Chapter 180 After the Wind Duct
"With the shattered stone pillars outside, even if we put some defenses inside, they will still be beaten into a hornet's nest.
Is it really necessary to continue digging in such a dangerous territory? ”
Jiang Yingxue looked at the iron arrow that was deeply embedded in the stone wall, and had huge doubts about whether she could continue to explore along this path.
Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, and the heavy reward is the bearable risk, not death.
The gang of outlaws who drove Ivan before needed to consider the overall intensity of the danger, not to mention the bodyguards, who were eating regular meals.
Like this cold snap, this iron arrow shot from the wind duct is also a warning to tomb robbers.
But the more this is the case, the more it shows that there are core secrets underneath this pathway.
The brain is the most fragile tissue in the human body, and it is also the hardest bone in the human body that protects it. ”
Bai Ning's words have no problem at the theoretical level, and at the same time, they also highlight his own style in the face of danger.
However, not everyone has an absolutely calm madness like Bai Ning.
After hearing Bai Ning's judgment, most of the bodyguards at the scene showed a panicked overall mentality.
Because everyone knows that the boss can hide in a safe place, and it is always them who do the dirty work.
Now no one stands up against it, just because Jiang Yingxue, the biggest boss, has not come out to express his position.
"So, have you found a safe way to explore?"
Jiang Yingxue knew Bai Ning's adventurous nature, and she also knew that she couldn't stop his madness, so she could only hint at Bai Ning in this way, and give the bodyguard beside her a general psychological comfort.
Even if you want to give someone away as cannon fodder, you should draw a good-sounding pie, instead of putting the danger in front of everyone, with unquestionable nakedness.
In this regard, Bai Ning only glanced at Jiang Yingxue lightly, which made the situation in the field seem a little delicate.
Jiang Yingxue believed that Bai Ning would not appear so resourceless at a critical moment, so she didn't respond to anything, as if she was quietly waiting for Bai Ning's follow-up answer.
"The trap is a huge problem, but the best way to get around a trap is to get around it.
Sending someone down to dig a rock wall or ground may trigger a bed crossbow mechanism near the air duct, so let's go around from the side.
Let this cave be sealed for the time being, and dig down from the adjacent grave area. ”
After waiting for a long time, I didn't expect Bai Ning's response to be this.
Such an answer may seem like a reasonable avoidance of immediate risks, but it makes the otherwise bright future murky.
It has been confirmed before that the structure next to the tomb is likely to be a whole rock formation.
If you want to dig a hole in the rock formation, there is no skill to speak of, and it is also the most time-consuming and labor-intensive stupid method.
If the direction is slightly off, or if they are misled by the structure of the burial chamber, the burial path they have made is equivalent to useless work.
Is it a stupid way to do it as a last resort?
This is also a desperate move, and perhaps the only antidote to such a dangerous area.
Still full of doubts in her heart, Jiang Yingxue still waved her hand and motioned for the group to start doing things according to Bai Ning's instructions.
Shortly after, the ground in the area of the burial trail was opened, revealing a layer of sand that had been filled underneath.
It was one of the few hopes, and as the sand was cleared, the irregular rocky ground exposed shattered everyone's confidence.
As far as the overall structure of the current local area is concerned, the previous sand was used to fill the corner space, and the whole mausoleum should be built on a funnel-shaped tunnel that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
"What, do you need to really excavate?"
Although the surface rock here is not too hard, it is not easy to excavate it with oil drills, and perhaps they have been working here for half a year without actually reaching the core area of the tomb.
"Digging along the foot of the wall, we don't need to be hard rock, we just need to clear a tunnel in the area where the stone is there."
Bai Ning's response was very simple, but it was still a chore, what is the essential difference between stones and stones?
What's more, the quality of these stone strips is much harder than the surface rock, and to a certain extent, it can be regarded as strengthening everyone's work intensity.
If there's one benefit to this, it's that it doesn't deviate too far from the burial chamber.
Sighing softly, Jiang Yingxue waved her hand and motioned for everyone to speed up the pace of excavation, and for a while, there was a loud clanging sound in the tomb, which made people feel numb and irritable.
Finally digging into the lower space, a gust of cold air roared in, which made everyone who was originally sweating instantly smart.
Working in the tuyere is really not a human thing.
Under the stimulus of money, everyone could only grit their teeth and continue to work, and a few stone bars were removed, and where it should have been a rock layer, there was a dark space.
Cold air poured into the space, stirring up a dense fog of ice crystals that obscured everyone's view.
This unexpected surprise made Bai Ning stunned for an instant, the internal structure of this mausoleum was really unpredictable and a little inexplicable.
However, all kinds of anti-common sense and anti-intuitive designs also represent absolute calculation and danger.
If Bai Ning had ventured to dig against the possible rock layers before, he would have immediately entered this hidden burial chamber.
What surprises await in this burial chamber can be creepy without thinking about it.
Continuing to dig along this wall, as the two secret rooms were completely connected, an inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly flashed in Bai Ning's heart.
Not from a single intuition, but based on a holistic prediction of the current ingenious pitfalls.
According to the previous appearance, the iron arrow was able to penetrate deep into the wall, which is a testament to the fragility of the wall from one side.
If Bai Ning wants to find a direction to continue digging, then this wall will definitely be the first choice.
Because of this, it is a serial scheme to shoot arrows in wind tunnels and induce hapless thieves to dig through fragile walls.
According to this basic speculation, the wall that was supposed to be the trap trigger has now been stepped on in half, and it still has not triggered any danger.
This phenomenon that does not match the established expectations either shows that Bai Ning's guess is wrong, or that a big crisis is gradually brewing.
Glancing at the still smoky scene in the tomb next door, Bai Ning directly stopped the current excavation work.
"Why, do you think there's something wrong with the ice fog here?"
Regarding the long-lasting ice crystal mist in the secret room next door, Jiang Yingxue was also very puzzled.
It stands to reason that the two burial chambers are only separated by one wall, and even if there is a temperature difference, it will not be too different, and after such a long period of air circulation, the cold air has already filled the next burial chamber.
But the current situation was filled with ice and mist, as if a warm and humid air was pouring out of the tomb next door.
The guess is so guessed, but there is no air turbulence in the area where the air currents collide, so Jiang Yingxue is not too sure.
"If the burial chamber next door is sealed, the backflow will definitely wash away the ice mist.
The ice fog was too stable right now, as if some mechanism was deliberately directing the flow of gas in the chamber to create a stable layer of fog in the area.
Our goal is to find a breakthrough from the side, and this obstacle is simple, but effective.
In addition, no one knows what traps will exist after the ice fog, and if you want to pass through, you must gamble with your human life. ”
Bai Ning's speculation about the mechanism of ice fog made Jiang Yingxue fall silent.
The whole mausoleum is like an interlocking fortress of war, each of which is dangerous and every one is fighting for its life.
"Use directional blasting to destroy this wall."
In Jiang Yingxue's silence, Bai Ning gave his solution.
The first layer of the tomb had just been dug up, and this kind of irascible destruction had already begun, which could only give people a sense of embarrassment.
In addition, explosives blasting is a last resort, and wreaking havoc on the mausoleum structure now may lay a major hidden danger for subsequent excavation exploration.
Staring at Bai Ning's cold side face for a second, Jiang Yingxue waved her hand helplessly, signaling the relevant personnel to prepare for the blasting.
Jiang Yingxue once praised Bai Ning as a lucky gambler, and at this critical moment of dilemma, she was willing to believe in Bai Ning's gambling luck.
Although there are some concerns in my heart, they still cannot be completely dispelled.
More than half an hour later, a ring of directional blasting explosives was placed, and everyone came to the outermost stone forest area and pressed the detonation button.
There is no doubt that the relevant mechanisms within the chamber have been triggered, and a large number of crossbow bolts are wreaking havoc on the areas they can reach.
At the height of the movement, it even gives the illusion that the tomb will collapse at any time.
When all the dust settled, the early explorers took the lead to confirm the situation, Liu Cheng stretched his neck to see what was going on in advance, but the thick dust made it useless.
Judging from the irregular movement of the dust, the previous air duct should have been destroyed.
A few minutes later, the personnel who went down to explore the path reported through the walkie-talkie that the burial chamber below was filled with iron arrows, and the wall of the previous air duct had been completely destroyed, revealing the dense bed crossbow positions behind it, and there were also a large number of damaged bed crossbows in the next room.
In this round of passionate shooting, anyone who is in it will be instantly annihilated.
As Bai Ning and the others saw with their own eyes, the tragedy at the scene was only more cruel than expected.
As Bai Ning had predicted, once they dug in the direction of the stone wall, they would inevitably be beaten into a pile of rotten meat by the bed crossbows in the two burial chambers.