Chapter Forty-Six: The Nine Turns of Huangquan (I)
The huge stone door did not have a knocker, what I saw with my eyes was only an illusion, I gently touched the position of the knocker with my hand, and the uneven surface told me that there was indeed a hidden mechanism here, but I did not rush to do so.
"How much do you know about the mechanism of the entrance tomb?" I asked him.
Zhang Yang unabashedly gestured at me with the number "1" and said, "All." ”
I thought he would lie to me or be cautious, I had already thought of all kinds of countermeasures in my head, but at this moment, he was so frank, but I had no idea.
Zhang Yang raised his chin at me with a slight smugness, "I didn't expect it." ”
I "hehe", "I didn't expect it, but what I didn't expect was that you would be so honest with me." ”
Zhang Yang was slightly stunned, and cleverly covered the subtle changes on his face with a smile, "Do you know what we learned on the first day of the concentration camp?" ”
I looked at the knocker on the left side of the white jade door and said, "How to survive?" ”
Zhang Yang nodded meaningfully and said, "Almost, how to protect yourself." ”
I understood what he meant, and said, "You are very clever, you know that at this time, I am the only one who can help you, and it is better to be honest than to lie to me or hide it from me and lose me as an ally, am I right?" ”
Zhang Yang also leaned over and stood on the edge of the stone door, looking at the knocker on the right, "You and I are like two knockers on this stone door, amazingly similar." ”
I didn't speak, I didn't ask any questions, because I felt that if this conversation continued, it would be a lose-lose situation, and I needed to keep some secrets, and Zhang Yang also needed to hide his strength and test each other until this end.
"There is a mechanism in the knocker on the left and right, and it is a child and mother gate." With that, I took two steps back.
Zhang Yang also took two steps back and stood next to me like me, and said, "The Zimu Pass is very troublesome, but as long as we achieve zero error, we can still solve it." ”
To be honest, the pun is basically a mechanism that cannot be cracked, but then someone discovered its flaw, and that is the time difference. Generally speaking, the two organs must be disassembled at the same time to ensure that the mechanism is not activated, and the difficulty is that it is difficult to be at the same time, and it must be accurate and error-free, and there can be no little food.
Zhang Yang pointed to the middle of the two knockers and said to me, "Look, someone gave us a hint." ”
I looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, in the light of the highest intensity of the miner's lamp, faint finger prints appeared again.
This finger print is different from the one on the stone wall just now, it is a simple print, without color, but formed by the oil secreted automatically by the human epidermis.
I looked back at him and said in surprise, "The people who come out of that place have such good eyes, can you see this?" ”
Zhang Yang ignored me, just moved to the middle, stretched out a hand as if aiming at the place of the finger print, and said to me: "They used a special device to open the pun, but when they left, they closed the stone door again, and set up another pun, but this is not difficult for us, Jiang Yuan has already given us a hint, you get out of the way, let me come." ”
I was very amusemented to step aside, made a "please" gesture, Zhang Yang's hand moved slightly, and then I heard the stone door start to move.
"Is it okay?" I asked him.
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "It's okay, let's go." ”
In the process of opening the stone door, Zhang Yang and I took the opportunity to drill in, this is behind the door is a very ordinary tunnel, ordinary to not even a decent stone slab, under the feet is thousands of years of sedimented silt and the original soil layer, I used a miner's lamp to shine, the footprints are messy but very clear.
"Fifteen people." I say.
Zhang Yang shook his head, "Sixteen." ”
"Why?" I asked,
"There is a person who is carrying one on his back, and this person weighs about 60 kilograms, it is Jiang Yuan."
In order not to destroy the footprints, Zhang Yang and I chose to slip and walk, one by one, walking slowly against the wall, at the beginning it was still a straight route, which was relatively easy, and the footprints were very clear, but when there was a fork in the road ahead, I found that these footprints were separated.
Zhang Yang carefully identified and told me that they were divided into two roads here, and Jiang Yuan followed the large army to the left, but we also found Jiang Yuan's smiling face under the corner of the intersection, and the direction was obviously pointing to the right.
"Could it be that Jiang Yuan got the direction wrong?" I crouched on the ground and looked at the footprints and muttered to myself.
"Impossible." Zhang Yang squatted in the corner of the wall and looked at the smiling face, and said, "This smiling face was not painted by Jiang Yuan, but deliberately imitated by someone." ”
"Imitation?" I looked at the passage on the left, and I couldn't see anything in the dark, "Could it be that they found Jiang Yuan leaving marks along the way?" ”
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "There is also this possibility, but there is also another explanation?" ”
"How?" I asked him.
Zhang Yang suddenly jumped to my side, turned on the miner's lamp to the brightest, raised it in the air to illuminate the section of about three meters in front of us, and said, "Confuse the people behind us." ”
I looked back mechanically immediately, of course, I didn't see anything, Zhang Yang said as he walked: "Jiang Yuan must have our people around him, and this person is very good at imitation, when they arrived here, there may have been some accidents or differences of opinion, which eventually led to the team moving separately, that is, at this time, Jiang Yuan may have discovered some situation, and he secretly instructed another person to help him draw a smiley face mark in the right corner to confuse the enemy." ”
The passage began to slope downward, and the humidity was getting heavier and heavier, and I remembered the heavy rain of the previous day, and thought that there must be an underground river nearby, and if we went down like this, it would probably meet this underground river.
I began to think about how to use this underground river to make some fuss, and at that moment, there was a slight whistle behind me, and when I looked back, Zhang Yang suddenly gestured to me, and he told me to lie down.
Lying on the ground and listening, the sound of the water and the sound of speech was very clear, but they spoke in a dialect, I couldn't understand it, but the sound of the water confirmed my idea, there was really an underground river here.
Huangquan Nine Turns, this is the current description of the Tomb of the King of the West Night, which was written in my uncle's diary, and I saw it again by chance.
I don't know the meaning of these four words, but according to Sima Qian's description of the internal structure of Qin Shi Huang in the historical records, it is not difficult to see that it is not impossible that there is a flowing river in the emperor's mausoleum.
The scale of the Tomb of the King of the West Night is unimaginable to mortals in later generations, nine turns, I have had all kinds of speculations, and even thought about whether to turn nine turns, but now, I suddenly have another explanation, that is, the underground river.