After hearing what I said, Wen Qingshan thought for a moment and said: "Shi Yu is right. It seems that the only way to solve this mystery is to open the Babel coffin and take a look."
"Maybe this is not a coffin?" I looked left and right, but I couldn't connect such a stone platform with a coffin.
"Haha, if it's a coffin, you'll know if there's a coffin lid!" After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he immediately bent down and examined the stone platform carefully.
He soon discovered that there was a circle of gaps at the top of the stone platform. In his opinion, this was the lid of the coffin. Without saying a word, he immediately took off his backpack, took out the crowbar from inside, and prepared to open the coffin.
Pry open the cover.
Seeing this, Ouyang Yi hurriedly grabbed Wen Qingshan's arm and stopped him: "Mr. Wen, wait a minute, the purpose of our coming here is to find the evil stone. As for whether this is a Babel coffin and who is buried in it, it has nothing to do with us.
There is no need to make unnecessary mistakes in the relationship. What’s more, it must be very heavy to pry open the cover of this stone, which is so big. I’m afraid it won’t be easy to pry it open.”
Wen Qingshan smiled slightly and said: "What if the evil stone we are looking for is hidden in this sky-reaching coffin?"
Ouyang Yi was stunned when he heard this. He obviously didn't expect this.
He let go of Wen Qingshan's hand and asked, "Mr. Wen, do you think the evil stone might be hidden here?"
Wen Qingshan looked around and replied: "Look at this tomb. Although it is spacious, it is empty and cannot hide anything at all. What's more, according to what you said, the evil stone is almost half a person tall."
, if the evil stone is really hidden in this tomb, then this Sky-Bearing Coffin is probably the most likely hiding place."
After listening to Wen Qingshan's explanation, Ouyang Yi pondered for a moment, turned around and shouted to Long Yi and the others.
Chen Biao, Long Yi and Wei Zi came over immediately.
When Long Yi saw Wen Qingshan standing in front of the stone platform with a crowbar in his hand, he asked in confusion: "Mr. Wen, what are you doing with the crowbar in your hand?"
Wen Qingshan reached out and patted the stone platform gently, and said with a smile: "Haha, I am planning to pry open this coffin!"
When Long Yi heard about the coffin, he immediately showed a look of surprise on his face. He stared at the stone platform and asked in a suspicious tone: "Mr. Wen, do you think this is a coffin?"
Wen Qingshan pointed to the upper side of the stone platform and said: "Look at this position of the stone platform, there is a circle of flat gaps. This means that the entire stone platform is divided into upper and lower parts. According to my speculation, these ten
There is a coffin that reaches the sky, the upper part is the coffin lid, and the lower part is the coffin body.”
"The Babel Coffin?" Long Yi was slightly startled, turned to look at Ouyang Yi, and asked, "Dr. Ouyang, what is the Babel Coffin?" Unexpectedly, Long Yi didn't know about the Babel Coffin either.
Ouyang Yi said: "Mr. Wen said that the ancients paid attention to the round sky and the square place. The reason why most coffins are square is because they can connect to the spiritual energy of the earth, while the round coffins are called Tongtian coffins because they can receive the spiritual energy of the nine heavens."
"There are still round coffins in this world?" Long Yi was a little surprised.
"I just heard about it from Mr. Wen today. Not to mention that I have seen it before, I have never even heard of it."
From Ouyang Yi's tone, it seems that he still has some doubts about Wen Qingshan's "Tongtian Coffin Theory".
Seeing that they didn't believe it, Wen Qingshan smiled slightly and said: "Because the ancients believed that round coffins do not understand the earth's energy, and square coffins are more suitable for placing corpses, this sky-reaching coffin is indeed quite rare, and there is no relevant record in most ancient books.
, it’s normal that you haven’t heard of it. In fact, I happened to see a sky-reaching coffin more than ten years ago and did some research on it.”
"Then who will be buried in this sky-high coffin?"
"Mr. Wen believes that the five-clawed dragon and nine-feathered phoenix are carved on it, which are symbols of the emperor, so the person lying in the coffin is most likely a person with treasonous intentions."
"What!?" Long Yi was completely shocked.
Ouyang Yi changed the topic again and said: "Of course, it is also possible that there are not people inside, but the evil stone we are looking for."
"Is the evil stone inside?"
Upon hearing about the evil stone, Long Yi and the others immediately became energetic.
Ouyang Yi said: "It is not certain yet, but Mr. Wen's analysis is indeed reasonable. I think it is necessary to open it and take a look. However, if there is really an evil stone hidden in it, I am afraid there is some mechanism, and it is also possible
There are no evil stones inside, but there are evil things. In order to deal with emergencies, I called you all here."
"Then what should we do now?" I asked Ouyang Yi.
He stared at the stone platform in front of him and said: "The diameter of this stone cover is nearly two feet, and it is nearly half a foot thick. I'm afraid it weighs hundreds of kilograms. If you want to pry it open, everyone will have to work together. Let's do this, Chen
The captain is responsible for guarding, and the others will come together to pry open the cover of the stone."
Long Yi took out a few crowbars from his backpack, handed one to each person, and everyone started working.
The gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body was very obvious. We easily inserted the sharp end of the crowbar into the gap. However, the coffin lid was indeed not very heavy. The five of us almost used all our strength.
, the coffin lid was pried up a little. Chen Biao, who was standing on the sidelines to be on guard, couldn't stand it any longer. He put away his mercury gun and stepped forward to help.
After a lot of effort, everyone finally pried open the heavy sarcophagus lid. With another combined effort, they pushed open a gap about a foot wide. Ouyang Yi tilted his neck and looked into the gap.
, his face suddenly changed.
"Dr. Ouyang, what's inside?" Long Yi asked, lowering his head and looking inside.
Ouyang Yi raised his head, turned to look at Wen Qingshan, and said slowly: "Mr. Wen, you are right, this is really a coffin! Not only is there a person lying inside, but this person is also wearing a dragon robe!"
"Wearing a dragon robe!? Holy shit! This man really thinks of himself as an emperor!" I quickly lowered my head and looked into the gap. With the light from my hat, I saw that there was indeed a person lying inside, and he was really wearing clothes.
He wears an orange-yellow dragon robe, but due to the angle, the person's face cannot be seen.
Everyone wanted to find out the true identity of this person, so they worked together to push the coffin lid open.
Looking again, this guy was actually wearing a gold mask that covered his entire face, and his whole body was wrapped tightly. Even both hands were wearing silk gloves embroidered with exquisite patterns.
Seeing this, everyone was a little surprised. I was very puzzled and said: "Why does this guy still imitate the Egyptian Pharaoh and wear a gold mask? Maybe he is too ugly and shameful!"
Wen Qingshan carefully reached over and picked up the mask. Everyone took a closer look and couldn't help being surprised. Under the mask, there was a head carved out of black mud!
"What's going on?"
Ouyang Yi pondered for a moment and said: "In the Qing Dynasty, most executions were beheadings, and after some heinous criminals were beheaded, their heads would be hung on the city gate for several days. When their relatives collected the bodies, their heads were often found.
Since the body has disappeared, a skilled craftsman will be asked to carve a head connected to the body to symbolize the preservation of the whole body. Presumably the owner of this body is a felon whose head was beheaded."
Wen Qingshan nodded and said: "I think so! This person dares to wear a dragon robe. He must be a rebel. Rebellion is a serious crime against the Nine Clan. He will be beheaded..." He hadn't finished his words yet.
, suddenly seemed to notice something, his face changed slightly, and he hurriedly took off a silk glove from the corpse's hand.
I glanced at that hand subconsciously, and I couldn't help but be surprised. That hand was also carved out of black mud!
Wen Qingshan said slowly: "This is not a corpse at all, but a clay sculpture!"
"Clay sculpture?" Long Yi immediately stepped forward to check it out, nodded to Ouyang Yi, and said, "This is really a clay sculpture!"
"Where did this song come from? There is such a strange coffin here, and it actually contains a clay sculpture." I was wondering when I suddenly discovered that the wooden pillow under the clay sculpture's head seemed to be a wooden box!
I immediately pointed my hand: "Look at the pillow under its head, does it look like a wooden box?"
Wen Qingshan looked down and said, "It seems to be really a wooden box!" He immediately raised the head of the clay sculpture slightly and took out the wooden box.
The wooden box is about one and a half feet long, half a foot wide, and half a foot high. It is made of dark brown wood, with exquisite patterns carved on it. The eight corners are all wrapped with gold, making it look very delicate.
The wooden box was not locked, but Wen Qingshan did not open it rashly. He turned to everyone and said, "Everyone had better take precautions to prevent hidden weapons from being released from the wooden box."
When everyone heard this, they quickly put down the glass masks on their helmets. But Long Yi and I took two steps back because the glass masks were damaged.
Wen Qingshan placed the wooden box on the stone platform and opened it carefully.
There was no hidden weapon or poisonous gas as Wen Qingshan imagined. Everything was very calm. I poked my head into the wooden box and saw a pair of double-axis scrolls placed inside.
The scroll is made of yellow brocade silk, and the handle is made of white jade.
Wen Qingshan took the scroll out of the wooden box, weighed it in his hand, and said, "This should be an imperial edict, and I'm afraid it's a very important edict."
"Boss Wen, how do you know if you haven't even opened it yet?" I asked in confusion.
Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "Shi Yu, you don't know something. This imperial edict of the Qing Dynasty has a lot of particularities. Among them, the texture of the shaft handle is strictly different according to the official grade: the first grade is a jade shaft, the second grade is a black rhinoceros horn shaft, and the third grade is a black rhinoceros horn shaft.
The scrolls are gold-plated, and the fourth and fifth products are black ox horn scrolls. The materials of the imperial edict are often damask fabrics made of high-quality silk. The patterns are mostly auspicious clouds and auspicious cranes, and there are flying silver dragons on both ends of the edict.