Chapter 63: Breaking into the Imperial Tomb Alone

Tomb robbers have many strange tomb robbery tools, Luoyang shovel, crescent shovel, rolling fork and mountain axe, etc., but most of these tools are used to detect tombs, dig robbery holes or chop coffins, the robbery hole of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty has been opened, and there is no coffin in it, many tools are not used.

However, Tang Feng was still carrying his backpack, although the backpack looked deflated, everyone could see that there must be something in the bag. The staff brought a jack and a strong light flashlight, Tang Feng carried the strong light flashlight well, and then threw the jack into the thief hole.

"Tang Feng, do you want this?" Liu Yue held a miner's hat with a miner's lamp on it, Tang Feng shook his head, this thing is still not good, it can only add to the terrifying atmosphere. Liu Yue stepped forward and pinned her walkie-talkie to Tang Feng's waist, she whispered to Tang Feng: "You must be careful and keep in touch with the outside at any time." ”

The people engaged in the work of archaeology are not too old or too young, Liu Yue and Tang Feng are the youngest members of the entire archaeological team, because the two of them are so close, the surrounding staff mistakenly think that they are a couple, and the occasional whispering is not unusual.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Don't worry, no problem, then I'll go down." ”

The end of the cave is in a "U" shape, and the slope at both ends is very steep, and Tang Feng walked into the cave along the mud ladder dug from the soil. At the bottom of the robbery hole, the light outside gradually weakened, and Tang Feng picked up the jack and walked into the darkness.

Tang Feng turned on the strong flashlight, after walking 20 meters forward, a square with a side length of half a meter appeared obliquely above, the beam of the flashlight shot to the square, the situation at the top of the tomb is vaguely recognizable, the stone wall at the top of the tomb is painted with a painting similar to the flying sky, the ancients believed that "death is only the beginning", is the way to fly to Elysium, this kind of mural expresses this kind of good wishes.

Tang Feng put the strong flashlight in his hand on the tomb road, and entered the tomb road with both hands, Tang Feng sat on the stone slab of the tomb road and held the flashlight to shine around, and the stone warrior figurines guarding the tomb and the tomb beasts were lined up on both sides of the tomb road. The warrior figurines in the burial chamber are about the same as the samurai figurines that can be seen everywhere outside the tomb, about two meters high, and their facial expressions can be regarded as kind and kind, while the tomb beasts lying prone next to the samurai figurines are a little hideous and terrifying.

Samurai figurines and tomb beasts are symbolic tomb guards, but the use of the two is not the same, warrior figurines are considered heavenly soldiers, the ancients used them to defend against people. The Tomb Beast is the god of evil spirits and evil in the imagination of ancient people, and people molded it into the image of grinning teeth, hoping that they can play the role of suppressing ghosts and monsters and protecting the souls of the dead from intrusion.

The tomb robbers were staunch materialists and never believed in ghosts and gods. The ancients had a limited level of science and technology, and it was impossible to design highly sensitive automatic weapons, such as the dark crossbow, which was operated by no one and guarded by itself, had triggering devices, as long as the tomb did not touch these devices, they would not trigger the mechanism, and such mechanisms often had a certain timeliness, and they would inevitably fail after a long time. Tang Feng is not afraid of these, what he is most afraid of is the traps in the ancient tomb, especially the trapboard on the ground, the trap looks no different from other ground decorations, but it can't bear the weight, once someone steps on it, it will fall into the trap, needless to say the bottom of the trap, either the upside-down spikes or the venom that kills people.

"Bang bang bang!" The sound of Tang Feng knocking on the ground echoed everywhere in the tomb road, and the sound of the ancient tomb that had not been set foot in for hundreds of years was undoubtedly a scalp-infusing thing, and everyone else would be scared half to death. Of course, Tang Feng would not be afraid, even if something slapped him from behind at this time, he would not suspect that it was a ghost.

"Bang bang... Poof..."Tang Feng knocked on a soft thing, he took out a flashlight, it would be a rubber shoe, he took the rubber shoes, it should be a product of the Republic of China period, no need to ask, someone came in at that time, the tomb robber will definitely not enter the tomb barefoot, the owner of this shoe must have died in Huangquan. Tang Feng stood up and shone a flashlight at the end of the tomb, the tomb was very long, and the front was black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Why did anyone still run in after the explosion occurred in the robbery cave? Tang Feng pondered carefully, there was no oxygen in the tomb, and the explosion would definitely not affect the tomb. If the fire had been behind the first grave robber to open the tunnel, the person would not have been burned, as it should have been, there was an explosion behind him, and he was thrown into the graveyard by the air flow of the explosion, and at this time, he could only run forward as hard as he could, and he couldn't even care if his shoes fell off.

The beam of the flashlight continued to move forward, and there were traces of boulders rolling on the ground, Tang Feng looked at both sides of the tomb again, and there would be a depression in the tomb road every other distance, and each depression had a round boulder. Tang Feng understood, this is a rolling stone, because the tomb road is inclined downward, once this kind of rolling stone is triggered, it will roll down the tomb road. The flashlight in Tang Feng's hand shone on the depression on his side, and sure enough, the depression of the rolling stone had already rolled down, and the unlucky tomb robber had not run a few steps before he activated the mechanism, he ran in front, and the big stone behind him was chasing, and everything was messed up.

This time there is no need to knock, the tomb robbers have run over, the rolling stones have been crushed, and all the mechanisms have been triggered, Tang Feng originally wanted to go forward alone, considering that he was doing things for the country, he finally decided to open the tomb door first.

This robbery hole was dug very skillfully, very close to the tomb door, Tang Feng clearly saw the top door, he stepped forward and knocked on the top door, good guy, I am really willing to spend money, it is pure copper. This top door weighs a ton and is worth a lot of money even if it is sold for scrap in modern times.

The top door device is one of the anti-theft facilities of the ancient tomb, it is placed in the groove of the tomb foundation at one end, and the other end is placed above the tomb door, when the tomb door is closed, the top door device will fall naturally, so that the door can be pushed to death from the inside. Tang Feng walked to the tomb door again, this tomb door is divided into two left and right, each door has a curved horizontal card, when the tomb door is closed, it is synthesized into another groove, this is done to prevent the top door device from falling off.

The anti-theft of the top door device can only be prevented from the outside and not from the inside, Tang Feng is very easy to crack, he only needs to use a jack to push the top door device out of the groove in the foundation of the cemetery. The power of the hydraulic jack is great, and the top door device directly breaks through the groove.

"Bang dang!" The top door device that lost its support fell from the tomb door, and the weight of more than a ton fell to the ground, Tang Feng made it easy here, and the archaeologists outside exploded the pot, a loud noise came, everyone was shocked, Tang Feng's walkie-talkie came from Zhang Keming's voice, Zhang Keming asked: "Tang Feng, what's wrong?"

Tang Feng said: "It's okay, the top door device has fallen, if there are no stones outside the tomb door, you can push the tomb door open now." ”

At this time, Zhang Keming was outside the tomb gate, and he said: "There are stones outside the tomb door. ”

Tang Feng walked to the tomb door, picked up a hammer and knocked on the tomb door, he said: "The tomb door is cast with molten iron, it is very strong, can you hear the sound inside?"

Zhang Keming said: "I heard, the stone blocking the outside of the tomb door is about five meters thick, you get out of the way first, and we will use an air compressor to chisel it open." ”

Under the illumination of the flashlight, Tang Feng observed the tomb door, which was covered with relief carvings and paintings, which could be regarded as a work of art. He took out the walkie-talkie and said, "This tomb door is still a little valuable, don't break through." ”

Zhang Keming said: "I know that I spent so much time trying to preserve the integrity of the tomb as much as possible. "The modern level of science and technology is fully capable of opening the door of any ancient building, and the archaeological department is only trying to preserve the ancient craftsmanship to the greatest extent, and the roar of the machine sounds, and the construction has begun outside.

After solving the matter of the tomb gate, Tang Feng turned around and walked towards the depths of the tomb road, his steps were very slow, and he would never lift his back feet if he did not step on the front foot. After the tomb road extended all the way down for 70 meters, Tang Feng vaguely saw the rolling stone in front of him, and when the flashlight flashed behind the rolling stone, Tang Feng was startled, he saw a pair of eyes, angry round eyes, and they were human eyes.

Tang Feng immediately turned the flashlight, and only then did he breathe a long sigh of relief, this was a dead man, he let out a long sigh, and said, "If the seniors don't succeed, leave it to the juniors to complete." "This is death, there is a second tomb door in front of the block, there is a boulder chasing after it, the screams outside are endless, the oxygen inside is thin and can no longer breathe, the tomb robber turned back in despair, the boulder has been pressed down, maybe because of the pressure inside the body, before dying, the tomb robber opened his eyes wide, this eye is decades.

The corpse did not decompose, the water inside the body was depleted with the loss of time, leaving only a dry corpse with a skeleton and muscles. The boulder blocked the second tomb door, Tang Feng had no way to continue moving forward, he could only return the same way, did he really have to return empty-handed this time?

The progress outside the tomb door was very fast, the five-meter-thick stone wall was quickly excavated, and the construction personnel brought in a cutting machine to cut the iron rod inside the stone, and soon, the tomb door was pushed open. Due to the long-term air contact will cause the artifacts inside the tomb to mutate, the archaeologists quickly entered the interior of the tomb, they are very professional, as soon as they enter the tomb, they disperse, each performing their own duties to start archaeological research.

Zhang Keming, who walked into the tomb, said: "Don't touch things, be careful to trigger the mechanism, and fix these rolling stones first so as not to hurt people." ”

"Tang Feng, where are you?" Tang Feng heard it, it was Liu Yue's voice, he came out of the darkness and said, "I'm here." ”

Liu Yue walked in front of Tang Feng with brisk steps, and she said to him with a smile: "It's okay if you're okay." ”

Tang Feng asked Liu Yue softly, "Aren't you angry with me?"

Liu Yue said: "It's not good that I've never been angry with you at all." ”

Zhang Keming walked up to Tang Feng and asked Tang Feng, "What's the situation inside?"

Tang Feng said: "There is also a tomb door in the back, which has been violently slammed by rolling stones, and there is a corpse of a tomb robber pressed in the middle. I've checked it, and there's no other way but to force it open. ”

At this time, archaeologists have already brought in wires and electric lights, and the situation inside the tomb is clear at a glance, this tomb is about 10 meters high and 6 meters wide, which is very spectacular.

Zhang Keming immediately said to the staff behind him: "Prepare to forcibly open the second tomb door." ”

Although the purpose is the same, the archaeologists are much more upright than the tomb robbers, and in less than half an hour, the staff removed the rolling stones and disposed of the corpses. After that, the air compressor entered the tomb road, and the construction crew prepared to dig the second tomb door.

Seeing that Liu Yue didn't bring anything, just dangling on the side, Tang Feng walked over to her and said, "Is your work a little too easy?"

Liu Yue grinned and said, "People are interns, and it's normal that there are no tasks arranged." ”

Tang Feng said to her, "Then you can't get in after a while?"

Liu Yue nodded and said, "Of course you have to go in, even if you look at the excitement, you have to go in." ”

Tang Feng said: "Then you have to take me." ”

Liu Yue said: "You don't need me to bring it, the master has said hello, you can go in, but there is a premise, you can't take anything inside." ”

"Oh, I see. Tang Feng immediately suddenly realized: "Liu Yue, you have a task. ”

Liu Yue asked strangely, "What task do I have?"

Tang Feng said: "Your task is to watch me and not let me take anything from the Imperial Tomb, isn't it?"

"Where am I qualified to watch you? Liu Yue smiled and said: "I want to guard and steal myself, do you think, Song Huizong is also an artist, and the things in his mausoleum must be the best at that time, and any palace vessel from the five major official kilns will be worth a fortune." ”

In the imperial mausoleum built in ancient times, the burial goods were not put in after the emperor died and were buried, but were gradually put in at the same time as they were built. This is based on facts, according to historical records, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was buried in Maoling, the underground palace inside Maoling could not be placed with burial goods, and many burial goods were put into the ground building in the cemetery. Historically, two large-scale theft of Maoling was recorded in history, the first was the Red Mei Army uprising at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Red Mei Army opened the underground palace after occupying Maoling, and tens of thousands of people carried it for more than ten days, which only carried half of the burial goods. Later, the Huangchao rebel army invaded Chang'an, and tens of thousands of people carried it for another three days, due to the lack of discipline of the Huangchao rebel army, many gold and silver treasures were lost in the competition with each other. After the liberation, there are more than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics unearthed around Maoling alone, which shows that there are a lot of burial goods in the ancient emperor's tomb, and it is not that the emperor can be put away at one time after being buried.

Tang Feng said: "In this way, isn't archaeology also like tomb robbing, a fruitful beauty? ”

"No, I'm kidding you. Liu Yue said: "The archaeologists have a whole set of prevention mechanisms, it is impossible to mess around, haven't you found it? They don't take any personal belongings except for tools, and they will be routinely checked when they go out." ”

"Hey. Tang Feng shook his head and said, "Make me happy in vain, I thought I could fish in troubled waters." ”

"I know Tang Feng, you're not this kind of person, you're joking, even if you're not joking, you can't get such an opportunity. Liu Yue attached it to Tang Feng's ear and whispered: "I will go wherever you go, I want to watch you, a tomb robber." ”

"Okay. Tang Feng smiled slyly and said, "Finally, I can let Liu Yue accompany me to watch the Imperial Mausoleum, we will be the first batch of tourists in the Imperial Mausoleum Tourist Area of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty." ”

"Finally opened. With the cheers of the staff, the second tomb door was opened.

Zhang Keming said: "The anti-chemical warfare personnel will go first. ”

The equipment of the archaeological department is beyond the reach of tomb robber gangs, and professional anti-chemical personnel wearing gas masks are the first to enter the underground palace with harmful gas analyzers. Workers in the cemetery are holding metal detectors to detect the metal of the entire tunnel.

After a while, the message came from the walkie-talkie of the public frequency, and he said, "This is another graveyard." ”

Tang Feng and Liu Yue walked into the second tomb road, this tomb road is half shorter than the first one, the tomb road is still extending down, Zhang Keming took out the altimeter and looked at it, and said: "This should be the last tomb road, if it goes down, the underground palace will be lower than the level of the deep pool, and the ancients are unlikely to take this risk." ”

The two sides of this boulder are not symmetrical terrain, the deep pool under the boulder cliff is actually a heavenly pool, the opposite side of the heavenly pond is the Beibi Mountain, its water level is higher than this side of the boulder, therefore, digging more than 200 meters on this side is equivalent to the horizontal plane of the deep pool under the cliff on the other side 400 meters.

What happened next was the same as just now, and the gun head of the wheeled air compressor quickly pierced into the tomb door. Since the third tomb door is followed by the underground palace, Tang Feng, Liu Yue, Zhang Keming and a circle of staff are all surrounding the tomb door, waiting for the opening of the underground palace.

Twenty minutes later, the tomb door was opened, and several flashlights shot into the dungeon, and the scene in front of them suddenly became clear, and several people standing at the entrance of the dungeon looked at each other. One of the staff members gasped as he blurted out, "Oh my God, this is incredible." ”

The whole underground palace is exactly the same as the modern stadium, and on the ground that gradually slopes downward, there are rows of stone military statues that are no different from real people, which is an army that has the same effect as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Zhang Keming said in a deep voice: "This is another great archaeological discovery, which is completely consistent with the results of the expert group's previous arguments. ”

Since the entire mausoleum area of the Northern Song Dynasty Emperor Mausoleum is full of large stone figures and animal statues, the expert group predicted that there would be stone carvings like terracotta warriors and horses inside the Mausoleum of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and sure enough, it was so. Tang Feng pointed to the open space in the middle of the stone statue and said to Liu Yue, "If I guess correctly, this is where the coffin is located." ”

The scale of the tomb of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty is half smaller than previously estimated, if the surrounding stone carving army is the audience seat of the stadium, the coffin is the stadium, and the entire coffin area is concave, and it is not clear at the tomb door.

When the gap in the tomb door was large enough for personnel to enter and exit, the air compressor stopped operating, and the anti-chemical personnel walked into the underground palace first, at this time, Tang Feng suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute, come back quickly!"