Eternal Sand Sea Chapter 41: Ladder of Hanging Souls
The Infinite Zhuan Liuli Temple only relies on the foot of the Hump Mountain, we enter from the stone gate and then go straight to the mountain, at this time the mountain in front of us has formed a broken gap, just like a thin triangular crossing.
Professor Yang said that the triangular entrance to the cave should be a direct passage to the ruins of the god Pira, and that it is very likely that we are now at the top of an ancient civilization.
Hearing this, my heart swelled with enthusiasm, as a layman, how glorious it is to witness the ruins of civilization that have not yet been discovered, and the difficulties of life and death that I have encountered before have all been left behind, everything is a special test, everything is worth it.
"I don't care what irreconcilable contradictions you have, we are now a team and we will twist it into a hemp rope, if there is another thing that destroys the unity of the team, you two will return immediately and be removed from the expedition!" Lao Tong has always been a pleasant-looking person, and I have never seen him lose his temper so much.
I naturally don't want to go home empty-handed, so I can only endure Zhao Xudong for a while, Qiangzi is right, this kind of villain will be grinded by evil people, and see what will happen in the future.
Under the arrangement of Lao Tong and Professor Yang, Zhao Xudong and I shook hands and made peace, although we shook hands on the surface, both sides understood in their hearts that this matter was not over.
"Where did you get this bronze mirror? How can it be so coincidental to match the stone gate mechanism? "Zhao Xudong did not return the hexagonal pattern king mirror to me, but handed it over to Lao Tong, I know that he is here to make me a stumbling block, to tell the truth, maybe I will be charged with stealing national cultural relics when I go back.
Lao Tong knew the bottom, and said that this thing is very valuable for historical research, and I hope I can consider giving it to the country, and turn the conversation around, I saw the donkey under the slope and said that no matter how big the family is, there is no country big, and the country needs to be unconditionally handed over, and Lao Tong praised me for my high consciousness.
I studied the feng shui formation of this place, and wanted to predict whether there would be a murderous cave that would turn into a corpse through the description of "Searching for Mountains and Fixing Coffins".
Judging from the shape of the Hump Mountain, there are two protruding peaks that resemble a hump, but from the perspective of Feng Shui, this is called "the back of the tiger", the so-called "giant gate is like the back of a tiger, and it must hide the powerful".
Chen Laogou took out the compass and walked two steps up the mountain, studying it according to the mountain situation and direction.
"What's the problem?" Seeing that he hadn't come down after watching for a long time, he asked.
He looked at me and shook his head: "It's really strange, this mountain stretches a little dragon vein, but there is no water mouth in front and back, and it doesn't look like a good place to put a tomb." ”
There is a mantra in "Seeking the Mountain and Determining the Coffin": When you enter the mountain and watch the water, you will naturally have the dragon. If there is a good water mouth, there must be a dragon mountain, that is, a feng shui treasure point. But Chen Laogou said that there is a dragon here, but there is no water mouth, and the living dragon has also become a dead dragon that has been exhausted, tangible and intangible.
Professor Yang probably heard us talking about Feng Shui, so he came over and talked.
"You're only half right!" Professor Yang said to Chen Laogou.
"Halfway right?" In addition to being the first to identify antiques in the Chaotian Palace, Chen Laogou also has some skills in finding mountains and looking at the wind, and when he heard Professor Yang say this, he hurriedly came down from the mountain to "discuss" with him.
"I've shown half of the people in Chaotian Palace the Feng Shui Cave and never missed it, why do you say that I only saw half of it right?" Chen Laogou asked seriously, perhaps because he had lost face, and his tone was unfriendly.
Professor Yang said with a smile: "How can you conclude that there is no water outlet here, in case it is a dark river flowing from underground?" He gestured to the ground.
Chen Laogou slapped his thigh again: "Why did I forget this, the underground dark river is also an estuary!" ”
Professor Yang solved our confusion with one sentence, we only looked at the feng shui terrain from the outside, but forgot that the cave can also integrate feng shui vitality.
"It's almost time, let's get in!" After a short rest, Lao Tong let us go to the cave, and under the entrance of the cave is a stone step all the way to the end, which greatly reduces the trouble of us climbing the rope into the hole.
Since Chen Laogou, Qiangzi, and Professor Yang and I were extracorporeal personnel, we followed the back of the team, and there was actually only one purpose in doing so, to prevent us from "destroying" the scene and taking away things that should not be taken, but in the face of what may be the biggest discovery in the history of Chinese archaeology, his rationality and professional ethics prevailed.
Entering the cave, I counted a total of eighty-one artificial stone steps, such a huge task of opening the mountain and digging stones, even now it is not possible to build it in a year and a half.
In the Book of Changes, eighty-one is the most extreme number, representing the return to the original and the rejuvenation of all things. The number of eighty-two and the two spirits, this secret is passed on by the number of mysteries. It is the number of auspicious fortune that can make all things open and grow endlessly, and the people who built this cave must have also been involved in the Chinese I Ching culture and quoted it.
In front of the lowest steps is a long tomb corridor, which is slightly the same as the tomb corridor we have traveled in the Panjialing murderous tomb before, but this tomb road is paved with wood, and it has not decayed in such a long time, presumably it is caused by using more than 100 years of old wood.
"Teacher Tong, my brother and I will go over to explore the way first." Lao Tong, who was about to move forward, was stopped by Zhan Wen and Zhan Wu, they are the security officers in the team, although there is no trace of decay on this wooden board, but it may have been gnawed empty by termites, I am afraid that it will be squeezed and fallen into it by the gravity of our team.
Zhan Wen and Zhan Wu walked cautiously towards the plank one after the other, and the plank that was just halfway next to us suddenly squeaked and warped, and the position where they were standing fell down.
Zhan Wen hurriedly took a step forward, but the place where he jumped was also a sliding plank, and he fell straight down, and the two of them fell from the gap between the two planks with a cry of surprise, only to hear a "bang" and no movement.
When we looked inside the upturned board, the brothers were covered in spikes.
"Ahh The three female members of the team were shocked and exclaimed when they saw this scene, and even Professor Yang exclaimed: "Oops, why didn't I think of the serial flip trap!" ”
The chain flap is a kind of hidden weapon of the cemetery, which is to dig a pit about 3 meters deep in the tomb of the mausoleum, and the pit is full of sharp knives and cones. The pit is covered with several wooden planks, with a shaft in the middle of the plank, and a small object of the same weight is decorated with it, in the shape of a balance scale. If someone steps on the plank, one end of the board sinks, and the person will fall to the cone in the pit, and the sharp blade will penetrate the chest and internal organs of the tomb robber, and the probability of crawling out alive is almost zero.
Although these two brothers are security officers, they obviously don't have much experience in investigation, and they just entered the tomb and fell into the trap, and we were already short of manpower and sacrificed two people, Lao Tong took everyone to read the eulogy, but now there is no condition to send their bodies back, and they can only go out and then make plans, and see what channels are used to bury them for peace.
Yuan Xiaomei was already nervous, but the sudden death made her faint in fright.
Yuan Xiaomei...... Yuan Xiaomei ......: "Tong Xiaowan fed her a few mouthfuls of water, but she was also in a trance and couldn't fully wake up, she was the only geological surveyor in our team, and without her, I couldn't figure out the specific time of existence of this tomb."
"I have enough strength, carry her!" Qiangzi volunteered, it is estimated that he would not say such things if he were a man, and who fainted was a fair-eyed lesbian.
"You don't want to take advantage of lesbians like some people, that's a hooligan and you have to be shot." I seemed to remind Qiangzi, but in fact, I pointed to Sang scolding Huai and talking about Zhao Xudong, he was a person who understood, and when he heard this, he walked forward to Lao Tong's side and studied the wooden plank with him.
I asked Professor Yang if there was any way to crack the chain flipper, and if we ran over it quickly, could we not trigger the mechanism?
Professor Yang shook his head, the central axis of this flap was originally designed to be sensitive, and after such a long time, it was even looser, and as soon as a heavy object reached the middle, it would fall quickly, unless it would be light, otherwise it would become the soul of the next knife.
"So what's going on? This is the way now, can't we fly over? "I wondered.
"That's not necessary, find a way to break the bottom bracket and let the flap fall into the pit, we are climbing up from the pit!" Professor Yang sold a pass, I thought that there was a mysterious plan for this trap, it turned out that it was still inseparable from the tomb robber's practice, and directly destroyed it.
"Lao Tong, don't worry about breaking it or not destroying the integrity of the tomb, we all took two lives to destroy it, it's always reasonable!" I walked up to Lao Tong and said that he had no other way, and for the safety of the other team members, he could only agree to artificially destroy the serial flip trap.
Zhao Xudong took the initiative to ask for help when he saw the stitches, and stood at an oblique angle with a light machine gun and shot at the center axis of the flap, the central axis was shattered by bullets, and the two large flaps immediately fell down into the pit, and more than a dozen knives penetrated directly through the wooden board.
"Be careful when you go, don't get cut." Lao Tong reminded.
It's the first time I've walked over the body of a dead man, and I'm not feeling good about it, but now the two of them who were alive before are on Huangquan Road, and I'll have to burn some paper money for them when I go back this time.
"It's no wonder, there's no taboo!" I cautiously walked over the plank, my mouth respectfully silent.
"Qiangzi, be careful." I walked to the other side of the plank and shouted to Qiangzi, he carried Yuan Xiaomei on his back and only halfway through his legs, his legs were already trembling, and he muttered, I guess this little intestine is repentant.
The iron pickaxe was fiercely chiseled into the wall, Lao Tong took the lead in climbing up, and then pulled us up one by one, and when I went up to the tomb corridor, there were layers of stone steps in front of me, but this stone step was different from the previous one, rotating downward.
"This is to go to the Hades Palace." Qiangzi finally climbed up with a sweat on his head, walked to him with Yuan Xiaomei on his back, looked at the endless stone steps and said.
There was a semicircular black vessel embedded in the first stone steps, and Lao Tong drew a match and threw it in it, and suddenly a flame burst out, instantly illuminating the layers of stone steps.
"Let's go, Comrade Lei Feng." I patted Hadron on the shoulder.
The walls of this stone step are not paved with any stone bricks, the yellow soil layer is directly exposed, and there is a totem of a lizard-headed human body on the wall every five steps, which is a little weird under the swaying firelight, and we have not reached the end after walking for about ten minutes, we have been spinning down and marching, but looking down is still not able to see the bottom, is it really as Qiangzi said that this step leads directly to the Hades Palace.
"No, I don't feel like I've been going around in circles here, like a ghost hitting a wall." Although the totems on this wall are different, the one with the spear in his hand has appeared in front of my eyes more than ten times.
"Let's go to the trap again, this is the Nine Turns Hanging Soul Ladder." Professor Yang suddenly thought of something and called out to everyone.
"What is the nine-turn soul ladder, you say be careful."
Professor Yang said that this is a kind of tomb mechanism technique that was transmitted from the Western Regions to the Central Plains a long time ago, and the surface of each stone step has a slight inclination and unevenness, visually thinking that it has been going down, but in fact we are still on the same level and there is no difference between the top and bottom.
"How is it possible, we all think that we have been walking down for a long time, and besides, it is not easy for me to walk with Comrade Xiaomei on my back." Hadron returned.
Professor Yang went on to say that the reason why it feels like it is always going down is that the light and the totem on the wall play a role in interference, and the loess wall itself can make people dizzy, and the fire on the stone steps illuminates the whole stone steps in a dim light, making it more difficult to make accurate judgments in the line of sight, and the different totems on the wall also play a role in interference, so we focus our extra energy on the strange totems and are attracted by it, so that we miss the correct exit again and again.
Professor Yang motioned for everyone to walk close to the wall, and after turning around, we actually came across a half-meter-wide passage.
I began to wonder if this was the reason for the ghost hitting the wall that I had encountered before, and the dim and unknown environment and the fear in my heart kept circling the old trees outside the village.
is worthy of being the number one master outside the gate, and he broke two tomb traps one after another, but fortunately, Lao Tong invited him over, otherwise we would never be able to get out of this nine-turn soul ladder even if we passed the first level.