Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 5 Crutches and Keys
"Oh? What tricks do you have, tell me quickly!"

Cao Qi was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked.

The rest of the people also looked forward to Wu Liang, waiting for him to show the "wonderful method".

Facing everyone's gaze, Wu Liang did not immediately answer Cao Qi's question. He just smiled indifferently and waved at a guard standing behind him holding a long Ge: "This eldest brother, take advantage of the Chang Ge."

"This……"

The soldier had a suspicious look on his face. Weapons are not something that can be borrowed casually, so he immediately looked at Cao Qi and saw that Cao Qi nodded his approval, so he finally handed over Chang Ge.

"Thank you."

Wu Liang nodded, took Chang Ge and gestured towards the gap between the two stone gates, and then inserted it along the gap.

Such a long geek penetrated a length of about one meter, and suddenly heard a crisp sound of "Qiang", as if it had hit something hard.

"Sure enough, it's a stone!"

Wu Liang's eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

The "Jilaishi" top door was a relatively conventional anti-theft method in ancient times.

The principle of this thing is actually very simple: first dig a groove on the inside of the door and on the door, when the two doors are closed, put the stone pillar standing in the groove on the ground behind the door, after people walk out, the stone pillar With the closing of the stone gate, it slowly tilted, and when the stone gate was completely closed, the stone pillar slowly slid into the groove carved between the two doors, so the stone gate was completely dead.

And if you want to open the stone gate, you need to use the secret key of the ancient mausoleum-building craftsmen - the key of the nail.

This thing sounds mysterious, but it's actually just a piece of metal with the top bent into a half "mouth", which looks like a bottomless spoon with a half missing.

When in use, stand up half of the "mouth" of the nail key, and slowly insert it along the crack of the door. After touching the tap stone, turn the "mouth" across the upper end of the tap stone. In this way, in the principle of leverage Under the action of the faucet, only one person can push the stone upright. Without the stone top door, the stone door with the door shaft will naturally open as soon as it is pushed.

It's just that in order to keep the secrets of the royal tombs in ancient times, there has always been a tradition of silenced the craftsmen who built the mausoleum after completion. Most people have no way of knowing the mechanism behind the door, and naturally very few people know the key that can break the stone.

Therefore, it was not until 1955 when the Ming Dynasty Dingling tomb was excavated that an archaeologist realized it from a very obscure historical material.

But nowadays, it is obviously unrealistic to ask Wu Liang to make a decent crutch key, but the long Ge with the "T" shape at the front end is somewhat similar to the crutch key, and it can be regarded as a A nice replacement.

"how?"

Hearing the crisp sound, and seeing Wu Liang in high spirits again, Cao Qi hurriedly came over to ask.

"Military waiter, please be patient."

Wu Liang smiled, and slowly crossed the long Ge to support the Jiraishi, and then gradually moved upwards, so that some strength was gradually used until the upper end of the Jiraishi.

"Crack!"

Then came the sound of rocks rubbing against each other.

There is movement!
Cao Zhi and the others held their breath for a moment, quietly watching Wu Liang manipulate.

I saw the long Ge in his hand gradually extending inwards, as if it was pushing something to move, until the wooden handle at the rear end of the long Ge was almost completely lost in the crack of the door.

"Boom!"

Suddenly there was another sound from the door.

Cao Zhi and the others were startled and quickly took two steps back.

At this time, Wu Liang breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Cao Wei with a smile: "Military waiter, you can order someone to open the door now."

"push?"

Cao Qi was taken aback.

Now he still hasn't figured out what Wu Liang did, so he didn't quite understand what kind of "open door" method Wu Liang called "opening the door".

"push."

Wu Liang nodded.

Hearing this, Cao Bin still looked puzzled.

This Shimen said that it weighs ten thousand jins. Just pushed it and didn't move, but now it can be pushed open?
However, seeing Wu Liang's affirmation, Cao Qi still called the rest of the soldiers together and divided them into two groups to push the two stone gates.

"open!"

With an order, the two groups worked together.

"Boom boom boom..."

With the roar of the thick door shaft, the [-]-pound stone door slammed open.

A mist of mist rose up inside the door, and the echoes echoed through the mist in the deep and dark tomb passage.

What followed was a heat wave with a strong musty smell, as if an ancient giant beast suddenly opened its mouth in the abyss, wanting to swallow everything, forcing everyone to take a few steps back before they finally stabilized. shape.

But this heat wave comes and goes quickly.

In just one breath, everything was calm again.

It was only at this point that Cao Zhi and the others finally reacted, with an ecstatic smile on their faces, and they hugged each other like children and cheered: "Open! The door is open!"

This is joy from the heart.

It has been more than a month since the Wuren Army came to Dangshan. Because of their inexperience, the tomb digging work has not been smooth, and they have done a lot of thankless work, otherwise it would not have been possible to dig the tomb door until last night.

Therefore, the backlog of exhaustion and depression is not only for Cao Qi, but also for the soldiers under his command.

Tonight finally went so smoothly, and naturally it became a vent for negative emotions.

Wu Liang also went to not disturb them, just turned around and took out the pheasant from the bamboo cage, and then tied the rope prepared in advance by Cao Qi to the pheasant's feet.

"Wu Liang, what shall we do next?"

The first person to calm down was Cao Wei. When he saw Wu Liang was playing with pheasants, he came over and asked expectantly.

"Military waiter, don't be impatient, we will enter the tomb in two hours."

Wu Liang said calmly.

"Two hours? Since the door is open, why don't you do it all at once?"

Cao Qi seemed to have been splashed with cold water, and said very puzzled.

The rest of the soldiers also had a look of "show me this if I take off my pants".

"I don't know what the military commander is. The tomb has been underground for a long time, and the yin qi is constantly accumulating. Over time, evil qi will inevitably arise. If you enter the tomb rashly, you may have an accident."

Wu Liang picked up the tied wild pheasant, and then said nonsense, "Evil human eyes can't see, but the pheasant's eyes can be checked, so we need to put this wild pheasant in the tomb first, let it investigate and then Make a decision, so as not to risk the lives of military officers and soldiers for no reason."

To put it bluntly, he actually wanted to put this pheasant in to check whether there was any poisonous gas in the tomb, as well as the oxygen content in the air, and by the way, take advantage of this time to ventilate the tomb.

It's just that I didn't popularize the theory of air to Cao Qi before, so naturally there is no need to popularize the real use of pheasants now.

However, the theory of evil is not completely unfounded.

When I was in school, some professional tutors with rich archaeological experience once told some unknown anecdotes and evil things.

Although those public archaeological reports never mention any non-scientific events.

But this does not mean that those paranormal events do not exist, and even some paranormal events cannot be explained by scientific knowledge in the 21st century at all, and they need to be solved with the help of some ancient methods that are only recorded in some folklore and historical documents.

Therefore, archaeology and tomb robbery are not only enough to master scientific methods, but sometimes they have to believe in evil...

"So that's what you said, but what are we going to do now?"

After listening to Wu Liang's words, Cao Bin really no longer wanted to "get it all together".

"Just leave a few people to guard the gate of the tomb, and don't teach the wild pheasant to escape, and the rest can go out to rest first."

Wu Liang nodded.

(End of this chapter)