Chapter Twenty-Three: The Fight
"Director, there's something wrong with the plants here!"
Shang Jingxue's voice came, and everyone rushed to hear the sound, but found that on a piece of land of more than ten square meters, the vegetation was sparser than that in other places, but it was not obvious.
"This should be it." Jiang Ting nodded, "Due to the revival of the aura, the speed of vegetation recovery has been greatly accelerated, if we arrive a few more weeks later, with the level of heaven and earth aura at that time, we will not be able to see the abnormality of this place at all." β
Everyone thought so, Jiang Ting and the three people picked up the shovel and quickly excavated it, and the four tomb robbers were responsible for transporting the soil and cleaning the earth. As an awakened person, Jiang Ting and the others had a physique far beyond ordinary people, and in less than half an hour, a large pit with a depth of seven meters and a bottom area of five or six square meters was dug out.
"Dang!"
With a muffled sound, the ordnance shovel in Wen Xi's hand fell, as if it had smashed on some kind of hard object, Jiang Ting hurriedly cleaned up the floating soil, and a large stone brick appeared in front of everyone.
"Director Qin's codex mentions that this is a Han tomb, and we should be above the tomb road now, and there is a stone seal at the entrance of the tomb road, which is not easy to open, so it is better to break through from here." Jiang Ting stretched out his hand and rubbed the stone, "Brother Ma, do you have any methods?" β
"This stone is quite thick, and we don't have explosives at hand, so it's better to dig on both sides, it should be a masonry structure, which is easier to dismantle, or dig down and break through the bottom of the tomb." Ma Zhifei proposed a solution.
Jiang Ting was noncommittal, there was nothing wrong with Ma Zhifei's method, but Jiang Ting couldn't estimate the scale of this Han tomb, in case it was the tomb of the Seven Kings and Marquis, and the specifications were done according to the standards of the Son of Heaven, the amount of work to excavate the earthwork might be very large.
Time was limited, and they had to save their energy to fight, Jiang Ting didn't want to waste his physical strength on digging pits.
"Can it be broken directly?" Jiang Ting glanced at Tiao Shi, then at Wen Xi and Xu Tao, and had an idea in his heart.
"Wen Xi, Xu Tao, let's go up." Jiang Ting opened his mouth, exerted force with his feet, jumped three or four meters high, stepped on it, jumped up again, and landed steadily above the pothole.
Jiang Ting briefly explained a few words to the four factions of tomb robbing, and took Wen Xi and Xu Tao to the mountain not far away.
More than ten minutes later, the three of Jiang Ting walked in with a piece of marble, which was the size of a stone lion, and the three of them walked steadily, leaving a not shallow footprint on the ground with each step.
"This has to be a thousand pounds, right?!" Wang Guangjun smacked his tongue, the stone lion didn't look big, but he still knew how heavy it was.
Well, this judgment comes from years of experience.
Jiang Ting nodded: "It should be about half a ton, this weight is enough." β
The three of them walked to the pit, lifted the stone and threw it down.
"Boom!"
The half-ton boulder fell from a height of more than seven meters and smashed on the top of the tomb, the bluestone bricks were broken, and the entire tomb roof was smashed through!
"It's a lot easier." Jiang Ting patted the sand and stone on his hand, and looked under the hole, where a gap that could allow a person to pass through appeared, and the dark entrance of the cave was like a devouring beast.
Jiang Ting took the mountaineering bag from Wen Xi's hand and took out a fire fold, which was still brought by Ma Zhifei to detect the air conditions in the ancient tomb.
When I was interning with my mentor in the past, Jiang Ting once heard someone mention that when excavating the Dingling Tomb, the archaeologists once brought a few chickens over to detect whether there was a miasma.
But the strange thing is that no matter how you drive, the chickens refuse to enter the tomb, and in the end they can only tie their wings and throw them in, and when they hear the chickens crowing, the archaeologists can enter the tomb with confidence.
However, speaking of chicken, Jiang Ting thought of Xiangxi who was filming, and when it came to Xiangxi, Jiang Ting thought of the Jieling faction, and when it came to the Jieling faction, Jiang Ting looked at the old man beside him.
Hu Jinwang was furious by him, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, director, I'll go in first later, I'll have an old bone, and I'll find the way for you!" β
After that, the old man showed a resolute look, as if he was about to go to the execution ground.
Jiang Ting was stunned, he didn't know what Hu Jinwang had made up in his head, shook his head, and ignored it.
With a "ding" sound, the fire fold was lit by him, and Jiang Ting threw it into the cave with his hand.
The fire was extinguished, and there was not a single flash of fire in the dark hole.
Jiang Ting's face was solemn, Wen Xi was also nervous, and Xu Tao looked at the cave thoughtfully.
Ma Zhifei came to Jiang Ting's side: "Director, you are too energetic." β
Jiang Ting: "......"
He didn't expect that he used too much force and extinguished the fire that he had finally lit.
"That's right...... It seems that it is up to the professionals. Jiang Ting laughed embarrassedly, took out a fire fold, and handed it to Ma Zhifei.
In fact, this can't be completely blamed on Jiang Ting, after all, it was all "unveiling" operations before, and there were all kinds of machines and equipment, he is an archaeologist with a professional background, how can he know how to use fire folds.
Ma Zhifei walked down the gentle slope of the pit, lit the fire fold and threw it gently, and the fire fold burned, proving that the air in the tomb could still circulate.
"There's no stale smell, there's no other smell, there's no poison gas in the tomb." Ma Zhifei had a keen sense of smell and quickly gave a judgment.
Jiang Ting nodded slightly, as an Awakened One, he also realized this, there should be some kind of mechanism in the tomb to keep the air circulating.
"The ventilation of the burial chamber may have been left in the design of the air vents left by the dead as if it were life, or it may have been left for the craftsmen who worked on the cemetery."
Thinking of this, Jiang Ting couldn't help but think of some novel advertisements on the browser, and immediately became creepy: "Could it be that it's my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather...... 's grandfather is the builder of Liu Bangzi's tomb and the last surviving craftsman' This setting is not possible? β
"No, no, what's wrong with me these two days...... I've been thinking about these weird things. β
Jiang Ting rubbed his temples, since he entered the Pre-Qin Research Institute, strange thoughts often popped up in his mind, and thoughts that he would not normally have at all would suddenly appear, and it seemed that the whole person's thinking had become divergent.
Hu Jinwang took a deep breath, carried the stone into the tomb, and walked at the forefront of the group, relying on his own experience to guard against possible dangers.
The tomb is about four meters wide, and there are gray walls on both sides, Jiang Ting tentatively wiped it, and the walls are very smooth, obviously polished at the beginning of construction.
The air is a bit dreary than the outside, but it's still fresh, and it feels like it's in the basement.
"The Quartet is outside, the east stone is outside, the sword household is closed first, the night dragon is set up in the household, the Mo evil sword, the crossbow is ambushed, and the fire ...... is set up"
Jiang Ting recalled a sentence in the [Old Han Yi] and couldn't help but ask, "Old Hu, what should I do if I encounter a dark crossbow?" β
"Director Jiang rest assured." Hu Jinwang stopped and said with a smile, "The dark crossbow is clever and precise, it must be mainly wooden, and now thousands of years have passed, the fog in the mountains here is thick, the humidity is high, and the dark crossbow mechanism has long been decayed and out of order, and it is self-defeating. β
In fact, for those of them who specialize in robbing ancient tombs, the dark crossbow is really the most "friendly" mechanism, it can't be touched, and it may not be able to shoot arrows if it is touched, and the bowstring has been stretched for more than a thousand years, who would expect it to be elastic?!
"Andβ"
Hu Jinwang suddenly turned to face everyone and lifted his clothes: "The old man has already taken precautions!" β
A slightly bloated black "shirt" appeared on Hu Jinwang, and Hu Jinwang's expression was calm: "The old man is wearing body armor." β
Everyone: "......"
"Are you a grave robber?"
Jiang Ting complained frantically in his heart: "The next Dou even wears body armor, this is going to let you go to the Middle East to carry out a mission, do you have to drive a tank over!" β
How strong is Level 2 body armor?
Even the FDY2-R-A body armor that has passed the time limit can withstand the close range of 54 pistols.
Experiments have shown that a 50-pound tensile modern composite bow with fiberglass bow blades, supplemented by modern steel arrows, can only break through the chemical fibers on the outer layer of body armor in the case of a full bow, and cannot even hurt a four-millimeter bulletproof steel plate.
As long as you can't meet the mercury-driven machine crossbow of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, the crossbow arrows in the tomb can't even break Hu Jinwang's skin.
It's good, you go in front and we follow you. β
Jiang Ting gave the order without hesitation.
Hu Jinwang strode forward, as for the dark grid that would appear under his feet or something, it was not within his consideration at all, he really didn't worry about this kind of thing after robbing tombs all his life.
Because he could see the road under his feet.
Under the illumination of six or seven strong flashlights, the dark tomb was extremely bright, and Hu Jinwang could clearly distinguish the material at the bottom of the tomb, which was why he could walk with confidence.
There is a mechanism called "chain flap", which places a flap with a shaft and a knife cone inserted underneath, but this mechanism has requirements for the material of the flap, and due to ancient technical limitations, the flap must be wooden.
The tomb is deep and narrow, Jiang Ting followed behind Hu Jinwang, constantly looking at the wall, there are some murals carved on it, mostly aristocratic life and the like.
A middle-aged man with a wide robe often appears in the painting, sometimes to worship the ancestors, sometimes to meet guests, to meet the emperor's figure, this middle-aged man is obviously the owner of the tomb.
"Click"
Suddenly, there was a sound in the silent tomb, Hu Jinwang's feet sank, as if he had stepped on something, his heart trembled, and he stepped back without hesitation.
"Be careful!"
Hu Jinwang shouted loudly, and everyone hurriedly dispersed and avoided retreating.
"Don't touch the wall!"
Ma Zhifei roared, but it was too late, Hu Jinwang's voice was too sudden, Xu Tao reacted too violently, and hit the wall directly in a hurry, the stone wall shook, and fell backwards suddenly.
The sound of "boom" came, Jiang Ting's eyes froze, and he took a strong flashlight to shine forward while retreating.
As if some mechanism had been triggered, Jiang Ting saw that something was coming towards him at high speed!
"Boom!"
More than ten meters away, several cylindrical objects flew out and crashed into Jiang Ting and the others.
"Rolling logs!"
Jiang Ting roared, signaling everyone to be vigilant, as a sharp weapon to defend the city and ambush, the lethality of the wood can be imagined.
Four sassal trees crushed over, more than half a person tall, extremely fast, sealed the space, everyone went deep into the tomb, there was no way to avoid it, if ordinary people were hit by it, they would either die or be injured!
Jiang Ting took a deep breath, put away the strong flashlight, and he stretched out his hands and blocked it directly towards the sassal wood.
"Bang!"
A huge force came, Jiang Ting's arm trembled, but his expression did not change, and his body was relieved. Keep falling backwards and exiting.
"I can block it!"
A gleam flashed in Jiang Ting's eyes, as an Awakened One, his strength was much stronger than that of ordinary people!
Beside him, Xu Tao raised his arms and blocked a piece of wood, and Wen Xi on the side kicked a piece of wood alive, stopping the last piece of wood by the way.
Everything happened between the lightning and flint, all the trees stopped, and everyone stood in shock and gasped for breath.
"I actually ran into a rolling log." Jiang Ting looked at the two-meter-long and one-meter-thick sassalwood in front of him, and felt a little palpitating.
"Don't underestimate the ancients, Fangcai's dark grid should be a fake mechanism, the purpose is to lure the tomb robbers to collide with the stone wall next to it, if I'm not mistaken, the entire wall there is a trigger point for the mechanism."
Xu Tao's face showed shame, Jiang Ting shook his head to indicate that it was okay, and then walked forward.
A few meters ahead, the stone wall collapsed, revealing a large black hole with nothing inside.
"There is some kind of mechanism pressed under the stone wall, and when the mechanism is triggered, the sassal wood is somehow 'catapulted' out, like a catapult." Jiang Ting quickly made a judgment.
"There shouldn't be any mechanism ahead, and even if there is, it has been triggered by this sassal wood, so we can move forward with confidence." Hu Jinwang tightened the body armor on his body and groaned.
Everyone looked at each other and nodded.
Fang Cai Mu flew out and was blocked by the three of Jiang Ting, and there was no danger, and the three of them also had a preliminary judgment of their strength.
In this tomb, nothing can stop them!
At the end of the tomb is the Le Garage, and on both sides is the carriage and horse garage, in which there are chariot and horse terracotta figurines and other things, all painted with colorful lacquer, lifelike.
"That's a lot of money." Wang Guangjun was a thief, staring at a few handy cans in the corner, his eyes were very hot.
"Reselling cultural relics, especially those before the Song Dynasty, is punishable by heavy prison sentences." Jiang Ting's face was expressionless, and he glanced at the fat man, "Now that the Blue Star aura has recovered, Kyushu is the period of the Strike Hard Period, and it may be punished for treason." β
Wang Fatzi was frightened, and said with a smile: "How can it, let's just ask casually, now we are also serious professionals, right?" β
Jiang Ting was helpless, nodded, and walked through a pile of priceless cultural relics, except that he felt that these things were ugly, Jiang Ting had no other feelings.
After all, he majored in Shang and Zhou archaeology, and he was really not interested in looking at these Han Dynasty potters or something.
While thinking about it, Jiang Ting raised his legs and walked forward, and in front of him was the main burial chamber, that is, the place where the coffin of the tomb owner was placed.
As an archaeologist, he didn't feel the gloom of the tomb at all, and the thought of being able to open the coffin with his own hands made him faintly excited.
After all, when he was an archaeological intern before, the bones he played with were older than the grandfather of the owner of this tomb.
"I used to follow my mentor to archaeology, where have I seen a coffin in the tomb of Shang Zhou...... Today is a real meeting. Jiang Ting took a deep breath, and there was a gleam in his eyes, "I will save you from the darkness." β
The "you" he says naturally includes the artifacts in the tomb and the owner of the tomb.
"Director Jiang."
At the end of the line, Shang Jingxue opened his mouth and pushed his glasses: "Be careful of the top." β
The main burial chamber is divided into two rooms, east and west, the door of the burial chamber is tall, Jiang Ting looked up, and with the help of the strong flashlight, he could vaguely see something hanging inside the door.
"Jingxue means that there may be iron ropes hanging stones in this, don't act rashly first, be careful in everything." Ma Zhifei spoke, stretched out his strong arm and pointed to the depths of the tomb.
The function of the iron cable hanging stone is similar to that of the chain flap, and the ceiling and wall are concealed by metal pulleys, which are used to lift the boulder and hang it at the top.
There is a wooden rocker underneath, and the cable chain passes through the ground and connects with the boulder, and once pressed, the hook is disengaged and the boulder falls.
Cold sweat broke out on Jiang Ting's forehead, if it weren't for Shang Jingxue and others to remind him, he was afraid that he would be on the road of this tomb.
The bright flashlight was turned on to the maximum, and Jiang Ting carefully observed the floor of the tomb, trying to find some clues, but the result made him a little depressed.
The entire floor of the burial chamber was covered with cinnabar, a dark red color, and the difference between wood and stone was not visible.
"Is there anything you can do?" Jiang Ting thought about it for a while, and turned his head to look at the "professionals".
"Director Jiang can do that kind of 'scattering' kung fu?" Ma Zhifei, the technical director, asked, "It's similar to jiu-jitsu like yoga, which can spread the strength of the body everywhere and rub it on the ground without triggering any mechanism." β
Jiang Ting shook his head: "No, will you?" β
"I won't either, after the Qing Dynasty is gone, this kung fu has been lost." Ma Zhifei replied truthfully.
"Is there anything else you can do?" Jiang Ting's brows furrowed, and he turned to the remaining few people and asked.
"Director." Shang Jingxue spoke, "On the premise that the oxygen in the tomb is smooth enough, the Mountain Moving Sect suggests burning the tomb directly." β
Jiang Ting: "......"
"Although King Xiang is the ancestor of the Jieling Sect, your Mountain-Moving Sect does have excellent disciples like Sun Dianying." Jiang Ting patted Shang Jingxue on the shoulder, directly negating his idea.
Joke! Not to mention whether the air in the tomb can support the fire, the soil of the tomb is loose, and if the fire burns down the entire tomb, all of them will have to be buried here.
"Director, you can actually ......," Hu Jinwang said.
"No, I thought of it too." Jiang Ting interrupted Hu Jinwang's words and looked into the tomb.
Hu Jinwang has read countless tombs, naturally there is a way to crack it, in the tomb full of iron rope hanging stones, there is a place that is absolutely safe, that is, on the coffin.
After all, no one would let a boulder fall on their coffin.
It is advisable to use a long pole to prop up the ground, jump over the rocker of the mechanism, or use a grappling hook with elastic material to make the body jump directly onto the coffin without touching the ground.
But Jiang Ting's method is simpler than his.
He can jump right over it.
Sometimes Jiang Ting often forgets that he is an awakened person, and the extraordinary power that belongs to the awakened seems to be sealed in his body, and can only burst out when he is in danger or deliberately induced.
He, Wen Xi and the others can lift thousands of catties of boulders to move easily, and they are several meters high when they jump on the ground, and they can block the high-speed moving wood by raising their hands, Jiang Ting is no longer an ordinary person.
"Stand out some." Jiang Ting looked at the coffin more than ten meters away and said in a deep voice.
"Director, you want to ......"
Wen Xi Bingxue was smart, and quickly guessed Jiang Ting's intentions, hesitated for a moment and said, "It's better for me to come, my physique is stronger than yours." β
"I'm the director."
Jiang Ting shook his head and took a few steps back: "Don't worry, there should be nothing wrong, if there really is...... Remember to inform Tianshu. β
"Director!"
Wen Xi's face changed, and he reached out to grab Jiang Ting's arm, but was swept away by the latter, Jiang Ting's feet exerted force, and he rushed over!
With a "whew", Jiang Ting's body jumped up, as if he had wings, and directly "flew" out, and fell to the top of the huge coffin in just an instant.
The coffin on the high platform was more than ten meters away from the door of the tomb!
"Bang!"
As soon as Jiang Ting stabilized his body, he heard a loud noise, and the entire coffin shook, and the next moment, the coffin suddenly sank, almost shaking Jiang Ting off it.
"Not good!"
Jiang Ting's expression changed slightly, and when he looked at the door of the tomb, a stone door fell and smashed in front of the tomb door, sealing Jiang Ting in the tomb.
"Director!"
"Director Jiang!"
"Jiang Ting!"
Everything happened too suddenly, and everyone suddenly panicked, and from time to time there was the sound of pounding on the stone gate, obviously worried about Jiang Ting's safety.
"I'm fine!"
The sound of the iron rope being pulled came, as if some mechanism had been activated, Jiang Ting answered everyone, and secretly became vigilant.
"Bang"
A dull sound came, Jiang Ting suddenly raised his head, and looked ahead, a stone pillar the size of a bucket suddenly appeared, whistling and crashing over.
The stone pillar is fixed by two iron cables, like a bell hammer in a temple, and it uses inertia to smash into the river garden.
Jiang Ting's pupils shrank suddenly, his body flickered, he reached out and grabbed the edge of the coffin and jumped down, the stone pillar brushed his body, and he didn't make any sound on the coffin.
"I didn't see any mechanisms along the way, so I was all preparing here." Jiang Ting took a deep breath and looked above the coffin, the stone pillar was still swaying back and forth due to inertia, and in the process, the closest place to the coffin was only a few centimeters.
At this moment, his body was hanging on the edge of the coffin, one hand was clinging to the coffin, and the other hand was taking out the dagger given to him by Luo Zhen and inserting it into the gap in the coffin lid.
Jiang Ting looked around, although the bright flashlight was not brought in, with his eyesight, he could still see the tomb in the dark.
The tomb is divided into east and west, and the east tomb is the east tomb, which is also the place where the owner of the tomb is buried, and the next door is the resting place of the tomb owner's daughter.
Generally speaking, the east burial chamber is slightly larger, with hundreds of square meters, but the coffin at the foot of Jiang Ting occupies most of the space, the ground is coated with cinnabar and other pigments, and there are all kinds of daily necessities in the tomb, as if someone really lives here.