Chapter 63 The Tomb of the Demon
The torches illuminate the long passage, and the space was unexpectedly large. The width of both sides could accommodate four or five people, but the height was nearly ten meters. The path they walked was like the main trunk, with forks extending on both sides, and each one was bent and it was very difficult to walk.
They raised the torches, and the flames shone on both sides of the walls, and murals were painted in colorful paint.
Most of the pictures are divided into six pieces, with landscapes as the background. Most of them are home life, entertainment under the trees, ladies and poets, and the environment and characters are happy and seem very leisurely.
"There is clearly air here, but these murals are not oxidized at all..." Xiao Youyu leaned closer and looked at the patterns, "Maybe, these painted paints are also spiritual objects."
Compared to him, Wu Hao and Yuan Qingqing were much more cautious. They just stood behind and watched with torches. After a while, Yuan Qingqing suddenly spoke.
"This... seems to be a six-screen flower and bird painting." She looked at the painting and said, "This kind of painting was mostly seen in the late Tang Dynasty and was used by high-ranking officials to show their own power. The number of these ladies represents their official positions."
"Hmm? I really don't know this." Xiao Youyu turned around, "Would you like to talk about it in detail?"
Wu Hao was surprised: "Aren't you the top scorer in the college entrance examination?"
"I'm aware..."
"When I was learning watercolors before, I saw displays like this." Yuan Qingqing said, but his expression sank. "The teacher said that this kind of mural is mostly used in... tombs."
A gust of cold wind blew, and the light of the torch in his hand flashed a few times, and the sound inside the room came to an abrupt end.
"That means, we are in a... tomb now?" After a long time, Wu Hao spoke with some difficulty.
"Looking at the surrounding environment, it's really possible." Xiao Youyu held his jaw, "We were brought here by cultural relics unearthed from the tomb... Maybe this is what the unearthed tomb really looks like. Just like our school looks like a barren mountain, but the essence is completely different."
With these clues, he had already vaguely guessed the definition of "blessed land". The three of them did not communicate for a while, but just walked around the main road and roughly understood the structure of the place.
To be honest, its floor plan is probably like a multi-legged centipede: the middle is a main road, the ground is rising, there are multiple holes on both sides, and there are six-screen flower and bird paintings inside. The end of the tomb passage ends with a corridor with a roof, and the two sides are extended ear chambers. The space further forward is obviously wider, and it should be the main tomb chamber.
"We...re we really going in?"
Seeing that the three of them had already walked to the entrance of the dark tomb chamber, Wu Hao couldn't help but say, "There may be corpses here. And with such heavy yin energy here, maybe zombies can be created..."
At least there were torches on both sides outside, but there was no light in the tomb chamber, and you could still smell the decay and ancient smell. The damp wind blew into your neck, making people tremble.
Yuan Qingqing was obviously a little scared when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Xiao Youyu next to him. The latter stretched out his finger and fumbled carefully at the entrance before reaching the conclusion.
"There is no special demon-suppressing barrier at this exit. If there were really evil things inside, it would have been possible to run out long ago." Xiao Youyu said, "The tomb chamber is the core of this tomb. I think if there is a clue for the exit, it should be here."
With what he said, the two of them felt a little relieved. They gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and they plucked their courage to step into the doorless entrance. The fire illuminated the everywhere, and could see the strange and strange stone carvings around them.
Surprisingly, there was nothing very scary and evil in the tomb, and there was not even a coffin. The layout of the entire tomb was very close to the daily living room of ancient times. However, there was a box with no material in the place where it should have been a bed. There were stone sculptures around it, and there was a black stone tablet under the box, which seemed to be about the life of the tomb owner.
The epitaphs are all completely classical Chinese. The three of them didn’t read it easily, but they still understood it roughly.
Simply put, this man was a Jiedushi at that time, basically equivalent to a prince under the feudal system, but he had only a salary but no fiefdom. In the late Tang Dynasty, the central government declined, and the vassal states in various places were divided. The Jiedushi regained military power and each camped. The Jiedushi quickly made a way out, but this fighting method attracted the attention of the three people.
"Look at what is written on it, there were monsters rampant in the late Tang Dynasty, and this man seemed to have the ability to dispatch monsters to fight for them at that time. The one he used to attract demons to be a jade bead..." Wu Hao saw this and quickly looked at the black jade bead in his hand, "Is it this thing?"
He suddenly felt that this thing became hot and dared to pinch it with two fingers.
"According to what is said above, the Jiedushi has won many battles in separatist territory because of the help of the demon beads, and is called the 'demon general'. But it seems that because of this, his temper gradually became eccentric and violent, and his appetite increased sharply. He had to eat no less than the food of five soldiers in one day. In his later years, a servant reported that he had cannibalism and suspected that he had turned into a demon, and the servant who reported this disappeared the next day..."
Yuan Qingqing read this, but he continued to read: "Due to overeating, this man died of illness only in his thirties. Before his death, he left a will that the tomb should be built spaciously and luxuriously, releasing all the remaining power of the demon beads to protect this area. Even the person who wrote the tomb inscriptions was not very clear about what to put in the tomb. He only said that when he was buried, he ordered people to seal the tomb chamber and let the craftsmen enter them be buried together..."
She finished reading these with a calm face and lowered her head to think: "The yin energy leaked from this tomb can increase people's appetite. Is this also the breath of the tomb owner? Could it be that this is really the tomb of demons?"
"Can the demon be officially buried?" Wu Hao lowered some torches, "Ghosts and monsters are rampant in the world, and demons are hiding among mortals... From this point of view, the era where the owner of the tomb is located is very chaotic."
"When Teacher Wei talked about the revival of spiritual energy, he said that the immortal path had collapsed for a while... If this was the time of decline, then it would be a match." Yuan Qingqing said, "When you go out, let's ask the teacher together."
"Of course, but I still have to think about how to get out first."
Both of them looked at Xiao Youyu and waited for his opinion, but found that the latter was looking at the tomb inscription steadily with a blue face.
"The tomb inscription says that when the tomb owner was buried, the tomb chamber was closed from the outside, and even the craftsmen were sealed inside, and no one could go out. In this case, there should be no entrance or exit at all when the tomb chamber was buried..."
He slowly pointed to the entrance of the doorless tomb behind him: "So, how did the 'door' we came in... come from?"
For a moment, the air was extremely quiet, and even the sound of the torch burning seemed to disappear. The biting chill surrounded them, as if an ice needle was drilling into the spinal cord, and they all understood something in an instant.
As a tomb here, there are still many people buried with them, but there are no bones or wreckage.
Is this "door" really a "door"? Or...
In this extreme silence, they vaguely heard the slight gasp coming from the top of their heads.
In this completely closed tomb that has been buried for thousands of years, the sound of something gasping sounded!
The yin energy around seemed to have stopped, and the three of them were frozen in place. The remaining sound was the heartbeat that was thumping, and—
Chapter completed!