Chapter 145 Quicksand Interlayer(1/2)
Exploring soil is a common method used when robbing tombs.
Use a Luoyang shovel to explore the soil layer and then bring out the soil inside. Experienced earth masters can judge what is below based on the color and texture of the soil.
Although He Da and the other two are violent, they are not completely novice. At least they know how to explore the soil.
Screw the rebar into the Luoyang shovel, and the manniu rubbed his hands, and hey, and sent the Luoyang shovel into the soil layer with great force.
Although the manniu is usually reckless, he is skillful in using the Luoyang shovel, and he spuns one by one, slowly sending the Luoyang shovel deep into the soil.
"Stop! Pull it out." The monkey supervised the side, and saw that the Luoyang shovel had penetrated into the soil layer, and ordered Manniu to raise the shovel.
The structure of the Luoyang shovel is in the shape of a cylinder, and the bottom of it can bring out soil to facilitate people to view the soil layer.
Manniu carefully raised the shovel and brought out a layer of soil on the shovel.
The monkey turned on the strong flashlight, looked at the soil, smelled the smell, and said in confusion: "It's dead soil, it seems not the location of the tomb."
The soil is divided into raw soil, cooked soil, dead soil and living soil. Each of them represents a different soil layer reaction.
Basically, living soil is soil that has been moved by humans, and dead soil is soil that has not been excavated by pure nature.
For example, a tomb, whether it is excavation or filling, a large amount of cooked soil will be produced. Therefore, cooked soil is also a sign to determine whether there is a cemetery.
For example, now, what Manniu brought out was a shovel of dead soil, and the monkey concluded that this was not the location of the tomb.
"Change a different place and keep digging." He Da glanced at the soil on the shovel head and said.
"Wait." Just when Manniu was about to change the ground, Zhuangzhong suddenly grabbed Manniu.
"The landform here has changed, and it happened a long time ago. It is very likely that the tomb chamber will be covered with changing soil layers. After many years, the soil on the surface will become a piece of dead soil. I think it is better to dig a few meters to see."
"What Brother Zhuang said makes sense, man bull, keep digging." He Da thought for a while and nodded.
Indeed, the landform here has changed, so it cannot be judged by common sense.
"Oh, it's a little soft, it should be cooked and earthy!" More than ten minutes later, Manniu suddenly shouted.
A trace of joy flashed in He Da's eyes, and he hurriedly greeted Manniu: "Hurry up and take a look."
Manniu lifted the shovel up, and the monkey still shone it with a flashlight. After looking for a while, he said decisively: "That's right, boss, it's cooked earth!"
"Haha, that's good, that's good! Manniu, keep digging!" He Da laughed and told Manniu to continue digging down.
At this moment, I dug up the cooked soil, at least it has proved that the solemn inference is correct. This is where the tomb is located.
As for whether it is directly connected to the main tomb chamber, ear chamber, or tomb passage, I don’t know. You have to continue digging to distinguish it.
bite!
As I was digging, a crisp sound suddenly came from the Luoyang shovel, but the probe on the Luoyang shovel touched something.
He Da was stunned and then was delighted.
Because there is only one kind of situation where this sound is made, that is, it is to touch the brick and stone tomb wall!
The tomb walls with brick and stone structures basically began in the Jin Dynasty and were relatively popular during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Of course, this structure was also adopted in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. However, it was mixed with some civil and wooden structures, but it was different.
When Manniu heard the sound, he stopped exerting force and took out the shovel.
I saw a layer of brick and dust on the shovel, but it was the manifestation of the brick and stone tomb wall.
"It seems that we have found the right place. This place is probably the top wall of the tomb chamber!" He Da rubbed his hands excitedly and said.
Zhuangjin was not as optimistic as Heda, but looked carefully at the soil brought out by the shovel.
I saw some gravel mixed in the gray-white soil layer, which seemed to be the manifestation of the brick and stone structure on the tomb roof.
"Eighty-eight things will fall into the tomb. Manniu, dig up some more, and the old way to explode this top floor!" He Da said, directing Manniu.
After hearing He Da's words, Zhuangzhong couldn't help but complain in his heart.
Really, it is worthy of being a violent dismantling stream. Others digging holes are for entering the tomb, but He Da digging holes is for the convenience of placing explosives.
The explosives directly knocked off the top wall of the tomb chamber, but it was extremely convenient. You could get things by going in directly.
However, the impact on the tomb was fatal, and the entire tomb was damaged by this violent excavation.
Moreover, I can hear a little solemn.
He Da didn't know the location of the items left in the tomb.
He Da said before that his ancestors had robbed this tomb, but because of an accident, a few things fell in the tomb. Now it seems that He Da is simply cheating on the solemn.
At most, He Da got this information from nowhere, and knew that there were still some remaining items in the tomb. As for grandfather and other things, He Da was all nonsense.
"Brother Zhuang, thanks to you this time! I didn't say anything. You brother, I'm sure He Da's relationship!" He said as he looked at Manniu and Monkey digging alternately.
He smiled solemnly and shyly, saying, "I just want to do my mother's illness. If I don't do my best, my mother's illness will not be cured. For emotion and reason, I have to do my best."
"Okay! He valued filial piety and was a good man!" He Da casually talked about solemnity.
After a while, the manniu and the monkey doubled the cave.
He Da took out a strong flashlight and slapped it at the cave.
I saw the beam of light shot straight down the cave and reaching the bottom of the cave. However, the bottom of the cave was not clearly visible, and there were vague reflections, like the light reflected by quartzite in the sand.
"Monkey, come with the detonator." He Da said as he took the flashlight.
Then he took the several detonators handed over by the monkey, took out an ash rod, fixed it on the rod, and installed a long fuse, which slowly sent it into the hole.
It can be seen that He Da still has a proper control over the dosage of detonators and knows how to appropriately blast the tomb wall without causing the tomb wall to collapse and bury the tomb chamber.
With a thud, the ash pole hit the bricks and stones on the tomb wall, and it was over.
Fixed the ash rod, He Da took out the lighter, and prepared to light the fuse.
The fuse was very long, but it had enough time to run away, so He Da slowly lit the fire.
laugh!
The fuse was ignited, and a little spark slowly spread, heading towards the bottom of the cave.
"Take ten meters away!" He Da stood up and retreated.
He is very familiar with the power of detonator blasting, ten meters away, but it is exactly the safe range.
Zhuang Chong and others retreated as they said.
Retreat ten meters away, the four of them stood quietly, listening to the sound of the fuse burning.
He Daze read in seconds with his rich experience.
“Fifteen, fourteen, threeteen…”
While listening to He Da’s countdown, Zhuang Chong was thinking about what kind of tomb this was, and he had only been excavated once by his predecessors.
Not right...predecessors?
A flash of inspiration flashed in Zhuangzhong's heart, and the whole person suddenly shuddered.
"Run! Run! Run!"
He shouted solemnly and ran out first.
He Da and the other two didn't understand what was going on, so they stood there without moving.
He Da was still reading in his mouth.
"Ten, nine, eight..."
"That's not the tomb wall! It's the quicksand mezzanine!" Seeing that the three of them did not respond, they explained solemnly.
“Fast sand mezzanine?”
When he heard these four words, He Da and the other two were stunned.
Then the three of them shouted at the same time, ran away.
Just as the three of them ran away, there was a dull sound from behind, but the detonator exploded.
The detonator stuffed in the hole did not threaten the people on the ground, and even the sound was extremely dull.
But strangely, the entire ground suddenly began to sink, just like a detonator blew up the strata.
In an instant, a deep pit appeared where Zhuang Chong and others were standing before.
Countless sand and soil tilt down from both sides, like floods, rolling into the pit.
If Zhuang Chong and the others had just run slower, they would have fallen into the pit and buried alive by sand and soil.
He Daxin looked at Shenkeng with lingering fear, feeling very upset.
"Damn, the person who designed this tomb is so fucking vicious! He wants to kill us!" Manniu cursed angrily.
Solemn is funny.
You are stealing someone’s tomb and they are still polite to you, how is that possible?
The quicksand mezzanine is a means used to prevent tomb robbers when designing tomb chambers in ancient times.
Generally, tomb robbers will break through the tomb chamber and then go deep into the tomb chamber from the open hole to steal things.
To be continued...