Book 35 - Chapter 4 – The Duke Yangs Treasure (2/2)
In the middle of the room, there was a contraption that looked like a water well, with a large winch above it, and iron chain, which was as thick as a baby’s arh nus, they finally broke into the ’s Treasure-trove
Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong turned the winch, the iron chain on the winch continuously grew Obviously the other end of the chain was linked to some kind of wheel-and-axle equipment, which allowed them to lift the chain one fen and one cun at a time
‘Clack!’
The chain could nothastily locked the handle in place
The two boys your-eyes-looked-at-mine, they waited quietly
After quite half a day, fro noise like asaid, “It’s the sound of floater!”
Xu Ziling said, “The mechanis spoke anxiously, “I hope shi+ Zhixuan is not sitting in ’s [Abbot] rooround would not be hidden fro said, “So what if he knew? Will he kno to get down here?”
‘Creak! Creak!’ the sound ofout one after another Finally the mechanism to operate the treasure-trove was activated
Kou Zhong walked out of the door, and said with a laugh, “This tiht Pearl, one pearl per person; Ling Shao, what do you think? We can’t be considered greedy, can we?”
The interlockingthe west-south axes and east-north axes were opened at the sa into the treasure-trove on the east area
The two boys walked through the long hallway, and reached a circular rooht in the ht stone chairs There was a map drawn on the table; it was detailed map of the treasure-trove, drawn in fine lines It also showed the relationshi+p of the treasure-trove and the City of Chang’an above the ground
Along the wall of this circular roo wooden doors, separately leading into four different treasure rooms There was even a flint, fire stick, and paper coal under the table, enough to lit the eight wall lanterns evenly-spaced around the circular wall
When the roohtly lit, the two boys searched around, and could not help gasping in aan to understand that certainly the na’s Treasure was not in vain
Each of the four stone rooms was as wide as a hundred paces Three rooms contained weapons, one rooold
All the weapons were properly wrapped in special oilcloth to protect theainst corrosion, and were placed inside sturdy wooden crate by the thousands Roughly esti bows numbered more than three thousands, with arrows and darts beyond counting
As for the others, armors, sabers, spears, swords, halberds, all kinds of weapons, they nuh to asse elite army with plenty to spare
By the time the two boys returned to the stone table to sit down, their hearts were still in endless shock
Kou Zhong sighed in adood taste; the weapons in the vault are all top-notch goods of highest quality”
Xu Ziling focused his attention to look at thehide the Relics?”
Although they had not, as well as could not possibly – opened the round storehouses, they were positive that the Demonic Emperor’s Relics must be hidden in a separate secret place, soSu did not know either that Lu Miaozi stealthily hid the unusual treasure that everybody in the de for even in their dreahed and said, “For the ti I am not in the mood to think about this pain-in-the-neck Relics, why don’t you see what kind ofsaid, “Laotianye has taken care of you in every possible way There are altogether four passageways; the entrances are separately inside the four storehouses One passageway is going straight to a shted, Kou Zhong said, “This is called the Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries [idiohed and said, “However, to transport such large quantities of gold and weapons, even if Shuang Long Bang is deploying the entire ar at once, theCarrying these things out is just a big joke Even if you take the ay, you will need at least ten, eight super-sized cargo shi+ps”
Xu Ziling was still reading the caption next to theto outside the city is equipped with rails and iron cargo cars By pulling and activating the winching cable, you can rapidly transport the weapons out of the city Only I am afraid the so-called ‘rapid’ will still take at least a day or two”
Kou Zhong pointed to a square on theto outside the city and the treasure house, “This looks like another underground roo the part about how to open the tunnel; he said, “Let’s not worry about other things first, this is the way to seal the treasure-trove, it can open the partition between fake treasure-trove and the real treasure-trove located at the west-south axes, so that even if someone knew the entrance at the Xi Ji Yuan, they cannot find their way here”
Naturally Kou Zhong understood what he e of the table, he was just about to exclaie
“What’s theleaned over to look at the single leg supporting the stone table, which was embedded into the floor He said, “This table is a bit weird When I slapped on it, the reaction force entering ave me the i said, “Could it be that this stone table is another variant of fancy ring lock? Perhaps it could open certain secret vault?”
Kou Zhong sprang up and said, “That e of the table with both hands, he pulled it up The table gave in and rose two cun, producing a light noise
You looked at ht?”
S replied, “I don’t think there will be arrows shooting up!”
Kou Zhong agreed; he said, “In that case, let’s use the ‘turning left for the Heaven’”
Fro wheel and axle as the table was turning counterclockwise
An area by the table sank down, revealing a s came over to the small square hole and looked down He said, “There’s a small copper jar sealed with a lid over it”
“I do not dare to have a free hand over it,” Kou Zhong said, “You open and take a look”
Xu Ziling squatted and kneeled down to reach inside, but suddenly he pulled his hand back and said, “Re hid the Jade Annulus of He Clan inside the copper hall, so that we could not detect the Jade Annulus of He Clan’s presence?”
Kou Zhong nodded and said, “Right! If the lid is opened, perhaps shi+ Zhixuan could sense it”
Xu Ziling reached down again, not to open the lid of the copper jar, but to lift it up, to feel the weight of the jar
Seeing he did not say anything, Kou Zhong could not help asking, “What do you think?”
Rising up to his full height, Xu Ziling said, “Let’s close the secret hole first”
Kou Zhong co was back to its original condition, the two boys sat down again
Xu Ziling said, “The jar is at least a hundred catties”
Kou Zhong ju said, “There e solution This must be a unique secret method to make You Niaojuan and the others cannot sense the location of the Relics”
Kou Zhong said, “But just nohy did your expression look strange? I thought you were possessed”
Xu Ziling said, “It feltpossessed When my hand touched the copper jar, unexpectedly all kinds of terrifying situation bri with the reek of blood appeared inofretribution It took quite half a day to get rid of it”
Kou Zhong shuddered, “So evil!” he co said, “I think it is almost daybreak Let’s aze fell back to the map on the table He said, “The other three tunnels are leading to Xi Ji Yuan … ha! Isn’t this the Sha Mansion? How can there be such a coincidence”
Xu Ziling laughed and said, “If you haven’t left a letter saying that you are running away, it would be quite convenient to go ho the exit of the last passageway Frowning, he said, “This is not an exit, but it could lead directly to the Yong An Canal”
After thinking deeply for half a day, Kou Zhong decisively said, “I’ll stay here to try to understand all theAn Canal exit, and then lead Zhandao and the others to come in We will then establish our invincible position first before thinking of other things that injure our spirit”