tomb soul

"Teacher, when are we going down?" He Zhiyi asked softly.

Professor Chen looked down at his watch and said, "It will be another 10 minutes."

Hearing this, He Zhiyi nodded, rubbed the dry corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and continued leaning against the tree to wait.

He Zhiyi is a senior student in archeology at Dongxian University. He has been busy preparing his graduation thesis and taking the postgraduate entrance examination for his school all year long.

As one of the top ten universities in W country, Dongxian University has a well-known major in archeology, and the college is full of well-known experts in the archaeological field.So this time, a tomb found by accident in the deep mountains and old forests in the suburbs of Dongxian was naturally taken over by Dongxian University.

And He Zhiyi, as Professor Chen's proud disciple, had the honor to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime archaeological excavation with him.

10 minutes passed in a blink of an eye.

Professor Chen, He Zhiyi, Tong and Liu, two archaeologists, and Wang Fu, a fellow student of He Zhiyi's school, were ready to enter the tomb.

"I'll go first, Zhiyi, you follow me, let Old Tong die, and watch some students." Professor Chen cooperated with several staff members who stayed on the ground while fastening safety ropes on their bodies, and instructed.

The tomb here is well preserved, at least until now, the group of them have not found any traces of the tomb being stolen.And a tomb that has never been entered by anyone is bound to be in danger.

He Zhiyi and his younger brother Wang Fu had also visited the tombs, but the ones they buried were those that had been excavated and cleared for safety, and they had never touched the tombs like this time.

However, Professor Chen also has selfish intentions. He Zhiyi is his most proud student. Whether it is his homework or personality, he is the best he has encountered in the past few years.

Although it is dangerous to go to the tomb this time, if some treasures, calligraphy and paintings, or some ancient books and places of interest are found, it will definitely be a huge benefit for He Zhiyi's future.

He Zhiyi also understood the teacher's painstaking efforts, and he also wanted to train himself, so when he learned that the teacher had reserved a spot for him this time, he agreed without thinking.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect or the environment in this mountain is really like this, but He Zhiyi always feels that there is a cool breeze coming from behind him.

And this cold wind is not how cold it is, but how weird and creepy it is... It's like something bad has a thousand-year-old ice in its mouth and is blowing into his neck.

Finally, after He Zhiyi touched his neck subconsciously again, Wang Fu said, "Brother...do you feel bad too..."

Wang Fu's voice was very low, and he dared not let the professors hear him saying such things before going to the grave.

Wang Fu was originally a wealthy second generation, skipping classes and failing subjects was a common occurrence, and he was not qualified to participate in this archaeology, but he was forced into it by his rich father.

He Zhiyi fastened the safety rope, checked the equipment on his body by the way, and comforted him casually: "It's nothing, just relax."

Wang Fu turned his head and "cut", and let the staff who tied the safety rope to toss, but he didn't move.

After He Zhiyi was ready, he heard Professor Chen, who had already gone to the grave, call him.

He greeted the teacher on the ground, and when he was about to go down, he suddenly heard a chuckle.

He was startled, and looked around, but couldn't find the source of the sound.

Professor Chen called him again, but He Zhiyi didn't have time to think about it, so he followed.

They walked through the south gate of the tomb, and then they stepped on the south tomb passage, which is relatively open. The walls on both sides of the tomb passage are full of colorful murals, with grand scenes and complex compositions.

Professor Chen looked at the wall on one side by the light of the flashlight, but couldn't tell what he was thinking.

He Zhiyi couldn't tell what the mural was expressing through the light, nor could he tell the identity of the owner of the tomb. He could only see that it seemed to be celebrating something.

However, with such exquisite and rich ceiling paintings, plus such a large underground tomb, who would dare to occupy such a large territory if not the emperors and princes?

He couldn't help but stepped forward to watch it by himself, but found that he had never seen the paint on the mural before.

shouldn't be...

"Go ahead." Professor Chen withdrew his gaze, but his tone was a little more serious.

Although He Zhiyi heard some meaning, he didn't understand what was wrong with the tomb, so he nodded and followed his footsteps.

Finally, the long tomb passage came to an end, and there was an ear chamber in front of it.

"The dome, fan-shaped bricks, is the front ear chamber." He Zhiyi said softly.

Professor Chen nodded, but did not move.

The faces of the other professors also suddenly became ugly, only Wang Fu didn't know why.

"What's the matter, aren't you going in?" Wang Fu said.

He Zhiyi shook his head at him, and said in a nutshell: "There is no door."

There are doors in all the ear chambers in the tomb, which is a law that has never gone wrong.

Finally, another Professor Tong said: "I will go in with Lao Chen first, and the three of you will wait here first."

"Professor..." He Zhiyi subconsciously said.

Professor Tong raised his hand to stop, then took the first step carefully, and gradually relaxed after confirming that there was no problem.

"Let's go." Professor Chen said.

He Zhiyi nodded, looking at the threshold between the front ear chamber and the tomb passage.

He was raising his legs to step over, when suddenly, the threshold under his feet turned into flames.

The flames didn't burn very high, but they did startle him.

"Ah!" He Zhiyi's heart tightened for a moment, and he jumped quickly, but he didn't want his left foot to trip over his right foot, and he fell to the ground in front of his eyes.

Professor Chen turned around to help, but for some reason, he suddenly couldn't move.

He Zhiyi put his hands in front of his face, and what he could touch was not the hard ground, but the soft touch like clothes.

It was only for a moment, He Zhiyi didn't have time to feel it, let alone open his eyes, and stood up with the three-point strength of supporting him.

With his hands hanging by his side, he frowned and stared at the direction where he just fell, but he only saw a wall.

It is still a colorful mural.

He looked at his palms and sleeves. If he really touched the wall, there would be some marks left, wouldn't he?

But he took a closer look at the clothes, and they were clean without any dust.

He Zhiyi turned to look at the threshold again, and the flame that had been flourishing had disappeared without a trace, not even a scum left.

Could it be... I really misread it?

Professor Chen and the others were also terrified. Just now they watched He Zhiyi fall down. How did they stand up now?

The whole group suddenly shuddered. It was the first time that Professor Chen had encountered such a strange thing after laying down so many tombs.

But what made them even more frightened was still behind.

The ear chamber is much larger than they imagined, and it is rare to see such an ear chamber.

In addition, there are coffins on the east and west sides, and a row of holes on the north side.

There are a total of seven passages, with a distance of two meters between each other. It is not known which one is the road leading to the main tomb.

"This shouldn't be an ear chamber, come and have a look." Professor Tong brought up the previous incident and brought the topic back to work.

Professor Chen patted He Zhiyi's shoulder as comfort, and pulled him in, he said: "This is really not like a normal ear chamber, but there are building materials in this place, just like the tomb chamber we saw before. .”

Professor Tong shook his head, not quite agreeing, but the structure of the tomb, the owner of the tomb needs further investigation.

He pointed to the side of the ear room with a brush, "There is a hole over there, Wang Fu you and I will have a look."

Professor Chen also opened the backpack and took out tools, "Zhiyi, write down the location and data of the coffin."

He Zhiyi said yes, took out the ruler and started measuring.

Professor Chen gently swept the dust from a corner of the coffin with a brush, and helped He Zhiyi hold the ruler by the way.

After He Zhiyi finished measuring, he squatted on the ground and wrote.

Suddenly, the coffin opened...

Just for a moment, He Zhiyi lowered his head, his writing hand froze suddenly, and he didn't dare to turn his head to look at the coffin with a gap opened.

What the hell!

With a sound of "clang", Professor Chen's brush fell to the ground.

There was another dull sound, and the coffin that I opened closed again...

"Go... let's go!" Professor Chen didn't care about other things, picked up He Zhiyi who was still squatting on the ground, and was about to run, calling the other three while running.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Professor Tong led Wang Fu out of a passageway, and followed Sa Yazi out.

He Zhiyi didn't have time to explain, he just wanted to leave this ghostly place quickly, but he didn't want to know that there was no door, only a threshold connected to the tomb passage, and a tightly sealed iron door was added at some point.

He Zhiyi reached out and knocked on the iron door, with such a dull sound, the iron door seemed as thick as a wall.

Or...the tomb passage they came from may have become a dead end.

"It's a crime..." Professor Liu sighed, with a sad face on his face, "I know that this tomb that suddenly appeared in the barren hills and mountains is not a good place. You say that Dongxian has been visited all over the place. If it is so big How could one of the tombs not be found?"

"That's enough...it's useless to talk about it." Professor Tong still held something like a bamboo slip in his hand and didn't have time to put it down. "Old Chen, what happened to you just now?"

Professor Chen waved his hand, not wanting to open his mouth.He Zhiyi said: "Just now when measuring the inner and outer coffins over there...the coffin suddenly opened."

"What!" Wang Fu was frightened immediately, "Are you reading that right?"

"Both the teacher and I have seen it. It should be...it should be right." He Zhiyi said.

After the voice fell, the atmosphere suddenly became more dignified.

After a while, Professor Tong said: "It should be impossible to go back the same way now, but after an hour, if we don't go up, the people above will come down to find us, so don't worry too much."

He Zhiyi also felt that it was useless to be so depressed. It was better to find out if there were any documents here, so that they could figure out the tomb of who and what era it was.

"Let's not go separately, stay away from the coffin, and go to the small ear chamber on the other side of the cave to have a look first?" He Zhiyi suggested, "Professor Tong, did you find anything just now?"

Professor Tong walked through the cave with a few people, and said: "This should be an emperor's tomb, but emperors are usually mausoleums, and there are not many tombs without tombs like this, and I think this tomb was opened by the emperor. There should be no records in the dynasty."

"Not recorded?" He Zhiyi couldn't help repeating.

After all, according to the level of civilization of human beings today, the history they know should be comprehensive. If there is no record, then they can only look for it in ancient times...

Professor Tong took out the animal bone that had just been opened. The oracle bone inscriptions on it were blurry, but the two characters on the top were vaguely discernible.

"Di Yan." He Zhiyi said softly.

"If you guess correctly, this ruler should be named 'Yan', and 'Emperor' is his identity." Professor Tong handed the animal bone to He Zhiyi.

He Zhiyi looked at the polished animal bone and the intricate writing on it, and suddenly felt that the word "Yan" was very familiar.

"Diyan... What about the name, is it just the word 'Yan'?" He Zhiyi asked.

Professor Tong said: "I haven't seen it yet. These animal bones are too old, and they are severely worn and eroded. They can't read sentences at all."

"But if it is the oracle bone inscriptions, if we judge the age based on the text, there shouldn't be such a technology for building tombs at that time, and there should be no way for the murals on the tomb outside to be preserved." He Zhiyi said.

"What mural!?"

As soon as He Zhiyi finished speaking, several people asked him questions in unison.

mural?They had just walked along the way, and the walls and top of the tomb passage were clean and empty, except for the soil, which was pitted gravel, without a trace of pattern at all, let alone color.

The author has something to say:

Welcome everyone to read the just-finished fast-travel article "Wake up at night in the morning"

I don’t know when this year’s modern supernatural novel "Stained with Blood and Laughing" will be serialized in advance.

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