C42

"Why should I?" The sailor began to get excited again.

"The CAA issued a document last year," Shen Dexu said. "This stretch of river is outside the range for sand mining, you guys have violated the rules. Show me your operating licenses. "

Shen Dexu was an old cunning fox, he immediately knew that there was something fishy going on, and told his subordinates, "Investigate the registration number of this ship of theirs."

The subordinate immediately understood Shen Dexu's intentions and loudly said: "You probably don't have an operating license, right?"

The sailors were all stunned. They were no doubt dark dredgers. Shen Dexu was spirited, he snorted: "Are we going to detain the boat, or take the money and leave? "If you don't decide, I'll call the authorities."

However, Xu Yunfeng walked to the sailors and said to them: "Don't waste your time, you won't be able to earn anything with this. This is not what you think. "

The sailor began to give in. "Forget it, take the money and go. I can't win against you."

Shen Dexu explained: "This is really not the wood you guys want, it is definitely a Gloomy Wood, but it isn't a naturally formed Gloomy Wood. Someone in ancient times deliberately buried this wood under the Yangtze River."

Although the sailors didn't understand what was going on, but the sinking of the water was a kind of magic to suppress evil. Those who ate on the water had more or less heard of it.

"A coffin!" Xu Yunfeng said with certainty, "That's right, it's a coffin, a coffin made from Paulownia Wood."

Upon hearing this, the sailors who were sitting on the wooden log immediately slipped down, staying away from the wooden log just like the others.

"There's no need for me to lie to you, or else I wouldn't have to pay you." Shen Dexu's tone was gentle, "Wang, bring them to the city, and collect the money from the Finance Department."

The sailors seemed to have no other choice, the leader walked to the side of Shen Dexu's subordinates and planned to return to the ship. However, Xu Yunfeng stopped them, "Look at your palms, does it look black?"

The sailors all stretched out their hands, and sure enough, their palms were black. One of them said, "This is made of wood."

Xu Yunfeng extended the finger that he had touched on the wood, "En, I can't rub it off."

The sailor, who was sitting on the log a moment ago, looked at his own thigh. However, before he had even taken off his pants, he saw that his ankle had already turned black when he took off his shoes.

These sailors were all dumbstruck. Looking at Xu Yunfeng, they knew instinctively that he was an expert.

"Wash it with tung oil. Once it's washed, it will fall. If it's not washed, find a three inch long centipede and bite your index finger." Xu Yunfeng said, "Don't be afraid, just do as I say. You won't die."

These people completely understood that this piece of wood really didn't belong to them, so they left in a fluster. The boat often had to maintain its wooden boat to prevent it from being torn apart by the sun's immersion, so there was a lot of tung oil.

Xu Yunfeng walked in front of Shen Dexu and showed his pitch-black fingers to him, "Poison lacquer, it hasn't dispersed even after staying underwater in the silt all these years."

"Who do you think was in the coffin?" Shen Dexu asked.

Xu Yunfeng said: "He's definitely a great figure from two thousand years ago, and he's eating our food."

"Let's get it back first." Shen Dexu sighed, "I wonder if this thing will be good or bad for Superintendent Wang."

"Who knows?" Xu Yunfeng laughed bitterly.

Three hours later, the wooden coffin was placed in a remote warehouse. Shen Dexu, Xu Yunfeng, Huang Kun and a few other staff members were all wearing gloves and masks. He looked at the gloomy wood that was placed in the middle of the warehouse.

Xu Yunfeng had circled around the piece of wood a few times. Now, everyone could see clearly that the wood was still in the shape of a Primordial Pickle Tree. It didn't even manage to cut off the branches.

On the way over, Huang Kun heard from Xu Yunfeng that the ancient Chu State Realm Warlocks who took charge of the sacrificial ceremony and read wild divination would find a baobab tree before they died. After that, the later generations would split a part of the baobao tree apart, but because the baobab tree was hollow, they placed the body of the Warlock in and kept it in a standing position. Then fill in the split again, and the poplars will close the gap again. This was one of the ways Warlocks wanted to ascend in ancient times.

It was just that this method was very unorthodox and only a few people knew about it. Furthermore, the person placed in the corpse would keep this secret for the rest of his life. If it was more particular, he would kill himself. After the Han dynasty, the burial was lost.

Shen Dexu said: "This wooden coffin has poison paint on it, which means that this person had a very high status, and had also offended many people, which is why he did this. Not only did we do that, we were even afraid of being targeted, and sunken the Phoenix Tree into our river bottom. "

"The first half of your words are correct," Xu Yunfeng said. "The latter half is wrong, he should have been intentionally poisoned by the enemy and then sunk into the river bottom. This is the way to break this ritual. "

"There is also another possibility," Shen Dexu's tone was a little nervous, "There must be something inside that is going to accompany us in death."

"Just open it and look."

Shen Dexu immediately commanded his subordinates to dig wood by hand, very slowly and carefully. He was afraid that he would destroy the structure of Gloomy Wood.

The staff member cut a small hole in the coffin first. Before the hole was opened, everyone wore a gas mask. Because there was poison outside, it was hard to deny that there was poison inside the coffin.

Huang Kun noticed that Xu Yunfeng did not wear a mask or protective glasses, and his master's fingers had also touched the poison. He had also warned the sailors on the sand boat to wash them with tung oil, but he did not do it himself.

Xu Yunfeng knew what Huang Kun was thinking, and said to Huang Kun: "I'll tell you about this matter in the future."

The staff followed the lines drawn and slowly began to dig. After a circle, the last few people used a crowbar to raise up the gouges. Then he lifted the loose, dark planks with the hooks and straps of the car and moved them to the side.

This two thousand years ago, the baobab tree was cut open.

There was indeed a corpse inside with a golden head. However, there was no blood and flesh at all, only a petrified skeleton. Tortoise shells lined the sides of the corpses.

The staff analysed the gas in the coffin with a detector and found that it was not toxic. Everyone took off their masks and protective glasses.

Huang Kun looked closer and said, "There's only bones and turtle shell."

Shen Dexu shook his head, brought a magnifying glass over, and slowly observed the coffin.

Xu Yunfeng, on the other hand, was sizing up the coffin itself.

There are a total of eighty-one tortoise shells, "the counting staff reported to Shen Dexu." This kind of tortoise shell is a species that lives in the Yangtze River Basin, and it was very common two thousand years ago.

"How long is this turtle going to last?" Shen Dexu asked.

"I'm not sure," the staff member said after a pause. "There were scattered records, but they can't be used as a basis. Saying that this kind of turtle can live for hundreds of years isn't recorded in the annals."

"F * ck!" Xu Yunfeng suddenly cursed.

"There is silk on the bones." Shen Dexu used his magnifying glass to observe carefully and finally found a clue, "But not above the breastbone."

"Close the coffin immediately!" Xu Yunfeng shouted loudly, "Hurry, hurry!"

The staff was still hesitating, but Xu Yunfeng was not their leader after all. Shen Dexu immediately ordered, "Close the door immediately!"

As a result, the worker immediately controlled the car and lifted the coffin board from the ground, then slowly moved it to the top of the coffin. Huang Kun saw Xu Yunfeng squatting on the ground, looking down at the coffin board. Thus, just like Shen Dexu, he did the same as well, looking in the direction that Xu Yunfeng was looking at.

The inner side of the coffin was about two feet wide and was covered with strange symbols. Some of these symbols were hieroglyphs that he couldn't understand, while others were simply animal designs. Those animals that he drew were all spiders, ants, and snakes. Just as the employee slowly lowered the lid and was about to close it, Xu Yunfeng pointed at the walls on both sides of the coffin.

The wall in front of Xu Yunfeng was filled with similar runes. Then, Xu Yunfeng and Huang Kun ran to the other side of the coffin and looked at the wall board. On this side of the wall board, there was only one drawing, but it was much clearer than what they had seen just now.

On the side of the wall, there was a picture of a ghost head with four eyes. The two eyes on its forehead were vertical, and its fangs were ferocious.

The lid landed on the coffin. Before Huang Kun closed the lid, he seemed to have seen the two eyes above the four-eyed ghost head, staring straight at him. Until the cover falls...