Chapter 116

Others used shovels to clear the gap in the inner coffin lid, then inserted steel sheets to facilitate opening the coffin later.

Immediately after, the archaeological personnel on-site surrounded the coffin, with three people on each side holding steel pry bars inserted into the positions where the steel sheets had just been placed.

Everyone on-site was extremely nervous.

The surrounding audience had long since gathered around, watching intently.

The staff had set up a cordon in advance to avoid any accidents from being too close.

You have to know this is a coffin from over 2,000 years ago; if even one cultural relic comes out, it's a real treasure.

It's fortunate there aren't many people now; if there were many, they would have to call the police to come to the scene to maintain order.

Soon, as the command sound on-site rang out!

"Ready!"

"One, two, lift!"

"One, two, lift!"

After several consecutive attempts, the coffin lid was completely lifted.

But its weight was simply too heavy, and there was no crane on-site, so manpower alone couldn't lift the coffin.

The archaeological personnel took out a thick wooden stick wrapped in cloth strips and passed it under the lifted coffin lid to act as a block, preventing the coffin from closing again.

After inserting several sticks in a row, everyone removed the steel bars, and the coffin lid was now completely pressing on the sticks below.

The coffin had been opened.

The problem now was how to move the coffin lid away.

Without a crane, relying solely on manpower to lift it was almost impossible.

And it was very easy for accidents to happen.

The archaeological personnel brought ropes, tied the coffin lid, and placed things under the other end.

Everyone pulled the rope together in this direction!

The sound of command rang out on-site again.

"Ready!"

"One, two, pull!"

"One, two, pull!"

Boom, boom~~

The heavy coffin lid was dragged bit by bit, and the inside of the coffin was revealed little by little.

Until the entire coffin lid was completely moved away.

Everyone looked at the inside of the coffin in surprise.

There was no corpse as imagined.

There were no cultural relics as imagined either.

At a glance, the entire coffin was full of dark, unknown black liquid.

Coffin liquid!

——【Damn, what is this stuff? Why is the coffin full of dark, black stuff? It looks so disgusting.】

——【It's different from what I imagined. Aren't the coffins unearthed on TV all skeletons or mummies? Why is it all black liquid?】

——【This stuff is called coffin liquid; it only exists in coffins that have been around for a long time, and it takes a very long time to form.】

——【So what about the corpse? The cultural relics? They aren't gone too, are they? If I had to reach in there, I'd feel so disgusted.】

——【I always feel like a bunch of disgusting bugs will suddenly crawl out from inside, then burrow into the archaeologists' bodies, and finally mutate. The human world is in danger.】

——【When I watched TV before, I was curious why there was so much black liquid in the coffin. So it turns out this is all real!】

Fang Yang also frowned as he looked at the situation in the coffin; he couldn't see anything clearly, and the system didn't have any prompts either.

All the experts and staff on-site were also a bit disappointed.

The appearance of coffin liquid is because the coffin's seal isn't very good, and after years of baptism.

Rainwater, groundwater, etc., seeped in, and the main coffin became full of water.

Plus the decay of the corpse and its clothing in the coffin, as well as the burial objects, finally formed the black liquid.

In this situation, unless there are some gold or silver items in the coffin.

Other things are almost all corroded away, becoming part of the coffin liquid.

Principal Kong, Qin Lao, and others were also quite disappointed; this coffin still needed the staff to excavate it bit by bit.

The archaeological experts used brushes with water to wipe the coffin liquid bit by bit, looking for places where cultural relics might appear.

With such a large coffin full of coffin liquid, just wiping with a brush would take until the year of the monkey.

But this is what archaeology must do; you can't just take a shovel and dig in.

That would be fast, but there's also a high probability of damaging the cultural relics inside.

At this time, Principal Kong walked over: "Fang Yang! Didn't you say there was an ancient tomb cluster below? Can you help dig it?"

"Ah?" Fang Yang hadn't reacted at all: "Principal, are you sure? I'm an excavator operator; aren't you afraid I'll flip the coffin over with one shovel!"

"Ever since I saw you dig up Zhang Xianzhong's treasure yesterday, I watched your videos all night. It was truly breathtaking. I feel there is an invisible energy in you, so I firmly believe that if there are cultural relics to be unearthed here, you have to be the one to dig!"

At this time, Qin Lao also nodded quickly: "That's right, Fang Yang, cultural relic protection depends on you!"

Director Xu also came up to join the fun: "Right, right, right! Brother Fang Yang is our Xihai City's number one treasure hunter; if you don't make a move, the treasure won't appear!"

Dai Ju was stunned; what kind of situation is this?

He had already been shocked enough by Fang Yang today.

Now everyone is actually asking him to dig with an excavator?

Isn't this a joke!

Where in archaeology do you use an excavator to dig?

But the problem is that these three people aren't fools; on the contrary, there are even people among them with higher seniority than himself.

Even such people support him digging with an excavator, this, this, this...

Dai Ju walked over, dumbfounded: "Can you tell me why Fang Yang has to be the one to dig?"

Principal Kong laughed when he heard this: "I asked a similar question to yours yesterday, but now I hope he digs. Guess what I experienced!"

"This... I can't imagine!"

"No need to imagine, just remember, trusting Fang Yang is never wrong!"

Dai Ju took a deep breath; he felt he had valued Fang Yang even more highly.

The principal could even say such things.

He had to believe it!

Fang Yang scratched his head: "Then shall I dig?"

Everyone nodded, looking at him with expectant eyes.

Fang Yang helplessly sat on the excavator again and changed to a different place to dig.

After all, ancient tombs wouldn't be too densely connected.

The onlookers all opened their eyes wide; they were also very curious if Fang Yang could dig up another ancient tomb.

If he could dig it out.

Then it could basically be determined that there really was a group of ancient tombs below.

Then I'm afraid the entire Xihai City would be shaken.

Even the foreman felt guilty unconsciously at this time.

He looked at Fang Yang, who was constantly operating the excavator in the driver's cab, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

Whether this construction period can be completed normally depends entirely on this moment.

Ten minutes later.

A five-square-meter, one-meter-deep pit was dug in front of the excavator.

The foreman breathed a rare sigh of relief.

However, just at this moment, the familiar sound came again!

Clang~~