Chapter 197: The Paradox of Immortality
"The previous speculation about the dried fruit is likely to be related to immortality, which shows that the topic of seeking immortality is likely to be very common in the fourth civilization.
Some people seek immortality, some don't, and some people just struggle to find it.
If you understand it from this perspective, the person in this mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West is an existence that is hard to pursue, but is limited by the incomplete knowledge system currently mastered, so that it is finally disillusioned with immortality.
As for the existence of the ancient ruins of Tunguska, through the study of the dried fruits, the belief in immortality can be strengthened.
I think the conclusions of a civilization in its heyday should be much more credible than that of such post-apocalyptic surviving tribes. ”
Since identifying the most authentic desires in her heart in the ancient ruins of Tunguska, Jiang Yingxue will not let herself fall into a state of confusion because of some clues of relevance.
In this comparison, according to a rational judgment, Bai Ning has also been inclined to the results of the research in the ancient ruins of Tunguska.
For a surviving clan in the last days that has inherited some fragments of civilization, it is normal to begin to lament the inaccessibility of immortality because of the limitations of its own research.
If you can't ask for it, and you can't get it if you ask for it frantically, you will have a strong sense of disillusionment.
This is the basic general characteristic of human beings.
Knowing that it is unattainable, if you want to keep your mind healthy, then you can only deceive yourself and choose to reconcile with your desires.
There are definitely people in this world who are truly open-minded, but more often than not, they are just pretending to be open-minded.
Looking at these relief murals at this time, the hidden open-mindedness and admonition in them are more like a kind of incompetent roar and unwillingness.
Self-deception is not a kind of extreme mad disillusionment to deceive others about the inability to attain immortality, and to deceive oneself to warn future generations that immortality is unattainable?
"Makes sense.
Our determination of a fact is often based on our knowledge of the world.
Under the current means of observation, the distance that human beings can observe is only tens of billions of light-years, and with the current means of human transportation, not to mention the entire universe, even if it is a visible universe, it is equivalent to a distant future.
With this in mind, we instinctively assume that the universe is uncrossable.
However, if a civilization can realize space transition technology and complete long-distance leaps by distorting space through wormholes, then no matter how vast the universe is, it can be crossed in an instant.
This is the different perception of the same thing at different levels of technology.
As for what exactly is the presiding over immortality, and whether the secrets related to the dried apples are also in this mausoleum, I think that any speculation is useless, and only seeing it with one's own eyes can further judge whether it is true or false. ”
Bai Ning echoed Jiang Yingxue's cognition, and only had a cautious attitude towards the ancient secrets stored here.
What can be found here has never been related to their established needs, only to the core technology mastered by the Western Queen Mother clan.
"So, are you going to open the coffin on the spot?"
Hearing Bai Ning's remarks, Jiang Yingxue was even more interested in the funeral goods in this huge coffin.
It is indeed a very bold and wild decision to open the coffin now.
"The decision was to continue digging down through the stone floor in the coffin area, in the hope of finding some necessary clues in the subsequent main burial chamber.
At present, after a certain amount of reasoning, it is concluded that this huge coffin is the real location of the old inheritance, so it is inevitable to open the coffin.
However, there may also be some deadly traps hidden in the coffin, so we can only be cautious at the moment. ”
Bai Ning's overall attitude is very clear, if you want to open the coffin, you must face huge risks.
As for the thickness of the stone of this coffin, it is basically impossible to make it crack through the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction.
But if you use gunpowder to blow it up, you may destroy the ancient relics in the coffin, and this dilemma is very tangled.
"Let's dig up the stone bars first.
The coffin is likely to be interconnected with the mechanism underneath the floor, and if the trigger mechanism can be cut off, it may be better to open the coffin. ”
Professor Wong stepped forward at the right time and presented his overall view.
The three of them continued to discuss the relevant details for a while, and the work here was gradually rolled out in full layers.
In order to prevent the coffin from being too heavy and crushing the ground with the holes, the bodyguard team welded a simple iron frame to fix the coffin in advance.
The excavation of the stone strips is very familiar, and after a while, the six layers of stone ground here are fully opened.
Contrary to the expected cold wind, a large amount of warm air slowly rose, causing a thick ice mist to fill the newly opened hole.
Judging from the current results, it is likely that underneath this huge burial chamber is a burial chamber at room temperature.
Even more daringly, the cold current in the wind duct only connected the three surface burial chambers, and the deeper burial chambers were still at room temperature.
The corroboration of this correlation further proves the possibility of Bai Ning's previous guess:
The Ice Wind Tunnel was opened later, and the so-called exchange of hot and cold burial chambers was only a replacement of the top of the burial chamber through the burial chamber mechanism.
"According to your guess, this should be the stone bar that sank in the first place.
If you're lucky, those who went missing at the beginning can even survive to the limit below. ”
The bodyguards who disappeared with the structure of the tomb before, even if they were not killed by falling or stoned, were likely to have been frozen to death by the low temperature environment in the tomb.
Now that she saw the possible survival environment, Jiang Yingxue deliberately asked, just to tell all the other bodyguards that they had not given up on anyone.
This kind of effect of winning people's hearts is very good, and no one wants to be given up as cannon fodder, even if they must die, they all hope that their bodies can be exhumed.
"Let's let the drone go down and take a look, I think the space down here is probably bigger than we expected."
Bai Ning responded lightly, Jiang Yingxue didn't say anything, just waved her hand to signal the relevant personnel to prepare immediately.
Not long after, a drone, under the command of the operator, flew towards the depths of the cave without speed or slowness.
The lights on the drone brightened up the environment inside the burial chamber, and it was certain that it wasn't covered with the same light-absorbing material as it had been smeared.
Continuing to fly forward for a distance, a large number of rough traces of artificial excavation appeared in front of everyone, and the area as a whole looked more like a natural cave that had been artificially repaired.
Is this really a natural cave that extends downward?
Everyone continued to watch the picture fed back by the drone with various questions, and as they continued to move forward, they could see the outlines of some natural caves, many large rocks were craggy and abrupt, and on them, they could even see the remains of many shellfish.
The drone flies to the end and finds a stone door at the end of the cave, perhaps this is the entrance to the real tomb.
At Bai Ning's request, the drone continued to fly around, leaving no trace of stone bars except for a large number of huge stones of the same nature.
According to the information currently available, it is likely that the storage area of the stone bars that were replaced at the beginning was not in this real burial tunnel.
Jiang Yingxue seemed to want to express some opinions, but under Bai Ning's eyes, she could only swallow them temporarily.
This time, the drone flew back at a faster speed, and after passing through the hole, it continued to patrol in another direction, and it didn't take long for another stone gate to block the tunnel.
"There are stone gates on both sides, do you think it's an easy multiple-choice question?"
The basic situation in the tomb below has been understood, Jiang Yingxue finally couldn't hold it back, and directly asked this slightly simple and unsolvable question.
"It's not.
Extending downwards is supposed to be the real burial chamber door, and upwards are the ancillary structures of the three-story burial chamber.
You know, we haven't yet found out where the ice chamber is, and perhaps it's not located in the area of the real West Queen Mother's burial chamber. ”
As soon as Bai Ning's words came out, the hearts of the other relevant personnel sank.
The fact that the ice chamber is not deeper means that the previously missing people are likely to have fallen next to the ice chamber, and the probability of freezing to death is infinitely close to 100% given the thin clothes they were wearing.
"What you mean is that in fact, the tomb where we are currently located is only the upper burial structure of the Mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West.
Are all the traps we've experienced before just guardians of the people in the coffin?
So, what do you think will be the real threat we will encounter once we open the real mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West? ”
The real Mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West is built in an underground cave tightly wrapped by rock layers, and it is difficult to enter the cave if you want to enter it.
Moreover, if the collapse is triggered in the process of blowing up the door, the entire tomb of the Queen Mother of the West may sink into a deeper cave, and at that time, they can only meet the Queen Mother of the West again if they have the determination to dig the earth.
Obviously, they don't have this comfortable environment to dig the earth slowly, and they definitely can't have such conditions.
"The role of the funeral mausoleum is to serve as the guardian of the West Queen Mother's Mausoleum.
Since the builders of this mausoleum have painstakingly designed such a double burial chamber, there is a desire to prevent the Western Queen Mother's Mausoleum from being disturbed.
If we forcibly demolish the stone gate leading to the tomb of the Queen Mother of the West, perhaps this upper chamber will collapse completely.
And, I firmly believe that this is the case. ”
Bai Ning gave his judgment on the structure here, which seemed to indicate that they wanted to find the corresponding clues here, and only this last coffin was left.