The sudden appearance of bones on the ground startled everyone.

I noticed that Shark and Ma Zhenhong also looked unnatural, and I vaguely realized that they might have had the same dream as me.

However, the atmosphere here was already tense, so after thinking about it, I decided not to bring it up.

The monkey reached into the sand and rummaged around, picking up a piece of bone and examining it: "Hey, this doesn't look like a human bone!"

"It's cow bone!"

The shark recognized it at a glance: "My family owned a slaughterhouse when I was a kid, I can't help but recognize this kind of thing!"

After confirming that these were not human bones and that there was no blood flowing out from behind the wall, everyone felt a little relieved.

The monkey asked curiously, "Why were cow bones added to the outside of the tomb?"

This is the first time I've encountered this situation. I tried to understand it: "Perhaps it was part of some kind of sacrificial ritual, or maybe it was buried above a cemetery and sank due to tectonic shifts."

"Ignore it, keep digging."

Seeing that the quicksand had not collapsed, Ma Zhenhong picked up some rubble from the ground and rebuilt a small archway at the entrance of the tomb to provide support: "Mr. Duan, this kind of tomb needs to transport soil out. You take the 'Guard Mouth' and follow behind me."

"good!"

I saw Ma Zhenhong start digging forward, so I put on a headlamp, picked up a chisel, and followed behind him.

Besides the risk of collapse, digging a tunnel also requires considering how to remove the soil.

After Ma Zhenhong dug out a distance, I followed behind him, dragging a rope.

The rope was used to connect the small sled, which had a basket on it. Ma Zhenhong dug in front, and I filled the basket with soil from behind and used a chisel to level the ground.

I fill the sled with soil and shake the rope. The monkeys outside receive the signal and pull the sled out to empty the soil. Then I pull it back, and so on.

In addition to tools, Ma Zhenhong, who was in front, also had a two-meter-long Luoyang shovel in his hand. He dug a section and probed it to prevent collapse.

We dug for who knows how long when Ma Zhenhong, who was ahead, suddenly stopped and replenished his oxygen with a portable oxygen tank: "Mr. Duan, we've reached the end."

My spirits lifted: "Is it rammed earth?"

Let's talk outside!

Soon, the two of us climbed out of the tunnel.

Looking at the time, we realized we had been inside for almost four hours.

I stretched my stiff body and asked Ma Zhenhong, "Mr. Ma, what's the situation inside?"

“Your guess is correct. The soil layer in front has indeed changed, but it is not rammed earth; there is a layer of quicksand.”

Ma Zhenhong chewed betel nut and said, "Our tunnel is dug horizontally. Once we break through the quicksand layer, the tunnel will definitely be buried by sand. If we dig from the outside in, it will be difficult to get in."

“That’s easy, use a horseshoe brace!” I came up with a solution: “The horseshoe brace is similar to the frame outside. We can make a C-shaped iron cover that is about the same size as the hole. We can dig the hole upwards, and then insert this cover diagonally downwards into the sand to provide support. Then we can hollow out the sand inside to use it as a pipe.”

Ma Zhenhong is still worried: "The sand can be solved, but what about the stone walls inside? Those stones are stacked one on top of the other, built up with support. If one stone is missing, the whole thing will collapse!"

“When ancient tomb raiders encountered this situation, they would first use a horseshoe-shaped brace to hold up the sand, then use glutinous rice mortar to reinforce the stone wall inside. Once the wall was stable, they would dig a hole in it.” I thought for a moment: “We can use cement to fix the stones in the arched area in front of the horseshoe-shaped brace, letting it bear the pressure, then move the stones below, and then use another horseshoe-shaped brace to hold it up!”

Ma Zhenhong thought for a moment and nodded: "It's a solution, but it will take up a lot of time!"

"We've been waiting for months to find this tomb. Since we have no other choice, let's do it!" Shark made the decision swiftly: "Everyone has been working for seven or eight hours and is tired. Let's go out and rest for a bit, and prepare our things!"

I spent the night lying in the tomb, and my whole body ached unbearably. When I woke up, the situation was even worse.

On the third trip down the tomb that noon, Ma Zhenhong didn't use me again. Instead, he took Monkey and Shark down with him. When they came back, they had already filled the tomb walls with cement according to my method.

There is no sunlight in the tomb chamber, and it will take a long time for the cement to dry completely.

Although I live in Shuangfeng Mountain and earn 20,000 yuan a day, I don't want to just sit there doing nothing. Instead, I look forward to going down into the tomb again and seeing what this tomb chamber, which has caused us so many obstacles, is like inside.

In the blink of an eye, a week had passed, and Ma Zhenhong brought good news: the cement inside could withstand the pressure.

They finally chose a daytime day to go down into the tomb.

Having learned from our previous experiences, we easily made our way back to the tomb passage, and I followed Ma Zhenhong into the tomb raider's tunnel.

Ma Zhenhong crawled inside the horse's hoof brace and tapped the wall with his finger: "Mr. Duan, Hun Tiao, Liu Tianzi!"

"They're here!"

I struggled to move my arm and hand over the iron rod and hammer.

To prevent the wall from collapsing, Ma Zhenhong moved very lightly, so much so that the sound of a hammer hitting something could hardly be heard.

About half an hour later, Ma Zhenhong's voice trembled: "Good news, the tomb chamber inside hasn't collapsed!"

I got excited too: "Can we get in?"

"I don't know, I only made a small hole and just put the rat in!" Ma Zhenhong added, "Put on your gas mask, be careful there might be poisonous gas inside."

The tunnel was already stuffy, and when I put on a gas mask, I could barely breathe.

Just as I felt myself about to faint, Ma Zhenhong kicked me and said, "Mr. Duan, it's safe inside. I'm going to break through the wall!"

Upon hearing this, I quickly took off my gas mask, gripped the oxygen cylinder, and took two deep breaths.

A few minutes later, a soft sound came from ahead. Ma Zhenhong whispered, "Go in!"

As I crawled forward, I tugged at the rope in my hand to signal to the monkeys and sharks behind me that they could come in.

As soon as I entered the tomb, I smelled a strong musty odor. I then took out the flashlight from my waist and shone it forward with my headlamp.

Before us was a spacious area, and in front of us stood a magnificent hipped-roof gate, about eight meters high and five meters wide.

The so-called Duanmen is the main gate of the palace.

Below is the city gate, and above is the city tower, reaching all the way to the top of the tomb.

Unlike the ancient Duanmen Gate, the upper part of this gate is carved from a single giant stone, while the lower part, including the beams, walls, and pillars, is assembled from stones. The gate itself is also constructed using irregular stone strips.

After emerging from the tomb raider's tunnel, the monkey stared in shock at the massive gate before it: "Holy crap, this ancient tomb is nothing like I imagined. Could it be an underground city?"

"No! This isn't an ordinary tomb, it's an underground palace!"

I stared at the grand entrance gate before me, my eyes twitching. "But this shouldn't be happening! This tomb only has four courtyards in its passageway. How could it possibly be worthy of a grand entrance gate?"

The monkey didn't understand these things: "Who cares what kind of door it is? Just go behind and look, and everything will be clear!"

"Currently, there is only one known underground gate in China, located in the tomb of Li Maozhen, the Prince of Qin during the Later Tang Dynasty!"

I was completely baffled. I turned around and looked at a collapsed section of the wall behind me: "The feng shui of this tomb can only be considered slightly above average at best. How could someone with such a tomb structure be buried here?"

When the shark and monkey saw me turn around, they also looked towards the tomb passage. At this moment, Ma Zhenhong said in a trembling voice, "Mr. Duan, can we evacuate first?"

I looked away: "What's wrong?"

"I...I...I..."

Ma Zhenhong swallowed hard, pointed at the door, his facial muscles twitching: "I saw someone walk through this door!"