Chapter 874 Entering the Underground Palace

"Will it be too far?" Song Wei asked hesitantly.

The straight-line distance between here and the entrance where she entered the tomb was more than 200 meters. Although experts speculated that the tomb was very large, Song Wei did not dare to confirm whether the tomb was still under their feet.

After all, everything is just speculation by experts, and their investigation was forced to be suspended just after the beginning. No one knows how large the tombs are and how they are distributed.

Compared with Song Wei's uncertainty, Xia Ruofei is somewhat sure.

Because in this position, the heat of the induction jade leaf is still very high, which means that the boundary stone is nearby, so there is no doubt that this place must still be within the scope of the tomb.

Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "My intuition tells me that there should be something to gain here!"

Song Wei's expression was speechless: "It's intuition again..."

"My intuition is sometimes quite accurate!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.

This location is a depression, and it is far from the patrolling security, so the two of them are more relaxed than before.

"Then did your intuition tell you what we should do?" Song Wei asked with a smile.

Xia Ruofei stood up mysteriously, walked a few steps around here, then stomped his foot and said, "Just dig in from here!"

Song Wei was stunned: "Is it that simple?"

Xia Ruofei shrugged and said, "No way! Since it's all luck, it's better to trust my intuition once!"

Song Wei was stunned for a while, then said with a wry smile, "Okay!"

She was born in an archaeology class. In the face of this situation where there are almost no clues, she has no clue. Since Xia Ruofei believes in his intuition so much, it is better to believe him once, otherwise he can't be in this wilderness in the middle of the night. Wander around!

The two took off their backpacks and put them aside. Song Wei took out the Luoyang shovel from her bag and assembled them together skillfully.

Xia Ruofei stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Leave this kind of physical work to me!"

Song Wei was not polite, and directly handed the Luoyang shovel to Xia Ruofei.

In fact, this Luoyang shovel has two shovel heads. The small shovel head installed now is mainly used for digging holes. The soil below is taken up, and the soil quality is used to judge whether there is a tomb below.

Xia Ruofei digs without saying a word. Song Wei looks on, smiled and said, "The action is quite professional. You must have robbed tombs before, right?"

"Yeah! And he even stole the royal mausoleum!" Xia Ruofei said without looking up.

"Bragging!" Song Wei said with a chuckle.

After a while, Xia Ruofei took some soil and brought it up. Song Wei took the flashlight and turned it on to take a serious look, and said with an unexpected face: "It's really possible that there is a tomb below!"

After finishing speaking, Song Wei pointed to a piece of soil that Xia Ruofei had brought up and said, "Look, this is an obvious feature of three-in-one soil, and in terms of color, it is still mixed with glutinous rice soup. This tomb is of high standard!"

Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Do you trust my intuition now?"

Song Wei giggled and said, "Blind cat meets a dead mouse! And if we dig down here rashly, if the tomb collapses, it will be dangerous, and it will really kill people!"

Tomb robbery is actually a physical and high-risk industry, and accidental death of tombs is a common thing.

In the archaeological excavations Song Wei has participated in, several times she has seen dead bones lying down in the tombs. These are basically the remains of tomb robbers, either because of lack of oxygen or other unknown dangers. It may be that he was killed by his accomplices because of the uneven distribution of the spoils.

Xia Ruofei said: "Let's be careful. This tomb is so large. If there is no accident, it should be a complete underground palace, and it will not collapse so easily."

Song Wei nodded. She also agreed with Xia Ruofei's point of view, so she said, "Then... let's try to dig it?"

"Of course!" Xia Ruofei said.

They have already reached this step, and the jade leaves are always emitting a hot breath. No matter whether there is danger below, Xia Ruofei will definitely continue.

Song Wei didn't say anything, just took out another larger shovel head and put it on, and then silently handed it to Xia Ruofei.

This shovel head is specially used for digging holes, which is much easier to use than the general shovel.

Of course, with the development of science and technology, many tomb robbers now use technological equipment, such as single-person knapsack drilling machines, etc., and the efficiency is even higher.

Xia Ruofei took the Luoyang shovel and started digging at the position where the hole was drilled just now.

He has a lot of strength, and his physical strength is also very good. In addition to the fact that he has also trained individual bunker digging when he was in the army before, there is no problem with his skills, so the speed is naturally very fast.

After a while, a round hole with a diameter of about seventy centimeters appeared.

Xia Ruofei kept digging down, while Song Wei called him a flashlight. The division of labor between the two was very clear.

After digging down about two meters, Xia Ruofei was already in the cave, and Song Wei was almost lying at the entrance of the cave, reaching out to illuminate Xia Ruofei.

This hole is not completely vertical, but first dig straight down, and start to dig diagonally downward when it is about half a meter deep, so in fact Song Wei's flashlight doesn't play a big role.

However, she felt that it was not good for her to be idle, and she always wanted to do something.

At this moment, Song Wei heard a "ding" from the bottom, which was obviously different from the sound of digging the soil just now. She hurriedly asked, "Ruofei, what's the matter?"

Xia Ruofei said below: "Song Wei, hand down your phone to me!"

Because Xia Ruofei has gone deeper, the sound is a bit dull, but Song Wei is still quite clear, she quickly took out the rope from the bag and tied the flashlight, and then went down.

After a while, Xia Ruofei retreated along the entrance of the cave. With his hands up, he sat at the entrance of the cave and said to Song Wei, "It should be a tomb brick! I need to change tools."

After finishing speaking, Xia Ruofei rummaged in the mountaineering bag next to him, took out a bag of tools and put it in his pocket, there were small crowbars, shovels, etc., all prepared for the limited space underneath.

After thinking for a while, he took out a roll of plastic sheeting from his bag, stuffed it into his pocket together, and said, "I'm going down!"

Song Wei was nervous for no reason, she grabbed Xia Ruofei's arm.

Xia Ruofei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?"

Song Wei's pretty face became hot and she said, "It's nothing...you...be careful!"

Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Don't worry! I'm not a reckless person. If something goes wrong, I will withdraw immediately! By the way..."

Speaking of this, Xia Ruofei thought of something again. He found a black bag from his mountaineering bag and handed it to Song Wei, and said, "I'll pull the rope in a while, and you can run the tube down!"

For safety's sake, when Xia Ruofei was working under the ground, a rope was tied around his waist. In the event of an accident, Song Wei could still pull him up.

Of course, whether the delicate Miss Song can move Xia Ruofei, then let's talk about it.

Song Wei opened it and showed a look of surprise: "Snake tube endoscope! You are quite prepared!"

Xia Ruofei smiled and said: "Isn't this prepared! Safety first!"

Song Wei felt relieved when she saw this, nodded and said, "Then go down! I'll wait for your signal!"

The industrial-grade snake tube endoscope allows people to directly see the situation inside without going down to the tomb in person, which is equivalent to a second pair of eyes, which can largely avoid some unknown risks.

Xia Ruofei grinned at Song Wei and got into the hole again.

He quickly came to the place he had just dug up. The soil here had been cleaned up by him, and in front of him was a slightly curved tomb brick.

The bricks are tightly seamed, and the construction process is quite clever.

Xia Ruofei took out the military dagger directly from the spiritual map space, inserted it forcefully into the tiny gap, and then carefully pried it.

Gradually, the tomb bricks began to loosen.

As the gap increased, Xia Ruofei put on a small crowbar and pried open a whole tomb brick.

After taking out one piece, the rest was easy, and soon all the tomb bricks in front of him were pried off.

However, Xia Ruofei felt a little surprised that the bottom of the tomb brick was not a hollow tomb, but a rammed three-height soil.

This tomb should be rammed with three-height clay up and down, with a layer of tomb bricks in the middle, similar to sandwich biscuits.

Xia Ruofei didn't know what was so important about such a design, but he didn't want to delve into it so much. Since it was still Sanhetu, he would continue to dig down.

After digging for more than forty centimeters, Xia Ruofei finally felt a light in his hand, and he suddenly showed a hint of joy, he knew that he should have dug through.

However, thinking that the tomb may be filled with the cold unknown toxin, Xia Ruofei's expression was also slightly condensed, and he immediately took out the plastic sheet that had been prepared from his body, plugged the hole just dug, and then pulled the waist. rope.

Song Wei above had been waiting for a long time, and she felt the shaking of the rope, so she hurriedly slipped the snake tube endoscope down.

Xia Ruofei put the endoscope into the tomb along the small hole, and then climbed out along the hole.

"How's it going?" Song Wei asked.

"It's been dug through!" Xia Ruofei said, "Let's take a look at the situation below, and then decide whether to go in or not!"

"Yeah!" Song Wei nodded heavily.

Xia Ruofei took out the laptop from the bag, as well as the control end of the endoscope, and skillfully connected it.

The coil endoscope was powered by a battery, and soon the picture below appeared on the screen of the laptop.

Song Wei naturally came over to watch with great anticipation.

The picture taken by the infrared camera has no color, but it can still clearly see the situation of the tomb below.

The place dug through just now seems to be a passage, about two meters high. There are two rows of sculptures standing on both sides of the long corridor, which looks a bit eerie.

Xia Ruofei controlled the snake tube endoscope to shoot at both ends of the passage, and did not see any danger. Although it felt gloomy, it was very peaceful.

So he called up another interface on the computer-a sensor was integrated at the top of the coil endoscope, which could detect the air condition in the tomb.

The data shows that everything is normal. Except for the low oxygen content, there is no harmful gas content exceeding the standard.

Song Wei and Xia Ruofei looked at each other and asked, "Do you want to go down?"

Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "Go! But..."

"I'll come down too!" Song Wei said before Xia Ruofei finished speaking.

Xia Ruofei said helplessly: "Okay! I'll do some finishing touches, and then let's go down together!"

Xia Ruofei went down to the cave, first put up the snake tube endoscope, and then expanded the hole to make sure that people could pass through. Then, while retreating, he trimmed the entire robbery hole until he exited the cave.

Then, Xia Ruofei carefully transported the excavated soil to a small pond not far away for disposal, and did his best to deal with the traces of the hole.

Then he folded some branches to cover the hole after preparing to go down.

This place was originally a depression, surrounded by dense forests and inaccessible people. In addition, there was a small earth bag next to the hole, which was covered with branches. Even if someone passed by, it would be difficult to find a hole dug here.

Song Wei watched Xia Ruofei work, and couldn't help but smile and said, "If I hadn't known your resume, I would have doubted whether you were a professional tomb robber!"

Xia Ruofei shrugged and said, "At our level, everything we do is professional!"

Song Wei laughed and said, "Great expert! Should we go down?"

Xia Ruofei said seriously: "There is one last thing!"

After speaking, he found the climbing rope from the bag and tied the rope to a tree not far away. After testing the reliability, he slipped the rope into the hole.

Of course, he also used weeds and branches to cover the part of the rope on the ground.

"This is our life rope!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "We will have to rely on it to get out at that time!"

"Let's go!" Song Wei couldn't wait.

"Don't worry!" Xia Ruofei said, "Put on the equipment!"

After finishing speaking, Xia Ruofei took out two sets of protective clothing from the same bag as a treasure chest. Although it is not the most professional kind, it can prevent the skin from being exposed to the air. Coupled with the equipped gas mask, it should be able to avoid most of the protective clothing. Dangerous.

As for whether the gas mask can filter the unknown toxin, Xia Ruofei is not too worried. With him, the toxin can't get close to them at all.

These protective clothing and gas masks are also to a large extent to make Song Wei feel more at ease.

Song Wei also secretly praised Xia Ruofei's carefulness.

The two quickly changed into protective clothing and put on gas masks.

Xia Ruofei first threw the mountaineering bag into the hole, and then said to Song Wei: "I'll go down first, you follow me, remember to cover the hole with branches!"

"Got it!" Song Wei said calmly.

Xia Ruofei got into the hole, and after a while, Song Wei heard Xia Ruofei's voice from the headset: "Song Wei, come down!"

Because they are wearing gas masks, the two are also equipped with intercom equipment for the convenience of communication.

So Song Wei also got into the hole, with half of her body exposed outside, while slowly going down, she covered the hole with the branches collected by Xia Ruofei.

Along the hole that Xia Ruofei dug, Song Wei quickly came down, and her foot had touched Xia Ruofei's shoulder.

So Xia Ruofei said: "Hold on to the rope, I'll go first, just follow you down, don't worry, I'll catch you below!"

"Yeah!" Song Wei gripped the rope tightly.

Then, she felt Xia Ruofei moving below, and then there was a thud in her ear, it should be Xia Ruofei jumping in.

Song Wei didn't hesitate, and continued down the rope. After stepping on her feet, she fell directly under the action of gravity.

She didn't panic at all, because she knew that Xia Ruofei would definitely protect her below.

Sure enough, the next moment she was hugged tightly by a pair of strong hands, and then gently fell to the ground.