40. Wireless perpetual circulation mechanism
The woman stood in front of us so suddenly, ** and I were suddenly a little frightened and a little untenable, in such an environment I looked at the green eyes, and my scalp was throbbing like something. If it weren't for the crowd, I would have been scared crazy.
"What are you afraid of?" The fat man decided to take out a gun and directly aim it at the female ghost in the distance. "Is it possible that so many of us men will be afraid of her?" As he spoke, a few shuttle bullets swept over.
Sure enough, I saw the female ghost quickly retreat into the passage. Countless hairs disappeared from our sight like worms, and the old man stopped him as soon as he wanted to catch up. "These hairs are a lot like a sea worm, and we don't know much about this place right now, so don't be too reckless."
"Sea worms? It's a boat! How could there be sea worms crawling in. I wondered.
"I don't know about this, but you still have to be careful, you can see from the mechanism, this place is not unusual, when I got on the ship before, I looked at the waterline of the ship, and found that there were many parts of the ship sunk into the water, I wondered what this ship was loaded with? But now it seems that those iron plates and traps should be one of them. ”
Sure enough, as the old man finished speaking, I saw two fires lit up not far away. We looked at each other for a moment, and the short cat's waist walked over. But when we walked in front, suddenly Hu Yong next to me stopped. The fat man quickly pulled me and the old man back and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"There's a bit of a difference in the height of the ground, I guess it's a trap." Hu Yong told us to go away, and he himself carefully pointed the butt of his rifle at a place. I saw that there was indeed a slight bulge in the place, but it was well obscured by the moss, and we didn't pay attention for a while. Then Hu Yong took a few steps back and tapped it lightly with the butt of his gun, and soon I heard a noise from the deck above me.
We felt like an earthquake in it. Everything happened almost instantly, as the saying goes, come and go, and within a moment the tomb is gone, and the tomb returns to its former calm, calm as if the sea has just passed the tsunami, and it is unsurprising. But as the calm ended, I saw a large hole suddenly open in the iron plate above, and countless grains of sand rushed down from it.
This is a very common place of sand, this kind of trap appeared very early, I am afraid that in the spring and autumn there is a trick such anti-theft measures, so it is very common in ordinary tombs, I looked up and saw that above the corridor is a cylindrical space, probably so much sand is stuffed in this place, no wonder the old man said that the waterline of this ship is very deep, it turns out that there is so much sand in it.
We all took a few steps back and watched the sand lay all over the place. The fat man's eyes changed and changed, if it weren't for Hu Yong, I think at least 4 of the 5 of us would be buried underneath.
After waiting for about 3 minutes, the quicksand was finally emptied, and we climbed over the sand push to move on, and the rest of the road was very heavy, and I wondered if the female ghost had anything to do with the sand, while looking at the lights in the distance.
In my impression, the sand tomb, also known as the sand tomb, is a kind of tomb shape in ancient China that uses sand to fill the tomb in order to prevent theft, and sometimes fills the sand with stones to form a stone and sand tomb, when the tomb robbers dig the robbery hole deep into the tomb, the sand will flow in from all sides to block the robbery hole, and the stones will fall down and smash the tomb robber to death.
However, the sand tomb was popular from the Warring States period to the early Western Han Dynasty, and the noble tombs at that time were more stone to reinforce, charcoal to prevent moisture, and sand to prevent theft. After the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, due to the gradual disappearance of the pit earthen coffin tombs, the sand tombs also gradually disappeared. Now I can't imagine that the mechanism of accumulating sand can still be used like this, or it may be that the frightened demon named Du Qiuyun has been tricked.
However, since the rise of tomb robbing in the Eastern Han Dynasty, some people have transformed the mechanism of the sand tomb into a whole tomb of sand. From the known archaeological data, the construction method of the sand tomb is generally on both sides of the coffin (the large coffin set outside the coffin in ancient times) and the adjacent two tomb roads, with huge stones to build the wall, the wall is filled with a large amount of fine sand, and finally filled with soil and tamped. If it is stolen, the bottom brick is broken, and the sand will flow into the tomb, and when the sand gradually runs out, the stones on top of the sand will fall into the top of the tomb, thus crushing the thieves into the tomb and acting as a burglar prevention. "The flow of sand makes it difficult to get through the holes. Without particularly good technology, tomb robbers can easily be buried by quicksand. "In this way, the sand of the entire tomb is coming, and the tomb robbers may not have this opportunity to move the coffin of the tomb owner!
The length of this tomb is very long, I wonder if the distance is from the bow of the ship, the stern of the walkway, after all, this is a tomb on a ship, not under the soil layer, so the space is not very large, so the tomb owner will also make full use of this section of the passage, "It is better to be careful." I said to them.
The fat man nodded knowingly, and I saw the two lights in the distance, which were two lamp slaves, holding the perennial lamps in their hands, standing on a stone slab, the slate is the kind that can be rotated, the side of the wire rope is fixed and tightened, similar to a spring, the whole looks like an elastic switch, you touch it with your hand will pop out of the wall.
"Someone touched this mechanism?" Hu Yong asked.
"It's the female ghost!" I said and looked over there. "But who would put the lamp slave in the wall?"
The old man said, "But it seems that there is a small floor under the lamp slave, and if the mechanism is activated, the lamp slave should turn out?" ”
I was a little speechless and interjected, "But it's still okay!" The person who set up this tomb is not stupid. ”
The old man fell into meditation, so he didn't say much, just paced slowly and walked forward.
After walking a few steps, another fire was lit up in the depths of the road, burning quietly, and the fat man said to me, "I don't know why I put this garbage here." ”
"There must be some reason." I looked through the hole where the lamp was placed, and the base of the lamp was a bronze mermaid, and they were holding a wheel of sun-like things in their hands, which was also supported on the base by a tube, and a flame was burning quietly in the sun-like cover, and the outer wall of the lamp slave was also pitch black, as if it had been burned by something, but the old man was too attentive to the lamp slave and didn't notice, I communicated with the fat man, and I didn't know what we could associate, He didn't tell the old man, maybe he saw it but turned a blind eye.
"The mechanism is on the side of the corridor, and it must have been activated by something in the depths," the old man said.
"Implicated? Then we can't go! ”
"Why don't you go!" The old man raised his eyebrows, "It's the first time I've seen such a strange thing, I want to see it, what kind of mechanism is it?" ”
"Will it be?" I swallowed it back in the middle of my sentence, this thing is placed in the middle of the corridor, even if the mechanism is placed in the innermost part, what use can he have?
"What?" **Asked.
"Forget it." I don't want to say anything discouraged, but I'm a little worried about the death of so many people.
The old man was a little cautious on the road behind, and kept asking where Hu Yong went, Hu Yong shook his head and said that this place is no better than the tomb, and there is no proper comparable surname at all.
There was no 20-meter road, and Hu Yong was the first to react, "Wait a minute, there is a taste." ”
"It's a gas well." The fat man's face changed color, "It's a dead end, we want to go back?" Or find another way. ”
"No, the gas well needs a lot of space to brew, and it wouldn't be possible if there was a tunnel underneath." Hu Yong blocked the fat man's body and took a few steps forward.
"Maybe this one is different?" I proposed.
"Unless he doesn't want the poisonous gas of this thing to evaporate in more than ten years." Ye Yuxiang said to me, "You see, this thing has been emitting poisonous gas for thousands of years, and the space below can be imagined. ”
"Wait a minute, there's anything else going on." Old man He raised his hand to interrupt our conversation.
Then I heard a sound that sounded like nothing, every ten seconds or so it was ringing, the sound was like the rotation of the hands of time, and the slow creaking sound continued to sound, not interrupted, but like a waterwheel, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound in it, which I knew was the movement of the wind blowing into the cracks, and it was very large, and I knew that under the ship was the sea, and the wind in the sea was indeed very large. "Wind?" It occurred to me that the black on the wall, which was not a paint but a trace of the fire baking, was shocking.
"Run!" Hu Yong roared and began to run back with force.
The passage of time, the surging of air began to operate wildly, I watched the scenery on both sides continue to skim back, then a strange smell caught up, my naked eye can even see, the yellow gas, I watched them fly away from my side and flick forward, I turned my head, the mechanism in front of me was activated, more than a dozen lamp slaves were driven by the huge underwater windmill, slowly appeared on both sides of the road, two flames like the eyes of evil ghosts, hideous.
I began to use the last of my strength, and the moment I jumped over the lamp slaves, I saw that the two lamp slaves at the back had divided the world into two paths, one side was the yellow full of poisonous gas, and the other was the red of the poisonous gas flowing through the lamp, that kind of fiery red.
The flames angrily grazed our clothes and rushed forward, with no end in sight, dying in mid-air, and I knew that it was our point of survival, but it was too late. A flame struck my back, and the heat immediately spread all over my body, and my feet went limp, and the red heaven and earth swirled in front of my eyes, and the fire in the sky, mixed with the sound of thunderclaps, spread all over at a very fast speed. "Going to die, going to die."
Pushed me at a critical moment, but I was pushed out of the range of the fire flow at that moment, but it stopped there forever. After a while, I heard a "zizi" sound of roasted meat, and a smell rushed into my nostrils, I turned my head and looked at the eyes of **, behind him was a torrent of flames. Eventually, his skin turned black under the flames.
I saw the shocking black mid-red pus, blood and white blisters blooming like flowers on the body of **. He looked at me in disbelief, followed by a hiss.
I was quickly pulled out of the flames by the fat man, who put a gas mask on me. I lay on the ground and looked at **, I just looked at him.
How does the fan below turn? What is it in the space below that makes the poison gas so perennial? What kind of existence is this mechanism?
It's not over yet, after a period of fire, the iron plate ground under the feet of ** opened an opening, and the same sound of fan blades sounded in the mouth, and then I saw that all the poisonous gases hovering in the passage were inhaled inside, and after the yellow gas disappeared, the lamp slaves bounced into the wall again, and the opening closed again, leaving only the sound of the fan blades turning.
I see, there is a line in this passage, the thread is connected to all the lamp slaves and the fan blades below, the fan blades are divided into two types, the first is the end of the channel, which is responsible for transporting the poisonous gas from the lower layer with strong wind power. The second is responsible for sucking back the poison gas that is transported. As for the role of those lamp slaves, it is completely the use of poison gas and wind power......
Poison gas can be rendered by fire, and the wind fills the entire passage with poison gas and ignites the poison gas. "Oh my God." I knelt helplessly on the ground and looked at the charred corpse, "This is an infinite and eternal looping mechanism!" (To be continued.) )