fifth form

Chapter 2113 Different Mappings

"Don't touch that, there's a spring there!"

"History, remove the reed from that crossbow!"

Emperor Luo Wu did not prohibit anyone from entering, and beneath his great confidence lay a desperate arrangement.

The bluestone pillars at the entrance are traps. On the one hand, one needs to lift a thousand-pound object with both arms. On the other hand, if one cannot quickly move the thousand-pound bluestone pillars, one will fail to pass, or be crushed into a corpse by being caught between the twelve bluestone pillars.

And this is only the basic requirement for entering the tomb of Emperor Wu of Luo.

Zhang Xuezhou's perception was correct. There were many stone, clay and wooden figures buried in Emperor Luo Wu's tomb.

The pottery figurines in Emperor Jing's Yangling Mausoleum focus on the spirit and soul, while the stone and wooden figurines in Emperor Wu's Mausoleum are mechanical devices.

Once you step on it wrongly, these stone and wooden men will be driven by the mechanism, causing them to collide, collapse, spin in circles, etc.

These stone and wooden men are almost life-size. The wooden men are more agile and can strike extremely quickly after the mechanism is triggered, while the stone men weigh about two thousand pounds. If ordinary people are unable to avoid being hit, they will either die or be injured.

Like a taut spring, these stone and wooden men, each with its own risks, are placed on the only way leading to the mausoleum.

If you want to take advantage of the situation and not take the normal route, there are some spring crossbows in the tomb passage, which will pose a greater threat to those who want to use light shuttle to travel.

Jin Shixue was walking in the front and was hit in the chest by two wooden men, but he narrowly avoided a fallen stone man.

There was a hint of horror on his face. When he was about to step on the wall of the tomb to gain leverage to get behind the wooden man, Zhang Xuezhou quickly pointed out the mechanism installed on the wall of the tomb.

This made Jin Shixue jump back with an embarrassed look on his face. He took a metal probe and poked it, destroying the crossbow on the wall.

"Don't step on this floor tile. There is a trap under it. It will strike based on the weight of the person stepping on it!"

Zhang Xuezhou couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he continued to point fingers.

After hundreds of years, the wooden man mechanism is still flexible enough, but the wood has become a little brittle and easily broken when hit. The stone man mechanism may be covered with dust and is not flexible, so it was avoided by Jin historiography.

If the damage to Emperor Wu's tomb was not serious, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the introduction to Jin history should have been explained within ten meters.

After seeing Jin Shixue's ability, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he was unreliable and had to point out several things.

"Director Zhang, are you also familiar with the mechanical techniques of the imperial mausoleum?" Feng Xiangyu exclaimed.

"This...can't you tell it just by looking at it?" Zhang Xuezhou replied.

"You can tell by just looking at it?"

Feng Xiangyu looked surprised, while Zhang Xuezhou looked normal.

Compared to Jin Shixue's first exploration of the imperial tombs, Zhang Xuezhou not only had experience in exploring many imperial tombs, he also had the ability of Feng Shui theory and observation skills far beyond Jin Shixue.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Xuezhou had explored in and out of the Luo Wu Emperor's Mausoleum, and he was familiar with the general layout of this imperial mausoleum.

Combined with his meticulous exploration ability, these rough arrangements of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum did not pose any difficulties to Zhang Xuezhou.

"If you enter with more people later, remember to find some small iron pieces and insert them into the gaps between the tiles to block the tiles, so that the mechanism will not be triggered." Zhang Xuezhou said as he led the way forward: "Wait until the wooden and stone men are moved away by rotating, and even if there is a mechanism below, it will not work!"

"Director Zhang is right!"

Jin Shixue encountered many bumps and bruises while leading the way, and was almost crushed to death by a stone man when he was more than ten meters away.

If it weren't for his sequence strength, Feng Xiangyu felt that the history of the Jin Dynasty would be revealed in the imperial mausoleum.

When Zhang Xuezhou led the way, everyone walked more than 30 meters without triggering the mechanism, which made Feng Xiangyu couldn't help but marvel again and again. He felt that Zhang Xuezhou's observation ability was far more important than those of theoretical experts.

"The tomb of Emperor Luo Wu covers an area of ​​80,000 square meters, with a 68-meter-long burial mound. The length of the passage leading to the palace should be about 1,400 meters. Everyone, follow my steps and don't step on the wrong place!"

"Director Zhang, if the route is correct, it will be about 1,400 meters, right?"

"There are a lot of turning points in this imperial mausoleum. Please mark them and don't get lost!"

"We went up and down three times. Are we really on the right road?"

"Director Zhang, please walk slower!"

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There are only seven people allowed to enter the tomb of Emperor Luo Wu, including five people from the old and young families, and Zhang Xuezhou and Zhu Youjia are among them.

From Jin Shixue taking the lead to Zhang Xuezhou, everyone moved smoothly, but they were still worried, fearing that Zhang Xuezhou would take a wrong step, or that they would lose their way and not be able to keep up with Zhang Xuezhou, which would trigger the mechanism.

"Director Zhang, we..."

"We're here!" One thousand four hundred meters is not long. Normally, it only takes twenty minutes to walk there, but the time in the tomb will be a little longer. Zhang Xuezhou walked for nearly half an hour even though the road was almost smooth.

Arriving at the empty palace again, Zhang Xuezhou's eyes quickly turned to the infinite jade wall in the emperor's coffin.

He briefly responded to Feng Xiangyu's suggestion, then lightly jumped up and stepped onto the nearly two-meter-high steps of the bedroom.

The structure of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum is crude and simple, with passages crisscrossing back and forth like a maze, rather than a palace shape. It seems as if Emperor Luo Wu opened a testing ground for future generations.

Only in this sleeping palace area are there a large number of pagoda carvings on the stone walls.

These carvings not only depict past events from the era of Emperor Luo Wu, but also contain the ancient martial arts secrets that Emperor Luo Wu practiced.

Five hundred years ago, this was the peerless secret book passed down by Emperor Luo Wu to future generations.

But in modern times, these ancient martial arts have obviously become so outdated that they have to be abandoned, and even Zhang Xuezhou just glanced at them.

"Mr. Feng, these reliefs contain ancient martial arts that Emperor Luo Wu once practiced. Let's study them carefully and try to translate them completely to see if the wisdom of our ancestors can be applied to the present time," Zhang Xuezhou reminded casually.

"Don't worry, Director Zhang. We will arrange everything we can obtain and observe one by one and present everything in its original appearance as perfectly as possible," Feng Xiangyu said excitedly.

Not to mention Feng Xiangyu's excitement, even experts like Jin Shixue were surprised and incredulous.

They were excited because they had seen the real imperial tomb, and they were surprised because the distance they traveled was about 1,500 meters, which was too close to the 1,400 meters mentioned by Zhang Xuezhou.

The same was true of disbelief. In this place that was like a maze and full of traps, Zhang Xuezhou led the way as if it were home, and they reached Emperor Luo Wu's bedroom in almost the shortest distance.

In just half an hour, they had reached the core center of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum.

This was a very explosive event in the history of tomb exploration, and it was unheard of in Jin historians when it came to exploring imperial tombs. Even when they excavated the tombs of high-ranking officials, they had never done so in such a short time.

But this is the fact, and Jin historians can only agree with it in disbelief.

He was originally an expert, and Jin Shixue finally felt that he had become an expert. All his abilities and theories were no match for the meticulousness of Zhang Xuezhou, the director of the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum Management Office.

Being able to unlock the mechanism of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum so easily, Jin Shixue felt that the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum was indeed a place controlled by Director Zhang, and even former emperors had to be arranged in a neat and orderly manner by him.

"This is... this is... the Infinite Jade Wall!"

Jin Shixue's strength was not low. He lifted Feng Xiangyu up and sent him to the door of the bedroom, and then jumped up as well.

When he looked around, Jin Shixue saw Zhang Xuezhou reaching into the emperor's coffin and taking out a jade mirror that emitted a faint glow.

Different from ordinary jade mirrors with exquisite structure, the jade mirror in Zhang Xuezhou's hand is not finely carved emerald green, but can reflect every detail of the human body.

Jin Shixue looked towards the mirror and saw himself in the mirror, looking dusty and disheveled.

And after a moment, he saw that himself in the mirror seemed to look a little older.

When he blinked again, he saw himself in the mirror looking even older.

After a few seconds, Jin Shixue saw that the person in the mirror had a prominent jaw and no blood on his face. The whole person seemed to have turned into a dried corpse.

This frightened him, and he wanted to shake his gaze away to look somewhere else, but he felt as if his eyes were drawn to it and he couldn't extricate himself.

A drowning-like feeling of death came over him, and Jin Shixue felt that he was having difficulty breathing with the mask on, as if he was walking towards death step by step.

"Help...help!"

Jin Shixue shouted loudly, but he felt that his voice was as tiny and inaudible as that of a mosquito or ant.

The more he shouted, the more desperate he became.

Until he screamed, Jin Shixue felt that the scene in front of him disappeared completely, and his voice filled the entire bedroom.

"History, what's wrong with you?"

When Feng Xiangyu's concerned voice came, Jin Shixue felt cold sweat all over and felt weak and powerless. His energy was almost drained and he felt as if he was exhausted.

He stopped screaming, and his eyes were so filled with fear that he dared not look at Emperor Luo Wu's coffin again.

"It seems like something was taken from Jin Shixue!"

Jin Shixue's abnormality occurred so quickly that even Zhang Xuezhou was several beats slow to react.

He covered himself with his clothes, blocking the boundless jade wall.

At the same time, Zhang Xuezhou felt a slight warmth coming from his right hand holding the Wuliang Jade Wall, as if he was holding a piece of gentle soul jade.