Chapter 25 Treasure (Part 2)
At the end of the secret passage, there was a stone door. The button protruding from the left wall was exactly the same as the one at the beginning. Of course, Zhang Xuanning knew that this was a trap. If he pressed down hard as he had done before, he would fall into the methane jar, and this methane was poisonous.
After walking ten more steps, you will see the second button. Press it straight down and you will hear the sound of a mechanism. The wall in front of you will become concave, revealing a square hole.
Zhang Xuanning went in, and the space expanded, turning into a corridor that could accommodate people walking upright. It stretched straight up, and at the end was a hazy green light. Although he had known this, he still walked forward slowly. Although the air in this corridor was not fresh, it was obviously well ventilated and not stuffy. At the end of the corridor was a steel door with a steel ring. Six green pearls were embedded on both sides of the door. Although the brightness was not strong, it was enough for the two to see things as bright as day.
However, Zhang Xuanning did not notice this, but looked directly at the left wall beside the door - only to see nothing on the smooth granite wall.
He immediately breathed a sigh of relief. If Fu Junchuo had come here, he would have used a dagger or something like that to carve out a line of words, which would read: "A Korean Rakshasa woman had been here"!
Since there was no such thing, it meant that she had not come and the secret of Yang Gong’s treasure had not been leaked.
At that moment, he reached out and grabbed the steel ring, pulled the door knocker back, revealing the steel cable connected to the steel ring, and then turned it to the left and turned the door knocker. When it turned for the third time, the steel door made a loud and clear clang sound, and when he pushed the steel door, it opened as expected, and opened along the steel cast slide ball on the ground track.
Another corridor appeared in front of him, and the end was lost in darkness, making it hard to tell how far or deep it was. But the air blowing in his face was even fresher. However, Zhang Xuanning did not dare to move forward, as he knew there was a mechanism here. A single burst of fire could fill the space in the corridor that was only big enough for a person to stand. This super-powerful crossbow fired by a mechanism was a hundred times more powerful than the arrows .
Looking behind the door, I found that the stone quality of a small section of the floor was different from the others. I crossed this section and then moved forward cautiously. Although I knew there was no danger, I still couldn't help feeling a little scared. The mechanism in here was too powerful. Perhaps even the master might not be able to escape unscathed!
When you reach the end of the corridor, another corridor appears on the left, connecting to another space. This corridor is not dangerous. Go straight in and you will reach the basement. This is a wide sealed underground room with ventilation holes at the four corners of the ceiling. There are a total of 15 boxes placed in parallel on both sides.
There were hundreds of armed men all around, and although the quality of their weapons was a little poor, they were comparable to those of the regular army.
He opened the lid of one of the boxes, and found that it was full of antique jade and other valuables. They all looked very valuable. After checking the more than ten boxes one by one, Zhang Xuanning smiled and said, "Humph, if these fifteen boxes are sold, they will probably be worth hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. This is quite impressive. You know, to support an army of 10,000 people, the annual consumption is only 15,000 taels of gold. Although it is a fake warehouse, this amount of weapons and wealth is enough to start a business and establish a city or even a county."
Without hesitation, he picked up the boxes. Although they were relatively heavy, he could still take two at a time. Then he moved them out of the warehouse and to the corridor closest to the wellhead. He also moved the weapons over there. He was busy for half an hour and almost filled up the first corridor.
After he finished moving, he returned to the corridor with strange stone. He didn't dare to touch the pearls for fear that it was another mechanism. Then he took out a fire starter, lit it, and moved closer to the wall. Sure enough, he found many densely packed arrow holes on the wall, with arrows in each of the holes.
Faced with this, Zhang Xuanning hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth, inserted two fingers into the arrow holes on both sides, and used his strength to push up. Sure enough, the wall rose up, and the axle wheel slid with a squeaking sound. It was pushed up halfway, and he didn't dare to push it up anymore, because Er Xiaoqiang had done the same thing originally. He drilled in and let the movable wall fall down, and it was automatically pushed back to its original position.
Wherever the fire started, countless mechanical crossbows were seen, which made people shudder.
Not far away on the opposite side was a stone wall. Suddenly, Zhang Xuanning's face changed drastically. He remembered something. This mechanism was interlocked and required two people to press it at the same time for it to be opened.
However, this was not a difficult task for him. After thinking it over, he moved a few boxes over, about half a person's height, and moved them closer to the living wall. He then took out a hammer from his weapons collection and placed it upright on the box. After thinking for a while, he found some silk from the bottom of the box, tore off a thin thread, tied the hammer to the thread, and pulled the thread straight out.
Then, he ran to the movable wall at the other end of the fake warehouse corridor, felt his line, and immediately pulled it hard and pressed it hard at the same time.
With a "click" sound, the two walls sank about an inch at the same time. It can be seen that the pulling wire caused the hammer to fall, and at the same time the pressure was exerted on another movable wall, opening the mechanism.
He then pushed towards the movable wall again, and heard a rumbling sound. The movable wall swung inward, opening the door and waiting for him to enter. After a while, it was locked with a click.
A long corridor stretched forward, filled with the dim light of night pearls. Zhang Xuanning noticed that the ground was paved with two different shades of gray bricks. He knew that there was something wrong with the dark bricks. When a person stepped on them, the weight would cause the square bricks to sink a little, triggering the alarm. Although there was no one guarding it now, it didn't matter if the alarm was triggered, but he was unwilling to be careless, so he stepped on the light-colored bricks and moved forward step by step. After about fifty stops, under the illumination of three night pearls in each row on the left and right, he saw that there was indeed a door. There was no steel ring , only a round button with a round number engraved on the edge, a total of forty-nine squares, and a red dot engraved on the door wall above the button.
When Zhang Xuanning saw it, he could not help but swear. In his previous life, he played games and hated this kind of mazes and mechanisms the most. At that moment, he recalled the past. Fortunately, he had read it more than ten times and still remembered it roughly. He knew that this was the Heaven and Earth Lock invented by Lu Miaozi. Zhang Xuanning squatted down as he was told and turned the button to the left. When the number 21 passed the red dot, there was a slight strange sound. He pressed it hard at that moment, and sure enough, the button made a crisp sound.
Then turn it clockwise and turn the lever back to 47 degrees. The strange sound will come again. Press it again and there will be another mechanism sound. Then continue to turn it to the right, turn it 47 degrees again and press it again.
"Click", the sound was extremely clear, obviously the lock was unlocked. Zhang Xuanning then stood up, put his hand on the door and pushed it hard. The door moved inwards, revealing a small room only ten steps wide - there was a well-like facility in the center of the room, with a large capstan on the well, and a small piece of iron chain as thick as a child's arm rolled up on the capstan.
This is the main control room of Yang Gong's treasury. At that moment, Zhang Xuanning turned the capstan, and the iron chains on the plate kept increasing, and the chains were wound up inch by inch.
When the chain can no longer be turned, the handle must be locked. A moment later, a rumbling sound like thunder suddenly came from deep under the feet, and the mechanism began to start using water power.
The two interlocking walls separating the southwest axis and the northeast axis opened at the same time, revealing a secret passage leading to the east treasury. It was very safe at this time, because Yang Gong's treasure was originally a secret military operation. If it was too complicated, how could a large-scale march be carried out? Immediately, they walked through the corridor and came to a round stone room. In the center was a round stone table with eight stone chairs. On the surface was a detailed map of the treasury with pictures and texts, which showed the relationship between the treasury and the Chang'an City on the ground.
This perfectly circular basement has four ordinary wooden doors , leading to four treasure rooms. Flint, fire and coal are provided under the table to light the eight wall lamps evenly distributed on the walls around the room.
Zhang Xuanning pointed out everything one by one, and after the lights were on, he searched room by room. The first warehouse he entered was the one with weapons, mainly strong bows and arrows. After opening them, although he did not know much about weapons, he knew that these strong bows were the best in the army.
Entering another warehouse, it was full of armor, about 5,000 sets. Zhang Xuanning's heartbeat accelerated. You know, a good set of armor is worth more than 100 taels of silver. What does 5,000 sets mean? Even if the four major families have accumulated it for hundreds of years, they can only have such a reserve.
Entering another warehouse, there are all kinds of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc. Due to their small size, there are at least tens of thousands of them, which is more than enough to equip an army of 10,000 people.
All weapons were wrapped in special anti-corrosion oilcloth and placed in thousands of sturdy wooden boxes.
Moreover, looking at the map on the stone table, one can find that there are four tunnels in total. The entrances are inside the four storehouses. One of them leads directly to a hill outside the city. It will not alarm anyone, but the treasure house has a total of about 20,000 boxes. It will take a lot of effort to move them slowly. If you are alone, forget it.
