Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 386 Nine Stone Pillars
When the next day just dawned, Chen Ziyang couldn't wait to get out of his sleeping bag, hurried to the bottom of the hillside, and stared at the hillside using the "Wen Zi Jue".

Zhang De, the original author of "Civil Engineering Collection", was from the Tang Dynasty, and the most detailed record in this book he started was the structure of the tombs of the Tang Dynasty and related knowledge, so at this time Chen Ziyang used the When Zijue looked at the hillside, he got more clues.

The length of the entire hillside is about 60 meters. The vegetation on it is not too lush, and the grass is not high. The tallest plants are some bushes more than one meter high.This formed a relatively large contrast with the lush plants on the surrounding mountains. It seemed that this place had indeed been excavated before.

The middle part of the hillside is slightly sunken as a whole, and some places are particularly sunken. This is similar to the landform formed after years of rain washing the soft soil. It seems that the soil thickness here should be relatively thick.

With these preliminary clues, Chen Ziyang turned his gaze to the bottom of the hillside.Below the hillside is a short section of 30-meter-high cliff. Below the cliff is a large steep hillside, which extends to the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain is a small stream.

There are many broken stones in the ravine near the creek. These gravels are evenly distributed along the ravine, and the size of the gravel varies greatly.But Chen Ziyang noticed that there seemed to be more gravel in the section of the valley corresponding to the slope, and the size and volume of the gravel here were not much different.

Combining the clues that there may be a tomb on the hillside, he felt that these gravels were probably thrown down by Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian when they were excavating the Taoist holy site.

Then Chen Ziyang turned his gaze to the two sides of the hillside. The exposed parts of the two ridges containing the sun and the moon are almost all stones, especially the inner side of the two ridges next to the hillside. It is pitiful.

There are five unburied dragons in Feng Shui. Among them, the stone mountain is born of the resentment of the earth. It is so evil that it cannot be buried.And these two ridges are already close to the stone mountains.

Although these two ridges are not directly used for burial, they will also affect Feng Shui.If these two ridges were like this before, then there must be no mausoleum built here.

So Chen Ziyang guessed that there should be soil on these two mountains before, but Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian moved the soil to the hillside later.With all the traces combined, he has roughly confirmed his previous guess.

Originally, Chen Ziyang wanted to discuss with Zhang Linfu and Guo Huaxing in order to determine the location of the excavation, but he changed his mind, although these two people had deep attainments in finding dragon acupuncture points, they only knew how to find dragon acupuncture points .

The delicate reverse kung fu like Wen Zi Jue is very different from their method of viewing mountains. It belongs to Ye Luzi, and it is not the same school as the method they use. They may not be able to accept it in a short time.So Chen Ziyang dismissed this idea, made his own decision, and started digging from those sunken places.

At this time, Liu Cong had already organized his team to wait in the distance. Seeing Chen Ziyang pointing out the excavation site, and Zhang Linfu and Guo Huaxing did not object, Liu Cong led a group of people like bees. They flocked to the hillside and began to wave the engineering shovels in their hands.

It has been more than 20 days since the team entered the Qinling Mountains. During these 20 days, the food carried by the team has almost been consumed. If there were not some wild animals along the way to replenish it, it might have already been exhausted by now. was eaten up.

Now that the excavation work has started, the physical strength of the team members will be exhausted faster and more food will be needed for supplementation, so Liu Cong divided the team into two groups.One group digs up the hillside while the other goes out to find some beasts.

Among the dozen or so people responsible for the excavation, Yang Lei was the one who worked the hardest. The boy swung an engineering shovel with a cold light, flying up and down, and a shovel of soil was thrown out from behind him.

Seeing Yang Lei's hard work, Chen Ziyang hid behind and couldn't stop laughing.Yang Lei didn't know that this tomb was abandoned, and there was no possibility of funerary objects inside.And Chen Ziyang didn't point it out. With Yang Lei's positive energy, maybe he could dig faster.

Compared with Yang Lei, who was digging randomly, Shuai Ushishi was very particular about the strength and angle of each shovel, and he dug in a decent manner. cast a surprised look.

Although the soil on the surface of the hillside is relatively soft, the soil below is relatively compact, which also brings certain difficulties to the excavation work, and the excavation speed is slower than everyone imagined.

The first day of digging went nowhere.Seeing a big deep pit dug out by more than a dozen people, Chen Ziyang felt a little nervous.According to his speculation, this place had already been dug up before, and Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian then covered it up with the surrounding soil again.

Therefore, according to common sense, if there is a tomb passage below, the soil above should not be too thick, but why has there been no harvest after digging for so long?Could it be that the digging place is wrong?

Just as fruitless as the digging team is the hunting team.The seven or eight people who went out did not bring back a single animal, but only picked some mushrooms and wild fruits.These things have little effect on more than 20 people, and they are barely enough to fill everyone's meal.

Looking at the little food left, Liu Cong was also a little anxious. It would be good if the excavation work made progress. If the location of the Taoist Holy Land is found, it proves that this operation is coming to an end. When the supplies are delivered, there is no need to worry about exposing the target at that time. After all, it is impossible for the people of the Dragon Digging Society to organize enough forces in a short time and transport them here.

Helicopters can only transport a few people at a time. Although the Digger can use helicopters, the number of their helicopters should not be very large. It is estimated that there are only two civilian helicopters at most. With the speed and speed of civilian helicopters In terms of fuel consumption, it is not bad that two helicopters can transport eight people in one day.

These eight people are simply not enough for the team on their own side, so they will definitely be transported to a place far away from the team, and they will wait until enough people are assembled before launching an attack. In that case, they will inevitably use helicopters many times The plane, Chen Benzhong's scouts will definitely find it.

At that time, the personnel on my side will also be continuously sent over. At that time, it is time to compete the strength of the two sides, but the opportunity is in my own hands. There are already more than 20 people here. All have an advantage.

However, if the excavation work does not progress, Liu Cong does not want to use the helicopter. In case the target is exposed in advance, there will be enough time for the digging team. Maybe the trouble he will face here will be greater than the problem of food shortage. There are many, so before you discover the Taoist holy land, you should try your best to stand up.

Although Liu Cong thought a lot, what happened next made him feel that his worries were unnecessary. On the second day after the excavation began, both teams achieved remarkable results.

In the afternoon, the hunting team returned. It can be said that they had a bumper harvest this time. They brought back a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms, three fat hares, and some berries and mushrooms. The excavation also took a turn for the better when they were greeted.

Although Yang Lei dug the hardest, it was not him who dug something, but a team member beside him.

This team member looks very ordinary, and belongs to the kind that cannot be found in the crowd.He has the darkest skin in the team, and his personality is also very weird. He doesn't talk much at all, even if someone talks to him, he likes to talk to him.Yang Lei once thought he was dumb.

Even so, it was he who worked the hardest in the team.No matter what the order is, he is always the first to execute it, and he will work hard and use all his strength.

Liu Cong gave him the nickname Mo Wen, which means that no matter what you ask, he won't answer you, so you don't ask any questions, this nickname is quite appropriate.

Mo Wen went down with the shovel, and suddenly heard a popping sound. Judging from the sound and the feel of the shovel, the shovel should have been stuck on a rock, and Mo Wen's hands were numb from the shock. He almost threw away the shovel in his hand.

Just when Mo Wen was about to dig out the rock, he realized something was wrong.After inserting it up and down a few times with the engineering shovel, Mo Wen found that the stone seemed to be very large, and these shovels were all inserted into the hard object.

But after he inserted a few more times to the left, he found that the stone seemed to be very narrow, which made him a little confused.Mo Wen, who was full of doubts, quickly cleaned off the soil on the surface of the stone, and then he discovered that it was not a stone, but a stone pillar. No wonder the shape was so weird.

Even with such an important discovery, Mo Wen still didn't say a word, but just waved to Liu Cong.

This discovery was absolutely extraordinary. Liu Cong quickly gathered the surrounding personnel, and everyone started digging around the stone pillar. After a while, the entire stone pillar was dug out.

The stone pillar is not too high, only about three meters, and the width is not too wide, less than half a meter.Because it has been buried in the soil for a long time, the surface of the stone pillar has been corroded by the soil a lot, so the material can no longer be seen, but a slow-moving coiled dragon carved on the stone pillar is clearly visible.

The lower part of the stone pillar is connected to an octagonal stone platform, and the lower part of the stone platform is the stone ground.

This discovery made Liu Cong so happy that he almost jumped up. He hastily reorganized the excavation team and asked everyone to continue to expand the excavation area around this stone pillar, looking for other man-made traces around the stone pillar.

Chen Ziyang stared at this stone pillar for a long time with confused eyes.Before, he estimated that this was a mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty. In front of the mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty, there were often some pairs of statues of gods and beasts. These statues were as few as three or five pairs, and as many as more than 20 pairs. There are all kinds of things, but I have never heard of stone pillars in front of the tomb gate.

When it was dark, three more stone pillars like this were found. Although Liu Cong was very excited, but because it was already dark, he had to suppress the urge to continue digging, and he didn't sleep well all night. I have been thinking about what I will continue to dig the next day.

The third day of excavation arrived in Liu Cong's anticipation.This morning Zhang Linfu and Guo Huaxing had discovered that the four exposed stone pillars seemed to be arranged according to the directions of the gossip, so the two pointed out other excavation sites and asked the excavators to make tentative excavations in those places. dig.

Facts have proved that the guess of the two old men is correct.Before noon, all eight identical stone pillars were dug out and stood there neatly.

Eight stone pillars formed an octagon, and the stone pillars were eight or nine meters apart from each other. In the very center of this octagon, there was a ninth stone pillar that was taller and stronger.

The stone pillar in the center is more than five meters high and half a meter thick. It is obviously larger than the eight surrounding stone pillars, and there is still a dragon engraved on it.

There is an octagonal stone platform under the nine stone pillars, and these nine stone platforms are all neatly lying on the horizontal stone floor, blending with the ground. It seems that these stone platforms and stone pillars are It was carved directly when the mountain was opened.

With these nine stone pillars as a reference, the remaining excavation direction is very obvious, which is to dig in the direction of the mountain with the back to the nine stone pillars.

Now Chen Ziyang finally figured out why the soil here is so loose but not completely sunken. It probably has a lot to do with the support and arrangement of the nine stone pillars.

Because of the clear direction of excavation, the progress of the excavation team was faster this time. When it was getting dark, someone had already dug a stone wall. Although only a small part of this stone wall was exposed, everyone estimated that this should be The entrance to the Taoist holy land is where the tomb gate of the mausoleum is located.

The current excavation team has dug out a right-angled area on this hillside.The horizontal side of the right angle is the stone ground with nine stone pillars, and the vertical side of the right angle is the tomb door.

Seeing that the excavation work has made great progress and the tomb door has been discovered, everyone is very happy, and Liu Cong is also going to reward everyone well at night.

Just as a member of the excavation team was about to evacuate and passed a stone pillar, the corner of his clothes suddenly caught on one of the claws of the Panlong carved on the stone pillar.As the player moved forward, the stone pillar turned around under his guidance.

After the sound of "Boom", the stone pillar rotated at an angle. This sound frightened everyone's expressions, and they didn't know what mechanism was triggered.

　I finished writing a chapter at noon yesterday. I originally wanted to write another chapter in the evening, but the unit came to work, and there was a lot of materials to be written. It would be great if I could use this time to write novels.I have to write in a while. I don’t know when it will be, but I guess I can finish it today. I said before that I will write more this month. If there is no problem with the materials from tomorrow, I will update twice a day.

　　
　
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