Chapter 0303: Four Corners of the Acid Tomb

It is winter now, and the soil in the riverbed itself contains a lot of water, so it is frozen very hard. I suffered a lot when nailing the Luoyang shovel. It was very strenuous to hit the shovel down. Even my hands with thick calluses couldn't bear it. I hit it less than half a meter and my hands were full of blisters. It was so painful. But now I am the only one in our group who has this skill. People who don't know how to use the Luoyang shovel can't play it well, so I can only "work harder for those who are capable" and grit my teeth and persevere!

Originally, I thought that this tomb should be very deep, after all, all big tombs are like this. When supervising the construction, in order to make the span larger, they dug desperately underground. So far, the deepest tomb I have seen should be the tomb of Li Cunshi. The underground palace Qimen Dunjia mechanism is only 40 to 50 meters away from the surface. The real underground palace is at least several hundred meters underground. It is amazingly built, which is also conducive to anti-theft. Even modern instruments cannot detect the movement underground. I thought that since the tomb I was digging now belonged to a royal relative, it couldn't be bad. I prepared six or seven white wax rods at my feet, and I was ready for a "battle". Unexpectedly, when I used the Luoyang shovel, not even one white wax rod was fully driven in. At most, it was about one meter into the ground. I felt that the shovel head "clanged" and shoveled something. There was also a crisp "click" sound from below. The sound was similar to the sound of tiles breaking. It was clear that my Luoyang shovel had hit the tomb structure!

So shallow from the ground?

Even if the villagers had dug here, the ancient tomb would not be only three or four meters from the surface, right?

I was a little confused in my heart, but the reaction from the Luoyang shovel was not wrong. I pulled the white wax rod with one hand and lifted the shovel up. When the shovel came out of the soil, the soil brought up was mixed with a lot of brick and tile fragments, which were clearly the wall fragments of the ancient tomb. The only strange thing was that the soil looked wet, not like water, and the liquid looked sticky!

It seemed to be a trick!

I was a little confused in my heart. It was normal for the underground soil to be wet, but it was not right to be sticky!

After noticing this, I didn't dare to reach out to touch the soil, but smelled it. I immediately smelled a particularly irritating smell, which seemed to be sulfur, but it didn't look like it. It was clearly concentrated sulfuric acid!

I understood all of a sudden that we should have encountered the legendary acid-top tomb!

This acid-topped tomb is somewhat similar to the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Tomb I encountered before in the Qinling Mountains, except that the tomb is not filled with Western Region Fire Dragon Oil, but concentrated sulfuric acid. If a tomb robber accidentally breaks it while standing on it, he will be in big trouble and will be burned to death by the concentrated sulfuric acid that flows out!

However, although this kind of tomb roof structure is dangerous, it is not as difficult as the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Roof. As long as people don't stand on the tomb roof and step on it and fall into the concentrated sulfuric acid, it will be fine. After digging out the burial mound, use a stronger tool to poke the surface of the tomb roof at once, and then extract the concentrated sulfuric acid in the interlayer. However, you have to control the force when poking the tomb, and don't poke the tomb roof through at once, otherwise the concentrated sulfuric acid will flow into the tomb chamber. When the acid-top tomb is designed, the amount of concentrated sulfuric acid filled on the top is definitely enough to flood the entire ancient tomb, at least it can fill the ancient tomb with half a meter of sulfuric acid liquid. People like that should not go down, because they will be burned to death by sulfuric acid, which is equivalent to a semi-self-destructive tomb structure. It is not as vicious as the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Roof. The tomb with the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Roof will drag the tomb robbers to death together!

After figuring this out, I smiled bitterly - it seems that I have to dig the hole myself. This acid-top tomb is dangerous, and I have to be careful when I do it. Lin Qing and his friends are not professionals in this field. They were careless when digging the hole, and they didn't know how to avoid damaging the sulfuric acid top. For safety reasons, I can only work harder on my own.

After figuring this out, I asked Lin Qing and Chen Yu to find a place to hide for a while. After all, there are blood-beaked carrion crows in the sky "raining" on us. They don't have to be "poured" by me here. These three are also very direct. When they heard me say this, they immediately dodged to the side without saying no. They took out a piece of plastic sheet from their backpacks and covered themselves with it when they hid on the shore. In this way, those blood-beaked carrion crows can't disgust them.

They were relaxed, but I was miserable. I had to endure these annoying blood-beaked corpse-eating crows while holding the engineer shovel to start working. The top of the tomb where I used the Luoyang shovel had been broken, so I definitely couldn't dig a hole there, so I walked forward a little and changed the place to start digging. The soil here was frozen hard in winter. It took me nearly three or four hours to dig a one-meter-deep hole 80 to 90 centimeters deep. At this time, I should be very close to the top of the tomb. I didn't dare to stand in the pit anymore. I climbed out and took the climbing rope and tied it around my waist. The other rope was tied to a relatively strong tree not far from the hole, and then I hung myself back to the corridor, with my feet stuck on both sides of the hole, and continued to work with my waist bent. Although it was tiring, I didn't break the top of the hole while standing on it, which made me half dead.

At this time, the excavation was already quite deep, and the soil was not particularly frozen, so it was much easier to dig. Soon I dug more than ten centimeters down, and then heard a light "clang" sound from the shovel head of the engineer shovel. I knew that I should have dug to the end, but I didn't feel relieved at all. Instead, I became more nervous. I put the engineer shovel on my waist, and then opened the flashlight to find and carefully clean the top of the tomb. After I had probably pushed all the soil on it aside, I was dumbfounded-because there was a particularly large stone in front of me. I knocked on it, and the sound made by the stone was very heavy, not like there was a layer inside.

Is it not an acid-top tomb? Then where did the concentrated sulfuric acid I just made come from?

I was a little confused, but I also noticed that there was a place on this large stone slab where the stone skin was severely damaged, as if the stone skin had been scraped off. After a little thought, I understood-the golden phoenix dug by the people of Chenjiagou should have been inlaid on the top of this tomb as a decoration, but it fell off for some reason and was dug away by the people of Chenjiagou.

The place with inlays on the top of the tomb is definitely in the center of the top of the tomb!

In theory, the center of the top of the tomb should be the place with the thickest interlayer and the most vulnerable to damage. As a result, a stone slab appeared here, which is really strange!

I was unwilling to give up, so I took the engineer shovel and continued to dig around the boulder. In a short while, I finally saw the whole picture of the boulder - this is a boulder of about two square meters in size, and the bricks around the boulder are the bricks for building the tomb. After careful study, I finally knew what kind of tomb this is.

This kind of tomb is called a "four-corner vaulted" tomb in terms of architecture. What does it mean? This kind of tomb is a very common joint burial tomb, that is, a tomb that can be opened repeatedly to bury people, and a large family is buried in it! !

This type of tomb was particularly popular during the Northern Wei Dynasty, but it was still used in the Qing Dynasty. Because it was a joint burial tomb with many people buried in it, the span of the four-corner vaults into the tomb was particularly large. Generally, the ground was hollowed out first, and then the tomb was built. Starting from the first layer of bricks, it was closed up layer by layer. When it was almost closed, the stone slab I just saw was used, which is also called "capping stone" in professional terms. The tomb was sealed, and then the soil was filled. When burying people, the capping stone was opened and the coffin was hung vertically. Then two people were thrown down to place the coffin. After it was placed, the person was hoisted up again, covered with the capping stone, and then buried.

The overall shape of this tomb is like an upside-down pot, or to put it simply - it is like a pile of poop, coiled in circles, and finally closed, it is completed!

As for the sulfuric acid I just poked out, it was not on the capping stone, but in the bricks used to build this tomb. I studied the bricks of this tomb and found that they were hollow bricks. This type of brick was particularly popular from the Warring States Period to the Western Han Dynasty, but it basically disappeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Of course, if there is a special purpose, this type of brick will also be used in later generations, such as the tomb in front of us!

Hollow bricks, as the name suggests, are hollow. The hollow bricks in this tomb we are encountering now are filled with concentrated sulfuric acid!!

In other words, this is not just an acid-top tomb, but a whole acid tomb. If you accidentally break that brick, you will be immediately burned to death by concentrated sulfuric acid!

This is the first time I have seen such anti-theft methods, and I admire the vicious mind of the tomb owner.

After figuring out the situation, I felt terrible - no wonder that ghost asked me to go down to the tomb to find him. This is a joint tomb, and there is no telling how many people are buried in it. There is no telling how many ghosts there are, it is absolutely extremely dangerous! !