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Chapter 140 Coffin Formation (Happy National Day)

Amidst Yang Lei's cursing, Chen Ziyang looked up, and there was a huge stone room behind the crack in the mountain.The reason why this is a stone chamber is because the height here is not very high, only about three or four meters high, and the torches can directly shine on the top of the rock above everyone's heads.

The torches in everyone's hands illuminated a small part of this stone room, and the light of the orange-red flame filled the surrounding area. At the junction of the light of the orange-red flame and the darkness ahead, Chen Ziyang saw Under the reflection of the fire, there was a neat row of coffins lying there, which should be the reason why Yang Lei cursed himself.

The few people who entered this stone room first looked at the row of coffins, all at a loss, standing there not knowing whether to move on.After all ten people in the team entered the stone room, Xiao Na walked to Chen Ziyang's side.

"Search carefully in the vicinity, don't go forward for the time being, and avoid touching the mechanism." Xiao Na stood beside Chen Ziyang, gave orders to her team members, and at the same time turned her head sideways, looking at Chen Ziyang quietly.But Chen Ziyang was still there in a daze, his eyes full of puzzlement.

What Chen Ziyang couldn't understand was not the coffins in this underground palace. Although the previous information showed that this Bohai underground palace was used as a place for hiding treasures, the Bohai underground palace was originally designed as an emperor's place. It is used in the mausoleum, even if there is a coffin in it, it is not a big deal.

Although the appearance of these coffins was somewhat unexpected, he was not as surprised as Yang Lei.What really confuses Chen Ziyang is the arrangement of these coffins.

Although Chen Ziyang did not see the whole picture of the stone chamber clearly at the moment, on the row of coffins he could see, two iron chains protruded from each coffin, connecting with the coffins next to it. At the same time, Chen Ziyang couldn't understand this point.

Coffins are all made of extremely dense wood, and there are even some stone coffins and metal coffins made of denser materials, but no matter what kind of material the coffin is made of, it is very heavy. It is very difficult for someone to move it.

And this method of using iron chains to tie the coffins together obviously does not want any coffin to be moved, or if you want to move one of the coffins, you need to move the other coffins with you. It will make it more laborious to move one of the coffins, because all the coffins are connected together, but what is the purpose of doing this?Could it be that someone came here just to move the coffin inside for no reason!
While Chen Ziyang was thinking, the team members searching around found two strange places, and hurriedly asked Xiao Na to take a look.This stone room is close to the two sides of the crack in the mountain. There are two stone mortars on each side. At the same time, the two stone mortars are connected to two long stone grooves. The two stone grooves are all along the mountain. Extending forward, extending into the pitch-black darkness.

These two stone mortars and stone troughs are all covered with ointment. At the same time, in the ointment, there is a cloth rope twisted with rags and the like, soaked in the ointment, and extends forward along with the stone trough. with.

Seeing this, Xiao Na knew that these two stone troughs were actually used for lighting, and the ointment and the cloth strips in the ointment were similar to the principle of torches.

The reason why torches can burn for a long time is actually related to the contact between combustibles and air.Wrap the cloth very tightly on the torch, and soak the cloth on the torch with oil or some other combustion accelerant that can penetrate the cloth, and then light the torch. In this way, when the torch is burning, The cloth strips inside can't touch the air at all, so there is no way to burn.

Only the outermost layer of fabric, which has both a combustion aid and is in contact with the air, can burn after being ignited.Only when the outer cloth is completely burned, can the inner layer of cloth come into contact with the air and continue to burn, which is why the torch can burn for a long time.

And the stone trough in front of it contains both ointment and cloth ropes twisted from strips of cloth. Although this structure is very simple, this design is enough to support the burning of the ointment in the stone trough for a long time.The entire stone trough is like a huge candle, and this rag rope is like the wick of the candle.

Under Xiao Na's gesture, two team members holding torches put the torches into the stone mortar at the same time, and flames burst out from the two stone mortars. At the same time, the two flames extended forward along the stone groove, illuminating the the surrounding space.

The sudden light startled Chen Ziyang, he freed himself from his chaotic thoughts, and, like everyone else, watched the two fire dragons rushing forward rapidly.

The two fire dragons were advancing very fast, and at the same time they converged in the distance in front of everyone, forming a semicircular circle of burning flames, illuminating the entire stone room brightly. Bright, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.

What surprised everyone was not the scale of this stone room, but the hundreds of coffins placed in this stone room illuminated by the flames.Chen Ziyang slowly turned his eyes around, and saw the whole picture of this stone room clearly.

This stone room is really huge. Except for the side where everyone came in, which is a crack in the mountain, the rest of the room is a semicircular arc wall, and there are huge murals painted on the walls.

However, it may be because of the age, the paint on these murals has basically fallen off, and many of the murals are all dilapidated, and it is impossible to see what the original painting is, but a few few places are still relatively well preserved. Yes, although the colors on it are not very bright, the general lines are still clearly outlined.

And in the center of this stone chamber is a huge octagon made up of hundreds of coffins.It turned out that the row of coffins that Chen Ziyang saw before was just the tip of the iceberg among the hundreds of coffins.The first thing that caught Chen Ziyang's attention was the huge golden coffin in the center of the huge octagonal pattern made of coffins.

The shape of this golden coffin is too weird, like a huge octagonal box, and the reason why Chen Ziyang said it was a coffin was because of the surrounding coffins.

This coffin is also a regular octagon, but because the distance is too far, Chen Ziyang can't see the pattern on this coffin clearly. On the eight corners of the golden coffin in the middle, there are protruding lines. The iron chain connected the eight coffins surrounding the octagonal golden coffin, and the eight coffins were also connected to each other by an iron chain.The eight coffins tightly surrounded the golden coffin in the middle, forming the second layer of the coffin array.

On the outer side of the eight coffins, two iron chains protruded from each, respectively connecting the 32 coffins on the third floor, and the 32 coffins were also connected with each other by iron chains.Similarly, these 32 coffins are connected to the 64 coffins on the outer layer until the 120 coffins on the outermost layer.

Except for the 120 eight coffins on the outermost layer and the golden coffin in the center, it can be said that each coffin has five iron chains protruding from it, which are respectively connected to the inner coffin, the left and right coffins, and the outer one. The two coffins on the second floor are connected.A huge array of iron chains and coffins was formed. This array has six floors from the inside to the outside, and all the coffins are neatly placed.

Because there was plenty of light in the stone chamber at this time, Chen Ziyang didn't find any mechanism nearby, so he carefully came to the vicinity of the outermost coffin and carefully observed the huge array of coffins.

Xiao Na's observation point is different from Chen Ziyang's. When the stone room is bright, the first thing Xiao Na looks for is the exit.But the entire stone room was unobstructed, except for the crack in the mountain where they entered, there was nothing on the entire curved wall except murals, and there was no exit that Xiao Na expected to appear.

So Xiao Na also stepped forward, trying to find a clue from these murals.Although the entire stone wall is only three or four meters high, the figures painted on it are very large, and some of them even only have half a person's figure painted on it to occupy an entire wall.

These murals use exaggerated techniques, mainly to highlight a man in blue clothes. Whenever this man is painted, his figure is particularly large, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding people who are only the size of his palm. Compared.

The contents of the murals are mostly the same, with a row of more than a dozen people in the same clothes kneeling down in front of the man in blue and offering all the gifts in their hands at the same time.

In the entire stone room, there are about twenty murals, connected from beginning to end, but in these twenty murals, the clothes of the people offering treasures in each group are different, obviously they should be from Different countries, or different tribes.Moreover, the treasures they offered were also different.

Some of these treasures were piles of gold and silver, some were jewels, and all kinds of strange things.What Xiao Na saw on one of the murals were some strangely dressed people with red hair. At the same time, behind these people was pulling a huge fish, which looked like a crocodile. The same short snout, but the fish is very big. Seeing this, Xiao Na naturally thought of the alligator gar from before.

Then Xiao Na looked around, but she didn't see anyone offering the huge human-faced bat. Maybe the mural originally portrayed by this human-faced bat had fallen off, so it wasn't displayed on it.It is also possible that this human-faced bat is just an insignificant piece of countless treasures, and its weight is not enough to appear in these murals.

Generally speaking, the most important and most valuable thing in the form of this kind of mural must be placed in the middle of the whole mural, that is, the place where the two fire dragons gathered before, but because that place is the farthest away, the mural above Na couldn't see clearly.

So Xiao Na walked slowly along the edge of the stone chamber, while staying away from the coffins in the middle as much as possible, because before they figured out their functions, these coffins had a huge deterrent effect. Walking along the edge of the stone chamber, it is hotter near the whole fire dragon, and at the same time, the black smoke from the fire is more irritating to the eyes, but it is also much more comfortable than being close to the cold coffin.

Xiao Na walked along the stone trough to the mural in the middle, and looked at it carefully, but then a look of disappointment appeared in her eyes.The mural in the center of the mural fell off quite seriously, leaving only the top and bottom parts, and the middle part had all fallen off, revealing a dark rock inside. Afterwards, Xiao Na took a few steps back and adjusted Good angle, continue to look at the past.

Although this mural fell off quite seriously, but because the two things painted on this mural were relatively large, Xiao Na deduced that the mural on this mural was the same through the remaining pieces of murals and the contents of the murals she had seen before. s things.

The mural is still painted with a very huge man in blue clothes. This can be seen from the remaining piece of blue and a few simple lines in the blue below the mural, and at the same time directly above the corresponding blue On the mural, there is something like a hair bun. This painting form is the same as that painted on other murals. This part of the painting should still be the huge man in blue clothes.

Next to this man, a little more of the mural remains. Although the most critical part in the middle is missing, there are more left in the lower part. On this part, Xiao Na saw two huge hands.She was very familiar with these two hands, just like all the gestures that Avalokitesvara makes with one hand horizontally below and the other standing on top.

It seems that the painting here should be a statue of Avalokitesvara. Seeing this, Xiao Na felt very strange, because judging from the color of this Avalokitesvara statue, it seemed to be a huge stone sculpture, but Xiao Na couldn't figure it out. Why is it regarded as the most important item painted in the middle of the whole mural?
You must know that the things painted on the previous murals were either the treasures of an incomparably rich country, or strange and exotic beasts.Compared with these things, a stone Guanyin statue should be no big deal.

Full of doubts, Xiao Na looked at the murals on the left and right sides of the mural in the middle. Logically speaking, the things painted on these two murals should be of great value, but the mural on the right It has completely fallen off, and nothing can be seen at all, but the mural on the left still retains more than half.

On the mural on the left, a huge group of golden light is painted. This group of golden light is very big, almost the same size as the man in blue clothes. This has never appeared in the previous murals. Even if It was when painting that huge alligator gar, the size of that alligator gar was only half the size of the man in the man's clothes. Xiao Na had seen with her own eyes how huge that giant was, but the golden light in front of her The area is comparable to that of the man in blue.

There seems to be something vaguely painted in this group of King Kong. The rough lines should outline the outline of an object, but because of the age, the color on the mural has fallen off a lot. What kind of object is painted inside? The outlines are now invisible.If it wasn't for some golden paint remaining in the cracks of the stone, Xiao Na wouldn't even be able to see that the light was golden.

As a team leader who often goes down to the tomb, Xiao Na still has her unique vision. The technique of the overall mural painting and the use of colors and pigments are obviously very similar to the style of the Tang Dynasty, which is similar to the history of the ancient Bohai Sea It fits very well.However, the role of these murals is limited to this, and cannot provide any additional clues.

After reading all the murals, Xiao Na walked back to the entrance and stood behind Chen Ziyang, hoping that he could make a breakthrough. Maybe the treasure of the Bohai Underground Palace is in this coffin, because there is no exit. So this is probably the end of their trip.

But so far, all the searchers have not found that golden gear, so Xiao Na can only hope that Chen Ziyang can make a breakthrough in these coffins.

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