Yue Guanchao took out his dagger and cut a complete outline along the underground door. He pried the dagger upward slightly, and a gap opened in the stone door. They threw the underground door into the tomb passage and stood on the shore with a flashlight to look down.
The tomb passage is built with green-gray bricks and stones. It is slightly steep at the beginning, but gradually becomes gentle and parallel in the distance. Even if you use a flashlight, you can feel that it is dark and chaotic, full of underground coldness, and all kinds of dangers seem to be hidden in the secret places.
Master Mao took out a white candle from his treasure bag, lit it with a fire stick and placed it on the ground of the tomb passage. After making sure that the candle did not go out immediately or change color, the vigilance in his eyes gradually dissipated.
If there are no candles in the tomb passage, it means that the soul of the tomb owner does not welcome them here!
Of course, according to Mr. Cat, this is indeed superstition.
But Yue Guanchao also knows the origin of this rule. If the tomb is sealed, it is likely that it will not be ventilated with the outside world for several years. If the corpse in the tomb produces putrefactive gas again, once it enters and inhales the turbid corpse poison gas, it will definitely affect the body. cause some damages.
The white candle burning fully means that there is enough air in the tomb to prevent the poisonous gas from spreading. Judging from the dancing flames, there must be a ventilation hole in the tomb passage, but I don't know where it is.
After confirming that the tomb passage was safe, Yue Guanchao followed the hemp rope back to the shore and looked at everyone:
"Master Cat and I have opened the tomb door and can now enter the tomb passage."
"Okay, I will send a team of strong men to follow you down. When the tomb is opened, I will send some more people to transport the treasure."
The housekeeper of the court was very smart and naturally knew that eggs should not be put in one basket. He only sent about fifteen strong men with various guns, halberds and shields to follow them down to the tomb passage.
Yue Guanchao turned on his flashlight and counted the number of people. Song Siyuan, Ma Chang, Ge Da, Mao Ye, and Yue Erpao were all there. Plus the powerful men from the court family, a large group of people filled the tomb passage.
Wow!
Just as he was about to move forward, another person came down from the cave. He took a quick look and found out that it was Old Man Yu.
"Yu Bo, why are you coming down here?"
Old Man Yu glanced upwards, his meaning was very clear. The housekeeper was worried about an outsider being up there, so he naturally wanted to send him down.
"Then follow us and don't fall behind. There are countless mechanisms in the tomb."
After that, a dozen strong men set up a shield formation made of red copper, blocked Yue Guanchao and the others behind them, and slowly moved forward into the tomb passage.
"If we keep going down like this, we will have to go until the year of the monkey and the horse and the moon!"
Yue Erpao followed behind the shield and looked around with a flashlight. The tomb passage was full of bricks and stones. The large and small stone grids that could not be seen at the end made everyone feel uncomfortable, and the cold atmosphere made people's skin crawl.
Master Mao coughed slightly and explained to Yue Guanchao:
"Young man, most of the tomb passages in the Tang Dynasty are inclined downward. This is to prevent tomb robbers from visiting, unless they directly drill through the top of the tomb. But when digging holes in the tomb passage, the downward sloping structure is the most difficult to figure out, and it will give the tomb robbers a chance. This feeling of elusiveness, if you are still timid, you will not dare to attack."
As they spoke, everyone was already sliding down the ramp. The further they went, the more the tomb passage became almost flat, giving it the feeling of walking slowly on flat ground.
Go through the corridor and reach the end.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, a strange-looking circular tomb door appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"Unexpected, but it is also being cleaned up. I originally thought it would be the huge stone gate in the Tang Dynasty, but now it is built as the Lotus Pagoda Gate. Instead, it has merged with the golden lotus statue of Haidong Shenghuang."
Yue Guanchao saw that Mr. Cat was about to walk out of the bronze medal formation, and hurriedly asked the strong men to continue walking forward. When they got closer to the tomb door, many details on the door began to come into view.
The tomb gate is a giant disc protruding from the gray and white stone wall. It is slightly larger than a carriage. There are eight lifelike lotus flowers on it. Each petal protrudes from the curtain wall. The lines are smooth, the flowers and leaves are curled, and they are well-proportioned. The white marble The flowers and leaves are carved with many mysterious figures and prophecies, and the edges are edged with yellow glazed tiles, as if there are giant gold-rimmed lotus flowers hanging on the wall!
In the lotus, where the lotus disk should be, is embedded a bronze Bagua mirror. This mirror is decorated with patterns, densely covered with prophecies, and contains beads and jade. It does not skimp on jewels and jade. The entire Bagua disk is as exquisite as the Shui Zhenshui mirror. Up and down, it's just that the mirror surface is opposite to it, and it looks like it's recessed into the wall.
When I shine a flashlight, the hexagram patterns on the Bagua plate shine brightly. Golden lotus, Bagua, bronze plate, pearls and jade, all these things are like mysterious and gloomy seals, tightly trapping the sinister world behind the tomb door, leaving no trace at all. out!
Thousands of years have already made the bronze mirror rotten and rusty, and it cannot reflect anything. At first glance, I thought it was just an ordinary stone trough.
Outside the tomb gate, the curtain wall is made of bricks and stones, with insect-proof secret medicine poured in the middle, and then coated with glutinous mud and sand. The wall is built according to the undulating potential of the underground cave to form a solid wall.
Mr. Cat threw a stone forward, and after making sure that no mechanism was touched, he walked from the shield to the tomb door.
