Chapter 73 Chapter 73 Doubts

Ever since I entered this tomb, I felt uncomfortable all over my body, and I always felt that there was something staring at me in the dark, like a thorn on my back, which made people feel uneasy. Seeing me staring at the depths of the tomb passage, Da Ya's face was getting worse and worse, and he didn't know what happened, so he yelled loudly: "Who! Come out, I saw you!" I thought it was Da Ya's bluff, but no one expected that as soon as the voice fell, a black shadow flashed past with a "swoosh", and disappeared into the darkness in an instant. Although it was only a blink of an eye and the movement was fast, Da Ya and I could see clearly.

Da Ya was also so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he turned his head and grinned at me, and asked me in a low voice, did I see clearly what it was just now. I shook my head, and just about to speak, suddenly there was a "swish" sound from behind.No matter how courageous I was, I was scared to death at this time, and my first instinct was to turn around and run away with my big teeth.Zheshen had just taken two steps when he heard someone calling my and Da Ya's names. We were both taken aback for a moment before realizing that it was Liu Ye's voice. I raised my flashlight to take a picture, and sure enough it was Liu Ye crawling over from the gap.

My face sank, and I asked Liu Ye why she didn't stay up there and why did she run down. Liu Ye looked at me and Da Ya with some grievances, and explained in a low voice that she heard a "plop" on the top, and then there was no movement, and she was a little worried, so she came down to take a look. At this time, I was not in the mood to blame Liu Ye anymore, so I quickly put Liu Ye behind me, told her to be careful, and then told her what happened just now. Liu Ye was a little stunned for a moment, and quickly turned on her flashlight, turned an angle and took a photo forward.

The moment the flashlight was turned on, a black shadow flashed past again with a "swoosh", and disappeared like a gust of wind in the blink of an eye. Da Ya and I subconsciously stretched out our hands, blocked Liu Ye from behind, raised the dagger in our hands, and became fully alert. Unexpectedly, Liu Ye smiled.Although the laughter was not loud, the echo was extremely cold and creepy no matter how far it traveled in this tomb passage.Liu Ye hurriedly covered her mouth, looked at Da Ya and me, turned on the flashlight and shook Da Ya again, and sure enough, the black shadow flashed across the front wall again.

Seeing this, I finally figured out what was going on, and was a little ashamed for a while, wishing I could find a crack in the ground and get in. It turned out that the willow leaf was at the gap just now, and the flashlight inadvertently swept me and Da Ya, and then cast our shadows on the opposite wall, because the wall is curved, the shadows are naturally exaggerated and deformed.Da Ya and I focused all our attention on the opposite side, coupled with our nervousness, we saw our own shadows as ghosts. In fact, it’s no wonder that we are all soldiers, because the environment here is too scary, coupled with the special structure of the tomb passage, the shadows are very distorted and deformed, if you don’t look carefully, you really can’t recognize which shadow is your own.

Da Ya also let out a long sigh of relief, and just about to speak, he suddenly "shushed" at us, and then motioned us to listen carefully. Liu Ye and I held our breaths, and sure enough, there was another faint creaking sound, which made people's teeth sour. We turned on the flashlights and looked carefully. After looking around, our eyes finally locked on the two large pillars deep in the tomb passage.I don't know why, but I always feel that these two pillars are a little strange.The pillars are actually two tree trunks. The trunks are about the thickness of a bucket. The bark has been peeled off, and the branches have also been cut off. They are bare and unpainted.

I bravely moved closer step by step, stuck to the trunk and listened.Sure enough, the strange sound came from the trunk. Looking at the environment here, if I realized something, it must have been a long time, and the water in the trunk has almost evaporated. In addition, as soon as the air circulates, the weight supported on it is not light, so it makes such noises from time to time. A "creak, creak" sound. After figuring out the source of the strange noise, my heart was somewhat relieved, and I was not as nervous as before. Da Ya pointed at the pillar, and asked me worriedly: "Lai Liang, do you think this thing won't be able to support it for a while, and will it collapse again? Then we will really be buried alive in it!"

I rolled my eyes at Big Tooth, and told him to close his crow's mouth quickly, and stop saying such frustrating words.It's been fine for so many years, but when we came in, the sky pillar fell down, so it's not a matter of heaven, are we raised by stepmothers or something? Liu Ye walked around these two pillars a few times, and said with some doubts: "I always feel that these two pillars are a bit weird, they don't seem to have existed in this underground palace, they seemed to be put up later. You can see that no matter how neat it is or how it is supported, it is a bit clumsy. No matter how the pillars in the past were built, they would not be so naked here. seat, and these two pillars are a bit shabby."

I thought of this too, but I can't figure out what's going on.Obviously, these two pillars were not erected by the gang who dug the burrow, and the burglary alone couldn't transport these two behemoths in.The two giant trees in front of me seemed to have been brought in from the entrance of the underground palace, or they were used for temporary support during the construction process, but I don't know why they were not transported away in the end. Holding up the flashlight, I looked forward and passed through the doorway where the pillars were. In front of me was a stone room that was slightly wider than the tomb passage. It was seven or eight meters wide and a little over three meters deep. Coupons” and “Guardian Coupons”.

The underground palace of the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty is generally composed of "nine vouchers and four gates".The nine coupons are tunnel coupons, flash coupons, cover door coupons, Toudaomen cave coupons, Mingtang coupons, Erdaomen cave coupons, Chuantong coupons, Sandaomen cave coupons and gold coupons. The gold coupons are the coffins; and the four stone gates They are the cover door, the first door, the second door and the third door. Among them, there are glazed tile roofs on the top of the cover gate coupons, Mingtang coupons and gold coupons, which are also places where organs are often concealed. There is a special anti-theft mechanism called "Jinding Mingyou", which is often placed on the glazed roofs of these three coupons. , once the mechanism is triggered, a large amount of clear oil will pour out from the top, and it will burn this place into a sea of ​​flames in an instant. No matter how powerful you are, even if it is a copper head and an iron wall, it will be burned to dryness.

Starting from the flash coupons, the ground became flat, and they were paved with blue and white stones about one meter long. Opposite was a huge stone gate.The gate tower of Shimen is made of brick and wood tiles, and the gate stack is carved with blue and white stone.The two stone doors are half-closed, and there are two copper heads hanging on the door leaves, with strange eyes open and door knockers in their mouths.In addition, there are neither stone carvings nor nipple-shaped door nails. The door is clean and there is no ornamentation. The light of the flashlight is concentrated, and the range of illumination is not large. When the light flickers, only a rough outline can be seen. Our shadows flicked from left to right, and the echo in the tomb passage was very loud, and the slightest noise we accidentally made would be amplified infinitely, making it extremely terrifying. I took out the miner's lamp from my bag, and when I lit it, the surrounding area was illuminated all of a sudden. Through the concealed stone gate, before I could see anything clearly, I smelled an unpleasant musty smell.It was dark inside, and nothing could be seen. I gritted my teeth and squeezed in sideways carefully. Passing through this door, I thought about countless possibilities, maybe it was still the tomb passage, maybe it was another hall, but I didn't expect that after passing this door, I would directly reach the coffin chamber.Although this is not the emperor's mausoleum, there won't be nine vouchers and four doors, but there must be a second door anyway, but I don't want to push this door and go directly into the coffin chamber. There were some broken bricks and broken tiles piled up here and there on the ground, as well as a lot of thick wooden boards, probably coffin boards.At a glance, it was a mess.You don't need to look to know that it must have been ransacked by tomb robbers. The coffin bed in the middle was empty, and the Longshan stones on the coffin bed were tilted to and fro, and one piece was even scattered on the ground. Holding the miner's lamp high, I looked around, and unexpectedly found a door opened on the stone wall in the far corner.Staring at the stone door that suddenly appeared, I was puzzled by the monk Zhang Er, and I didn't know what was going on. The coffin chamber is in the deepest part of the underground palace, arriving here is equivalent to reaching the end of the underground palace.It's just that this coffin chamber is a bit strange right now, and there is another back door opened on the back wall. When building mausoleums in the past, in order to ensure the secrecy of the mausoleum, most of the craftsmen who participated in the construction were trapped to death in the end at the end of the project, killing people to silence them.But the craftsmen are not stupid. While building the tomb, they will secretly dig a hole in the ground to create a hidden passage, so that they can exit safely afterwards.Could it be that the door in front of him was deliberately left behind by the artisans in order to survive?If this is the case, isn't this courageous?I don't believe it even if I say Potian, but the craftsmen dared to build the escape door directly here, unless their heads were flooded. But if it wasn't for the craftsmen to escape, where did this door lead to?What is it for?The size of the gate and the scale of the project are sure not to be dug out by tomb robbers. This gate is really unreasonable. Liu Ye and Big Tooth stared at the door in disbelief, apparently just as confused as I was. Seeing the mess in the tomb, Da Ya knew that it had been looted long ago, but he still jumped on the coffin bed and stabbed the "Golden Well".I don't bother to care about him, in fact, I don't even need to think about it, judging by the posture here, the coffin boards are smashed to pieces, it is impossible to leave the "Golden Well" without digging out, Big Tooth must have been in vain. Letting Da Ya to toss about, I looked around again, only to find that although there is a damp and musty smell here, but the ground is very dry, there is no water on the ground, and even the floating ash is very dry.So dry, I don't know where this damp smell is coming from. Liu Ye pointed to the back of the stone gate we came in, and asked me to take a closer look. I shook the flashlight, only to find that there were four "floor drains" on the ground behind the door, and I was stunned in surprise. Liu Ye told me with a smile that this is also an invention of the ancients. Below the floor drain is an underground ditch called "Dragon Beard Ditch".Every rainy season, there may be a lot of water in the underground palace, and the coffins and other objects are soaked in water every year. With this thing, the seeping water can be drained quickly through the Longxugou. The ground here is not level , but a little inclined, but the angle is a little small, we don't feel it. I smiled embarrassingly, and then suddenly realized that this thing is the same as the floor drain in our bathroom now. When decorating the bathroom, the floor should be made to be inclined, so that the water for bathing and showering can flow into it quickly. floor drain.It turns out that this kind of craftsmanship is inherited from ancient times, and I really didn't think about it before. Liu Ye pointed to the ground in the distance, and said to me: "It is estimated that it is not the rainy season yet, and the ground has not seeped water, so there will be floating ash. You can see that there are traces of water at the base of the wall. Fortunately, we are coming in now." , if it’s a month later, the place will probably be muddy.” Hearing what Liu Ye said, I also looked at the wall next to me.But no, about ten centimeters above the ground, you can clearly see a circle of flooding marks.Obviously, so much floating ash that fell on the ground was only accumulated after a winter and spring. When the rainy season came and the ground seeped water, the ash would naturally disappear. I was talking with Liu Ye, while Da Ya was busy working in front of the coffin bed, without saying a word.I wanted to call Big Tooth down, but just two steps away, I suddenly found an obvious drag mark on the floor of the back door of the coffin, extending straight to the back of the coffin bed, as if it had been wiped with a mop. Compared with the thick accumulation of dust, it is very dazzling. Obviously this drag mark was left not long ago, is there really anyone else here besides us?