Volume 1: The Three Dragons Protect the Lord's Cave Chapter 13: The Compass
It's just that even if we have enough explosives, we don't dare to blow up the tomb easily, and even if the tomb doesn't collapse, what if the tomb really sinks to the bottom as Applejack said? In addition to the corpse and the forbidden woman under the water, the ghost knows if there will be other ghosts and ghosts, and I won't dive to kill me.
Now we are all in a predicament, some people say that these tombs will be messed up, because Miss Luo and I use a stone scoop to get stuck in the mechanism, if we find the stone scoop, move away may allow the mechanism to be restored, as long as the mechanism is restored, we can find the tomb passage into the main burial chamber.
I don't agree, obviously this is a bit of, in this mysterious underground, let alone find the tomb road, I can't even tell the direction, how to find it? Dig up the transfer points one by one? This has to be dug up to the Year of the Monkey.
Take 10,000 steps back, even if you find the tomb road and successfully remove the stone scoop, whether it can be restored is still two words, even if you can, you will not still return to the original point, and you will never be able to get out of the ear chamber.
Applejack agrees with me, after all, the ancients are the ancients, and they can't create such an intelligent mechanism, and the mechanics are always mechanical, and if you can't do an intelligent "reset", the stuck power will disappear, otherwise after so long, such a large mechanism would have smashed the stone scoop and the tomb would have been restored long ago.
Now we are really in a dilemma, these container-like tombs are like islands, the main burial chamber and the ear chamber can be seen, but we can't get through.
For a while, everyone was at a loss, and they couldn't think of any way, but Miss Luo was wrapped in a blanket and fell asleep, this woman had slept in the tomb for so long before, so tired that Liu Sanyan and I were going to die or live, and now we are still sleeping!
In fact, I was also drowsy, maybe I lost too much blood, my head was dizzy, and I couldn't lift my spirits.
Liu Sanyan, who was listening to the side, asked: "Old man, tell me about Jiuniu Shibei, it's the first time I've heard this word for so many years." ”
Professor Wu said: "In fact, I have only encountered Jiuniu Stone once, it is in the jujube forest in Shandong, it is the tomb of Li Qihou of the Later Tang Dynasty, the tomb is simply solid, there are three or four feet of rammed earth alone, and there is no heavy machinery to dig into it, and we do our business, if we can not make a fuss, even if it takes more time." Dig and dig can't open, the tomb door can't be opened, fortunately we are lucky, encountered a rainstorm, in the middle of the night while the sound of thunder covered, the tomb door exploded, but unfortunately the tomb door was destroyed, time was in a hurry, there was no time to study slowly, we left after receiving the Ming weapon, and the principle of opening the door of Jiuniu Stone was not clear. ”
After a pause, Professor Wu said: "But it's not for nothing, the older generation said that this kind of tap stone, a bit similar to the sliding door at home, the stone door is pushed from the side, falling into the designed groove, nine cows can't pull open, so it's called nine cow stone." ”
I thought about it, if according to what Professor Wu said, then the Jiuniu stone should be superimposed on the outer side of the tomb wall, so that the stone door can be pushed from the side.
If the ancients really believed that they could become ghosts after death, wouldn't this be to lock themselves up alive in them in order to prevent theft? I don't know what they thought at the time.
After a while, I only heard Ajie say: "Wu Lao, if it is according to your statement, this Jiuniu Stone is stuck in the groove at the upper and lower ends, in order to be firm, the groove will definitely not be too shallow, and the Jiuniu Stone should be embedded in the tomb wall, that is to say, the space at the upper end should be more, at least deeper than the groove at the end of the ground, so that there is a section of the tomb wall at the upper end is hollow, can we make a fuss in this regard?" ”
"That's right, what this comrade said is too reasonable, why didn't the third master think of it?" Liu Sanyan was startled, patting his thigh and shouting.
Along the way, everyone was exhausted, fighting mud monkeys, passing through the corpse pond, climbing the yin pine forest, entering the tomb, and finally trapped in the underground tomb, as if they were running around all the time, physical strength and energy were consumed hugely, there were fourteen people when they came in, six people from me and Brother Hemp, Miss Luo and eight of them, and then Uncle Ercai and the local Yankees did not go through the corpse pond, stayed on the shore, and Brother Ying and Cai died in the Yin Pine Forest, and only me, Miss Luo, Professor Wu, Brother Marijuana, Second Uncle, Sichuan Yankee, Ajie, Dahui, Datou, There are ten dogs, plus a Liu Sanyan who was killed in the first half.
I met a dead body in that weird cave, and there was also one outside the cave entrance, plus Brother Ying and Caisheng, at least four people died on this trip, and I don't know how many people there were in the original Miss Luo, so I didn't have the interest to ask.
Everyone acquiesced to recuperate for a while, Datou and Brother Marijuana kept vigil, and everyone else hurried to sleep, and fell asleep in a daze, and when I came, I found that the vigil was replaced by Ajie and Liu Sanyan, and I didn't feel sleepy for a while, so I sat next to them.
Liu Sanyan enthusiastically handed me a pack of beef jerky and whispered: "Your food is really good, I will prepare it in the field in the future, it is much more chewy than compressed biscuits." ”
Applejack shakes the flask and asks if I want a sip, which I refuse.
I took Liu Sanyan's pocket watch and looked at it, it was already six o'clock in the morning, Liu Sanyan snatched it back, wiped it rarely, and said that this was his family's heirloom, don't touch it if you have nothing to do.
I said, "Do you want to squint for a while, I'll keep watch." ”
Ajie didn't reply, obviously not worried about me, Liu Sanyan said: "I'm full of energy, Comrade Xiao Zhang, you have lost a lot of blood, it's better to sleep more." ”
Everyone fell silent for a moment, and I was bored munching on the beef jerky, not paying attention to the taste, all focused on how to get out of this damn tomb.
In fact, I think it's better to blow it up directly, collapse and collapse, I don't believe that this underground artificially dug waterway can go deep, and it would be better to crush the demons and monsters under the water, and it shouldn't be a big problem to climb out along the ruins at that time, I don't believe that the entire underground tomb will collapse, and I really want to die early and be reborn early.
But it seems that there is no other way than to blow it up directly, either swim back to the ear chamber, and then swim from the ear chamber to the corpse pool, and the ghost knows what ghosts will be encountered in the middle, and everyone will have to stay here to accompany the tomb owner forever.
Besides, the good things were moved away by Cai Geng hundreds of years ago, I'm afraid this is an empty tomb, they swept the tomb of Guo Tong, and when they saw these bulging sacks, they knew that they had fished a lot of good things, there was no need to risk it for the unknown Yue Guo Tomb, people had to be content.
"Don't be discouraged, there will always be a way." Applejack sat down and grinned comfortingly, as if he had been kind to me all the way, maybe that's his character, nice to everyone.
Without waiting for me to ask, Applejack said again: "I also discussed with the third master just now, once this kind of large mechanism is stuck, it is very difficult to recover the power, with our current equipment and manpower, it is definitely not enough, and we don't have so much time to study it slowly." However, it is much easier to destroy than to recover, as long as you find the right secret door, take a nearby tomb road as driftwood, dive underwater to destroy the hinge, and then push the tomb road close to the secret door, and dig into the tomb from the top end of the secret door, this method should be feasible. ”
I don't know what to say, I don't know anything about ancient tombs and mechanisms, anyway, I made up my mind to kill and not go into the water, which really scared those bizarre creatures.
Somehow, this trip was unusually peaceful, there was no forbidden woman, and the big horse bird did not appear, maybe they were scared when they saw that there were many of us.
Applejack and Liu Sanyan chatted happily, talking about all kinds of glorious history in the past, I didn't have much interest, and I didn't understand it very well, many words sounded obscure, like dialects, and I ran away after chewing a few bites of beef jerky.
Before I started, I felt someone coming, and before I could speak, the person lowered his voice and said, "Yuanwa, fine mulberry idea, finish the hair color society." ”
The voice is Brother Marijuana's, in the dialect of our village, which means to be quiet, pretending that nothing is happening.
Then Brother Hemp peed casually, while continuing to whisper in the dialect of his hometown, which roughly means that he was suspicious of this incident, first we encountered a mining accident, and then followed into the underground palace, and I didn't have to choose to follow them, all of this seems to be a coincidence, but too many coincidences happen together It is not a coincidence.
In fact, I have long been suspicious, but I have been in fright all the way, and I don't have the energy to think about this, I didn't have a strong urge to pee, I just wanted to find an excuse to stay away from Liu Sanyan and them, but now I was reminded by him, and I couldn't even pee.
Brother Ying, who died before, explained that the mining accident was caused by an accident, and he didn't want to block us underneath, but the first time I met them was in the cave, when they were forced back by the mud monkeys, and we were blocked behind, it seems that Miss Luo and they compromised us, and judging from their skills in the tomb, it may not be difficult to break through and stop us, and then they know too much about my life experience, and as a party, I don't know those secrets, it's more like they have investigated me before.
I went back and pretended to continue sleeping, I couldn't figure out why, if it was really designed by them, it was too thoughtful, what was the purpose? Am I the so-called Yang Physique?
There's no need to fool me into a minute, there's no need to take me on an adventure, my skills may be hung in the tomb at any time, then it's a hammer deal, they don't have a reason to be so stupid.
That is to say, I don't care about them, what they care about is something on me or something in my family, which makes a bit sense, in the words revealed by Professor Wu before, it seems that they only know more about my grandfather, and they don't know much after my grandfather's generation, and it seems that my grandfather is a very famous person in this industry, and they are running for something left by my grandfather?
I don't think this thing will be the so-called tomb robbery cheats or something, after all, my grandfather is also a great character in their eyes, just like the peerless masters in martial arts novels will have unique skills, if this is the case, do I want to confess, directly say that my grandfather Mao did not leave roots for me, otherwise Lao Tzu will not be poor to dig coal, or if you don't believe it, I will take them to my house to turn it over casually, and see what the seeds are given away for free, without taking a penny.
But I don't know if they believe that they don't really have what they want, will they stab me to death in a fit of anger?
First of all, Miss Luo, they are definitely not good at stubble, no matter how rich ordinary people are, they can't get so many guns and ammunition, and they definitely don't feel guilty about killing someone, as can be seen from watching them deal with the corpses of their companions.
Secondly, I am not the one who knows their secrets, if I run to denounce them, this is probably enough for them to go to prison for a lifetime, isn't this forcing them to kill people?
The more I think about it, the more frightened I feel, out of a back of white sweat, I always feel a pair of eyes staring at me coldly, this feeling is more uneasy than facing the forbidden woman, and sure enough, the most terrifying thing is the human heart.
I don't know how long I lay down, everyone else got up one after another, and after the supplies were convenient, they got together to discuss what to do next, after thinking about it, I didn't have the heart to pay attention to the method they discussed, and on the way, Professor Wu patiently explained to me some things he thought I didn't understand, but I couldn't listen to them at all, I only knew that they were refining Applejack's proposal.
I tried to be calm and try not to speak, and I always felt that Professor Wu's kind explanation was like a wolf grandmother holding sugar.
Maybe I behaved too badly, sweat on my forehead, Miss Luo asked me suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?" Is the wound infected? ”
"It's okay, listen to the party's command, you can win the battle, and the revolutionary body will never fall." I said a quip that I have no opinion on listening to you.
Everything was finalized, Professor Wu took out a compass and looked at it while walking, and said, "Xiao Zhang, come and watch me, don't let Uncle Wu fall into the water." ”
I had to follow Professor Wu, and Professor Wu said, "Xiao Zhang, this is called a compass, and it has a lot of knowledge, such as detecting feng shui, dividing gold and fixing acupoints, observing wind and water, finding ways to solve directions, etc., just like we can know the direction when we are under the ground where we can't distinguish the direction." ”
"Uncle Wu, I know a little bit about this, compass, I got lost in the tomb before, and I made one, but it's useless, I know it, but I don't know where we are." I think of the busy work in the tomb, but I don't seem to be busy in vain, I can't figure out where the tomb is in the tomb, so I naturally don't know which side of the tomb I am on, but now the tomb is in front of me, according to the gossip that Liu Sanyan said, they should easily deduce the location of the secret door.
"If you understand it, you won't be confused in the cemetery. Any cemetery is in the Five Elements, and there is such a sentence in this line: the main image of the Five Elements, the main position of the Bagua. ”
"For example, this cemetery, surrounded by three mountains outside, passes in front of a water gate, this is a typical gold shengshui, that is to say, this cemetery is the main gold. It's just that this cemetery is lucky and unlucky, it is not very good, in ancient times, it was the tomb of ordinary rich and noble families, and those with official bodies would not choose. But experienced people will not think so, in ancient times, some people to prevent the theft of cemeteries, will deliberately choose a place that does not look very good on the surface of feng shui to be buried, and then do hands and feet in the cemetery, turning a flat place into a treasure of feng shui, just like the corpse pond here, this is called a hidden mound, but all this kind of cemetery is amazing, and the construction of the project alone is not affordable by ordinary people. ”
"In fact, tomb robbing is a kind of knowledge of fighting wits with the ancients, they tried their best to hide, we tried our best to find out, this is more like a game, and you will know its fun when you experience it."
"Generally speaking, the ancients had three ways to prevent theft, the first is not to find it, just like the tomb of Genghis Khan, the tomb of Zhuge Liang, the tomb of Sima Yi, etc., no one knows where to bury it today, so naturally it cannot be stolen; The second is that it can't be dug up, like Wu Zetian's Qianling, it is rumored that an officer in the Republic of China with a division couldn't blow it up for several days; The third is not to dig, such as the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, even the country's archaeological team did not dare to move, although it was mainly to protect the imperial tomb, but if the tomb robbery entered it would definitely be ten deaths, so no one dared to go. ”
"These are all things that can be found on the official face, and if you are interested in going back, you can check them out, but all the imperial tombs are not something we can touch, and there is no chance for us to touch them, there are so many emperors in history, and they have long been valued by the officials. All we can move are the graves that we can't find. ”
"This depends on real skills, and the science of feng shui is our main means of finding ancient tombs, watching the mountains and looking at the air, perching on the water and breaking the river, listening to the sound and distinguishing the soil, and even looking for the stars and holes, looking for the ancient tombs basically rely on the four words 'looking, smelling, asking, and cutting', and I will slowly tell you these things when I have time in the future, and now the topic is far away."
Let me explain here first, those tomb robbers of the folk are basically going to the ancient tombs that "can't be found", not to mention those ancient tombs and imperial tombs, the number is limited, and there are basically historical records, Genghis Khan is special, and it is even likely to be buried somewhere in the grassland, and nothing is left when the horse tramples on it, after all, the Mongolians at that time did not have the custom of thick burial, and they believed in the laws of nature, that is, people survived on the grassland, and they had to return to the grassland after death.
Besides, any imperial tomb is the target of the national archaeological team, you dare to touch it and try it, and teach you how to be a man in minutes. Folk tomb robbery is the same as fighting guerrillas, there is no scale and no fixation, one shot will be scattered, get together in another place and shoot again, you can't catch it if you want to, and the wild road is very wide, they can find the ancient tombs that the archaeological team can't find, they can enter the tombs that the archaeological team can't enter, they dare to enter the ancient tombs that the archaeological team doesn't dare to enter, how many tombs have been patronized by tomb thieves several times when the archaeological team opened them, like the tomb tomb thieves in Shaanxi, when the archaeological team found it, the tomb robbers had already patronized one or two hundred times, except for some hairs that could not be moved, even the corpses were pulled out of the coffin and thrown everywhere. Although the purpose of the people on both sides is different, the means of application are different, but the side shows that the folk tomb robbers are indeed much more experienced than the archaeological team. What tomb can't be dug up? Even if Genghis Khan really digs a pit and buries it, it is estimated that it is possible to dig out his bones.
In addition to being monitored by the archaeological team, the imperial tomb is not dug by tomb robbers like scattered sand, the project is too big, it must be enough manpower and equipment, otherwise you can't dig it blatantly. It's like giving you a hoe to dig the city wall, and you're so tired that you probably won't be able to pry open a hole. After all, tomb robbers can only be regarded as petty fights, and they are like rats who destroy everywhere, and they can't take away anything really valuable.
It's not that all the imperial tombs are concerned by the archaeological team, like some dynasties are chaotic, continuous wars, and serious disappearance of civilization, and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find clues in ancient books, such as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and those completely lost civilization tribes, etc., there is no record in the books, and it is only possible to find out through Feng Shui.
In Feng Shui, the method of looking for ancient tombs, looking at the mountains and looking at the qi means watching the trend of the mountains, where to draw the wind and where to hide the qi, finding the treasure points of feng shui, and using other means to determine whether there are ancient tombs below. The Qishui Broken River is a treasure land where all rivers meet, and there will be ancient tombs within a radius of three or five miles. Listen to the sound of the soil is mainly used to identify the location of the tomb, first say the soil, a Luoyang shovel hit three or four meters, see the soil changes brought out, smell the smell of the soil, you can know whether there is a tomb, and through the surrounding vegetation, but where the soil has been moved on a large scale, the growth of the trees will be different, if there are descendants to live or develop that is the exception. The tomb usually has a large or small space, and there is a large vibration outside to resonate, and those experienced tomb robbers judge the size and location of the tomb through these details, so some tomb robbers like to go out on a rainy day, thunder and lightning, heavy rain to observe whether the mountain has a special echo, whether there is an unusual vibration to find the tomb. If you meet people in the mountains and forests on a rainy day, you are either poaching or robbing graves.
As for the star-hunting and acupoint, it is more mysterious, which belongs to the great feng shui technique. Feng Shui is also divided into large and small, such as building houses, paving roads and bridges, burying tombs, etc., which belong to small feng shui, belonging to a small range of tossing, there are more people who understand, and tomb robbing is basically familiar with small feng shui is enough for you to eat and drink for a lifetime.
Great feng shui is amazing, you can observe the sky and the earth at every turn, pay attention to the cycle of heaven, the laws of the universe, man is a part of nature, nature is also a part of man, pay attention to the "unity of heaven and man", most of them are used in the emperor's family, between large tribes, such as moving the capital, sacrificing to the sky, and even going on an expedition, etc., is a big event that involves many people on a large scale. It can be said that there are very few people who really understand the art of Feng Shui, and those who understand Feng Shui do not bother to rob tombs, just like how many billionaires go to set up stalls every day? If you have to say yes, then the people are not here to make a living, but to experience life.
The ancients believed that people had a natal star, like the emperor's purple microstar, the scholar's Wenqu star, the general's Wuqu star, etc., the deceased's birth date, the location of the natal star, is the so-called excellent burial location, this is called the natal acupoint, only suitable for the tomb owner himself, maybe it is a great place for others, but it is the best burial mound for the tomb owner. I heard that there was a big man in the Western Zhou Dynasty in order to find a natal hole, and it happened that the best time to bury the natal star was a year later, and the mortuary was stopped for a year, and there were piles of white bones left when he was buried.
We all know that the earth will rotate, and the devil knows the birth date of a dead man hundreds of thousands of years ago, so it is luck to rely on this.
Professor Wu said: "This tomb already knows the main gold, gold in the gossip is dry and dui, dry for the sky, for Ze, the sky for the yang, Ze for the yin, the corresponding numbers are six and seven, the direction is the west and the northwest, since ancient times the male is the yang, since we know that this is the tomb of a general, it is naturally the yang position, that is, the northwest position." The ear chamber Qingqing you entered before said that it was a surprise position, that is, a position, so naturally you can't enter the main tomb, so we have to find the dry position, and the corresponding direction is expected to enter the main tomb. ”
Professor Wu said a lot, I listened to it with great interest, and when I heard this, I said suspiciously: "No, Liu Sanyan is the cadre who started to enter, but he said that there is no tomb road leading to the main tomb at all, and if there is, there is no need to swim from the well to my ear room." ”
Professor Wu said confidently: "There must be a tombway, maybe he didn't find it, otherwise why dig a hollow room for what's the use?" Do you make up the numbers? ”
We've discussed this before, and we think it's similar to a single apartment, but now that I think this explanation is a bit far-fetched.
"No tomb will build anything unrelated, because space is limited and it is unnecessary," Professor Wu said. Now that future generations have found it, no matter how many doubts you set up, it is nothing more than to make people spend more time, which is simply a superfluous move. ”
"Don't talk about anything else, let's talk about how to use the compass in the ancient tomb to position, since we know the main image and the main position, the corresponding numbers and directions are clear, turn the compass, so that the north is facing the northwest direction, we are in the hexagram, find the corresponding two six is our current position." Professor Wu straightened the compass, adjusted the position, pointed to one place, and said: "Our position is due south of the position, and we can reach the position of the dry by crossing the Kun and Dui, and go this way." ”
I was skeptical and followed Professor Wu, although it seems that these tomb roads are horizontal and vertical, in fact, they are all connected, and it is very convenient to walk, and walking on the tomb road is not like a headless fly in the tomb road, and it will not be far from the cadre position after a while.
As he walked, Professor Wu suddenly stopped, pointed to a docked tomb and said, "This should be the stone scoop you are stuck in the tomb road, do you want to dig it down and take a look?" ”
I hesitated, and said forget it, this tomb is very strong, there is no need to waste time.
Maybe seeing that I didn't believe what he said, Professor Wu glanced at Dahui, and Dahui picked up the iron pry and dug without saying a word.
Dahui is very silent, his speech is buzzing, his body is tall and strong, it is estimated that he is 1.9 meters old, like an iron tower. After a while, he dug a hole at the corner of the cemetery, I picked up the flashlight and shone it, and sure enough, the stone scoop was stuck there, this compass is really magical.