Volume 1 Jin Dynasty Ancient Tomb Chapter 12 The White-Haired Corpse

  "Mr. Lin, come and take a look." Liu Wei suddenly beckoned me over, I didn't know what he meant, but couldn't resist either, so I walked over with a stiff upper lip and stopped one step away from him, asking "What's up?"

  Liu Wei made way for me and pointed inside the passageway saying "Take a look!"

  Inside the passage were corpses reduced to white bones, and on the ground were scattered some arrows. It was clear that there were mechanisms inside the passage. I walked over to Zhu Bajie and asked him, "Didn't you come here just now?"

  Zhu Pangzi pointed at a stone seam in front of him and said "I haven't jumped over here."

  The stone seam is just a piece of stone brick pavement, unlike the place we are stepping on now, it's a whole piece of stone.

  I walked up to the stone seam, squatted down and cleaned off the dust from the bricks. They all had the same pattern - a circular ball with a wolf head carved in the middle. No, I suddenly realized that each row of bricks I had cleaned had one brick that was different from the others. The bricks were carved with a wolf head with its mouth open wide, but one brick had no teeth in the wolf's mouth. So I pointed at the brick and said "This brick is different from the others."

  "Your meaning is stepping on this piece of wood and walking is safe?" Liu Wei asked again.

  I scratched my head and replied uncertainly "Should be."

  "What if you step on other bricks?" Zhu Baozi asked from the side.

  I shrugged and picked up a bone, saying "try it and you'll know", then threw the bone into the passage.

  With a creaking sound, all the stone bricks with wolf-tooth patterns in the entire passage sank down. Some revealed wooden arms, some revealed inverted spears, and holes appeared on both sides of the wall, spewing out countless arrows. Finally, rows of long spears came crashing down from the roof. We were left staring blankly, and it took a full two minutes for everything to return to normal. It's likely that even the dead tomb raiders knew how to get through, but someone accidentally triggered the mechanism, which explains why there were corpses all along the way.

  "My goodness, the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated." I said in shock.

  "Now that we know how to get past it, let's go!" Liu Wei took the lead and headed towards the passageway. I followed with Shi Tou at the end, being extremely cautious along the way.

  Liu Wei had already walked over and was standing across from us, looking at us. Soon, Zhu Wanjun and Song Tian also walked over, leaving only me and Shi Tou on the passageway. I still had three bricks in front of me, and Shi Tou followed closely behind me. Suddenly, I noticed that Liu Wei's gaze wasn't friendly; his face looked particularly terrifying. He lightly kicked with his foot, and a helmet rolled towards us. If it hit the stone brick inside the passageway, both Shi Tou and I would be finished. Luckily, I was holding a leg bone in my hand, which had been blocking my view earlier. To get a clear look at the bricks, I had picked it up, and now it came in handy. I hastily threw the leg bone out, hitting the helmet just right, causing it to stop moving. However, the leg bone flew back towards me instead. I silently cursed my bad luck and quickly ran forward, no longer bothering to check the bricks carefully. For the last brick, I simply jumped over it. A loud "ding" sound told me that something was wrong - the leg bone had landed on the stone brick! I hastily turned around to look for Shi Tou.

  The stone was more than three meters away from me, and suddenly arrows shot out from the wall.

  "Careful, Stone," but he didn't need reminding. Stone lazily rolled to the side, avoiding the arrow that shot out. However, a wooden hand suddenly extended from the brick and grabbed Stone's leg. The front part of the brick sank down, and the flashlight shone past, reflecting off the tip of the spear that was stuck in the ground. It could be seen that after thousands of years, the spear's sharpness had not diminished. Stone's upper body was now on top of the spear, fortunately, he grabbed hold of the spear shaft to steady himself, otherwise, he would have been pierced like a honeycomb.

  I raised my hunting rifle and fired a shot at the wooden hand, knowing that if I didn't destroy it, the stone couldn't move. However, my marksmanship was terrible, and I barely hit the stone's leg. The stone pulled out a gun from its chest and fired a shot. At this moment, the long spears on the roof had already extended downwards. Before I could react, the stone quickly grabbed the spear shaft with both hands, bent its arm, and exerted force, flipping its entire body around the center of the spear in a somersault motion. It looked simple, but without calm consciousness and agile movements, it would have been impossible to achieve.

  "Are you okay, Stone?" I rushed over and supported him.

  The stone nodded twice, pointed to his left arm, and I took a look, startling in my heart, "How did you cut such a big gash?"

  "Javelin-like,"

  I quickly tore off a piece of clothing and bandaged him up. Seeing that the blood flowing out was red, I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, it's not poisonous."

  "It's not enough to make things happen, but it's easy to ruin them." Zhu Baozi said displeasedly. At this moment, I surprisingly didn't feel disgusted, although Zhu Baozi hadn't given me a good face all along the way, he hadn't directly harmed me either. On the other hand, Liu Wei had been polite and courteous all along the way, but when it came to killing people, he was ruthless and didn't hesitate at all. I never thought of confronting Liu Wei head-on, but since he had already made a move against me, I couldn't just sit back and wait for death.

  After passing through the passage, there is a large stone chamber, which is also the normal layout of an ancient tomb. There is a hall room with two ear rooms on both sides and the main bedroom at the back, where the owner's body and valuable items are stored. At this moment, we are in the hall room, the huge hall room still has signs of being looted, except for some broken copperware and pottery, there is nothing else.

  Zhu Baozi picked up a broken piece of pottery and looked at it, shaking his head and saying "What is this thing?"

  I shone my flashlight over and saw a pottery jar, somewhat conical in shape, with a very small circular base, and a gray surface. I recognized this thing, so I explained, "This is pottery from the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States Period, which is quite different from pottery made after the Han Dynasty. At that time, pottery was only lightly scraped to create the base, and most of it had patterns drawn by hand. Look closely," I pointed at the pottery, "and you can see the texture of human hands." I wasn't trying to show off my knowledge, but rather to tell them that I still have some use, don't treat me so crudely, who knows when I might come in handy.

  "Go, go to the master bedroom." Matsuda was uninterested in all of this and looked at the master bedroom with shining eyes.

  Zhu Pangzi didn't say anything, turned around and was about to follow up. I suddenly took a step forward, pointing my finger at his back, Zhu Pangzi's body clearly paused for a moment, but felt that I was writing words, and pretended that nothing had happened, continuing to walk forward. On Zhu Pangzi's back, I wrote "Someone is following, Liu Wei."

  After finishing writing, Zhu Baozi seemed to have no reaction, and I couldn't help but wonder if there was no conflict between them. Someone followed him and knew it. Just as I was feeling anxious in my heart, Zhu Baozi suddenly pulled over my hand and wrote two words "unite" on my palm.

  The master bedroom seems to be larger than the living room just now, which makes me feel strange. After looking around, there is no particularly special place.

  "Can Mr. Lin make a fire here?" Matsuda suddenly asked me.

  I nodded. Matsuda seemed to have been prepared all along, taking out more than 20 thick candles and several wooden sticks as thick as a person's calf from his backpack. Throughout the journey, Matsuda's backpack had never been opened before, and it turned out that these were what he had packed. However, after lighting them up, they indeed shone brightly, and I hadn't felt such brightness in a long time.

  Inside the master bedroom, a stone coffin was placed inside, which had already been pried open. In the middle of it stood a nearly two-meter-high ceramic jar with dragon-patterned lid on top and three ferocious beast legs supporting it from below. On both sides of the wall should have been places where armor and weapons were hung, but unfortunately they had all been emptied out. The burial objects that remained were few in number. Song Tian's face looked exceptionally ugly as he cursed, "Damn it, damn it, we actually came too late."

  I secretly laughed in my heart, it's not just late, I'm afraid it's thousands of years too late.

  "Find it, find it for me." Matsuda said in a flustered tone. I and Ishi could only pretend to search, the corpse inside the stone coffin had already decayed into just a pile of white bones, so I was at ease, this would be considered a fake resurrection, one kick would scatter his frame.

  "Mr. Matsuda, nothing was found." After messing around for over ten minutes, Zhu Baozi said cautiously. The entire master bedroom had been almost completely emptied out, and anything valuable had already been taken away.

  "Is it here? Is it here?" Matsuda asked, pointing at the vase.

  "I couldn't help but say, 'That's something from ancient times used to store food, putting it in the tomb is just to let the tomb owner have no worries about food and clothing for generations.'"

  Matsumoto was just one kick, the whole pottery jar fell to the ground with a crisp crackle, shattering into pieces. My heart aches! If I could take it out, it would definitely be worth a lot of money, such a large pottery jar is also a national treasure! Damn little Japan, coming to plunder China's things again.

  The earthenware jar shattered, and a musty smell wafted out. The grain that had been stored for over a thousand years was likely to be inedible, but I felt that the smell wasn't quite right. Matsuda didn't seem to mind the dirtiness, and rummaged through the moldy grain with abandon.

  "Bad!" I shouted, and a corpse slid out of the jar, to be exact, a corpse with white fur.