Infinite Myth Counterattack

Chapter 283 Underground Channels
But it is said that there are nine active toads in the mountain temple, which are the organs that open the entrance to the secret passage.

The partridge whistle was operated inside for a while, and it was clear that the nine big toads had been arranged in the "number of nine twists and turns" according to the records of the Feng Shui secret technique, but nothing happened.

The confused Partridge Whistle took Chen Yulou and others out to check, but heard Luo Changfeng's voice not far away: "Take your lead, this way, the entrance to the secret path is here."

Everyone was overjoyed, and rushed to Luo Changfeng's side, and immediately found the big cracked gourd.

Partridge Whistle said happily: "The mark on the mausoleum is correct, this should be the entrance of the secret path, and it must be able to lead to the hole star position closest to the water dragon halo. It seems that the only way to go to Minglou to sacrifice is to pass through here." to arrive."

While speaking, Luo Changfeng and Hua Maguai had already held the copper ring on the left and right, and pulled up the stone door, revealing a narrow passage.

Both Chen Yulou and Luo Changfeng, who can see at night, can see that there are countless huge bones and ivory in the cave, and there is a large-scale sacrificial pit in the secret passage.

At the left and right ends of the cave, there is an opening in an asymmetrical position. The two sides of the main road are full of bones, and only a large number of huge ivory in the shape of a cone can be distinguished. Farther away, there are sparkling water. It was indeed an underground river.

Chen Yulou sighed: "Sure enough, we have to cut wood to make a raft. The entrance is narrow and the raft cannot be carried in. A few people have to go down first to clear an open area and carry the wood down to make the raft."

Luo Changfeng didn't say much, and directly ordered: "Bump in the ground, take your group of brothers, and come down with me to have a look."

"Yes." Dilibeng is a first-generation swordsman, and most of his group of second-generation swordsmen are short in stature, which can be regarded as a characteristic of Xiling swordsmen.

Chen Yulou instructed: "Be careful, come out first if something happens."

"Don't worry! I have my sense of proportion." Luo Changfeng patted Chen Yulou on the shoulder, and then led Di Libiao and his ten second-generation swordsmen down the tunnel.

Their equipment was more adequate than that of Hu Bayi's trio, except that Luo Changfeng didn't need it. Each of them had a headlamp, so they could clearly see what was going on in the tunnel.

The tunnel at the entrance was obviously built by hand, both sides are neatly built with large blue stones, the stone gaps are sealed with red lacquer, and the large square bricks on the ground are very flat, like a passage in an ancient tomb.

On both sides of the tunnel, there are neatly stacked whole elephant bones, which are the skeleton of an entire elephant, obviously slaughtered outside and transported here.

Placing all elephant bones or ivory in the sacrificial pit is to obtain the homonym of "Xiang" for elephant. As early as the Shang Dynasty, elephant bones and ivory were used as funeral objects, and a large number of ivory was unearthed in Yin Ruins.

These sacrificial bones were deliberately half-buried, instead of being buried in the whole soil like the sacrificial ditch. This shows that the owner of the tomb wanted to achieve enlightenment and immortality, and he didn't care much about worldly things.

There are 64 pairs of elephant bones, and countless ivory tusks. There are also some scattered small animal bones, which have decayed so much that it is impossible to tell what kind of animals they are.

However, the sacrificial pit is big enough and flat enough that thousands of people won't feel crowded when they come in, so it's not a problem to make a raft here.

Going forward, at the corner of the tunnel, there is a recess in the stone wall, only a few meters deep, and a few long poles are scattered, which seem to be connected together.

Some people thought it was strange, so they wanted to reach out and pick it up to have a look. Unexpectedly, when these long poles were touched, they would rot into mud. Because of the groundwater, things from 2000 years ago would rot immediately.

This pit on the stone wall of the tunnel seems to be specially used to put these long poles, but except for Luo Changfeng, they can't figure out what the long poles are used for, but they don't care. .

Walking to the end of the tunnel, there is a drop of about ten feet from the ground. From here, it is no longer a man-made tunnel, but a natural underground cave, and there is no way to follow. There is only an underground river extending to an unknown depth. place.

There are a few ancient wooden boats lined up by the river, people who go to Minglou to worship and offer sacrifices to the king take these boats, but over the years, these wooden boats are almost rotten to the point that only the frame of the boat is left, and they are no longer usable.

Luo Changfeng said: "Let's go! Go up first, ask more brothers to come down, break up all the elephant bones and move them to the corner of the tunnel, pile them up in a pile, and use the place to make rafts."

"Yes."

Luo Changfeng and his entourage went up to explain the situation, and after Chen Yulou and others came down to look at it, everyone was busily busy.

There are a total of 370 of them, plus a lot of equipment and equipment. Calculated, they can only have one raft for four, that is to say, they have to make 93 rafts.

However, they came out to fight this time, and they had good luck along the way. When the soldiers and the bandits dispersed to cut wood, someone found a large bamboo forest nearby.

Chen Yulou and the others were overjoyed. Bamboo is lighter than trees, but it has greater buoyancy and is more practical.

A raft needs ten pieces of wood to achieve the buoyancy, but bamboo may only need six or seven pieces of wood, and they can also save a lot of time for cutting materials.

With bamboo, the personnel arrangement has been slightly changed. There are five people on each bamboo raft, so only 75 bamboo rafts are needed.

If the bamboo raft needs to be used for many years, it will be quite troublesome to make. The bamboo needs to be scalded with hot oil before it can be used as a raw material, and there are some other additional processes.

Otherwise, the bamboo raft would rot within a few months, but Chen Yulou and the others were only using it temporarily, so unnecessary troubles were completely avoided.

Bamboo was carried into the underground tunnel in bundles. There were Xiling swordsmen chopping bamboo, and the speed was not too fast. The steel long swords in their hands were sharp enough, one sword after another, and some even A generation of swordsmen can strike a few swords with one sword.

Everyone has a clear division of labor. The swordsmen are divided into two parts, one is responsible for cutting bamboo, and the other is responsible for picking off branches and cutting bamboo into equal lengths.

Soldiers from the Digger Battalion of Engineers were in charge of carrying the bamboo into the tunnel, and Xiling Lishi was in charge of tying the bamboo rafts. Everyone performed their duties in an orderly manner.

It took a whole day to tie up more than 100 sturdy and durable bamboo rafts. In addition to the bamboo rafts, more than [-] slightly thinner bamboos were cut down to make pennies.

After resting around the mountain temple for one night, they went down the tunnel the next day. Every five people carried a bamboo raft, put it into the river, and then went straight up, set up a searchlight in front of the bamboo raft, and supported the bamboo raft to go deep. go.

The underground river is not too narrow, but two bamboo rafts run side by side, and it is safer if two bamboo rafts run side by side. If anything happens, they can support each other.

The bamboo rafts they made were not single-row bamboo rafts, but divided into upper and lower layers. This kind of bamboo raft not only has greater buoyancy, the upper layer will not touch the water, but also is more stable and not easy to roll over.

After all, among the things they carried were things like explosives that couldn't get wet, so they had to spend more effort to tie them into double-layered bamboo rafts.

Luo Changfeng was undoubtedly on the bamboo raft in the front row. Besides him, this bamboo raft also had partridge whistles, flower hemp crutches, live monkeys, and jumping in the ground.

They are all people with high martial arts skills and agility, so it is their responsibility to open the way ahead.

(End of this chapter)