There was originally a dead silence in the underground palace. The sudden and strange sound of the piano made the three people's hair stand on end. They hurriedly concentrated on alert and looked around nervously.
"What's going on?" Batulu stared in shock.
Seeing that Changsheng didn't speak, Datou answered on his behalf, "It sounds like the sound of a piano."
"Why is there someone playing the piano in the grave?" Batulu was puzzled, "By the way, could it be the second and third child? That's not right, they can't play the piano either."
Changsheng was listening carefully to the source of the sound of the piano at this time. Batulu's constant noise was very disturbing to him. Changsheng immediately made a silence gesture to Batulu. Batulu understood and hurriedly shut up.
The sound of the piano came from the palace in the north. It must be because it is too far away, so the sound of the piano is not high-pitched. However, the melody is continuous and the five notes are in harmony. It is obviously a human-made melody and not some kind of noise.
However, the sound of the piano did not last for a long time. It stopped after a while and lasted for less than thirty drops of water.
When the sound of the piano disappeared, the three of them came back to their senses one after another. They raised their heads and looked at Changsheng, "Your Majesty, what is going on?"
Changsheng was recalling the music he had heard earlier in his mind. He was worried that he would be distracted by talking, so he waved his hand to Datou, signaling him to wait for a moment.
After a while, Changsheng spoke up and said, "It's the sound of the piano, it's unmistakable, but a complete piece of music can be two words long or half a word short, and the sound of the piano just lasted for less than thirty drops of water."
"Didn't you finish playing?" Datou asked.
Changsheng shook his head, "It's not like it's not finished. There's a lingering sound at the end, so it doesn't end in a hurry."
After hearing Chang Sheng's words, Datou and Batulu didn't ask any more questions, because Chang Sheng had been with them all the time. When the incident happened suddenly, they were confused, and Chang Sheng was bound to have many doubts.
After pondering again, Changsheng said, "All the music will carry the owner's emotions, but the sound of the piano that appeared previously did not carry any emotion."
"Could it have been shot by a dead man?" Batulu made a wild guess.
If he had spoken out of mind, Batulu would no longer be Batulu. However, his nonsense reminded Changsheng unintentionally that dead people cannot play the piano, but the sound of the piano may not be made by living people.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly concentrated on estimating the time. Qi practitioners, especially Taoist priests, have extremely accurate perceptions of time. They roughly estimated that this is the time when Wei Shi and Shen Shi intersect.
"I know," Changsheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the north, "The sound of the piano that appeared earlier is most likely some kind of time-telling device. At this time, the time is ending and the time is starting, so the sound of the piano suddenly sounded."
There is nothing more terrifying than the unknown. Hearing what Changsheng said, Batulu suddenly realized, "Damn it, I almost scared him to death."
"Let's go in." Changsheng stepped forward.
The city gate is ajar, and it should have been ajar originally, because both Li Zhongyong and Chen Liqiu have spiritual energy cultivation and can easily climb over the city wall. There is no need to go through the city gate, and there are no signs of pushing or pulling below the city gate. .
The imperial palace is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The three of them came to the outer city first. In fact, the imperial city more than a thousand years ago was very similar to the imperial city at this time. The palace was tall and majestic. The only difference was the palace in the Qin Dynasty. There are few carved beams and painted pillars in the decoration, which are ingenious but not workmanlike, showing their simplicity and heaviness.
Like the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty, this underground palace also has nine front and rear entrances. In the square of the front hall, it is divided into two rows from north to south. There are twelve huge bronze figures neatly placed. There are six civil servants and six martial arts figures. The civil servants are holding court scepters, and the generals are carrying swords at their waists. They are all sitting upright.
To enter the inner city, you must walk through the corridor between the twelve huge bronze figures. Although these twelve bronze figures are all sitting, each one is more than three feet tall and weighs more than one hundred thousand kilograms. Three people can walk While looking left and right, I was shocked by its huge size and marveled at the exquisite craftsmanship.
"It's priceless." Datou was originally a money man, and he would instinctively estimate the value of a certain artifact when he saw it.
"What?" Batulu curled his lips and shook his head, "Don't you see it's a little green? It's made of copper, it's not valuable."
"Uncle, copper is valuable," Big Head said. "If these twelve bronze figures are moved out, do you know how many copper coins can be melted?"
"It's so big, who can move it?" Batulu said.
When the two of them were talking, Chang Sheng was thinking anxiously. Naturally, what he was thinking about was not how many copper coins these twelve bronze figures could be cast. But according to historical records, Qin Shihuang did cast twelve bronze figures after unifying the six kingdoms. The bronze used to cast the bronze figures was the weapon used to capture enemy troops.
You must know that the smelting level in the Qin Dynasty was very low. The casting of these twelve bronze figures almost consumed at least 30% of the bronze in the Qin Dynasty. According to legend, the twelve bronze figures were originally placed in the square in front of Xianyang Palace. At present, it seems that This is not the case, because the real Twelve Bronze Figures are placed in the underground imperial tomb.
The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became in Changsheng's mind. Although the Qin Dynasty already advocated generous burials, there had to be a limit to burials. With so much gold, coupled with so much bronze, the Qin Dynasty could not survive no matter how prosperous its country was. After all this trouble, all the dead will be buried with the dead, but the living will not be able to survive?
Chang Sheng hurriedly walked north with doubts in his heart. When the sound of the piano sounded earlier, he roughly determined the location where the sound of the piano appeared. He had to be sure that the previous sound of the piano was just a timing device. If not, then things would be too weird.
There are countless large and small palaces in the palace. It is extremely difficult to find the place where the sound of the piano appears among the many palaces. However, Changsheng quickly found the suspected palace, and the reason why he could find it so easily was because Benefit from the footprints left on the ground by Li Zhongyong and Chen Liqiu.
The palace door was ajar. Seeing Changsheng reaching out to push the door open, Datou hurriedly took the initiative, blocking Changsheng's front and pushing the palace door open.
Although the three of them had night vision, there was no light at all underground, and it was even darker in the palace. In order to see the situation in the palace more clearly, Changsheng raised his left hand again, generating flames for lighting.
There is only one strange artifact placed in the middle area of the huge palace. This object is huge in size and weird in shape, somewhat like a pot-bellied copper urn. It is nine feet high and six feet wide. There is a deep well and a thick well below it. The hinges hang straight from the copper urn into the deep well below.
"What is this?" Batulu was very curious, but he remembered Changsheng's instructions. Although he was curious, he only tilted his head to look at it and did not reach out to touch it.
"Uncle, look," Big Tou pointed, "there are patterns of the twelve earthly branches on it. This thing should be the timing device that the prince mentioned. The sound of the piano we heard earlier was produced by it."
While Batulu was talking to Datou, Changsheng was observing the footprints on the ground. There were traces of walking back and forth around the copper urn. This was undoubtedly done by Li Zhongyong. Li Zhongyong was extremely obsessed with creation. When he encountered such magical things, he couldn't help but You should take a closer look and think about it.
"What do you think is tied under this iron chain?" Batulu tilted his head and looked at the hinges under the copper urn.
Batulu said this because he hoped that Changsheng would take the initiative to let him pull up the hinge to find out. However, Changsheng did not answer the question and just walked around the copper urn before walking out of the palace.
Batulu had no choice but to follow him out, "Lao Wu, this place is too big. I don't know when I will find it if I search like this. How about I shout a few more times?"
"No need to shout, they shouldn't be here." Changsheng said casually.
"What do you mean?" Batulu tilted his head in confusion, "Where would they be if they weren't here?"
"They are still in the imperial tomb, but not in the area where we are," Changsheng said. "They should have gone to another place through a secret passage."
Batulu seemed to understand, but he didn't ask any more questions and continued walking north behind the two of them.
"My lord, have you noticed that something is not right about this place," Big Head said. "The copper timepiece they made can still tell time accurately after a thousand years, but there is not a single anti-theft mechanism in the entire palace."
"You are right, this place does not look like a mausoleum. I suspect that the Qin people built this area for another purpose..."
