In fact, if you really think about it, this mechanism is a very simple one.
The rock wall in this niche is actually a thick stone slab, which is supported by fine sand at the bottom. The base of the stele is the key hub to control the falling of the fine sand. As long as the base of the stele is lifted up, the fine sand under the stone slab will pass through the channel under the base and finally fall into a hole further down.
Without the support of fine sand, the slabs on the rock wall will slowly sink, eventually revealing the cave behind them.
As the stone slab slowly descended, large bubbles continued to pour out from the hole, rolling and floating toward the top of his head. This phenomenon made Yang Jin somewhat happy. The presence of so many bubbles meant that the cave behind the stone slab was most likely not flooded with water due to the air pressure.
Sure enough, after five or six minutes, when the stone slab, which was more than two meters high and one and a half meters wide, fell completely, a dark cave entrance appeared in Yang Jing's sight. And when Yang Jing swam slowly in for a while, he saw that there was not much water in the top of the cave, which was facing diagonally upwards. The water only overflowed the cave entrance and stopped about two or three meters away.
This phenomenon directly indicates that the cave behind the stone slab is an airtight cave, which is able to maintain a strong air pressure and prevent the water in the reservoir from entering the cave.
Because of the energy protection, Yang Jin does not have to worry about decompression sickness. He does not need to decompress and can walk directly into the cave in a diving suit.
However, since it was confirmed that this cave was airtight, Yang Jing did not dare to take off the mask and trachea. Anyway, the high-pressure air in the compressed air bottle could support his breathing for a long time. Even if it was not enough, there were two compressed air bottles full of air in the storage space.
He sat on the ground, took off the flippers on his feet, threw them into the space, then took out a pair of shoes from the space and put them on. Then he turned on the diving light and continued to walk forward along the passage.
This passage is an upward passage with a nearly 40-degree angle, more than two meters high and more than one and a half meters wide. Judging from the rock wall of the cave, this cave was formed naturally, not artificially. Obviously, more than a thousand years ago, the Yuechengzi may have discovered this natural cave and thought it was very good, so he built a Taoist temple here.
Facts have proved that Yue Chengzi has a good vision. At least after Yang Jing entered the cave, he couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of nature.
This naturally formed cave became wider as one went deeper. After Yang Jing estimated that he had walked for more than fifty meters, he finally came to a cave hall with a circumference of more than ten meters.
When Yang Jing was searching for the treasure of the last Tsar in the maze-like cave, he had encountered a hall larger than this one, so he was not surprised. However, in this hall, Yang Jing found a very special existence.
It was a stone tablet, two meters high and more than one meter wide, with some strange fonts carved on it.
Yang Jing only had a vague impression of this kind of font, as if he had seen it somewhere before. But Yang Jing was sure that these fonts were definitely not ancient characters such as oracle bone script or large seal script, nor were they running script or regular script, but a very rare font.
Looking at the densely packed strange characters carved on the stone tablet, Yang Jing pondered for a long time before he suddenly realized that this type of characters was not Chinese characters in the usual sense, but an extremely rare and mysterious aquatic language.
It is actually more appropriate to call these mysterious words on this stone tablet by another name, that is, "殄文".
This extremely mysterious extermination text is also known as water book, ghost book, and anti-book. It is said to be written for the dead.
Shuishu is an ancient written symbol similar to oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions used by the ancient Shui ancestors. It records the ancient culture of the Shui people, including literature, geography, folklore, religion, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics, law, and anthropology.
Experts and scholars believe that the Shuishu is equivalent to the Book of Changes of the Han nationality. It is a profound encyclopedia of the Shui people and an important part of the cultural treasure house of the Chinese nation. In March 2002, the Shuishu was included in the first batch of the "List of Chinese Archives and Documents Heritage".
The reason why this kind of writing is also called "殄文" or "鬼书" is that its font structure, although some characters are imitations of Chinese characters, are basically the reverse writing of Chinese characters, or the writing method of changing the font of Chinese characters. Why "水书" characters are different from Chinese characters and their writing method is opposite to that of Chinese characters, these questions have puzzled people all over the world.
The second reason is that in ancient times, the ancestors of the Shui ethnic group were persecuted by the ruling class. It is said that their ancestor "Lu Duogong" created the "Ghost Book" to oppose and retaliate against the rulers.
Later, the Taoists adopted some of the characters in the Shuishu, combined with the Shuizu "ghost masters"' use of the Shuishu, and made some systematic divisions. Some of the characters in the Shuishu were taken out separately to form the current "Tianwen", which is the characters written specifically for the dead.
The geomancy in the third set of inherited skills that Yang Jing had acquired some time ago had special characters for extermination. Since Yang Jing had acquired the geomancy, he naturally learned how to identify extermination characters. However, Yang Jing had never seen extermination characters in real life, so he felt that this type of text was familiar just now, but he could not remember where he had seen it.
Now that he had recognized the extinct characters carved on the stone tablet, Yang Jing immediately began to identify them.
"In the first year of You, he went to Shangqing Temple on Mount Wangwu and traveled around. At that time, the country was in chaos and turmoil. In the third year of Cheng, he accidentally discovered this cave and was amazed by its ingenious craftsmanship. He then built Yuecheng Temple outside and lived in seclusion here. In the fourth year of Tongguang, he met Li Congke, the commander of the Tangtu Cavalry..."
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