Chapter 231 Shaking the Mountain Man

This is a dark and deep corridor, or it is more appropriate to say that it is a semi-finished tunnel. It has not undergone any delicate artificial carving. Unlike normal tomb passages, which are usually spliced ​​with stone slabs or solidified with blue bricks, it is actually just a hastily dug earth hole. There are still many broken stones and rubble on the ground, showing how hurriedly this corridor was dug.

However, this corridor is well preserved, without any collapsed places. I touched the earth wall, which was cold and hard. It felt like metal when I knocked on it. When the light shone on it, the earth wall showed a black and blue color.

This is because mercury has penetrated into the soil and naturally solidified the earth wall. Over time, the solidity is probably higher than that of concrete. It is normal that it does not collapse, but all this is obviously a subsequent natural change, which cannot cover up the rough engineering of this corridor.

Such a luxurious tomb door, but the corridor behind it is so bad?

Under the strong contrast, I was curious. I walked and touched the corridor. Of course, I didn't do it out of hand, but I wanted to feel the quality of the craftsmen!

Shi Kuang is the designer of this tomb. The role he played is very different from the story told by Liu Ma. We need to explore it, but not now! !

Now I only care about whether he... has a bunch of stupid teammates?

Shi Kuang is very talented, but the construction of such a large tomb, the power of an individual is ultimately limited. At most, he personally supervised some more important positions, such as the tomb door, the mercury sea, etc. It is impossible to be comprehensive. Most of this tomb comes from the wisdom of those craftsmen. The ability of these craftsmen determines how big the crisis we will face in the future is.

This tomb was built in the Spring and Autumn Period. The truth of that era was really only in the hands of a small number of people. The skills of the craftsmen were very different. Some of the skills mastered by the various schools of thought could even be comparable to those in the industrial background, while ordinary craftsmen were very limited.

If Shi Kuang had only found some ordinary craftsmen, I would have felt more at ease. I was not afraid of god-like opponents, but teammates who were like pigs. He had a dream of taking off, but his teammates tied two pieces of rags on his arms and said that he could be as free as a bird if he flapped his arms. Then he could not fly at all. No matter how talented he was, he could not display his talents!

As a result, I was disappointed, and even my mood began to become extremely solemn.

It is true that the workmanship of the tunnel is very rough, but... it is not collapsed only because of the mercury infiltration reinforcement.

Tunnel digging is not an easy job, especially at the beginning. It is not that you can just pick up a shovel and dig hard. If you destroy the balance of the soil, you will be buried alive immediately. This requires a good balance point to balance the internal force of the soil to ensure the stability of the structure. It is the same as digging a stealing hole. Therefore, most of the tomb robbers can be regarded as experts in civil engineering.

The tunnel in front of us has already played the balance of the internal forces of the soil to the extreme, and it can even be said to be perfect.

"If this tunnel is not too big, I would suspect that it seems to be a tomb robbery hole!!"

Brother Yaozi walked and observed the tunnel, and smiled bitterly: "Look at the gullies left when the soil was transported. Look again, the shape of the digging is exactly the tomb robbery hole made by tomb robbers, but it is magnified countless times!"

Needless to say, he is a master, an absolute master!

Brother Yaozi is a good hand at civil engineering. After watching it, he was also amazed. He extremely suspected that the people who worked for Shi Kuang back then were a group of tomb robbers!

His words reminded me, and I was stunned for a while, saying to myself that he shouldn't be that kind of person, right?

Lao Bai asked me what kind of person I was talking about.

I thought about it and sighed, "Hanshan people! If it's this bunch of bastards, then we're really going to kill people with every step..."

Hanshan people are a bunch of tomb robbers.

When did tomb robbers start?

I'm afraid most people will say the Three Kingdoms without thinking. Cao Cao set up the tomb robbers and the tomb robbers, who are recognized as the ancestors of tomb robbers...

In fact, this bad beginning is not Cao Cao's. This guy is definitely a famous scapegoat for five thousand years. He is almost blackened. The world is divided into three parts. To be honest, the people under his rule are the most comfortable. In a way, he is the most benevolent one. This is probably great benevolence and righteousness. Just talking about tomb robbing, this thing was not started by him, and he was not the only one in the same era. The Sun Zhongmou who sent 100,000 heads in Hefei was much more ruthless than him. The tomb robbers follow the rules, but the subordinates of that man don't follow the rules at all.

The first tomb robbers in history were the Shanhan people!!

This is an organization, strictly speaking, originated in the late Western Zhou Dynasty!

It is said that the Shanhan people were the descendants of slaves captured by the Yin people. They hated the Yin people in their hearts. When the Western Zhou Dynasty came, they had been living in poverty. They could not survive in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, so they started to rob tombs. The first tomb they robbed was Shang Tang, the founding monarch of the Shang Dynasty. This was also the first ancient tomb to be robbed!

Since then, the Shanhan people tasted the sweetness and began to rob tombs crazily.

It is said that this group of people have good kung fu, climbing mountains and crossing ridges as if walking on flat ground, especially skilled in civil engineering structures, and the tombs they dug have not collapsed for a hundred years.

It is precisely because of the appearance of this group of people that the killing mechanism began to appear in the tomb. Before, our ritual officials buried people according to the ancient rituals, considering natural disasters, and never considering man-made disasters.

So, was the killing mechanism in the ancient tomb the first one made by our ritual officials?

No!!

It was created by this group of Shaking Mountain people!!

After the development of Shaking Mountain people, the structure was huge and bloated, the interests were unevenly divided, and splits occurred. At that time, some people came out to find the ritual officials, saying that they knew the tomb robbers best and knew how to kill them. The mechanisms they designed were tricky and ruthless, and extremely dense, leaving no way for people to survive!

A little later, these whitewashed Shaking Mountain people simply ignored our ritual officials and started to work alone. They were at their peak during the Spring and Autumn Period and helped a large number of people design mechanisms!

However, after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the once famous Shaking Mountain people disappeared. Some people said that what they did was too immoral, and the First Emperor did not like it, so he killed them all. Others said that they hid.

I thought about it carefully and felt that Shi Kuang might have really invited the Shaking Mountain people. He could use the method of digging a tunnel to make a corridor like this. Even if there was no mercury infiltrated into the soil for reinforcement, it might last for hundreds of years. In addition to the Shaking Mountain people, in that era, probably no one had this technology!

After learning a little bit about the route, I began to be extremely cautious. None of the tombs designed by the Hanshan people were safe. After these grandsons were whitewashed, their hatred for their own kind almost reached a perverted level.

As expected, we encountered danger not long after.

At that time, Brother Yaozi was walking in the front. When his heavy boots fell, he found that the ground in front was obviously unusual, and the dirt particles on the ground were slightly trembling.

If it was a solid ground, could a person walk on it and cause such a situation? I'm afraid it's not the Hulk!

In other words, the underground in front is empty!

"Be careful!"

I shouted, rushed over Lao Bai and grabbed Brother Yaozi, but it was still a little late. He had already stepped on it. In front of us, a long wooden board with the same width as the corridor suddenly popped up with a "clang". Mud and sand crackled towards us. If I hadn't brought a gas mask, I'm afraid I would have a mouthful of mud.

However, this was just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, long wooden boards bounced up one after another, and the wooden boards rose and fell one after another, and the ground seemed to have huge waves, which seemed endless at first glance.

Soon after, the mechanism calmed down a little. The entire corridor forty or fifty meters ahead was all connected by such wooden boards, covered with mud as a cover, and could not be distinguished by the naked eye. If I had not been extremely vigilant early and noticed the slight changes on the ground, I would have been caught immediately if I was a little careless.

Lao Bai carefully stepped forward and lifted a wooden board. He shone the flashlight downward. There was a deep ditch of about three meters below, just like a dangerous place for wild animals. There were knives and spikes everywhere, which were enough to pierce people. After a thousand years, there was no sign of decay. The cold light shone on it, and it was murderous.

"This is fucking..."

Lao Bai said: "This is the legendary chain flip board!"

I nodded silently. This mechanism is very simple, and it is not at the same level as the arithmetic mechanism door that defies the heavens. But simple things are often efficient. The chain flip board is not a legendary mechanism at all. On the contrary, it is very common, but it is too hidden. It is difficult to detect in the dim tomb. If you are not careful, you will be doomed. There are countless tomb robbers who died in this mechanism.

The trick of this mechanism is on these wooden boards. There is an axis in the middle, and a small object is attached to the left and right below, just like a balance, which can keep the wooden board absolutely balanced. One after another, covered with soil, nothing can be seen at all. If you step on it, you will report to the King of Hell.

However, since this mechanism has been discovered, it is easy to cross it. Just lift the flap and jump directly into the pit below. Although there are many knife cones and sharp blades in the pit, there is always a place to land. If you fall down without any preparation, you will naturally die from the sharp blades, but if you are prepared, these sharp blades will not hurt people.

I did the same thing. After hanging the rope and going down silently, I raised my hand to stop them from taking direct action out of caution, because I always have a hunch that the mountain shakers will not only have the same means of chain flipping. They are tomb robbers, and they should know that in this case, as long as they see the existence of the flip, the mechanism is basically invalid.

These grandsons are famous for their viciousness. The most powerful thing is that the mechanism is everywhere, linked together, making it hard to guard against. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. You can avoid the first time, can you avoid the hundredth time?

This is the characteristic of the mountain shakers!

In the Spring and Autumn Tomb, most of the mechanisms are from the hands of the mountain shakers, and the murderous intent at every step is simply a nightmare for the tomb robbers!

So, I didn't rush forward, but looked around in the pit, and my attention was focused on these upside-down sharp blades.

These sharp blades are obviously bronze weapons, why are they not rusted?

I put on thick gloves and pulled one up to observe. After reading it, I felt cold all over.

This is a bronze spearhead. At first glance, it is simple and seems to have no tricks. But under the light of the flashlight, looking from the side, you can find that there are sparkling small spots all over the spearhead. Only by observing carefully can you find that the small spots are actually small hooks standing up, very, very small, like fish hooks. When reflecting light, the light can even completely cover it, like a thin layer of fluff, but the flickering light has a faint black and purple color.

"This thing is poisoned!"

Lao Bai took the spearhead, used his bone-twisting skill, sniffed it gently, frowned and said: "There is a faint smell of licorice, which normal people can't smell at all!"

"This is the poison of the 鸩 bird!"

I said: "I didn't expect that today I finally saw the real poison of the 鸩 bird."

What is the 鸩 bird?

No one has ever seen it, but it is mentioned in all ancient books without exception, even in history books. It is mentioned that it is killed by poisoning at the slightest disagreement, which means that it did exist, but it has been extinct. Even now, there is no trace of it, so people are full of doubts.

Legend has it that this poison is extremely terrifying, and it will dissolve in blood. After being poisoned, people will turn their eyes to the sky, tremble constantly, suffer from pain, and finally bleed from all seven orifices to death. It is a most terrifying poison, basically unsolvable, and death is inevitable when seeing blood!

After this poison is quenched on the weapon, the weapon will not decay. After a thousand years, it still shines coldly. Coupled with the smell that Lao Bai said, it is the poison that is made of iron, no doubt!

If I hadn't looked carefully, I really wouldn't know how I died. When we walked over, we didn't look at the sharp blades on the ground. As long as we accidentally touched them, the hooks on the blades would tear our clothes. If we slightly scratched our skin, we would definitely die!

The mountain shaker who designed this place obviously thought that someone might find the chain flip board and walk through the pit below, so he tampered with the weapons in the pit! !

In the end, several of us had to wrap our legs tightly with thick clothes, so that we could walk through safely.

After that, we encountered countless traps one after another.

Poison gas, hanging stones, flying arrows...

Various traps kept greeting us.

The most dangerous time was when Lao Bai accidentally touched a mechanism that we had not noticed at all. Several javelins were shot at our faces. If it were not for Brother Yaozi's quick reaction and immediate warning, we would have been strung together!!

These mechanisms are definitely not clever, but there are so many of them, one after another, which further confirmed my guess that this is the method of the mountain shaker!!

Therefore, our speed of progress was infinitely slowed down. The corridor that could be walked through in at most ten minutes took us several hours, and we finally saw the exit.

In this place, the cave was more deeply infiltrated by mercury, and the four walls almost showed a metallic texture.

When we walked out of the corridor together, we were completely shocked by the scene in front of us.

"Oh my God, this can't be true?"

Lao Bai rubbed his eyes hard, and then couldn't help shuddering: "Why do I feel like we have come to another world?"