Volume 1 Kurosawa's Domain Chapter 13 Trap Gate
At the moment when the stone tablet sealed by the loud body, Bai Yunfei seemed to hear a crisp sound that seemed to be "ding" in the dark, and he didn't know if it was his hallucination, or if there was really something around him that sounded.
At that moment, Bai Yunfei felt that countless images flew in his mind, and his heart was like a sea with thousands of waves, and a wave of dizziness also surged in his mind.
For no reason, Bai Yunfei felt that with the moment on this stone tablet, his life was going to be changed, no, or it had been changed.
I don't know what has changed, and I can't tell if it feels realistic.
I only know that this feeling has no warning, but I suddenly have such a feeling in my heart for no reason.
I don't know if this feeling is good or bad, but Bai Yunfei is a little surprised, even if the surrounding objects collide or other reasons produce this sound, why does he let himself feel like "changing his fate"?
This feeling made Bai Yunfei feel very uncomfortable, and when he looked back, everyone had disappeared at the turn in front of him, and he seemed to be a lonely lonely ghost abandoned by the world, so he felt furious in his heart, and hurriedly turned around and chased after everyone who had disappeared around the corner.
After Bai Yunfei caught up with Niu Gang, he pulled Niu Gang's sleeve, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Did you hear any sound just now?" ”
Niu Gang suspiciously shone a flashlight on Bai Yunfei's face, and then asked, "Voice, what sound?" ”
Bai Yunfei thought for a while and said, "I heard a 'ding' just now, no, maybe it's a 'bell'?" Did you hear that? ”
Niu Gang smiled "hehe": "Why didn't you hear it, it rings when you walk." ”
As he spoke, he shook his rucksack vigorously, the sapper shovel and sapper pickaxe and other tools hanging on the outside of the rucksack, although the outside was wrapped in protective cotton to prevent noise, there were still a few dull bump sounds.
Bai Yunfei wanted to say that it was not this voice, but he couldn't say it clearly, and finally hesitated, even he doubted the authenticity of the voice, so he simply shut up.
A few flashlights swayed forward in the passage, and the smell was always cold and mildew, which made people smell very uncomfortable.
After a while, everyone came to the iron gate that Thirteen said.
It's a very weird iron gate.
The general iron gate is either square, or it is the vault shape of the upper circle below, there are many such doors in ancient times, like some city gates, government gates, yamen, house gates, etc., are all this kind of shape of the upper circle below, implying that "the sky is round and the place is round".
The shape of this iron gate is very special, it is a whole circle, black pasted on the stone wall in front, the wall is made of granite strips of hemp-blue, and the gaps between the stones are all filled with molten iron and copper juice.
The stone wall was as blue as the sea, and the dark round iron gate looked like a big turtle lying on the surface of the sea.
According to Su Laogui, such a door is rare in the tombs of the past dynasties.
It was obviously old, and the black-black iron door was mottled with brown-red rust.
Generally, the doors in the ancient Central Plains have door knockers, which are made into a shop head ring, which are used to open and close the door and knock on the door, and the general door is divided into two, and the door knocker is also made into two.
But it is generally made to the size of a person who can hold it with one hand, how can it be made as big as a whole door?
And this door is strange, it is not only a round door, but also the size of the whole door.
It's unclear what the significance of a knocker made of the size of an entire door is unknown, but the huge door shop standing in front of you is really oppressive and nervous.
The two coercive eyes on the hideous beast's head make people feel like it's staring at you deadly, as if it will devour you in the next moment.
Everyone stood in front of the door at a loss, and the air was a little solemn for a while.
Cao Longxuan asked Niu Gang and Sun Er and Thirteen to pull the huge ring outward, but they didn't move at all.
So, naturally, it was the turn of the "most senior engineer" here, Su Laogui, to play.
At this time, Su Lao Ghost really took out an archaeological expert and professor as a school, took out a magnifying glass from his backpack in a grand manner, and stuck it in front of the door in a manner and moved back and forth to watch, exactly like those archaeological experts on TV studying monuments.
Fortunately, at this time, all the flashlights shone on this door, so that the place was absolutely bright, and it was not a problem to see the details.
Old Ghost Su looked at it for a while, put away the magnifying glass, pushed the door in both hands and pushed it in, it is estimated that his idea is that since he can't pull outward, he will try to pull inward.
Still unresponsive, he took a few steps back, stared at the huge beast head, looked left and right, and then moved out of the way and gestured to everyone: "Go, you hold the big iron ring, spin and turn around." ”
So everyone hurriedly grabbed the huge iron ring and rotated it in a clockwise direction together.
I only heard a dull sound of "squeak", and the entire huge beast head was actually driven to spin.
When the eyes that rotated to the head of the beast changed from a horizontal line to a vertical line, a muffled sound of "click" came from behind the door, and the feeling from everyone's hands was immediately empty, and there was no such great resistance as just now.
But the crowd didn't dare to spin any further, for fear that if they continued to spin, they would trigger some mechanism, and then it would be troublesome.
So everyone looked back at Old Ghost Su, although no one spoke, but the meaning was obvious, this sound seemed to be the door opened, what should I do next?
Old Ghost Su also nodded, and said softly, it should be open.
Everyone was a little incredulous, it was opened so easily, and this anciently designed mechanism was too pediatric, right?
In my imagination, I have to fly countless sharp arrows, spew out flames that can swallow people, or drill out some terrible poisonous snakes or something, so that it can be called a trap or a trap.
This is easy to open, although it is a good thing, but it is also a little disappointing.
The crowd looked at each other, thinking that they were about to turn clockwise and counterclockwise, but they opened it so easily.
I only heard Su Lao Ghost say:
"Good things are also bad things. It's a good thing, I dare say, there must be news behind this door, but within a certain range, it will never hurt anyone.
Because I don't know which turtle son has already 'tested the waters' (trying, here refers to being the first to be taken) over the mile.
There is no need to mention the bad things, everyone understands, since someone has entered, everyone can only 'play with the empty spoon' (term, meaning to enter the tomb that others have robbed). ”
Cao Longxuan asked, "How can you see it?" ”
Old Ghost Su replied:
"This is the legendary 'Nine Absolute Chained Door', which is somewhat similar to the kind of Nine Links that people play.
If it is turned on well, many of the mechanisms and messages inside will be canceled and will be closed or cooled.
If it is not opened well, it can be opened, but the mechanisms and messages inside are all activated, and how it is activated is not necessarily, it may be related to the state in which the door is finally opened.
This kind of door is also very rare in ancient tombs, and the structure is complex, and it is difficult for ordinary people to create even if they grasp the theory.
It can be seen that this master, hehe, is not an ordinary cargo.
But such a complicated door, just turned around and opened, obviously, this is not open, but it is not locked at all, in the words of the common people, the door is just 'brought'.
So, this design is undoubtedly a tomb door, but who will leave the door of the tomb open and welcome customers every day like doing business? ”
Cao Longxuan nodded, his face seemed to be a little ugly.
And Niu Gang asked Old Ghost Su in surprise: "My God, Mr. Su, is it really fake?" Open the door, this guy has so much to say (exquisite meaning, Northeast dialect) in it? ”
Su Lao Ghost smiled with a cynical expression "hehe":
"Niu family baby, it's not an old ghost I'm bragging here, although this 'Nine Absolute Serial Doors' is rare in the world, but with the experience of the old man, I have also met once or twice so little, no problem, haha, no problem."
He laughed and instructed the crowd to pull the big hoop outward.
Everyone pulled together, and sure enough, although they still felt heavy, they slowly pulled away.
After this so-called rare "Nine Peerless Connecting Doors" was opened, everyone's flashlights were all cast into the door.
What made Bai Yunfei a little disappointed was that there was still a passage inside the door, but there were no machines, mechanisms, and traps that Bai Yunfei imagined, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious of the words of this sometimes crazy bad old man.
There is not much difference between this passage and the passage outside the door that everyone walked through just now.
The only difference is that the previous passage was made of pure hard earth, while this passage is made of stone.
The granite stone of hemp blue is processed into a rectangular strip of stone, and there is a lime mortar adhesion between the strip stone and the strip stone.
Even from the perspective of today's people, it is an ordinary stone wall passage, not like there is any mystery or danger.
So Sun Er raised his legs and was about to step in, but he was grabbed by Su Lao Ghost, and scolded with some annoyance: "You turtle, do you want to go in and be pierced as a hedgehog, or do you want to be a toad who is suffocating to death?" ”
This Sun Er immediately stopped, although he may not understand the meaning of this old Su ghost's words, and at the same time, he also feels that this old gentleman who is chattering is not very reliable.
But after all, he has been immersed in the tomb robbery business for so many years, he has eaten more salt than the rice he has eaten, and the female corpses he has hugged are more eye-catching than the big girls and little daughters-in-law he has seen, so naturally he does not dare to disobey him.
So Sun Er hurriedly retreated, for fear that he would accidentally become the hedgehog and toad that Su Lao Ghost said.
I saw that Su Lao Ghost took out a small plastic bag of "small sticks" from his body as if he were playing tricks, and took a closer look at the processed matches.
It turned out that the front end of the match head of an ordinary matchstick was used to make a hollow bubble on a syringe that drip in the hospital, and you could see the medicine dripping down one by one.
Pinch it to make it half as long as it was original, and then thread the matchstick into it, as if there is something like alcohol wrapped around the matchstick.
As soon as he took out this thing, Bai Yunfei understood that he might be throwing a lit match into this unknown passage to detect the lack of oxygen.
However, if the burning match is thrown out, it may be blown out by the wind that it has brought up, and if it is treated with this dripping bubble, even if the fire outside is blown out, and the inside is not blown and is still burning, it will naturally ignite the outside part until all the combustibles are burned out.
Bai Yunfei really guessed correctly, this old ghost Su struck a match and threw it into the passage inside the iron gate as he pleased.
The burning match made a graceful arc, tumbling and falling in the passage more than twenty meters away from the door, burning for a long time until it was completely burned into coal, and then extinguished.
It seems that there is still no lack of oxygen inside.
Then I saw that Su Lao Ghost connected and assembled the handles of the scattered Luoyang shovel again, held the shovel upside down, and let the end of the handle lean on the masonry on the ground in the door, and slowly moved into the door while knocking on the ground left and right.
After he had traveled a certain distance, he turned around and waved his hand in a chic manner: "Enter!" ”
I don't know if this old ghost Su was influenced by Cao Longxuan, but this wave of his hand was sent by him, so it was really not a compliment.
In terms of temperament and demeanor, there is no kingly spirit like Cao Longxuan who directs the country and commands thousands of troops, but it is especially like the actions of the mother-in-law and aunts who raise ducks on the edge of the Xiangjiang River in Bai Yunfei's hometown when they shoot ducks in the river.
Now that he had his old man speak, everyone was convinced and walked towards the stone passage.
Walking into the passage made of blue granite stones, with the light of the flashlight, everyone looked left and right while walking, and had a more detailed observation of the situation in this stone passage.
The stone passage did not go all the way forward, and after walking for a short time, it turned around.
After everyone turned in this direction, the scene in front of them made everyone have to stop: there were several skeletons in front of them, falling to the ground in different positions.
Everyone didn't dare to step forward easily, so they used their flashlights to shine on the location of the skeleton, and took this place as the center, shining back and forth on the nearby passage, carefully observing the situation nearby.
These skeletons must have been around for a long time, as evidenced by the dust and cobwebs that had accumulated on them.
The flesh and clothes were long since rotting, and there were a few white bones lying in the dust.
And in the area of these skeletons, that is, about ten meters in front of everyone, the two sides of the passage here are no longer completely built on the entire wall, but have some "window"-like settings.
However, because these "windows" are small and face both ends of the passage, they are somewhat concealed and are not easy to spot without getting closer and looking closely.
After everyone realized the danger on the ground because there were skeletons on the ground, they used a bright flashlight to strafe it.
Old Ghost Su said, have you seen it, these settings on both sides are all organs and news, fortunately, someone has waded through the "thunder" before, otherwise everyone is really troublesome.
Don't underestimate the mechanisms and messages designed by these ancient people, if you don't get it right, you can definitely die.
After speaking, Su Lao Ghost actually put away the shovel handle that was carefully leaning on the ground and knocked forward the masonry, and strode towards the skeleton with confidence and boldness.
When the crowd saw that he was going on like this, they hurried up and followed.