At this time, something suddenly stumbled under my feet. I thought to myself, could it be an oxygen bottle again? However, when I squatted down and touched it, it turned out to be a long and thick iron chain.
"There are also chains here, where are there so many chains?" Tsewang asked.
He raised it with both hands, and the sound of metal clashing could be heard endlessly.
I hurriedly turned on the flashlight and took a photo of my feet, and then I realized that we had left the muddy water at some point. The cave in front of me was much narrower than the previous Big Dragon Ball, and there were all kinds of things on the ground.
The flowing water is not as cold as before.
The rough surface was covered with intricate iron chains, each one as thick as my wrist. The fat man pulled them several times, but was unable to drag them out of the water. The iron chains were laid all the way forward, leading straight to the front.
Narrow hole.
"What's the fuss about?" I threw off the chain and walked forward in the water one step at a time.
"I've never heard of chains hanging in tombs. It's not a prison. Are there so many chains to lock people or ghosts?" Deyang Ram also expressed his opinion.
"This tomb at the bottom of the lake is different from what we originally imagined. It must be famous and hide unknown secrets." I pondered for a moment, looked up at the cave, and said hesitantly: "I have always had a feeling that this place
It’s not just a tomb, the tomb is equivalent to the tomb owner’s home after his death. There’s no reason to decorate the home like this, right?”
"That's what I mean," Ciwang kicked the chain in the water with his foot. "In Chinese people's opinion, the feng shui of a ghost house is related to the wealth and safety of future generations. A safe house is a top priority when people die. The tomb in front of them is
Firstly, the format does not meet the specifications of a prince's tomb, and secondly, it does not meet the requirements of a tomb in traditional concepts. It is really strange."
"Could it be that we made a mistake?" Deyang Ram suddenly said, "Maybe the tomb buried in this place is not the so-called lake bottom tomb at all. From the beginning, Yun Ding'e also said that this is just the tomb in Heiyun Village.
There is a folk legend that Yun Ding'e and Yun Dingxiang just heard from the previous generation. But who knows whether the original rumor is true."
"Lin Kun, don't tell me, it sounds like that to Deyang Ram." Ciwang also agreed with Deyang Ram's point of view.
I thought in my heart that our trip was in vain. After all the hard work, the bottom of the lake is just an empty prison? But this doesn’t make sense. If this is not the tomb at the bottom of the lake, or simply not the ancestral tomb of Heiyun Village, then this guy from Yunnan
What are you doing here? Could it be that he made a mistake?
"Is there any inside story that we don't know about?" I was thinking hard, and suddenly there was a muffled crackling sound coming from far away, and there was a constant "clicking" sound coming from under our feet. I didn't have time to think too much.
, I felt that the whole cave suddenly shook violently.
"No! The cave is about to collapse!" Deyang Ram exclaimed, bringing me back to reality.
A few of us suddenly stood in the middle of the rock path, with no cover in front or behind, so we had to cover our heads and roll on the spot, shrinking to the wall and pressing against the wall.
"What's going on? Could it be an earthquake?" I was shaken from side to side and fell into the water. I clung to the iron chain tightly and fixed my whole body weight on the iron chain.
The Hengduan Mountains are in the seismic zone, and it is not new for a few earthquakes to occur occasionally. It is also possible that the long-term invasion of lake waves caused the rock mass itself to fracture, thus triggering local collapses.
Sure enough, the riot didn't last long before it stopped. As soon as we stood up from the gravel to look for it, before we had time to breathe, we heard two gunshots not far away.
ring.
I was startled and became even more certain that there were other people in the cave.
"Hidden!" I immediately told everyone to hold their breath and huddle in a corner.
But after the gunshot, a heart-rending beast roar broke through the dark rock passage and resounded throughout the tomb.
For a moment we couldn't tell what was happening in front of us, so we only stepped up our pace and started running wildly in the narrow channel where the iron cables lay.
"What the hell is so miserable?" I couldn't help but ask.
"There are only a few of us in this cave, something must have happened." Tsewang said.
"I've never heard of anyone making such a horrifying sound," Deyang Ram said.
"Don't talk nonsense. Apart from us, the only one left here is that old man..." Ciwang became a little timid.
"Stop talking, what's the use of guessing." I made a silent gesture, "Strange, why is Yu'er missing?"
While we were talking, we had already arrived at the end of the cave. The four walls here were built to be extremely smooth, which was a rare artificial trace along the way.
I saw a hole in the corner of the south wall. I crawled over and took a look. The hole was straight downwards and the incision was in the shape of a semicircle. It looked like a hole dug by a skilled tomb robber.
I pointed to the traces of water seeping down from the entrance of the cave and said, "This hole was drilled not long ago. He was able to drill holes into the semi-flooded stone wall. This person's skills are extraordinary. He should be the gang of tomb robbers under Yunnannan. Yun
It seems that Southwest is continuing to take desperate risks to dig in."
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry down and make him look good!" Ciwang urged.
I took over the flashlight, first selected a stone and threw it into the hole. The sound of falling to the ground came immediately, and I said: "It seems that this is a straight up and down robbery hole, and the distance is not long. I will go down first, and you will be on top."
Wait, after I go down, I will flash my flashlight three times to signal that everything is safe, and you can come down again."
"Okay." Ciwang nodded.
After explaining, I slowly slid down the mouth of the Thief's Cave. Because of its small size, the stone fell down very easily. When I climbed up by myself, I found that it was very difficult to climb down. This stone wall
The thickness is astonishing, and I don’t know what method the other party used to create such a straight hole.
My hands and feet were constantly cut by the gravel in the cave, and it was very inconvenient to move. When I finally saw the entrance of the cave, I heard a noise from below. I quickly turned off the flashlight, and used my hands and feet to support my body in the hole.
I dare not move.
After a while, there was a vague conversation between two men below. One of them was deeper, the other was hoarse.
My heart suddenly rose to my throat.
"Boss, this is not the place we are looking for. The legend may be false. The real ancient tomb has not been found yet."
"It's a pity that the legend of the Tomb at the Bottom of the Lake is false." Another deep voice sounded, "However, even if the Tomb at the Bottom of the Lake is false, this secret passage must be true, but we still don't know where it really leads.
Just didn’t find it.”
"According to the intelligence analysis we collected, this secret passage connects Heiyun Village, Forbidden Land, Dagushan and Xiaogushan. If it really exists, will it..."
"You mean...Xiao Gushan?"
"Boss, I'm just making a guess."
"No, no, no, your guess is very accurate. Xiaogushan is too mysterious. Everything in Heiyun Village has nothing to do with it, but it happens to be there. Everything exists there.
That means it’s reasonable, yes, it must be like this.”
"Then I will immediately order you to go to Xiaogushan." The hoarse voice paused, "What should I do with this dog?"
"Hehehehe," the deep voice laughed, and then said with great interest, "Those guys in Heiyun Village guard the five secret skills but only waste them. They will die unjustly, so just leave them here.
Keep company with that half-dead monster."
I guessed that Yu'er was probably being restrained by others and fainted. The person called the boss in the conversation was probably the boy from Yunnan. I continued to eavesdrop on their conversation, and only heard Yunnan say regretfully: "I want to rely on one
The dog stopped me. He is self-righteous and foolish. Let's go."
Yunnan groaned a few times to show that he was extraordinary, and then the compliments of his men and the sound of leaving footsteps came. I held it in the thief's cave for a long time, always afraid that they would leave and come back. I waited for about
After about ten minutes, he jumped down from the hole.
As soon as I landed on the ground, I let the bright ten thousand oil lamp dazzle my eyes.
I got used to it and found that it was a square building with a width of five or six square meters. I looked up to see where I had landed, and found that there was an arc-shaped zenith above, which was in line with the ancient saying that the sky was round and the place was square.
But there was no trace of the coffin underneath.
It is surrounded by walls made of rough bricks, and there is a copper-iron door on one wall, as if to seal something on the opposite side. Three copper lamps hang high on the wall, and the lamp oil inside can be seen as newly added.
I looked at the entrance of the tomb, and there was a water curtain hanging high, and I didn’t know where it led. It seems that Yunnan really did not take the same path as us, but used the most primitive method to hit the ground directly.
Come down from a robbery hole.
I checked on Yu'er and found that she was unconscious in the corner. She seemed to have been knocked out by someone.
I shook the flashlight upwards and flashed it three times to signal that it was safe below.
Not long after, Ciwang came down from the robbery cave first, followed closely by Deyang Ram and Caiyun. After they landed safely, they looked at each other in the empty tomb.
"Lin Kun, where are they?"
"gone."
"Where to go?"
"Xiao Gushan."
"Xiao Gushan?"
"Yes, this should not be the location of the ancestral graves." I was a little depressed, "Now they are walking ahead of us again."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go and chase him."
"Wait a minute, I just heard what they said. There is a person here who is neither human nor ghost, but it is empty and there is nothing?"
"Is it a human or a ghost? Could it be that howl just now?"
"It should be, maybe the existence of this thing made them throw away the oxygen tank."
"Look for it." Deyang Ram seemed to know what I was thinking, so he started looking for it first.
At this moment, Caiyun suddenly pointed to a copper wall facing the water curtain and said, "Brother Lin Kun, come and see, there seems to be... someone here!"
"Is there someone?!" Cold sweat broke out on my head. I held my breath and slowly approached the copper wall. I saw a thin crack in the wall that had been blown open at some point. You can feel it when you get closer.
There was a slight fishy wind blowing out from inside.
I took a few steps forward and heard a faint gasp coming from the small cracks.
"You all stand back." My hands and feet were cold and I took a deep breath.
Chapter completed!