Chapter Eighty-Three: Failure in the Stone Cave
The most correct thing Xiao Lianshan did this time was to take precautions and bring dry food, but now these dry foods are no longer important, they were put aside casually by Ye Qingyu, and all of us looked at the bag containing dry food.
This should be the second thing Xiao Lianshan did right, now even he laughed himself, he had no way to throw the water on the crystal dragon, but when he watched Ye Qingyu tie the bag in front of him, he also understood what it meant, after using this bag to fill the water after it was tied, the weight was about the same as that of a stone, and throwing it on the crystal dragon was as easy as a breeze for Xiao Lianshan.
Xiao Lianshan's face was full of confidence, and it was really difficult for him to learn easy to learn, but Xiao Lianshan was familiar with these things, he took the torch and returned the same way, and when he came back, he already had a bag full of water in his hand.
We all retreated, Xiao Lianshan took a step back and raised his hand to throw it out, and the water bag easily hit the crystal dragon on the opposite side, and the impact force made the edges and corners of the crystal cut through the water bag, and the river water of the Luxi River was poured on the dragon's body.
We all watched the crystal dragon on the other side with some excitement and nervousness, quietly waiting for the changes that would appear or what would be revealed, the cave was unusually quiet, and after a long time, the river water sprinkled on the crystal dragon slowly flowed along the dragon's body, until finally a drop fell to the ground from the edges and corners of the crystal.
If I had to say that anything had changed, I believe that we would only see the puddle of water on the ground, and nothing else would be visible.
We deduced that the meaning of the hidden dragon should not be used was to get the water from the trapped dragon, and now that the water is available, we have not waited for the change we expected, and I began to question whether our inference was correct or not.
Xiao Lianshan said that maybe the water was not enough, or he didn't throw it in the right place, he tried again, but Wen Zhuo pulled him back, shook his head and said, if it is useful, even a drop of water can do, since there is no response, there is no need to try again, it should be somewhere that we ignore.
Yue Qianling seemed to have thought of something, and walked up to Gu Anqi and asked her about the hexagram she didn't remember, and Gu Anqi said it again.
Longteng lives in the desert, once by the shrimp play in the world, has reached the thunder and wind and rain, the five lakes and the four seas are safe.
Yue Qianling's understanding of Yi Xue is not much better than Xiao Lianshan, but at least she can literally comprehend the meaning of this hexagram, the dragon is trapped in the desert, and the situation of the crystal dragon in this mountain wall is much the same, the key to this hexagram is in the third sentence, it has reached the thunder and rain, Yue Qianling said I said before, if the trapped dragon gets the rain of thunder and lightning, it can soar into the sky, rain is the meaning of water, and the difference is thunder and lightning.
"Or ...... You summon some thunder down and try it. Yue Qianling looked at Wen Zhuo and asked seriously.
Wen Zhuo and Yue Qianling looked at each other, and after being silent for a long time, they suddenly turned their heads to look at me.
"I'm afraid it's a problem."
"What's wrong?" I asked curiously.
"The trapped dragon in the water is the dragon, and the dragon will definitely make waves and then rush to the nine skies after encountering the water, and the so-called thunder and lightning rain falls from the sky, prospering rivers, lakes and seas." Wen Zhuo said this, took a deep breath and said in a low voice. "The so-called trapped dragon here has water, and I'm afraid that a little water is not enough."
"That'...... How much water does that need? ”
"The dragon swims in the abyss, turns the river and the sea, if you want this dragon to get out of trouble......" Wen Zhuo rubbed his chin and replied seriously. I'm afraid I'm going to pass through the water! ”
"Water over its head?!" Gu Anqi looked at the crystal dragon opposite in a daze, and said in surprise. "That is...... To flood this cave with water?! ”
Although it sounds incredible, Wen Zhuo is right, this is exactly what the hexagram means, it has reached the thunder and rain, and the wind and rain must fall on the dragon's head first, and the meaning here is exactly what Wen Zhuo said about the water passing through its head.
Now in the stone cave, except for Xiao Lianshan's sigh of disappointment, everyone else fell into a speechless silence, and everyone sat back next to the firewood, even if we knew that water passing through its head was the way to crack this place, but it was impossible to do this.
First of all, we are in the mountain wall, from the outside of the Xianshui Rock, the height of Changping Jiu'an Terrace is more than 100 meters, which means that the Luxi River, which is closest to us, is 100 meters away, and the water level of the Luxi River is impossible to reach here, otherwise half of the entire Longhu Mountain will be submerged, which is an impossible situation.
The second is conceived by Xiao Lianshan, we find a way to bring water up and flood here, this is an extremely stupid method, but it is indeed feasible, but although it is not impossible to fill this stone cave with water, the manpower and time required are definitely not something that the six of us can complete, and even if we can do it, the trapped dragon is water, but how long can we hold on in this stone cave full of water.
This is the troublesome thing that Wen Zhuo said, the only way to crack this place is also the way we can't do it at all, everyone is speechless and the atmosphere is a little depressed, and all the predicaments we encountered before are different, no matter how difficult it is, there can be a way to solve it, but we have never encountered powerless things.
But I still can't figure it out, even if we can't do it, I believe others can't do it, Zhu Yuanzhang's organ design is powerful, but if it is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who is here, what method should be used to pass it, so in addition to the two ways we thought of, there must be other ways to pass here, but now we can't think of it even after racking our brains.
The firewood in front of me slowly burned weakly, Xiao Lianshan went to find some rotten wood to stand on it, his thoughts were too messy to calm down for a while and a half, and he couldn't think of anything meaningful, I closed my eyes again and breathed, but my mind was full of hexagrams and hexagrams and the crystal dragon with huge teeth and claws.
I didn't know how long it took for me to wake up after being dragged and saw Wen Zhuo pushing me with his hand, holding a piece of red-hot wood in his hand, maintaining the firewood in front of us.
"How long have you been here?" Wen Zhuo asked me seriously.
Time has become a very vague concept in this closed space, and I can't answer Wen Zhuo specifically, but judging from the degree of dryness and hardness of the clothes on my body, it won't be too short, I asked Wen Zhuo why he suddenly asked this.
Wen Zhuo handed me the burning wood in his hand and said seriously, although this stone cave is spacious, but there has been an oil fire around it, he has tested it with the wood in his hand, it takes about thirty minutes or even longer for a piece of wood to be completely burned, and the firewood in front of us has never been extinguished, so it can be seen that we have been in the stone cave for at least a day.
"Do you feel like you're not breathing well or the air is getting thinner?" Wen Zhuo asked me thoughtfully.
His words suddenly reminded me, look at the oil fire that has been burning around here, it is still very strong, and we are in the mountain, the most lacking thing in the confined space of this stone cave is the air, Wen Zhuo deduced the time, the difference should not be too big, if it is calculated according to the space of this stone cave, the air inside should have burned out long ago.
Thinking of this, I suddenly saw the firewood in front of me swaying slightly.
It's windy!
This stone cave is not completely sealed, just like when this place was built, there must be a ventilated place, otherwise people will suffocate in it, because of the wind, the air here is flowing, so the oil fire has not been extinguished and has been burning.
I slowly stood up and walked in the opposite direction of the firewood, a detail that I had always overlooked, never considering the existence of vents in this closed stone cave.
Yue Qianling thought about it and told us that when building a large mausoleum or treasure, vents will be reserved for the needs of construction, but after the project is completed, these vents will be closed, so as not to leave clues for people to peek into the secrets.
And leaving a vent in this stone cave is obviously unconventional, most of it is an engineering error, I was carefully and attentively searching, while shaking my head, the Ming Fourteenth Mausoleum is very important to Zhu Yuanzhang, how could he leave a mistake and mistake in a matter related to the safety of the Ming Society, if it is not a mistake, it is for other purposes.
As I slowly walked past a stone wall, I suddenly stopped, then took a step back, and put my face on the stone wall, the temperature in this place was obviously colder than the other stone walls, I asked Wen Zhuo to hand me the burning wood, and put the wood close to the stone wall, and the fire on it suddenly danced and drifted.
I smiled faintly, the wind came in here, I tapped the stone wall with my fingers, the echo was really different from other places, I cleaned the dust on the stone wall with my hands, I could clearly see the thin gap in the firelight, there was a slight depression next to it that was out of place with the color and shape of the other stone walls, I slowly pressed my fingers up, there was a feeling of loosening, it should be a touching mechanism, I asked everyone else to retreat, even I don't know how to react if I press it.
When I was sure that everyone else was far away from me, I took a deep breath and pressed the stone wall at the lower end of my finger, and the crevice mountain rock opened automatically in front of me like a window, and a gust of wind blew from outside, mixed with dust that had been sealed for hundreds of years, and I didn't open my eyes, and when the dust was blown away, the fresh air flowed in from this bare place, and the warm mountain wind blew in my face and I couldn't help but breathe.
This is a not big hole, blocked by the mechanism in the mountain wall, the size can accommodate a person's head in and out, it is obvious that such an ingenious design should be planned together with this stone cave, Zhu Yuanzhang actually left such a big gap in the Ming Fourteenth Mausoleum that he valued so much, isn't he worried that someone will find the secret in the mountain.