Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 175 Lihuomu

The large and small holes on the door, I only looked at them for a while, and then I recalled the arrangement of Luoshu.

Luoshu was called Guishu in ancient times. According to legend, during Dayu's flood control period, a tortoise came out of the water, and Luoshu was engraved on the back of the turtle.His book covers the principles of heaven and earth, yin and yang and the five elements. Dayu saw the epiphany, and then he came up with a way to control the water.It is said that the book on the back of the tortoise was written by Fuxi when he was studying the inborn gossip.

And on this door is Luo Shu.

In fact, the holes in the door, I think, are probably for conveying anger, but I don't know the reason for deliberately arranging these holes in the appearance of Luoshu, maybe it's just Xu Fu's hobby?Just thinking about it, Wu Sidong suddenly said: "It's so strange, this tripod is still hot, it seems that the fire inside has just been extinguished."

I said to myself that this place has been closed for many years, the original air holes have already been blocked, the so-called thousand-year-old fire has already passed 2000 years ago, and it has long been extinguished, how can the furnace be still warm?Professor Lin went to touch it, and suddenly his expression changed, and he said: "No, everyone, get out of here!" Although Professor Lin is old and walks outside all year round, he is very skilled.There were only him and Wu Sidong by the stove, and I don't know what happened. After Professor Lin finished speaking, he threw Wu Sidong to the ground.

But at this moment, a burst of dazzling flames burst into the entire dark fire aid room.The fire came so fast, everyone was already in the dark, only the dim light of the flashlight was around, suddenly being illuminated by such a strong fire, I felt my eyes heat up, my eyes blurred, and my vision was orange, which shocked me I had to squat down quickly covering my eyes.

At the same time, accompanied by a sudden heat wave, I suddenly felt as if I was standing by the stove, and my hairs were almost scorched.I covered my eyes for about ten seconds before I could barely adapt to the light, and only then did I realize that the dazzling light was the flames from the furnace in the middle.

The tongue of flames was more than ten meters high, and the air around the scorching flames jumped along with it, making it extremely difficult to breathe.

Normal people know that it is impossible for ordinary fuel oil to raise such a high flame. The strangest thing is that the flame has already been extinguished long ago, so how can it burn by itself?
At this moment, Professor Lin has taken Wu Sidong to hide next to me, and everyone is standing close to the wall of the fire room, barely far away from the stove.In an instant, everyone's faces were burnt red, with a layer of oily sweat. I asked Professor Lin what was going on, how could the fire ignite by itself, but I heard Professor Lin say: "Have you heard of the fire?" Lihuomu?"

Gu Wenmin reacted quickly, and said, "Ah, is it a legendary tree that grows in fairy mountains overseas, spontaneously ignites when exposed to air, and never extinguishes for thousands of years?" Professor Lin showed appreciation in his eyes, and said, "That's it. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, there is such a tree. This kind of tree. At first I thought it was a black iron tripod, which was burned with shark oil, but then I felt strange, if it was really made of iron, why hasn’t it been melted by fire after thousands of years? If not Sidong found that the furnace itself was heating up, which reminded me of Lihuomu, I'm afraid the two of us would have been scorched just now."

I have never heard of such a thing, so Gu Wenmin told us the way to do it.In ancient times, there were many chronicles that recorded strange and foreign objects, such as "Shan Hai", "Sou Shen", "Qi Xie", etc. In such chronicles, many magical species were recorded, and one of them was a tree called Lihuomu.There is nothing special about this kind of tree when it is young, but after growing for a thousand years, it will spontaneously ignite when it encounters gas, and the burning speed is very slow. It is said that a complete Lihuo wood will burn for tens of millions of years to burn out.

The cauldron was obviously cold just now, but when everyone was looking for the fire path and taking pictures and rubbings, they actually started to get hot. Combining the previous doubts, Professor Lin immediately thought of Lihuomu, and Wu Sidong was about to pushed away.This can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune, thinking that when the flames of the Lihuo wood were sprayed out in an instant, the flames would overflow, if there was no push, the two of them would be disfigured even if they did not die.

The air holes in this place may have been blocked in the natural environment, so the fire in the furnace had already been extinguished, but as we pried open the stones, the air re-entered and accumulated a certain amount of air. The furnace tripod made will burn by itself.At this moment, there is a huge fireball in the middle of the open space in front of our eyes. Everyone is about [-] or [-] meters away from each other. Even so, they still feel scorched hot all over.

Tofu suddenly said, "Is this kind of tree very rare?"

Professor Lin took off his glasses and said: "Of course it is rare. This is a tree species recorded in ancient books. Our ancient ancestors are the ones who really know the mysteries of this world. Therefore, the real significance of archaeology is not only To know the history, and to pursue the truth of our world." Professor Lin's words won the support of Duan Fei and Wu Sidong, both of whom looked excited, obviously their hearts were surging.

At this time, Tofu said: "Such a rare thing must be worth a lot. Why don't we get a piece and sell it? Even if we can't sell it, we can give it to the fellow villagers in the Northeast. It's so cold there, and there are endless burnt pieces." The firewood can be used for heating and cooking, so I must be very grateful to us."

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If no one picked up the tofu, everyone was speechless for a while, then they came back to their senses and decided to do business. If this continues, they will definitely be burnt.We had enough tools, so we immediately took out the 'iron pusher' specially used to deal with natural stones, stuck it in the crack of the stone door, and pushed the stone bar behind it hard, and heard a bang, the stone bar fell to the ground, and the two stone doors were pushed Then it suddenly opened, revealing a straight passage behind.

The firelight penetrated in, and the passageway was illuminated red, while the end where the firelight could not reach was pitch black.After coming down, the structure of the whole fire room is almost the same as what I said before, so now everyone is convinced of me, and even Wu Sidong doesn't like to make trouble for me as much as before, so they immediately give way and let me go ahead .

I led the team in front, with a flashlight on, and gradually moved away from the range of the firelight. The scorching air wave gradually disappeared, and the hot sweat on my body was coldly sticking to the skin, which made me feel uncomfortable.

There is nothing superfluous in this passage, except for the light trough between the two walls. There are many bends in the passage, probably to avoid something. After walking for about twenty minutes, suddenly appeared in front of me. Three forks.I am sure, it seems that the overall structure is similar to what I guessed, these three passages lead to the interior of the three peaks, one of which leads directly to Xu Fu's underground palace.

However, we twisted and turned at the entrance of the passage several times, so we were not sure which of the three entrances in front of us was the one leading to the underground palace.At this time, it was the turn of the four robots to come forward. They took out the miniature detectors from the equipment. These instruments can detect the metal content nearby. There must be a lot of copper, iron, gold and silver objects in the underground palace. If you explore, you can find the right path, which is a common method used by modern tomb robbers.

The four robots were well-trained, and spontaneously began to detect the three fire paths. Who knew that after the detection was completed, the four looked at each other and were stunned. Finally, the robot No. [-] said: "There is a lot of metal reaction, what's going on?"

Tofu laughed loudly, and sneered unceremoniously: "Everyone says your instruments are useless. If I knew it, I wouldn't have to memorize it so hard. Old Chen, show them your hands." I glanced at him, no He said lukewarmly, "I can't judge."

Duan Fei said: "It should be in the middle, isn't the main peak located in the middle?" If we follow the normal situation, we have no way of judging, and we will definitely choose the middle, because as long as there are no accidents, the people who built the fire path will be fine. Take a detour.But what makes me feel weird is that the four robots used metal detectors just now. Why did they get a lot of metal objects on three sides?Could it be that Xu Fu's underground palace is so huge that it runs through three mountain peaks?

When I told everyone about my conjecture, Professor Lin frowned and said, "According to the manpower at that time, it should be impossible." After more than 2000 years, we can hardly predict what happened at that time. If we don't use it, we can only choose the seemingly most normal method and choose the middle fire path to move forward.

As we go forward, the terrain gradually rises. Qin's tomb is buried on a mountain. It seems that Xu Fu's tomb is also on a mountain.This fire path is very long, about half an hour later, a stone door appeared in front of our eyes.

This is a sealed stone gate, and the gap in the middle is still wrapped with oil wax. On both sides of the stone gate, there are terracotta guards, one holding a halberd and the other holding a bronze sword. Since this place was not completely sealed, the weapons The preservation is not good, there are copper flowers on it, and some places are rotten.

When I saw these two terracotta warriors, I felt breathless, because the shape of these two terracotta warriors was very similar to Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors and horses. From the dress to the hairstyle and shape, they all highlighted the style of the Qin Dynasty .On the small island in Fusang, tombs from the Qin Dynasty were discovered. What does this mean?
My heart was pounding, and Professor Lin's hands were trembling with excitement. He kept pushing up his glasses with only one lens, as if he wanted to see more clearly.

Tofu curled his lips, not interested, wandered around for a while, and said: "Open this stone gate first, our time is precious, don't play a game of meeting and greeting with these two figurines." When he said this, I also suppressed my heart Excited, he secretly said: I am not an archaeologist, I really shouldn't be so gaffe, now is not the time to be excited, it is important to find the main tomb as soon as possible.The seal of Liuhe that I'm looking for this time is said to be the treasure that Qin Shihuang used to sweep Liuhe. Such an important thing must be buried with the coffin and placed in the coffin. It's just too bad.

(End of this chapter)