The strongest Shannon

Chapter 318 The Underwater Stairs

Chen Fang's speed was not slow, and the speed of those workers was also very fast. When Chen Fang made a circle and came back, they had already dug to a depth of two meters within the area designated by Chen Fang!

During the period, Zhao Kai and the others failed to stop them several times, and finally ran to the side and continued to detect bitterly, because the competition with Chen Fang had not yet yielded results, and they did not dare to relax when they saw Chen Fang probing.

When Chen Fang came over, Mo Wensheng was the only one beside the three-meter-wide tunnel. The old professor grabbed a handful of soil dug out of the pit from time to time, holding it in his hand and carefully distinguishing it. He muttered something, and Chen Fang was suspicious. Can you see anything from these layers of soil?

"How about Mo Lao, did you find anything?" Chen Fang put down the detector and walked forward, asking tentatively.

Mo Wensheng shook his head, then looked up at Chen Fang suddenly and said, "Xiao Chen, tell me the truth, how did you know that there are relics in this place, and it's still in the soil layer five meters below?"

Chen Fang grinned and said, "I'm really not sure about this, it's just a guess. You should have heard Brother Qi say that I've always had better luck, so why don't you wait and see, maybe there's really something down there?"

Mo Wensheng threw away the soil in his hands, patted his feet and said, "You don't have to say that, I don't care what method you used to confirm that there are relics below, it's actually similar to antique appraisal and stone gambling, although it's strange, it's not the same. It doesn't matter, the important thing is that you do have those abilities!"

These words made Chen Fang's heart tense. He didn't expect Mo Wensheng to deduce these things from these things. He really is a mature man. Although there is no evidence and no specific guess, this kind of suspicion is very close to the truth of the matter.

"You don't need to be nervous. I said it doesn't matter how you do it. It's your own business. It's like the craftsmanship of craftsmen in the old society. It's the ability to eat. It's understandable that it can't be known by outsiders. " Mo Wensheng said with a hearty smile.

"Before I really thought I heard it wrong, but seeing you looking for people and marking the range, I now completely believe that you have found the ruins! And seeing that you circled the pond just now, it seems that you are making further progress Judgment, how is it, have you gained anything?"

Chen Fang narrowed his eyes instinctively, but quickly grinned. He realized that it was wrong to be suspicious of such a pure person as Mo Wensheng, because they were so pure that they were admirable!

Thinking of this, he seriously stated his conclusion: "If there is no accident, I think I have roughly determined the scope of the ruins, which is larger than you speculated before, and the location is nowhere else, just in this pond Around, or rather, in the depths!"

A light flashed in Mo Wensheng's eyes, but he quickly frowned, carefully analyzed the meaning of Chen Fang's words, and finally said after a long while: "Is it really not a ground ruins, but a construction in a low place? Otherwise, what do you say?" No way!"

Chen Fang nodded and said, "Mr. Mo, do you remember that when you chatted with Qi Ye and the others before, you mentioned a legend that there is actually a lake near us, or a big puddle?"

Mo Wensheng thought for a while, turned around to find a notebook, and compared some materials, he said, "It's not a legend. Look at the records in the county annals. It was indeed a big puddle earlier, but after several generations With continuous efforts, this place has been repaired into a flat residential area!"

Chen Fang didn't know about these things. After looking at the information Mo Wensheng found, he found that this was indeed the case, which was more detailed and reliable than the legends he knew. It is here in Chenzhuang.

"Do you mean that the ruins were buried deep in the ground during the continuous repair of the land?" After comparing the information, Mo Wensheng thought for a while before raising his head and asking: "This is not realistic. , Judging from these historical materials, the renovation of the water puddle probably started at the end of the Song Dynasty, and if it was covered at that time, there must be records about the ruins!"

After pondering for a while, Mo Wensheng continued: "Actually, I checked your detailed historical materials before I came here. The earliest data can probably be pushed back to the early rise of the Tang Dynasty. Even at that time, there were no records about the ruins. It shows that the ruins of Congshan Kingdom disappeared earlier..."

Thinking of this, Mo Wensheng suddenly found himself in a strange circle. From the historical materials of the early Tang Dynasty, he had never seen a single word about the ruins, but at that time there was still a big puddle here, which is very unreasonable!
Seeing that he was lost in confusion with his head locked, Chen Fang grinned and said, "Old Mo, why do you think that ruins must be on the ground? Couldn't it be underwater? Immortal related!"

Mo Wensheng's eyes were shocked, and then he fell into a daze and murmured: "This is impossible, this is impossible! No one can live underwater, and even the current level of technology will never reach that level. This is unrealistic!"

With a sigh in his heart, Chen Fang realized that even though Mo Wensheng was an expert in ancient culture, he still had a rejection attitude towards mysterious things in his bones. He believed that Mo Wensheng should have seen many miraculous things in his archaeological career, but he was thinking about the process of inference. , thinking is still easy to be limited.

Regarding the phenomenon at the blessing meeting, Mo Wensheng's views made Chen Fang's eyes bright, but this does not mean that he can really break free from the shackles of conventional things. I dare not think about it.

However, Chen Fang is now almost certain that the ruins should have been in the puddles in the first place, with the help of the soil aura to deduce the scope of the ruins!
And if he guessed correctly, the inconspicuous pond in Chenzhuang in front of him is even the earliest puddle or the center of the lake!And at this central point, stands the besieged city or palace of Congshan Kingdom!

These things are subversive, but to Chen Fang, they are not unacceptable. After all, he can accept the Five Elements Stone even more than this.

Mo Wensheng fell into the struggle of his own thinking mode, and it took a long time for his eyes to regain clarity. He looked at the tunnel in front of him with almost fanatical eyes, and murmured: "If this is the case, if this ruin was really in the water at the beginning, then Is it true that the fairy tales from Congshan Kingdom are true? Is it true that immortality is true?"

Chen Fang couldn't answer his question, and actually didn't need to answer it at this moment. From the moment the stone tablet of Jiuyou Hanquan appeared, Chen Fang guessed that the stone tablet must be something that is free from the world, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to isolate that kind of thing. The level of ice-cold water aura!
The two fell silent beside the tunnel, and several workers in the tunnel were still digging hard. Although the difficulty of digging was not too difficult or even easy, it was necessary to hurry up to dig six meters deep.

As time passed, Zhao Kai and others came back dejectedly, but this time they did not accuse the excavation here of being useless, because although they did not want to admit it, the facts proved that what Chen Fang said was correct. I searched everything inside, but I didn't find any traces.

"Professor, why is this happening? It's completely unreasonable. Why haven't we found any suspicious targets within the range we have set?!" A few students were very annoyed and asked in confusion.

Mo Wensheng shook his head and did not speak. He is not in the mood to analyze the so-called rationality with the students now, because the facts have proved that Chen Fang's conjecture should be correct. Before, it may still be under the water!

Zhao Kai and the others looked at each other strangely. They didn't understand why Mo Wensheng, who was always ready to answer questions, was silent. He wanted to ask again, but he caught a glimpse of Chen Fang's smiling eyes, and couldn't help but blush. But in the end, Chen Fang got what he said and got nothing!

Although they didn't want to admit it, they were curious about this farmer who was not much older than them at the moment, wondering how he did it, and could predict that they had nothing to gain.

The side of the pond was concealed and fell into a strange atmosphere. As the tunnel deepened, Chen Fang also participated in it, and began to help the workers transport the excavated wet soil to the outside. Later, the two boys also participated, and only Next, Zhao Kai and Wang Xiaoqian stood on it with Mo Wensheng, who was hunched over.

It was getting late, and when the sun ran to the top of the west mountain, there was a sudden bang in the tunnel, followed by the doubtful voices of several workers.

Chen Fang was overjoyed and hurriedly separated the crowd, but Tie Jiu carefully started to deal with the bottom of the pit. Soon, in the bewildered eyes of several workers, a flat stone line carved with strange groups came out, which looked a bit like a step!

"Found it!" Seeing the stone in front of him, which was very similar in style to the gravel tablet, Chen Fang exhaled and grinned. Then, with the help of those workers, he cleared out more continuous stones. The same style group, juxtaposed from high to low, is really a step.

"Professor, I really found it!" Mo Wensheng and others above couldn't see clearly, but the two boys at the bottom of the pit were overjoyed and shouted the news up excitedly.

"I actually found it...it's really down there..." Mo Wensheng murmured a few times with his hands trembling, and then he was about to go down the slope impatiently. Zhao Kai next to him had a complicated expression, but he still had a wink He hurried forward to support Mo Wensheng.

The width of the bottom of the pit is less than two meters, and the depth is nearly six meters. There are so many people crowded together that it is not convenient to move around, especially because the surrounding soil is very damp, and you will get muddy all over you just by leaning on it.

Seeing this, Chen Fang told the workers how hard it was, and then asked them to go to Chen Luoluo to get today's salary, and agreed that they could find a few more people tomorrow, and there would still be work to do.

The blind dates happily agreed to come down, and quickly made room for the professors and students, especially when they heard that they could continue to do this kind of work tomorrow, they were even happier, chatting with Chen Fang before leaving in a hurry.

At the bottom of the pit, only Chen Fang and the others were left, squatting in a circle in front of several oddly arranged steps, all of them staring wide-eyed, carefully looking at these historic sites that had been buried for an unknown number of years.

Those students still disliked the muddy water around them, but Mo Wensheng couldn't care less about it. Kneeling on the ground, he took out tools such as a magnifying glass and a brush, and carefully cleaned the dirt on the steps, as if he was afraid of damaging any tiny details on it. texture.

Taking advantage of this gap, Chen Fang grinned at Zhao Kai and said, "How about it, are you convinced?"

Zhao Kai's face turned red and he held back a word for a long time: "It's just that you find it first. We agreed before that whoever finds the most wins. It's too early to say it now?! Hmph!"

Chen Fang grinned, but Mo Wensheng straightened up, wiped his sweat and said, "Zhao Kai, you lost! Not only was Chen Fang the first to find it, but he had already explored the approximate scope of the entire ruins. We were doing useless work before, and the entire ruins , are all buried deep under the ground!"

Regardless of the shock and disbelief of his students, Mo Wensheng pointed to the steps in front of him and continued: "It is certain that the carvings on these steps are exactly the same as that of the stele, and judging from the severity of the corrosion marks on the surface , these steps should be as you said, originally under the water!"

Zhao Kai and the others were stunned by this conclusion, but Chen Fang nodded indifferently, turned his head and said with a smile: "Hey boy, go up and dive into the water later, don't let me touch my feet again!"

(End of this chapter)