activa-t Chapter 167: Huangchangtichou!
Chapter 167: Huangchangtichou!
Zhong Yuemin wasn't a tomb robber in his previous life. He had read Ghost Blows Out the Light and Grave Robbers' Chronicles, but he had no idea why. "Everyone, spread out and look around to see if there's any hidden door or any other mechanism."
Everyone began to search along the smooth wall. They searched all four sides but still found nothing. Zheng Tong said dejectedly:
"Damn it, it looks like we're really going to be trapped in here."
He sat down dejectedly, and just as his butt touched the ground, he said, "Ouch, oh my..." He was pricked by something sharp, and jumped up, holding his butt.
"Oh my god, what the hell?"
Using a torch, he saw a small protrusion on the flat ground, which looked like a small pyramid. Zhong Yuemin used an engineer's shovel to push it out from the side. At the same time, one side of the wall slowly opened with a "boom..."
"I go!"
Everyone tightened their grip on their things. Compared to this side which was empty, smooth and neat, the other side was much messier, with dust, cobwebs, and the stench of blood and mold. There seemed to be a coffin in the dark place. The whole atmosphere was dark and eerie.
Everyone was unsure. Luo Jianguo asked, "Yuemin, are you going in?"
Before he could say anything, the activated stone door opened completely and then slowly closed again. The pyramid mechanism on the ground also began to drop down and was about to be flush with the ground. It would not be so easy to pry it up again. He did not have time to think about it.
"Go in, quickly!"
He was the first to rush over, followed closely by Zheng Tong, Luo Jianguo, Xiao Ningwei, and others. Cao Gang was the last to rush over, and the stone door behind him slammed shut. The bloody and rotten smell in the air became even stronger. There were indeed coffins in the middle, but not just one. They were arranged vertically backwards, with no end in sight. There must be at least twenty coffins.
Zheng Tong used the torch to shine forward.
"Where did all these coffins come from? They don't look like they were made of good wood, they're tattered. Look, many of them are rotten and broken, and there's nothing valuable inside. These tomb robbers went to such great lengths to dig a 20-30 meter deep hole, and in the end they found nothing but a poor fellow."
"uncertain!"
Zhong Yuemin said, "It seems to me that the people in these coffins were all sacrificed for human sacrifice."
"What is human sacrifice?"
"Just like the burial objects, emperors, generals, and high-ranking officials feared loneliness when buried in the ground after death. Besides a large amount of gold and silver treasures, they also had to be attended to. The more people buried with them, the more prominent and noble the tomb's owner became. I think my guess is correct, the main tomb isn't here, but somewhere inside... Let's go in and take a look."
Continuing to explore inside, the tomb was quite large. From the other side of the wall mechanism to where they were standing, it was at least as big as a standard football field. There were more and more coffins for human sacrifices, and Zheng Tong was counting them all.
"97, 98, 99... Yuemin, there are over a hundred coffins here. Who is buried in these? This isn't the tomb of some emperor, right? Qin Shi Huang?"
"no!"
Zhong Yuemin flatly denied it, saying, "You are underestimating the power and status of the greatest emperor of all time. This tomb is good enough for ordinary nobles, but not for that person. Besides, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is located at the northern foot of Mount Li, 5 kilometers east of Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. It is still hundreds of kilometers away from Baoji. The world-famous Terracotta Warriors are still buried deep underground waiting for people to discover them. That was in 1974, and there are still three or four years left."
After groping for a while, he roughly calculated the distance and it was probably the area of two standard basketball courts. Finally, he arrived at the main tomb. The location of the main tomb was also quite particular. It was placed on a high platform, more than ten meters high, with stone steps on the east, south, west and north, stacked up layer by layer, giving a sense of supremacy and being worshipped by thousands of people.
However, they had no time to care about what was inside the main tomb. They were frightened by the horrific scene in the main tomb. There were six corpses lying on the ground, and two sheep. There were five men and one woman among the six corpses. The five men were all dressed in black and dressed in the same style. There were also hunting rifles, Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, shovels and other items dropped on the ground. These should be the five tomb robbers. The woman looked to be in her forties and dressed like a country woman. This should be the other woman who disappeared while chopping wood before.
No wonder the bloody stench is so strong!
Whether it was the humans or the two sheep, their deaths were horrific. It looked as if their throats had been ripped off by some ferocious beast. Several limbs were missing, scattered like "parts." The main tomb chamber also showed clear signs of a struggle. These people seemed to have been attacked. This was dozens of meters underground, in a dark, oxygen-deprived environment. Tigers and leopards couldn't possibly have gotten in. If a ferocious beast had entered, why would it have killed them without eating them? Furthermore, these tomb robbers were well-equipped, with hunting rifles and Type 56 rifles. A volley of fire would have been enough to kill any ferocious beast, yet no trace of it was found at the scene.
"Yuemin, how did these people die?"
Zheng Tong spoke with a tremor in his voice. He had seen dead people before, but to see so many of them die at once and not knowing how they died was terrifying.
"You ask me, who should I ask?"
Zhong Yuemin said, "The owner of this tomb is definitely not ordinary. Look at the color and material of the main coffin. It's made of yellow incense!"
Several people were puzzled, "What does Huangchangtichou mean?"
Zhong Yuemin said:
"I've read in some history books that this was a most prestigious burial system popular during the Qin and Han dynasties, reserved for the emperor, his wives and concubines, or his favored ministers. The Biography of Huo Guang in the Book of Han records: "Upon his death... he was given one hundred embroidered quilts made of gold, silver, silk, and cotton; fifty boxes of clothing; jade garments, pearls, and jade burial garments; a coffin, a toilet, and a yellow-chang-tichou coffin; and fifteen outer coffins made of fir wood." Su Lin, a Wei scholar during the Three Kingdoms period, annotated the term: "The yellow heart of cypress wood is used to form the outer coffin, hence the name yellow-chang; the wood, all facing inward, is called tichou."
"Fuck, could the person lying here be the emperor's wife? It's been thousands of years, and she's an old witch, and she's still out there harming people?"
"Zheng Tong, how do you know it was the thing in the coffin that came out to harm people?"
"Need I say more? Just look at the ground for yourselves. These tomb robbers have guns. Five of them, even a freaking tiger would have been shot. Now their throats are all bitten off, their heads and bodies are separated. And they are dozens of meters underground. What could have killed them?"
Little Ning Wei raised his pickaxe handle,
"No matter if it's a human, a ghost, or a beast, if it wants to kill us, we'll have to make it shed its skin. Brother Zhong, let's go up and see what's going on."
After all, he is the future king of soldiers. How many people have such courage?
"Damn it!"
Zhong Yuemin, an engineer, shoveled the shovel tightly.
"Brothers, even if the old witch crawls out from inside today, we will fuck her mother too. Go!"