Chapter 172: Under the Secret Door
After searching for a long time in the four walls, we didn't even find a shadow of the secret door mechanism, and we couldn't help but be a little discouraged.
"I don't think the door in the painting that was opened by the crowd should be here. Hong Kaiyuan muttered.
I didn't answer, just looked at the piles of wood on the ground.
At this time, Hong Kaiyuan said again: "Hold the grass, the sand on the ground is too much Nima, how long has it been tossing, Lao Tzu's shoes have actually entered the sand!"
As he spoke, he sat down and began to take off his shoes and pour sand.
Looking at the thick sand on the ground, my heart suddenly moved: even if this place was artificially collapsed, the sand that had sunken would not have been so large, and it had covered the entire floor of the secret room, and the thickness of the sand layer in other locations was quite uniform except for the central part! Unless this secret room was covered with a layer of sand before it collapsed, this would never happen!
Could it be that the secret door is hidden under this layer of sand?
"Let's take a look at the wood. "I said to Hong Kaiyuan, who was still pouring sand.
"Full?!" Hong Kaiyuan glared at me.
"Maybe the secret door is right down here!" I laughed. "Don't you think the sand in here is a little strange? Also, what are you doing here with some wood, even if you mix up the wooden coffin with fish eyes, you don't need to get so much sand in!"
As soon as he heard this, Hong Kaiyuan put his shoes on his feet as quickly as he could, stood up as soon as he could, and glanced around.
"Hold the grass, really. ”
Without further words, the two of them immediately lifted the wood piled up in the center of the chamber to the corner of the wall, and then began to clear the sand where the wood was piled up.
The sand layer was very thick, at least more than 15 centimeters, and it took a lot of effort to clear a piece of three or four square meters of land.
Then, a long slit appeared, and both ends reached into the sand, and the length of the revealed part was at least more than a meter three!
Don't think about it, this must be a secret door. - If it's a floor, how can it be so long?!
"Come down and a few people help!" Hong Kaiyuan stood up and shouted at the top.
After a while, Ding Jun took five people down.
There are many people with great strength, and in a few moments, a huge 'floor' about three meters long and about one and a half meters wide appeared in front of everyone's eyes. In fact, it is not in the center of the secret room, it is closest to the south wall, almost less than half a meter! Not only that, but on the side near the wall, there are two huge bronze clasps! The diameter of the copper used is at least more than three centimeters—— this secret door is definitely not light!
To my surprise, the texture of the two copper rings was not only clearly visible, but there was no sign of rust at all.
I reached out and tapped on it a few times, and the sound was hollow, mixed with the sound of metal.
Although the secret door looked similar in color to the rest of the floor, it was dark black, but it must have been made of some kind of metal! I don't know how they treated it, and there was no sign of rust!
"Unexpectedly, there is a secret door hidden in this secret room!" Ding Jun sighed.
Hong Kaiyuan glanced at them and said, "Do you want to open it and take a look?"
"To be on the safe side, let's wait until dawn. Ding Jun said.
I didn't answer, so I silently walked over to the rope, fixed myself and pulled the rope, and said loudly, "We're coming up!"
After going up, Hong Kaiyuan roughly explained the situation to Wang Quan, and omitted the content of the mural and the text left by Ma Xi.
Everyone agreed that tomorrow after breakfast, we would open the secret door together.
Back to our own tent, Hong Kaiyuan described the situation to Gu Xin and them, and the content was basically the same as what he told Wang Quan. Because he was a little worried that Ji Wushuang, a little girl who didn't cover her mouth, would leak her mouth.
Ji Wushuang immediately expressed his opinion: "I think the reason why they have to wait until tomorrow is probably because they are ready to do it tonight!"
"That's for sure!" Wen Jing sighed.
"Then what should we do?" Ji Wushuang said.
"Isn't it good for someone to take the lead for us?" Hong Kaiyuan said with a smile: "God knows what the hell is inside that secret door!"
"If that's the case, they'll definitely attack us tonight!" Gu Xin interjected.
"Don't worry, as long as they're ready to open the door, the movement won't be too small!" I said lazily.
"What do you mean?" Ji Wushuang was puzzled.
"How many people do you think it takes to open a door that weighs thousands or even thousands of kilograms?" I didn't answer.
"Well, it does take a lot of people. Wen Jing understood what I meant: "So the movement will really be very big!"
"Then do you think they're going to do something to us tonight?" Hong Kaiyuan was a little worried.
"Wushuang, thank you for your hard trip!" Wen Jing said to Ji Wushuang with a smile.
"Hey, I knew it was going to be me. Ji Wushuang pouted, and the person disappeared immediately.
In this regard, a few of us have long been accustomed to it, and continue to chat.
"Lao Qi, how credible do you think the pictures and text content in the mural are?" asked Hong Kaiyuan.
"Half and half. I lit a cigarette, turned my head and asked Wen Jing, "Girl, do you know that there was a person named An Gui in history?"
"An Gui?!" Wen Jing pondered for a moment, and then said, "An Gui is actually the first monarch of the Loulan Kingdom!"
"Do you know this?" Hong Kaiyuan was shocked: "Sister, don't you study finance, how can you know such a niche history?"
"You think too much!" Wen Jing smiled indifferently and said, "Before coming here, I specially looked through a lot of historical allusions about this place!"
Hong Kaiyuan immediately closed his mouth, because neither of us did this homework.
An Gui was the founding monarch of Guloulan, who reigned from 92 to 72 BC. Wen Jing continued.
"Hold the grass, it seems that the content in the text is very credible!"
"What text?" Wen Jing was different.
Since Ji Wushuang had already sneaked to Wang Quan's side to investigate, Hong Kaiyuan didn't hide it anymore, and told us what we found.
"Why didn't you say it just now?" Wen Jing was slightly stunned.
"Girl, Wushuang is still a child after all, in case she leaks her mouth, it won't be fun. Hong Kaiyuan sighed and said, "Haven't the affairs of Lao Qi and San'er been hidden from her all along!"
Wen Jing was silent.
"If the text is true, we'll have to investigate!" I said, smoking a cigarette.
"For Mao?" Hong Kaiyuan was puzzled. "That's not what we're here for!"
"Fatty, let me ask you a question, what is the relationship between Xiang Liu and Gonggong?" I said.
"It says that Xiang Liu is a courtier of the Gonggong. Hong Kaiyuan replied.
"What does co-labor have to do with Fengxi?" I continued.
"Hold the grass, why didn't I think of this? Could it be that Xiang Liu is not only not a child, but he is also from the Dragon Clan?" Hong Kaiyuan immediately came back to his senses. "So, let's really investigate!"
"In addition, have you noticed that Wang Quan and the others' plan is likely to be related to this matter. I changed my previous laziness and said, "If I'm not mistaken, their round-up and sneak attack are fundamentally related to this secret room!"
"What do you say?" Wen Jing said.
"The desert is a vast area, and there are not many places to hide, so it is not easy to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, after all, those who enter the desert are not easy to mess with. Not to mention other forces, just rely on the wind and Brother Xiong, a few of them, enough for them to drink several pots!"
"You mean, the location where the secret door leads is actually their ambush point?" Gu Xin frowned.
"Then why did he let us go to see that secret room?" Hong Kaiyuan felt that my words were not very reliable.
"Because he can't find the entrance!" I smiled and continued, "and they're really worried that there will be a mechanism in it!"
"Looking for that, didn't Liu Wenzheng already know the secret here?" Hong Kaiyuan was shocked.
"There must be some other source of his information, he should know that there is a secret passage hidden here, but he probably hasn't been here himself!" I laughed.
"Crooked?!" Hong Kaiyuan asked again.
"If he had been here, Wang Quan wouldn't have asked us to help him find a secret door!" I said, "So, it's quite correct to destroy the passage instructions on the map!"
In addition, Liu Wenzheng should not know the text on the mural. Judging from the fact that he killed those three tomb robbers to kill them, the tomb robbers should have been instructed by him to come here in the first place!"
"Why didn't he come in person?" said Hong Kaiyuan.
"Do you think it's worth his own adventure in a place where there have been such strange events?" I asked rhetorically.