Chapter 33 The Treasure

After the gate is a downward narrow ramp, the slope is extremely steep, Shirley Yang threw down a cold fireworks, rolled for a long time before reaching the end, in the cold fireworks stopped, its light has been too small to see clearly.

I sucked in a breath of cold air, if this is really a tomb passage, it is too long, there is no body nearby, if this ramp has a mechanism ambush, then those who have come in before, must have left some traces.

Even so, we do not dare to be a little careless, take a wrong step may be shattered, I walk and carefully look at the surrounding environment, it seems a little bit not right, but exactly where not right, but can not think of.

Shirley Yang said to me, “Did you see that there is no sign of rats here.”

I nodded, said: “Exactly, I just felt wrong, you say so I realized, here the gate half-open, and there is a stone bridge connected to the underground palace of the rats so many, how to here half can not see? …… not only can’t see the rats, the ground even rat droppings and rat hair are not. Could it be that the rats, with their animal instincts, feel that this is a forbidden place full of danger?”

Shirley Yang did not answer, and walked down a few steps, suddenly turned back to me and said, “Can you tell the truth, you are not doing tomb raiding?”

I never thought she would have this question, a moment speechless, do not know how to answer, because this peer of these people, are engaged in archaeological work, archaeology and grave robbing in a sense, although not too much, but after all, there is an essential difference, can be said to be incompatible with the water and fire, this is extremely confidential, how did she know?

Shirley Yang saw that I did not speak, then said: “I also just guessed, suddenly thought of it will ask you a question, I think you know so many long lost feng shui secret art, all kinds of tombs are not strange, seems to be more than their own backyard to understand, but some really like to do tomb raiding business.”

I cursed in my heart, “Stinking woman, it turned out to be a wild guess, almost scared me out of my heart.”

On the surface, I pretended to be calm, said to Shirley Yang: “I’m a family heirloom, my grandfather before the liberation of the countryside, is a famous geomancy, specializing in pointing out the shady house. My father when a lifetime of soldiers, did not learn this set of things, I also just a little hobby, I this person you do not know it, is like to study, Comrade Lei Feng’s nails spirit, in the final analysis, is a study …… “Said later, I will turn the topic away, to avoid talking to her about feng shui grave robbing a kind of things.

We walked for a long time, finally came to the end of the ramp, here but no road is feasible, the surrounding space is unusually vast, the only foot without a road, under the ramp is a platform, the platform stood hundreds of giant pupil stone statues, the edge of the platform are steep mountain walls, look up, can not see the top of the head, all a dark.

In front of a huge underground cavity, can not see exactly how big, can shine twenty meters of spotlight torch can not be irradiated to the end, could it be that we have come to the end? But look closely at the platform around, and completely unlike the underground cave depicted in the mural of the sky brick tunnel.

Shirley Yang said, “Maybe the Queen’s coffin is still down there, and after she was buried, the Jingjians destroyed the part that connects to this place so that no one can disturb the Queen’s peace.”

I laughed, “That’s just right, let’s go back …… on this,” before I finished speaking, I saw Shirley Yang take out three cold fireworks and throw them down the platform respectively, she was trying to see how deep it was down there.

The two of us lie to the platform side down to look, only to see the cold fireworks fell in the lower not far from the place, the original platform is not big, only thirty meters.

Through the light of the fireworks, see below is a large flat land, the ground is piled up like a small mountain of all kinds of gold and silver utensils, pearls and gemstones, Minecraft chalcedony, I was shocked, “heck, the original of all these good things here, it seems that the coffin of the Queen of Shengjianjie must also be underneath. There is just no way to go down.”

At this time Shirley Yang found a rope ladder at one end of the platform, the rope ladder hangs on a boulder that grows together with the platform, and hangs down from the side of the platform, with old-fashioned safety locks fastened at both ends.

Shirley Yang said, “This may be left behind by the explorers who came here before, although the rope ladder is sturdy, after all, it is much older, let’s go back to the stone bridge side to fetch the rope ladder that we brought with us.”

I said, “This is of course simple, but have you ever thought, there are so many jade jewelry under here, why those explorers who have been here before did not take them away, those foreigners are not something good, to put it nicely, they are explorers, to put it badly, they are thieves who come to China to steal things from us, we must know that thieves don’t walk away from empty space. ”

Shirley Yang said, “I understand what you mean, you mean, they will never enter the treasure mountain empty-handed return, the reason why these treasures are placed here as is, because of what organs and beasts and other traps underneath.”

I said, “That’s right, that’s what I mean, there’s no good thing that falls out of the sky, the simpler it looks, the more complicated it tends to be to do. Do you remember An Liman said that there is an ancient curse in the Black Desert? Whoever, takes the treasures in the Black Desert, he will be buried in the Black Desert forever along with those treasures.”

Shirley Yang said, “This legend is also recorded inside the Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty, that city buried in the Black Desert is called Exhaustion Jarai, I don’t think this curse is a problem, Prof. Chen and the others are archaeologists, they won’t just touch these things, I am most worried about that fat partner of yours, you have to keep an eye on him.”

I said angrily, “How do you say that, and we both look like thieves? I tell you we are poor and not short of ambition, I can use my head to guarantee that as long as I say the things here can’t be touched, my buddy will never take it. You’d better take care of yourself first, think about the year of the Gengzi, the Eight-Power Allied Forces came to China to kill and set fire to the people, and robbed us of how many good things. You Americans were among them, weren’t you? What qualifications do you have to think we are like thieves?”

Shirley Yang angry face is white: “So you see me like a thief?”

I thought how she said also saved me, my words just now really a little over the top, had to endure the sex to accompany a not, the two of them will be back along the original road, this time no one no longer speak, the atmosphere is dull and scary.

Professor Chen and other people have long been waiting impatiently, see we finally returned, busy asking for details, I played a pot of water in the dark river, while drinking the following situation described once, Shirley Yang added part.

Professor Chen and his students heard that there is really a cave underneath, the fat man heard that there is a large number of burial objects, are overjoyed, where to wait, immediately moved into the tomb of the gate.

I walked in the end, in the time to go in, I touched the jack gate, this motherfucker if it fell, but no one can not come out, but there are so many zha medicine, there is no need to worry about, think of this, will feel a lot of peace of mind, a low head, into the tomb.

The people on the platform busy preparing the rope ladder, I guess to this time, I persuade them also useless, had to tell the fat man must not take down the side of the things, what bullshit curse I do not believe, but can not let Shirley Yang seize the handle, we have to give our countrymen glory ah.

Fatty said: “Old Hu you can rest assured, we are also a man, can not fall this, no matter what this time, I take a mouse hair.” He thought and added: “To take it will wait to come back and then take.”

After the rope ladder was put in place, I was still as the pointman, the first one to go down, I saw that there was no sign of rats in this neighborhood, and at first I thought that there might be that kind of black strange snake down there, so the rats didn’t dare to come down.

But after I went down, found here dead silent, not to mention the rats and snakes, even a small insects and ants are not, near the rock wall nailed to a number of bronze lamps, are made in the shape of lamp slaves, lamp slaves kneeling down on their hands to support the precious lamp, lamp oil inside the lamp has long been burned dry, these bronze lamps a lamp, simply can not count the number of randomly take out a to the market, with this process, the age, the provenance, the history of the, and the price is definitely worth a lot of money. Absolutely worth a lot of money.

Standing on top of a large pile of treasure, the heart flickering God shaking, to hard to hold back, without a little stamina really can not, the only way is not to look at those good things, as far as possible to distract their own attention, I blew the whistle, waiting for the signal above the people one after another from the rope ladder climbed down.

Every person who came down was stunned by this mountain of treasures, so many strange and exotic treasures, all of them were scavenged from the countries in the Western Regions in the year of the Jingjie, even Prof. Chen couldn’t call out the names of these treasures one by one, but one thing is for sure, which one of them is worth a lot of money.

Fatty looked at the two eyes straight, long ago on the platform to my assurances forgotten to the back of the mind, reached out to grab the nearest a jade wine pot.