The morning sun penetrated through the cave, Ghost Shuo's eyes flickered, and he woke up, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, the fire in front of his body had been extinguished, and not far away, Wang Daling and Luo Yan were sleeping together. Ghost Shuo looked towards the entrance of the cave again, only to see that Luo Yang was already standing at the entrance of the cave, and Ghost Shuo got up and walked over.

Luo Yang heard the movement, turned to look at the ghost behind him, and asked softly, "You are also awake." ”

Ghost Shuo nodded, looking out of the cave, last night the rain was heavy, the sky was dark, the situation outside the cave Ghost Shuo didn't have time to look, but at this time he found that the cave was actually located on the top of a mountain, the dense forest in front of him was not so serious, and the terrain was open. Ghost Shuo asked, "You told me that you can know the location of the altar here, can you see where it is now?" ”

Luo Yang nodded, raised his hand and pointed out: "If you read it right, it should be around there!" ”

Ghost Shuo was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure of this?" How can you see it? ”

There was a river in the place where Luo Yang pointed out, winding and rugged, and the river flowed north, and Luo Yang asked, "Do you think that the terrain here is very similar to a place?" ”

Ghost Shuo replied affirmatively: "Well, listening to you say that, this place is very similar to Jinghong in reverse!" ”

Luo Yang replied: "That's right, Dao Pa once said that this dark city was built by the City of Dawn in reverse, and that is the location of Jinglan in reverse, since Paya Zhen built the palace golden hall there when he was alive, then he will definitely build his mausoleum in the same location after his death." Luo Yang paused and continued: "It is located in the west of the river, suitable for burial, plus it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the Tibetan wind gathers qi, it can be regarded as a heaven-sent cave, if it is expected to be good, the altar must be in that location." ”

Ghost Shuo nodded, Luo Yang is an expert in finding the tomb, and there is nothing wrong with listening to his analysis, but Ghost Shuo still hesitated a little and said: "The terrain here is towering, it is indeed easy to observe, I will walk for at least two or three hours, and how to identify the direction when I enter the dense forest for a while, will it be like yesterday, always spinning in place?" ”

Luo Yang replied: "Yesterday I was in a hurry, and I didn't think about it, there is also a large dense forest behind my house, although it is not as good as here, but it is also luxuriant, so the situation is roughly the same." We are in the northern hemisphere, the sunlight is from the south, after a long time, the formation of the sunny side is mostly broad-leaved plants, and the shady side of the plants are not so vigorous, and the shady side is relatively wet, most of the moss will grow on the shady side, Gui Bo once said, if you get lost in the mountains, you can look at the growth of moss to determine the direction. ”

Ghost Shuo replied in a low voice, "This method is really wonderful! Without further ado, let's get out as soon as possible! ”

"Pervert! How do you lean on me? "I haven't said you yet, are you eating my tofu? There was an argument between the two in the cave.

Several people walked all the way according to Luo Yang's method, walked in the dense forest for more than two hours, the trees gradually became scarce, and after a while, they heard the sound of the water in the river, Luo Yang's method of identifying the direction really worked, and walked to the estimated position for about twenty minutes, and finally arrived.

Wang Daling looked around, and felt very strange, this place is about fifty meters away from the river, but there are no trees in a radius of more than ten meters, and there is also no trace of any building, and there is just a muddy ground under his feet: "Huh? What's going on? How come there is nothing? Could it be that I found the wrong one? ”

Luo Yang leaned over and glanced at the mud color on the soles of his feet, then looked around, and said to everyone: "The color of this soil is different from the one next to it, the altar must be here, it may be underground, everyone look around to see if there is any entrance." ”

Several people began to split up to search, and after a while, Oni Shuo said loudly, "Come and see, there seems to be wind blowing out of the ground here." ”

Hearing the news, several people hurriedly came over, Luo Yang grabbed some weeds and threw them in the air, and said, "There is indeed wind down here, and there may be a secret door." ”

Hearing Luo Yang say this, Wang Daling hurriedly took out the shovel and dug down, not long after digging, the shovel "bang", as if digging something like a stone, Luo Yang said on the side: "Well, it seems that I found it!" As he spoke, he took the shovel and dug it up himself, and after a while something was dug out of the ground, which was a rectangular stone tablet lying horizontally, about two meters long and one meter wide, to be precise, it was more like a lying stone door, and the wind just now was blowing out from the cracks around the stone gate.

Seeing this, Luo Yang dug up another part of the perimeter, and sure enough, as inferred, it was a lying stone gate, surrounded by a floor made of stones. Several people quickly cleaned up the soil on the stone gate, and some words were revealed on it, which were Mengxi ancient characters, and Luo Yang read word by word: "Mengxi Jinglong Golden Palace!" Wang Daling was surprised: "You even know this kind of word?" ”

"Nonsense! My brother is awesome! What kind of ancient characters do you not know? Luo Yan replied.

Ghost Shuo asked coldly, "So, the altar has been found?" ”

Luo Yang nodded and replied, "Yes, I finally found it!" This should just be a cover, there is no special mechanism, and it should be fine to lift it. ”

Wang Daling was stunned: "It's okay to lift it up?" To put it mildly, this cover plate is a few hundred kilograms, right? How to lift? ”

Luo Yang said: "The cover is indeed very heavy, so let's go find some branches, thick and thin, and stones, big and small. ”

Ghost Shuo didn't understand what he was planning, but when he said this, several people still acted separately, and after a while, they prepared all the things they needed. Luo Yang chose a corner, inserted the sapper shovel into the gap between the slate and the surrounding area, and then asked Ghost Shuo to press down on the handle of the sapper shovel, Ghost Shuo was afraid that the handle of the sapper shovel would be crushed too hard, so he could only try a little harder, and the slate really moved up slightly, at this time Luo Yang quickly stuffed some thin branches and small stones into the gap.

"Go on!" Luo Yang commanded, and after repeating it a few times, the corner of the stone slab was raised by Luo Yang by about two centimeters, and he stuffed some stones to fix it. Several people changed corners, using the same method, and in a short time, each side of the slate was padded to a height of two centimeters. Luo Yang took the rope, passed through the gap under the stone slab, tied it back and forth several times, and then signaled to pull the rope together, and the small stones under the stone slab rolled, and after a while, the stone gate was really opened, and Luo Yang saw that the exposed mouth was enough for one person to go down, so he asked everyone to stop.

Wang Daling looked at the stone slab that was pulled apart, and muttered, "You kid really have some methods!" ”

Luo Yang didn't answer, and when he saw the stone gate open, he hurriedly leaned over to look at the situation under the stone gate, and as soon as he got closer, he could feel the cool breeze blowing under the stone gate. It was dark under the stone gate, and through the entrance of the cave, I could see that there was a huge space below, and Luo Yang used a flashlight to shine it, but it was still dark, and he couldn't see what was further away.

Luo Yang found a stone and threw it downward, and soon there was a sound of "popping" water, and there was water below, could it be that the altar was flooded? Luo Yang saw a complicated expression on his face, if the altar was really flooded, it would be a big disappointment.

Luo Yang looked at his watch and threw another stone downward, "Smack"! The sound of water came back again, and Luo Yang spoke: "According to the time when the stone fell, I have calculated that we should only be seven or eight meters above the water, and I will go down and take a look." Hearing Luo Yang say this, several people couldn't help but look at each other. There is only one rope, and it seems that this can only be done, after all, Luo Yang is more experienced in the matter of going to the tomb.

Luo Yang wrapped the rope around his body several times, and agreed to shake the rope violently if there was a special situation, so Wang Daling pulled him up as fast as he could, and Luo Yan prepared some dry firewood and branches, and tied some torches, ready to use it later after going down the hole.

When he was ready, Loyan lit one of the torches, tied one end with a rope, and slowly lowered it from the hole, explaining to us that the main thing was to test the air in the cave to see if there was any oxygen or other toxic gases, and that this was the only way to deal with it without other testing equipment.

After the torch went down to the hole, it burned normally, and the color of the torch did not change, indicating that there was no special gas, until the torch was burned, Luo Yang said: "There should be no problem, I am ready to go down." ”

There was no big tree nearby, so he could only tie one end of the rope tightly to the stone slab to avoid the rope not falling if he accidentally let go.

"Can you see what's down there?" Onishuo asked at the entrance of the cave.

"It's too far to see clearly, but it seems that there is a building, and the altar should not be completely flooded!" Loyan replied.

Wang Daling continued to lower the rope, and after a while, Luo Yang's voice came from below: "Wait a minute, I'm on the water." Luo Yang lightly touched the water with his foot and responded, "It's okay, the water is cold, you can continue to put it down, I'm ready to extinguish the torch." ”

After Luo Yang went into the water, according to the previous agreement, Wang Daling let go of the rope and let Luo Yang search in the water by himself, and if he encountered a situation, he would pull the rope hard. At this moment, the rope is very stable, and it seems that everything is normal with Luo Yang, but the waiting time at this moment is quite long.

After a long while, Luo Yang finally returned to the surface of the water, and shouted to the top: "I have checked the situation below, the depth of the water is no more than two meters, it is a dark river, and there are banks on both sides. Hearing that it was just a dark river, Guishuo and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that this trip was not in vain, so they shouted below: "Okay, I'll put the rope up first, hang the flashlight down for you, and then take a good look." ”