Preparation, Out of the Submarine Tomb (3)
When the little brother said this, Wu Xie immediately remembered what happened a few weeks ago.
"I remember, at that time, we were about to go to the palace of the king of Lu, when we passed through the corpse cave, we caught a big corpse, the tail of the worm, there was a bell like this, there was a big cyan centipede in it, when the bell was crawling, it would make a sound like a human whispering, the sound was like a ghost, it seemed to have a mysterious power, we were almost fascinated by this sound at that time, fortunately, the little brother was clever, kicked us into the water, and was sober." Wu Xie looked at the bell on the coral tree and said in a trance. "But now if you want me to identify it, I'm not sure, because at that time, the corpse cave was the same as now, and there were only a few miner's lamps illuminated, and the bell was trampled on by Panzi not long after it came down, and it was impossible to compare the two, I can only look at it."
Mengli, who was accompanying A-Ning, walked to the coral tree at this time, stared at the bell on it, and said in a flat voice: "The specifications and patterns of this bell are very similar to the one in the corpse cave. If this is really the kind of bell we see in the corpse cave, if the fat man touched it just now, we would all lose our minds. β
The little brother looked at Mengli with deep eyes, and said: "There must be something strange in that corpse cave, and the corpse accumulation ground was originally a huge tomb, but I don't know how it could be related to Wang Zanghai." β
The fat man heard them talk about this, knew the origin of the bell, and wondered, "Are you mistaken?" How can this pre-Warring States thing appear here again, this is a bit too coincidental. Could it be that this hidden sea is also a tomb robber? β
As soon as he said this, Wu Xie and the little brother were stunned for a moment.
"In this way, there is also this possibility," the little brother thought for a while and said, "No one knows what he did in his early years, and he is proficient in feng shui, if he robs tombs, he should be at ease." However, I remember that his family background is relatively prominent, and their family has been feng shui masters for several generations, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing, so they will never do such a menial job. β
When the little brother talked about being cheap, his face didn't change, and he didn't seem to realize that he had scolded a few people present.
The corners of Mengli's mouth twitched, this brain is hopeless. If you have to pull yourself, don't pull us!
Wu Xie said: "I don't think it's possible, the inverted fight, will definitely leave a sign in his tomb, so that the future generations will avoid taboos in the near future, have you seen this kind of thing here?" β
The little brother shook his head, "I also noticed it just now, and there is indeed no sign at all." β
Wu Xie thought, the little brother's attainments in this area are unfathomable, he said no, it must be really not, and said: "Then how can this explain that there is such a thing here, could it be that he is a good antique himself, and he also brings his beloved collection to the funeral?" β
"We came all the way, and we didn't see any other antiques, and what you said is not right, I think, it may be another situation." The fat man seemed to think of something, and his face showed a smug expression, "Actually, in addition to the inverted bucket, there is another kind of person who often encounters ancient tombs, do you know what it is?" β
Wu Xie immediately came to his senses when he heard this: "You mean, he dug these things on the construction site when he was doing engineering?" β
The fat man nodded: "This person can be said to be the largest package foreman at that time, it is likely to encounter this situation, as long as you go back and check the information, you can know whether he has been to the melon seed temple in Shandong at that time." β
The fat man's statement is reasonable, Wu Xie can't help but admire him a little, but this thing can't be touched, Wu Xie guessed that maybe A-Ning touched this coral tree, so many bells rang together, and she would become insane, but she didn't know what scene these bells produced in her brain, and it would have such a powerful effect.
Originally, people were very easy to be hinted at, but now they are in such an ancient tomb, the atmosphere is mysterious, the nerves are a little fragile, and they will go crazy, Wu Xie thinks, and even the amnesia of the little brother may be caused by these things, because the lanyards of these bells are tied to the coral tree with copper wires very accurately, and there are holes in the coral, and the sound transmission is excellent, this thing is placed here, like a musical instrument, and the sound can be made in thousands of ways, and it is difficult to guarantee that there is one in it that can make people forget everything.
However, Wu Xie's thoughts were a bit wild, and he was embarrassed to say it, and a few people stood for a moment, and the fat man said: "It seems that the bottom of this cave is just such a flower, and this strange thing is still on these bells, do you want to talk nonsense?" β
Wu Xie didn't have any demons and monsters in this hole, and his heart was a lot more relaxed, it didn't matter if he didn't walk down now, but looking at his watch, the time for the low tide was approaching, and it was not interesting to stay here.
Mengli wanted to carry A-Ning again, but was stopped by the fat man: "Alas, sister, I'll come!" I was in a bit of a hurry just now, and I worked hard for you. The fat man smiled awkwardly.
Mengli glanced at A-Ning, withdrew her hand, and said, "It's okay, I'm not tired." β
The little brother looked at them, and at the moment when Mengli looked at him, he retracted his gaze, and the seed of doubt in his heart was breaking through the ground.
On the way back, the five of them had their own thoughts, and no one noticed what Mengli was holding in his hand.
Wu Xie thought as he walked, and there were still two questions in his heart, the first was that when the little brother advanced this hole in the wall for twenty years, he was introduced by the third uncle, and those people who fainted with him are where they are now? Did the third uncle transport them out?
The second is that when the little brother went in, he smelled a very peculiar fragrance, but now it is gone, does this mean that twenty years ago, there may have been something else in this cave?
These answers can only be known when you find the third uncle.
And the third uncle is gone, to find him, I don't know the Year of the Monkey, maybe he will not appear, these questions will become a mystery for the ages.
If it is really as the fat man said, the third uncle is entangled by the unjust soul in this tomb, then where will he go, when he sees the photo of the little brother, he says, "I understand", what does he understand?
Thinking about it, Wu Xie felt that the whole thing was still missing something, as long as he gave him a little more clue, he would be able to connect everything. And his intuition told him that this thing should be related to the Lu Palace.
The five of them had already walked out of the low hole, and the fat man put A-Ning on the ground and said, "It should be almost time now, and we should do it anyway." β
Wu Xie thought that the matter of fleeing now was still the first priority, so he retracted his mind and began to explain the matter, because he had never really opened the treasure top of the Ming Tomb, so he was not sure in his heart, only one step at a time.
After finishing speaking, several people acted according to the plan, the fat man had been holding back his stomach for a long time, and picked up the guy and chiseled it on a pillar, but he underestimated the texture of the golden silk nanmu, and after a few strokes, he was already panting, but the pillar was split off a little by him.
He saw that something was wrong and said, "Wu Xie, this pillar is too strong, if you do it like this, you won't be able to build this ladder for a week." β
Wu Xie said: "Don't worry, as long as you cut off the outermost layer, the inside will be easy to deal with." β
The fat man was skeptical, and took the guy to exert twelve points of strength, and barely got a little better, and after a few strokes, the fat man had already pushed away the iron-like wooden layer outside, and pulled out a space that could accommodate one foot.
Wu Xie now knows that the hole is a dead end, the sea water comes in, and it can only leak through the brick cracks, so he doesn't have to worry about the whirlpool, so he picked up the guy and went to help the fat man, only to smash it twice, only to find that this job really has to be done by the fat man, not to mention his strength, the endurance is good, this way tossed down, I saw that he was alive and vigorous, without a little fatigue. Wu Xie was a little beside him, and at the same time, he was so tired that he could barely lift his hands.
After three hours, they finally made a hole in their feet on a pillar, which was still easy to get underneath, until they reached the top, and they had to climb up on the stacked piles, hanging in mid-air, and they couldn't use their strength, and finally they only made a shallow mark that could be put into the forefoot, but anyway, they were done.
The fat man asked urgingly, "Wu Xie, what should you do next?" β
"Take your clothes off." Wu Xie took it off as he spoke, the fat man hesitated for a few seconds, and quietly asked Wu Xie: "My sister is still here, is it really okay for us to take off our clothes?" β
Wu Xie glanced at him and said, "You look back." β
The fat man looked back and saw Mengli holding his hands against the wall, and what was revealed in his eyes was evaluating the general light.
The fat man stopped talking, and silently turned around to take it off. Mengli said on the side: "Do you want me to contribute a sleeve?" β
Wu Xie twitched the corner of his mouth: "No need, we have enough." β
Because they are all diving clothes, they are very elastic, so they are simply cut into a rope one by one, and make a rope sleeve like a Mexican tree climber, and circle it around this pillar.
Wu Xie looked at Mengli in embarrassment.
Mengli made a gesture to take off her swimsuit, Wu Xie hurriedly said, "Mengli, what are you going to do." The little brother glanced back and frowned.
Mengli glanced at Wu Xie and continued to take it off, and after taking it off, Wu Xie found that she was also wearing a black vest inside.
With Mengli's clothes, it's just long enough. The three men straightened the rope in three directions and climbed upward.
I don't know how to climb up this way, every time I go up, it's like dying once, and the fat man is tired and shouts: "What are you two doing with you, I'll go up and chisel, anyway, when you go down, you can float, and now this leather rope is about to buckle me into Dongpo meat, Xiao Wu, you fucking still give me down, otherwise I won't be able to stand it." β
Wu Xie said: "You think I want to go up, I didn't see the actual situation, I don't want you to die, I don't know if there is a mezzanine on it, if there is, you go down with a guy, and the quicksand will directly bury the whole room." β
That's the truth, the quicksand layer in the tomb wall is the most common anti-tomb robbery measure, as I said earlier, it is more effective, a large tomb with a quicksand layer, if you want to go smoothly, you have to open a manhole when you go down the robbery hole, and release the quicksand first, sometimes it takes a few days and nights to empty a wall, which shows that the amount of quicksand is amazing. We don't have that right now, so if we do come across this kind of tomb, we'll have to find another way.
It's even worse if it's not quicksand, but strong acid or oil.
The fat man poured a lot of fights, so he naturally knew that what Wu Xie said was true, so he waved his hand and signaled that he would climb.
Several people gritted their teeth, and it took another half an hour to reach the top, and after the fat man stood firm, he was almost exhausted, holding the pillar without moving, and said: "Damn, if you want to toss me like this again, I will return to my place." β
Wu Xie let him take a breath first, wait a minute, and he had to rely on him to chisel the bricks, and he carefully knocked on the top of the treasure tentatively, and the little brother signaled him not to stop, pressed his finger to the top, felt it, and said, "Solid." β
When the fat man heard this, he really didn't dare to rest, and without saying a word, he began to chisel the white plaster on the top, and he didn't dare to exert too much force, because in the end the rope was not strong, and if it broke, all of them would fall and be seriously injured.
Wu Xie and the little brother both stretched out their hands and put them on his shoulders, in case this rope breaks, they can also pull him so that they will not fall directly from a height of ten meters. However, his sweat is estimated to really fall, and he can't catch it if he wants to.
The fat man chiseled a few times and said loudly: "Wu Xie, come and take a look." β
Mengli didn't go up, so she could only look at it from a distance below, staring at A-Ning by the way.
I only knew that after Wu Xie saw it, the three of them glanced at each other, and their faces were very ugly.
Mengli knew that it didn't go so well, and asked symbolically, "What's wrong?" β
Wu Xie glanced at her and said, "These bricks have been sealed with iron mortar. β
After the bricks are poured with iron mortar, just like the reinforced concrete now, even if you are given a big hammer on the flat ground, it will not help, let alone the current situation. And on top of this, there are at least seven such structures, and they are scattered with each other, and it is impossible to chisel here, without modern equipment.
The fat man looked at Wu Xie and asked, "Comrade architect, what now?" You give me an idea. β
"Then what can I do, a dead horse should be a live horse, copy the guy first," Wu Xie still wanted to try his luck, and said: "It's been more than two hundred years, I don't believe it's still so strong." β
The fat man didn't panic when he saw Wu Xie, thinking that the problem was not too serious, so he went to knock on those bricks, the hollow bricks were easy to break, but after the bricks were broken, the iron bars solidified by the iron slurry on the side were still there, and the fat man was very strong to hit it, and he only knocked out a few marks on it, he knew that something was wrong at a glance, and said: "No, this iron slurry strip is a palm thick on the top, and you may not be able to hit it when you drive the liberation truck." β
Wu Xie also knocked a few times, and his whole mouth was numb, knowing that this was indeed not something that could be done by brute force, he couldn't help but be discouraged, "It seems that we underestimate the construction technology of ancient times, this iron bar is very pure, and it can't be smashed at all." β
The fat man said: "If you don't grind it, didn't the ancients say, as long as the work is deep, the iron pestle is sharpened into a needle." β
"Pull it down, you thick iron slurry strips, you grind until the Year of the Monkey," Wu Xie said: "There are still twenty minutes before the tide recess, and when you finish grinding, we will already be satisfied." β
The fat man was on fire, "Then what do you say?" Didn't you hear that A-Ning say it? It's the typhoon season soon, and it will last at least a week, and we can't get out now, so we'll have to stay here for seven days. He emphatically emphasized, "For seven days, we will starve to death without suffocation." β
"Stop arguing!" Mengli frowned and said, "The most important thing now is how to get out, what's the use of talking about this." β
Wu Xie also knew the seriousness of the problem, and said to them: "You have much more experience in this area than me, just this kind of tomb wall, if you encounter it in ordinary times, what method will you use?" β
The fat man and the little brother didn't think about it, and said together: "Dynamite! β
The fat man looked at Wu Xie and was stunned for a moment, and explained: "You don't have to be surprised, this kind of wall is stronger than you can imagine, Lao Tzu used to pour this kind of bucket, and the hole is generally opened at the bottom, if you have to punch it into this kind of wall, you can only use explosives." β
But Wu Xie was sad when he heard it, and he also knew what the fat man said, but in these centuries-old tombs, tell him to go there to get explosives? I can't help but regret it, I still remember that before going into the water, Na A-Ning also asked him if he wanted to bring some down, at that time he was stunned because of the bomb in King Lu's palace, and he was very resistant to this thing, so he threw it back into the warehouse directly, if the third uncle was present at the time, he would definitely bring it.
Now that I think about it, the idea at that time was too naΓ―ve, and if there was a next time, it would definitely not be such a child's play.
Wu Xie saw that there was no hope of going out from above, so he had to give up: "Then it seems that this method will not work, we have to think about it in the long run." β
"What the fuck is still long? We only have twenty minutes to go? The fat man said, "I think that if it really doesn't work, we will go back the way we came, and maybe the burial chamber where we had our diving equipment will have returned." β
Wu Xie nodded, although he didn't want to enter the thief cave again, but there was no other way now. In this way, it is really a headache to face the monster in the thief cave again.
At this time, the little brother suddenly said: "Wait! Stay here and don't move! It occurred to me that there was a place where there might be explosives! β
Before they could react, the little brother suddenly let go of the rope and slid down the pillar.
The fat man looked at Wu Xie with a puzzled expression, and Wu Xie shook his head at him, indicating that he didn't understand either.
The little brother has a serious personality, and it is impossible to joke, but he really can't think of any place where there will be explosives, and he is now stripped naked like them, and there is only a pair of pants left, and it is impossible to hide somewhere.
Wu Xie stared at him, only to see him jump onto the Tiangong stone plate in the middle of the room, and following the light of his flashlight, he saw him squatting in front of a meditating corpse in the center of the stone plate, constantly touching something.
This corpse should be what he said about sitting on the golden body, but I don't know what he went to find there, Wu Xie thought, and suddenly, he felt a moment in his heart, it turned out to be like this!
At this time, the little brother had carefully lifted the whole dried corpse, and the dried corpse was almost only the weight of bones, and he didn't waste much effort, and the fat man asked, "What is he doing?" β
Wu Xie said: "I just guessed that there may be a mechanism inside the corpse, which was fired by the Babao rotor, and there may be explosives in it." If you are disrespectful to the corpse and want to take the treasure inside the corpse, it may be directly detonated. β
The fat man was stunned: "How could he know about such a thing?" β
"Twenty years ago, when he touched this corpse, he probably already knew it at that time, and you can see that he just said 'maybe', which means that he is not sure." Wu Xie said: "I just don't know, these hundreds of years of explosives still don't work." β
Wu Xie said, the little brother had already moved the dried corpse under the pillar, and said to the above: "Come down and help." β
Wu Xie saw that it was too troublesome for the fat man to go down, so he let him stay and climb down by himself.
Mengli turned her head to look at A-Ning, who was still stunned, and squinted her eyes: "A-Ning, I hope you don't disappoint me......" There is no need to be too clear between smart people.
When he looked at them again, Wu Xie had already climbed to the top.
Although the fat man has read countless corpses, he also showed an uncomfortable expression after seeing this corpse, after all, when you hang the corpse with a corpse rope, there are still two or three fists away, and now it is like dancing a veneer dance, and it must feel uncomfortable.
Wu Xie stiffened his head and said to him: "You fix this to the top of the treasure, and then come down immediately, we will detonate it below, if the mechanism inside can still work, there should be no problem." β
The fat man looked at Baoding and said, "Are you bluffing me?" How the fuck am I fixed? Do you want Lao Tzu to learn how to blow up bunkers? β
As soon as Wu Xie raised his head, there was nothing to hook on the top of the treasure top, if he wanted to exert all the strength of the explosion, he had to keep the entire corpse close to the top of the treasure top, which was indeed a problem.
Mengli saw clearly in the distance and said, "Tie it headfirst to this pillar, hurry up, the time is almost up." β
The fat man carefully took the corpse, waved it, and asked, "Hey, it's strange, how can this corpse still have a tail?" β