The small cave where Chen Wenzhe and the others are located has obvious traces of artificial excavation.
This should be a specially reserved water source. I don’t know why a water source is reserved in this large tomb.
After calculating the direction, Chen Wenzhe was surprised to find that a branch of this underground river actually flowed under the Tang Dynasty stone coffin outside.
This means that after discovering the stone coffin, if you continue to dig downward, you will definitely dig out water.
In other words, the tomb passage leading to the interior will definitely be flooded.
Moreover, it is supported by an entire underground river. If water is dug out, it will definitely not be drained away.
If this happened in ancient times, if the underground tomb passage was long enough, no one would be able to sneak into the tomb.
Even Chen Wenzhe couldn't get in without the help of diving equipment.
It can be said that the defensive facilities of this tomb are very powerful.
Anyway, he's already in.
Slowly walked out of the cave and entered the tomb passage.
The tomb passage here slopes downward. Needless to say, as long as you dig downward, there will be water underneath.
The bottom of the water is sand, or it is a different kind of quicksand trap.
It was difficult to dig in the first place, and with the water from an underground river, it was even more impossible for the ancients to open up this tomb passage.
Anyway, they're already in.
Chen Wenzhe laughed. He didn't need to look back, he just had to walk forward.
After looking at the compass, I saw that the tomb passage leads straight to the north, which means that it should be more than 300 meters long and probably leads directly to the main tomb chamber.
"Are we going down?"
After taking off his diving suit and tidying up, Chen Qinglin said eagerly.
He looked at him strangely. When he discovered the ancient tomb outside, Chen Wenzhe remembered clearly that Chen Qinglin warned him with a righteous expression. What happened now?
Where is justice? Being eaten by a dog?
"What's that look in your eyes? The situation is different. The ancient tomb has been seen by countless people. How can we hide it?"
"Second brother did the right thing. The ancient tomb outside cannot be hidden, but this one is different. We came down through the well. Who would have thought?" Chen Qingchuan explained.
"You just thought of it and bought the diving equipment in advance!"
"Are you curious? We won't do the math. This is an order placed with you. If you do some secretive things in the future, it's best not to leave any traces, such as online shopping!"
What else could Chen Wenzhe say? It wasn't that he was careless, the main reason was that he believed that no one would think that a well could be a robbery hole.
However, his two brothers knew him too well!
This is also his fault. The strength he showed previously was so strong that his two brothers had no doubts about his judgment, so they invested in it in advance.
They probably didn't expect that they would enter a large tomb so smoothly.
In front of the three people is a tomb passage. The tomb passage is more than two meters high and four meters wide. It goes straight forward and it is unknown how far it extends.
Although Chen Qinglin wanted to go down, he looked at Chen Wenzhe and knew that such a large tomb should be very dangerous.
"There must be traps. In such a large tomb, the dangers come from several aspects, such as strong bows and crossbows, traps, water, fire, poison, and the dragon-breaking stone or rolling stones. Look at this passage.
Both the dragon-breaking stone and the rolling stone are indispensable.”
Just by standing on it and observing the tomb passage below, Chen Wenzhe could see a lot of things.
There are only a few types of traps in ancient times.
In such a ventilated place, water and poison are difficult to use.
Fire is fine, but the passage is too long, and it's not easy to preserve grease or anything like that.
In ancient times, lighting mainly relied on grease and candles. As for oil, it was rare in ancient times.
Of course, you still need to be careful. Just because there are not many does not mean that there are none. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, there are historical records of using petroleum to make incendiary bombs.
"First of all, we must avoid the underground flaps. There must be flaps in this kind of place, because the terrain here is low in the south and high in the north. It must be abnormal to see a flat plain now."
"You'll know after you try it."
Chen Qingchuan held an engineering shovel and entered the tomb passage after just a short test.
After landing, I tested it out and found that the floor was paved with blue bricks.
Fortunately, the space here is small, otherwise, just the blue bricks would have used a lot.
Entering the tomb passage, Chen Qingchuan used an engineering shovel to constantly test the surroundings. He even used his feet to step forward step by step.
When no danger was found, Chen Wenzhe and Chen Qinglin all came down.
"Be careful, the underground here is not blue bricks, it should be wooden boards!"
It was only when the money entered more than ten meters that Chen Qingchuan discovered the situation.
"Is there really a flip-flop?" Chen Qinglin didn't believe it.
“I don’t know if it’s a replica, but it’s definitely a wooden board!”
"How many years has passed? The wooden boards should have rotted long ago, right?"
"This is not necessarily true. The coffin found outside was preserved with lacquer. It was a coffin from the Tang Dynasty, at least more than a thousand years ago."
Chen Wenzhe walked to the front and looked at the flap. Sure enough, after cleaning off the dust on it, there was a layer of bright paint underneath.
"You are really willing to spend money!" Chen Qinglin was speechless.
"Ancient wooden boards are not as valuable as they are now!"
Chen Wenzhe turned over the wooden board. It was a solid piece of wood, with a thickness of three centimeters and a width of more than one meter.
Needless to say, this must have been decomposed from a large tree with a diameter of more than one meter.
Although the preparation of ancient lacquer was complicated, labor at that time was super cheap.
For some large landowners or nobles, as long as they take care of food and make lacquerware, there is not much cost at all.
"Look what's down there? It feels like there's nothing there? It's too shallow."
"Two meters deep is a bit shallow!"
"It should be oil and wax. This is really a fire tunnel."
With the experience of a mountain-moving Taoist, Chen Wenzhe can still distinguish some things.
However, he also discovered the limitations of the two traditions of unloading mountains and moving mountains. If we talk about digging holes and carving mountains, these two traditions are very professional.
But once you enter the ancient tomb, you may be able to explore Captain Jin’s specialty.
Although both skills are involved in mechanism layout, they are not specialized.
However, as long as you know the methods of the ancients and be careful, some dangers can be avoided.
"The ones underneath are wooden thorns, not metal products, but they are very sharp."
Chen Qinglin used an engineering shovel and after a few tests, he discovered that what was submerged in the oil and wax below was actually a wooden thorn.
"Is it still usable? The wax should have protected those wood thorns!" Chen Qingchuan also made a discovery.
It was also the first time for Chen Wenzhe to go to the tomb. Although he understood some of the situation, he was still a little stunned when faced with such a problem.
In order to prevent theft, the ancients did everything possible.
"Let's go. As long as you're careful, there shouldn't be any danger." Chen Qinglin said.
"You still have to be careful. We don't know how the ancients planned to ignite the oil and wax underground." Chen Qingchuan said cautiously.
"There must be phosphorus fires in some places, but there will definitely not be such measures outside the ancient tomb. We have to wait until we go deep into the ancient tomb before igniting this passage. If we don't get burned to death by then, we will be burned to death."