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Chapter 22 February [-]th
I am alone at home, without the Internet, rushing to write a novel, since the day of the winter solstice, I have not written for a long time.I figured, I should get out of these weird things that have happened lately, I can't live in constant fear, not so much that I'm afraid, but rather that I'm afraid of fear.Farewell, Ghost of the Tomb.

The doorbell rang. It was Ye Xiao. Didn't he go to Beijing for a meeting?
"I just got off the plane. I came out of the airport. I didn't go home. I came directly to you." When he came to me for the first time, he was a little cautious, and it could be seen from his face that he looked very nervous just after getting off the plane. Tired, but I think his mental state is even more tired.

"Will it go that fast?"

"It's nothing more than a routine about preventing computer crimes. There were several college classmates of mine who told me that there were unprovoked suicides in their provinces and cities. Frequent landings on 'Tomb Ghost'."

"Is this really the case?" I raised my interest again.

"You seem to have checked the information of Emperor Tongzhi? Especially the empress?"

"The maze game is in the tomb of Emperor Tongzhi."

"I've been in Beijing for the past few days. In the name of handling the case, I have looked up the information of Tongzhi's empress Alut through the archives of the Qing court. Some records are very special and different from others." Ye Xiao paused.

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe it's just some legend. When Arut was young, her father hired a great lama from Tibet as her teacher. Arut is a Mongolian, although her father is proficient in Chinese and Confucianism, and once taught in the Imperial Academy. Served, but like most Mongolians, he believed in the secret Tibetan Yellow Sect. It is said that this great lama has the technique of bringing the dead back to life, and he wandered around Mongolia and Tibet. It is rumored that he once brought back to life a dead person who had been buried in a grave for decades. Later, After Arut became the queen and entered the palace, the great lama left Beijing and returned to a monastery in Tibet. What is even more bizarre is that it is said that on the same night that Arut committed suicide by swallowing gold for Emperor Tongzhi, almost At the same moment, this great lama in Tibet also passed away suddenly. The cause of death is unknown. When the lamas in the temple were about to cremate him, his body disappeared. Of course, all these are just rumors and never happened. It has been confirmed, and the big lama is even more illusory, he didn’t even leave his name, and he might never have existed at all. I’m just curious that these legends are pure nonsense, how could they be written into the confidential files of the Qing Palace.”

"It's really hard to understand. Maybe the Qing palace archives themselves were blown out by the eunuchs' idle bragging."

"Oh, don't talk about it. Actually, besides Beijing, I have been to another place these days."

"where is it?"

"Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty."

My heart suddenly jumped, and when I heard these three words, the fear in my heart floated like a bubble: "Why did you go there?"

"In order to solve the doubts in my mind, I must go once. The Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty are very close to Beijing, and the drive only takes more than two hours. The Eastern Tombs are much larger than imagined. Each tomb occupies a huge area, and the tombs between the tombs The distance is also very long, and I have visited all the tombs that are open to the public, such as the most famous Cixi Mausoleum and Qianlong Mausoleum, as well as the tomb of the Xiangfei.”

"What about Huiling of Emperor Tongzhi?" I asked impatiently.

"It is also possible to visit, but unlike other tombs that have been excavated by robbers, Huiling's underground palace has not yet been opened to the public, and the reason is not clear. Compared with other places, Huiling has fewer tourists, and it was not a weekend when I went. , and Huiling itself is the smallest and the worst of all the imperial tombs in Dongling. In short, it gives people a feeling of depression and desolation. Decades have passed, time has changed, and field surveys can't find anything, so I asked The local administrators, they checked some files for me, and Huiling was indeed robbed in 1945."

"I read it in a book and thought it was just hearsay."

"It's not just hearsay. This incident did happen. The tomb robbers found the queen's body intact. This incident is also true. That day I found the local public security department in charge of archives management. The large-scale tomb robbery incident in 1945 happened Afterwards, the local government took some measures and captured more than 300 tomb robbers and interrogated them. Although there were very few files before liberation, there are still a few transcripts left over from that time. I checked several files related to The transcripts related to Huiling all mentioned that the queen's body was intact, while the emperor's body was completely decomposed. The tomb robbers who were interrogated all left words in the transcripts that were surprised by this in the underground palace. There is also a transcript, It was left by the tomb robber who personally cut open the queen's abdomen to search for gold. He said that when he cut open the queen's belly and put his hand in, he found that there was still some body temperature in the queen's abdominal cavity."

"Oh my God." Imaginatively, I immediately had a disgusting picture of a man putting his hand into a naked woman's abdomen and pulling out her intestines one by one.

"Don't be afraid, I think it might be that crazy guy who had a guilty conscience and had fantasies. In fact, that guy died violently in prison shortly after being interrogated." Ye Xiao was comforting me.

"Then he found gold from the Queen's belly?"

"According to his confession, he found a gold ring. However, what is even more astonishing is that, except for those who were captured and executed by the local government, most of the people who entered the Huiling Underground Palace were killed within a short period of time. Of course, there are various causes of death, some are due to uneven distribution of spoils, some died in the flames of war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but more are accidental deaths, such as falling into the river and drowning suddenly. Burned to death by a fire, and others were real suicides. Of course, because of the long history, many materials are based on the narration of some third people later, which may contain many subjective colors of karma. It is hard to say whether it is true Fake."

He stopped again, probably too tired.

I said to him: "Stop talking, you have gained a lot, go back and rest."

"No, I also discovered a strange thing in the local area." He regained his energy and lowered his voice and said, "According to local cultural and historical records, after the Dongling tomb robbery incident occurred in 1945, the Nanjing Kuomintang government An investigation team was once dispatched to Dongling. They stayed for several days in Huiling, where the underground palace was still open after being excavated recently. According to records, the leader of this investigation team was a famous Chinese human body at that time. Physiologist Duanmu Yiyun. I looked at this file that no one had ever seen before, and I was puzzled for a long time. Since it is to investigate the tomb robbery, criminal experts and archaeologists should be sent. Why should we send human physiologists? It is completely wrong. Mouth. This investigation team only stayed in Dongling for a few days, and then withdrew immediately because the Eighth Route Army’s Jidong Military Region began to station in Dongling to suppress bandits. After that, there is no other record.”

"Maybe there is something else in it that we don't know?"

"It's very possible. We can't take the risk of 'Ghost of the Tomb' anymore. The number of victims has continued to increase over the past month. I think it's safest to investigate the root cause."

"Okay, let's go to the archives and check the information in a few days."

"Okay, I'll go first, I'm really tired." Ye Xiao said goodbye and left in a hurry.

I was alone again in the empty room, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

(End of this chapter)