Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven: The Tomb Under the Tomb

In fact, why don’t we want to get out quickly? We’ve been in the tomb for nearly ten hours so far, experiencing all kinds of strange things and unheard of mechanisms, especially those cultural relics that are about to decay underground. Without the dazzling brilliance described in film and television works, the colors are dim and the luster is gray, which really makes people unable to arouse the desire to take it out with their hands. Afterwards, when I told Lao Miao about my mental activities at that time, Lao Miao scolded me with a smile that I was almost dying at that time, and you still had time to summarize your thoughts and make crooked ideas about cultural relics.Old Zhong answered from the side, saying that their family has this kind of virtue, and when they are about to die, they still think that the bull-headed horse-face that came to seduce the soul is not good-looking enough.

Just when I was thinking wildly, the two copper dragon lanterns that had been pulled down by the old Miao began to tilt slowly with the pouring of sand, like two candles slowly falling towards the middle direction. The location is just at the copper tripod in the middle of the tomb hall. Lao Miao looked at the continuously accumulating gold dust on the ground, and walked carefully along the copper dragon pillars of the copper lamp towards the copper tripod in the middle.He slowly moved towards the copper tripod like a juggler, paused for a moment at the position of the tripod, then lightly tested the other dragon's head with his toes, and shifted his body's center of gravity to the copper of another dragon lamp like walking a tightrope. column.By the time he was done with all this, my heart was about to burst out.According to what Lao Miao said just now, as long as a person falls into this pile of sand, everything that touches it will burn, and then corrode the whole body, and then the rotten tissue will peel off from the body.I have always suspected that Lao Miao has a talent for telling horror stories.

Lao Miao's superb skills finally helped him perfectly stand opposite the old Zhong. Now what he has to do is how to maintain the balance of the copper cylinder and pull the old Zhong to the Jiao Deng. Old Zhong was still squatting there in the posture of shitting, with the expression on his face as if he was constipated. Lao Miao first used a rope to pull the copper pillar of the lantern, and then tied it to the head of another lantern along the copper pillar. In this way, a simple, irregular rope ladder similar to a parallelogram was made. All right.Lao Zhong obviously understood what Lao Miao meant. When Lao Miao stretched out his hand, he leaned forward and grabbed Lao Miao's hand. The copper vat under his feet was instantly broken and began to crumble. At that time, the copper vat slid suddenly, and slid down along the big black hole that had just cracked. Lao Zhong hooked a rope with his feet in a hurry, and hung his body over the golden sand in a posture similar to a shrimp. .At this time, the strange rushing golden sand had already covered the entire ground. As soon as the corner of Lao Zhong's clothes touched the sand, he heard a "chi" sound, followed by a puff of white smoke, and the corner of his clothes that touched the golden sand immediately turned into a black.

Lao Miao couldn't use any energy at the moment, so I had no choice but to walk carefully along the copper pillar to the copper tripod in the middle, trying to use the force of the lever to push them higher.Just when I was about to use all my strength to press the copper pillars, the copper tripod supporting the two copper pillars suddenly moved suddenly, as if a little overwhelmed, I was taken aback, but I didn't dare to do anything at this time What a change, otherwise the three of us would have all confessed here. I pressed hard on the copper pillar in front of me, and in order to maintain my strength, I hooked my feet on the copper cast wild boar in the copper tripod with all my strength.Lao Miao slowly pulled one of Lao Zhong's feet, and Lao Zhong's hands were also on the side of the bronze tripod. In this way, all the strength of the three of us was carried on this bronze tripod, and we felt the bronze wild boar under our feet. It seemed to be moving slightly. It turned out that the little jade doll held in the mouth of the wild boar facing south was slowly turning. The copper ears on both sides of the copper tripod suddenly shrank under the bump of the copper pillar, and the copper tripod under its feet began to slowly move. Turn up.

At this time, both Lao Zhong and Lao Miao were freed from the difficult movements like playing acrobatics. Lao Miao was injured in the end. He looked a little weak and mentally exhausted. His eyes were pale and lifeless, leaning against the copper tripod. Panting heavily, Lao Zhong still looked like an old god, obviously forgetting how embarrassing he was just now.In this way, the three of us have now squatted into this big copper tripod with a diameter of about two meters, just like a child sitting in a bathtub in a torrential flood. The copper tripod was still turning unhurriedly, while the sand around him was still splashing everywhere. Now the sand flowing around was as thick as a fist. It had only been a few minutes. It seemed that what Lao Miao said was true , the sand will fill the tomb within half an hour, and if we can't figure out a way in the remaining 20 minutes, we have to accompany this sinister tomb owner to pay homage to Hades.

Looking at the sand flowing around like water around me, my eyes began to straighten, and I felt that my consciousness began to blur. Lao Zhong had been burying his head in reading the engraved words on the bronze tripod, while Lao Miao was holding the rope in his hand and looking up. Look around for objects to climb on.The lamp oil on the ground was not annihilated by the rushing sand grains. Instead, it floated on top of the sand grains as if floating on the water surface. With the rolling golden sand dancing around, blue flames danced, and you can see the copper wild boar's body. A circle is drawn below, the names of the twelve hours are engraved on the outside of the circle, and the seal characters are corresponding to the inside.

The ancient tomb, the blue fire, and the poisonous sand, three people in trouble.Although we have fallen into a situation where we must die, I am not afraid at all. I don’t know why, but I think in my heart that I will definitely save myself from danger. It just takes time, maybe it’s just an opportunity, or the appearance of a mechanism.Afterwards, Lao Miao said that I simply watched Indiana Jones too much. The real situation at that time was: both he and Lao Zhong regretted pulling me down to wade through this muddy water. In this visit to the tomb, almost all the factors that can be seen in adventure movies are included, but what is depressing is that there is no sign of a miracle, and there is no hero who falls from the sky to rescue us. Looking at the top of the tomb, it doesn't matter what you look at, but there are new discoveries.

"Old Zhong, look quickly, what is that?" I patted the old Zhong who was looking at the copper tripod in an attempt to find a way out of his predicament.With the help of blue flames, a mural appeared on the top of the tomb, but when we first entered the tomb, we did not find any traces on the top of the tomb.Since the tactical spotlights are out of power, the mural on the top of the tomb can barely be seen through the faint blue flames. It is a woman holding a child in her arms, and the lower body of that woman seems to be a bird similar to a phoenix. Tail. The old clock looked at us for a while and suddenly asked us: "What time is it?" I raised the sports watch on my wrist and looked at it: "It's twenty-two fifty-five." The old clock muttered to himself: " It's time to pass the time!"

"Hai!" Lao Miao suddenly became excited, and began to touch around the copper tripod quickly with his hands, and Lao Zhong also thought of something: "Hai, hogs too! Hogs are pigs!" Lao Zhong slapped his forehead suddenly. "I said why the words corresponding to the twelve hours around the copper pig are wrong. They are not the twelve hours we are familiar with at all, but refer to something else." Lao Miao seemed to have realized something. "Yin, wood, its birds, tigers. Xu, earth, its birds, dogs... Wu, horses. Zi, rats. You, chickens. Mao, rabbits... Hai, hogs. Wei, a sheep. Chou, an ox... Si, a snake. Shen, a monkey. Chen is a dragon. Si is a snake. The positions of Chen and Si are in the southeast." At this time, Lao Zhong's five fingers rotated to calculate, and his mouth Mumbled not knowing what to say.

Seeing that the Du Jinsha was about to level with the mouth of the tripod, Lao Zhong said loudly like a god possessed: "Yes, turn this pig's head north!" His voice made Lao Miao and I tremble in fright. Lao Zhong held the copper wild boar recklessly and began to wriggle, but no matter how hard he tried to move the copper pig, he couldn't move it even a little bit. . Seeing the puzzled faces of the two of us, Lao Zhong became anxious: "It's too late to explain, hurry up and help me, otherwise the poisonous sand will come in soon!" I looked out of the cauldron and hummed obediently. The sand that was just fist-thick was almost two inches thick, and when I was stunned, it had grown a lot higher.Lao Miao pouted her buttocks and started to help Lao Zhong push the copper pig, but the pig's body was still firmly cast in the tripod and did not move at all.

I looked at the unmoving copper pig in doubt, and thought about it: I seem to have heard the things that the old clock muttered just now. It is the twelve zodiac signs that match the twelve hours of the day and the four directions of the world. There are twelve directions, that is, thirty-six variables, and each hour and the hour of the zodiac can be combined with a direction to form a variable arbitrarily. "Variables!" A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I suddenly remembered that once in my hometown, my grandfather used to talk about the variable time when he was building a house and erecting beams, and told me that if the time for erecting the beams was wrong, something would happen. Human life, I laughed at him as an old feudalist.He told me seriously for a long time about the coordination of time and azimuth, such as Chensi is in the east and Yinhu is in the west.He also said that his great-grandfather became a master of the mechanism because he understood the truth. More importantly, each mechanism has a starting point. As long as you find the starting point, the whole mechanism will be self-defeating. I started to look at this copper pig carefully, and looked at the twelve hour symbols engraved around it and the corresponding twelve zodiac signs, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, Unitary, Xu, and Hai should have corresponded to the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig, but now they are completely wrong, and what they correspond to is completely abnormal. The two zodiac signs are reversed everywhere. Now the weird combination is Ugly Dog, Yin Rooster, Mao Monkey, Chen Goat, Si Horse, Noon Snake, Wei Dragon, Shen Rabbit, Unitary Tiger, and Xu Ox. On the contrary, and two zodiac signs are missing, the pig and the rat, so there is nothing in the original position of the pig and the rat.How is this going? I simply told my discovery to Lao Zhong and Lao Miao, who were doing coolies, and they discovered that the twelve hours did not match the zodiac signs at all, and they were completely reversed. The old guy suddenly looked at me like a ghost. "Tell me, boy, what did you find?" Lao Zhong stopped his useless work, leaned on the copper pig to pant, and Lao Miao leaned on the edge of the copper tripod to give us a forecast of the spreading speed of the sand. According to his incomplete estimation, as long as two to five minutes, we can have intimate contact with the first wave of sand. Lao Miao's behavior of taking pleasure in danger was unanimously despised by me and Lao Zhong.But I can't help but lament the supernormal psychological quality of the two old guys. This kind of demeanor that can still talk and laugh in the face of danger is the result of countless dangerous experiences, and under the influence of the two of them, I don't feel the slightest Terrified, my mind is abnormally clear. "The phenomenon of casting a pig in a copper tripod is very strange. I have never seen animals cast in a copper tripod!" I raised the first question. "The tripod was originally used for cooking..." Lao Zhong felt uncomfortable just as he was about to answer, and it was not the time for class, so he waved his hand quickly, "Let's talk about it later, first tell me what you found?" "Well, have you noticed that the owner of the tomb cast this thing here, obviously not wanting everyone to discover it, but I think there should be other purposes here, especially the reversed zodiac signs I saw around it And the missing two zodiac signs confirmed my thoughts even more. This is the opening of an institution, and all the designs on the outside are to prevent future generations from destroying the opening of the institution." Looking at the expressions of disbelief on their faces, I felt a lack of confidence. He added, "It's a bit overkill to use such a big battle against tomb robbers!" Lao Zhong signaled me to continue, and I boldly said: "Although I don't know who is buried here, it can be seen from the design of so many organs that this tomb is not just for burying people, it should..." Lao Miao interrupted me: "You're right, I'll tell you the details later, but now the matter is urgent, so hurry up and get to the point." "Well, here is a trap, and it is also a passage. This copper tripod seems to be used for sacrifices, but it is actually used to transport people. You didn't realize that the three of us are just right here." Old Zhong He and Lao Miao looked around and nodded in unison. I don't play tricks anymore, because I am not sure if I can really touch the opening of this mechanism. Seeing the sand outside getting thicker and thicker, I quickly cut to the point: "Have you noticed the child in the wild boar's mouth? Let's come in!" At that time, the child carved in jade was face down, but now it has turned face up, and there is a strange character on the stomach, and the pink and white jade doll has a blood red character on the stomach, and the child's face is full of blood. Vague." "That's the word '彘'." Lao Miao interrupted. I ignored him and continued: "This copper pig was triggered after we entered the tomb, and the copper pig has been moving for several hours since we entered the hall, and the child in its mouth is also moving." It’s constantly moving, although I don’t know what it means, but I think it should be useful, and here!” I pointed to the place where the copper tripod and the wild boar were cast together: “This is obviously the fitting seam of the mechanism design, As long as you find the mechanism, you will definitely be able to trigger this channel." While I was talking, Lao Zhong was already groping for the entire copper pig, and Lao Miao was also groping for every contact surface of the copper tripod in the same way. Finally, something abnormal was found in the copper pig's mouth. A smile appeared on Lao Zhong's face. He saw his hand turn slightly to the right twice, and heard a strange sound in the copper tripod, and the jade doll began to slow down. Turn slowly in the pig's mouth, and turn face up after a while.The inside of the copper tripod started to "click, click", and suddenly the whole tripod began to vibrate, and the surrounding bullheads began to rush into the sand like a roar. The sand, which was still far away from the tripod, shortened the distance. Only two palms away from the cauldron edge, Lao Miao and I turned pale all of a sudden. Seeing this situation, Lao Zhong quickly twisted the mechanism in the pig's mouth to the left.Sure enough, the sound in the copper tripod began to gradually decrease, but the surrounding heads were still spraying sand wildly. At this time, the jade doll turned its head slightly, and the body of the copper wild boar moved slightly. "Old Zhong, is the wild boar able to move?" Lao Miao shook at the edge of his groping, and the entire disc carrying the copper pig began to rotate unnoticed. Sure enough, the old clock turned the pig's head slightly, and the pig's head could move slowly, but the big head outside the tripod flew out, directly turned into a pipe, and began to pour into the tomb. Old Zhong became nervous all of a sudden, because Jinsha was already approaching the edge of the copper tripod, and nearly two-thirds of the entire tomb was buried by Jinsha.The old clock kept changing the position of the copper pig. Just as I adjusted the pig's head, I heard a strange sound from the ground, and a strange clanging sound from the body of the copper tripod. Jinsha shot out dozens of bronze spears in anger, nailing them firmly to the murals on the top of the tomb.I looked up and saw that the distance was every three steps, just from the bottom to the top, which made people feel cold. The old clock adjusted another position, and saw that the side wall began to peel off, and then some black things fell down with a crackling sound. "It's the earth scorpion, it's astonishingly big..." Lao Miao looked at those things in amazement, "It's a pity that those things are dead." Damn, what is this, what is a pity.I was secretly upset, at this moment I saw Lao Zhong was about to move the copper pig again, so I quickly stopped him: "Master, I beg you, don't do it!" Lao Zhong rubbed his sweat and looked around at the rushing golden sand. Lao Miao and I were pale. According to visual observation, it is estimated that as long as there is a cigarette, the golden sand will overflow the copper tripod and pour in. By then, the three of us will be together. Literally buried alive. I firmly held down Lao Zhong's hand to prevent him from twisting the copper pig. Lao Miao was stunned at the roaring Jinsha, and suddenly began to wrap some oilcloth in my backpack around my limbs. His expression was heart-warming. Yi Lin, without further ado, took out a small roll of oilcloth and began to bandage me like a mummy. Lao Zhong also came back to his senses. He quickly collected some of the only things the three of us had. In a hurry, I didn’t bring a lot of equipment, but I still brought a simple chemical gas mask. This chemical gas mask is used to filter the toxic substances in the air by the chemicals inside, and its effect is basically negligible. Moisture-proof tarpaulin under the tomb, a short-handled whirlwind shovel, and some batteries. Lao Zhong and I basically don't have much left. In Lao Zhong's bag, there is still a good one-piece waterproof suit, a bottle of compressed oxygen and his gas mask, and my backpack has long been torn to pieces. It looks like I'm almost lost all my things, and the only marching belt is the one I used to tie Lao Miao when I was carrying him. Lao Zhong also cooperated with Lao Miao and began to put clothes on my body, hang up the oxygen cylinder, and buckle the only working gas mask on my head. Seeing the two of them doing all this in an orderly manner, I suddenly understood something and became anxious: "What are you doing? I don't want it!" "Don't talk!" Lao Zhong clasped my head fiercely with a pair of big hands, signaling Lao Miao to prepare a supply bag for me quickly.I was angry, I slammed into him, and broke free from his hands. The copper tripod shook slightly under my vigorous struggle, and some of the golden sand that was about to reach the edge of the tripod was slightly splashed. Come in, we dare not move now. At this time, because Biaotou was buried under the sand, the horrible piercing sound of the rushing sand can no longer be heard, but it is obvious that the level of the sand outside the copper tripod is constantly rising, as long as there is another three centimeters or so , you can directly diffuse in. I took a breath, and finished what I wanted to say just now but didn't say: "This copper pig has been proven to be the opening of an institution, and we have also found a way to activate the opening, but it is obvious that the owner of the tomb is here too." A trap was set, this is a secret box lock, triggering different organs through different positions of the copper pig, but obviously there is a position that can unlock all the organs, and we have not found it!" Old Zhong was staring blankly at the ever-rising golden sand surface outside, and suddenly came back to look thoughtfully at the big pig in the middle of the copper tripod, while I continued to explain my findings: "The design of the owner of the tomb is everywhere. It's weird, he is uncharacteristically, he doesn't respect the sky, he doesn't respect the earth, and he doesn't use the normal heavenly stems and earthly branches, we have to follow his thinking and do the opposite." In fact, I really have nothing to say. I believe these phenomena have echoed thousands of times in the minds of Lao Zhong and Lao Miao. One purpose, that is to find something to talk about, to stabilize my emotions, and more importantly, to be afraid that they will push me to the road where I can escape alone. It is not that I am not afraid of death, how brave and noble, but that I am more afraid Leaving the two of them, I subconsciously felt that it was safe to be with them. These words are very nonsense, especially at the moment when life is at stake, I was simply wasting our lives. After thinking about it, I might as well explain the funeral in a very sensational way, but it seems that there is nothing to entrust, it is obvious Very, the possibility of the three of us breaking out of the grave is a thousand times less than that of Chinese football winning the World Cup. "If you want to escape from birth now, unless there are gods!" Lao Miao sighed as he looked at the golden sand that had begun to slowly pile up on the edge of the tripod. Singing well in the Internationale has never relied on some fairy emperor.Our wise, fearless, farsighted and knowledgeable Comrade Zhong did not fail to live up to my painstaking teachings, and finally at the critical moment of life and death, he comprehended the ninth level of the tomb robbery magic technique and used a trick The ancient tomb was moved, and Lao Miao and I successfully escaped from the ancient tomb and joined the large army. The precious documents we brought out filled N archaeological gaps, solved the eternal mystery, and were commended by the party and the people. The above passage is the legendary version of Pingshu that I said when I showed off to others in Lao Zhong's office in the future, but the real situation is ten thousand times more dangerous than what I said. At that time, Lao Zhong didn't know that he really listened to my words, but he thought of something, and lay down on the disc around the copper pig to carefully examine those absurd combinations of zodiac signs.But at this moment, the golden sand has overflowed the rim of the copper tripod, and began to invade it quietly and slowly. Suddenly, Lao Zhong clapped his hands as if he had discovered something, and then pulled the copper pig again. Lao Miao and I leaned close together, shaking our heads helplessly, forget it, die is dead, it’s better to be pierced by random arrows Buried alive.Watching the old clock twist the copper pig, I closed my eyes in pain: Lord Buddha, I haven't married a wife yet, is this the end of my confession? It may be that the Buddha really heard my call, and after hearing the copper pig being pulled, all the wild sounds inside the copper tripod stopped all of a sudden.I opened my eyes suddenly, and asked in surprise, "Is it done?" As soon as the words fell, I felt like an earthquake under my feet. My heart was broken. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the jade doll in the copper pig's mouth in the middle of the copper tripod had been broken into pieces in the middle of the tripod. The copper pig was split in two from the middle, and inside the body of the copper pig was a ferocious mouse. It was said to be a mouse, but it had a pair of fangs, and this mouse was viciously perched on the head of a dragon. A brass-colored snake was biting inside. Lao Zhong stretched out his hand to twist the snake's head, and saw that he turned slightly to the right, and the snake's head, which seemed to be made of copper, fell off in response. The one-piece body of the tripod is like a lily petal that can be stretched, and it is lifted up by brushing the ground. The whole tripod is like an elevator, and with the rumbling sound, it has been sent to the highest point of the tomb. The Jinsha next to the tripod Just like flowing water, it filled the gap left when the cauldron was raised, and we were sent to the highest part of the tomb in a daze. At this time, taking advantage of the blue flames on the surface of the golden sand, we can clearly see the murals on the top of the tomb. It is a woman with a human face and a bird body, holding a small doll with a pig's head and a human body in her arms, and the surrounding area is surrounded by endless flames. Huohai, the whole portrait gives people a sense of ferocity, and the woman in the painting tends to be realistic, especially in a face, only a pair of eyes are glowing red, and the artist seems to have forgotten to add other organs. When we were looking at the murals intently, we didn't realize that the copper tripod was getting closer and closer to the tomb, and when it was about to hit the top of the tomb, the cave tripod suddenly started to vibrate, and then we felt the copper tripod under our feet began to move. Only then did I discover that the copper tripod was originally double-layered, like a teapot with an inner container. At this time, the inner container was rotating around the tripod lugs on both sides, like two superimposed bowls. , which was originally a semicircle, and now one of them is moving slowly, buckling the two semicircles into a full circle.Just like that, the three of us watched as we were tightly covered together by this weird copper tripod that was divided into two halves like three bugs. "It's a bit like the golden cymbal of the King of the Golden Horn." I remembered. "Could it be a mouse trap?" Lao Miao also began to learn humor. Before Lao Zhong could make a comment, the tripod, which had turned into a copper ball, plunged into the ground like a weightless elevator. The rumbling sound pierced into my eardrum, and I felt a huge shock , My head was hit hard by gravity!