World Tibet Bureau

Chapter 587 Seven Stars Gather in the Coffin
Mangu bit her finger and replied: "Old ointment."

I:"……"

I definitely don’t know what the ingredients of this ointment are.

But one fact is certain.

It's Mangu's ointment that can drive away those terrifying armored bugs.

I asked everyone to get the ointment on the ground and put some ointment in a mineral water bottle for each person. If they encounter the terrifying iron beetle again, it will be specially used for defense.

Xia Xi looked at the bones on the ground and frowned: "It turned out that there was still flesh on the corpse, which proves that those weird iron beetles got into the human body and caused death. Deep in the ancient tomb mountains, there are many insects that can cause death. , but it’s simply unbelievable that someone like this can control corpses to attack others. Could it be that the first batch of people actually died at the hands of the Iron Scarab?"

This possibility is very high.

But if so.

It is enough to show that after these bugs temporarily get rid of the corpse in front of them, they will definitely look for a new living host.

I shudder to think about it.

Insects that can control human bodies.

It's not without it.

Research shows that Toxoplasma gondii can corrode and control people's thinking.

I have also watched a documentary about science before.

In the 70s, a Western European businessman who loved collecting mummies secretly bought a mummy and took it home. He discovered that the mummy would get up and sleep on his bed in the middle of the night, and would actively attack the cats and dogs at home.

The businessmen were frightened and thought something evil had happened, so they went to the indigenous tribe to invite priests to perform rituals.

But it didn't work at all.

He spent a lot of money to buy this mummy.

Let it be thrown away but reluctant to part with it.

I had to keep it at home and move the family to another place.

Later, he told a biologist friend about it.

The biologist became interested and came to the home of the businessman Guan Mummy. He opened the mummy and found that it was full of bugs with shells.

Found after capture.

This is a mutated scarab (not a dung beetle).

At the end of the documentary, it is introduced that the ancient Egyptians regarded this beetle as a totem. When the pharaoh died, his heart would be cut out and replaced with a stone decorated with scarab beetles.

I thought for a while, then turned to ask Bian Wu: "Lao Wu, have you ever encountered a cemetery that uses insects as a means of preventing theft?"

Bian Wu scratched his head when he heard this: "No. Most cemeteries are for technical defense, including tombs, quicksand, boulders, arrows and crossbows, harmful gases... A few cemeteries will have thousands of years of tomb guardians. I have encountered both human defense and technical defense. I have, but I have never encountered the use of scary animals to prevent tomb robbers.”

Just because you haven't encountered it doesn't mean you don't have it.

The productivity of the Xia Dynasty was relatively low, and conditions did not allow them to build wonderful mechanisms like those in Han, Tang, and Song tombs in cemeteries. However, the ancients had infinite wisdom and could use the characteristics of natural animals to prevent theft. .

And often this kind of defense method is even more unexpected, enough to make people throw away their armor.

Xia Xi said: "Lu Dao's lesson is very painful. We must all work hard to move forward!"

Bian Wu said with regret: "This Lu Dao, I saw that his ability to exorcise evil spirits just now seems to be from the Lushan Sect. In fact, the method is very powerful. But he clearly uses a sword in his hand, why do he keep saying that he can't withstand him?" One knife, it’s such a pity..."

Everyone was in battle formation again.

Continue up the steps.

The light at the end of the steps looked very close.

But it’s a very long walk.

We spent nearly an hour climbing the steps before getting closer.

the closer.

I feel the temperature on my body getting higher and higher.

At the end.

Everyone was sweating profusely, as if they had been doused with water.

Xia Xi waved her hand.

Everyone immediately turned off the searchlights in their hands, quickly divided into two rows, and clung to the rock wall, trying not to make any noise, and cautiously approached.

This team has too much to lose right now.

Haiye's team is already stronger than us.

There is light in the tomb now.

They are most likely inside.

Next.

It could be an extremely thrilling fight.

I smelled a rather strange smell on the tip of my nose.

Something feels wrong.

Just in case.

I gestured with my hand for everyone to put on their masks.

Everyone began to put on masks and walked forward slowly.

After about five or six minutes.

We are nearing the end of the light.

There was no sound at all.

An extremely rough and ancient stone door was ajar.

Apparently it had been opened before.

I don't see any unique mechanism in this stone gate.

It is nothing more than simple excavation using natural boulders to seal the entrance to the tomb.

There is a section of the stone gate that is dark.The dark side was broken in many places.

These are the traces left by blasting explosives.

Judging from the freshness of the traces, it was not likely that it was done by Haiye's team, but that it was exploded by the first batch of Xiangliu tomb robbers who found Xia's tomb.

Their method of opening the stone door was simple and crude.

Light is shining through the stone door.

Bright red.

The masks of the people reflected in it were all strange and weird.

The light inside is very bright, like the red light from a candle fire, and it seems to shine out without blind spots.

This is not normal.

Because the searchlights we use to go to the tomb generally use bright white light and do not emit red light.If Haiye's team lights a candle inside, unless it burns into a fire, the red light will also have a blind spot.

We are getting hotter and hotter.

It was like being close to a big furnace.

I could even see steam rising from other people's heads.

After approaching the stone gate.

Xia Xi waved her hand again.

A subordinate quickly threw a fog bomb in.

This is a scented mist bomb.

People will faint quickly after smelling it.

Everyone had their gunpowder loaded and their daggers drawn, waiting for any movement from inside.

I heard the person next to me breathing very rapidly.

Everyone was clearly nervous.

1 minutes.

2 minutes.

3 minutes.

……

Time goes by.

But we waited for more than ten minutes, and there was still no movement inside.

Nobody in there?

Or have you all fainted?

Xia Xi and I saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

Xia Xi's eyes were extremely cold and she waved again.

When the two subordinates saw this, they held shotguns in their hands and rushed in through the ajar stone door like lightning.

The expected fight didn't happen.

The two subordinates seemed to be stunned. They stood there, looking around, motionless.

Upon seeing this, Xia Xi and I rushed in first with weapons in hand.

Go in and have a look.

An extremely shocking scene appeared in front of us.

We were also completely dumbfounded.

"Brother Xia, what's going on?"

A subordinate looked at the scene inside the tomb and asked tremblingly.

The entire tomb is as wide as half a football field.

In a sinking style.

There are more than a dozen steps like grandstands dug around.

There is red soil under the steps.

Precisely.

It should be like lava.

All the heat in the tomb is conducted from there.

Including the weird smell that I smelled before, which felt like burnt lime, was obviously caused by these hot magma.

And the center of the magma.

A huge coffin lay quietly.

Both the stone platform on which the coffin was placed and the coffin itself were all blood red.

I don’t know whether it’s the original color, or whether it’s because the coffin is exposed to the red light of long-term high-temperature magma, which reflects this color.

What's even more shocking is.

The dome of the tomb has seven holes.

Arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper.

The sunlight from outside was shining in, and it shone entirely on the red coffin at an incomparably magical angle.

Seven stars gather in the coffin!

I remembered what Bian Wu said: "The heart is the official of the monarch, and the gods come from it."

the scene in front of you.

It's like a human heart that keeps beating!

(End of this chapter)