Chapter 44: The Glass Gate
"An abandoned burial chamber, perhaps." I said perfunctorily, and then said, "Whatever this place is for, let's find our way out as soon as possible, or we'll starve to death if we stay here." ”
At the moment, the two of us were groping around in this small space, hoping to find some passage.
While I was concentrating on my search, Zheng Tian suddenly shouted at me, and I thought he had made some major discovery, so I asked, "Found it?" ”
Zheng Tian shook his head and said, "I just want to ask how much water and food you still have?" My bag was empty, and the only food I had left was these dead bats, and I didn't expect to be delayed for so long when I went to the grave. ”
I looked at the bloody bat corpses in Zheng Tianbao, and I felt a wave of nausea, and waved my hand again and again to let him take it away: "You don't really want to eat these things, do you!" ”
Zheng Tian shook his head helplessly: "Do you think about it?" When I was brought into the small cave by the masked people on the other side of the wall carving, I was worried that I would be trapped there without food, so I hid a few bat carcasses in my bag in case I needed them. ”
As soon as Zheng Tian's words fell, I suddenly realized something, and nervously kicked the bag containing the bat corpse away and said, "I almost forgot!" These bat carcasses are full of ghost stings! ”
To my surprise, Zheng Tian was not afraid after listening to my words, he took the bag back and told me that the masked man had forced out the ghost sting in the dead bat's body and killed it.
I relaxed at this time, and then I thought that this guy was used to living a rich life, and he didn't care about ordinary meals, and now he was even ready to eat dead bats, and I was afraid that there was really no way. He unzipped his backpack and rummaged through it, seeing that there were still two slices of bread and a small half pot of water left. So he took out a slice of bread and handed it to him: "Eat this if you are hungry, I have some food here." ”
Zheng Tian shook his head: "Save it first, and then talk about it when you can't hold it anymore." This place is safe now, or let's take a break, I'm too tired anyway. ”
I also agree that the space here is confined and there is no exit at all. It was not wise to fish as hard as possible, and it was the best thing to conserve your strength, so the two of us sat down and leaned against the earthen wall on one side of the chamber.
Zheng Tian took out his DV at this time, smiled at me miserably, and said, "I don't know if we can go out." Why don't you record a dying video as your last words, maybe future generations will still be able to see it. ”?
When I heard such depressing words, I felt sad for a while, but what he said was also reasonable, and he recorded a video for future generations, so as to prove that he existed. I nodded, closed my eyes and began to think about what I wanted to say.
Zheng Tian beside him had already recorded the camera to himself, and what he said sounded very miserable and desolate, saying that he was not a tomb robber, but a documentary director, who was sacrificed to record the current archaeological cause in China and trace the footprints of human civilization.
He also said that his family was very rich, and there were many family properties waiting for him to inherit, but he buried his young life forever in this endless darkness for his artistic dreams......
I listened to the coldness in my heart, and simply blocked my ears.
Half a minute later, Zheng Tian, who was recording tears there, suddenly sneezed loudly, patted me and said, "Why is there still wind blowing in this ghost place?"
Windy? It's impossible, there is a wind blowing in the tomb, which proves that this is not a confined space, but now that the stone door above our heads has been closed, and there is no other exit at the moment, how can there be wind.
"The wind seems to be blowing through the cracks in the wall behind my head, don't believe you can sit in my place and try it." Zheng Tian pointed behind his finger and said.
I stretched out my hand to the position pointed by Zheng Tian and quietly felt it, there was indeed a slight breeze blowing, could it be that the back of this wall was empty? So the wind blew in through the cracks in the mound?
As I thought about it, I pressed my fingers on the earthen wall a few times, and found that the wall was soft and soft, not as solid as a solid wall.
"Could this earthen wall be blocked later?" Zheng Tian asked excitedly.
I nodded, took out the only small shovel left in my bag, and said, "Quite possibly, come, let's see if we can get this wall open." ”
Seeing hope, the two people didn't care about resting, so they began to shovel the soil together, and in an instant, the soil chips flew, and we could feel that we were getting closer and closer to hope.
However, a dramatic scene happened, just when we thought we were about to break through the earthen wall, we actually dug up a hard stone, originally we thought that there were only stones in this small area, but after digging a few times, we found that the entire back of the wall was blocked by a boulder, and we couldn't move it at all.
"Alas, the bamboo basket is empty, in vain, I'll continue to record the last words." Zheng Tian suddenly drooped down and sat down on the ground again.
I looked carefully at the boulder in front of me again, and found that there were some small cracked holes in the stone, and the wind should have blown through the small holes, so the other side of the boulder should be a vast space, and the boulder was blocked by someone later.
Wait a minute, if this boulder was blocked by someone later, then we should not be in a deliberately built secret room, but ...... Instead, I looked around again, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to my mind: "I know!" ”
Zheng Tian was so frightened by me that he shuddered for a moment, and asked me angrily if I was crazy.
I excitedly dragged Zheng Tian up and said, "We are not in the secret room at all, but just like just now, we are still in a corridor leading to the main tomb, but for some reason, this small section of the corridor has been blocked from both sides, so it has created the illusion that we are trapped in the secret room!" ”
After hearing this, Zheng Tian also nodded thoughtfully, and then said still depressedly: "Then what? And then we still can't get out? ”
I pointed to the earthen wall opposite: "There must be a reason why this small section of the road has been blocked, maybe there is some secret hidden in the earthen wall opposite!" Go over and take a look. ”
I walked over with a flashlight, carefully knocked on the wall with my hand, and felt a very textured sound, and immediately dug it up with a shovel, but as soon as I got off the shovel, I couldn't dig it, there was obviously something hard in this earthen wall, and it didn't look like a stone, it seemed that this earthen wall was just a cover for the surface.
I beckoned Zheng Tian, who was watching from the sidelines, and asked him to help me take a hand and shovel away the soil on the surface of the wall, Zheng Tian was a little unhappy: "It's not a big rock like just now, let's save our energy and sit down and rest." ”
I shook my head: "No, I just knocked it with a shovel, and it doesn't feel like a stone, the stone is very stuffy and thick, but the thing hidden in the earthen wall feels very brittle and textured when you knock it." ”
After hearing this, Zheng Tian reluctantly agreed, and the two of them were busy in the dark secret room.
About halfway through the cleanup, I faintly saw the shape of a door appear on the wall, and I was excited that I was right.
Zheng Tian saw that he had hope, and he worked harder and harder, and the two of them worked for about twenty minutes, and finally cleaned up all the soil on the surface of the wall.
What emerges in front of our eyes can really be described as shocking, yes, a shocking door.
This gate is about three meters high, the surface is translucent green, there is a faint "ink" word pattern in the middle, the whole gate is smooth as jade, even if it is covered by the soil for so many years, once faded, it still does not lose its clear color, it is really a peerless treasure.
"If this thing were to be auctioned, it would be absolutely amazing! I remember a professor at the university who said that this was called a ...... What's it called...... What,! I didn't pay attention to it at the time, do you remember? Zheng Tian was dumbfounded.
I replied with a firm gaze: "Remember, this should be the glass gate." ”
"Glass door? Could it be the glass door mentioned in your grandfather's letter? Zheng Tian was surprised.
I nodded, "Not bad." ”
"That's troublesome, your grandfather's letter said that it seems to take some kind of blood to open this door." Zheng Tian said worriedly.
"If you want to break the glass door, you must lead the glass blood." I muttered.
"I don't understand why the blood of the human body can touch the secret lock inside, what is the principle of this?" Zheng Tian looked puzzled.
"I also thought about this problem, and I felt that it might be that the blood contains some trace metal elements, and these metal elements interact with the natural minerals contained in the glass door, so it causes a change in the internal magnetic field...... But I'm guessing and not necessarily right. I replied.
"Okay, your grandfather said that the path of drainage is not something that ordinary people can master, will you be able to do it?" Zheng Tian asked again.
I used to study the drainage method mentioned in my grandfather's letter in "The Secret Book of Heavenly Works", and the theoretical path can be roughly guessed, but I have never practiced it, so I don't know if it is useful. In fact, whether it is useful or not is one thing, the most important thing is that I am now seriously injured, my body is extremely weak, if I cut my hand to guide the stream, it is estimated that I will directly lose too much blood and die, I don't dare to take such a risk.
I told Zheng Tian what I thought, and he took out a knife and said, "Otherwise, you will smear it with my blood." ”
I shook my hand: "Then you will be in danger too." ”
"You can't just do it! We don't have much to eat here, and if we continue like this, I'm afraid we're going to really eat dead bats! Zheng Tian was a little anxious, and his face was sad.
Wait, he just said dead bats...... It dawned on me, yes! "The Secret Book of Heavenly Crafts" says that blood is needed for drainage, but it has never been stipulated that it has to be human blood! Aren't we having exactly a few bat carcasses right now? You might as well try it with bat blood! ”
Thinking of this, I immediately asked Zheng Tian to take out the bat corpse, and cut the corpse open with a knife, and the black blood inside gushed out in an instant.
"This's got a lot more blood!" Zheng Tian said excitedly.
I nodded, and at the same time took out the book "The Secret Book of Heavenly Craft" in my bag, opened it to the one with the glass door, and then smeared some bat blood on my hand, stood in front of the glass door, and followed the path recorded in the book to the faint "ink" on it.
I was very nervous about the whole process, and if it didn't work, we would probably have to sit back and record our last words.
As the time ticked, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat as the blood dripping from my fingertips flowed little by little.
After about ten minutes, the hidden trail finally became apparent under the infusion of blood, and then the ink pattern actually emitted a dark green light, which kept flashing on the glass door.
When the dark green light dimmed again, the glass door in front of me really gradually opened.