In the early years of the Republic of China, it was rumored that a group of tombs had been discovered in Pingyao, Shanxi Province, and most of them were the tombs of princes and nobles.
Thieves from all walks of life came here after hearing the news, and they were all ready to make a big move here.
Among them were two foreign thieves who wanted to take advantage of this great opportunity to make a fortune.
As soon as the two bandits arrived in the area, they immediately found a remote village to stay, and then chatted with the villagers to find out if there were any large tombs nearby.
The villagers said: "There seems to be a tomb not far from the village, but I don't know who is buried.
I only know that several groups of tomb robbers came, and none of them came out after entering.
People said that they were trapped in that tomb.
The ghosts of the buried people were taken away, so no one dared to take a step closer."
After hearing this, the two thieves immediately decided to take a look.
One evening, two bandits came to the location of the tomb mentioned by the villagers.
After searching for a while, they found a bandit hole behind a small slope.
The two were overjoyed and immediately got in.
Before climbing far, he felt a brick blocking the way.
One of the thieves touched the brick surface with his hand and felt that it was an ancient brick with patterns carved on it.
He immediately understood that this was an ancient tomb. , there must be countless gold and silver treasures inside.
The two thieves climbed out of the robbery hole, and then they became worried again.
Because they wanted to use explosives to blow up the stone wall, but they didn't know the weight and gravity of the explosives, and were afraid that the cave would collapse and their previous efforts would be wasted.
In desperation, the two decided to wait until daytime and then find another way to enter the tomb.
Early the next morning, two bandits came to inspect the area.
They saw a family cooking not far from the tomb, so they walked over.
One of them walked to the door and saw that there was a very deep cellar for storing sweet potatoes outside the house, and the direction was pointing to the tomb, so he told his accomplices about the situation.
After some discussion, the two decided to buy the house to cover up the tomb robbing.
The two parties agreed on the price and after the owner moved out of the residence, two thieves entered from the cellar that night and began to dig a hole for the tomb.
But after they climbed in, the deeper they dug, the darker they got.
Not only could they not find the stone wall they had touched before, but they found it increasingly difficult to breathe.
Just when the two wanted to go back, they couldn't climb out no matter how hard they crawled.
In the end, they were both suffocated to death in the cave.
People who knew about this said that the two thieves were also killed by the ghosts in the tomb.
In fact, people don't know that the sweet potatoes stored in the cellar, like us humans, are all composed of very small cells.
The cells of sweet potatoes are still alive when they are stored, and they also breathe, and what they breathe in is oxygen and what they breathe out is carbon dioxide.
In a closed cellar, the oxygen is quickly sucked out of the sweet potatoes, and they release more and more carbon dioxide.
If a person enters suddenly, due to the gradual reduction of oxygen inside, he will be suffocated to death in the cellar over time.
But it is unknown whether the groups of tomb robbers mentioned before also died in the tombs for this reason
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