Chapter Ninety-Six: Nine Qu Eighteen Caves
Zhou Xuanfu looked down at the edge of the cave, the entrance of the cave was round, only about one and a half meters in diameter, and he only saw a distance of three or four meters down, and then it was dark and pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, and he could clearly feel the cold air flow from the inside up.
Zhou Xuan picked up a fist-sized stone and threw it inside, and then listened with his ears sideways, this action lasted for more than a minute, and he still didn't hear the sound of the stone falling to the bottom.
Zhou Xuan shook his head, this unfathomable hole is different from the water hole in the United States, but there is one thing in common, that is, it is the same terrifying place.
Wei Xiaoqing also picked up a stone beside Zhou Xuan and learned him to throw it down, and then listened attentively.
Zhou Xuan saw that she was quite close to the cave, so he quickly pulled her back and said, "A girl's family, I don't know how to be afraid!" ”
Wang Qiang and Wang Sheng brothers put the tools they carried on the ground, while investigating the terrain near the entrance of the cave, while drawing on the paper, Zhou Xuan looked at it with interest, presumably calculating the depth and direction distance of the entrance in the cave, what they have been doing for a long time is to drill holes.
Everyone else took a look at this bottomless deep hole, and then they all sat in the open space outside the cave entrance and waited for Li Jinlong and the others to arrive.
After Wei Xiaoqing pulled Zhou Xuan away, she didn't hear the sound of the stones she threw falling to the bottom for a long time, and she couldn't help but stick out her tongue, with a frightened expression on her face: "It's so deep!" ”
"Needless to say!" Li Quan, a local, knows much more about this cave, and after listening to Wei Xiaoqing's words, he said, "In the cold winter, there will be fog rising out of the cave, and the fog is so much that it can cover the entire mountain, and after the heavy rain in June, sometimes there will be rainbows rising from the cave to the sky." ”
"Rainbow? Have you ever seen a rainbow come out of this hole? Wei Xiaoqing asked in surprise, she had seen rainbows, but she had never seen them from anywhere.
Li Quan nodded and replied: "Yes, I have seen it with my own eyes, I have seen the rainbow that came out of this cave and connected to the sky five or six times, every time it is after a rainstorm, I heard the old people say that this is a demon practicing in the cave in the alchemy and exhaling, and the rainbow is the demon's inner pill!" ”
Zhou Xuan is a little funny, although he has a fear of unknown things, but he still doesn't believe in fairies, demons and demons, he believes that there are strange abilities in this world, there are aliens, and there are many, many strange things that he doesn't know, but he never believes in ghosts, gods and monsters.
Fu Ying also smiled and said: "The rainbow is caused by the sunlight hitting the small droplets in the sky that are close to the circle, causing dispersion and reflection. When sunlight hits a water droplet, it is incident at different angles at the same time, and it is reflected at different angles within the water droplet. The reflection is strongest at about 40 degrees, forming the rainbow we see. In this reflection, sunlight enters the water droplet, first refracts it once, then reflects on the back of the water droplet, and finally refracts it again when it leaves the water droplet. Because water has a dispersive effect on light, the refractive index of light of different wavelengths is different, and the refractive angle of blue light is greater than that of red light. Since the light is reflected inside the water droplets, we see the spectrum upside down, with red light at the top and other colors at the bottom! ”
Fu Ying's explanation can be said to be in the form of a direct and clear textbook, and everyone can understand it.
Li Quan's understanding of scientific and cultural knowledge can be compared to Fu Ying, who was taught in foreign institutions of higher learning?
But Li Quan is also noncommittal about Fu Ying's statement, in his opinion, what the teacher teaches is not necessarily all right, such as ghosts and gods, they are the most particular about robbing tombs, stealing the things of the dead, and there are many rules for the dead, otherwise they can't take away the things of the dead.
Gossip said that time flies quickly, twenty minutes later, Li Jinlong, Li Yong and the five of them arrived with tools, and about five minutes after they arrived, Ling Hui also arrived, and she was accompanied by six or seven policemen from the bureau, bringing several large bags of burrowing equipment.
Ling Hui reported to the Lan senior again: "Chief, Xiaoyangshan is guarded by plainclothes police within 100 meters of four or five meters, and it is impossible for outsiders to break in. ”
Ling Hui and a few policemen who came with her opened the bag again and took out the equipment they brought, including a strong light, a DV camera, a nylon rope, a steel wire pulley, and a DV display receiver.
One of the policemen introduced: "Chief, this kind of steel wire pulley can be fixed on it, the length of the steel wire is 1,000 meters, the load is 400 kilograms, the speed of rising and falling can reach up to 35 meters a minute, and when sliding, the speed can be adjusted by itself." ”
Then he took out more than a dozen mobile phones-like exquisite communication equipment, and the policeman introduced: "This is a wireless powerful walkie-talkie, shockproof and waterproof, the communication distance can reach 2,000 meters, and in the case of obstacles, it can reach 200 meters." ”
In the end, they came out with a batch of gas masks, and it seems that Director Wu was quite well prepared for their requirements.
Li Jinlong and the others brought all the tools needed to rob the tomb, but also brought a bamboo basket, a rooster, a horsetail lamp, and a piece of red cloth.
That lamp, Zhou Xuan has seen, some places are called horsetail lights, some places are called horse lamps, when I was a child, my hometown was not electrified when I was a child, there was a glass cover outside, the bottom was an iron oil box, which was filled with kerosene, after the lamp was lit, the glass cover was covered, and the wind could not be extinguished, this lamp is not common now, because there is basically no place for electricity, even if there is a power outage, there are candle lighting.
Zhou Xuan still understands these things when he sees them, but he has seen them in his hometown.
In Zhou Xuan's hometown, there are a lot of sinkholes, but they are usually much bigger than the current one, there is no such a small one, the smallest sinkhole in his hometown is hundreds of meters wide, when he was small, the old cattle of Uncle Liu's family next door were eating the grass on the edge of the cliff at the sinkhole in the back mountain, and he fell into the sinkhole, and Uncle Liu invited someone to go to the sinkhole to pull the cow.
Zhou Xuan and more than a dozen children watched with him, and they all had a sense of fear and curiosity about the sinkhole.
Zhou Xuan heard at that time that the use of the horse lantern is to test whether there is oxygen and air at the bottom of the sinkhole, the horse lamp is on, the lamp needs air when it burns, if there is no air, the lamp will go out, the use of the rooster is basically the same, one is to test whether there is air at the bottom of the sinkhole, and the other is to test whether there is a monster or something like that in the sinkhole. There are usually monsters cultivating in the sinkhole, and the chicken is put down to see if there is a demon, and if there is, it will devour the chicken.
Li Jinlong lit the lantern first, covered the hood and put it in the bamboo basket, and the rooster tied its feet and wings, unable to move, just cooing.
There were three ears on the sides of the bamboo basket, and after Li Jinlong tied the nylon rope to the three ears, he then wrapped the red cloth around his waist around the bamboo basket.
There's a name for it, it's called "Putting Red!" "Red means to worship God and ward off evil spirits.
After Li Jinlong did this, he was about to put the bamboo basket into the hole, and the blue senior suddenly shouted: "Slow! ”
Li Jinlong was stunned and asked, "Do you still have to wait?" ”
Lan Gao shook his head, pointed to the bamboo basket and said, "Tie a strong light to the rope on the top of the bamboo basket, and then tie the DV machine to see if you can see anything." ”
Li Jinlong suddenly realized, of course, this is better.
Immediately, after tying the DV and the strong light to the bamboo basket, after turning on the strong light, and then slowly put it down, the rope is very long, a circle is almost 300 meters, a total of four circles over.
The policeman who came with Ling Hui set up the monitor again and adjusted it, and the screen immediately displayed an image of the direction the DV camera was facing.
After the bamboo basket was put down into the hole, it was only seen that there was a little bit of glimmer like a star when it was lowered to a hundred meters, and after a circle of rope was put down, the glimmer could not be seen, but the bamboo basket had not sunk to the bottom, Li Jinlong beckoned, Li Feihu hurriedly dragged it over again, connected the knot, and then put it down, watching the rope go down to the hole one by one, and the people at the entrance of the cave couldn't help but gasp!
Zhou Xuan's head was numb, in the United States, although the underwater Yinhe Cave was eerie and terrifying, it was only more than 200 meters deep, which was like this hole, it really seemed to have no bottom.
The DV camera is facing in a flat direction, not a downward direction, so what you see in the monitor is always a rock cliff.
Immediately after the third circle of rope was almost finished, Li Feihu took the last circle of rope and connected it, and the people who turned around the entrance of the cave were all gloomy and not very good-looking.
The rope that was put down is already 900 meters, and it is not so deep yet, what will the scene be like when the person goes down?
Li Jinlong's uncle and nephew, the four and Wang Qiang's brothers, their complexions are not very good, they are good at tomb robbers, there are not 1,000 or 800 people digging holes into the tomb, but they have never entered the sinkhole, they have never gone down such a deep cave, the deeper the hole, the more beyond their imagination, the more the rope is released, and the more frightened it is.
When the last lap was about fifty meters, the pressure of the rope loosened, and the monitor screen shook a little, and then stabilized.
The policeman immediately shouted excitedly: "It's the end!" ”
Because it is too deep, there is no way to adjust the direction of the lens by pulling the rope, and you can only see the side where the lens is facing, and this side can only be seen five or six meters away under the illumination of the strong light.
Then, everyone had to wait, Li Jinlong set the time for fifteen minutes, if there is no air at the bottom of the cave, fifteen minutes is enough to try out, then it is impossible for the rooster to live for fifteen minutes without air.
watched the time pass minute by minute, and when it was fifteen minutes, Li Jinlong said in a deep voice: "Flying Tiger, Dagui, pull!" ”
Li Feihu responded with force, and at this moment, when the rope was lifted up, the camera moved, and the monitor screen also shook.
When Li Jinlong glanced at the screen, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Flying Tiger, stop, don't move!" ”
Li Feihu and Wang Dagui were stunned, and then pulled the rope and stopped moving.
Li Jinlong looked carefully at the screen, which at this time showed the rock wall above the horizontal cave, and the rock wall was engraved with five large characters.
These five words are difficult to recognize, and like the seal word and like the shape, the first word is crooked, and it looks a bit like a "nine" word!
But the one behind it was unrecognizable, Zhou Xuan looked at it for a while, and then looked at the others, but they couldn't recognize it.
Li Jinlong's expression changed drastically, and he took out a small cloth bag from his backpack tremblingly, the color of the cloth was dull, as if it was something many years ago.
Li Jinlong opened the cloth bag layer by layer, and in the eyes of everyone, uncovered the last layer of cloth, revealing a piece of cloth that seemed to be woven of coarse linen, and there was a picture on the cloth, but the picture was very strange, and it seemed to be an architectural drawing, but it was completely different from the current architectural drawing, and there were five words above the picture.
When he saw that word, Zhou Xuan was stunned, and looked at the display screen, the five words on the rock wall on the screen were exactly the same as the five words on this picture!
Zhou Xuan's heart moved! Did you really find the ancient city by chance? Did you really find a treasure? And that terrible extraterrestrial stone? For a while, it was both surprise and fear!
The surprise is, of course, that he caught Li Xinyuan's wife talking about the rope and found the flaw, and finally found the address of the disappeared ancient city!
Of course, what I am afraid of is the alien stone that kills people in the invisible sky, and from the horror of the pocket coffin, you can imagine that the alien stone is even more terrifying, how to deal with it?
Trying to calm his mind, Zhou Xuan held his breathing, and then took up the ice qi and measured the picture in Li Jinlong's hand.
The result is that it is 3,600 years old!
It seems that the authenticity of this legend is somewhat credible!
Li Jinlong was stunned for a long time holding the picture, and after recovering his emotions, he looked at everyone's eyes and looked at him.
After Li Jinlong exhaled deeply, he said in a trembling voice: "Lan Shang, I estimate that this is indeed the entrance to the treasure of the ancient city!" ”
Although Lan Gao was also a little excited, he was much calmer than the others, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me about it!" ”
"Look." Li Jinlong pointed to the five words on the screen and said, "You see, the five characters on the rock wall are exactly the same as the five characters on my picture, these words are called 'Nine Songs and Eighteen Caves'!" ”
"Nine Songs and Eighteen Caves? What is this again? And what does that mean? Blue asked, staring at the screen.
Li Jinlong was indeed excited, his hands were still a little trembling, and his voice was a little trembling: "Nine Songs and Eighteen Caves, that's me...... The most profound craftsmanship of our ancestors of the Li family, the Nine Songs and Eighteen Caves is the name of this craft, which represents the highest skill of the Feng Shui organ of building a tomb! ”
Li Jinlong tried to calm himself down, and then continued: "My picture is one of the craft drawings of the nine-song eighteen caves inherited by the ancestors, this map is actually just a general plan, and the production and construction drawings and techniques have been lost, however, I can be sure that this entrance is the address of the treasure of the ancient city, because my ancestor was conscripted by King Tang to build this ancient tomb and did not come back, the five words on the rock wall in this cave can be affirmed from the strokes and penmanship, It's exactly the same as my ancestor's picture, that is. ”
Li Jinlong took a breath, "That is to say, the words on this rock wall are left by my ancestors!" ”
(To be continued)