Chapter 9 Chapter 8: The Secret Way Appears in the Ancients for Thousands of Years
I rubbed my hands, and first got down the stone slab on one side, and Bai Su operated the crane on it to hoist it up.Then, the stone slab under the cave was also lifted up.
There is soil under the stone slab. Bao Shifang and I looked at each other and started digging.The soil was quite moist, and it was not very difficult to dig. I dug down for nearly half a meter and found nothing. I stopped and wiped my sweat: "Don't waste time, there won't be any secrets down here." road."
After hearing my words, Bao Shifang looked at me in astonishment, and Bai Suji said, "I've wanted to say this for a long time."
Bao Shifang said loudly: "Why? Our idea is——"
I threw down the shovel vigorously and interrupted his words: "How much soil have we dug out? Nothing has been found. The person who designed this huge dungeon can be said to be a genius in architecture. How could he be so Stupid? Make it so difficult to get in and out of the secret passage?"
After my explanation, Bao Shifang put down his shovel dejectedly.I sighed: "Besides, when Mr. Zhuo disappeared and Ma Jinhua disappeared, who saw the soil being dug up?"
Bao Shifang was stunned for a while, with a bitter expression on his face, and he laughed dryly a few times: "Then what should I do? Again...wasting energy."
I was extremely frustrated: "Not only wasted time, but also disturbed Professor Ma's coffin."
As I said, I had already climbed out of the cave. Bao Shifang seemed still unwilling to give up, but he had already dug down—half a meter deep, and found nothing. It was really impossible to make further progress.He had no choice but to come up and rub his hands: "Do you want to fill back the excavated soil?"
My thoughts were very confused. At this time, I also thought that the assumptions we made thousands of miles away were too rash. No wonder the actions based on the assumptions had no results at all.
However, while denying myself, I was really unconvinced, because apart from this assumption, I couldn't make any speculation about the mysterious disappearance of Ma Jinhua and Zhuo Changgen.
Standing by the edge of the cave for quite a long time, I turned around, looked at Ma Jinhua's coffin, and sighed: "I really admire you, you can keep a secret in your heart for decades, until the next day." Say it before you die."
Of course it doesn't make sense for me to say that, Ma Jinhua died a long time ago, and she will never hear what I'm saying, but Bai Su, who was at the side, heard what I said, and immediately said: "Wait a minute."
As she spoke, she made a gesture and frowned: "Ma Jinhua and Zhuo Changgen met and quarreled before they died, it happened completely by accident."
I thought for a while: "Yes, at least Ma Jinhua didn't know that Zhuo Changgen would visit her, so what she wanted to tell Zhuo Changgen was only written in the will."
Bai Su let out a long breath: "She wanted Zhuo Changgen to bury her here, not to mention anything else, she must have expected that when Zhuo Changgen buried her, he would discover something and know the secret of her mysterious disappearance. "
Bao Shifang smiled wryly: "According to reasoning, there must be something strange in this cave, but we—"
I suddenly became anxious, stared at him, and said harshly: "Since we are here, leave the matter to us. Go and do your work and don't bother us."
Bao Shifang blushed and stared at me for a long time. I pointed to the car: "You can drive the car away and keep everything for camping."
Bao Shifang tried his best to hold back his anger: "Okay, if you think I'm still useful, I'll come again. Tomorrow... I'll send someone to bring you the car, maybe you want to look around."
I nodded, Bao Shifang tried his best to unload the things on the car, I didn't help him, and Bai Su and they walked outside.Bai Su asked: "Why did you drive him away?"
I shook my head: "I can't even tell myself. I just feel that this incident is so weird. The fewer people participating, the better. The fewer people, the easier it may be to know the truth."
Bai Su didn't say anything, I looked back and saw that Bao Shifang had moved all the things down, I said loudly: "I will set up a tent, you can leave."
Bao Shifang was probably very angry, so he got into the car and drove away without saying a word.
After he left, I started to set up a tent. The cold wind in the wilderness was quite harsh, and the thick tent seemed unable to block the wind. Fortunately, there was an excellent duck down sleeping bag, and Bai Su and I lit a fire , roasted some food, brewed a pot of strong coffee, in such an environment, suddenly camped, this is really extremely strange.
When we got into sleeping bags and lay down, Bai Su suddenly said: "The structure of Chinese characters is quite interesting. There is a stage in the transformation process of insects called 'chrysalis'. Our current situation is a bit like the pupa of insects. Wrap yourself up. And the people who were buried are called 'terracotta figurines', which naturally means that they were driven into the tomb alive and surrounded by darkness and death...that is really a very tragic thing."
I have the same feeling: "Yes, but this kind of thing has long passed. Many people have nostalgia for the past and always say that the ancient times are better than the modern ones. In fact, although the progress of human civilization is slow, it is always making progress. "
The cold wind howled outside the tent, inside the tent Bai Sutian and I were chatting all over the place, but it was fun.
I woke up very early the next day, and I looked at the coffin that was still in the open air: "Put the coffin back first."
Bai Su nodded in agreement, and we started to work. Only after we filled up the excavated soil, Bao Shifang came and said, "I don't know how long you plan to stay here, so I brought you more things. Big barrels of gasoline are enough for you to drive around in circles for hundreds of miles."
I patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you."
He smiled wryly, and walked towards the car: "As long as there is hope, you can find Mr. Zhuo—"
He didn't say any more, in fact, he didn't need to say anything, he could know what he wanted.This person is really loyal to Zhuo Changgen, this kind of sentiment is very admirable.
On this day, Bai Su and I drove aimlessly in the vast wilderness.
In Zhuo Changgen's narration, he already has a certain concept of this area, and this kind of roaming has a wonderful feeling of entering the realm of the story himself.The mountains and rivers of the earth have not changed since ancient times, but the people who have lived and appeared here have changed a lot.
We didn't get back to the meadow until late in the evening, and when it got dark I started another campfire.
Here, everything seems to be isolated from the world, no one pays attention to us, only Bao Shifang visits us every other day, until one night ten days later, by the campfire, Bai Su and I looked at each other, I said : "We can't always live like this here."
Bai Su sighed: "Of course, I think... we should leave tomorrow, but there is no result, and we found nothing." Feeling very bitter, I broke off some branches and threw them into the fire.
I said, "It seems that we have to admit that they were taken away by aliens."
Bai Su didn't say anything, I looked out, the surrounding area was dark, only our bonfire was in the darkness, Bai Su and I sat side by side, facing the fire, with the wind behind our backs, causing the smoke from the fire to rise. , so as not to blow towards us.And behind us is the tent, which can block the cold wind a lot.
It is reasonable for me to describe the environment at that time in detail. Since we are facing the wind, it is easy to perceive the sound behind us.
During the ten days, we made all kinds of speculations, but there was no result at all. Neither of us wanted to talk, so when there was a sudden sound behind us, we were particularly alert.That sound, one could tell at a glance that it was the sound of something stepping on the short-cut hay.
Bai Su immediately sat up straight, looked towards me, and I said, "Is there anyone?"
As I said that, I already turned my head away, and as soon as I turned my head away, I was completely stunned.
Not far behind us, beside the tent, there was a tall man standing, the firelight reflected on that man's face, this face was no more familiar, damn it, he was Zhuo Changgen.
I was stunned and wanted to jump up immediately, but Bai Su held my hand tightly and said in a very low voice: "Don't be impulsive, don't let him disappear again."
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, at this moment, Zhuo Changgen had already burst into laughter, and said in his sonorous voice: "You two little kids, I am really convinced by you. Are you going to live here for the rest of your life?"
At this time, my thoughts were confused and I had so many questions in my heart, it was really conceivable, it was so sudden, Zhuo Changgen suddenly appeared, I really don't know what to say.
Bai Su was naturally as shocked as I was, we even held hands tightly and felt the other's palms were sweating.
I was stunned, and finally I had time to look at the nine stone slabs, but there was nothing unusual about the stone slabs. Thousands of questions were grouped into one, that is: Where did Zhuo Changgen come from?
Just when I was about to ask this question, Bai Su had already spoken first, and her tone was actually very relaxed: "Master Zhuo, there is no one in the whole world who is better at playing hide-and-seek than you."
Zhuo Changgen didn't seem to know the mystery and seriousness of his sudden disappearance at all. He smiled "hehe" and walked towards us. He came to the fire and sat down with his hands on his knees, with a relaxed expression: " They've been looking for me, and they've finally alarmed you, haven't they?"
I snorted and didn't answer, but Bai Su smiled and said: "Yeah, we don't know how to find you, but we know where you disappeared based on speculation, so we are going to use an old and stupid The method is called 'shouling—'"
At this point, Bai Su stopped suddenly, and looked at Zhuo Changgen with a very mischievous expression.
Zhuo Changgen raised his hand, made a gesture to slap Bai Su, and scolded with a smile: "Little girl, you know how to bend corners and call me a rabbit?"
Bai Su smiled and said: "I dare not, but this method is still effective."
Seeing the two of them, in front of such a mysterious and weird event, still laughing and talking nonsense as if nothing had happened, I couldn't bear it.But whenever I seemed about to speak, Bai Suli used various methods to stop me from speaking, including glaring at me, pushing me, and pulling me.
Zhuo Changgen shook his head: "It's useless, I won't say anything, I just didn't want you to waste any more time here, so I showed up and advised you to leave quickly."
I wanted to speak again, but this time, Bai Su was on my arm and twisted hard.
Bai Su smiled: "We don't need you to say anything. From now on, the two of us will not blink together, no matter how long it takes, we will not let our eyes leave you. Mr. Zhuo, no matter what tricks you have, just play it Well, and it’s not just the two of us, Bao Shifang will come at dawn, I think he will definitely send more than a hundred people to watch you day and night around the clock.”
Zhuo Changgen listened and blinked his eyes, his expression was angry, annoyed, and helpless.
Bai Su continued: "Unless you know the invisibility method, or you have the ability to disappear in front of our eyes, otherwise, you have to stay and can't go to the place you are going, or, after you go, let us know you Where did you go?"
When Bai Su spoke up to this point, Zhuo Changgen's expression became even more frustrated and helpless, he reached out and stroked his bald head, his shiny bald head shone a layer of red light under the flash of firelight.
At this time, I already fully understood Bai Su's intentions.
Zhuo Changgen suddenly appeared in order to persuade us to leave, he had good intentions, but as soon as he appeared, he had to disappear again, unless he knew the invisibility method, otherwise, his secret would definitely not be preserved.
I admire Bai Su's way of handling things, because his appearance just now shocked us so much, and the situation was completely under his control, but at this moment, it suddenly turned around.
I couldn't help laughing "haha": "Master Zhuo, you can figure it out. Now that there are only the two of us, things will be easier to handle. If there are too many people, you will be in trouble."
Zhuo Changgen looked very annoyed: "I have a good heart——"
Bai Su and I made a carefree and leisurely look, which made him even more angry, and he said angrily: "I'll leave for a while, what's the big deal, when I get bored and want to come out, naturally will come out."
I really wanted to ask where he came from, but I endured it forcefully.
Because he knew he wouldn't say it if asked, so it's better to endure it for a while and wait for him to say it automatically.
Seeing that we ignored him, Zhuo Changgen didn't know what to do. Seeing his actions several times, he seemed to stand up and wanted to do something, but he held back.
The tacit understanding between Bai Su and I was very good, we kept talking about how to search for him after he disappeared.Finally, we gradually talked about our hypothesis and mentioned Qin Shihuang's underground imperial city.
Zhuo Changgen's expression became very uncertain at that moment.His expression, to a certain extent, proves that our assumption may be true.
I deliberately said: "In fact, in my experience, the current situation is really nothing."
I have long been familiar with Zhuo Changgen's temper. I knew that he would definitely respond to my words. Sure enough, he immediately snorted.I said again: "Only a kind of old and ignorant people will pretend to be mysterious."
Zhuo Changgen snorted again and stared: "Little boy, you've been thinking about breaking your head since you were born, and if you think about it for eighty years, you still won't think about what's going on."
I "tsk tsk" repeatedly: "This is really a miracle, but it doesn't scare me. The big deal is that there is a place to hide, and the passage to and from that place will be found sooner or later."
After hearing what I said, Zhuo Changgen was shocked, and I said to Bai Su: "Actually, when we learned about the content of Professor Ma's secret will from the lawyer, we should know—"
When I was talking here, I deliberately stopped for a while, and Zhuo Changgen took a look at the nine stone slabs at that moment.
Both Bai Su and I are almost sure that the cave under the nine stone slabs is still weird, but why can't we find out the secret?
In an instant, we all calmed down, but it didn't last long, Bai Su stood up suddenly, and I bounced up, shouting: "Got it, I know everything."
Zhuo Changgen looked guilty and inexplicable, but he still insisted: "Know what, you don't know anything at all."
I ignored him, and just talked to Bai Su: "You're so smart, Bao Shifang lifted up the stone slab in the cave, and put the stone slab back without doing anything!"
Bai Su said: "Yes, we also raised the stone slabs, but we just dug down, thinking that if there is a passage, the passage must be below."
I clapped my hands vigorously: "Zhao, everyone would think this way, no one would have thought that the cave has five sides in total, except for the one below, the other four sides can be used as the entrance of the secret passage, this is really an extremely clever design , who would use their brains there after failing twice?"
Bai Su said with a smile: "If it weren't for the strange expression of Mr. Zhuo when he looked at the nine stone slabs, we wouldn't think about that cave again—"
By the time Bai Su spoke up to this point, Zhuo Changgen had already shouted, "Shut up!"
Zhuo Changgen shouted so amazingly, we were even more surprised when we looked at him together.I saw that his face was flushed, the veins on his forehead were sprouting high, and beads of sweat were oozing out one by one, he was extremely excited and angry.
Bai Su and I just wanted to annoy him, but he was so angry that it was beyond our expectation. For a while, we didn't know what to say.
He kept staring at us, punching and punching, hitting the ground to vent his anger.After a while, his expression gradually returned to calm.
He gasped heavily, Bai Su dared to speak out at this time, she said sincerely: "Master Zhuo, I'm sorry."
Zhuo Changgen covered his face with his hands. Under the cover of the firelight, he could see his thick hands trembling violently. He didn't move his hands away, and said in a voice almost whimpering: "You two little boys, My old man has never asked for help in his life... Now I ask you one thing."
Bai Su said: "Just talk, just talk."
Zhuo Changgen slowly put down his hands, sighed, his expression was very sad, and he was still a little angry, as if he was not convinced, unwilling, but had to do it.
He stared at the flames rising from the fire: "If I hadn't shown up for you, you wouldn't have been able to find me after living here for three to five years."
On this point, I agree: "Yes, I didn't find it when I dug down. Although the simplest answer is there, it is not easy to think about it."
Zhuo Changgen snorted and waved his big hand: "Don't talk about it now, I beg you one thing, just go now, don't talk to me again, don't come back again in the future, don't treat anyone again , including Xiaobai, bring up this matter."
Bai Su and I looked at each other, for a moment, we really didn't know how to make a decision.
It seems easy for us to agree to his request, just go away, but these days, there are doubts in our hearts, and they will remain forever.
I wanted to refuse, but looking at his expression at this moment, I remembered that he was already an old man in his nineties. He had been such a strong man all his life. Back then, he could not talk to the person he loved because of a disagreement, but now he treats us like this. I begged so hard, I really couldn't bear to refuse him.
I wanted to refuse several times, but I couldn't say it, Zhuo Changgen was almost begging: "Xiao Wei, you said just now that you have experienced many strange things in your life, so what's the point of letting go of one of them? "
I smiled wryly and said, "Old man, didn't you just say that all the miracles I have experienced in my life are not as good as this one."
As soon as he heard what I said, he backhanded, and suddenly hit his own head heavily, making a "bu" sound, and the place where he was hit immediately turned red, and his voice sounded like weeping. : "Count me for farting, okay? Let me go, okay?"
I was so stunned that I couldn't speak, Bai Su had already said in one voice: "Okay, okay, old man, okay, okay!"
Zhuo Changgen glanced at us, and breathed a sigh of relief: "I know, it's hard for you to agree, but... this matter, I really can't say it... Back then, Jinhua didn't say it, and I blamed it She...but that really can't be said!"
I smiled bitterly and waved my hand: "Okay, since we have already agreed, we will definitely do it."
At this time, Zhuo Changgen was sitting facing the fire, and Bai Su and I were both facing him. After I finished speaking those two sentences, I saw one of the nine stone slabs, and suddenly it seemed that there was some power in the cave. Push it outward, and it will be pushed open at once.
Bai Su must have seen it too, because I felt her cold hand holding mine.
But Zhuo Changgen turned his back and didn't see it.
At that moment, my hands were also cold.
Zhuo Changgen's disappearance was the same as Ma Jinhua's disappearance. They entered a mysterious place.This location, it is speculated, is the largest underground construction project in human history: Qin Shihuang's underground palace mausoleum.And the entrance and exit of this mysterious place, we can also know that it is in that cave.
However, even if all this was confirmed, after Zhuo Changgen came out, the stone slab that covered the cave was pushed away again, which is still extremely shocking.
Who is it that pushes away the stone slab and wants to leave the cave?Isn't Ma Jinhua dead?Or resurrected?
Zhuo Chang couldn't see what was going on behind him at all, but because Bai Su and I stared at his back with such a strange expression, he knew that something must have happened behind him, so Zhuo Changgen also immediately Turned away.
Just when he turned his head away, a person had already stepped out from the open stone slab, hooked the stone slab with his toes, and put it down gently.
The man stood up straight, he looked like a very handsome middle-aged man, and his figure was quite tall.As soon as I saw this person, I had a feeling in my heart: I should know this person, but I really don't know him. In my memory, I have never seen this person, and at this moment, Zhuo Chang Gen had already stood up and called, "Father, why did you come out?"
Zhuo Changgen's ordinary words, to my ears, really seemed to be killed by lightning.Bai Su must have been able to vibrate too, she couldn't help but let out a low moan.
Zhuo Changgen's voice was loud and clear, I could hear his words, especially the address he gave to that person, and it was absolutely impossible for me to make a mistake, but I couldn't imagine it because it was so real.
Zhuo Changgen called that person: Dad!
No wonder I felt a "deja vu" feeling when I saw that person.I knew him early in Zhuo Changgen's narration. He was the one who took Xiao Zhuo Changgen to the Ma's Ranch, entrusted the child to the owner of the horse farm, and then disappeared mysteriously.
He was Uncle Zhuo who not only didn't know where he was after the incident, but also couldn't find out where he came from.
This mysterious figure, Uncle Zhuo, is an excellent horse herding master, and he is Zhuo Changgen's father.
Zhuo Changgen is over ninety years old this year, but Uncle Zhuo looks like a middle-aged man, how old should he be?Should be at least over one hundred and twenty years old, right?He... how can he keep like this?
In an instant, my thoughts were extremely chaotic, and I thought of many things that I had experienced in the past, I thought of Jia Yuzhen, the fairy who got the fairy cultivation method, and I also thought of Wang Jufeng who can break through time and come and go freely in time He Gao Caihong, and even the blue-blooded Fang Tian many years ago, is this Uncle Zhuo in front of him also one of them?
All kinds of thoughts and doubts came up all at once, so for a while, I couldn't speak at all.
At this moment, Zhuo Changgen looked very anxious, and went up to his father, so nervous that even his voice was different: "Father, why did you come out? As soon as you come out... as soon as you show them... If you can't keep the secret, how good it is, how good it is."
He rubbed his hands anxiously, although his appearance looked very old, but his demeanor and actions were completely like a child who was at a loss, and that Uncle Zhuo, who seemed much younger than him, really regarded him as Like a child, stroking his bald head.
(This is a very comical, and also very scary situation.)
Uncle Zhuo patted Zhuo Changgen's bald head lightly, and looked towards me and Bai Su.I don't know how Bai Su's reaction will be, I'm really dumbfounded, I can't even smile at him or say hello to him, the muscles on my face are as stiff as a stone.
Uncle Zhuo said: "Son, you don't have to worry. I heard you talk about them. In the past few days, we have listened to most of their conversations. I think they can keep a secret."
Zhuo Changgen's expression was still anxious: "Father, if you think so, what about others?"
Uncle Zhuo turned his head and thought for a moment: "I will convince everyone that they can keep their secrets... Besides, I have intentions... I need their help with something."
Zhuo Changgen was so anxious that he scratched his ears, scratched his cheeks, and paused, complaining to himself: "It's all my fault, let these two little kids stay here for three to five years, but they can't hold their breath, it's really useless .”
Uncle Zhuo glared at him, Zhuo Changgen showed a look of being blamed, Uncle Zhuo walked towards us, until he came in front of us, I burst out two words: "You... it is good!"
Uncle Zhuo smiled and bowed his hands to us. Bai Su, who was beside me, let out a sigh of relief and said softly, "I can't think of it."
Uncle Zhuo smiled, followed Bai Su and said, "Yes, I really couldn't think of it. No one in the world would have thought of what the two of you heard and saw from me."
Zhuo Changgen came over and became anxious again: "See? Dad, are you still going to take them to see it?"
Uncle Zhuo said: "Yes, if you don't take them to see it, how can they believe it?"
Zhuo Changgen opened his mouth wide, unable to close it, Uncle Zhuo looked at him: "I have my own ideas, don't be afraid."
Zhuo Changgen looked at me, still with a look of disbelief: "Father, this kid is very evil. When the matter is in his hands, he must get to the bottom of it, and he must figure it out."
Uncle Zhuo laughed: "Yeah, let him figure it out, otherwise, we'll have to worry about it all day long."
The two fathers and sons were discussing. At this time, I had gradually calmed down due to the shock caused by Uncle Zhuo's appearance, so I said: "Ah, let me know everything, and I'll be fine. Mr. Zhuo, you just No father understands this."
Zhuo Changgen rolled his eyes and was so angry that I couldn't speak.
Uncle Zhuo smiled, and turned to me: "My name is Zhuo Chi. Actually, I don't have a surname. At that time, most common people didn't have a surname. I was in charge of military horses. The appointment given to me by the king is to be in charge of the world's military horses—"
Uncle Zhuo——Zhuo Chi has just talked about this, and I have already lost my whole body.I can understand every word he said, but what does it mean when added up?
In my heart, I faintly felt that there was an absolutely impossible thing right in front of my eyes. It was absolutely impossible, but it happened to be a fact!Even after I faintly felt this point, I didn't have the courage to think about it any further.
Because I know that if I continue to think about it, the conclusions I draw will make me even more trembling and horrified.
This is indeed the case, what happened after that is incredible to the extreme.
At that time, probably because Bai Su and I looked so ugly, Uncle Zhuo—Zhuo Chi smiled: "You may not understand very well now, but I will explain it to you in detail... how about going in and talking about it?" ?”
Bai Su and I looked at each other, and I found that Bai Su had an expression of being in a dream, and she said to me: "Something we never expected happened."
I said: "That's right... the king he said... is..."
Zhuo Chi smiled, Zhuo Changgen moved his lips, trying to say something, but he didn't make a sound.
After a stalemate for a while, Zhuo Chi opened his mouth: "Your Majesty, that is Ying Zheng, the later Qin Shi Huangdi."
I shook violently, and at the same time felt Bai Su's body shaking, leaning towards me, as if he couldn't stand firmly.
After hearing such an answer, it is really impossible to have any other reaction except this one.
Zhuo Changgen looked at us, gloating: "When Jinhua told me the story, how could I believe her? Of course I would quarrel with her! Alas! Who knew she couldn't stand it?" Noisy-"
Zhuo Changgen slapped himself on the head several times when he talked about this, and Zhuo Chi looked at him with loving eyes——everything happened, he would hit himself on the head hard, maybe it was because Zhuo Changgen had been suffering from it since he was a child That's why the father looked at him with such eyes at this time.
Bai Su and I still didn't know what to say, Zhuo Chi said: "It's unbelievable? In fact, we didn't know that there would be such a result at the beginning, and no one knows what will be... in the future."
I pointed to the nine stone slabs, and there was an inexplicable sound in my throat.In fact, I didn't know how many questions I wanted to ask, but I couldn't say a word.
Bai Su was obviously struggling to say something, but her situation was not much better than mine. We clasped our hands tightly, Zhuo Changgen was still upset, and said to me: "Little boy, your goal has been achieved, wait for it." What, my father told you to go in."
Zhuo Chi hurriedly said: "Long Root, treat people with courtesy."
Zhuo Changgen snorted: "I don't know how much trouble these two little kids have caused me."
Zhuo Changgen said this, which made me very dissatisfied, and I finally had something to say: "Master Zhuo, don't forget, it was you who called us to France, told us what happened that year, and asked us to help you solve the problem. Doubts in my heart."
Zhuo Changgen had nothing to say, just smiled wryly: "I knew it would look like this after the mystery was solved──"
He didn't continue talking, at this moment, Zhuo Chi had come to the side of the nine stone slabs, and Bai Su and I followed.I tried my best to calm down, and asked: "Mr. Zhuo──" (I don't know why to call him, his son is "Mr. Zhuo", so I had to call him Mr. Zhuo, and even added "old" to Mr. Words are meaningless, because he is too old.)
I continued to ask: "Mr. Zhuo... you mean, you...have been living down there?"
Zhuo Chi said "hmm": "We have been living below, the vastness of the world below, you would never have imagined that the king sent more than a million prisoners, and it took more than 20 years to build it, it is magnificent."
I couldn't help but asked again: "Mr. Zhuo—you said you are an ancient? People from the Qin Dynasty?"
Zhuo Chi raised his eyebrows, as if to say: Then there is no need to ask?
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and looked at each other with Bai Su again.
A living, ancient man from the Qin Dynasty... His age is over 2,200 years old, and he has been living in the huge underground imperial city. According to what he said just now, there are more than one people in the same situation as him.
If this kind of thing hadn't been in person now, the word "believe" would only be said in another situation. In that situation, someone pointed a machine gun at it, and if he didn't believe it, he would pull the gun!
Zhuo Changgen lifted a stone slab, and Zhuo Chi jumped down first, beckoning Bai Su and me to follow.
I jumped down, as if I jumped down a deep abyss, although in reality, it was just a hole about one meter deep.The cave was not very big, with the coffin and four people, there was almost no room to turn around.
Covering the uncovered slate, we all squatted down.The cave became very dark, only a faint light shone through the round holes in the stone slabs.
Zhuo Chi said in the dark: "No one can know how many secret entrances and exits there are in the underground imperial city. The craftsmen who built it couldn't communicate with each other, and the supervisors and engineers couldn't communicate with each other. So far, I only know two places."
Bai Su said "hmm": "Besides this place, the other place is where you went in and out back then."
Zhuo Chi said: "Yes. All the secret passages are extremely ingeniously constructed. Just now you thought that you already knew that the passage is on the side of the pit here, so you could have discovered it. In fact, it is not the case. If it weren't for the fact that all the nine stone slabs above If it is covered, even if the entrance is found, there will be a huge boulder of ten thousand jin from bottom to top, blocking the passage, and anyone who enters rashly will die."
When I heard this, I couldn't help shivering cleverly.
The eyes have adapted to the darkness, and some figures can already be seen roughly.I suddenly said: "I have a flashlight, do you want to take it out?"
Zhuo Changgen snorted: "You think I don't? When I came, I came prepared."
Zhuo Chi said: "Take it out."
Zhuo Changgen seemed a little unwilling to let Bai Su and I see everything, so he hesitated.Zhuo Chi said again: "Chang Gen, you don't treat others with sincerity, how can you expect others to treat you with sincerity?"
Zhuo Changgen's voice was a little anxious: "Father, you are an ancient person, and you don't know the cunning of modern people."
Zhuo Chi said: "I understand. In fact, there is no big difference between ancient people and modern people. On the contrary, modern people have various constraints and are much better than ancient people."
Zhuo Changgen let out a muffled snort, and I felt a sudden light in front of my eyes, he had already turned on the flashlight, and under the light of the flashlight, I saw Zhuo Chi's hands, pulling down the stone slab on one side of the pit, It's about forty-five degrees.After the stone slab was pulled down, I saw soil and grass roots. I have seen this situation in the photos taken by Bao Shifang.
Next, I will describe the situation of this secret entrance and exit in great detail, which can help to know how ingeniously the construction of the entire underground imperial city is. This is true for one entrance and exit, but others can be imagined.
Bai Su and I looked at each other, wondering, because after the stone slab was pulled down, there was no secret passage.
I saw Zhuo Chi raised his hands, and suddenly, his fingers penetrated into the soil. The soil is quite wet and soft. We have dug down, so we know this.
Zhuo Chi inserted his hands into the soil, and pulled it back again, revealing a rectangular entrance, which was only sixty centimeters wide and thirty centimeters high, and could fit a normal-shaped person into it. go.
What amazes me is how the grass-rooted soil can move. It is said that it should be spread out when grasped by both hands. Moreover, the entrance is at the top of the stone slab, and it is not too deep from the ground. , if you dig down from the ground, it should be easy to find this entrance!
Zhuo Chi didn't explain, he just leaned on one side, skillfully stretched his feet in first, and slid down, at this moment, he said: "This pipe is more inclined as it goes down, there are iron ropes for help, don't relax. "
When he finished speaking this sentence, his whole person had disappeared.
Zhuo Changgen said: "It's your turn."
Bai Su immediately slid into the entrance just like Zhuo Chi, followed by me, after I entered, my hands were on both sides, each grabbed a strand of iron chain, and slid down, because my hands were holding the iron chain, so The speed of sliding down can be controlled.
我觉出卓长根也滑了下来，管道的斜度约是六十度，开始的一段极窄，后来，渐渐宽敞，过了大约十分钟，前面隐约有亮光闪耀，等到我滑出了管道时，才发现自己置身于一个十分宽大的地下室中，地下室的上下四面，全是石块。
地下室中有着石桌石室，和一个巨大的石臼，在那石臼之中，还有着大半满的油状物──看来十分厚腻的一种油，而只有一股灯芯点燃着，微弱的光亮，是由这一股点燃的灯火发出来。
虽然灯火如豆，但是在地下室中，也足可以使人看清楚东西了。
卓长根也滑了下来，这间地下室，看来完全密封，别无出路。
到了这时候，我和白素已经全然无话可说，心里只想到一个怪问题：古代人既然有这样高的智慧，何以近代科技直到近代这才发展起来？卓齿的神情十分庄严：“你们已经开始进入地下皇城，自筑成以来，历两千余年，一共只有四个外人进来过。”
我和白素一起点头，表示明白我们已开始了一个世上最奇异的遭遇。除了我们两人之外，还有过同样奇异经历的，自然是马金花和卓长根。
我回头看了一眼，管道的出口处，并没有甚么掩蔽。卓齿向上指着：“石板之后，看来一如泥土之处，草根全是真的，但泥土却是一块充满细孔的陶板，可供草根盘虬，绝不易为人觉察。”白素赞叹地道：“而且，就算石板被移开之后，也只会向下挖掘，如何会想到就在离地面不深处。”
我道：“那有隐蔽的好处，也有不好处，容易被人从地面上挖掘发现。”
卓齿笑了一下：“若从上面发掘，必然触及机括，整个管道会向下沉，大量松软的泥土会涌过来，再向下掘，也只是泥土。”
我不禁震动了一下，很欣庆我们只向下掘，并没有向旁边掘，不然，这个出入口就永远失去了。
我面色有点阴晴不定，卓齿望着我：“君子之前，凡事明言在先。我虽然相信不会泄露秘密，但两位离去之后，必然会毁去此处通道，自此再也不会被人发现。”
我口唇掀动了一下，卓齿又道：“至于另一处出入口，我不会告诉你。”
我由衷地道：“自然我不会再多问甚么，我已经心满意足了。”
卓齿又道：“若是不明就里，地面上所铺九块石板，不曾一起盖上，而贸然滑入管道，万千巨石，便自管道升上，将滑行之人压成肉酱，同时，此处石块也自动散下，为水所没，不留痕迹，一样再也无法进入地下皇城。”
我又不由自主吞了一口口水：“这么多自动……的设备，动力自何而来？”
卓齿像是有点不知道“动力”是甚么意思，犹豫了一下，白素道：“是甚么在推动一切机关？”
卓齿吸了一口气。
在这时，我才注意到，在这个地下室中，呼吸一点困难也没有，空气的来源不知何自？我感到自己实在是进入了一个近乎梦幻的世界，不可想像、明白的事，实在太多了。
卓齿缓缓地道：“大王统一天下，建造皇宫，曾引二川之水入宫，这是掩人耳目，实际上，二川之水，自河底起筑引道，被引入地下，工匠利用水势，推动巨轮，遂有生生不息，万世永年之力，只要川水不涸，其力不止。”
我抹了抹手心的汗，是的，唐朝大文学家杜牧在他的“阿房宫赋”中，就有“二川溶溶，流入宫墙”之句，“二川”，大抵不会是渭水这样的大河，指的多半是渭水的一些支流如灞水之类。在地图上可以看到那一带，河水交流，相当之多，这些河流的河水，自然川流不息，不会涸绝的。
经过卓齿这样的解释，我和白素不禁由衷地发出赞叹声来：“真是，阿房宫是地上建筑，主要的工程是在地下进行。”
卓齿叹了一声：“一直到大王归天，宫殿并未建成，阿房宫云云，只是后人加上去的名称，大王本有意名之曰天宫，但未有定论。”听得他这样说，我又不禁打了一个寒颤。因为他这样说，分明是说他和秦始皇嬴政，经常见面、交谈，这种话，听了之后，引起的反应，是一种从来也未曾有过的怪异。
我想到说这种话的人，竟是一个秦朝的古人，那种怪异之感，勉强要形容的话，就像是有成千条毛虫在身上爬行。
卓齿又道：“就算一切顺利，到了此间，也不过认为发现了一处地下坑室而已，不会想到和整个地下皇城有关，是秘密出入孔道之一。”
我四面打量了一下：“既然到了这里，要发现通道，应该不是甚么难事了。”
卓齿一听得我这样说，笑了一下：“试找一找。”
我连忙摇手，这个人，他已经活了两千多年，看起来还一直可以活下去，悠悠岁月，对他来说，根本不算是甚么，我却浪费不起时间，所以我立时道：“请卓先生带路，我只是说说。”
卓齿又笑了一下，走向那个巨大的石臼，双臂环抱，向上一举。
我一看到他这样的动作，就呆住了。
就算知道机关是在这个石臼上，任何人都只会去推它，转它，再也不会想到去把它举起来的，因为这个石臼，看来足有上万斤重，就算石臼只是看来是石头，其实不是，里面的油，也至少有上千斤了，甚么人会想到把它往上提？而卓齿去提它的时候，我也认为他一定提不起。
可是，看起来，卓齿根本没有用甚么力，就将石臼提了起来，提高了约有五十公分。石臼被他提起，本来大半满的油，变成了只有小半满，同时，面对管道的石墙上，一块大石向后缩去，现出了甬道来。
看到了这里，对于古代工匠的匠心，真是无法不佩服。这是甚么样的设计，又何等不易为人发觉。
大半满的油，看来在石臼之中，可是只要石臼一向上升起，油就会漏下去，漏下去的油，自然会触及机括，使得暗门打开。
问题就是，那么重的石臼，如何提得起来？这时，卓齿已然松开了手，石臼仍然维持在被提起的位置，下面有一个石座升了起来，承住了石臼。
卓齿转过身来，看着我盯着石臼，一副疑惑不解的神情，“呵呵”笑了起来：“这里，可说是兵行险厄，石臼看来极重，但下有活动底托，只要有两石之力，就可以提起来了，不明就里，自然不会去提它。”
白素道：“其实也不甚险，要有两石之力，不是勇士，哪里能够呢？”
卓齿听了，现出十分高兴的神情。在那一霎间，我想笑又不敢笑，真是好话人人要听，两千年前的古人，和现代人的心态，完全一样。
（事后，我对白素说：“看不出你这个滑头，连古人的马屁都会拍。”）
（白素道：“我才不是故意阿谀他，两石之力，就是双手一提，要有一百二十公斤的力道，这又岂是常人能做到的？”“石”这个度量单位，在当时有明文规定，汉书律历志：三十斤为钧，四钧为石。）