genius divination

Chapter 840 Exploring the Crypt
"So, we can go out?" Feng Yuan said happily.

"Of course we can, but this road is impassable." Fan Jiannan sighed, "If those craftsmen could have escaped here at that time, this place would have been dug through long ago. You see how messy and hasty it is, obviously They didn't wait until this secret passage was dug through, and they all died."

Feng Yuan said sadly, "What about us, will we die here too?"

"Perhaps, no one will find the two corpses here until many years later, a bent man hugging a woman. When people were about to separate him from the skeleton he was hugging, he instantly turned into a Dust." Fan Jiannan let out a long sigh.

"Pfft, this is the ending of Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris", right?" Feng Yuan smiled and glared at him and said, "You will make me happy, but this story is too sad. I can't be happy."

"However, the protagonist in my version is more handsome than Quasimodo the Clock Tower." Fan Jiannan laughed, "And in my version, I will not let the person I love die. Neither of us will die." Will die, and must live well. Come on, let's continue to find other ways out."

He turned around and continued looking for something around, Feng Yuan frowned and said, "What are you looking for?"

"Traces." Fan Jiannan sighed, "Although most of the mountainside here is natural, there are many traces of man-made processing, including those large copper rings on the stone steps and rock walls. There are still traces on the original abyss in the middle." A stone platform, guarded by four bronze bridges. But it has collapsed now. You said such a large project, and it was in ancient times, how much manpower would it cost?"

Feng Yuan thought for a while and said, "At least a hundred people, right?"

"Maybe hundreds of people." Fan Jiannan said slowly, "Qin Shihuang thinks very highly of himself, and these projects here are just a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of Afang Palace. This manpower and material resources are completely negligible to him. However, judging from the sluice mechanism we found on the Black Dragon Pool, the people who built the waterways here are by no means ordinary craftsmen. The land of Qilu is the hometown of Lu Ban, and there have always been skilled craftsmen. These craftsmen are likely to be proficient in some special techniques .”

"You mean, these craftsmen may leave some kind of trace. And this kind of trace may help us find a way out?" Feng Yuan asked in surprise.

"That's right. The Taishan Crypt has never been known to people, and we have never heard of the legend that Qin Shihuang built the Taishan Crypt. It is very likely that everyone who participated in the construction project here was killed by him after the completion. This book It is a method commonly used by feudal emperors. But the craftsmen below are not necessarily ignorant people, the craftsmen have their own wisdom. Like this tunnel, some craftsmen should leave behind for escape." Fan Jiannan said lightly, "But After all, they are just ordinary people. But the person who designed the bronze bridge and the suspended platform is a powerful character. I looked around when I first came here. The assumed positions of the four stone bridges are extremely accurate. Such senior craftsmen may leave A more comprehensive backhand."

Feng Yuan nodded and said, "I understand, but how can we find the traces they left? After so many years, even some traces have long been obliterated by time."

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "There are two caves next to it, let's go and have a look. Judging from the location, there should be a key node that controls the Qi veins of the entire cave. If I guessed correctly, there is likely to be something found there. "

Fan Jiannan and Feng Yuan slowly exited the narrow cave and returned to the edge of the abyss.Suddenly there was a sound of running water, Fan Jiannan's expression changed, and he sneered.

"What's the matter, where is the sound of water coming from?" Feng Yuan asked in surprise.

"Who else could it be? It must be Fukuyama Tetsu who was afraid that we would not die fast enough, so he flipped the rock on it and opened the gate to release the water." Fan Jiannan sneered, "As long as you let me out, I will definitely deal with him for this debt." Calculate."

"But, if he opens the gate to release the water, will the water overflow here and completely submerge this place?" Feng Yuan asked worriedly.

"It's okay, haven't you noticed? Although we came down from the Black Dragon Pool, the passage in front of us is very inclined. It can be said that we came to this mountainside all the way up, so the terrain here is very high. It is very likely that it is higher than the outside. The Black Dragon Pool. You can see that the stone wall is very clean without any moss. So it is impossible for the water to flood here." Fan Jiannan raised his head and pointed to the top, "There is a small amount of light cast from above, and there is wind, so here There is no problem with the air in the air. Fukuyama Tetsu will not be unaware that he did this just to increase our psychological pressure. "

"This person is really cunning." Feng Yuan sighed.

"He just hopes that we will fall into despair in the panic, and once people are desperate, they will see no hope of survival." Fan Jiannan smiled slightly, "Believe me, we can not only go out, but also settle accounts with him."

After speaking, he tidied up his equipment and extinguished a miner's lamp, and the two of them shared a miner's lamp for lighting.Because they don't know how long they will be in this crypt, the light source is very important to them now, so it's better to save as much as possible.

Fan Jiannan walked in front, Feng Yuan took his hand and walked behind.Fan Jiannan could clearly feel the slightly moist sweat on her palms due to nervousness.

The second cave is much wider than the previous one, at least you can walk straight up.The stone walls on both sides of the cave were also carefully chiseled. After walking in, I found that the inside seemed to be divided into several rooms, each connected.Kind of like a small settlement.And there are everything in it, not only stone tables and chairs, but also stone beds.

The weirdest thing is that they even discovered a place to raise livestock.

Feng Yuan said in surprise, "It seems that someone lived in the cave for a while. But how could there be large livestock raised here? These troughs are clearly used to raise large livestock such as cattle and horses."

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "It's not surprising that the strength of cattle and horses is much greater than that of manpower. Even if the bronze bridge outside was erected entirely by manpower through nooses, it would be difficult to complete it. But it would be much easier to pass large livestock such as cattle and horses." It seems that we have found the right place. This should be the location of the senior craftsmen in charge of engineering construction. In the Qin Dynasty, the hierarchy was strict, and only they had burrows like rooms to live in. Ordinary coolies are basically like cattle and horses. Squeezed together to make do."

"But how did these large livestock such as cows and horses get down?" Feng Yuan asked in surprise.

Fan Jiannan smiled slightly, "This further shows that my judgment is not wrong, there must be another way here."

(End of this chapter)