Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 809 Funnel
"Come on, let's escape later!" Zong Ruixiang waved his hand and took the lead in fleeing towards the way they came.

But he didn't take a few steps, but his feet were weak, and he fell to the ground with a loud cry.

Ding Ermiao pulled up Ji Xiaoxiao and looked back at Zong Ruixiang, only to see that where Zong Ruixiang fell, the entire ground had formed a whirlpool and yellow sand was rolling.

Zong Ruixiang was struggling in the center of the whirlpool, shouting for help.

The yellow sand around the whirlpool flows like a tide.

Zong Ruixiang is like a fancy swimmer performing a dog paddle in the quicksand whirlpool.

Because the quicksand was sliding down, Zong Ruixiang couldn't stand up at all. The harder he struggled, the faster he fell.

"Brother, catch my rope!"

At the critical moment, Gu Qinglan spun her body and threw the flying claw rope around her waist towards Zong Ruixiang.

Zong Ruixiang grabbed this life-saving straw and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, pull me up!"

Ding Ermiao and the three of them worked hard together, and finally dragged Zong Ruixiang out of the bunker like a dead dog.

"Come on, there seems to be an underground palace down here, and now the underground palace has collapsed!" Zong Ruixiang shouted in panic.

The ground beneath my feet was still trembling and shaking, and at the same time, there was a muffled sound from the ground, as if a train was running underground.

The white fog that had risen around the desert before was still thickening and aggravating. The sky was completely covered by the white fog, and even the sunlight could not shine in.

"Let's go, everyone use ropes, pull each other a little bit, pick up the high ground and go!" Ding Ermiao looked around and waved.

Now you can see that in this area, the whirlpool where Zong Ruixiang just fell has appeared in many places. Needless to say, there must be open space underground, and these yellow sand are leaking downwards.

Ji Xiaoxiao followed closely behind Ding Ermiao, pulling on the rope in Ding Ermiao's hand.However, Gu Qinglan followed Ji Xiaoxiao and looked after Ji Xiaoxiao.

Zong Ruixiang followed last, his calves still trembling.The whirlpool of yellow sand that fell just now frightened the director of cultural relics.

The four of them retreated westward with one foot high and one foot low. On the way, Ji Xiaoxiao fell twice in succession because of the trembling and shaking of the ground.Fortunately, Ding Ermiao and Gu Qinglan were taking care of him, so there was no danger.

As he retreated, he looked back and saw that there was even more movement in the area just now.

There were two streams of white air rushing out from the iron plate cover, making a hissing sound.

Probably due to the agitation of the earth's energy, the white mist in the sky kept spinning, and gradually formed another yin-yang fish pattern in the sky!
On the ground, those disconnected or broken stones were rolling and disappearing into the yellow sand, gradually disappearing.

Even the two stone pillars that had not collapsed now completely fell to the ground and were submerged in the yellow sand.

After more than two miles of retreat, Ding Ermiao and others stopped when they felt that the shaking under their feet was no longer so severe.

Because they walked in a hurry, everyone was a little embarrassed, covered in yellow sand.

"Xiaoxiao, Sister Lan, it's okay here. You guys sit down and rest." Ding Ermiao said.

Gu Qinglan spread out the plastic sheet and let Ji Xiaoxiao sit on it to rest, but she took out the binoculars and looked at the collapsed place just now.

"Er Miao, the subsidence over there is still going on, but the speed has slowed down." Gu Qinglan watched while watching, and said: "Only the iron plate cover does not seem to have subsidence."

Ding Ermiao nodded and looked up at the sky again.

The rotation of the yin and yang fish in the sky gradually slowed down, but it seemed to be lower.

Zong Ruixiang was too embarrassed to sit on the plastic sheet to rest with Ji Xiaoxiao, so he lay down on the sand next to Ding Ermiao and panted.

It took him a long time before he stood up, took the telescope from Gu Qinglan's hand, took a look, and said:
"It's over, it's over. It seems that the overall water level in that area has been lowered a lot. Judging from the amount of quicksand, maybe the underground palace below has been filled. After all our hard work, we still can't enter the underground palace."

Ding Ermiao shook his head and said: "Not necessarily. I think there is another entrance that is not blocked."

"Yes, it's the iron cover!" Gu Qinglan also nodded and said, "We'll go over and have a look after the earth's air is released and the ground stops shaking."

For a long time, in the direction of the iron plate cover, the earth's energy spurted toward the sky, and its intensity slowly decreased.

The white mist in the sky slowly began to disperse, and the pattern of the yin and yang fish also gradually deformed, and finally dissipated.

After another ten minutes, the ground returned to calm again.

But it was also night.

Because the fog in the sky has not cleared away, even though it is the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the moon is still not visible.

"What about Ermiao? Shall we go and have a look now?" Gu Qinglan asked.

"Let's go, let's go and have a look now! Sister Lan Xiaoxiao, boss, everyone, please work harder, I will remember this love!" Ding Ermiao said, turning on the flashlight and pointing forward.

There were obviously many collapses ahead, and the yellow sand in many places had leaked into the ground. Therefore, the current surface looked very strange, as if it was on an alien planet, with craters on the ground.

"Don't talk about Ermiao like that. When it comes to remembering love, I should remember your love." Gu Qinglan smiled and walked forward.

When passing by those "craters", everyone used flashlights to look at them.I saw that the sand pit was round, with an area of ​​about fifty square meters. The bottom of the pit was in the shape of a regular funnel, and most of it was four or five feet deep.

Zong Ruixiang sighed and said: "If these yellow hourglasses go down, they will definitely fill up the underground palace and destroy the mechanism. It is estimated that such a delicate and weird mechanism will never be explored again."

For a tomb robber, being able to understand various tomb mechanisms is actually a kind of pleasure and an achievement.

However, a large amount of yellow sand leaked down from this area, and the underground mechanisms must have been irrecoverable. It is no longer possible to pry into the design methods.

For example, Ruixiang would never know the secret of the stone pillars that could run around before.

So Zong Ruixiang sighed and felt regretful.

"Forget it if you don't understand. Why rack your brains to study these things?" Ding Ermiao smiled disdainfully.

For Ding Ermiao, it didn't matter that the underground institutions were destroyed.There are countless sophisticated mechanisms in the world, how can they all study them thoroughly?
Even with the terrifying science and technology of modern people, they still dare not excavate the tomb of Qin Shihuang, let alone Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum. They also dare not do it rashly and want to leave it for future research.

What he cares about is the corpse-beating whip. As long as there is a passage to enter and the corpse-beating whip can be successfully found, even if it is done, he can comfort the spirit of Master Qiu Sanpong in heaven.

However, Ding Ermiao was also worried that the quicksand would block the tomb passage and prevent him from entering.

(End of this chapter)