Carrying Zhuang Rui here, the white horse thought that he had worked hard and neighed in his mouth, approaching Zhuang Rui, wanting to enjoy the nourishment of spiritual energy entering his body again.
"Okay, you know the way back, right? You go back first..."
After Zhuang Rui injected a trace of spiritual energy into the white horse, he waved it away. Using spiritual energy to survey from a long distance is different from that within dozens of meters. It must be very quiet to roughly judge the shape of the object wrapped in spiritual energy.
Depending on the type of object.
As if he understood what Zhuang Rui said, the white horse neighed and ran along the way it came. It didn't think about how Zhuang Rui would get back later. Zhuang Rui was focused on the underground tunnel and didn't care about anything else.
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Zhuang Rui looked around. The place he was in was a somewhat concave grassland. The gentle breeze blew and the waist-deep green grass made a rustling sound. Other than that, the surroundings were silent.
"Damn, this is a good place for filming a ghost movie..."
Zhuang Rui was agitated by the rustling sound, and what he was looking for might be the tomb of a thousand-year-old ghost. Zhuang Rui, who had always been very courageous, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"It's true that the older you get in the world, the less courageous you become..."
Zhuang Rui smiled mockingly to himself, walked to a place with relatively sparse grass and sat down. He was completely hidden in the grass. If you didn't look carefully from the outside, you really couldn't spot Zhuang Rui's figure.
Taking a deep breath, he adjusted his chaotic breathing while riding a horse. Zhuang Rui's gaze was directed to the ground in front of his body. The invisible and colorless spiritual energy surged out, instantly penetrating the earth and reaching the depths of the ground.
This time, Zhuang Rui did not cast a wide net to catch fish. He had already discovered an artificial tunnel. Zhuang Rui also wanted to see how long the tunnel was and what kind of secrets were buried at the end of the tunnel?
When the aura in Zhuang Rui's eyes continued to move forward along the wide tunnel, there were more and more objects in the tunnel. In addition to the cold weapons used in ancient times, there were also some practical items.
Tools used for digging soil.
"This should be a hoe..."
The object wrapped in Zhuang Rui's aura should be a hoe. The wooden handle has long since decayed, but the iron head is still intact. The narrow blade makes it good at digging deeply in small areas.
"Hmm? Is this a natural underground rock formation, or is it man-made... Dragon Broken Stone?"
When Zhuang Rui's spiritual energy traveled about one kilometer inward along the tunnel, he found that the path was blocked by a huge stone in front of him. This stone appeared very suddenly without any warning before.
The underground of the prairie does not mean that it is all a mud structure. Like the inland Central Plains, there are often rocks more than ten meters deep underground.
It's just that rock layers and soil layers exist alternately. Generally, there is soil and even groundwater under the rock layer.
When Zhuang Rui used spiritual energy to penetrate the ground just now, he clearly "saw" that there was a rock layer more than 20 meters thick about thirty meters below him.
There is an underground river more than ten meters below the rock layer. The underground river is only twenty meters deep from the underground tunnel, and its flow direction is the same. Zhuang Rui even doubts whether the two will intersect if they extend further.
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Underground rivers are also called "undercurrents", which refer to rivers below the ground. They are a type of underground karst landform. They are formed by underground water collection, or surface water seeping into the ground along underground rock cracks, and through rock dissolution, collapse and water transportation.
river course.
In the maze under the Aerzhai Grottoes, there is also an underground river. However, due to the huge size of the maze, the water has dried up in many places. This underground river actually flows from there.
"What a bunch of fools. They left such an underground river unused and wasted such a huge amount of manpower and material resources. I guess only the Mongolian overlords who dominated the prairie at that time could do it..."
Zhuang Rui shook his head slightly, but then he burst into laughter. Let alone the ancients more than a thousand years ago, even modern people would not be able to distinguish the underground topography without long-term topographic survey.
It is impossible to accurately locate the location and flow direction of underground rivers.
He laughs at other people's stupidity, but he doesn't know that he is the one who can stand and talk without pain in his back. If it weren't for the aura in his eyes, even if Zhuang Rui stayed on this grassland for 100 years, he would not know that there is an underground river under his body.
Shaking his head to get rid of the thoughts in his mind, Zhuang Rui controlled his spiritual energy and penetrated into the stone blocking the road. It didn't matter that this survey was done, the result left Zhuang Rui speechless.
"Grandma, how on earth did you put this in?"
Nearly thirty meters in front of the blocked tunnel are all made of large bluestones more than two meters long. The joints between the stones are as if they were made in nature. Zhuang Rui estimates that the person doing the construction is
Didn't they imitate the Great Wall of Qin and use a razor blade to test the gaps between the stones?
"Damn it, even if there is something and a tomb behind this thing, how do you open it?"
Looking at these stones blocking the road, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but frown. Now he could definitely conclude that this was definitely an ancient tomb.
However, the unique geographical location and complex man-made obstacles of this tomb far exceed the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum that Zhuang Rui saw not long ago.
The most difficult difficulties to overcome in the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum are just the volatilization of mercury and the damage to items when exposed to the air. However, this tomb makes people feel a bit like a dog biting a hedgehog and unable to eat it.
Let's dig down from the ground. The rock layer with a thickness of tens of meters is the first obstacle. This project is no easier than building a railway in Sichuan and Tibet through mountains and ridges.
When it comes to the underground river, the water flow will also hinder the excavation process. If the underground river cannot be effectively diverted, it is absolutely impossible to continue digging. It is estimated that the underground river will cause landslides within a few meters.
This means that it is almost impossible to excavate from above. Even if Zhuang Rui is willing to pay, he may not be able to convince the local government and archaeological department to support it, not to mention the technical difficulties that Zhuang Rui cannot overcome.
As for the method of digging in from the tunnel, it seems feasible, but in fact it is also very difficult. First, you have to enter the underground cave of the Alzhai Grottoes, and then you have to go through the maze-like cave to find the intervention point of the tunnel.
Zhuang Rui had surveyed before and found that the area connecting the cave and the tunnel was also blocked by countless huge rocks. The thickness was even worse than here. It would probably take less than a year and a half to clear it out.
Don't even think about doing it.
"Grandma, this is the real tomb that prevents fire and theft and future generations."
Zhuang Rui sighed secretly in his heart. With such a large-scale underground tomb, even a tomb robber with superb tomb robbing skills would probably be helpless. If nothing else, the tens of meters of rock alone would be enough for him to pound for a lifetime.
Already.
"Forget it, don't worry about all the tombs for now, let's take a look at whose tomb it is. There won't be anything inside because of the huge construction ahead, right?"
After marveling at the generosity of the ancients, Zhuang Rui took his mind back and became more curious. Which emperor could enjoy such a rich burial?
Just as Zhuang Rui had guessed, after the thirty-meter-long stone strip, the familiar tunnel space appeared again.
It was just the objects in this space that made Zhuang Rui a little confused. This space was much larger than the previous one. It was a huge space about five meters high and thirty and ten meters long and wide respectively.
Moreover, Zhuang Rui did not find any place containing spiritual energy in this space, but he felt through the spiritual energy that the space of about hundreds of square meters seemed to be filled with things.
"Damn, what on earth is this? Why is there no aura at all?" Because there were too many objects piled up, Zhuang Rui could only judge by their shapes bit by bit, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Before this grassland archeology, Zhuang Rui traveled to Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, and saw a lot about various tombs that ranged from decades to hundreds of thousands of years.
Basically, the objects in the tombs, even a piece of tattered clothing that has not completely decayed, will have a little aura. He has never seen a room full of things, but there is no aura at all.
Zhuang Rui sensed through his spiritual energy that the space was filled with mostly strip-shaped objects of different lengths, while others were round and slightly smaller than rubber balls.
"It's round, with two holes on the top and one hole in the middle. What is this?"
Zhuang Rui was mumbling something in his mouth while gesticulating with his hands in front of his face. Suddenly, Zhuang Rui's expression froze and his whole body jumped up from the ground.
"Damn it, aren't these the bones of a dead person?"
For a moment, Zhuang Rui felt like his scalp was exploding, a chill ran down his spine, and goosebumps swelled all over his body. He could no longer control the aura in his eyes, and mercury poured back into his eyes from the ground like water.
"That space of several hundred meters in radius is full of dead people. There must be at least a thousand people in it. The burial pit must be a burial pit..."
In the field of archeology, it is not uncommon for living people to be buried alive. Zhuang Rui once saw a few corpses buried in Liu Xiu's tomb, but as he just sensed the burial pit of thousands of people, Zhuang Rui still let Zhuang Rui
It feels a bit creepy and chilling in my heart.
The "rustling" sound made by the gentle breeze blowing on the green grass now sounded like a sinister wind in Zhuang Rui's ears. It seemed that there were countless ghosts around, stretching out their hands to tell Zhuang Rui something.
"Damn it, I'm not afraid of a living person, so why should I be afraid of you thousand-year-old ghosts?"
Zhuang Rui reached out and scratched his scalp and shouted loudly to the surroundings, but his slightly trembling legs showed that this guy was a typical tough guy.
