Chapter 143 Slippery Rock Rope

The crack is not wide, not much different from the diameter of small wells commonly seen in rural areas, and is just big enough for one person to pass through. The rope is tied around the waist, and the legs are spread just enough to step on the stone walls on both sides of the crack, so it is not too strenuous.

At the beginning, I just wanted to land as soon as possible.

But as we deepened step by step, our attention was involuntarily attracted to this crack.

This crack does not seem to have appeared by chance!

In other words, it was not created during the fierce battle between Luo Chenzi and Mo Luo Shi, but was completely dug out manually!

If it is due to external force or the movement of the earth's crust that the ground cracks and forms cracks, then the cracks must be irregular and the earth and rocks are loose. If you step on it, collapse will occur at any time.

But as I climbed down, although some gravel occasionally rolled down, it was all gravel and gravel, and it never collapsed.

I was hanging in mid-air, holding the rope with one hand and wiping the sweat from my face with the other. While I was breathing, I looked around with the light of the flashlight Zhang Xinya held up above. I saw some evenly spaced pebbles on the stone walls on both sides of the crack.

The bumps were mixed in the fine and compact soil. I poked the soil with my fingers. It felt soft and delicate, even slightly elastic. The moisture content was extremely high, and a layer of fine and dense water beads condensed on the surface.

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This reminds me of a special clay called sweat soil in ancient times. This clay is not naturally formed, but artificially configured. It has a certain relationship with pottery. It is also mixed with quartz sand broken into powder. In addition,

In addition, there should be some other things added. Unfortunately, the specific formula has been lost. This kind of clay was once widely used in the field of ancient construction. It is not afraid of moisture, just like cotton. After tamping, water vapor penetrates into the clay, and soon

It will be squeezed out, as if a person is sweating, so it is called sweat soil. It is just that this kind of clay-framed building has strong vertical compression resistance, but very poor horizontal compression resistance. It can be demolished with a hammer from the side.

A wall was turned upside down, so it was quickly eliminated and replaced by building materials whose main component was glutinous rice.

Of course, this kind of clay is perfect for use in tombs, because the main consideration in the tomb structure is the longitudinal compressive resistance. Since it is hidden underground anyway, the lateral compressive resistance can be completely ignored.

Sweat soil mixed with cobblestones was the most common architectural pattern among some early northern nomads.

Based on all this, I have almost concluded that this crack itself is part of the tomb.

organ!

These two words came to my mind.

However, this canyon is very long and its depth is quite astonishing. If it is really controlled by a mechanism, how terrifying a giant mechanism would it take to complete it?

In ancient tombs, when it comes to the word "organ", there is no small matter.

I started to be cautious, and while climbing down, my mind searched for bits and pieces related to this.

Needless to say, this kind of organization has nothing to do with our courtesy officers.

There are very few people who do tricks on the sealing of tombs. Even if they do, it is always a desperate measure, because for things like tombs, as long as the coffin is covered with soil, it is basically not ready to be touched. All the agencies involved are anti-theft.

, as far as I know, most of the mechanisms in Fengtu are related to fire, and they may also be some traps for catching animals. The most powerful ones involve some explosive reactions. If you don't know how to do it, you can just shovel it down and blow it up into the sky.

The mechanism in front of you is obviously a living mechanism, the kind that can be controlled and opened at will, just like the front door of your own house. You can enter and exit at will.

Of course, this is only for those who know the secrets of this mechanism. If you don't know, you can only dig all the way into the tomb. It takes a lot of effort. It is like this structure of sweat soil and pebbles, from top to bottom.

Digging can exhaust people to death, and even explosives can't blow it open. It's normal for us brothers to dig back and forth for half a year.

To be honest, I have never heard of this kind of organization.

However, something like a mechanism never changes from its origins. Now that it has come to this point, I can probably get a glimpse of it.

If nothing unexpected happens, if you want to build such a mechanism, you must first dig a deep pit in the ground, then divide the pit into two, and build a shed on the left and right sides, leaving a gap in the middle.

The height of the shed is slightly lower than the depth of the pit, and then the shed is covered with soil to make it flush with the ground.

This can be regarded as completing a framework structure.

The next step is to build the wall.

The so-called walls are the stone walls on both sides of the canyon!

That's right, this stone wall looks solid, but it's actually a wall!

After the two walls are made, they are stuffed into the sheds on the left and right sides respectively. If nothing happens, there are slides on the top and bottom of the wall, so that the two walls can be moved back and forth.

The mechanism that controls the movement of these two walls should be in the tomb chamber.

I thought about it, in Dong Hu’s era, the only mechanism that could do this was the talc cable!

The so-called slippery rope is actually something similar to a windmill with some iron chains or levers on it. In terms of principle, it may be somewhat similar to a bicycle chain, but it is simpler.

On top of the windmill, there is a slide. There is a round boulder in the slide. Normally, this boulder is blocked by a baffle. Once it is started, the stone will roll down from the slide and hit the windmill hard.

On something similar to a seesaw, the other end is connected to a windmill, allowing the windmill to rotate immediately, and then pulls the two huge walls through chains or levers, so that the two walls can slide back and forth on the slide in the shed.

In this way, the rotation direction of the windmill can be controlled through the boulders in the slide, and the two giant walls can move back and forth to achieve the effect of opening and closing the door.

When the two giant walls are closed, the cracks will close. When the two giant walls are pulled apart, the cracks will appear. As long as the outside soil is filled in, they are basically invisible.

To put it bluntly, this is probably a very primitive mechanical structure, not very complicated. There are too many mechanisms like this.

I guess that there may be a mechanism outside the burial pit that directly controls the boulders in the talc cable. If this mechanism is found, the crack can be opened from the outside and lead directly to the ancient tomb!!

Such a structure is probably related to Donghu's appeal. They built this tomb not just for his sleep, but for other purposes. Naturally, there had to be a way to get in and out. To put it bluntly, this is all the same.

Helping a madman and not caring about his own affairs at all. I doubt that even if there is a coffin in the tomb, it will not be nailed.

The crack was not too deep, and I landed quickly.

As expected, the ground, which only allowed one person to pass, was very smooth, with obvious traces of manual repairs.

I took out the flashlight, turned it on, and shined it forward. At the end, dozens of meters away, there was a round arch, which seemed to be the tomb door.

"What's going on down there?"

Brother Yaozi asked a question from above. I looked up and saw that his flashlight was shining downward. The light was so bright that I couldn't see his face clearly.

After thinking about it, I said: "It's very dangerous, but if you want to enter this tomb, you have to make this trip. You'd better move quickly..."

Regarding this mechanism, it is too complicated and I will not be able to explain it for a while, and I have no explanation.

Brother Yaozi and the others naturally trusted me, and after hearing what I said, they immediately got busy.

I heard a flurry of rustling sounds coming from above, and not long after, several people came down one after another.

Lao Bai fell in front of me. He is a typical lazy man. Even Zhang Xinya didn't say a word. He leaned against the wall and complained first: "What the hell is this place? It's so narrow and stuffy. It's hard to breathe."

Difficult, too uncomfortable...ah!!!"

Before he finished speaking, he screamed in pain and jumped up.

In the blink of an eye, I saw an extra "tail" on his butt...

Then, he pulled off the tail and smashed it on the ground. The other party immediately swam away. After getting a little away, he suddenly raised his upper body and started to demonstrate towards us, shouting "

Weird sound.

This is a snake with a body length of only thirty centimeters and about the thickness of a thumb. It is colorful and looks brighter than the neon lights in the city. When you shine a flashlight on it, the scales reflect the colorful light. It is really beautiful and the weirdest thing.

What's surprising is that when this thing is enraged, it looks like a big rooster, with all its scales exploding. The weird sound is made by flapping its scales, and its tail is even more peculiar, not like a snake's tail, but like a fish's tail.

It is bifurcated in the middle and the color is green and translucent!

Only then did I see that there was a small hole where Lao Bai was leaning, and this little flower snake lived in it. Lao Bai blocked the hole with his butt, which naturally led to this thing.

"What kind of mythical beast is this?"

Lao Bai covered his buttocks, his eyes almost popped out of his head, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "I'll have to ask Mr. Zhang to show me later. Is my butt colliding with the tomb criminal? I always get hurt every time I go to the tomb."

"This seems to be..."

Old Diaoye stared at the little flower snake in front of him for a moment, then turned to look at Master Qi, and the two of them said almost in unison: "Hualinzi!"

Zhang Xinya was curious and asked what this Hualinzi was.

"I have lived for most of my life, but I didn't expect that I was about to die. I finally saw this thing."

Old Diaoye seemed to be deeply comforted and said with emotion: "Haidongqing in the sky and Hualinzi on the ground. If we talk about divine beauty, there is probably no beast in the world who can compare with these two. Haidongqing

Jade claws are valued, while Hualinzi values ​​emerald tail. Look at the one in front of you, the tail looks like emerald, it is Hualinzi with green tail."

Master Qi is obviously no stranger to this, and told us that Hai Dongqing can still see it, which is actually a falcon, but no one has seen this Hualinzi. There is a family named Bao in the pastoral area, which is a serious eight hundred

An aristocrat, a descendant of the Bo'er Jijin family. During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, he made a big deal with the Manchu and Mongolian families. He also followed them into the imperial city, enjoyed a good life, walked the dog and played with the birds. After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he returned to NMG.

At that time, I told them about this, saying that the Hualinzi did exist, but it was very rare. If I could catch one, it would be worth a hundred taels of gold. If I could catch a pair, it would be worth a thousand pieces of gold!

Because this kind of flower Linzi values ​​​​pairs, the most exquisite way to play is to keep a pair, because these things can resonate with each other, it seems that the sound they make when exploding their scales is a strange sound wave, and the same kind can be heard even from a long distance.

You can hear one placed at the door, barking when someone comes in, and the other placed inside the house, followed by barking. It is much easier to use than a dog, and its force is much higher.

"You mean, these things can communicate with each other?"

My face has changed.

Master Qi didn't notice the clues in my expression, so he nodded in agreement and said, "But they are much more powerful than dogs. At that time, there were only a few households in the entire capital raising a pair of Hualinzi.

The black-tailed flower linzi, the green-tailed flower linzi, is a legend..."

The legend is so rubbish, you won’t even know you’re about to die!
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