Chapter 11: The Dark Crossbow

Lao K immediately squeezed me aside, and was about to rush into the tomb, but Shangguan Yaxiong grabbed his backpack, and Lao K didn't step on one of the legs he raised, Shangguan Yaxiong threw him out again, and scolded in his mouth: "Gold can fascinate you!" ”

"Sample, this is mainly a test for you, sure enough, I didn't mistake you, or you care about me!" Old K got up from the ground, patted his ass and continued to be poor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I looked at Lao K, obviously he didn't seem to be joking, at that moment, if it weren't for Shangguan Yaxiong's quick hand, he would probably have become a hedgehog at this time, and he would have died in the tomb, and it would be difficult to collect the body.

"Everyone must not be obsessed with money, if you are not careful, you will enter a place of no return." The pangolin said to everyone, but it was the old K who was watching.

Old K was unconvinced and shouted: "Don't stare at me, it's not okay!" ”

Everyone doesn't want to be poor with Lao K, otherwise it will be endless.

"No, the arrows are not innocent, they are gilded." I stared at the arrow stuck in the wall, and the arrow was so close to me that the light of the flashlight was already mottled on it.

"I'll go." Old K shouted, pulled me away, and shone a flashlight at me, his own heart was furious, and a gold-plated arrow almost killed him.

"Well, it's really not pure gold, this process is not called gold plating, it was gilt at that time, more than 2,000 years, it has been preserved so well, only a little falls off and grows patina and spots." Not only is there a lot of origin in digging graves and robbing tombs, but also the pangolin Zhang Jiuping, who is also good at appreciating cultural relics, said.

"Is it bronze or iron?" I asked the pangolin.

At that time, Qin was a master of using bronze, and it was completely possible to use copper gilt for arrows, and in the Qin Dynasty, the use of iron also opened a new chapter, and it was also possible to make arrows with iron gilt.

"Take a closer look." Zhang Jiuping said to me.

I took the flashlight and hit the arrow again, and there were a few spots on the arrow, that is where the gilt layer fell off, and when the gilt came off, it would expose the original material, and after thousands of years, it would definitely rust, and I saw the peacock green color at the spot, and I could clearly say, "It's green, it's copper." ”

When I say this, everyone understands that the arrows are gilded with copper.

I turned my head to look at Lao K, I think at this moment, his heart must be complicated, risking his life to break into the tomb, actually for a copper arrow, think about it, in the terracotta pit, how many arrows were found, they were all bronze, not worth a few dollars.

Qin was a master of the use of bronze, especially in weapons, most of the large number of weapons found in the excavated figurine pits, most of them were made of bronze, and few were made of iron.

"Don't bother with the arrows, think of a way, how to get through this dark crossbow tomb." Old K has little interest in bronze arrows and crossbows, let alone short arrows fired by crossbow machines.

Returning to the key question, it is really nerve-wracking for everyone, and no one knows how many crossbows are hidden in this bottomless tomb.

"How does a skeleton roll in and not fire a crossbow, but a person steps on the ground of the graveyard and fires a crossbow?" I pondered, not knowing how to explain this.

"There are only two possibilities, one is that the mechanism is on the ground, and the other is that the mechanism is on the wall." Yang Gang said, staring at the ground.

The ground of the tomb road looks the same as the section we have walked through, there is nothing special, and there is nothing unusual on the wall, except for the place where the arrow has just been shot, a small hole has been opened, and there is no hole found before, it seems to be an arrow hole, and the hole was sealed before.

"On the ground, could it be that the weight is used to control the crossbow message?" Shangguan Yaxiong stepped on the ground of the cemetery, and almost half of the weight of her body fell on the ground of the cemetery.

"It's also possible that it's on the wall." Old K said.

I immediately retorted to the old K: "It's unlikely on the wall, there shouldn't be such a high-tech as infrared at that time, and we should have discovered what we could see with our eyes." ”

"Isn't it, let's try and find out." Zhang Jiuping turned his head and began to pick up the bones on the ground.

I knew Zhang Jiuping's thoughts, squatted down to help, and we tied a pile of bones together, like a bundle of firewood.

"Let's try the space first." Zhang Jiuping took the extended iron drill and stuck one end in the bones bundled into firewood, and the others also understood the thoughts of the two of us when they saw the situation, and they all came over to help, and they all worked together to set up the other end, picked up the firewood of the bones, and slowly stretched it out to the tomb.

"Don't touch the walls." I tell you.

The bones and firewood were protruded into the graveyard, and they moved as much as possible in the graveyard, without a trace of anomaly, and no gilded arrows were fired from anywhere.

"Space security." Zhang Jiuping immediately made a conclusion.

After everyone agreed, Zhang Jiuping said, "Now let's try other places." ”

So we put the bones on the left side of the wall, and there was no crossbow fire, and then we pressed against the right wall, and there was still no movement.

"It seems that the walls on both sides are also safe." Old K said, glancing at the gilded arrows that were still stuck straight into the wall.

"Upper." Zhang Jiuping then instructed everyone to go up together and speak hard.

Bundles of bones lay on the top of the tomb, and the tomb was still quiet, only swept away some dust from thousands of years.

"The only danger is on the ground." I said something bothered.

"You still need to say it." Old K disdainfully said to me, which made me a little embarrassed.

In the effort of arguing with the old K, everyone has already supported the bones to the ground, a little down, immediately several arrows from the two walls shot, popping a few sounds, none of the arrows landed, all straight and straight on the opposite wall, I counted it, two on the left, four on the right.

"Damn, it's so lethal, it can be inserted into the wall." Old K exclaimed.

In addition to the old K, we were also surprised, if the first arrow can be inserted into the wall by chance, then a total of six can be inserted into the wall, it is definitely not accidental, the dark crossbow was set in the design process, and it has remained unchanged for more than 2,000 years, it is really a miraculous existence.

"No, the relevant information shows that there is a very thick palace wall built in the underground palace, up to more than ten meters thick, when the craftsmen were building the palace wall, they used bows and arrows to stand at a distance and shoot, if the arrows can be shot on the palace wall, the palace wall must be knocked down and rebuilt, until the bow and arrow can not be shot into the palace wall, so here, how can arrows be allowed to be inserted into the wall?" I explained based on the homework I had done before I left.

"You're stupid, this is not a palace wall, this is a tomb wall." Old K was suspicious of the homework I was doing.

Shangguan Yaxiong also said: "This may be different from the inspection standard of the palace wall. ”

"It doesn't seem likely." Zhang Jiuping supports my view.

I also introduced: "Qinling has used more than 700,000 craftsmen, farmers, and prisoners of war to build it for more than 30 years. ”

"Don't doubt it, it may have been a last resort, have you seen the arrows that hit the walls?" The pangolin pointed at the arrow on the wall.

It seems that this explanation is the only one that makes sense, and the crossbow is far more powerful than the bow and arrow.

It is now certain that the mechanism for firing the crossbow is underground, and the fire depends on the pressure, so that all the arrows on the crossbow machine in the wall are fired, so that everyone can safely pass through the tomb and reach the last stone gate.

In order to let more crossbow arrows in the wall be fired, several people carried the extended iron hammer and poked the ground vigorously, under the joint efforts of several people, sure enough, there were arrows in the wall constantly whizzing, and then snapping on the opposite wall, and the two walls were filled with arrows in an instant.

Although several people held the extended iron chisel and exerted force at the same time, the frequent lifting and poking were exhausting enough, and the air circulation in the tomb was not smooth, and they were suddenly covered in sweat.

"Oops, I can't get it!" I let go of my hands and gasped for air with my hands on my knees.

Everyone also stopped, and Lao K patted me on the shoulder, eased up, and panted and said, "Tell you to exercise more, if you don't listen to me, you will know how to sleep all day long." ”

Lao K is right, I'm a pure lazy person, if I can sit and never stand, if I can lie down and never sit, and I can sleep, the only thing is that I don't grow meat.

In fact, not only me, but everyone was really tired, so they all sat on the ground and rested against the wall of the tomb.

"Probably not!" Shangguan Yaxiong seemed to have palpitations, and he was almost hit, so he relaxed at this time.

The flashlight shook in the tomb and finally shone through the tomb entrance, and then I shook my head and said, "It's not that simple, you see, only this one has two walls full of arrows, and further inside, there is not a single one, do you think this is normal?" ”

Yang Gang rarely had anything to say, and said at this time: "If it is in the tomb of ordinary people, this is normal, but in the tomb of the First Emperor of the Ages, it is too abnormal, and it is estimated that there are still a lot of dark crossbows waiting for us inside." ”