The tunnel was illuminated by the trajectory of the flare, and one could see an opening at each end, in an asymmetrical position, on the left and right.
Both sides of the main road were piled with white bones, and only a large number of huge ivory tusks in the shape of conical arcs could be distinguished.
When the flares were fired to the end, you could also see the flash of water waves there, which should be the underground water system of the Snake River.
Although this tunnel is most likely to have powerful mechanisms, compared with the boundless mountain miasma and poisonous fog, it is still feasible to venture into the Tomb of King Xian from the underground tunnel.
Anyway, the three of us are pretty good at it, unlike the last time we went to the desert in Xinjiang, where we brought a group of intellectuals with us, and it was very cumbersome to do things with our hands tied.
So we rested for a while at the entrance of the cave and packed up our equipment.
Since there was no bamboo raft, if there was an underground river, we would need to carry out an armed swim, so all unnecessary things had to be temporarily left in the temple dedicated to the mountain god.
First, I put on a sharkskin diving suit, put on elbow and knee pads, adjusted the spotlight on the mountaineering helmet to the side, replaced the new battery, then equipped the helmet with diving goggles, and hung a simple small refillable oxygen bottle on the back.
Carry only one waterproof carrying bag per person, containing emergency medicines, spare batteries, cold fireworks, gas masks, fluorescent tubes, candles, evil objects, and wolf-eye flashlights.
The diving tights the fat man wore didn't fit him well, so he wasn't going to wear them.
I said to the fat man: "It's okay if you don't wear any clothes.
Anyway, you are a stupid boy who sleeps on a cool bed.
You only rely on your firepower to make you stronger."
Shiry Yang said: "You can't do it without wearing clothes.
You don't remember how cold the water at the foot of Zhelong Mountain is.
If you stay in the water for a long time, you will easily suffer from hypothermia.
Even if the clothes are a little narrow, you have to make do with them, otherwise you will stay."
Wait for us, we won’t let you in.”
The fat man remembered the scene when Shirey Yang fell off the bamboo raft in Zhelong Mountain.
When he swam back, his lips were purple from the cold.
It seemed that although the area was humid and hot, the groundwater was extremely cold and cold.
It was no joke, not to mention the Tomb of King Xian.
The large number of bright weapons were already not far away.
How could I stay here and wait?
I had to inhale and tighten my belly, and forced myself to put on the diving suit.
After putting it on, I kept complaining: "The shoes are too small and the crotch is too short.
Who will feel uncomfortable?"
You know it yourself.”
By the time everything was ready, it was already the time when the golden crow was falling in the west and the old bird was returning to its nest.
In the twilight of dusk, the three of us entered the tunnel.
Shiry Yang was leading the way with a diamond umbrella and wolf eyes.
The fat man and I worked together to carry a lot of equipment packed in waterproof plastic bags and walked behind, slowly going down the slightly steep slope.
The tunnel at the entrance was obviously artificially built.
Both sides were lined with large green stones, and the seams between the stones were sealed with red paint.
The large square bricks on the ground were very smooth, rather like a corridor in an ancient tomb.
On both sides of the tunnel, there are neatly stacked whole elephant bones, which are the skeletons of entire elephants.
They were obviously slaughtered and transported outside.
The purpose of placing whole elephant bones or ivory in the burial pit is to capture the homophonic word "xiang" for elephant.
As early as the Shang and Tang Dynasties, elephant bones and tusks were used as burial objects, and a large number of ivory tusks were unearthed in the Yin Ruins.
These bones were deliberately half-buried, instead of being buried completely in the earth like the burial ditch.
This shows that the owner of the tomb wanted to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal, and no longer cared much about worldly things.
I counted and found that in this burial pit alone, there were sixty-four sets of whole elephant bones, and countless ivory tusks.
There are also some scattered small animal bones.
Due to the passage of time, they have become so decayed that it is no longer possible to tell what kind of animal they are.
According to Shirey Yang's inference, they may be hound and horse bones, as well as the human bones of slaves.
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We once again appreciated the scale of the king's tomb and the luxury of the funerary objects.
I said to Shiry Yang and Fatty: "The tombs of kings in small southern countries like Dian in ancient times are all so grand.
For one person, hundreds of thousands of people died."
Suffering from hanging upside down, in the end It's just a dream to ascend to heaven and become an immortal after death, and to protect the country for ten thousand years.
These things are left in the mountains and decay with the sun and the moon.
Now it seems ridiculous, built with the people's fat and the people's anointing.
There should be as many ancient tombs as there are.”
Shiryy Yang said: "I didn't expect that the burial pit of King Xian's Tomb alone would be so big."
As she was speaking, Shiryy Yang had already arrived at the intersection of the "╣" shaped tunnels, and she heard her wondering: "What are these for?"
Used" The fat man and I used our wolf-eye flashlights to shine at the corner.
We saw that the inside was not a tunnel, but just a recess in the stone wall.
It was only a few meters deep.
There were a few long poles scattered around.
It seemed that they could be connected together. of.
I also felt strange, so I wanted to reach out and pick them up to take a look.
Unexpectedly, these long poles rotted into mud as soon as they were touched.
Because of the underground water, things from two thousand years ago will rot at the touch of a touch.
This depression on the stone wall of the tunnel seemed to be specially used to place these long poles.
Could it be used to measure the depth of the water?
The three people were confused and couldn't figure out what it was used for.
When we reach the end of the tunnel, we are already about tens of meters above the ground.
From here on, it is no longer a manually excavated tunnel, but a natural cave underground.
There is no way to follow.
I want to continue to the tunnel from here.
Before that, you have to go into the water to swim.
There are several ancient wooden boats lined up on the water's edge.
People who went to Minglou to worship the king's tomb may have taken these boats.
However, over the years, these wooden boats have become rotten to the point where only their frames are left, and they are no longer usable.
We unzipped the air bag tied to the big backpack and let it fill with air and float on the water.
Weapons such as submachine guns were placed on top so they could be taken out for use at any time.
Put away the wolf-eye flashlight, turn on the tactical spotlight on the helmet, then follow him into the water, hold on to the large bag on the backpack, and wade through the water.
After walking more than ten meters into the water, my feet could no longer reach the ground.
The freezing cold underground water was getting deeper and deeper.
I looked at the compass and found that the direction of the water flow was parallel to the Worm Valley.
There are many huge natural stone pillars in the water, like corals on the seabed, with thousands of branches and branches.
Due to the darkness in the cave, it is not clear how these strange stone pillars were formed.
The roof of the cave was very low from the water, which made it look particularly depressing.
When I looked up, I saw that there were many huge roots of plants growing from above, and some even extended directly into the water, forming a rare plant cave roof.
The terrain gradually became lower, and the distance between the water surface and the cave roof gradually increased.
Breathing became much smoother than before, while the plant roots hanging above the head and those weird stone corals became increasingly dense.
There were some fish in the water, which would touch our bodies underwater from time to time, and then swim far away.
I was secretly glad that they were not piranhas.
In order to confirm the direction of advancement, Shiry Yang asked Fatty to take out the flare gun and fired a flare forward again.
Fatty counted the remaining flares: "There are eight more rounds.
This time I brought too few, so I have to take it easy."
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Use it."
After saying that, he loaded a round into the flare gun, adjusted the range, and fired it forward.
The flare drew a shining arc, and finally hung on the intertwined plant vines not far away.
At this moment, the white light illuminated the surrounding caves brightly, and a rare and terrifying natural landscape was presented to us. before.
It turns out that those coral-like stone pillars are fossils of trees from ancient times.
Fossils are ancient relics buried in the ground, formed by millions of years of sediment burial.
The most common ones are animal fossils, because animal bones and teeth have less organic matter and more inorganic matter.
After being buried by sand, they decay The degree of decay will slow down and be washed away by the slowly flowing groundwater in the silt gaps, which will precipitate the excess minerals and form crystals.
Before the bones completely decay, if the crystals of these minerals can completely replace the organic matter, they will form real fossils. .
But plant fossils are much rarer because plants decay much faster than animal bones.
Shiry Yang said excitedly: "Zhelong Mountain may have been a huge active volcano hundreds of millions of years ago.
During the last apocalyptic volcanic eruption, a debris flow occurred nearby, and the magma engulfed the forest at the foot of the mountain, which was destroyed by the high temperature in an instant.
The carbonized trees were immediately engulfed by the ensuing mudslides, and the temperature also cooled instantly. " After tens of millions of years, as the earth's crust sank and was repeatedly washed away by the underground water system, the forests that had been sealed in the sand for countless years were revealed underground again.
I didn't think there was anything strange about these stone trees.
I dug them out in Kunlun Mountain back then.
However, recently, Shiryyang has been looking worried, with a melancholy look on her face.
It was rare to see her happy, so she said to Shiryyang: "Although we were a little scared during our trip to Yunnan, we also saw some real mountains and rivers, and saw some things that ordinary people would never see in their lifetime.
It was a worthwhile trip and we gained a lot."
The fat man interjected: "Just looking at some broken stones would seem to be a fly in the ointment.
Then go back and touch a few earth-shattering artifacts, strike the golden tooth in Panjiayuan together with the grandsons, and then fight out of Panjiayuan and march into Liulichang.
That would be more like it."
It’s complete.”
Just as I was about to speak, the flare hanging in front of me ran out of energy and slowly dimmed.
The cave was pitch black again, leaving only the faint light of the tactical spotlights on our helmets.
I felt as if we were drifting in a black ocean, and there were only three of us alive in the world.
A sudden loneliness and depression spread throughout my whole body.
I feel very strange that I would feel this way.
In the process from light to darkness, I seemed to be hit by a weak electric current, and then I felt this inexplicable feeling of loss, and my mood suddenly became depressed.
I looked at Shiry Yang and Fatty.
They both seemed to feel that something was wrong, but how did this subtle change occur, what did it portend, and why did they suddenly feel panic?
At this time, the flare that was launched directly in front was finally completely extinguished.
However, we found that at the same time that the last ray of light of the flare completely disappeared, a faint white figure slowly appeared deep in the dark underground water.
Although the cave It was very dark, but the white light on the figure became clearer and clearer.
It seemed to be a female corpse covered in plain clothing.
She seemed to have floated over from the water.
As the female corpse got closer and closer to us, the frost-like face of the female corpse gradually became clearer.
My heart began to beat faster and my nightmare-like panic intensified
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