Chapter 335 Under the Arch Bridge
“Go down, go down???”
“No, Uncle Ming, didn’t you see the joke? You can’t see the whole thing down here, who knows? How deep! It doesn’t matter whether the climbing rope is long enough or not!”
Wu Xie was immediately dumbfounded.
Under the white marble arch bridge, everywhere you look is filled with invisible black fog.
Even if a searchlight focuses its lights together, it can't see the bottom. It doesn't look like a good place no matter how you look at it.
"That's right, Mr. Ming, this is a dead pit. There is sulfurous poisonous gas everywhere, and 80% of it is more toxic underground."
"Our gas masks have been used up here. It’s very difficult, let alone down there!”
Everywhere here is the sulfur-containing poisonous gas accumulated from volcanic activity.
In this closed environment, the lower the terrain becomes, the more concentrated the poisonous gas becomes.
Nowadays, they all feel weak tingling sensations in their throats while wearing gas masks, which is proof that the gas masks are not enough to completely filter the poisonous gas.
Panzi has a lot to say on this point. He had encountered this kind of mine before when he was fighting in certain south.
If they get down there, even if they have gas masks, they will all be poisoned to death.
“First, this is an arch bridge. What’s underneath? The horse riding below is a moat! I can hear it from the air flow. The difference between the upper and lower levels here is not high and it’s very safe.”
< br>"Second, believe me, the landform here is special, the conditions below are special, there is no sulfur gas, you can take off the gas mask!"
Hu Ming quickly arranged the climbing rope and pulled it hard to test its sturdiness.
"Anyway, the road has been pointed out to you. It's up to you whether you can get down."
As he said that, before the three of them could react, Hu Ming had already swung down on the rope.
"Isn't this uncle of ours too reckless? How does he know that there is no poisonous gas down there? Intuition?"
The fat man was completely stupid and pointed down blankly and said. .
"I seem to have heard someone say that Master Ming's intuition has always been very accurate and he has never made mistakes..."
Hearing this, Panzi said thoughtfully.
"Okay! Let's just trust Hu Ming's intuition for once! Tianzhen, you go first, Panzi and I will break up!"
The fat man's face twitched, he gritted his teeth, and held the The rifle guarded the rear and said to Wu Xie at the same time.
These human-faced birds are really smart. Within an hour of Hu Ming's presence, they became restless and eager to try.
"Okay!"
Wu Xie also knew that now was not the time to be humble, so he nodded and pulled the rope and swung down.
Immediately, Fatty and Panzi also swung down one by one.
It took half a cigarette for a few people to swing down the rope.
It is worth mentioning that in mid-air, there are some bronze chains as thick as arms, and I don’t know what they are used for.
It was dark underground, and the ground was full of dry stones and sand.
This moat is dry. Below, Hu Ming has thrown away the gas mask. This thing will not be needed for the next formation.
The smell of sulfur is very strong all around, but surprisingly, there is no feeling of discomfort.
Seeing this, the three of them took off their gas masks with confidence.
To be honest, it's quite inconvenient to carry this thing around.
With a little movement, the glass eyecup on the mask was densely covered with fog, and his vision was greatly obstructed.
"Is there really no poisonous gas here? Although the air smells bad, it doesn't have that irritating feeling in my throat. Hey, it's really strange!"
"Uncle Ming, Your intuition is really amazing, you can feel this?"
Putting away the mask, the fat man sighed in surprise.
"Intuition? That's right!"
Hu Ming raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.
Otherwise, tell them, does he know what’s going on below after reading the original work? He’s just kidding, isn’t he?
"But...Uncle Ming, the moat here has dried up. It's different from what Third Uncle said. Could it be that we went to the wrong place?"
" The moat that Third Uncle refers to is not the moat of the Third Palace and the First Palace, right?"
Taking a handful of dry sand, Wu Xie asked in confusion.
“...You also study architecture. Let me ask you, in ancient times, which royal tomb’s moat was dug in sections?”
“The structural diagram your third uncle got was hundreds of years old. It was left by the former Wang Zanghai, but after so many years, this moat should have dried up long ago, right?"
"Even if there is an underground river connected here, it is living water, but with the vicissitudes of the world and geological activities, it is difficult to protect the underground river. It won’t be changed.”
Hu Ming shook his head and explained.
At a glance, this moat is about sixty meters wide and very far-reaching.
The bottom of the river is full of uneven black stones. There is a fault in the riverbed in front of it. It is a ditch about one meter deep and more than 20 meters wide.
Countless life-size black ancient human and horse figurines, as well as some bronze carriage remains, are mixed in. These things are arranged in a continuous line in the ditch.
The black stone is probably the raw material for carving the human and horse warriors.
“No, look here, all the statues have serious traces of water corrosion, which is enough to show that water existed here a long time ago.”
"But due to various reasons, the moat eventually dried up. These are the evidence."
Hu Ming stepped forward and pointed at these sculptures.
The surface of these human figurines has been severely corroded, their faces are blurred, and even their facial features cannot be distinguished clearly.
The bronze carriages are even more serious. These wrecks are the traces of surviving the erosion of the water flow.
“But isn’t that right? These burial figurines symbolize the procession of guests or the emperor when he travels.”
"Logically speaking, shouldn't these things be placed in the underground palace or burial pits?
Wu Xie stepped forward to take a look and found that it was indeed the case, but new questions arose.
(End of this chapter)