People in Zong Tomb, Jieling Pirates

Chapter 117 Special Burial Objects

But when they saw clearly what was going on inside the well, they felt relieved.

They saw that the slippery well wall had no effect on Chen Ziyan's actions. He was leaning on the well wall with all four limbs, holding a flashlight in his mouth, and was descending at a steady speed. Obviously, their worries were unnecessary.

At this moment, Shirley Yang suddenly said: "It's easier to get down than to get up. We also need to make a double-button safety lock to pull Mr. Chen up later."

She didn't know that Chen Ziyan had the unique skill of climbing walls and thought he had used some kind of skill to slide down.

Although Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan knew that Chen Ziyan had extraordinary methods, they also felt that it was better to be prepared.

After looking at each other, Wang Kaixuan handed the gun in his hand to Hu Bayi, and turned around and ran outside, wanting to go back to the camp to get the climbing rope.

They came here in a hurry and didn't bring any equipment or anything, so they had to have someone go back to get it.

Chen Ziyan, who was falling at this time, had no idea what the people above were doing. He was heading towards the bottom of the well while paying attention to the surrounding walls.

He remembered that the secret door leading to the ancient tomb was hidden on the wall of this ancient well.

When he went down to about fifteen or six meters, he felt wisps of cool wind blowing from his side. When he turned his head and looked sideways, he saw a stone door appearing on the wall of the well.

Chen Ziyan adjusted his body angle so that he was facing the stone door, and then pressed one hand on it.

It might be due to disrepair or other reasons, so it took him a lot of effort to push the stone door open.

With the help of the light from the flashlight in his mouth, he could clearly see that behind the stone door was a corridor with a typical masonry structure. In addition to being spacious and neat, you could also see that there was a stone door in the depths.

Although in his memory, there was no danger in Prince Gumo's tomb, for the sake of caution, Chen Ziyan still took out a few short arrows from his pocket and threw them towards the area where there might be a mechanism.

jingle——

Several metal collision sounds were heard, but there was nothing unusual in the corridor.

After confirming the condition of the tunnel, Chen Ziyan pushed hard with his legs supporting the wall of the shaft, and he used this force to rush into the stone door.

After landing, Chen Ziyan saw clearly that there were two stone gates deep in the corridor.

The first stone door has been opened long ago, but the following stone door is still closed.

Picking up the short arrows thrown along the way, Chen Zi walked slowly to the deepest stone gate.

The relief on this stone door was more complex. Judging from the outline, it should be some kind of exotic beast from the Western Regions. There were also processed animal skins stuck on the cracks of the door. He knew that only by removing these animal skins could the door in front of him be opened.

Although Chen Ziyan didn't have the habit of carrying a dagger with him, fortunately after he learned the swing arrow, he always kept a batch of metal short arrows in the possessed space, which he could barely replace at this time.

Although the animal skin was very firmly attached, it was not difficult to clean it after so many years, so he completed the task quickly.

Behind the stone door is a spacious and dry stone chamber. The length and width of this stone chamber are about sixty meters, and the height is visually estimated to be more than three meters.

The floor of the stone chamber was covered with white bones, making it difficult for people to stay.

Chen Ziyan knelt down and took a look, and found that these withered bones came from animals, and had long since decayed under the erosion of time, leaving only an empty frame with an empty appearance, which would break into pieces if touched even slightly.

Around the stone chamber, there are dozens of wooden pillars standing, and on each wooden pillar is tied a long-dried male corpse. Judging from the body shape, the bones should be in the prime of life.

Although this scene looks mysterious and terrifying, it has not exceeded Chen Ziyan's threshold and is within the acceptable category.

After briefly looking at the details of the stone chamber, he followed the clues in his memory and began to search for the hidden entrance to the tomb.

The search process was very simple. Perhaps it was easy to find it with a guide. It didn't take Chen Ziyan a few minutes to find a relief stone slab with a pull ring under the bones on the ground.

After pulling open the stone slab, he saw a space similar to this one, with a square sarcophagus placed in the center of the space.

The style of this sarcophagus is very different from that in the mainland. It does not have any carvings or paintings. It is not the traditional rectangular shape of the Central Plains, but looks like a box with a square mouth.

Chen Ziyan knew that this should be the coffin in which Prince Gumo and his wife were buried together.

In the original plot, the archaeological team did not open it, but in the follow-up, the team was decimated and only two or three kittens returned alive. Professor Chen, who was most concerned about this matter, went crazy, so there is probably no further story.

But Chen Ziyan didn't care about that. After he went down to the tomb, he went straight to the strange-shaped sarcophagus.

After walking around the coffin, Chen Ziyan discovered that although the shape of the coffin was strange, it did not deviate from the shape of tombs in the Central Plains. The opening method was no different from ordinary coffins, so he immediately took out the tools and prepared to open the coffin.

After he pulled out the stone tenons of the sarcophagus and cut through the oil and wax sealing the gap between the coffin board and the coffin body, he grabbed both sides of the stone coffin board with both hands, gathered strength from his waist and pushed it aside.

As the coffin board moved away, the situation inside the coffin came into view.

The sarcophagus was filled with a viscous, jelly-like translucent liquid, and two lifelike corpses, a man and a woman, lay peacefully in it.

Chen Ziyan guessed that this liquid was probably some kind of special antiseptic fluid, and it was also the main reason why the owner of the coffin still had an uncorrupted face.

Around the two corpses, there were pieces of gold, silver and jade, which seemed to be burial objects.

Among these funerary objects, there were three things that attracted Chen Ziyan's attention the most.

The first piece is a piece of jet black metal with an extremely irregular shape, which looks to be about the size of two tennis balls, with a faint bronze sheen on it.

The second item is a palm-sized milky white jade bottle. Through the crystal clear body of the bottle, you can vaguely see what is inside.

The third piece is a gorgeous unsheathed golden scimitar. This scimitar is shaped like a sun. The blade is twice as wide as an ordinary scimitar. The tip of the blade is just against the end of the handle, forming a very large shape.

Neatly round shape.

After scanning the coffin with his eyes, Chen Ziyan took out a pair of thin metal folding sticks and planned to use these tools to take out the funerary objects.

After all, the composition of the liquid in the coffin was unknown, so he didn't dare to put his hand in it rashly.

Although he was also interested in the other burial objects of Prince Gumo and his wife, they were not as heavy as these three items, so he wanted to take out these three burial objects first.

And until now, he has basically explored the entire tomb of Prince Gumo, but the prompt to complete the selection has not yet sounded. The reason may be because of the funerary objects.

So it is very necessary to take things out and study this matter.

Although Chen Ziyan was usually lazy, he was a typical activist when it came to serious matters. After unfolding the thin metal rod, he planned to take out the funerary objects from the coffin.

At this moment, Chen Ziyan suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps coming from above.

He secretly said something bad, knowing that someone else must have come down.

When Dang Jian no longer hesitated, the metal stick in his hand was like a chopstick, inserted into the solution in the coffin, and quickly and accurately took out the three funerary objects.

And the moment the golden scimitar came out of the coffin, the system's beep sounded in his ears, reminding him that he had completed the first choice.

When he heard the prompt sound, Chen Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Just when he was about to continue, a light shone down from above, and a female voice also sounded: "Mr. Chen, what are you doing?"

The moment he heard the sound, Chen Ziyan frowned secretly and calmly put away the thin metal stick in his hand.

As he turned to look over, he thought to himself: Why is this girl down?

The reason why he didn't stop immediately was because he thought the person coming down would be Hu Bayi, but he didn't expect that the person coming down was Shirley Yang.

If he had known this earlier, he would have stopped immediately.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the rights and obligations of Chen Ziyan’s private museum. (Parallel time and space setting, please do not go into details.)

While he enjoys the right to independently explore and excavate ancient tombs, place valuable cultural relics in his own museum, and sell some damaged cultural relics, he also assumes the obligation to protect and maintain ancient sites and high-value antiquities.

Things like opening a library without authorization obviously do not meet this standard. If Professor Chen really wrote it into the report afterwards, he would not feel very comfortable even if he could solve it.

Thinking about how to stop Shirley Yang's mouth, Chen Ziyan put a smile on his face and naturally gave Shirley Yang enough view, hoping to show his magnanimity.

"For coffin inspection, does Ms. Yang have any suggestions?"

Shirley Yang did not jump down directly like Chen Ziyan, but tied the rope honestly and slid down the rope.

After landing, she came to Chen Ziyan, first took a look at the situation inside the sarcophagus, and then looked at Chen Ziyan and asked: "So, Mr. Chen, have you discovered anything?"

This woman understands things very well and knows that since the coffin has been opened, there is no point in talking about it.

On the contrary, clarifying Chen Ziyan's discovery is the top priority now.

Chen Ziyan glanced at the sarcophagus next to him and said: "The only thing we can know at the moment is that this should be a tomb of a noble from the ancient Western Regions. Considering the geographical location here, I guess it may be left behind by the ancient country of Gumo."

If you want to divert someone's attention, the best way is to find something more attractive to them.

It is obvious that the Gumo Ancient Kingdom is also an ancient civilization in the Western Regions, and has a natural attraction for Shirley Yang.

Sure enough, after hearing Chen Ziyan's words, Shirley Yang's eyes immediately became serious.

After looking at the sarcophagus in front of the meeting, she quickly shined her flashlight on the surrounding walls.

As a tomb robber... no, it was Shirley Yang who came from a family of archaeologists. She immediately thought that there might be murals recording the deeds of the tomb owner.

This is more valuable to her than the sarcophagus and the funerary objects!

(End of chapter)