Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

"Sacred snake? Snake god?"

I muttered something.

Although the two words use the same characters, their meanings are very different.

The divine snake is a magical snake, but it still belongs to the category of snakes.

The snake god transcends the category of snakes and belongs to the category of spirits and monsters.

Meng Jingye raised his head and said, "My ancestor, Meng, was once the charioteer of Duke Bi Ji Gao. After Duke Bi's death, he took the initiative to lead the clansmen to guard his tomb."

In the past, the driver was a charioteer.

The king's coachman has a relatively high status.

Being able to take the initiative to lead his clansmen to guard the king's tomb was considered a model of loyalty to the king at that time.

But in history, gravekeepers did not necessarily actually guard the tombs.

Many large tombs were robbed by the tomb keepers or their descendants.

"Even if you don't explain the three words 'Ba's Snake' on the stone, I roughly know what they mean."

"These three words refer to the divine snake just now."

After saying this, Meng Jingye stopped talking and gave a consecrating smile.

It seems like all of this content is given to us as charity.

"No, only the word 'Bashe' refers to the divine snake," I said.

"hehe."

Meng Jingye laughed disdainfully.

"Don't bother making up stories!"

"No matter what those three words say, as long as we open the stone slab, there will be countless rare treasures underneath!"

"All the treasures belong to our Meng family!"

With that he picked up the crowbar and cleared the logs from around the slab.

click!

Insert the crowbar into the gap.

Meng Jingye pushed effortlessly, and the thick log fell outward.

Meng Jianshe followed suit and started doing the same.

"Hey!"

I struggled with all my might until my face turned red and my neck became thick, but I couldn't move it at all.

Cui Hao and I looked at each other.

It was confirmed that what Tuo Ye said was correct. Meng Jingye's body had undergone tremendous changes.

"Hiss, Uncle Meng is so lucky."

"If we had known that being bitten by a snake would have such great benefits, we should have just rushed over and gotten bitten by the snake."

Cui Hao was jealous.

Everyone wants to make their body stronger.

Grandpa Tuo stared at the back of Meng Jingye's neck without blinking.

It looked like he wanted to rush up, knock him unconscious and take his blood.

But Meng Jingye seemed to have eyes behind him, and he suddenly turned around and looked directly at Tuo Ye.

"Humpback, put away your evil thoughts."

"Ten of you are no match for me."

Uncle Tuo lowered his eyelids, took his tools and walked over to help push the logs.

Cui Hao and I also went forward to help.

The outer layer of logs was quickly pushed away, revealing the entire stone slab.

It was a huge stone slab that was sixty centimeters thick, more than two meters long and one meter wide.

The weight is at least several tons.

It was something that several of us couldn't move at all.

I walked around the slab and examined it carefully.

Soon I found a groove in the lower right corner of the stone slab.

The size of the groove is just about the same as that of a fake night pearl.

My mind suddenly opened up.

I wondered if the fake night-shining pearl might be the key.

Even the divine snake has appeared, so it’s not too much to say that there are some mechanical devices in the tomb, right?

Just as I was thinking about it, Grandpa Tuo came over.

He squatted next to me and stared at the groove.

"Have you thought of it?" He suddenly said something without any context.

I pretended not to understand and tilted my head to look at him.

"Haha, don't pretend with me."

"This groove is about the same size as a jade in the mouth."

"Making the key into a jade mouth and placing it in a suspected tomb, the ancients were truly ingenious."

"We were one step behind in chess back then, but we didn't expect to explore the suspicious tomb first..."

Grandpa Tuo's face was filled with regret, and he continued, "I'll tell you some of the legends I know."

He lowered his voice and told the legend.

The legend is quite simple, telling the story of King Xibo conquering the Li people.

Duke Bi Ji Gao represented the Duke of Xibo, that is, the King of Zhou, to conquer the State of Li, which was a vassal state of the Shang Dynasty.

The war ended with the Shang nobles and Nuo masters captured.

Nuo masters are people who master witchcraft such as prayer and sacrifice.

The ancients would hold Nuo ceremonies on important days, praying to the heavens, the earth, and their ancestors to protect the country from disasters.

One of the Nuo masters who could control snakes offered a recipe for immortality to Bi Gong Ji Gao.

As long as you receive the blessing of the snake god, you will be able to live forever.

Bi Gong Ji Gao was very happy and treated the Nuo master as a distinguished guest, asking him to communicate with the snake god to bestow blessings.

This is the end of the legend that Tuo Ye knows.

This little bit of content was something my grandfather overheard by accident.

And after hearing it, I didn't tell anyone.

Until one day, he was drunk by Tuo Ye and was taken out while he was dizzy.

As soon as Grandpa Tuo finished speaking, Meng Jingye came over with a smile and his hands behind his back.

"The storytelling skills are still as good as ever, hahahaha."

"It's a pity I didn't hear everything. Your Meng family ancestor volunteered to be the vigil bearer, but I'm afraid his motives were not pure, right?"

Meng Jingye did not comment.

Instead, he stared at me with a smile like Maitreya.

"Shi Tou, hand over the key and I'll give you a share of the benefits."

"And I can summon the divine snake to grant you a divine object, allowing your grandfather to achieve immortality."

Upon hearing the blessing from the divine snake, Camel Grandpa’s eyes lit up.

He reached directly into my pocket.

"Hurry up and take out the jade from your mouth. I've agreed to this good deed for you."

I dodged backwards and avoided Camel Master's hand.

Although I know that he is eager to obtain the divine object to save himself.

But this kind of behavior without a sense of boundaries still annoys me.

"Master Camel, do you trust him? What if he fails to summon the divine snake?"

"We'll give it our all, and..."

Grandpa Tuo nodded to the side.

The muzzles of the guns in the hands of Meng Jingye and his son were pointed at me.

Now they really dare to shoot.

Cui Hao pulled Meng Jingye along, smiling as he continued, "Uncle Meng, my brother Shi Tou will definitely get it out."

"Put the gun down quickly. It would be bad if it went off accidentally."

Meng Jianshe kicked Cui Hao on the butt, knocking him to the ground.

"You are not allowed to talk too much, get out of here."

"Hey, I'm leaving."

Cui Hao bent down and trotted to my side.

"Brother Shitou, the situation is stronger than people, so just give it to me."

It is true that the situation is stronger than people.

And I also want to go down to the real tomb and take a look.

So he took out the fake night-shining pearl from his bag.

When Meng Jianshe saw me take out the beads, he immediately rushed over.

I stuffed the beads directly into the grooves.

click!

Kaka!

When the beads were inserted, a clicking sound was heard.

Like an old machine slowly starting up.

"It's moving! The stone slab is moving!"

Cui Hao exclaimed.

We all looked at the slab.

With every noise, the stone slab would move a little.

Soon the stone slab moved forward more than half a meter, revealing a downward passage.

The passage is made of bluestone steps.

It goes deep underground with a steep slope of nearly sixty degrees.

Tuo Ye and Meng Jingye both held up their flashlights and shone them downwards.

The steps are empty all around and extend downward for more than ten meters, connecting to a square platform.

There were some shadowy things on the platform, and I didn't know if they were coffins.

"Brother, what's that down there?"

"It looks so scary, why don't we not go down?" Cui Hao shivered.

But Tuoye gritted his teeth and said, "Since I'm here, I'll get off first!"

Meng Jingye stood sideways to block the position and raised his hand to push Tuoye, causing him to stagger.

"You all follow behind."

After he finished speaking, he waved to Meng Jianshe and said with a smile like Maitreya: "Son, this is the ladder to heaven!"

"You go first, and Dad will support you!"

"We, father and son, will walk the path to immortality together!"