Daomu Biji

The sun was gradually setting in the west, and only a little bit of the sun was still rising above the clouds. The entire ice layer had gradually turned black, and the huge shadow inside was blurry.

The shape of the shadow is very strange, nondescript and weird, like some frozen animal fetus, with a huge head and long thorns all over the body, which makes me feel scared just looking at it.

Ye Cheng opened his mouth and asked me: "Damn it, you don't worship the Bodhisattva when you come out, and you always encounter evil spirits. What the hell is this?"

The fat man and I shook our heads. We had never seen it before. Looking at the size, this thing was as big as a five-story building. It was frozen deep in the glacier. If it was a burial mausoleum, how was it built in? Or is it a creature from ancient times?

Legend has it that the Changbai Mountain area was still a vast ocean hundreds of thousands of years ago. It was due to the eruption of the main volcano that it rose from the sea. Could such a big thing be the corpse of a giant marine creature at that time?

It's wrong to think about it. When the ancient glaciers were formed, the mountains were already there, and the bodies were already fossilized.

Although they experienced a thrilling avalanche, to be honest, such an avalanche can only be called a snow landslide. It was not thundering and went very fast. Although several people were still frightened, they all recovered at this time and saw The shadow in the ice aroused curiosity.

We used ice picks to get a foothold on the glacier, put on ropes, put on skates, and went down to the surface of the glacier. We carefully looked at the weird black shadow frozen in the glacier, but no matter how many people looked at it, we couldn't see the doorway.

At this time, Chen Pi's Si also regained consciousness. Monk Hua and Ye Cheng helped him get down from the top. We carefully helped him to the front.

Chen Pi's reaction was still unpleasant. He rubbed his eyes, squatted down, and stared at the shadow in the ice cap for a long time. He suddenly changed his mind and said, "This shadow...could it be a 'Kunlun fetus'?" Then he shook his head again. shook his head.

"What is a 'Kunlun fetus'?" None of us had heard of it, so it was baffling to see him so excited.

"'Kunlun Fetus' is a strange natural phenomenon.

It refers to the source of dragon veins, that is, as the saying goes, the place where the spiritual energy of the field gathers, often in rocks, glaciers, and trees, will give birth to some strange baby-like things. In these ancient books, it is called "earth birth" ', it is said that after thousands of years of evolution, some 'earth-born fetuses' will become spirits, such as Sun Wukong in Journey to the West. "Monk Hua explained to us. "I remember mentioning in a notebook from the Tang Dynasty that in the late Western Han Dynasty, it was said that local Tibetans discovered a giant ice tube under the giant ice bucket in Kunlun Mountain, which was as big as a mountain bucket. The five senses were already present, and it was still a baby girl, lifelike, so the "earth-born fetus" was called "Kunlun fetus". Later, a temple was built on the baby girl's belly button, called the Kunlun Child Temple. In Feng Shui, the 'Kunlun Fetus' is a divine acupoint, which is different from artificially inferred Feng Shui acupoints. It is impossible to find a place in the dragon's veins where the Kunlun Fetus may be generated. The only way is to wait until the Kunlun Fetus begins to form and give it by chance. People discovered it, dug out the fetal shape, and built a mausoleum inside it. Such a treasure cave is something that can only be encountered but cannot be sought. Legend has it that only those who reach the sky are qualified. The only person recorded in history who was buried in Kunlun's fetal position is the Yellow Emperor. "

"Is there such an evil thing?" The fat man squatted down and looked at the shadow. "However, this 'Kunlun Fetus' doesn't look like a human fetus."

Chen Pi Asi didn't seem to be sure, and nodded: "I also guess that the Kunlun Titus is a divine fetus, a divine creature born from the earth. If this is a Kunlun fetus, the burial mausoleum must be built in the Kunlun fetus, but in this way What if...?" He looked at the Three Holy Snow Mountains in the distance, with extreme confusion in his eyes.

I knew his concerns and continued: "This is the natural treasure cave 'Kunlun Fetal Position', but this is just a burial mausoleum. In this case, the Feng Shui of Sansheng Mountain, where the main mausoleum of Yunding Tiangong is located, must be good. Finished? Nothing can be worse than the 'Kunlun Tire'."

"Yes, there is no better Feng Shui than Kunlun Tire. Kunlun Tire is the place where the spiritual energy of the earth gathers. If it is better than here, there is only one possibility." Chen Pi Asi was very confused and sighed, "Tiangong, really It is built in the sky!”

The expression on Chen Pi's Si's face when he said this was very real. I could tell it was not a joke, and I felt chills all over when I told him. The fat man said: "How is that possible!"

"It's impossible, so there is definitely something wrong with the Kunlun tires here. Could it be that the trend of the mountains and rivers was changed by him, and Wang Zanghai actually has such magical powers?" Chen Pi'asi looked around again to look at the surrounding mountains.

"No, you shouldn't think that way." I suddenly had an idea and asked. "Could this shadow of the fetal shape be fake? Is it artificial? It's a symbolic technique that is very common in the design of ancient tombs, like Wu Zetian's city shape, like a woman's **** , maybe this shadow is just the shadow of the burial tomb."

It is natural for me to have such an idea, because when we make antiques, our normal job is to fight against fake things. When we purchase, everything feels fake at first, so I heard Chen Pi Asi say So powerful, my first impression is: could it be fake? This is also considered an occupational disease.

Moreover, the entrance to the mausoleum was frozen in ice and shaped into a baby shape, which is indeed in line with Wang Zanghai's character of not being frightened to death.

Chen Pi Asi was completely focused on the surrounding mountains and didn't even listen to what I said. I turned to look at Men You Ping, who also had a puzzled look on his face and stared at the shadow with a complicated expression without making a sound. However, Monk Hua agrees with me (it seems that he should also be a front-line person in procurement and suffers from occupational diseases like me). He said: "It's possible what you said. Seeing that there are subtle differences in this 'fetal shadow', it's obviously not a simple thing. It seems to have high and low heights, and there are thorns around it. I can't explain that it is such a thing. It may be really It’s the architecture.”

I had a strange feeling in my heart. Wang Zanghai built the mausoleum into the shape of a fetus. Did he hope that the mausoleum would become a spirit like the "Kunlun fetus"?

If this is true, it would be incredible.

The fat man said: "It's better not to guess. Anyway, if you don't dig it out, it will be just a guess. If you have this spare time, why not think of a way to do it."

"Then if we dig deeper, what we see is not a burial tomb, but a real giant ice body -" Ye Cheng was a little scared, his teeth were knotted: "What should I do?"

The fat man patted him: "Then you stay up there. We'll go down and confirm before calling you down."

I also said: "If it is really an ice tire, it is really a miracle made in heaven, and it is worth seeing it."

Monk Hua patted Ye Cheng and said, "You are just a coward. Learn from these elder brothers... The question now is not whether to go, but how to get down?" He visually checked the thickness of the ice and said, " If you use a pickaxe to dig, you may not be able to dig there in half a month.”

We are not ice masters. Working on ice is completely different from ordinary ground. There are many factors to be considered, no matter how good we are at ordinary times.

The fat man stared at the huge shadow in the glacier at his feet, waved his hands to us and said, "What's so difficult about this? Just leave it to me, Fatty."

I saw that he seemed to have an eyebrow, and I was curious. Fatty has always been a vanguard in the team and rarely expressed opinions on technology. But when he expressed his opinions, what he put forward was very crucial, which shows that this person His thoughts are actually quite delicate. I have deeply felt this at the bottom of the sea. This is probably one of the qualities that makes him so greedy for money but able to save the day many times. However, Fatty Yu needs skills in speaking. He is a soft-spoken person. That kind of person, most of the time, provoking him is more useful than flattering him, so he said to him: "What can you do?"

As expected, he was a little unhappy and said to me: "What do you mean, you, a college student, are allowed to have ideas? I have been to the Kunlun Mountains. There is a lot of ice on the Kunlun Mountains. There are many glaciers thicker than this. I have much more experience than you."

I smiled and said, "Then tell me and listen."

The fat man hummed and told us many stories about ice that his guide at the time had told him. The altitude of Kunlun Mountain is much higher than here. It is a real alpine glacier. The large ice cracks there will crack frequently due to the temperature and mountain movement. Sometimes strange ancestors' relics from ancient times are found in the cracks. Some people have even discovered them. Houses frozen deep in the glacier, but these things are collapsed, just wreckage.

He asked at the time why these ancient ruins could not be preserved in such a cold environment, and the guide told him that it was impossible to completely freeze a building in the ice, especially a wooden structure house that would suffer an ice avalanche or avalanche. , it will definitely collapse first.

Now the buildings in the glacier under our feet must have been built on the cliff. The black shadow inside looks so complete, and the outline looks like a baby, which means there is no sign of collapse below, otherwise the elevated building will collapse as soon as it collapses. It's not finished yet. Therefore, unless what is in the glacier is not a burial tomb but a stone, then the burial tomb frozen in the ice is definitely not caused by an avalanche, but rather caused by an avalanche.

Fatty’s reasons were very good. I nodded in agreement with his statement. However, others did not understand the significance of Fatty’s hypothesis. Panzi asked him: “So what?”

The fat man waved his hand and said: "If it weren't for the avalanche, then the mausoleum was built more than 900 years ago. Logically speaking, the snow-pressed ice accumulated over 900 years would never be so thick, so the ice must be man-made. There must be a very thick ice under our feet." A thick artificial ice wall cannot directly press on the building. It must have a curvature to form a natural ice dome, pressing on the slope to protect the building below. Similar to a sealed mound made of ice, ice It's not as thick as we thought. You see, the ice here is very transparent, which is also evidence. "

As soon as the fat man said this, everyone was in an uproar. Everyone looked at him with admiration. At the same time, they suddenly felt that their feet were much less stable.

The fat man was still thinking that I had looked down on him just now, and knowing that I studied architecture, he asked me whether his statement was impossible.

I nodded and said that the theoretical explanation made sense and was feasible. The use of ice to frame houses has been around for a long time in the world. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's Overnight City was built with ice and straw. Eskimos have also used ice to build their own houses. Recently, there seems to be modern ice buildings in Denmark. appears, indicating that the hardness of ice is absolutely no problem in terms of architecture.

However, Cao Cao's Overnight City is located on a plain. Is it really possible to build such a magnificent ice dome on a cliff? I have some reservations. After all, it was around 1,000 years ago. Even if Wang Zanghai was far ahead of their time, he shouldn't be so awesome.

When the fat man heard that I agreed with him, he immediately became proud, shook his hair and said, "Look, Fatty, I call you a talent."

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

Most of what I learned in college was given back to the teacher, but I still knew the weight of ice per unit volume. I calculated it silently in my mind, applied a few formulas and came up with a number, and said to him: "If it's like the fat man said, Assuming a wooden support structure is used, the thickness of the ice under our feet will not exceed ten meters, otherwise the weight will be too heavy and it will collapse on its own, leaving nothing to hold it up."

"Ten meters." Several people looked at each other, and Pan Zi said: "****, that's quite choking. The ice here is different from other places. It's much harder. We don't have professional equipment. Lang Feng and I just hit it hard with shovels. After knocking with the ice pick a few times, my hand is numb and I can only knock out a few white marks. It will take some time to penetrate ten meters, and a week may not be enough."

Gravity ice is different from other ice on the river bed. The raw material of river bed ice is river water, which contains impurities and a lot of bubbles. The temperature of the river bed is not too low. However, gravity ice is made of thousands of years of snow pressed layer by layer. Not only There are few impurities, and the ice temperature under the snow layer may be more than minus 50 degrees. At this temperature and purity, the hardness and density of the ice are very scary.

The fat man said: "Don't we have explosives? Let's just climb up on the rocks and put a blast hole."

Monk Hua and I immediately shook our heads. Thinking about how we almost died in the snow, I said to him angrily: "You really don't have a long memory. Didn't you taste enough just now? Moreover, if the glacier is very hollow, , no matter how powerful an explosion is, it may burst the entire ice dome. If your hypothesis is correct, you cannot consider digging holes with too much destructive power. If you dig into key places, you may even need an ice shovel. It cannot be used, and if it is not done properly, there will be a chain reaction.”

The fat man was very disgusted with theoretical science and said: "You are so bookish. You can't even use an ice shovel, so what should you do? Do you use a spoon to dig? Don't rely on the fact that you are a college student to be alarmist here and artificially create problems for us." "

I know I'm more anxious than you are, but facts are facts. If you don't believe it, you can try it.

After one problem was solved, another one came up, and suddenly the atmosphere became dull again. Everyone stopped talking and began to think of solutions. While we were hesitating, Menyoupin suddenly walked up to us with the smokeless stove used by Shunzi to make tea. He put it on the ice. The hot stove body immediately reacted with the cold ice, making a snapping sound. , asked me: "Is this okay?"

When I saw it, I thought, oh, yes, my mother is freezing, I didn’t expect this method. Just use fire.

The hardness of ice is directly related to temperature. As the temperature rises, the hardness will decrease, the surface of the ice wall will begin to become brittle, and the chain reaction caused by the ice shovel will weaken. We can not take it one step at a time, but first remove the ice on the surface. Bake until soft, then knock the whole piece off to reveal the tightly frozen ice core inside, and then continue to bake in a smokeless oven, repeating until it is broken through.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. We immediately conducted an experiment, took out our smokeless stove, lit it up and put it on ice. After a minute, use a shovel to cut the ice. Sure enough, what the book said was right, the brittle high-temperature ice will crack completely.

However, because the surrounding temperature was too low, the progress was very slow. We took turns trying, and it was not until nearly three hours, when it was almost dark, that we finally made a half-meter-wide and seven-meter-deep wall. The color of the ice layer below has changed significantly, and the purity of the ice has also become much clearer. It is already certain that the fat man's statement is half right, and it is definitely not naturally formed ice.

The fat man tied a rope around his waist and put his feet on both sides of the ice well. Finally, he used a smokeless stove to bake the ice at the bottom of the well, and then hit it with a short-handled hammer. He wanted to hit it again, but he didn't expect a "pop" sound. , a crack opened in the ice dome, and suddenly we felt the air outside rushing into the hole, blowing a gust of wind, and the temperature suddenly became much cooler.

The fat man smashed it again, smashing the ice underneath, and the broken ice fell down. Sure enough, a hole appeared, and the bottom was empty! .

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and even the fat man himself was surprised and shouted: "I really guessed it right,"

We pulled him up, and everyone gathered around the cave entrance, scrambling to pick up flashlights and shine 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 and are intertwined to form a shape similar to the ice well. The structure of the scaffolding supports the "ice bowl" outside. These are the thorns on the body of the fetal shadow. Under the cliff is a pitch-black abyss that cannot be seen to the bottom.

And on the mountainside of the cliff with a drop of more than 100 meters, we saw the true form of the black fetal shadow. It was a huge fetal-shaped cave. We don’t know whether it was artificially built or naturally formed. There was a full entrance to the cave. The standard swimming pool is so big. At first glance, it looks like a huge black baby.

We were stunned to see it, and several of us were almost speechless. The fat man's eyes were poisonous, and he grabbed my flashlight and moved it in one direction. "look here!"

Under his guidance, we squinted our eyes and looked carefully, and then we saw that there was a huge palace with eaves and flying beams built in the cave. Part of the building poked out of the cave entrance and was supported by wooden corridors. On the cliff, it looks like a suspended castle in the air, and most of the buildings are built in caves, so the whole picture cannot be seen.

Because of the low temperature all year round, ice shavings have condensed everywhere. The part of the building that exposes the entrance of the cave looks gray and not obvious, so it is not easy to spot at a glance.

This is the spiritual palace that accompanies the mausoleum, which is also the Dragon Tower Palace that Mo Jinxiaowei often mentions. The "mausoleum" part of the mausoleum, and the tomb where the body of the tomb owner is buried should be under this spiritual palace, on the mountain within.

I couldn't help but sigh. I thought there was at most a hidden entrance to the underground palace. I didn't expect that King Wannu made such a grand display and even built such a huge spiritual palace in the burial mausoleum. So what kind of spectacular scene would it be if Genting Temple was not covered with heavy snow? It's really unimaginable. The wisdom of the ancients cannot help but be intimidating.

The fat man reacted first and laughed, and then everyone else laughed, and everyone high-fived each other to celebrate. I was bumped by the fat man's butt and almost slipped off the ice.

Monk Hua hurriedly stopped us. He pointed to the snow cliff above his head, meaning that if there was another landslide, we would all be on the ice cliff and no one could escape.

We suppressed the excitement in our hearts and calmed down, but the faces of several people were full of uncontrollable ecstasy.

Now think about it, tomb robbers, even the most powerful tomb robbers, there are a few people who can rob as much as the imperial tomb. If they can enter the imperial tomb once and survive safely, they will no longer care about the treasures inside. You are so smart. No matter how many years you can brag, your mentality will definitely be different. No one can resist this kind of attraction. Even I, who had not yet considered myself a tomb robber, felt an extreme urge welling up in my heart. I couldn’t wait to go down there and take a look.

Monk Hua patted his face, trying to relax himself, and then turned to ask Chen Pi Asi whether we should go down now or tomorrow.

Chen Pi Ah Si gave us a sinister look and asked, "Can you bear it if we go down tomorrow?"