Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

The use of sarcophagi has a much longer history than wooden coffins. It can be traced back to the late Neolithic culture. At that time, stones were used to build a rectangular storage space after death. This was the earliest prototype of sarcophagus. The burial utensils gradually matured and were used in all dynasties in the future.

Why do ordinary people rarely see sarcophagi?It is still because of the small number. In ancient times, if you want to build a beautiful sarcophagus, you need to spend several years of savings for an ordinary family.

This kind of ancient large sarcophagus has always been lukewarm in the domestic buyer circle, but it is simply a favorite abroad!As long as you have the ability to ship it out!Bring out a foreigner and grab one!One sells hundreds of thousands of knives, it's easy!

Besides, the tomb-suppressing spirit, there is an old rule in the northern sect, if you see a human-shaped tomb-suppressing spirit in the tomb, you must cover its eyes with clothes!Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to let it remember the face, bad luck is not easy, and it may die unexpectedly!In short, this kind of thing is very evil.

Brother Yu and I took off our coats and covered the heads of the two tomb town spirits so that they could not see us.

Bean Sprouts also bowed and said: "I don't intend to disturb the rest of the two of you, we will leave after we get the things, no wonder."

Bean Sprout loves to embrace the Buddha temporarily, Brother Yu said to him: "Mr. Ya, do you want to offer incense sticks to these two?"

Brother Yu was joking, but Bean Sprouts took it seriously, he really did it.

With no incense in hand, Bean Sprouts lit a cigarette, and burned a hole in the clothes covering the tomb town's face with the cigarette, and then he slowly stuffed the cigarette into the hole in the clothes.

Green smoke curls.

Looking at it this way, it looks like two tomb town spirits are smoking with cigarettes in their mouths, which looks a little funny.

Bean Sprout was very satisfied with his masterpiece, he clapped his hands, and said with a smile: "Take it easy, both of you."

"Yunfeng! Come and have a look!" The head suddenly called me.

The huge sarcophagus in front of me is more than a thousand catties. It is made of a whole piece of granite. In ancient times, granite was a very precious material. The birthday outline in Water Margin is made of granite.

I saw that the whole body of the sarcophagus was carved with various patterns using intaglio techniques. I wiped off the dust with my hands, and held up a flashlight to take a look. [-]. Mandala flowers are flowers of the underworld, and it is not common to engrave them on coffins as decorative patterns like this.

The workmanship of the sarcophagus is extremely exquisite, and there is a blank space in the middle of the mandala pattern, and four clearly visible official script characters are engraved in the middle.

"The one who opens must die."

Just let me see these four words.

Brother Yu frowned and said, "Hold my head, my back is sweating, you say there can't be a thousand-year curse here?"

"Brother Yu! Don't scare yourself! Nothing happened! This is what the owner of the tomb did to scare people on purpose!" I spoke out loudly.

The same sarcophagus, there is one in the Xi'an Museum, and the words "Whoever opens it is dead" are also engraved on it. At that time, the archaeological team was afraid, so they found a few famous farm workers on the Xi'an construction site, and gave each of them an anti-virus Masks, it turned out that nothing happened to these migrant workers brothers after they opened the coffin.

Brother Yu frowned and said, "It's better to be careful, this coffin always gives me a feeling of panic."

Bean Sprout said loudly: "Fear! Lu Wende has been dead for at least 700 years! His bones are rotten to pieces! He can still jump up and bite us! Let's just pry open the coffin and get the funerary objects! Then get out of this damn place as soon as possible." !"

What Bean Sprouts said was also what I wanted to say, we discussed it again and decided to open the coffin.

"It's so tight! It can't get in!" Bean Sprouts was sweating profusely.

After trying twice, we found that the huge sarcophagus was so tight that there was not even a gap for a crowbar.

Putting the flashlight on the sarcophagus, he walked around the sarcophagus, and knocked on the head and tail of the coffin with a short crowbar, and the sound was: "Da da! Da da da!"

"Start from here, this is the thinnest, change to a pointed pry!" Tou commanded.

We fiddled for a while, when the pointed crowbar went in, suddenly!Visible to the naked eye!A black and red thick liquid slowly flowed out!Not smelly!It has a sour smell.

"Blood! Blood!"

Bean sprouts looked terrified, and shouted: "Look at your heads! Why is the coffin bleeding!"

Seeing this, he turned pale with shock and said, "Damn! How could there be coffin liquid!"

I saw that the black-red liquid continued to flow out along the gap in the sarcophagus, and fell to the ground drop by drop!At this time, the sour smell in the air became even more obvious!

We haven't figured out the situation yet, and we seemed to realize something when we turned our heads, only to hear him shouting anxiously: "Quick! Get out! Hurry up!"

We hurried to the entrance of the cave.

It only takes a few minutes!I feel dizzy and nauseous!I hurriedly asked Brother Yu, and Brother Yu also said dizziness!

At this time, with a dark face, he said loudly: "There is mercury in the coffin fluid! The sour smell is the reason why metal mercury volatilizes when it meets the air! It's amazing! I didn't expect it! The sealing of the sarcophagus that is 800 years old can be so good. degree!"

I wiped the sweat off my face, and thought to myself that it was dangerous, thanks to the quick reaction of my head!

Mercury poisoning and carbon dioxide poisoning, I don't know how many colleagues have suffered!Every year there are reports of tomb robbers suffocating to death in the tomb!This thing is colorless and odorless, and it really kills people invisible!It's usually too late to react!

Although the sarcophagus is solid and immortal!But generally speaking, the sealing is poor!We've never found fluid in a sarcophagus before!This is the first encounter!

It can polish the sarcophagus weighing several tons to the point where it fits perfectly and isolates the air!I believe that even modern people can't do it!This shows how powerful the stonemasons in the Southern Song Dynasty were!

After a while, my head was not so dizzy, I asked my head what to do now?Should I go up and wait for the mercury in the tomb to volatilize before coming down, or is there another way?

Thinking about it for a while, he frowned and shook his head: "This place is not ventilated! It may take several months for all the mercury to volatilize! There are long nights and dreams, we don't have the time to wait!"

Bean Sprout said loudly: "Then what should we do! Why don't we go to the city and buy some gas masks!"

"Need not."

Turning his head towards the direction of the sarcophagus, there was a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Go find some dry firewood, the more the better." He said.

"What to do?" I asked.

He turned his head and said, "Burning the coffin! Refining the corpse!"

I was taken aback, and immediately realized that this method was feasible.

Stones conduct heat!Just boil the coffin liquid and let it evaporate quickly!We are relatively safe when we open the coffin!

Bean Sprout said excitedly, "No way! You won't burn all the valuable funerary objects in the coffin! Let's find another way!"

"Don't talk nonsense! I tell you to do it!"

With a stern tone, as if he had made up his mind, Bean Sprouts didn't dare to speak anymore.

Why are you so angry at this sarcophagus?I didn't understand it at the time, but I found out after a long time. It turned out that a very young female logistician in their team died in the tomb when they followed Master Wang Pingzi. The cause of death was a poisonous gas poisoning.

Finding dry wood, we lit a fire under the sarcophagus.

The fire was so fierce that it directly scorched the sarcophagus, and we watched from afar.

Once it was observed that the fire had weakened, Bean Sprout and I took turns to fight, covered our mouth and nose with our clothes, and rushed over to add firewood.

The fire continued to burn like this, he turned his head and looked at the front calmly, wondering what he remembered.

In the end, the bottom of the entire sarcophagus was roasted red!

That scene was so shocking, it was like a pressure cooker was on!A large amount of coffin fluid was boiled to waste!The gurgling sound keeps ringing!

The temperature in the entire tomb room rose, and Bean Sprouts wiped his sweat, and whispered to me, "Fengzi, if this Lu Wende is not rotten, then he is 100% a dish."

"What dish?"

"What else can I cook, boiled pork slices! Could it be a wet corpse in a dry pot?"

I scolded: "Fuck you! Then when the coffin is opened, you take the first bite! Taste the saltiness!"

After burning for a long time, the fire gradually subsided, and we stopped calling for more firewood. After the fire was extinguished, we waited for an hour for the sarcophagus to cool down naturally, and then went to check.

"Hold on, I think it's all right, open?"

He nodded with a cold face and said away.

Let's go straight to the crowbar and try our best to use the air pressure crowbar!

Accompanied by the creaking stone friction sound!The gap is gradually getting bigger!

In the next second, a large amount of white gas emerged from the sarcophagus.