Lao Jiang's words undoubtedly boosted the morale of the entire army.
Now everyone stopped shouting that they were tired and dug frantically along the bronze plate on both sides to see how big the tomb door was.
However, Platoon Leader Zhang asked Lao Jiang a lot: "Mr. Jiang, why is the pattern on the door of this tomb a bird?"
In his mind, wouldn't it be more powerful to carve a tiger or a lion on it?
Lao Jiang explained with a smile: "This kind of bird is not ordinary! It is called an owl, which is now the owl. Because the owl only appears in the dark night, it was called the messenger of gods and ghosts during the Shang Dynasty. When the owl appears, It will bring about the will of gods and ghosts.”
At this moment, I suddenly remembered that when the old mayor deciphered the memorial, the witch cloak he wore also had an owl embroidered on it.
Everything seems to be related to the Shang Dynasty...
But the strange thing is that no matter how hard everyone digs on both sides, they can't reach the end. Jian Shou can't imagine how big this bronze plate is.
Old Jiang frowned and jumped into the pit.
Then he leaned over and put his ear against the bronze plate, raised his hand and gently twisted the bird's head! I found that the bird's head could actually rotate, but Lao Jiang was extremely careful every time he twisted it, as if one wrong step would lead to a huge disaster.
In this way, Lao Jiang listened to the subtle sounds inside the bronze plate while twisting it, only twisting a millimeter or two each time before stopping.
Click... click...
The bird's head with a human face turned in Lao Jiang's hand, smiling very strangely.
This situation lasted for half an hour. I don't know if Lao Jiang finally broke through the mechanism under the plate. The entire bronze plate began to shake violently. Lao Jiang immediately jumped out of the pit in three steps and two steps at a time.
Then he ordered everyone to return to the hill immediately and abandon all heavy objects.
"What are you doing standing still? Run!"
Before someone could react, the person next to him gave him a kick.
I thought to myself, wait for Lao Jiang and respect the master-disciple relationship between me and him.
As a result, Lao Jiang turned around and saw that I was still where I was, and he cursed: "You brat, why did I find such a stupid apprentice like you!"
Having said that, Lao Jiang did not forget to take me to escape with him. He grabbed me by the back of my collar and leapt towards the hill.
But as we were running away, the sound of rolling sand and gravel kept coming from behind.
The movement became louder and louder, and even our feet were affected. It was as if an eight-magnitude earthquake was happening here, and the whole earth was shaking little by little, rumbling non-stop.
At this moment, there is only one word left in my mind: earth collapse and mountain collapse!
Fortunately, we retreated to the hill in time, climbed up and looked far away, and saw that not far away from where we were just standing, all the poles were gone, only a large crack that stretched for several miles suddenly appeared there.
The place where we dug the bronze plate now seems to have caved in. The whole place has collapsed, revealing a huge black hole with no bottom!
We were all stunned and couldn't believe that there was such a huge underground abyss under the Yin Ruins.
"Mr. Jiang, what should we do now?" Qiu Xiuxiu asked Lao Jiang.
Lao Jiang held a cigarette in his mouth and stared at the black hole without blinking. After a while, he said: "Let's go over and have a look!"
"You still want to go there?" Kuroki was shocked by this.
Lao Jiang glanced at him and said that if he couldn't pass, he wouldn't be sure whether this was the entrance to Yin Ruins. After all, the ancients were smart and might have set up a false entrance to deceive the world, thereby concealing the true location of the royal tomb.
Qiu Xiuxiu immediately expressed support, but Platoon Leader Zhang asked if there would be aftershocks?
Lao Jiang explained: "The collapse of the ground just now was actually due to a mechanism, not a real earthquake, so the chance of aftershocks is very small..."
"Or this way, my apprentice and I will go there first to explore the way, and you stay where you are and don't move around."
Sure enough, as long as it's something risky, Lao Jiang will never forget me.
He Lanxue and Yin Ling'er also insisted on going, thinking that since they had to take action, of course they had to do it together.
Lao Jiang was so moved that he said warmly, "Ximei's words are heart-warming!"
He Lanxue glanced at him and said coldly: "I'm afraid that you will hurt Jinglan again. If it's just you, then I'll be more relieved."
Lao Jiang selectively ignored He Lanxue's words and whispered that He Lanxue had a hard mouth and a soft heart.
Before departure, Qiu Xiuxiu also insisted on going with us, and Lin Jianye also said righteously that Yinxu was a dream he had been chasing his whole life and he could never back down.
Under the leadership of Lin Jianye and Qiu Xiuxiu, archaeological experts stepped forward one after another: "How about we go together? Multiple people are multiple helpers."
Platoon Leader Zhang's mission is to protect the safety of the archaeological team. Since they are going, the soldiers naturally have to go with them.
In this way we returned to the pit.
Due to the powerful shock wave, the originally dug hole had long since disappeared, and was replaced by a huge black hole with a head diameter of several tens of meters.
The black hole is bottomless and boundless, like a dark abyss that eats people.
Lao Jiang threw a torch down. A few seconds later, the torch fell to the bottom of the abyss, revealing a startling glimpse. There were countless ancient chariot wreckage and the bones of war horses inside.
Qiu Xiuxiu squatted down and said, "It seems to be a burial pit."
Lao Jiang stood upright in front of the abyss, squinted his eyes and said: "If I guess correctly, there is probably the tomb of the Yin and Shang kings hidden below for thousands of years!"
"Let's go, Ximei, go down and have a look!"
Lao Jiang looked at He Lanxue, then took out the rope from his backpack and began to fix it. There were so many pits for carriages and horses, so one could imagine how huge the royal tomb inside would be.
Everyone had never seen such a large ancient tomb before, and they couldn't help but marvel.
Lao Jiang explained: "Clan burials were popular among the people of the Shang Dynasty, which means that people of the same clan who are related by blood are buried together. They fought in the West together during their lifetimes and gathered together in Jiuquan after their deaths."
Platoon leader Zhang laughed and said: "But aren't people related to each other? In this case, one is next to one, and the other is next to this one, wouldn't it create a very large ancient tomb? group."
Lao Jiang nodded: "That's right."
He looked at the black abyss and said: "This is the place where the black bird landed. It belongs to the most central location of the Shang Dynasty. It should also be the real core of the ancient tombs. In other words, here may be the top people of the Yin and Shang Dynasty gathered here. "
Lin Jianye raised his eyebrows and asked Lao Jiang: "Then what are those tombs outside the Yin Ruins that we excavated before?"
Lao Jiang smiled contemptuously: "This is the resting place of the royal family. Naturally, the people on the periphery can only be ordinary generals and ordinary people. They must protect their king during his lifetime, and they must continue to protect him after his death."
Everyone was frightened by Lao Jiang's words, and I couldn't help but ask: "Master, do you mean to surround the Yin Ruins with countless large and small tombs to bury a dynasty?"
Lao Jiang gave me a look of understanding, and then extended his hand to Platoon Leader Zhang: "Lao Zhang, here is what I wanted just now."
Platoon Leader Zhang waved to the messenger behind him, who then took off his military green backpack and pulled out the antenna, indicating that it was ready just now.
It was actually a radio station.
But what does Lao Jiang want from a radio station?
Unexpectedly, Lin Jianye was more curious than me. The first person stepped forward and asked Lao Jiang why he didn't know about the matter that asked Platoon Leader Zhang to prepare the radio station.
Lao Jiang smiled mysteriously: "I told you too early, I'm afraid you'll be tired!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Jiang skillfully sent a string of strange Morse codes to a mysterious address.
I learned Morse coding in college, so I read it quickly: 0562.
At the same time, I saw the panic on Lin Jianye's face flash past...
