Chapter 284: Into the Tomb: Puzzle Solved
Girls: There are only feet here, get out!
Erjin Fertilizer is coming! (There should be applause here-)
Served, served......
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The solid stones under the feet seemed to be pulled away, and the bottom of the entire corridor became quicksand, which could no longer bear the weight of a group of people......
Can't? Dongfang Qingxuan's fist clenched fiercely, and before he could speak, the situation on the scene changed dramatically.
ββ¦β¦ The Great Khan is angry, and we ...... I don't dare to let you know. β
They stood beside Dongfang Qingxuan, holding him tightly and lowering their heads.
In a jolt, both Rufeng and Ragula were a little unsteady on their feet.
As if he had been struck by lightning suddenly, Dongfang Qingxuan's originally shaking body stiffened fiercely, and the whole person stood for a moment, with a cold glow in his phoenix eyes, and turned his head to look at Rufeng and Lagula, "What's the matter?" β
"Didn't the Great Khan know that her ears ...... Can't hear me? β
It's a pity that Xia Chuqi couldn't hear him, only Zhao Zhu's faint voice, mocking him.
"You don't have to explain, in the presence of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, you can't die." Dongfang Qingxuan smiled and answered teasingly.
"Shut up!" Zhao Jun tightened her body and whispered in a deep voice.
Zhao Nineteen...... I still have a last word to tell......"
Xia Chuqi didn't hear the shout, but he was startled by his movements. She shouted "Zhao Nineteen", and before she could react, she felt that the mountains were shaking in an instant...... Especially under the feet where they stood, the stone slab seemed to be displaced, as if it had stepped on a loose place, and it kept shaking. Although she knew that she had touched the mechanism of the apse, she was still uneasy and tightly circled Zhao Zhu's waist.
After he finished roaring in a deep voice, he suddenly hugged Xia Chuqi with his backhand and tightened her into his arms.
"Everyone, be careful!"
I don't know how far the road lies ahead, and I don't know where it leads. The adventurous mentality makes them extremely careful at every step. After holding his breath and walking for about a quarter of an hour, Zhao Zhu's tall figure suddenly stunted.
The corridor was quiet, cool, dark, there was no wind at all, and it was stuffy.
Behind them, men and horses from both sides also entered one after another, holding torches and walking in the corridor.
At the beginning of the summer, the seventh smiled crookedly and the Empress Dowager Yuan Zhao, letting Zhao Bottle take the little hand and walk in step by step.
"It seems that there are times when tomb robbers can't do it? Isn't this lamp supposed to be bright? β
During the conversation between the two people, they had already exited the ladder room and handed over the remaining tasks to Dongfang Qingxuan. Once again, Rufeng arranged for the soldiers of the Uliang Khan to dig the stone wall. The stone wall is not large, and although it is thicker than the outer room, it is quickly chiseled open. There was no difference from what Zhao Jun expected, and a long road was revealed in the stone wall after being chiseled. On the stone wall in the corridor, there are ventilation holes, and there are also oil lamps with copper bottoms, but the lamp oil has burned out, and the wick has long been extinguished.
"Ugh!" Xia Chuqi raised his forehead, "Okay, simple and rude." β
"Chisel!" He was faint, still a word.
"What then?"
"Two years ago, the agency was destroyed."
Xia Chuqi looked at the glare stone wall, "But there is no mechanism for this?" β
It's not easy to tell what color it is, but it's much easier to tell which one has never been colored at all. Zhao Jun glanced at her appreciatively, nodded, walked in the ladder room for a while, and finally, pointed to a stone wall on his right, "It's it." β
"Zhao Nineteen, you have good eyes, look at the four walls, which one is not colored?"
It was very difficult to discuss high-tech things with the ancients. Xia Chuqi's own knowledge in this area is also limited, and she has no way to say more about the transparent color of polar bears, so she only picks up what she knows and says a rough idea, and then glances at Zhao Zhu.
"I'm not talking nonsense...... Let me tell you this, a scientist specializing in polar bears in a certain country analyzed through scanning electron microscopy and was surprised to find that the hair of polar bears is not white, but hollow and transparent tubules. It looks medium-white, but the surface of his fur is rough and uneven, which refracts the light very messily......"
Her words were extremely strange, not only did Zhao Jun not understand, but so many people present looked at her in confusion, and no one said a word. In their consciousness, everything in this world, no matter what it is, will always have a color...... Why does a bear have no color?
No color? Are there colorless animals in this world?
She was sweating profusely on her forehead, "Polar bears don't have color......
"Huh?" The corners of Zhao Zhu's lips pursed slightly, and he looked at her seriously.
"That's not right."
Speaking of this, she paused slightly, her mind turned, and she suddenly reacted.
"Poof", Xia Chuqi was amused by him, "Okay, it's all here, break into ......"
Zhao Zhu sighed, "It's all here......"
"Zhao Nineteen, if not, let's flash people, right? I don't play with them anymore. β
"Oh yes." After all, this is not a game, try it if you want to, it's a big deal to die, and if you do it all over again, you can resurrect it with full blood...... Thinking of the difficulties of the eighth room in the front hall back then, Xia Chuqi subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva and pulled Zhao Zhu's sleeve.
Zhao Tuo glanced at her lightly, "Once you try, you can't turn back." β
"This ...... But what's the matter? Xia Chuqi shrank his head, squeezed under Zhao Zhu's armpit again, looked at the mossy stone wall, was silent, raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Zhao Nineteen, otherwise, let's try it on all sides?" β
In other words, it's not easy to tell which side is white.
Due to the age and man-made destruction, the color on the stone wall is not distinct.
However, when the light of Zhao Tsuru's torch illuminated the ladder again, the problem came again.
No matter how the onlookers chattered, with the answer of Xia Chuqi, this topic that had plagued Zhao Bottle for two years, and also troubled the mystery of the entrance to the apse for so long, was finally torn open, and everyone's faces showed joy and looked excited.
Dongfang Qingxuan snorted and glanced at him with a smile, "Be careful of the horse's fart slapping on the horse's leg." β
The man shrank his head and shook his head, "I don't understand." β
"You know what polarity is?"
In the compliment, Dongfang Qingxuan glanced at the person with the loudest voice.
"That's it...... Princess Jin really got it. β
"It's white. That's easy. β
"Princess Jin is amazing, you can guess ......"
As soon as her voice fell, there were sighs and compliments on the scene.
"It doesn't matter if it's south, east, or north, you can go back to where you started...... are the poles of the earth. The poles refer to the North and South Poles...... But the man walked back and found a bear in the same place. There are no bears in Antarctica, only in the Arctic. Then the promise came out...... Polar bears are white. β
Xia Chuqi's eyes flashed with deed, no matter what they thought, they only looked at Zhao Zhu.
In this place, only Zhao Zhu had heard her talk about some strange things in the later generations. Therefore, after listening to her words, except for Zhao Zhu, the eyes of the others showed a not very friendly light. It seems that she and the crazy old man who screams "color" are the same kind of people.
Poles? What are the poles?
Clearing her throat, she said with Guan Zi in her hands: "Zhao Shijiu feels that the topic is illogical, it is a limited thinking. Actually, there is nothing illogical about this topic. Above the poles of the Earth...... It is true that there is no distinction between south, east, and west. β
"What's there?" Countless eyes fell on her body.
Her sudden shout broke the silence of the room.
After a while, her eyes lit up, "There you have it." β
Holding her chin and thinking, she spun around in place, her brain opening wider and wider.
Where will the east, west, north, and south be in the same place?
But the problem of "tomb robbers" is too pitiful, right? What does the direction of a person have to do with bears?
Subconsciously leaning on the "color", her mind suddenly opened up. Zhao said that the colors of the four walls between the stone chairs are different, that is, there is a distinction between colors, and in that question, "the color of the bear" is also mentioned, so does it mean that as long as you guess the color of the bear, you can correspond to the wall?
Suddenly, these two words popped up in her head.
"Color...... Color......"
Now is not the time to think about this.
Curiosity came to mind again, but Xia Chuqi quickly put it away.
So what did Dongfang Qingxuan bring him in?
Lagula asked several times, but the old man said nothing but the word "color". The hope that had just risen from the crowd fell back into its place. Obviously, this is clearly an old man who is not very clear, and Zhao Zhu said that the master who knows "strange skills and tricks" is completely different from each other.
"Color...... Color......"
ββ¦β¦ What is the color? What color? β
The old man didn't look up at him, still muttering to himself, "Color...... Color......"
"Old man, what have you noticed?"
Ragula nodded, approached the old man, and crouched down.
Dongfang Qingxuan's face froze, looked at Ragura, and made a look.
In the quiet atmosphere, the strange old man suddenly muttered to answer.
"Color...... Color......"
Dongfang Qingxuan's demonic face was solemn. He stood behind them for a long time, and only then did he hold a torch and lean in a little while when he exited the ladder on the seventh day of the summer month. But he carefully observed the four walls between the ladders, and seemed to find nothing, and retreated silently.
Quietly, everyone around them was thinking about this sentence.
"Yes...... But what does this question mean? β
He frowned, and said, "That time is in a hurry, I don't have time to think about it." When I woke up after a coma, I thought about it for a long time, but I was confused. If it is a topic, it is clearly illogical...... If it's not the title, why is it here? The Empress Dowager Yuan Zhao, although her temperament is a little weird, will never do useless things. β
"......" at the beginning of the summer, the seventh brain was confused.
Zhao Zhu thought for a moment before he said: "It says: A person walked 100 meters to the south, then 100 meters to the east, and then 100 meters to the north, but returned to the starting point." At the starting point, there is a bear, may I ask this bear, what color is it? β
"What the hell is that?"
Xia Chuqi saw that he explained so much, but he didn't say the key thing, and his eyes were red with anxiety.
Curiosity torments the dead.
ββ¦β¦ I'll show you that there is something to say, not to say that there is something on it. Zhao Zhu swept her lightly and recalled: "Back then, I tied you to the stone chair, turned the ladder, and when the stone chair was raised, I found that a sentence was carved under the chair. However, there was something strange about that sentence, and I forgot about it after thinking about it for a long time. Now that I think about it, it must be related to the opening of the entrance to the apse. β
With his eyebrows raised, Xia Chuqi pulled him angrily, "Zhao Nineteen, it's time for you, do you still have time to trick me?" β
"Nothing." Zhao Zhu replied lightly.
"Why can't I see, what's there?"
The bluestone slab on the ground was originally the stone chair where it was placed, but now there is only a faint trace on it...... There's nothing.
Xia Chuqi held the torch and lowered his head.
"Look underground."
She pursed her lips and rolled her eyes, and before she could say anything, Zhao Zhu's hand rested on the back of her head again.
"It's not that I have good eyes." Zhao Jun sighed, "It's because your eyes are too bad." β
Different? Xia Chuqi was stunned for a moment, then took the torch from his hand and approached to observe it carefully. Looking left and right, up and down, pondering for a while, she finally saw some clues, "Huh", looked back at him, "It seems that something is wrong." Color...... Yes, there are subtle differences in the color of these stone walls......" Wei paused, she glanced at Zhao Zhu and gave a thumbs up, "Your eyes are really poisonous, owl-like." β
Ignoring the anti-tune she sang, Zhao Zun said lightly: "Ah Qi, take a closer look, what is the difference between these four stone walls?" β
"......" Xia Chuqi was silent, raised his head and swept him, "It's not four-sided, is it possible that there should be eight-sided?" β
He lowered his head, and his handsome face imprinted by the firelight was extremely serious, "Look, between this ladder, there are four stone walls. β
"Look at what? Nothing. β
In front of him, in the cramped place of black oppression, I can't see anything clearly......
Xia Chuqi came back to his senses, got his hint, and bent down and squeezed under his armpit.
Zhao Zhu shouted in a low voice, seeing that she didn't react, he turned around and tugged at her wrist.
"Ah Qi, come and see."
β¦β¦ Things are not, and neither are people.
The chain that connected the ladder was gone, and the stone chair that kept her alive was gone.
Zhao Bottle stood inside, and Xia Chuqi could only look at the entrance of the cave.
The ladder was too narrow for one person to pass through.
"Hmm." Zhao Zhu's eyes flashed slightly, and he nodded solemnly. Although he knew that what she said was not a good thing, he did not want to expose it, but he just probed in the narrow space between the ladders with a torch, and quietly pondered.
At the beginning of the summer, the corners of Qi's lips rose upward, and he snorted, "Pervert is to look better than ordinary people." β
"Perverted?" Zhao Tsun obviously didn't understand the meaning of the word.
"Uh...... Well, that's how it can be explained. "Xia Chuqi ripped him, "You are as perverted as her." β
Zhao Jun nodded, "That's why!" Where there is no road, there must be a road. β
Xia Chuqi touched his nose regretfully, "False and real, true and false, that guy's thoughts...... It's hard to fathom! I've lived for so many years, and I've never seen her play cards like this......"
This......
At this time, her hands tightened, and when she looked up, Zhao Zhu was looking down at her and asked, "Ah Qi, if it were you, after the intruder broke the mechanism of the eighth room of your front hall, would you easily let him enter the apse again?" And put the entrance in front of him? β
Thinking of the difficulties that will be faced, Xia Chuqi, who loves money so much, wants to retreat a little.
It is indeed not a simple matter to want gold and silver treasures.
Entrance, where did the entrance come from?
At the beginning, Zhao Zhu sent her into the ladder room from this corridor, and then sent her to the "living room" above. But at this time, the light of the torches was too weak, and the range of illumination was too narrow, and the left and right masses were no more than a few feet, except for the narrow place between the ladders, and I couldn't understand anything. However, the place is so small that it is easy to see that there are no other entrances to enter and exit the entire corridor, including the stone cavern between the ladders, and there is no obvious mechanism to pull.
"There's an entrance to the staircase?" At the beginning of the summer, the seven foxes looked suspiciously at the Yongdao in the firelight.
He said: "From the mechanism model, the entrance of the one thousand and eighty bureaus in the apse is the ladder room in this corridor. β
Zhao Zhu said lightly, gently grabbed Xia Chuqi's wrist, and took her to take the lead in going inside.
"Nothing is right."
"Your Highness, there is nothing."
Soon, the guard came back and shook his head at Zhao Bottle.
Everyone waited with their breath raised, and their hearts were worried......
It is common sense that you should not easily enter any dangerous place. As soon as Chen Jing gave the order, a guard in armor, wearing a helmet and holding a cluster of flaming torches, came over and entered the cave at a very fast speed.
"Yes!"
"Detective!"
Zhao Jun glanced at her, tilted his head, and looked at Chen Jing again.
"Awesome, remember this?"
Xia Chuqi exclaimed and threw an appreciative glance at Zhao Zhu.
"Sure enough, it's here!"
There are many people who can do things, and the equipment in everyone's hands has been prepared a long time ago. In a burst of "clang" of gold and iron, after a while, the retreated part of the stone wall was peeled off, and the stone wall finally revealed its original traces. Soon, the pile of mud and sand was cut open, and the small road, which was square a few feet, revealed its swarthy hole.
"Your Highness's orders, dare to disobey your orders? Dig! β
Dongfang Qingxuan really has an excellent temper, and he smiled with shallow hooked lips.
A light chuckle broke the silence.
"Heh......"
Zhao Zhu's tone was orderly, Dongfang Qingxuan was the Great Khan of Wuliang Khan, would he obey this anger?
However, now it is in front of each other's subordinates......
Between these two people, there was a lifelong friendship. There was also a bitter grudge between these two people. They all thought that when they met again, it would be either you or I would die, but they shook hands and made peace. Entering the imperial tomb from the north slope, there was no unpleasantness. Even, occasionally, like an old friend who has been separated for many years, there are a few words of ridicule and laughter. In the eyes of everyone, Zhao Bottle is as cool and cold as ever, and he is cold and unparalleled. Dongfang Qingxuan is also as usual, smiling rather than smiling, gentle and coquettish......
The people at the scene looked at the two of them, there was silence, and no one spoke.
Zhao Jun looked at him quietly, not evasive, not embarrassed, from eyebrows and eyes to movements, he was calm and calm.
Dongfang Qingxuan hooked the middle, raised his eyebrows and looked at him, but did not move.
Didn't he make it clear that he regarded Dongfang Qingxuan's people as laborers?
One word, the tone is light, but the meaning is not cute.
"Dig."
Zhao Jun nodded, his dark eyes turned around, and he looked at Dongfang Qingxuan.
Thinking of the ladder, Xia Chuqi's heart shrank, "uh", looked left and right, stretched out his hand, touched the stone wall again, and shook his head uncertainly, "How can a good place be cultivated like this?" β¦β¦ I'm not so sure. β
"Ladder!"
"What?"
Thinking about the past, Zhao Zhu's eyes were slightly cold, "Is this here?" β
She walked over, her brow furrowing involuntarily, "What's wrong?" β
Xia Chuqi was two feet away from him, and he couldn't see the shape of his mouth clearly, but he knew by feeling that he was calling her.
"Ah Qi, come here."
With a light hum, Zhao Zhu didn't speak, just solemnly took the torch, searched for the old site of the Huiguang Huizhao Building and the Boiling Water Lake, which had changed greatly, and slowly groped his way to the "ladder" sealed by the mud with the direction in his memory, and looked back at Xia Chuqi.
"Your Highness!"
Zhao Zhu shouted in a deep voice, and Chen Jing hurriedly took the torch from the guard's hand and ran in front of him in small steps.
"Torchesβ"
Master Dao Chang is really an interesting person.
This time, I was speechless at the beginning of the summer.
ββ¦β¦β
"Amitabha."
"Ami Tofu."
There are too few women in the world today who dare to ask such a question, and a woman like Xia Chuqi who asks directly is even more strange, where have you ever seen it? β¦β¦ Of course, she was originally a doctor, so she didn't think it was strange and didn't care at all. However, when I saw the old face of the monk Daochang who was about to drip blood, I finally found out with kindness and stopped asking.
"......" Dao Chang had an embarrassed face, "Amitabha! β
Applying what you have learned? I didn't expect this old monk to be quite cute! Xia Chuqi let out a "poof", pressed his throat, approached him, and asked in a low voice: "Master, can you be cured of your illness in the future?" β
Dao Chang looked at it, and his eyebrows seemed to twitch, "The master doesn't understand." β
"Ami Tofu! Master, do you understand? β
Xia Chuqi spread his hands regretfully, and looked at Dao Chang who frowned behind him.
Zhao Tuo glanced at her lightly, "The donor doesn't understand." β
"May I ask this benefactor, do you understand?"
No one answered her, she glanced boredly at the model of the mechanism carried by the two guards beside Rufeng, learned the Taoist appearance, folded her hands, typed a Buddha number, stared at Zhao Zhu with round eyes.
This is a question in everyone's hearts, but Xia Chuqi asked it.
"There is no road, how to go?"
At the beginning, they entered the eight rooms of the front hall, and there was a mechanism ring to open the mechanism, but the starting point of the apse was in the Huiguang Huizhao Building, but this place had already changed its appearance, and there was no door to enter at all.
Xia Chuqi looked in all directions, but did not find the entrance to the apse of the imperial mausoleum, and couldn't help sighing.
"Ami Tofu!"
The building is gone, the lake has been filled in, and only a breath of heat remains. As soon as the person approached, he felt uncomfortably fumigated. However, due to the opening of the enclosed space, and after two years, the fragrance of "Bai Meisheng" has faded, and if you don't smell it carefully, it is almost impossible to check. But before entering the mausoleum, for the sake of safety, Xia Chuqi still specially boiled several large pots of "awakening soup" in the camp of the Beidi army and let everyone take it.
That's right, it can only be said to be the old site.
The road was good, and it didn't take much work, and a group of 100 people arrived at the original Huiguang Huizhao Building...... Site.
From the north slope into the imperial mausoleum Huiguang Huizhao building section, has been rebuilt by the Beidi people. The messy corridor dug up by Dongfang Qingxuan and Yuan You in order to find Zhao Zhu back then has also been rebuilt and improved, and it looks much neater.
Although Dongfang Qingxuan has a mechanism model in his hand for reference, when Zhao Zhu escaped from the boiling water lake, the backup mechanism of the Huiguang Huizhao Building was activated again, would it affect the one thousand and eighty bureaus in the apse? Also, the Empress Dowager Yuan Zhao, that is, the "tomb robber" in Xia Chuqi's eyes, she was originally an unpredictable person, who can guarantee whether the mechanism model is true or false? In other words, whether the mechanism model is the same as the real one thousand and eighty bureaus or not, no one knows at all.
The eight-chamber organ in the front hall of the imperial tomb has been destroyed, and the back is one thousand and eighty bureaus, everything is unknown.
But...... The situation is completely different.
But the place is the same place, and the people are almost the same people.
Plans are not as fast as change, and the world is really unpredictable.
At that time, at the moment when Huiguang Huizhaolou sank into the boiling lake, she thought that her life was about to rest, and she was ready to live and die with Zhao Zhu, but she didn't expect the situation to take a sharp turn and she escaped. At that time, she thought that it would be a farewell, but she didn't expect that Zhao Bottle would "return from the dead", at that time, when she left Yinshan, she thought that she would never step into the imperial tomb again, and she didn't expect that she would come here again with these people.
Right now, she is walking on thin ice, and she doesn't dare to be careless at every step.
At that time, she was a newborn calf, and her curiosity overrode all fear.
The second entered the Yinshan Imperial Mausoleum, and the mood of the seventh day of the first summer was very different compared with the first time.
"Oh", Xia Chuqi nodded, quickly gathered the messy thoughts in his head, quickened his pace, kept up with Zhao Zhu's speed, and didn't turn his head to look at the strange old man who was dragged by Lagula.
Zhao Jun smiled, "Maybe he has some special skills?" Ah Qi doesn't know that most of the people on the rivers and lakes who know how to be skilled, most of them are eccentric, have a very high self-esteem, and are incompatible with people. You don't have to pay attention to it. β
"Hey, didn't you notice? The man didn't look normal. You say, what did Dongfang Qingxuan take him for? β
Zhao Nineteen doesn't know? Xia Chuqi frowned and tightened his grip on his hand.
Zhao Jun glanced at her line of sight and shook his head, "I've never seen it." β
"The man...... Do you recognize? β
She looked at Zhao Zhu as she walked forward from the north slope road.
Why did Dongfang Qingxuan bring such a strange person with him to the mausoleum?
His long hair was gray, as if it hadn't been repaired for a long time, and strands were scattered all over his body. His eyebrows have also grown long, and his beard is even bigger, so that it almost obscures most of his face, making it difficult to see his facial features. His clothes were also sloppy, as if they had never been washed, and they were as dirty as a beggar. In the team, the old man did not speak, nor did he look at others very much, scratching his ears and cheeks from time to time, muttering to himself, looking extremely strange, like a madman.
Not only the face is strange, but the person is also strange.
That old man was so weird.
On Zhao Zhu's side, except for the Taoist monks who came from Gacha Village and insisted on going to the imperial tomb together, they were basically "ten days dry" people, and there was not much change. To Xia Chuqi's slight surprise, Dongfang Qingxuan replaced a group of wounded people, and after replenishing his combat strength, he added a strange old man to the team that went to the imperial tomb.
These people are all elite soldiers, all of them are armed with crossbows and swords, and they are all in military uniforms.
Of the people who entered the mausoleum, only about 100 people were selected, and 50 on each side.
The next morning, the matter of entering the mausoleum was finally prepared.
They did not return to Gacha, but set up a pot to cook rice and take a short rest on the camp of the original Beidi army.
Zhao Zhu and Dongfang Qingxuan reached an agreement on cooperation, but did not enter the imperial tomb immediately. Instead, start with some more elaborate preparation and arrangement. personnel trimming and replenishment; Material allocation, action routes and plans, etc...... It all takes some time.
A catastrophe killed countless people, but after the corpses were pushed into the pit and buried, the past and traces left by these people in the world were like a drop of water falling into the sea, without stirring up half a cent of waves, and disappeared without a trace.
At dawn, calm returned to the northern slope of Yinshan Mountain.