Archaeological Notes

Chapter 23
Being underwater, the limitations are very great, and you can't see what's going on around you. The miner's lamp with your head on your back forms a circular light area with a range of five meters.There are a total of seven people including me, try to cover ourselves in this area, because once you swim to a place where you can't see your fingers, there is a high possibility of dangerous situations, and it will not be worthwhile.

The scene at the bottom of the pool is very similar to a tomb. I guess it was not soaked in water at first, but it may have been caused by serious water seepage, which led to the formation of such a pool.We dived to the bottom of the pool, and there were some tomb bricks and dilapidated stone statues under our feet, and an extremely weird coffin with hair appeared in the middle.The few people looked at each other silently, but the big back swam straight to the other side, and we hurriedly followed him.

After swimming about five or six meters away, under the light of the high-power miner's lamp on the back of the head, a stone door appeared on the opposite stone wall, made of white marble, covered with moss and snails, which made people's skin crawl.There is a pillar on each side of the door, and some patterns of fish and birds are carved on it, which is not very complicated.However, what is more eye-catching is that beside the two pillars, there are two stone-carved tomb beasts standing respectively.

I know that tomb-slayer beasts are very common to see in ancient tombs. It has always been popular in ancient tombs. It is a kind of ghost set up to deter ghosts and protect the souls of the dead from being disturbed.But these two tomb beasts are different from the ones I have seen before. They give people a strange feeling, like an unknown animal. On the huge head, there is a human face and a mouth. Zhang was the boss, as if he was shouting.

Wearing a mask on the head, I couldn't see the expressions on the faces of the rest of the people clearly, but I could clearly feel that those guys were also quite jealous of this thing and didn't dare to get too close.Fortunately, Dabeitou didn't care about this thing. He swam to the stone gate that was as high as three people and called us over.When I got closer, I saw that the stone door was tightly closed, with only a finger-wide gap in the middle, and Dabeitou seemed to want to go in.

With such a narrow gap in the door, it is unlikely that there is such a thing as a natural stone behind it. Moreover, the natural stone originated in the Ming Dynasty but flourished in the Qing Dynasty, so it was impossible to have it at that time.Moreover, this kind of double-fan tomb door structure is not like the stone door with one upper and lower body. After being closed, there is a high probability that it can be opened from the outside.Dabeitou also seemed to understand some of the doorways, gestured, and we spread out, looking for every corner one by one, to see if there was anything unusual.

The study of ancient cultural relics is my occupational disease. I turned around and found nothing unusual, so I swam back to the tomb door and studied the snails on it. It seemed that it was a painting. , it seems not.They were still looking for Dabeitou. I thought about it for a while, but there was no result. I couldn't be idle because of my feelings, so I wanted to turn around and see if there was anything strange about the pillars behind me.

Beside the pillar is a tomb beast, its big backed head pushed the light away, and the darkness in front of it couldn't be melted away. All I could see was Liu Maodi standing in front of the human-faced beast, slowly waving his arms and twisting his buttocks. twisted.I was secretly surprised, thinking what the hell are you doing, dancing disco in front of the stone statue?

After staring blankly for a few seconds, I finally came back to my senses. Due to the high resistance in the water, all body movements became slow motion. Maybe Liu Maodi was not scratching his head and posing there, maybe he was right!I hurriedly swam over and patted the big back. Seeing that he was still lying on the stone wall looking at the cracks in the bricks, I immediately motioned him to shine the light on the tomb beast, and gestured to him that something might be wrong with Liu Maodi.

The big back folded the lamp knowingly, and I realized how serious the situation was. Somehow, a black tongue protruded from the mouth of the man-faced beast, entwined tightly around it. On Liu Maodi's neck, he was about to roll his eyes and burp!

Dabeitou covered the lamp bowl with his hand and let go, several times in a row, this was the agreed signal, and the other four guys saw the sudden change of the light, and hurriedly gathered to swim here.Seeing Brother Liu Mao clasping his neck with his hands, struggling desperately, Qi Qi was dumbfounded.I saw that he was about to die, so I immediately swam behind him, put my arms around his waist, and tugged on the "tongue".

Now those people also reacted, swam behind me and hugged in a series, and pulled back with all their might.Unexpectedly, the tongue in the mouth of the human-faced beast is like a thick rubber band, and it is difficult to use force in the water, so it can't be pulled out at all.I saw Brother Liu Maodi's struggle getting slower and slower, and I gritted my teeth and didn't care about it. I thought to myself that you had saved me before anyway, so this time it's a return of your favor.So he walked around to Liu Maodi, took a risk, reached out and grabbed the black tongue, kicked the stone statue firmly with both feet, leaned back, and pulled back desperately in the shape of "one".

That tongue is soft, although it is surprisingly strong, but there is a place for me to leverage on my foot, thinking I can't stop pulling you?Sure enough, this time there was a turning point, suddenly a cloud of ink-like mist spewed out from the mouth of the man-faced beast, and the tongue was pulled out forcefully by me under my best efforts, entangled The part around Liu Maodi's neck immediately loosened.

As soon as I saw the cloud of black mist attacking my face, I knew that this thing might be poisonous, so it was better to avoid it. I kicked hard at the stone statue with both feet, and my body immediately slid back two or three meters.When I looked up, I saw a black light and shadow flashing past in front of my eyes. I followed it and found that it was a strangely long snake covered with black scales, but its abdomen was full of fins. Like a loach, it sank into the darkness with a swish, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Those guys had already helped Liu Maodi up. I swam over to take a look, and found that he was sluggish. The situation was not optimistic, and he couldn't stay underwater any longer.After Dabeitou's consent, a few guys stayed at the bottom of the pool, and I sent Liu Maodi back to the ground for him to relax.The density of the human body is the same as that of water, and it can drag a person in the water by pulling his hair. It didn't take much effort, and he floated up and lifted Liu Maodi out of the water.

A small fire had been lit on the land, burning all the food wrapping paper, and there was a scorching smell. The old woman was sitting beside to keep warm, and she also helped me when I brought Liu Maodi up. There was no redundant expression on his old face.He didn't ask me anything, just untied Liu Maodi's clothes and let him lie flat.Seeing that Liu Maodi's life was safe, I didn't bother to say anything to the old woman. I went back to the pool and was about to go into the water, but she stopped me.

"You bastard, why don't you understand anything? It's not about your family, so you need to be so desperate? The wrinkles on her face are crowded together, and she smiles so ugly." Tell me, Why are you here? "

I trembled in my heart, thinking that the old woman might see that I was like a stunned young man, walking along with the scar, maybe I didn't know anything, I was just a boy.She didn't want to talk to her at first, but she said again: "Are you looking for something in this tomb?"

I heard some meaning in these words, and thought that maybe this dead old woman knew a lot, so she pretended to say: "Man dies for money, and birds die for food. Isn't life in this world just for money? Isn't it for other purposes?" here?"

"Hey!" The old woman laughed twice, "You still think that your elder brother is here to make money?"

She was referring to the scar, and I continued to pretend to be stupid: "Isn't it?"

She laughed even harder now, her drooping eyelids squeezed her eyes away, "Of course not, what shall we (bet)?"

I said that I was just a boy who only cared about money and didn’t know anything else, but she shook her head when she heard that: “Everyone’s purpose in this fight may be different, but it’s not for money.”

She always spoke in a secretive way, and I was very unhappy. When I was thinking about whether to talk to him again, my eyes swept away, but I saw the place where my clothes were piled up. It seemed a little abnormal.I walked over and saw that the clothes seemed to have been turned over by someone, and the buttons were crooked, and there was no one else here, so it was obviously the old woman who made it.

I didn't want to argue with her either, I just glanced at her, unexpectedly the old woman was neither humble nor overbearing, she opened her mouth to reveal her dark mouth, and asked me again: "Did San'er give you anything?"

Immediately, I understood again, the old woman was going around, still keeping the meaning of the three sentences, wanting to know what squinted three gave me.I didn't answer him directly, but changed my mind and asked: "Who are you? Why are you asking me this?"

She closed her eyes and replied, "He is my son, and he has also come to the ancient tomb this time. He wants you to give me something."

As soon as she said this, I felt that it was not difficult to understand. Slanting Eyes San might have become a ghost in the village, and thought of entrusting that thing to me on the spur of the moment.Later, he fled back to Daxing'an Mountains. The old woman did not know how to save him, but the whole person became crazy.It was him that I met in the basement of the cabin that night, but he had no impression of me at all, and he couldn't remember the past, so he went crazy and wanted to kill everyone with a chainsaw.

Thinking of this, I breathed a sigh of relief: "I didn't bring that thing this time."

But what I never expected was that as soon as I said these words, the old woman suddenly opened her eyes, stared wide open, and asked happily: "What is it?"

Seeing her acting so uncharacteristically, I was baffled at first, and then suddenly realized, no!This damn old woman is trying to trick me, if Slanting Eyes San really asks her to take back that "little golden coffin", she won't even know what it is.At worst, I would ask "What is it pretending to be?", instead of asking blindly, I suddenly realized, no good!I missed the point.

I didn't know how to answer her for a while, if I denied that Slanting Eyes had nothing in my hand, she would definitely not believe it, so I had to evade: "Since he also came to this tomb, you let me see it." His people, I will hand them over to him face to face."

She immediately became a little anxious, and when she was about to say something to me again, there was a splash in the pool behind me, and a head poked out. It was the guy with the big back, called "inch head".Seeing that I was still moaning, he frowned in displeasure: "My elder brother told you to go down, don't delay."

Cuntou went ashore with both hands, opened the bag and took out the crowbar, and handed me a few, saying that it would be useful for the next step.This was exactly what I wanted, and I didn't want to babble with the old woman, so I quickly bit my respirator, followed by Cuntou and dived into the water again, when I was about to get down to the bottom of the pool, I saw Dabeitou and the remaining three men, surrounded The coffin covered with black hair seemed to be planning something.

I sneaked up to them, gestured and asked what to do next, but the big back said that there was something wrong with the coffin and wanted to pry it open to have a look.After I analyzed his intention, it was unreasonable, because I searched in front of the stone gate just now and found no breakthrough, and the coffin was placed here randomly, which seems very strange from any angle.

The guy with the broken head was obviously pushed on by me, and he sent me off honestly, so he ordered us to stand with the crowbar, while he kept a certain distance from the coffin.It can be seen that this man is a master with a strong sense of self. When he rescued Brother Liu Mao, all the guys got their hands on it, and he was the only one who stared blankly.Now he did this again, only helping us to turn on the miner's lamp, and waved his arm, indicating that we can do it.

The coffin in front of us should be a sarcophagus. The black fur-like thing on it fell off as soon as you wiped it with your hands. It may be caused by the black sticky substance on Tess.The five people inserted the crowbar into the gap in the sarcophagus one after another, and slowly pressed it down, gradually the coffin lid was slowly pried up.

Now I've learned how to be good, I'm prepared for everything, I'm on guard against sudden changes, and I don't dare to use strong force when exerting force.I didn't expect that the short-haired guy next to me, who was young and energetic, was a little frizzy when doing things. He exerted all his strength and almost missed the respirator on his mouth, so he slammed down the crowbar and pressed it so hard. However, the coffin lid at his corner could not be pried up.And because the coffin was made of stone, it had been soaked in water for so many years, so it was too hard and brittle, but he used brute force to pry one corner of it to pieces, exposing a hole the size of a fist.

Cun Tou was taken aback for a moment, he probably didn't expect that, with his mouth opened, the respirator fell off.Only then did he think of grabbing it with his hands, but it was too late, we were all unprepared, and no one could have expected the development of the next thing, and a terrible scene appeared.

For some reason, in a blur, I saw a big intestine-like worm popping out of the small hole that Cun Tou pried out with a "swish", shot out quickly, and burrowed into Cun Tou's mouth like lightning. !

(End of this chapter)