Chapter 317 Cage

Fire Thunder Stone?

This name is quite appropriate...

When it explodes, the fire is dazzling and the sound is like thunder. It is really appropriate to call it Fire Thunder Stone.

However, I can't find any information about it in my mind.

I am sure that this is the first time I have heard of this thing. I became interested and asked questions repeatedly.

"In fact, I don't know much..."

Brother Yaozi shook his head and said, "I heard a buddy talk about it before. This buddy is a rare person in the tomb robbing business. For every tomb he handles, he not only wants to take the money, but also always wants to find out some background, such as the history of the tomb and the owner. In his words... the financial sponsors who know the business like this and can explain it clearly, so the objects seem precious and can be priced high.

Later, he came across a tomb that he couldn't explain. This tomb was very old and it was a large tomb. There were many bronze artifacts in it, all of which were top-notch artifacts. Judging from the age, the tomb should be from the Spring and Autumn Period. In addition, the bucket was found in Hubei. At first, he suspected that it was a bucket from the Chu State, but there were some strange patterns on the bronze artifacts. He was also an expert and had never seen such an answer for things from the Chu State. He found many people and consulted many masters. Finally, he locked on a small country called the State of Chu. This country was sandwiched between the Qin State and the Chu State. It was a typical Qin-Chu state. Later, it was slowly annexed by the Chu State and disappeared without a sound.

That Dou is the tomb of a nobleman of the last dynasty of the State of Yu. It was very well made, with a stone coffin and a bronze outer coffin, an unprecedented arrangement, and almost vacuum inside. When the coffin was opened, the tomb owner looked lifelike, but they just took a look at it, and the coffin exploded directly, and three or four people were broken into pieces, and they couldn't even put them together. There was this kind of small stone in the coffin. Later, he checked a lot of bamboo slips buried with the dead in the ancient tomb, and then found out that this was something that a Qi-refining master of the State of Yu had tossed around. It is said that he burned Glauber's salt, and then added mercury and wine to stir it back and forth. The process seems to be very complicated, and there are some strange formulas. You know, Qi-refining masters are the predecessors of practitioners, and they have some strange methods.

That guy didn't know the name of this thing, so he gave it a name himself, called Fire Thunder Stone, but that kind of stone seems to be gray, and I don't know much about it. He just talked about this thing with me when he was drunk, and I just listened to it and thought that this thing was a flash in the pan. It may never appear in other tombs except the tomb he encountered..."

"Burning Glauber's Salt? Adding wine?"

Zhang Xinya suddenly said: "Stop whispering there, can you bring that thing over to me? I was stunned at first and didn't pay any attention!"

I saw that her expression was strange, and she seemed to have thought of something, so I hurriedly handed the small stone to her. Brother Yaozi had no hope. After talking for a long time, he was talking a little bit specious. The whole article was like, probably, and it was really not credible. He stared at Zhang Xinya eagerly, actually just wanting to understand. It's impossible to get beaten up without knowing who did it, right?

Zhang Xinya carefully held the small stone, looked at it for a long time, and then "clicked" to light a lighter and burned it with fire.

The half-dead Lao Bai screamed "Fuck", and ran out, more excited than a wild donkey.

I was also scared, my face turned green, and I had only one thought in my mind - my buddy didn't provoke her recently, and she didn't look like she was in menopause at her age, so why would she drag us down with her?

Although I don't know why this small stone didn't explode before, it will definitely explode if it is burned with fire! !

I lay on the ground with my hands on my head, but there was no movement for a long time. I looked up and saw that the small stone was actually lit, and it really didn't explode! !

"What kind of courage do you have?"

Zhang Xinya threw away the small stone in her hand with an expressionless face and sighed: "What fire thunder stone, this is mercury fulminate!!

To make this kind of thing, you don't burn Glauber's salt. Glauber's salt is saltpeter. In fact, he should have obtained nitric acid by dry distilling saltpeter. This is the earliest method of preparing nitric acid. In written records, an Arab alchemist used this method to make nitric acid in the eighth century AD. Qigong practitioners don't like to keep written records like alchemists. It's not a big deal to accidentally make this thing earlier. It's really not technical. It's estimated that many people accidentally made this thing, but at that time they didn't know what they made.

After getting nitric acid, it's simple. Mercury nitrate is made directly by mercury and nitric acid, and then it is made by ethanol in wine. Gray fulminate of mercury is definitely not high enough. At most, it can be regarded as a homemade firecracker. This thing is nothing special. Those ancient Qigong practitioners can make black gunpowder. Accidentally dealing with gray fulminate of mercury is nothing!

But the stuff that blew us up was different. It was very pure. It should have been added with hydrochloric acid and copper, and white mercury fulminate was directly made. Under normal circumstances, this stuff is very unstable, but this tomb is completely vacuum, there is no explosion condition, so they are preserved. We were not blown to death. It was really... luck! ! "

After saying this, she gently patted the damp wall of the tomb passage and told us not to worry. If the moisture content in the air exceeds 10%, this thing will not explode. At most, it will burn. If the moisture content exceeds 30%, it will not burn. At most, it will be a piece of rock sugar. This place is too humid and it is impossible to explode at all.

I looked at the small stone with lingering fear and said, "Can you put out the fire first? We can discuss everything. There is no need to act like a martyr who will die together with the explosive pack. It is too fierce and unbearable!"

Zhang Xinya shook her head helplessly and said that I read in vain. At least I should believe in science.

I wanted to say that even if I studied hard, the teacher would not teach me to make bombs for nothing. As a result, after she looked at me with great contempt, I still couldn't say what was on my lips. I could only lower my head and silently shed tears of a poor student. What else can I say? In this day and age, tomb robbing without studying hard is almost like giving away your head!

"I am lucky to have saved my life."

Brother Yaozi was also very emotional. Maybe it was because of his vigilant nature, he still said: "But this is not right. Why did the tomb door open at this time? Could it be..."

I know what he wants to say. Various clues show that the Water Prince is also in this tomb. Even Xing Wei, the bastard, is very likely to be here. These people are living under the same roof with us, and they can't live in peace no matter how you look at it.

But I thought about it and finally shook my head. If I were the Water Prince, why would I open the tomb door? Wouldn't it be better to just lock us in the courtyard and blow us to death? Why do you have to complicate things? I have been in contact with the Water Prince. He is definitely a decisive killer. He will not give you a break, just to let you watch his show. So I said that this tomb door has two slides. If you want to open it, you must find the right position, push the tomb door back to the other slide, and then pull it open. Tomb doors like this involve the coordination of many pulleys and levers. When subjected to huge vibrations, it is very likely that the tomb door will be opened naturally under the action of the pulleys.

In my opinion, this tomb door was accidentally opened in the explosion.

As for our current location, it should be in the tomb passage leading to the front hall. As long as we pass through this section of the tomb passage, maybe we can see Yang Guifei's body.

"Still be careful, wait!"

Brother Yaozi sighed and said, "Let's see if my uncle and the others can arrive safely. Now this situation is not something we can handle..."

Boom! !

Suddenly, a huge roar came from the courtyard outside.

I sat on the ground and could clearly feel the ground shaking.

This was not an explosion, but the courtyard outside had completely collapsed.

Then... the tomb passage became noticeably darker.

The gap in the tomb door was actually directly blocked by a huge rock that fell down!

When I turned my head and saw this scene, my face instantly became ugly...