Daomu Biji

This giant hand was gray-white in color and was buried under a pile of boulders. One finger alone was as thick as my thigh. The fingers were twisted unnaturally, as if they were trying to grab something.

I was startled, thinking that the legendary giant appeared, and I almost fainted. But I immediately discovered something was wrong. It turned out that the nails and fingers of this giant hand were the same color. .

Immediately, I immediately discovered that this giant hand was not "meat", but carved from stone. However, his carving technique was too realistic, and it would only be mistaken for a real giant hand under insufficient light. .

However, despite this, I couldn't help but laugh. This stone hand was so uncanny in its craftsmanship and the carving was so lifelike that even if we looked at it from a close distance, the scene would still be terrifying and cold sweat would break out on our heads.

It feels like you are in a wax museum and you know the wax figures are fake, but you still feel like they are looking at you.

This hand was pressed into the pile of rubble, and it probably fell down as the rocks above collapsed. I looked up, and sure enough I saw a place on the top of the cliff where the rocks were loose, but the entire mountain tilted, forming a It's a blind spot and I can't see the actual situation.

Lao Itch was impatient, and before I could see clearly, he had already climbed up carelessly. I followed him and lay down on the cliff, moving along the slope little by little, and soon climbed to the place where the collapse occurred.

I originally thought that the top was a statue of a god or something, which would naturally collapse due to old disrepair. When I got to the top, I discovered that it was actually a bust carved according to the mountain. The chest to the head had been blown off several times. , only one hand and half a shoulder can be distinguished. But based on these parts, I can't tell what this statue is. I only found that the person who carved this statue has a unique style. The remaining parts of the statue are almost all carved according to real people, so what he carved must not be Things like Buddha statues require artistic exaggeration. As for who they are, I can't figure out who they are.

In the middle of the collapse, a dark hole the size of a blue ball was blown out. I took a flashlight and looked inside, and found that there was a huge space inside. There might be a large part of the mountain behind that was hollow.

My intuition tells me that there may be an ancient tomb behind this huge stone statue, but I don’t know where the master is, but he has already walked into it. Generally speaking, I can’t think of building a tomb in a place like this. , is definitely not an ordinary person, but someone who can defeat all the fights in a place like this is a master among masters. An ordinary tomb robber, even if he blindly walks hundreds of times in this Jiazi ditch, he will never think of it. There is something else going on above your head.

After thinking about it, Lao Itch and I decided to go in and take a look, learn from the master's methods, and see if there was anything left. He was relatively thin, so he crawled into the hole with his head. The hole was located high inside, and his feet I couldn't step on it, so I had to stick it to the wall. I handed him the flashlight and he took a photo.

Said: "**, there is water inside."

I poked my head in and saw that inside was a vaulted stone chamber, which was dug out. Below was green stagnant water, I don't know how deep it was. This should be when it rained, the rainwater flowed in through the hole and accumulated.

Lao Itch told me that the place did not collapse when he came here last time. Based on this calculation, this work should still be done in the past three years. Three years is not short, but it is too deep to accumulate Water is also unlikely.

I didn't agree, and it was better for him to be careful. Lao Qi took advantage of his good water properties and jumped down as soon as he let go. The water suddenly reached his chest. He was startled and almost slipped.

I looked at La Tongue and realized that the water was too deep, so I asked him, "How about you step on the bottom of the water? Is it mud or stone?"

Lao Itch said: "It's a stone, flat ground. Damn it, this water is really cold."

I took out the tarpaulins from both backpacks, wrapped the backpacks, gave one to him, and carried the other on my own, and then carefully slipped into the water. Immediately, a cold air came from the soles of my feet. It came up and made me shiver with cold.

But as soon as I stepped on the bottom of the water, I felt relieved. The bottom was very flat and it wouldn't take much effort to walk on it. If it was mud, it would be troublesome. There would be a hole for each foot. Not only would it be difficult to walk, but you might also fall into it. Danger of pitfalls.

Because I didn’t expect to work in the water beforehand and didn’t prepare any equipment to deal with it, we only walked inside with a flashlight. After walking a few steps, we saw a short stone door opened on the innermost stone wall. Here There is almost no decoration in the entire design. It can be said that holes are dug for the sake of digging holes. This is definitely not the excavation method of a mausoleum. I looked around and had a vague idea in my mind.

The short stone door was so short that you had to lower your head to get in. The water had to reach our necks. The water had not circulated for a long time and gave off a strange smell. It was a bit disgusting to be so close. I stopped. , I want to ask Lao Itchy for his opinion. After all, we came here just to take a look. This road is so uncomfortable, and I don’t want to continue.

Unexpectedly, Lao Chu was in high spirits. Without thinking, he slouched into the low door and asked me to follow him. I didn't want to ruin his interest, so I had no choice but to follow him.

There was a stone path inside the short door, which was completely dark. Wherever we scanned with our flashlights, we saw blue-gray stone walls with white flowers. They were chipped and chiseled in the same random manner, with almost no sign of repair. We walked more than ten meters inside, and suddenly, The stone path turned at a right angle of 90 degrees. I looked at it with my flashlight and found that it was frighteningly deep inside. I couldn't help but stop and didn't dare to go in rashly.

In fact, under the current situation, it would be unwise to go further in. The water is so deep and you can't see what's going on in the water. It's a bit scary. If something comes out of the water later, Even a piece of wood can scare me half to death.

Lao Itch felt a little guilty when he saw how deep it was. He scratched his head and couldn't make up his mind. We leaned to one side and illuminated it with a lamp while discussing what to do next.

Lao Itch looked at the surrounding stone walls and asked me: "Have you noticed that although this tomb is quite big, it is very roughly repaired. How do people see the stubble on these stones? Each one is uglier than the other, and it has not been repaired at all. I heard that in the Tang Dynasty If a mountain is built into a mausoleum, could this be the tomb of the Tang Dynasty?"

I said, "You only know one thing but not the other. What is a mountain? That means hollowing out the entire mountain and filling it with rooms several feet high. There are still stone slabs and bricks inside." There are tiles, so you can’t be careless at all. There are also huge sealing stones in all the passages, which need to be pulled by horses. Look here, the strange rocks are jagged, it’s just like an air defense edge. I think this may not be a stone tomb. "

When Lao Chu heard this, he quickly asked: "No, please don't deceive me."

I looked at his look and found it funny, and said: "I am just making a guess. You have to walk in to know whether it is specific. But according to my experience, this is not an ancient tomb, but an ancient mine. This may be a mine tunnel." , go further in, and if you see a deep well that goes straight down to the ground, you can’t go wrong.”

When I said this, I realized something was wrong. It was full of water. Even if there was something deep under the water, we couldn't see it even if we wanted to.

After hearing what I said, Lao Itch found it very boring and asked me if there would be any good things in the ancient mines. I shook my head. The jade ore and gemstones in the ancient mines are very rare now, so if I can find the remnants You can't finish all the mineral veins in a few lifetimes, but due to special reasons, ancient mines are a taboo in the bucket, and you can't just go in. My grandfather also dug ancient mines, and every time he walked back. When you come out, you have to leave a mark on the opening to warn others who come after you. My grandfather said that if you treat the ancient mine as an ancient tomb, you will most likely die inside.

Lao Itch listened to my words and was a little unconvinced, so he said, "I don't believe it. This mine can be more dangerous than the ancient tomb? Are there any rice dumplings in here? Is there anything dangerous about it?"

I thought the same as him at first, but after thinking about it, I felt that the rules of my ancestors still made sense, because the mines in ancient times were mined across dynasties, and the mines in the Tang Dynasty might not be opened until the Ming Dynasty. Finally, the mining methods of each dynasty are different, such as single-entry, winding, and opposite digging, so the structure in the cave can often be complicated to the point of adding more complex structures. If you go a little deeper, you can Get lost in it, don't talk about going in to find veins of minerals.

Moreover, to put it more mysteriously, most of the miners in ancient times were prisoners. They worked hard and had no medical care, so the mortality rate was very high. There was usually a place where the dead were buried in the mines, called a direct burial pit, where the dead were piled up. There are layers upon layers, so the ancient mine is a more unlucky place than the ancient tomb. Think about it, if the direct burial shaft was opened on the corpse raising ground, then the whole dozen underneath might be black-haired rice dumplings. What a spectacular sight it is to jump out.

Lao Itch thought about it carefully and felt that my analysis was quite reasonable, and said: "In this case, let's try to be a hero, or retreat. Besides, we don't know what kind of mine this is now. If it's a broken iron Mine, then all your hard work will be in vain, but having said that. Old Wu, can you tell what this mine is for? If it is a jade mine, let's note it down and come back later."

I know very little about ancient jade, which is why I don’t do much business. However, in front of Lao Itch, I still have to maintain the image of an expert. He said: "The term 'jade' in ancient China is very confusing. Except for nephrite, Jadeite also includes crystal, agate, serpentine, white marble, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. However, there are only a few places where jade has been produced since ancient times, such as Hotan in Xinjiang, Dushan in Henan, Xiuyan in Liaoning, and Lantian in Shaanxi. Only here is there no jadeite. , you see, although the rock color here is green, there are white flowers in the green, it should be a copper mine."

Lao Itch was very disappointed, and all my high spirits were finally suppressed. Once a person loses his goal, all kinds of unfavorable factors will be greatly magnified. He immediately started to cry and became cold. When he said that, I also felt the water. The biting cold was beyond what I could bear. We adjusted our equipment and headed back the way we came.

Just when we passed the turning point again, we heard several dull sounds of water coming from the darkness behind, as if something was sneaking in the water.

I grabbed Lao Chu's hand and turned the flashlight in his hand to the direction of the sound of water. Immediately, I saw a huge dorsal fin sinking into the water instantly, and at the same time, a triangular water mark appeared on the water. , swam towards us.

Before I knew what it was, Lao Chi slapped my hand away and shouted, "Run!"