Although he found the suspected main burial chamber, Mo Wen did not directly attack the bronze dome, but ordered the soldiers to light ten fires from east to west from the south area, each with a different distance and a small range, only about one zhang.
"Sir, here's firewood."
Lao Wu stood at the door of the wooden shed, looking north at the fire area.
"I just want to know what kind of traps are in the mausoleum, and I don't need a big hole."
Mo Wen said, these ten fires seem to have ten skylights from the dome of the mausoleum, it is enough to observe the situation below, and it is not safe to open the skylights too wide.
"If you don't have a few more fires, it will take you ten days to finish it."
The old five are in a hurry.
"Three days at most, not ten."
Mo asked.
"Do you think there will be mushrooms in the main burial chamber?"
asked Ah Jiu worriedly.
"Yes."
Mo asked Zhengse nodded, although he was very sure, but he was even more worried than Ah Jiu in his heart, whether there was a mushroom in the mausoleum was directly related to the fate of him and Ah Jiu in the future.
In the afternoon, the fire began to be lit, and after burning for two hours, the soldiers were stopped from adding firewood and grass, and it could not be burned for too long, because the heat would spread outward, and the large area around the fire would become as crispy as the area where the fire was located after being cold.
In the evening, Mo Wen took Ah Jiu and Lao Wu to the westernmost burning position, after carefully looking at the fire area, Mo Wen completely put his mind at ease, the sealed soil is very tough, the hot air conduction is difficult, except for the burning area, the surrounding area of the sealed soil is intact, and there are no cracks.
Mo Wen motioned for Ah Jiu and Lao Wu to retreat, stood alone on the outside of the burning area, raised his breath and slammed his palm at that area, and after a palm, the sealed soil cracked and shattered, and fell into the tomb below.
After waiting for a moment, Mo Wen walked to the edge of the gap and leaned down to look, the distance from the dome to the tomb was more than ten zhang, and below was a huge tomb, in which were a large number of soldiers arranged in a phalanx, taking advantage of the terrain of Bagua Eternal Life, the faces of these soldiers were lifelike, and the spears in their hands were still braving the cold light.
"If not ten thousand, there are eight thousand."
The fifth child was lying on the edge of the gap and looked down.
Mo Wen retracted his gaze and took out the wolf hair, wrote down the number and position of the soldiers in the tomb from the document prepared in advance, and turned to leave here and walk eastward, although the requisition and labor used brute force to dig up the mausoleum, he still hoped to write down the layout of Cao Cao's mausoleum and the various anti-theft mechanisms to pass on to future generations.
Open the second gap, and there is still a large number of spear-wielding soldiers below.
The third gap is also soldiers, but these soldiers are cavalry, and they all ride war horses under their crotches.
"I'll go down and find out, and you'll be ready to answer me."
Mo Wenchong Ah Jiu and Lao Wu said that he knew the reason for the soldier's fake death, but the war horse could also not die, which made him very puzzled, and he was very curious about what method the ancients used to achieve this.
"Okay."
Lao Wu nodded in agreement.
"Be careful."
Ah Jiu told with concern.
Mo Wen nodded, and jumped into the burial chamber below.
The tomb was pitch black, even if he could see at night from this kind of underground mausoleum, he still felt very depressed, Mo Wen quickly looked around after landing, and turned to look at those war horses, the heads of the war horses were covered with bronze blindfolds, and when he pulled down the blindfolds, he found that there were no eyeballs in the eye sockets of the war horses.
Puzzled, Mo asked the detective to try to pull down a cavalryman on horseback, but he couldn't pull it down, and when he looked closely, the cavalryman's position was connected to the horse's back with bone tenons.
Finding the clue, Mo Wen swept back to the ground, took out the wolf and wrote again, these war horses have no independent divine sense, and are controlled by the cavalry divine sense.
"Master, why doesn't your cinnabar freeze" Lao Wu looked at the talisman box in Mo Wen's hand curiously.
"Cinnabar is yang, morning dew is yin, stable and balanced."
Mo asked for a brief explanation and then raised his hand and pointed westward, "Go and tell General Niu that you will move ten miles north and light ten more bonfires." ” Lao Wu said yes and turned around and ran away, and it was also very risky to observe the situation in the mausoleum from the skylight, so the soldiers were all waiting on the periphery.
There are five burial chambers in this southernmost area, from west to east, in order pikemen, cavalry, crossbowmen, shields and swords, and heavy axes.
Among them, the crossbow array is located in the middle area, and the other four types of crossbow formations are located in the east and west, the crossbow soldiers are facing due south, the two crossbow formations on the west side are facing east, and the two soldiers on the east side are facing west, and the main road of the mausoleum is defended.
Mo Wen entered the mausoleum twice on the way, once to explore the reason why the horses did not rot, and once to check the bows and arrows used by the archers of the Three Kingdoms, the bows and crossbows used by these soldiers were not based on cow tendon as strings, but with oil-soaked hemp rope, over time, the hemp rope will gradually become harder, and it will not be crispy like cow tendons, as for whether the bowstring becomes hard, it has no effect on the bow and arrow, because the arrow is fired by the strength of the bow body, and the bowstring only plays a supporting role.
At dawn, Mo Wen and Ah Jiu returned to the top of the dome and explored the gaps in the second row of skylights again, what the two didn't expect was that the bottom of the ten gaps that were cold and crispy for the second time was full of sand, presumably the method of quicksand to protect the tomb, and there was no way to know the trigger mechanism, unless it was triggered from below.
The next day there was no wind, the weather was still cold, to noon the third row of notches burned and cooled, Mo Wen opened the notches one by one, and found that the left and right sides are all kinds of copper and wood axles, which are somewhat similar to the axles, different sizes, bite each other, the middle area is an open area, and the ground here is an eight-foot square bluestone slab.
"It's probably a flap down here."
Mo Wen leaned over and looked at it for a moment, then raised his head and said to Ah Jiu.
"Ordinary flaps don't need such complicated mechanisms."
Ah Jiu said.
"The wooden bars and axles on the left and right sides must be a reference to Zhuge Kongming's wooden ox and flowing horse, so that a flap can have a variety of changes, and the predecessors will not be fine if they step on it, and the latecomers may suffer from it."
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Mo asked.
"When it is, it's too complicated to try to document."
Ah Jiu nodded and said.
"You know Danqing, you can transcribe these iron wheel poles and those strange axles below."
Mo Wen took out the rune box and handed it to Ah Jiu.
"It's too cumbersome, and I can't see it all from above, I'm afraid that I will draw a tiger and not become an anti-dog, so forget it."
Ah Jiu spoke out and discussed, Mo Wen sometimes did something seemingly useless, and what she did at this time seemed meaningless to her.
Mo Wen was very unwilling to hear this, but he didn't insist anymore after groaning, even if he drew these strange objects, he couldn't connect the two without knowing what was under the flap.
"The lifespan of ordinary people is only about a mile, and I am afraid that this organ is the result of a clever craftsman's lifelong research, and it is a pity that it is lost."
Mo Wen still feels very reluctant.
"This kind of skill is of little use, and even if it is passed down, it is just a skill of slaying dragons."
Ah Jiu comforted softly.
Mo Wen nodded when he heard this, after thinking about it, what Ah Jiu said also made sense, his mind should be used in a useful place, and studying this kind of skill that is not very useful to the world is just a waste of time and a waste of energy.
Burn again, then cold, in the evening, the two returned to the dome again to open the window to investigate, just at the moment when Mo Wen shattered the gap on the westernmost side with his aura, a pillar of fire rose to the sky, Mo Wen was caught off guard, was scared out of a cold sweat, came back to his senses and immediately retreated with Ah Jiu, while the two retreated, the other nine areas that were burned rushed out of the pillar of fire at the same time, a huge pillar of fire with a thickness of more than ten zhang, the flames were red and green, exuding a pungent sourness.
When they reached the safety zone, the two of them turned around and looked at the ten pillars of fire, which were undoubtedly caused by the burning of grease, which was originally used to incinerate intruders entering the tomb, if someone broke down the door, the air contact with the bone phosphorus would immediately cause a fire, and the fire and the heat wave it generated would burn everyone who entered the tomb to death.
"Fortunately, we opened 10 gaps, otherwise the consequences would be worrying."
Ah Jiu raised his hand to stroke the ashes stained on Mo Wen's face.
Mo Wen nodded, this time it was ten gaps that shared the air wave generated by the grease explosion, if there was only one gap, the air wave would have nowhere to vent and blow up the area where the two were standing.
Between the two of them talking, Lao Wu ran over from the wooden shed, what he wanted to see most was the gold and silver piled up in the main tomb, and he had no interest in the skills of the mechanism, so he didn't bother to follow when Mo Wen and Ah Jiu inspected the situation in the tomb, this time he felt the vibration, and found the pillar of fire before he ran to check what was going on.
"Master, why don't we drill holes everywhere and go straight to the main tomb."
When the fifth child arrived, the pillar of fire had weakened, and it could be seen that there was not much grease stored in the tomb below.
"If you don't investigate and understand, and rush to the main tomb, I'm worried that something will happen.
Moreover, the bronze dome is not necessarily the main burial chamber.
Mo Wen shook his head and said.
"It's right to seek stability, but have you thought about it, the main burial chamber is usually related to the last tomb protection mechanism, and if the last tomb protection mechanism is triggered, the main tomb chamber may self-destruct or dive."
Ah Jiu voiced her concerns.
Mo Wen nodded, and turned to the north, this bronze dome is in the central area of the mausoleum, such a layout does not conform to the style of the mausoleum in the Han and Wei dynasties, if you want to attack the bronze dome, you must be sure that it is the main burial chamber, otherwise, it may be another kind of domineering tomb protection mechanism.
After inspecting the area on the north side, Mo Wen chose six locations and ordered the soldiers to light fires again, three of which were on the main tomb road, and three of which were chosen at random, in order to determine whether the main tomb was on the north side or in the center.
These soldiers all saw the terrifying scene of the previous pillar of fire soaring into the sky, and they were terrified when they set up firewood on the self-sealed soil, and when they heard Mo Wen shouting to stop, they immediately fled back to Xishan in a panic.
After striking out of the gap, a fishy smell came out of several areas, and when you looked down, you could see various poisons such as the giant toad and the huge armor-covered python, all of which were in a state of suspended animation and had not been awakened.
The northernmost gap was chosen a little off, and it was chosen on the outside of the tomb gate, and you could see the huge tomb protection stone beasts on the left and right of the corridor.
The presence of a corridor and a tomb guard indicates that the main burial chamber is not far from due north.
After hesitating for a long time, Mo Wen swept westward, searched carefully from below, and finally found the small hole that Xiao Yulan gnawed out sixty years ago after half an hour, compared it up and down, left and right, and found that its location was closer to the bronze dome area.
Once the location of the main burial chamber was determined, all that remained was how to open the sturdy bronze dome: