Chapter 43: Please forgive me
Han Nuowei followed the bell and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, he found an empty hook behind the last bell, and he immediately took out the golden bell that he had taken off Shi Hu's neck before and tried to hang it up. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He waited for a while, the bells didn't move, and he tried to take off one of the bells, only to find that the bells were all fixed to the metal wire. A thought crossed his mind, and he gently tugged the bell. The bell made a crisp and pleasant sound, echoing through the room, and then drifting out again, lingering throughout the amber cavern. However, nothing had changed in the room as he had expected, so he pushed the bell again, this time with a little more force.
The bookcase on the left suddenly moved, it slowly moved to the left, and then, the wall that had been hidden by the bookcase revealed a small cubicle with a downward staircase on the floor. Han Nuowei didn't go in directly, but moved the sofa over and pressed it against the bookcase to prevent himself from being locked in the secret room again.
After making sure that the bookcase was no longer moving, Han Nuowei lit the lamp above his head, remained vigilant, stepped on the steps, and slowly walked into the secret room.
A rectangular box as large as a gasoline drum lay quietly in the middle of the chamber, its maroon leather glowing in the dim headlamp.
Han Nuowei was surprised and delighted, and immediately pounced.
There was no additional lock on the box, and the hidden lock that came with it was not locked, and Han Nuowei opened the large box effortlessly. But after opening the box, Han Nuowei was dumbfounded, because there was still a small box inside. In desperation, he had no choice but to continue to open the box, but after opening the second box, a third box appeared. Han Nuowei was shocked, could there be a box in it? Sure enough, he finally found that there were a total of seven boxes in this box, just like a Russian nesting doll, interlocking layer by layer. When he opened the innermost box, he was completely frozen.
There was only one short sword in the chest, about thirty centimeters long. Han Nuowei took out the short sword and found that there was a roll of sheepskin pressed underneath it.
After a day of tossing, Han Nuowei was already tired and hungry, and now that he saw the box, his tense nerves finally relaxed. He simply sat down against the box, picked up the parchment scroll, spread it out slowly, and began to read. The parchment scroll looks old, and a lot of things are densely written in Latin.
Han Nuowei tried to read a few sentences, and found that they were strange words that had no connection at all. He wondered, "What kind of riddle is this?" but he looked at the scattered words, but could not catch the connection between them.
Han Nuowei glanced at the diver's watch again, and it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, his stomach suddenly rang, and he glanced at his stomach with a wry smile: "You bear with it, I don't know when I will be able to go out." ”
Han Nuowei rubbed his stomach, and a hard object in his waist bag smacked him. He was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took out the thin plate wrapped in silk.
In a flash of inspiration, he placed a thin plate the size of a "glasses case" over the parchment roll. Through the transparent part of the sheet, Han Nuowei read something that made his heart tremble.
It turned out that the amber shipwreck designed by Cotton back then was a complete false shot, and the real amber was not placed here at all!
Cotton stumbled upon a deep trench, and near the trench, there happened to be another mountain, and the top of the hill was exposed to the sea, forming an island. So, he came up with an idea: to dig a tunnel along the trench and lead it into the mountains, leading to the small island on the sea.
The shipwreck was designed to cover up the seaside hut in the trench, which was used to guide Hanover's descendants to their ancestral treasures. The traps of the trenches were built to test Hanover's descendants and to deter other treasure hunters with ulterior motives.
Han Nuowei thought of Rawudu, and couldn't help but sigh.
He then moved the plate down, reading as he read it, his fingers trembling slightly, and it took a few moments to calm down.
It turns out that the bookcase on the left is used to cover the box, while the bookcase on the right is the "morgue". Those who built the undersea chamber for Cotton in the first place did not survive. They were all locked in a secret room by Cotton and left to perish. And what his ancestors left him was not just the Amber Palace.
The last line of the parchment roll, which can be read without a sheet: Cotton, August 1, 1901.
After reading the letter, Han Nuowei felt a chill. He stuffed the parchment roll into his fanny bag, stared at the short sword for a moment, and gritted his teeth to pick it up.
Han Nuowei turned off the light above his head, returned to the hut, and went straight to the "wall of flowers and plants" between the two bookcases.
A roar sounded, and the gray smoke rushed straight to Han Nuowei's face. He took a few steps back, quietly waiting for the smoke to clear.
Two marble seats appeared within the walls, the one on the left was empty, and the one on the right sat a dried corpse.
It was an old man of extraordinary bearing at a glance, sitting upright, with long gray hair hanging down from his shoulders, and eyebrows and beard that looked like a fairy in mythology. He was dressed in a simple and elegant gray gown, and although his face was dry and blurred, he could still see the silhouette of a European.
Han Nuowei's heart was pounding, and even though he guessed that the person in the chair was Cotton, it was still difficult for him to accept this way of facing the remains of his ancestors. He stepped forward and respectfully slipped Cotton's limbs into the four metal rings of the chair, but Cotton was so light that he seemed to float up at any moment, and he had to be extremely careful to make sure it was held in place as described by the parchment roll.
Then, Han Nuowei slowly inserted the short sword into the empty groove at the top of the empty stone chair until the sword body was completely submerged in the stone.
After everything was ready, Han Nuowei looked respectful and whispered with a serious attitude, "five-me." ”
Han Nowei sat down on the empty stone chair, he took several deep breaths, and trembled to take Cotton's hand as he placed his other hand into the metal ring of the armrest.
Before he was ready, he suddenly fell into the darkness. He felt as if he was sitting on a speeding minecart, stumbling into the unknowable future. Behind him was the sound of rumbling explosions, surrounded by darkness as night, and there was a roaring noise in his ears, and for a moment, he wanted to light the lamp on his head, but he didn't dare let go of Cotton's hand. He felt that in such a high-speed impact, Cotton's dry hand seemed to have a calming power, allowing him to calm down and calmly meet the coming fate.
But this kind of bump was too violent, Han Nuowei felt pain everywhere in his body, although he gritted his teeth and endured it, but when the "minecart" hit a particularly large reef, Han Nuowei's forehead still hit a sharp object, he screamed in pain and fainted.
When Han Nuowei woke up, a cold and piercing sensation hit the soles of his feet, and he opened his eyes with difficulty, and the salty sea breeze unceremoniously hit his face.
He's out!
Han Nuowei couldn't help laughing, he didn't dare to relax all the way, he didn't dare to stay, for this moment, because he never thought about what to do if he was trapped at the bottom of the sea forever.
Han Nuowei got up, turned on the light above his head, looked at the hole in his diving boot, and said softly: "Fate is such cunning, the more you are afraid, the more it will open its teeth and claws." Only when you are no longer afraid, and walk forward without looking back, can you pierce through its armor. ”
He looked around, and then he realized that he was deep in a semi-open cave, a large cave, located on a small island in the sea, surrounded on all sides by raging waves. And Cotton is long gone. He spread out his hand, and in the palm of his hand was a ring, a surprisingly green jadeite embedded in two symmetrical diamond tiger heads, and four claws protruding from the top of the tiger's head, which happened to hold the jadeite in the center of the ring. The ring is pure gold, and the whole ring is heavy in your hand.
Han Nuowei remembered the description on the parchment scroll, so he carefully put the ring away.
The sky was gray and there was no moon in sight, Han Nuowei wanted to see the time, but when he raised his hand, he found that the diving watch had been dropped. He listened intently for a while, and the tide of the sea was fierce. Han Nuowei sat down cross-legged to rest unhurriedly. The light overhead was so weak that he couldn't see far at all, "Anyway, when the tide recedes at dawn, you can see where I am." ”
Han Nuowei took a nap and had a dream. In the dream, he returned to his home in Hancheng, his mother was not sick, his father was not old, he did not grow up, and he did not even know Tao Baihe.
The call of the seabird woke Han Nuowei, and when he opened his eyes, the sky was already dark. He jumped to his feet, and sure enough, he saw that the tide had receded. Obviously, the island is not far from the mainland, but the sea floods the shallows where the island meets the mainland at high tide.
Han Nuowei stepped on the water on the shallows and ran to the shore quickly. He picked some wild fruits from the bushes on the side of the road to satisfy his hunger, this little thing that the locals called "bell fruits" was sour and not delicious, but Han Nuowei had not eaten or drunk for nearly twenty-four hours, and for him, these wild fruits were the fastest source of energy.
After Han Nuowei walked through a forest, he finally saw the road, and he walked along the road for most of the day before he encountered a hitchhiker. He had an ugly face and was wearing a dirty diving suit, which was not reassuring no matter how you looked at it. Fortunately, he remembered the name of the village of Manji, and he begged for a while before the fisherman agreed to take him on a ride.
When Ma Dui saw Han Nuowei, he was half frightened. According to his words, he waited until late, and then he heard a great movement at the bottom of the sea, and then he sent people down, but the hull had exploded, and he thought that Han Nuowei and Rau were "staying" at the bottom of the sea. Han Nowei didn't explain much, except that a small part of the radiation leaked, causing an explosion, and he and Raud were scattered.
Han Nuowei changed into a military uniform and ate a simple fisherman's lunch with indescribable happiness. Although Ma Dui was angry that he didn't help Han Nuowei anything, he still accepted the money that the other party took out of the car at the other party's insistence.
"By the way, do you have any family members in Raudu?" Han Nuowei said nonchalantly.
"No, he's a big bachelor, what's wrong?"
"Oh, I want to say, should I give him a little compensation, after all, he went to sea for the country. Then I'll give it to you, and you can take care of it. With that, Han Nuowei opened his wallet again, took out five hundred dollars and handed it to Ma Dui.
Ma Dui took it hesitantly, "Then, Lieutenant Wu, will you come again?"
"I think so, after all, it's not handled here, and I'll let you know when the time comes. Han Nuowei said coldly, then opened the car door, nodded to Ma Dui, got in the car and left.
A group of fishermen watched Lieutenant Wu's car, and it was not until the car disappeared at the end of the road that everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to gossip. Some bet that he would drive directly to Yangon, others said that he would go to the nearest testing station first, after all, he had been exposed to radiation, and still others insisted that since he was a soldier, he would abide by military discipline and return to the army as soon as possible.
However, none of them expected that Han Nuowei's destination was the island in the sea.
Han Nuowei turned around, and after finally driving the car to the edge of the island, he immediately took out the shovel and rope that he had just asked for in Manji Village from the back compartment, and quickly returned to the island. He had to finish it before the sun went down, or he would have to spend the night on the island.
According to the parchment scroll, amber is buried deep in the cave of the island, if it is still there. With this thought in mind, Han Nuowei began to dig non-stop.
When the shovel "clanged" and hit the hard object, Han Nuowei almost cried with joy, he dug harder, and soon, a heavy large iron box slowly revealed its true face. It is about one and a half meters long, one meter wide, and half a meter high, and has a layer of brown rust on the surface, which looks eerie. Han Nuowei took out the towel from his waist, wiped off the soil on the surface of the box, and saw the familiar "han" with the number "1" behind it. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued digging.
Han Nuowei dug for hours, and he did not stop until finally the shovel hit a hard rock formation. Each box was engraved with a number, the largest being "16", and he counted the number of boxes, and it was indeed sixteen. This number made Han Nuowei very puzzled, but he didn't have time to think about it. He put one end of the rope around one of the boxes, tied a fixed knot, and tied the other end to the tractor on the wagon. At this time, the sky had begun to darken, and the tide was gradually rising, Han Nuowei jumped back into the car and started the engine.
The truck was not very energetic on the beach, and Han Nuowei stepped on the accelerator to the end, holding his breath, and finally dragged the box to the shore. He didn't bother to wipe his sweat, but he removed a long plank from the carriage, put it on the edge of the carriage, and then activated the tractor and dragged the box to the carriage. After sixteen round-trips, he finally loaded all the boxes to the wagon before the water flooded the shallows.
Han Nuowei changed into the civilian clothes he had prepared in advance and put away his military uniform. Military uniforms can "bluff" fishermen in remote fishing villages, but they cannot fool patrol officers on the road.
It was an extremely stressful night, and when driving on the highway, Han Nuowei was a little more relieved, and the speed of the car was able to maintain 130 yards. But it was more of a potholed dirt road, and he had to slow down, and at the same time he had to lift his spirits.
On the way, he only rested for an hour at a gas station and ate something by the way. The thought of carrying a cart of what was a ticking time bomb made him want to fly back to Myitkyina with wings.
In the evening of the next day, Han Nuowei, who had traveled almost day and night, finally arrived at his destination. When he saw the door of the warehouse that had been rented in advance, he felt like he was in a different world.
Han Nuowei reversed the car into the warehouse, and then used the old forklift in the warehouse to remove all the boxes on the truck. After parking the empty car on the edge of the warehouse, he pulled down the iron door of the warehouse, and finally locked it.
Now, no one can bother him.