Archaeological Notes

Chapter 25 An Extra Person
In an instant, I felt the hairs all over my body stand on end, I was stubborn, my neck seemed to be made of iron and rusted, and I turned my head stiffly to look at my shoulder.In an instant, I didn't dare to move my whole body. If I wasn't in the water, I think I would have yelled loudly.

It was a person wearing a diving goggle lying on my head, and when I looked through it, I saw green hair all over the black-blue face inside, and the concept of "zombie?" suddenly appeared in my mind.The eyeballs in the clump of hair were all white, even the pupils were gone, and they just stared at me blankly.

I have never noticed it all the time, because most of everyone's face is covered by a diving mask, so when I distinguish people, I also judge them roughly based on their body shape.The first thing I realized was, could it be that brat with the inch head who unknowingly turned into a "hairy-faced monkey"?Thinking of this, I hurriedly looked at Niu Er on the side, and suddenly I felt a little uncomfortable, my scalp exploded, and my neck felt a little itchy.

Niu Er passed a rope through his armpit and tied it to his shoulder. At this moment, he was obediently lying on Niu Er's back, sleeping very skillfully.Seeing this, I almost lost my breath in fright, what the hell is that lying on top of me?Not one of the seven people present?Only then did I suddenly realize that there was one more person.

I complained incessantly, startled and frightened, thinking that your mother's legs are not good for anyone's back, and I must be obsessed with brother's expression.I don't care if it's three seven 21, four nine 36, as soon as I raised my elbow, I bumped back against the ghost lying on my back, flipped in the water and swam forward for several meters.After I settled down, I looked at the direction where I was leaning against the stone wall just now, and saw a person in similar attire as us, suspended in the water motionless.And at my place near the bottom of the waterway, I suddenly discovered that there was an irregular circular gap on the top surface of the stone brick where I was just now.

The waterproof miner's lamp with the back of the head was also hit at the entrance of the hole, obviously he saw it too, the moment I got rid of the ghost lying on my back just now, the people who just surrounded me to make suggestions may be out of scruples and unknown things Taking precautions, they all swam towards me at the same time, forming a fan-shaped row, looking at the extra person a few meters away.

I counted us subconsciously. Around me, there were me, Liu Maodi, Dabeitou, Huangmao, Shouzi, Niu Er and the comatose inchhead. There were exactly seven people, no more, no less. It seems that this The "uninvited guest" was indeed not among us.As soon as I regained my composure, I realized that it should be a corpse that had been dead for an unknown number of years, otherwise it wouldn't be motionless, and it would come out of nowhere to scare people.In addition, looking at the gap on the top, I also know why. The corpse may have rushed down from above and entered our waterway, but none of us noticed it at the time.

Since it is a dead person, there is nothing to be afraid of. At best, it is moldy and hairy.I took the lead, and a few people swam to the bottom of the gap. When hesitating whether to go in, they found that Dabeitou was still looking at the corpse not far away.I thought to myself that you don't have to worry about people and property to such an extent, do you?Could it be possible that you found a gold ingot from a dead body?Unexpectedly, Dabeitou waved to us and motioned us to see the hairy-faced corpse. I stared blankly for a while, only to feel that the corpse was gradually moving away from the direction we came from the waterway.Suddenly there was a flash of inspiration, and the whole body felt clear, and I couldn't help but understand what was going on.

The few of us living people, when we stopped, had to keep treading water in order to stabilize our figure in the water, but the dead bodies were naturally different, gradually moving away from us, indicating a problem. is fluid.I reached out and clasped the wall on one side, and suddenly felt my body move backwards involuntarily, and I grabbed a handful of black hair immediately. It turned out that everything was scaring ourselves, and there was no mystery in this waterway.If there is one, it is because of the uniform black hair on the stone walls around the waterway and the limitation of sightlines.When swimming forward, subconsciously, we are disgusted with those dark water hairs, we will not look at them, try to stay away from them and paddle ahead, so that the reference object will become very blurred, in fact, there is no one at all Will pay attention to these.In fact, the water is flowing against us, neither slow nor urgent. I estimate that this waterway is only three to four hundred meters long. In addition, we have repeatedly paused for breath, which made it impossible for us to reach the end.This is the same as taking an elevator in the opposite direction. You have to work several times to reach the end.

After figuring this out, the problem is easily solved, and the entanglement in my heart is gone.Just when the corpse was about to drift out of our sight, we didn't know what Dabeitou was thinking, or if there was something wrong with his body, he ignored us and swam straight to the corpse, spending nine hours. The strength of two tigers dragged the body back.At this time, the oxygen cylinders on our backs had reached the "zero point", and in my estimation, they could only last for more than ten minutes at most.

Dabei retrieved the corpse without daring to stay longer, and the seven of them finally swam into the gap at the top of the waterway after a lot of trouble.

The depth of the opening is not wide, about two or three meters long, and can only barely accommodate a person of medium build. As soon as it hits the top, a considerable part of the light will be eaten.I took the lead and climbed up the cave with my hands rubbing against the cave wall. It didn't take me much effort to poke my head out of the opening. I turned my head and looked around, and found that this was a waterway the size of a building's ventilation duct, but I clearly felt that it was not the same as the waterway. Compared with the channel below, the water flows in the opposite direction.

After I came up, I lay down at the entrance of the cave, and after pulling them up one by one, I felt cramped. The seven old men gathered together, and it was difficult to turn around.At this time, I saw Dabeitou pointing behind me, which was along the direction of the water flow. I knew that time did not allow us to delay, so I immediately turned around and crawled deep into the waterway.The six people behind me followed me, plus a dead body, which made people feel uncomfortable.I was always worried that I would become a thunderstorm again, and I was afraid that something strange might happen in the waterway ahead, but I never thought that I would climb all the way there without incident. I only climbed for eight or nine minutes, which is about 9 meters away. , a small stone slab appeared in front of it.

I swam over and pushed it lightly, and the stone slab fell down. Immediately, I saw an endless nothingness behind the stone slab, a piece of darkness, as if there was a big space.

I swam in immediately and was in it, only to find that it was the bottom of another deep pool, surrounded by dark water, boundless, with a hazy light above my head.The people behind also swam out of the waterway one by one. The corpse dragged by the big back was stuck. Several people came to help and took it out intact. As soon as I took a picture, I saw some fence-like things, which seemed to be buildings.A hazy piece of fog and shadow, not very clear.

Then Dabeitou waved the miner's lamp towards the top of the water pool, instructing us to float to the surface of the water. The seven of them were overjoyed and rushed to swim up.After rising to a height of more than ten meters, my head finally came out of the water. I took a deep breath and looked at the oxygen tank, and there was no oxygen left.

The seven people swam to the edge of the pool and saw a stone platform, so they climbed up it with great effort, took off their heavy equipment, and leaned against the stone wall to rest.After staying underwater for such a long time, the water pressure exerts a great force on the human body. I didn’t feel nervous all the way just now, but when I got ashore, I felt weak, and the few people started talking and laughing.In this way, you don't have to worry about money. The boy with yellow hair followed Dabeitou. He had a Chinese root in his mouth, and he distributed one to everyone.I took a sip and felt extremely comfortable, so I relaxed a little.

I inhaled one after another, and looked at the people present through the smoke I exhaled, and I probably had a bottom in my heart.Dabeitou and his group came all the way from Hong Kong, whether they want to make money or something else.I'm a businessman, I'm a businessman, I buy and sell antiques, and I can do business naturally. I don't know if I was tortured and brainwashed by those old teachers in the university, and I cherish the national cultural relics.Dabeitou came to Daxing'anling this time, listening to his accent, there were only three people who really brought him all the way from Hong Kong, one died on the way, and now there is an inchhead who has got something into his stomach and has not woken up.Only this guy named Huang Mao was left. I relied on my eyesight when I was tossing about antiques in Shenyang Road.Under the cynical appearance, it seems that he is trying his best to restrain his own strength, and he does his gestures just right, and his whole body always exudes a chilly aura.

The other two guys should be locals, nine out of ten are from the village.I asked Liu Maodi, and he said that Niu Er was from Shigui Village, but the skinny man was not. I asked him where he came from, but he said that the skinny man met him on the way, and that he was very familiar with the area of ​​Xing'an Mountains. brought him on.I glanced at the thin man out of the corner of my eye, and found that he was sitting a little distance away from us, his eyes were covered by his hair, he was leaning against the wall coldly, not saying a word.

And I am most guarded against the back of the head. This person is not simple. In addition to being ruthless in doing things, he is extremely utilitarian, and he has a gun in his hand. In short, he must be on guard.When I looked over, I found that he was instructing Niu Er to drag the corpse found in the waterway to the shore.The whole journey was dragged with his back on his back, and he didn't think the corpse was a burden, which showed its importance to him.Based on this, after I analyzed it, I stood up and looked at the corpse.

In fact, the whole body has been rotten beyond recognition, and only the skeleton is left. If it weren't for the diving mask on the face, the face would have disappeared long ago.Judging from the body shape, it should be an adult male corpse, with a diving suit on his body, which is the same as ours. It has been rotten into strips, and only the fur jacket inside is still tough.After being dragged ashore, Niu Er turned him over, cheerfully took off the oxygen bottle on the corpse's back, and found that there was still more than half of the bottle of oxygen left in the bottle. When I saw the label on it, it actually said "Made in Hong Kong".

The way this person died was a bit bizarre, and it can be said that it was unreasonable. They gathered together to watch for a while, and then began to chatter: "Oh! Let me tell you, how long has this person been dead?" Niu Er ask.

Huang Mao shook his head, "I can't say for sure, but depending on the material of the clothes, it's probably from the past few years."

After thinking about it, I felt strange, and couldn't help saying: "I feel that this person's death is a bit strange. In the narrow water channel above, he swam to the end, but he still died in it. And the oxygen tank There is still anger inside, if it is impossible to go back the same way, why is there such an inexplicable way of death?"

Huang Mao's eyes were fixed on the corpse on the ground, and his eyes seemed to flicker: "There can only be one explanation, that is, he died in that waterway for some other reason, and we may find out after examining the corpse. "

The big-backed head here took a pair of gloves from a mountaineering bag, and refused to let Huang Mao and the others help. He half-kneeled on the ground by himself, and began to tear the clothes on the chest of the male corpse with both hands, because they were so shredded. The paper was almost done, and the back of the head didn't take much effort, and suddenly tore off the top of the corpse, we immediately felt that something was wrong.

The chest cavity of the male corpse was actually empty, and a washbasin-sized hole appeared in the abdomen, and the viscera inside had been emptied long ago.Brother Liu Mao shook his head when he saw it, "Why did he die like this, his stomach was torn to pieces, it's bloody dead."

The others at the scene didn't speak. They looked at the corpse with their heads turned, and they didn't know what they were thinking. Seeing him so urgent, I was very curious.Sure enough, after searching for a while, he was suddenly overjoyed, and excitedly pulled out a piece of bean skin-like thing from the corpse's close-fitting clothes.

It is actually a piece of parchment, which is waterproof and wear-resistant, and is generally used to record confidential and important matters.Dabei slowly picked up the piece of paper, being extremely careful, lest it might be damaged in time.I noticed a detail, his hands were shaking.

(End of this chapter)