Tomb Robbery: Successor to the King, starting in Yunnan Worm Valley

Chapter 405 Red Paint Coffin

How could a coffin from the Yuan and Ming dynasties, or a coffin belonging to a noble or important figure, appear in the eighteen mass burials of King Yishan in Wuling?
  There is a problem.

The only possibility is that these coffins did not originally exist.

It was later placed here by Guanshan Taibao Feng Shigu.

Guanshan Taibao is not an ordinary person.

For Fengshi Gudu to be so careful, to use bright red paint, to wrap it up with iron chains, and to draw a picture of Zhong Kui catching ghosts, the things inside this coffin are probably not very kind.

"The Feng Shui here is that of mass burials, and this location is already considered a tomb."

"But this tomb is not the same as the tomb in Jinjing Jade Burial."

At this time, Professor Sun finally came forward and began to speak leisurely while looking at several big red lacquer coffins.

"The specific meaning of the tomb here is to directly bury the person without burial."

After Professor Sun finished speaking, Fatty Wang asked with a surprised look on his face.

"What does this mean? Buried alive?"

Professor Sun pushed up his glasses and nodded.

"That's right, the people buried in the tomb were all buried alive."

"This point has been inherited from the revival of the custom of burial of living people in the Yuan Dynasty, and there are still some legacy effects until the Ming Dynasty."

"Legend has it that starting from Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and even local nobles and officials were buried alive."

"Although the number is much less than that of the three generations, especially the Shang Dynasty, there are still some."

"The picture of Zhong Kui eating ghosts is used to suppress ghosts."

"The coffins here are all for the burial of the Earthly Immortal Sealing Master in ancient times."

Fatty Wang immediately rubbed his hands after hearing this, "Then what are you waiting for? Let's open the coffin quickly? Raising the coffin and making a fortune is the serious thing."

After hearing what Fatty Wang said, Professor Sun asked abruptly.

"Why did we go to so much trouble to find a coffin in the Eighteen Mass Burials?"

Fatty Wang subconsciously replied, "You can make money by opening coffins. That's what Captain Jin is doing in his profession. What else can he do?"

After I finished speaking, I realized something was wrong.

"Uh, I guess that's not what we said just now? Are we looking for coffin boards to make rafts and then cross the Yin River?"

Fatty Wang's tone revealed a guilty conscience.

Then he saw Wang Ye, Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang nodding towards him.

Professor Sun also smiled.

"That's right, these coffins are all filled with people buried alive. There probably won't be anything special except the bones of the dead."

"But because I was afraid of being retaliated by these people, all the coffins I made were sealed very well. They could be used as boats to cross the Yin River."

Hu Ba listened and nodded in agreement.

"When I was an engineering soldier, I heard a comrade in western Hunan mention it. It was said that the platoon teachers in western Hunan had similar practices."

No one has heard of this statement.

Hu Bayi explained it carefully to everyone.

The so-called platoon teacher is the porter who arranges the platoon in the specific area.

Because we have to transport wood from the deep mountains and follow the waterway all the way to the town.

Needless to say, the hardships and dangers involved during this period are needless to say.

In addition to rapids, ferocious beasts and poisonous insects, we also need to prevent mountain spirits and wild monsters, water ghosts and resentful spirits from harming people.

Therefore, people in Paijiao also have various magical methods.

And these methods are all related to crossing water.

People in Paijiao know a secret technique of using a coffin to float on water, and it is also known as carrying a loud sedan chair.

It is said that when choosing a coffin, you should also choose one that is sealed with bright red paint. This type of coffin is completely sealed with paint, leaving no gaps.

The external view is of course to prevent the corpse from being infested by snakes, insects, rats, and ants.

But in fact, many times, the people inside such coffins died unexpectedly.

The coffin was sealed tightly with bright red paint. The biggest purpose was to suffocate the people inside to death.

After suffocating to death, not even the ghost can get out of the coffin.

In this case, the coffin was naturally filled with resentment.

Such a coffin will not sink even in the strongest currents.

Therefore, it is also said that the coffin hiding ghosts can cross the Yin River.

This is similar to the walking corpse standing firm in the Yellow River, with its head sticking out of the water without sinking. It is all caused by resentment.

Fatty Wang still wanted to open the coffin.

But since everyone thinks that crossing the Yin River is more important, and if these big red coffins are opened and have ghost energy, they will not sink in water, so they have to give up.

Several people quickly dragged several red coffins to the water's edge.

Everyone in the team, except for Professor Sun, had been strengthened by Wang Ye using various blood patterns, armor patterns and the like.

Their strength is much greater than that of ordinary people.

But even so, these bright red coffins still feel very heavy.

It really lives up to the old saying, "Death is dead."

A dead person's nine orifices are sealed, and his resentment is heavy. It is much more difficult and heavier to lift than a living person.

The resentment inside the coffin is also very heavy, and the weight of dragging it is much more laborious than the previous broken coffins.

The kind that Fatty Wang can kick two to three meters away, but the kind that requires several people to drag with ropes and moves very slowly.

Several people finally dragged the coffin to the water's edge.

At the beginning, Fatty Wang was a little worried.

He said that this thing is so heavy, almost like a piece of iron, that it won't sink immediately if put in water.

As a result, after being dragged into the water, it just didn't sink.

On the contrary, because it is relatively heavy, it is quite stable in the water.

In addition, this so-called Yin River is not the fast-flowing river outside. It is similar to an underground lake, and the water flow and water surface are relatively stable.

This thing can actually be used as an assault boat.

Wang Ye took Shirley Yang and Mo Meier to sit on a coffin.

Fatty Hu Bayi Wang and Professor Sun were on another coffin.

He quickly figured out the direction and drove towards the opposite side of the Yin River.

The red-painted coffin floats slowly in the underground lake.

Just after floating out about a few dozen meters, Mo Meier, who was sitting behind Wang Ye, said in fear, "Brother Wang Ye, why do I feel like something is moving inside the coffin?"

Wang Ye had actually felt it for a long time.

Even when several people were dragging the coffin together, Wang Ye could already hear something rustling and moving inside these large red-painted coffins.

At first, Wang Ye thought it was the vibrations of the bones and funerary objects inside the coffin that were shaking against the coffin board.

But Wang Ye soon knew that it was not the case.

Because of the sounds coming from the red paint coffin, in addition to various subtle banging sounds, there were also some scraping sounds on the coffin boards.

There seemed to be someone inside the coffin scratching the coffin board with fingernails.

Not only inside the coffin, some strange sounds began to appear in the water of the underground lake at this moment.

It feels like a big fish stirring up waves underwater.

(End of this chapter)