Chapter 45 Chapter Nine: Zhu Youxiao

The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was so fleeting, Young Master Liu hesitated for a moment, then picked up Zhang Enpu without hesitation, and rushed out of the outer tomb. Everyone ran crazily for a long distance, and didn't stop to breathe until they were sure that the mummies hadn't followed. Once the danger passed, some thoughts that were ignored and deliberately suppressed just now came to my mind one after another. Young Master Liu didn't turn on the flashlight, and stood in the dark suppressing his inner emotions, pretending to speak calmly, "Master, you just..." Young Master Liu rubbed his lips a few times, but couldn't continue.

"We can't go back." Zhang Enpu said lightly standing in the darkness not far from me, like the sound of wind blowing. ...yeah...we can't go back yet...for the sake of the village, for the sake of hundreds of innocent people, we can't go back no matter what... First Young Master Liu made a wry smile, no matter what, we have to get rid of this impending disaster... even if it means... sacrificing our own lives... right? "Let's go, go find the real master." First Young Master Liu regained his composure, turned on the flashlight and walked in front. Zhang Enpu pulled Young Master Liu back without saying a word: "Go behind."

First Young Master Liu shrugged without any protest, and stuck out his tongue towards Tian Guoqiang who was beside him. After walking for a short distance in silence, Zhang Enpu suddenly stopped in front of him. "What's the matter?" Young Master Liu asked puzzledly, and walked beside him. In front of it is no longer a long tomb passage, but a huge tomb chamber, which is definitely more than double or triple the size of the previous ear chamber. There is a slightly transparent blood-red stone platform in the center of the tomb.There is nothing on the stone platform.There was no coffin as expected, no funerary objects, and the entire tomb had nothing but a stone platform.

"This..." First Young Master Liu frowned and said hesitantly, "This should be made of blood jade, right? This looks...why does it look like an altar? Where is the coffin?" Not only that, but the ground in front of us is covered with bullet holes and fresh blood, as if there has been a fierce battle here. Zhang Enpu was silent, not knowing what he was thinking about. Young Master Liu and the others were full of worries, anxious but helpless. Zhang Enpu suddenly raised his foot and walked towards the stone platform.I quickly followed up. Young Master Liu touched the stone platform with his hands, wondering what it was made of.

There was mottled reddish-brown dry powder on the stone platform, and it stuck to my hands as soon as I wiped it with my hands. First Young Master Liu rubbed it with his fingers, and the powder stuck firmly to his fingers.He rubbed for a long time, but only rubbed off a little powder that was not sticky. "This is dried blood." Seeing Young Master Liu's puzzled expression, Zhang Enpu reminded him. "What is dried blood?" First Young Master Liu was particularly curious about this name that he had never heard of before. Zhang Enpu explained: "Dragon blood is a kind of medicinal material formed after the blood of the dead is coagulated and dried. It has a miraculous effect on stopping bleeding and removing stasis, astringing sores and promoting muscle growth."

First Young Master Liu nodded again and again, and rubbed his fingers desperately, trying to rub off the blood on his fingers. Medicinal materials, so to speak, but the blood clots of the dead, it is strange not to feel disgusting, even if it can bring the dead back to life... Yes indeed!A white light flashed in his mind.The medicinal material for stopping bleeding and promoting stasis! "Master, take off your clothes quickly." First Young Master Liu greeted, and put both palms on the stone platform to caress them, they were covered with reddish-brown blood before lifting them up.

Seeing that Zhang Enpu hadn't moved yet, Young Master Liu said forcefully, "You choose, I'll help you, or lie down and rub yourself." Zhang Enpu hesitated for a moment, and took off his clothes, revealing the wound on his body.First Young Master Liu motioned for him to take off the bandage, pressed it on Zhang Enpu's wound, and said, "This time you made a lot of money, look, such a good medicine is free and unlimited. .Look at you, ouch, the wound is all torn, and you don’t feel any pain? Well, I admit, if I’m sure I won’t let the wound open again, it will be dozens of times more painful than the first time... ..."

Finally, the wounds on Zhang Enpu's body were covered with a layer of dried blood, and Young Master Liu almost touched the stone platform all over. First Young Master Liu helped Zhang Enpu wrap the bandage back again, and comforted him, "It's better than nothing if it's dirty." Zhang Enpu put on his clothes in silence. First Young Master Liu walked to the upper left corner of the stone platform. When he was rubbing the stone platform just now, he felt a large strange protrusion on the upper left corner of the stone platform. There are patterns of auspicious clouds engraved around the stone platform, but there is only a huge carp carved on the top of the stone platform, and the bulge is the carp's eyes.

It is said to be a carp, but it does not look like a carp. This fish has a hideous face, its canthus is about to split, and the scales on its body are somewhat broken. The whole body of the fish seems to be put together again after being torn apart, and there are even several obvious cracks running through the body of the fish. These cracks should not be intentional by the engraver, because I have never heard of such a broken pattern on purpose. Based on my years of experience in antiques, there is absolutely no dynasty that can be so trendy. But why such a rift? First Young Master Liu touched the fish's lines curiously. When he touched the fish's eyes, he didn't expect that the fish's eyes would be pressed down by him!

With a crisp "click", the stone platform between the two of us began to crack from the middle.It's not that the mechanism generally shrinks to both sides, but it actually splits open, as if someone smashed the stone platform with a hammer under the stone platform. When everything returned to calm, a hole the size of a wheel had appeared on the stone platform. First Young Master Liu looked at the hole in shock. "Don't move." Zhang Enpu frowned and probed over to see what was going on in the cave. After a while, Zhang Enpu looked up at First Young Master Liu, and said, "Below is the death pit."

Death pit?How could there be a death pit under the stone platform? First Young Master Liu looked into the cave suspiciously. "Ah!" First Young Master Liu exclaimed, "Aren't these the skinned things in the pottery figurines?" Those mummies are still lying on the body of their companion and biting crazily. They stopped their movements when they heard his cry, and raised their heads one after another, staring at Young Master Liu resentfully with their blood-red eyes, with a trace of minced meat still hanging from the corner of their mouths. and blood foam mixture. They are still so disgusting... Young Master Liu frowned, resisting the urge to vomit. But their appearance seems to be different from what has been seen before. Their fleshy ball-like bodies are actually agitating in a large-scale way, and with the rhythm of the bulging, blood flows out from the folds of their skin. "Master...Master..." First Young Master Liu stammered a little nervously: "They...they aren't, are they going to blow themselves up?" Zhang Enpu said indifferently: "It should be about to give birth." "Birth... birth..." First Young Master Liu stared at those people with wide eyes in horror: "What happened?" Zhang Enpu shook his head slightly and did not speak again. So what are we going to do now?Watch how mummies reproduce?Live tutorial on how to be a midwife?Damn, if it can't give birth later, will I have to go down to help it deliver? First Young Master Liu quickly ran to Zhang Enpu's side: "Let's leave before those unknown little monsters are born. God knows what dangerous things they will give birth to. Besides, I can't bear to watch the scene of pregnant women giving birth." "Go!" Zhang Enpu looked around vigilantly, stood up and beckoned everyone to explore further. Everyone stood up.Tian Guoqiang walked in the front with a double-barreled shotgun, Bai Erlaizi was at the back, Liu Dashao and Zhang Enpu walked in the middle, holding flashlights, lighting the front and back. The road ahead is getting flatter and smoother, and whole blocks of stone slabs gradually appear on the ground. "It seems that the end is coming soon. Be careful." Zhang Enpu reminded. Because of the previous incident, First Young Master Liu had been keeping his feet on guard. After being told by Zhang Enpu, he raised his head and scanned the surrounding environment. This is a fairly wide corridor. How to describe it?It's a bit as wide as those big alleys in Beijing, and the top of the wall is a long way from my head. First Young Master Liu went to the tomb for the first time in his life. He didn't know what happened to the other tombs, but he already felt a little emotional. The wall of the tomb is made up of a large piece of bluestone spliced ​​together. From the surface, there is only a thin line at the splicing place.Some pictures are painted heavily on the bluestone with bright colors.Judging from the content, it is probably the life of the tomb owner. The first picture depicts the magnificent hall.Kneeling in the center of the hall is a person who is smaller than the kneeling people in the painting.In front of him is a tall man who is putting a crown on his head.There are many ministers kneeling above the hall, but there is a sneer on the corner of the villain's mouth. The second picture depicts the situation in the study.It was still the villain kneeling on the ground, holding a box in his hand, and presenting it to the emperor. The next few pictures are the construction process of some emperor's tombs.Young Master Liu quickly browsed through it, and determined that the villain was Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen, the younger brother of Ming Xizong, and the adult must be Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao himself. The last few paintings depict that Zhu Youxiao died of illness and was sent to the mausoleum thousands of miles away, and Zhu Youjian ascended the throne. First Young Master Liu looked over one by one, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. When he saw the last picture, the surprise in his heart finally burst out. The whole picture of the last painting was rendered with red paint, which shocked him deeply at first sight. In the painting, Zhu Youxiao holds a long sword and sits on the throne again. Young Master Liu didn't know whether it was his own psychological reasons or the artist's skill was too high. He could even see the smug and cruel light in Zhu Youxiao's eyes and the slightly raised corners of his mouth. Everything was so clear that no hair could be counted. He closed his eyes and didn't look at the blood-red mural again. "Huh?" Zhang Enpu suddenly said, "Wait a minute." "What's wrong?" Young Master Liu opened his eyes and asked. Zhang Enpu walked towards the last mural, touched it with his hand, and said, "The mural here also has a doorway, which seems to be double-layered." As Zhang Enpu said, he gently picked the red paint with his fingernails. There is a layer of black material under the dug place. Zhang Enpu continued to remove the murals calmly. First Young Master Liu watched in surprise as the mural was removed bit by bit, and a new mural behind it gradually revealed its head. A black background stands in stark contrast to the painting it overlays. A mountain of corpses, compared with the previous mass burial pit, it is nothing compared to it. On the mountain of corpses, Zhu Youxiao triumphantly despised countless corpses, stepped on a corpse with one foot, and held a long sword in his right hand! When everyone was engrossed in looking at the painting, Zhu Youxiao in the painting suddenly raised his head, staring at everyone with a fierce look, his eyes turned blood red almost as if dripping blood. First Young Master Liu gasped, and involuntarily took two steps back. Not only him, everyone including Zhang Enpu was shocked by this situation. "Don't be afraid. This is just a painting technique of the ancients." After a long time, Zhang Enpu calmed down, walked back to the team and said calmly: "This is not a double-layer painting, but a three-layer painting. The first layer is what we saw before. On that layer of Xi Zong and Emperor Chongzhen, the second picture is Xi Zong stepping on the corpse mountain, and the third picture is the current one. It's just that the second picture is made of a special kind of paint, which will gradually fade after being exposed to the air for a long time. Volatile, it feels like the characters in the painting are moving." Speaking of this kind of moving painting, Liu Dashao has actually heard of it.Now there are still some charlatans who pretend to be fortune tellers and use this kind of painting to cheat money.It was just that what happened just now was so unexpected that he was taken aback. Who would have thought that a painting on the tomb wall would contain so many famous halls. "What exactly does this painter want to express?" Young Master Liu asked, "Isn't it just to scare away the tomb robbers?"