Deep pits
It was the same pit they had seen before, but they could be sure that the pit they had not come to was there, as if something had arched it.
Wu Xie felt that something was wrong, and urged the fat man to leave quickly, but the fat man did not leave at this time. He said, "Did you see that something on the wall of this pit just flashed light?" ”
"What is it?" Wu Xie asked.
"I don't know, it's on the edge of the pit." The fat man looked at Wu Xie, and then at Mengli, who was holding the little brother, and suddenly said: "The thief is not empty, there may be good things, I have to go down and take a look, you wait for me for a few minutes." ”
A picture floated through his mind, and Meng Li hurriedly shouted: "Fat man, you come back for me!" After going back, you can pick one of the things in the glass pavilion! ”
But he didn't listen, and said, "I can't take advantage of you, sister, just a matter of a few minutes, you wait." So saying, he went into the water and rummaged through it.
There was no choice but to pray for him to hurry.
But this is not easy, most of the tiles are buried under the fragments, rummaging in the pottery, but not like in the sea, the sand is still relatively soft, the pottery pieces here are sharp on the one hand, on the other hand, they are at the mouth of the pit, and the pottery pieces will slide down into the pit as soon as they move, and it is not easy for people to maintain balance. The surface is fine, dig out a few pieces, and then dig deeper, it is very difficult, sometimes I see a piece of pottery I want to open but I can't get it, as if it grows inside.
After digging a few times, the fat man seemed to have found the target, and after surfacing for ventilation, he dived down again, and inserted his hand into the excavated pottery shard pit, and broke it out, before he broke it twice, suddenly the fat man shuddered, and came back with a sharp contraction, and the blood flowed on his hands.
"Oops!" Wu Xie secretly screamed badly, and said in his heart that he should have been bitten by the snake king? But I saw that the fat man showed no signs of poisoning, but the wound seemed to be quite deep.
He sucked it in his mouth, then broke it with another hand, pulled the bone out, and then floated up.
"What's going on?" Wu Xie asked on the side.
"There seems to be a thorn in this bone, and it hurts me to death." The fat man sucked his fingers while shaking off the skull that had been fished up, and beckoned Wu Xie to shine the miner's lamp over.
Wu Xie muttered, "Look, do it yourself." He walked over to illuminate him, and as soon as he walked to his side, he suddenly heard a series of dull "grunts" from under him, followed by a series of blisters.
The fat man and Wu Xie were both stunned for a moment, the bubble stopped for a moment, and a series of "gurgling" came up.
"Wu Xie, fat man, go quickly! It's too dangerous here! Mengli suddenly had a bad premonition, and hurriedly beckoned them to leave.
Just as they were going around the pit, they suddenly felt empty under their feet, and something seemed to bubble under the water, and the whole person sank into the water.
The pottery shards under their feet moved, and they slid straight to one place, and they hurriedly shone them under their feet with a miner's lamp, and found that a large pit had been carved out of the bottom of the water, which was connected with the pit on the side, and became a very deep cave. It turns out that there is space underneath this, but somehow, why did it suddenly collapse?
Looking to the side, I saw that the little brother was pulled into the pit along the collapse, and his feet were wrapped tightly in the pottery shards, Mengli hurriedly hugged him to pull him out, but there was a force underneath, as if something was grabbing his feet and pulling them down.
"Little brother!" Mengli shouted while pulling him, the little brother just didn't react at all, half of his face was already in the water, and she felt like she was about to be pulled down.
Wu Xie and the fat man also hurriedly came up to help, but fortunately, the fat man's strength was great, and he pulled the little brother up, and he was lifted up and began to cough.
"Who's farting? Is there any public morality......" The fat man suddenly said very dissatisfied.
As soon as the words fell, Wu Xie and Mengli also smelled a very stinky smell, but this stinky smell was not said by the fat man, but like the smell of a stinky canal, could it be that the sewer below led here.
The fat man took the miner's lamp to shine under the water, and the collapse below slowly expanded, but some stopped, and soon a hole about the size of half a basketball court appeared in front of them, black and faint, like a big mouth, to devour them. From time to time, bubbles came up from below, and a foul smell filled the air.
Wu Xie remembered that it was the smell of methane, this hole must have existed in the first place, maybe there were wooden beams and something like that on it before, and after decay, it still maintained a fragile balance, and this balance could last for thousands of years when there was no external force, but once there was any damage, the wooden beams would collapse. The collapsed pit may have been caused by a broken wooden beam, and the fat man dug up the tiles at the edges, causing a chain reaction.
"Dogs. God," said the fat man, "why does it seem to be empty down here?" ”
The bottom should not be deep, but the water was stirred up and muddy just now, and there was no bottom in sight, Wu Xie said: "This may be a mezzanine layer to prevent ghost head jars built before." Seeing him walk to the edge again, he said, "Be careful, I was still strong when I stepped on it just now, and suddenly it collapsed, and the damn place may be all empty underneath, and now it has collapsed, wait a minute, don't have another chain reaction, form a vortex and we'll be all finished." ”
"Got it," said the fat man, "hey, what is it?" ”
Wu Xie looked at his flashlight, only to see something floating up in the deep pit.
"Stay away." The fat man reminded him, Meng Li pulled the little brother back a little distance, Wu Xie also retreated next to them, and the fat man focused the miner's light on that thing.
The things came up quickly, and soon came out of the hole, and by this time they could see very clearly, they were all rotting wood and branches, and there was a lot of undistinguishable cotton wool-like garbage in between, which must have been sediment pressed into the silt below, stirred up by falling pottery shards, and followed by a large amount of turbid water. For a while, the visibility near the entrance to the cave became worse and worse.
The fat man scooped up a few, all of which were branches wrapped in garbage, and got the stinky mud in his hand, which he threw away from a distance, and said, "I. . . , we've turned out the old mud bottom of this mud bubble, and it stinks to me, he. Damn! This can't be the old manure pit, right? ”
Wu Xie said: "Your family only uses such a big dung pit, in this dung pit, and if you slip your feet, you may die directly, can you pull it out?" ”
The fat man is too good at pulling, if this is a dung pit, then is more nervous than bungee jumping, elephants don't dare to use it, the ancestors of the Western Queen Mother Country will never torture themselves like this, right?
"Maybe it's because the queen wants to cultivate the idea that their people are prepared for danger in peace, so that they can be vigilant when they." The fat man is serious.
Wu Xie knew that the fat man was joking, but he couldn't laugh at all, because the surroundings were so smelly, and these must be the smell of rotting human heads.
Mengli couldn't stand the two of them, so she pulled the little brother and was about to leave, and didn't forget to urge: "Hurry up!" It's too dangerous here! If you don't go, I'll go first. ”
"Got it!" The fat man replied.
They covered their noses and were about to leave, but the fat man picked up something from the water again, but this was not a branch, and he said "Huh" and held it up: "I. Damn, what do you think this is? ”
Wu Xie looked at him, and he felt that it looked like a small human head, but it had no facial features, it was covered with erosive black mud, and it was surrounded by small tentacles.
"What the hell?" Wu Xie asked.
The fat man threw it over, Wu Xie caught it in the air, only to find that the thing was not big, so he washed it with water, and soon the black mud on the outside was washed off, revealing the green and rusty surface inside.
He shook it off and said strangely, "It's a military kettle." ”
"Kettle?"
"The old style, something from decades ago, I can see it as soon as I look at the appearance, I have another one at home, look, there are still words here." Wu Xie turned the kettle over.
There is indeed a string of words printed with a steel seal on the bottom of the kettle, which was not deep in the first place, and now it is even more difficult to see, and it feels like it may be the location of production.
The two looked at each other and said: What's the matter? How did this kettle float up from this hole?
Seeing this, Mengli didn't care about the two of them, it was useless, she rolled her eyes, pulled the little brother and left.
The space under the water should be the bottom of the river made of broken stones and pottery shards, although I don't know what it looked like thousands of years ago, but it must have been like this in recent centuries, how can there be a kettle? Wu Xie thought about it, and didn't pay attention to Mengli and the little brother.
The fat man said: "Could it be that the reactionary forces who fled here are also the things?" ”
"Possibly." Wu Xie said, "But the problem is not this, the question is how can this thing be under here?" ”
"Maybe a reactionary came here and happened to fall to his death in this hole."
Wu Xie shook his head and said: "Impossible, this kind of balanced structure can only exist once, if it has collapsed before, this place will either be a hole, or it will be filled by the sediment later, and there will be no more pits covered by pottery shards." ”
The fat man said, "How do you know?" ”
"Boss, it's common sense." Wu Xie rolled his eyes.
"It's also possible that it came down here from somewhere else, and the bottom of this place could be completely empty." The fat man said.
"Theoretically possible, but in practice it is difficult, the kettle will float and get stuck on the hollow dome, it is not so easy to float......" Wu Xie Dao, before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a movement under his feet, this "movement" was very outrageous, and it felt like it was just a bulge under my feet. He immediately opened his hands to keep his balance and said to the fat man, "Beware of it, it's going to collapse again." ”
At this time, the fat man scolded his mother: "Your common sense is wrong." ”