Article 34 Underwater drainage
The square hole is half a person high, square, very rough, the sides are full of broken stones about the size of a watermelon, there are a lot of them, obviously someone has blocked this hole, and the square hole is pitch black, I don't know where it leads, a bit like the reservoir culvert we often see in the south.
In the pile of broken stones on the side of the square hole, there is a relatively flat one, on which a few words are carved very roughly, it is carved in a hurry, and the carving is very shallow, if it is not for the English letters, it looks very dazzling in this kind of imperial tomb, and Shunzi may not be able to find it. It's a pity that what is carved can't be spelled out at all.
Did the third uncle engrave it to show us the way? I thought so at the time, but the third uncle's foreign text is very unreliable, how could he come up with a brain like this to engrave foreign words as a code, this is really not his style.
The fat man approached curiously to take a look, and suddenly he sighed, beckoned to me, and said, "Xiao Wu, these twisted foreign texts, we seem to have seen them somewhere." โ
I also walked over and took a look, and my heart jumped.
It's not like, we have indeed seen these symbols, this is what I saw on the wall of the pool when I went down to the stele pool with the fat man in the submarine tomb. When he saw this symbol, the stuffy oil bottle suddenly rushed down the stele pool, and then he remembered what had happened in the underwater tombs. Why did you suddenly appear here again?
At that time, I always thought that this symbol was carved by one of those people when the third uncle brought Wenjin and them down, but suddenly it appeared here again, which was obviously wrong.
Looking at the traces of the carving, it was knocked indiscriminately with a mountaineering pickaxe, and the traces are so new, it is either left by the third uncle, or it is left by the stuffy oil bottle or A-Ning, because there are only a few people here who can have a mountaineering pickaxe, and the person who left this symbol must have entered the square cave.
At this time, I suddenly had a thought, and I thought to myself, that the foreign symbol in the submarine tomb was engraved from a stuffy oil bottle, so after he saw this symbol, he would know: "I have been to this place." โ
It's really a possibility, and I'll have to ask when he reappears.
Panzi looked at me in a daze and asked me what was going on, and I told them about me and the fat man seeing symbols on the bottom of the sea, and Panzi also felt very novel. However, he said: "I have been with the third master for ten years, and there are no less than fifty tombs to say less, and there are a few big ones, I have never seen him leave a password, and the third master abcd can't recognize it completely, this is definitely not left by the third master." โ
I said in my heart that it was A-Ning or the stuffy oil bottle, and turned to them and said, "Anyway, it seems that the road is right, this cave has already been entered, and the entrance to the underground palace should be below here, shall we go in immediately?" โ
"Enter!" The fat man immediately said, "What are you waiting for? Several times the people are in front of us, fat man, I have always been a pioneer, and when I met a few of you unlucky children, we didn't rub it in, and when everyone finished doing things, we didn't have the face to rob them. โ
Panzi said to me: "Don't ask us, are you physically okay?" โ
I nodded and said no problem, "The fat man is right, we can't delay." Anyway, when I hit the zongzi, I just didn't get hurt and died, and now that I'm injured, I'll die a little faster, not afraid. โ
The fat man had already unloaded his backpack, and when he heard me say this, he sighed: "You won't fucking say something auspicious?" Don't you want to see where we're going now? โ
I glared at him and said, "It's useless to have you stick two door gods on the door of your head, you take care of your hand first." โ
We each prepared our own equipment, just now we were packing the way of marching, now we put the wind lantern, fuel and other things into the bag, and then take out the cold fireworks, cold light sticks, explosives all out, tied to the armed belt, the fat man and Pan Zi each pulled the bolt, retreated the bullet magazine, the bullet belt back down and loaded the gun, after the ammunition was full, the hunting knife and dagger returned to its place.
The five or four guns are too long, and they may not be able to turn around in the square hole, so the fat man gave the gun to Shunzi, took out the pickaxe himself, and several people tested the luminosity of the flashlight, and the fat man took out his own gold talisman, pinched it in his hand and bowed to the sky.
Shunzi is also an expert in using guns, took the gun, 'clicked' a few times to familiarize himself, with a sense of nostalgia, and then said to us: "A few bosses, I don't understand your business, but I want to remind you, drill holes in Changbai Mountain, be careful of snow hairs, if you see the signs are wrong, first plug your ears with cotton, this thing is not hard in this season, you can only drill ears, and so on in the summer, after the shell is hard, you can drill directly from your skin, and you will expose two hind whiskers, and you will break after you pull the beard, The whole worm is broken inside, you have to dig open the wound to dig it out, and this thing also burrows into the anus, so be careful when you sit. โ
The fat man glanced at Shunzi in disgust, tightened his belt meaningfully, and said, "Now insects also have this hobby?" โ
Junzi said: "I'm not joking with you, if you get tricked, find a way to pull it, don't come to ask me." โ
We felt a chill in our lower bodies, and we all nodded, and the fat man took the lead, leaning over and crawling into the square hole, and we followed him, and we entered, and began to advance towards the ultimate unknown world underground.
In the square hole, you must walk with a cat's waist, the hole is dug in parallel, and you can look at the situation around while walking. Because the height is too low, walking very slowly, the rock bottom here is very solid, look at the traces of chiseling, this tunnel, obviously used the most primitive method to excavate. I wonder how much time it took to build such a large-scale imperial tomb? How about it will take more than 20 years, many emperors began to build tombs when they ascended the throne, more than 20 years, digging this tunnel is also very reluctant, it seems that the people who fled back then should be a very large number of people.
The further I went, the more I saw traces of many people's visits, and there were more than one shoe prints on the hiking shoes, and there were no snow hairs, but I found some strange forks on the top of the tunnel.
The holes are small enough to accommodate only one person, and they are curved 180 degrees, and after a straight upward section, they turn downwards to form a curved pipe in the shape of the number '9'. There is probably one such hole every ten meters.
Since getting involved in this industry, I don't know how many times I have climbed the hole, and I have never seen such a structure, from the perspective of architectural accounting, the amount of work to hit these holes is almost as much as the whole tunnel, then these holes must have an absolute reason to play, otherwise it is uneconomical, but I really can't see the value of these holes.
Pan Zi said to me from behind: "Little Third Master, have you noticed that this tunnel is a little familiar?" โ
"Familiar?" I paused, turned to him and asked him why?
Pan Zi said: "When we were in Shandong Guazi Temple, the corpse cave we passed through, the tunnel that entered the hole, wasn't it also this virtue, didn't the old man just hide in the hole above to harm us?" โ
He said this, I looked carefully at the top of the cave again, at that time in Shandong, I panicked, and I didn't pay too much attention to the top of the head of the corpse cave water thief hole, and now I can't compare. However, since Pan Zi said so, it should not be wrong, and he was also strange, and asked him, "Are you sure?" โ
Pan Zi was not sure, and said, "We also learned that there was a hole in it after listening to the old man's words, and it was pitch black when we passed by, and we didn't notice it." โ
I stopped, looked at the forks carefully, and immediately understood what they did, and said, "That corpse cave was also a water thief cave at that time, right?" โ
Pan Zi nodded yes, and I said: "These forks are actually used for breathing, you see, when the water is poured into this channel, because of the curved structure of the fork, there will be air left in the fork, so that you only need to swim for a while, and then poke your head into the fork to breathe, and then continue to move forward." โ
Pan Zi was surprised: "Such an ingenious method, so to speak, this row back then was indeed underwater?" โ
I said: "It's almost there, it seems that the water thief hole in the Guazi Temple may have been dug by the people of Wang Zanghai." "It's not right to think about it, the ancient robbery hole, the third uncle deduced that it was in the Warring States Period, maybe it was dug when King Lu Yan entered the mountain to repair the tomb, could it be that Wang Zanghai saw it after he went and borrowed the technology of the ancients? It's quite possible.
After walking for a long time, I don't know how far I walked, the corridor gradually widened, and I finally saw the exit. We climbed out, and in front of us was a very deep canal, about ten meters deep and five or six meters wide, and there was no water in the canal.
I looked at the canal and said, "This is the aqueduct, from which the water from the moat is diverted, and the water is kept alive and does not stink, and it prevents the water from backing up." โ
On both sides of the canal there are ridges for one person to walk, and there is a stone bridge over them. We walked cautiously over to the other side of the river, and the fat man asked how to get there.
I said, "This ditch is connected to the outside canal, it should be counted as a canal, and we follow the water." โ
Pan Zi squatted down to look at the traces of the flow of water, and pointed to the side, "There." โ
We continued to move forward, and not long after, a square hole appeared on the stone wall on the edge of the river ridge in front of us.
The fat man made a cold fire, threw it out, and shone out the black slate on the ground outside the square cave, which was obviously the sealing stone of the underground palace. The fat man got out of the way, threw a lot of cold fireworks around, and then greeted us before we climbed out of the tunnel.
The place that came out was a burial chamber made of black sรจ rock, not tall, barely able to stand upright, but very wide, and many earthen pots were neatly placed around the burial chamber, probably wine jars used for burial, each of which was half a man high. A rough estimate of more than a thousand cans made it seem that Emperor Wannu might be a drunkard.
On the black walls on all sides, there are some simple reliefs, carved with the situation when the emperor held a banquet, the reliefs are not well preserved, which may have something to do with the communication between here and the outside world, although the volcanic gas here is not as deadly as Pan Zi said, but the corrosion is definitely stronger than the ordinary air, and it is already a miracle that the murals here can be preserved. It's a pity that the preserved pictures can only be seen approximately.
On the left and right walls of the burial chamber, there is a stone gate, and behind it is a black corridor. A cold wind blew out of it, and the fat man picked up two cold fireworks, throwing one into it, and didn't see his head.