People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

Chapter 222 The Message in the Relief
As the coffin cover moved slowly, everyone subconsciously held their breath and concentrated all their attention on the stone coffin, ready to strike at any time.

After all, this stone coffin is also something in the ghost tomb. No one knows what is inside, so the vigilance is naturally raised to the highest level.

But until the entire coffin cover was completely pushed away, the scene they imagined did not appear.

When the coffin cover was pushed halfway, Chen Ziyan had already seen the situation inside the stone coffin clearly.

There is no coffin in this stone coffin, and it is filled with a light yellow transparent substance, which looks a bit like amber, but it is more like crystal in terms of transparency.

And inside this suspected amber substance lay a lifelike female corpse lying quietly.

After putting the coffin cover aside, Chen Ziyan greeted the people behind him, "Come here."

And his eyes stayed in the stone coffin all the time, never leaving for a moment.

Chen Ziyan is very curious now, why there is no coffin in the conventional sense in this stone coffin, but this unknown substance is used instead.

He could see that this substance was probably the main reason why the female corpse did not rot, but this was not an explanation without a coffin.

People who can use this hidden essence, no matter what dynasty they belong to, must be people with extremely prominent status.

And for this kind of character, it will never be difficult to coat the coffin with this unknown material, so there must be some special purpose in doing so.

While Chen Ziyan was thinking about this question, the rest of the people had already come to him, and they all saw the strange situation inside the stone coffin.

They also knew a little bit about this aspect, so they quickly came to the same inference as Chen Ziyan.

That is - there must be something wrong with the stone coffin in front of him.

After all, in a place like tombs, where the rules of the situation are extremely important, all unconventional existences must have their own reasons for their existence.

Hu Ba took a few glances at the female corpse, and said suspiciously: "Looking at the craftsmanship and details of this costume, it should be a product of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but this style doesn't look like a uniform."

"Looking at this style, it looks more like a mianfu." Chen Ziyan said.

He had discovered this before, but he just didn't have time to pay attention to it. Compared with the matter of clothes, he was more concerned about what this unknown substance represented.

Chen Ziyan actually suspected that this was a corpse cocoon at first, but after thinking about it, he was not sure.

The characteristics of the corpse cocoon are quite obvious. There will be many naturally formed lines on the surface, and it looks clear but is blurry.

If this was a corpse cocoon, then the outline of the corpse inside could barely be seen with the naked eye, not as clear as it seemed.

But if it's not a corpse cocoon, no matter in terms of texture or color, it's really too close.

Feeling unable to distinguish accurately, he asked his own question: "Do you think this looks like a corpse cocoon?"

"Corpse cocoon?" Hu Bayi narrowed his eyes slightly, but he was also a little uncertain: "It looks a bit similar."

He knew a little about Corpse Cocoon, but probably not as much as Chen Ziyan, so he couldn't make a judgment.

Ding Sitian had never heard of a corpse cocoon, so she asked curiously: "Bayi, what is a corpse cocoon?"

Hu Bayi explained to her: "There are two theories about this corpse cocoon. The first one was created by the alchemists in the pre-Qin period. It was originally used to make alchemy. The second theory is that it is a corpse embalming technique, using special mixed Chinese medicine to wrap the corpse, and the corpse cocoon will be slowly formed."

Afterwards, he glanced at the female corpse in the stone coffin: "If it's really a corpse cocoon, then the second statement should be more true."

Hu Bayi did not completely deny the first statement, after all, those alchemists are quite insane, and it is possible that they can really develop this method.

When Ding Sitian heard the previous words, he immediately glanced at the unknown substance in the coffin in disgust, and did not feel better until he heard Hu Bayi's latter words.

Chen Ziyan waited for Hu Bayi Primary School's class to end, and called him to look at the inner wall of the stone coffin: "Old Hu, look at these reliefs."

Hu Bayi quickly looked over, followed the direction pointed by Chen Ziyan, and found that there were some reliefs on the inner wall blocked by unknown substances.

Because of the blocking of this substance, he didn't notice it at the first time.

We must know that in ancient times, the most common way to record information was not books, but murals and the like that were more resistant to the erosion of time.

The reliefs that appeared here, no accident, recorded the important events in the life of the owner in the coffin, which should be able to answer some doubts for them.

Although these reliefs seem to be a whole, if you look carefully, you will find that they are actually composed of individual scenes.

Soon, they found the first scene and began to decipher the content of the relief from the beginning.

This first scene depicts the first meeting between a man and a woman.

Xue Liyang looked at the vivid image of the relief, frowned and said: "Look at the meaning I want to express, it should be the first meeting between lovers, but isn't this man a bit old?"

Although the image depicted on it is very heroic, it can also be seen that this is not a young man.

"The love between an uncle and a girl was very common in ancient times." Chen Ziyan explained casually.

He didn't pay too much attention to this, because as he said, this is nothing unusual in the ancient land.

Little do they know that a pear tree can still crush a crabapple. Compared with the allusion of an 80-year-old bridal chamber, this is really nothing new.

Moreover, although the age of the man on this relief is a bit older, it is still within an acceptable range.

But then Chen Ziyan realized something was wrong, that was the tomb owner's biography, why did he start with this incident?
Logically speaking, such a limited space usually records important moments for the owner of the tomb.

Things like the first meeting of lovers can be replaced by other things, especially there is a grand wedding scene in the back, the two overlap to a certain extent.

Could it be that there is something wrong with this man's identity?
When Chen Ziyan uttered his idea, he immediately received Hu Bayi's approval.

I just heard him say: "I also think it's a bit weird. It stands to reason that the pictures that can be specially recorded should have special meaning to the owner of the tomb, and this special scene is not the person, but I prefer the latter."

There is also a basis for him to say this, because the scene in the first picture does not have any outstanding features.

But this is only the first picture, so after a short period of doubt, they temporarily put away their thoughts and continued to look at the content behind.

Although the body of the female corpse covered part of it, it did not affect their understanding of the content of the reliefs, and those blocked contents could also be deduced from the surrounding reliefs.

The protagonists of the back relief are still this man and a woman. First they got married, and then the child was born. After having a common crystallization, the man specially built a magnificent pavilion for his beloved woman.

Seeing this can be regarded as verifying Chen Ziyan's previous guess. The identity of this man is not simple.

After all, not everyone built the magnificent pavilion in the relief.

And during a parade of the two later, they accidentally discovered a huge bronze door hidden underground.

Seeing the appearance of the giant bronze door, Chen Ziyan and the others looked at each other, but they didn't say anything, but continued to look at it.

In the picture of the relief, after the two people discovered the huge bronze gate, it seemed that they had a discussion. Not long after, the woman became seriously ill and died in the end.

But in fact, with the help of the man, she escaped by feigning death, and using her serious illness as an excuse to collect a batch of important things, she has since become the guardian of the giant bronze gate.

After reading the last content of the relief, everyone already knew that the woman buried in the stone coffin should be the nobleman who built the temple.

That is to say, their previous speculation was correct, the original body of the Ghost Tomb and the temple were indeed built by the same person.

But there are also some differences, that is, in the murals of the temple, there is no figure of a man from the beginning to the end.

And judging from the contents of the reliefs on the inside of the stone coffin, it is very likely that the man led everything that happened here.

"If the person doing these is the man in the relief, what is his identity and what is the purpose of doing this?"

Facing the new doubts, Chen Ziyan felt a little headache.

He felt that his trip to Longling was not as easy as he imagined, and the puzzling questions were really one after another.

The more you learn, the more you realize how deep the secrets are hidden here.

"Huh—" Hu Bayi let out a light breath, wanting to relax his brain.

Not only Chen Ziyan felt this way, but everyone else felt the same way. They all felt that they might be approaching a huge secret.

Shirley Yang flicked her wrist, gathered her thoughts, and said, "What we should do now is to find a way to deduce the identity of this woman through these reliefs. Only in this way can we deduce the identity of a man."

Now the key point is very clear, that is, the identities of these two people must be known first, otherwise their subsequent speculations may be biased.

Others also agree with Shirley Yang's proposal, and the most urgent task now is to find out the identities of these two people.

Hu Bayi stroked his chin and said, "The information we know so far is only the murals of the temple and the reliefs here, and there is not much that can be used."

There are basically no murals on the other side of the temple, and the only thing that can be used is a few recognizable pictures in the reliefs.

Chen Ziyan pointed to the pictures at the back of the relief and said, "I think we should use these as the starting point. I think such buildings were rare at that time, and we must leave some clues in history."

First of all, what they can confirm is that the time period in which these two people lived was the Western Zhou Dynasty, so they have a rough range.

"And there are even fewer records about women, which is convenient for us to filter." Ding Sitian added.

Hu Ba half jokingly said: "If it weren't for some key points being wrong, I would have thought this female corpse was Baosi."

But this was just a joke, because he knew it was impossible.

The final outcome alone does not correspond to it. The historical records of Bao Si did not die of illness.

(End of this chapter)