Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-One

This photo is fairly new, and the person's face is still relatively clear. The person I saw and Long Shao are not like that in the simple sense at all. The facial features, eyes... the replicas may not be so similar , it seems to be a person at all, and Long Shao in front of him seems to have walked out of the photo.Could it be that Young Master Long has grown up like those giant centipedes? Young Master Long, who looks young in front of him, is actually an old man in his seventies or eighties?With this kind of thought in mind, when he looked at Long Shao's jade-white skin and face, he always felt uncomfortable. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that Long Shao in front of him had a strange feeling.

I looked at the others, but luckily the current light was not good, and no one seemed to notice my strangeness. I felt that if Young Master Long found out about this, it might be bad for me. Not paying attention, I scraped that face off with my nails. When Major General Long took the photo in his hand and looked at it, the face was beyond recognition, and he would not suspect that it was me.But what I didn't expect was that after seeing the photo, Young Master Long also had an expression of astonishment, a look of disbelief. I was stunned, and I wondered, is there anyone else who looks like him?Will there be such an unimaginable thing?

However, Young Master Long only showed it on his face and didn't make a sound. He silently put the photos back into the notebook, put the notebook away, and signaled to us that there was nothing unusual. Out of morality, we dragged those corpses together and piled them up. There was no soil to bury them here, so we had to find some broken stone figurines and rubble to cover them up. . After a lot of tossing, a few people sat around the previous stone pillar to rest for a while, took out some food and water to replenish their energy.Although the scene just now was very unappetizing, nothing can stop hunger once it strikes, so I ate and drank heavily not far from the corpse, and I didn't feel any special discomfort.

Master Feng swallowed two cans of beef with shochu, wiped his mouth with his hand and said: "This wine is really good. If you drink too much, you will be intoxicated, but once you try something new, it will clear my head. Hey! Hu'er will be replaced by fine wine , thank you Dukang for plotting!" As soon as Sanpao heard it, he said: "Hey hey hey! With your amount, you got on your face in less than two mouthfuls, and you still claim to be clear-headed. What kind of text are you posting in front of us!" Master Feng said: "Well, let me get down to business. In fact, judging from the current situation, it is not a strange thing for underground rivers to appear. It is still possible under certain circumstances!"

I saw that Master Feng didn't look like he was drunk. This fellow is quite a reliable person. Even if he fooled us, he wouldn't fool Long Shao. I saw that he was quite sober, so I asked what kind of situation it was . Master Feng said: "There is only water here, not necessarily an underground river. In some large ancient tombs in the south, in order to prevent rainwater from penetrating, there are usually aqueducts for drainage. What we have seen before does not rule out this situation. If That’s true, our current position is more subtle, we may have avoided many detours inadvertently, and we may be very close to the underground palace now.”

The concept of approaching the underground palace is ambiguous. It is called approaching when the outside of the underground palace is blocked by the palace wall, and it is also called approaching in the Palace of Rebirth and Dragon Tower Hall.And judging from the width of the river we saw just now, the scale is really appalling, and it can match the standard of a small moat. I said to Master Feng: "We have also experienced the width of the river just now. Could it be a diversion channel? This is a highland no matter what. Can there be such a large amount of water by natural precipitation alone?"

Master Feng replied with certainty that it was possible. If the one just now was used as the main channel of the diversion channel, it would not be an exaggeration. If so, the drainage system here must be very complicated, including the stone figurine channel we walked through before. , it may run through the aqueduct all around. Three Pao Dao is not necessarily water, let alone water and the Milky Way, have you never heard that the rivers, lakes and seas in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang are all made of mercury?It is stylish and anti-theft. Master Feng smiled and said that you think mercury is water, you can have as much as you want, I don’t know how much gold is expensive if you have multiple "silver" characters, many people even dig up mercury corpses in ancient tombs in order to collect mercury, and scrape corpses To get out mercury.Besides, with such a large amount of mercury as you said, some of us were poisoned to death a long time ago, and were buried with the King of Nanling as mercury corpses.

Long Shao scratched the tip of his nose with his hands, and began to think about it. After a while, he said: "It is rare to have such a complicated drainage system simply serving the ancient tomb. If there is another situation, it will be very important. It's possible!" Upon hearing this, we all turned our attention to Long Shao, waiting for his wise opinion.Long Shao continued unhurriedly: "It is time-consuming and labor-intensive to build such a complicated drainage system just for the mausoleum. In addition to the huge projects of the mausoleum, with the national strength of Nanling, the time will definitely not be short. It has gone through the efforts of several generations of Nanling kings. But if they are used as a city facility, the rationality of their existence is much greater!"

Urban facilities?I was taken aback and understood what this meant.What Long Shao meant is obviously that the drainage system here is not only for the ancient tombs, but is mainly used as an urban drainage system. over our heads. No way?When Long Shao said this, even I was a little bit flustered. It is of course what we desperately hope to find the underground palace and the royal city together, but I am a bit of a pessimist, and I always don’t believe that our luck will be so good. Long Shaodao: "There are precedents for this kind of city building by using mountains, the typical example is the Iron Urn City, and it is not uncommon to see underground mausoleums in royal cities on the ground. Many countries in the Western Regions, such as Loulan and Jingjue, have this kind of structure! "

Like Master Feng, Long Shao can always give a lot of reasons to convince others once he puts forward his point of view. This is probably the so-called erudition at work.In fact, I am naturally willing that everything will be as they expected, so that we can save a lot of trouble, and at least have hope psychologically. After all, we are slowly approaching the core of a once glorious country that has now disappeared. Sanpao is naturally very happy. If he can find the Nanling ancient city palace, he will not object to cutting two pieces of flesh from him. After all, there are three catties of nails for a broken ship. Nanling is also a serious dynasty. It has gone through many years and many years. The accumulation must not be less.

"Then what should we do next? Are we still looking for those stone figurines?" I asked, because I didn't know where I was at the moment and lacked a sense of security. Not a wise move. I suddenly remembered something, and then said: "Didn't we find the flare? It's better to shoot it and see, than to touch it blindly." Ying Ge replied yes, but we must first understand the height and size of this space, otherwise the flares will bounce back and easily hurt us. As he spoke, he picked up a few stones and threw them in different directions, judging the size of the entire space.San Pao said urgently: "Big man, you've become a bit of a jerk, show your fighting spirit, it's not like I haven't used flares before, at worst, it will burn your skin and dazzle your eyes. Those of us who are rough-skinned and thick-skinned are not afraid of that thing, on the contrary, I feel panicked when I am so dark!" The few people couldn't stand it any longer, Yingge couldn't evade it anymore, said "be careful", held up the lighting gun and fired one shot. There was only a sound, and in the darkness, the flares traced a beautiful arc, and went straight to the top, and a strong light rushed towards the face.Since our eyes have been in the dark for a long time, we couldn't adapt to such a strong light for a while. I only felt a flash of white light in front of my eyes, and my eyes felt a pain. Fortunately, I recovered quickly. The flare formed a big ball of light, forcefully squeezing out the surrounding darkness, and the scene in front of me could be seen all at once. The height here can only be described as "amazing". The flares failed to reach the top, and what is equally shocking is the breadth of the space. I can't use other words to describe this place. I can only say that this place is quite generous. Space. On the opposite side is a huge mountain, with several giant stone statues lined up on it. The stone statues are embedded in the mountain, sitting upright holding a big sword, with a fierce and terrifying face, which is extremely shocking.Between the two stone statues in the middle is a towering and steep thousand-story step, which is soaring upwards, which has the momentum of "Eighteen Pans" of Mount Tai.On the opposite side of the mountain, four giant stone pillars are as tall as the Optimus Prime at the ends of the earth. The decorations on the pillars are extremely complicated, spreading from the bottom to the top, and they are integrated with countless strange carvings on the top. Every object in front of me is obviously a bit pale to describe it as "big". Everything here is huge, so big that it makes people shudder. Being here, one has to wonder whether they have come to the Acropolis of Athens Or Ancient Stonehenge. We were all shocked from ear to ear, and the shock did not ease until the surrounding light gradually dimmed as the flares went out.It was dark again all around. The flare light just now caused us consternation. I didn’t even see which way to go. I was thinking about whether to fire another shot. When I looked up, I suddenly found our top surface It seems something has changed. After the flares went off, it was pitch black all around, and the top surface should be too, but the strange thing is that the top surface at this time is indeed different from before. The top of this huge space is as high as a five-story building from us. At this moment, it is covered with countless red light spots, like a vast sea of ​​stars, extremely gorgeous.Those light spots are all about the same size, because the distance is too far, they look small, but they are very bright, and some light spots flicker on and off, like red alarms flashing. "What are these things? I don't think I've seen them before!" I didn't know whether these things suddenly appeared, so I asked in surprise, because we saw that the top was pitch black before, and these things seemed to be after flares. just appeared. Master Feng said: "Maybe it is some luminous stones. Some jade stones do not emit light by themselves, but rely on other light stimulation to emit weak light. The blood sacrifice light ball we saw before is this kind of jade. Many night pearls This is also the principle of luminescence. The ancients used this thing to simulate the sun, moon and stars in the underground palace of the tomb. It is said that the underground palace of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is the same, night pearls are stars, and mercury is rivers!" As soon as Sanpao heard about Ye Mingzhu, he immediately said, "Ye Mingzhu, my grandma! Then this time we are more excited than entering the vault!" Master Feng said: "I'm afraid you will have time to rejoice, let's not talk about whether these things are those things, even if you can grow wings and fly up to pick them?" Then he said: "These are just ordinary glowing things. Yuying, who was stimulated by the strong light of the flares and induced to glow, will definitely go out after a while!" Just as Master Feng finished speaking, Young Master Long suddenly asked, "Master, do you understand astrology?" Hearing this, Master Feng smiled embarrassedly, and replied: "Master, although I have been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, I am still a layman to this astrology. Why, Master, do you see the tricks in it?" Sanpao followed suit and said, "That's right, astrology or something, what's the difference from fortune-telling for blind people? Now everyone is into weather forecasting, so why bother!" Long Shao continued: "When I fired the flares just now, I saw the scene on the top surface. It was a square formation as complicated as a chessboard. I suspect it was..." "Is it a star map? You mean the top is a huge star map?" I blurted out and interrupted Long Shao. To be honest, the moment just now was too dazzling, and I didn't even see what was actually going on on the top. Long Shao said: "That's not all, you see, these light spots are strung together, just like the hanging coffin holes on the cliff wall before, forming a dragon-shaped pattern!" Dragon pattern?I really didn't see it, and besides Long Shao, other people have the same confusion as me. The red light spots on the top seem to me to be completely disorganized and arranged in a ring, sometimes sparse and sometimes dense, without any traces. The feeling of a giant dragon winding and taking off, how could this be a dragon?Could it be a dragon sleeping cross-legged? Sanpao joked: "Master Long, are you addicted to dragons? Everything looks like a dragon!" In the past few days with Long Shao, I have also felt a little bit of his habits. He never argues with anyone. His consistent way is to use professional knowledge to convince the other party. I see that he is unhurried and confident. From the way he looked, he knew it was the same this time. Long Shao said: "Have you ever heard of the four elephants and stars in "Book of Changes?" When Long Shao said this, except Master Feng was stunned for a moment, the others still looked at each other in blank dismay, San Pao said anxiously: "Oh, my young master, don't play charades, what are you looking like, are you bullying us for being uneducated?" When he said this, Young Master Long kept his eyes fixed on the light spots on the top, his eyes showed firmness, obviously he was very confident in his own opinion. According to Long Shao's explanation, the four elephants are the four great beasts, namely Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu.In ancient astrology, the four images are used to divide the stars, Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu, which are divided into four directions: east, west, north, south, and north.Among them, the east is divided into seven constellations, and each constellation is composed of many stars, which are connected to form a giant dragon flying in the sky, called "Dong Qinglong". Long Shao said that the current top surface is actually a huge astrological map, and those light spots are composed of the blue dragon map formed by the seven constellations in the east.Moreover, the direction of the dragon's head is the same as the direction in which the stone figurines array extends, further indicating that the direction of the exit is there. I couldn't help but praised, Ying Ge looked at the top, and suddenly said: "Master, did the master say that those are all glowing Yuying? Why are these things still moving?" Hearing this, we moved our eyes to the top again. Sure enough, the red light spots that were fixed before did not dim, but became brighter and moved.