Four-mouthed coffin

  Nineteen coffins

  After my feet touched the ground, I felt a bit more solid in my heart. It was only three meters away, but it made me feel like I had fallen into another world. Although my heart was still racing, I could clearly feel some stimulating elements inside.

  "Alright, you can let go now, it's been half a day already, others need to get off too." Wu Liuqi pulled my arm.

  I just realized that I was only standing on the ground, but my hands were still holding onto the rope, it seems that I am really too tense, after all this is my first time entering an ancient tomb, some nervous emotions are inevitable.

  Mò Mò is not much better than me, just as she slid halfway down the rope, she was so scared that she let go of her hands and fell straight down. If I hadn't reacted quickly, her first mission would have ended in martyrdom.

  "Thank you." He said quietly, looking at me with some embarrassment, while struggling free from my grasp.

  "You guys don't look like you've been through a lot, how can you bear to follow us in?" Wu Liuqi's words seemed to have already started doubting us.

  "It's not up to you to decide whether I've been knocked down or not, you're skilled with your hands, of course you wouldn't be afraid of these things, but we rely on our brains, not those useless developed muscles." I quickly said to him with a very experienced tone.

  "Yes, yes, my brother took me to turn over many big jars, for example, that one, that one, that one." Mo Mo suddenly seemed to have run out of words and immediately gave me a look, but I didn't expect her to give examples either, which instantly left me speechless.

  Looking at Wu Liuqi's expression, he was actually listening carefully to what we were saying, if he didn't speak up, it would definitely be exposed.

  "The tomb of the Jin King in Shanxi, the wild mountain forest in Northeast China, the Sha Wang Palace in Hunan, and even the Tianhuo Libi Tomb in Hainan, you've all heard of them, right?" I had to bring out the tomb that Grandfather had stolen back then to show off.

  "But I remember it was all your grandfather's credit, right?" Lin Ruoshui had already slid down to the cave entrance and pulled the claw rope with force. The over three-meter-long rope instantly returned to its previous soft state and she tied it back around her waist.

  "Hmph, fine, but as the saying goes, 'even if you haven't stolen a grave in three hundred years, you'll still steal one eventually.' I don't know where this wisdom came from, but it somehow managed to change that title into something like this, and yet still put on an air of being a successful person."

  Lin Ruoshui and Wu Liuqi exchanged a smile, ignoring my nonsense, and began to inspect the environment here. It turned out that this underground space, which was only about 10 square meters in size, was extremely clean, and not even a spider web was left behind. Was it possible that the owner of this place would get up from time to time to sweep his own room?

  Just as I was thinking that my idea was a bit ridiculous, I suddenly found that around my body, there were coffins placed against the walls, four walls and four coffins. They seemed to have appeared here suddenly, perhaps because I hadn't noticed them before.

  After silently seeing these coffins, she had already tightly grasped my hand and was no longer as proud as before. Not to mention that she's just a girl, even I was scared to death when I suddenly saw the four coffins. Although I've seen many funeral objects while helping Grandpa with his shop, and heard them say they were dug up from graves, it wasn't until I actually saw these coffins that I realized how much courage it takes to retrieve something from inside.

  "These coffins are strange, just like four big boxes, with no patterns on them, as if they were casually placed here?" Wu Liuqi said to Lin Ruoshui.

  "This is called a four-phase coffin, it's specially used to guard the first layer of the Western Zhou tomb. Most of the tombs at that time were still simple and didn't have mature structures like corridors or chariot houses, so they just used things like this to help with guarding. If I'm not mistaken, all four coffins contain adult corpses, waiting for those who don't know better to come and open them. Look, there are no nails on the coffin lids, if we open it carelessly, the corpses inside will definitely devour us." Lin Ruoshui spoke in a low voice, while also becoming extremely cautious.

  "That's right, but where should we go? There are only four coffins here, a few square meters in size, and there is no other exit." Wu Liuqi said.

  "Just now didn't we just say something? These graves are all straight up and down, it seems like we have to continue digging holes again." Lin Ruoshui said.

  Just as her voice had just fallen, I heard some strange noises, creaking and scratching, like someone was scratching a wooden board with their fingernails, the sound was extremely piercing.

  "It's no good, it seems they're not moving, but they've made the first move. These sounds are the corpses scratching against their coffin lids, they're going to come out! We have to hurry up!" Lin Ruoshui seemed to have discovered something and immediately used the earthworm-like creature to dig into the ground.

  At this time, I also saw that the four coffins were starting to shake slightly, and the coffin lids were slowly moving aside, as if the things inside were about to crawl out. I swallowed hard and joined in digging the hole.

  It seems that the thing I fear most is Chen Mo. As a descendant of a tomb raiding family, I've at least seen pigs run even if I haven't eaten pork before. These things are afraid of people, but my grandfather said that as long as you don't provoke it, it won't come looking for you casually. At this moment, the four coffins were all shaking, but I was very clear that they still needed some time to get out from inside. Now we can only hope that the next layer of soil isn't too thick, otherwise we won't have enough time.

  "Ah! It's out!" Mo quietly suddenly shouted loudly, scaring all three of us stiff on the spot.

  I followed the direction of the faint flashlight and saw that one of the coffins had its lid moved to more than half way, and a withered big hand was grasping the edge of the coffin, as if pulling the body inside slowly sitting up.

  "Don't look anymore, hurry up and dig to the next layer. These things can't be stopped by us, as long as they don't feel our human aura, they will return to their coffins on their own." Lin Ruoshui stopped my gaze and quickened her movements.

  With a loud thud, I only heard the sound of a coffin lid falling to the ground. I saw that another coffin had already stood up a black figure.