Chapter 213: Tracking (II)
Heaven is naturally impossible, that can only be to enter the earth. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSince it is a tomb, Dai Chen probably went underground.
Ah Heng stomped on the ground gently, it turned out to be made of solid iron, but he couldn't see the slightest gap. Ah Heng believed that if the iron flow was allowed to flow, even if there was a gap, it would be completely closed. Could it be that he wants to search the past inch by inch? Not to mention whether Huo Yu can hold on, I am afraid that even if he sees Dai Chen, the other party is already dead and can no longer die. It seems that the only way to do this is to repeat the old tricks.
Immediately, Huo Yu felt a slight dampness appear in the scorching air. The previous heat wave and the poison had made her already groggy. At this moment, he was dyed by the cold, and he actually regained a trace of clarity. She soon saw that there was a shallow layer of water on the ground, and instantly understood Ah Heng's thoughts.
Ah Heng half-squatted down, touched the ground with his fingertips, and immediately felt that there was indeed a gap in the ground in the direction of the water flow. He looked at the ground in front of him for a moment, and sure enough, there were faint and invisible fine lines on the shallow water not far away, and it should be there!
Ah Heng immediately walked over, pressed his palm, and the ground really shook slightly, obviously not the same as other places. Ah Heng easily broke through the entrance, but it was a dark and bottomless hole.
Ah Heng was about to jump in, but he heard Huo Yu stop him: "The design here is so exquisite, Dai Chen is a thoughtful and vicious person, you are afraid that there will be danger if you go any further." I'll go the rest alone!"
Ah Heng: "It's okay, Dai Chen spent so much effort, I suspect it's not just a place to be buried." I'll walk a little further, and if I don't find anything, I'll return. When the words fell, he didn't wait for Huo Yu to respond, and immediately fell down lightly.
The underground space is much wider than the ground, dozens of hugging pillars support the entire underground space, and the walls on all sides are inlaid with many night pearls, and the soft light shines through, allowing Ah Heng to see everything clearly.
Not far in front of him was a fast-flowing underground river, on top of which were several tumbling waterwheels, connected to a gray-white pipe made of unknown material, providing continuous power. Ah Heng approached the gray-white pipe, and immediately a wave of heat came to the surface. Ah Heng instantly understood that there must be those hot molten iron in this pipe, using the hydraulic power of the underground river to continuously send the iron water in the pipe to the ground.
Seeing this, Ah Heng had to sigh with emotion, a project of this scale was obviously not something that could be completed overnight. He even began to suspect that this was not Dai Chen's burial place at all. Where did he come? Is Dai Chen really here?
Huo Yu was also shocked by the scene in front of her, and she also knew that her judgment had been wrong. However, she did not doubt that Dai Chen had come here, because she had once again smelled the faint familiar scent, which only those who had been succumbed to a unique poison. She had been in the company of this poison for the past few years, and she could not be more familiar with it.
Ah Heng walked forward along the gray pipe, and soon, a zigzag downward road appeared in front of him, and he couldn't see where it was leading, and bursts of hot air gushed out from the entrance of the Yongdao from time to time, and after standing for a long time, there was even a feeling of oiliness on his face.
Huo Yu: "Do you want to continue?"
Ah Heng nodded and walked into the corridor without stopping. To his surprise, this road was unusually usual, there was no imaginary hidden weapon at all, and there was no labyrinthine fork, but he still didn't dare to take it lightly. I don't know how long he walked, but the boring journey made him wonder if he was on the road to hell, and just when he was about to lose patience, the end of the road finally appeared, an iron door that had been ajar. Here, the restlessness brought by the hot wind is even worse, and there seems to be a faint human voice.
Ah Heng took Huo Yu like a ghost and approached the half-open door of the Yongdao, and a wire worm flew out of the palm of his hand, passing through the iron gate as quickly as a black line, and the scene behind the door instantly came into Ah Heng's eyes. It was a study-like place, and there was no one in it!
Ah Heng immediately walked through the iron door, and when he looked back, there was a bookcase behind him that had been half removed, and the iron door he came out of must have been hidden behind the bookshelf, and there were not many books on the bookshelf, most of them were books related to weapon casting. Ah Heng's gaze fell on several weapons on the table again, swords, spear tips, spearheads, and even hand crossbows, but most of them were half-finished. What caught his eye the most were several long, slender tubular weapons, unknown for what they were used for. At this time, the door of the study was not completely closed, and the noisy voices became clearer through the cracks.
Ah Heng slowly put Huo Yu down, turned around and said, "You wait here, I'll go and go back." ”
Huo Yu nodded, seeing Ah Heng quickly disappear behind the door of the study. She forced herself to support herself and looked at the underground study, which was not elegantly furnished, but it was also well organized. She went to the weapons that were still half-finished, but saw several drawings pressed under the weapons, apparently for weapon design and casting. The top drawing has the word "drift firearm" written on it, I don't know if it refers to those few tubular weapons, Huo Yu picked it up and looked at it a few times, but he couldn't see why, and put it back in its place.
She approached the door again, and looked out through the crack in the door, only to see that the study was actually on the second floor, and in front of the building was a large underground square, and in the distance several tall red stoves were spewing tongues of fire, and the water stamping machinery was constantly striking the unformed pig iron, and there were bursts of gold and iron.
At this moment, Huo Yu's curiosity even overpowered that bitter hatred, and everything he saw showed that this was a huge underground arsenal at all. She had never heard her father say that there was such a strange arsenal under the imperial capital. Why did Dai Chen come here, and who did this underground arsenal belong to?
At this time, a human voice suddenly came from outside the door, and it seemed that someone was coming. Huo Yu was shocked, there was nowhere to hide in the study, she had to retreat into the corridor again and gently close the iron door. As soon as she closed the iron door, the bookshelves outside were immediately closed.
Huo Yu clinged to the door, and then she heard the sound of the study door being pushed open. I only heard a soft voice outside: "Dai Chen has been here today?" The voice was quite old, and in his words, he didn't seem to have much respect for Dai Chen.
"I didn't hear that Lord Dai Chen would be coming, how did you know, Lord Zhong?" said another younger voice.
"The door of his study was ajar, who would do that but himself?, and I had seen on his desk a few days ago, that the half-finished pieces of these drift firearms were not at all placed like this, and had obviously been moved—"
Huo Yu was secretly frightened when he heard it, he didn't know who this old voice was, and his observation was so meticulous.
"Go, let everyone look for him, and see if he's there?" commanded the old voice.
"Yes, Lord Zhong!"
Hearing the footsteps of one of them quickly disappear, the old Lord Zhong said to himself: "It has not been out for several months, and the prince may not have been here for a long time, and I don't know what the outside world has become.
Huo Yu was shocked when he heard this, Lord Wang? In his memory, there is only one prince who can be taboo, and that is Prince Wen Ye Chong. Could it be that this arsenal is actually owned by Ye Chong, the prince of Wen? It is rumored that Ye Chong has the power to subvert the imperial power, but it seems that what he said is true. This arsenal is just the tip of the iceberg, and it has already left countless ambitious people in the dust.
She was thinking about it, when suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and a soldier shouted: "Lord Zhong, come here, the reserve of fierce fire oil has leaked, and a large amount of it has flowed into the underground river......"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang outside, and a huge wave of qi rushed open the iron door behind him, and Huo Yu was slapped to the ground and fainted on the spot. A ghostly figure appeared, he lifted Huo Yu and ran directly along the corridor, behind him was a blazing fire dragon that urgently needed catharsis, engulfing everything in the corridor.
On the evening of November 11, 798 in the Guangming calendar, the imperial capital was full of smoke, the huge earthquake did not stop, countless huge cracks appeared in the streets, the houses collapsed, and even more than half of the city wall in the southeast half was damaged, countless military and civilian casualties in the city were killed, and the drinking water source was completely polluted. The cry of the imperial capital city shook the sky, and the refugees blocked all the city gates like a mountain and a tsunami, trampling countless times, like purgatory on earth.
In the central city, a private mansion was completely engulfed in flames and reduced to ashes in a violent explosion. (To be continued.) )