The group walked through the halls and soon came to the Zichen Hall, which is located in the sleeping area of the Daming Palace. The Zichen Hall is the inner Yamen of the Daming Palace. Most of the emperor's daily affairs are held in this hall, so it is also called the Emperor's Bedroom. Officials
Meeting the emperor here was called "entering the cabinet". Being able to "enter the cabinet" to discuss military and state affairs with the emperor was a matter of great honor for ministers at that time.
Ding Laosan led everyone into a circular side hall next to Zichen Hall.
"Third Master, why don't we go find the secret passage and why do we come here?" The old ghost asked, breathing heavily, with Wang Qi on his back.
Ding Laosan rolled his eyes at the old ghost: "You know nothing! From the secret map, the exit of the secret passage should be in the tomb chamber on the third floor. We have to go down first. And the stairs leading to the third floor are in this room.
Here, let’s look for any mechanisms first.”
After hearing what Ding Laosan said, everyone started looking around the room.
The old ghost head was so tired that he put Wang Qi down and sat down on the ground. Wang Qi was very tall, weighing at least 1,670 kilograms, plus the equipment the two of them had on them.
, it is estimated that the old ghost's weight is more than two hundred kilograms, and he has walked a long way at once. If it were anyone else, he might not be able to hold it.
The side hall was not big, only about ten square meters. However, everyone searched around inside and tried movable objects, stone tiles on the walls and on the floor that looked like mechanisms, but they could not find any way to open the passage.
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"Strange thing, where is this agency located? Did I make a mistake?" Ding Laosan felt very puzzled when he couldn't find the agency. He took out the secret map and looked at it carefully.
Yu Fei said thoughtfully on the side: "Could it be another Qi Ling Lock set up by using changes in the aura?"
Mr. Ye replied: "Even if it is a Qi Ling Lock, it should have a triggering device, but we have not found anything in this regard."
At this time, Li Su, who was standing in the corner, stared at a one-meter-high gold-glazed porcelain vase and asked Professor Dong: "Professor, why is this porcelain vase fixed on the floor?"
"What did you say? Is the porcelain bottle fixed on the ground?" Before Professor Dong could answer, Ding Laosan, who was still thinking about the secret map, rushed over in a hurry, startling Li Su, and he replied in a daze.
Said: "Okay...it seems to be fixed. I just moved it...it didn't move."
Ding Laosan grabbed the mouth of the porcelain bottle with one hand and lifted it hard. As expected, the porcelain bottle did not move at all.
Ding Laosan turned his head and glared at Li Su with squinting eyes: "Brother Li, you are so amazing, you are probably the one responsible for today's organization!"
When he heard that he had encountered a trap again, Li Su trembled with fright and looked around nervously.
Unexpectedly, Ding Laosan grinned at this time and said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't be nervous! You have made a meritorious service this time. I guess you have found the mechanism that opened this passage!"
"Ah...you said...this porcelain bottle is the mechanism that opens the passage?" Li Su couldn't believe it.
Yu Fei also asked in confusion: "Since this porcelain bottle is fixed, how can the third master be sure that it is the mechanism that opens the passage?"
"Hey, brother Yu, do you think a good porcelain vase should be connected to the floor?"
Ding Laosan asked this question, and Yu Fei suddenly realized that something was fixed that should not be fixed, and there must be something fishy in it.
Mr. Ye also came up, and they studied together how to trigger this mechanism.
"Third Master, since this porcelain vase cannot be moved, where is the mechanism that opens the secret door in this passage?" Yu Fei still couldn't figure it out.
Ding Laosan smiled and said: "Hey, I guess the mechanism is in this bottle!"
After hearing what Ding Laosan said, Yu Fei looked into the porcelain bottle from the mouth of the bottle.
The mouth of the porcelain bottle was not big, only about fifteen centimeters. Yu Fei raised his eyes and looked inside for a long time, but did not see any special device.
"Third Master, it doesn't look like there is a mechanism inside. The inner wall is very smooth."
"Haha, brother Yu, don't look at it. Didn't you just say that the 'Qi Ling Lock' might be set up? Now it seems that you are right, Brother Yu. This bottle is probably the triggering device of the Qi Ling Lock."
Mr. Ye said from the side.
"Mr. Ye, you mean...this porcelain bottle is the lock!? What about the key? What is the key?"
"Since the Taoist master who designed the mechanism had the intention of letting Taoists steal the Qianling Mausoleum, he might have left the 'key' to open the mechanism nearby. Let's all search separately to see if there are any objects of suitable size.
.Lao San! Come here first and take a look at the painting on the porcelain bottle. I think it seems to be hinting at something."
"Oh? Second brother, did you see something?" After Ding Lao San heard what Ye Lao said, he quickly squatted down and squinted his eyes to take a closer look.
The body of the porcelain bottle is a landscape painting, which depicts an elder sitting in a wind pavilion among green mountains and green waters, holding a wine pot in his hand and a jar of wine beside him. He is alone
A man is drinking happily. On the side of this painting is a poem written by Wang Bo, one of the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty": "I drink alone in the empty garden and sing songs in the spring. I live leisurely in the spring. The orchids invade the paths, and the rivers and willows cover the long canals. The rain has gone.
The flowers are wet when the light shines, and the leaves are covered with sparse shadows when the wind blows. Mountain people do not hesitate to get drunk, but are afraid of the green color."
Ding Laosan read it for a long time and pondered the poem in his mind several times, but found no clues in it.
At this time, Wang Qi, who was lying on the side, said: "Why is the third master's eyesight so bad now? I can tell it. Look carefully at the jar containing the wine."
After Wang Qi reminded him, Ding Laosan suddenly understood that the shape of the wine jar in the painting was exactly the same as the shape of the porcelain bottle itself. And the old man in the painting was holding a wine bottle to his mouth in one hand.
, but the other hand was holding a bowl and was about to scoop wine into the wine jar. Thinking about it carefully, this action of the old man was extremely unusual. Since he was drinking directly from the wine bottle, why did he bother to use the bowl to scoop out the wine?
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"I understand! The object that triggers this 'Qi Spirit Lock' is probably a bowl!" Ding Laosan shouted.
At this moment, Luo Zi happened to find a bowl on the shelf in the corner of the room. This bowl was made of white jade, small, exquisite, and crystal clear.
Hearing Ding Laosan's shout, Luo Zi quickly took the jade bowl over. Ding Laosan took the jade bowl and carefully put it into the porcelain vase.
After a moment, there was indeed a sound of a mechanism starting up. Immediately afterwards, a large piece of floor in the middle of the hall sank, and a passage about two meters long and one meter wide appeared in front of everyone.
Inside the passage was a spiral staircase extending downwards. Ding Laosan was the first to step into the passage and led everyone down the stairs.