genius divination

Chapter 1114 Ebony Coffin
The depths of this cave were not as eerie as they had imagined, but instead looked like a very ordinary residence.

Beds, tables and chairs, and stone platforms are all available.There is even a row of bookshelves near the cave wall, but it seems that because of the age, some bookshelves have long been decayed, tilted to one side, and some old books are scattered on the ground.

Fan Jiannan walked over and used the flashlight in his hand to shine a light on the lamps placed in the four corners of the secret room.He frowned slightly and said, "There is oil in this lamp, obviously someone has been here not long ago."

"Jiannan, look there." Feng Yuan said nervously.

Fan Jiannan's flashlight shone in the direction she pointed, and saw several coffins placed behind a wooden screen on one side.Like Feng Yuan, Linghu Yun had already grasped his hand nervously.Fan Jiannan smiled wryly, "Don't be like this, please. You are holding me so tightly that if something happens, I won't be able to move. Don't worry, it's all right, it's just a few coffins. We saw it outside just now. Is there still less?"

Having said that, Feng Yuan and Linghu Yun didn't seem to want to let him go at all.Women are just women after all.Fan Jiannan had no choice but to let them drag him.But Fan Jiannan didn't go over to look at the coffins right away, but lit the copper lamps around with a lighter.Under the faint and flickering light of the oil lamp, they walked slowly behind the screen.

Fan Jiannan frowned slightly as he looked at the three coffins neatly arranged.Because the placement of the coffins is very strange, they are not placed side by side as usual, but the coffins are connected at the first place, forming a triangle.

This is by no means randomly placed like this, but carefully arranged.But why it was placed like this, Fan Jiannan didn't know anything.He is just a hexagram master and doesn't know much about these ancient funeral rites.But he can be sure that even if Lin Zhongxiu came, she might not have seen such a strange formation.

The coffin seemed to be completely different from the gray sarcophagi outside, but a kind of dark coffin.It's hard to tell whether it's wood or metal, or some kind of stone. In short, the hand feels cold to the touch, like death itself.

"What kind of coffin is this? Why does it feel so weird?" Linghu Yun frowned.

Feng Yuan dared to touch it with his hand, and said in surprise, "Is this ebony?"

"Ebony?" Fan Jiannan couldn't help but said, "I've only heard of mahogany furniture or nanmu coffins, what is this ebony?"

"You may not have heard of ebony, but you should know about gloomy wood." Feng Yuan explained, "Gloomy wood has both the elegance of wood and the charm of stone. It is known as the oriental godwood and plant mummy. , Debris flow buried all the plants and organisms on the ground in low-lying places such as ancient river beds. Some trees buried in the silt, under the action of bacteria and other microorganisms under the condition of hypoxia and high pressure, formed ebony after thousands of years of carbonization , so it is also called carbonized wood."

"I seem to have heard this, this thing seems to be very valuable." Fan Jiannan couldn't help but said.

"It's more than just valuable. Ebony wood has been used to ward off evil spirits throughout the ages in China, making handicrafts, Buddha statues, and amulet pendants. The ancients said: Half a square of ebony in a home is better than a box of treasures. Such a big ebony coffin is hard to calculate. Value." Feng Yuan couldn't help but said. "If these ebony trees are real, it can really be called extravagance."

"That's natural. The Brotherhood of the Holy Chapter has played the role of backstage manipulators in Europe's hundreds of years of history. I'm afraid that even the Vatican's church assets may not be comparable to them in the accumulated wealth." Fan Jiannan shook his head. .

"But why did they use such precious things to make coffins? Could it be that they have a special purpose." Feng Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"Yes. The gloomy wood is formed when the wood is buried in the ground. Most of the time ranges from 3000 to 8000 years. It is not enough to make the wood a plant fossil; similarly, it is not a mineral. So it has unique physical properties, both wood and wood. The characteristics of stone. They chose to use this material to make the coffin, which may have a meaning of immortality." Fan Jiannan said lightly. "This is a transformation process from wood to stone. Wood is rotten, but stone is immortal. It is a perfect metaphor for the eternity of life."

Linghu Yun hesitated, "So, what should we do now? Are we really going to open the coffin?"

"Since we've already come here, we naturally have to open the coffin to have a look. Don't forget, I also promised the Prophet that I would get those two badges back for him." Fan Jiannan said calmly.

Feng Yuan hesitated and said, "Jiannan, we don't know that prophet well, do we really want to do this kind of thing for him?"

Fan Jiannan shook his head and said, "We didn't do all this for him, but to solve the mystery of Wu Wen. Don't worry, if we really find the two badges he mentioned, we will have enough time to weigh the pros and cons. to decide whether to hand it over to him."

Feng Yuan reluctantly nodded, Fan Jiannan inspected the coffin, frowned slightly, and said, "Thanks to the ebony coffin, it was not nailed to death. Come on, you two make room for a while, and I will try to remove the coffin lid a little bit." After he finished, he pushed hard on the coffin lid, feeling that the ebony coffin lid was quite heavy, but he could still push it a bit.

After he opened the coffin lid, he found that there was indeed a person inside.The other two coffins were filled with people and empty.

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "There are three coffins in total, which should be reserved for the three principals of the Brotherhood of Shengzhang. These two corpses should be the two principals who were killed, and the empty one must have been for Zhang Jian prepared it. It seems that we have found the right place."

The two corpses in the coffin, Fan Jiannan had seen their photos on the wall of the Prophet, so he could tell at a glance that they were the ones he was looking for.However, what puzzled Fan Jiannan was that the two corpses should have been dead for a while, but they were still lifelike.But there is no trace of decay at all, not even corpse spots.

Fan Jiannan couldn't help shaking his head, secretly thinking that this is really weird.Moreover, there are no other coffins in this secret room, which shows that no real person in charge has ever died.Except for these two people who died by accident.This seems to be what the prophet said.The principals may have always been the same three people, but they appeared in different identities in different times.And every time they appear, they replace their original selves with new identities and become the masters again.

Fan Jiannan suppressed the uncontrollable surprise in his heart, and found a badge from the chest of the corpse, the rose Tai Chi badge, which is also the holy badge worshiped by the Brotherhood of the Holy Chapter.

Such holy medals were worn on the chests of the two corpses, and after they were taken out of the coffin, they shone brightly under the light of the oil lamp.Because these two badges are not only exquisite in workmanship, but also luxurious in materials.The rose is two finely carved rubies, and the circle around it is inlaid with fine diamonds.

Fan Jiannan picked up the two badges and checked them repeatedly. He didn't feel anything unusual. They seemed to be two very expensive jewels, nothing more.But Fan Jiannan knew that this thing was not just jewelry.With the financial resources of that mysterious prophet, he would never covet these two pieces of jewelry.In fact, a random book in his library was worth more than these two jewels.

"It's so beautiful." Linghu Yun murmured.

"Okay, I got the stuff." Fan Jiannan said, "It's just that we don't have time to go out yet. The members of the Brotherhood of the Holy Chapter must still guard the exit. But it should be safe here. They won't come here."

Feng Yuan frowned and said, "I don't think so. If the gravedigger finds that Zhao Pingyuan doesn't have a ring on his hand, he will definitely guess where we went. Maybe they will trap us here.

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "It is indeed possible. However, I think even if he has doubts, it is impossible to come in. Because the biggest secret of the person in charge is kept here, if you are Zhang Jian, you will risk the secret to be discovered Are you here to catch us? Don’t forget, especially these people belong to the Brotherhood of the Holy Chapter. Once they know that the person in charge uses some kind of secret method to live forever, and has controlled the Brotherhood of the Holy Chapter for hundreds of years. The situation may not be right Zhang Jian is favorable, so I'm sure he will not allow others to delve into this matter."

"Longevity?" Feng Yuan asked in a daze, "Do you think it's possible?"

"I would also like it to be impossible, but the situation here is a little bit closer to what the prophet said. Fan Jiannan put away the two holy chapters, turned to the bookshelf at the foot of the house, and carefully flipped through the books on the shelf and the manuscript. But the more he looked at him, the more he frowned.

Those books were nothing, but the few manuscripts made him dumbfounded.Because the time span of these manuscripts is not short, and some are even separated by two centuries, but the handwriting seems to be exactly the same.Apparently it was written by the same person at two different times.The Brotherhood of the Chapter Prophet, it seems, has shown once again that he is right through the facts.

The three principals of the Brotherhood are all possessed of some kind of immortality ability.Although Fan Jiannan thought it was impossible.But in fact, he gradually began to doubt his own judgment.The Chapter Brotherhood has too many things that deviate from the normal category, maybe they can't speculate with ordinary thinking.Because Fan Jiannan can't explain this question no matter what method he uses, why the handwriting of the same person appears in the manuscript after more than two centuries.

Either the manuscript is a forgery, or the man really lived for two centuries.

(End of this chapter)