Chapter 104: The Everlasting Lamp

While others were looking for possible jade seals, I was looking at the cloth cover in the temple, and I was more curious about what I saw. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

I crouched down and flicked the copper furnace with my fingers, and it was undoubtedly bronze. The copper furnace is filled with dust, and in the center there is a cylinder that rises above the dust.

The copper furnace placed in front of the coffin immediately reminded me of the miraculous things recorded in the historical records, and I couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "Could this be the legendary ever-bright lamp?" ”

I'm noncommittal, and I'm going to find out.

Legend has it that the Changming lamp in the Qin Tomb is a lamp that will never be extinguished with mermaid paste, and there is no conclusion as to what mermaid paste is, so I don't dare to rashly put my hand directly under the thick dust, in case of poison, I will die.

I put on gloves, not those plastic gloves, but cotton gloves that play with antiques, hoping that they will be protective.

The dust in the furnace was wiped off, and the protrusion in the center of the furnace first revealed its true face, which was pitch black, and there were obvious traces of charring on the top, which was naturally the wick.

At this time, I became more and more sure that the bronze furnace in front of me was a lamp, and as for whether it was an everlasting lamp, it was waiting for me to continue to discover.

The dust was basically wiped off by me, and what was revealed was something blackened, and with a stroke of my hand, I picked up my fingers to look at it, and the cotton cloth was black, like moldy wax.

I pressed my whole hand on the lumpy black thing in the furnace, and it moved, very slightly, and there was liquid or grease underneath, otherwise there would be no heaving under the pressure.

I pulled the lighter out of my body, and as I lit it, slowly leaning it against the wick, which was scorched by the flames of the lighter, making a crackling sound accompanied by a splash of grease.

With my previous experience with the ignition slot, I didn't rush to remove the lighter, but I felt the wick ignite and the flame grew bigger, so I removed the lighter.

The lighter was heating up because of the long time on fire, and when the wick was removed from the lighter, the flame suddenly became smaller, and the light blue flame jumped several times, almost extinguished, I didn't dare to breathe, afraid of triggering the air flow to extinguish the flames, but protected the flames with both hands.

Gradually, the pale blue flame turned into an orange-yellow flame, and it also became many times larger, and the lamp was finally lit.

This is a very peculiar thing, and the same as the lamp trough, all use the wick as the ignition method, the wick does not know what to make of, but after more than 2,000 years, it can still play its role, there is no decay, suck up the oil, burn yourself.

In the Hall of Eternal Life, people turned over the Ming Weapon, making a burst of noise, and these people rummaged through the jade seal like thieves entering the house.

It was so dark that I couldn't tell what it was, and now that the lamp was lit, I didn't intend to extinguish it, but turned my attention to the other furnace, and curiosity drove me to discover the secrets of the furnace.

"No, if the lamp in the furnace is still lit now, how did it go out in the first place?" I was about to stand up when this question occurred to me, so I continued to crouch and observe the burning light in front of me.

The ignited wick fire was already very large, like a king-size candle, the wick was the size of a tail finger, and it was in normal combustion at the moment, and it had melted the black thing on the side of the wick, which was sucked off by the wick, and the flames burned down under the wick without the oil soaking, so the fire was bigger again, and continued to melt the solidified lamp oil around it.

It is known that the Changming lamp unearthed in the BJ Mingding Mausoleum has been excavated, in the main hall, a large celadon vat, the jar contains wax lamp oil, and there is a wick, but unfortunately it was put into the underground palace not long after it was extinguished due to the lack of oxygen in the closed tomb, at this time the Changming lamp in front of me may also be extinguished due to the sealing of the underground palace and the exhaustion of oxygen.

So there is another question, since the sealed hypoxic lamp was extinguished, why can it be rekindled now, is it because we have opened up the tomb, more than ten people in the underground palace are active at this time, and there are fire troughs burning everywhere, and the oxygen is actually enough, which does not affect our breathing and fire burning.

The way we chose to steal the hole is to enter it from the halfway up the mountain, and then enter it along the level of the tomb until it reaches the mouth of the tomb and seal the soil, is the oxygen really enough?

If this assumption is true, and there is not enough oxygen, then this dungeon must have been destroyed by other gold seekers before this.

If this assumption is also true, and the money holder in the dungeon does not seem to have been moved, and the corpses that have been sealed at a different time from the dungeon have not been found, did the gold toucher leave immediately after coming in, or did he take what he wanted and leave without regard for anything else?

Many questions came at the same time, and my head was no longer enough, so I could only give up for the time being and sigh: "Alas, forget it! ”

Selectively ignoring it, this is a very effective way, I decisively stood up and pondered the "everlasting lantern" next to me, and first figured out what the everlasting lantern was all about.

When I got to the suspected ever-bright lamp next to me, I got rid of the dust as before, but this time I didn't plan to light the ever-bright lamp to serve its master, and used the bronze dagger obtained from the tomb to pry the black thing on the copper furnace, which was harder than wax, but under the metal sharp weapon, it was not worth mentioning, and it was easy to pry, and I pulled out the whole piece, along with the wick.

The wick is very long, and the ancients thought very carefully, and the one at the bottom of the furnace was coiled, and the wick that was pulled out brought out some grease like lard, which was yellowish in color and looked like butter (mechanical lubricating grease).

The layer of spoiled grease in my hand was about two centimeters thick, and the rest remained greasy.

"I'm going, we're looking for a baby, you're playing!" Old K patted me on the shoulder, bent over and stared at the thing in my hand and smiled, "What is this?" Ever-bright lights? ”

I couldn't answer Old K's question, so I shook my head and didn't speak.

"This is the ever-bright lamp, but the utensils that hold the lamp oil belong to the trumpet." Yang Gang was a wounded man, and he didn't join the search for the jade seal, but he just looked around and saw a fire in front of the bronze coffin, so he came over.

"Too easy, isn't it?" Old K was puzzled, not quite believing that what he saw in front of him was the legendary eternal lamp, and in fact it had been extinguished.

"Simple, that looks simple, but it's actually quite complicated to make, and it's not something that ordinary skilled craftsmen can make." Yang Gang explained with a chuckle, and then said to me, "Qin Qi, knock on the wall of the furnace." ”

According to Yang Gang's words, I struck the copper furnace wall with a dagger in my hand, and made a dull sound, which was the sound made when the furnace was filled with liquid.

I frowned, because I also knocked on the first copper furnace, and the sound didn't seem to be like this, I went back to the copper furnace next to it, and tapped it lightly with a dagger, and the sound was the same, so I asked Yang Gang: "What's the matter?" ”

Yang Gang said: "The furnace wall is empty, which means that the copper furnace is double-layered, which is the same as the current double-layer anti-scald stainless steel bowl. ”