Chapter 378: The Wisdom of the Ancients

After taking a breath, Zuo Dengfeng calmed down and walked towards the exit of the tomb, while inspecting the wooden stakes on the left and right sides of the tomb to make sure that they were enough to bear the weight of the stones.

At this time, there were already noisy exclamations from the top of the deep pit, and they all gathered to the edge of the pit and looked down at the huge stone ball outside the tomb.

It was only at this moment that Zuo Dengfeng noticed that the stone ball was not a complete circle, there was a depression in the central area, and the copper cable was wrapped in the central groove of the stone ball, which was similar to the yo-yo played by urban children.

"Ten people went down, dug a big hole on the south side of the stone ball, and buried the stone ball." Zuo Dengfeng swept up and picked up his wooden box. The stone ball is not less than thousands of catties, and the roller cannot be lifted, and it is also in the way at the entrance of the tomb, so it can only be buried on the spot.

When Liu Guilin heard this, he immediately ordered his group of people to go down to dig a pit, and it was not a problem to do more of these hard work, and then there would be an excuse for more money.

"Zuo Zhenren is really clever." Ma Ying posted it and said, before that, he was only afraid of Zuo Dengfeng, but now he is a real worshipper to Zuo Dengfeng, and he can deduce the principle and general style of the mechanism in the tomb just based on appearance, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

"This person is not a deceitful and famous, and he is very benevolent." Zuo Dengfeng answered the question, the so-called speculation and deliberation, all of which inevitably have the psychology of pushing others with themselves, although he guessed the principle of the mechanism, he didn't expect it to be a stone ball, he thought it would be a sharp weapon. This seemingly inconsequential detail shows that he and Jiang Ziya have different personalities, he is too paranoid and acts ruthlessly. And Jiang Ziya pays attention to practical results, and uses ancient clumsy methods to kill, although it is also to kill invaders, Zuo Dengfeng thinks more ruthlessly, while Jiang Ziya uses a thicker method. However, the two also have one thing in common, that is, they are very cautious.

"yes, yes." Ma Ying and Zhu Xiong didn't know why, so they agreed casually.

"There is another mechanism in the mausoleum, and it will take at least two to three days for me to break the mechanism, will you wait here or go home and wait?" Zuo Dengfeng looked around at everyone, in fact, these people are useless now, but they can't be allowed to leave, otherwise they will be bragging when they go back, and the news will soon be leaked. The so-called soliciting their opinions is actually just a process, and making a fortune is just around the corner, and he expects that none of these people will be willing to leave.

Sure enough, everyone heard the words in unison to stay and contribute, Zuo Dengfeng smiled and nodded when he saw this, if he forcibly left everyone here, they would definitely run away, and asked for advice, they volunteered to stay, that was another matter.

"Send ten people to the town to buy food for three days, and keep it secret." Zuo Dengfeng took out a few golden tickets from his arms, took out a small amount of golden tickets and handed them to Liu Guilin.

"My mother, a hundred taels of gold, I don't need so much to buy food." Liu Guilin was stunned.

"I don't have change, buy me a bottle of wine for the rest, buy me a roast chicken, and buy me a few if I have apples." Zuo Dengfeng said and turned his head to look at Ma Ying and Zhu Xiong, "What do you two want to eat?" ”

"We are Fire Dweller Dao people, anything can be done." The two replied, Zuo Dengfeng's actions invisibly gave them face, and the two were very happy.

"Let's look and buy it. Buy something good and don't drink. Zuo Dengfeng turned around and waved his hand at Liu Guilin.

"Come on, send two people from each gang to watch each other, but don't take the money and run away." Liu Guilin shouted and said to everyone.

"It's better to run, less money." Zuo Dengfeng lost no time in interjecting, in fact, he didn't know if there was gold and silver in Jiang Ziya's mausoleum, but he had to let everyone have the dream of making a fortune, the more this was the better it was to manage.

Soon, the people who purchased food set off in a group, Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand at everyone, "Let's go to Yizhuang to rest first, and fill in the big hole in the house by the way, and leave ten people here to guard it in turn." ”

When everyone heard this, they left the pit and entered Yizhuang, although the Spring Festival passed, the cold winter did not mean to retreat, and the sky began to fall with snowflakes again.

"It's good under the snow." Zuo Dengfeng looked at the falling snowflakes and said to himself, at this time there is a large amount of excavated soil around, which is very conspicuous in the snow, if it snows again and buries the soil, you can hide your whereabouts to the greatest extent.

"yes, that's nice." Zhu Xiong once again flattered and agreed.

"The village below is too close to us, I'm worried that someone in the village will tell you, Zhu Xiong, you go to the entrance of the village to guard, if someone goes in the direction of the county seat, you will kill them." Zuo Dengfeng said to Zhu Xiong.

"Okay." Zhu Xiong smiled bitterly and agreed, he wanted to please Zuo Dengfeng, but he ended up begging for a chore, and the taste of a night vigil on a cold day must not be pleasant.

"Zuo Zhenren, you think too much, the chief of the village is him, and no one will go if he doesn't go." Liu Guilin patted the shoulder of the other gravedigger next to him.

"That's good." Zuo Dengfeng smiled and nodded. At this time, Zhu Xiong was the happiest, and he didn't have to guard the entrance of the village.

Driven by money, everyone's work efficiency was very high, and it didn't take long for a shout to come from under the pit, "The pit is dug, the stone is too heavy to push, and a few people come down." ”

Hearing the sound, Zuo Dengfeng swept down, moved the mountain and reached out, and everyone worked together to help, pushing the huge stone ball into the dug pit and vacating the passage.

"Call twenty more people out and dig up diagonal passages on the east and west sides of this tunnel." Zuo Dengfeng swept up and said to Liu Guilin.

"What are you digging tunnels for?" Liu Guilin didn't know why.

"You're really stupid, dig out the passage to go down and move things, it's a lot of trouble to hang with a wheel." Zhu Xiong pondered Zuo Dengfeng's intentions.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded with a smile when he heard this, in fact, he didn't want to dig out the passage to enter the tomb to carry the burial goods, but to leave a way back for emergencies that may arise in the future, if there was an accident, he could quickly and easily evacuate.

When Liu Guilin heard this, he immediately went away, and after a while, he brought back a group of farmers and gave an order to raze the shovel.

"Let's go, go down and have a look." Zuo Dengfeng said and swept down the bottom of the pit again, and everyone immediately grabbed the rope and followed.

At this time, the second stone door was open, and inside was a rectangular area ten steps long, and on the north side was placed a large metal artifact, similar in style to a spinning wheel, and the top of this artifact was connected to the left and right stone doors with copper cables, and its function was to eject the stone ball at the same time as the stone door was opened to attack the people who entered the mausoleum.

Zuo Dengfeng walked straight into the second stone gate to take a closer look at the metal artifact, and everyone cowered back, not daring to follow.

"There won't be a mechanism here." Zuo Dengfeng turned his head and spoke.

Hearing this, everyone nervously followed, they became more and more confused whether Zuo Dengfeng was cautious or reckless, Lang had spent several hours observing the details in the tomb before, and this time he actually walked directly into the second stone gate.

This piece of metal utensils has brackets left and right, there is a push shaft in the middle, the excitation device is somewhat similar to a spring, after pulling the stone door, the copper ring pulls the copper cable, the paddle blocking the spring is pulled apart, the spring quickly knocks out the stone ball, once the stone ball is knocked out, it will reverse the copper cable to open the stone door first.

Zuo Dengfeng probe stroked one of the thick buckets, five feet long spiral red metal, the structure of this thing is very similar to the spring, using the memory function of the metal itself, but this huge spring has been stressed for three thousand years, and it can quickly recover its original state after the resistance is removed, which is not something that ordinary metal can do, let alone three thousand years of ordinary metal, even if it is pressed for three years, the elastic force will disappear.

The structure of this artifact is not complicated, but the difficulty is that the two huge springs still remain elastic after 3,000 years, thanks to some of the know-how and techniques for smelting metals in the Book of Heavenly Seals.

"Zuo Zhenren, what is this?" Liu Guilin looked at this strange thing in puzzlement.

"The mechanism that catapults the stone ball, the stone ball is ejected, crushing the intruder. When the copper cable reaches the end or hits a heavy object, it can be rewound back and stuck back in place, and the stone door will be pulled by the copper cable to close again after the card is stuck back in place. Zuo Dengfeng explained casually.

"This person is so powerful, such a mechanism can be used all the time." Ma Ying was moved.

"There is no mechanism in the world that is always reused, and when the mechanism is running, it consumes some of its strength, and after a few times, the stone ball cannot be stuck back in place." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.

"Zuo Zhenren, what are you doing with this thing?" Liu Guilin stretched out his hand and pointed to the metal artifact, which was held in the middle of the passage by six thick copper cables, blocking the way forward.

"Back off." Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand at everyone, stepped forward and sent out Xuanyin True Qi to freeze the copper cable, and when it was cold to a certain extent, the metal would become brittle, and it could be torn off easily.

"Tell someone to drag this thing out and bury it." Zuo Dengfeng turned around and said to everyone.

"It's worth a lot of money, too." One of the grave diggers said boldly.

"This thing is unlucky, it's better not to sell it." Zuo Dengfeng said casually. In fact, this artifact is not contaminated with bad breath, there is nothing auspicious and unlucky, but the two sections of red metal used in this artifact are very strange, this is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, if it falls into the hands of foreigners, it is a pity, or buried in the ground for future generations to explore.

When everyone heard this, they immediately went out to call people, and after a while, dozens of people came in, put on ropes and dragged them outward, because the utensils were very large and blocked the tomb road, Zuo Dengfeng could only wait outside with thirteen.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the people who went to the town to buy food returned, and at this time, the metal utensils had not been dragged out of the tomb, Zuo Dengfeng ordered everyone to rest temporarily, and these people had not eaten for a day and a night.

"Zuo Zhenren, this is what you want and the rest of the money." The young man who went out to buy things handed a basket and a handful of banknotes to Zuo Dengfeng.

"How is it a saving ticket? Where did you get the money? Zuo Dengfeng was shocked when he saw the banknote. At this time, China's currency was very chaotic, the common ones were gold, silver and the ocean, in addition to the different paper money in each province, Shandong had long fallen, and the so-called provincial bills were actually counterfeit coins issued by the Japanese.

"The town's post office." The young man replied.

"Why don't you go to the bank?" Zuo Dengfeng raised his voice, the post office is a branch of the post office, and the post office is controlled by the Japanese, and the golden ticket of Kanazawa Kyushu appeared in this poor and remote place, and the fool knows that there is a problem.

"There's no money in town." The young man replied timidly.

"What's wrong, Zuo Zhenren?" The people next to him asked suspiciously.

Zuo Dengfeng shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, "It's okay, let's eat, hurry up and drag the things out of the tomb after eating, we may not have much time......"