After driving to the front, Chen Ziyang looked at the ruins in front of him. If it weren't for the walls of the villa still standing there, maybe Chen Ziyang wouldn't have been able to see that there were traces of man-made here.

Judging from the wall, the area of this villa was very large before, and the area enclosed by the wall alone was tens of thousands of square meters. However, in this walled area, only a small part of the earth is black, and there are a lot of rubble bricks and tiles on it, and it seems that this is where the main building of the mountain villa was located.

Li Bojian looked at this familiar scenery and sighed, but her expression did not change too much, it seems that she should have been here many times, and this tragic scene has little effect on her.

And Chen Ziyang only glanced at the villa roughly, then focused on the surrounding mountains and landforms, he wanted to see if there were any dragons to follow here.

However, because the villa is located in a small clearing surrounded by several mountain peaks, it is impossible to see any clues when you look at it here. So Chen Ziyang asked Li Bojian to wait here, he wanted to go to the surrounding high places to have a look.

Climbed up a nearby hillside, Chen Ziyang looked at it carefully, but what made him feel strange was that there was no sign of a dragon vein here, although it was said that there were mountains and rivers here, and the scenery was good, but it was far from the standard of the dragon vein.

After taking out the compass, Chen Ziyang carefully proofread the direction, for fear that there would be a mistake due to his own negligence, but at this time he found that the pointer of the compass was shaking slightly, and the compass seemed to have lost the function of indicating the direction.

At this time, Chen Ziyang was a little anxious, and he couldn't see where the dragon vein was with his eyes, and the compass couldn't be used now if he used the compass. Even he opened his yin and yang eyes, hoping to find the existence of a trace of qi, but Chen Ziyang still didn't find it. I don't know if it's because the previous fire destroyed the feng shui here, or if this is not a dragon's lair at all.

So Chen Ziyang had no choice but to change the place of waiting, and after going down the hill, he ran to the other side of the mountain to look at it carefully, fortunately, the peak here is not too high, otherwise he would have to choke him tired enough to come and go.

However, Chen Ziyang changed two places in succession, and still did not find that the trend of the mountains and rivers here could match the shape of which dragon vein. After going back and forth several times, Chen Ziyang, who had not found anything, dragged his tired body back to the villa, sat next to the car to rest, Li Bojian handed him a bottle of mineral water and a bread, at this time Chen Ziyang found that he had been tossing back and forth for so long, it was already noon.

"What's wrong? You, the tomb robber, don't you have a trick? It's no wonder that you usually only go out at night. I see that you are running around, it should be that your set of skills to find the dragon point point has not been brought into play, is your level not good, or are you a liar at all, just trying to get my information and deliberately lie to me that there is an ancient tomb here. ”

Listening to Li Bojian's teasing words, Chen Ziyang had no choice but to reply helplessly: "I told you a long time ago, I am not a tomb robber, I am just a feng shui gentleman, and there is indeed an ancient tomb here."

It's just that when I got the location of this tomb before, I found on the map that the tomb was very close to this mountain villa, so I mistakenly thought that the mountain villa was above this ancient tomb, but now it seems that I was wrong, and the two are just very close to each other, so I misunderstood. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ziyang's eyes suddenly widened, thinking back to what he had just said. He was stunned, and he didn't even notice that the mineral water bottle in his hand was crooked, and the water slowly flowed from the bottle to the ground. Seeing Chen Ziyang's appearance, Li Bojian knew what he was thinking, so he didn't bother him.

Thinking back to what he had just said, and recalling that when he compared the location of the ancient tomb and the mountain villa on the map before, he found that there seemed to be a deviation of about a kilometer between this mountain villa and the ancient tomb, Chen Ziyang suddenly understood the problem, and he finally knew why this was not the dragon vein or the dragon's lair.

Previously, Chen Ziyang felt that the reason why a mountain villa was built here was to cover up the ancient tombs underneath. There is no way to deny this, but it is likely that this was the purpose of the original construction.

But what is the main thing about building a lodge? It's geolocation. The dragon's lair is on the dragon vein, and the so-called dragon vein is the trend of the mountains and rivers, usually speaking, the location of the dragon's lair, that is to say, the location of the ancient tomb is near the mountain, but it is obviously not feasible to build a mountain villa on the mountain.

First, there is no suitable terrain and landform on the mountain, and second, it is very difficult to transport construction materials to the mountain, which will increase the amount of work in a much larger way. This is most likely the reason why there is a kilometre deviation between the location of the lodge and the ancient tomb.

Recalling that when they were in Jiangxi before, Liu Cong and their team were at the base of the Overlord Unarmor Cave, where the location of the main building was also relatively far away from the cave hole of the dragon's den, and it is very likely that this is the case here. Anyway, there are no people in a radius of dozens of miles here, and few people come to this mountain, so you only need to pretend to build a facility, and you don't necessarily have to build the villa directly above the dragon's lair.

Those who set the ground under the pretext of building a mountain cottage only wanted to create the illusion that the rubble and soil they had dug up from the tomb could be transported for a non-suspicious reason.

Or maybe the gravel soil doesn't need to be transported at all, and the vacant land here can be backfilled nearby, or used for other purposes, and all these tomb robbers need is a superficial excuse to build here. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang knew that he had thought wrong before.

It's very likely that there is no dragon vein here at all, but it is just relatively close to the location of the dragon vein where the nearby ancient tomb is located. As Lao Lu said before, the underground area of the ancient tomb is very large, definitely more than one or two kilometers, and this mountain villa is very likely to be above the ancient tomb, but it is far away from the dragon vein. Therefore, it is more difficult to find the dragon vein from the vicinity of the mountain villa.

But then Chen Ziyang thought of a way to find the location of the ancient tomb, that is, to use the words in the "Civil Engineering Collection".

Although the word "smell" is used, this smell does not refer to smelling the soil with the nose, but to see it with the eyes. The subtle differences in the surrounding soil and vegetation reveal the civil engineering works that were once carried out here.

As long as a relatively large project has been built, then the surface of the ground here must have been untouched, either excavated or landfilled, whether it is to build a large mausoleum, or just to build a small tomb, more or less will leave some traces.

In ancient times, because the transportation industry was not very developed and the means of transportation were lacking, the stones and timbers used to build the mausoleums were often made of local materials. Even if the stone is backfilled after quarrying, or if the tree is cut down before planting, it will leave some traces.

The trees replanted are relatively neat, and the age and size of the trees are significantly different from those before harvesting. After the stone is collected, even if the quarry is covered with soil, the mountain will inevitably change greatly. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang walked to the villa.

Stepping on a piece of charred soil, stepping on the broken bricks on these soils, Chen Ziyang climbed to a relatively high place, compared with the points in the word reading, and carefully looked at the surrounding environment.

Although it is very likely that the purpose of the construction of the villa was to excavate the nearby mausoleum, the whole project was still based on the premise of building this villa, so the choice of the villa as the center point of observation was decided by Chen Ziyang after careful consideration.

The use of the word trick requires a very careful and patient process, after all, these clues are left many years ago, the mountain villa was built more than ten years ago, and the ancient tomb was built even earlier.

The differences in soil and vegetation are already very subtle, coupled with the accumulation of years and the changes in the landform over the years, these subtle traces are already difficult to find, and it is impossible to find the differences at once, Chen Ziyang had to patiently look at the surroundings from the center of the villa little by little.

At this time, Chen Ziyang thought that it would be good if Yang Lei was here, after all, listening to words is Yang Lei's strength, if he was here, he would definitely look more carefully than himself. Then Chen Ziyang shook his head vigorously, you can't rely on others for everything, you still have to rely on yourself at this time, so he forced himself to shift his attention back.

Li Bojian was bored sitting in the car, she had been waiting quietly for a morning, but so far there had been no progress in the matter of the ancient tomb, and looking at the man walking around in the distance, Li Bojian knew that it was unlikely to find this ancient tomb in a short time.

Originally, Li Bojian had an idea before, she felt that it was very likely that this man was lying to herself, and the reason why he brought him here was to perfunctory himself. But looking at Chen Ziyang's serious expression, and looking at the land in front of him inch by inch, Li Bojian felt that this man didn't seem to be lying to himself, he was indeed looking for the ancient tomb with his heart.

So although waiting is the most torturous, Li Bojian can also wait there patiently, just quietly watching Chen Ziyang walk around the range of the villa.

After all, in her opinion, this Chen Ziyang is a tomb robber, and it is very likely that he found clues about the ancient tomb because of the fire in the villa, so he wanted to come here to see if he could make a windfall, so from this point of view, Li Bojian felt that without his own supervision, this man would definitely work very hard.

After spending nearly two hours searching and comparing, Chen Ziyang finally found some clues within the confines of the villa's walls. The color of the soil on both sides of the lodge is somewhat different, and the height of the east and west sides of the surface within the lodge is also different.

In addition to the charred black land that was previously burned by the fire, the soil on the east and west sides of the lodge is somewhat different in color, and the size of the sand and gravel particles in the soil is also different. The sand on the east side is slightly smaller, and the terrain on the west side is slightly lower, and if you look closely from a high place, you can see that there are slightly more cracks in the wall on the west side of the villa, and these cracks are also slightly thicker.

Although architecture is not his specialty, he has been with Yang Lei for so long, and Chen Ziyang has also learned a lot of civil engineering knowledge from Yang Lei. Normally, the size of the soil sand and gravel particles in the same area should be about the same, if there is a coarse soil in any area, it means that it is very likely that the soil here has been greatly moved.

It's like digging a huge hole in the ground, but when you fill it back, because the soil has been dug up for many years, the backfilled soil will not be so densely combined, and there will be many gaps between the backfilled soil, so that the surface of the backfilled soil will be higher than the original surface.

However, when doing the project, the higher part is not allowed, so usually the higher part of the soil will be bulldozed, and then the excess soil will be transported to other places to pile up, which also leads to the fact that although the surface of this area that has just finished the project is the same as other places, in fact, there are many soil gaps under this part of the backfill area.

If the small particles in the backfill soil are washed into the soil by the rain, the fine particles in the backfill will be washed into the cracks in the soil by the rain, which also leads to the particles on the surface of the soil will be slightly coarser than before the excavation, because the fine sand particles have run into the ground.

Because of this, after the perennial rain washes the backfill part, the fine sand and gravel on the surface enters the ground, filling the cracks in the ground, which also leads to the reduction of the soil on the surface, so that this area will appear to be slightly shorter than the rest of the place.

When the ground sinks, the walls built above the surface are naturally affected. If the surface does not sink too much, there will be cracks in these walls that can only appear because they have been compressed, and if the surface sinks too much, it is very likely that after many years, the wall will collapse completely.

Although the fire was very large in the previous villa, the main building that caught fire in the villa was located in the center of the entire villa, very far from these walls, so it is almost certain that the cracks in the walls were not related to the fire, but only to the subsidence of the surface.

Considering the size of the sand grains, the height of the ground surface and the traces of cracks in the wall, Chen Ziyang judged that a large pit had been dug on the west side of the entire villa. It is very likely that this is the passage that was dug up to the tomb.

(End of chapter)