After the three of them said that, they got up and walked towards the tomb door.
The stone step tunnel inside the tomb gate is very simple. It is almost a stone step path dug in a cave. There is no smooth place in the whole process. Even the steps are crooked. Just look at the shape inside the tunnel. Situation, it is really impossible to leave a secret door from it.
The grim-faced Taoist priest walked up and down the stone steps. When he came down, he shook his head and said: "Judging from the overall design of Qingle Mausoleum, Taoist Jianghua's means of building mechanisms should be quite high, but if you want to make one here that is not easy to detect, I’m afraid it’s not easy to do the secret door.”
"To put it bluntly, you didn't find anything?" Luo Laoqi, who was sitting on the stone steps, looked up and asked.
"You don't even bother to help, why are you just sitting here looking for me?"
"Sajia is also tired from sitting. Grandma's steps are all slanted. If you want to sit firmly, you have to hold your legs up."
"Pindao and Si Niang forced you to sit down? Why is your butt so heavy?"
"Taoist Priest, why are these stone steps slanted?" He Siniang suddenly asked.
"Ah? Why did Si Niang ask this?" The grim-faced Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "The crooked stone steps just mean that the work was rough. Maybe it is because the construction period is tight, and Taoist Jianghua rushed to finish the work like this?"
"But didn't the Taoist priest notice that the steps are all tilted to one side?" He Siniang said, pointing to Luo Laoqi who was sitting, and said: "Look, after Lao Qi sat on the stone steps, his body was Off the mark."
"This guy is usually a wanderer." The grim-faced Taoist priest said, but he still looked at the stone steps in front of him. He saw that each stone step was just like what Siniang said, it was high on the left and low on the right. , because the tunnel as a whole shows a gentle right-turning trend, these stone steps can also be said to be tilting toward the outside of the bend.
"Hey! It's really what Siniang said." The grim-faced Taoist priest held up the torch and looked into the depths of the tunnel and said, "Does Siniang feel that something fishy will be hiding here?"
"Maybe it's here, maybe I'm just overthinking it, the stone steps are chiselled at an angle, it's just because of the terrain."
The grim-faced Taoist priest nodded, and then said: "Let's just assume that the stone steps are deliberately designed this way. Each level is tilted towards the side of the tunnel. So what is the purpose of this?"
"This is a question about the family gathering. The steps are all slanted to one side. If it rains, the water will flow easily..."
"You are not reincarnated as a Ziren (generally referred to as a carpenter or a construction worker), so you are a bit inferior to your talents... It is raining in the secret passage of the ancient tomb, thank you for thinking about it."
"Hey! Sa's house is just suitable for sitting. It's not enough for you to laugh at if you use your brain."
"Actually, Lao Qi is right." He Siniang interjected at this time: "Looking at the design of the stone steps, we can only think of the drainage function, but the tunnel is very dry, so obviously this consideration is superfluous. Yes, the slope of the stone steps must have a deeper meaning."
"Drainage is not needed, walking is terrible, and sitting is even more tiring. If you want to tell the Sa family, the demon must be sick, otherwise he wouldn't be able to do such a thing."
"It's a crappy walk..." The Taoist Priest with a grimace murmured to himself. He recalled the situation when he went up and down the tunnel. It seemed that the road was uneven and the walking was not smooth. The second time everyone went down the tunnel, Luo Laoqi was still there. I have complained about this, and this has caused a phenomenon - that is, when walking, no matter whether you are going up or down from the tunnel, you will unknowingly lean against one side of the rock wall, which is the outside of the tunnel, because of the ground. , the first half of the stone steps is even because of the steep slope, and you have to cling to the outer wall to move forward. In other words, the inner rock wall of the entire tunnel has never been touched by anyone. The grim-faced Taoist priest briefly thought about the process of walking through it several times. , I don’t even think that anyone has been close to the inner wall, so could the stone steps be designed to be inclined here, in order to prevent people from approaching and touching the inner wall?
Thinking of this, the Taoist priest with a grimace quickly asked: "How many times have you two gone up and down the tunnel, have you ever walked past this side?" He pointed to the left wall of the tunnel.
"I haven't been to Sa's house before. Those steps are all slanted. How can I get there?"
"The Taoist priest thinks that the mechanism is hidden in the inner wall!" He Siniang reacted immediately and said: "The stone steps are so poorly designed, doesn't it happen to drive us away from the inner wall unintentionally?!"
"That's exactly what Pindao means."
"Then let's search again quickly to see if there are any clues that we missed."
This time, the three of them began to search along the inside of the tunnel. Mr. Luo, who was seven feet tall, was pushed at the front to prevent blind spots from being seen. The three of them formed a long snake shape, plowing the ground inch by inch. The tunnel was searched.
The gentle road gradually passed, and the three of them arrived at the first half of the steep stone steps.
When we arrived here, before searching, the grimace Taoist's hand holding the wall was the first to notice something strange.
He felt a faint vibration in the wall, and after careful observation, the vibration was very regular. The Taoist priest with a grimace raised his head and glanced at the dark tunnel. He estimated that it was at least ten feet away from the entrance of the ear chamber. The stone bed mechanism The machine shaft cannot be hidden in such a deep place, so it means that there is another machine shaft hidden in the rock wall.
"It's almost here." The grim-faced Taoist priest said in a deep voice, "I felt something vibrating inside the wall."
"Is this here? But why do I feel that the surrounding rock walls are particularly rough? It doesn't look like there is a secret passage."
"This tunnel is not a regular shape. It is twisted and twisted, and it is easy to have blind spots in the field of vision. And this is the steepest section of the tunnel, and it is also at the corner, so we can't tell if there is any hidden secret. Lao Qi, come and find out if there is anything weird above."
Luo Laoqi responded and walked to the inside of the rock wall. Without the help of others, it would be quite difficult for him to stick to the rock wall and grope for the top. The Taoist priest with a grimace had to push Luo Laoqi from behind.
Luo Laoqi just stretched out his hand and groped inside and outside the cracks in the rock above. He suddenly made a sound in his mouth while groping, and then took down a metal object from above.
The grimace Taoist priest and He Siniang approached and saw that the thing looked like a semicircular copper ball with an iron stick stuck in it. From the side, it looked like an umbrella, about the length of a finger.
At this time, He Siniang took the "copper umbrella" from Luo Laoqi's hand, put it in the palm of her hand and looked around, then pinched the ball body and made a few gestures, and said curiously: "Taoist Master, look at this iron sign. The spiral texture looks like a turnbuckle hat?
"What hat?" The old man with a ghost face had never heard of this word and couldn't help but ask: "What kind of object is that?"
"It is a carpentry craft that was first invented by the Mohists. For example, if there is something carving the same groove as the thread under the copper cap, can the copper cap be turned in little by little? , and finally fixed it tightly on that object?”
