Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 12 The Tomb
In the dark and cramped environment, seeing such a face so suddenly, even though I have always been bold, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, so I looked away and started to touch the things around the corpse.

It can be seen that there are many objects stuffed around the body, but they are all infected by the fluid in the coffin, and they can no longer see their true colors. Unluckily, it was a book, which had already been soaked in effusion, and after a few touches it turned out to be books.

Tofu felt strange, and became a little anxious, and said: "This person is also very strange, why don't you put any gold and silver treasures in the coffin, why put all the bad books..." Suddenly, his voice paused, as if he had thought of something, and gathered together Come over and whisper: "This man is wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty. Could it be the civil servant we want to dig?"

Tofu usually lacks tendons, but this is a good point, and I have such a layer of doubts.But if it is the civil official tomb we want to dig, this tomb is too shabby. Strictly speaking, it cannot be called a tomb at all. With such a specification, it can only be called a tomb like ordinary people.

So I nodded and said, "It's very likely." I think I was fooled by Mr. Hu, there is no money in this coffin, there is no gold, silver and treasure, maybe the owner was an upright official before his death.

Thinking about it this way, I don't need to look at the official uniform on his body. In order to see it more clearly, I brought the flashlight closer.Although the official uniforms were stained with black water, they were not corrupted, and the layered shapes were clearly visible.

I couldn't help being surprised just by looking at it.This corpse wears a 'bright blue' peaked sapphire crown on its head, and a peacock mantle wearing gold colored threads. Although the colored threads have already faded, the gold threads still shine brightly under the light, making it irresistibly gorgeous.

According to the grades of the official uniforms in the Qing Dynasty, the pattern of the patch on the official uniform is different, and the top of the head is also exquisite.The first pinnacle bright red is made of ruby; the second pinnacle red is made of red coral; the third pinnacle blue is made of sapphire; Bright yellow below the pinnacle, using plain gold beads.

The supplements on official uniforms are more particular, and civil and military officials are different.The corpse in front of me looks like a third-rank civil servant with a sapphire crown.

Tofu's eyes are also thieves. He is more interested in art. When he was in school, he was a mess in history.I am a self-motivated person, and I have read a lot of miscellaneous books, so I can see the way at a glance.Tofu didn't understand these things, but he suddenly noticed the sapphire on the top of the corpse, so he poked my arm excitedly, and said, "Old Chen, look at that, the sapphire top of the Qing Dynasty, how much is it worth?"

Because of my grandfather, I was more interested in antiques before, and I knew a little bit about it, so I responded: "There are a lot of things in it. The top is divided into top beads, feathers, and top hats. If you separate them If you sell it, the price will be much lower; different grades have different prices. There are quite a lot of official crowns in the Qing Dynasty, and I remember a seventh-grade Suding bead was priced at 08 in [-]."

Tofu was stunned, counted with his fingers, and then said with a bitter face: "Seventh rank is equal to one thousand, so our third rank is only 5000 yuan? This is not enough for our cost."

After listening to his algorithm, I was almost choked to death by my own saliva. I couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said, "If you don't talk, no one will think you are dumb. What I'm talking about is the fragmented unit price. The complete price is different. , we are still a third-rank civil servant, and with this complete official uniform, it will cost at least 30."

Although this tomb is a little more shabby than I imagined, it is not easy to make such a fortune out of thin air, and I should be content.This amount of money is far from enough. It seems that if we want to pay off our debts and make a comeback, we still have to do a few more votes.

Immediately, I discussed with Tofu and stripped off the top feather and clothes of the corpse.It was inconvenient for the corpse to be in the coffin. To take off its clothes, two people had to cooperate, one to lift the upper body, and the other to undress and undress.I asked Tofu which job he would like to do, and Tofu struggled for a long time before he said: "This corpse is disgusting, besides, two big men are touching him, and they are too disrespectful to it, or I will still be there Cheer you on."

If I stay with this kid for a long time, sooner or later he will be so angry that he will ascend to heaven, so I scold him: "I'm going to take off his clothes, so I don't care about respecting or not. Got money? Let me tell you, if you don’t want to work today, you won’t get a penny from the sale.”

Tofu said in surprise: "That won't work. If you don't teach me the rent, can the landlady finish the calculation with me?" After saying that, his heart was overwhelmed, his expression became serious, he took a deep breath, put on gloves, and put the upper body of the corpse in the coffin He got up and said anxiously: "Hurry up, hurry up. Damn, what is that slippery thing on this corpse, it's disgusting."

The slippery one is of course corpse oil, the oil from the body after the corpse has shriveled up, but I don't plan to tell Tofu, otherwise it's hard to guarantee that he will quit immediately.Then I went to undress the corpse.

I used to watch those supernatural movies, the corpses in the movies would suddenly open their eyes, or suddenly turn into zombies, stretch out their hands and strangle you.But fortunately, life is not a movie. The corpse in front of my eyes is like a rag doll, and I let Tofu and I play with it. After a while, we took off the feathers on the official uniform.

I wrapped things up and saw that there was still a layer of soil in front of the coffin, and there was nothing else. This time the goal had been reached, so I prepared to notify Tofu to retreat.Unexpectedly, at this time, Tofu suddenly said: "Come and see, there is a hole here." He put down the corpse and pointed to the soil layer on the other side of the coffin.

Due to the location, I couldn't see that location, so I had to squeeze together with the tofu and move in this small space like kneading dough.Looking in the direction of his finger, there is indeed a hole.

The hole is no bigger than a palm, and it's pitch black inside, and I don't know where it is.The hole happened to be on the side of the coffin, and it would have been hard to find if the tofu hadn't been so close to the corpse.

How could there be a round hole in the ground?Could it be some animal's lair?Those who can dig such a cave in the ground, without accident, are probably big snakes.I was about to tell Tofu not to act rashly, and to retreat quickly, when I suddenly found that the edge of the hole was very neat, as if it had been dug out with a small shovel.

Could it be made by people?

I couldn't help but reach out and touch it. The structure inside is layered, smooth and straight, just like a way of stealing a hole.

How is this going?Could it be possible that someone else dug a hole from the other side, and it just happened to hit the side of the coffin?But the hole is too small, even a child can't get in.

Because the coffin blocked a part of the opening, we couldn't see the whole thing, so we had to smash the other side of the coffin in doubt, so that we could bend down to observe.

As soon as the light came on, I felt that something was wrong. The hole was actually not as small as we saw on the surface. The hole should have been big, but due to the landslide, it became what it is now.

And the light of the flashlight was shining, showing that there was a space not far from the entrance of the cave, only about one meter away, and the light spread when it was shining, and a layer of blue-black stone bricks could be faintly seen.

My heart moved, and I thought: Could it be that the real tomb is behind this layer of soil?
Now that we have entered Baoshan, where can we go back home, we immediately told Tofu about the situation at the entrance of the cave, and the two of them decided to dig through it and go to the tomb at the back to have a look.

With a length of one meter, you can use a shovel to dig a hole in ten strokes. Soon, a big hole appeared in front of our eyes. Tofu and I turned over the corpse on the ground, crawled along the big hole, and immediately entered a forest. In the cold tomb.

This tomb is not too big, about ten square meters. The flashlight I bought is a large light bulb. When I turn it on, the whole tomb can be seen at a glance. At this time, when I look at the structure of the tomb, all the previous doubts suddenly become clear.

Half of the tomb where we are now has experienced landslides, so it is covered with loess.And if I guessed correctly, the reason why we found the coffin in the soil layer was that one side of the tomb was damaged, causing the soil layer to landslide, which happened to bury half of the main tomb, and the coffin was also destroyed. pressed directly into the soil.

If it is as expected, this robbery hole may have been created by Mr. Hu.He probably didn't expect that the funerary objects in the coffin were all books and the like, so after entering the tomb, he found that the coffin was covered by a landslide.Most of the funeral objects cherished by the owner of the tomb are buried with the coffin, and the real good things are put in the coffin.

Seeing that the coffin was buried in soil, Mr. Hu was about to dig a hole to clean it out. He probably was caught and arrested before he succeeded.And according to the TV reports, the hole where Hu Laoxia came down before has been backfilled, which is why such a strange scene was formed.

(End of this chapter)