Chapter 63: Climbing the Imperial Mausoleum Alone
Hearing Liu Yue say this, Tang Feng looked at her strangely and said, "Liu Yue, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Yue whispered: "The more I look at the thief, the more I feel scared, just like the monster's bloody mouth. It must be very dangerous inside, and I don't want you to go."
Tang Feng smiled, walked to Liu Yue and said, "You have read too many tomb robbers. There are not so many strange mechanisms in the ancient tombs. Even if there are mechanisms, the person who is the master has not moved in yet, it will not be possible to open it."
Tang Feng's words did not eliminate Liu Yue's fear. She said: "The death of the corpse in the thief's hole is really terrifying, and it's scary to think about it."
Tang Feng comforted her and said, "Don't worry, how could I make a joke about my life? Let's go and have a look first."
Liu Yue nodded helplessly and said, "Okay then."
The place where Tang Feng lived temporarily was not far from the excavation site. After a while, the two of them arrived at the crowded excavation site, and Zhang Keming was in charge of the site.
Since the vertical hole is 150 meters deep, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to use open excavation. The archaeological department adopted half-tunnel excavation, and the cross-section of the entire hole is like a shaped "concave". In order to prevent new collapses, after the hole is dug, the construction workers used wooden piles to strengthen the tunnel. In this way, the cross-section of the hole is clear at a glance. The hole is excavated by water, which means that its altitude is 50 meters lower than the excavation surface excavated by the archaeological department. For this reason, the construction personnel had to deepen the original excavation surface. After digging down 50 meters, the archaeologists made new discoveries. The tomb door they found before was not the real tomb door, but the door directly above the tomb door. The structure of the entire tomb door is similar to the dam of the reservoir. From bottom to top is a slope, and even if they used explosives before, it was useless.
After digging 50 meters deep, the front of the entire tomb chamber was fully revealed. This was an outsourcing structure, and the door face of the tomb chamber was wrapped with a huge rock. It can be seen that Li Jie's design was very clever. The tomb chamber was not built with the belly of the huge rock, but was located under the huge rock. This saved a lot of manpower and material resources. According to the technological level at that time, it was unimaginable to dig out a football field-sized underground palace in the belly of the huge rock.
After seeing the direction of the thief hole, Tang Feng couldn't help but nod. At the beginning, the guy in charge of digging the thief hole was a figure. The thief hole finally walked around the side of the main entrance of the tomb chamber and then dug down. Tang Feng understood at a glance that the end of the thief hole must be a "U" shape, so that you can bypass the side wall of the tomb chamber and enter the tomb chamber from the underground. There is a huge rock above the imperial tomb of Song Huizong. The stone walls on both sides are very thick, and the weakest part is the ground of the tomb chamber.
Tang Feng and Liu Yue came to the periphery of the thief's turning downwards. Zhang Keming was also here. When he saw Tang Feng coming to his side, he nodded to him with a smile. Tang Feng also greeted him with a smile. The archaeological site was not a murder scene, and everyone maintained a peaceful attitude. Zhang Keming picked up a bag of badges wrapped in plastic film from the ground and said to Tang Feng: "The identity of the tomb robber has been cleared. It is not the Kuomintang army, but the Japanese and puppet."
No one would fake these things, and it was clear at a glance. Tang Feng asked Zhang Keming: "How many corpses were found in total?"
Zhang Keming said: "There are eight corpses on the thief's cave, and the situation below is still unclear."
Tang Feng looked not far away, and several staff members in white coats were undergoing autopsy. Tang Feng asked Zhang Keming: "Can I go over and take a look?"
Zhang Keming nodded and said, "Of course there is no problem." After he finished speaking, he signaled the staff next to him to hand the safety helmet to Tang Feng.
Tang Feng, who took the hard hat, turned around and said to Liu Yue: "Liu Yue are you afraid?"
Liu Yue raised her pretty face and said to Tang Feng dissatisfiedly: "I won't be afraid. I've seen it once. Let's go, I'll take you there."
Tang Feng neither wore a white coat nor gloves, and walked into the semi-exposed thief hole with Liu Yue. Since he was working underground at the time, the thief hole was equipped with a ventilation system so that the people below would not suffocate. The two squatted down in front of an unexamined corpse. Liu Yue was right, the death of these corpses was terrifying. After Tang Feng saw the corpse, a set of pictures appeared in his mind.
When the tomb robber pushed the last stone, a gloomy cool breeze blew into the face. It was the biogas that had been nurtured in the ground for hundreds of years. When this biogas touched the oxygen in the hole, it was the devil that devoured life. Before the first person to enter the tomb passage could smell the smell, the cool breeze turned into a ball of flame and rushed into the face. In an instant, the person was swallowed by the flames. Then, the flames rushed forward like a tide. The person in the hole was overturned to the ground like a domino, and then,
The temperature of the hole suddenly rose in a geometric multiple, and the exposed skin of every tomb robber was completely cracked by the high temperature at this moment. When the debris overturned by the heat wave was blocked by the wooden stakes that fixed the hole, the rapidly expanding air could not be released, and this energy eventually triggered a collapse. As the hole collapsed, the air outside the hole was completely blocked, and without oxygen, the combustion of biogas suddenly stopped. But at the same time, the oxygen inside the hole was also quickly drained by this explosive combustion, so these people were not burned to death, but suffocated to death.
Tang Feng looked at the fingers of the corpse in front of him that were deeply inserted into the soil, and it was not difficult to imagine the pain he suffered at that time. The skin was burned and they rolled on the ground with pain. When the completely exposed muscles touched the ground, the degree of this pain was even more unimaginable. The only thing that is thankful is that they soon lost consciousness.
The corpse in front of me is completely mummy. The clothes on their bodies are relatively intact. The muscles and bones in the exposed areas are also stuck together. The soil on the ground still retains traces of corpse water penetration. Why are the corpse that has been dead for more than 70 years still preserved so intact? This is because there is no oxygen in the thief hole and bacteria are difficult to reproduce.
Looking at the mummy skeleton's face connecting to the muscles, Tang Feng said to Liu Yue: "Are you really not afraid?"
Liu Yue said: "Stop scaring me, I've seen something even more terrifying."
"What do you think this is?" Before the word "you" was released, Tang Feng's hand suddenly reached towards Liu Yue. Liu Yue screamed and hurriedly dodged. Tang Feng laughed, there was nothing on his hand. Liu Yue's scream immediately made her the focus of attention of the staff around him.
"No... it's okay." Liu Yue red-faced and tidied up her hair, then walked towards Tang Feng as if nothing had happened. Before she could reach Tang Feng's side, she kicked Tang Feng. Tang Feng quickly dodged away. Liu Yue said unhappily: "You're going to die!"
Tang Feng smiled and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I just want to joke with you."
"Hmph!" Liu Yue stomped her feet and said, "You know that bullying me, I'm so kind to you!"
Seeing that Liu Yue was really angry, Tang Feng slowly walked to her and said, "I'm so sorry, I didn't expect you to be afraid of being like this."
Liu Yue stretched her hand to Tang Feng's arm and twisted him hard. This time, Tang Feng did not dodge. Liu Yue finally vented a sigh of anger. Afterwards, she asked Tang Feng: "Does it hurt?"
Tang Feng said: "What do you think?"
Liu Yue then asked, "You don't know how to avoid it?"
Tang Feng said helplessly: "As long as you can make Liu Yue vent your anger, it doesn't matter if you hurt at all."
"Hmph, I won't believe it!" Liu Yue said with a pouting.
At this time, Zhang Keming came over and said to Tang Feng: "We have put two cats in this morning. The staff told me just now that the two cats have come out."
Tang Feng smiled and said, "In other words, you can take care of me now. If I want to go in, will it be convenient for you?"
Zhang Keming reached out to Tang Feng and said, "I like to go straight to things when doing things. The words to say below may not sound nice. If you offend me, please forgive me."
Tang Feng said: "It's okay, just say it."
Zhang Keming said: "Although both cats have come out alive, we still have no idea about the situation inside. If Mr. Tang wants to go in, he needs to sign a contract with us, and you must also ensure that you will not take away anything inside."
Tang Feng laughed and said, "The life and death letter and military order are right? No problem, I can sign it. To be honest, I did this entirely because I was curious and not interested in the things inside."
Zhang Keming nodded and said, "It would be great if you can think so. I have asked them to start cleaning the entrance of the cave. I will trouble Mr. Tang for the next thing."
Tang Feng nodded slightly and said, "Then sign the contract now."
Zhang Keming picked up the intercom and instructed the staff to prepare the contract. After a while, a staff member holding the folder hurried to this side. He handed the folder to Zhang Keming and left. Zhang Keming took out a contract for Tang Feng to take a look. Tang Feng signed his name without much thought. Zhang Keming asked Tang Feng: "We have an insurance contract..."
Tang Feng laughed and said, "I know your difficulties, but I have to tell you that it is actually very safe inside. I can guarantee you that even if something really happens, my family will not come to trouble you." Tomb robbing is indeed a dangerous thing, but there are not many tomb robbers who actually died in the tomb chamber mechanism. Although everyone is worried, Tang Feng looked relaxed.
As soon as the exchange here ended, the staff there said to Zhang Keming: "Professor Zhang, three more bodies appeared below, and they have been cleaned up."
Zhang Keming said: "I will send someone down soon."
Chapter completed!