. No wonder the weight feels wrong as soon as you get started."

A mole said that the trapezoidal chimes were made of meteorite iron, which is actually based on evidence. Just a few years ago, in 96, the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology joined hands with the Sanmenxia Cultural Relics Task Force. Rescue excavations were carried out in the cemetery, and two rusty iron swords were finally found. These two short swords came from the tomb of Guo Zhong. After X-ray radiation analysis, the archaeological team found many iron swords similar to those with high concentrations of nickel. Finally, these two swords from the Bronze Age were identified as meteorite swords by the National Archaeological Team.

"Sister Hong, say this thing is so precious, why don't we recite it?" Knowing the preciousness of this chime clock, I felt a bit of greed in my heart.

I murmured in my heart, "Instead of putting it in this dark underground river, why don't I take it out, it's not a waste of money, is it?"

A mole glanced at the chimes on the ground, and she was also a little moved.

"It's not too heavy, so let's take it with me. It's estimated that no one will come down in this place for hundreds of years." She shook her head and motioned for me to bring the chime bell.

I took off my coat and twisted it into a rope. I didn’t think the chime was cold. I tied the chime behind my back with my clothes and tied a knot in front of my chest. I was done. .

"Is the chest okay?"

"It's okay, Sister Hong," I patted myself on the back, "With hundreds of thousands on my back, it doesn't hurt at all. Now, it's okay."

A mole said with a smile: "Don't panic, I'm looking for helpers when I get out, and when the time comes, I'll call the boss and the third, and let's take all this out."

"It's matching, that's a good relationship," I tightened the straps of the clothes on my chest.

We continued to walk along the underground river, and I looked back from time to time, always feeling that the chimes hanging on the roof of the cave were like a lot of banknotes hanging in the wind, waving to me.

About 200 meters away from here, while walking, my nose became hot, and suddenly I had a nosebleed for no reason.

"Wait, Miss Hong," I quickly raised my head and shouted to a mole to stop.

A mole still didn't forget to tease me at this time, she said: "Little young man is full of firepower, he can get nosebleeds even if he is shirtless, wait a minute," she tore off a piece of cloth from her body, "Keep your head up and don't Move around, I'll wipe your blood."

"Sister Hong, you have a nosebleed too!" I saw a mole and suddenly started to have a nosebleed.

She didn't wipe it for me anymore, she hurriedly raised her head and used a cloth strip to stop the bleeding.

"Bang..."

At this moment, there was a low metal sound behind us, which sounded a bit like the sound of chime bells.

I carried the chimes that were struck down on my back, and looked back with my neck raised.

At that moment, the hairs all over my body exploded!

The underground river kept bubbling, and the copper chains hanging from the mud ball skulls began to pull quickly.

Dozens of round mud balls began to swing from side to side, very rhythmically, and began to hit the meteorite chime one after another.

The striking skull heads can operate autonomously under the control of some kind of underwater mechanism, and these chimes begin to play a rhythm more than 2000 years ago by themselves.

"Bang."

"when!"

The low chime bells are getting louder and louder, as if reaching the depths of the human soul, my scalp is tense when I hear it.

Less than 200 meters away, listening to the sound, I began to feel my eyes swell, my heart tightened, and the veins on both sides of my temples began to bulge.

The nosebleed I had just now can't be stopped at all, and the nosebleed is getting more and more.

A mole is in the same situation as me, and the same nosebleed can't be stopped.

Her eyes were swollen, and veins appeared on her forehead. She shouted angrily: "Yunfeng, run! We are going to die!"

......

Many people don't know that the chime bell itself does not make a sound, but the chime bell vibrates under the impact of a hammer, and the vibration passes through the invisible air as a medium, and finally spreads to people's ears.Therefore, it became the chime bell rhythm.

A few years later, in order to understand the principle, I spent some money to pretend to be the head of a Hong Kong art troupe. I found Professor Wang Dan, an old technician who had worked in the National 703 Musical Instrument Factory. Professor Wang Dan personally presided over the Completely restored Zenghouyi chime bell set.

So I asked her old man, under certain circumstances, is it possible that the sound of chime bells can kill people?

After hearing this, Professor Wang was very surprised. She asked me why I asked this question, and I said it was pure curiosity.

In the end, she told me that it was possible. She gave an example, saying that someone can break a glass with a high-decibel sound, and chime bells are also possible.

Looking back now.

This is a deadly concert. The performers are dozens of skulls with gilded runes, and the instruments are a set of meteorite chimes from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

And the host who invited me and sister Hong to listen.

Thinking about it, it should be mustard.