Chapter 8 Chapter 7 The Secret Hidden in the Cave

Although Bai Su's idea did not come out of nowhere, the clues she based on were too few. However, apart from constant assumptions about this strange and unpredictable matter, there is really no concrete fact to pursue.I thought about it: "You imagine that Ma Jinhua lived with some people for five years. How many of these people are there?" Bai Su murmured: "Who knows, maybe ten or eight, maybe one or two hundred." I said again: "I once mentioned that in that area, there are some mysterious small tribes living in seclusion in remote places, almost isolated from the world. There may be a small tribe with a very high level of education in the mountainous area ?”

Bai Su shook his head slowly: "It's possible, but it's always unrealistic. There must be a key problem, which we never thought of—" She stopped suddenly when she was talking, but in a very short time, she showed an excited expression again: "There is a person who is actually a very important key person, and we have all ignored it." I said: "I haven't forgotten him: Zhuo Changgen's father, all mysterious things started from him. This person, I don't know where he came from, and he doesn't know where he went. Many years after him, only After Ma Jinhua's disappearance, Zhuo Changgen is now."

Bai Su sighed lowly: "Walking around, going back to the same place, Zhuo Changgen's father... Zhuo Changgen's father..." I interjected from the side: "A good horse breeder, with a flawless jade pendant, is entrusted to the orphan to go to his death. Yes, he is the key to all mysterious events." My conclusion is naturally very reasonable, but after I talked about it, I found that even if I have such a conclusion, it is useless at all, unless I can find this person. And this person, as early as seventy or eighty years ago, could not be found, let alone now. I had no choice but to laugh at myself: "It seems that if you want to understand the truth, you still have to go to that place once."

When I said this, I was just talking casually, but Bai Su was very serious when he heard it: "It seems that this is really the only way out." I jumped up straight: "What did you say? Just now you rejected Bao Shifang's request, and now—" Bai Su waved his hand and interrupted me: "I'm sure that searches like Bao Shifang's will not yield any results. I'll wait until things gradually cool down, and maybe I can find something." I stared at her, and she smiled: "If you don't want to go, I can go alone." I hurriedly said: "No, no, let's go naturally together." Then I muttered: "I don't want you to disappear for five years, and during those five years, you may... maybe..."

Bai Su didn't wait for me to finish, she gave my boss a supercilious look, I made a grimace, and didn't say any more. That day, our discussion ended here, and after a while of silence, Bai Su said: "I guess if we are going, it will be at least half a year later, during this time, we should try our best to get familiar with the natural and cultural environment in that area. " I said: "That's easy, just get some reference books to read." Bai Su smiled: "Okay, let you do the simple things, and leave the complicated things to me." I asked, "What's more complicated?"

Bai Su was very serious: "I want to read all Ma Jinhua's works carefully." I couldn't help sticking out my tongue. Ma Jinhua's works are quite profound. Although I can't understand them, it is naturally too boring for me to do this.So I immediately said: "Okay, it's settled, but I don't think I can find anything in her writings." Bai Su's answer is wonderful: "Even if you can't find anything, you will always improve in terms of knowledge." The next day, unexpectedly, I received a long-distance call from Boss Bai from France. His voice was very anxious: "What's going on, old man Zhuo disappeared in his hometown?"

Bai Su listened to the call, she said: "Yes, the situation is very similar to Ma Jinhua's disappearance back then." Boss Bai's voice was a little annoyed: "Then why are you still staying at home? Go find him!" Bai Su told her father what we thought, and after listening to her father, Boss Bai agreed, but said: "I'm afraid that after a year or so, he will be tortured to death by aliens." Bai Su laughed: "Ma Jinhua was missing for five years, and she didn't suffer any injuries." Bai Laodao: "Old Zhuo is different, he has a hot temper, maybe he will be cut into pieces by aliens."

I interjected, "I don't think he was taken by aliens." Boss Bai was aggressive: "So, where did he go? Tell me." Of course I couldn't say it, so I had to laugh. Bai Laodao: "I want to launch a campaign to accuse the local government of not protecting the distinguished guests from outside, and ask them to do everything in their power to find old man Zhuo." Boss Bai really did what he said. In the next month, even the International Red Cross was alarmed. The governments of several countries in South America formally submitted diplomatic notes, expressing their great concern about Zhuo Changgen's death. whereabouts.

Bao Shifang was not idle, he organized a huge search team, including fifty search experts, ten helicopters with excellent performance, and various equipment. The local officials also knew that the matter was serious and could not be concealed, so they reported it to the higher authorities. The higher authorities panicked and sent a cavalry regiment to assist in the search. Zhuo Changgen is a very important figure in the international market, so there was a time when journalists from all over the world gathered in that area, vying to report on the process of the search operation. Although Bai Su and I are still thousands of miles away, we can know how the search operation is going.Such a large-scale search operation can almost be listed as the largest in human history.

However, Zhuo Changgen disappeared completely as if he had melted in the air.As a result, the reporter had nothing to report, so he made all kinds of speculations.All speculations are also inseparable from what we have already imagined, such as aliens, five-dimensional space, and so on.There was a reporter who said that the local government killed Zhuo Changgen for unfathomable reasons, and his body was destroyed. This reporter was deported on the same day, and he was lucky that he was not arrested and imprisoned. There was also a reporter who had a wealth of knowledge about Chinese history and geography. He wrote a report on that area, which was very pertinent. His article mentioned that that area was one of the famous mysterious areas in Chinese history. , the tomb of Qin Shihuang, who unified China, was discovered in recent years, also near that area.

A small part of Qin Shihuang's tomb has been excavated. In the small part that has been excavated, there are countless tombs. It is a rare underground building in human architectural civilization. No one can say how big the entire tomb is. It is estimated that it has been detected. It is only one-tenth of the entire mausoleum, and what has been excavated is only one-tenth of what has been detected.At the end of the reporter's article, he sighed that such a huge underground construction project, at that time, I really don't know how it was built. In comparison, the pyramids in Egypt are nothing. (According to 1987: The area of ​​Qin Shihuang's tomb is 56.2 square kilometers.) The construction project of the entire mausoleum cannot exceed forty years, because Qin Shihuang's reign was only thirty-seven years.That was from 246 BC to 210 BC, more than two thousand years ago. Qin Shihuang was only thirteen years old when he took over the throne. Even if he immediately thought of what happened to him after he became emperor and started to build a mausoleum for himself, it would only take more than 30 years. Such a huge plan was carried out early in the morning! Empress Qin Shi was very keen to pray for the "immortal medicine" of immortality. She believed in various alchemists and sorcerers, and sent Xu Fu to the eastern fairy mountains to find the elixir of immortality. During the reign of this emperor, he had a rare enthusiasm for various construction projects. He connected the Great Wall together, which became a miracle in the history of human architecture. He also built roads, even as far away as Yunnan and Guizhou. The famous "five-foot road" runs through the land traffic.But in comparison, his own underground mausoleum is a bigger project, and it has a very weird atmosphere.It is very difficult to even imagine, such a huge underground construction project, under the material resources at that time, I do not know how many people must be mobilized to complete the work. However, there are very few historical records about the construction process of this mausoleum, so few that it is almost like nothing. There are naturally two possibilities for this. One is that no one dared to record it at all. The first emperor was afraid that someone would destroy his tomb, so he strictly kept it a secret.Another possibility that is even more terrifying is that all those who participated in the tomb-building project were killed and silenced. It is estimated that the construction of such a huge underground project involved at least 100,000 laborers. Is it possible to kill so many people?Looking at the history of China, there is a record of killing 400,000 soldiers, which seems very likely. The man who buried more than 400,000 captives alive was called Bai Qi. Before Qin Shihuang, he was a general of the Qin Dynasty.At that time, human life was not worth a penny.It is not impossible that all the laborers who built the tomb were killed. At least, the senior personnel involved in the tomb project, such as designers and engineers, must have been killed and silenced. Therefore, this world's largest underground construction project has always been a secret, and it is still a secret until now. I read this article with great interest, because the reporter's article was quite vivid, and I was collecting geographical data in that area. Naturally, this reporter was also searching, but there was nothing good to report, so he pulled away and wrote such a report. During that period of time, I had many other things, and I was running around. Some of them could be said to be earth-shattering events. Some of them have been described, some have not been described, or there is no result at all. Bai Suzhen kept his word and acted, and had been reading Ma Jinhua's works. Three months later, things gradually cooled down, and the reports on the search for Zhuo Changgen were no longer available. I was alone at home that afternoon, and Bao Shifang came to the door again. When I saw Bao Shifang, I was shocked. If he hadn't announced his name as soon as he came in, it would be hard to recognize him.Less than three months later, he turned into another person, with dark and thick complexion, weathered face, tired expression, and even the loss of expression in his eyes. As soon as he came in, he sat heavily on the sofa, staring at the ceiling: "I don't believe that a person can be so completely missing!" What I want to make clear here is that none of the people involved in the search, including Bao Shifang, knew that there was another incident of Ma Jinhua's disappearance decades before Zhuo Changgen.No one knew the contents of Ma Jinhua's will. Bao Shifang's voice seemed to carry the wind and sand from the mountains in the northwest, and it sounded strangely vicissitudes, Bai Su and I looked at each other.When he came last time, I was still angry with Zhuo Changgen, so I didn't tell the details of how Ma Jinhua asked Zhuo Changgen to bury her in her will.Seeing Bao Shifang's situation at this time, I felt very sympathetic to his situation, so I reminded him: "There is a place in that grassland, where there are nine stone slabs, have you ever found it?" When Bao Shifang heard this, he was very surprised: "Hey, how do you know?" If he asked like this, it was equivalent to saying that the nine stone slabs had already been discovered.I don't know the details about the nine stone slabs, I just looked at him and waited for him to speak. He paused for a moment, then looked at me with puzzled eyes for a while: "This matter is quite strange. We went to find him that day, and when we arrived at the grassland, we saw the carriage he drove out. It turned out that Professor Ma His coffin was on the car, but at that time, the coffin was gone, so no one thought that Mr. Zhuo would go far—it was impossible for him to leave with a heavy coffin.” When he was talking here, he paused for a while, and looked at me again: "You knew where Mr. Zhuo was going to bury his coffin?" I said "hmm" as an answer. Bao Shifang changed his sitting posture: "After that, he never showed up, which means that he disappeared together with the coffin. The matter is even more unbelievable. Because it is too weird, so... I deliberately avoided mentioning it." I smiled lightly: "It doesn't matter." Bao Shifang smiled wryly: "It wasn't until a few days later that a large-scale search began, and nine stone slabs were found on that grass—" Bai Su interjected, "Please describe those nine stone slabs in detail." Bao Shifang didn't think about it either, so he said, "I have a photo, please take a look." As he spoke, he reached out from his coat pocket, took out a stack of photos, put them on the table, and spread them out one by one. It wasn't until then that I saw "the meadow".It's just in pictures, but it's much better than listening to oral narration. The weeds are very dense. In the photos, many people are standing, but only their heads can be seen. The weeds are dense and tall, almost generally over one meter. On such a piece of grass, it is naturally not easy to find the paved stone slabs. Among the photos, some showed the conditions of those stone slabs. A large piece of grass was cut off, and nine stone slabs were laid out to form a large square. Bao Shifang explained: "Each stone slab is about half a meter square, ten It's a centimeter thick, very flat, and it's chiseled out by precision workers. And please note that there are many round holes in the stone slab, and the function of these round holes is-" He stopped here and looked at me. Of course, I have already noticed that there are many round holes on the stone slabs, the size of the mouth of a cup. Bao Shifang looked like he wanted to test the use of these round holes on the stone slabs. It is really difficult to answer, I think I thought for a while: "What's under the stone slab?" Before Bao Shifang could answer, Bai Su had already said: "I think the round hole on the stone slab is used to hide the existence of the stone slab so that no one will notice it. This is a very clever design. Weeds can grow through the round hole and grow in the dense forest. On the grassland, since the growth of weeds is normal, who would have thought that there is a stone slab? If there is a thin layer of soil on the stone slab, it will be even more difficult to find." Bao Shifang nodded his head: "Yes, in fact, there is indeed a layer of soil on top of the stone slabs. The soil is not thick, but if it hadn't been turned over, no one would have discovered that there were stone slabs there." I took a breath. On such a grassland, laying nine stone slabs must be useful. The problem is: since these nine stone slabs are so hidden, how would Ma Jinhua know of their existence. When Ma Jinhua disappeared back then, the search work was huge, Zhuo Changgen and the others did not find those stone slabs. Bao Shifang sighed: "When you found those nine stone slabs, you should cut off the nearby grass and pry up the stone slabs. Please take a look—" He pointed to a few photos: "Below is a very square basement...or it can only be said to be a cave—" The photo shows the cave after the stone slab was lifted, and I naturally saw the coffin in the cave.The cave is square, and several sides are inlaid with stone slabs. There is still a little space for the coffin. In one photo, Bao Shifang is standing next to the coffin. The depth of the cave, to his shoulders, seems to be about one meter. Bao Shifang continued: "The discovery of the cave and the coffin, at least for me personally, feels strange and inexplicable. Mr. Zhuo disappeared after placing the coffin. He can go anywhere by himself, so the scope of the search must be expanded. And the strangest thing is , such a cave, no matter when it is built, there must be stagnant water, grass roots, and even hamsters, but the cave is very clean, and it may not be that Mr. Zhuo cleaned it before he put down the coffin..." As Bao Shifang said, Bai Su and I have been looking at those photos. From the photos, not only the coffin was carried out, but also the bottom of the cave and the stone slabs on all sides were removed. Behind the stone slab is the soil, and the coiled grass roots, because they grow to the front of the stone slab and cannot penetrate the stone slab, form a flat arrangement that seems to have a very weird pattern. I said: "It seems that you have put a lot of research into this cave. I don't understand what you hope to find." Bao Shifang looked puzzled: "I didn't have any purpose in doing this at the time, but I always researched it thoroughly, and as a result... nothing was found. It looks... like a tomb that has been prepared long ago." I shook my head: "I only know that Professor Ma wants Mr. Zhuo to bury her under the nine stone slabs in the grass." Bao Shifang murmured: "Besides that the tomb was prepared in advance, there is no other explanation. We paved the stone slabs again, put down the coffin, and then laid the stone slabs on it—I have studied architecture, and the nine The structure of the connection of the stone slabs is very ingenious. After the stone slabs are put together, although there is no support underneath, the upper part can still bear a considerable weight. This kind of structure is rarely seen in Chinese architecture." I suddenly thought: "This grassland... is a bit weird, have you studied it thoroughly?" Bao Shifang nodded: "Although the area of ​​the grassland is not small, I still want someone to cut off all the grass, and then use the detection equipment to check—" I made a gesture: "If there is a stone slab under the soil, the detection instrument will not be able to detect it." Bao Shifang said: "Yes, so I used the soil method again and made 300 iron branches, one end of which was very sharp, and asked 300 people to insert the iron branches into the soil continuously." I didn't ask what the result was, but just by looking at his expression, I knew that no matter whether it was a local method or a foreign method, he had never discovered anything. Bao Shifang spread his hands: "That piece of grass, except for that cave...is just a piece of grass, alas." He let out a long sigh. I looked at him and felt that he had exhausted all means to find Zhuo Changgen. He was persistent in his work. Such a person would be extremely depressed when he failed. Bai Su looked at me, I knew what she meant, she was asking for my consent, whether to tell him what happened that year.I gestured to her and asked Bao Shifang, "Now are you ready to give up?" Bao Shifang suddenly showed a very stubborn expression: "Give up? Even if it takes another ten or eight years, or a lifetime, I will find Mr. Zhuo." When he said this, anyone could see It can be seen that he is very serious. I'm also a little excited, because I don't need to pursue the strange events that happened decades ago, but now, this unexplainable thing continues, so I have to pursue it.I thought for a while: "There are some things that you may not know, but I can tell you in detail." Bao Shifang looked at me with a very surprised expression, obviously he didn't know what happened before. So, Bai Su and I took turns telling him everything we knew in detail.That part of the story was very long, and he was stunned from the beginning. When he heard half of it, he couldn't help murmuring: "God! Gosh!" After he finished listening, he stayed for a while: "The place where Professor Ma went during those five years is the place where Mr. Zhuo is now." I said: "Of course, the question is, what is that place? How can I get there?" He frowned: "Five-dimensional space, walked into the time tunnel, was taken away by aliens... Wait for the assumption, although it can be established, it is unrealistic——" I immediately interrupted the conversation: "Impractical? Do you think those things never happened?" Bao Shifang smiled bitterly: "Then, the disappearance was really caused by these reasons?" I shook my head: "It is possible, every hypothesis is possible." Bao Shifang suddenly looked at me directly: "I can't believe it, Mr. Wei, according to the law, you are very curious, and you have the perseverance to find out all the unexplainable things, but you know that such a strange thing happened , why don't you actually investigate it?" I laughed "hehe": "Boy, if you want me to go, you don't need to use this aggressive method." Bao Shifang was still staring at me with a hostile look, and I said, "One, I have other things to deal with, and two, I want you to take charge of the search, and we'll talk about it after you have the results first." Bao Shifang stood up, spread his hands, and shouted: "I've tried everything, but there is no result at all. There must be a way. I haven't tried it yet, but I don't know which one it is!" Bai Su said slowly: "The place they went to must be in a very special situation, otherwise, they wouldn't be in the hospital. Ma Jinhua told Zhuo Changgen, but he didn't believe it either." I smiled wryly: "I have imagined thousands of possibilities, and even imagined that they went to hell, the underworld, and the place where ghosts exist. What else have I never imagined?" At this time, Bao Shifang put a high hat on me: "Mr. Wei, you have never been to the place, otherwise, with your imagination, you will definitely be able to find out." I glared at him, and he hurriedly said: "The living environment of Ma's Ranch has improved, and the local officials have given us the greatest convenience. If Mr. Wei and Mrs. Wei don't want to disturb the reporters, just find someone with an ordinary identity. , just follow me in, Mr. Wei, you are a good friend of Mr. Zhuo—" I quickly waved my hands: "Forget it, I can go, but Zhuo Changgen crossed the bridge to pull the board, he is not a good fucking friend, if I can really find him, I will not talk to him." When Bao Shifang heard that I was willing to go, he was overjoyed and ignored how I was disrespectful to Zhuo Changgen.I said again: "I'm afraid that the old man Zhuo is so old that he can't withstand the sudden changes in his life, even if we find him—" Bao Shifang said with certainty: "No, Mr. Zhuo's physique is quite different from that of ordinary people. During his physical examinations twice a year, the doctor in charge of the examinations did not believe that he was over ninety years old. His physical condition is almost complete. It meets health standards." (There are some things in the world that are really mysterious. Seemingly irrelevant conversations will suddenly bring people a kind of inspiration. That kind of feeling is sometimes clear and sometimes vague, but it has nothing to do with hard thinking. The result will be of some help.) (At this time, we mentioned Zhuo Changgen's health status casually, which seemed to have nothing to do with the whole matter, but in the ensuing conversation, it gave me a vague inspiration.) In order to emphasize Zhuo Changgen's health, Bao Shifang added: "This year, an expert from Switzerland checked Mr. Zhuo's body and even jokingly said that in Chinese history, there was an emperor who went to the Looking for the elixir of immortality, I don’t know if the emperor found it later, but Mr. Zhuo looks like you have taken the elixir of elixir, it is really a miracle in the history of human life.” I snorted, the old man Zhuo Changgen is in good health, there is no doubt about it, the expert is naturally joking, what kind of elixir of life! Bao Shifang continued: "Mr. Zhuo laughed at that time and told the expert that the emperor was Qin Shihuang, who died later, less than fifty years old, and Qin Shihuang's tomb is near the pasture where he lived when he was young." When he talked about this, the first thing I thought of was the report made by that reporter, which I mentioned earlier. Then, there was a sudden movement in my heart, and I couldn't help but straightened up.I suddenly had inspiration and captured something.Whenever I suddenly thought of something, I would have the same expression, Bai Su naturally knew, and she also knew what I was thinking, she said slowly: "This idea, you have never thought of it before!" I was still thinking about it further, and replied casually: "Really not, the place they... went to... is... entered..." Bao Shifang was extremely clever. At that moment, he was also shocked, and blurted out: "Mr. Wei, what did you think of? He...they entered..." Perhaps it was because the idea was so unimaginable, so although he thought of it, it was difficult to say it. I shook my head vigorously: "No, it's not very possible...I just want to say, I want to say..." Because the idea that came to my mind was so weird, I couldn't help stuttering. The situation made Bai Su laugh: "Actually, it's nothing. No matter how weird things are, we have experienced them. It is very likely that on that piece of grass The missing person entered Qin Shihuang's tomb." She spoke, and we all remained silent for a while.Bai Su turned to me and asked, "Why do you want to deny it again?" I took a breath: "Although the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang, which has been discovered, is quite close to the Ma's Ranch, it would be inconceivable if it could be entered from that grassland." Bai Su thought for a moment: "According to recent information, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang's underground building covers an area of ​​fifty-six square kilometers. It is the largest underground imperial city on earth. In fact, it may be even larger, but it has been discovered now. What came out was only a very small part of this huge underground imperial city. The reason why the rest was not excavated is because the structure of the underground construction project is too complicated, so complicated that there are many unpredictable factors, so I dare not act rashly. The area of ​​the building is far more than fifty-six square kilometers, but hundreds of square kilometers." I smiled wryly: "You emphasized the hugeness and complexity of this group of underground palaces. I understand what you mean. You want to explain that if people break in by mistake, they may not be able to get out for a long time." Bai Sujing paused for a while: "Yes, I really want to explain this point, but after thinking about it again, the possibility is really unlikely. Ma Jinhua has been missing for five years, how does she live? Among them, there must be something we can't figure out. The main key lies in." Bao Shifang was very excited and walked back and forth: "Really, I never thought... Qin Shihuang's tomb, damn it, I'll go and propose to relevant parties to excavate Qin Shihuang's tomb on a large scale. We can provide all the technology and expenses. It is the largest operation in the history of human archeology, we don't want any benefits, we just want to find Mr. Zhuo." I pointed at him: "You must first make sure that he is in the underground imperial city." Bao Shifang said: "I'm not sure, but this is the only place I haven't looked for. As long as we are sure that people won't disappear in the air, he must have somewhere to go...that's the only place I haven't looked for." Bai Su agrees with his opinion: "Even if we want to find him, we don't need to carry out large-scale excavation. The project is too huge. It won't take ten or eight years to complete the work. I think there must be an unknown passage. It can get him where he wants to go.” I couldn't help laughing: "If Zhuo Changgen really went to the underground imperial city, this kind of discussion would be meaningful, just assuming—" Bai Sudao: "As Mr. Bao said, that's the only place I haven't looked for. Decades ago, Zhuo Changgen and the others couldn't find Ma Jinhua, and Zhuo Changgen's father suddenly disappeared. It can be explained that there is a passage leading to where they're going." I said: "Okay, if this passage is part of Qin Shihuang's underground tomb, it must be extremely hidden. The area is thousands of miles away, how to find it?" Bai Su tapped lightly on the table: "I think the scope can be narrowed down, so I'll just look for it on that piece of grass." Bao Shifang said with certainty: "I've searched for it, and it's impossible for anyone to find it more thoroughly than me." Bai Su and I didn't immediately express our opinions. The grassland...the sudden appearance of Ma Jinhua in those years is a very powerful explanation: She popped out of nowhere in that meadow. However, Bao Shifang used such a thorough method to study the grassland but failed to find it. Bai Su and I looked at those photos over and over again. Suddenly, my thoughts brightened and I raised my head: "We need to find something, for example, we need to find something within the scope of this coffee table—" As I said, I opened a cigarette case, and continued: "First of all, after taking out all the cigarettes in the box, the box is empty and there is nothing to look for, then put the cigarettes back, and continue Look it up somewhere else, never in that box again, will you?" Bao Shifang looked at me with his mouth wide open, and Bai Su said, "By the way, it's still in that cave." Bao Shifang shook his head: "All the stone slabs in the cave have been removed to check, and there is no passage." I said, "Have you dug down?" Bao Shifang opened his mouth wide again. Seeing his dazed look, he knew that he had never dug down.I waved my hand vigorously: "Mr. Bao, the person who designed this passage is a great psychologist. He deliberately built a cave at the entrance and exit. If the cave is discovered, everyone will pry up the stone slabs in the cave. But if you don’t discover it, you won’t pay any attention to it—people have this kind of self-confidence, they believe the facts they see, but they don’t know that there are more truths hidden behind the visible facts of." Bao Shifang yelled loudly: "I'll tell them to dig now." I stopped him: "I see, there are further mysteries in this matter, which are not suitable for large-scale operations, and that is just our assumption-you just said that you are in that area and have sufficient freedom of movement?" Bao Shifang nodded immediately: "Yes, if the three of us want to dig in that cave for a year or so, no one will interfere. The donations promised by Mr. Zhuo have already been implemented, and everyone is busy See what benefits you can get. Well, if a person is poor for a long time, sometimes even his self-esteem will be poor." Bai Su and I looked at each other before saying: "Well, I think this matter is a secret between the three of us. Let's set off immediately, you—" Bao Shifang went up and said, "I ordered the helicopter to pick you up at the nearest airport, and it will arrive as soon as possible." The entire journey lasted about twelve hours. We boarded the helicopter, and Boss introduced the pilot to me. It seemed that the pilot was not a low-level Air Force member.This man's driving skills are not very good. He drove the plane through several mountain peaks, and he didn't even know how to use the updraft. The helicopter landed at the Ma’s Ranch. The situation of the Ma’s Ranch really surprised me. There are all kinds of construction equipment piled up everywhere, and construction is underway. Bao Shifang’s explanation is: “The animal husbandry school in the future, We chose this place, the construction project is very huge, the cost is too high, and there will be a special convoy to transport it. Don’t think that during these more than 100 days, we just looked for Mr. Zhuo and did nothing else.” I admire from the bottom of my heart: "It's going so fast, the organization and work ability of your big company must have opened the eyes of some people?" Bao Shifang laughed: "Isn't it? If they follow their method, three months will not be enough for meetings and naps." I couldn't help laughing at what he said, Bao Shifang pointed at many people at work again: "All the people hired locally will be hired at a salary that is three times higher than the standard, and the condition is that they can be fired for being lazy. The method is very effective.” I sighed: "This is a method that has been pursued all over the world, but it has become a new thing here." As we spoke, we entered a building, and Bao Shifang asked me if I wanted to see my room, and I said, "I think it would be better to set up a tent and put it on the grass, and go right away." He agreed, and ordered the car and everything to be prepared.At this time, it was dusk, and Bai Su and I stood side by side, the wind blew up, and there was biting cold and bleakness.In the sunset, looking at the undulating mountain shadows and the vast plains in the distance, the momentum is very majestic and boundless. Only after seeing such scenery can I know why the literati always like to add the two words of "boundless" to the "earth" Character. Since there were quite a lot of outsiders, no one paid attention to me and Bai Su. I imagined that Ma Jinhua was riding her white horse named Xiaobailong like a whirlwind more than seventy years ago. He chased people and fought desperately with gangsters, but he couldn't connect a world-renowned sinologist with him. I lightly touched Bai Su: "Before Professor Ma disappeared, if I asked her to imagine that she would teach in famous universities around the world in the future, I'm afraid she couldn't imagine it. The changes in a person's life are so great, I'm afraid it will take a long time." Few people can compare with her." Bai Su nodded in agreement: "She... chose Sinology. Could it be that during those five years, she came into contact with many ancient books in Qin Shihuang's tomb? That's why she has so many unique insights, and pointed out that because of the age , the fallacy of ancient history and ancient literature due to too many hand-copied." I said "ah": "That's terrible. These ancient books are all carved on bamboo? That is the first-hand information. I am afraid that she is the only one who has seen it in modern times. If that is the case, why didn't she bring it with me?" A little out? Why not try to get it all out?" Bai Su shook her head, a gust of cold wind was blowing, she leaned towards me: "After all, whether she has really been to Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum is just a guess." I said slowly, "This conjecture will be confirmed soon." At this time, Bao Shifang came over and asked in a low voice, "How many people do you want to bring?" I said: "The passage is hidden, but it's not too difficult to get in and out. I think it's best not to bring anyone, just the three of us." 鲍士方的神情，显得相当紧张，他走了开去，没有多久驾车过来：“一切全准备好了！” 他驾的是一辆中型吉普车，我们上了车，他一开始就把车子开得十分快，又根本没有路，有时高低不平的地面，可以令得车子弹起一公尺以上。 这时，天色已迅速黑了，鲍士方对这一带的地形，已十分熟悉，照他自己的说法是：方圆一百公里，他几乎没有把每一寸土地都翻起来看！ 超过一百公里时速的行车，也要将近两小时，才能到达那片草地，当车子停下时，“草地”和想像中全然不同，因为所有的草全被割去，新的还没有长出来，在车头灯照耀下，看到的是一片比其他地方略为高出一点的一片光秃秃的土地，面积相当大。 车子停下来的地方，不到十公尺处，就是那九块石板，我性急，一跃下车，一面叫道：“鲍士方，你把应用工具弄下来，先亮起了射灯。” 鲍士方大声答应着，我奔到石板之前，由于石板上有着许多圆孔，所以我轻而易举，就可以用手指勾住圆孔，提起其中的一块。 支好了射灯，大放光明，我和白素已经把九块石板，一起弄开，那洞穴就在眼前了。 马教授的灵柩在洞穴中，我跳下去，利用绳索，绕住了灵柩，鲍士方在上面用一架小型起重机，把灵柩吊起来，放在洞穴的旁边，然后，他也跳了下来。 这时候，在射灯的照耀之下，洞穴又不是很大，洞穴中的情形，看得再清楚也没有，就算有一只蚂蚁经过，都逃不脱我们的视线，如果有通道的话，一定可以发现。我和鲍士方吸了一口气，神情都不免有点紧张。白素站在洞穴边上，将两柄尖嘴铲子递给了我们。 我接铲在手：“秦始皇陵墓，是如何建成的，历史上资料不多，只知道是驱使了数十万囚徒，日以继夜开工而建，墓内的情形如何，也全然没有记载，得知陵墓情形的人，全叫驱进墓中去殉葬了。” 鲍士方吸了一口气：“倒也不是全无记载——” 我摇着头：“我不认为那些记载可靠。如果那些记载是真的话，那么从现在开始，我们的行动，每一秒钟都会充满了不可测的危险。” 鲍士方的脸色变了变：“那……你不是要临……阵退缩吧。” 我哈哈笑了起来，自觉意气甚豪：“当然不是，不过，当年穷百万人之力建成的陵墓，凭我们三个人的力量，要是可以找到通道进去，那实在十分伟大。” 在这时候，我不由自主，想起了世界上三个最伟大的盗墓人来，这三个人之中，只有齐白还在，本来应该把他一起找来的，可是这个人行踪飘忽，根本不知他在何处，又如何去找他？ 而这时，我并不想掩饰，我心中大有快意。因为根据历史上的记载，秦始皇为了怕在他死后，有人进入他的陵墓，所以整个陵墓设计的重点，就放在防人侵入这一方面，陵墓内究竟有多少杀人的陷阱和机关，自然没有人知道，但步步惊魂，那是一定的事。 少量的历史资料说，秦始皇在下葬时，熔化了大量的铜，把熔了的铜汁灌进墓穴去，一则可以防止有人进入，也可以使熔化了的铜汁，渗进地下的隙缝，以防地下水的渗进。 又说在庞大的陵墓之中，各处都有自动可以发射的强弓，一有人接近，就会发射，而且箭镞上都染有剧毒。这种机械装置的详情如何，也不得而知。 而最惊人的记载是，在整个地下皇陵之中，有模仿大地的江河，在江河中流的不是水，而是水银，据说，水银的流动性强，就不断在那些地下“江河”中流动。又据说，在陵墓的顶上，有着日月星辰的排列。 我刚才说这些记载的资料，大都不可靠，自然不是说陵墓在地下的规模不会有那么大，而是说一定有很多地方是被夸大了的。例如，挖掘建造河流，用水银来当水，当时何来那么多水银？ 虽然水银是早已被提炼出来的元素之一。在秦代，已经相当普遍，作方士、术士炼丹之用。 以当时的化工技术而论，怎么炼，也不可能炼出那么多的水银来。或许那只是陵墓之中，利用了水银的某些特性，作为某些机械动力装置，数量自然相当多，这才造成了这样的误传。 在秦始皇陵墓已被发掘出来的极少部分来看，其中陪葬的俑极多，有大量的兵马俑，甚至和真人一样大小，石或陶制，这一批已被发掘出来，作为陪葬之用的俑，堪称是历史之最。 而活着的人，被驱进陵墓中，作为陪葬的俑，更不知有多少，包括了嫔妃、侍从，建造陵墓的工匠等等各种不同的人。 一个有地位的人死了之后，要用若干活人来陪葬，这是一种极其野蛮的制度。孔子一向少骂人，也曾说过“始作俑者，其无后乎”这样激动的话，来谴责俑这种制度。 俑，在最初全是活人，后来渐浇进步，才用陶制的人来殉葬，在秦始皇时代，是俑由活人变成假人的转变，秦始皇残忍，他的陵墓中有大量活俑殉葬，也不是甚么奇事。 我忽然想到了许多和秦始皇陵墓有关的事，实在是因为我们将要做的事，既然有可能与之有关，在行事之前，当然要详细考虑。 如今，我们都假定，在这个洞穴之下，有一条秘道可以通向巨大的地下陵墓，这条通道如果存在，当然不是正式的通道，而是许多秘密通道之一，防范有人侵入的程度，也一定更严密。 当时鲍士方一定也和我有同样的想法，所以我们都在那洞穴之中，呆立了片刻。鲍士方才道：“至少，把洞穴底部的石板弄起来，没有危险，我已这样做过了。”