Walking into the tomb and turning on the flashlight, countless light beams illuminated the dark space as bright as day. What appeared in front of them was not the tomb chamber, but some almost primitive caves and grottoes. The tomb passages under their feet extended into these rock cavities. A continuous arch bridge is formed to connect to the distance.
For a moment, everyone seemed to be standing at the end of the bridge. They saw a straight bridge spanning hundreds of meters and extending into the distance. No matter how far it was, it was no longer visible. They only felt black and hazy, making it difficult to recognize.
Yue Guanchao became vigilant and lowered his voice and said: "Everyone, be careful. If there is rocky flat ground in the rock formation, there is a high probability that there will not be such a bridge. The existence of a bridge proves that except for bridges, it is probably impossible to stand or walk."
Everyone observed the bridges carefully. These bridges were made entirely of stone. The bridge deck was three meters wide and ten meters long, forming a hole of its own. The railings were arranged in an arc shape to fit the bridge deck. There were stone beasts on the railings every half meter. It is carved with an eagle flying high.
From where they stood to the distance, they were all made up of a one-hole bridge with a similar basic structure. The continuous arch had formed as many as twelve holes under the bridge, and there were countless more holes going forward.
They turned on their flashlights and shone their light under the bridge. They did not see the rapid rivers or burial pits they had imagined, but only mud that was almost swampy.
The texture of these muds is close to that of steamed glutinous rice, or sticky rice cakes that have formed into a paste. They look sticky, and the moisture on the surface reflects a lot of light.
Yue Guanchao and the others picked up their engineer picks and stabbed them under the bridge pier a few times. The texture was like wet sand. They could be stabbed in and picked out. As long as they were dropped back to their original positions, they would quickly merge with the other mud. .
Sun Daqiao stared at the mud for a while, then his eyes lit up and he said: "It seems that our guess is correct. There is indeed a lot of glutinous rice milk mixed into this mud. It is the time when the frozen soil melts in summer and autumn. These are all It is frozen soil that has melted. If we look at it from the perspective of winter, there should be flat ground as hard as cement under the bridge pier, which means that Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng did use glutinous rice slurry to increase the stickiness of the frozen soil."
"So!"
The old man continued: "It is very likely that they also used wood to make a huge tomb. If these two points are met, it should be confirmed that they used grassland hanging pile burials."
They walked forward along the bridge and stopped when they reached the other end of the bridge. From the moment he stepped onto the bridge, Yue Guanchao kept counting his steps. Calculated at half a meter per step, the entire bridge was The length is about two hundred meters. In other words, the length of the entire mud pit alone reaches two hundred meters, regardless of its width.
At the end of the bridge where they were, a narrow grotto appeared. After passing through the narrow cave grotto, the tomb chamber in the grotto was finally revealed.
After passing through the narrow entrance, they entered a larger rock space. Looking at the inner and outer spaces, the shape of the two rock caves is like a gourd with a large front and a small back. They just passed through the grotto, which happened to be It is the waist of the two gourds. Their current location is the belly of the largest gourd.
Observing carefully, the rock formation ground is still full of silt, but above the silt, there is no longer a bridge, but a square and regular stone platform. This stone platform is larger than four or five basketball courts and is in a regular square shape. The shape is like pavilions on the water, suspended half a meter away from the mud.
Under the platform, you can see hundreds of wooden piles that completely support the platform. There are stone pillars at the four corners that are wider than the circular granary. These pillar structures in the mud firmly support the stone platform and stabilize the entire platform. The stone platform prevents it from shaking due to melting mud.
On top of the platform is a whole complex of tomb buildings. Since Jieli Khan was a grassland nation and he did not like gorgeous palaces during his lifetime, but preferred to live in a dome house. Of course, his tomb palace was also designed in the dome house style by Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng. , it is not a gorgeous burial hall for Han nobles, but closer to the tents of Turkic nobles.
The so-called tent is actually a tent where Turkic princes and nobles live. Compared with the tents of ordinary people, the production and shape of the tent are obviously more exquisite and luxurious. The tent is square in shape, and a round helmet top is formed at the top of the roof. Hexagonal walls appear on the top, eventually forming a pointed pagoda top. On the left and right sides of the tent, there are I-shaped corridors that connect the left and right tents, forming a palace-like layout.
The most advanced tents often take the central khan tent as the center of the circle, and continuously connect the tents with I-shaped corridors to expand the scale of the tents, gradually forming a group of tent buildings similar to an octagonal maze. If you look at it from a high altitude, , like a totem in the form of Bagua, each node represents a luxurious dome.
As early as the period of the merger of East and West Turks, the Yazhang Palace of the Turkic Great Khan was no less than the deep palace and high court of the Central Plains emperor. It could accommodate all the former harem members of the Turkic Great Khan. After the division of the East and West Turks, The Eastern Turks no longer have the financial resources to build such a great khan's oppressive palace, and the khan's tent has been reduced in size. Even so, it is comparable to the prince's residence of the Han nobles.
According to the funeral customs in the Central Plains, the burial form of nobles is related to their status and titles. Jieli Khan was only a right-guard general during his lifetime, and he was posthumously named the King of Guiyi County before his death. According to the rules of the funeral, one rank is added. The size of its mausoleum is only one level lower than that of the heir king with the surname Li, and the funeral can be held as a king with a different surname.
Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng did build him an underground palace after his death in accordance with the rules. The entire underground palace complex was distributed in the shape of a vessel, with side tents in the front, back, left and right, southeast and northwest, and in the middle was the tent where the Turkic Khan lived. In order to allow the underground palace to exist as much as possible. If it takes longer, it will definitely be impossible to use animal skins and wood to make dental tents.
The dental tent in front of you is completely made of rammed earth and fixed with stone strips, and then covered with fur outside the stone strips. It looks like it is made of animal skins, but it is actually a solid stone rammed earth building. Otherwise, If a geological disaster occurs, there will be no problem in withstanding it for thousands of years. It is expected that the rammed earth and stones are filled with glutinous rice slurry, which can make the material of the dome stronger.
If you look closely at these dome buildings, they look like a maze with domed golden helmets, gorgeous tents, and rich totems. You can feel that they were built according to the palace of Jieli Khan during his lifetime. In addition to the tents, there are also cows, sheep, and wooden horses made of Tang Dynasty porcelain. , The Slave Trilogy completely transfers the honor during life to death.
Song Siyuan used a flashlight to count the dome buildings on the platform. There were probably nearly a hundred tents, which were spread out evenly on the platform. The overall distribution was hexagonal, like a huge maze appearing on the platform. , among which the dome that is most likely to contain treasures is probably the Khan's Tooth Tent in the center.
They no longer hesitated and walked across the arch bridge to the platform. Just as they were about to enter the entrance of the tooth tent maze, Yue Guanchao suddenly felt something. By the time he told everyone to stop, it was already too late.
Some thugs were exploring the way forward and had already entered the maze. As soon as they stepped on the stone slabs in the corridor, they heard the sound of Susushasha coming from the Qionglu Palace.
Within a moment, countless bows and arrows were seen flying out of the windows in the Qionglu Palace, directly shooting these thugs into hedgehogs. Several people did not even have time to scream, and their heads were pierced by countless bronze bows and arrows, and they died instantly.
These situations happened in an instant, and there was no time to tell them to escape. They had to flee backwards to avoid being attacked by bows and arrows.
After all these people were killed by bows and arrows, the surrounding dome palace became quiet. After this, they also knew that there might be some hidden weapon mechanism in the corridor, so they immediately stopped and stopped moving forward.
It was even more difficult for John Hua. He brought more than a dozen people, who were originally used as helpers, but he had already lost seven or eight people before he entered the tent. After all, his face was still a little angry, and he looked at Yue Guanchao: " You are not leading us into the agency, are you?"
What he said made no sense. Yue Erpao sneered and said teasingly: "What does this have to do with us? We want to lure you into the agency. At least we know that there is an agency in advance. We come in front and back. No one knows there is something under the floor." What, if we hadn't stopped you, you and these dozen people would have been completely wiped out. Now it's only broken by seven or eight, you should thank us."
After a while, the Qionglu maze returned to normal. Song Siyuan observed the situation carefully and said slowly: "Now is not the time to quarrel. It is normal to have mechanisms on the floor. After all, this is the tomb designed by Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng. There is nothing like The Ancestral Soul Palace is equally dangerous, which is already a blessing, now it depends on how we find the mechanism, otherwise we will not be able to walk into the tooth tent."
"The key is that there is no pattern." Yue Guanchao just observed that there is no pattern at all in the flight of these bows and arrows. They are almost randomly triggered and fly from all directions. If it is really irregular, then I'm afraid it's impossible for them to walk into the tent, and it's impossible for people to escape from the irregular firing of concealed weapons.
"There can be no pattern."
Song Siyuan nodded towards him: "As long as it is a mechanism, it must have some kind of rules or tricks. It is not to leave a way for others to crack it, but when the mechanism is created, it itself has some kind of metrical rules, regardless of Whether it is the Qimen Dunjia, the Eight-door Golden Lock, or some Bagua Array, they can be created because they have certain rules."
"This is something that comes with the formation. No one can change this mechanism. In other words, whenever this mechanism is changed, the subtlety of the mechanism will be destroyed. In the least, the mechanism will fail, and in serious cases, it will be injured. And those who set up the mechanisms, they should not be stupid enough to harm themselves by modifying the mechanisms."
She paused and her tone became mysterious: "Judging from the situation just now, these thugs are walking very loosely. They move in different positions, and their standing positions are also somewhat different. Only after they are completely separated, certain mechanisms are triggered. , this shows that some floors under the floor are solid, and some floors are hollow. They stepped on some hollow floors and triggered certain mechanisms hidden under the stone slabs. If we want to find some rules, , I’m afraid we have to focus on these floors.”
"At least!" She looked at everyone meaningfully: "You have to walk a certain distance to know what kind of arrangement the mechanisms under the floor show and what array they are. However, no one can guarantee that they will be in the process. Not harmed."
"How about the two of us go up." Keli looked at Yue Guanchao and said. Among the crowd, there were many old, some weak, and the most agile ones were him and Yue Guanchao. With John Hua's thugs in their hands, they would be even more confident. His suspicions were raised, which might directly make John Hua anxious.
Song Siyuan nodded and said: "Okay, but you have to be careful. I see that there are no traps on these roads that have been traveled by people. Probably because after the traps are triggered, the arrows inside have been consumed, and there are places where corpses have fallen to the ground. At least it's safe. You should carefully observe this section of the road to see how the empty mechanisms are arranged."
