Immortal Mystery Chapter 58 Water Drifter
As soon as we entered the stone room, we immediately saw a switch on the stone wall facing the door, and there were two large characters engraved next to the switch - "Close the door". Of course, these two characters are small seal fonts, which I don't know, but Professor Jin does. As soon as he saw those two words, he immediately turned and closed the door, and at the same time, the water pressure on us was immediately much less. After that, he went to activate the switch on the stone wall.
Professor Jin broke the switch hard, but it was only halfway through, and no matter how hard he tried to turn the switch, it no longer moved.
A suction force came from under our feet. We looked down and saw that there were six circular black holes on the ground next to the stone wall, each the size of a bowl, like six drains constantly sucking the water from the stone chamber. As the water level dropped, our bodies gradually emerged from the water.
When the water had completely drained from the stone chamber, Professor Jin used his hand to break the switch again, and found that it could be easily broken. It seems that this mechanism was deliberately designed to be so that the switch cannot be fully turned on until the water has fully flowed out.
Just as Professor Jin turned the switch on to its maximum state, the stone wall on our side rose upward, revealing an entrance.
When the three of us ran in, we found that it was a narrow passage again. I tried to take off the respirator and found that the passage was filled with air.
I curiously asked Professor Jin about the principle of this mechanism. Professor Jin said: "This principle is very similar to the principle of a submarine entering and exiting people underwater. When someone enters through the water, open the outside door and close the inside door to fill the confined space with water and balance the water pressure inside and outside. After entering, close the outer door, drain the water in the confined space, and then open the inner door again, and you can enter the inner space. If you want to go out, do it the other way around. ”
"The water that poured into the confined space......"
"In the case of submarines, they should be discharged outside under pressure, and here they should be discharged below...... I guess there should be a space underneath the stone chamber, maybe even an underground ......river," Professor Jin explained, "I didn't expect that the people of the Qin Dynasty could use water pressure so flexibly, it is really powerful, and the wisdom of the ancients is really not to be underestimated." ”
Then, we did the opposite, letting the two bodyguards in the water come in with us, teach them how to turn it on, and bring the three of us off the diving equipment again, so that the others would have to follow suit......
While we went into the water to explore, the rest of the people were bored and waited by the pool.
"Why haven't you come up after going down for so long?" The jar asked as he paced back and forth.
Liang Youcai said half-jokingly: "It can't be that you found some treasure underneath and are going to hide it secretly, right?" He didn't like to hear this: "Baby? Have you ever seen a baby in an old hat? ”
"I haven't seen it, have you?" Liang Youcai also fought with him.
"Of course I did! Not to mention anything else, just the bronze jade sloping top furnace is the same! Jar said.
"I've seen it, but it's a pity that it's someone else's!" Liang Youcai sneered.
"I'm so weird, which ear did you hear that thing wasn't mine?" The altar quarreled with him.
Just when the two of them were full of gunpowder, Jiang Jie came up and persuaded the jar: "Okay, jar, you two don't quarrel!" ”
"No, he ...... first"
Jiang Jie didn't wait for the altar to finish speaking, and directly interrupted him: "Have you ever smelled a foul smell?" ”
"Stink?" The jar wrinkled his nose, sniffed back and forth, and said, "It does seem to be a little stinky...... But why didn't you smell it just now? ”
The people nearby also noticed it at this time: "Yes, it wasn't there just now!" "Why is this smell getting stronger?" Someone covered his nose and asked, "Where did this smell come from?" ”
Someone exclaimed, "Look at the ...... in the river."
I saw a black thing floating in the river I passed by, but because of the dim light, I couldn't see what it was......
There were more and more black objects in the river, but there was no water in the cave.
Cao Fenghua, Lu Daxun, Tan Zi and Liang Youcai brought a few other bodyguards to check carefully. They stabbed one of them with their rifles. As soon as the thing was touched, it flipped over. When the altar and the others saw it, they were immediately taken aback, and Liang Youcai shouted directly: "Water, water drifter!" ”
The so-called water drifter refers to a body that has drowned in the water and floated on the water. Most of the water drifters will decay little by little over time, until they are white bones. But there were also some corpses, only partially decomposed, and then they remained in that half-rotten appearance, and it was this kind of drifter that they encountered in the jar.
Hearing Liang Youcai's shout, everyone slowly leaned up. When they saw the water drifter who turned over, they all showed disgust on their faces. The drifter was swollen and rotten, and a blistered head as big as a ball was already bare, without a single hair, and only a pair of black holes were left in his two eye sockets, and his nose, ears, and lips were long gone, revealing two rows of jagged teeth. The clothes on his body are tattered, but he can still barely tell that he is a costume from the Republic of China.
At this time, the rest of the drifters on the water surface didn't know what the reason was, and they all had to turn over one by one. Originally, their backs were upward, but at this time, they were all facing the sky, revealing a terrifying appearance.
Jiang Jie hid behind the altar with fear on his face, and asked with his teeth chattering, "How can there be so many floating corpses here?" ”
"Maybe it was the victims who strayed into the mountains and were swept here by the torrents......" Uncle Xu struggled to say a reason that could be slightly agreed with common sense.
But at this moment, everyone is serious, and everyone knows that the sudden appearance of these drifters is by no means a good thing.
"What kind of clothes these drifters wear are ancient and modern...... Do you think those who wear yellow clothes, will they be Cao Xuan's people? Mo Ji suddenly pointed to a few yellow-clothed water drifters in the water and asked.
"Definitely yes!" Lu Daxun said with certainty, "Look at the corpse with a military hat!" ”
We looked into the distance and saw that there were hundreds of floats on the water, and nearly half of them were wearing military uniforms.
"I didn't expect Cao Xuan's troops to fold a lot here." Mo Ji sighed and said.
"You say, did Cao Xuan arrive here first or the Luowang Palace first?" Uncle Xu asked.