Chapter Forty-Eight: The Puzzle
It stands to reason that when the female corpse leaves the coffin, it is impossible for the liquid inside to float up and down. However, I looked over and saw that the liquid was only much less because the female corpse had been dragged out. It's a little less, but the liquid is still floating up and down, and bubbles are coming out from time to time.
Could it be that there is still a corpse inside? Impossible! Judging by the depth of the liquid in the coffin, even the corpse of a child can be seen inside.
Gao Sishou saw that I was frowning and couldn't figure it out, and laughed very shyly, "If it is an ordinary tomb robber who sees the sarcophagus shaking, he must think that the corpse has become a zongzi, and he will not be frightened and immediately withdraw from the tomb, and he will definitely not dare to open the coffin again." However, this is a feng shui treasure cave, how can there be zongzi? ”
Seeing Gao Sishou's expression of "I am a master" and "I am awesome", I felt uncomfortable. The heart said, what you said is good, there are few strange things here, right? You don't know what a skinless monster is.
I have to say that Gao Sishou does have a pair of wise eyes, and he knows what I'm thinking just by looking at my expression. He waved his hand and said: "Don't mention the skinless monster to me, that thing is really incomprehensible, don't say it's me, it's my master who is here, I believe he doesn't know what's going on!" ”
I don't know why, when Gao Sishou mentioned his master, he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he bit the word 'master' very clearly, which obviously accentuated the tone. Could it be that he is conceited enough to rival his master? No, I noticed that when he said the word master, his masseter muscles moved obviously, and there seemed to be a sharp light in his eyes that flashed, which seemed to show resentment and dissatisfaction.
I hurriedly interrupted my thoughts, impossible! I'm thinking too much, maybe I'm wrong. People of this age know how to respect their teachers the most, and sometimes the status of the master is higher than that of their parents. No matter how mixed he is, he can't have any thoughts about his master, right?
Seeing that I was silent and didn't speak, Gao Sishou thought I was still thinking about what the sarcophagus was all about. He chuckled again, "You still don't understand, do you?" Learn something! As soon as I open the small sarcophagus on either side, you will understand. He didn't wait for me to talk, he took a crowbar and went to pry the small sarcophagus. Before he could wait a minute, he pried open the small sarcophagus.
As soon as the small sarcophagus opened, there was a constant sound of "quack" from inside. My heart was shocked, what a familiar voice! Suddenly it was as if a vague answer was about to pop out, but the feeling was fleeting, and I felt a little lost in my heart, and looked towards the small sarcophagus.
I rub! Although I was already faintly aware of something in my heart, at first glance, the contents still caused a lot of shock to my heart. The small sarcophagus was not a child's bones, but a bearing, and gears that were constantly biting!
"Trap!" I couldn't help but blurt it out.
My shock does not come from the fact that there was such a perfect iron-smelting process in ancient times, nor is it that after so much time, the ironware inside can still be preserved so well. (The bearings and gears inside are as if they were new, except that the parts of the gears that bite have been ground to a little shiny white.)
Actually, there is nothing surprising about this, no matter how bad my history is, I know that the iron-smelting process in China began in 800 BC. It is not impossible that the iron is well preserved, if there is no air inside, it will not be corroded by oxidation, and if the surface of the iron is smeared with a layer of anticorrosive substance, there may not be rust for another thousand years.
And what struck me the most? It's just that the gears are still biting! In other words, this mechanism is still in operation!
You know, there will certainly be no internal combustion engines powered by diesel and gasoline, no steam engines powered by coal, and no generators powered by high-voltage alternating current. So how does it work? Could it be that the ancients invented the perpetual motion machine long ago? This is also incredible!
I'd rather believe that the ancients used spells to make it work, rather than believe in any perpetual motion machines. This is against the laws of objective science! This is about to enter the 21st century, and modern civilization should surpass ancient civilization by geometric multiples.
Gao Sishou seemed to be very satisfied with the shock it brought me, and he laughed, "That's right! It's a trap! The little sarcophagus over there should be the same as this one. ”
I was dumbfounded for a while before I came to my senses, pointed to the small sarcophagus and exclaimed, "How is this possible? Not to mention how it is so well preserved, you see, it is still functioning! How does this work? ”
Gao Sishou smiled, and the old god was there, and he raised his hand to touch his chin, as if he had a long beard there. He said: "Actually, it is easy to say, but it is really difficult to say that it is difficult. It cannot be said that this mechanism is still very well preserved, and the shaking of the sarcophagus indicates that this mechanism has begun to age. ”
He pointed to the small crack in the corner of the sarcophagus and continued, "So, Pony... Ahem... Brother Dominion used his sword to destroy the mechanism while the sarcophagus was shaking. This small sarcophagus must be connected to the large sarcophagus, and the aging of the mechanism of the small sarcophagus leads to the shaking of the large sarcophagus. ”
After speaking, he pointed to the gears in the small sarcophagus and said: "You see, there is a piece here that has burst, and the mechanism of the small sarcophagus operates to a cycle, and when it reaches this gap, because it is impossible for the mechanism to stop operating, so the big sarcophagus will shake more than when it comes here." ”
So that's the case, I thought that Brother Pony's sword dance was to prevent corpses from rising, and he was doing it! Wait... Since Pony destroyed the mechanism, why is the liquid in the sarcophagus still undulating? And why did the owner of the tomb do this? What's the point?
I was just about to say the question, but Gao Si waved his hand and said, "I know what you mean, don't speak, I say, you listen!" You'll understand when I'm done! Let you have a good long insight today. "Okay... Then, Gao Sishou told his analysis, and when I heard it, it really looked like that.
It turned out that Brother Pony only destroyed the connection between the small sarcophagus and the large sarcophagus, but did not destroy the operation of the mechanism in the small sarcophagus. And there should be a place in the middle of the small sarcophagus that is connected to the liquid in the large sarcophagus, the small sarcophagus continues to operate, and the liquid in the large sarcophagus also rises and falls while operating.
After all, the small sarcophagus on both sides is like a flush toilet, pumping the embalming liquid in the big sarcophagus on the one hand, (Gao Sishou didn't say it, I thought it was blood, I really felt like an idiot in this regard.) On the other hand, the extracted embalming liquid was released.
And the operation of the mechanism in the small sarcophagus is really simple to say, but difficult to say. If the waterfall falls outside and there is no direction of the water, it means that there is a dark river underground.
Speaking of this, I have fully understood. To put it simply, there must be an artifact under the small sarcophagus that leads to the dark river, and the mechanism in the small sarcophagus has been operating non-stop, which is driven by the flow of water in the dark river. As long as the dark river does not dry up, the mechanism of the small sarcophagus will never stop.
The difficulty is how did the grave builders get the artifacts into the dark river? It's hard to do even in modern times, right? The ground here is at least a few tens of meters from the dark river, right? It's a pity that I'm not an archaeologist, otherwise I would really want to study it.
Of course, even if I'm an archaeologist, I don't necessarily know it. The wisdom of some ancients has really reached the point of incredible. Like Zhuge Liang's wooden oxen and flowing horses, as well as the Egyptian pyramids, etc... Aren't modern scholars still unsolved the mystery?
"Wait... There's still a mystery unsolved!" A question occurred to me and blurted it out.
Gao Si clapped his hands and laughed, "It's worthy of Brother Shao, you thought of the key point of the matter so quickly!" I know your doubts, and I am confused too. "Gao Sishou already knew what I wanted to ask before I could say the question. Admire!
Gao Sishou continued: "It stands to reason that the corpse should be embalmed, and the tomb owner did exactly that, it can be seen from the coffin full of embalming liquid that the tomb owner actually wants to preserve the corpse well." But why create this mechanism to transport air into the sarcophagus? Doesn't that exacerbate the decay of the corpse! ”
The more Gao Sishou spoke, the more excited he became, and he almost jumped up, "It's just a few handfuls of eggs, isn't this nonsense!" I really don't know if the tomb owner got into the water or the person who designed the mechanism is cerebral palsy! Ahem... No, how could cerebral palsy have such an ingenious mechanism? Then this person may be half a genius and half crazy. ”
After saying that, he nodded heavily, clarifying his inference, the person who designed the agency had become a madman in his mind. However, what Gao Sishou said is not unreasonable, which is indeed contrary to common sense. I'm starting to think that maybe the designer is crazy.
At this time, Brother Xiao Ma said coldly on the side: "You can't say that..." Brother Xiao Ma spoke! Maybe he'll know why! We immediately turned our attention to him.
Brother Xiao Ma didn't seem to be able to adapt to so many eyes for a while, and he was a little embarrassed. But his expression was only flickering, and then he straightened his face again. I can't help but laugh, this little brother is really interesting, yes, it's quite cute, sullen man! Ay? That's a good name, why don't you call him a sullen man in the future? Pull it down! Surely he was killed!
He turned his face to the side and muttered, "Think about it, what is it that needs air?" ”
Need air? What does this mean? I kind of didn't understand what he was saying. All living things need air, right? Wait... Isn't the female corpse dead? So why do you need air? Is it... I turned my face to the female corpse.
When I turned my head, my brain exploded, and my heart jumped to the root behind my ears, and my scalp was numb and numb. I swallowed and shuddered, "That... little brother pony, is that charm of yours with the power of turning into a bone palm?" ”
"What?" Little Brother turned his head to me, confused.
I said to Nunu, "That's... ”