I don’t know why, but the further I walked into the tomb passage, the more I felt the temperature around me was dropping. Fatty sneezed several times along the way.

When we walked more than 20 meters further, the surrounding walls were already covered with crystal clear ice cubes. These ice cubes had various shapes.

There are various kinds of insects and fish frozen in some ice cubes.

There was a Chinese sturgeon that still kept leaping, but it was frozen there, supported only by a thin and long icicle. The scene was simply a spectacle.

"Where are we going? Why does it feel like we've entered a big ice cellar? Ding-dang, please see if it's a fish." The fat man said while breathing in the air-conditioning.

I took a closer look and found that the tomb passage in front of me was completely blocked by ice, and I could not go any further. Moreover, the temperature dropped below zero, which was simply unbearable for ordinary people. I am afraid that except for the fourth girl, everyone present would not be able to bear it if I stayed any longer.

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"Uncle Ming, what should I do now?" I asked Uncle Ming.

After all, Uncle Ming is a master who has visited countless tombs and has rich experience in survival in the wild. He knows these issues better than we do.

"Strange, how come there are so many ice blocks in the tomb of Qin Shihuang? I have stolen buckets for decades, and I have never seen such a weird tomb." Uncle Ming frowned and said, "But it's nothing, I

Remember, everyone still has some solid fuel in their packages, right? Although there isn't much left, it shouldn't be too difficult to boil the ice cubes along the way."

Uncle Ming's words made my eyes light up.

Solid fuel is the most important support in the team. It is used for food and lighting along the way, and it is not afraid even if it is soaked in water. Therefore, the amount we brought is still enough, and it comes in handy now.

"Yes, yes, and we can save some money. We just need to burn cracks in the ice and then smash it with an engineer shovel." I nodded repeatedly.

Just do it, I took the lead, cut a piece of solid fuel with a dagger, carefully placed it on the ice, and then the fat man ran over and lit the fire.

In an instant, a blue flame burned, and thick white smoke emerged from the darkness. Within a few minutes, the solid ice melted quickly, and we followed suit while shoveling the snow.

"No, if we advance at this speed, we won't have enough even if we use up all the fuel."

Uncle Ming squinted his eyes and looked at the map in his hand. He had already copied down the structural diagram of the tomb chamber. Now he looked at it and found that we were only halfway through the tomb passage. But the remaining half of the road was clear.

It was covered with ice, and we would never be able to enter the main tomb chamber with the little fuel we had.

"Stop, look, there seems to be something here!" I shouted loudly.

In the corner of the tomb passage against the wall, I suddenly saw a large, round bronze cauldron, surrounded by ice crystals.

I walked over and knocked open the ice on the surface of the bronze cauldron, and suddenly I found a huge seal character engraved on the cauldron: fire. When I saw the word "fire", I felt ecstatic. If nothing else, this should be an ancient symbol.

A fire cauldron used for sacrificial rituals.

I have encountered similar things before. When we were at Dayu's tomb, didn't the fourth girl also use corpse oil to light nine bronze candlesticks before entering the tomb?

Now that I saw the fire cauldron in front of me, I suddenly realized that this thing must be related to breaking the ice in the tomb passage!

I didn't even have time to explain to everyone, so I just threw a few pieces of solid fuel in my arms into the fire cauldron, and then lit it with a lighter. As the fire ignited, the Qin Dynasty cauldron, which had been sleeping for thousands of years, , and it was immediately displayed perfectly in front of us.

This tripod has a simple shape and is green all over. The dense patterns on the tripod are even more eye-catching.

But the fat man couldn't help but cursed and said: "Li Dingdang, you don't have a damn fever, do you? It's not enough to open a road, and you still have time to defrost a bottle of broken cauldron? Isn't this a lot of waste of fuel?"

"Try it! I think this jar and tripod is the key to entering the main tomb chamber." Looking at the less and less solid fuel in everyone's hands, I said with a headache.

To be honest, I don’t have any confidence in my heart right now, but I can only bite the bullet and go for it.

"During the Qin Dynasty, there was indeed a rule for burials with fire cauldrons. They believed that flames were the highest etiquette for princes and nobles. Forget it, I'll put my solid fuel into the fire cauldron! Let's see if anything unexpected happens. Change. If this method doesn't work, I'm afraid we will have to risk freezing to death and dig down with engineering shovels..."

Uncle Ming threw the solid fuel in his hand into the fire cauldron and said with a wry smile.

There was a puff, and the flames in the fire cauldron suddenly shot up to a height of more than half a meter, with sparks jumping everywhere.

A few of us held our breath and stared at the changes in the fire cauldron. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but I found that the word "fire" engraved on the fire cauldron was more vivid than before.

"Keep throwing fuel until it changes!" I was heartbroken and yelled at the fat man.

Now that we are at the end of the road, there is no point in saving any more fuel. According to the structural diagram of the tomb, even if we have several times more fuel, we will not be able to reach the main tomb.

I threw down the solid gasoline piece by piece, and as time went by, my mood sank deeper and deeper into the bottom.

Everyone present had ugly expressions. In fact, the ice around the fire cauldron had melted long ago, and even the surface of the fire cauldron was burning red. If there is really any mechanism here, it should have been activated long ago after it has been burning for so long...

Obviously I guessed wrong, maybe this is really just an ordinary bronze tripod.

As the last piece of solid fuel was thrown into the fire cauldron, our mood dropped to freezing point.

"Think again if there is any other way." I said with a wry smile.

"What are you thinking about? I told you not to waste this fuel, but you just didn't listen! It's fine now. We don't even have anything to keep warm. Let's just wait and freeze to death." The fat man rolled his eyes and cursed.

I shook my head and ignored the fat man's abuse. In fact, I was also very depressed inside. I really shouldn't be so desperate.

As the fire cauldron gradually extinguished, I felt like a deflated rubber ball. All of a sudden, I slumped down on the ground powerlessly, burying my head deeply in my arms, not daring to raise my head to face everyone's eyes.

The fourth girl came over and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Dingdang, thank you! Don't feel bad, there will definitely be other ways."

Feeling the hot breath from the fourth girl's breath, I felt a little better.

boom!

Before I could say anything, suddenly, a pillar of fire shot up from the fire cauldron behind us. The huge pillar of fire absorbed a large amount of oxygen and instantly illuminated half of the tomb passage.

Immediately afterwards, the pillar of fire began to spread deep into the tomb passage, and in just a few minutes, hundreds of blazing lines of fire were laid out on the ice.

boom!

About ten meters away from the fire pillar, a dazzling fire exploded again, the second fire tripod!

Then, the third! The fourth! The fifth!

The flames soaring into the sky made our faces red, and the ice cubes were melting at a speed visible to the naked eye. The white mist produced after the ice melted turned us blind.
Chapter completed!