Find the Chamber of Secrets

We went back to Gnaku on the lower floor, first found a few Kwantung Army uniforms and overcoats to change into, wiped the mud and blood stains on our faces, and each of us found a steel helmet to buckle on his head.

　　Yingzi is already handsome, and she is even more pretty when she puts on a military uniform, and the fat man cheers next to her: "Hey, big girl, if you put on a Japanese military uniform, the whole thing is Yoshiko Ichikawashima." "

　　Yingzi didn't know who Yoshiko Kawashima was, thinking that the fat man was praising her, and she was very useful, so I told Yingzi: "He said that you are like a Japanese female spy." "

　　When Yingzi heard this, his willow eyebrows were upside down, and the fat man hurriedly said: "It's wrong, it's wrong, I should say that when I see Yingzi's small shape wearing a military uniform and holding a gun, I can think of Chairman Mao's poem, 'Sassy and heroic five-foot gun, the dawn of the first light on the military field, the sons and daughters of China have many strange ambitions, and they don't love red makeup and love arms'." "

　　I laughed and said, "The fat man is about to become a poet recently, and he has to recite two sentences at every turn." "

　　As I spoke, I found a hexagonal wrench on a shelf where gasoline barrels were stored: "This time it's alive, I've taken everything I should take, so hurry up and act." "

　　The three of them wore the uniforms of the Kwantung Army and carried 100-style submachine guns, and returned the same way, and I was still behind. This time, the fat man never said that he saw the shadow of any child, I didn't ask, but I was chasing the wind and shadows in my heart, and I was inevitably a little suspicious.

　　I thought to myself, "The fat man said that the kid ran into the iron gate, what is this little devil trying to do?" Do you want to show us the way out? Can there be such a bargain? Or does he have other plans? Damn, Lao Tzu just has a little glutinous rice left, I heard that the ghost is afraid of glutinous rice, if the little ghost dares to find trouble, he will let it straighten out, and return in defeat, if not, it will not show my old Hu's means. "

　　As I walked with them, I encouraged myself, and the wound on my back didn't seem to hurt much, and after a while, I came to the stone cave with an airtight door for the second time.

　　Just in case, we all put on steel helmets and gas masks, pulled the bolt of the gun, and loaded the bullets. Before I opened the door, I asked Yingzi to grab a handful of glutinous rice and prepare to throw it, and asked the fat man to aim with a submachine gun. In addition, he also instructed the fat man, in cooperation with me, to take turns shooting, leaving no gap in the loading magazine.

　　When everything was arranged, I slung the submachine gun over my shoulder, and turned the hex wrench against the threads on the door, which had not been opened for decades, and the threads were rusty.

　　I even used the strength to feed, and the wrench was almost broken by me, and finally I heard a "creak" sound, and the three exhaust slots under the door "squeak", and the airtight door was filled with air, and the iron door clicked...

　　The air groove in the airtight door filled with air, and the heavy iron door opened at the sound of the sound, and I hurriedly took two steps back, holding a submachine gun and flashlight and pointing it at the door, but there was no movement inside the door.

　　The situation was unexpected, and I saw that the door was dark and indistinguishable, and the light of the flashlight shone into it, and it was swallowed up by the darkness inside.

　　I gestured to Yingzi, Yingzi understood, and threw a large handful of glutinous rice into the secret room like scattered flowers, but there was still no movement in the secret room, as if all the sounds in the world had disappeared, and only his heavy breathing in the gas mask was heard.

　　It seems that we are too worried, as the so-called suspicion gives birth to dark ghosts, and before it is too much, I scared myself half to death first.

　　In the end, the fat man couldn't hold it back, so he took the lead and entered the secret room, followed by Yingzi and I.

　　The area of the secret room is about forty square meters, and there is a solitary one, except for the airtight door, there is no other exit.

　　It was neither bacteriological nor chemical, and before I came in, I thought of almost all the possibilities, but I didn't expect that the room contained more than a dozen large coffins. These coffins are stacked in the secret room, the coffins are old and old, some have rotted, some are large and small, the craft styles are different, and there is even a large sarcophagus, the most luxurious of which are two large coffins of golden silk nanmu, and there are countless pottery pieces and porcelain pieces scattered on the ground.

　　I looked back at the fat man, and they both shook their heads at me, and I could feel the blank looks on their faces, even though they were wearing gas masks.

　　The fat man asked me, "Old Hu, what's the matter?" It's like a fucking museum, where did you get so many coffins? "

　　I thought about it for a while, in fact, it is not difficult to speculate on this matter, but we had a preconceived idea and did not expect this.

　　Savage ditch was originally the ancient tomb group of the Jin Liao period, the Kwantung Army built this hidden underground fortress, especially the three passages connected in the fortress on both sides, just across the valley of the savage ditch, during the construction, must have dug out a lot of ancient tombs in it, the burial goods in these ancient tombs, as well as the coffins of the ancient nobles of Jin Liao, are treasures to the Japanese, they dug up the things from the ancient tombs, all stored in a semi-vacuum secret room, the Kwantung Army retreated in a hurry, and only wrapped the antique rolls of the burial when leaving, The rest of the coffins have remained here.

　　The fat man said: "The Japanese will take the sheep by the hand, and there is nothing left for us, let's see if there is anything valuable in the coffin, and it is not in vain that we have worked hard." Then he kicked open the coffin board of a large coffin, and the coffin lid had already been pried open by the Japanese, and it was not re-nailed, and when he kicked it, he kicked the coffin lid aside.

　　Yingzi didn't dare to come over and take a look: "I'd better wait for you two at the door, I'll keep an eye on it by the way, don't let people lock us all here." Then he walked to the door, and guarded the door with one foot in the door.

　　I said to Yingzi at the door: "Or my eldest sister is alert, I didn't expect this, I have been a soldier for so many years in vain, this door can only be opened from the outside, if we are all locked in this secret room, I'm afraid I won't even be able to find the door to cry." "

　　The fat man just cared about rummaging in the coffin, scolding as he turned over: "Fuck, it's all bones and scum, the Japanese devils are really fucking lacking in morality, they play the three-light policy wherever they go, and they don't even leave us a jar." "

　　Even turning over three or four coffins was like this, and the fat man was so angry that he kept scolding, and then pushed the vermilion lacquer coffin of the golden silk nanmu.

　　I didn't pay much attention to the ordinary coffins, my eyes were always drawn to the huge sarcophagus, and my instinct told me that there was something there...

　　I didn't understand why I had this thought, but I had an urge to open this sarcophagus and take a look. I beckoned the fat man to come over and help, and the two of them worked together to push the upper slate, which was unusually heavy, and only pushed open a thin crack after pushing for a long time.

　　The fat man gasped and waved his hand: "No... Rest for a while, it's too heavy... I can't push it without food in my stomach. "

　　I was also grumbling with hunger, and this exertion made my eyes even more sparkling, so I had to sit down and rest, and we took off our gas masks and lit a cigarette each.

　　The fat man spit out a smoke ring: "Old Hu, did you say that the ancient people did have water in their brains, the whole stone coffin, I still see someone using a stone as a coffin for the first time." "

　　I stroked the stone slab and said, "This is not a coffin, this is called a coffin." The coffin, the coffin, the wooden coffin is in this stone box. The one who can enjoy this kind of treatment must be a high-ranking cadre, maybe a prince. "

　　The fat man scratched his head: "Oh, that's what happened, it's really complicated, it's also buried in the savage ditch, the general's tomb we dug is compared to the master in this stone coffin, whose official is big?" "

　　I shook my head and said: "I don't know, it's not easy to say, we don't know much about history, but in the past few hundred years of Jin Liaoyuan, the nomads in the north have been unprecedentedly powerful, and they all got the world from horseback. The hobbies of the tomb owners during their lifetimes were different, and the funerary goods must have been different. Take the ancient tomb we dug as an example, the owner of the tomb is a martial artist, and he has no elegant taste and taste, so most of the items in his tomb are horses and weapons. "

　　The fat man said: "In fact, those horses must be thousands of miles of good horses, if they live, they will be worth a lot of money, but now there are only horse bones left, and it is estimated that they will be sold to the scrap recycling station, and no one wants them." Fortunately, he still has two pieces of jade, otherwise we will be busy in vain, these two pieces of jade will go back and let the big gold tooth find a home, how can we deal with Wan'er 8000. "

　　As we spoke, we finished smoking, and the two of us put on our gas masks again, riveting our strength to push the big slate again, and Eiko also came to help, and finally moved the slate aside. Inside the stone coffin, a wooden coffin with a pure black background was revealed, which was still nearly twice as large as an ordinary coffin, and the height was unusual, not counting the arc-shaped lid, it was more than half a person high.

　　The coffin craftsmanship is exquisite, it is by no means a vulgar thing, both ends, all around, and the coffin lid have the colorful depiction of gilding lacquer, which is painted with some auspicious beasts, all of which are cranes, unicorns, turtles and snakes, etc., in order to bless the owner in the coffin to be dissected into immortals after death. On the lid of the coffin, there are 28 star maps in the sky, and the bottom of the coffin is surrounded by a circle of clouds and scroll pattern of golden ornamentation, I don't know what secret method is used, the color is still as bright as new after thousands of years, it is really breathtaking.

　　It was the first time we had seen such a magnificent coffin, and if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, we would have imagined that there would be such a huge coffin like a work of art in the world.

　　The fat man was overjoyed: "Even if there is nothing inside, let's carry the coffin back and sell it, and we can make a lot of money." He rolled up his sleeves and pushed the coffin open.

　　Even Yingzi couldn't help but want to see what was in this big coffin, the three of them got together and irradiated the coffin with a flashlight, the brocade laid in the coffin had long been decayed, I am afraid that it would turn into ashes when touched, and there was a skeleton lying flat on the layers of rotten brocade, after a thousand years, the clothes, skin and flesh had long been rotten, only the skull was slightly intact, with a wide open mouth, revealing two rows of black rotten teeth, if you didn't look at the skull, you might not be able to see that this was the remains of a human being.

　　Yingzi swept the edge of the giant coffin with the beam of light of the flashlight, and she screamed in fright: "Oh mom, it's this kid!" "

　　I saw that at both ends of the coffin, there was a man and a woman and two bare-ass children, who looked like they were five or six years old, with lifelike faces, the boy had a pigtail on his head, and the girl's hair was tied in two buns. The owner of the coffin is almost rotten, how can this boy and girl be so well preserved?

　　"These two little cubs, eighty percent of them are dummies, and they are doing it like the real thing." The fat man said as he wanted to pinch the child in the giant coffin with his hand, "The fat man wants to take a look today, is it still sperm?" "

　　I pressed the fat man's hand: "Don't touch it without gloves!" It's not a dummy, it's probably poisonous, and if you look closely at these two kids, they're all patches of blue-purple patches, which are mercury spots. "

　　In the 50s, my grandfather, Hu Guohua, spent some time in a large hospital in Beijing for medical treatment. During this period, just in time for a large building to be built near the hospital, an ancient tomb was dug up on the construction site, and he also sneaked out of the hospital to see the excitement and went into the underground palace to take a look.

　　The ancient tomb is said to be a prince of the Ming Dynasty, around the ancient tomb is a circle of black water, the tomb of the underground palace is divided into three parts, the door hangs a jack gate, enter from the gate, first of all, a "Ming Palace" (Hades Temple), according to the layout of the hall of the tomb owner's home before his death, there are various furniture furnishings, these utensils are called "Ming Vessels" (Mortal Vessels).

　　Further inside, the burial chamber in the middle, called the "dormitory", is where the coffin is placed. This ancient tomb is a joint burial tomb, and what is very special is that the coffins of the tomb owner and his wife——— that is, the prince and the princess, are hung in the middle of the hall with large iron chains, large copper rings and copper locks.

　　This is followed by the "Side Hall", which is a place dedicated to the burial goods.

　　Not a few days later, an ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty was unearthed in Haidian, both tombs have buried boys and girls, unearthed and the living people are exactly the same, but the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty unearthed boys and women, the clothes on the body will be gray when touched.

　　Later, my grandfather told me these two things as a story, and he said that when these boys and girls were alive, in addition to oral mercury, they had to dig holes in the top of their heads, backs, and soles of their feet, and pour mercury into them, and after they died, they would smear their whole bodies with mercury powder, as if they were specimens, and their skin and flesh would not rot after ten thousand years. This technique is far more advanced than the mummies of ancient Egypt, but the backgrounds of the two civilizations are different, and the value orientation is also very different, and the method of pouring mercury to maintain the appearance of the corpse must use the living, and the blood of the dead does not circulate, and it cannot be poured into it, so this technique has never been used on any tomb owner.

　　The cruelest thing in the world is probably to use a living person to bury it, the fat man put on gloves and took out the body of one of the children, and after careful examination, sure enough, several holes were found in the top of the head, back, soles of feet, etc. The holes on these corpses have been sealed with fire paint by skilled craftsmen, and there are many places on the corpses that have appeared a piece of black and purple spots, and the burial people or gold, silver and jade often smear mercury powder, and there will be chemical changes over time, the age will be brownish red, and the age will become black and purple when it is far away, this kind of patch is commonly known as "mercury spots" or "mercury soaking", and some places call the corpse spots "rotten yin" and "mercury blue".

　　The fat man was obviously a little nervous, he pretended to be calm, sighed and said: "I have read the novels written by Lu Xun before, and there is a description of raw mercury immersion on antiques. "

　　Yingzi asked, "This is too pitiful, Brother Hu, why don't you put clothes on these boys and girls?" I remember seeing the kid running by with his clothes on, could it be a ghost? "

　　I told her, "Only they know whether they are ghosts or not, but it's not that these two children don't wear clothes, and the boys and girls who accompany them must be dressed up, and after almost a thousand years, by this time, the clothes will have long been rotten." This huge coffin is probably from the Yuan Dynasty, and the moment the Kwantung Army dug up this big coffin and opened it, the clothes turned into dust as soon as they saw the air. "

　　Yingzi said: "Isn't it often said that it is safe to enter the earth? Why don't we help them, how pitiful. "

　　The fat man nodded in agreement: "I just want to get rich and don't want to meddle with miscellaneous things, but this time the situation is special, let's do well, take them out to dig a pit and bury them well, don't poke them naked here, they have all stood for the tomb owner for a thousand years, it's time to rest." "

　　The corpses are full of mercury, and they can't be burned, so we can only dig a pit and bury it, and that's all we can do, and I hope there will be fewer tragedies like this in the world.

　　Without much delay, the fat man and I took off the Kwantung Army coat we were wearing, wrapped the boys and girls in them, and fastened them on our backs. The corpse filled with mercury is dead and heavy, thanks to the child, if it is an adult, it is really enough to carry it alone.

　　When the fat man saw that he didn't get the valuable treasures, he was a little unhappy, and he wanted to burn all these coffins with a fire, but Yingzi and I hurriedly dissuaded him, and he had to give up.

　　We went back to the cave to discuss how to get out, at this time everyone was hungry and thirsty, hateful is that in the underground fortress, there is no food and water, and there are no explosives and shells, if you want to return to the ground, there is only one way to go to the robbery hole of the general's tomb, but when you think of the strange power of the red-haired monster, it is really a headache, and it may not be its opponent if you are full of food and drink, not to mention that you are now hungry and weak.

　　The three of them glanced at each other, and their thoughts were almost the same, there were more than a dozen dead bats on the ground, and now they could only sacrifice these guys to the Five Organs Temple.

　　Humans are omnivores, and once they are hungry, there is nothing they can't eat. Yingzi said that when she was a child, she and her grandfather ate bats in a cave in the deep mountains and old forests, and that year there was a mountain fire, and there was a rare famine, and the larger animals in the mountains were gone, so people ate gophers, bats, locusts, and grassy planes, and the tendons and brittle bones of bats were delicious and chewy.

　　These pig-faced bats in the cave are skinny and vicious, and they are like the dried corpses of blood-sucking demons, and I have reservations with the fat man about the fact that their meat is delicious.

　　But in order to survive, I can't take care of so much, if I want to make a fire and barbecue, I have to go back to Gnaku, where there are many wooden boxes that can be used for firewood, and of course coffin boards can also be burned, but eating meat roasted by coffin fire is somewhat unacceptable. So the fat man used the rope he brought on his body, picked five or six fat dead bats, tied them in a string, and dragged them away, including the oversized bat king.

　　After returning to Gnaku, she put aside the coat that was wrapped in a virgin boy, and Eiko took out a short knife and cut off the bat's ugly head and fleshless claws, and then disemboweled, and finally peeled it indiscriminately.

　　I found a large pile of wooden boxes, kicked them into planks, took out my knife and sharpened some sawdust, lit the sawdust with matches, and the fat man assisted by him, squatted on the ground, put his hands together and blew to fuel the fire.

　　I found a few more bayonets on my rifle to pick up the bats and grill them on the fire, and the fat man frowned, very reluctant to eat this kind of thing.

　　Yingzi persuaded: "It's not unpalatable, don't think it's a bat, chew it a few more times, and it will taste like mutton." "

　　I don't care, bats are not the same as mice, when the army was training in Shaanxi, I have eaten many times gophers, dormice, flying squirrels, voles, civet rats and other kinds of mice, the taste is almost the same, fat and thin five-layered, indeed similar to mutton, but bat meat has really not been eaten.

　　The pig-faced big bat is a warm-blooded animal, there is not too much fat, it should not be roasted for a long time, after seeing the meat color become cooked, I tasted it first, the meat on the shoulder is very crispy, there are a lot of meat tendons and crispy bones in it, it is by no means as delicious as mutton, but it is indeed very chewy.

　　When the fat man saw that I had eaten it, he also pinched his nose and took a bite, and felt quite satisfied, and ate one like a storm, and he was still unsatisfied, and put the largest bat king on the bayonet and grilled it.

　　Halfway through our meal, a sticky, shiny liquid dripped from the roof of the fat man's head, and landed right on the fat man's face. The fat man ate so much, and when he saw that his face was wet, he immediately wiped it with his hand and said strangely: "Who the fuck is bleeding so much?" It's all flowing to Lao Tzu's head. As soon as the words came out, he himself felt that this question was wrong.