Archaeological Notes

Chapter 28 Black Hole
While grabbing the respirator and sucking a few breaths, I was wary of the tentacled ghosts wandering around us. I looked back at the half-kneeling Dabeitou, only to see him pulling out a round eight trigrams stone from the pile of broken jars.In fact, I'm not sure if that thing is gossip or not. Its shape is roughly a circle, which is divided into two halves by an "S"-shaped slit. It stands to reason that it is impossible for it to appear in the ancient tomb of the Jurchen family in the Jin Dynasty. This kind of pattern is very rich in Taoist characteristics.There are some beasts and birds engraved on it, flying in the sky and swimming in the water, with slender and twisted figures, which are extremely weird.

I silently calculated in my heart that I have been at the bottom of this pool for more than ten minutes. If I continue to stay, the super-strong water pressure will force the nitrogen in my body to penetrate into the joints, and it will be over.At the moment, I was very anxious, but there was nothing I could do, I could only watch the movements of the big back, thinking to myself, I will hold on for another minute, if you still haven't done it, don't blame me for not listening to the instructions and applying oil on the soles of my feet.Anyway, I'm working as a temporary worker for you. It's a matter of life and death, so I can't allow me to work for you anymore.

But fortunately at this time, Dabeitou seemed to have made up his mind again. I saw him take out two water detonators from his body and stuff them into the two small holes on the Eight Diagrams.He pointed at our heads, meaning let us get back to the water quickly, but before I could recover, he quickly tore off the burning ropes on the two detonators. An orange flame suddenly lit up in the water, and he had already ignited the detonator!
It was only then that we figured out that he was going to explode the thing, and in a panic, he stuffed the respirator into his mouth. After swimming out of the cage, he opened his arms and paddled vigorously to float to the top Well, the time difference between the detonation of the detonator is relatively short, if you delay for a while, you might blow yourself up.Huangmao, Niu Er and Dabei floated up very fast, and the skinny man was as slippery as a fish. He swam up four or five meters without making any movements in the water.I was the only one who was slow in everything I did and couldn't keep up with the rhythm. In a hurry, I pushed the water vigorously and escaped from the cage, thinking about floating to the surface of the water to breathe a sigh of relief.

The five of them swam separately, and just after floating more than ten meters, they swam in twos and threes, with a distance between them, and they dispersed unknowingly.The light from the back of the head shone somewhere, and it was pitch black in front of my eyes, and I could only float up by feeling in the water.During the process, I suddenly felt someone riding on my neck, with both hands on top of my celestial cap, desperately trying to push me down to the bottom of the pool!

Those hands were surprisingly strong, tightly wrapped around my forehead, holding me tightly to prevent me from floating up, I immediately felt the strangeness of the situation, who wanted to kill me so much?Countless people flashed through my mind, but I was startled and scared, so I turned over in the water, intending to kick that person away, but I didn't want that person to stick to my back like a dog's skin plaster.I felt terrified all of a sudden, I could hardly catch my breath, and my ear door started to hurt. I stayed at the bottom of this pool for too long, and I had to go up to the surface of the water quickly.But things were far from as easy as I thought. The man held my mask and refused to let go. My head couldn't be freed at all, and I could only let him manipulate me.Fortunately, a beam of light suddenly lit up beside me. It may be that Dabeitou discovered what was happening to me. With this beam of light, I finally realized that the one lying on my head turned out to be a dog that was neither human nor ghost. monster.

I swear that I saw something more disgusting than the squinting three hanging from the locust tree. That person turned out to be the one who fell into the pool before us!His face was already swollen like a pig's head, covered with ulcers the size of soybeans, and a section of intestine protruded from his mouth, just around my neck, tightening more and more.The whole person is like a dry monkey, with its back arched high, lying on my head, a face that cannot be seen clearly, protruding from my forehead.

I was so overwhelmed by this sudden encounter that I couldn't cry, and I said to myself, Brother Cunto, there is a wrong and a debt, after you were recruited in the pool behind, I was the one who dragged you out of the water.The relationship between our brothers is good, but if you go to Naihe Bridge, there is no need to pull me up. If you don’t bother with so many people, why is it so unlucky for me to run into them.After reading this, I looked at the bottom of the pool with horror, and my heart sank, feeling that something was wrong.Before I knew it, I had been brought down more than ten meters by the inch head, and the flames of the two water detonators had already ignited, and within a few seconds, they would explode immediately.

Dabeitou and the others still have a bit of conscience. They don't know whether they cherish my temporary "dog-headed military adviser" or the roll of parchment in my arms.Several people swam up to me one after another, but they were not in a hurry to break off the octopus that was stuck to my body. Instead, they grabbed a part of my clothes and stepped hard on the water, wanting to Take me up there.

However, the time was delayed for too long after all, and everything was too late. At this moment, a ball of fire suddenly exploded at the bottom of the pool.Immediately, I felt a huge force, bouncing us away like a giant umbrella, as if someone punched me hard in the back, and then I felt my eardrums were pricked by needles Pain, my head buzzed, my body began to lose control, and I became confused.

Anyone who has seen it knows that once something explodes in the water, its power is terrible, and you will feel the whole ground trembling.When some fishermen use it to fry fish, although the explosion range is very small, the shock wave can cause a large area of ​​fish to fall over.In the same way, none of us in the deep pool expected that the half-human, half-ghost Bunny would actually find trouble.

After a while of darkness, I felt a burst of coldness on my face, which made my mind a little clearer, and I opened my eyes, and found that in the panic, Bunny had floated to nowhere, and the diving mask on his face was also detached. Immediately drank several mouthfuls of stinky water.I don’t even care about nausea anymore. Ever since Dabeitou blasted the gossip-shaped stone slab at the bottom of the pool with a detonator, everything in the pool has turned upside down. Without goggles, I can’t see clearly in the water. I just feel like I’ve been released. After entering the mixing bucket of the cement truck, my body swirled involuntarily in the water, and I couldn't tell the difference between south, east and north.Dabeitou and Huangmao didn't know what was going on, they only vaguely saw a beam of light in the water, flashing around completely irregularly, it was Dabeitou's waterproof miner's lamp, maybe the few of them are also their own It's hard to guarantee.

Since the few of them couldn't take care of themselves, I immediately realized that I could only rely on myself at this time, my mind was in chaos, and I couldn't think of any way out, so I felt my head suddenly hit a stone wall, and suddenly I saw something. Hei, the pain was so painful that I almost fainted.In fact, when a person is in a crisis, he will try his best to stay awake even if his body has been severely injured. This is a phenomenon of the body's self-protection instinct.I tried my best to open my eyes, and with the occasional light, I suddenly saw the bottom of the pool covered with bluestone slabs. The cage had been distorted by the explosion, and a round table burst out where the original circular Eight Diagrams was. A hole as big as the same size is forming a black vortex, like a giant mouth of a monster, opening wide to suck everything in.

The huge suction force produced by the hole at the bottom of the pool is very astonishing. You can't grab anything in the water, and you can't borrow it, so you have to get closer and closer.In a blink of an eye, I was already at the entrance of the hole at the bottom of the pool. Fortunately, I saw a few thin stakes of the cage at this time, so I grabbed them out of my wits, hugged them tightly, and clenched my teeth.

The strong water flowed against my body non-stop, and the clothes on my body were almost torn off. Some sharp gravels scratched my cheeks, which made me grin my teeth in pain.At this time, I had reached the limit of holding my breath. Looking left and right, I found that the big back head had also come down, and was holding on to a stone pier not far away.There is also Huang Mao, and the thin man, who are all coming towards the entrance of the cave. Obviously, they are struggling to cope with this powerful attraction, and they can't help themselves. got sucked in.

I clearly knew that I might not last long, but I was still unwilling to give up like this. I looked up when I was about to suffocate, and found that Niu Er was panicking towards the entrance of the cave, scratching in the water to no avail, and kept spinning with.I don’t want Niu Er to be sucked in front of me. Unfortunately, his fat buttocks sat on my face. I couldn’t grasp it at first, but now I couldn’t bear it anymore. He was sucked in by the dark hole behind him.

What happened next, I don’t think I need to go into details, the whole person has gradually lost consciousness, and my mind is blank, thinking that I, a good young man, have explained here.I don't know how much saliva I drank, and how many cuts I got from the stones. I was numb from bumps and falls like this, and finally couldn't hold on anymore and passed out.

I thought I was dead, but in fact I was alive, and I was not the only one to die. When I woke up, I found that I was in a place that cannot be expressed in words.Everyone is still alive, walking around with a miner's lamp on their big backs, and the yellow hair is chattering beside them, maybe they are making suggestions, but it seems to me that there is a membrane, so I don't know very well.Niu Er was wringing the water out of his clothes, and the skinny man was sitting against the wall. I sat up and found that he was staring at me in a daze. When I woke up, he immediately shifted his gaze to other places.

The belly was almost bursting, and the stomach surged up, and all the water was spit out, accompanied by a dull pain all over the body, and people became a little dizzy.Just after it eased up, I felt a heat in the Renzhong acupoint again. When I touched it, it was full of blood coming out of the nose, and my ears hurt badly, but fortunately I could still hear the sound. I don’t know if it will be after going out deaf.When I was at the bottom of the pool just now, I stayed for more than half an hour. The body must not be able to bear such a strong water pressure. I know this is an inevitable phenomenon, and it will be fine after a while.

My whole body hurts everywhere, and I feel that my internal organs have shifted. As my body functions gradually recover, I feel that my lungs don't hurt as much when I breathe.So he stood up with strength, his legs seemed to be made of gluten, as if there were no bones in the flesh, and he was a little unsteady even standing.At this time, I accidentally glanced out of the corner of my eye, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a highly decomposed person lying on the ground not far from me!It turned out to be an inch, and I was very curious at the moment, and couldn't figure out how he fell with us.

I started to feel a little dizzy again, so I staggered to the edge of the wall, barely supporting my body with my palms on it.After cheering up and resting for a while, the limbs began to feel slowly. The wall touched by my fingers felt very rough. I looked up and saw that it was a stone wall.It is full of lines hammered out with a chisel, and each line is full of stone paths, densely packed throughout the entire wall, as if such a space was carved out of a stone weighing dozens of tons.

This is an inexplicable place, I think I am not the only one who is confused, Dabeitou and the others may not be able to say something.I can only describe it as an out-and-out stone room, not boxy. We feel like we are staying in a big leather shoe. I know my expression may be a bit abstract, but it is true .Such a strange stone room is uncharacteristically uncharacteristic, with no rules to follow, and no one who has been there, can't figure out what kind of scene I'm seeing in this place.I turned around and felt that the space here is not very big, and I can touch the top with my toes, and I can see a round hole on the top. The opening is very smooth, and water drips from the top from time to time.

Cun Tou lay motionless on the ground, his body was already emitting a stench, and he didn't know if he was dead or not.I closed my eyes and thought about it for a while, and finally remembered those dream-like experiences just now. We were sucked in by a huge attractive water hole at the bottom of the pool.According to common sense, we should have drowned in the waterway long ago, but somehow, we ended up in such a place.

Thinking of all kinds of things that happened at the bottom of the pool above, I couldn't help but feel suspicious, and I always felt as if I was being led by the nose, and I had no initiative at all.Among these few people, I think there are many people who have the same idea as me. The big back has obviously discovered the clues in the cage under the pool a long time ago, and deliberately kept it from us.I saw that he was still talking about something in the yellow hair, and his voice was very low, so I walked over curiously and listened to him a few steps away, as if he was discussing how to escape.

With a cheeky face, I forced out a smile and leaned in front of them. Knowing Dabeitou’s surname was Xie, I called out: “Boss Hu, in your opinion, where did we come from? This tomb is not like a tomb, and the corridor is not like a tomb It is a tunnel, but it was dug out by the craftsmen who built this underground palace. You brought us here, you should know what this place is, right? Tell me."

When the matter got to this stage, it was uncomfortable to hold back the question, so I explained it to him, but Da Beitou smiled wryly after hearing it, and shook his head helplessly: "It's not that I'm hiding it from you, in fact, I don't know it's the truth. What the hell place."

I said to myself, let's pull you down, since you didn't make up your mind, you took us to a place where we don't know the depth?You don't have to be so strategic when you are a big brother, you have learned to fool people.Now two of the three dead men you brought from Hong Kong have died, and the remaining two guys are Niu Er and Shouzi. go.Niu Er Village is in the village. Although it looks honest and honest, but when it really happens that you are going to work hard for you, it is possible to run away.Not to mention that skinny guy, he doesn't talk much, but he does things in a very organized manner, and he must be a genius. This kind of person is the scariest, because you never know what he is thinking.

Huang Mao is Dabeitou's loyal follower, seeing my question, he persuaded me in a gentle tone: "I said brother, this is not the worst time yet!" He patted his chest, "Brother I don’t know how many times I went back and forth to Longtan and Tiger’s Cave, but this time I can get out, we don’t count, there will always be a way if we discuss it together.”

After he finished speaking to me, he called Niu Er and the thin man over, and the five of them sat in a circle, paying attention to what to do next.But if I wanted to go out, first a question came to my mind, I thought about it and said: "In my opinion, the most important thing is to figure out what kind of place this is."

Niu Er quickly said yes, and asked Dabeitou without thinking, "Boss Hu, we fell into this ghost place a little bit (unprepared), didn't you expect it when you went down the pool?"

After this question, Dabei frowned with thick eyebrows, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while he said: "Well, it can also be said that it was unexpected, I knew there was something under the pool, but I didn't know it at all. The ones below have a hole in the sky."

I went through the movements and behaviors of Dabeitou all the way in my mind. I thought that none of us knew what was under the pool. You brought us down all by yourself. Now that it’s all over, why don’t you ask? I didn't know, so I asked him again: "Boss Hu, how did you know there was something under the pool? And the gossip map, I can't figure out what's the use of you blowing it up, we do things for you, I shouldn't ask Yes, but you can't hide everything."

Da Bei shook his head and said, "It's not that I kept it from you, it's that you didn't see the way."

I was taken aback, "How do you say that?"

He pointed to my chest and motioned for me to take out the parchment. "I'll show you all and you'll know."

I kept this thing close to my body all the time, and it was still warm when I took it out. Fortunately, it was not damaged, so I laid it flat on the ground.Looking at the intricate composition and the dazzling logo inside, I thought I couldn't see through the mystery. I don't believe you can see it with your big back, so I said to him: "There is no name for the water pool in this picture. There is such a space below."

After I finished speaking, Dabei smiled contemptuously, smacked his lips, took a breath and let it out slowly, quite showy: "I don't know the words on it as well as you, but you overlooked a little bit!" He lowered his head and tilted his head. , slowly lifted the parchment on the ground, "everything has two sides, it can't be limited to one level, what do you see on the back of this parchment?"

He turned the parchment paper back up, and I suddenly understood what he meant when I saw it. I looked carefully at the drawing that was almost attached to my head, but I still couldn’t understand it. There was nothing on it at all. , No picture, no truth.

Huang Mao also lay on the ground, looked left and right, raised his head and looked at Dabeitou blankly, "Brother, there is really nothing on it."

"Look carefully," Dabeitou crossed his hands in front of his chest, "You can't just focus on whether there are pictures on the paper."

Huang Mao and I were dumbfounded, no matter how we looked at it, we felt that he was just a yellow card, nothing special.Until now, the thin man, who had been silent until now, was the first to see something from the back of the parchment. He pointed to the four corners and said, "Here is the problem."

The parchment is square and rectangular. I followed his meaning to see it, and it seemed that I finally understood it, but I couldn't quite explain it.At this time, the thin man lifted up the four corners of the drawing one by one, and folded them in the shape of the word "Tian". When the four corners converged to one point, I was so surprised that I couldn't speak.

Because he actually pieced together another picture!

(End of this chapter)