Lu Qingtong said hurriedly to everyone: "In front is a square secret room, three meters long and three meters wide, ten feet high and six feet deep into the ground... No wonder we can't see the ground!"

It turns out that in front of them was a big square pit!

When Shen Mo heard Lu Qingtong's words, he knew that Lu Qingtong finally used the phosphorescence emitted from Wan Zilin's hand to see clearly the situation in this space, and immediately reported to them.

"What is that thing inside?" Shen Mo was on the side, and he was still building the secret room structure in the darkness ahead in his mind. He heard Wan Zilin ask Lu Qingtong in a deep voice.

"I don't know! It seems to be a very big ball!" Lu Qingtong replied tremblingly: "What exactly is it... I didn't see clearly!"

"Hmph!" Wan Zilin snorted in his nose, as if very disappointed with Lu Qingtong's so-called night eye.

Before, Wan Zilin, the tall fat man, was always smiling. It was not until this critical moment that he saw his first move.

At this time, Shen Mo realized that Lu Qingtong, who had always been not very cold to him, seemed to be very afraid of Wan Zilin.

Only then did Shen Mo realize that when this smiling fat man showed his sharpness, he was also very powerful!

Since they had figured out the terrain here, they had to go down and take a look no matter what. Helian Bobo carefully took two more steps forward and stumbled downwards in his hand.

Sure enough, diagonally below them, there was a steep step. It stretched step by step into the darkness ahead, feeling like a road to the endless abyss.

Helianbo raised his feet and walked slowly down the steps. His gait was slow and strange. Every time he reached the next step, his feet seemed to have to stroke the steps extremely gently before he could step on it.

Shen Mo knew that Helianbo was testing whether there was any mechanism under his feet.

Everyone watched Helianbo walk down the five or six steps safely, and nothing unusual happened, so everyone followed him.

Shen Mo also walked down, and the steps were indeed only six feet high and reached the bottom. The height was equivalent to the distance from the ground to the fingertips when a man reached up.

The masonry steps were made of thick granite, and now it was slippery. As Shen Mo walked down, he heard the sound of wiping footsteps slightly under their feet, making a gentle echo between the surrounding walls.

When everyone walked down the steps, Shen Mo raised the torch and swept the ground, taking a look at the scene on the ground.

Next to him, Tie Laolian also made an action exactly the same as him, and then the two of them raised their heads almost at the same time.

After looking at each other for a while, both of them shook their heads helplessly.

Due to humidity, there was no dust on the ground. On the slippery ground, there were only footprints left by a few of them when they walked in, and there were no traces of others entering and leaving here.

This shows that before Liu Jinchan died, he had never stayed here. Otherwise, he would have left barefoot footprints here.

Of course, this answer is very disappointing. If you can't figure out this secret room well, it really has nothing to do with Liu Jinchan's case.

But since they have come down, they have to figure out the place thoroughly before they can get out.

After they got down the steps, they naturally slowly moved forward and gradually dispersed.

Soon, under the torches in everyone's hands, the whole picture of this secret room gradually appeared in front of Shen Mo.

This place is indeed as Lu Qingtong described, three meters wide across and less than two meters high. When Shen Mo raised his head, he saw a vault roof made of bluestone on his head.

Such vaults are very common in Chinese architecture. The stone arch bridges and moon gates we see are made in this way.

The so-called collection coupon is the entire arc-shaped ceiling, made of bluestone with angles. When these stones are built together, they will be pressed tightly together due to their own weight, forming a solid arc-shaped dome.

Such a ceiling can be firmly supported without any columns, and will not collapse even if it bears a large amount of weight.

Of course, it also has its disadvantages. Any brick and stone fragmentation on this vault may quickly trigger a chain reaction and cause the collapse of the entire building structure.

After Shen Mo and the others took a few more steps forward, they finally saw the so-called round thing in the middle of the hall.

The area of ​​this thing covers a larger area than a double bed, and the height is more than one meter. When Shen Mo approached and looked carefully, he found that there were three beast feet as thick as a man's waist, which supported the round thing.

This thing is actually a huge round cauldron!

If you don't look carefully, this thing is a bit like the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun in Journey to the West. It's just much higher than it. And it's not flashing with golden light, but it's covered with red spots and green rust.

Shen Mo walked forward and looked at its surface carefully. Then he tapped it with his fingers.

A solid echo came from his fingertips - this thing was thick and strong, and it was indeed cast in bronze!

Shen Mo couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart when he looked at this huge cauldron.

Even before this, they had an exaggerated assumption about the size of this secret room. But they were still shocked by the realistic scenes!

The so-called "competing for the deer" is a thing like a tripod that had extraordinary significance in ancient times, let alone such a huge tripod?

So when Shen Mo saw it at first sight, the first thing he thought of was who cast this thing and how it was placed here?

Although Shen Mo had no answer in his mind yet, he thought that this must have been before the establishment of the Imperial Garden here after the Southern Song Dynasty moved south.

Because if the Imperial Garden is built, if such a secret room is built in this royal garden, and such a huge tripod with an extremely wolf pit is placed here, such a large project will never be carried out secretly under the eyes of the Southern Song court.

Judging from this meaning, this secret room has been built for quite some time. It turned out that after working on it for a long time, it was a historical site!

The more Shen Mo thought about it, the more he felt that he scratched his head. In order to investigate the case, he actually found such an ancient underground secret room!

At this moment, Xu Huanshu and Helianbo also came over here. Helianbo reached out to pat the giant cauldron, and then asked like Shen Mo: "Is this an ancient tomb?"

"What kind of tomb is there? There is no tomb gate or coffin. Is there anyone else who puts himself in this cauldron and buried him?" Chen Si rolled his eyes at Helianbo, then he walked around the cauldron and then walked backwards.

When they walked around the cauldron and walked into the secret room directly opposite. After silentness, they realized that they had reached the end. On the other side of the secret room, there was a solid stone wall facing each other, without any doors or passages.

It turned out that it was like a piece of tofu, a square stone chamber. Only the passage they came from was connected to it.
Chapter completed!