The passage slanted downward and took several turns. I don't know where it leads?
There was no movement except for our footsteps. We could hear each other's breath clearly.
After walking for more than 30 minutes, it finally came to an end.
At the end of the gate was a big stone gate with a fist thick, which was smashed into pieces.
Master Feng turns the fireball around and looks after it. Behind the door is a small stone house, which is relatively spacious, but the building is very rough. The walls, the ground, and even the ceiling are almost the most primitive shape, which is just after the excavation.
There are many disorderly things on the ground.
We went over and looked at it carefully. It was all rags, sackcloth, and some extremely rough pottery pots, earthenware pots and so on. Between these rags, there are several bones.
Several of the bones are all headed in the direction of the passage we just walked out of. All the bones are faintly black, even deep into the bone marrow, which looks like they were poisoned in their lifetime.
There are some pieces of linen hanging on the bones, which should be the clothes they wore before they died. A little touch turns them into dust, which shows that they are very old.
There are a few lines of messy footprints scattered on the ground, which should be left by the people walking in front. I squatted down and looked carefully. They are all the footprints of adults, not of the little girl.
"These bones are different from those hanging above the river." T-shirt man squatted down to conclude: "the bones on the river should be the martyrs arranged according to what array, but these bones - from the clothes left on them, abandoned items, as well as teeth and bones of the hand, we can basically judge that they are all slaves, and they are likely to be the builders of this mausoleum."
Master Feng nodded, "it is true, but the tomb is so huge, but there are only so few builders, which is a little unreasonable."
On the other side of the stone chamber is a large rusty iron door. Although it was also broken, it still stands obliquely and does not fall for some reason.
T-shirt man came forward to pull, and the iron door fell down with a bang. Then there was a loud crash, and a piece of black things fell down suddenly.
The three of us hurriedly dodged, and looked at it with consternation.
Roaring into the remains, like a hill scattered in piles, the door are sealed!
These bones are the same as those in the stone room. They are all black. Some of them even have black teeth. Obviously, they are all poisonous things they ate.
At least a few hundred people were piled in the doorway like a hill. Under the light of the fire, the black and bright skeletons were faintly glowing with light, which was extremely terrifying.
"I see!" Master Feng paused and said, "it seems that these people are all the builders of the magic tomb, but they are all poisoned to death. They should be killed when they are about to be finished."
I nodded and thought about it a little bit: "yes, so it seems that what we have just walked is not the main gate of the tomb, but the way of escape made by these builders themselves."
No matter at home or abroad, when a large mausoleum is about to be completed, all the craftsmen involved in the construction of the mausoleum will be killed to avoid revealing the secrets inside.
Therefore, there are many intelligent craftsmen who are excavating the secret way to escape at the beginning of the mausoleum construction.
However, it is clear that these people have suffered misfortune before they can escape.
"That makes sense." T-shirt man nodded: "the passage we came in is not only rough, but also extremely narrow. Such a huge tomb, the real entrance, will never be so narrow, otherwise how can the coffin be carried in? "
after the three of us reached a unified conclusion, we began to clean up the bones and try to make a channel.
Perhaps because of the long-standing relationship, these bones are very light in the hand. Every corpse is wrapped with a lot of pieces of linen, mixed with a lot of bits and pieces of gadgets, some are small copper rings, some are broken cigarette bags, and some are scattered copper coins.
The three of us are originally Yin merchants. We are very familiar with this thing. We can see that they are all the things in the early and late Tang Dynasty.
There are many small brands scattered among the bones. The brands are not big, just 67 cm. There are holes drilled at one end. It seems that they were originally tied with ropes, with words engraved on both sides.
It should be the number plate that everyone carries with them. It's something like our current work permit.
It's just that the characters are not Chinese characters, and the twists and turns are very complicated. The T-shirt man looked at them and said, "they are all ancient Tibetan. Although I can't recognize what they mean, I can't be wrong about that."
Tang Dynasty? Tibetan?
Listen to him, master Feng and I are strange.
This is the hinterland of Siberia, Russia. It's far away from Tibet. It's very difficult and dangerous on the way. Let alone the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago. Now, if you don't fly, it will take a lot of effort to get here from Tibet, let alone build such a huge ancient tomb here.What's more strange is that the father of Satan, Longquan Mountain Villa, and the extremely strange old man in grey robe, what are you doing here?
"Look!" Suddenly, master Feng pointed forward.
It turned out that a parchment was exposed in the bones, and the parchment was seized by a white bone.
Even though the bones and flesh are already rotten, it's still very difficult to extract parchment from the phalanges. You can imagine how tightly the man grasped it when he was dying.
T-shirt man and I took out parchment and looked at it with flashlight. It was a map.
Although the lines on the map are very simple, they can also be seen clearly.
After studying for a while, we suddenly found that it was here!
Although we have only just walked a short section, but that stone step passage will never be wrong! The location of the stone chamber, the length of the passage, where to turn, and the length of each bend are no different from the narrow passage we just passed.
We are worried that we don't know anything about it. Now we have a map. Nature is like God's help.