Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 107 Enter the tunnel, check it out

By the time Liu Yu led people around to the back of the hill, the sky had already started to darken.

Wu You's gold-dividing positioning technique can only be deduced during the daytime. Now that the moon is high and the stars are numerous, he can't use what he has learned to find a suitable place to dig a hole.

Wu You can't do it, but Liu Yu's geomancy can use the stars to find the desired location.

In fact, geomancy is not a special function, it is just a geomantic science compiled by the masters of metaphysics in the past dynasties based on the knowledge of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches.

It's just that no matter in ancient times or today, all those in power are very interested in this metaphysics.

I don't know when, when the underground palace was built, I would ask a Fengshui master to check the terrain.

And these Fengshui masters rely on the knowledge of Fengshui metaphysics handed down from generation to generation when conducting field investigations.

It's like everyone likes to use the same book of drawings to build a house, and latecomers only need to master all the contents on the drawings to know the structure of the house without going in.

Soon Liu Yu used geomancy techniques to find the location closest to the main tomb.

The largest building in the underground palace is the main tomb. If someone wants to hide something in the underground palace, it will definitely be placed in the main tomb.

After finding the location, leave the rest of the digging to the professionals.

Zhang Da is worthy of being an expert in digging holes. When he was in the Liu Mansion, he promised to open the entrance within two hours. Now it took only one and a half hours to dig a new entrance to the underground palace.

The area near the entrance is very narrow, and it looks like a corridor in an underground palace when viewed by moonlight.

From the point of view of the location, the main tomb should be just below the corridor.

Liu Yu arranged for Liu Bei to lead people to guard the entrance, and he planned to take only Zhang Da and Wu You down to find out.

For safety reasons, Liu Bei suggested that they bring more people, but Liu Yu said that there might be guards in the underground palace, and too many people would be easily discovered.

And Zhang Da and Wu You are both elites in the fighting world, no one can easily find them underground.

The three of them lit a torch each and jumped into the corridor.

The corridor was paved with bluestone, and the three of them walked very lightly and slowly in order to reduce the noise.

After walking down a few hundred steps, the passageway became wet and slippery.

At this time Liu Yu said: "According to the current location, the main tomb should be at the end of the corridor, but why is it so humid here?"

The main tomb is the most important building in the underground palace, because it is where the coffins are placed, so waterproof measures are generally well done.

"It may be that the waterproofing of the main tomb was damaged, and rainwater poured in there, so the passageway became more humid as it went down." Wu You had rich experience in Daodou, and he had seen this situation in other tombs before.

Sure enough, after the three of them walked another hundred steps, they could see the trickle.

"My lord, wait here first, and test the depth of the water before I go!" Zhang Da walked forward in the water for dozens of steps, and the water level was below his waist, but the entrance of the main tomb was still not seen.

"It seems that the main tomb is really filled with water, we can't go any further!" Zhang Da suggested after returning that we can't go any further. Food may be stored.

But if there is no food stored here, why are there soldiers guarding the front of the hill?
Is it guarding the ghost weapon that has not been transported away?
Impossible, because Wu You checked from his clansmen, and the ghost artifact here was dug up a month ago.

There are more than 200 guards watching at the front entrance of an abandoned underground palace, which makes people suspicious.

However, judging from the fact that the previous underground palaces were extremely close to the places where the mysterious rich merchant traded food and grass, Liu Yu decided to firmly believe in his speculation.

There must be something hidden here related to the mysterious rich merchant.

At this time, Liu Yu brought the torch close to the corner of the corridor, and found that there were only a few mosses. It seemed that the place had not been submerged in water for long.

Could it be that this was originally a place to store grain, but later it was found that there was rainwater pouring in, so the grain was transported to a place near the entrance.

"Let's go back and take a look at the entrance along the corridor!"

Just as Liu Yu finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from the corridor above.

The three of them were taken aback, thinking that the entrance must have been destroyed!

If so, the three of them would be buried underground.

"Not good!" Wu You exclaimed, "My lord, the water seems to be rising!"

When the wave was not calm, Liu Yu looked at it with a torch. Originally, the water had only covered the ground, but now it was covering the calf at an extremely fast speed, and it might not be long before it would cover the top of the head.

"Run up!"

The three of them didn't dare to hesitate, they ran hundreds of steps and finally got out of danger. The water level stopped rising about ten meters behind them.

"Why is the water pouring upwards suddenly!" Zhang Da looked at Wu You suspiciously, but this was the first time he had encountered such a thing, so he shook his head ignorantly.

"Maybe the main tomb was collapsed by the loud noise just now, so the water was temporarily backlogged in the corridor." Liu Yu raised the torch to shine a light, and saw that the water level before was slowly dropping.

"Then according to my lord, the loud response just now should not have come from our entrance, because if the main tomb close to this side collapses, I'm afraid we will all be buried in the corridor!"

"Qi Ling's analysis is quite correct, it looks like the sound is coming from the front entrance!"

The three of them walked back another hundred steps and came to the entrance they dug.

Sure enough, there was no landslide here, and Liu Bei was looking nervously into the corridor, and he didn't feel relieved until he saw that Liu Yu was safe and sound.

"Did Xuande hear any movement on the other side of the hill just now?"

"Returning to my lord, there was indeed a sound of collapse from the other side of the hill just now. Could it be that the guards sealed the entrance from the outside?"

Liu Yu nodded in agreement after hearing this, but he was even more confused by this.

Liu Yu could only suspect that the food had been transported near the entrance when the main tomb was flooded, but why did the guards suddenly seal the entrance?

It seems that in order to find out the reason, the only way to solve these mysteries is to enter the corridor again and touch the front entrance.

But when Liu Yu said that he would continue to enter the tunnel to check the situation at the front entrance, he was immediately strongly opposed by Liu Bei and others.

"The loud noise just now really scared me. Fortunately, my lord is fine, otherwise I, Liu Bei, would have become the sinner of the big man!"

"Yes, my lord, let me and Wu You handle the investigation!"

Liu Yu thought that both Zhang Da and Wu You had rich experience in fighting underground, so it shouldn't be a problem for them to go to the other side of the tunnel to check.

And at this time Liu Yu suddenly thought of another possibility.

If those guards sealed the entrance of the underground palace after strategic abandonment, then Zhang Da and Wu You would definitely find out what was hidden at the entrance after entering the corridor.

But there is another possibility, that is, the things hidden near the entrance were transported away just now, so the guards sealed the entrance.

(End of this chapter)