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After the sound, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, all their eyes focused on Zhong Zhe, Zhong Zhe endured the embarrassment, looked at Cheng Ling, and said unrelentingly, "Why don't you try again?"

"Okay." Cheng Ling answered very simply.

The two were about to raise the hammer and try again.

Click, click.

Something resonated and finally shattered slightly.

Cheng Ling returned to Zhong Zhe's side almost in the blink of an eye. Now, everyone began to look around for the source of the voice.

Suddenly there was a clear sound above the head, and a beam of strong searchlights immediately shot upwards, and everyone looked up at the same time.

The roof of the palace was extremely high, and before everyone had time to see the movement on the beams, they felt a flash in front of their eyes, and something fell straight down, landing on the ground with a heavy thud.

The tactical flashlight chased the light, and saw a stone cone-like thing piercing into the gold bricks, chiseling the ground into several deep cracks, like cracks in ice.

Seeing this, Zhong Zhe was about to move forward, but Cheng Ling stopped him and motioned him to follow behind him.

Cheng Ling raised his head to indicate that the strong searchlight was still facing the roof. He leaned against the cracked floor tiles and looked up the building to prevent any stone cones or other traps from falling.

When he was safely close to the gold brick, Zhong Zhe knelt down to observe for a while, and then pulled out the stone awl.The stone cone is in the shape of a stalagmite, and the front end is a triangular sharp corner, which balances the two needs of sharpness and sturdiness. This is obviously a product of precision craftsmanship.

Zhong Zhe put away the stone awl and looked at the place pierced by the tip of the vertebra, where there was an obvious hole.Looking carefully, there seemed to be gaps under the cracked bricks. Zhong Zhe stretched out his hand and knocked all the bricks around the broken gold bricks, and there was a hollow sound from several of them. .

"It's weird."

He looked up at Cheng Ling, "This brick has to be removed."

Without Cheng Ling's signal, Zhang Yu had already led the team up to prepare to start. Zhong Zhe gave way and instructed: "Be careful, the lighter the ride, the better."

Seeing the stone cone that can fall through resonance, Zhang Yu dared not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, and quickly signaled for Xiao Na, the only female player in the group, to come up. After the brick surface, use a short shovel to carefully lift a piece of broken brick.

Under the light, layers of scales with exquisite carvings appeared, which looked like the body of some aquatic animal, but only a small part was revealed at this moment, and the whole picture could not be judged.

Xiao Na turned around and looked at Zhong Zhe, Zhong Zhe nodded, "The whole thing is still up."

When the gold bricks were completely lifted, a pattern of yin and yang fish intertwined head to tail appeared in front of everyone. The two fish, one black and one white, were carefully carved with different stone materials. The seams between the fish and fish seemed to grow together naturally. , the entire pattern sinks deep into the ground.

"Hey, isn't this the S-shaped circle divided by black and white in the Taiji Eight Diagrams?"

Zhong Zhe responded to Xiao Na's description with a smile, "It is the pattern of the same origin, but the yin and yang fish pictures that are common in daily gossip are simplified, and the one we see now is an earlier circulated figure.

You see, these two fish look like dragons and snakes, with simple and simple shapes. In Chinese tradition, fish and snakes are two special animals, which are inextricably linked with dragons. dragon.

This picture of Yin-Yang changes, which contains ancient mysteries, can no longer be called the Yin-Yang Picture. A more accurate name should be the 'Innate Picture', and it has an even older name - 'He Picture'. "

Cheng Ling looked at Zhong Zhe upon hearing this, but Zhong Zhe just blinked at him.

Since the entire operation team didn't know the core secrets of the mission, everyone didn't realize it when they heard the level of "Hetu", but it was just a term.

Zhong Zhe squatted down again and looked at the stone carvings carefully.

Yin fishes are black and have Yang eyes; Yang fishes are white and have Yin eyes.

After thinking for a while, he stretched out two hands and pressed the eyes of the yin and yang fish respectively. With a crisp "click" sound from the depths of the ground, it seemed that something made of emerald jade broke, and the entangled yin and yang fish began to break. Rotate and gradually separate until a deep passage is completely unscrewed.

Zhong Zhe stood up and stepped aside in satisfaction, and a team member stepped forward and threw a few cold light sticks down, only to see the passageway illuminated by the dim light slanting downwards, wide and narrow enough for only one person to pass through.

Zhong Zhe was about to ask Zhang Yu for a tactical flashlight when Cheng Ling said, "I'll do it first."

From the expression to the tone, they are all commanding. According to the previous three chapters of the agreement, Zhong Zhe knows that this is not negotiable.

He could only say: "I'll go down with you."

Cheng Ling did not reject this request, and Zhong Zhe heaved a sigh of relief.

He followed closely behind Cheng Ling, and the two of them went deep into the passage step by step.

Zhong Zhe has been to many underground palaces. He followed his father and Uncle Gao since he was a child. He has visited many archaeological sites, but those were all conducted during the daytime under normal scientific research conditions.

Now that I came to secretly investigate in the middle of the night, I realized that there was a big difference between the closed underground and the daytime. The cold and cold air penetrated to the bone marrow, and there seemed to be countless dangers lurking in the darkness.

If it wasn't for Cheng Ling walking ahead of him, which brought him a solid sense of stability, even better than the light brought by the flashlight, he probably wouldn't be able to settle down after taking small pills alone.

In the silence, Zhong Zhe could hear his own breathing.

The two walked up twenty or thirty steps, and a transitional platform appeared in front of them where four or five people could stand side by side.It was only then that Zhong Zhe discovered that the place they entered was not the only passage leading to the underground. There were two forks connected to the platform. When the flashlight shined on them, two narrow passages appeared, leading upward to the ground in different directions.

But from the platform down, there is only one passage, but it is much wider than the previous one, and it can accommodate two people side by side.

Cheng Ling signaled Zhong Zhe to stop, he tapped on the stone steps, repeated the simple password twice, paused, and the people on the ground quickly knocked back a few times to indicate receipt, and the members of the action team began to follow one after another.

When everyone gathered near the platform, Cheng Ling took the lead again, Zhong Zhe followed closely, and everyone continued down.

The stairs going down again were much longer than the first section. After a turn, Zhong Zhe walked beside Cheng Ling unknowingly.

In the darkness, Zhong Zhe's waving hand touched Cheng Ling, and he quickly withdrew his hand.Soon, it was the second blow, obviously no longer an accident.

Cheng Ling accurately grasped the tentative hand.Behind the two were members of the team filing down, and no one made any communication or further actions.

Cheng Ling tightly grasped Zhong Zhe's fingertips, and then let go of them lightly. He had already passed more than 40 steps and touched the flat ground.

Everyone suddenly entered an extremely spacious space, and the light of the tactical flashlight became weaker.Zhang Yu asked the team members to turn on the two strong searchlights again, and the space in front of and behind the team was instantly brightened, and an underground road appeared where everyone was.

The flat avenue paved with white marble slabs is so wide that two carriages can run side by side.

Several team members couldn't help but let out a cry of admiration.

Someone directly asked: "Have we broken into the emperor's tomb? Is this the legendary tomb passage?"

No wonder everyone was surprised, even Zhong Zhe had never seen an ancient underground passage of this scale, let alone a tomb passage.In ancient times when there was only manpower but no machinery, an underground avenue that could run two times in parallel was as magnificent as today's undersea tunnel.

But despite being shocked, Zhong Zhe can still come to a positive judgment with his solid professional knowledge.

"This is not a tomb, this is a Shinto underground.

Look ahead, there are a pair of stone beasts every other section of the road, which are stone elephants, just like the ones set up by the gods on the ground.

The tomb passage is the burial chamber leading to the rest of the dead, and the Shinto way leads the soul into the place where the gods are. In Chinese culture, the gods are in the sky, so the Shinto ways are all built on the ground of the mausoleum area. "

Hearing this, Cheng Ling suddenly said, "Everyone, be alert."

Zhong Zhe immediately understood Cheng Ling's meaning, that if things go wrong, there must be demons.

Everyone stopped being amazed, and began to take precautions secretly.

Zhong Zhe took a few steps closer to Cheng Ling, and said softly: "The underground Shinto, the builder should be sure that the Shinto will lead to the god in his heart, so he dares to build it like this. This god is probably Nuwa, I think we are probably here correct."

Cheng Ling nodded, "Touch it and take a look."

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