Chapter 152: Excavation
I tried my best to avoid the horns, and pulled out the snakes and arrows from the trees, and after wiping seven or eight arrows slightly, I put them in my backpack.
After pulling out all my arrows, I began to help them pull out their arrows.
Among the arrows I shot were three types of arrows, and I pulled them off one by one.
After another two minutes, everyone pulled out all the arrows that had been inserted.
After distributing the arrows among each other, we returned to the area covered by the bluestone slab where we had been standing.
All the people's eyes became extremely solemn, and before we could find a way to go down to the tomb at this moment, we had already lost three people.
And if we hadn't struck first, pulled the trigger first, and killed a large number of snakes, I'm afraid the number of people who lost this would have been even more.
"I feel more and more strange here, not only is the tomb I went down to be dangerous, but the whole mountain is so dangerous."
Tang Mian said with an ugly face, and all of them had an unusually depressed feeling.
At this time, Qian Lao coughed lightly and spoke.
"But that's not necessarily a bad thing, is it?"
"Since this is so dangerous inside, if it was the manual intervention of some great man thousands of years ago, then it means that the scale of the tomb hidden on this mountain will be terrifying!"
In the process of speaking, Qian Lao had already walked to the other side of the bluestone slab, and quickly stopped in a place that looked a little inconspicuous.
I stared at the direction where Qian Lao was, and at the same time looked at the surrounding scene, this should be the place where Qian Lao found that there is a strange place in feng shui, that is, a place where you can go to the tomb.
My eyes slowly looked around, and after scanning it, I didn't find anything peculiar, it looked like it was in an ordinary place, and the hexagram belonged to the gossip that was more peaceful and peaceful.
"This is it, you can get off the shovel."
Before I could speak, Qian Lao slowly spoke, turned around, stared closely at the direction we were, and nodded.
Immediately, Qian Lao's toes tapped twice on the ground to determine the position, and then left this area.
I took the folding spatula out of my backpack and walked over quickly.
The others also took out various digging tools from their backpacks and hurried over.
In this line of work, it is not possible to find the location of the tomb door by digging just one pit, and it is usually necessary to dig several more pits in a nearby location.
So, we scattered around at the low point of the old man's feet, digging around.
The ground here is relatively hard, although the place where Qian Lao pointed has been out of the range covered by the bluestone slab, but after digging twice, you can still see a shallow layer of stone slab.
After removing some of the dirt from the surface, I took out a hammer from my bag and smashed the thin layer of slate that covered it, and then removed the thin slate debris.
But further down, although it was earth, it was unusually solid, as if it had been weighed down by something, even compared to the previous stone slabs.
The shovel smashed on the ground, and I could even feel a counter-shock force coming from the palm of my hand, which made people's palms a little numb.
It's not so much the soil underneath as the stone bricks that have been pressed, and it's simply extremely hard.
Not only the tunnel I dug but also the rest of the people, it seems that the soil under this piece of ground is unusually hard.
"There is definitely a big tomb here, and the tomb owner's handwriting is really terrifying, the ground near here, even the land has been processed, because of the bluestone slabs, even if it rains, these clods of soil have not been loosened."
"If that's the case, I'm not wrong about where I estimated."
Qian Lao slowly stepped aside, sat down slowly, two golden lights flashed in his eyes, and spoke.
Qian Lao's age is old after all, and he has broken an arm in the tomb before, so he is no longer suitable for work, especially this kind of manual work, so before starting to excavate, someone persuaded him to sit down early in the morning.
We dug it out like this, and it took us more than two hours to dig just over a meter deep.
It was close to noon at this time, and everyone was hot and tolerant, and as long as they had been digging for two hours without stopping, everyone had a bead of sweat on their faces.
The undershirt on my back was sticking together, and it felt very uncomfortable.
"Stop, let's take a break." Tang Mian, who was digging on the side, gasped heavily, threw the folding shovel aside, and said a little out of breath.
This opened his mouth and aroused unanimous approval, everyone was really tired, two hours of digging and digging such a hard layer of soil, the effort consumed was really a lot.
Immediately, we slowly sat down and rested for 20 minutes, and also took advantage of this time to eat something and recover our strength for a short time.
We didn't get back to work until 20 minutes later.
I have to say that this is a long and huge project, all of us dig bigger and deeper, and finally all the pits have been merged together.
Finally, six hours later, at six o'clock in the evening, when the sky was a little dark, suddenly there was a muffled sound.
At this moment, all the people suddenly came to their senses, as if the fatigue of the whole day had dissipated.
"Got it!"
A cry came out from a short distance, and I walked briskly over, my brow beaming with joy.
"Finally dug it up!"
I had a feeling of tears in my eyes, and after digging for seven or eight hours, I felt like I was about to be paralyzed, but fortunately, the hard work paid off, and I finally dug up something!
I quickly walked to the place where the crowd was wrapping, and at this time I saw Tang Mian slowly leaning down, and in this small hole in front of me, I faintly saw something.
"Whew!"
Tang Mian exhaled deeply, his expression suddenly became solemn, and he slowly brushed off the soil particles floating on the surface with his hands on the ground.
As he erased the layer of earth, the look of joy on my face grew stronger, and I saw that what shimmered beneath the earth city was a metal.
Under the little glow of the sunset, this metal full of age makes people feel like they can't speak.
It's something made of bronze!
I'm really familiar with the craftsmanship of this thing, it's ancient bronze, I've seen it many times in the tomb, and I can't be wrong for this color.
Tang Mian's hands trembled a little, and he also betrayed Tang Mian's mood at the moment, little by little, Tang Mian smeared more and more content, as if there was something engraved on this bronze.
"It's a dragon pattern!"
When Tang Mian saw the lines on it, the whole person was instantly shocked, and he was immediately happy.
"It's a certainty!"
At this moment, a hint of surprise flashed on everyone's faces, in ancient times, the hierarchy was clear, and no one could use the dragon pattern except the emperor, even if it was a prince with a high status, he could only use the python pattern in terms of tombs.
So since the dragon pattern appears in this tomb, it means one thing, this tomb is definitely a king's tomb!
All eyes were burning on the bronze that was on the ground, and from the shape of it was supposed to be a bronze wall.
"My dear, could it be that this whole tomb is made of bronze!"
Someone in the crowd exclaimed, and while I was shocked, it didn't get to that point.
I haven't seen a building made of bronze before, and I have seen a burial chamber made of bronze before.
It's just that it's just a little bigger now, and I have a mental expectation.
"Old Qian, where is the tomb gate of this tomb?" Just when everyone was rejoicing, Qin Feng frowned slightly, and slowly spoke.
This sentence was suddenly poured on everyone's body like a splash of cold water.
It is true that we are not wrong to find the tomb, but it is useless not to find the tomb door.
The walls here are made of bronze, so you can't necessarily dig through them, right?
The metallurgical process in ancient times was not much better than that of modern times, especially in the bronze process as an alloy, which can be said to be the pinnacle.
Some bronze swords made by special techniques of ancient methods can even achieve the effect of eliminating iron like mud, not only in terms of hardness, but also in toughness.
Not to mention that we only have excavation tools such as folding shovels in our hands now, even if we have some electric tools, if we want to dig through this tomb wall, I am afraid it will take years and months of monkeys.
If we weren't sure where the door was, we wouldn't be able to go down to the tomb at all.
If you don't know the specific location of the tomb door, if you want to go down to the tomb, it is estimated that this large area of soil will be turned over, which is also a huge project, and it is impossible to do it according to our current manpower.
After all, this soil layer is terrible, and it takes ** hours just to dig to this depth, not to mention digging up the entire soil layer, which is obviously unrealistic.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Qian Lao, and he swallowed his saliva nervously, for fear that Qian Lao would say that he couldn't find the tomb door.
Qian Lao pondered for a moment, and then glanced at the compass in his hand.
"It should be near here, the place we dug is the top wall, here is the waist of the dragon pattern, and along the place where the head of the dragon pattern is headed, it should be roughly the location of the tomb gate."
At the moment when Qian Lao opened his mouth to speak, the basin of cold water that had been poured was suddenly steamed dry.
Wonderful!