Whistle Coffin

A whistle coffin in The Mystic Nine

**The Whistle Coffin** is a type of sealed coffin that has only one opening on its cover. The whistle coffin appears in The Lost Tomb 2 and The Mystic Nine. It briefly appears in The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note.

## Overview

The coffin is made entirely out of iron and has only one opening. The opening forces anyone who wants the treasure inside to stick their hand in.

The coffins that appeared in The Lost Tomb 2 and The Mystic Nine vary slightly. In The Lost Tomb 2, the coffin was created by grave robbers in order to keep some kind of evil thing contained. In The Mystic Nine, there was a danger of poisonous gas. Though, when someone put their hand in the opening, both methods called for having a device that could off their arm.

## History

### Train 076 Whistle Coffin

   If the coffin is forcibly opened, poisonous gas will be released. The mechanism that opens the coffin is located inside. Thus, a person must put their hand in the opening to get the coffin cover off The Zhang Clan used shears set above the opening of the coffin that could slice off the arm of the person reaching in. The shears were connected to a pulley system that was attached to a horse's bridle some distance away. If anything strange happened within the coffin while someone was reaching in, the gong was hit, the horse nearby would move, and the device would be activated cutting off their arm.

A whistle coffin was found on Train 076. An unnamed Zhang soldier put his hand in the coffin opening but something went wrong and the soldier cried out for someone to save him. Fo Ye ordered the gong to be rung and the soldier's arm was cut off at the shoulder. Fo Ye then walked up to the coffin, put his own arm in, and managed to find the mechanism in the coffin that opened the cover. Fo Ye remarked that the soldier from before overreacted when his arm got stuck on something and that there was no trap in the coffin. The body in the coffin was faced down and had a ring from the Northern and Southern dynasties.

### Paracel Underwater Tomb Whistle Coffin

Wu Sanxing and Xie Lianhuan discovered a whistle coffin in Wang Zanghai's underwater tomb. The coffin was sealed with iron molten and had only one opening on the cover. A demon or an undead being may have been inside. One method in opening the coffin was that a person's arm may need to be cut off if the thing inside were to bite or hold onto them. But Wu Sanxing thought they could just get by with a black donkey hoof and some candles. They didn't have either of those things, so he decided they would wait to open it later.

While Wu Sanxing was looking around the room, Xie Lianhuan accidentally dropped burning kindle in the opening and the contents in the coffin were set ablaze. They couldn't put the fire out, so Xie Lianhuan decided to piss in the opening. After the fire was out, Wu Sanxing put his hand in the opening, hoping to still find treasure, but he set off some kind of trap in the tomb.

## Trivia

* In the novel, *The Mystic Nine (Lao Jiu Men)*, this type of coffin was created by grave-robbers to keep evil things contained.
* In the same novel, the device that cuts off the arm is usually used to prevent corpse poison from spreading and killing the person reaching in.
* In the same novel, it became known as a whistle coffin because the hole in the coffin was similar to an iron whistle.

## References

1. ↑ It briefly appears in the background in episode 24.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 The Mystic Nine, Episode 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Lost Tomb 2, Episode 6
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Mystic Nine, Chapter 5
5. ↑ The Mystic Nine, Chapter 7