National treasure

Chapter 55

When Zhong Zhe and his party saw that they were getting closer and closer to the palace wall of the courtyard, four people rushed out from the other side with live ammunition. One person on each side held a gun to watch them, and the other two began to search one by one.

Naturally, all firearms and weapons were removed, and under Zhong Zhe's argument and Uncle Gao's constant use of emotion to understand the reason, some survey tools were finally reserved for everyone.

"Manpower is needed to go in. You have already recruited two people, so you can deal with the situation inside with more people." Uncle Gao's attitude of an old cultural and cultural expert is still very convincing in the current situation.

Li Cha Yi glanced at Cheng Ling and the others from the corner of his eyes, and nodded slightly with a smile on his face.

Cheng Ling knew that the other party would allow the three of them to come, because he knew that there might be unknown dangers in the sacrificial hall, and when they were used up, they would just use them as cannon fodder without sacrificing their own people.

He looked at Zhang Yu and Shitou. It was obvious that the captain, Zhang Yu, was very experienced, and Cheng Ling didn't need to say anything, he had already nodded his understanding, and looked at the enemy personnel at the same time, his eyes flashed with vigilance.

Shitou was concentrating on the present moment and failed to receive the signal. It seemed that he had to find an opportunity to remind him.

After searching at this end, Li Cha Yi ordered his subordinates to go straight to the narrow passage where the group of people were hiding. Zhong Zhe raised his voice, and saw those people rushed into the narrow passage, but returned in a short time without success .

Zhong Zhe made up his mind, probably because the team members quickly retreated wittily.

"I told you earlier, just three of them plus me, a total of four. I didn't expect to meet you tonight, come to investigate what I bring so many people to do?"

Li Cha Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhong Zhe for a while, and had someone search him again. Seeing Zhong Zhe enduring the discomfort of being touched by others, the green-eyed bald man smiled happily.

After Zhong Zhe was finally searched and let go, the first thing he did was to check on his sister.But seeing him, her mood has obviously stabilized a lot, and now the tears are not shedding, and she can clearly nod and shake her head when Zhong Zhe asks anything.

After confirming that his sister was fine, Zhong Zhe began to carefully look at this special underground courtyard. He was standing with Uncle Gao at the moment, and Li Cha Yi was beside them. The two could not exchange private information, they could only say archaeological discoveries.

"Uncle Gao, this miniature palace wall should be the middle gate of the Tao." Zhong Zhe expressed his observation.

"I think so too. This should be the sign that divides the Shinto and Mausoleum area. Since this tomb was built in the Ming Dynasty, judging from the Ming system, after entering the middle gate, there is the Hall of Enjoyment, which is where the altar we are looking for is located.

Therefore, I deduce that this courtyard is a place for officials to prepare sacrificial objects and organize their appearance for temporary repairs. "

Zhong Zhe nodded, and asked further: "Did the predecessors leave any clues?"

After obtaining Li Cha Yi's consent, Uncle Gao led Zhong Zhe to the main house in the courtyard.

The main room is spacious, and there are a lot of sacrificial items neatly placed inside, including exquisite white candles made of whale blubber, and a large number of sacrificial utensils, including bronze-cast tripods, gui, jue, zun, plates, gongs, bells, cymbals, etc. There are also Bi, Cong, Gui, Zhang and so on made of jade.

"Looks like it must be here." Zhong Zhe nodded.

"I'll show you the entrance." Uncle Gao led Zhong Zhe out of the main room and walked around to the east of the courtyard.

A dug-up stone wall suddenly came into Zhong Zhe's eyes, surrounded by scattered mud bricks and bluestone debris.

Zhong Zhe squatted down and picked up some of the gray stones. After looking around, he found that it was a typical Ming Dynasty Sanhe soil, which was composed of glutinous rice juice mixed with lime, pottery powder and gravel, and its strength was comparable to modern high-quality cement. .

He took a closer look at the stone wall, and it was obviously a two-layer structure inside and outside.

"This is?" Zhong Zhe was a little puzzled.

Uncle Gao sighed, "Before, the entrance and exit of Xiangdian were artificially closed. It seems that something happened to the ancients. They didn't want people to find this place, so they made a permanent closure. They dug and exploded it just now. gone."

Zhong Zhe looked at Li Cha Yi, who was supervising them, in surprise. So, they have no shortage of explosives talents.

Li Cha Yi seemed to know what Zhong Zhe was thinking, his green eyes stared at Zhong Zhe's back, "It's always better to have more people, I didn't expect that there would be two layers of sealing walls, and the explosives I brought were not enough, I have to borrow some." Yours."

Zhong Zhe stared coldly and didn't make a sound. He had other thoughts in his mind, and he just continued to bend down to look at the huge stone gate exposed behind the stone wall.

"This door is made of a whole piece of rock, no less than the gate of the mausoleum and underground palace. It should be made of the same batch of materials."

Uncle Gao nodded in agreement, "That's true. Because it is a whole piece of stone, it is not so easy to explode. Unfortunately, it is easy to break and collapse."

Zhong Zhe asked suspiciously: "Uncle Gao, haven't you tried the crutch key?"

The palace gates of underground tombs are usually sealed with top pillars. The crutch key is a method specially used in archaeology to deal with this situation. It can open the palace gate without destroying the gate of the underground palace.

Uncle Gao said helplessly: "Try it, there is no top post at all, it is a complete dead door."

"Did you use a stone ball to top the door, or did you simply use someone to seal it?"

Uncle Gao nodded, "Since the outside has been permanently sealed off, it cannot be ruled out that the inside will also seal the Shimen at any cost. Besides, Zhong Zhe, this is not an underground palace after all, so it cannot be inferred from the usual regulations of underground palaces.

It was supposed to be a hall where the living could enter. "

At this point, Zhong Zhe roughly understood the situation in the courtyard, and with Li Cha Yi's permission, he went out of the courtyard to call his own people in.

Two robbers with guns escorted Zhong Zhe and the others one by one, and walked slowly into the yard.

Zhong Zhe was walking, showing pain on his face, stroking his abdomen, and humming a few times.Cheng Ling hurriedly stepped forward to support his body, frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Where did you bump into just now?"

Zhong Zhe took advantage of the situation and fell into Cheng Ling's arms, as if he had to bend down in pain, and at the same time bent Cheng Ling with his right hand.

The nervousness in his heart caused Zhong Zhe to use too much strength, and Cheng Ling suddenly felt that something was wrong. This is obviously not the strength that a person who is in pain can use.

The two guards saw only one bending down and complaining of pain, and the other leaning closer to check, naturally they couldn't see their tugging in private from a certain distance.

"Be careful of being cannon fodder." Zhong Zhe didn't have time to explain, so he could only emphasize the point. He was afraid of being found out, so he had to press his face close to Cheng Ling's neck, almost his cheek.

Cheng Ling had noticed it a long time ago, and quickly heard Zhong Zhe's soft and quick words. He stretched out his hand to seduce him, and let him lean on him without hesitation, and took the opportunity to lean towards Zhong Zhe's ear and answer him. "rest assured."

The two approached the east wall like this. Uncle Gao was shocked when he saw Zhong Zhe's injury, and turned to Richard Yi angrily, "Why did you hurt him?"

Li Cha Yi looked at his two subordinates, both of them shook their heads.

Zhong Zhe explained rather weakly: "I was injured by their people when I came down before, and it hurts when I left in a hurry."

Only then did Cheng Ling let him go carefully, and his fingers followed the trend and quietly swiped eight back and forth on Zhong Zhe's back twice. Zhong Zhe understood that this was telling him the total number of people on the other side.

Li Cha Yi had already turned to Cheng Ling and the others, You Qi fixed his gaze on Cheng Ling, "Then, please do it."

The gate of the palace made of a whole block of stone is heavy and huge, and if it is not properly controlled, it will easily blow up the palace.

How to accurately blast a hole without sufficient exploration?

Shitou specializes in blasting, and Zhang Yu knows a little bit about it. When Cheng Ling joined the discussion, the other two unexpectedly discovered that the boss is very proficient in blasting. The three discussed it for a short time, and it became a conversation between Shitou and Chengling.

On the other side, Uncle Gao was also discussing with Zhong Zhe, "Seeing them violently destroying cultural relics like this, I am really heartbroken. I have been doing cultural museums and archeology for so many years, and my whole life's achievements have been destroyed today."

Zhong Zhe could almost hear the pain in Uncle Gao's heart.

The old man went on to say bitterly: "Let Ke Ke get involved too. It's a waste of food to live in the world when you're old!"

"Uncle Gao—I can't blame you." Zhong Zhechang sighed, "It's not the time to think about these things, let's try to minimize the damage first."

"It's difficult, I haven't done a lot of detailed surveys, and I don't have a few suitable instruments, so I can't detect the structure, height, and thickness of the entire Shimen." Uncle Gao squinted at Richard Yi, "Time is very tight .”

The current conditions are indeed poor, and it is almost like returning to the beginning of the last century when people were archaeological with bare hands.

Wait, Zhong Zhe suddenly thought of something, and quickly said to Uncle Gao: "Thomson blasting method. Uncle Gao, do you still remember the story that you and your father told us when you were young?"

"Which one?"

"The one about Egyptian tomb robbers. It's the kind of blasting method that is very simple in principle but requires fine manipulation? I remember that the tomb robber mastered the Thomson blasting method thoroughly. Burglary. Unless the story you two are telling is for children."

Uncle Gao clapped his hands and laughed, "Why didn't I think of that! That shouldn't be considered a story, it's a real case, it's not just to coax you."

Zhong Zhe's eyes also lit up, "Do you know the principle?"

Uncle Gao twirled his beard and said, "I understand roughly. Besides, there are real experts here, just add it up."

Zhong Zhe immediately greeted Cheng Ling and the others, and several people met together and began to discuss. Even Li Cha Yi found an expert in demolition to join the discussion and make suggestions.

"The score is divided into small partitions to install the radium tubes, yes, that's right." Uncle Gao explained the principle, while instructing Zhong Zhe to draw a rough structure diagram, and added key points from time to time, "The leads must also be separated, so that they can be controlled precisely."

Everyone gathered around the drawing, constantly deleting and modifying it, and drew a full seven or eight editions before they had a formed guide map for actual operation.

After working hard for more than half an hour, the real blasting device was successfully assembled and ready for the experiment.Because this blasting method can blast open the confined space little by little in a small area, there is no need to worry about the excessive impact force causing landslides, and the direction and explosion point can be continuously corrected. The actual operation is very flexible.

After the first explosion sounded, Shimen collapsed half a person's height of rubble, but the surrounding area was miraculously intact, and there was no sign of any vibration. Seeing that the method was effective, everyone excitedly prepared for the second blast.

Cheng Ling glanced at Zhang Yu when no one was paying attention, and Zhang Yu nodded to him. The two were thinking about Xiao Na at the moment, wondering if she could lead the team members to take the opportunity to approach the courtyard.

Because of the blasting, everyone gathered on the east side of the courtyard at this time, anxiously waiting for the unknown blasting results, and waiting for the first time to witness the true appearance of the ancient sacrificial hall.

Twice, three times.

After the sound of the final explosion, the dust and smoke dispersed, Li Cha Yi couldn't wait to shoot the searchlight into the dark hole, the light beam penetrated, and everyone bent down to look, only what was exposed in the short hole less than half a person's height The sight made everyone hold their breath.

A large number of dazzling golden lights appeared under the light, and the light flashed so that people could not look directly at it. The exquisite animal carvings on the giant golden nanmu pillar that could only be surrounded by several people were lifelike.From the perspective of light entering, the Xiangdian in the short cave is a huge space.

Li Cha Yi looked at Zhong Zhe and the others, pointed at Cheng Ling and said, "You go ahead."

Without even thinking about it, Zhong Zhe stood up and said to Richard Yi, "I'll be the first."

Uncle Gao also expressed his opinion: "I have the most experience, I will go ahead."

"Shut up." Li Cha Yi didn't even look at Zhong Zhe and Uncle Gao, but stared at Cheng Ling with those green eyes, with a haze on his face, "Hurry up!"

Cheng Ling stepped forward and said to Zhong Zhe in a low voice: "Be careful when you go in. I won't agree if you go first."