"Actually, the method is very simple! As long as you break the ice gate, you can enter the frozen tunnel!" Buhuo said lightly. According to my estimation, this ice cellar is about the size of a football field. There is not enough volume. Even if it is supported by a formation, it cannot be maintained for a long time.
"Old man, since you know the door, how can you spare a long time?"
"Haste means nothing! After the ice cellar was completed, the entrance was closed, and then a layer of crystal clear spring was poured on the outer wall, making the surface completely integrated. For more than a thousand years, do I still remember the specific location of the door? !" As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help cursing my mother: "What is his grandmother's use? Isn't this tantamount to nonsense?"
Not Huagu frowned and thought, suddenly raised his eyes and stared at the ice wall. "Boy, you use that bead to illuminate the ice surface!" I awakened immediately by illuminating the ice surface with Gong Yezhu. If you skate in the wild, you should remember the old saying "If you don’t shoot in 1929, you can walk on the ice!" In other words, the thickness of the ice is so thick that people can walk on it in the cold winter of March 9 every year. .
However, testing the thickness of the ice with the naked eye before placing the ice will generally cause an error of 15 to 30 cm. This error is caused by the water quality and ice explosion. For those with less experience, it is best to make a hole and measure the thickness with a tape measure. Obviously this method is not suitable for us now. How many holes should I make in this ice wall? So there is a safer way among the older generations, which is to get a lamp to shine on the ice. According to the depth of light, roughly measure the thickness.
I lifted the bead and shone it on the ice. The surface of the ice layer is as pure as glass, without a trace of impurities. As the light deepens, the ice layer gradually reveals light green, leaf green, dark green, and dark green. Then the ice surface turned blue, gradually dark blue. With the movement of my beads, ice explosions occasionally appeared in the tiny ice cracks, like light and shallow ice like jade, I looked at the ice wall for a long time, and used this method to judge the depth of the ice.
Suddenly, Bu Huagu shouted: "Stop!" I stared at that area carefully. The dark green ice layer was actually a dark dark black behind it. "This ice wall is probably very shallow, ready for excavation."
When digging ice-covered tombs, Master Ice often borrows the terminology used by the jewelry industry to judge ice-type jade, which is called "jifenshui" in the jewelry industry. One centimeter is three centimeters thick, and two centimeters are six centimeters thick. A tenth of water is about thirty centimeters thick.
"Haha! Old stuff, you really have a set! It's up to Brother Li and the bald head to dig the tunnel!" Li Dazui rolled up his sleeves, intending to show it. Just bring a bald head and strong Hang Yu! Hang Yu smashed.
The triangular hoe hits the ice surface, only making shallow pits. As the tip of the hoe left, only a few sesame-sized ice slag fell off, along with a colorful cloud exploded on the ice surface, a pothole the size of a moss flower appeared, and there was no movement. "Yo Huo! This is fucking with Lao Tzu!" Li Dazui hit the wall harder, his bald head waved his hoe like a whirlwind, but there was still no movement.
Without Huagu, he stared straight at the small pits, without saying a word, his expression was a bit complicated. I asked: "What the hell is this ice made of? How is it so hard as a diamond!" "What, wait, what did you just say?" I repeated the words. "Oh! I forgot if you didn't say that, this kind of ice should really be buckled down with diamonds a little bit?"
"My mother! There is a difference between grinding a needle with that thing and Tiechu, I quit!" Li Dazui dropped his hoe, then stared at the hard bald head in a daze. "Don't dig, Qiangzi, this icehide has a doorway!" When the bald head listened to it, he dropped his hoe, squatting on the side and staring at the bones, wanting to hear the doorway!
In fact, I know the truth, the ice here is nothing special. "These ice cubes have been piled up here for thousands of years. The ice at the bottom is physically squeezed, and the core is violently collided, and the density has become extremely high. In addition, the cold here is extremely heavy, so I want to dig with the tools in my hand. It's impossible to open!"
"According to you, that's nothing? We didn't bring explosives!" Li Da's mouth blinked, and he became a little lazy. "Brother Mouth, you can't fix this ice wall with explosives. First, you have to punch an eye and stuff the explosives in. If you lean against the wall, you will at most smash a slap-sized hole!" Bald Qiang was right. Explosives may also cause unexpected accidents, which is not what we want to see.
The ice wall is really the queen. I took out the colored pen and roughly drew the area of the entrance based on the principle of illumination. According to the immediate analysis, hard digging is totally impossible. In my eyes, I keep replaying how the most powerful engineers in history solved this problem.
The first person who appeared in his mind was Dayu. Legend has it that he used Xuanyuan axe to split the dragon gate. Not to mention that this is a legend, even if it is true, where can we borrow Xuanyuan Axe? After that, Lu Ban flashed in my mind. I really can't think of any breakthrough inventions he made in these channel projects. After that, a pair of father and son appeared. Li Bing, who excavated Dujiangyan, encountered stone mountain barriers when they were digging a channel. The density of rocks in Sichuan is estimated to be less than that of ice. According to the productivity of the Warring States period, it was possible to chop a rock mountain, but it would take a long time. Li Bing came up with an ingenious method after field investigation.
He asked the migrant workers to chop down a large number of trees and pile them on the surface of the stone. He ordered a violent fire to burn. When the fire was extinguished, he made the migrant workers pick up cold water and pour it on. At this time, let people excavate again, and a stone mountain was excavated in just over ten days. In fact, today's various scientific and technological achievements have appeared in the wisdom of the ancients. Now some unscrupulous children and grandchildren are mixed up badly by themselves, but they blame their ancestors everywhere. Everyone knows that the wisdom of ancestors is written in black and white in the book.
"Take the fire!" Zhengyang and I, Dong Tong actually uttered these three words at the same time.
"Oh! Why didn't I expect that it's your kid stimulating spirit!" Li Dazui suddenly realized, and he slapped his head fiercely. Just do it, find some thousand-year-old Populus euphratica from the cave. The wood is completely dry and burns as soon as it is fired. Crackling!
As the fire rose, the ice melted bit by bit, and a white mist appeared. Sparks were reflected in the ice cubes, and it turned out to be like a rainbow. "With the help of the fire, let's move!" Several of us took turns picking up our picks, and it didn't take long for us to punch a small hole. In about three hours, the 30-centimeter-thick layer of ice was completely removed, revealing an arched tunnel behind it.
The inside of the tunnel was completely dark. The vault is hung with ice ridges like sharp blades, and it seems that it is actually ventilated, otherwise there would be no ice ridges formed in the entire ice block.
Several of us took turns using swords to cut off the hanging ice ridges. This kind of ice is not dense. With a light cut with a sword, the whole piece fell off. We walked on the ice road, let out a vain breath. Under the shining of Gong Yezhu, the surrounding ice is crystal clear and transparent, seemingly endless. Even though the light from this orb has a strong penetrating power, it can't reach the end of the ice. I really don’t know how many people can go bankrupt with such a purely artificial ice cellar. Looking at this huge project, I don’t have a trace of pride in my heart, it is actually the sorrow for the ants who survived like ants in history!
I remember the words "Only in countries with extremely plain history can the people be happy!" The dynasties that built huge projects at every turn were the people who paid the bill in the end. I kept imagining in my mind the miserable people who built this ice mausoleum back then. For modern society, it is a kind of human sorrow to be proud of the large number of mausoleums with such shining emperor glory and the large scale of public opinion, while ignoring the suffering behind, or even the social phenomenon of complete annihilation!
"Look at it as if there is a shadow in the ice?" My scalp exploded as soon as I heard it. After all, although this kind of Jiujue Fierce Tomb had let go of its evil spirit, the grievances that had been squeezed for thousands of years were still quite fierce. Plus, what the master of the mausoleum is, it's still unclear. How dare I take it lightly, following their eyes, there is indeed a shadow in the ice. It does not look like a person, but looks like a group of golden silkworms the size of a thumb.
"Haha! It's not a human, just some frozen insects!" I breathed a sigh of relief and stared at the frozen insects again. The silkworms seemed to be squirming slightly, I rubbed my eyes and looked at it, and it really was squirming. Those silkworms chewed on ice cubes as if they were eating mulberry leaves. The five of us, including Buhuagu’s mouth, were so wide open that they could squeeze a fist into it, and our eyes were about to fall out.
This is a big trouble, these guys are not easy to mess with...
"The Secret of Maoshan" said: "The cold ice silkworm feeds on ice, eats for hundreds of years to pupate, and becomes a moth for a hundred years! Moths are as big as eagles and can eat human blood. Phosphorus is particularly poisonous, and the neutral one will die immediately!" The cold ice silkworm is nothing terrible, but the frightening thing is that the moth can eat people. This ice mausoleum has been formed for thousands of years, and it can hatch five generations of moths. However, these ice silkworms spit out ice silk, which is a good thing. The hair is thick enough to lift heavy objects, and it is stronger than Zhengyang's silk rope.
But at this time, when we can go out safely, it is Amitabha. Ice silk itself is pitiful. An ice silkworm only spit out ice silk for a day, and it is used for cocooning. Would you dare to grab food? Even if there is ice silk, how can you pull it out without tools. If you are bound by the thread it spit out, then you don't want to escape. Even if Qing Mingjian cuts down for a day, it can only barely cut one. Where do we dare to look forward to any ice silk, as long as we don't encounter ice moths, it is my biggest wish.
We are walking faster, the tunnel entrance is getting closer...
As the saying goes, if you are afraid of encountering something, you just encounter something. We walked into the cave for about ten minutes, and we were going out soon. A strange wind blew on his face, with a strange fragrance, accompanied by a powder-like and non-powder-like gray mist, puffed in.
A bad premonition flooded my heart... Damn, wouldn't it be that thing that appeared... (to be continued) (end of this chapter)