Chapter 373: People light candles and ghosts blow out lamps
"Old Hu, Fatty, I also found a trap here." Hao Shuai pointed to the stone bricks with the same pattern as before on the wall and said, "You guys retreat outside the tomb passage first and wait for me to press it to see if there is any danger.
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"What the magic gun said makes sense, Yingzi, Fatty, let's go out first." Hu Bayi, who was cautious by nature, felt that what Hao Shuai said was reasonable, so he immediately pulled Yingzi and Fatty out of the tomb door.
After Hao Shuai and the other three people went out, he pressed the mechanism with one palm and quickly ran out of the tomb.
I could only hear the sound of "click, click, click" coming from the surrounding walls, and a crisp machine sound sounded in the tomb.
The next moment, sharp arrows shot out from the reliefs on the four walls. Braving the cold light, the sound of piercing the air resounded throughout the tomb!
Hu Bayi and others outside the tomb looked at the dense arrows, their faces turned pale with fright, and they kept rejoicing in their hearts: Fortunately, Hao Shuai had the foresight to let us withdraw, otherwise everyone would have turned into hedgehogs by now.
"Fat man, did you see that you can't touch things in the ancient tomb, otherwise it will easily kill yourself and others." Hao Shuai took the opportunity to educate Fatty Wang, so that he, a pig teammate who specializes in cheating his teammates, would not cause trouble.
"Hmm~ um~ I will definitely not touch you in the future." Fatty Wang swallowed hard and promised.
There was a clicking sound, and a coffin slowly rose up from the middle of the tomb.
It turns out to be a tomb within a tomb!
Hao Shuai led the fat man and the others in and looked at the coffin, which was made of black mahogany and painted with strange patterns, which was very different from the coffin of the Han people.
"Look at the material and the carvings. I guess all of this general's belongings during his entire life in the military were probably in the coffin." Fatty Wang stroked the coffin with both hands and was about to push open the coffin lid.
"Fat man, what are you doing?" Hu Bayi stopped Fatty Wang who was about to make a move.
"What are you doing? This good thing is in front of you, don't you want to take a look?" Fatty Wang said anxiously.
Hao Shuai looked at Fatty Wang, who didn't have a long memory, and said speechlessly: "Fatboy, I forgot the lesson just now, just listen to Lao Hu's arrangements."
"Oh~ I was impulsive, Old Hu, look at this~~" After Hao Shuai said this, Fatty Wang calmed down and looked at Hu Bayi eagerly.
Hu Bayi ignored Fatty Wang, took out his ancestral compass, compared the directions, walked towards the southeast corner of the tomb, and then said: "Candle."
"Oh, I understand, we have to follow the rules." The fat man took out a candle and a lighter and handed them to Hu Bayi.
After Hu Bayi took it, he carefully lit the candle and slowly placed it on the stone pier in the southeast corner.
"Brother Hu, what are you doing?" Yingzi couldn't understand and asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"People light candles and ghosts blow out lamps. This is a rule left by our older generation. It is to light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb before opening the coffin. If the candle goes out, you must evacuate quickly. This is not advisable.
Taking something away is a contract between the living and the dead, passed down for thousands of years, without exception!" Hu Bayi explained with a serious face.
After hearing this so-called rule, Hao Shuai couldn't help but smile in his heart: You broke into someone's house together, and if you don't take anything, will they let you go?
Just like when you break into a house and rob a house. When you are arrested and you explain to the police that we didn’t take anything, will the police let you go?
Especially this ghost-blow-out-lantern world is a supernatural world, but there are real ghosts. Do you think the ghosts will reason with you?
I don’t understand the language either!
Hao Shuai estimated that this rule was just for psychological comfort.
"Ghost blows out the lamp? Is there really a ghost here?" Yingzi looked at the coffin in the center and shrank.
Even though Yingzi is a good hunter, she still can't escape the law that women are afraid of ghosts.
"Don't worry, Yingzi, it'll be okay as long as I'm here." Hao Shuai comforted her. He couldn't lie to her that there were no ghosts here. After all, there were indeed two little ghosts next door.
"Thank you, Brother Hao." Yingzi thought of Hao Shuai's skills and leaned towards Hao Shuai, with a slightly more relieved expression on her face.
At this time, Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang had already taken tools and started to pry open the coffin lid.
Hao Shuai couldn't help but walked up to the stone platform and stood in front of the coffin, looking at the coffin expectantly.
To be honest, this is Hao Shuai's first serious tomb robbery, and he is still a little excited and expectant. He is not expecting anything valuable inside, he has long regarded money as that.
Hao Shuai was looking forward to the immersive freshness, thinking about the corpses that could transform into corpses at any time in this cold tomb, illuminated by dim candles...
It’s exciting just thinking about it!
As the coffin made a "creak" sound, a large gap was finally pried open by the combined efforts of Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang.
Looking at the two people who were struggling to push the coffin lid open, Hao Shuai said: "I'll do it, you guys get out of the way."
After Hu Bayi and the two stood away, Hao Shuai slapped the heavy coffin lid to the ground with a loud clang.
When Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang saw that the coffin had been opened, they didn't care to sigh at Hao Shuai's strength and hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look.
I saw a tall male corpse lying inside, wearing a crown on his head and a rusty mask on his face. The water in the corpse had evaporated, leaving only the dry purple skin covering the bones.
For nearly a thousand years, it has been relatively well preserved.
"What a strong corpse aura? Could it be~~" Hao Shuai reached out and took off the mask on the corpse's face and put it into the space, instantly revealing the true face of the corpse.
"Sure enough!" Hao Shuai finally knew why the corpse jumped up.
It turns out that in ancient times, in order to prevent their tombs from being robbed after death, some ruthless people would use witchcraft, Taoism and other methods to sacrifice themselves into zombie-like zombies.
It would be okay if no one came to disturb his sleep. But if someone opens the coffin and is stimulated by anger, the corpse will immediately turn into a zombie and kill all the tomb robbers.
However, this kind of zombie also has disadvantages, that is, it cannot leave its tomb and see the sun, otherwise it will be over immediately.
While Hao Shuai was stunned, half of Fatty Wang's body was already hanging on the coffin, and his hands were stretched into the coffin.
"Fat man, what are you doing?" Hao Shuai looked at Fatty Wang who was seeking death and was speechless. His behavior of neither wearing gloves nor a mask was completely activating the zombie!
And even if there are no zombies, isn't he afraid of the virus in the coffin?
It seems that I really need to take the time to teach him how to "scientifically", "reasonably" and "effectively" conduct grave robbing.
"Old Hu, magic stick, take a look, is it a good thing? It's jade." Fatty Wang rubbed the corpse for a long time, and finally pulled out two pieces of ancient jade, and said excitedly.
Hao Shuai took the two pieces of emerald green ancient jade from Fatty Wang's hand, carved into the shape of two moths that looked like butterflies but not butterflies, and struck: "This material is of average quality and not valuable."
"Ah? Not worth it?" Fatty Wang said in disappointment, even Hu Bayi was disappointed.
"Yes, it can only be sold for a few thousand yuan!" Hao Shuai said honestly.
"Thousands of dollars are not much?" Fatty Wang felt like he was going through a twists and turns.
"Look at your prospects, you are destined not to make a fortune in this life." Looking at Fatty Wang and Hu Bayi who were satisfied with just a few thousand dollars, Hao Shuai didn't even bother to despise them.
Just when Fatty Wang was hiding the ancient jade, the candle in the southeast corner of the tomb suddenly flickered on and off, swayed strangely, and then went out with a "pop"!