The surging dark clouds obscured the moonlight, the thunder was getting closer and closer, and a rainstorm was just around me, I turned my head to look at Lao Lin beside me, she was my colleague for three years, my friend, and my only companion at the moment.

She met my eyes with a frightened gaze, and the wind ruffled her long hair, revealing a bit of ghost in the light of the flashlight.

We are in a very bad situation, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the rainstorm is imminent, but we are in the barren mountains and mountains, there is nowhere to hide, there is only a dry well in front of us, and the black well mouth seems to be the entrance to the unknown world.

I couldn't wait any longer, so I threw the rope down the well, and said to Lao Lin at the same time: "It's going to rain, there is no place to shelter from the rain, you better go down with me!" ”

She hesitated for a moment before nodding, and could see that she had a hard time making this decision, because she had always been timid and afraid of the dark, and before she came, we said that she was only responsible for controlling the wind on it, and I would go down the well myself, who expected that there would be unforeseen wind and clouds, and the bright moon and stars would be replaced by lightning and thunder in a blink of an eye, so I had to let her go down with me.

Speaking of the reason we are here, it is all because I stumbled upon a treasure map, which was a month ago on a Friday night when I went out for a walk after dinner and picked up a brand new thermos cup in the trash can in a nearby park.

At first, I didn't believe that this picture was real, because I had the impression that the 'treasure map' was limited to appearing in movies and novels, so I didn't put it at ease at the time, and I didn't tell anyone except Lao Lin.

It wasn't until a week ago, when we went home to be unemployed due to the company's layoffs, that we turned out the map and studied it carefully, and found that the location recorded on it not only existed, but also was in the province, so I moved my mind.

Those of us who leave our hometowns to work can reunite with our families for a few days throughout the year, and we don't have much money to take home to honor our parents.

Lao Lin and I proposed to go on a treasure hunt here, and at first she was firmly opposed, but I persuaded her that this treasure lot is not an ancient tomb, and it is not far from the city where we work.

And according to the records on the map, this well is a rich man surnamed Li during the Republic of China, the warehouse where the family fled before the treasure, as for why there are no descendants to find, the map is not written, but the calculation time is almost a hundred years, if there are descendants have already come to find, now this money is the same as picking up in vain.

Anyway, the treasure is buried in the ground is also a waste of resources, it is better for us to try our luck, even if we run empty, the right to travel to relax, in case of success, only pick up gold and silver, sell it back to my hometown, do some small business by myself, it is better than working for people, Lao Lin is soft, I persuaded and nodded and agreed, and there was this treasure hunt.

After some preparation, we rushed here according to the route marked on the map, but unfortunately the weather was not beautiful, so that she, who originally wanted to stay on it and post the sentry, had to go down the well with me.

This well is located on the shady side of the hillside, surrounded by several locust trees, the mouth of the well is very narrow, adults can not turn around at all, I fixed the rope to the old locust tree next to it, put on a mask that looks like a gas mask and took the lead in climbing the rope down the well, Lao Lin followed behind, she didn't plan to come down, she didn't prepare anything, and after sliding down for a while, she was choked by the strange smell of the well and coughed.

It was only two meters deep, the raindrops of beans smashed into the well, and the rainstorm poured down in an instant, we hurriedly accelerated the speed of the fall, the bottom of the well was unusually cold, fortunately, the space below was abundant, the shape of the well was in the shape of a wine pot, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the bottle strength was longer, and the broad part at the bottom was more than two meters high.

I put my feet on the ground, raised the flashlight to look around, and found that the bottom of the well was actually a square space, Lao Lin came down and clinged to me, I knew that her fear of the dark was unusual, and even in her own house she had to sleep with the lamp lit all night, so I patted her arm to appease.

"Lao Li, it's gloomy here, it's too scary, where is the baby you are talking about?"

"Do as the picture says, look for the mechanism on the wall of the well!" As I spoke, I pulled out a mason's shovel from my backpack and handed it to her, asking her to help clean one side of the well.

I put a miniature flashlight in my mouth, scraped the soil off the wall of the well with a small spatula, and after scraping for a while, the metal wall inside was revealed, and I named it Sanzhang Copper Well, because according to the description on the map, it is three zhang deep, and the wall and bottom of the well are cast in bronze.

Such a strange well was obviously not built for water, but there is one thing I don't understand, if it was the rich man Li who dug such a well to hide the treasure, why did he use bronze as the wall? At that time, it was not uncommon to use bronze to make utensils, but it was never possible to make such a large-scale bronze well, in fact, even in the pre-Qin era when bronze was flourishing, I had never heard of anyone using bronze to make wells.

How much does this cost, and what kind of financial resources? Of course, I'm not here for archaeology, and this question was only put down after two turns in my heart.

The bottom of the well was full of sedimentary silt and rotting leaves, and after a while the old forest was so smoky with the pungent smell that I took off my mask and let her put it on, and the sound of thunderstorms on the ground came to the bottom of the well, as if from another world.

As the metal wall was exposed more and more under our cleaning, my doubts became deeper and deeper, although the wall of the well was seriously corroded, but I could still see that it was originally cast with patterns, but the ornamentation had long been blurred, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but I was not sure. I was pondering, and suddenly heard Lao Lin scream, I hurriedly shone a flashlight at her position, and saw a bronze beast head exposed on the wall of the well in front of her, with a copper ring in her mouth.

The bronze beast's head protrudes from the wall, about the size of a football, with a hideous expression, angry eyes, and exposed fangs, which is indeed quite terrifying at first glance.

"That's it, wait, there should be the same copper ring on the other side!" I was overjoyed, and I hurriedly followed the position of this copper ring to find the corresponding position on the opposite side of the well wall, and soon found another beast head and copper ring.

I asked Lao Lin to hold the copper ring on her side, and I held my side tightly, and the two of them pulled out at the same time, Lao Lin did not do it immediately, but asked worriedly: "What if there is danger?" I don't think I'd better move! ”

In fact, I don't have the bottom in my heart, so far everything written on the map is right, but I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what happens, I look at the copper ring, and look at the rope we came down, I'm not sure I'm unwilling, but the personal safety of me and Lao Lin is also equally important.

After thinking about it, I took out the other two ropes, fortunately we prepared more ropes, I tied one end of the rope to the copper ring, and the other end I took Lao Lin and I out of the wellhead, and when we reached the top, the two of them pulled the rope at the same time, driving the copper ring below to pull outward.

It may be the relationship between angle and distance, we have spent a lot of effort on it, and people are also drenched like a chicken in soup to pull the copper ring, I suppressed the excitement in my heart, and waited for the change at the bottom of the well with bated breath, but there was no movement below.

Are we doing something wrong? I carefully recalled the contents of the treasure map, probably not, it was an extremely simple mechanism, we waited a few more minutes to be on the safe side, and it was still quiet below.

"It doesn't seem to be dangerous, I'll go down and take a look, you wait up there first." With that, I climbed down the rope again.

Halfway down, the pull of the rope suddenly loosened, and before I could make a sound, my body was already falling rapidly!