Chapter Twenty-Eight: Chess Meets Opponents
"Zhangzun, we've dug into the entrance, this rainy night has almost stopped, let's get ready to go in." Li Runrin said.
Liu Dehao nodded and went into the thief hole with everyone.
The stepped entrance does not quite look like the tomb style of the Han Dynasty, but looking at the furnishings inside, Liu Dehao is sure that it is a tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty. "I told you in advance, don't move the things inside, there are a lot of organs here, and if you're not careful, you'll lose your life."
"Understood, understood." Wang Fugui knew that Liu Dehao was talking about him.
"And you, You Xiu, did you hear that? Don't go to the grave and want to go to heaven. It doesn't matter how much money you can pour, the key is that everyone's life must be saved. ”
Before Liu Dehao finished speaking, You Xiu accidentally knocked over a shelf placed in the tomb. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, what is this thing, is it worth it?"
Liu Dehao picked up the torch and took a photo: "Who knows what it is, but it's worthless at first glance." ”
"How do you divide the money? Teach me. Wu Nian said.
"If you have time to teach, let's hurry up and find the candlestick. According to the tomb style of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the lighting is generally a bronze lamp, and in the middle of the round lamp plate, there is a long nail-shaped fire candle for lighting. ”
"Is that not it?" Wu Nian found it as soon as he looked for it.
"Yes, I'm quite talented. Generally speaking, there will be six to ten lamps or even more in this tomb, and they are usually symmetrically distributed, so it is not difficult to find. Everyone extinguished the torches, left a light, and lit up the place before they could go in. ”
"Come and see, everyone!" Wu Nian shouted.
Everyone followed the sound into a burial chamber, which was in a square structure, with a lampstand in the dead corner, and a sarcophagus in the center.
"Wow! It's been posted! Wang Fugui was very excited.
"This coffin doesn't seem to have been opened yet, right?" Li Runlin looked at it.
You Xiu couldn't wait to open the coffin: "Zhangzun, if this is really the tomb of the chess king, then it will definitely be sent, think about it, the chess king was not a regent during his lifetime, and he also helped the emperor a lot, then he will definitely enjoy all the glory and wealth in the rest of his life, and he must be a rich lord." But this time I learned to be smart, since he is a rich lord, his tomb must not be too simple, you look here, a tomb road comes in, and then a main tomb chamber plus two ear chambers on the left and right, a generation of princes and kings, how can it be of this scale? ”
Wu Nian asked, "Then you mean, we entered a fake tomb?" ”
"Nope." Liu Dehao said: "This is the real tomb, according to feng shui, this is the place where qi gathers, and the tomb can only be here." But You Xiu is right, this is just here to confuse people, maybe it's just a burial pit. I have robbed a tomb before, and the burial room alone is as big as half of the palace of the Dou Kingdom, but the six burial rooms are surrounded by the outer wall of the main tomb, you can imagine. ”
"Whose tomb is that! Such a big ...... It's a waste of money and waste! It won't be ...... Qin Shi Huang? ”
"The tomb of Qin Shi Huang is the heritage that our Dou Kingdom focuses on protecting, and it can't be stolen at any time!" Liu Dehao suddenly turned around and shouted: "Wang Fugui! Don't touch it! ”
Frightened, Wang Fugui quickly withdrew his hand.
"How many times have I told you? Don't move anything! ”
"I'll just touch this coffin."
"What if there is a mechanism on the coffin?" Liu Dehao said.
"No, I've touched it all and it's really good. You say it's ...... Funeral room, then this coffin is probably also a funeral coffin, do you say there are good things in it? ”
"Lean back, open this coffin first, and see what the chess king is about."
Liu Dehao sent someone to open the coffin, and everyone retreated.
Li Runlin stepped forward and sniffed: "Zhangzun, it's not right." ”
Liu Dehao frowned, and also leaned down to smell it: "This smell is a bit like our current black powder, this is ......"
"Xuanhuo Coffin!"
Wu Nian was confused: "What is a Xuanhuo coffin?" ”
"It's a common trap in tombs, and as you all know, when a corpse decays when sealed, it produces a large amount of toxic gas that can burn quickly, which is what we often call methane. When the coffin is suddenly opened, if the methane meets an open flame, it ignites instantly, which can burn the person who opened the coffin and blow up the tomb. This kind of tomb is what we often call the fire cave tomb, also called the Xuanhuo Cave. Although digging the Xuanhuo Cave is very dangerous, the existence of such a one-time mechanism also says one thing. ”
Wu Nian understood the truth: "I know, once someone has opened this coffin, the mechanism will be used." In other words, as long as such a mechanism exists, it means that no one has visited the tomb yet, and the tomb chamber is well preserved. We were the first to come and rob the graves. ”
"Smart enough."
“…… This thing turned out to be harmful. Wang Fugui said: "Such a beautiful coffin, I thought there was really a treasure in it, it turned out to be a mechanism deliberately arranged by the owner of the tomb." ”
"But...... If we don't light the torch, won't we be able to light it? ”
"Look at those bronze lamps. It's all open flames, although the biogas doesn't have much lethality after it spreads, and it can't cause much explosion, but I just smelled the smell of gunpowder in the coffin, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the manufacture and use of gunpowder was not very mature at all. But at that time, we also knew that friction caused fire, and only if we opened the coffin and caused the flammable materials in the coffin to rub and catch fire, everyone was likely to die here. ”
"I see."
Wang Fugui patted his thigh and said: "The owner of this tomb is really scheming, it can be described as insidious and cunning. deserves it, rob his tomb, let him do all the calculations, and see who can count whom. ”
Liu Dehao said with a smile: "We are also chess opponents, the chess king not only loves to play chess during his lifetime, but also has made great improvements to chess, the Eastern Han Dynasty, is also the period when Liubo chess gradually withdrew from history." The first mechanism in this tomb must be just a small temptation, and the people who play chess must have left more problems for us to take one step at a time. ”
At this time, the subordinates who searched the ear chamber also came out: "Zhangzun, I didn't find the passage, but there are a lot of things in the ear chamber, and the funeral coffin is not a Xuanhuo coffin, it is easy to open." ”
"What?" Wu Nian questioned: "Is there only three tombs for one prince and king?" But it's just one tomb and three burial chambers...... Are we really digging in the wrong place? This is again fake, deceiving us? ”
"No, no, I'll see." Liu Dehao said: "A few of you, first move the good things in these tombs, and pick the good ones." ”