Chapter 22: Take a good look at you
When we came out, we found another cave, and it seemed that we could walk at both ends, and the fat man was a little troubled and asked, "Which way to go?" ”
I looked at both sides, I didn't have an idea, and I felt that the atmosphere was a little dull, so I reached out and patted the fat man, and said, "Fat man, you are the guide, who are you asking?" ”
The fat man's expression froze for a moment, then he grinned and said, "Throw your shoes." ”
“……”
"Hahaha......"
Sure enough, the fat man is still reliable, and just three words have completely broken the dullness. We looked carefully at both ends of the road, and Liu Rumei used the compass to determine the direction, combined with our possible position, Wen Xianbao clapped the board and walked south.
The road in the cave is a bit winding, and the walk is fairly smooth. A group of four people, looking as they walked, only Liu Rumei would occasionally stop to sit on the notebook. After walking for about three or four hundred meters, a sealed hole appeared on the cave wall on the side. It looks similar to what the fat man pushed away before, and it was also blocked with wood first, and then pasted with gravel and mud on the outside.
"This ......" Liu Rumei pondered for a moment and said, "This may be the same as the one just now." ”
I know what she means, I guess it's a cave inside, and there will be a "giant egg" in it. But the fat man obviously misunderstood, he stepped forward, pulled the wood with his hand, and said to me, "Waste, come and see if this can car beads." ”
“……”
I was speechless again, and then Liu Rumei looked at the wood pointed by the fat man and said, "What kind of wood has rotted for thousands of years, these are also strange, and they look quite strong." ”
The fat man was even more excited when he heard her say this, and then said: "That's it, according to the fat man, this must be a good hardwood, or it is some kind of gloomy wood." ”
"Yes, I know the gloomy wood." I gave the fat man a blank look and said, "But I'm sorry to disappoint you, this thing isn't." ”
The fat man was a little unconvinced, and said, "How do you know if you haven't even seen it?" ”
"Didn't see it?" I gave him a blank look, and then said, "This is ordinary cypress, and it has been soaked in grease, similar to the current antiseptic wood." ”
The fat man then asked, "How do you know?" ”
I smiled and asked the fat man: "These woods are full of thorns and numbness, and they are basically twisted, which is obviously the common cypress wood on the lonely mountain, and it is estimated that the ancients also used local materials." ”
Hearing me say this, the fat man looked at the wood in front of him again. I ignored him, and continued: "As for the fact that it is soaked in grease, I guess, mainly because the dust on it is already like solidified black sludge, and the surface of normal cypress wood will only dry and rot after so long, not like this." ”
After listening to my explanation, the fat man suddenly became a little interested, and he didn't know what to mumble in his mouth. After a while, he looked up at Wen Xianbao and asked, "Team Wen, can't we open this door yet?" ”
According to the principles of archaeological work, a sealed cave like this should not be opened as much as possible when it is not ready for excavation. Disturbance is a threat to possible cultural relics, and sudden changes in the conservation environment may cause irreversible damage to some cultural relics.
"No, it's not open." Wen Xianbao shook his head and said, "Let's go, let's go and take a look elsewhere." ”
According to the fat man's character, if he didn't open it to see, he would definitely feel itchy in his heart, but because Wen Xianbao was present, he held back, put the sapper shovel on his shoulder, and said, "Let's go." ”
The cave is still a little tortuous, Liu Rumei also stopped from time to time to make records, she should be drawing a simple map, because she couldn't find the cracks when she came, so she did this job very seriously. When it comes to finding the crack, I always have some doubts in my mind. First of all, I don't believe that the cracks will disappear, that the stones are embedded in the mountains, and that they want to move unless there is a huge geological movement; The second is to suspect that the marks made on the cave wall have been touched by someone, excluding me and the fat man, there are only Liu Rumei and Wen Xianbao left in the cave, if it is one of them, then what is the point of doing this, just to trap yourself, drill the cave to play? After thinking about it, I always feel that things are weird everywhere, but I can't say what it is.
"It's another door......
The fat man's voice came from the front, and hearing him shout like this, Liu Rumei and I also stepped up. When I walked in, I saw that the entrance to the cave was similar to the one I had just passed, but it was also sealed with logs and rubble, and I didn't see anything unusual anywhere else.
The fat man saw that we were all coming, turned around and asked Wen Xianbao: "Team Wen, don't you open this to see?" ”
"Hmm." Wen Xianbao snorted, just swept the walls of the cave around him with a flashlight, and then motioned to move on.
"Understood." The fat man said, looked at the sealed hole, pouted, and left.
Liu Rumei and I still walked at the back, mainly because she had to make a record before stopping. Along the way, I asked her about the "Dome" again, and through her narration, I became more curious about the resurrection technique of the Feathered Clan. A group of four people walked slowly for about half an hour. During this period, four more holes were found that were also sealed, and we still did not open them, and continued to move forward according to Wen Xianbao's intentions.
"Qin Fen, do you feel that the cave wall here is a little different from before." Liu Rumei frowned and looked at the cave wall as she walked.
"Isn't it different?" I looked at the cave wall with confusion and quickly realized that something was wrong. The previous cave walls have grooves and smoke marks carved by the ancients, but the current cave walls do not have them, and there are no other peculiarities.
Liu Rumei asked, "See?" ”
"There are no grooves for lighting on the cave wall, and it should not be easy for the ancients to dig grooves on the cave wall, and it is estimated that it will not take manpower to dig if it is not a commonly used road, so I think this is not a commonly used road." I nodded, and suddenly remembered the "giant eggs" I had found earlier and the sealed holes, and I couldn't help but have a new idea in my heart, so I continued, "This ...... It's a bit like a mausoleum with many burial chambers. ”
I was afraid that Liu Rumei didn't understand, so I continued: "The caves where the giant eggs were found should be independent spaces, like sealed tombs, and the one we are walking now is like leading to various tombs. ”
"It's a bit like that." Liu Rumei shone around with a flashlight and said, "I also thought of a word just now, which doesn't seem to be appropriate." ”
"What?"
"Forbidden land."
"Oh......"
Liu Rumei and I hung in the back and walked slowly and chatted, while the fat man and Wen Xianbao explored the way in front. I walked a short distance like this, until the voice of the fat man in front of me came again: "Blocked? ”
“……”
Wen Xianbao's voice was very low, and I couldn't hear what he was saying clearly from a distance, and then I heard the fat man shouting at us: "Waste, you and Xiaoliu come here, there is no road here." ”
"No way?" Liu Rumei frowned and said, "Wang Bo seems to be talking about blocking. ”
"Well, let's go check it out." I answered, and I quickened my pace with Liu Rumei and rushed forward. When I came closer, I found that there were several logs erected at the end of the cave, which were much thicker than the ones I had seen before to seal the entrance to the cave.
"This should be an exit, right?" I was a little uncertain about it, because I found that the way to close the cave here was to fill it with wood and then stone, so I deduced that it might be an exit.
"Export? It's so tightly blocked. As he spoke, the fat man pushed the logs with his hand, found that the wood did not move at all, and then turned around and asked Wen Xianbao: "Team Wen, you should make up your mind." ”
"Hmm." Wen Xianbao also pushed the wood with his hand, and then said, "Whether it is an exit or not, find a way to push it away first." ”
"Roger." The fat man shoveled the wood in front of the pestle with the sapper, and then said to me: "Waste, show that your time has come, hurry up and find a way." ”
In this case, the fat man generally advocates violent solutions, probably because he feels that these pieces of wood are too much beyond his ability, and the fat man has always thrown me very happily for problems that require brains. The fat man saw that I was angry with him, so he smiled and stopped talking.
I stepped forward to observe it carefully for a while, then took the sapper shovel from the fat man's hand and tried to pry it into the gap to see if I could find a slightly wider one to the gap, and first poke off the sand and gravel stuffed outside. After some trying, my method really worked, and I poked a small piece of the stone in the gap off.
At this time, the fat man came up, and then the strong flashlight looked into the hole that had been poked open, and said, "It's pitch black, are you sure this is the exit?" ”
I looked at it too, and said, "The stone is sealed on the outside, you say." ”
"Okay, I won't say it, you hurry up and get to work." The fat man probably adhered to the principle of opening up and talking, and began to urge me to work quickly, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Young man, do a good job, take care of you......"
Next, I pried and poked at the same time, and finally let the sand and gravel between the two logs slowly loosen and fall. The seemingly simple job was not easy, and despite the shade of the cave, I was already sweating from my nose and sideburns.
"Sample, this is not strong? Come on, come on, look at the fat man's peerless skills. "The fat man probably saw that I was sweating, and took the sapper shovel from my hand. The fat man's brute force was indeed somewhat useful, a sapper shovel flew left and right, and where I couldn't pry just now, he actually pried open and poked the gravel one by one. The fat man used the sapper shovel as a pickaxe and a crowbar, watching him work, I was a little worried that the sapper shovel was broken in his hand, but fortunately, the quality of the sapper shovel was passable, and it was still intact under his big opening and closing movements. After a burst of heheheha roar from the fat man, the original immovable log gradually loosened, so the fat man shouted again, pushed and prying with brute force, and pushed down one of them.
"Good job, young man, take care of you......" When the fat man stopped panting, I deliberately applauded him on the side. The fat man ignored me directly, shoveled the sapper to the ground and threw it casually, and then began to snort and gasp for air.
Although the fat man pushed away only a log, but fortunately, the log was thick enough, so that there was a gap almost a person wide in the place where it was originally blocked. Wen Xianbao shone a flashlight inside, and then tried to get into it sideways, Liu Rumei and I followed.
"Your old man has worked hard, you rest, let's go first." After I got through, I poked my head out of the gap and looked at the fat man who was still sitting, and made a goodbye gesture to him.
Immediately afterwards, I heard the roar of the fat man behind me: "Waste, you wait for me to come over and then clean you up...... Ungrateful...... ...... without conscience"