As soon as the candle went out, out of instinct, I felt a chill in my body, but then I reminded myself: "This is a normal physical phenomenon.
There is nothing scary about the candle burning to the end.
If it is still lit after burning to the end, then there is a real ghost."
Woolen cloth."
At this time, we heard a "clunking" sound behind us.
Fatty and I thought something was going on behind us, so we hurriedly looked back, only to see Big Gold Tooth slumped on the ground looking at the extinguished candle, his face pale with fear.
This is all due to the fact that when the fat man brags to him, he adds more fuel and vinegar to portray the "ghost blowing out the lamp" like a nightmare.
Da Jinya is usually just a profiteer and has not experienced any tests.
At this time, in this gloomy underground palace , suddenly saw the candle extinguished, he was not afraid, he was so scared that he trembled into a ball.
I inserted the paratrooper knife in my waist, stretched out my hand to pull up Big Jinya, and comforted him: "What's wrong with you?
Master Jin is fine.
Fatty and I are here, aren't we?
There are two of us here, and you are indispensable."
Don’t be afraid, little one.”
Seeing that there was no unusual movement in front of him except for the candles that burned to the end and went out, Da Jinya breathed out: "I'm ashamed, I'm not afraid.
When I think of my family, they all rely on me to support them alone." , I have a little bit of that.”
I waved my hand to the big gold tooth.
Now was not the time to talk.
I lit another candle on the ground.
The three of them took a few steps forward.
This time, the "person" in the southeast corner had already entered the illumination of our wolf-eye flashlight. scope.
It turns out that the figure standing in the southeast corner of the Hades Hall across the candle is not a person at all, but it does have a face, and it is also a human face.
Unexpectedly, it is a statue carved from stone.
The stone face is embossed on a huge stone coffin.
This stone coffin is huge.
I dare to swear that when we first entered the Hades Palace from the Robber's Cave, the Hades Palace was completely empty.
There was absolutely no such big stone coffin.
It and Like the stone walls that sealed the thief's cave, they seemed to pop out of the air.
The fat man and I, as well as Big Jinya behind us, seemed confused when we saw a huge stone coffin suddenly appeared in the Hades Palace.
We took a few steps forward and got closer to the stone coffin to take a look.
This stone coffin is about 3.5 meters long and 1.7 meters high.
The entire stone coffin is made of large stones.
Except for the bottom of the stone coffin, the rest of the surrounding areas and lid are embossed with a huge human face.
The entire stone coffin is It's gray and very solemn.
This human face seems to be a decoration on the stone coffin.
The facial features are clearly carved, no different from ordinary people, except that the ears are slightly larger, the eyes are straight, and there is no expression on the face.
Although it is just a human face carved in stone, it is indescribably weird and strange.
And cool.
At first, we were at the passage between the Hades Hall and the Front Hall, and saw this stone face from a distance through a candle.
In the dim light of the candle, we did not see that it was a human face carved in stone, nor did we see this big stone figure in the darkness. outer coffin.
Now that I can see clearly, I feel that the human face on the stone coffin is far scarier than ghosts, zombies, etc., because we are mentally prepared for those things, but we never expected that such a thing would appear. thing.
The fat man said to me: "Old Hu, what the hell is this thing?
I think this craftsmanship seems to be old.
Could it be that it has become a spirit?
Otherwise, how could it suddenly appear on the ground?
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If we say that we have misremembered the patterns on the mural, it's true.
It's still possible, but it's such a big stone.
We just came in and took a closer look at the Hades Palace, but we didn't see it.
Isn't that a ghost?"
I said to the fat man: "Don't talk nonsense, this seems to be a stone coffin containing a coffin.
This ancient tomb is really weird everywhere, I don't know where it came from."
I asked the person behind me again.
Big Jinya: "Master Jin, you are well-informed, can you tell the significance of this stone coffin?"
Big Jinya, who had been hiding behind me and the fat man, said: "Master Hu, I think this stone coffin is from the Shang and Zhou dynasties."
He shined his wolf eyes at the bottom of the stone coffin and said, "Look, there are also Western Zhou Dynasties on it.
I can guarantee with my head that there was no such thing as the cloud and thunder pattern in the Tang Dynasty.”
Although I have been in the antique business for a while, I only dealt with things from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
I have not had much contact with things before the Tang Dynasty.
I have never seen anything from the Yin, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties.
I heard that Da Jinya said that this stone coffin was from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
I thought this was even more strange.
I said to Da Jinya: "If I remember correctly, shouldn't we be in the underworld of an ancient tomb from the Tang Dynasty?"
How come there are stone coffins from the Western Zhou Dynasty in the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty?"
Da Jinya said: "Well, let's not talk about you.
I'm starting to get confused now.
We walked around in this ancient tomb and looked at the structure of the tomb and the underground palace, as well as the murals of the fat palace ladies.
In addition to the Tang Dynasty How can a large tomb from the Tang Dynasty have such pomp and craftsmanship?
But then again, this stone coffin is indeed not from the Tang Dynasty. " The fat man said to us: "Okay, it's impossible to remember it wrong.
Even if it's wrong, it's impossible for all three of us to remember it wrong.
I don't think this stone coffin is a valuable thing.
I'm staying in this palace of Hades."
"I feel very uncomfortable.
Let's find a way out of here quickly.
It doesn't matter which direction it comes from."
I said, "No, I think the stone material of this stone coffin is very similar to the large stone slab that sealed the entrance to the Robber's Cave.
Moreover, they all appear suddenly without anyone noticing.
If you want to find a way out, you must find out what's going on."
What's going on?"
Da Jinya said: "Master Hu, I think it's better not to look at it.
We can't go back through the entrance of the Robber's Cave.
Can't we still go to the middle cave?
I think the Colonel Touching Gold who came in earlier will We left from the cave.
Although it is said to be a big maze, we have a compass, so we don’t have to worry too much about getting lost. " I nodded and said: "I know that in addition to the compass, there are also glutinous rice and long ropes, which can be used as road signs.
However, the depth of the cave is unknown, and I am afraid it will not be easy to get out.
What I am most worried about is that the road is also There are these strange things like stone walls and coffins popping up.
Damn it, where did these Western Zhou things come from?"
As I was talking, I suddenly remembered something.
In the small village next to Panshe Slope, the old couple who stayed with us for the night once said that there is no Tang Tomb in this mountain, but it is said that there is an ancient tomb from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
The stone coffin with a human face is indeed an object from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Could it be that the place we are now is not a Tang tomb, but an ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
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In this case, how to explain the layout of those Tang Dynasty murals and Tang Dynasty tombs?
My head hurts thinking about it, and I can’t think of a reason.
No matter how much experience I have in fighting, I can’t explain these things.
What we are facing is a completely incomprehensible phenomenon.
In the abandoned tombs of the Tang Dynasty, Why did the stone coffin with a human face appear in the Western Zhou Dynasty?
Da Jinya is still wary.
He is money-oriented and a complete money worshiper.
He is not too superstitious and has never believed in ghosts and gods.
If he is asked to make a choice between money and gods and Buddhas, Even if he were asked to choose a hundred times, he would choose money without hesitation.
After all, you shouldn’t be too superstitious in the antique business, especially when it comes to inverted Ming ware.
Da Jinya hung the golden Buddha and jade Guanyin around his neck just to seek some psychological comfort.
However, at this moment, faced with these unbelievable situations, Da Jinya was also confused and couldn't help but ask me: "Could the stone wall that suddenly appeared in the thief's cave be the result of a ghost building the wall?"
I just thought of an idea, but before I could figure it out, I was interrupted by Da Jinya's words, so I said to him: "We have never encountered a ghost fighting against a wall, but I heard that they are all like ghosts, and they are in the same place.
Going in circles.
Although a stone wall appeared out of thin air, it should be two different things than a ghost breaking a wall. " The fat man urged from the side: "Old Hu, can you hurry up?
If you want us to withdraw now, then don't stand here; if you feel the need to see what this human-faced stone box is, then we The two of them tried to pry it open."
I didn't answer the fat man's question.
I carefully pushed the human-faced stone coffin.
There were stone tenons wedged inside the stone coffin, and it was tightly covered.
It was not easy to pry it open even with iron bars.
Besides, if there was a rice dumpling inside, It's not easy to deal with if it's released.
I looked at the weird human face on the stone coffin again and thought it would be better not to move.
Originally, we just wanted to come in and pick up some bargains, so that's fine if we didn't grab the bargains.
We tried not to cause too much trouble, as long as there was a way out.
After weighing the pros and cons, I thought it would be better to turn a blind eye to this weird stone coffin with a human face.
I made up my mind and told Fatty and Da Jinya not to worry about the human-faced stone coffin.
We should return the same way we came.
At worst, we could transfer out of the Longling Cave.
If we stayed any longer, there might be some changes here.
Big Gold Tooth had already had this intention and wished to stay far away from the stone coffin.
The three of them turned around and left.
Big Gold Tooth led two big geese and jumped into the robber's hole in the center of the Hades Palace first.
The fat man also jumped in afterwards.
I looked back at the candle in the southeast corner of Hades Palace, held both sides of the robbery hole with both hands, and jumped down from the robbery hole.
We had already figured out this section of the Thieving Cave when we came here.
The direction of the Thieving Cave is a 45-degree inclined plane, leading directly to the center of the Hades Palace.
We crawled diagonally downwards in the robbery cave.
As we crawled, we all felt something was wrong.
The original slope of the robbery cave turned into a flat ground.
We scanned around with our flashlights, and we were all stunned.
We were actually crawling on the floor of a tomb.
Above, there are weird and strange rock paintings of human faces all around, which are not the same stolen cave at all.
The three of you look at me and I look at you, and you can't help but want to ask: "What the hell is this place?"
Looking around the strange tomb, even the fat man who always didn't care about anything started to get scared.
The fat man asked me: "Old Hu, where is this place?"
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I glanced at him and said: "Ask me, I'll ask who is going.
I remember clearly that we jumped down from the robbery hole in the middle of the ancient tomb underworld.
It should be a not too high shaft, connected to the slope below.
Why did you end up here?"
The big gold tooth chewed the tooth flower and said: "Isn't that wrong?
There is such a robbery hole on the ground of the Hades Palace.
It is on the empty seat in the middle.
Next to it should be the coffin of the tomb owner.
We walked around the Hades Palace.
Three laps, apart from the robbery hole, there are no other passages on the ground.
This is really a wall."
I waved my hands to the two of them.
There is no use being suspicious now, and this is by no means as simple as ghosts building a wall.
A stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared in the underworld of the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty.
Could it be that the tomb chamber we are in now is also from the Western Zhou Dynasty?
Looking at the rock paintings on the tomb wall, they are full of faces with weird expressions.
This narrow tomb chamber, In other words, it is a tomb passage or something, and it must have a certain connection with the human-faced stone coffin in the Palace of Hades.
After we entered the Underworld Hall of the Tang Tomb, in order to save energy, we only used one of the three flashlights, the one with the big gold tooth.
At this time, the big gold tooth handed the flashlight to me, and I lit a candle on the spot and observed with the flashlight. nearby environment.
We should be in a tomb passage with ancient red rock paintings painted on both sides.
The colors of the strokes in those pictures are as red as blood and as bright as new.
If this tomb passage was from the Western Zhou Dynasty, no matter how well preserved it is, it would not have this effect.
These rock paintings look to be only a hundred or two hundred years old at most.
Not only the petroglyphs, but also the rocks that make up the tomb passage, show no traces of peeling off over time.
Although it does not look like it has just been completed, it definitely does not look like it was built thousands of years ago.
There are still gray stone stubbles exposed in some places.
The tomb passage is about several meters wide, and extends straight at both ends with no end in sight.
The tomb bricks are made of huge rocks, which are simple and dignified.
They are not as luxurious and delicate as Tang tombs, but they still have a heavy and steady kingly aura.
Da Jinya knew that I was familiar with the layout of ancient tombs in the past, so he asked me about the details of this tomb passage.
I shook my head and said to Da Jinya: "I'm not sure yet.
If the stone coffin we found in the Hades Palace is indeed an ancient relic from the Western Zhou Dynasty as you said, then this tomb passage is also very likely.
It matches the stone coffin and is from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Especially the patterns painted on the tomb wall are very similar to that stone coffin."
The fat man said: "I bet it's the same thing.
Damn, that big face can be remembered for a lifetime just by looking at it.
That half-smiling, cold and weird expression is just cut out of the same mold."
I said to the fat man: "Little fat, what you said makes sense, but you didn't look carefully.
The stone coffin we saw in the Hades Palace had five stone-carved human faces on it, all with the same expression.
Take a closer look.
Look at the rock paintings in the tomb passage, but their expressions are not that simple.”
The petroglyphs on the tomb walls show slightly distorted human faces, not all of them like those on the stone coffins in the Temple of the Underworld.
The five faces on the stone coffin are all expressionless, with a hint of weirdness in their indifference, while each face on the tomb wall is slightly different, some are happy, some are worried, some are sad, some are angry, and some are surprised. , injured, but no matter which expression it is, it is different from normal people.
The fat man looked at several faces on the tomb wall by the light of the candle, and said to Da Jinya and me: "Old Hu, when I took a closer look, I felt something was wrong about these faces.
No matter what expression they were, they all looked strange.
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How should I put it, I know something is wrong in my heart, but I can't describe it.
The expressions on these faces are all so-and-so."
I also saw the strangeness in those faces.
Seeing that the fat man couldn't hold it in, I said it for him: "They are all so fake and insincere.
Whether they are happy or angry, they all look so damn fake, like they are pretending."
It comes out, not from the heart.”
When I said this, both Big Gold Tooth and Fatty agreed.
Fatty said: "That's right, it's just the fake old Hu who has poisonous eyes.
In fact, I can see it too, but there are too many words in my stomach and I'm stuck.
I didn’t think about it for a moment.”
Da Jinya said: "That's true.
There is evil in the smile, and ridicule in the anger.
Those of us who do business usually have to pretend to be sincere and heartfelt when negotiating with customers.
I think our expressions at that time It's fake enough, but compared to the human face painted on the tomb wall, it pales into insignificance.
The fake look revealed in this expression is simply not something humans can do. " Da Jinya's last words made me feel a chill in my heart.
Looking at the faces on the murals, I said to the fat man and Da Jinya: "I feel the same way.
I just can't think of anyone whose expressions can be so..."
Such a weird opera actor doesn't have such a face.
I think the situation we are facing now has something to do with these faces, but what do these faces symbolize?"
Although I often claim to be an authentic gold-touching captain, I am only good at looking at Feng Shui, looking for dragon veins and finding treasure halls.
Secondly, I have learned from the sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui secret technique, and I am very knowledgeable about the layout of tombs of past dynasties. familiar.
But when it comes to some cultural factors, historical background, and identification of cultural relics, they all have a partial understanding.
Even if they have a partial understanding, they are mostly based on their own speculations without any foundation.
Apart from some intuitive feelings, I know nothing about these giant-faced stone coffins and the many strange-looking rock paintings on tomb walls.
I am far inferior to Big Gold Tooth in this regard.
Although he is not a professional archaeologist, he at least has many years of experience in the antiques industry.
I said to Big Jinya and Fatty: "Little Fatty, Mr.
Jin, I think there are a lot of weird things in this ancient tomb.
There is no way for us to wander around like this.
If we wander around like this, we might encounter something else."
It’s strange, we must think of some countermeasures now.”
The fat man asked: "Lao Hu, do you have any ideas?
If you have any ideas, please tell me quickly.
Don't show off, okay?
I won't hide it from you.
I'm really fucking scared now."
I know that the fat man is not a person who talks about fear easily.
If he wants to say the word "fear", it is because we are facing a situation where we have no way to start.
Although our lives are not threatened, our nerves are about to collapse.
So I said to the fat man: "I haven't thought of any solution yet.
The premise of finding a countermeasure depends on us first figuring out what is going on.
Now it's like fighting on the battlefield.
We were ambushed.
I The enemy is open and hidden, and you can only be beaten passively, without any room to fight back. " The fat man said helplessly: "Now the three of us are like three little mice in the hands of others, being manipulated so dizzy, but we still can't figure out what's going on.
I will never bring weapons and explosives next time."
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Entering the ancient tomb."
I smiled bitterly and said, "If we can have another time, let's talk about it next time."
I asked Da Jinya again: "Master Jin, I think that although we are in a weird environment now, our lives are not in danger for the time being.
As long as we sort out the clues, escaping is not a problem.
After all, you are not in vain.
With so many years of known artifacts, we can tell that the human-faced stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Can you explain it in detail?
We can analyze it and maybe we can come up with something."
At this time, Da Jinya was not as nervous as Fatty.
He was different from Fatty.
Fatty was not afraid of wolves, worms, tigers, leopards, zongzi, zombies, but only those things that did not involve effort.
To put it simply, he was afraid of using his brain; Da Jinya was most afraid of that kind of thing. direct threat.
Although many things from the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared out of thin air in this ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, they were just weird and not very fatal, or it could be said that they were not immediately fatal.
Therefore, although Da Jinya also felt nervous and fearful, for the time being You can also cope with this kind of mental pressure.
At this time, Da Jinya listened to my question, thought for a moment, and said to me: "Master Hu, you also know that most of the things we mess around in Beijing are from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In the past, the value was much higher.
They were all traded privately and they were not dared to be brought to the antique market.
Change hands.
Ancient artifacts from the Tang and Song dynasties are considered top-notch in our industry, and ancestral objects from before the Tang and Song dynasties are basically considered national treasures.
I have been in this business for so long, and I have only handled a few small items from the Tang Dynasty.”
I saw Dajin Yajing saying something unnecessary, so I asked again: "So you can't be sure that the human-faced stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty."
Da Jinya said: "Of course I have never handled such an ancient artifact.
This kind of stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty is worth a lot of money.
The problem is that no one dares to buy it.
If it is sold to foreigners, we will It is a crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, so it is actually worthless to us.
Although I have not read anything from the Western Zhou Dynasty, I sometimes want to gain knowledge and insight. , I often read books on this subject, and always visit museums to improve my business skills.
I am also a semi-expert on these ancient relics.
This stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
I will not make any mistakes about it.
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Decorating objects with human faces was very popular during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and many important ritual vessels would be engraved with human faces.”
I wondered: "Didn't you just say that the human-faced stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty?
If I remember correctly, the Yin Shang Dynasty should be before the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Is this stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty or the Yin Shang Dynasty?"
Da Jinya said: "My Lord, please listen to what I have to say.
This kind of decoration flourished in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
It was still used on some important occasions until the Three Kingdoms period.
However, the times are different, and its characteristics are also different.
The difference is that the stone coffin we saw has a special feature.
Do you know what it is?"
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