After Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, Wang Xinran smiled happily, "This person is quite interesting." ”

Wu Zhongyuan also smiled, "Yes, it's better to be honest than to be serious, this is a person who is really capable, and it is rare to have a true temperament, and he is not upright." ”

Wang nodded happily and then raised his hand to look at his watch, nearly half an hour had passed since the end of the battle, and the leper turtle and black Jiao under the water had never surfaced.

Seeing Wang Xinran's impatient face, Wu Zhongyuan knew that she had no intention of waiting, so he said, "Consult the experts in this area at the headquarters to see if these two creatures will rise immediately after death." ”

Wang happily adopted Wu Zhongyuan's suggestion, and soon, the headquarters replied, only a few fish will float on the surface of the water after death, and most aquatic animals and drowned people or other terrestrial animals will not float immediately after death, and it will take a while for the metabolism to stop, and the body will only surface after the body is swollen due to the breeding bacteria in the body.

After getting the reply, Wang Xinran looked at his watch again, "Wait for another fifteen minutes, and if there is no movement at twelve o'clock, we will start to enter the water." ”

The rescue boat arrived 10 minutes later, and the four of them could not be left without backup after they were launched.

After explaining the relevant matters to colleagues on the boat, the four of them put on their diving equipment and prepared to go into the water.

Zhang Shukai was the first to finish dressing, and Chong Wang said happily, "I'll go down first to see the underwater situation, you wait for me above, if there is no accident, I will come up in five minutes." ”

Wang Xinran thought about it and nodded in agreement, "Pay attention to safety." ”

Zhang Shukai nodded, bit the respirator, and stood up into the water.

Wang happily lit a cigarette and waited with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Why didn't they come up?" Wu Zhongyuan had a question in his heart.

Wang Xinran shook his head, Wu Zhongyuan's question was also her question, according to Zhang Kui, who had surrendered before, there were a total of five people trapped underwater, only one person had surfaced before, where did the others go?

Wu Zhongyuan said again, "If they are blocked underwater by the black Jiao, they should take the opportunity to escape after the black Jiao leaves." ”

Wang said happily, "Maybe they didn't get what they wanted, and the one who floated up earlier may just be a deserter." ”

"You mean they're still underwater?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Possibly. Wang nodded happily.

A cigarette burns for five minutes, and before Wang happily throws away the cigarette butt, Zhang Shukai surfaced.

Seeing that he had returned safely, Wang Xinran secretly breathed a sigh of relief, waited for the other party to take off the respirator, and asked, "What's the situation?"

Zhang Shukai clinged to the side of the boat, "There is a strong undercurrent underwater, the visibility is not high, and the corpses of the leper turtle and the dragon were not found, and they may have been washed downstream by the undercurrent." ”

Without waiting for Wang to open his mouth to ask, Zhang Shukai took the initiative to say, "There is a very steep cliff under the water, according to the diving instrument, the vertical distance between the top of the cliff and the water surface is twenty-three meters, the bottom of the cliff is ninety-three meters from the water surface, and there is a drop of seventy meters between the two. ”

"Isn't it an ancient city underwater?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Zhang Shukai shook his head, "I didn't go far, there are no ruins of the city nearby." ”

Lu Jiahui asked, "What are those stone statues carved underwater, and are they arranged in an orderly manner?"

"There is a lot of moss attached to the stone statue, I didn't deliberately observe it," Zhang Shukai said, "The stone statue is arranged quite neatly, and the underwater undercurrent mainly flows through the top of the cliff, and the water flow below the cliff is very gentle." ”

After listening to Zhang Shukai's description, Lu Jiahui made a judgment, "It is likely to be an underwater mausoleum, and those stone statues should be tomb guards on the Yongdao, this kind of tomb that is carved into the mountain, and the entrance is usually at the end of the Yongdao, that is, directly below the cliff." ”

"Do you see the entrance?" asked Wang Xinran.

"No," Zhang Shukai shook his head, "The underwater visibility is not high, and I didn't turn on the strong light for fear of exposing the target." ”

Wang Xinran didn't ask again, listening to others is better than seeing it with his own eyes, and after getting ready, the four of them dived together.

Although Wu Zhongyuan is very water-based, it is the first time he has used a respirator, and he is not used to it, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai pulled him left and right and took him to dive.

Zhang Shukai is right, the underwater visibility is indeed not high, and observing the situation in the water through the diving goggles, it is foggy.

The undercurrent is not as terrible as Wu Zhongyuan imagined, although the momentum is very large, it will not be washed away by the undercurrent, and after diving more than 20 meters, the momentum disappears suddenly.

As the depth of the dive increased, the light became darker and darker, the visibility became worse and worse, and the strong sense of depression made Wu Zhongyuan feel that he could not breathe well, so he could only breathe heavily to relieve discomfort.

In addition to feeling depressed, I also had severe tinnitus, buzzing in my ears, swollen eardrums, and was very uncomfortable.

Wang Xinran sensed Wu Zhongyuan's discomfort, and made a gesture at Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui, and the four of them slowed down the speed of diving.

Everything has a process of adaptation, and after the dive speed slowed down, Wu Zhongyuan's discomfort was also reduced, but the strong sense of depression still existed, not that he was afraid, but that he was flustered and short of breath.

Wu Zhongyuan has no specific concept of how long it took to go down to the bottom, it may be three minutes or five minutes, and after stepping on the ground, his heart is much more steady, although this feeling of being down-to-earth is still very different from that on land.

After descending to the bottom, Zhang Shukai swam north, while Lu Jiahui went to explore the stone statue on the left, and Wang Xinran stayed with Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan turned his head to look around, outside at this time is the brightest time, but the water is like a dark night, fortunately he has night vision, he can barely see the surrounding scenery, there are twelve stone statues on the left and right sides, according to the outline of the stone statues, these stone statues are not carved beasts, but portraits in various postures.

These stone statues are about three times the size of ordinary people, the distance between each other is about five meters, extending dozens of meters from north to south, the interval between the east and west two rows of stone statues is about 12 meters, squatting down to remove the floating soil, revealing the square stone slab, Lu Jiahui was correct before, this is indeed a mausoleum, and the two of them are standing on the road in front of the mausoleum at this time.

After Wu Zhongyuan got used to the underwater environment, Wang Xinran pulled him to Lu Jiahui, who was using special tools to clean up the moss attached to the stone statue.

Lu Jiahui is good at underwater archaeology, and the corresponding tools are naturally complete, and under her cleanup, a stone statue quickly revealed its true face, which is a statue of a middle-aged man, wearing Hanfu, wearing a crown, and a long sword on his waist.

Different from common statues, this statue looks very strange in terms of demeanor and demeanor, not weird to be exact, but not quite different from common serious statues, this is a realistic statue, the head of the statue is crooked, the right eye is closed, the index finger of the left hand is placed under the nose, look closely, it is actually picking the nostrils.

When they saw this stone statue clearly, Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran looked at each other, carving such a large stone statue requires a lot of manpower and material resources, how to carve a gesture of picking noses.

Lu Jiahui was also surprised, but she was more excited, the ancient level was distinct, and even there were strict grade restrictions on wearing, this stone statue was wearing a nine-fold crown, which was a crown that only princes were qualified to wear, if the identity of this person could be determined, the true appearance of this person could be completely restored, which was much more accurate than the restoration of the skull.

Those who study archaeology have a common characteristic, carefully, Lu Jiahui is no exception, cleaning up very carefully, seeing this situation, Wang Xinran stepped forward to interrupt her, pointed to the rest, and motioned her to clean up again.

Soon, the second stone statue was also cleaned up, this is a middle-aged man sitting in a sitting stone statue, the stone statue sits on a stone carved wooden cart, the style of the wooden cart is somewhat like a modern wheelchair, the man in the car is crossed Erlang's legs, a feather fan is placed on his lap, and both hands are holding two bamboo sticks, on which is a fish.

If the first stone statue to the two of them is puzzled, then this stone statue to the two of them is shocked, the wooden car feather fan is Zhuge Liang's standard, this stone statue is undoubtedly carved Zhuge Kongming.

Zhuge Kongming is a fairy-like existence in history, and he has died with all his might, and he is a model of loyalty and patriotism, but this stone statue is too unserious to carve, how can a good legendary figure be this kind of image.

However, if it is said to be malicious and ugly, it does not seem to be, because the facial features of the stone statue are handsome and refined, with elegant bones, although holding the fish, there is no coveting that is about to feast, but meditation on far-reaching solemnity and worry.

At this moment, Zhang Shukai swam over from the north and made a gesture to King Chong happily, indicating that there was indeed an entrance to the north.

Wang Xinran was looking at the stone statue, raised his hand, and motioned for Zhang Shukai to wait for a while.

Zhang Shukai made another gesture, Wu Zhongyuan didn't understand this gesture, but Wang Xinran understood, and followed Zhang Shukai to the north.

At this time, Lu Jiahui has begun to clean up the third stone statue, as usual, she still cleans her head first, this is a sitting stone statue of a young woman, and the head of the stone statue is wearing a phoenix crown that only the concubine in the palace wears, and she is dressed luxuriously, beautiful and graceful.

At first, Wu Zhongyuan thought that this stone statue was relatively normal, but when Lu Jiahui cleaned up the lower part, he found that he was thinking too much, this stone statue was very abnormal, to be precise, it was very improper, because the young woman was not sitting under the buttocks, but a toilet, and this stone statue was carved by the concubine.

Just when Wu Zhongyuan was stunned, Wang Xinran came back, and when he saw this stone statue, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

After a short period of stunnedness, Wang Xinran beckoned to Lu Jiahui, and then pulled Wu Zhongyuan to swim north.

There is indeed an entrance under the cliff in the north, which are two stone gates nearly two meters high and about five feet wide, the stone gate is open, and it is covered with moss, which shows that the stone gate was not pushed open by man, but was not closed in the first place.

At this time, Zhang Shukai was not outside the door, Wang Xinran dragged Wu Zhongyuan into the stone gate, the inside of the stone gate is the ascending steps, a total of eighteen steps, "climb the steps and go up" only to see that there is a waterless stone room inside, the stone room is square, about fifty square meters, the internal fishy atmosphere is heavy, scattered with some animal bones, it can be seen that the black Jiao was entrenched here before.

Directly above the stone chamber is inlaid with a green bead the size of a goose egg, and the fluorescent light emitted by the stone chamber is miserable green. There is a stone monument due north, and on the north side of the stone monument is a half-open stone gate.

"They're still inside. Wang Xinran pointed to the northeast corner of the stone chamber, where several sets of diving equipment were stacked.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded.

"He knew we were coming. Wang said happily.

"Who?" Wu Zhongyuan didn't know.

"Zuo Ci," Wang Xinran pointed to the stone tablet to the north, "the stone tablet has already written ......"