Chapter 9 Section IX

The bullet flew past Chu Haiyang's scalp, digging a shallow hole in the hard rock wall.Leopard felt a pain in his neck when he wanted to hit him. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but his hand was covered with blood.He raised his head in horror, and found that Chu Haiyang was already in front of him: "There is still half a centimeter away from the carotid artery, don't be nervous." In the next second, he lost consciousness. The uncle praised Chu Haiyang: "Smart." Chu Haiyang said: "Uncle is very powerful and can throw knives. Are your injuries okay?"

The uncle said: "How can it be? Isn't it like scratching an itch if you hit that small arm, but you just bit your tongue. How long can these two be unconscious?" "More than ten minutes," Chu Haiyang said, "The thin one may take longer." "Take it out and throw it away," said the uncle. Xia Mingruo waved his hands and said: "It's a waste of time, I still want to study the sarcophagus." He took off the two of them to only a pair of underpants, tied their hands and feet behind their backs, tied them back to back, and finally covered their heads with pants, only Leave four nostrils to exhale.

The uncle said: "How professional." (Old Huang is also full at the moment and is taking a walk.) Xia Mingruo looked up to the sky and laughed, and put all the equipment of the two on his body: "Go, say hello to the empress." He glanced into the sarcophagus and was dumbfounded: "Ugh!" Chu Haiyang also raised his flashlight to shine in: "Huh?" The two looked at each other, just because the scene in front of them was weird, the dry bones appeared as expected, but the dry bones were red. "It's well preserved. Yunnan has acidic soil. If it's buried in the ground, it will turn into powder, thanks to the sarcophagus. Is this... cinnabar?" Xia Mingruo is not sure, "Look, there is also a layer at the bottom."

"Maybe, the level of refining cinnabar in the Han Dynasty was already very high, and there is cinnabar in Mawangdui," Chu Haiyang said, "Try it and see if it is true." Xia Mingruo said viciously, "I don't want to eat it." "Mercuric sulfide, it can cure sore throat." Chu Haiyang squatted on the edge of the coffin. Seal the soul. Dye the bones with cinnabar... This is the first time I met." Xia Mingruo crouched beside him, but Chu Haiyang stopped him when he was about to stretch out his hand: "No, you have a wound on your hand." "If you want cinnabar to ward off evil spirits, dyeing the bones is more thorough than touching the orifices," Xia Mingruo said. Preliminary Investigation Report."

The uncle poked his head and asked again and again: "Is there anything? Is there anything?" "Uncle," Chu Haiyang said, "Deep in my heart, you should be a very high-level person." "That's it, that's it," the uncle nodded, and said closer, "Ah, it's really empty, and someone stepped in first. Well, it's good to keep a piece of jade, broken pottery fragments are not worth much." "The tomb was robbed in the Han Dynasty. It was precisely because someone robbed the tomb, fell victim to it, and got unlucky that the officials took measures to suppress the tomb." Xia Mingruo said.

The uncle asked: "What's wrong? Cannibalism? Scam?" Xia Mingruo giggled unduly: "Maybe it will grow white hair." "Huh?" Chu Haiyang suddenly pushed the coffin lid and said, "Huh? Huh?" "What's wrong?" Chu Haiyang bit the flashlight with his mouth open, stuck his head into the sarcophagus, looked up for a long time with a puzzled expression on his face. The uncle asked: "What's the matter?" "Mingruo, make sure," Chu Haiyang said, "Be careful, don't touch the bones." Xia Mingruo also leaned over to watch, and Chu Haiyang asked from behind, "Is it?"

Xia Mingruo gave a muffled reply, and panted with his head up: "Huh, huh, it smells like a coffin, I think it is." Chu Haiyang asked: "Uncle, are you sure this is the Empress' Grave?" The uncle took it for granted: "I'm sure, local legends have been around for hundreds of years. My master found the entrance in the 1930s, and he said he found the empress grave when he came back." The two looked at each other, and Chu Haiyang said, "But this man is a man." The uncle's eyes widened: "Man! Who said that?" "Pelvis," Chu Haiyang patted on the waist, and said, "Uncle, there are specialties in surgery. Among the human bones, the gender difference of the pelvis is the most obvious, and the rest—such as the thickness of the bones—is sometimes difficult to distinguish .You can see that Xia Mingruo's ones that haven't bloomed belong to those whose bone characteristics are in the range of variation between the sexes so that they are difficult to identify."

"So look at his pelvis, like the pubic arch, the smaller one is male; the larger one, almost at right angles, is female." "So I am an anatomically male." Xia Mingruo said. "Nonsense," the uncle yelled anxiously, "I'll come and see." As he spoke, he was about to push forward, Chu Haiyang pushed him with a smile and said, "You can't tell, you don't even think about how long we have been drawing a skeleton in the laboratory." Xia Mingruo said with a glowing face: "Yangyang, this is a big discovery. The wife of a leader of a certain ethnic minority in the southwest is actually a man. Go back and check the information. If it matches the known ethnic group, go to "Archaeology"; if it doesn't, ouch, The two of us have made it, we must be published in the "People's Daily."

The uncle croaked and said with a smile: "Little guy, don't brag, you're still a man, Dong Xian?" "Huh?" Xia Mingruo smiled, "You also know Dong Xian?" The uncle said: "It is written in the official history, it is also a poor man." "That is," Chu Haiyang said, "According to historical data, Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty suffered from severe rheumatism, with joint swelling and pain and numbness of limbs all the year round. As an escort, Dong Xian comforted the suffering and lonely Patients. Just like when we are sick, we especially hope to be accompanied by relatives. I think Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty's feelings for Dong Xian are more of a kind of dependence, which is not as bad as it is recorded in the book. Concubine', those are old things used to curse people, and we are not clear about the virtues of Chinese literati. Therefore, many things need to be demonstrated in order to return things to their original principles."

"Oh, that's right," Xia Mingruo clapped his hands, "Xiao Dong also made trouble. It was Wang Mang who dug his grave, opened the coffin and stripped his clothes in full view, hey, I can't remember, what year was it?" The uncle suddenly fell off the edge of the coffin with a plop, sat on the ground and rubbed his eyes desperately.He calmed down for a few seconds and murmured, "Damn it..." Xia Mingruo asked: "What's wrong?" "Damn it," said the uncle, pointing to the sarcophagus, "this bone...this is neither male nor female...it is growing white hair..."

Chu Haiyang laughed, Xia Mingruo stared wide-eyed, and shook his arm desperately, he held up the flashlight and looked in again: "Why are you almost like Xiao Chen, you are full of ghosts, so-called ghosts are hallucinations, Atmospheric discharge phenomenon... large...atmospheric discharge phenomenon." He picked up Xia Mingruo: "Uncle! Get out!" The uncle has already retreated to the entrance of the tomb, stomping his feet and shouting: "You don't need to say it! It's too evil!" The two ran wildly in the tomb passage, the beam of flashlight shaking with the bumps under their feet.Xia Mingruo, this guy has too much luggage, and after running for a few steps, he was so angry and bloody that he wanted to scold his mother, but the uncle suddenly turned around and ran back with "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" Chu Haiyang was almost knocked down by him, the uncle pushed him: "Go back quickly! Go back!" "There are also long-haired ones over there?!" "Grandma's!" the uncle said angrily, "It's better than long hair! Water is pouring in!" The uncle pushed Chu Haiyang and said, "Run, run, run! Run, run, run!!" Chu Haiyang shouted while running: "That's wrong! The mechanism was not touched! There can't be a mechanism in such a tomb!" Xia Mingruo gasped and asked, "Today...what's the date today?" "July eleventh!" "What about the lunar calendar?" "June 15th!" the uncle shouted. "Oh!" The two suddenly stopped running. Chu Haiyang said confidently: "This is the groundwater tide phenomenon, don't worry, it will recede slowly..." Before the words were finished, the two were rushed into the tomb by the turbulent water and hit the wall of the front room.The uncle had already fled to the back room, he threw himself on the top of the coffin and said, "Come on! Come on!" Xia Mingruo jumped up and luckily found that the water was only up to his waist, so he dragged Chu Haiyang who hit his head and wobbled through the water. Fortunately, Lao Huang didn't come. Lao Huang, what are you doing now? "Let me correct what the scientists said," he pushed Chu Haiyang onto the sarcophagus, "this is not a tidal phenomenon, it's called a tsunami phenomenon." Chu Haiyang held his head and rubbed it, then opened his eyes: "Groundwater surge can be calculated according to the combination of mechanical compression parameters and seepage characteristic parameters. I will calculate it right away." The uncle squatted on the coffin board and wrung out his clothes while saying, "Well, well, I will count." Xia Mingruo said in admiration: "Uncle, it's so powerful, this thing doesn't know calculus." The uncle was triumphant, and put on his clothes again: "It's raining heavily outside." Xia Mingruo said: "Well, it makes sense..." Chu Haiyang immediately changed the subject: "Look, the leopard is awake." Leopard is a noisy person, as soon as he wakes up, he shouts: "Damn it! What are you doing to me? It's so dark! Ahhhh! Damn it! Where's the water? Ahhhh! Why is it so dark?" He swallowed another mouthful of water, seeing that he was about to be drowned, Chu Haiyang went over and untied the rope, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Come here and close the coffin lid together, the remains cannot be soaked in water." Before the leopard had time to express his opinion, he saw Chu Haiyang slapping the thin man's neck with his palm, knocking the thin man unconscious again who was just a little conscious. Leopard said: "What are you doing?" Xia Mingruo said: "Deprive the bad guys of their right to act. Comrade Old Bao, you are very lucky. Chu Haiyang thinks you are still a good person." Chu Haiyang gave Leopard a serious look. Comrade Old Leopard blinked his pure and violent little eyes twice, he was moved for a moment, at a loss for a while, then obediently came over to push the lid of the coffin, then jumped up and squatted beside Xia Mingruo, as if he was resolutely distinguishing himself from the thin man lying on the other side The line between good and bad. The water level continued to rise, without slowing down.The big water splashed on the wall of the front room, and the waves splashed in all directions, and the sound was quite loud. Fortunately, there was only a narrow door between the front and back rooms, and the water flowed to the back room, so it was not so scary. The uncle said that it was like a rural paddy field breaking open. . Because the top of the tomb was low, the sarcophagus was about one meter high. The four of them squatted side by side awkwardly.Chu Haiyang was especially hard. He held the only flashlight in his hand, but the flashlight was not waterproof. After a while the stagnant water got deeper, Xia Mingruo and the uncle started to stride. The two chatted, and the uncle said, "I'm ashamed, I'm the shortest, and as I get older, I get longer and shrink back." Xia Mingruo laughed: "I was born during the three-year natural disaster, and most of my mother's milk was eaten by Chu Haiyang's thieves, so I haven't developed well since I was a child." Chu Haiyang measured with great dedication: "The water level is about 40 centimeters from the top of the tomb, and the water depth is 1.9 meters. If it rises another 10 centimeters, we will be in danger." He shook his head and sighed: "It turns out that the tomb of the empress also has a mechanism. The only and most reliable mechanism is that most of the tomb's mouth is below the water surface. If the water level rises slightly, the tomb will be hidden. The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated." .” "Wait a while." The uncle turned his head and said, "By the way, I would like to tell you an exciting news, the flashlight is almost out of power." Xia Mingruo wiped off the water all over his face, and said, "I also suddenly thought of an inappropriate question..." Chu Haiyang said, "Don't ask." Xia Mingruo had already asked: "There won't be snakes in the water, right?" The other three looked at him for a while, and at the same time reached out and slapped him on the head: "It's not the right time!" The leopard said "Ouch" after the filming. Chu Haiyang and the uncle said in unison: "You are not allowed to ask!" "No," said Leopard, "I hit my head... ouch!" Chu Haiyang became angry and said, "Are you annoying? You keep interrupting my train of thought. The formula is already complicated!" Before he finished cursing, he heard the sound of stones falling to the ground.The three of them looked at the leopard in unison, only to see a hole twenty centimeters square on the stone wall behind the man's head.