Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 389 Exploring the Taoist Holy Land
Before entering the Taoist Holy Land, Liu Cong sorted out the remaining food in the team. He found that the food was barely enough for everyone to eat together for four or five days, which made him feel relieved. It seemed that more people could be arranged to enter To the Taoist holy land.

Because the number of teams excavating the Taoist Holy Land this time is not too large, Liu Cong hopes to let as many team members as possible go in together, after all, it is easier to do things with more people.But if there is not enough food, we can only leave some more team members to hunt outside.

According to the current food storage situation, Liu Cong only left two team members outside the tomb door. Firstly, they were watching the tomb door to prevent any accidents from happening. Let these two guide you.

After the team crossed the tomb gate, all the people spread out to both sides to check the mechanism behind the tomb gate.Because the nine stone pillars would rotate on their own before, Zhang Linfu has been worried about the time limit of the mechanism for opening the tomb door. If the tomb door automatically closes at that time, these people who are locked inside can only regard this place as their own. grave.

Most of the tomb doors of the large tombs of the Tang Dynasty can only be opened inwards, so as to reduce the damage from the outside, and there are usually some mechanisms behind the tomb doors.

In addition to opening and closing the tomb door, these organs also have a very important function, that is, they can mount some heavy objects, such as the bar-shaped stone pillars that fill the entire tomb passage.When you want to completely seal the tomb door, you will activate these organs, and hang the strip-shaped stone pillars that fill the tomb passage on these organs.

In this way, when the tomb door is slowly closed, the strip-shaped stone pillars behind the tomb door will move forward with the tomb door, thus completely sealing the tomb door.

But because this is a Taoist holy place, the back of the tomb gate is empty.It may be because of the wind that passed through the night. Although there is a smell of dust in the air, the air behind the tomb door is still breathable, but it is very cold here, and the non-stop cold wind makes everyone feel uncomfortable. They all tightened their collars.

On both sides of the tomb door, there are indeed some mechanical brackets. Some huge gears are perfectly combined with the corners of the tomb door. It seems that they should be chiseled together with the tomb door.From the seams between these gears and the wall, some thick iron chains can be vaguely seen inside, which should be the mechanism that pulls the tomb door open.

What Chen Ziyang and the others were most worried about was that the two tomb doors would close by themselves. After all, they had suffered such a loss when they were in the Bohai Underground Palace.

However, because the records of Tang Mausoleum in "Civil Engineering Collection" are particularly detailed, Shuai Shishuai, who specializes in Gongji, told other people with certainty that judging from the mechanism behind the tomb gate, these tomb gates should not be opened by themselves. closure.

Now that their worries were resolved, everyone turned their attention to the depths of the tomb passage.From this point of view, a word appeared in everyone's mind at the same time, that is shabby.

The dilapidated tomb passage formed a strong contrast with the tall and majestic tomb door. It was not too shocking that the tomb passage was empty. The most shocking thing for the people in the team was the style of this tomb passage.

The tomb passages of the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty are generally divided into three specifications. The first specification is that after the tomb passage is dug out of the mountain, it is reinforced around the tomb passage with carved stone bricks, and at the same time, molten iron is poured into the brick joints. Among them, this kind of tomb passage is the strongest and the most gorgeous.

The slightly worse tomb passages are directly reinforced with stone bricks. Although molten iron will not be poured into the gaps between the stone bricks, the stone bricks are stacked on top of each other when they are stacked. This kind of tomb passage is not bad.

The lowest-grade tomb passage does not use stone bricks for reinforcement, but directly grinds the side walls of the excavated tomb passage to make the tomb passage very smooth, and then carves some patterns or patterns on the ground rock. Such a tomb passage The sturdiness is a bit worse.

However, although the tomb passage in front of everyone is very wide and very long, the two sides of the tomb passage are completely uneven stone walls, which have not been polished, and it looks like a rough room.

The marks on it are one deep and one shallow, very irregular.This was very inconsistent with the meticulously carved tomb door, and everyone was a little surprised.

Looking at the uneven rock wall, Yang Lei whispered his thoughts in Chen Ziyang's ear. It turned out that this kid felt that this tomb passage was similar to those caves in the shallow water fish and dragon, although it was much wider. But this kind of poor atmosphere is exactly the same, it seems that this should be a poor tomb.

Ignoring the disappointment on Yang Lei's face, Chen Ziyang felt that the rough tomb passage confirmed his previous thoughts. It seems that this mausoleum should have been abandoned in the middle of construction, so the rock walls around the tomb passage have not been repaired. Careful processing.

With this feeling of disparity, the team walked forward quickly.The structure of this tomb passage is relatively simple, the surrounding rocks can be seen at a glance, and some residual excavation traces can even be seen, which reassures everyone a lot, at least there will be no mechanism hidden in this tomb passage.

The entire tomb path extends downward with a relatively large slope. After walking along the straight tomb path for a while, everyone saw the stone pillar that was previously displayed in the sound wave detector.

An unusually thick stone pillar stood in the middle of the tomb passage, and the upper and lower sides of the stone pillar perfectly matched the mountain. It seemed that this stone pillar was deliberately left when the tomb passage was excavated.

Several flashlight beams converged on this thick stone pillar, and everyone couldn't figure out the meaning of the existence of this stone pillar. It seemed a bit redundant to say that this stone pillar was used to support the tomb passage.

This tomb passage was dug out directly in the mountain, and the surrounding rocks are so dense that there is not even a crack.

So everyone agreed that this stone pillar might be a mechanism, or it might be the next test.When everyone came to the stone pillar, they became even more confused. This stone pillar turned out to be a thick stone pillar, and there was no mechanism hidden on it.

The diameter of the stone pillar is about ten meters, almost occupying half the width of the passage.The only difference from the surrounding rock walls is that this stone pillar has been carefully polished. Although the surface of the stone pillar is not polished too carefully, there are still some traces of potholes, but it has been compared with the surrounding rough rock walls. There is a clear difference.

Looking carefully around this thick stone pillar, Chen Ziyang was thoughtful.Then he reached out and touched the stone pillar, and there was a cold feeling on the stone pillar.

Immediately afterwards, he squatted down and touched the stone ground. Although the ground was still cold, the temperature seemed to be slightly higher than that of this stone pillar.

Chen Ziyang looked at the tomb door with a gleam of light in the distance again, and after roughly calculating the distance between the stone pillar and the tomb door in his heart, he suddenly realized.

"I know, the inside of this stone pillar should be the crack in the mountain below the Buyiquan. In order not to damage the Buyiquan, the person who built the tomb thought of this method. The cracks in the mountain have been preserved."

Chen Ziyang's words woke everyone up. Guo Huaxing and Zhang Linfu nodded at the same time. It seems that Chen Ziyang's guess was correct. So he did the opposite and built the mausoleum directly under Buyiquan.

Since this stone pillar had no effect on everyone, the team continued to move forward. Liu Cong didn't want to waste time on such insignificant matters. After all, he didn't know how big the tomb was, so he could grab a second Just act sooner.

There was no hidden threat around the tomb passage at all, so Liu Cong simply saved the time to use the sound wave detector to detect the structure of the tomb passage, and the team went straight to the depths.

After walking for a further distance, the style of the tomb passage has changed. Although the stone walls around the tomb passage are still irregular at this time, the gap between the deep and shallow traces has been much smaller. It seems that it should have been roughly repaired.

As everyone moved forward, the stone walls around the tomb path became more and more regular.In the Tang Dynasty, when the mountain was built as a mausoleum, the mountain was hollowed out, and then refined from the inside out. Looking at these traces, Chen Ziyang estimated that the construction of the mausoleum had already reached the point of refining the tomb passage. The geological movement that happened only at that time led to the abandonment of this mausoleum.

This is really a pity. A mausoleum of such a large scale is about to be built, but it was abandoned at this time. It is no wonder that it will be converted into a holy place for Taoism. Let those efforts go to waste.

At this time, everyone had already walked a long way along this passage. Liu Cong roughly calculated the distance traveled and the angle of inclination of the tomb passage. It is estimated that the tomb passage has extended to the bottom of the mountain, and it seems that it is coming to an end.

Although there is no danger along the way, the people in the team have also suffered a lot. It is really too cold here.No matter how hard it is, I never thought that this tomb would be so cold. If I had known this, I would have taken more cotton clothes when I set off, so that everyone would not suffer from this.

A team member with an air quality monitor came to Liu Cong, whispered something in his ear, and showed Liu Cong the data displayed on the monitor.Seeing the strange reading on the LCD screen, Liu Cong frowned.

According to common sense, as the team got deeper, the air quality in the tomb passage should get worse and worse. Even if there were no toxic substances in the air, the oxygen content should start to drop.But now the air quality monitor shows that the air quality here has not deteriorated, but actually seems to be better, with higher oxygen content.

Liu Cong estimated that the tomb may have been connected to the outside world. It should be that geological movement caused a huge crack in the tomb.

Although this is likely to solve the problem of insufficient oxygen carried by the team, Liu Cong is a little worried. If this is the case, maybe the things in the mausoleum have already decayed.

After walking not far, another relatively small tomb door appeared in everyone's field of vision, but this tomb door was open, the two doors had been opened at a relatively large angle, and the back was pitch black.

On the two tomb doors were engraved the faces of two huge tomb-slayer beasts. These two animal faces almost occupied the entire tomb door. Seeing that the tomb passage had finally come to an end, Liu Cong became cautious.

The sound wave detector showed that there was a huge space behind the tomb door, so large that the sound waves emitted by the detector could not return.The cautious Liu Cong sent two team members to enter the tomb gate, while the others quietly waited for the result.

Two minutes passed quickly, but the person who stepped into the tomb door gave no feedback. Liu Cong yelled into the communicator for a long time but got no answer. All of a sudden, everyone in the team became nervous.

To be cautious, Liu Cong sent two team members again, but like the previous two team members, these two team members remained silent after entering the tomb gate, and there was no feedback at all.

A sense of fear permeated the team in an instant. Liu Cong stood there at a loss. Then he gritted his teeth and was about to step forward to check in person. At this moment, his communicator made a sound.

"Liu...Captain Liu, can you hear me?"

"I heard, what happened ahead? Is there any danger? Why don't you have any news?" Liu Cong asked eagerly.

"There is no danger, we are just too shocked, hurry up and take a look, it's amazing, it's incredible!"

The team member's words made Liu Cong so angry that he talked for a long time without any practical things.

"So what happened?"

"Here... there is a city here!"

"What!" Liu Cong thought he had misheard. This is obviously a mausoleum, how could it become a city, but he saw from the equally surprised eyes of the people around him that he hadn't misheard. The team member said is a city.

Although the words of this player made the fear in other people's hearts disappear, they aroused their curiosity again. From the words of this player, everyone can hear that this person is really surprised.

With this curious attitude, Liu Cong stepped through the tomb door, and other people followed one after another.

After Chen Ziyang stepped through the gate of the tomb, he found that the four team members who had entered before him were standing there properly, and Liu Cong and others who entered before him were all standing there motionless, all of them tilted their heads He looked in the direction to the side.

Following everyone's gaze, Chen Ziyang was also stunned, and a huge city stood in front of everyone.

(End of this chapter)