Chapter 28: Underground Coffin
"Bah!" I picked up a small piece of stone at the bottom of the tomb and hit it hard on the hard tomb wall next to me.
"Da da~" A faint echo came from all directions.
Seeing that Zhang Ziyu was about to speak, I raised my index finger to my lips to signal him to be quiet.
"I didn't expect that Wang Ping's tomb actually has one room and two coffins!" I said after listening for a while. Identifying the location by listening to the sound is one of the unique skills of the Tang family, because there is no light in the tomb all year round, and the first movement caused by triggering the mechanism is
It is sound, so the ears are more important than the eyes among the gang leaders. Through the echo, you can roughly feel the size of the tomb and other important information.
"Tang Tian, do you think the group that broke into the robbery cave before were the Jiang family members who died on the Xumizuo?" Zhang Ziyu asked.
"It's hard to say. We can enter through the robbery hole, and so can the Jiang family. Maybe they are just one step ahead of us." I said.
"Then we'd better be careful!" Zhang Ziyu raised the flashlight and shined it on the thick fog ahead.
"Da da!"
Our shoes stepped on the slippery bluestone, and under the dim light of the flashlight, the white fog was constantly stirring as we walked through. The entire tomb was silent, with no sound except for the sound of walking and breathing.
"This direction...isn't it the underground palace of the White Tower?" I asked in surprise. Wang Ping's tomb is located less than fifty meters below the side of the White Tower. Calculating the direction and distance, we are now in the White Tower.
Within the scope of the underground palace. Ancient pagodas in the past, especially those in the Song and Tang Dynasties, generally had underground palaces built under their bases. The underground palaces contained Buddhist treasures, such as relics, red corals, crystals, gold and silverware, etc.
It has a high market value. In the past, gang leaders only thought about tombs and paid little attention to pagodas. Therefore, many underground palaces under the base of pagodas are still intact and have not been stolen. They have become the focus of archaeological research.
Zhang Ziyu did not speak, but stared at the scene in front of him and took a deep breath.
A gray-white sarcophagus appeared under the dim light of the flashlight. The body of the sarcophagus was covered with moss. Water seemed to overflow from the closed lid of the sarcophagus, leaving black water stains on the upper part of the sarcophagus body. As we got closer,
, the vision became clearer and clearer, and I saw yellow and white paper scattered on the ground around the sarcophagus. The white paper was cut into round copper coins, which were used by the dead, and the yellow paper was a long talisman paper.
Traces of cinnabar outlines can be vaguely seen on it, but it may have been a long time, and the color of the red Taoist talisman on the talisman paper has faded a lot.
"Tang Tian, are there any coffins in the underground palace of the pagoda?" Zhang Ziyu asked me seriously, staring at the talisman paper on the ground.
"It's impossible. Some Buddhist holy objects are usually placed in the underground palace. Even if the eminent monk wants to keep his body after his death, he will be buried in the tower forest area of the temple...unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless this tower is not used to pray, but to suppress something?" I suddenly felt uneasy in my heart.
"Look, bloody handprints!" Zhang Ziyu moved the flashlight and said in surprise. He saw that the black marks on the sarcophagus covered by water were covered with a faint blood-red palm print. The finger bones were slender and looked like a woman's hand.
"call!"
Just when I was about to get close to the sarcophagus and take a closer look, a sudden strong wind blew up, and white copper coins and yellow talismans were flying all over the sky, which was like a scene during a burial.
"Clang!"
Zhang Ziyu pushed me hard, and at the same time, a black shadow passed me by, and the gray sarcophagus made a dull impact.
I looked along the sound, and at some point, there stood in front of me a 1.7-meter-tall "person" wearing a blue-purple official uniform from the Qing Dynasty. His back was turned to me. The patch in the middle of the official uniform was covered with dust and could not be identified.
He is an official of several grades. His long braid reaches his waist and looks very greasy. There is a yellow sticky substance between the hair strands, which looks like something left after decay. His neck is exposed outside the official uniform, and his skin is exposed.
It was dry and black, with bulging folds, and the arteries were buried under the skin like dry old tree vines. A black and withered palm pressed against the sarcophagus, and its long gray-yellow nails scratched a few white marks on the surface of the sarcophagus.
"This is a fucking zombie!" My mind exploded instantly.
"Hiss!"
A deep sound came from the zombie's mouth, and he slowly turned around.
His face was dark purple, all the skin on his face was dry, his eye sockets were raised high, the bones on the bridge of his nose seemed to have been hit hard and had collapsed, his nose was crooked, and under his lips covered with dark green corpse spots, there was a sharp, dog-like look.
Her white teeth look extremely dazzling against her purple-black skin.
Zhang Ziyu took out a piece of talisman paper from his sleeve, put his finger in his mouth and bit it. He approached the zombie with a quick stride, waved his fingertips in front of him, then stepped on the seven stars and quickly retreated.
The zombie was attracted by Zhang Ziyu's blood, twisted its stiff neck, made a clicking sound, and jumped toward Zhang Ziyu.
One jump is about three meters high.
"boom!"
When the zombies landed again, the entire ground beneath the tomb shook, sending up bursts of dust and smoke.
"Poof!" Zhang Ziyu drew the talisman with blood, muttering something in his mouth, and with a touch of his hand, the entire talisman paper burned instantly, and a fiery red light shone in the tomb.
However, the moment Zhang Ziyu pressed the burning talisman on the zombie, the original fiery red light turned into cyan blue.
"Bang!" With a muffled sound, Zhang Ziyu was knocked away by the zombie's claw and fell heavily to the ground five meters away.
"Hiss!"
The zombie seemed to have no interest in Zhang Ziyu. It turned its head directly towards me and kept roaring. There were no eyeballs in the blackened eye sockets, but it still made people feel the unique cold breath of death.
Chapter completed!