gifted collector

Chapter 387 Turning Point
Niu Ping was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled wryly. He was too smug in this matter, as the so-called caring leads to chaos.For this mausoleum that I have been looking for all my life, I am so worried about gain and loss that my mind is not very clear.

What Fang Ming said is not wrong at all, it is the truth, the potholes everywhere can only show that the other party is not a professional expert, the imperial tomb is a huge monster, it is not so easy to find the underground palace, even if it is, can you It is another matter to be able to open it. Explosives often do not necessarily play a big role.And the people Fang Ming said he met—if they really got the map in the background, or they might be the descendants of people who came here back then, then there would be a problem, if the people at that time The underground palace here has been opened and all the things inside have been removed, so what are you doing here?
Therefore, it is not impossible that the underground palace was not opened.

Thinking of this, Niu Ping finally cheered up, nodded, and said, "Fang Ming, what you said is not wrong at all, it is true. Let's rest first, and we won't punch holes tomorrow First, let’s go through the whole imperial mausoleum and understand the situation clearly.”

After eating the roasted rabbit, the three of Fang Ming chatted for a while and then went to bed. They were tired all day.At dawn the next day, the three of them got up.

"Zhu Zi, I think we still need to make some preparations."

"What to prepare?"

Zhao Zhuzi scratched his forehead. He was tidying up the Luoyang shovel he used yesterday. He is not stupid. After a day of practice yesterday, he believed that he had mastered the skills and would be able to make a more perfect hole today.

"I thought about it last night. In theory, there are not many people who will find it here, but I don't rule out the possibility. For our safety, should we arrange something like traps at the entrance? , as an early warning."

While sleeping last night, Fang Ming suddenly remembered this incident.Although the groups of people I met on the road walked in the opposite direction to me, there was no guarantee that the other party would come back and find this place in the end.

There are only three of us. Although we have guns in our hands, if we accidentally let the other party touch them while punching holes, then there will be a big problem.

As the saying goes, you must not have the heart to harm others, and you must not have the heart to guard against others. He doesn't want to be the target of others.

Zhao Zhuzi frowned. The problem Fang Ming said was not easy to solve. It was not difficult for him to set up traps, but the problem is that there are no such things as landmines in this situation. What kind of decent things can be arranged in a way, and the area is really too big!
"I remember that there are a few big trees at the side of the Shinto that came in, that should be a commanding height, or you can go there for the pillar."

Niu Ping's words made Fang Ming's eyes brighten, and he also remembered that there are indeed several big trees with luxuriant branches and leaves between the end of the Shinto and the imperial mausoleum. There is no problem, and the key point is that no one thought that there would be someone up there. As long as Zhao Zhuzi squatted there with the M4, as long as someone came, he would be able to see it from a distance. In this way, he and Niu Ping would be safe. There is no need to worry about being hit like a target.

"Okay, let's do it like this."

Fang Ming looked at Zhao Zhuzi and said, "Zhuzi, you can go there and clean up the traces of our coming, and then stay there."

Zhao Zhuzi knew that this was a major matter related to the safety of the three people, so he nodded immediately and said, "No problem, I'll go now."

Holding the gun, Zhao Zhuzi immediately ran towards the Shinto, and disappeared soon after.

"Letting Zhuzi follow him this time seems to be the right choice! Without him, we would have a little less manpower."

Niu Ping nodded and said, "Yes, if it's just you and me, it would be too troublesome to have a separate person to keep an eye on the imperial tomb."

Niu Ping, who was born as a tomb robber, attaches the most importance to the issue of safety. There have been too many murders of tomb robbers in history, and anything can happen when he is open to money.

After Zhao Zhuzi left, Fang Ming and Niu Ping tidied up and walked towards the place where the imperial tomb was located. However, this time they didn't rush to punch holes with Luoyang shovels like yesterday, but circled around the periphery of the imperial tomb. Turn it up, and make records while turning it.

It doesn't matter if you turn around, they found that the location of the entire mausoleum is definitely more than three square kilometers, and this does not include ancillary buildings such as Shinto.

"Damn! If these things are not destroyed, then..."

Seeing the ruins of the imperial mausoleum in front of him, Fang Ming couldn't help cursing. He knew that the people who came here back then had no idea where to find the entrance to the underground palace, and they had explosives in their hands, so they simply blew it up. Once again, the result is the current result.Of course, it is not ruled out that the original sculptures in the imperial mausoleum were exquisite, but they were too big to take away, so they were simply blown up, and the heads and the like were taken away.

Such a thing is not impossible, for example, the animal head that once caused a lot of trouble also belonged to this situation.

The animal heads refer to the bronze statues of the animal heads of the twelve zodiac signs, which were red copper statues in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. They were originally the water clocks in the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall in the Yuanmingyuan, that is, the sprinklers of the "Twelve Zodiac Timekeeping Fountains". The bronze statues of animal heads of the twelve zodiac animals in the complete "Twelve Zodiac Timekeeping Fountain" are distributed in the shape of "eight" on the human statues on both sides of the fountain. Each animal head has a mechanism, and there will be a corresponding one every hour The animal heads started to spray water and kept spraying for two hours. Twelve animal heads made up 24 hours, that is, one day.

When the British and French allied forces invaded in 1860, they burned the Old Summer Palace, demolished the fountain, and took away the animal heads of the twelve zodiac signs on it. To this day, these animal heads have not been fully recovered.

Therefore, these bombed-up messy stones in front of me may have been part of the statue. God knows if the most important part has been taken away.

Thinking of this possibility, Fang Ming felt as if his heart had been stabbed!

"Ugh!"

Niu Ping naturally understood Fang Ming's thoughts, but the incident had already happened and there was no other way, he could only hope that the underground palace below would not be opened.

"Judging from the current situation, it is possible that the underground palace of the Imperial Mausoleum has not been opened, but whether it is really the case, it needs to be proved slowly."

For the next month, Zhao Zhuzi went to the tree every day to squat, while Fang Ming and Niu Ping each took a Luoyang shovel to drill holes according to the exact points they came down. Each hole was drilled 15 meters deep into the ground. to see what's going on underground.

The sun rose into the sky, shone through the gaps in the leaves, and hit the ground. Coupled with the slight wind, people would not feel that this was in the desert at all.

Fang Ming picked up the Luoyang shovel, looked at it, and sighed softly. The soil brought out on it was still the same as before, and there was no change. This was the fifth 15-meter hole he made in the past month. deep hole.

Without exception, these five holes all got nothing-not to mention that he made them, Niu Ping also made four holes, and the result was the same.

According to this result, there are no tombs underground at all!
However, if there is no tomb, what about the gods and the like here, as well as these stones that have been blown up in a mess?

Fang Ming's brows were tightly knit together, and he lost his mind in a daze. This was really too strange.

Did not hit the underground palace may be in the position?

This is the only possibility left.

However, Niu Ping is a master of tomb robbers, these locations are all chosen by him, naturally they are the places most likely to appear in the underground palace, how could there be such a big deviation?
Sweat was hanging on his face, but Fang Ming didn't have any intention of wiping it off.

After being stunned for a while, Fang Ming collected his mood and walked to the next location that Niu Ping had marked. The hole just now had been drilled to the specified depth of 15 meters, and he even drilled an extra meter just to be on the safe side. , I can only change to another place if there is still no harvest.

"boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Because Fang Ming's Luoyang shovel used a wooden handle at the beginning of the fight, and because he had already made many holes, his speed at this time was much faster than before.Four times, one up and one down, a circular hole was made.

"what."

Fang Ming stopped suddenly, looked at the half-meter-deep hole in front of him, and was fascinated. After a while, his heart suddenly started beating violently, and the feeling was different!
His hands trembled slightly. He didn't notice it at the beginning, but after all, he had drilled a lot of holes before, and he had already developed a certain hand feeling, so he immediately reacted!

When Luoyang shoveled this position, the soil felt very soft, which was different from other positions before!
Taking a few deep breaths, Fang Ming tried his best to control his heartbeat. He held the pole of the Luoyang shovel with both hands, lifted it up, and released it, and the Luoyang shovel fell down.

"flutter!"

This time the sound was obviously different from before, the sound was deeper, and it seemed as if a knife had fallen into the soft soil. Looking at the pole again, Fang Ming found that the shovel went down nearly 30 centimeters. !

Heart, beating even more wildly!

The only possibility for this to happen is that the underlying soil layer is completely different.

Carefully pulling out the Luoyang shovel, Fang Ming looked at the soil on the head of the Luoyang shovel, and found that the soil was not completely black, but there were some gray things inside!
Squinting his eyes, Fang Ming suddenly called out loudly:
"Old cow!"

(End of this chapter)