Chapter 1: The Stone Wall Under the Mine
Forty hundred meters underground, what was supposed to be a group of coal miners working, has become a group of uniformed, bespectacled people reading with brushes in their hands. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After two months of cleaning and excavation, a huge stone wall appeared in the mine.
A large stone gate about three zhang high and two zhang wide came into the eyes of everyone.
Among these bespectacled staff, the leader was a professor from the local archaeological college, who couldn't stop marveling at this scene.
"Creation, creation!"
Located in the southwest of Shanxi Province, the mine is one of the largest coal mines in Shanxi Province, which has been developed since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but with the depression of the coal mining industry, although the coal mine has not stopped mining, the raw coal mined is far less than one-tenth of the heyday.
It was a coal mine that was close to shutting down, but two months ago, an astonishing discovery by miners working underground brought the mine back into people's sight.
The miners repeated the heavy work as usual, and the machine suddenly stopped working halfway through the digging, and the underground engineers rushed to check on the machine, and after continuous correction and debugging, no problems were found, and the machines for underground operation seemed to fail for no reason.
Underground operations, large-scale mining equipment is easy to move forward, difficult to go backwards, and everyone is helpless, so they have to retreat the equipment.
The moment the device retreated, someone immediately shouted.
"Look, there's something here!"
A stone wall carved with pictures was exposed, and everyone realized that what made this large-scale mining equipment unable to move forward was actually a stone wall.
This stone gate carving is very ancient, I don't know how many years have passed, and it is actually buried 400 meters deep underground, but no one knows.
At this time, the underground were full of engineers and coal miners, all of whom were talking to each other, and some people even began to speculate about the good luck of this thing.
The engineer who led the scene reacted first, and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted the ground.
In less than half a day, the local municipal department made a response, gathering more than 10 local historians and archaeologists to excavate the stone wall with the help of miners working underground.
At first, the appearance of this stone wall, coupled with the random speculation of some people in the coal mine, thought that the appearance of this stone wall was a bad omen, and no one wanted to go down the mine again.
In order to cooperate with the work of the temporary archaeological team, and if ancient ruins or even giant tombs are found under the mine, this mine on the verge of collapse will become a treasure trove again.
Shen San, the owner of the coal mine, is a very calculating person, and even if this place is confiscated by the government in the future, he will receive a large amount of compensation.
These years have only turned around in Shen San's mind, and when it was announced that anyone who was willing to go down the mine to cooperate with the work of the temporary archaeological team would triple his salary.
You must know that although working underground is dangerous, the original salary is already very high, and tripling it is a lot of income, when even more than a dozen people agree to go down to the mine to help.
After two months of careful excavation by the archaeological team and miners, the stone wall finally leaked out of its original appearance.
Coal boss Shen San, a hanging heart has finally fallen to the ground, not afraid that there will be nothing here, but afraid that there will be nothing, otherwise, Shen San's investment these days has become a bamboo basket to draw water.
Wiping a handful of cold sweat on his head, Rao was mentally prepared, but he didn't expect that it would take such a long time, such a huge stone wall, and so many manpower and material resources.
The stone wall is full of pine, crane relief paintings, full of auspicious images, people can't help but show a little respect, the corner of the stone wall is inconspicuous in an inconspicuous place carved with four big characters.
Although it is an ancient character, Professor Song, who is in the lead, recognized it at a glance, this is a bird seal, looking at the four big characters on the stone wall in front of him, and muttering to himself.
"The Land of Immortals."
In addition to surprise, it was more of a surprise, his chest rose and fell, his heart was beating wildly, and his breathing became a little heavy.
"Professor, what's wrong?" Shen San saw that Professor Song was a little strange, and couldn't help but ask.
"Could it be that there are really immortals in this world?" Professor Song didn't raise his head, his eyes stared directly at the words on the stone wall, and he didn't know if he answered Shen San's words or talked to himself.
"Immortals?" Shen San was a little puzzled: "Professor, you are also a scholar, how can you still believe in such an ethereal thing, according to me, these words are nothing more than scare." ”
"At a depth of 400 meters, this kind of writing is at least 2,000 years old, and the stone wall is so well preserved that it shows that it was buried here at the beginning of construction." Professor Song's words are not only an explanation for himself, but also for others.
The huge stone wall is extremely difficult for archaeology to move off the ground.
For the discovery of ancient relics in this kind of place, the Provincial Bureau of Culture and even the Ministry of Culture are highly concerned.
The members of the archaeological team spent more than ten days in the underground to study this stone wall, trying to find the origin and age of the stone wall.
At the same time, the ground research institute will date the debris of the stone wall to carbon 14.
The result was that the stone wall was formed only 2,000 years ago.
It gathered the country's experts in the field of Shanxi culture, and read all the local chronicles, historical facts, and wild histories of Shanxi, but there was no introduction to this stone wall.
As soon as the news came out, for the inconspicuous four bird seals, some people thought that they were the relics of the fairy world.
Some scientologists believe that it is an alien remnant.
For a while, all kinds of rumors and speculations were flying all over the sky, because they could not move away from the ground, and the archaeologists were a little helpless in the study of this stone wall.
And this attracted a second group of people to station, the expert group of physics.
The dismantling and removal of this stone wall is best preserved in the case of such ancient ruins.
But the place where the stone wall is located does not allow them to do this, the danger of underground dismantling work is no less than mining, such a huge stone gate is not careful, it will lead to the collapse of the whole mine, so the presence of mechanics experts is unavoidable.
The members of the physics group are experts and scholars from various universities, and there are also many graduate students and doctoral students.
In the face of the huge stone wall, they all put forward different dismantling opinions.
"Block cutting is certain, but what kind of equipment do we want to use, the underground conditions are limited, and large equipment can't be transported in, so let's talk about it."
The speaker was Luo Ning, a physics expert invited from Shanghai by the provincial party committee, who is only 40 years old this year and enjoys a good reputation in the international community for his research on mechanics.
When the words were asked, everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to speak easily.