Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 417 The Perfect End

Through the previously eavesdropped conversation between Chen Benzhong and Liu Cong, Chen Ziyang knew that everyone in the Du family was a leader in Feng Shui masters.

After a person like this entered this tomb, he should be able to tell at a glance that this is only the main tomb, and there must be other rooms in the underground palace.Moreover, it is not difficult to judge from the scale of the tomb that the scale of this underground palace is very large.

It is definitely not a coincidence that this kind of Feng Shui master with real talent and knowledge appeared here. He could not have been captured by the Japanese as an ordinary person to be a strong man, but he should have been specially invited by the Japanese, or captured. To explore the tomb.

No matter what the reason is, the Du family will definitely help the Japanese.

The reason is also very simple. If this person is very backbone and unwilling to be a traitor or a lackey of the Japanese, he can escape before coming here, or he can be killed if he refuses the request of the Japanese.

If that was the case, the compass of the Du family would not appear here.The compass that appeared in the tomb just proved that the Du family agreed to help the Japanese explore the tomb.

No matter whether they were coerced or tempted by interests, in short, the Du family came.Now that he's here, there's no reason why he doesn't want to go to other places in the underground palace.Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang turned his head to look at the corridor where everyone came in, and wanted to think about why the Du family didn't find this mechanism.

Looking at the location of the corridor in his memory, Chen Ziyang only saw a wall.After being stunned for a moment, he looked around the room, but apart from that wide mountain crack, he didn't see any passage at all.

"I... your sister's, where's the corridor?" Chen Ziyang, who thought he was delusional, rubbed his eyes and looked around again. Not to mention the corridor in the whole room, he didn't even see a stone seam arrive.

"You... who noticed when the corridor we came in was closed?"

After this sentence was asked, everyone who was packing their bags put down what they were doing. Everyone looked at the four walls of this room several times like Chen Ziyang did before, but no one saw the corridor. exist.

In fact, it was not a big deal for the corridor to close on its own, and everyone had no intention of going back the same way.But this incident was too weird. There was a loud bang when the tunnel was opened before, but it was silent when the tunnel was closed.

Because of this incident, Liu Cong postponed the team's evacuation. He didn't want to miss any clues. There might be clues hidden in the iron book, so he also wanted to find out about this matter.

Chen Ziyang stared carefully at the wall of the corridor before.There is not a single seam in this wall.Recalling the way the corridor was opened before, he remembered that when the corridor was opened, the walls on both sides moved to both sides as a whole, and it should be the same when it was closed.But the design of this wall is so ingenious that it is so seamless that it is impossible to see that the wall can be divided into two halves.

There are some sporadic coagulated blood on this wall, which has turned black because of the age.Sweeping his eyes over every drop of coagulated blood, Chen Ziyang did not miss any detail. After looking at it this way, he really found something.

A small horizontal gap was left on a few drops of blood, which looked as if a knife had been cut across the few drops of blood.Although this location is not where the tunnel existed before, Chen Ziyang still walked over to check it carefully.

After touching the traces of these drops of blood with his fingers, Chen Ziyang felt that there should be an independent stone slab between these gaps, which seemed to be openable.

After hitting this area a few times with the hilt of the Ancient Xuanming Sword, he heard a slightly different echo. It seemed that there was indeed something hidden behind this stone slab.

After trying for a long time but unable to find a way to pry or open the stone slab, Chen Ziyang took a few steps back and stared at the area carefully from a slightly further position.

The place where the stone slab was located happened to be in the middle of a mural. There were more than a dozen women carved on this mural. Judging from their clothes, these people should be maids.

A dozen maids lined up, dancing in a garden, the dance is very graceful, surrounded by these dozen maids are many flowers, these flowers are either single plants, or clusters of clusters together.There are so many varieties of flowers, it seems to give people a feeling of dizzying.

At this time, Chen Ziyang saw a small pond in the middle of the garden, and a blooming lotus grew in the pond.Although this lotus flower protruded from the pond and was hidden among other flowers, but this lotus flower was very abrupt in his eyes, because the shape of this lotus flower was almost exactly the same as the soul lamp that everyone saw before .

After looking around carefully, Chen Ziyang did not see the existence of the second lotus on this stone slab. Recalling the shape of the soul lamp before, he already had the answer in his heart, this lotus should be This is the key to unlocking this slate.

After tentatively touching this lotus a few times, Chen Ziyang nodded, then he increased the force on his fingers, and pressed down fiercely, the lotus sank into the wall under his pressure .

After the sound of "poof", some dust sprayed out from the edge of the stone slab, but the slate did not open.It seems that because of the age, the dust in the cracks of the slabs hinders the slabs from leaning forward.After a few strokes along the cracks of the stone slab with the ancient Xuanming sword, the stone slab fell completely.

Looking at the edge of the opened slate, Chen Ziyang marveled at the ingenious design of this mechanism.The entire opened stone slab is not in a regular shape, and the edges of the stone slab are uneven, but the edges of the stone slab are precisely composed of patterns carved on the stone slab.That's why the stone slab is perfectly hidden in the wall, because there are no seams to follow.

The space behind the stone slab is not very large, it is just a mezzanine, and five gears are placed in this mezzanine.These five gears are obviously divided into two parts, four gears form a group, two on the top, two on the bottom, corresponding to each other, and there is a gear with a slightly different shape on the right side of these four gears.

"Could this be the mechanism to make the tunnel appear again?" Chen Ziyang stretched out his hand, holding the gear on the far right and turning it slowly.As he turned, the other four gears also turned together, but after turning for a long time, nothing happened.

When turning this gear, Chen Ziyang felt that the hand felt very strange. Turning this gear did not require too much strength, and even only one finger was needed to move it. This feeling was like all the gears Like unbuttoned.

"Is it because the age is too long, and these institutions have failed?" Immediately, Chen Ziyang denied his own idea.The tunnel can be opened by the soul lamp, and it can be closed by itself silently. These are enough to show that the mechanism hidden in this wall has not failed, but why can't these gears use their strength?

Liu Cong, who had been staring at the side for a long time, came over, and after thinking for a while, he said next to Chen Ziyang: "I've seen this kind of mechanism before, it's not like this, you need something to fix the four at the same time. Gears, so that the gears can work hard."

After Liu Cong's reminder, Chen Ziyang kept gesticulating in the area between the four gears.Judging by the thickness of the interlayer, in order to fix the four gears at the same time, a square flat thing is needed, and this thing must be relatively hard, otherwise it may not be able to withstand the rotation of the gears.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ziyang suddenly realized: "Where is the stone brick engraved with the Soul Lamp and the Qishang Mausoleum Guard Formation?"

Hearing Chen Ziyang's words, Liu Cong also reacted.Yes, flat and hard stone bricks do fit here, and they look like they should be about the same size.

Liu Cong hurriedly asked someone to bring the broken slate over.After splicing these slates between the four gears, Chen Ziyang and Liu Cong looked at each other.

That's right, this stone slab fits almost perfectly with the four gears, and the thickness is also very suitable.In particular, the four corners of the stone slab have some traces of wear and tear, and these wear traces fit perfectly with the gears. It seems that the four corners of the stone slab were worn by these gears before.

After asking Liu Cong to hold the stone slab with both hands to prevent the broken stone slab from falling, Chen Ziyang turned the separate gear again.The rotation this time required a lot of strength, and he could clearly feel that the gears in his hand had stopped, and the feeling of rotation was obviously different.

As Chen Ziyang turned, the stone slab made a crackling sound and showed signs of bulging outward.Liu Cong pressed the slate tightly with both hands to prevent the slate from falling off the gears.

After a few crisp sounds, the edge of the stone slab was broken into several small pieces again under the pressure of the gears, and jumped out from the interlayer. Without the edge of the stone slab fixed, the stone slab Liu Cong was pressing was useless, shrinking After returning their hands, the slates fell to the ground.

"It may be because of the age. This stone slab has weathered too much and has lost its hardness. It is very likely that this stone slab was broken when Zhang Taixu and the others opened the tunnel."

"Hmm... um? Zhang Taixu? Zhang Taixu!" A thought flashed through Chen Ziyang's mind like a bolt from the blue. Among them, the brass compass made by Zhang Taixu was taken out.

Seeing the brass compass again, Liu Cong suddenly came to his senses. He gasped, and his eyes showed hope.

Figured it out, Chen Ziyang figured it all out.

Why did Zhang Taixu insist on making a brass compass?Why should the brass compass with the hidden code be placed with the code book?Why is the stone slab that reminds the correct coffin in the Qishang Mausoleum is placed under the soul lamp?Why did more than 200 civilians die here?Why didn't the Du family open other places in the underground palace?All these problems were figured out by Chen Ziyang at this moment.

As if to test his own ideas, Chen Ziyang placed the brass compass in the center of the four gears.Like the previous broken slate, the size and thickness of the brass compass fit perfectly with the four gears. It seems that the size of this brass compass was made according to the broken slate.

This time, there was no need for Liu Cong's help to fix it. As Chen Ziyang turned the fifth gear, the wall in front of him slowly moved to both sides, and the disappearing corridor reappeared.

Chen Ziyang was relieved.

Although according to the previous speculation, these more than 200 civilians were arrested and came here to excavate the ancient tomb, but there is one thing that doesn't make sense.

The existence of these more than 200 civilians is obviously meaningless.To escort them over, more than 100 Japanese soldiers were needed. With such a large number of soldiers, couldn't they dig the cracks in the mountain that connected to the Taoist holy land?

The physical strength of more than 100 strong Japanese soldiers is much better than the more than 200 starving civilians, and if the civilians are not brought along, the size of the team will be reduced from more than 300 to more than 100, no matter it is From the perspective of food consumption, or from the concealment of going deep into non-Japanese-occupied areas, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

So these more than 200 civilians must have their uses, that is, as cannon fodder.

The Du family helped the Japanese discover the Taoist holy land. He must know that there are many traps inside, and the Japanese will not let their soldiers risk their lives, so they would rather escort more than 200 soldiers at the risk of being discovered. The common people came here to use them as cannon fodder when cracking the mechanism in the Taoist holy land.

The Du family didn't open the secret tunnel, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't know how to open the tunnel.Because they came in from a crack in the mountain, they have never seen the lotus-shaped soul lamp, nor have they encountered the square stone slab.

The organ that opens the corridor in the main tomb is very concealed. It is just a small carved lotus flower. There are countless sculptures the size of this lotus flower among the wall carvings in this tomb. It is not easy to find the right one. .

And even if they discovered this mechanism and opened the hidden stone slab, there was no convenient thing to put in to fix the four gears.

It may be that Yuan Tiangang carved that stone slab in order to leave a chance for the descendants of Taoism who came here later.This stone slab not only allows the holder to skillfully avoid the Mausoleum Guardian Formation and know the function of the soul lamp, but also allows people to open the disappearing passage after entering the main tomb and being trapped by the passage that disappeared inexplicably. Otherwise, they will be trapped here to death.

When Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian used this stone slab to open the disappearing tunnel and prepared to evacuate, they left the slate under the soul lamp to remind future generations.

But this stone slab was broken when they opened the tunnel, so Zhang Taixu made a brass compass that was the same size as the stone slab but harder, as a substitute for the stone slab.

Although this mechanism did not play any role in finding iron books, it solved Chen Ziyang's knot, and also drew a perfect picture for the origin of the brass compass made by the old Chen family and Zhang Taixu for more than 90 years. full stop.

(End of this chapter)