Chapter 24 Preliminary Exploration
"Ahem...... Cough...... What is this place? ”
As soon as Fu Xiao climbed out of the hole, he asked with a little fear.
Lu Zhentian looked left and right and said, "The place we are where we are now should be the corridor of this ancient tomb, and the place where we came down is a tomb road, which is to transport stones and other items here on the ground." ”
"And the Yongdao used to be the front hall of this tomb. But now I can go on both sides, and I can't figure out which way to go. ”
"Don't think about it yet, come, give me the sticks you found." Bai Yuxuan said to Lu Zhentian.
Then Lu Zhentian handed Bai Yuxuan a rough wooden stick, which should have been picked up casually in the forest.
It turned out that this was what Bai Yuxuan told him before he came in, and he didn't know what Bai Yuxuan wanted a wooden stick for.
Bai Yuxuan took out two tattered towels, sprinkled them with kerosene, and then tied the two towels to one end of the wooden stick, it seemed that he wanted to make a simple torch.
Bai Yuxuan said as he did it.
"In an underground confined space like this, be sure to prepare a torch."
"One is that it can be used for lighting, and the other is that the flame of the torch can be used to determine whether the oxygen content is sufficient to avoid the risk of suffocation."
"Alright, let's go."
It didn't take long for Bai Yuxuan to walk to the right with a blazing torch.
Lu Zhentian and the others had no choice but to follow.
"Knock...... Knock ......"
The footsteps of several people were very loud in the empty tomb.
The men walked forward and looked at the walls on either side.
To Lu Zhentian's surprise, the walls on both sides were bare, without any decoration.
But in his impression, whether it is the big tomb of the emperor's relatives or the small tomb of the common people. There will be relief decorations on the walls on both sides of the road, or the dragon flying into the sky, or the crane offering Rui, or the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, after all, there are some reliefs that express beautiful meanings.
But in any case, there can't be any reliefs on both sides of the road, just bare walls, and it seems that this tomb is really unusual.
Lu Zhentian no longer paid attention to the walls on both sides, but just walked forward with his head bored.
But he didn't know what was going on, but he always had a faint feeling in his heart that entering this tomb might be a very wrong decision.
The three of them walked forward for a short time when they were blocked by a stone gate.
Lu Zhentian stepped forward to observe it, and said firmly: "Behind this door should be the front hall, but this door ......"
He pushed the stone door hard, but the stone door did not move. At the same time, there were no knockers or grooves on the stone door, and it was obviously impossible to pull them apart.
"Come on, let's push hard together!"
Under the command of Lu Zhentian, the three of them used all their strength to push the stone door, but no matter how hard they tried, the stone gate still did not move.
"Whew...... Whew......"
Fu Xiao gasped and asked Lu Zhentian, "Don't you know how to open this kind of door?" Aren't you an archaeology major? ”
"But I haven't been on a field trip, and this is the first time I've been in the tomb. Moreover, there is very little detailed knowledge about ancient tombs in our textbooks. ”
"Alright, don't talk about it. Let me look it up. ”
It was at this time that Bai Yuxuan suddenly remembered something that he hadn't used for a long time, so he had almost forgotten about it.
"Cell phone?! Can there be a signal in this place?! ”
Fu Xiao looked at what Bai Yuxuan took out, and couldn't help but shout in surprise.
Bai Yuxuan ignored him, he pressed the power button of the phone a few times, but the phone was still in a state.
"Oh no, it's been useless for so long, it's out of power."
Bai Yuxuan muttered in his mouth and took out the power bank from his bag at the same time.
He connected his phone to the power bank and waited for a few minutes, and when he pressed the power button again, the phone screen finally lit up.
Fu Xiao quietly watched Bai Yuxuan's series of actions that seemed meaningless to him.
"Ancient Catacombs...... Corridor...... Shimen ......"
Bai Yuxuan's mouth kept chattering, and at the same time, his fingers quickly tapped back and forth on the screen.
After about ten minutes, Bai Yuxuan straightened his waist and stretched a big lazy waist, with a smug look on his face.
"I already know how to open this door, so let me do it alone!"
Bai Yuxuan first took out the sapper shovel from his bag, then inserted the sharp shovel handle into the gap under the stone door, and finally pried it upward.
"Click...... Click......"
With a tooth-aching grinding sound, a gap finally appeared between the two stone doors.
"It's finally open!"
The three of them let out a low exclamation, each with a look of excitement on their faces, this was the first difficulty they had overcome since entering the ancient tomb.
Lu Zhentian stepped forward and pushed the stone gate hard, and the stone gate was easily opened by him.
I don't know how many years the stone gate was opened, exuding a burst of decay.
"Ahem...... cough cough cough ......"
Several people choked on the breath and coughed a few times.
The three of them did not rush in, but stood at the door and waited quietly, probably to wait for this rotten aura to completely dissipate.
A few minutes later, the crowd cautiously walked inside.
Fu Xiao carefully observed the structure of the stone door before entering, and he finally knew that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't open the door.
There is a groove under the stone door, and when the stone door is closed, the stone door is just embedded in the groove, so no matter how you push or pull, it is impossible to open the stone door.
However, if you lift the stone door slightly up and out of the groove, it will be easy to open.
Fu Xiao couldn't help but secretly admire the wisdom of the ancients.
Behind the stone gate is a burial chamber, which is small, about six meters long, four meters wide, and three meters high.
"This is supposed to be the antechamber of this tomb. Generally speaking, the front hall is used to put some funerary goods or the corpses of slaves to accompany the burial. ”
"But this front hall ......"
The burial chamber in front of me was empty, with no piles of funerary goods or coffins, only two broken blue and white porcelain jars in the corners.
"Is this thing worth it?"
Finally discovering something that looked like an antique, Bai Yuxuan couldn't help but have his eyes shining.
Lu Zhentian pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the words he said made Bai Yuxuan a little frustrated.
"Although I don't know the actual value of these two big cans, but they have rotted like this, and they may not be worth a few dollars, so you should dispel this idea as soon as possible."
"Okay......" Bai Yuxuan replied rather frustratedly.
Similarly, this burial chamber has a stone door that leads to the next burial chamber.
The three of them thought that they would use the same method as the previous stone gate, so Bai Yuxuan took out the sapper shovel from his bag and prepared it.
But when Fu Xiao tentatively pushed this door, this stone door miraculously cracked a crack, and the three of them were overjoyed, and it was naturally something they were all happy to see if they could save some strength.
Fu Xiao was the first to walk in, but then he retreated like an electric shock.
"There are footprints on the ground inside!"
Fu Xiao was shocked and called out inexplicably.