The black gate is horizontal in front of you, and the white moire on the door is illuminated by the yellow ancient lamp in the shape of a bronze beast, making people see their hairs stand on end. It is estimated that Brother Shunli also feels this way, and the two of them invariably reached out and pushed the door. The two men put pressure on their hands, and the door opened with a creaking sound. Unexpectedly, there was light in the hall! We were immediately on guard, and after waiting for a while, seeing no movement, we tentatively entered the main hall slowly. When I entered, I found that there were several bronze ancient lamps on the walls around the main hall that were the same as those outside the gate, which also emitted yellow light.

From the moment I entered the main hall, I vaguely smelled the aroma that rushed to my brain again. I looked around, and the others didn't seem to notice, still cautiously probing the hall. Am I suspicious? Maybe it's because the nerves are too tense and easy to associate.

"Is the lamp here also a permanent lamp?" The scholar asked.

"Probably not. Although modern science cannot make a definitive conclusion on the principle of the everlasting lamp, the general view in the archaeological community is that the reason why the everlasting lantern can be extinguished is divided into two possibilities. One is the high efficiency of the fuel, and the other is the timeliness of the light. Lao Xu replied.

The scholar imitated Lao Xu's tone: "The so-called high efficiency means that the fuel is relatively durable, such as the shark oil used in the legendary Mausoleum of the First Emperor." The so-called timeliness means that the lamps in some tombs have been designed to be bright when people come and extinguished when they go, so that people feel that the lights are always on and will be bright for a long time. Am I right, Professor Xu? ”

Lao Xu pushed his glasses: "Yes, the son can be taught." That's why I say that the lights here shouldn't be ever-bright. If you look closely, all the lights here are exactly the same as the two lights outside the door. This structure, I noticed when I was outside the door, it is impossible to store too much fuel. From archaeological discoveries to modern science, as far as I know, there is no such flame-resistant material that can provide thousands of years of combustion with such a small volume. As for the timeliness...... Lao Xu lowered his voice and continued: "Do you remember, when I came out of the path, it was so dark around, but before we fired the flares, we had already discovered this palace, in fact, because of the two lights outside the door. What does this mean? ”

"As we walked out of the pathway, the lights were on outside the door. There's a good chance that the light outside the door doesn't come on at all as we enter, but stays on! Linglong replied.

Everyone was silent, and now we all realized one thing. The lights here do not rely on any "high efficiency" or "timeliness" at all. So, what has kept them shining for thousands of years?

"It shows that there have been people managing these lights, constantly fueling them and maintaining the lights." The fourth master said the key point that we realized.

My hairs stood on end, and Brother Shunli immediately pulled out his gun, turned on his headlamp, and looked around.

The silence was frightening.

Lao Xu replaced the headlamp with a battery, then adjusted the focus of the headlamp, and began to explore the situation. There was nothing in the main hall except a few wooden pillars of thickness that surrounded two people. There were only a few lamps on the walls in the shape of bronze beasts that glowed like ghostly fire, and there were no valuable clues.

We didn't find anything, we all stared at Lao Xu, after all, in terms of archaeology, he is the authority. After Lao Xu Si turned around, he suddenly raised his head and fixed the pillar of light of the headlamp above his head. We were taken aback by him, and we all shot our headlamps on the roof.

Several lampposts gathered on the roof, illuminating the entire area. I saw that the roof of the main hall was designed to look like a dome. On the inside of the dome is a large octagonal frame, which is circular, and the circular material is indiscernible but constantly flashes with strange light under the headlamp.

"It's amazing! It's a miracle! Lao Xu was excited, and regardless of his status as a scholar, he pulled Linglong and the fourth master and said: "Do you know that in the archaeological world, a complete pre-Qin building has not been found at all. However, from the sporadic records of documents and archaeological fragments, it can be concluded that from the late Warring States period to the pre-Qin period, the manufacturing process of architecture developed considerably, and the ancients were able to build many palaces and mausoleums that are unimaginable to modern people. It's just that in the pre-Qin period, palaces were generally flat-roofed or pointed-roofed, and there is almost no record of such domed-like buildings in the literature. Perhaps the chieftain tribe absorbed the architectural characteristics of the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and fused them to develop their own unique architectural style. ”

"Master Xu, don't get excited. There's something wrong with that. "Everyone turned off their headlights. ”

We didn't know why, so we all turned off the headlamp as Shun said, and then looked up at the dome. I saw that under the light of the bronze ancient lamp, the entire dome was slightly flooded with countless points of light in the black shadows, just like the night in late summer and early autumn when I was a child, in the old house in the countryside, lying in my mother's arms, looking at the vast starry sky from afar.

"It's fucking amazing! What's that, exactly? The scholar said.

"It's amazing, it's amazing......" Lao Xu had no other words, and kept nagging about this sentence.

Everyone was shocked by this scene to the deepest touch in their hearts, and I don't know how long it took before they slowly came back to their senses. We looked carefully for a long time and deduced that there was a huge green jade stone on the dome as a "screen", reflecting the light emitted by the bronze ancient lamps below, forming a "starry sky" spectacle.

"It's so strange here, whether it's Zhu Zhu or Ming Tu, what is the purpose of building such a strange palace in such a cave?" Shun's words brought our minds back to reality.

Yes, what is the purpose of this palace's existence? Once we entered the main hall, we began to search, and there was no passage or other discovery except for the entrance gate. But the chieftain tribe spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a high platform, just to put such a meaningless palace? Even elementary school students wouldn't believe it.

Then there must be some secret here. The reason why we didn't find out was that something had been overlooked. Everyone was silent, trying to discover something.

"Hey, Mr. Xia, do you say that the chieftain people are particularly knowledgeable about medicine? Does the Sprinkler family refer to Western medicine? The scholar threw me a cigarette and said.

", can you be normal, don't you see everyone thinking about a way out? Can you stop making trouble? Also Western medicine, why don't you say that the chieftain will change his head, and give you a normal one. I said to the scholar.

The scholar almost choked on a puff of cigarette: "Mr. Xia, you really deserve to be the successor of socialism who is looked down upon by the family, with you, communism can be successful." You're just smart, and you're really to the point. Did you notice it too? The chieftain may actually be able to do surgery. ”

"Say what? Did you kid find something? I asked.

"Mr. Xia, look, those lights on the walls here. If you look closely, are there any characteristics? Have you ever been to the operating room? Like a hemorrhoid, a circumcision or something?"

"Your uncle! I'll give you a circumcision. I had just finished scolding the scholar when I suddenly understood the scholar's words, "You mean the shadowless lamp?!" ”

I finally understood what the scholar was going to express, this kid was right, do the people of the Chieftain tribe really understand surgery, and the bronze ancient lamps set up in this hall are very distinctive. The position of each lamp is very particular, and the lamps are placed according to the position in all directions.

When I told me about this discovery, the fourth master immediately said: "In all directions? This is the gossip of the five elements! ”

Five Elements Gossip! Yes, I counted exactly eight lights, all in exactly eight directions!

"If it is placed according to the direction of the gossip, what can it represent?" Linglong asked.

The fourth master of the "organ" circled around the four circles a few times, kept swinging the bronze ancient lamps on the wall, and then said: "These lights are fixed and cannot be rotated, are we thinking wrong?" ”

"Fourth master, the mechanism doesn't necessarily rely on turning or triggering the switch, what if it is triggered by light and dark?" I pointed to the "starry sky" on the dome.

"Xiao Nan, you mean by extinguishing part of the bronze lamp?" The fourth master said.

"Give it a try. I think there should be some connection between the lights here and the green jade on the dome. "Since the "starry sky" on the green jade stone is the light of the bronze ancient lamp below, if you control the situation of the bronze lamp turning on and off, you may find something.

But how do you determine which light to go out?

The fourth master thought for a moment and said: "The eight lamps here are set up according to the directions of Qian, Dui, Kun, Li, Xun, Zhen, Gen, and Kan in the Bagua, and correspond to the eight gates of Kai, Shock, Death, Jing, Du, Injury, Life, and Rest in Qimen Dunjia. Among the eight gates, only the Shengmen is the only way out. The Shengmen is in the Gen Palace, which is northeast. ”

"That means that only one light is left in the northeast, and everything else is extinguished." The scholar said that he was going to put out the lights.

The fourth master took a brisk walk, clasped his wrist, grabbed the scholar's shoulder, and said, "Don't move!" It's not that simple here. ”

The scholar was stunned: "Isn't it the northeast, I have just figured it out, our entrance is south, up north and down south, and the front right is the northeast Shengmen." ”

The fourth master glanced at the scholar and said, "In the gossip, it is not up to the south to the north. The green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the Vermilion Bird in the front, and the Xuanwu in the back. The green dragon is in the east, the white tiger is in the west, the vermilion bird is flying south, and the Xuanwu is hanging in the north. So, in the gossip, up the south and down the north. The gate we came in was north, and the front was south. The gate is in the northeast, and there should be only one light left behind the left. ”

The scholar knew that he had almost hurt everyone, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, and honestly stood in place and didn't dare to move. The fourth master extinguished the other bronze lamps in turn. We kept staring at the green jade on the dome and found that every time the fourth master extinguished a lamp, the green jade would flash. After flashing seven times, only the lamp on the left rear of the wall remained, and the surroundings suddenly dimmed. The "starry sky" shown by the green jade stone on the dome was gone, but a small spot of light appeared in the middle. The little dot of light grew bigger and brighter, and suddenly the green jade stone emitted a lightning-like lightning, and we all instinctively closed our eyes. When I opened it again, I got used to it for a while, and I saw the situation around me clearly. All eight lights were lit on the wall, but a long ladder appeared out of thin air in front of him, leading to the dome.