Chapter 1182 – Opening the Golden House (I)
Excavation work so far, has cleared out twelve animal martyrdom burial chambers and items of the accompanying burial chambers, covering a total area of more than four hundred square meters, the scale of the grand, so that these well-informed archaeological experts are staggered.
Not to mention that this is a mausoleum a hundred meters underground, is the ground, there are few tombs of this size, this mausoleum excavated until now, has created a record.
Was determined to be the Western Xia royal family used in the excavation of cultural relics, but also makes the identity of the owner of the tomb, to get further proof, now most people in the expert group think that this is very likely to be the second Khan of Mongolia Wukautai’s tomb, and even Professor Meng is also more inclined to this statement.
So these days, Guo director in a very good mood, every thought of Zhuang Rui museum of the Yuan blue and white porcelain, can not help but pull Professor Meng drink two cups, make that object has become his bag of general.
“Director Guo, since the bet, I will definitely lose, but …… now the results do not seem to come out, right? Your old man is a bit too anxious.”
Zhuang Rui hand holding a diving suit, is ready to go down to the lake it, after hearing the words of the director of Guo, can not help but some tears and laughter, where is this like a senior government official? The whole of a chase loan sharks well!
“Hey, sooner or later only, sooner or later only, afraid of your kid does not recognize the account, remind you.”
Director Guo smiled, waved his hand and said, “Okay, you go to work! With any luck, we should be able to get to the main crypt today, and when the time comes, you’ll be able to tell the difference, and it’s useless for you to deny it.”
According to the experts’ judgment, a chamber below, it is very likely that the owner of the tomb’s habitat.
In order to excavate today, the archaeological team made many preparations, even the hundreds of kilograms of formalin have been brought into the ground, and made a sealed alloy coffin with excellent performance, just in case.
“Director Guo, let’s talk about it when the answer is revealed! Just don’t renege on your debt when the time comes.”
Zhuang Rui replied with a smile, and after putting his diving suit on, he jumped directly into the lake.
Only Zhuang Rui knew that the chamber below, waiting for him to preside over the excavation, was not the main chamber, but the golden house that had once made even Zhuang Rui’s heart pound.
“Mr. Zhuang ……”
“Mr. Zhuang is here, everyone start getting ready!”
After Zhuang Rui came to a temporary office that had been opened up underground next to the dark river, he was immediately surrounded by a group of people, the group of people who called out to Mr. Zhuang were all still students at the school, and as for the ones who called out to Mr. Zhuang, they were the old team members who were going to follow Zhuang Rui into the tomb.
The excavation of new chambers is carried out by Zhuang Rui’s experienced “old” team members, of course, the definition of the word “old” here is those who are thirty-four years old and have had archaeological experience in all parts of the scientific research personnel.
Dr. Ren was also in this group, and was the deputy head of the underground excavation working group, his position in the working group was second only to Zhuang Rui, but his prestige in the archaeological team was much worse than Zhuang Rui.
“Mr. Zhuang, can you let us enter the tomb as well? There are several more sets of these protective suits!” A male student said boldly.
“Yeah! Teacher Zhuang, I admire you so much! We also want to gain some experience in on-site excavation, so just say yes!”
Due to safety considerations, these students who were drawn from the school, all they did was to clean up the work later on, and hadn’t entered the burial chamber in the first place, so they were all admiring Mr. Zhuang, who had taken on the important task at a “young age”.
“This …… will have the opportunity to talk about it later! Our country’s archaeological work, in the future will rely on you.”
Speaking of the female student’s voice, let Zhuang Rui body goosebumps are fast up, not that the voice is not good to hear, the key is the voice and looks linked together, that is a little miserable.
This study archaeology girls inside, although there is no lack of like Xiao Lei like youthful and lovely girl, but most still …… ahem, or the beauty of the soul of the girls.
“Mr. Zhuang, you said that the next chamber, will it be the main chamber ah? Who exactly is the owner of this tomb?”
Most of these students were participating in the field archaeological excavation for the first time, and each one of them was like a curious baby, and the daily high-intensity continuous cleaning work didn’t let them stop.
“Ahem, who knows if the tomb is not opened! Anyway, after not two days, you can all enter, now everyone be quiet!”
Zhuang Rui coughed, the field suddenly became quiet, this more than a month of work down, Zhuang Rui has already established enough prestige in the hearts of the underground archaeologists.
“Alright, you guys retreat to a safe position, Dr. Ren, let’s get ready to enter!”
As soon as Zhuang Rui’s words fell, several of the old archaeological team members who were originally sitting in the room stood up and put the protective suits around them on their bodies, not daring to be careless in the slightest.
It was important to know that when opening the first few chambers, the scientific research team had experimented with rabbits and rats, and the results had made everyone sweat inside their hands.
Those animals without any protective measures immediately became restless after entering the chamber, and although nothing happened at that time, after staying inside for a day, more than ten rabbits and rats started to die one after another.
This result let all the people within the archaeological team, were shocked, fortunately, at that time acted cautiously, requiring archaeological team members to wear protective clothing and oxygen masks to enter, otherwise, I’m afraid that in the history of Chinese archaeology, there will be the history of the largest pile of tragedy.
The reason for the formation of toxin in the tomb, naturally, professionals to analyze, but archaeological work can not stop because of this.
After a week-long experiment, Zhuang Rui and the others found that the problem could be solved by draining the gas inside the tomb chamber and creating air circulation.
Although it was only an interval of a few hours, those animals had lived until now without any illness or disease inside the tomb chamber that had replaced the air.
This also let the leaders of the archaeological team breathed a sigh of relief, if this problem can not be solved, has to be in the case of oxygen plus protective clothing, to carry out the work of cleaning the tomb, it is estimated that there is no three or five or eight years, this tomb do not want to meet with the world.
Moreover, even if the cleanup work is completed, the tomb will not be open to the public. We can’t give oxygen masks to all the tourists, can we?
The door leading to the next chamber has long been found out, but the fit of these doors is very high, as long as they are not opened, not even a trace of gas will not overflow, at this moment, Zhuang Rui with five archaeologists and a CCTV reporter stood in front of the door.
Than Zhuang Rui and others more or less have time to rest, two CCTV camera reporter’s work is not easy, almost 24 hours in the use of the camera to record every picture in the chamber, two eyes simmering like a rabbit’s eyes.
“Fuck, this door can’t be pushed! Come up one more person.”
One of the archaeologists in front of Zhuang Rui was holding a crowbar at this time, not at the bottom of the tomb door, just let him exert his strength, the tomb door still did not move.
“Or not, team leader Zhuang, is the door broken or inside there is a broken dragon stone? This …… crowbar don t even bend ah!”
After another person went up, two crowbars at the same time, but the straight crowbar bent down from the center, all take this tomb door have no way, the eyes of the crowd can not help but look at Zhuang Rui.
“Let me try!”
Zhuang Rui took a step forward, of course he knows that this tomb door is not broken, but in the lapis lazuli plate, there is a piece of thick but centimeters of gold casting of the door, with the weight of the gold door, naturally, not that two people can be pushed open.
Took three crowbar in hand, Zhuang Rui will be inserted into the door under the chiseled gap, two arms fierce force, the mouth issued “Hi!” The sound of a broken shout.
“It’s moving, it’s moving.”
The tomb door slightly trembled for a moment, and then drove the ball under the door, the original motionless tomb door slowly opened inward.
A beam of strong light shone into the door at the first time, and at the same time, the camera’s lens, also aimed at the tomb door that had only opened a gap.
The archaeological experts on the ground, at this moment, also held their breath, staring at the screen without blinking, as they expected a new surprise to appear in this chamber.
Like the experts on the ground, the underground staff, were all staring with rounded eyes, desperately looking sideways along the light to look inside, if this was really the main chamber, then their names would all be enshrined in the annals of China’s archaeological history.
“Light …… light, this …… what kind of light is this?”
At this moment when the crowd was full of expectations, no matter whether it was the experts on the ground or the staff underground, they were suddenly dazzled by a strong light, and could not see any situation inside at all.
This reflected light, a bit of the abnormal, in this weird thousand years tomb, is anything can appear, for a time, the staff below some panic.
This gold although tempting, but in the dark is not going to send out any light color, but in that beam of strong light lamp illumination, suddenly showed a dazzling golden light, Zhuang Rui just a moment of inattention, is also by that reflected out of the golden light can not open their eyes, heard around the commotion, and then hastily shouted: “everyone don’t panic, calm down. ”
“Click …… click click click ……”
Zhuang Rui mouth is shouting, hands are not idle, the tomb door is still slowly opening, and the crowd was only reflected by the bright light in the eyes earlier, this will also be quiet.
“Yellow …… gold ……”
“All …… all gold?”
“Gosh, how is …… this possible?”
When the tomb door completely opened, all kinds of exclamations shook the crowd with earphones dizzy, but at this moment no one already cared about these, because the appearance of these gold, originally let their brains a little bit when the machine.