"The place where the wind comes from as hinted by Qiong Hua should refer to the gaps between the tomb walls. If there is a cave outside, the air in the cave can easily blow in. The place where the wind comes is our way out. The so-called wind is actually It’s the air in the cave.”
Song Siyuan analyzed it like this and explained clearly the most likely situation of Yin Chen Mu. Although everyone did not understand something, they were still happy. After all, being able to find some clues was much better than waiting to die without guessing anything. .
"But the tomb is so big, how can we find a gap? Now the water has flooded the base. How long will it take before the clam tower is submerged?"
Geda opened the bright tile window and looked into the distance. When they were looking for a way out, the groundwater had completely submerged the second-floor altar. There were no buildings under the white marble platform, only the sparkling water was left. The entire clam tower seemed to be a white jade protruding from the sea. Luo Gudao is struggling to support itself in the middle of the tomb!
Song Siyuan picked up the telescope from her backpack and looked at the window that Geda opened. After looking for a moment, his eyes lit up: "This water is exactly helping us!"
"Help us?" Everyone was confused and confused.
Song Siyuan looked at everyone and nodded: "Yes, think about it, if there are gaps around the tomb, the water surface will definitely produce vortices and ripples. As long as you see these things, you have found the gaps in the tomb. On the contrary, if there are no ripples on the tomb wall, The vortex means that there are no gaps in the tomb wall. With this water, we can eliminate most of the tomb chambers without any effort. It will be much easier if only a small part of the tomb chambers are left. We have to find something to use as a boat and search around the tomb chambers. Explore and see where the gap is!"
"Yes!"
Yue Guanchao looked at the broken wooden boards floating in the water in the distance: "These wooden boards are probably the boards on the wave altar. They do look a little thin. We tied them with ropes to form wooden rafts. It can be used as a simple wooden boat." "
Song Siyuan nodded towards him: "This is a good idea. Let's tie up the wooden sign first, and I will go with you to survey the tomb wall. The two of us are better than one."
Without further ado, Yue Guanchao and Ge Damalier walked from the pavilion to the ground and walked out of the clam tower through water that was already up to their ankles.
The white marble steps had sunk under the water. They picked up the flying tiger claws and pulled all the wooden boards floating near the high platform.
These wooden boards should be the platform boards of the altar. The wood is mostly peach boards three to five inches thick, two meters long, and half a foot wide. There are still colorful ghosts and gods on the surface that have not been washed away. They don't care whether it is auspicious or not, and pick them up. The cinnabar copper ropes cut from the clam tower were used to fix the head and tail of the seven or eight wooden boards to form two simple wooden boats one meter wide.
"Geda, just keep this boat. Once the water reaches the windows, get on the boat and take refuge. Song Qianjin and I have to check it out first. We will be blind when we look for the exit."
After Yue Guanchao finished speaking, he took Song Siyuan on board the boat, picked up a thin wooden board as an oar, and drew waves toward the tomb wall in the distance.
After leaving the clam pagoda, Yue and Song looked behind them and saw more than a hundred waterfalls falling from the top of the tomb, creating snow-white waves on the water.
Many of the sapphire lamps on the top of the tomb have been extinguished and it is difficult to fully illuminate the tomb. The remaining lamps reflect the water surface like a twilight ocean. In the darkness, there is the afterglow of the reflected light from the underwater mirror palace. The clam tower is like a white snail on the seashore, gradually being swept away by the current. Submerged, it creates its own unique ripples.
They rowed a wooden boat to the tomb wall and took a closer look. They could see all the masonry on the tomb wall!
They had not observed tomb walls in the past. When they got close to these tomb walls, they realized why the tomb walls were so strong and could not be washed away by so much water - the masonry of the tomb walls was completely different from ordinary small square bricks!
This is a special "swastika"-shaped iron brick. Each brick is half a meter wide and high. The four brick arms have concave and convex patterns on the surface, as if the interlaced canine teeth can be riveted to each other. This arrangement is like countless inlays. The chessboard with the word "田" is divided into millions of squares.
Between these squares, square bricks and stones as big as buckets are laid out in regular rows. The joints between the bricks are then filled with molten iron and rice slurry, and a layer of iron molasses mud is poured on the outside. It can be said to be as solid as gold and stone.
Song Siyuan picked up the engineering shovel and knocked on the wall. It made a squeaking sound. It was obviously not as simple as masonry.
She looked at the tomb wall with a flashlight: "This thing should not be an ordinary brick. It is the same as the black iron brick we saw in Jingtan, but the shape is more special and looks like a swastika. There are also ordinary bricks." Most of the stones are laid smoothly and staggered, and the iron bricks here are made using some strange and weird method, and iron juice is poured into them. I guess it is the craft used by the Bei people to build tombs."
"No matter what the method is called, filling the masonry with iron liquid rice slurry and then pouring iron liquid stone mud basically achieves the ultimate in waterproofing. If this kind of tomb does not collapse on its own, it may not be able to be invaded by water for thousands of years. , which shows that it is strong, no wonder it has not collapsed even after so much water has been stored.”
"Song Qianjin, do you know this kind of tomb wall?"
Yue Guanchao didn't know him anyway. There were so many weird things in the dog emperor's tomb that it was impossible for him to fully recognize him.
Song Siyuan pinched her chin, nodded with curious eyes and said, "I have never seen such a tomb chamber, but similar iron screens on tomb walls are recorded in history!"
"The "Natural Treasures" archaeological magazine published an article by a foreign archaeological team. Some adventurers once dug the tombs of the Northern Yuan nobles in the northwest region. When they dug to the main tomb chamber, they couldn't dig it out. They used explosives to completely explode it. Later, when I took out the cracked masonry and took a look, I discovered that these masonry were actually iron bricks, and even the mud inside was mixed with iron juice and rice slurry. Once solidified, it would be like a rock barrier, as strong as gold."
"At first, they thought it was just an exception. It was not until more tombs of nobles from the Northern Yuan Dynasty were excavated that they determined that this type of iron sand brick was a common system for making tombs of nobles. It was used in almost all tombs. These people consulted a lot of information , only then did I know that this kind of tomb had a name in ancient times, the Iron Screen Golden Stone Tomb!"
Song Siyuan later took advantage of her own convenience and browsed through the capital's library. This kind of iron screen gold and stone tomb was related to the imperial mausoleum of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Underworld Palace!
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Prime Minister Lu Xiufu took the young emperor and jumped into the sea from a cliff. The other generals and officials followed him like a stream to avoid being captured and humiliated by the enemy.
For a time, the corpses and blood of Yashan overseas remained intact for several months, until the sea water stopped flowing, there was no wind and no waves. From then on, the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and China changed hands.
