A long table was placed in the middle of the tent, a large drawing was spread out and spread on the table, until a few people sat down, Jin Tuanchang held a pencil in his hand, and began to explain how to open the idea of this mountain, the original hole was sealed by cement, and it was necessary to make an oblique hole from the side to enter it, first of all, it must be explosives, and tomorrow we will start to send people up the mountain to peel off the skin, expose the rocky mountain and then hit the blast hole, use the minimum amount of explosives, and use multiple directional blasting inward layer by layer, so as not to destroy the internal structure of the mountain and the cave. The angle of the hillside is gently sloping, and it is not a problem for all kinds of construction vehicles to drive to the halfway slope, and the current technical ability is a heaven and an underground compared with the past, and it is already easy to reopen a passage from the side.

According to Lao Fang's description and the only archives, the internal mountain is stable, and the head of the Jin regiment said that several small assault boats for crossing the underground dark river have been prepared, all of which are equipped with diesel engines, and it is estimated that in terms of length, it will not take ten minutes to reach the other side, and in order to guard against dangerous animals such as water pythons that may be stored, the troops have already transferred instruments for detecting underwater creatures, and large creatures cannot escape detection within 500 meters. For other possibilities under the dark river, diving equipment has even been prepared, and when necessary, people can be sent to dive into the dark river to investigate the underwater structure, as for the weapons to deal with the anaconda, it is not the Type 56 assault rifle and grenade These things have long been not, Commander Jin joked, if the anaconda dares to show its head, it will be fried into minced meat.

This doubled my sense of security, judging from the old party's statement, the ancient tomb itself is not dangerous, and the most feared thing is that I don't know if there is still a giant python in the water, but now I can rest assured. Unraveling the mysteries of the ages buried in that ancient coffin is ready to go, and it is only a matter of time before it is ready.

In the evening, I ate a big pot of rice in the temporary canteen with Commander Jin, and Commander Jin insisted on drinking some wine with us, and the atmosphere on the wine table in the army was really not good if you didn't drink, the big head and the old party were both people who had been soldiers, and the feeling of returning to the barracks came up, and they couldn't persuade them if they wanted to. The accommodation conditions at night were a bit difficult, and the three of us slept in a small tent with Gao Tong, which was still forced out by the troops.

Early the next morning, the Valley of the Dead was bustling with people, with the roar of vehicles and rock drills, and the halfway slopes of Nameless Mountain were bustling with people. Gao Tong chatted with a few people in charge of the project for a while and understood, in fact, yesterday's words of the head of the Jin regiment were more to convey confidence to us, the early blasting is still difficult, this is not as simple as blowing up a tunnel, once it causes the collapse of the internal tomb, it will lose any meaning, and every blasting must ensure in advance that it does not destroy the stable mountain structure, and the more you push inward, the more difficult it will be, and you need to be extra careful to calculate and construct. A few of us watched the scene for a while, except for the blinding blindness, this kind of big project really can't help much, Gao Tong raised his eyes to look at the top of the mountain, and said, "Let's go up and have a look." ”

To the top of the flat mountain, the surrounding autumn scenery at a glance, the top of the mountain is bare like a large rectangular platform, the old saying is that the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, in fact, it is the same at the top of the mountain, there is no tall tree on it, the highest is only more than one meter of bushes, Gu Guangming and I walked to the far end of the north side, looked forward along the valley mouth, the distance under the foot is the two old cypress trees guarding the valley mouth on the left and right, and then to the North Pole is the majestic Qinling Mountains, quite a scene.

Gu Guangming always likes to find a little far-fetched when he has nothing to do, so he stood calmly for a long time, pointed to the distance and said to me: "Have you noticed that there is a straight road from the valley mouth to the north, and even the farthest mountain range that can be seen with the naked eye has a gap." ”

I "leaned" on, and said in my heart that the strange scenery has been discovered by you, and I was about to say a few words to him, but at some point, the silent man standing behind me suddenly said in a strange voice: "No, this is too coincidental, you see ......" said and turned around and blocked the dazzling sunlight with his hand, and looked at the south, "There seems to be a road in the south." ”

Gao Tong also came over, frowned, and took out the feng shui compass from his arms, I am a little big, the road is the road, what are you doing with it? If you accidentally find a corresponding yin and yang house, everyone will be busy.

"It's really not right, the two valleys in and out of this Valley of the Dead are in a positive north-south direction, and the two faint roads are also positive." Gao Tong looked at the compass for a long time and said in a low voice.

The silent face changed color with a "swish", "I see, it's the Shinto of the mausoleum." The road to the north is 100 kilometers long...... Shinto, those ancient cypresses planted at about the same time, we used to think that they were deliberately made by the mysterious family, but in fact, they are not right, they are the cypress trees planted on both sides of the Shinto of this mausoleum, and the cypress is the most common Shinto tree. ”

My nerves were tensed all of a sudden, this was a real shock, although I had seen a lot of the world for a while, and I was usually not interested in these mausoleums or anything, but silently I knew what it meant, counting from the first cypress tree in Gubai Village, twenty kilometers to the south of the big cypress township, then forty kilometers to Tongbai Peak, eighty kilometers to the valley of the dead, these ancient cypresses wear in a straight line, the distance has added up to more than one hundred and forty kilometers, if these are the ancient cypress on the side of the Shinto, Isn't this mausoleum path all the way north at least one hundred and forty kilometers long? I asked, whose mausoleum is this, just a Shinto road crosses half of Shaanxi Province, far more than the straight-line distance from Beijing to Tianjin?

My hands and feet were cold, and suddenly I seemed to have transformed into Gu Guangming, and my brain was open like cramps, if I planted cypress trees to the north to Inner Mongolia, and planted all the way to Liangguang in the south, wouldn't the whole of China be drawn a line running north and south by Shinto? and finally to the North and South Poles...... Wherever the Shinto leads is equal to where the mausoleum occupies an area, and the entire earth becomes this ancient tomb...... Oh, there are no cypress trees planted in the North and South Poles, and besides, if you make the United States a mausoleum, the US imperialists can't agree to it.

Don't blame me for my whimsical thinking, this stumbling discovery is truly terrifying. Gao Tong thought for a long time, suddenly turned his head to look at the flat rectangular mountain top again, and then slapped his head, "Oops", "It seems that we still underestimate the shape and scale of this ancient tomb, if the entire Valley of the Dead is regarded as a tomb, the length and width ratio of the mountain at the foot is like a coffin, and this mountain itself is the outermost coffin in the true sense of the mausoleum." ”