Chapter 15: The Cracks

I asked her curiously about the specific details of the ancient books, but she shook her head and said that she didn't remember exactly, but she remembered that there was something about the resurrection. Then she asked me about the patterns on the clay pot, and I felt that there was no need to hide it, so I told her everything that had happened in the past few days.

"This is really the remnants of the Feathered Clan." She looked around, suddenly remembered something, and then asked, "Qin Fen, have you been to the cave you found later?" ”

"No, mainly because it might be a ruin, so I didn't dare to go in." After I answered her question, I asked curiously, "Didn't Uncle Zhou report these things to the bureau?" ”

She shook her head and said, "Teacher Zhou has been busy with meetings these days, and I don't know the specific situation, but this archaeological mission did not mention the cave you mentioned." ”

"This is a little strange, does Uncle Zhou have other arrangements?" I can say this, mainly considering that this entry into the mountain is a temporary change of generals. Although in my impression, Uncle Zhou is not the kind of person who is scheming, but the mud bodhisattva also has three points of fireworks, maybe he suppressed the sixth master's discovery of the cave for this reason.

Liu Rumei smiled and shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either, and then looked at the petroglyphs seriously on the side and stopped making a sound. I frowned and stared at her back, for some reason, I always felt that this little girl was incomprehensible.

"Smack!" Someone patted me with his hand, I looked back, the fat man was looking at me with a wicked smile, and he deliberately tilted his head to look in the direction of Liu Rumei, and said, "Boss Qin, what are you looking at?" ”

"Ahem......" I saw that Liu Rumei was about to turn her face, so I hurriedly reached out and pulled the fat man's head in a different direction, pretending to cough and said, "Ahem...... It's okay, look at the petroglyphs. ”

"Look at the petroglyphs." After the fat man broke free of my hand, he continued to look at Liu Rumei, and deliberately said in a weird manner: "Oh, the petroglyphs over there are very beautiful!" ”

"Ahem...... cough cough cough ...... "The fat man is used to joking with me, I don't care, but I'm afraid that the little girl is thin-skinned, and it's not good to be red when the fat man says it's red." I caught a glimpse of Liu Rumei's body visibly stiffening, and hurriedly reached out again to wrap his arms around the fat man's neck and drag him to a corner.

"Waste...... Oops...... Eldest brother...... Tap ......" The fat man began to beg for mercy when he was in pain, and I stopped using my strength, but my arm still wrapped around the fat man's neck to prevent him from continuing to tease, and I whispered to the fat man: "You dead fat man, pay attention to the occasion in the future, we are not very familiar with other little girls, and it is embarrassing to be blushing." ”

The fat man looked up at me as he grabbed my arm and whispered, "I didn't say anything...... Loosen it ......."

I saw that he was a lot more honest, so I let him go, and then asked in a low voice, "What did you just go out for?" ”

"Me?" The fat man rubbed his neck and said, "Pee." ”

"Peeing?" As soon as I heard it, I knew that he was lying, so I mocked: "Why didn't you pee out of your kidneys, tell me honestly." ”

The fat man saw that I was about to start again, and looked around with a smile on his teeth, and then whispered, "I'm going to stare at Wen Xianbao." ”

"I have nothing to do." I was a little angry, I knew that the fat man had begun to pay attention to Wen Xianbao, and it was useless to say anything to himself, so I asked, "What did you hear?" ”

When the fat man heard me ask, he suddenly came to his senses, and said in a low voice: "Waste, the fat man didn't look away this time, this surnamed Wen really has something to hide from us." ”

"Hide it from us?" I was stunned for a moment, and asked the fat man: "Even if people really have something, why should they tell us?" ”

"That's not what I meant." The fat man frowned, thought for a moment and said, "I mean he's doing something else with archaeological work, that's my intuition. ”

"Intuition?" I grinned, understood the meaning of the fat man's words, and asked, "You mean that you feel that he has a small movement behind his back?" ”

"Uh-huh." The fat man nodded yes.

"And what is he doing?" I can ask this, mainly considering that these things are related to Uncle Zhou, and I am worried that there will be something unfavorable to Uncle Zhou, as the saying goes, "the heart of defense is indispensable", and it is right to be careful in everything.

The fat man lowered his voice again and whispered into my ear, "He's gone to call again, and the tone feels the same as last time." ”

Still not quite trusting the fat man's instincts, I asked, "Do you hear what to say?" ”

The fat man nodded, and once again attached to my ear and lowered his voice and said: "He seems to be looking for something, I didn't hear it clearly, when I went out, he was talking about the woman tribe or the traveler tribe, saying that the thing should be here, looking at him seems to be very excited." ”

"Feathered people?"

"Yes, yes, that's what he said." The fat man nodded, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, and asked, "Waste, how do you know?" ”

It suddenly occurred to me that Wen Xianbao might have known that this place was related to the Feather People even before he parachuted into the archaeological team, so the claim of participating in this archaeological mission was debatable, and even the purpose of his coming to the archaeological team was simply to find something. Thinking of this, my expression suddenly became solemn, I looked at the fat man seriously, and whispered: "It's a long story, I will give you a chance to elaborate on it in the future, and what you just said, I think we should try to mix it as little as possible." ”

"Oh." The fat man looked at me with a serious expression, and did not ask any more questions, but only answered, and after standing up straight, he began to look at the corner where we stood.

The strong flashlights of the archaeological team members are all fixed light source patterns, which are placed in a staggered manner in the cave, illuminating the entire cave. It's not that there are no blind spots of light, for example, in the corner where the fat man and I are standing, there is not much light, and the rock wall behind me is still in the shadows.

The fat man reached out and pulled out a bright flashlight from his pocket, illuminating the shadows in the corner. He walked a few steps left and right, looked back and forth around the corner, and then, as if he had found something, he asked me, "Waste, do you see there's a hole here?" ”

I thought he was asking a bit of an idiot, so I taunted, "You're the waste, can't you see if there's a hole yourself?" ”

The fat man stood aside and didn't say anything, just swept the cave wall back and forth with a strong flashlight. I was curious, so I walked a few steps to him and asked, "Where is it?" ”

"Here." The fat man pointed me out with a strong flashlight, and through the light I saw that there was a crack about a person wide on the wall of the cave, and the rock walls on both sides were not side by side, but staggered one after the other, so that it seemed very hidden, and it was no wonder that everyone didn't find it when they first explored around.

"I'll see." As I spoke, I took the flashlight from the fat man's hand, climbed on the edge of the crack and looked in, and found that there were still some twists and turns in it, and I couldn't see much deeper, so I dared to squeeze sideways into the crack. The further I went, I felt the crack widen, about five meters or so, and the crack suddenly turned, and a pitch-black hole appeared in front of me. I used a strong flashlight to shine in again, and found that the hole was also tortuous, but it was much wider than the crack, and there seemed to be traces of artificial excavation on the wall of the cave.

Before I knew it, I had moved a few more steps into the hole, and suddenly I heard the fat man's voice coming: "Hey! Rubbish...... Qin Fen...... Qin Fen...... Qin Fen...... Don't run around alone...... You come out first. ”

"Oh...... I'll be out right away. I could hear the fat man's voice urgently, so I answered, turned sideways and returned the way I came, and in a short time I had retreated to the fat man's side.

The fat man saw that I was out, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What's going on inside?" ”

I handed the fat man a flashlight, and then patted the dust on my clothes, and said to him, "It's bigger than the hole, and I don't dare to go far if it looks so deep......."

"How?" Liu Rumei looked at me and the fat man with a puzzled face, she should have just heard the fat man calling out to me, thinking that something was going on here, so she came over to take a look.

"Found a hole." I pointed to the crack in the rock wall and said, "Here it is." ”

Liu Rumei looked at the cave wall curiously, walked quickly to the crack, took out a strong flashlight from his backpack and shone it inside, and asked while looking, "You just got in?" ”

I replied, "Yes." ”

She asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

I replied truthfully, "The cave is tortuous, and I haven't gone very deep, but it is wider than the entrance, and there are chisel marks on the walls of the cave and smoke marks left by the lighting of the ancients." ”

Liu Rumei thought for a while and said, "In this way, this cave may also be related to the Feather Clan. ”

"Well, it's possible, it's not sure ......"

“……”

"What are you doing over there?" While we were talking, Wen Xianbao's voice came, he must have just returned from outside the cave, blinking his eyes to adjust to the change in light.

I think the fat man definitely did it on purpose, Wen Xianbao was not too far away at that time, and we could see the person clearly, but the fat man still used a strong flashlight to shine on Wen Xianbao's face, and then said: "Oh, Wen team, you came just in time, we have made a major discovery, and we are thinking of reporting to you." ”

When Wen Xianbao was illuminated by the light, he hurriedly covered his eyes with his hands, but he obviously still shook his eyes, and after he put down his hand, he squinted and adapted to it for a while without speaking.

"Smack!" I reached out and slapped the fat man's buttocks, and said in a scolding tone: "What are you blind, this is a strong flashlight, which can shine on the blind eyes." ”

"I don't know, Team Wen, are you okay?" The fat man said innocently, and the flashlight in his hand was about to sweep towards Wen Xianbao again, so I hurriedly went up and stopped it.

"It's okay, it's okay, just don't take it again, now it hurts to see the light." Wen Xianbao squinted and said, as if he saw the movement of the fat man's hand here, and hurriedly turned his head to the side.

"Team Wen, I really didn't mean it, why don't I go find you a pair of sunglasses, and you bring them first?" The fat man said that he had already walked by, and reached out to help Wen Xianbao.

Wen Xianbao waved his hand and said, "Don't bother, I have it in my bag, I'll go get it." After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for the fat man to say anything, turned around and left by himself holding on to the cave wall.

"Slow down...... Be careful......" The fat man stood in place and shouted at Wen Xianbao very unproductively. I always felt that this guy was doing it on purpose, but I couldn't understand why, presumably he wouldn't do it for no reason, so I asked him in a low voice, "What's the situation?" ”