Chapter 86: Confusing Truth with Falsehood
When the trap is finished, the disc will rebalance.
In other words, the number of iron balls on the disc can be repeated as many times as the mechanism can be triggered, and each trigger is immediate, and there is no pattern to follow at all.
In this way, there are no less than a hundred large and small mechanisms hidden in the shadows of this tomb?!
Zhang Haike hung on it for a long time, and a person on the side couldn't wait, so he hurriedly asked him, "What is the organ?" Do you know each other? ”
"The variant of the eighteen-string is just a lot more complicated." Zhang Haike asked if the two people on the side could hold on for a while.
After receiving an affirmative answer, he took a deep breath to the side, then held his breath, lit the fire fold again, took out a magnet from his treasure pocket, carefully bypassed the silk threads on it with two fingers, and put the magnet on the disk.
In an instant, all the small iron beads were sucked onto the magnet at once, and they were fixed and unable to move.
But this magnet couldn't be taken out anyway, and Zhang Haike didn't care, he flipped off the steel cable and fell lightly on the ground next to the copper horse.
The moment he landed, he saw that the disc instantly sensed vibration and tilted in the direction of his foot, but because all the iron balls on it were sucked and could not roll, there was no accident.
After waiting for a while, they were relieved to see that there was really nothing going on.
Someone said, "Listening to what that little ghost said is so terrifying, it turns out that it's easy." ”
Zhang Haike was noncommittal, glad that he had seen an old gentleman before, in order to demonstrate the role of the eighteen-string, specially made a seventy-two-string mechanism, although he was not used to dealing with this kind of mechanism, but he had also learned the fur, and fortunately luck prevailed, he bet right.
A few people took off the steel cable and put it away, and they were about to continue exploring the tomb, when someone asked if they wanted to call the little brother down above.
"What did you call him for?" The man who said it was easy said earlier was very unhappy, "I can't do anything, and we have to take care of him if he is so small, and he doesn't have a good word to say." ”
"Let him stay on it, let's finish the work first and then call him, and see that he has also made a lot of effort when digging the hole in front of him, and when we find something good, we will give him a little bit and let him pay the errand."
Zhang Haike thought about it and agreed.
It's not that he thinks that the little brother is cumbersome, but that this ancient tomb is really complicated, and the first mechanism alone is so sharp, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult in the future, and it's good to leave someone on it to take care of.
It was the first time for everyone to see the real "eighteen strings" mechanism, and they were a little smacked when they saw the thin threads entwined inside.
Someone looked around in the direction of the silk thread and suddenly thought, "How can there be so much space here?" ”
"How?" Zhang Haike didn't understand the meaning of his words.
The man said: "Assuming that every silk thread here is connected to a mechanism, there will not be hundreds of mechanisms hidden in the space here, even if it is densely crowded, it will not be a very lethal mechanism, at least the activated mechanism hub will have to occupy half of the position, so it is impossible to have so many mechanisms here." ”
Zhang Haike immediately realized that what the other party said was right and asked, "What do you think?" ”
"I think it's likely that these hundreds of threads are involved in the same mechanism, but the silk threads are only running a small part of this huge mechanism when they are triggered, and they are different every time." That's humane.
"You mean...... String puppets? Zhang Haike hesitated and thought of a word that could be described.
The man nodded, "That's what it means, different silk threads affect different parts of the puppeteer's body, so that the lack of space can be explained." ”
A child copied the mechanism in his mind, and suddenly a large puppet came out of the wall, and under the pull of the silk thread, he walked awkwardly towards them, but after a few steps, the mechanism stopped and got stuck in the middle of the road.
Then attack a hammer, and by the time you get to them, they'll be gone.
"The machine hidden in the wall can't be a puppeteer, isn't that funny?" The kid said.
The child who spoke earlier rolled his eyes when he heard this, "I'm just telling you an analogy. ”
"Oh, that's right." The kid scratched his ears, "If you say so, it's likely that this mechanism isn't the kind of offensive mechanism we thought." ”
Several children present were very smart, and their brains turned around at once, they had already checked, this tomb was completely closed, and the only active mechanism in the entire space was the copper horse in front of them, so the new passage must be related to this copper horse.
"It's a mule or a horse, dig it out and walk it." Zhang Haike said.
The crowd agreed, but they didn't find anything like a hub in the first place, which meant that the mechanism was hidden in the walls on either side, or under their feet.
But most of the inner structure of these places should be granite, and the hardness of this rock will not be able to open here even if they are given a week.
So, the only way to do that is to touch the mechanism here.
They've been here for too long, and they have to move forward.
A few people climbed out of the tomb again, hid behind the passage of the robbery cave, and saw the little brother squatting obediently around the corner.
Obviously, their conversation was listened to by the little brother, and although the little brother didn't say anything, they still felt a little shameless.
Zhang Haike first carefully fixed the fire fold on the edge of the gap on the back of the copper horse, and then knocked down a small piece from the green brick on the ground with the back of the knife, and after grinding it on the ground to about the size of the original small iron bead, he turned over and climbed up.
With the faint light of the fire, Zhang Haike flicked his fingers, and the brick ball bounced into the inside of the copper horse, and after a series of slight impact sounds, everyone held their breath and waited for the mechanism to start.
The Zhang family has excellent hearing, and soon their ears caught a series of rustling sounds coming from the tomb, which was very small, as if rubbing against the fabric of the clothes, and it was completely impossible to tell where it came from, and ordinary people would definitely not even be able to hear this sound.
Everyone listened more carefully, and after three or five seconds, suddenly, the entire tomb shook heavily, and the Nine Heavens Xuannu painting on the floor began to tremble, and the floor at the left eye of the Xuannu slowly sunken downward.
Zhang Haike threw in a fire fold as fast as he could, and the light flew by, and they could see clearly that a pitch-black passage appeared in the place where the floor was sunken in, very steep, and it looked like a deep well from a high place.
After waiting for a while, there was no other situation in the tomb, and several people tried for a while, and felt that there really was not much danger, so they entered the tomb again and came to the edge of the deep well, and this time the little brother also followed silently.
Standing on the edge and looking inside, I found that the passage was deep and strange, and the first small section was obviously reinforced by people with blue bricks, and then it turned into loess, and there were many obvious marks dug by a shovel.
This turned out to be a thief hole?!
How is this possible? With such an ancient mechanism, why would it be an artificial robbery hole after activation?
Zhang Haike leaned in and sniffed, and affirmed: "This hole was dug by our colleagues a long time ago, and the qi in it is dead air, that is to say, our place is the starting point of the real tomb." ”
Several people were a little dumbfounded, "Didn't you dig in from the outside?" ”
"Probably not." Zhang Haike shook his head, "It's too deep below to see the end, and besides, I suddenly have a little clue about the unique structure of this place we are in." ”
"It's likely that this is not a tomb at all, but a temporary card set up here by former tomb robbers, and in order to facilitate future actions, there must be something very, very precious and important underneath." Zhang Haike said solemnly.
When the tomb robbers find a particularly difficult to enter tomb, they will create a temporary rest stop on the edge of the cave in order to take long-term action.
For example, there will be a particularly deserted small earthen temple in some deep mountains, if there is still a deep cave in the back, this small temple is actually built by those local masters to fool the local people in order to hide people's eyes and ears.
They would hoard food and equipment in the temporary card and work underground for long periods of time.
Most of the temporary houses are relatively simple and small, but there are also some that are as sturdy as fortresses.
However, if it is as fine as it is now, it can even be faked with the ancient tomb, which means that it will take more than ten or decades to excavate the ancient tomb below, and it is more likely to be passed on to the next two or three generations, and the value of the ancient tomb of this nature even exceeds that of the ordinary royal tomb.
The more people thought about it, the more frightened they became, if this was really just a temporary card, it could also explain some of the unreasonableness.
But the Pro Card is just a place to rest temporarily, so why hang so many things on it?
And it is not difficult to see from their eyes that these things are real antiques, and it is likely that those tomb robbers took local materials and took them out of the ancient tombs below to hang them.
"Lend it on your shoulder." Zhang Haike greeted one of them.
The man subconsciously tensed his body, Zhang Haike stepped on his slightly curved thigh and jumped up, and the other foot quickly kicked on his shoulder to borrow strength, and the whole person soared into the air, and with both hands stretched out, he hugged the copper bottle hanging on the top of the tomb and stopped on it.
The copper bottle shook violently like a chandelier for a while, and gradually stopped.
Zhang Haike realized something from the time he was dangling just now, and hurriedly took out the fire fold from his treasure pocket, blew two breaths to re-burn, and then raised it to see the interface between the top of the tomb and the thing, and his face was a little bad at this look.
He looked again at the interface between the coffin and the other hanging funerary objects, and found that they were all similar bowl-sized openings, and he clamped the copper bottle with his legs, and let go of his other hand to feel what was in the hole.
The contact surface has a smooth arc, that is, the chains used to hang the funeral goods fall on it, and they are iron balls that are just a little larger than the hole, just enough to get stuck in them, but they will not fall off when the funeral goods are dangling.
Zhang Haike let go and jumped down, half-bent his knees to unload the impact, and after standing up, he said: "Everyone, this is really a temporary card." ”
"Why did Lenkari do this? What do you see on it? The others asked.
"Iron balls, the chains are all iron balls, and the things are hung with live buckles, as well as springs made of steel bars, so that not only can things be hung, but also can achieve the effect of shock absorption while not affecting the shaking of these things." Zhang Haike replied.
"They have no choice, they have to make this place look like this, like a simple version of the geokinetic instrument, under this burial chamber, I'm afraid there is a big guy hidden, all the designs here are for vibration, including the bronze horse."
"You mean that they are doing this to prevent danger below? In order to be able to escape in time? Someone asked.
"And that's not all." Zhang Haike touched the ground on tiptoe, "Only when the vibration here is big enough and frequent enough, hang those funeral goods on it, just like a hammock hanging on a sea ship, sailors sleep in the hammock, no matter how the boat is bumpy, they will not fall, so that they can have a good rest, in the same way, so that the funeral goods will not be damaged in the bumps of the ground." ”
The crowd listened to him and thought for themselves.
Someone analyzed: "That is to say, all the materials used to build this place are taken from them on the spot, and the bluestone slabs are too heavy, so they spread them in the ground, and then use green bricks to build this place." Therefore, under this temporary card, there must be a large ancient tomb, and its scale must be very large. ”
"Not only is there a big tomb, but there is also a big danger down there." Someone hit the nail on the head and poked a cold shot at the excited crowd, "Don't forget the Bronze Horse Mechanism, it is located here to guard the entrance, whether it is to facilitate the escape of tomb robbers, or to hide other entrances, it is up to discussion." ”
Indeed, there are more silk threads in the body of the bronze horse, and it is likely that the bluestone slabs in other parts of the mural can also settle down, revealing the passage underneath.
Zhang Haike nodded, "What you said makes sense, no matter what, we have to go down and take a look." ”
There is no need to say much nonsense, everyone jumped into the deep well after Zhang Haike.
went straight all the way down, and kept sliding down with both feet as brakes for four or five minutes before Zhang Haike touched the bottom.
After a whistle upward, Zhang Haike walked away with a fire fold, and found that this place really looked like the bottom of a well, and there was an arc-shaped wall that was also built of blue bricks, and there was a hole on it, only the size of a fist.
When everyone slid down, Zhang Haike pointed to the small opening for them to see.
He had just thrown a fire breaker into it, but he didn't know what he hit and extinguished.
"What's in there?" Someone put the fire fold to the mouth of the cave and looked inside, but unfortunately the hole was too small for the fire to shine further inside.
He couldn't help pouting and said, "Leave such a hole for anyone to see, it's not enough to peep." ”
The others sneered.
"Alright, don't be poor." Zhang Haike waved his hand, "Stretch out a hand to go in, whose turn is it?" ”
Now everyone couldn't laugh.
"That little ghost, but I'll do it."
Although this kid dislikes the little brother as a burden, or maybe he still underestimates the little brother's ability, he still stands up when he is really dangerous.
No one knows what's inside, and those who act can only gamble on one hand. (End of chapter)