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Chapter 261 Bronze beast lamp, tomb switch!
Lin Ran followed the team, and the group cautiously moved along the corridor.
After passing through the corridor for about 20 meters, about a quarter of an hour later, they appeared at the gate of the tomb.
It was dark all around, and there was only one door in front of him.
Through the lighting, the rough appearance of the gate can be seen clearly.
Like a small city gate, the gate is about five meters high and looks like a giant in front of you.
The door is made of bluestone and is not easy to open.
Wang Jinpeng came to the gate and began to study the structure of the gate.
But he looked at it for a while and frowned.
"Boss, it seems that this door is not easy to break." Wang Jinpeng said, "How about we use violence to open it?"
"No." Zhenbao persuaded, "If we open the door violently, we might be buried inside."
Zhenbao walked to the door and tried to push it.
Everyone was very excited at first, but then they became worried.
In the past, when I encountered the tomb door, I would either push it open with brute force, or dig deeper and look for opportunities to knock down the tombstone.
But the door in front of me was too big, and it looked like it was a support.
Violent destruction will inevitably be dangerous.
"Hey, Master Zhenbao, please hurry up and find a way to get it out of the way. I won't do anything else." Wang Jinpeng stepped aside consciously.
"I'm thinking of a way, don't worry." Zhenbao replied, took out a wooden stick and tested it on the door.
Due to the limitations of the craftsmanship of the era, tomb doors often have loopholes.
Knocking on the tomb door with a wooden stick is to find loopholes.
But he knocked for a long time and finally shook his head: "This door is too strong, I'm afraid it won't be easy to open."
It was also the first time for Lin Ran to watch tomb robbing at close range, and he thought that tomb robbing was really a technical job.
In the past, when they were doing archeology, they also needed a group of archaeologists to carry out research with books and all kinds of advanced tools.
Lin Ran also came to the door and touched it gently.
When they encountered this kind of door in the previous life, they would use an electric drill to drill a hole, and then use tools to pull it out.
Seeing Lin Ran standing in front of the gate thinking, Liu Jingfeng asked his companions to quiet down.
"Okay, everyone, stop making noise, don't disturb Brother Lin, let him think of a solution." Liu Jingfeng didn't know why, but decided to believe Lin Ran.
Everyone became quiet and stopped making any noise, for fear of disturbing Lin Ran's thinking.
Lin Ran was immersed in his own world and ignored what the tomb robbers said.
Silently reciting the formula left by Lu Yingjie, he fumbled for the entrance to the mechanism.
Ancient mausoleums were not sealed once and for all like today.
If future generations want to worship, they have to enter the mausoleum, and it is impossible to do it in the corridor.
In fact, this was also his first time going to a tomb with someone. He had only read Lu Yingjie's notes before, so he was still a novice in tomb robbing.
After searching for a long time, I still couldn't find the mechanism to open the tomb door.
Lin Ran couldn't help but feel confused.
"This is a typical tomb door of the Tang Dynasty." The content of Lu Ban's book came to his mind.
Looking up along the tomb door, the details of the tomb door appear in my mind.
Lin Ran suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and looked at a beast lamp on the wall.
The animal lantern is so exquisitely made that it is completely integrated into the mural, so that it is not easy to see.
There are two animal lamps, one on the left and one on the right.
Lin Ran pointed to the beast lamp and said, "The two lamps on the wall should be the entrance to the tomb."
Following the direction of his fingers, the tomb robbers discovered that the bulge on the wall was actually a lamp. They thought it was the bulge in the tomb chamber.
It's no wonder that the light in the tomb was dark and the walls couldn't be seen clearly.
"Push the two beast lamps in at the same time." Lin Ran said.
Liu Jingfeng immediately ordered Wang Jinpeng and Xu Ning to push the beast lamp.
Others had their hearts in their throats.
Zhenbao also looked at Lin Ran curiously. He didn't expect Lin Ran to be able to see where the mechanism was. Without decades of experience in going to tombs, he would probably be like an outsider and only think about violently breaking into the door.
Wang Jinpeng followed the prompts, came to the animal lantern on the left, and pushed it in.
Unexpectedly, he found that he was really pushing. He couldn't help but look at Lin Ran with complicated eyes.
"Xu Yu, how are you doing over there?" Liu Jingfeng saw Wang Jinpeng did as he was told, but there was no movement from Xu Ning's side.
"It's not easy to push." Xu Yu used force and said, "This thing is stuck."
"Is it because it has been in disrepair?" Liu Jingfeng didn't believe it, so he walked to the lamp and pushed it up. As expected, it was as Xu Yu said, and it didn't move at all.
He tried pulling it out again, but still no response.
Looking at the tomb door again, there was no movement.
Liu Jingfeng withdrew his gaze and asked, "Brother Lin, are there any other agencies?"
Lin Ran shook his head and said: "Impossible. This is the Blue Beast Stone Gate made by craftsmen in the late Tang Dynasty. It is usually a matching set."
"Okay, since that's the case, let me try it instead." Wang Jinpeng was gearing up. He was very confident in his own strength.
Everyone made way for him, and Wang Jinpeng spit on his hand to increase friction.
Then he started to use force, preparing to push the animal lantern.
"Wait a minute." Lin Ran suddenly remembered something, "It can't be pushed. There is probably a mechanism inside. Master Zhenbao, please investigate it."
Lin Ran remembered that all the descendants of Xu Maogong had been killed, so naturally there would be no descendants to pay homage to him.
Therefore, after the burial, traps were arranged in the tomb to deal with future generations of tomb robbers.
Wang Jinpeng smiled and said, "You asked me to try it because you couldn't press it down. Don't worry."
Zhenbao pushed Wang Jinpeng to the back and tapped lightly on the wall with a wooden stick.
Sure enough, he hit a dent.
"There's a problem here!" Zhenbao took a flashlight and shined it at the dent, then took out a thin iron needle and poked it inside.
There was a sound of loose wood coming from inside!
Zhenbao suddenly raised his head and shined a flashlight on it. There was actually a circle of barbed wire on the ceiling. Behind the barbed wire, there were some rusty crossbow arrows pointing directly below.
Just now, he had disarmed the mechanism.
He couldn't help but patted his chest in fear: "Fortunately, Brother Lin reminded me, otherwise I really wouldn't have noticed this mechanism."
If Lin Ran hadn't reminded them and had not disarmed the mechanism, these crossbow arrows would have been shot from the sky, and they would have been shot into hedgehogs!
Liu Jingfeng was also frightened for a while, and said with a smile: "Wang Jinpeng, fortunately Master Zhenbao is more cautious than you."
Wang Jinpeng touched the back of his head in embarrassment, and Xu Yu also felt nervous.
If you didn't push it down just now, I'm afraid someone was secretly protecting you.
Jumbo once again searched for traps on the wall, while others began to set up protective nets.
The protective net can prevent them from being injured by hidden arrows. After the protective net is set up around them, the detection of the treasure is also over.
"There should be no other traps."
He nodded to Wang Jinpeng, his eyes full of expectation and determination!