Chapter Ninety-Six: Five Elements Gossip
Feng Weiguo called Vice Mayor Zhao early in the morning and reported everything that happened here last night. Regarding the corpses in the burial pit, Vice Mayor Zhao agreed with Professor Chen's idea and authorized them to choose a nearby place as a cemetery, and after a while, he personally coordinated the county land and resources bureau and the civil affairs bureau to go to the site of Gadfly Mountain and asked them to open a fast track for it. At the same time, Vice Mayor Zhao told Feng Weiguo that the plan for the development of the general's tomb into a scenic spot has entered the specific implementation process, and it is estimated that it will be passed soon, so that Feng Weiguo must serve Professor Chen and them well, let them give more guidance, and hope that they will help eliminate all the potential safety hazards in the tomb.
Taking advantage of the fact that the people from the county bureau had not yet arrived, Professor Chen and Zhang Gongbing divided into two ways: Zhang Gong and Zhu Gong and a few others still entered through the passage where the craftsmen escaped, inspected the other forks one by one, and sealed the exits as much as possible; The others, led by Professor Chen, carried ground penetrating radar, 3D imager and other equipment, and quickly came to the ice cave through the steps. Even after hours, the smell inside the ice cave was still disgusting. According to the description of Team Wu last night, Professor Chen went straight to the passage that was opened on the left side of the martyrdom. In the light of the flashlight, a strange cold light flashed in the passage.
As Professor Wang and Ma Kai advanced, after walking more than 10 meters, a hidden escape passage appeared on the right side of the passage. After Professor Chen found the mechanism to close the escape route and closed it, the group continued on. After another ten minutes, it was impossible to continue walking, because there was a steep slope in front of me, which was covered with ice, making people shudder.
Returning to the entrance of the cave, Professor Chen asked Ma Kai to find two solid places to fix the two ropes, and then the two of them slowly explored and advanced.
After slowly passing through the slope, I finally know the article inside, it turns out that there is a fork in front of this slope, and if you slide down this slope naturally, there is a bottomless hanging pit in front of you, if someone falls from here, it is estimated that you will die in nine lives. And through this slope, to the right and further on, you will come to another space.
Below this is a circular space of about eight or nine hundred square meters, and the placement inside is also very simple, in addition to the large number of samurai martyrs in the empty cave, behind them are five wooden chariots, each of which is full of wooden boxes.
After Professor Chen beckoned everyone to slide down the rope slowly through the walkie-talkie, everyone explored it in detail together. While scanning the space, Ma Kai asked Professor Chen, "Professor, this seems to be the penultimate floor on the floor plan that appeared last night, does it mean that we are almost at the tomb?" ”
"Yes, there should be a passage right here that leads directly to the burial chamber below."
After speaking, Professor Chen stopped and said loudly to everyone: "Comrades, it seems to be quite simple and reasonable here, but I have a strange feeling that I can't put into words, everyone be careful." ”
After working with Professor Chen for so long, everyone has a lot of trust in him, and even if they all feel that it is groundless, everyone will still trust his intuition and judgment very much. Sure enough, under Professor Chen's prompting, everyone immediately put away their excitement and nervousness just now, and looked intently at the front and feet. During Ma Kai's scanning, it was found that in addition to a wide passage under the martyrdom, the same size pit was found in the other four directions.
After reading the square meter map drawn by Ma Kai, Professor Chen pulled Feng Weiguo aside and said: "Director Feng, it seems that the blood jade edict is not a groundless thing in history, and the distribution of the four underground tunnels detected now is particularly interesting, which is excavated according to the five elements of gossip, and it is very likely that it is used to bury the five women who were killed in the legend, and it is very likely that those five women really have those jade hidden on their bodies." ”
Feng Weiguo looked at Professor Chen in confusion and said, "Professor Chen, I don't understand what you mean now, isn't it a good thing to find out?" In addition, since it is said that there are five women and five pieces of jade, haven't four pits only been discovered now? ”
"The five elements on the Bagua correspond to Zhen, Li, Dui, Kan and the middle, that is, Zhenmu, Lihuo, Duijin, Kanshui, and Zhongtu, so through these four pits and the passage in the middle, I am sure that this is the burial of the five women in the legend; Although it is said that it is a good thing to find it, I am afraid that this discovery will make the mausoleum, which may be well preserved now, disappear, so I would like to discuss with you what to do if the blood jade edict is really found here. ”
Feng Weiguo finally knew Professor Chen's thoughts, he was afraid that the information of this blood jade edict would leak out and bring risks to those mausoleums, so he sighed and said, "Dust to dust, dust to earth, let everything continue to rest in peace." ”
"Okay, I see."
Professor Chen led everyone to stand in front of the martyrdom and carefully counted, there were 19 people in a row, a total of 11 rows, and each of them put his right hand on the sword at his waist. Ma Kai stood above the martyrdom and scanned it again and found that under the 8, 9, 10, and 11 people in rows 5, 6, and 7 was a rectangular passage, which led vertically to the bottom, and it was also confirmed that the size of this passage was the same as that of the other four directions.
Seeing that everyone around him showed great interest in the wooden box after the martyrdom, Professor Chen thought about it, after so long cooperation and several rounds of testing, these people should be reliable, so he motioned to Feng Weiguo to unpack the box, and he took Ma Kai to the top of the four pits to inspect it. Through the thin ice, you can clearly see the rectangular stone cracks.
After Professor Chen took out a small shovel and squatted on the ground to smash a circle of ice cubes, he saw that it was still nothing more than prying open the stone slabs on it, so he had no choice but to give up and wait for them to find some tools from it in the afternoon before dismantling it.
Suddenly, there was a scream of "ah" from Feng Weiguo and them, and then a person fell heavily to the ground, and Professor Chen quickly ran over after hearing the movement. I saw a dazzling array of jewels scattered on the ground, and a local archaeologists fell on top of these jewels with their hands on their necks. After Professor Chen squatted down and pulled his hands apart, he found that a very small hole appeared on the right side of the man's neck, and blood foamed outward, and soon the bright red blood stained the jewelry beside him red. After Professor Chen asked Feng Weiguo to help hold down the man's hands, he tried to press the carotid artery that was spurting blood, but it was all in vain, and under the strong pressure, hot blood sprayed Professor Chen's body. Soon, the man lay on the ground, twitching and twisting, and stopped moving, and just like that, he stared at Professor Chen's death.