Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 806
The sky was already dark, and the moon on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month slowly climbed into the sky, casting a faint layer of moonlight.

Ding Ermiao pulled out Ten Thousand Chops and swept his hand across the iron plate.

With a swish sound, the tip of the sword that was cut by thousands of people pulled out a long spark on the iron plate.

Then Ding Ermiao bent down to look at the sword mark again. Sure enough, there was an iron plate underneath.

"This is a man-made setting. I just don't know if it was Liu Bowen who did it. I don't know what secrets there are underneath." Ding Ermiao said thoughtfully.

Gu Qinglan's flashlight beam circled the iron plate and said, "Er Miao, this should be the entrance to the tomb. It depends on whether we can enter."

Zong Ruixiang used the engineering shovel to poke around on the iron plate, making a clanging sound, then shook his head and said: "Now this iron plate only exposes the foot of the iceberg. We don't know how big its overall area is yet. If you want to enter, I think it’s almost impossible.”

"Why?" Ji Xiaoxiao asked sideways.

"First of all, we have to clear out all the iron plates to confirm whether this is the entrance to the tomb. But this requires an excavator. With our manpower, we can't dig until the end of the year?"

Zong Ruixiang analyzed and said:

"Besides this, there is another way, which is to forcefully break the iron plate. But we don't know the thickness of the iron plate, but it is certainly not thin. This requires a large cutting machine or welding gun to cut. These things can be purchased , but we cannot transport it to the desert. When transporting it, power supply is also a problem, and high-power generators are needed..."

"According to what you say, we should go back home?" Ji Xiaoxiao snorted and said:
"Don't think things are so difficult. Maybe if we work a little harder and expand the sand pit a little more, then we can clear out the entire iron plate. Maybe."

Zong Ruixiang shrugged and said it was casual, but he would stay with him until the end.

Gu Qinglan thought for a while and said: "The area of ​​the iron plate can be found out with a Luoyang shovel. Let me try."

As he spoke, Gu Qinglan centered on the footing, started from all sides, and explored inch by inch.

After continuously exploring seven or eight points, Gu Qinglan withdrew the Luoyang shovel and said: "The area is not large. It seems to be a disc of iron plate with a diameter of about one meter. I have reason to believe that this is the entrance to the tomb!"

Ding Ermiao was overjoyed when he heard this. He looked up at the moon and said, "It's getting late. Shall we continue tomorrow?"

"Of course it would be better to continue tomorrow, but I'm afraid that when we come over tomorrow, this place will be filled in again, and then we won't be able to find the location of the iron plate." Gu Qinglan hesitated and said:
"Why don't we all work harder and work all night to enlarge this sand pit. If we can't finish it at night, we can continue tomorrow. In short, it's best not to leave here to prevent another trouble."

"Alright, we should be divided into two groups, work and rest in turn." Ding Ermiao agreed, and was also grateful to Gu Qinglan in his heart, thinking of himself everywhere.

In fact, Ding Ermiao also wanted to fight all night, but he was embarrassed to say it because he was afraid that people would say that he was eager to find the corpse whip and did not care about the hard work of others.Now that Gu Qinglan took the initiative, it was in line with Ding Ermiao's wishes.

Gu Qinglan and Zong Ruixiang were in a team, and Ding Ermiao and Ji Xiaoxiao were in a team.

The two teams took turns excavating, first expanding the area of ​​the bunker from above, and then gradually clearing it downwards.

Because yellow sand is prone to collapse, the amount of work required is very large and it is very troublesome to do.

When the moon reached its zenith, most of the tasks were finally completed, but everyone was also very tired.Ji Xiaoxiao's skin was tender and tender, and blisters appeared on her palms.

"Let's all take a rest and eat something." Ding Ermiao called to Gu Qinglan and Zong Ruixiang at the bottom of the pit.

Gu Qinglan did not come up, but bent down to brush away the floating sand at the bottom of the pit, raised her head and shouted:
"Er Miao, this iron plate is made of two pieces. It is round as a whole, but if you look closely, you will find that it is made of your Taoist yin and yang fish. There is a hair-like slit in the middle."

Another yin-yang fish?
Ding Ermiao was stunned and said: "Wait until I come down and take a look!"

Gu Qinglan agreed, walked out with Zong Ruixiang, and asked Ding Ermiao to get down.Because the area at the bottom of the pit is limited, there are too many people to stand apart.

Ding Ermiao and Ji Xiaoxiao each used flashlights and descended from the inclined opening to the bottom of the pit.

Taking a closer look, under the bright flashlight beam, you can indeed see an S-shaped curved line in the middle of the iron plate.

"That's right, it's the yin-yang fish pattern." Ding Ermiao nodded repeatedly and said:

"This should be a mechanism that can be dismantled. If the two iron plates are separated, then the entrance to the tomb may be underneath."

Ji Xiaoxiao also leaned over to look at it and said, "But how do you open such a small gap? This iron plate is indeed magical. It is not rusted together."

"Because it's not rusty, I think it can be opened."

Ding Ermiao simply lay down at the bottom of the pit, checking the surface of the iron plate inch by inch, trying to find any clues, or find clues such as words, so that he could open the mechanism.

Above the sandpit, Gu Qinglan and Zong Ruixiang, brothers and sisters, are also thinking about this mechanism design.

This pair of brothers and sisters can be regarded as having inherited the inheritance of tomb robbers. Each has rich experience in tomb robbing, but they have never seen such a monolithic mechanism.

Ding Ermiao looked at the entire surface of the iron plate eighty times, but could not see any clues or hints.It was an iron plate, smooth, with no words or patterns on it, and no difference in color.

"Er Miao, look around and see how thick the iron plate is." Ji Xiaoxiao suggested.

Ding Ermiao nodded and said, "Sister Lan has to do this job. I'm not good at using Luoyang shovel."

So Ding Ermiao and his wife walked onto the ground again, and Gu Qinglan came down.

Gu Qinglan took the smallest shovel head and repeatedly explored around the iron plate. Finally, she raised her head with a look of frustration and said:
"It's useless. My shovel can't reach the bottom. It's like this cylindrical iron bucket leads to the depths of the earth."

Straight to the center of the earth?
Ding Ermiao frowned. Such a large iron pillar could be set up in the desert. It was definitely not a day's work.

Nine times out of ten, Liu Bowen started the arrangement a long time ago.At that time, the army was in turmoil, and he was valued by Zhu Chongba again. It was possible to mobilize some soldiers and horses in private.

Zong Ruixiang chuckled and said with a bit of schadenfreude: "I just said, this can't be opened by human power, right?"

But no one took care of Zong Ruixiang, and no one responded to his words.

"What should we do, Ermiao?" Gu Qinglan stood at the bottom of the pit, looking up at Ding Ermiao and asked.

Ding Ermiao thought for a while and said, "Sister Lan, can you find out whether this iron pillar is hollow or solid?"

(End of this chapter)