A comprehensive overview of tombs: starting with the Yellow Weasel's Tomb

As the geckos tried to crawl out of the coffin, Bai Jing immediately shouted, "Be careful, there are poisonous creatures, don't get attacked!"

After the words were shouted, Bai Qi and the others drew their weapons, including shovels and hunting knives, and stood ready for battle.

Seeing this scene, Bai Jing felt a chill run down his spine.

The little creature was too fast; Bai Jing couldn't possibly stop all the geckos. Moreover, judging from the way it had acted just now, it seemed to be trying to burrow into Bai Jing's body.

This thing is incredibly slippery all over; unless you completely block all seven orifices, it can always squeeze in.

Seeing this, Bai Jing quickly shouted, "Wrap your head up with something! This thing is trying to burrow into a person's body!"

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, everyone retreated and prepared to find clothes to cover their mouths, noses, ears, and other orifices.

But it's summer now, and everyone only wore a jacket when they came. If they took it off, the books would be blocked.

Fortunately, the white skin started to move at this moment.

Upon seeing these tiny creatures, Bai Pi's eyes lit up. Before anyone could react, he jumped onto another coffin nearby and spat out the Crimson Pill. Subsequently, countless small white insects appeared, centered around Bai Pi.

Although Baiqi and the others had seen Baipi take action before, this was the first time they had actually witnessed Baipi summoning white worms on a large scale.

Centered on the white skin, countless small white insects swarmed towards the giant coffin.

The green geckos that landed were instantly devoured by the small white worms summoned by the white skin.

Bai Jing naturally noticed Bai Pi's actions as well.

However, judging from this action, the green gecko should not be poisonous.

This is strange.

Bai Jing simply stopped what he was doing, then jumped down from the coffin.

Then, as if remembering something, he looked at the white man and shouted.

"Whitey, don't swallow the corpses inside too."

Although Bai Pi was manipulating the little white insects, he heard Bai Jing's words and indicated that he understood.

At this moment, Bai Jing had already remembered their identities.

It is said that there was once a curse called "Altar Immortal" that came from the Western Regions. In order to prevent tomb robbers from robbing the tomb, the tomb owner would bury the Altar Immortal in the tomb. If anyone dared to rob the tomb and open the coffin, the Altar Immortal would be alarmed and would target the person who opened the coffin. Not only would it kill the tomb robber, but it would also not spare the whole family. It would make them all suffer and die.

The so-called "altar immortal" refers to gecko eggs raised in an altar. This is a method similar to witchcraft, but much more ruthless. Witchcraft harms one person, but this can wipe out an entire family.

There is an old folk legend that someone saw a small green gecko while digging up a grave, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye. However, after that, people in the family began to die one after another because they had offended this gecko spirit.

This thing comes and goes without a trace, sneaking into a person's stomach when they're not paying attention. It then slowly devours the heart and lungs, and lays eggs. By the time the person vomits blood and dies, their abdomen is actually full of blood clots.

And so, once this thing kills one person, the green gecko will crawl out from the dead body and find the next person in the family, it just keeps targeting that one family to cause trouble.

Even after the entire family has died, they will still go looking for the family's relatives.

In the story, there was an old man among the relatives who understood what was going on and also realized that something was wrong with his body. He explained the whole story to his son and told him to stay as far away as possible while the thing was still inside him and couldn't hurt anyone else. He should hide his identity and never come back.

The old man sent his son away, and then stayed behind to wait for death.

His son listened to his father and took his family to hide far away. Two or three years later, one day when he was about to lie down to sleep, he suddenly saw a small green gecko with its two hind legs hanging upside down from the roof beam, blinking its blood-red eyes at him.

This startled the man so much that he jumped up. He then realized that his father had been killed by this gecko, and that even though he had hidden in such a remote place, it had still come looking for him.

He immediately covered his ears and nostrils with glutinous rice, and for the rest of the time he did not speak except when eating or drinking.

He spent several days in this state of anxiety, always managing to spot the green gecko around him.

One day, while eating, a bowl of soup was placed in front of him. Just as he was about to lower his head to drink the soup, he suddenly saw the reflection in the soup. The green gecko was on the roof beam, staring at the food on the table. He knew that it wanted to take the opportunity to fall into the food and crawl into his body.

He had a sudden inspiration, so he asked his wife to serve him a bowl of rice and put it aside. He pretended to want to eat it, but then he secretly glanced at it and saw that the rice in the bowl had been touched.

The man immediately guessed that the gecko spirit had already hidden inside. He quickly covered the rice bowl with another bowl, and then covered it with layers of brown paper. He happened to see a steamer on the stove, so he put the bowl on the steamer, filled it with firewood, and fanned the flames until all the firewood in the house had burned out. Only then did he take the bowl out of the steamer.

Upon opening the bowl, one finds half a bowl of green pus and blood, and within the pus and blood is a dark red blood cake with three distinct green patterns on it!

P.S.: Only two chapters today. My friend invited me out for tea late at night.

The Tomb Raider series will probably end in about ten more chapters, after which there will be a few more chapters before the Jingjue Ancient City series begins.

Chapter 103 The Underground Village

It is likely that after the tomb owner died, the person in charge of the burial placed the green gecko's eggs into the tomb owner's body. Because the coffin was sealed perfectly, the green gecko did not hatch even after a thousand years.

It wasn't until Bai Jing opened the coffin lid that the vital energy entered the coffin, allowing the green gecko inside the tomb's occupant to successfully hatch and crawl out.

But in reality, Bai Jing wasn't afraid of this thing. Even if the green gecko crawled into his body, Bai Jing had a way to deal with it.

The Yin-Yang chapter of the "Lingpu" states: All things are mutually generating and mutually restraining. Anything, even something as powerful as an ancient god, has something that can restrain it.

Just like in the game of Animal Chess, there are eight animals: elephant, lion, tiger, leopard, wolf, dog, cat, and rat. The elephant can eat all the animals except the rat, but the rat, which can be eaten by all the other animals except the elephant, can eat the elephant.

The same applies to nature.

Although the green gecko is formidable, there are two things that can restrain it.

One of them is mercury. Green geckos are most afraid of mercury. Mercury can kill green geckos. If a green gecko gets inside your body, you can kill it by swallowing mercury.

However, while this method can kill the green gecko, anyone who ingests the mercury will also die.

The advantage of doing this is probably that at least your family won't be affected anymore.

Then comes the second method.

That means grinding up the dog's bezoar, mixing it with water, and swallowing it.

Dog bezoar is a stone-like substance that grows in a dog's stomach. It is known as one of the three treasures along with bezoar and horse bezoar.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this substance has the functions of relieving adverse wind, relieving depression, and detoxifying.

But actually, it's also possible to kill the green gecko that has entered the human body and make it vomit it out.

However, this dog treasure is a rare find, and can be considered an extremely rare treasure.

After killing all the green geckos, White Skin was also preparing to retrieve the little white worm.

Bai Jing suddenly realized something and quickly shouted, "Bai Pi, bring out all the funerary objects from the coffin!"

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, Bai Pi paused in his action of gathering the little white insects back. Then, under Bai Pi's control, countless little white insects carried the artifacts to Bai Jing and the others.

Then Bai Pi retrieved all the little white insects into the Crimson Pill. Bai Jing could see that after retrieving all the little white insects, Bai Pi swallowed the Crimson Pill back into its stomach, revealing a satisfied expression.

Clearly, this hunt greatly pleased the white man.

Next, let's look at the funerary objects brought out of the coffin.

Everyone present was overjoyed to see the extraordinary items before them.

Bai Jing quickly told everyone to pack their things into their backpacks.

The items in the burial coffin are usually not very large, and since Bai Jing and his group had a lot of people, they quickly packed everything into their backpacks.

This Liao Dynasty tomb is a nine-chambered mausoleum. Since it is not an imperial tomb, there are five chambers at the back. The chamber where the coffin was placed is very large, and there are also four side chambers on both sides.

Bai Jing and the others then headed towards the four side rooms.

These four anal chambers don't look much different from the previous two, and the most...

Crucially, all of these ventral chambers are also empty.

This is very strange. Does it mean that the Liao tomb only contained burial objects inside the coffin?

Afterwards, everyone left the side room and returned to the rear hall.

Suddenly, Bai Jing noticed something odd about one spot on the mural.

He immediately walked closer and found that this location seemed very different from the other locations, so he took out his hunting knife and tapped on the mural.

Upon striking the mural, Bai Jing realized that a hollow drum sound was coming from behind it.

Everyone else heard the sound and immediately became curious.

As far as Bai Jing knew, the layout of the Nine Chambers Mysterious Palace did not necessarily mean that there were only nine tomb chambers, but the extra ones must be in the hidden doors.

Bai Jing immediately grabbed the entrenching tool and smashed it hard into the hollow spot.

With this impact, a hole about fifty centimeters square was immediately revealed at the bottom of the mural.

Everyone was surprised to see the hole.

After discussing it, the group decided to continue their exploration.

Bai Jing was the first to crawl in, and the others followed suit.

After everyone crawled out of the cave, they saw that there was a grotto behind it. Gold, silver and jade artifacts were piled up like mountains, and there were many recesses carved into the two walls. In each of the recesses, there was a clay jar with a human face painted on it. The face looked very strange. Every ten steps there was an ever-burning lamp, and there were colorful murals on the ceiling.

As they lit the eternal lamps on both sides, they groped their way forward and looked at the murals in the grotto. Sure enough, it was the tomb owner in the giant outer coffin in the main hall—the Empress Dowager of the Liao Dynasty.

The empress dowager of the Liao Dynasty considered herself a deity during her lifetime, and the nobles offered enough gold in the hope that the deity would take her to the Pure Land after her death.

Bai Jing took a look and realized that what were inside those earthenware jars were the internal organs of those nobles.

Before long, they arrived at the end of the tomb passage.

At the end of the grotto are two tomb doors, each taller than a person. On the left and right are depictions of armored, sword-wielding, bearded generals guarding the gate. In the very center of the doors is a symbol of an eyeball.

Bai Jing, Bai Qi, and the others exchanged glances, then went up together and pushed open the tomb door.

After pushing open the tomb door, everyone found that the outside was shrouded in mist, and they couldn't see very far.