Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 29 The Ancient Pagoda Standing Upside Down Underwater (2)
Gu Meidi said to himself: "It may be that the wind and sand here are too strong, the sun is too strong, and the climate is too dry. Our eyes are not used to it."

After packing up our things, we ate a hearty breakfast in the hotel restaurant, then hired a taxi and headed straight to the pier.

Before leaving the ship, Professor Ye installed a sonar detector on the bow. We asked him what he did for installing the sonar detector. Professor Ye explained: "The sonar detector is a kind of sound wave that uses the propagation characteristics of sound waves under water. Through electro-acoustic conversion and Information processing, electronic equipment to complete underwater detection and communication tasks. We don’t know anything about the waters below the cave. If we rush into the water, I’m afraid it will be bad luck, so I bought this sonar detector specially to detect waters In the strange world below, try to minimize the danger."

After half a day of sailing, we entered the Yellow River Cave again.This time we carried advanced modern weapons on our bodies, so we naturally had more confidence in our hearts, and we were not as scared as we were when we entered the cave for the first time.

After the tin boat entered the cave, Professor Ye slowly put the black sonar detector into the water.There is a data cable on the sonar detector, and the data cable is connected to a laptop computer.The sonar detector continuously emits sound waves underwater, and then converts the sound waves into three-dimensional information images and displays them on the computer screen.This allows us to sit in the cabin and see the underwater scene intuitively from the computer.

A line image of different heights and shapes appeared on the screen. Professor Ye said, "Did you see it? These lines show the rocks at the bottom of the water!"

Gu Meidi pointed to the small red dots in the middle of the rocks and said, "Then what are these moving red dots?"

I interjected, "Hey, isn't that simple? In my opinion, these red dots are fish swimming at the bottom."

Professor Ye nodded appreciatively, "Smart!"

After entering the second cave, a large area of ​​gray-white shadows appeared on the screen. Those shadows were floating at the bottom of the water, surrounding the iron boat, looking like ghosts from the bottom of the water, which was creepy.

Gu Meidi asked anxiously again: "This... what is this thing? It can't be a resentful spirit, right?"

I said, "Don't be suspicious there, there are no ghosts. I think these gray and white shadows seem to be... like those floating corpses, which are what the locals call water floaters."

Professor Ye looked at me, "Tuobagu, I agree with you, I also think these gray-white shadows are floating corpses at the bottom of the water."

The iron boat chugs towards the center of the pool, and when it comes under the black coffin, Grandpa turns off the engine.

Professor Ye took out three waterproof backpacks from the cabin, handed two of them to Gu Meidi and me, and said in a deep voice, "Get ready to go into the water!"

Grandpa asked, "Why don't you have my backpack?"

Professor Ye said, "Old man, you stay on the boat."

Grandpa said: "Why don't you let me go into the water with you? Do you think I'm a burden?"

Professor Ye patiently explained: "Old man, where are you talking? We must leave one person on board to respond. In addition to guarding the ship, we must also observe the detector on it. Once danger is found, the information will be sent to the We, so your position is very important, the lives of the three of us are in your hands, do you understand?"

Grandpa scratched his head embarrassingly, "Got it! Got it!"

Just as we were changing our diving suits, Gu Meidi suddenly pointed at the computer screen and yelled, "Oh my God! Come and take a look! What's under the water?"

We moved over curiously, and saw a three-dimensional pattern in the shape of an inverted awl appearing in the center of the screen. Around this inverted awl-shaped pattern, there are twelve rays extending outward, and the end of each ray is an oval. black circle.

I was surprised and said, "Couldn't this be an alien spaceship?"

Gu Meidi hit my head hard, "I think you look like an alien!"

I held my painful head, "Then what do you think it is?"

Gu Meidi held his chin and said thoughtfully: "I think this thing looks like an octopus."

Professor Ye looked at us disappointedly, "Your imaginations are really rich!"

At this time, grandpa suddenly said: "What about aliens and octopuses, isn't this a pagoda?"

What?pagoda?This inverted cone-shaped three-dimensional pattern turned out to be a pagoda!
I suddenly realized that since Grandpa was standing facing us, the image on the screen was upside down when looking at the computer screen from the angle he was standing.Yeah, why didn't we think about turning the image upside down?

As soon as I thought about it, I quickly turned the computer upside down to watch it.As grandpa said, the inverted cone-shaped pattern really looks like a pagoda.We looked at each other, is there really a pagoda under the pool?And this pagoda is still upside down?God!How is this possible?This completely subverts the imagination of architecture.What are those twelve rays and twelve oval black circles?It seems that there are indeed many secrets buried under this waters that we don't know.

We were both surprised and excited by the discovery of ancient pagodas under the water. Even though there are many dangers under the waters, we have no hesitation to go for it.We quickly changed into our diving suits, and put folding engineering shovels, submachine guns, cold light sticks and other things into the waterproof backpack one by one.Then they put on a fluorescent waterproof watch on their wrists. This kind of watch is specially designed for underwater use. In addition to the compass, it can also display water depth and water pressure.

Professor Ye taught us a few simple underwater gestures, because we cannot speak underwater, and the team members can only communicate with each other through sign language.We put on diving fins, each carried an oxygen cylinder, diving goggles and an oxygen mask.At the same time, we also plugged a micro-communicator into our ears, and the grandfather who stayed on the boat can directly transmit information to us through this communicator.

After everything was ready, we came to the side of the boat, climbed the side of the boat, and slowly slid into the water.

The icy river water surrounded us. Fortunately, we were wearing very high-end diving suits, which had the function of preventing cold and keeping warm, otherwise we would probably be frozen to death.The world below the waters is pitch black, and we seem to have fallen into a strange world without boundaries.It was eerily quiet all around, we could only hear our own heavy breathing.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
We turned on the underwater searchlights above our heads one after another, and three snow-white beams were intertwined, like three bright knives, cutting through the thick darkness.Although the surroundings became a little brighter, the searchlights could only project a distance of ten meters underwater at most, and it was still as dark as thick ink ten meters away.

We slowly swam towards the water, and plankton kept floating past our eyes. I looked down at my waterproof watch, which showed that we had dived nearly 20 meters underwater.Grandpa's voice came from the ear, "Attention! Attention! You are close to the ancient tower, everything is normal now! Everything is normal!"

As soon as Grandpa's words fell, things under the water had already appeared in front of us.Our guess is not wrong. Under this water area, there is actually an ancient pagoda standing upright, and this ancient pagoda is actually standing upside down on the bottom of the water, like an awl inserted upside down.Most of the ancient pagoda is wrapped in thick darkness, and it is impossible to see its whole picture.Even so, we still feel very grand when we see such a strange building under the water.It is like a giant lurking in the bottom of the water. After thousands of years of vicissitudes, it still exudes shocking brilliance.

We held our breath and quickly swam towards the ancient pagoda.Getting closer, we found that this is an ancient octagonal pagoda. The ancient pagoda is built with blue-gray stone bricks. Iron juice should be poured between the stone gaps to prevent the ancient pagoda from seeping.Eight Buddha statues about one meter high are carved on the eight corners of the ancient pagoda, which has a distinctive Xixia architectural style.At that time, the Xixia Dynasty believed in Buddhism, and Daxing Buddhist buildings, many of which were engraved with sculptures or patterns of Buddha statues.

What surprised us even more was that at the bottom of this ancient pagoda, there were twelve unusually strong bronze chains connected.There was a dark green light on the chain, like twelve blue dragons lurking at the bottom of the water.One end of the chain runs through the bottom of the ancient tower, and the other end is hidden in the darkness.Looking down from the top, it looks like a huge spider web spreading out on the bottom of the water, and we are the worms walking on the spider web.

I suddenly remembered the twelve rays on the screen image, I was startled, and then I realized that the twelve rays were the twelve bronze chains, and the twelve ovals connected to the other end of the chains What would the black circle be?

Professor Ye made a gesture to us, then turned around and followed one of the chains to swim towards the edge of the pool.We knew that Professor Ye was going to take us to solve the mystery of the oval black circle, so we quickly followed Professor Ye and swam forward.

After swimming for 30 meters, we came to the end of the bronze chain. To our surprise, the end of the bronze chain turned out to be an oval cave with a height of one person. Oval black circle.

The dark cave was like a monster's mouth, as if it might swallow us up at any moment.Professor Ye swam to the front of the cave first, and the beam of the underwater searchlight shot into the cave, and the scene in the cave appeared in front of our eyes.

God!

If it weren't for being unable to speak under the water, we might have exclaimed.There was a black tortoise coffin standing upright in this cave. We went up to take a closer look and found that this tortoise coffin was exactly the same as the two tortoise coffins we had seen before.With the protection of the turtle shell, this yin wood coffin can survive thousands of years underwater.

Apart from the tortoise coffin, there is nothing else in the cave.Next, we observed several caves in a row. Without exception, all the caves were filled with tortoise coffins made of yin wood. The tortoise coffins were bound by bronze chains and connected to the ancient tower in the center.Twelve caves and ten tortoise coffins, like loyal guards, have been waiting here for thousands of years.

We found two empty caves one after another. We analyzed that this may be due to high tide, under the impact of strong water, the bronze chains fell off, and the tortoise coffin in the cave was also washed away by the water.

After figuring out the structure of the building under the water, we swam back to the inverted ancient tower again.Now we can be [-]% sure that this is the source of the Yinmu turtle coffin.The tortoise coffin, the eyeball tattoo, and the thousand-year mysteries of the Xixia Dynasty may all be hidden in this inverted ancient pagoda.

Although in the silent underwater, I can still hear my excited heartbeat clearly.The secret of the Xixia Dynasty that has been kept dust for thousands of years, it seems that it will soon surface.Perhaps our exploration and discovery during this trip will bring unprecedented sensation to the archaeological world, and we will also become a star figure in the archaeological world, and will be enthusiastically sought after and highly praised by the industry.Thinking of this, I couldn't help speeding up my dive.

(End of this chapter)