Volume 1: The Three Dragons' Cave Chapter 14: Into the Grave

We didn't stay long, we continued to go to the cadre position, and after a night of repair, the morale of the group improved.

I silently calculated in my heart, assuming that the circumference of the ear chamber is the circumference, if the distance between the eight doors is balanced, then the distance between each ear chamber is about seventy to eighty meters, but at the beginning Liu Sanyan said that he dived from the dry door to the startling door, it took almost ten minutes, and said that the fastest would be five or six minutes, I don't know how his water is, even if he is a northern landlubber, it is more than this achievement, that is to say, the distance between the ear chambers is far more than seventy or eighty meters.

And there is another question, I counted ninety-nine steps from the tomb to the underground tomb, and I was only scared at the time, and I didn't pay attention to the height of the steps, but people will have some ordinary muscle memory, like the height of the steps of the general building is about fifteen to seventeen centimeters, if you suddenly let you walk more than twenty or ten centimeters, there will definitely be an inertia not to get used to, and in the dark you will feel the illusion of stepping on the air or kicking. But I didn't feel that way when I walked the stairs, which meant that the stairs were not much different from the ones I usually walked.

If it is calculated according to fifteen centimeters, then the main burial chamber is nearly 15 meters deep underground, and the distance from the main burial chamber to the ear chamber is parallel, and the horizontal line here does not overflow the wellhead, that is to say, the horizontal line is below the main burial chamber, which is seriously inconsistent.

Although the center of the square of the underground palace is relatively high, but I walked all the way, it is three or five meters high, the water level of the corpse pool and the edge of the square is definitely only about ten centimeters, Liu Sanyan since he came in from the corpse pool, said that there is a waterway leading to the ear room, since the corpse pool is connected with here, there is no reason why the level here is low, since it is not filled with water below, the water of the corpse pool will flow down.

If you want to explain this question clearly, Liu Sanyan panicked, he hid a lot of things.

I believe in this more, Cheng Yanjin, who was suddenly killed halfway, no one here knows him and knows him, only what he said was what. Then the reason for his concealment is simple, isn't the tomb robbery just for the sake of the Ming Weapon, whether it is the tomb or the ear room or the tomb road, there is no Ming Weapon left, not nothing, I started to enter the tomb There are some clay pots and jars, but so many tombs in the back are empty, then there are two possibilities, the first is that there was no original, it was indeed emptied by Cai Geng hundreds of years ago, and the second is that Liu Sanyan hid it.

Liu Sanyan said that he took the opportunity to sneak in when we attracted the attention of the mud monkeys, we passed the corpse pond, crossed the yin pine forest, entered the tomb, and it took three or four hours until I was trapped in the middle of the tomb, to say the least, and this time was indeed enough for him to retreat calmly, but he didn't leave, it is possible that he had a great appetite and moved everything to a place he thought was safe, and I was in that ear room which happened to be the last place he visited, but I was accidentally bumped into by Miss Luo.

This made him have to stay, pretending to be trapped like us, the unlucky guy who didn't get anything, if he slipped away halfway, with the power of Miss Luo's family, he would definitely be able to find him, so he didn't dare to go, which can also explain why I still have clay pots left in the graveyard I passed by.

That's the most likely explanation, I think so.

But until it is confirmed, this is speculation after all.

Another guess is less convincing, that is, Liu Sanyan didn't panic, he did enter the ear chamber from the corpse pool, and was trapped there for several hours, unable to find a way out.

He went to the ground alone, and the equipment he could bring was limited, so he didn't dare to give up the ear chamber decisively, so he patiently looked for it slowly, and he also didn't believe that the owner of the tomb would dig up an empty ear chamber for no reason, which was unreasonable. Diving equipment is the last thing he left to rely on, can not waste oxygen to save as much as possible, in the end there is really no way, only to leave the dry door into the shocking door, met us.

If he's not lying, it's that the level here is on par with the corpse pool, and there are other possibilities for inexplicable differences, such as mechanisms.

To dig a pit of more than 30,000 square meters in a place more than ten meters deep under the underground palace, this project is not a small move, but also to build a drainage system, a huge tomb road mechanism, which is placed in the Warring States period of continuous war, it doesn't make sense at all, especially the Yue country is not how strong and rich, I am afraid that the king of the Yue country has not completed this strength.

If this underground palace is naturally formed, and there is just a dark river passing by, the tomb owner only needs to improve it is much simpler, first repair and tidy up the big pit, repair the tomb, improve the tomb organ, and then cap on it, which can also explain why the center will be three or five meters higher, and the square will be paved with a layer of bluestone bricks, after all, the project is much smaller.

The difference in height was also caused by the mechanism, and although I walked ninety-nine steps, I didn't actually go down to a depth of fifteen meters, maybe only three or five meters.

If this is the case, then it will be even more difficult to enter the main tomb, artificially capped, and the higher part of the main tomb must have done enough to consolidate, and it will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of entering.

But if that's the case, we have other ways to enter, just take the risk of diving to the corpse pool, and then enter the tomb from the tomb, but this also increases the danger, the forbidden corpse in the water is a level, even if I put some blood in the yin pine forest can pass safely, what about those corpse guards? One bite can lead to human life, and any negligence is a matter of human life.

But there is still a fatal flaw in this speculation, the water level is almost four meters high from the top of the tomb, the tomb is about two meters from the top of the cave, and the water level in the corpse pool is three or five meters lower than the center of the underground palace, which is exceeded, and there is no pillar to support the top of the cave here, which can only show that the bottom of the cave is thick enough from the ground, if it is fifteen meters deep, it makes sense.

In other words, no matter how you scrutinize, the water level here is not on the same plane as the water in the corpse pool, so it can only be Liu Sanyan lying.

These are all my own conjectures, and I am more inclined to the first point, that is, Liu Sanyan has a problem. Instinctively stayed away from him, and became more wary of him.

With Professor Wu here, it was easy to find the corresponding dry secret door of the tomb, through the strong light of the flashlight, it can be seen that there is indeed a piece of something strange, although the carved pattern is integrated, but after all, the tomb will leave traces after moving.

It seems that the tomb wall is carved with patterns, and it is impossible to say that it is a pattern, and it is not a word, just like the pattern of a mural, a bit like a pattern of flames, maybe it is used for beauty, and there is no specific incident.

The nearest tomb path to the burial chamber is also about eight meters, this tomb passage is oblique, if it can be pushed according to Applejack's previous proposal, it will be moved to the secret door, and you have to start from the next tomb passage.

Applejack picks up her gun and fires a few shots above the secret door, the sound of which echoes through the ground. When I look at it again, I left a few marks, and I can't break it at all, which means that it is strong enough.

Liu Sanyan knocked down the corner of the tomb and said, "Let's test the depth of the water first." Maybe it's not that deep, then we'll be able to wade through the water and climb up. ”

Someone took out a rope and tied it to the stone horn and slowly lowered it into the water.

The water level is about four meters from the top of the tomb, but the rope is long enough, and soon Liu Sanyan twisted the rope in his hand, and then pulled the rope up.

Judging from the traces of the rope's pro-wetting, the water depth is two meters two, and it is impossible to wade through the water, so you can only swim.

Applejack took the lead, and soon tied a rope to his body and entered the water with his equipment, he was very good at water, and after a few strokes, he swam to the tomb wall, and quickly climbed up to the secret door along the carved lines, all the way without danger.

He hammered it all over the place for a while, and finally gave us an OK gesture, and it seemed that his method really worked.

He first nailed a short pry into the crack of the door, untied the rope and tied it to the short pry, tried to be firm enough, used it as a support point for himself, and reattached the safety rope to himself.

He lifted the hammer and smashed the top of the secret door, and after a few blows, he said to us, "It's too strong, I need to come and help me again." ”

Of course, it is impossible for Professor Wu of us to do this hard work, he is old and frail, and it is estimated that he will not be able to pick up a few hammers. It's impossible for my second uncle to be with the Sichuan Yankees, after all, it's not too young, and besides, my second uncle is still injured, and there is no reason to let Miss Luo go, Dahui is a landlubber, otherwise it is most suitable for him to go, I am also unlikely, my physical strength is limited, and it will be a disadvantage to go, and in the end, I can only go to Liu Sanyan with a big head and a dog.

In the end, Liu Sanyan volunteered, too, after all, he mixed in halfway, and he had to take the initiative to perform when it was time to perform.

He also tied the safety rope and swam over with his equipment, but judging from his dog-planing style, the water quality was really poor, and he could only barely say that he knew water.

When Liu Sanyan also climbed up, the two of them smashed it together for more than ten minutes, but they still didn't smash it open, and they knocked on a small hole, which was even stronger than steel and water mixture, and I don't know how the ancients did it.

Liu Sanyan was so tired that he was out of breath, and he struck and said: "No, no, it's too strong, this has to be smashed to the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue, I think it can be blown up directly." ”

Professor Wu said, "I'll take a look at some samples when I come back, and you guys will come back and rest first." ”

Liu Sanyan also nailed a short pry under the first short pry, and after fixing the rope, the two slowly climbed back from the rope bridge.

Professor Wu looked at the sample he brought back, turned on the strong light and looked at it closely, wiped it under his nose with his hand and sniffed it, observed it for a while and said: "This is made of ground slurry black stone powder mixed with Shen Nian glutinous rice juice, which is harder than concrete, and it seems that the owner of the tomb also considered that the descendants wanted to enter the tomb from the top of the secret door." ”

Liu Sanyan said: "Then what should I do? It's impossible to smash it open, so let's blow it up. ”

"No, it's already past seven o'clock in the morning, not to mention whether the ancient tomb will be destroyed, there will definitely be a vibration on the underground blast, and I don't know how many people are paying attention to this mine." Miss Luo vetoed it.

What Miss Luo said is also reasonable, although I can't wait to make some noise and tell the people above that someone is trapped underground and hurry to the rescue. But who knows if they will turn their faces ruthlessly and sink into the dark river, it is estimated that my family will not even be able to find my body.

Professor Wu said: "There is still a way to break this kind of stone, and it can be corroded by watering it with children's urine, and it is much easier to dig it." ”

"Boy pee?" Liu Sanyan laughed out loud and said, "Old man, it's not me Liu Sanyan who said frustrating words, where can I find a boy for you?" Even if Miss Luo is willing to give birth to one, we can't wait. ”

After hearing this, Miss Luo slapped her directly, and Liu Sanyan realized that she had made a mistake and quickly apologized.

"Yuanwa, haven't you ever been like that?" Brother Hemp asked me in a whisper, but the underground space is so big, and the people around me heard it even if I whispered, and everyone looked at me in unison.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn't do it all of a sudden, and I wanted to unload the marijuana brother on the spot and dig a crack in the ground to get into it.

Blushing and thick-necked, he yelled at Brother Hemp: "Who said I haven't passed? Which eye have you seen that I haven't? Can't I be passionate? Just can't have a few pleasant nights? Can't you go to Fengyue places to be happy and happy? ”

This special person exposes the secret of a twenty-seven-year-old young man in person, who is not in a hurry? Expose people and hurt people, if you don't share the hatred of the sky!

was yelled at by me, everyone was stunned, looked at me in shock, and there were only two words left in their eyes: virgin!

Liu Sanyan held back a smile with difficulty, patted me on the shoulder and said: "Comrade Xiao Zhang, there is no shame or shame, this brings out that you are beautiful and refined, clean and self-conscious, tall and tasteful, how can an ordinary woman be worthy of you, you are simply a national treasure, a model for men!" ”

"I'm not!" I'm arguing hard, but he's clearly preconceived, damn Zhang.

"Okay, okay, it's not that we're not, which teenager is not romantic?" Liu Sanyan comforted and said: "But no matter how you say it, you are still young, even if you have a few times, you can't compare to our big men, maybe it will have some effect?" Try it without losing anything. ”

Seeing that I still wanted to quibble, Liu Sanyan hurriedly said: "In this way, although you pee, I Liu Sanyan will leave the words here, whether it is useful or not, I will accept it at the price of gold, this is the most expensive urine in history, how can you say that you are also famous in history." ”

I was anxious, and pointed at Miss Luo without choosing a word and said, "Who said I was the youngest?" Isn't she younger than me? Maybe she's still it, you buy her to go. ”

This time I really stabbed the hornet's nest, Miss Luo gave full play to the aesthetics of violence, kicked over and pressed me is a fat beating, I am sure that this time she is really merciless, gritted her teeth and fists to hit me in the face, the people next to me can't pull away, I was beaten so that my eyes are swollen, and my face is full of hot pain and numbness.

"Nonsense!" Professor Wu shouted angrily, pointed at Miss Luo and said angrily, "How can you treat him like this? Have you forgotten who he is? If you go back like this, I'll tell your grandfather to go, and let Luo Laogou take care of you by himself. ”

Miss Luo raised her fist hatefully, glared at me fiercely, and finally got up from me, and ran away unwillingly.

Ya, am I the one who was beaten? It's like Lao Tzu has been messing up and abandoning it from the beginning, it's better to have a pain with a knife, is it very pleasure to torture me like this?

All of a sudden, the atmosphere was a little awkward, some people wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and they wanted to persuade but didn't know how to speak.

In the end, Professor Wu pulled me up and said earnestly: "Xiao Zhang, it's Qingqing who is reckless, don't take it to heart, she is this kind of character, in fact, her heart is not bad." ”

I looked at Miss Luo with resentment, I was bullied like this by a woman, and I was so ashamed that I wanted to jump into the water and drown.

Force yourself to calm down, the heroes don't suffer the immediate losses, and implement them to pee.

After finding a bottle and running around half a bottle, Liu Sanyan teased: "Yo! Half of the anger will be subsided, and men will be able to urinate a little more often to control their emotions. ”

I made a gesture and threw it into the water, Liu Sanyan immediately flattered, and took the bottle as if it were a treasure.

After that, the big head turned out a large syringe, and a ball of hoses, just like the hospital infusion kind, I can't figure out why they dig a grave with this thing?

Professor Wu said: "In order to prevent theft, many ancient tombs will set up a mezzanine layer on the top or tomb wall, which is filled with a kind of Western Regions fire dragon oil that has not dried up for thousands of years, which will be damaged as long as it is hit by an external interlayer, and will burn immediately, burning Tufuzi or burning the burial goods." In this case, just use a hose to drain the dragon oil from the interlayer. ”

They filled a syringe of urine, Applejack and Liu Sanyan crawled back and carefully poured it on the top of the secret door, it didn't take long, it really worked, and soon they dug out an arm-sized crack, as long as they dug the crack, it was easy to do, and no longer needed child urine, just need to waste more time, a few big men took turns to fight, and after about an hour, they finally dug a hole enough for people to get into.

With the "suspension bridge", everyone does not have to wade into the water to enter the tomb, it will not be difficult, and after a while, they all climb into the ancient tomb along the rope water.

By the time I climbed in, the first to enter had already lit a few torches to illuminate the tomb.

This burial chamber doesn't look like the one I entered before, and Brother Hemp said he didn't enter it.

The same empty, also the same coffin in the center, this is a sarcophagus, normal size, the two ends are a little upturned, the sarcophagus is carved with a map of mountains and rivers, this may be the tomb owner's hometown or a place of great significance to him.

There are no four statues in this tomb, and there are no soul settling nails, but there are also some murals on the walls, and I followed them, and this mural is not like the carving technique I used to enter the tomb before, but it is painted with a pen, lifelike, and even the expressions of the people on it are drawn very carefully.

"It's not easy, it's a miracle! This is made with egg white and tung oil applied to the painting layer, and the environment is cold and dry, so that it is perfectly preserved. Professor Wu looked at the dementia, muttering to himself, with incredulity.

"Old man, what treasure have you found? Could it be that this mural is worth a lot of money? But we can't move out. Liu San's eyes were sharp, and he leaned over and asked.

Professor Wu said: "It is of little value in itself, but it is great if it falls into the words of archaeologists, and the cultural value carried by it is too great, so it must not be destroyed later, and it will be discovered by archaeologists in the future, which can be regarded as a good deed." ”

I also looked at it with curiosity, and the mural depicted a group of people building a huge project, some mining, some hauling earth, and a sergeant with a spear watching next to it. There are many times in the painting that there is a man on patrol, this person is very strange, wearing a round hat and a curtain hanging down, covering his face, and it seems that the figure should not be young.

Looking at the scale of this project, it should be the construction process of this ancient tomb, and what should be recorded is true, but this project is still bigger than I imagined.

I'll start with the first painting, in which the man in the hat (let's call him that way) stands on the top of the mountain and looks down on the mountains, with a river below the mountain, pointing to the northwest of the river, that is, upstream, and a slightly smaller hill on the left and right.

The picture below is a natural hole, a group of people holding torches appear in it, a rushing underground river rolling, through the middle of the hole, dividing the hole in two, the man in the hat leans over to catch something in the dark river.

Then there is an army of men leading a group of strong men into the natural burrow, expanding and trimming, tidying up the scale that has appeared.

Looking at the picture, there is indeed a deep pit dug under the natural hole, first the dark river was diverted, and then the eight directions on the periphery were dug down together, and then the current scale appeared, and I don't know how much time they spent and manpower and energy, but when digging up the underground tomb, something happened.

In the painting, there is a picture of a collapse, after digging a bottomless pit, the river suddenly bursts the embankment, and flows into the pit continuously, in the picture, a big dragon opens its mouth and swallows a few strong men, and the people around him kneel to worship, even the man in the hat also kneels.

I think maybe it's true, it's just a bit of an exaggeration, I don't believe that dragons really existed, maybe there is a big snake living in the underground river, which has been deified by later generations.

I don't understand the customs and customs of ancient times, and I don't understand historical deeds.

After they worshipped, the dragon also retreated into the deep pit, (presumably when he was full and went home to rest), and the strong men sealed the deep pit and built a burial chamber on it.

If it's true, it means that there is a large pit under this ancient tomb?

In the later paintings, I was a little bit of a wanderer, there were strong men transporting stones, all of them entered through the dark river, built into a series of tombs, and there were also some craftsmen chiseling stones on the side to make pictures, but those paintings about the mechanism could not be recorded on it.

Through this mural, I have a general understanding of the entire construction process of the ancient tomb, and the previous questions about the different levels have also been answered, the dark river is transformed into a corpse pond by them, and eight waterways were dug on the edge of the pool to enter the underground palace, and then it was dug down, and a large hole was dug out at a certain depth, the water in the corpse pool was not directly connected to the underground palace, only the rainy season would flow into the underground palace, which also solved the drainage problem of the ancient tomb, and the water would not flood the ancient tomb, but flow into the underground palace, In this way, even if the water is big in the rainy season, it will not be flooded, and then I guess that the big pit that the dragon enters and exits is not blocked, it should be that after the water level under the underground palace reaches a certain position, it will flow into the big pit, as for why it is designed like this, it may be that the designer has looked at the big pit and feels that there is no problem of being filled with water.

Professor Wu watched very slowly, for an hour and a half, frowned and pondered after reading it, and didn't say anything for a while.

Liu Sanyan muttered, "It seems that we still underestimate this ancient tomb, it is so deeply hidden." ”

Ajie hurriedly asked him what he saw, Liu Sanyan didn't hide it, and said: "We all thought that the construction of the corpse pond was a stroke of genius, changing a flat place into a treasure land of feng shui, planting trees to disperse qi, and gathering qi around the river, none of this point is a master, I can't think of it, although the eye here has become a place of feng shui, but Guo Tong is also a character, it is not too difficult to find a cemetery of the same level, why is it built on this Yue Guo tomb?" ”

Brother Hemp said: "Save trouble, why do you have a ready-made can't live it?" Doesn't it say that building a tomb is not a taboo, Guo Tong has detected leaks! ”

Liu Sanyan scolded with a smile: "If you shit in the shower, will you save trouble and not wipe your buttocks?" Don't panic? ”

Brother Hemp said: "I will be without paper." ”

"Does Guo Tong look like a person without paper? There must be a reason why he doesn't rub it. Liu Sanyan said.

This metaphor is rude enough, and I feel like a chrysanthemum is tight when I hear it.

"Dragon Qi!" Applejack exclaimed, "If there is a dragon in that painting, it means that there is dragon energy here, then this is not a general feng shui, and the emperor knows that the ancestral tomb will have to be dug up for you." ”

Liu Sanyan gave Ajie a thumbs up and said, "It's because of this, if you take advantage of this dragon energy, it will be difficult for your descendants to be rich or not." ”