Archaeological Notes

Chapter 27
When I heard Dabeitou's words, the one with the short head was dead or alive, he was extremely indifferent, and pointed out that he had a plan to go down to the pool.For this kind of old-fashioned ruthless character, you can't guess what his next plan will be, and the plan will never keep up with the changes.I think it is possible that Dabeitou went down to the pool this time because of those fence-like things at the bottom of the pool. To be honest, I am also very curious in my heart and want to see what those things are.

We picked up a big deal. The oxygen cylinders left behind by the previous expedition team that entered this ancient tomb undoubtedly created excellent conditions for us.The six of them were honest and blunt, one of them dragged one to his back, and tidied up his outfit. Liu Maodi couldn't wait long ago, and said carelessly: "Let's stop wasting time here, the inch-cut brother is not us. Abandoned him, but he abandoned us. Go down and have a look, maybe you can get a whole body."

Huang Mao snorted softly, and didn't care about Brother Liu Mao's obvious desire to go down to the pool to have a look, but he said it so grandly. "You boy, don't talk nonsense if you don't know how to speak? If you want to follow our elder brother to see, just say it clearly, there is no need to make such a twist." After saying that, he put on the diving mask and waved for everyone to put it on. Liu Maodi said in embarrassment He smiled and said nothing more.

Dabeitou left a lot of parcels and materials on our square stone platform, explaining that they will still come up after the explanation, so that everyone can cheer up 12 points, don't be careless and reckless, and follow the instructions in all actions.The other five of us naturally nodded after hearing this, and then put on the mask with the big back, hugged the large waterproof miner's lamp, bit the respirator and went down into the pool. Followed by one by one under the water.

After entering this pool, everything is different, the main thing is the feeling, you can’t see anything in the front, back, left, and right, and the chaos is covered in darkness. I took a few mouthfuls of oxygen, and I still felt the inside of my lungs. Very depressed.Also, the water in the pool is not as warm as the one we just came here, it is a bit icy cold, but it is still bearable.

The deeper you dive, the greater the water pressure, and the diving limit. Without any facilities, including basic nose clips, masks, and earplugs, the effective record seems to be diving to a depth of 40 meters, and each of us only Relying on self-contained scuba and simple diving equipment, you can only dive to the bottom of the pool at most 50 meters, and you still have to risk your eardrums being ruptured.Moreover, eardrum damage is on the one hand, and on the other hand, "diving sickness". Nitrogen in the body will penetrate into various joints under pressure, causing irreversible damage.My worries are not superfluous. The miner's lamp in Dabeitou's arms shoots towards the bottom of the pool in the shape of a cylinder. Excluding the 40-meter depth we have dived, there is still about [-] meters of water depth, which is a dangerous figure.

When I dived to 20 meters from the bottom of the pool, the situation at the bottom of the pool became clear. It was a place that aquatic life could not touch, and aquatic plants and insects could not be seen at all, only rolling down from the rock wall of the pool. Rocks, and some strange buildings.Sure enough, as I saw above, those fence-like things are very similar to the prison cells where prisoners were held in ancient times.A hundred or so thin stakes were driven into the bottom of the pool to piece together several cages, which sit quietly and solemnly in the water, exuding a mysterious atmosphere, which makes people forget to stop.

Without the slightest hesitation, Dabeitou went straight down holding the miner's lamp, and the rest of us followed him and finally dived to the bottom of the pool.Invisibly, there seems to be a pair of big hands holding your whole body, making you feel suffocated. I know that at the bottom of such a deep pool, there must be strong water pressure, and every second counts, and there is no delay.Dabeitou's movements were also very fast, without sloppiness at all, he handed the miner's lamp to Liu Maodi to hold it in his arms to light it up. He aimed at a prison cage and swam up to him, only to find that those fence-like stakes were actually made of iron. The roots are as thick as an arm, and although they rot badly in the water, they are still firm and firm.Niu Er stepped forward to try it, but they all shook their heads to indicate that they couldn't break it apart. It seems that things are more difficult than we imagined.

Liu Maodi felt the novelty, so he shone the miner's lamp into the cage. Immediately, when the people present looked at the things there, they all felt that it must be not simple, because it gave people the feeling that it was not so normal. Under common sense, it would definitely not appear there.

I don't know what it is for, but in the corner of the cage at the bottom of the pool, there are more than a dozen mustard jars stacked there, in different sizes and shapes.We looked at the other cages, and without exception, they were all full of these things.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. Could it be that Dabeitou is here for this?At the same time, it is wildly speculated that these cages may be the water prisons used to temporarily hold the martyrs. Later, the pool water rose and became the "Crystal Palace".Are these jars used to store food for the prisoners, or is it that the tomb owner likes to eat mustard pickled here specially?The more you think about it, the more outrageous it becomes, but it's very far-fetched. In short, if you go in and take a look, you will know everything. This may also mean the big back.

Huang Mao is a ghost. He swam around the cage in front of us and stopped on the other side. On the right side of the cage, there was a small door.The iron chain on it was completely rotten, and broke in two with a light pull. Dabeitou was the first to go in, and the five people behind us hurriedly followed.

The space in the cage is not big, there are already jars piled up, and when the six of us came in, it seemed even more crowded.But our minds were all on those jars, and we ignored the rest. We saw that the big back carefully picked up a medium-sized jar, turned the jar and kept looking, and I immediately saw that there was a pot on the jar The mouth was actually sealed with wax.Moreover, the body of the altar is full of colorful runes, and the workmanship is exquisite and exquisite, which only shows that the things contained in this altar are beyond our imagination.

Dabei didn't grumble anymore, picked up a large jar and handed it to Niu Er, and gestured to him to carry it out. Niu Er nodded knowingly and took it readily.Immediately, Dabeitou asked each of us to hold one. During the transfer process, his movements were very light, for fear of making mistakes. I hugged a jar to my chest and found that it was extremely heavy.The big-backed head may allow us to carry this thing to the surface of the water, but I think it is not an easy task to hold a jar in the water and swim to the surface of the water. I don’t know what the big-backed head is thinking.

The space inside the cage is already very cramped, and each of us holding a tank is like a pregnant woman, and it is difficult to even turn around now.Dabeitou bent down and picked up a large jar, and kept waving his hands when he stood upright, let's go out first.I looked back, Liu Maodi was holding a miner's lamp and didn't know where it was. He stared blankly at a big jar in the corner in a daze, and then got a little angry. Can you be more attentive?Dabei saw that Liu Maodi's miner's lamp was completely out of place, so he bumped him with his elbow.

But it was just such an unexpected action, Liu Maodi was so surprised, he stepped back unsteadily, and with a bang, a jar was crushed.

Youdao is not afraid of enemies who are like gods, but teammates who are like pigs. It is not good for Liu Maodi to lose the chain, but he made a mistake at this critical moment.Originally, if a jar is broken, it will be broken, and it is not a big deal, but except for Dabeitou, none of us thought that this would be a fatal mistake.

The scene immediately took a sharp turn. When the jar was crushed by Liu Maodi's foot, first a cloud of black mist rose from the debris, and then I saw the black mist gradually swallow Liu Maodi, followed by a circle The whizzing thing was ejected out, the speed was so fast that it was impossible to see what it was, and it flashed onto Liu Maodi's back in a flash.Immediately, Brother Liu Maodi began to wriggle restlessly, panicked and confused. If he was not in the water but on land, he might have yelled loudly.

And it happened that we were holding the pot in our arms, so it was very inconvenient to move. Seeing this change in the situation behind me, the big back was on high alert, rubbing our backs against us and waving back to the door.It was only then that I suddenly realized that we had misunderstood from the very beginning. The big backs let us hold the jars, not to transport them to the surface of the water, but to move these dangerous jars away from this place.It's too late now, the current emergency strategy is to escape from this ghost place as soon as possible, otherwise no one may survive.

The situation of Brother Liu Maodi can be imagined, the black mist gradually receded, I saw him constantly using his hands to pick up the thing on his back, but he couldn't reach it anyway, he might have been bitten, and the pain made him tremble all over.The whole person was in a state of extreme fear, shaking his body back and forth, left and right, his feet crackled, and several jars shattered immediately.

In an instant, the black ink in the cage was churning wantonly, and within a few seconds, there was a black mass in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see anything clearly.What is contained in the jar, as far as we know so far, is definitely not Anshi Zhuer.Thinking of this, I felt a little hairy in my heart, and the hand holding the jar began to tremble a little, as if something was moving inside.The six people in the cage suddenly became a mess, and they couldn't tell the difference between the south, the south, and the north. That small door, maybe the clothes were caught by the iron hooks, making it impossible to get out.Fortunately, he was blocked, we huddled together one by one, rushed to the door like fleeing for our lives, no one could get out for a while, and the jars under our feet were smashed to pieces in a panic.

It was as if I had fallen into an ink fountain, the surrounding water was dyed black, and the lights flickered in all directions, but it seemed that I was covered with a black scarf, and I couldn’t tell you apart. Chilling.Suddenly, I felt something swimming around us. What you fear most in the dark is something you don’t know. This directly fueled our horrified emotions, and we desperately wanted to get out of this damn cage. For a while , but couldn't get out anyway.

Seeing this, I didn't care about the jar in my arms anymore, and threw it directly on the ground, regardless of whether it was broken or not. I was thinking about how to escape from the sky, and I accidentally saw a thin man slipping away from me like a loach. In the past, it was the thin man.Then he took off his diving mask, looked for the palm-width gap on the edge of the cage, retracted his neck, and rubbed his head. When I saw clearly, he was already outside.

I was amazed by the hand he showed. I thought there was no reason why you can do what I can. In fact, the situation at that time did not allow me to make another choice, so I squeezed through them with all my strength, holding the fence with both hands. , the body arched upwards from the outside with all its strength, and rubbed hard for a while, but the body was squeezed out by me.

But before I had time to chuckle, I immediately realized that something was wrong. I hadn’t taken off the diving mask on my head, and I couldn’t squeeze it out with just a big head on it.The fence blocked it, so it was very inconvenient, and I frantically unloaded it for a long time, but it still didn't help, and I was a little anxious to go crazy.I raised my head without noticing it, but saw a ghost staring at me suddenly with one eye.

This sudden scene almost scared me out of my body. I almost didn't bite the respirator, and a sip of water immediately choked into my lungs.It was a monster full of tentacles, round like a large head, with long and thin fangs protruding from its mouth, and a single eye the size of an egg growing on it. This is the stuff in the jar.What's even more fatal is that I saw that the black mist in the cage had cleared away at this time, and found that they had all escaped at some point, and a dozen of these "tentacled ghost heads" were slowly The earth gathered towards me, and I was so stuck that I couldn't move, shaking the fence pole hysterically, but I couldn't get in or get out, and I was so anxious that I scolded his mother in my heart.

My heart suddenly sank, and my whole body felt as if I had fallen into an icehouse. I thought to myself that my life would be over today, and I would have to die here anyway.Fortunately, God blesses me, and I don't deserve to die. At this moment, I felt a person lying on my back. I turned my head and saw that thin man. He had a cold face. I didn't know what he was going to do. I was wondering about him. When this happened to me, I was surprised to find that the trachea tube on my respirator was torn off by him forcefully.Then he sprayed wildly at the pile of tentacled ghost heads in front of me, and the air bubbles from the oxygen tank immediately smashed the thing into pieces and ran around.But it was obvious that they couldn't be hurt, and he surrounded them again after a short while, so the thin man had to repeat his old trick, constantly spraying oxygen to the surroundings, so as to resist their attack.I took the opportunity to take off the diving mask, Niu Er also swam over to help, and finally escaped from the middle of the fence.

At this time, the lungs were about to explode. Seeing this, the thin man quickly connected the tube to my respirator. I took a few quick breaths, then removed the lead weight from my body, and started to float up.In such a high-intensity water pressure environment at the bottom of the pool, if you don't try to reduce the pressure upstream, your body will definitely not be able to bear it.

I looked up and saw that they had already floated above my head, holding the miner's lamp with their big backs to light up. The thin man and Niu Er dragged me up, and I swam up to have a look and saw that they were all safe and sound.Although Liu Maodi's wetsuit was bitten by the tentacled ghost head, fortunately, he was not fatal. It's just that he couldn't hold on, but it was not a serious problem, and his mind was still clear.Dabei pointed his head up at him, Liu Maodi nodded and floated towards the top of the pool. In his state, don't even think about what he can do to help.

Brother Liu Mao left, and there were only five of us left. I found that Dabeitou had no intention of withdrawing at all, so I couldn't help but secretly complained.I saw him looking unwillingly at the bottom of the pool, or the cage we escaped from just now, and seemed to want to go down.It took a while for Dabeitou to come back to his senses. He turned his head and scanned the waters around us, and saw more than a dozen tentacled ghost heads floating around us, with big mouths and white fangs that made people feel dizzy. Faint.

In just a few seconds, those tentacled ghosts all surrounded us, and all five of them pulled out the trachea of ​​the respirator, and sprayed fiercely at the surroundings. Although this can resist for a while, it is still not a long-term solution. If this goes on like this, sooner or later the oxygen will run out, and it will be too late if you want to get out at that time.The tentacled ghost heads wandering outside of us, although hindered by the gushing oxygen, still refused to leave, and surrounded us arrogantly one by one with their fangs bared.

Huang Mao became a little anxious, so he patted Dabei's head, probably wanting him to withdraw, but Dabeitou didn't know which tendon in his body was twisted, so he was determined.After thinking about it, he turned his head down and began to dive to the bottom of the pool again. Seeing that the big back was going down, the thin man followed him without hesitation.Huang Mao and Niu Er are fellows with big backs, and it's not easy to sneak away alone, so they also dived.All I wanted was to get to the surface of the water as soon as possible. Seeing Dabeitou like this, although I was very angry, I still followed him and dived, thinking that I would want to see what you were trying to figure out, and I might even die.

Even after spraying and diving, the five of them swam back to the cage at the bottom of the pool. Almost all the jars were crushed by us, only a few of them remained intact.In order to prevent those tentacled ghost heads from attacking, the rest of us stood in one direction, and the four of us surrounded Dabeitou in the middle. He carefully moved the jar away. It was a place paved with bluestone slabs, and the A circular gossip diagram.

(End of this chapter)