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    Behind the Baiyu Gate is a huge main tomb room, even much larger than the previous front room.The entire main tomb is square, and you can see two coffins, one large and one small, placed in the middle.

    But the really shocking picture is not the two coffins in the center.

    Rather, this tomb is filled with tens of thousands of precious cultural relics and treasures, and even the platform where the central coffin is placed is made of countless circular gold plates.The altar near the coffin, the crystal wall lamps on the four walls, and the floor lamps scattered in the main tomb are all filled with night pearls the size of pigeon eggs. If you look at them carelessly, there are eighty if not a hundred.

    They just came out of the very dark corridor and entered the main tomb directly. It really can be described as like daytime.

    Not to mention that what the night pearl shines on is gold and silver mountains all over the room, famous calligraphies hanging all over the walls, and porcelain vases and jade wares all over the corners.At first glance, it looks like a rich local tyrant.

    There are too many good things in this main tomb. In order to better preserve these things, the surrounding walls are even more expensive. They are made of the same white jade material as the gate, and a lot of charcoal is placed to absorb water and prevent moisture.

    Bao Le gasped uncontrollably, and tremblingly placed her hand in front of the hanging paintings on the wall. She didn't have professional tools, and she didn't even dare to touch these things.

    "This... "Hundred Years Mountain Manuscript Book", "Eight Kings Drunk Returning", Tang Yin's imitation," Bao Le's eyes glowed excitedly, "My God, this is Wang Xizhi's authentic work! I was only at the auction before.I've seen it online, Wang Xizhi's authentic copybook ten years ago is worth a million dollars per word. If this thing enters the world of antiques, what an uproar it will cause!"

    Jun Zhi is different from Bao Le, he has no interest in calligraphy, paintings, antiques, or even gold, silver and jewelry, but the few ancient knives on the weapon rack in the room catch his eyes.This is also understandable, after all, he had to lose all his weapons a few hours ago, which is really uncomfortable for a knife lover.

    After Bao Le finished appreciating the calligraphy and painting, she saw him staring at the weapon rack without saying a word. Although he had no expression on his face, she could feel the turbulent waves under his calm appearance.

    He was particularly concerned about one of them. This knife was inserted in a black deerskin scabbard. The left and right sides were no longer than the length of the forearm. It was inlaid with a golden chain pendant. There was a groove where the knife grid and the scabbard were connected.A simple totem embedded with Bana flowers.Bao Le had seen this pattern on all the scabbards before Jun Zhi, and once guessed that it was the representative symbol of "Jin Ling Shen Family".

    Jun Zhi wanted to pick up the knife, but his hand hesitated before touching the knife, then slowly clenched into a fist, and retracted it again.

    Even Bao Le could see his reluctance, he was cautious, but he knew that this thing didn't belong to him, so he couldn't touch it.

    She coughed lightly, interrupting his meditation: "Jun Zhi, don't you think this tomb is strange?"

    Jun Zhi looked back at her, although he had no expression, but she just knew that he thought so too.

    "There are many things here that should not appear here, such as these manuscripts and paintings. Wang Xizhi was born in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a hundred years later than the Western Han Dynasty. It is impossible for his calligraphy to appear in the Han tomb."

    Bao Le said: "Take this "Wutai Mountain Summer Tour" as an example. If I remember correctly, it is stolen goods. Twenty-five years ago, it was sold to a private entrepreneur at Sotheby's for 70 millionIn the second year, it was rumored that it was stolen. There are also these few paintings, I remember they were collected by the National Museum, and they shouldn’t appear here anyway.”

    "Unless someone artificially hid them in this ancient tomb. This can also explain a lot of things. Before that, I couldn't figure out why the tomb in the Western Han Dynasty still has oil in the oil lamp in the passageway at the entrance, and it's not a TV series."

    "I think the first thing we do when we go out is to report the crime. For a cultural relic theft of this scale, even those who know about it and don't report it will be enough to spend a lifetime in prison. Judging from the time when these cultural relics were stolen, I even suspect that the crime was committed by the family, the span is definitely more than one generation can complete, this family of thieves."

    Jun Zhi frowned.

    "Do you have a clue?"

    He shook his head: "Not sure."

    Bao Le didn't bother anymore, she said, "No matter what, let's find a way to get out first."

    She turned around in the main tomb, then fixed her eyes on the two coffins in the center.

    Taking out his white gloves and putting them on, Bao Le cleared a path from the golden mountain and slowly approached the relatively large coffin.The inner and outer coffins are carved from mahogany wood, which can be more than one meter high. The coffin lid is inlaid with expensive pendants such as gold, jade, agate and pearls.

    The distribution of the coffin lid and the coffin body's inlays is quite delicate. There are sixty-four inlays in a circle, and the distribution is equal, which seems to contain the meaning of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes.The liquid oozing out from under the buckle has a smooth and shiny surface, silver in color, and it is reasonable to guess that it is mercury.Mercury is anti-corrosion, and mercury sealing is also one of the common methods, but the combination of inlays on the surface of the coffin lid is more interesting.If the bottom mercury is sucked blindly, even more terrible things may happen.

    "Open the coffin?"

    Jun Zhi also came over and asked her in a low voice.

    When Bao Le heard his words, he hid behind him, shaking his head like a rattle.Jun Zhi nodded, and instantly lost all interest in the coffin in the center.Bao Le poked his head out from behind him, and looked again with a complicated expression.

    "Forget it, let's go."

    She has some things to be confirmed by opening the coffin.

    Before opening the coffin, Jun Zhi motioned her to stand against the white jade wall of the main tomb.

    Then he walked near the coffin, first put his palms on the coffin lid, closed his eyes and carefully felt the coffin, especially the movement between the coffin lid and the coffin body.When he opened his eyes, he had a rough idea in his mind.Bao Le saw that he stretched out his hand quickly, and either pulled out the inlays or pressed them down on the sixty-four inlays, but he didn't know what principle should be used.After he easily pressed the inlay on one side, Jun Zhi found a support point, volleyed across the entire coffin, and continued to fiddle with the remaining inlay from the other side of the coffin.

    "Dui is for water, and water is for water."

    Listening to his low moan, Bao Le had already pressed the last inlay.

    "Gulu" A golden bead slid along the invisible track under the coffin, and fell into Jun Zhi's open and waiting palm from the opening near the last inlay.

    Jun Zhi randomly found a gold plate from the ground and put it under the opening.Not long after the golden bead passed, a liquid with a pungent smell flowed out from the opening along the channel.Although the liquid was not much, it should be a mixed type of strong acid from all aspects, but it is not yet a component that can melt gold.However, if it is touched by the human body, the consequences will be disastrous.

    After Jun Zhi put away the dishes, he returned to Bao Le, and the two stood by the wall and waited together.

    Bao Le has never seen the world, so of course he doesn't know what Jun Zhi did just now, it's absolutely amazing.

    This coffin has two grooves inside and outside between the coffin lid and the coffin body. The outer groove is filled with a little mercury, and the inner groove is this strong acid.The strong acid is controlled by the gold beads. If the coffin is forcibly broken, the gold beads will knock the wires in the tube, and the strong acid will spurt out from the sixty-four embeddings.Only by pressing or lifting the buckles in the correct order can the wire be put away without moving the gold beads.

    Generally, this kind of mechanism is completed by the cooperation of multiple people, and it even needs to be practiced hundreds of times, because the mechanism itself is irreversible, and a wrong step will trigger the mechanism.To prevent the golden bead from hitting the line, not only must you press the right button, but there is also a time limit.That's why after Jun Zhicai finished opening one side, he didn't walk slowly to the opposite side, but chose to step directly over the coffin.

    This kind of old-fashioned mechanism, the older it is, the more uncertain the situation is. Not only the mechanism itself, but also the time element, which may bring subtle displacement and variables to the mechanism.

    To be honest, although Jun Zhi was 70% to 80% sure before opening the coffin, he couldn't guarantee it would be safe, so he let Bao Le stand by the wall, as far away as possible.

    She said that if she wanted to open the coffin, she would definitely be able to open it. Even if it failed, he was ready to forcefully break the coffin.

    Jun Zhi is not good at words, presumably these Bao Le will never know.

    ...

    After the coffin was drained of acid, Jun Zhi walked back, clasped his hands on both sides of the coffin lid, and slightly lifted it upwards. After a "click", he pushed the coffin lid out flat.

    Bao Le covered his mouth and nose and walked to him, but what surprised her was that there was no corpse smell as expected.

    But the owner of the tomb in the coffin did not become a pile of bones.

    Bao Le was greatly shocked. Although the body was a little edematous, the face of the owner of the tomb could still be described as "lifelike".The skin is white and glowing, and even maintains its elasticity.

    It was a woman who was dressed in several layers of fine clothes, combed a woman's bun, wore various red hairpins on her head, rested on a jade pillow, put her hands on her abdomen, and had a face so peaceful that she seemed to be just asleep.The space around her is filled with various funerary objects, including bronze mirrors, wooden combs, dowry, and some unworn hairpins, hairpins, hairpins, tin flowers, etc. It is reasonable to guess that she was often used or loved during her lifetime.objects.

    The female corpse held something in her mouth, and a gold chain hung down from the corner of her lips.

    "Jun Zhi," Bao Le yelled, "she has something in her mouth."

    Jun Zhi stretched out his hand and lightly tapped the throat of the female corpse. After confirming that there was no mechanism, he lightly pressed his index finger and thumb against the mandible of the female corpse, and then exerted force to break it downward. The other hand grabbed the gold chain at the corner of the female corpse's mouth,The things were taken out.

    Bao Le took the thing in disgust, but luckily she was wearing gloves.

    The thing in the mouth of the female corpse is a white jade tablet. After thousands of years of baptism, there are a few strands of red blood hidden on the white jade. Now it is a rare and high-quality blood jade tablet.Although this thing is priceless, it is somewhat unlucky to say that it is a ghost weapon in the mouth of a corpse.

    Several seal characters are engraved on the blood jade tablet, which is an identity card that can confirm the identity of the owner of the tomb.

    "Princess Han is worried."

    Bao Le showed the jade tablet to Jun Zhi happily, and said with a little pride: "I guessed right, the owner of this tomb is not the hero inscribed on the front wall, but the Princess You, so this isA princess tomb!"

    There are two main subjects of the wall carvings in the front room. In ancient times, men were preferred over women. Since a male character appeared in the wall carvings, the owner of the tomb must be the husband according to the normal logic of ordinary people.The heroine's status as a princess can only be deduced from the side of the wall carvings, and since the wall carvings do not have a clear entry ceremony, it is actually reasonable to speculate that the husband is the owner of the tomb.

    But after reading the wall carvings at that time, Bao Le felt a sense of disobedience.This sense of disobedience has been answered in the main coffin today.

    She looked at another smaller coffin.

    "Do you want to drive?"

    Bao Le shook his head: "Since we know that the princess is buried in the main coffin, we don't need to look at it to know that it should be the princess's husband. Let the archaeological team get entangled."

    Jun Zhi nodded.

    The two circled around the main tomb a few times, but found nothing else. Although Bao Le was reluctant to part with those famous calligraphy and paintings, it was more important to find the exit at the moment.

    "It's better to leave some edible things here," Bao Le said depressed, "In such a big main tomb, there are a lot of things and they are worth a lot, but they can't eat or drink, and they are useless."

    After hearing this, Jun Zhi silently handed over the biscuits.

    The little girl was speechless: "Why did you give me all the food and drink, and you didn't know how to save some for yourself." After she finished speaking, she didn't pick it up, turned around and continued to look for the agency.

    Looking at Bao Le's back, Jun Zhi lowered his eyes, and silently put away the biscuits again.

    ...

    After Baole's carpet-like search, she finally found that in the entire main tomb, on the display cabinet full of utensils, there was a sacrificial utensil of a two-headed snake with copper patterns that could not be moved.Intuition told Bao Le that this might be the mechanism to open the door.

    "and many more."

    Jun Zhi still didn't have time to stop her. As soon as he spoke, Bao Le had already rotated the Ouroboros sacrificial vessel 180 degrees clockwise.This twist, not only did not open a secret passage in the main tomb, but instead made the white jade gate when they entered close quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

    Both of them were a certain distance away from the gate at that time, and when they reacted and wanted to go out, it was already too late.

    If he could get out alive, Bao Le thought to himself, these claws that caused trouble are not to be had!

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