While others rob tombs and search for treasures, you practice poison cultivation to achieve immortal

Chapter 55: Taotie Stone Coffin, Mysterious Bone Patterns

"Strange, why is this coffin so short? Could it be that the son of King Xian is inside?"

Fatty Wang also joined in at this moment.

Gu Bai's mouth twitched slightly. What kind of train of thought is this?

"Don't talk nonsense. There was no precedent in ancient times of burying one's own children alive." Shirley Yang said.

Hu Bayi frowned, "If it's an urn coffin, it might be a burial with bones washed, but this doesn't look like an urn coffin. Could it be a body-curled burial?"

"There are many ways of burial in ancient tombs. The most common is supine burial with straight limbs, but there are also prone burials and side burials."

"There are also more special burials with bent limbs and vertical burial pits. This one may be a bent-limb burial."

Gu Bai shook his head. "I'm afraid that's unlikely. If the limbs are curled up for burial, the width of the coffin won't be right."

The seamless sarcophagus in front of me is less than one and a half meters long, two feet wide and less than three feet high.

If buried with the limbs curled up, the shape of the coffin will be more like a square box.

But the sarcophagus still retains its rectangular shape.

"I suspect it was a fragmentary burial, that is, a burial of body parts."

"The ancients had all kinds of strange understandings of death. Some even dismembered people and then put them together for burial. These were just extremely ancient customs."

"After the Han Dynasty, it never appeared again."

After Gu Bai finished speaking, Fatty Wang muttered, "Who cares about the burial? Just open the coffin and take a look, and you'll know."

Gu Bai also nodded.

Then he put his hand on the sarcophagus.

[You come into contact with the Qin Dynasty Taotie stone coffin and discover a small amount of energy. You use the Gu worm to absorb its energy.]

Taotie sarcophagus?

Gu Bai keenly noticed the information about the coffin.

The Taotie pattern was relatively common in ancient times. The bronzes of the last three dynasties, especially the bronzes of the Shang Dynasty, were very fond of being decorated with the Taotie pattern.

However, this is obviously not a sarcophagus with Taotie patterns, but a Taotie sarcophagus.

This is kind of interesting.

Gu Bai’s Sky-Seeing Skill was used.

A faint golden light flashed in the eyes, and the double pupils emerged, forming the shape of a yin and yang fish, and slowly rotated.

The strange beast composed of black rings on the sarcophagus suddenly came to life.

At the same time, Gu Bai saw a strange thing stirring inside the sarcophagus.

Looking at the image, it actually looks a bit like the Taotie outside the sarcophagus.

Could it be that there is no human being inside the sarcophagus, but a glutton?
Gu Bai was really unfamiliar with what the ancient beasts looked like.

If it really is a Taotie, Gu Bai will be rich.

One of the ancient ferocious beasts, with a great reputation. If it is fused into the natal Gu, there will be no loss, right?

However, if there is really a Taotie in this coffin, wouldn’t it be a little too small?

"Prepare to open the coffin. Fatty Old Hu, prepare the corpse rope, inkstone, cinnabar, and black donkey hooves. If anything happens later, let them know first."

After Gu Bai finished speaking, he took out the Yin-detecting Claw from his equipment.

There are actually gaps in the sarcophagus, but they are polished so smooth that the gaps are difficult to see with the naked eye.

Plus it has a layer of paint on the outside, making it even harder to find.

But this does not pose a problem for Gu Bai.

Under Gu Bai's clairvoyant eyes, the crack in the sarcophagus was very obvious.

A black line divides the sarcophagus into upper and lower parts.

Gu Bai used the claw to remove the layer of sealing paint on the outside of the sarcophagus.

After everything was cleaned up, Gu Bai pulled out the tiger-head knife again.

The tiger-head knife was extremely sharp. After the blade made a circle on the gap of the sarcophagus,

The gap is finally visible.

Next, Gu Bai used the claw to pry a tiny gap in the sarcophagus, and then inserted the black folder into it.

Finally, the stone coffin that had been sealed for thousands of years was completely opened by Gu Bai. A foul air escaped from the stone coffin.

"You guys should retreat first, and take the red mirror and the Miaoxin Pills!"

Gu Bai shouted.

Hu Bayi and the other three stepped back in succession, each of them holding a red pill in their mouths before they stopped.

Gu Bai stayed in front of the sarcophagus for a while, and after the foul air inside had dissipated, he used a black folder to open the lid of the sarcophagus.

What caught the eye inside was a human skeleton.

The degree of decay of the bones was not particularly serious, and there was still some residual flesh and blood on them.

The whole thing looks barely complete.

The only special thing was that there was a wound as big as a bowl on the chest of the corpse.

It was hollow inside, with all the ribs missing.

The corpse was indeed not in a complete state, just as Gu Bai had guessed.

The limbs were severed and placed next to the body.

Because of this, the entire body was only about one meter long.

Gu Bai's all-seeing eyes continued to be used, and the yin-yang pupils in his eyes slowly rotated.

Gu Bai saw some traces of carving on the dismembered corpse.

There are actually marks on this person's bones!
It's not uncommon for bones to have nicks on them.

After all, humans have learned to make bone tools since ancient times and know how to carve patterns on bones.

But the marks on this man's bones were not carved by someone after he died and turned into a skeleton.

The man's bones were still covered with residual muscle tissue and skin in many places, and there were still remnants of hair on the top of his head.

That is to say, when buried, the body must have not yet decayed.

So how did these notches get there?

Not only is it hard to get up.

Gu Bai could see through his clairvoyance that these carved patterns were some strange symbols and animal figures similar to stick drawings.

Among the animals depicted above, apart from the tigers, leopards, snakes, crocodiles, etc. that Gu Bai could barely identify, there were many that Gu Bai didn't recognize at all.

Faintly, Gu Bai felt that he seemed to have seen these symbols somewhere.

A light bulb went off in his head and Gu Bai remembered.

Inside the Calabash Cave.

In the huge copper box that the Huo's immortal worm spit out after its death.

There is a bone flute in the skeleton of the Mountain God, one of the three artifacts of the Yi people in Zhelong Mountain in ancient times.

It seems that his name is Mandrill Musi Di.

There is also a small skill on it that can communicate with beasts and affect the beasts to a certain extent.

It is definitely useful in the circus, but to Gu Bai, it is of little value.

There are also some small symbols carved on the Mandrill Musi flute, which are very similar to the symbols on the bones of this corpse.

Gu Bai looked again.

Beneath this human skeleton, there are other skeletons.

The strange smell that Gu Bai saw through the coffin before was emitted by the bones underneath the human bones.

Gu Bai used a black folding brush to carefully push aside the bones with their hearts dug out.

What's underneath is also revealed.

It is the bone of a wild beast.

It has horns on its head, its fangs are more than an inch long, and it is not much bigger than a wild wolf.

It can be seen that the bones are not closed in many places and have not yet grown. This is a young animal.

It's just that the bones of this kind of cub are unscientific!
It has long horns and fangs, and its limbs are not hooves, but sharp claws.

What is this ghost?

(End of this chapter)