On a clear autumn night, there were stars. In the cold wind, a shrunken figure stepped towards the gap in the wall on the east side of the playground of Xijing University of Architecture and Architecture.
Li Shilan herself didn't know why she had the courage to explore this mysterious underground palace of the Tang Dynasty alone on such a cold autumn night.
Is it curiosity? Or is it guided by the meteor that just crossed the night sky? Or is it bewitched by some mysterious power? In confusion, Li Shilan has arrived at the gap in the wall.
"This is dangerous, no one can stop here!" The eight large characters on the iron sign standing in front of the gap in the wall are faintly visible.
It seems that the archaeological work is not going too smoothly. The wall on the east side of the campus has been demolished for nearly a week, but the holes excavated are still outside the wall and have not extended in. Because of this, the holes in the holes are still there.
The dim lights were almost invisible on the playground.
Li Shilan gently opened the fence and stepped out of the fence.
What came into view was a large, dark pit. With the faint light in the pit, Li Shilan carefully observed the situation below. The overall feeling was like a trench during World War II, but it was much deeper than the trench. The tunnels were arranged
The interlacing shape looks like a maze, but it is not as regular as a maze.
Li Shilan raised her head and looked around. It seemed that no one was on duty. "Never mind, let's go down and take a look." She thought to herself.
The hole near the gap in the wall is not too deep, and there is a slope. For Li Shilan, who is 1.82 meters tall, it is not difficult to get down. As for how to get up, it does not seem to be his concern at the moment.
"Bah-" Li Shilan slipped down the slope, "wha-la-la--" the soil around the pit also slid down a bit.
Standing firmly on her feet, Li Shilan patted the dust on her body, raised her eyes and scanned the situation in the tunnel from left to right. There were three ways to go, left, middle and right. The tunnel in the middle was not long, and it was probably less than five steps forward.
Mi saw the boss.
"Left or right?" Li Shilan was thinking, "Let's go to the left first." He soon made up his mind.
Slowly groping, he walked to the left for more than ten meters. The tunnel turned right, and another row of wooden barriers was in front of him: "Be careful and go slowly!" Li Shilan went around the right side of the barrier. Before walking a few meters, the lights came on.
A stone step road extending downward appeared below, and the road was more than two meters wide. The few lights swayed in the autumn wind, making it difficult to see how deep the road was.
Li Shilan held on to the pit wall on the right and walked slowly down the stone steps. With each step down, the light seemed to become dimmer. Li Shilan's heartbeat became faster and faster, and the sweat on her hands wet the pit wall.
The soil on the ground became sticky. After descending about fifty or sixty steps, we finally reached a piece of flat land. "So deep!" Li Shilan, who was standing on the flat ground, let out a long breath and sighed.
The ground of this flat land was also paved with stones. The reason why Li Shilan could judge the material of the ground was all based on the feeling of his feet, because there was almost no light here. After walking forward for another five or six meters, he almost hit his head.
There seemed to be a dead end ahead! No, it was a door! His eyes that gradually adapted to the dark environment helped him identify the outline. And the middle seam and door knocker that he touched with his hands convinced him that his judgment was correct!
"The underground palace gate!" Li Shilan was secretly excited.
Looking carefully up and down, Li Shilan could see the stone door in front of her more clearly. The stone door was more than two meters high and about one and a half meters wide. There were two metal door knockers symmetrically mounted on the left and right doors. Looking up, there was a metal door knocker on the door.
The animal head should be that of a lion, unicorn or the like, but the light is too dark to distinguish clearly. There are patterns carved on the door frame, which of course can also be found by touch.
"Can we get in?" Li Shilan's mind was a little confused.
"Just take it as it comes! This kind of experience may not happen twice in your life. Come on!" I secretly cheered myself up in my heart.
Li Shilan held the stone door with both hands, her legs were in a bow position, and her feet were firmly on the ground. She took a full breath in her Dantian and said, "Open... open... open!" She pushed the stone door three times in a row, but the stone door did not move at all!
"What's going on?" Li Shilan, whose face was flushed from holding back, rubbed her sore wrist.
"Could it be that...this door opens outward?" Li Shilan wondered.
"If you don't do it, don't stop. Pull it and try it!" He grabbed a door knocker with each hand, still took the lunge, and used enough breath. He silently said one, two, three in his heart, and shouted: "Open!"
"Creak..." The door knocker moved, but the door - still didn't move at all.
"Oh, you are competing with me! Are you?" Li Shilan was unwilling to give up and was about to try again.
"Who? Who's there?" A man's voice came from not far away.
Li Shilan was startled and quickly shrank to the corner between the stone gate and the pit wall.
"Hey, don't run!" the man shouted loudly, "Hey, what about you, stop..."
Li Shilan did not dare to move, and even held her breath. At the same time, she also realized that the man who might be the night watchman at the archaeological site did not notice her.
The shouting continued, but it seemed to be getting further and further away. "Hoo——" Li Shilan took a long breath.
"Before going down to the pit just now, I didn't see any night watchers." Li Shilan thought, "The stone door couldn't be opened, and a night watchman came out halfway, and there might be a tomb robber or something else running around. Oh, what a bad luck! Today
It seems that my adventure has come to an end, and I don’t know if I can escape unscathed. Although breaking into the archaeological site without permission is not a big deal, it will be troublesome if the school gives me punishment."
After waiting for another ten minutes or so, there seemed to be no movement outside. Li Shilan stepped onto the steps lightly. The stone steps going up seemed longer than the way down, so she had to be careful and keep her ears straight.
Finally ascending the last step, Li Shilan walked around the wooden fence from the left, leaned against the wall of the pit, and looked to the left. It was better not to look, but after looking at it, Li Shilan's heart almost lifted to her throat. That
The night watchman, I don't know when, got a chair and placed it between the gap in the school wall and the tunnel, where Li Shilan slipped down, sitting on it smoking a cigarette.
"I'm going! I'm not allowed to go back!" Li Shilan cursed. "What should I do? I don't want to spend the night here!"
"Hmm... If you wait a little longer, I won't believe that he won't sleep." He raised his hand and looked at his luminous watch. The pointer showed: exactly half past twelve!
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Li Shilan shivered and woke up. Drowsily, she looked up at her watch: one forty!
"When did I fall asleep?" Li Shilan sniffled while thinking, and felt a little headache at the same time, "Hey, I caught a cold, bad luck!"
"We have to go back to the dormitory quickly, otherwise we will have to go to the hospital directly at dawn to get a syringe." Li Shilan thought as she poked her head out again.
The folding chair was still placed by the tunnel, but there was no one on it. Li Shilan secretly rejoiced: "Sure enough, he can't stand it anymore!"
Slowly getting up and moving slowly along the side wall of the tunnel, Li Shilan walked to the place where she came down.
I didn't realize it when I slid down just now, but now I look up and see that the pit is quite deep. Although there is a slope, I still can't get up.
"It would be great if I could use the vacation after the college entrance examination to learn parkour!" Li Shilan thought wildly.
Looking up and down the wall of the pit, Li Shilan's eyes suddenly lit up: "Chair! I can run up the slope of the pit. Although I can't go up, I can reach the folding chair. Then I put the chair at the bottom of the pit and step on it.
Maybe you can go up by holding on to it.” Li Shilan was very proud of her “intelligence”.
"Yes, the tunnel in the middle is facing the slope of the tunnel under the chair. You can use this distance of five or six meters to start a run." Li Shilan became more confident in the implementation of his idea!
Facing the direction of the chair and the slope, he slowly backed up to guard against the sudden appearance of the night man. After eight or nine steps, he estimated that he was almost at the end of the tunnel in the middle. He touched back to confirm whether there was already a pit behind him.
wall.
Li Shilan did touch something, but the feeling was not soil, but cloth! "Ah..." Just as he was about to shout, his mouth was tightly covered by a hand from behind——