Chapter 7: A Woman on a Mission

Less than half an hour after Qin Zhongyu left the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, from the entrance on the other side, several archaeologists in white robes walked down from the newly excavated passage. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

There were seven archaeologists in the group, and the most striking of them was a young woman with short hair and a delicate face at the front.

The woman's name is Chu Zilan, and she is the youngest member of the entire Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum excavation team, but she is also the main promoter of the entire Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum excavation project. I have to say that at her age, it is also a very peculiar thing to be able to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

What's even more strange is that in the process of walking, Chu Zilan walked at the front of the team alone, and I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Chu Zilan and the few people behind her opened a distance, and it seemed more and more abrupt.

After walking a distance, the group came to the place where the Waixian Gate was, and in the face of this gate made of dozens of tons of boulders, Chu Zilan made a gesture to stop the people behind her, and then she walked up by herself.

Chu Zilan walked to the front of the bluestone gate, and then took out a few pieces of bamboo slips that looked a little quaint from the small bag she carried, and after carefully comparing them for a while, she began to carefully fiddle with the mechanism on the door according to the above records, and after a while, she saw that the huge bluestone slab door was slowly opened.

"Oh, Chu Chu, I didn't expect you to really be able to make the mechanism of more than two thousand years play a role, so that there is no need to use explosives to violently destroy, which plays a vital role in protecting the integrity of the entire underground palace structure......" Seeing that Chu Zilan actually manipulated the mechanism to open the bluestone gate, an old professor standing behind couldn't help but admire.

"Professor Huang, you have won the award...... Chu Zilan replied modestly.

After the gate opened, the group continued to move forward, as before, it was still Chu Zilan who walked in the front, and then the others left a distance to follow.

It didn't take long for the group to arrive in front of Zhongxian Gate again, and this time Chu Zilan raised his left hand and signaled the people behind him to stop again.

While the others stopped, only Chu Zilan herself continued to walk forward.

Chu Zilan's departure naturally triggered the bows and crossbows around her, and immediately a large number of arrows shot towards Chu Zilan from the left and right sides like flying locusts!

However, all this seemed to have been expected by Chu Zilan, at the moment when the arrow cut through the air, Chu Zilan's body looked a little weak, but it was actually quite lean, and it burst out with speed and agility that ordinary people could not achieve, quickly turning, spinning, jumping, and then bowing down, shuttling through the rain of arrows with a series of movements comparable to rhythmic gymnastics, but he was not injured in the slightest.

"Pretty! worthy of being a descendant of that man...... The reflex and motor nerves are comparable to the world's top athletes!" Behind Chu Zilan, a middle-aged professor clapped his hands and praised.

"This is just a small skill of carving insects, it is still too far behind my ancestors......" Chu Zilan said lightly and continued to walk forward.

After a while, Chu Zilan finally came to the last gate of the underground palace, where the Neixian Gate was located.

"Inside is the inside of the palace where Yingzheng's coffin is located...... Everyone should pay attention to put on respiratory masks and protective clothing...... As soon as she arrived near the gate, Chu Zilan warned the people behind her.

So according to Chu Zilan's instructions, everyone put on protective clothing, and then put on breathing masks.

Only then did Chu Zilan open the door of the underground palace.

However, the door suddenly opened, and everyone felt only a chill hit them. What unfolded before their eyes was an incredible sight.

"What's the matter? The rivers, lakes and seas made of mercury are actually condensed into a solid state, how low is the temperature here?" the old professor asked in surprise.

"It's only minus thirty-nine degrees Celsius...... someone replied with a thermometer out of nowhere.

"It's incredible...... What kind of force makes the temperature here so low......"

"I don't know, but at least I'm sure that the mercury has become solid, so there is no danger of mercury vapor...... However, now that the door is open, the temperature should slowly rise over time, and there may be mercury vapor at that time, so it is still not advisable to remove the breathing mask. Chu Zilan instructed the others as she walked straight towards Qin Shi Huang's coffin.

One, two, three, when Chu Zilan opened the last layer of wooden coffin, she was stunned.

"What's wrong?" asked the old professor a little strangely.

Professor Huang ...... It seems that someone in this underground palace has already come in advance......" Chu Zilan's voice trembled a little.

"How is it possible? This underground palace is so well preserved, there is no sign of theft and excavation...... And look at the gold, silver and jewelry in this underground palace, aren't the dark gold silk dragon robes on the remains of Qin Shi Huang all good, if the tomb robbers really came, how could they let go of these ......"

"I'm afraid that's because the other party's purpose is not gold or silver jewelry at all......"

"What's that? What else could he steal?"

"I don't know...... Maybe it's my delusion......"

Although she shook her head and said that she didn't know, Chu Zilan couldn't help but focus her eyes on the corpse of "Qin Shi Huang" in the coffin, and her face also showed a puzzled expression.

Chu Zilan was naturally puzzled, because according to the secrets recorded by Chu Zilan's ancestors, Chu Zilan already knew the truth that Qin Shihuang was a woman, and with Chu Zilan's understanding of human bones, as long as she paid a little attention to the size of the pelvic bone of the bone, she could judge that this skeleton was obviously not a woman, but the skeleton of an adult man!

Of course, no one else has discovered this, because except for Chu Zilan, in the eyes of others, Qin Shi Huang is a man, there is no doubt about this, and of course there will be no doubts about the bones in the coffin.

Then Chu Zilan turned her gaze to the surroundings of the coffin, and the doubts in Chu Zilan's heart were solved at once.

"There are footprints, and they were left not so long ago...... The footprints are shallower when approaching the coffin and deeper when leaving...... In other words, when the person left, he carried a heavier object, which caused the footprints to deepen......"

"If you take into account the corpse preservation technology of the Qin Dynasty, the body of Qin Shi Huang may not have completely decayed over the past two thousand years, then the weight is naturally not comparable to this pile of bones, so it makes sense that the footprints are deeper when you return......

"So...... Sure enough, someone dropped the body of Qin Shi Huang......"

The shocking discovery made Chu Zilan's whole body tremble for a moment.

But soon, Chu Zilan regained her composure, and the years of training allowed her to control her emotions well, she quietly wiped the footprints around the coffin, and then pretended that nothing had happened.

Because Chu Zilan didn't want others to know about this matter, not only a few colleagues in the underground palace, but also anyone else in this world.

"The ancestral dragon wakes up, the world is in chaos, kill the ancestral dragon, for the common people...... The mission of our family for more than 2,000 years will be completed by me!" At this moment, the ancestral teachings handed down by the family for generations resurfaced in Chu Zilan's heart.