Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

After receiving Yan Wanlei's instructions.

The group retreated seven or eight meters.

Xiao Hu pulled out a grenade from his body, pulled the pin, and threw it precisely into the swirling current in the center of the pool.

boom!

Another muffled thud echoed from inside the cave, and a white flame instantly illuminated the entire pool. The shockwave sent up huge sprays of water that crashed onto the shore like a torrential downpour, washing away the remains of the child sacrifice corpse.

Compared to archaeologists who slowly brush away the soil with a brush, this kind of blasting to clear a path is much more hardcore.

After the explosion subsided, the group returned to the edge of the pool and shone their flashlight beams onto it.

The explosion was very effective.

The whirlpool in the center of the pool had expanded several times over, now more than two meters in diameter. The water level was visibly dropping, and the eight bronze chains, stretched taut, were becoming increasingly clear.

Almost everyone stared wide-eyed at the receding water level, holding their breath, eager to see what the underwater coffin looked like, their hearts pounding with tension.

Sun Dachang and two other archaeological experts were still recording the entire process with video equipment.

Not to mention these archaeological experts, even the special operations team led by Yan Wanlei was staring wide-eyed with curiosity.

But the pool was much deeper than Chen Yibai had anticipated.

After waiting for a full hour, Chen Yibai's strength had mostly recovered, except for some soreness in his arms. The water level had dropped by more than six meters, but the bottom was still not visible.

However, the eight copper chains were slowly converging towards the center.

As the eight copper chains converged to the center, leaving only a little over two meters, the object held by the chains gradually emerged from the descending water.

Judging from its shape, it does indeed resemble a coffin, as black as ink, two meters wide and more than six meters long, it is very large.

It wasn't until the water level had completely dropped that they could see clearly that, just as Chen Yibai had said, the eight copper chains pulling from eight directions formed a huge coffin.

The scene and visual impact were extremely stunning.

At that moment, the beams of light from more than a dozen flashlights all shone on the coffin simultaneously.

The coffin, suspended in the middle of the pool by copper chains, did not look like bronze or stone. It was completely black, like ink, and upon closer inspection, there were special growth ring patterns on its surface.

"The coffin!"

When Chen Yibai saw the huge coffin suspended in the middle of the pool, he instinctively gasped.

It turned out to be a traditional coffin, which was somewhat unexpected for Chen Yibai.

"Mr. Chen, what is a 'yinzi coffin'?"

Wang Haichuan heard Chen Yibai muttering to himself and saw the slightly surprised and solemn expression on Chen Yibai's face. He remembered the saying, "Those with weak birth charts should not enter the bronze outer coffin and inner chamber," and hurriedly asked him.

"A 'yinzi coffin' is a coffin made of yinzi wood, a rare tree that grows deep in the mountains and forests and rarely sees any sunlight. It grows a ring every hundred years. Coffins made of yinzi wood gather yin energy, making them much more malevolent than bronze coffins!"

Chen Yibai's solemn expression stemmed from his familiarity with bronze outer coffins.

But I had only ever heard of these underground coffins; this was the first time I had ever actually seen one with my own eyes.

Because the wood used for incense burning is extremely rare, it takes a hundred years to add one growth ring, which gives you an idea of ​​how scarce it is.

Therefore, it is hundreds of times more difficult to make a coffin from sandalwood than from Phoebe zhennan wood.

If it weren't for the very special growth rings of the wood, Chen Yibai wouldn't have been able to make a certainty.

But that's not the point. The fact that the coffin can be made from such a large piece of wood is also not the point.

The key point is: "Bronze outer coffin and inner coffin, those with weak birth charts should not approach them." Many people only interpret this sentence literally, simply thinking that if you don't have the strength, you shouldn't touch these two things.

In fact, encountering a bronze coffin can be understood as something that can be dealt with simply through strength.

But the inner coffin is not so simple.

If a corpse buried in a coffin is revived, the zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) inside are not something that can be dealt with simply by strength.

Why is the courtyard coffin only a legend, and no one has ever actually seen it?

Because everyone I've seen is already gone.

That's why there's the saying, "Those with weak birth charts should not proceed."

It means that in order to open a coffin, besides having the strength, you also have to be incredibly tough and resilient to survive!

What does it mean to have a tough life?

Someone with an unlucky birth chart and a life full of hardships, yet somehow manages to survive all sorts of trials—like contemplating suicide, buying a bottle of pesticide, only to discover it's counterfeit, or playing Russian roulette and surviving three consecutive shots with five bullets—that's what you call having a tough life!

And it has to be extremely hard!

But who dares to gamble on whether their life is tough enough?

"Captain Yan, the water has stopped leaking, we can see the bottom!"

At that moment, Qiu Jing, who was standing nearby, called out.

Everyone was focused on the coffin and overlooked the dropping water level.

Several lampposts shone directly down into the bottom of the pool.

At this point, the water in the pool had indeed completely drained out, and the entire bottom of the pool had been exposed.

The bottom of the pool is about three meters above the suspended coffin, and the pool is nearly ten meters deep.

Under the beam of the flashlight, the bottom of the pool was covered with white skeletons, a sight that sent chills down your spine.

These piles of bones contain human skulls of different sizes, as well as the remains and skulls of cattle and sheep.

There were also some strange, large skeletons and skulls of creatures never seen before.

The beam of a flashlight has a limited range, so you can't see everything.

"Little Tiger, fire another flare down!"

Yan Wanlei shouted.

"Yes, Captain Yan!"

Xiao Hu quickly threw a flare into the bottom of the pool.

After the flares were thrown down, the entire bottom of the pool became clearly visible, making the scene even more breathtaking.

Piles of bones covered the bottom of the pool, and it was not yet clear how high they were stacked.

This is clearly a burial pit, or a sacrificial pit!

What is even more surprising and astonishing is that among these piles of bones is a huge vertebral skeleton, at least twenty meters long and winding, with a pointed tail, a huge head like a snake, but with four legs, lying on the pile of bones, almost completely intact.

"Mr. Chen, what is that?"

"A four-legged snake?"

"Could it be the legendary dragon?"

For a moment, everyone's attention was drawn to the enormous skeleton of a strange beast below.

Chen Yibai shook his head: "How would I know? You should ask a biologist, shouldn't you?"

It might actually be a dragon.

To go a bit further back, the Taikang clan revered the gods and worshipped the mountain god Zhulong.

Maybe it's a Candle Dragon.

But exploring this biological knowledge now seems to be of no use whatsoever.

As long as it's confirmed that there's no danger at the bottom of the pool, everything is fine.

What Wang Haichuan was most concerned about was the coffin suspended in the middle.

Now that we can see the coffin being held up by eight copper chains, the next thing we're curious about is what's inside the coffin.

The most important aspect of tomb raiding is opening the coffin and touching the corpse, because throughout history, the tomb owners have always carried their most important, favorite, and, to put it bluntly, most valuable possessions with them into the coffin.

The most important aspect of archaeology is opening coffins, because it's necessary to verify the identity of the tomb's occupant. The more valuable the item, the greater its archaeological research value.