Chapter 396: Mingtiaogang is full of graves

Familiar...

This is not the first time I have heard this word!!

This evil woman had a dazed look in her eyes, as if she was lost in distant memories. She had gone through a long time, spanning thousands of years. There were countless old things hidden in every corner of her memory. I guess this place must be a fragment of her memory.

Curiosity kills not only cats, but also people.

I didn't have time to delve into it. No matter what these two stone statues were, I could come up with a million reasons to run away, but I couldn't come up with a single reason to stay here. I pushed Lao Bai, growled "Run", and rushed forward. When I reached the entrance of the cave and looked back, I found that Cang Yao was standing in front of the sculpture, staring at it non-stop, with a frown on her face. I shouted twice but there was no response. I muttered "My life" to myself, so I had to turn back and pull her up and run. She subconsciously pulled her hand away, and then let me drag her.

After a lot of back and forth, I have fallen behind the crowd. I entered the cave and found that it was winding and winding, like a mountain road with eighteen bends. Brother Yaozi and his companions had long disappeared. Only the footsteps of a few people were echoing in the empty cave. I think it was just a few feet away, but the endless turns blocked my view.

"Really, you are so weak, but you always want to protect something, but, this way..."

Cang Yao muttered softly.

I was only concerned about running for my life, and only heard the first few sentences clearly, but I didn't hear the rest. I couldn't help asking: "What are you talking about? Did you remember something?"

"Nothing..."

Cang Yao's tone suddenly became a little flustered, and I couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. I don't know what happened to this old woman today. I took a break while running and looked back. Seeing that her face was normal, I even wondered if I was hallucinating.

"That statue does make me feel very familiar, but it's hard to make any definite connection for a while."

She said expressionlessly: "It makes me feel fear instinctively. That feeling... is like the protagonist in the horror stories told by my elders when I was a child. It once became a nightmare!"

I seem to understand her feelings.

When I was a child, I watched an animated film called Black Cat Sheriff. There was a scene in it where a cat's paw was cut off. It was bloody. The impact and fear made me feel distressed now, but I have already forgotten which episode that part was in, or what kind of story it was. No matter how hard I try, I can't remember it.

For ordinary people, childhood fear may not be real fear. If you watch it again when you grow up, you may find it ridiculous.

However, Cang Yao is not an ordinary person. She is the princess of the Shang Dynasty and the leader of the Nameless. The royal family with brutality and war in their blood will not tell the story of the wolf grandmother as a bedtime story to their children and nephews. The stories she heard in her childhood must be very interesting, and it is a corner of history that historians can hardly peek into.

A person who is immersed in memories should not be interrupted, and her memories are very important to me.

There was no unusual movement behind me. I had already run a distance, which made me more or less relieved.

A little dim light flickered in front, and I couldn't help but pull Cang Yao to speed up.

The front suddenly became clear, but the situation inside made people frown.

When we stood at the entrance of the cave, we didn't know whether this place was a snake cave or a tomb.

Now, the answer is here.

This is a tomb!!

A tomb belonging to many people!!

In front of us is a huge tomb, square and not too elaborately carved, but rather like a natural cave.

A huge square tripod stands in the center of the tomb, nearly two meters high, and weighs thousands of kilograms.

I have never seen such a large bronze tripod! !

Among the unearthed bronze tripods, the largest one is the Simuwu Large Square Tripod, which is more than one meter high and weighs 800 kilograms. The bronze square tripod in front of us is more than twice the size and weight of the Simuwu Large Square Tripod. This is a real heavy weapon! !

There are three protruding stones in the tripod, emitting soft phosphorescence, illuminating the entire tomb, but under such light, the tomb looks even more gloomy.

That stone should be a luminous stone. The priceless night pearl in history is the same material as this thing.

There are many kinds of night-shining pearls. Most of them need to absorb heat or be exposed to the sun to glow at night, but the most precious ones do not need any external energy to glow. They should contain some radioactive isotopes that can be self-stimulated and emit light.

The night-shining stone in front of me should be the most precious variety.

The night-shining stone stands in the tripod like a stalagmite, but it is not polished into beads. It is like three incense sticks, eternally illuminating here, implying that the incense will never stop.

On the stone walls around the cave, a groove is hollowed out every few meters. In the groove, a heavy bronze coffin is placed, but it is not placed horizontally, but vertically buried. The size of these bronze coffins is also extremely large, with a length of about three meters and a width of about two meters. I have never seen such a bronze coffin.

There are weapons stuck on the ground on the left and right of the groove.

At a glance, the cave was filled with weapons and countless bronze coffins. I wonder how many people were buried here.

For a tomb, this scene was absolutely weird and shocking.

Brother Yaozi and Lao Bai were shocked by the situation here. They blocked the entrance of the cave and refused to take a step forward. It was not until I arrived that they finally woke up from the shock and turned their heads to look at me.

Lao Bai rubbed his face, but his eyes involuntarily drifted to my hand. The smile of a scumbag immediately emerged, and he kept winking at me.

I realized that I was still holding Cang Yao's hand. Cang Yao raised his eyebrows and immediately shook me off. He subconsciously wiped his hands on my clothes, as if he had just grabbed a handful of feces.

My face got red from being stared at by Lao Bai. I knew that the more I explained, the worse it would get. I could only say to Cang Yao: "How about you go back to the wind chime and rest? If you think of anything, let me know at any time."

Cang Yao hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head gently: "Forget it, I'll accompany you here for a while. I always feel that this place has something to do with me, and it will be very dangerous."

"Can you see anything?"

Brother Yaozi suddenly asked me: "I have never seen such a tomb..."

"You are right, a tomb structure similar to this one is at least from the Shang Dynasty, or even before the Shang Dynasty..."

I touched my nose and smiled bitterly: "We may be the only group of people in this era who have seen the true face of this kind of tomb. The tomb robbers in the Western Zhou Dynasty and even the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period should have seen a lot. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb robbers basically no longer saw such tombs. The reason is very simple. There are treasures in such tombs, and the burial objects are frighteningly rich. There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and they are not afraid of digging three feet into the ground. Therefore, any tomb like this basically cannot escape bad luck and has been visited early. The tomb robbers after the Qin and Han Dynasties can't drink soup, let alone us!

To be honest, there are actually many tombs like this. The tomb of Shang Tang is like this, but because the burial objects are all in the vertical burial coffins in those grooves, and the gaps are directly sealed with melted metal. In order to make money, tomb robbers can only smash the coffins and wreak havoc after entering. The entire tomb has been tossed beyond recognition. Even if later people have a good imagination, they can't restore the original appearance.

This is why you haven't seen this kind of tomb. Maybe a certain tomb from the Xia and Shang dynasties that you entered in the past was originally like this, but you didn't see anything..."

When I said this, I looked at Cang Yao carefully. After all, I mentioned her ancestor Shang Tang. Seeing that she didn't hate him, I felt relieved and said some of my own guesses.

This kind of vertical burial box coffin is a typical feature of the early Shang Dynasty and even the Xia Dynasty.

At that time, the cemetery system was adopted. Relatives with close blood ties were buried very close to each other, and there was even a phenomenon that many generations of monarchs were buried together.

Of course, this is just the choice of most people, not absolute.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, these people in this tomb should be a big family, or a clan.

The coffins in the tomb are so densely packed that they are too numerous to count. It shows how glorious the family buried in this cemetery was. Unfortunately, there are no written records here, but I have already determined in my heart that this tomb definitely belongs to a famous family.

Just look at the weapons inserted in front of the bronze coffins, which are the identity symbols of the owner.

This is a family of military honors. In that ignorant era, force represented everything! !

"Do you think... that black snake has something to do with this place?"

Brother Yaozi hesitated after hearing this: "There are tombs all over Mingtiaogang, and this black snake is shuttling between them, almost confusing us. I am still not sure whether its nest is in this tomb, or... this tomb is just a stop along the way, just like... the tomb of Li Siye we passed before."

I also have a headache. Since this is a tomb, I am not sure about the situation.

The black snake emerged from the Yellow River and then escaped into the ancient well. Zhang Xinya made a very bold guess, saying that there was a cave in the ancient well that went all the way to the Yellow River. This could explain the mysterious whereabouts of the black snake...

This is a long distance!

Unfortunately, we went underground and shuttled back and forth like ground rats. Until now, we have no way to distinguish the direction and distance we have walked. We only know that we have walked very far. God knows whether we have reached the Yellow River or not! !

Naturally, there is no way to confirm how far we are from our destination now. The future is uncertain.

"If I had known this, I shouldn't have answered the call from Huang Laoxie's wife!"

Lao Bai held his forehead and regretted: "If we hadn't paid attention to the couple at all, we wouldn't have known about this matter. Mr. Zhang couldn't blame us, right? We wouldn't have been in such a dilemma!"

Unfortunately, there are not so many ifs in this world.

Who would have known that such a series of things would be pulled out of a country shaman?

This tomb is too far away from now, and there are few written records left from that period. Many things are vague. From the known ones alone, it is impossible to infer which clan this tomb belongs to. I can only look at Cang Yao with an inquiring look.

Cang Yao immediately understood what I was thinking and shook his head gently: "Don't look at me, they are not from our family, and they can't be from the Shang Dynasty. So many dead people are all military merits. In the words of later generations, this is called a succession of dukes. Go to our family and see a succession of dukes?"

Good guy!

I have never seen such a shameless person!

So you mean that those nobles who have made great contributions to your Shang Dynasty royal family cannot be as rich as the country? If they have a little more power, they will be chopped off by you "click, click"?

Other imperial families are desperately trying to cover up the killing of meritorious officials. I'm afraid only the Shang dynasty can say it so confidently.

I couldn't help but sniff, but it seems to be true after thinking about it carefully.

There is a saying that states always perish because they are weak, but only the Han dynasty perishes because it is strong.

This is true, but it is also one-sided. To be precise, among the many feudal dynasties, only the Han dynasty was able to beat everything around it even when it was destroyed. However, in the slavery era, there was still a dynasty that maintained a strong military force in its last years. This dynasty was the Shang dynasty!

Even in the period of King Zhou, their royal family still controlled a very strong military force. When King Wu attacked King Zhou, he said that he would gather 800 princes to swear an oath, but in fact, he didn't gather many troops. These princes were constantly weakened and could not accumulate much strength. They relied on survival in the early stage of the war and won in the end.

It seems unlikely that such a military family would be from the Shang Dynasty!

It can't be from the Zhou Dynasty. Duke Zhou established the Zhou rituals, which restricted everything from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, clothing, food, housing and transportation. The tombs of that period were no longer like this.

Then... it can only be... Xia? ?

I blinked my eyes and felt my head was bigger. A cemetery from the Xia Dynasty, who knows what is inside. Foreign countries still refuse to admit that there was a Xia Dynasty because there is no complete text left for historical excavation. Even our family doesn't have many written records. Whether it is the mechanism or the shape, we have no basis to follow. We are completely groping in the fog. This is too terrible! !

"No matter what, let's go!"

I sighed, searching for the few records of Xia tombs in my head, and whispered: "For such a large military family, the regulations of the tomb should be the highest. There should be four tomb passages, and the four tomb passages are divided into a cross. We have only seen one now, which means that this is not the end of this tomb. Let's take a look. We have to move forward. Going back is a dead end..."