Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 91 Kunlun Tire_Breaking the Ice Dome

091 Chapter 91 Kunlun Tire_Broken Ice Dome

At this time, everyone was still guessing. Fatty was an activist and didn't bother to study it at all. He couldn't figure it out anyway, so he just said to them: "You better stop guessing. Anyway, if you don't dig it out, you can't guess." It’s all in vain, just guessing, if you have this spare time, why not think of a way to get on with it.”

Ye Cheng was a little scared: "Then what if we dig deeper and see instead of a burial tomb, but a real giant ice... What should we do?"

The fat man patted him: "Then you stay up there. We'll go down and confirm before calling you down."

Wu Xie smiled slightly and said: "If this is really an ice tire, it is really a miracle made in heaven. It is worth taking a look."

Monk Hua patted Ye Cheng: "You are just a coward. Learn how to hit these big brothers. The problem now is not whether to go, but how to get down? But the ice is too thick. If you dig it with a pickaxe, half of it will be broken." You may not be able to dig there in a month.”

The fat man stared at the huge shadow in the glacier at his feet, waved his hands and said, "What's so difficult about this? Just leave it to me, Fatty."

Wu Xie said to him: "What can you do?"

When the fat man heard Wu Xie's tone, he felt a little unhappy and said: "Oh, what are you talking about? Oh, you, a college student, are allowed to have ideas? Fatty, I have been to Kunlun Mountain. There are many glaciers thicker than this in Kunlun Mountain." Yes, I have much more experience than you.”

Wu Xie smiled: "Okay, then tell me and listen."

Following the fat man, he continued to talk about what his guide told him at the time. The fat man said: "Kunlun Mountain has a high altitude and is a real alpine glacier. Due to the temperature and mountain movement, large ice cracks will frequently crack. Sometimes the remains of ancient ancestors are found among them, and some people have found houses frozen deep in glaciers. However, ancient houses are all made of wooden structures. When encountering an ice avalanche or avalanche, they will definitely collapse first, so the ones found Usually they are collapsed wreckage.

So according to my analysis, the buildings in the glacier under our feet must have been built on the cliff. You see the black shadow inside looks so complete, like a baby, which means there is no sign of collapse below, otherwise the overhead Once the building collapses, it will be completely ruined. "

I just moved it inadvertently and put it on my little brother's face. The moment I put it on my face, I suddenly became conscious, but I couldn't open my eyes and I was in a trance, but I still felt his softness. His face, his nose, his eyes, and his breathing... The whole person collapsed softly on him. It seemed like he had been there for a long time. He vaguely heard Wu Xie's conversation about the ice layer. Although the person is not awake, his mind is spinning.

This ice is nothing more than artificial or naturally formed. If it is naturally formed natural ice, you can look at the glacier growth rings to deduce the age and thickness of the ice layer.The ice layer accumulated every year is called an annual layer in glaciology. With the annual layer, the age of the ice layer can be measured like tree rings.This kind of ice, which is squeezed by the weight of the snow itself over many years, is called gravity ice.This kind of ice does not melt due to the low temperature. The snow accumulation every year will form layers of sediments called "ice deposits". Day after day, year after year, layers of ice will gradually form from the bottom up. .When the temperature is low in winter, the snow particles are fine and dense, and when the temperature is high in summer, the snow particles are thick and loose. Therefore, the ice layers formed by snow in winter and summer will have this significant difference in layering structure, just like the age of a tree trunk. Same as wheel.It is said that this intuitive method can identify an ice layer about 90 meters thick, representing ice deposition in the past 500 years.

The little brother listened to their conversation, quietly turned back, looked at them, and thought carefully, whether it is artificial ice or natural ice, this ice is gravity ice, with few impurities, low ice temperature, and the hardness and density of ice are very scary. .If you want to open it... At this time, I suddenly whispered in his ear: "If the transparency of the ice is relatively good, the chance of making it artificially is very high, because the roof is made to protect the building and prevent it from collapsing. The thickness should be limited. Use something hot to soften it and then dig it out. This can save time and the ice will not crack easily. Ice is afraid of heat." His tongue was a bit short when he spoke, and the little brother kept listening with a half-smile. After I finished speaking, I smiled stupidly, and then fell asleep again.

At this time, Fatty was still telling Wu Xie and the others about his experience: "So, unless what is in the glacier is not a burial tomb but a stone, otherwise, the burial tomb frozen in the ice must not be an avalanche, but caused by man."

Wu Xie felt that what the fat man said was reasonable, so he nodded and agreed with him. However, the others didn't seem to understand. Pan Zi asked him, "So what?"

The fat man waved his hand and said: "If it weren't for the avalanche, this tomb must be more than 900 years old. If it were naturally formed, the ice would not be so thick. But look at the ice here. It is very transparent and not as thick as we imagined. This ice wall It is impossible to directly press on the building, so there must be an arc to form a natural ice dome, pressing on the slope to protect the building below. It is similar to a sealed mound made of ice."

When the fat man said this, everyone immediately understood. Even the way they looked at him changed, and they all looked at him with admiration.However, the fat man said that the thing under his feet was not that thick, which made everyone suddenly feel that it was not so safe under their feet.

The fat man turned to Wu Xie and said, "Well, my statement may be impossible."

Wu Xie nodded and said: "The theoretical explanation is reasonable, and it is feasible. Using ice to frame houses has been around for a long time. The hardness of ice is absolutely no problem in architecture."

When Fatty heard that Wu Xie agreed with him, he started to shake his hair triumphantly and said, "Look, Fatty, I call him a talent."

Ye Cheng asked: "Master Wu, can you calculate the possible thickness of this ice dome based on architecture?"

Wu Xie silently calculated a number in his mind and said to him: "If the support structure like the fat man said is to use wood, then the thickness of the ice layer under our feet will not exceed ten meters. Otherwise, the dead weight will be too heavy and it will collapse on its own. Can’t hold on.”

Several people were worried when they heard it. Pan Zi heard it: "Ten meters! That's enough. The ice here is not ordinary ice. We don't have professional equipment. To penetrate ten meters, a week may not be enough."

Seeing that they had already said this, the little brother carried me on his back and walked towards where the luggage was stored.

The fat man said: "Don't we have explosives? Let's just climb up on the rocks and put a blast hole."

Monk Hua and Wu Xie shook their heads, and Wu Xie said to him angrily: "You really don't have a long memory, haven't you tasted enough just now? Moreover, if the glacier is hollow, even a small explosion may It exploded the entire ice dome. If your hypothesis is correct, you cannot consider digging holes in a way that is too destructive. If you dig into key places, you may not even be able to use the ice shovel. Once it is not done properly, there will be a chain reaction. .”

When the fat man heard about theoretical science, he was very disgusted and said: "You are so bookish. You can't even use an ice shovel, so what should you do? Do you use a spoon to dig? Don't just rely on yourself as a college student to make alarmist remarks and artificially create things for us." problem."

While they were hesitating, the younger brother had already carried me on his back and walked up to them with Shunzi's smokeless stove for making tea. He put it aside and the hot stove body immediately reacted with the cold ice. Making a snapping sound, he asked Wu Xie: "Is this okay?"

Wu Xie took a look and patted his forehead: "Oh, that's right, my mother is freezing. I didn't expect this method, just use fire. The hardness of ice is directly related to the temperature. As the temperature rises, the hardness will naturally decrease. As the ice wall descends, the surface of the ice wall begins to become brittle, and the chain reaction caused by the impact of the ice shovel will weaken." They immediately conducted experiments.They all took out their own smokeless stoves, lit them and put them on the ice. After a minute, they used a shovel to cut the ice.Sure enough, this trick works, and the brittle high-temperature ice will crack completely.

When I first started melting the ice, my brother kept carrying me and put down the stove while bending over his waist. He let the ice melt a little and then picked it up and let them cut it, and so on.

The fat man looked at him and said to him: "You said you were carrying her while you were working. You let her down first, and she can't wake up. Are you afraid of losing her?"

The little brother ignored him, so Wu Xie patted him and winked at him, saying that he should carry it on his back.Wu Xie thought to himself that most people would be sitting around staring at the sky in a daze, but it was unprecedented for him to come to help, and you are still picky.

However, because the surrounding temperature was too low, progress in doing so was very slow, and they took turns trying.

Digging up to the waist and placing the stove might disturb my position, so the little brother took me to sit aside, hugged me and waited.

The fat man murmured in a low voice while peeling the ice: "Tell me, what does this little guy think? This will knock the girl out. Isn't this going to cause more trouble? Look at them, they look like conjoined twins."

Wu Xie said: "I think he really wants her to rest for a while. You don't know what's going on in the Heavenly Palace. It's safer outside than in the tomb. It's normal for him to let her have a good rest now." .”

The fat man smiled: "Shit, that girl was drunk with wine. Can she feel comfortable after waking up with a hangover?"

Wu Xie disagreed: "Meng Youping has a sense of what he does. If he cares about her so much, he will definitely find a way. Let's not worry about it. The ice is so thick, let's peel it off quickly."

The fat man sighed and said, "Hey, we still have a long way to go. Come on, come on. This piece, if you boil it, it will become softer and easier to peel."

Wu Xie glanced at him with a smile and said "ha".

In this way, they spent nearly three hours, when it was almost completely dark, to carve out a depression half a meter wide and seven to eight meters deep in the ice wall. The color of the ice layer below could be clearly seen. The ice has changed, and the purity of the ice has become much clearer. Now it is certain that Fatty's statement is half right. This ice is definitely not naturally formed.

After a while, the fat man tied a rope around his waist and put his feet on both sides of the ice well. Finally, he used a smokeless stove to bake the ice at the bottom of the well, and then smashed it with a short-handled hammer, intending to smash another piece. Come, unexpectedly, there was a "pop", the ice dome cracked, and suddenly the outside air rushed into the hole, blowing a gust of wind, and the surrounding temperature suddenly cooled down.

The fat man smashed it again, smashing the ice underneath. The broken ice fell down, and a hole appeared.

The fat man shouted: "Look, it's empty down there. I guessed it right."

They pulled him up, and everyone gathered around the entrance of the cave, scrambling to pick up flashlights and shine them inside.

Inside the ice well is a huge gray space. The entire ice dome is like a transparent bowl buckled on a cliff. Countless wooden beams covered with ice edges stand up from the rocks of the cliff and are intertwined to form a shape similar to the ice well. The structure of the scaffolding supports the ice roof outside. These are the thorns seen on the body of the fetal shadow. Under the cliff is a pitch-black abyss with no bottom.

There is a huge tire-shaped cave on the mountainside of the cliff with a drop of more than 100 meters. The entrance of the cave is as big as a standard swimming pool. It is not known whether it was artificially built or formed naturally.

Several people were stunned. The fat man's eyes were very poisonous. He grabbed Wu Xie's flashlight, moved it in one direction and said, "Look here!"

Under his guidance, everyone squinted their eyes and searched carefully. They saw a huge palace with horizontal eaves and flying beams in the cave. Part of the building poked out of the cave entrance and was supported on the cliff with wooden corridors, like a suspended castle in the air. , and most of the buildings are built in caves, so the whole picture cannot be seen.

Because of the low temperature all year round, ice shavings condensed everywhere, making the part of the building exposed at the entrance of the cave look gray and miserable.

The fat man said: "This is the spiritual palace that accompanies the mausoleum. It is the Dragon Tower Hall that Captain Mo Jin often mentioned. The "mausoleum" in the mausoleum, the "tomb" where the owner of the tomb is buried, should be under this spiritual palace. Within the mountain.”

Wu Xie couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I didn't expect that King Wannu's pomp was so grand, and such a huge spiritual palace was set up in the burial mausoleum. So what kind of spectacular scene would it be if the Yunding Heavenly Palace was not covered with heavy snow? The ancients' It’s impossible not to be intimidated by wisdom.”

The fat man reacted first and laughed, and then everyone else laughed, and everyone high-fived each other to celebrate. Wu Xie almost slipped off the ice after being bumped by the fat man's butt.

Monk Hua hurriedly stopped them. He pointed to the snow cliff above his head, meaning to be careful of another landslide. We are all on the ice cliff and no one can escape.

Several people quickly suppressed the excitement in their hearts and calmed down. However, they could not hide their ecstasy at being able to rob a large tomb of the size of the Imperial Tomb. If they could enter the Imperial Tomb once and survive safely, they would no longer be able to do so. Don't care about what treasures are inside, you are too big for this. Not to mention how many years you can brag, your mentality will definitely be different. No one can resist this kind of attraction.Even Wu Xie, who had not yet decided that he was a tomb robber, felt an extreme impulse well up in his heart, and he couldn't wait to go down there and take a look.

Monk Hua patted his face, trying to convince himself: "Relax, then turned around and asked Chen Pi Asi, should we go down now or tomorrow?"

Chen Pi'a cast a gloomy look at them, and asked: "Going down tomorrow, can you bear it?"

You know, I don’t want to go down there after being indoctrinated... I want to take him home!
(End of this chapter)