Chapter 61 (1/2)

The first emperor of Qin realized that his life was not long. The river and mountain he was trying to win could not be under his control forever. All kinds of super weapons and elixirs secretly developed by him will also fall into the hands of others after his death. In order to dominate these technologies, he ordered people to kill all the personnel involved in the research and development, and personally compiled the production steps and drawings of various technologies into a volume, which was named ”secret of Emperor Qin”.

That day, the first emperor of Qin took his bodyguard to inspect the mausoleum he built for himself. The newly completed underground imperial mausoleum is magnificent. It is filled with rows of colorful terracotta figures with different shapes and life height. It is also filled with various weapons, bronze horses and carriages.

The first emperor of Qin looked down on his underground palace from a high place and said to the bodyguard, ”I finally understood that only after death is eternal life in the real sense. In the same way, I am able to lead thousands of troops and dominate the world. Ha ha ha For the sake of the thousands of years' foundation of the widowed, the secret of Emperor Qin will accompany the widowed and sleep in the mausoleum forever! ”

Qin Shihuang took out a bamboo slip from his arms, and ordered the guards to dig a hole in the tomb where he finally put his coffin with a sword. He used a sandalwood box to hold the bamboo slip wrapped with a brocade bag and filled it with earth.

When the first emperor of Qin left the mausoleum, he ordered the guards to kill the last group of craftsmen. He didn't want anyone to know the secrets of the mausoleum. The bodyguard knew very well that the first emperor of Qin was afraid that after he died, someone coveted his wonderful book and refused to bury him, so he would first hide the book in the mausoleum. As the only one who knows the secrets of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin, the bodyguard certainly can't live.

The first emperor of Qin died of illness soon after. After his coffin was returned, the bodyguard, as one of the funerary objects appointed by the first emperor of Qin before his death, was put into the hollow shell of the figurine, and then poured with clay slurry to make the living figurine. He will stand beside the coffin of the first emperor of Qin and guard the mausoleum and the wonderful book for him forever.

After they left the tomb, they sealed it with mud and brick. The bodyguard in the clay figurine is still alive. Because the mud in the shell of the figurine is not full, there is still some air left for him to breathe. He tried his best and swayed from side to side. Finally, the terracotta figures lost their balance and fell heavily on the ground. The shells of the terracotta figures on the bodyguards were smashed to pieces.

The bodyguard spits out the mud in the exit and leans against the tomb to gasp. He knows that although he picked up a life, it is not so easy to escape from the mausoleum.

When the bodyguard regained his strength, he took the dim light of the Changming lamp in the underground palace, dug the earth pit where the first emperor of Qin buried the slips with his sword, and hid the slips.

The bodyguard knew clearly that there were many valuable things in the coffin, but the coffin was too thick for him to open on his own. He put some Jeweled gold wares on the altar in front of the coffin in his arms, lit a torch and searched for the way to escape in the tomb.

The road leading to the outside of the tomb was sealed with stone bricks. The guards wandered back and forth in the huge underground palace, looking for places to break through. Fortunately, he found a brick that had just been poured with mud, but it had not solidified yet. The bodyguard spent nine cows and two tigers' effort to pry open several bricks with his sword and climbed to the outer tomb. He walked through rows of terracotta figures. The pit was deep and slippery. He couldn't find a place to climb.

The bodyguard was tired and sleepy, and he smashed the bronze carriage beside him, which was buried with the first emperor of Qin Dynasty, into a rag, and fell into a pit in despair. Just above his head, there was a small opening that had not been sealed yet. Through that opening, you could see the twinkling stars in the night sky.

The bodyguard was awakened by a cold wind. He was unwilling to give up the chance to escape. He knew that time was running out. At dawn, someone would pour the loess from the top of his head and fill the whole pit. And he, will always be left in this cold dark tomb.

The bodyguard takes a handful of weapons from the terra cotta warriors in the pit and inserts them on the pit wall one by one. He stepped on the inserted weapon and pushed up a row. He stepped on layers of weapons and climbed to the pit.

The top of the pit is still very high from the unsealed hole on the top of his head. He was surprised to find that there was a rope for craftsmen to evacuate, which was high above the hole. He grabbed a spear with a wooden handle and threw it at the entrance of the cave. After unremitting efforts, the spear finally caught the rope, hooked it up, and dropped it in front of him.

The bodyguard grabbed the rope and climbed out of the mausoleum which had not been sealed by the first emperor of Qin. He dodged the guard posts and gradually melted into the night. The bodyguard knew that his identity could not be found. He decisively escaped to Mongolia and lived in anonymity.

In the legend, the bodyguard's descendants joined the Tuoba family and changed their surname to Tuoba. They became the ancestors of the Tuoba family. However, the book ”secret of Emperor Qin” fell into the hands of the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty. For some reason, it has been put on the shelf. I don't know how many years have passed since that book was tossed and turned and fell into Murong's hands. Yuan Dong guessed that the reason why Beiyan died at the beginning had a direct relationship with that book.

Murong Zhining looks down and ponders that there is no way to verify the historical events, but she has her own judgment: ”I think this book is probably the cause of the war between the two countries at the beginning, as my uncle said. What does this book record that makes the world so crazy? ”