After changing his clothes, Torture stood on the surface of the water and stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water: "The temperature of the water meter is not low. ”

Bai Zhongzheng stepped forward: "This is an underground cave, the temperature of about twenty centimeters on the water surface should not be low, and who knows further down, after all, it is a cold winter, and the ground is still icy and snowy." ”

Torture touched the wetsuit, looked at the folds on it, and asked the fake branch: "This is a dry wetsuit?" ”

"Yes, but it's not too good, I can't bring a lot of things, it's the limit." The false branch stood three meters away from them, always keeping this distance.

Torture nodded: "That's okay, you can wear thermal underwear inside, but Chenxue, have you ever played diving before?" ”

"Basic training." He Chenxue, who had changed her clothes, said on the side, "But the experience of going into the water is only two and a half, both times in the river, the last time was at the beach, they are all unpleasant memories, and the last time I almost died." ”

"It's better to have experience in flowing water diving." ”

"What do you mean?" Bai Zhongzheng immediately asked, "You mean there is a stream of water down there?" ”

"It's almost, but it's a regular water impact, before you came, I went into the water to try it, dived down about five meters, there was a water flow from left to right, one by one, I calculated, about five minutes will produce a stream of water, but I can't go to the top of the water flow to find out, because even if I find it, it won't help, you should know that there are a lot of machinery in it, and it is driven by the water flow." Fake Nazhi said that he was the first to go into the water, and said as he went, "I know you won't show your backs to me, it's okay, then I'll show it to you, I'll be the first to go, how you go, decide for yourself." ”

The torturer knew that Bai Zhongzheng should be fine, so he asked He Chenxue: "Are you okay?" ”

He Chenxue shook her head: "Even if there is a problem, I can't stay here alone, right?" ”

"That's right." Torture nodded, "Let's go, then." ”

When the torture technique pulled He Chenxue towards the water, the fake branch turned around and pointed to the extra respirator on the edge of the pool: "This thing can theoretically be used for an hour, but how to use it depends entirely on whether you can adjust your breathing rate, and if you breathe too fast, you can use it quickly." ”

The torture looked at the kind of bizarre-looking, the first time I had seen the underwater breathing apparatus, but judging from the shape, it was mouth-in, and after biting, the cylindrical thing would be horizontal in the mouth, and there were two hoses on the left and right sides connected to the small high-pressure bottles hanging on the shoulders on the back, but the small high-pressure bottle was not large, no matter what, it was impossible to use it for an hour as the fake branch said.

Fake Nazhi saw the doubts of the torture technique, and explained: "This is made in Israel, the military is converted to civilian use, and the three treasure hunters are used for the military, these five pieces of equipment are worth a lot, don't break them, it's difficult for me to explain to my employer." ”

Xingshu nodded, and when he wanted to hand over the things to Bai Zhongzheng, he found that Bai Zhongzheng's face was a little ugly when he looked at the water, and immediately asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng came back to his senses: "It's okay, let's go." ”

The fake branch glanced at them, turned around and dived down, and then the torture technique let He Chenxue follow behind the fake branch, and he nodded to Bai Zhongzheng and dived down, and Bai Zhongzheng hesitated there for a long time, took off the respirator and took a few deep breaths, stabilized his mood, and then slowly walked down the underwater staircase, and then the whole person disappeared into the water.

The fake branch under the water turned on the lamp head, and drew a gesture to the torture technique there, signaling the torture technique and others behind to turn on a lamp, saving a little.

The torture technique gave a thumbs up to show that he understood, looked at He Chenxue and pointed to the fake branch, signaling He Chenxue to follow her closely, and he would protect her on the left side. He Chenxue made a clear gesture, followed closely behind the fake branch, turned around, and watched Bai Zhongzheng follow, and then swam forward.

The bottom of the pool was wider than they had imagined, like an altar, and they descended from the mouth of the altar and dived towards the bottom of the altar, the leading branch of which dived down at an angle of forty-five degrees, stopping from time to time to look left and right, and then moving on.

When he dived to a depth of about ten meters, he suddenly stopped, turned to look up at the torture, pointed behind the torture, made a wave gesture with his hand, and pointed to his wrist.

The torture technique immediately understood that the false branch meant that the impact water flow she said earlier was about to appear, and then immediately grabbed He Chenxue, and pointed to Bai Zhongzheng on the side, signaling the three of them to gather together, each grabbing each other, so as not to be swept away by the current.

When the three of them grasped it, and looked at the false branch again, they found that she looked at them and shook her head, signaling that they were not doing it right, and then curled up herself and told them to do the same.

The torture technique and Bai Zhongzheng looked at each other, because they didn't understand the following situation, so they had to do what the fake branch said.

As soon as the three of them curled up and shrunk into a ball, they heard a hazy "grunt" sound from the water behind them, and then saw a bunch of water bubbles gushing out from somewhere, followed by a huge impact, which directly hit the three of them, knocking them directly to the right.

At the same time as being hit by the current, He Chenxue didn't understand the meaning of the fake branch too much, and didn't hold her calf when she curled up, causing the moment the water rushed over, her body expanded, and the moment it unfolded, the fake branch suddenly jumped up from below and dragged He Chenxue down.

Seeing this scene, the torture technique and Bai Zhongzheng were taken aback, and when they wanted to dive down, they were directly washed away by the current, and the moment they were washed away, the two of them felt that there was a force in the water that wrapped their whole bodies, and they couldn't unfold their bodies at all, but they continued to roll in the water, I don't know how long they rolled, and after the water calmed down, the two slowly loosened their bodies.

The two people floating in the water looked around, but they couldn't find any trace of He Chenxue and the fake branch, Bai Zhongzheng also immediately turned on the headlamp and shone it around, and then was surprised to find that the water hole they were in now was completely different from the one they were staying in before.

Xingshu raised his hand to look at his watch, and found that less than twenty seconds had passed at most since he had been impacted by the current before, and the surrounding environment had changed completely in just twenty seconds, indicating that the power of the current was amazing.

Bai Zhongzheng pointed to the top and motioned to go upstream, because he saw the light above. Then the two turned off their headlights and swam quickly upward, and when they finally swam to the same pool as before.

"How?" Torture took off the respirator and looked around in wonder, "Why did you come back?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng quickly looked around and shook his head: "No, it's not the place just now, it's another cave, it's very similar to the previous cave, you see, there is nothing we left on it, those stone forests ......"

When Bai Zhongzheng pointed to the stone forest on the shore on the side of the waterhole, he choked on what he wanted to say, and he was so surprised that he couldn't say a word, and then the two of them swam towards the shore together, slowly climbed ashore, and looked at the stone forest not far away, because the stone forest here is not a stone and ordinary jade, but coral.

A bunch of small corals surround a huge coral, and the so-called small corals are only relative to the middle one, and they are actually not small on their own.

Torture swallowed, because any coral in it was worth a fortune if it was taken out, and it was the most expensive deep-sea red coral.

"It can't be a hallucination, right?" The torture technique subconsciously looked at Bai Zhongzheng.

Bai Zhongzheng shook his head: "No, it's not." ”

"By the way, the false branch and the morning snow haven't come yet!" Just as the torture technique was about to turn around and go into the water again, the fake branch dragged He Chenxue out of the water, and then the fake branch grabbed He Chenxue's arm and helped him up, pushing him forward to the torture technique.

Seeing that He Chenxue's face was ugly, and he was out of the water, he was still biting the respirator and asked, "What's wrong?" You okay? ”

Fake Nazhi sat on one side to rest, and said without raising his head: "I'm frightened, I'm not injured, take off the respirator, it's better not to take off the diving suit." ”

"Why?" was about to help He Chenxue take off his diving suit.

Fake Nazhi wiped the water on his hair: "Liu Zhigang and the three treasure hunting experts brought a lot of underwater equipment, which shows that this is not the end." ”

He Chenxue hadn't completely recovered yet, but the moment she turned her head, she saw the clump of corals, although her eyes couldn't see too far, she also vaguely saw the outline of those corals, and subconsciously said: "Those are ......"

Torture helped her to walk that way: "It's deep-sea red coral." ”

Bai Zhongzheng squatted in front of a coral tree and looked at it, and asked, "These things are very valuable, right?" ”

He Chenxue, who had already walked to him, squatted down and looked at it carefully, and looked at it for a long time before saying, "It's not just valuable, it's a treasure." ”

At this time, the torture technique found that the fake branch was not interested in these at all, but stood up and looked carefully at the other places of the cave, testing the cave walls with his hands, and his expression was very calm, not surprised or happy.

"These belong to the precious coral, that is, jewelry-grade coral, some of the ornamental corals we see on weekdays, many of them are artificially made handicrafts, the kind of shallow sea white coral is not valuable, but after this kind of polishing, it will become the kind of coral beads you see in jewelry stores." He Chenxue pointed to the coral in front of her, "The most precious coral is a living branch before it is fished up, look here, there is a layer of yellow skin outside, this is the growth layer, the polyp is in it, but it will die immediately after being salvaged, and the red part of the yellow skin is what the gem coral looked like before it was polished." ”

The torture technique touched He Chenxue, pointed to the innermost giant coral and said, "You haven't seen that yet, have you?" ”

He Chenxue got up slowly, in fact, she had seen it, but she wasn't sure, after all, the tallest red coral she had seen before, the most huge was only nearly one meter long and one meter two high, and the middle one was about one meter seven high, with a branch span of five meters and a width of nearly two meters!

The two of them cautiously walked through the coral bush, and when they came to the bottom of the coral, they saw that it was not only a huge coral, but also a cash tree that had been carefully carved by someone, and the branches of the outstretched tree were covered with three-color coins, that is, gold, silver and copper.

Xingshu looked at one of the coins carefully, and then said, "Kaiyuan Tongbao? ”

"No, this is not the official coinage of the Tang Dynasty, there is no later Tang Kai on the coin, the text on the earliest official coinage is the calligraphy of Ouyang Xun at that time, all of them are eight points in diameter, weigh two baht, accumulate ten coins for one tael, and weigh six catties and four taels for a thousand coins." He Chenxue looked carefully.

Xingshu nodded and said: "Yes, before the Tang Dynasty, baht was used as the unit of calculation, and twenty-four baht was one tael. It is twenty-four digits, after the Tang Dynasty, the decimal method of two, money, cents, and centi, although the coinage materials at that time were gold, silver, copper, lead, etc., and there were many versions, but this kind of has never been seen. ”

Saying that, the torture technique grabbed one of them, looked at He Chenxue, He Chenxue nodded at him, the torture technique put the gold coin in the palm of his hand, smelled it, and then used the touchstone he carried to grind it and smell it, and then took out the lighter and kept roasting it underneath, and after baking it for a long time, the lighter was so hot that he couldn't hold it steadily, he closed it, observed it carefully, and then said: "The purity is very high, but now there is no condition, I can't tell whether it is real pure gold." ”

He Chenxue looked at the gold coin and said: "The gold coins of the Tang Dynasty era are not considered to be circulating currency, if it wasn't for the purpose of checking the cash cow related to coral, I wouldn't have learned about coinage, but I definitely don't know as much as you." ”

Bai Zhongzheng listened carefully to their conversation in the back, and did not interject, but the fake branch in the distance listened carefully, showing a weird smile from time to time.

Torture said: "The coinage is generally copper coins, but there is no 100% copper, at that time it was stipulated that the composition of copper was about 83%, the rest is ash and black lead, silver coins are even less, gold coins I have seen, four or five hundred yuan in the antique market, it is difficult to know the authenticity without in-depth identification, but most of the fakes, and if the silver coins at that time are available now, the price should be higher than the gold coins." ”

He Chenxue looked at the cash cow carefully: "Is this the treasure of the Khanate?" The value of this pile of things alone is immeasurable, and if this is not the end, then I can't imagine the real treasure. ”

Xingshu looked at the fake branch who was staring at the two of them in the distance and said, "Hey, if this is not the end, then how are we going to go?" ”

The fake branch pointed to the water and said, "It should be underwater, didn't you find it?" There is dry soil on the ground here, and there are no footprints on the dry soil, indicating that Liu Zhigang and the three people have not been to this place. ”

Bai Zhongzheng thought for a moment: "Is it the problem of the impact of the water?" ”

Fake Nazhi looked at Bai Zhongzheng and said: "Yes, as I thought, I think there should be several caves down here, one of which is the real passage, and the other places, I think there may be similar treasures hidden, and ......" As he spoke, Fake Nazhi turned around and touched a relief mural on the wall, and pressed the head of a turtle above, and then the cave roared, and a stone wall on the right side slowly moved away, and a passage appeared in front of them.

The fake branch looked at the passage and said, "Guess where this passage went?" ”

He Chenxue frowned and asked, "Have you been here?" ”

The false branch shook his head.

He Chenxue asked again: "Then how do you know about the existence of that secret door?" ”

"Experience! And the clues from those previous experiences. "There is only one mural in the whole cave, and in this so-called relief, only the head of this turtle is really protruding and moving, and it is moving to the touch, and it is obvious that there is a mechanism here." ”

He Chenxue asked again: "Then can't you be sure that it is the mechanism of the stone gate?" You just opened it so rashly? ”

Torture explained next to him: "She is right in this judgment, because all the mechanisms below are designed to be aimed at people's psychology, whether it is the lantern before, or the wormhole, or the position we are in now, I think, the purpose of the designer is to find these corals and gold coins without knowing the correct route and the water flow mechanism below, normal people will think that this is the end, that is, the treasure of the Khan Khanate, and then rush to find a way to leave, Under these premises, after finding the mechanism on the mural and opening, as soon as the stone door opens, treasure hunters will think that it is the way to leave. ”

He Chenxue nodded: "But the treasures here don't seem to have decreased." ”

"Two possibilities." Bai Zhongzheng walked to the door of the passage and squatted down, "First, no one has ever come here, we are the first batch; Second, there are traps in this passage, and if you go in, you will die. ”

He Chenxue slowly stepped forward and glanced at the coral trees again: "But things don't look less." ”

"If these corals are violently sawed down or cut down, the value of taking them out will be reduced a lot, and the people who come to hunt for treasure must also know the value of these things when they find them, so they will not do anything rashly without the premise of suitable tools." ”

The fake branch stepped forward, grabbed a glow stick and threw it directly, and then several people saw that in the position illuminated by the glow stick, there were three white bones lying horizontally and vertically, and short spears and feather arrows were inserted on the ground and on the cave wall next to the three white bones.

Fake Nazhi laughed and turned back to the water's edge, and said lightly: "These corals are precious bait, where is it so easy for you to take away, the person who designed this place is so genius, it is impossible to make that kind of low-level mistake, go ahead, you barely pass the test here, and the score is not as high as before." ”

Although He Chenxue's eyes couldn't see what was in the distance of the passage, he already knew what was in it from the moment Bai Zhongzheng and the torture technique saw those things before, and the cold breath he gasped. At the same time, she is disappointed because she really wants to leave this ghost place now......

The torture technique went straight to the fake branch and asked, "We can't unlock the water flow mechanism, if we go down, we will inevitably encounter danger again, so we have to think of a perfect way." ”

Fake Nazhi's gaze jumped from the shoulder of the torture technique to Bai Zhongzheng in the distance: "You ask him, he has been cracking since elementary school, and he should know that what you just said is." ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded: "Boss Xing, she is right, in this kind of place, you should never want to find any perfect way." ”

As a cargo chaser, of course he knew this, but the reason why he said that was because he was worried about He Chenxue, she was too weak, if it wasn't for the fake branch after going into the water before, she would probably have been buried under the water, and he was worried about Bai Zhongzheng, when he went into the water before, Bai Zhongzheng was obviously a little wrong, and seemed to be afraid of something.

Don't do things that you can't be sure of, this has been the motto of criminal art for many years, but now that it looks like this motto has to be changed.