Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The Underwater Channel

The square hole is half a person's height, square, very rough, with broken stones about the size of a watermelon all over the sides, and there are quite a few inside. Obviously, someone has blocked this hole before, and the inside of the square hole is completely dark. , I don’t know where it leads, a bit like the reservoir culverts we often see in the south. In the pile of broken stones on one side of the square cave, there is a relatively flat piece with a few words carved on it very roughly, which was carved very hastily and very shallowly. This kind of imperial mausoleum looks very dazzling inside, and Shunzi may not be able to find it.It's a pity that what is engraved can't be spelled out at all.

Did Uncle San engrave it to show us the way?I thought so at the time, but the third uncle's foreign language is very unreliable, how could he come up with such a brain to engrave foreign language as a code, this is really not his style. The fat man approached curiously to have a look, and suddenly he let out a sigh, beckoned to me and said, "Xiao Wu, we seem to have seen these distorted foreign characters somewhere." I also walked over, just took a look, and my heart skipped a beat. It's not like, we have indeed seen these symbols. This is what the fat man saw on the wall of the pool when the fat man and I went down to the stele pool in the undersea tomb.After seeing this symbol, Poker Bottle suddenly rushed down the stele pool, and then he remembered what happened in the undersea tomb.Why did it suddenly appear here again?

At that time, I always thought that this symbol was engraved by one of the few people when my third uncle brought Wenjin and the others down, but it suddenly appeared here again, obviously something was wrong. Looking at the traces of the engraving, they were randomly knocked with a climbing pick, and the traces are so new, either they were left by the third uncle, or they were left by Poker Bottle or Aning, because only these few people can have them here. The mountaineering pick, the person who left this symbol must have entered the square cave. At this moment, I suddenly had an idea, wondering if it is possible that the foreign language symbol in the undersea tomb was carved by Poker Bottle, so after he saw this symbol, he would know: "I have been to this place before."

It is really possible. When he appears again, I have to ask. Pan Zi looked at me in a daze, and asked me what happened. When I told them about the symbol that Fatty and I saw at the bottom of the sea, Pan Zi also felt very novel.But he said: "I have been with the third master for ten years, and at least there are no less than fifty tombs, including a few big ones. I have never seen him leave a code, and the third master can't even recognize ABCD. It must not be left by the third master." I thought in my heart that it was Aning or Poker Bottle, and turned to them and said, "Anyway, it looks like the road is right. Someone has already entered this cave. The entrance of the underground palace should be below here. Are we here?" Go in now?"

"Come in!" The fat man immediately said: "What are you waiting for? Several teams are ahead of us. Fatty, I have always been in the vanguard. When I ran into some of you unlucky children, I was the last one. Let's not dawdle. , when they finish their work and come out, we have no face to rob them." Pan Zi said to me, "Don't ask us, are you healthy?" I nodded to show that it was okay, "Fatty is right, we can't delay. Anyway, if I encounter zongzi, I will die even if I am not injured. Now that I am injured, I will die a little faster. Don't be afraid."

The fat man had already unloaded his backpack. Hearing what I said, he said "tsk": "Don't you fucking say something auspicious? Don't you look at where we are going now?" I glared at him and said, "It's useless if you put two door gods on your forehead, you should take care of your hand first." We each prepared our own equipment. Just now we packed for the march. Now we put all the wind lamps and fuels into the bag, and then took out the cold fireworks, cold light sticks, and explosives, and tied them to the armed belt. Fatty and Pan Zi unbolted the guns, pulled down the magazines, and loaded the guns with the bullets in the belts. After the ammunition was full, the hunting knives and daggers all returned to their places.

The May 4th gun was too long, and it might be impossible to turn around in the square hole, so the fat man gave the gun to Shun Zi, took out the climbing pick himself, and several people tested the brightness of the flashlight. I prayed to the sky in my hand. Shunzi is also an expert in using guns. After taking the gun, he "clicked" a few times to familiarize himself with it, feeling nostalgic, and then said to us: "Bosses, I don't understand your business, but I want to remind you, When drilling a hole in Changbai Mountain, be careful of snow hairs. If you see something wrong, first plug your ears with cotton. This thing is not yet hard in the head at this season, so you can only drill your ears. When the shell hardens in summer, you can use it It drills directly into your skin, and two hind whiskers are exposed. When you pull the hind whiskers, the whole bug is broken inside. You have to dig the wound to get it out. Also, this thing also drills into the anus, Be careful when you sit."

The fat man glanced at Shunzi in disgust, then subconsciously tightened his belt, and said, "Now the bug has this hobby too?" Shunzi said: "I'm not joking with you guys, if you get tricked, find a way to get rid of it yourself, don't ask me." We felt chills in our lower body, so we all nodded. The fat man immediately took the lead and crawled into the square hole. We followed closely behind and filed in, heading towards the ultimate underground unknown world. In the square hole, you have to walk on your waist. The holes are dug in parallel, so you have to look around while walking.Because the height is too low, the walk is very slow. The rock bottom here is very solid. Looking at the traces of chiseling, this tunnel was obviously excavated by the most primitive method.I guess how long it took to build such a large-scale imperial tomb?No matter what, it will take more than 20 years. Many emperors started to build tombs when they ascended the throne. For more than 20 years, digging this tunnel is also very reluctant. It seems that there should be a large number of people who fled back then. batch of people.

The more I walked in, the more I saw the traces of many people who had been there. There were more than one shoe prints on the hiking shoes, and there were no snow hairs. However, I found some strange fork holes on the top of the tunnel. These holes are not big and can only accommodate one person, and the holes are bent at 180 degrees. After going straight up for a while, they will turn downwards to form a curved pipe in the shape of the number "9".There is about one such hole every ten meters. Since I got involved in this business, I have climbed the cave several times, and I have never seen such a structure. From the perspective of architectural accounting, the amount of engineering required to drill these holes is almost the same as that of the entire tunnel. There must be an absolute reason to drill the holes, otherwise it would be uneconomical, but it is really hard to see the value of these holes.

Pan Zi said to me from behind: "Little Third Master, have you noticed that this tunnel looks familiar?" "Familiar?" I paused, then turned around and asked him why he asked that? Pan Zi said: "When we were in the Guazi Temple in Shandong, didn't the corpse cave and the tunnel that entered the cave also have the same virtues? Didn't the old man just hide in the cave above to harm us?" When he said that, I took a closer look at the top of the cave. When I was in Shandong, I was so panicked that I didn't pay much attention to the top of the corpse cave and water robber cave. I can't compare it now.However, since Pan Zi said so, there should be nothing wrong, and he felt strange, and asked him, "Are you sure?"

Pan Zi was not sure, and said, "We only knew there was a hole in it after hearing what the old man said. When we passed by, it was pitch black, so we didn't notice it." I stopped, took a closer look at these fork holes, and immediately understood its function, and said, "That corpse hole was also a water robber's hole at that time, wasn't it?" Pan Zi nodded and said yes, and I said, "These fork holes are actually used for breathing. You see, when water is poured into this channel, air will be left in the fork holes because of the curved structure of the fork holes. Just swim for a while, then stick your head into the fork hole to take a breath, and then move on." Pan Zi was surprised and said, "Such an ingenious method, so the road was indeed underwater?" I said: "It's not far from it. It seems that the water robber's cave in the Guazi Temple may have been dug by Wang Zanghai's people." Thinking about it, it's not right. The old robber's cave was inferred by the third uncle during the Warring States period. Maybe it was dug when King Lu Shang went to the mountain to repair the mausoleum. Could it be that Wang Zanghai saw it after he went there and borrowed the technology from the ancients?It is also very possible. After walking for a long time, I don't know how far I walked, the road gradually widened, and finally I saw the exit.We climbed out, and there was an extremely deep canal in front of us, about ten meters deep and five or six meters wide, and there was no water in the canal. I looked at the construction of the canal and said, "This is the diversion canal. The water of the moat is diverted from here to keep the water running and not stink, and prevent the water level from flowing backward." There are ridges for one person to walk on both sides of the canal, and a stone bridge is built on it.We walked over carefully and came to the other side of the river. The fat man asked how to go now? I said: "This canal is connected to the canal outside, it should be regarded as a canal, let's follow the water." Pan Zi squatted down to look at the traces of the water flow, pointed to one side, "There." We continued to move forward, and not long after, a very regular square hole appeared on the stone wall beside the river ridge ahead. The fat man lit up a cold smoke and threw it out, revealing the black stone slabs on the ground outside the square cave, obviously this is the sealing wall stone of the underground palace.The fat man got out, fired a lot of cold fireworks and threw them around, and then greeted us before we crawled out of the tunnel. The place where I came out was a tomb made of black rocks. It was not high enough for a person to stand up straight, but it was very wide. There were many earthen jars neatly placed around the tomb, which might be wine jars used for burial. Both are half human height.It is roughly estimated that there are more than a thousand cans. It seems that Emperor Wannu may be a drunkard. On the four black walls, there are some simple reliefs, engraving the situation when the emperor held a banquet. The reliefs are not well preserved, which may have something to do with the communication between the place and the outside world. Although the volcanic gas here is not as deadly as Pan Zi said, But the corrosiveness is definitely stronger than ordinary air. It is already a miracle that the murals here can be preserved.It's a pity that the pictures that have been preserved can only be seen in general. On the left and right walls of the tomb, there is a stone gate, behind which is a dark corridor.A cold wind blew out from inside. The fat man picked up two cold fireworks and threw one in without seeing the ends.