The whole empire is watching my live broadcast of Tomb Raiding [Interstellar]

Several people around the stone carvings turned their heads one after another. Du Leding met their unexpected eyes and walked up to them, pointing to the inscriptions on the stone carvings and explaining to them.

The previous paragraphs talked about the identity of the owner of the tomb, titled Wushan, whose name is unknown. "Pearl of Southern Xinjiang, married into Renzhao" probably means that the owner of the tomb is a princess from southern Xinjiang who married to a place called "Renzhao" or "Zhaoguo".

After a eulogy of praise, the style of painting took a turn for the worse. The descriptions such as "the mourning of the majesty, the lonely shadow of the boat, and the pregnant Liujia" show that the husband of the owner of the tomb is dead, but she is already pregnant, and the days of widowhood are very difficult.

Finally, it ends with "bead tires destroy the moon, Spring and Autumn Nineteen", which shows that the owner of the tomb died of dystocia when he was 19 years old.

Knight looked at Dulodin: "Can you understand?"

Du Leding's current face has deep brows, three-dimensional features, sharp edges and corners, a little serious, and looks particularly serious and reliable.He said in a deep tone: "Yes, in addition to being good at opening locks, I also love history. I have a little knowledge of burial customs and ancient civilizations in many countries on the earth."

In fact, this statement is not false. After all, he has been doing "underground work" for ten years, and he has worked hard to distinguish which things are valuable and which are useful.

Judging from the official script on the stone inscriptions, this "Zhaoguo" should be a country that existed in the Central Plains, and the owner of the tomb was probably married because of a marriage.However, there is no record of such a country in history.

Charlie immediately became excited when he heard it, and felt like he had found a kindred spirit. In the future, he and Duleding could not only live broadcast the program together, but also study some unofficial history together.

Duledin smiled at Charlie, but saw that Nate squinted one eye, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Su Teng looked at the eleven coffins in the tomb, and said calmly, "Judging from the murals and inscriptions, this woman has a noble status, and the person she married must be a relative of the emperor. How could she be buried alone after death?"

This was the first time Du Leding had heard Su Teng say such a long sentence, and he inevitably felt a little flattered, but he still replied in a very unformal way: "Maybe the relationship has broken down."

Although he was joking, in fact Du Leding was a little concerned when he saw these coffins for the first time.The coffins in the outer circle may be the people who were buried, and the valuable silver coffin in the middle should be the real body of the tomb owner.

The burial styles of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period were not uniform. Including the burial form, the cultures of all ethnic groups were inclusive and constantly changing.

But in any case, if a royal family member dies, his original spouse must be buried with him, and the inscription does not mention divorce, so Du Leding speculates that there are two possibilities.

"Either there is another tomb, and the coffins of the husband and wife are placed separately; or this silver coffin is not filled with the corpse of the woman in the painting."

With admiration for Du Leding in Yang Han's eyes, he asked like a good student with excess thirst for knowledge: "If it wasn't for her, why should it be placed in the tomb?"

Du Leding walked to each sarcophagus to check, and said as he walked: "Suspicious coffins. In ancient China, there were many people with high status and status. They were afraid that the treasures that were going to be carried to the next life would be looted by tomb robbers after death, so they laid them out accordingly. There are many coffins and even tombs to confuse the view, and the coffin where I fell asleep is hidden in a more hidden place."

Among the sarcophagi surrounding the silver coffin, there are nine coffin lids engraved with images of evil spirits, which are exactly the ones seen in the last mural in the stone chamber, the one that the ghost-masked woman set up an altar to cast a spell on.

The mouths of the evil ghost were all open, spitting out black snakes one after another. Without exception, these black snakes were all facing the silver coffin in the tomb, as if they were about to crawl over.

The background is some lines like landscape or cloud pattern.Du Le Ding's heart moved, and he turned to the others and asked, "Does anyone of you still remember the murals in the stone room, how many corpses were there in front of the altar?"

Charlie tried his best to recall, and spread his claws: "At that time, I was only focused on looking at the ghost mask on the woman's face, and didn't pay attention to those details."

Knight and Yang Han obviously forgot, and fans also posted barrages one after another, regretting that there were no screenshots.

"Nine."

When everyone was silent, Su Teng spoke suddenly.

Du Leding's eyes lit up: "Are you sure?"

Before Su Teng could answer, Knight said, "He has a photographic memory."

Du Le Ding excitedly patted the sarcophagus beside his hand: "That's right, this silver coffin should be the woman in the mural."

Charlie tilted his head and asked everyone's doubts: "Why?"

"These ghosts!" Duledin said, pointing to the figure on the sarcophagus. "Since ancient times, the symbolic meaning of snakes has been very complicated. It's alluding to women."

China's Legend of the White Snake, Japan's Kiyohime, and even the snake essence in Gourd Baby all have such hidden meanings.

Seeing Knight raised his eyebrows in dissatisfaction, Du Le Ding said righteously: "This is a cancer of patriarchal social thinking. As a friend of women, I despise this kind of metaphor very much. So I prefer the original symbol of the snake—— Mother."

"Ah? The snake symbolizes the mother?" Yang Han felt confused.

Du Leding nodded: "In ancient Chinese mythology, Pangu created the world, and Nuwa repaired the sky and created man. Nuwa is the mother of all human beings, and her image is the human body and snake tail."

Even the ancestors of civilizations such as Fuxi and Shennong once appeared in the image of a human face and a snake body.Because the snake is close to the earth that breeds all things, it is prolific and sheds its skin periodically. It is a concrete carrier of rebirth and reproduction.

Charlie nodded in agreement: "I have read some similar information. In the culture of many countries, snakes are used to symbolize women and the mother of the earth. The land breeds everything and swallows everything, just like these coffins are buried in the ground, forming It is the same as returning to the womb of Mother Earth after death, waiting to be conceived into a new life."

"That's what it means." Du Leding said, "Although the snake in the Central Plains culture has lost its original mythological meaning during the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history, in many small frontier countries, the relatively primitive spirit is still worshiped. Totem. The snakes in these murals are not intended to kill the owner of the tomb, but a symbol of seeking a child.”

Yang Han asked, "What about the corpses in the mural?"

Du Le Ding: "Sacrifice, enshrined to ghosts and gods who can bring her offspring. So the nine sarcophagi should be those who offered sacrifices."

Yang Han frowned: "It still sounds evil."

"Whether it's evil or not, the owner of the tomb is right in front of you." Du Leding walked to the silver coffin, a tomb robber's soul was burning, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart: I am good at everything, but I am too ambitious and always want to make trouble Knowing the truth of the facts is almost obsessive-compulsive.

There is a statue of God on each side of the head of this silver coffin. There is a small lotus-shaped groove on the coffin lid, surrounded by pictures of birds, with cloud pattern carvings on the edge, and auspicious patterns on the bottom. The pendant has a carabiner.

Du Le Ding's heart skipped a beat. According to common sense, these four hooks should have silver dolls hanging on them, but now they are gone. Could it be that someone came in before them and took away the valuables? ?

He quickly touched the joint between the coffin lid and the coffin body, but found that there was no gap at all.

It's not surprising that there are no seams.The golden coffin breaks the evil spirit, and the silver coffin locks the soul.According to some lost records, it is speculated that when the person in this coffin was buried, he might not have died, which means he was suffocated to death in the coffin.If you think about it, you will know how much resentment there is in it, especially if the inscription says that she died of dystocia, then when she was buried, was the child born?

If not, at least two lives, one big and one small, would be suffocated in this coffin.

Confucius said that only women and villains are difficult to raise.To Du Leding, only female ghosts and little ghosts are difficult to deal with.This silver coffin is most likely an outer coffin poured on the outside of the coffin, which cannot be opened.The purpose is to seal the two resentful souls and ensure that they cannot be reincarnated. This is a very vicious method in ancient times.

Thinking about it this way, Du Le Ding was a little entangled. God gave him a second chance to enter this ancient tomb. He didn't want to open the coffin to see the true face of the owner of the tomb, and by the way, see what treasures are worthy of such heavy protection. .

But when he thought that there might be thousands of years of grievances inside, he felt that it was a good thing that the silver coffin couldn't be opened.

"If the nine coffins with patterns represent the sacrifices in the murals," Su Teng broke the silence, pointing to the sarcophagus facing the foot of the silver coffin, "then what does the tenth coffin mean?"

Du Leding also felt that the tenth coffin was a bit strange, but he didn't think his previous reasoning was wrong. He suspected that there might be something strange in the tenth coffin, for example, there would be anti-theft mechanisms such as crossbow arrows after opening .

Even he himself was not satisfied with this explanation, so he didn't say it.

When doubts abounded, Yang Han suddenly let out a "huh". She was standing by the side of the silver coffin observing the engraved pattern on the coffin lid, and she didn't know what she found, so her face turned red with excitement.

The little girl is so innocent, she can't hide her curiosity when she sees everything.Du Leding smiled slightly, thinking that after going out, he had to leave Yang Han's contact information.

On his side, the wishful YY saw Yang Han pull out a bronze ornament the size of a pocket watch from his collar, open the lid and put it on the silver coffin.

Du Le Ding and Su Teng's expressions suddenly changed at the same moment, especially Du Le Ding, who was staring at the jewelry in Yang Han's hand, his face full of turbulent waves, lightning and thunder.Although he had stretched out his hand to Yang Han, there was no sound in his throat.

There was only a "click" sound, and a crack appeared on the lid of the silver coffin, and then, the coffin panels on both sides slowly opened to the side.