Vermillion mole

Ye Cheng asked me: "Master Wu, can you calculate the possible thickness of the ice dome based on architecture?"

Wu Xie said to him: "As the fat man said, assuming a wooden support structure, then the thickness of the ice layer under our feet will not exceed ten meters, otherwise the weight will be too heavy, and it will collapse by itself, and nothing can support it. "

"Ten meters." A few people looked at each other, and Pan Zi said: "That's enough. The ice here is different from other places, it's much harder, and we don't have professional equipment. Just now, Lang Feng and I hit the ice pick hard with a shovel, knocking a few times. My hands are numb, and I only made a few white marks, and I am afraid it will take some time to penetrate ten meters, and a week may not be enough."

The fat man said: "Don't we have explosives? Why don't we climb onto the rock and put another hole in it?"

Monk Hua and Wu Xie immediately shook their heads, "You really don't have a long memory for 'sex', haven't you tasted enough just now? Moreover, if the glacier is hollow, a small explosion may destroy the entire ice dome." Bursting - if your assumption is correct, you can't consider digging a 'hole' with too much destructive force. When digging to a critical place, you may not even be able to use an ice shovel. Once you 'get' it wrong, there will be a chain reaction .”

Seeing the quarreling people, Zhu Sha couldn't help feeling disgusted, "Is there such a trouble?" She poked Zhang Qiling and pointed to the smokeless stove where Shunzi was making tea.

Zhang Qiling understood, and took Shunzi's smokeless tea-making stove to Wu Xie's side, and put it aside, the hot stove immediately reacted to the cold ice surface, making a crackling sound, and asked: " Is this okay?"

The fat man said: "As expected of a little brother, he is smart."

The progress of this was very slow, everyone took turns to try, until nearly three hours, when the sky was almost completely dark, a depression half a meter wide and seven or eight meters deep was formed on the wall, the color of the ice layer below It has changed obviously, and the purity of the ice has become much clearer. It is already certain that Fatty's statement is half right, and it is definitely not naturally formed ice.

The fat man tied a rope around his waist and propped his feet on both sides of the ice well. Finally, he roasted the ice surface at the bottom of the well with a smokeless oven, and then smashed it with a short-handled hammer. There was a crack in the ice dome, and suddenly the outside air rushed into the hole, a gust of wind blew, and the temperature suddenly dropped a lot.

The fat man smashed it again, smashing the ice cubes underneath, and the broken ice fell down. As expected, a 'hole' appeared, and the bottom was empty!

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Even Fatty himself was surprised and exclaimed, "I guessed it right."

Everyone gathered around the entrance of the 'cave', scrambling to pick up the flashlight and shine it inside.Inside the ice well is a huge gray space, the entire ice dome is like a transparent bowl buckled on a cliff, countless wooden beams covered with ice edges stand up from the rocks of the cliff, Staggered together to form a structure similar to scaffolding, supporting the 'ice bowl' outside, these are the thorns on the body of the fetal shadow, under the cliff is a dark abyss with no bottom to see.

And on the mountainside of the cliff with a drop of more than 100 meters, everyone saw the real body of the black fetal shadow. It was a huge fetal-shaped cave. It was unknown whether it was artificially built or formed naturally. The mouth is as big as a standard swimming pool. At first glance, it looks like a huge black baby.

Everyone was stunned, they were almost speechless, the fat man had poisonous eyes, he grabbed Wu Xie's flashlight, and moved in one direction. "look here!"

Under his guidance, he squinted his eyes and searched carefully, only then did he see that there was a huge palace with flying beams and eaves in the cave, and a part of the building protruded from the entrance of the cave. Supported on the cliff with wooden corridors, it looks like a suspended castle in the air, and most of the buildings are built in caves, so you can't see the whole picture.

Fatty reacted first and laughed loudly, and then everyone else laughed, everyone clapped each other's hands to congratulate each other, Wu Xie was bumped by Fatty and almost slipped off the ice.

Monk Hua hurriedly stopped them. He pointed to the snow cliff above his head, meaning that he was careful to landslide again. Everyone was on the ice cliff and no one could escape.

Only then did they suppress the excitement in their hearts and calm down, but the faces of several people were full of unbearable ecstasy.

Monk Hua patted his face, wanting to relax himself, then turned his head and asked Chen Pi Ah Si: "Should we go down now or tomorrow."

Chen Pi'a cast a gloomy look at them, and asked: "Going down tomorrow, can you bear it?"

Reorganize the equipment, turn off the smokeless stove and put away all the picks and shovels. The several people seemed to have a tacit understanding, and the speed was very fast. They were all packed up and gathered around the dug hole.

Seeing them like this, Chen Pi Asi behind him sneered: "A bunch of worthless people." He stood up and said, "Get out of the way."

They all cooperated to make a gap for him. Monk Hua laughed at himself and said, "Master, the little ones are all overjoyed. I have never seen such a big battle. You say this fight...how should I fight?" ?”

Chen Pi Asi squatted down with Ye Cheng's support, looked inside the hole, and said, "everything remains the same. Be careful, first let's find someone to go up these wooden pillars supporting the ice dome, and then Climb to the top of the mountain 'cave' with the pillars, and then use ropes to descend to the tiled roof of the building outside."

Pan Zi is the only one who is suitable for thunderstorms here, and the others are not in compliance with the rules regardless of body weight, so Pan Zi has no choice but to provoke this leader.

Everyone tied a rope with a butterfly buckle around his waist, and he only carried some light equipment on his body. Pan Zi looked a little excited.Chen Pi Asi passed him a sip of wine to calm him down, and said, "Don't be overjoyed, our goal is not here, go down and show me some bright spots."

Pan Zi nodded, took a deep breath, and carefully climbed into the ice well, then used the flying tiger's claws to go around the wooden porch on one side, swung like a special soldier's rope, and climbed up the wooden porch pillar all at once. above.

As soon as we stepped on it, the wooden pillars made a series of very uncomfortable cracking sounds of ice cubes. We all held our breath immediately, and Pan Zi also turned pale and remained motionless, fearing that the pillars would disintegrate and break.

Fortunately, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the cracking sound of the pillars stopped, the surroundings returned to calm, and the force was restored to balance.

Several people breathed a sigh of relief, and after being so frightened, they all became a little more sober, and the inexplicable excitement subsided to a certain extent.

Pan Zi continued to move forward, walking more cautiously, almost dancing an extremely slow dance.Everyone's heart beats in his footsteps.With great difficulty, I finally reached the cliff rock at the end of the colonnade, more than 100 meters below, is where the cave is.

The flashlight that was shot down for him was too diffuse, so Pan Zi picked up five or six fluorescent sticks and threw them down one by one.

Several rays of light fell straight down in the darkness, and some disappeared like meteors at the end of the abyss. After falling more than ten meters, some of them hit the tile roof and stopped after bouncing a few times.At the same time, the chemical substances in the fluorescent 'stick' reacted due to violent vibrations, and the light became brighter and brighter, vaguely illuminating the situation inside the ice dome.

Then Pan Zi dropped the rope, one of which fell to the tiled roof below, and then quickly slid down.

Seeing that Pan Zi landed steadily on the tile roof, everyone's hearts were relieved. Pan Zi made several gestures to everyone, which probably meant that the process was safe.

The group of children started to get excited again, and the next one was Monk Hua. Everyone carefully took pictures of gourds and painted ladles one after another, and descended to the tile roof without any danger.

The 100-meter balance beam and more than 100-meter rope climbing are nothing to Cinnabar. Seven flashlights looked around and found that the slope and cliff in this ice dome are about 30 degrees near vertical. The cave is very deep and the palace Straight into the interior of the mountain, you can't see the innermost situation. The top of the mountain and the top of the Linggong almost fit together. The tiled roof we are standing on is the roof of the outermost layer of the "Main Hall". , on both sides of the ridge are the "kiss" of the town house, and the yellow tiles and red beams are very royal.A few of us stood crookedly on it, feeling like Zhou Xingchi's version of the decisive battle on the top of the Forbidden City.

The fat man wanted to lift a piece of tile to have a look, but found that the tile and the tile beam were so frozen that they couldn't be broken off at all, so he had to give up.One by one, we carefully picked up the faucet of the cornice, and used the rope to descend to the "door" corridor outside the main "door" of the Linggong Palace.

Monk Hua wanted to take some photos here first, and everyone took the opportunity to catch their breath and look around.Ye Cheng walked around, and when he saw the cliff below, he said with emotion: "I really don't understand why the Emperor Wannu insisted on putting the mausoleum in such a place where no shit, on flat ground Isn't it good? Isn't this tormenting people?"

Wu Xie said: "The idea of ​​being an emperor is different from that of ordinary people. Maybe it has something to do with their religion. You see, there are many temples, all of which are built in places that no one can reach. Being close to the spirit of heaven, this layman like us cannot understand."

The fat man shook his head to express his disapproval: "I feel that the reason why it was built here is very simple. I just don't want others to come up. There must be something good in this imperial mausoleum. Wannuhuang, an old boy, is holding his hands as a treasure, and he will not give it to anyone after he dies." , we have to educate him well this time." As he spoke, he and Lang Feng took out the crowbar to pry the door of the temple.

Zhu Sha sounds funny, Fatty is a real person, if he becomes the emperor, I don't know where he will set his tomb.

There is no natural stone behind the jade stone door. With a crowbar, the ice on both sides of the door shaft will burst. Use a chisel to smash the ice in the crack of the door, and the door can barely open a gap.

A burst of black air gushed out, and everyone hurriedly avoided. Monk Hua said, "It's okay, this is the anti-'moisture' paint stuck behind the 'door', and it's all frozen into powder now."

The door of the hall was opened a crack, and it could no longer be moved. It seemed that the hinge of the door was rusted to death.I took a flashlight and shone inside, and I couldn't see anything in the empty hall of spirits. The darkness inside seemed to be able to absorb light.

Ye Cheng couldn't wait to go in, but was blocked by the fat man, he turned to Zhang Qiling and asked, "Brother, take a look first, is there any clever mechanism in this place?"

Zhang Qiling 'touched' the 'door', then looked at the relief on the 'door', looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said he was not sure: "You follow me, don't talk."

Wu Xie and Fatty nodded vigorously, and they all took out their self-defense items.

Zhang Qiling dodged, stepped over the knee-high threshold, and walked in first.The rest of the people followed closely, crossed the threshold, and walked into the darkness inside.