Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 244 Nine-story Demon Tower
Life is a samsara swim!

With infinite regret and emotion, we continued to move forward along the barrage dam.

I don't know if it was affected by the incident just now, everyone seldom spoke, and each quietly thought about their own thoughts.

This section of the dam is more than 100 meters long, and at the end of the dam, it turns out to be a corner.There is a "Z" shaped stone staircase at the corner, which leads to the lower floor of the underground palace along the stone staircase.

"This underground palace actually has more than one floor!" Everyone exclaimed in amazement.

In the underground palaces of ancient tombs we have seen, there are very few underground palaces with upper and lower floors. One is that it is very difficult to build, and the other is that it consumes more manpower and material resources.But we never imagined that there are two upper and lower floors like Qin Shihuang's underground palace. The scale of this building is once again beyond our imagination.

I feel that since entering the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, all our imaginations are vulnerable here.

Everything that exists here is beyond our imagination.

When you think you know a lot of things here, in fact, you may not even discover the secrets of the tip of the iceberg.

Lao Yang was walking beside me, seeing that I lowered my head and said nothing, "Tuobagu, what are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about a very serious question!" I answered with my head down.

"A very serious question? Let's talk about it!" Lao Yang asked.

I took a breath: "Before I came to Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, I checked a lot of information about Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum at home. I saw a rumor about the 'nine-story demon tower' in historical documents!"

"Nine-story demon tower? What? Just hearing the name makes it scary!" said the old bird.

"The nine-story demon tower refers to the First Emperor's Underground Palace!" I said lightly.

Everyone felt very puzzled when they heard the words, why is there any connection between the first emperor's underground palace and the nine-story demon tower?

"Do you know the term Ninth Five-Year Supreme?" I asked everyone.

"I know a little bit!" Cao Yi replied seriously: "The term Nine Five-Year comes from the "Book of Changes". "The first hexagram of the 64 hexagrams is the Qian hexagram, and the dry one symbolizes the sky, so it becomes the hexagram image representing the emperor. The Qian hexagram is composed of six yang lines, which are extremely prosperous. Counting from the bottom to the top, the fifth line is called It is Nine Five, nine means that this line is Yang Line, and five is the fifth line. Due to the transformation of Yin and Yang in the Book of Changes, prosperity must decline, so "Nine Five" means "Flying Dragon in the Sky", and "Shang Nine ' is 'Kanglong has regrets'.

From the perspective of hexagrams, "Shangjiu" is the most yang line, there is no room for rising, and it is bound to decline.Therefore, it will be fierce.Therefore, the ninth five is the best line in the Qian hexagram, and the Qian hexagram is the first hexagram of the 64 hexagrams, so the ninth five is also the best line of the 64 fourth line in the 380 hexagrams, and it has become the appearance of the emperor.

So the Nine-Five Zun represents the emperor, and it is amazing that the use of the two numbers 'Nine' and 'Five' in architecture is also very aesthetically pleasing! "

"The answer is very detailed, it's not just a little knowledge!" I gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, Cao Yi is also a woman who is knowledgeable and knowledgeable.

Lao Yang proudly said: "Of course! The flower of our serious crime team is a top student who graduated from a prestigious university!"

"Tch! No matter how talented a student is, he's not as good as my master!" Xiao Guoguo pouted and muttered resentfully beside her.She muttered softly, and no one else heard her.

"Okay, Xiaogu, please come back to the topic. What is the connection between the Ninth Five-Year Lord, the Nine-story Demon Pagoda, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang?" Lao Yang couldn't wait to urge me to continue.

"Since nine symbolizes the appearance of the emperor, the ancient emperors attached great importance to and loved the number nine. It is rumored that in order to highlight his status as king, Qin Shihuang specially built the underground palace with nine floors. And each floor of the underground palace It is full of organs and hidden weapons, so later generations will call the First Emperor's Underground Palace "Nine-story Demon Tower!" I said slowly.

"What? A nine-story demon pagoda? You mean, the first emperor's underground palace has nine floors?!" Second Uncle Liu was so surprised that he almost jumped up.

"Then haven't we just finished the first floor, and there are still eight floors of the underground palace waiting for us?" People stared wide-eyed, horrified beyond measure.

"It's very possible!" I pondered and said, "Of course, this is just a rumor. Maybe the First Emperor's Underground Palace is not as high as nine floors? Let's not put too much psychological pressure on ourselves!"

"Will the historical rumors be exaggerated?" Cao Yi looked at me, confused and surprised, and said, "The area of ​​the first floor of the underground palace is already so huge. According to this scale, the lowest floor of the underground palace is the ninth floor of the underground palace. layer, wouldn’t the area be extremely huge? Unimaginably large? Will the amount of work be beyond imagination?”

"Everything here is beyond imagination. I don't think I will be surprised even if two aliens appear in the underground palace!" Fang Weiran said.

I glanced at Fang Weiran: "Don't tell me, there are really records about Qin Shihuang's communication with aliens in historical documents! Maybe we can really find traces of alien civilization in the underground palace!"

After a pause, I went on to say: "Okay, this is a bit far-fetched, I'd better answer the question raised by Cao Yi just now! According to the relevant documents, the Emperor's Underground Palace may not be the traditional folding style. The structure of the bucket mausoleum is similar to the shape of a multi-layered cake or a pyramid. The shape of the first emperor's underground palace is likely to be an inverted pyramid shape that subverts our imagination, and it is rumored that the mound above the underground palace is also a nine-layer mound. The mound is It is in the shape of a regular pyramid, and the underground palace below is in the shape of an inverted pyramid. The entire underground palace of Shihuang is like two pyramids that are closely glued together! Do you think such a structure is very strange and weird? Of course, these are all It's just a rumor, there is no clear conclusion, and it still needs to be scientifically demonstrated and investigated!"

What I said made everyone present dumbfounded. After a few minutes of silence, someone let out bursts of exclamation.

What Yue Xiaojun said next was even more astonishing: "I think this rumor is very likely to be true! Because I just recalled it, and the mound above it seems to be really nine stories high!"

"Isn't it? How do you know that the mound is nine stories high?" Everyone turned their heads and looked at Yue Xiaojun suspiciously.

Yue Xiaojun said: "When I entered the tomb passage just now, I was always at the back of the line. Every time I turned a corner, I would pay attention to it. I clearly remember that from entering the tomb passage to the dragon gate, we passed a total of Nine corners!"

"Are you sure you remember correctly?" Uncle Liu asked.

"Of course not! There are only nine corners, how could I remember wrongly?" Yue Xiaojun touched his head and smiled honestly.

We were silently stunned. While marveling at the exquisite structure of the First Emperor's Underground Palace, we were also full of worries about the future.Because if what Yue Xiaojun said is true, it proves that the legend of the "nine-story demon tower" is very likely to be true.That is to say, the first emperor's underground palace is really nine stories high!

I am a god!

Go deep into the underground palace with nine floors underground!
The inverted pyramid buried deep underground!
Moreover, the scale of the structure of this pyramid has far exceeded that of the largest Khufu Pyramid in Egypt!
So, how big is the prestigious Khufu Pyramid?
The Pyramid of Khufu is equivalent to a 40-story skyscraper, and the base of the tower covers an area of ​​5.29 square meters.The entire pyramid is made of about 230 million stones, and the outer stones are about 115000, each weighing an average of 2.5 tons, as big as a car, and even more than 15 tons.If these stones were hewn into pieces of an average cubic foot, and arranged along the equator, their length would be two-thirds of the circumference of the equator.According to the estimation of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, it took 30 years to build the Pyramid of Khufu, and an astonishing 10 people were employed every year.

What an incredible set of data!
What a huge and magnificent construction project this is!
And all these terrifying data have been refreshed by the First Emperor's Underground Palace. Comparing the two, I believe everyone knows the size of the First Emperor's Underground Palace.Although I know, this statistic is unbelievable.

At this moment, we are in the body of the world's first magnificent building.I can imagine how many white bones are used to build this largest building in the world, and there is a dead bone buried under almost every piece of bluestone!
This is not an underground palace, it is simply a huge city of death built with bones!
After being shocked for a while, our thinking finally came back to reality.

Even if this is really a nine-story demon tower, we still have to go on without hesitation, because each of us bears different responsibilities and beliefs.

The duty of the crime team is to apprehend the mercenaries who shot and killed the security guards;
The duty of guarding the mausoleum is to fulfill the mission of protecting the imperial mausoleum for thousands of years;
And Xiao Guoguo and I have a firm belief in finding the immortal grass and saving Gu Meidi.

Different responsibilities and beliefs allow us to combine these three different teams. Even if there is a near death in the road ahead, I think no one in this team will be afraid to back down!
We will go on bravely!go on!

Everyone stood at the entrance of the underground palace on the second floor to rest for a while. They were also thirsty along the way, so they took out water to replenish some water, and calmed down the uncontrollable excitement by the way.

"Brothers, let's go! That group of mercenaries may have left us far behind!" Lao Yang beckoned everyone to get on the road.

Just as he stepped into the second floor of the underground palace, Second Uncle Liu suddenly stretched out his hand to hold Lao Yang, made a silent gesture, and lowered his voice, "There seems to be someone in front!"

(End of this chapter)