The fat man asked me why I was wasting time digging holes, and the ready-made thief holes in front of me would not be over if I climbed down directly. I analyzed: "It should be for safety reasons, and the opening should be expanded to make it easier for everyone to enter and exit." The fate of the two who went in advance is unknown, and it has been more than forty-eight hours since they disappeared, and even if they are really alive, they are probably already in a state of prostration. Now the opening of the cave is so that there will be no delay in the later rescue. ”

We divided into two teams and took turns digging the earth, because we were all skilled workers, and because there were ready-made thieves as the base, the entrance to the cave soon more than doubled. While the hands were changing, Master Yu pulled me aside, unscrewed the miner's hat on the top of his head, and drew on the dirt floor with a shovel: "The team has planned the underground palace before, and the base area of the tomb is surprisingly large, which does not match the rumored specifications of the Ming tomb. To infer from my personal experience, the bottom should be the specification of 'front hall and back bed', no matter how you look at it, it will not be a girl's grave. The person who made the hole was a veteran, and the position of the hole was perpendicular to the coffin. ”

"The pattern of the front hall and the back bed is the traditional Qin standard, and the owner of the tomb is at least a prince-level figure who is worthy of setting up an underground court after death, and the burial in the court is naturally related to the tomb owner's lifetime - office items - such as the approved book, the spy report that records the merits, and even the buried treasure horse and courtiers. In the information provided by Lin Fang, the description of Niangniang's tomb has never departed from the assumption of the second tomb, and Master Yu has inferred that there is a Qin tomb underground just by planning the underground palace, which really has to be admired for his experience.

I didn't understand why he suddenly wanted to mention the structure of the dungeon to me, so I didn't say much, and waited patiently for his next step. At this time, Shirley Yang shook the flashlight in his hand and motioned for me to come over. I walked up quickly and noticed several other people whispering around the cave. I immediately felt that something was wrong, and Shirley Young held up the flashlight, pointed to the hole, and said, "There's something stuck down there, and the shovel can't get in." ”

I pushed aside the pile of people and found that Captain Jiang had already taken the lead in drilling the hole, and he was half-squatting in the dirt, and it took a long time to raise his head and say, "Something is wrong, where did the door sealing stone come from here." ”

I was also shocked when I heard it, the door sealing stone is generally set at the entrance of the tomb, and the position we are in now is directly above the tomb, how can we dig out a section of the door sealing stone? What's more, this robbery hole is made from the inside out, if there is really a door sealing stone, how did the tomb robbers penetrate the stone layer and make a hole in the air? We used the reins to pull out Captain Jiang, who was deep in the cave, and he was covered in mud and kept spitting: "What the hell, the bottom is sealed to death." I think those two boys are eighty percent slipped, and it is impossible for them to be in the tomb. ”

I was afraid that he would be dazzled and mistaken for a moment, so I decided to go down and find out for myself. Shirley Young fastened the rope for me, and then slowly lowered me down with the fat man.

The light underground is insufficient, and the range that the miner's lamp can reach is limited, and when I go down to about seven or eight meters, I can clearly feel something under my feet. I pulled the rope with one hand and knocked the probe shovel down with the other to test it, and the sound of "bang-、-bang-clang-clang-rang immediately came, and it seemed that it was really as Captain Jiang said, I had met a hard guy. I let go of my right hand holding the rope and landed directly on the doorstone that was blocking the way. After landing, I first stretched out my arms to roughly measure the space that could move underground, and then crouched down to study the door sealing stone that suddenly appeared. This boulder is 90 degrees perpendicular to the thief hole, and the soil around the stone has long since become as hard as iron due to the long-term accumulation, and there is no way to start, let alone find a gap to find another way. I tapped the doorstone with my knuckles, and all I could hear was a faint muffled sound. I knew in my heart that this was not a good sign, the thicker the stone layer, the smaller the echo, this almost inaudible sound was enough to show how terrible the thickness of this sealing stone was, with only a few shovels trying to chisel through it, I don't know if it would be until the year of the monkey.

At this moment, the rope around my waist suddenly tightened, which was a code we had agreed to ensure the safety of each other, and I symbolically followed it twice to signal that I was okay, and then continued to grope for the smooth, hard sealing stone, hoping to find some clues. I still can't figure out how the original tomb robbers dug into the surface through this boulder, and I can't figure out how the two archaeological team members penetrated the boulder and disappeared into the tomb. Could it really be that as Captain Jiang said, they did not enter the tomb, but slipped down the mountain?

Just as I was scorching, the light above my head suddenly dimmed, and when I looked closely, another figure slowly descended down the thief hole. I leaned to the side, and the man hunched over and silently landed beside me, and I fixed my eyes to see that it was Shirley Young.

"Why did you come down too?" Although the robbery cave has undergone secondary development, it is only barely enough for two people to pass sideways. Shirley Yang pressed the door sealing stone on the sole of his feet and said, "The fat man and Master Yu have gone to check another thief hole, I'll take a look at the situation here." The surface of the rock is so smooth that it has obviously been polished by hand, have you checked it all? Don't have traps around? ”

I shook my head and said, "It's just such a big fart in total, you can touch it with both hands, and you can see where you can hide the mechanism except for dirt and dirt around." ”

Shirley Yang didn't believe it, she half-knelt on the sealing stone, groping along the joints between the stone and the dirt little by little, and I had to follow her wishes and check again from the other side.

"Lao Hu, look here! -Shirley Yang grabbed my arm sharply, and I turned my head, and a blinding spot of light shone on the charred dirt, revealing a green object in the center of the aperture that I couldn't notice if I didn't look up. I reached out and pinched the thing and pulled it out hard, leaned in under the flashlight and looked, it was actually a rubber-soled liberation shoe. The two of us looked at each other, and Shirley Yang was the first to react: "Could it be the members of the archaeological team who came down before?" ”

I said, "It's broken, the shoe is crushed in the soil, and that person is in danger." Shirley Yang unscrewed the screw, took a section that could be wielded in the hole, and struggled to dig down to the place where the liberation shoes had just been dug out, and saw that the hole, which was only half a foot wide, quickly collapsed, I stepped forward to open the hole in the wall, and found that the soil here was a single charred black, different from the sedimentary soil accumulated in the previous robbery hole. Shirley Young soon noticed the flaw as well, and she excitedly said, "This hole was blocked later. The robbery hole we found was not straight up and down, and the tomb robbers had dug a zigzag in order to avoid the sealing stone. When we expanded the robbery hole, we naturally relied on our past experience to dig all the way down, and missed the 'zigzag' intersection that was deliberately hidden, so we ran into the door sealing stone that we should not have touched. ”

"Let's go up first and see what the others find." After unlocking the secret of the sealing stone, we both couldn't help but let out a long breath. After returning to the ground, Captain Jiang and Master Yu identified the liberation shoes we had dug up. Captain Jiang said with certainty: "This is the shoe on our team, you look at the number on the heel, and all the ones are '0101-starter'." But size 48 shoes are rare, and none of the two lost bunnies have this size. ”

Master Yu glanced at the liberation shoes and wondered, "Who else can they have?" Didn't you take the roll call at the meeting in the evening? There's no shame! -

"I can't care so much." The fat man slapped the liberation shoes on the ground, "Someone deliberately blocked the hole, this is planning to embezzle state property!" None of you should stop me, for today my king will triumphantly do the right thing for heaven and exterminate those bold lawbreakers under the hammer of socialism. ”

I asked the fat man what they had found in the other two caves, and he sighed, "I touched a nose of ash, and you said how big the doorstone was, there was no gap at all." ”

Master Yu said: "That's right, in this way, what we dug up is not a door sealing stone at all, but a partition laid on the upper layer of the tomb, which wraps the whole tomb in it to protect it, just like an eggshell." ”

"The whole chamber is enclosed?" Lin Fang's eyes widened, "How could there be such an advanced cutting technique in ancient times, and it was impossible to remove a perfect spherical body on the basis of the original stone at that time. ”

I affirmed Master Yu's inference, and it was precisely because the plates could not be perfectly integrated with each other but left a certain gap and did not form a complete isolation layer, which gave future generations of tomb robbers an opportunity. This also explains why the robbery hole in Niangniang's grave takes on a zigzag shape.

"Then what are you waiting for, go down and dig! -The fat man picked up the sapper shovel, pulled the cable to his waist, twisted the miner's lamp above his head and said: "You were robbed of the limelight just now, this time I will take the lead, and strive to win the fruits of victory for the country as soon as possible." ”

I thought in my heart that this kid must be afraid that others would take the lead and empty the burial goods in the tomb, so he was so anxious, so I comforted him and said: "The fill on the wall is soft and sparse, and it will be opened as soon as it is dug up, so there is no need to be so serious." The fat man listened, and in the blink of an eye he entered the hole.

The space in the thief cave is not large, and the fat man's waist board is a top two, we can only choose Lin Fang, who is the thinnest in stature, to go down to give him a hand, on the one hand, we must clean up the excavated soil in time to avoid burying ourselves alive; On the one hand, it is also to prevent emergencies and arrange a cover for him. Soon the fat man cleared the blocked grave road, and we numbered each group in the order of action of the trio, and then climbed into the underground tunnel that led to no one else.

Since the fat man and Lin Fang had already climbed in first, the people behind us also consciously distanced themselves in groups of twos and twos, which was not only convenient for taking care of each other, but also ensuring that they could advance and retreat freely at critical moments, so as not to be crowded together. Wang Qingzheng followed my ass all the way and was surprisingly quiet, neither shouting at people everywhere nor acting on his own, which made me a little unaccustomed. I asked him what was going on, and he was a little embarrassed and said, "The first time I went into the tomb, I was a little flustered." I said, "This is not your Wang Dashao's style, are you afraid of the dark?" He snorted and asked me why I let the fat man hit his head. As I climbed, I explained, "From a strategic point of view, we had to let him go ahead. ”

Wang Dashao still didn't understand, and asked why. I had to lower my voice and continue to explain, "Kuan, understand? Wide. ”

He was silent for a while, and suddenly realized: "Aren't you afraid that he will be too fat and stuck in the middle of the road?" Are you talking so obscurely? ”

I hurriedly turned my head and gave him a kick: "Be quiet!" Believe it or not, turn around and sit on your ass! -

"I**! Hu Bayi, Lao Tzu heard it in front of you, you can slander your fat grandfather, turn around and sit on your ass! -The fat man's angry voice came out of the depths of the dark tunnel, making me want to slap the little bastard behind me.

"Strict! - Master Yu's voice came out from behind, "There is no force pillar in the hole, and you can't run away from the noise." ”

We crawled through the narrow and dark corridor for about ten minutes, and the road ahead slowly became wider, and there was a constant clattering sound. The fat man shouted at us, "I see the grave road, there is a brick road ahead, don't move, I'll go down and take a look." ”

This is undoubtedly exciting news, at least proof that we have entered the interior of the tomb. Lin Fang followed the fat man and disappeared in front of the corridor, and my vision suddenly opened up. About twenty meters from us, there was a set of more conspicuous stepped fortifications that extended into the depths of the burial chamber, and it was up this staircase that the fat men and their men walked down.

I observed the surroundings of the stone staircase, and there were pits and ravines that had not been filled in completely. Shirley Yang squeezed up from behind Wang Dashao, she unscrewed a flashbang and dropped it down the stone steps, and in an instant the world beneath our feet became extremely clear.

"Oh no, there's a burial pit down there." Captain Jiang threw himself to the edge of the stairs, and most of his body leaned out, "You see how dense and narrow the pit is at the bottom, and how neatly it is arranged. The ancients had an incomprehensible attachment to the hierarchy of burial pits, and the presence of so many pits per unit area is enough to show that this is not the main burial chamber. He said so excitedly that he couldn't see anything in the hurry, and he didn't know what he meant by - broken.

I looked in the direction of his finger and was shocked by what I saw. Although I had not heard of any burial pits, I could clearly see the bones that were exposed outside the pits and not completely buried. The sheer number and neatness of the arrangement was beyond my expectations, like an army of dead men. The first flashbang quickly went out, and Shirley Yang asked me why I didn't see the fat man, and then I remembered that the fat man and Lin Fang had already snatched us down to the burial pit.

Master Yu pushed us aside, took out a small brown glass bottle from his pocket and said, "Wipe it all on and wipe it under your nose." I lifted the cap of the bottle and sniffed it in front of me, and was immediately choked by a spicy smell and burst into tears: "Ahem, cough, what the hell, it smells so bad?" ”

Captain Jiang took the glass bottle from my hand, poured out the liquid of the bottle with a frown, and quickly smeared it to the position of the person.9 He sneezed and explained, "Master Yu's unique formula, you think it is a neutralizing agent. ”

Wang Dashao covered his nose and pushed the bottle aside, and said dissatisfiedly: "Neutralize a fart!" People are about to be smoked to death, where is the bottle cap? The taste is disgusting. ”

"Corpse poison." Master Yu made a tiger face, held down Wang Dashao, applied the neutralizer to his face, and then said to a few of us: "I am most afraid of taking you half a bottle of shake in my life." How much suffering have you endured underground? One by one, they saw the benefits and ran faster than a rabbit. Take that little fat man, for example, he has no discipline at all, and he deserves to fold his head in it! -

I hurriedly said, "The fat man has thick skin, and it is good for him to suffer a little." Master Yu, you are disgusting and kind, we are all looking at it, don't be angry, let's hurry down and find someone. ”

Just when we were smearing the medicine, Captain Jiang had already run down the stone stairs silently, and he waved his flashlight and shouted at us: "Master, come and see, is there something wrong with these corpses?" ”