Chapter 18: The Cave
"Is this an underground cave?" I asked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"That's right, this is the underground area in the remote sensing photos that I showed you in Xi'an. Cheng Jiao explained while notifying several "frogmen" above.
"No wonder the photo shows a huge turtle underground, and it turns out to be an underground cave in the shape of a turtle. Da Mao exclaimed on the side and said, "Nature is really amazing." ”
"This cave was actually discovered in the 80s of the last century through remote sensing technology, and was named 'Yuan Cave', but official information shows that no expedition team or expedition team has entered this cave so far, so the internal situation of this cave is still blank. Cheng Jiao added.
"But there have been many groups of tomb robbers who have visited this place before, both ancient and modern, as well as the mysterious archaeological team, but they may all have died here," I thought to myself.
"But why did Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng build their tombs in a cave? Is it just to prevent theft? This is so time-consuming and labor-intensive, I don't know how they did it at that time?" Da Mao asked.
"This is Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's superiority, they are all top feng shui masters, the ancients pay attention to life and dwelling, death has a place, and the highest state of death is buried in the turtle sleeping place, according to legend, the turtle sleeping place can protect the body from rotting, one day can be reborn again, the ancients believed in the natural way of heaven, so it is not surprising that the shape of the giant tortoise 'Tian Yuan Cave' is the so-called turtle sleeping treasure land, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng built the tomb here is not surprising. These two Taoist elders had countless followers during their lifetimes, even including many royal relatives and dignitaries, and it was not impossible to build a tomb here. Tang Ying said on the side.
I rarely heard Tang Ying say so many words at one time, Tang Ying is usually extremely cold and arrogant, especially disdainful of Da Mao and Ermao who were born in small gangsters, and today I can answer so many words to the questions raised by Da Mao, it seems that I am indeed quite impressed by the cultivation of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.
Cheng Jiao nodded beside her and said: "It's indeed like Tang Ying said, but as for the ancient times when science and technology were not developed, how Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng learned that this cave resembled a giant turtle is unknown, in addition, according to historical records, Yuan and Li offended Wu Zetian because of Wu Zetian's choice of tomb site, but why they were able to build their tomb so close to Qianling is also an unknown mystery. ”
Everyone was talking about the Tiangang Tomb and the cave, but Wu Lan didn't say a word with his customary and trademark smile on the side. I looked at Wu Lan, and said in my heart that this Wu Lan and Tang Ying usually don't like to talk much, maybe people who have the ability are like this, but Tang Ying doesn't like to talk because of arrogance, and Wu Lan is always mysterious, although his appearance and demeanor are easy to make people have a good impression of him, but his mystery makes people stay away from him, I believe he must know a lot of things, and these things are likely to be related to my previous encounters, I must ask him face to face when I have the opportunity.
At this time, several "frogmen" on the well also came down one after another, Da Mao looked at it, and said worriedly: "All the people have come down, what should we do when we go out?"
"This means that we don't have to worry about how to get out, because if you come down, you don't want to go out alive", I replied half-jokingly, in fact, I have the same questions in my heart as Da Mao.
"Our people have agreed that someone from above will come to pick us up in two days, so whether this operation succeeds or fails, we must return here in two days," Cheng Jiao said.
"I hope I can come back in two days," Da Mao said with a wry smile.
Everyone rested on the platform, Cheng Jiao said that according to the remote sensing photos, the entire karst cave area is quite large, with a radius of more than 40 square kilometers, and it is estimated that the internal structure is very complex. However, they had already done a lot of research on the information they could collect, and according to Feng Shui, it was speculated that Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng probably built their tombs in the "intersection of yin and yang" in the turtle sleeping place, where yin and yang intersect, balanced and complementary, and most conducive to the preservation of corpses. In the yin and yang fish of the Bagua diagram, the "intersection of yin and yang" is the two "fish eyes", and according to the concept of the unity of heaven and man, it actually represents the two kidneys. The kidney is the treasure of the body, which is not only the birthplace of "yang", but also the gathering place of "yin", so it is "the place where yin and yang meet". According to the concept of "right is respected" by the ancients, the Tiangang tomb is likely to be located in the place where the right kidney of the "giant tortoise" is located.
"But the above is just speculation", Cheng Jiao said: "We can only grope forward, without the help of the spirit snake beads, it is easy to get lost, so everyone must follow the command and do not act alone, otherwise it is very dangerous." Then, he said to me: "Our boss naturally has his purpose in visiting the Tiangang Tomb, but judging from the previous situation, the two people in the photo and Wang Yu are likely to have entered the Tiangang Tomb, so you and your people had better obey the command and cooperate well, after all, the most important thing is that everyone's goal can be achieved." ”
"Okay, no problem", I said, but I thought in my heart: "The little girl usually looks at the film and laughs very gently, but when it comes to the task, it really looks like that, hehe, don't come to this set, you say cooperate with it? Wu Men Tianxia Xian' and Wang Fatzi's entrustment to help find Xiaopang, in fact, it is not to achieve their own goals, at a certain time, I have to act at the opportunity, if I find Xiaopang, I must find a way to escape, so that I will not help your boss find what kind of treasure and broken book he said. ”
After explaining on the platform, everyone took out the flashlight from their backpacks. Because it is convenient to move when going down the well, just use the headlamp for lighting, the headlamp is not very bright after all, and this strong light flashlight is an enhanced version of the American wolf's eye field adventure flashlight, the brightness is extremely high, and the opponent's eyes can also make the opponent temporarily blind when in danger. When everyone turned on the flashlight and illuminated the entire cave as bright as day, I could see the inside of the cave clearly.
The cave where we are is is the size of two football fields, according to Cheng Jiao, the position we are now in is at the tail of the "giant tortoise", that is to say, the cave where we are now is a very small part of the entire turtle-shaped cave area, which shows how large the entire cave area is.
The cave is full of stalactites of all sizes, small ones are the size of an awl, and the big ones are two or three people high, and there are many strange caves around. The steps next to the platform extend to an underground river below, and the platform we are on is about 20 meters high, and the underground river below does not seem to have a large amount of water, and the current is not very fast, slowly flowing into a cave.
We walked down the steps to the underground river, the river water is very clear, only two or three meters deep, through the strong flashlight can clearly see the bottom of the river, there are some small fish swimming around in the river, there are a few salamander-like things by the river frightened by the flashlight and hurriedly fled to the river, looking at the appearance of the river does not seem to be in any danger.
The two "frogmen" took out two canvas bags from the equipment on their backs, just like the bags that usually hold camping tents, and after opening the bags, they took out a roll of things from each of them, which was orange and red, and the material was rubber, tightly rolled together. "Frogman" put the roll on the ground, and when he pulled the pull ring on it, the roll began to inflate itself and quickly expanded, and it took less than a minute to complete the inflation, and when I saw it, it was two large rubber boats.
Da Mao and Er Mao couldn't stop admiring on the side: "It's really advanced enough." ”
Cheng Jiao said that they had sent someone down to visit before, and they would definitely have to take the waterway to enter the Tiangang Tomb, so they prepared rubber boats and frogman clothes.
Our group: I, Da Mao, Ermao, Wu Lan, Tang Ying, Cheng Jiao, Chen Asi and the other five "frogmen" are a total of twelve people, among them, I and Da Mao, Ermao, Wu Lan, and that Chen Asi and a frogman ride in a rubber boat, Cheng Jiao, Tang Ying and the other four frogmen take another rubber boat, I know that the one named "Chen Asi" said that Cheng Jiao and their boss sent me to protect me, it is better to monitor me.
The frogman dragged the rubber boat into the river, everyone got on the rubber boat, Cheng Jiao's rubber boat was in front, our rubber boat was behind, there was a frogman sliding paddle on each boat, and the rubber boat drifted along the water to the cave in front.
When the dinghy reached the mouth of the cave, the current became a little turbulent, and the frogman of the rowing boat carefully controlled the direction to avoid hitting the cave wall. The rubber boat enters the hole, this hole is twisted and does not know how long, the depth is unfathomable, the cave is quite spacious, the wide place is twenty or thirty meters, and the narrow place is more than ten meters, enough for the rubber boat to pass, but the height is not very high, if a person gets up from the boat, he has to bend down and bow his head.
The cave is very quiet, only the sound of paddling and the sound of water dripping from time to time, everyone uses flashlights to shine around, vigilantly observing the surrounding situation, but everything seems to be normal, I don't feel any danger, I don't know what happened to those who entered this underground cave before.
The boat drifted slowly along the underground river, rounding several bends, and there were some tributaries and holes on the way, Cheng Jiao looked at the drawings and compass, and walked towards the location of the "right kidney of the giant tortoise" where the Tiangang tomb might be located in advance.
I took a flashlight to shine a flashlight on the river, although it was not as clear as outside the cave, but it was not muddy, but the depth of the river was obviously much deeper than in the cave outside, and the flashlight could not reach the bottom of the river. There are only a few small fish swimming in the river, and occasionally a few small plankton that I can't name. From time to time, there would be some salamander-like things that you could see outside the cave on the walls of the caves on both sides of the river, and they would hide in the water as soon as they saw the light.
Ermao yawned, seemed to be bored, and was about to fall asleep, Da Mao also said, so exciting, preparing so many weapons, I thought it was dangerous, and it didn't seem to be anything to be afraid of, but I casually glanced at Wu Lan and found that the customary and iconic smile on his face was gone, and his expression was serious, as if something would happen at any time, so I didn't dare to be careless.
The rubber boat sailed through a bend and entered a relatively wide area, this area is a small karst cave, the cave is flooded by the river, the cave wall is exposed to the river surface of the potholes are full of fist-sized holes, about forty or fifty meters wide, the top is seven or eight meters according to the river surface, the cave is covered with large and small stalactites, in the middle of the cave there is a huge stalactite from the top of the cave straight into the river, dividing the river into two sides.
As the dinghy drove into the cave, there was a sudden sound, "clatter, clatter" as if something was rubbing, and it was on our boat.
When I looked back, I found that Wu Lan's expression was more solemn, as if he was thoughtful, and the sound of "click, click" came from him. I followed the sound and looked, and it was the sword in Wu Lan's hand that made the sound.
Before Wu Lan went down the well, he took out his big sword from the box with the black pipe and put it on his back, I was very curious, and asked Wu Lan the name of this sword, and learned from Wu Lan's mouth that just like Hu Qi's previous analysis, this sword is indeed a famous giant sword in history, but Wu Lan did not say how he got this sword. At that time, Da Mao, Ermao and several other frogmen came around to look at this giant sword, and found that its scabbard seemed to be made of the skin of some animal, very hard, with patterns on it, the scabbard seal was made of copper, antique, the sword was very bright, as if it would emit a halo, the sword body was jet black, there were twill lines on it, and the cold air was pressing.
Wu Lan has always held the sword in his hand since he got on the rubber boat, and the friction sound of "click, click" is the sound of the sword rubbing against the scabbard, and the sound is getting louder and louder, more and more urgent. I once heard that the ancient sword had the function of warding off evil spirits, and when there was any danger or something unclean around, it would rub the scabbard or scabbard to make a sound to warn the owner.
I only heard Wu Lan say softly: "This cave is a little weird. ”