At this time, the fog finally cleared a lot, but after all, it was not all dispersed, the sun shone in through the thick fog, we calmed down the panic, and continued to look for the way down to the bottom of the sinkhole, fortunately the woods were still dense along the way, and we pulled the trees and slowly slid down. Because of the lack of sunlight in the sinkhole all year round, the vegetation began to decrease after passing through the trees, and we finally saw the scale of the sinkhole.

This huge sinkhole is in the shape of a typical funnel, the diameter of the pit mouth is at least one kilometer, the woods are mainly distributed at the upper end of the sinkhole, and when we stand, it is already full of granite cliffs, with a drop of at least 500 meters, and a waterfall on the opposite side pours down like a silver chain, like a fairyland.

Professor Wen smacked his lips and said, "I don't want to have such a good scenery in the deep mountains, it's really an eye-opener, and it's worth the trip." ”

Lin Xia said sadly: "There are cliffs all around, how can we go down?" ”

Tuesday Mao looked at the abyss and said, "How can this kind of place be built on a large scale, will it be mistaken?" ”

I also wonder how more than 1,000 years ago it was possible to build a large gas gathering platform in a sinkhole surrounded by cliffs.

But astrology and intuition tell me that this is the closest place to Mt. Fado. I searched my way along the cliff when suddenly a rope appeared in my field of vision. It was a blackened rough hemp rope, could it be left by those Miao people in the Ming Dynasty? I walked over to pick up the hemp rope, and suddenly a stone step in front of me caught my attention, which was obviously a section of the mountain that had been cut by hand.

I walked over quickly, exclaimed, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to come over. I saw that on this complete mountain, a crack of about two or three meters was artificially chiseled out, and there was a bronze pulley and a winch on it, and from above, the hard stone wall was chiseled with a stone trough, and the thick wooden wedge was driven into the mountain, and the wooden stake was reinforced and supported.

I turned the winch, and it was still moving, and I called two people to start spinning together, only to feel that the rope was very long, and something was slowly being pulled up underneath. In a moment, we already saw that underneath was a wooden fence, reinforced with hemp rope, which turned out to be a device similar to a lift in a mine.

Everyone was also amazed, Xiao Hai was still a little worried: "It's something more than one or two thousand years ago, I don't know if it will be broken?" ”

I said, "That's it, Tuesday Mao and I will go down to explore the way first, and you wait here for our signal." ”

So Tuesday Mao and I stood in the wooden fence, and several team members began to slowly loosen the rope, and the two of us slowly descended, Tuesday Mao grabbed the fence next to him and sighed: "How determined is this to do this kind of bird thing?" ”

I smiled and said, "This is called faith, and it is rare that this tyrannical Qin still has such loyal ministers." ”

Tuesday Mao said: "That can't be repaired by the Miao people?" ”

I put away my smile and said, "What I'm most worried about is that this place has long been destroyed by the Miao people. All we saw was a mess, and the anger was gone, and we couldn't track it anymore. ”

Tuesday Mao said: "Then there was indeed a battle in the forest hundreds of years ago, but what about the rest of the people?" I think the Miao people must know this place. Got under the sinkhole. ”

Suddenly there was a shock, we were talking, and before we knew it, it had fallen to the middle of the sinkhole, and it was also the bottom of this elevator, I pulled out the pistol, and on Tuesday Mao also filled the shotgun with lead bullets, I went out to take a look, and saw a relatively wide stone road, it is estimated that no one has walked for many years, and the cracks between the stone slabs have been full of weeds, we walked out of the elevator, and there was nothing unusual around carefully, I walked to the elevator and beckoned everyone to come down.

After turning a corner along the stone path, I heard the sound of murmuring water below, and now I could see the bottom of the valley about 200 meters down, and the water from the waterfall merged into a small river at the bottom of the valley, and flowed into a huge stone cave in the mountain wall.

On the opposite side of us is also a huge stone cave, a small half flat at the bottom of the valley, and most of it is underground. I looked through my binoculars and gasped. The walls of the huge cave are covered with hanging coffins. I handed the telescope to Lin Xia, and Lin Xia was silent after looking at it. After a while, he said: "Could it be that the Miao people have already arrived here, and they still can't live here?" ”

I said, "That lift obviously hasn't been used for years, unless there's another way out here." ”

Descending to the bottom, we were a little nervous, for fear of clashing with these Miao people who lived in seclusion. But it seems that this place has been abandoned for a long time, there is no movement, the river is not deep, and we stepped on the cold water to the opposite bank. Approach the cave carefully.

Because most of the stone caves are lower than the valley bottom, when you see the stone caves clearly, you will find that there are still rows of wooden houses at the bottom of the cave, but most of them have already collapsed, and it seems that this place has indeed been abandoned for a long time.

Professor Wen walked to the side of the wooden house and searched carefully. As if he had found something in a collapsed wooden house, he lowered his waist and picked up a strange rusty iron pipe, and said, "This is the standard equipment of the Ming Dynasty army - the three-eyed firearm." It is estimated that the Miao people were expelled from the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It can be inferred that the remains above and the premises below are presumably left by the same people. ”

I said: "That is to say, these Miao people hid in the mountains at that time, discovered the hidden place here, and then settled here, but then the Ming Dynasty army killed here, and then they were all killed after a fierce battle?" ”

Lin Xia said: "The History of the Ming Dynasty records that the Ming Dynasty Hongwu five years, Jingtai six years, Tianshun five years of the Ming Dynasty army all attacked Miao Jiang, a large number of slaughter seedlings, Miao District population by grass shaving, less than 100, several extinction. The village is ten rooms and nine empty, and the human body is extinct". As a result, the remaining Miao people hid in the mountains, and many Miao people began to live in caves, which seems to be true. ”

Professor Wen sighed: "It is recorded in Guo Zizhang's "Records of Qian" that a Miao person who is captured alive will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and a Miao person who is killed will be rewarded with three taels of silver. We have been talking about how brutal the Qin Dynasty was, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty was just as brutal. ”

On Tuesday, Mao nodded and said: "When I was hunting in the mountains of Guizhou with my father in the early years, I saw many Miao people living in those big caves, and built a lot of houses in the caves with wood and bamboo. ”

I said curiously: "Then did these Miao people really die together, or where did they go, could it be that the Ecstasy Tai was set up by the Miao people using the Ecstasy Grass?" ”

Professor Wen said: "After the Qing Yongzheng Dynasty opened up the six halls of Miao Jiang, Miao Jiang gradually merged with the Han District, and it is not excluded that the Miao people moved out of here at that time, but it is not easy to explain the remains that have not yet been buried. It's hard to say this ecstasy, if this is the place of the gathering platform, Ge Zhang and the others are also afraid that people will find this hidden place, and it is possible to design such a game. ”

On Tuesday, Mao hurriedly said: "Then we came from afar, but we couldn't get anything?" ”

I was also a little disappointed, took the flashlight and walked into the stone cave, this stone cave is not deep, but the space is particularly large, the cave wall is densely packed with hanging coffins, the master has also told me some things in this regard, after someone from the Miao family died, the Miao people dug a whole wood into a coffin, similar to the single wooden coffin, called the boat coffin, put these hanging coffins on the cliff, next to only a wooden board written with the name of the deceased, called the family hall. Funeral, drumming and singing, male corpses jumping, mourning and scattering, also placed in the cave. And this burial method is also called cave burial.

I walked into the depths of the cave, looking at the dense hanging coffins on the huge cliff, it seems that the Miao people here have lived for a long time, otherwise there would not be so many hanging coffins, and it seems that the Miao people walked in a hurry in the end, otherwise why the bones of their own family members on the top of the sinkhole have not converged.

Lin Xia followed me into the cave without saying a word, the bottom of the cave was relatively flat, and there were traces of Miao Sheng's fire.

Lin Xia said in frustration: "I really don't know if these Miao people found anything here in the end." Why did you go in such a hurry? ”

I said, "Maybe the gas gathering platform here has already been burned down by the Miao people." ”

Lin Xia said: "Then why didn't you even leave the ruins?" ”

I said, "It's a long time ago, and maybe flash floods and earthquakes can cause buildings to collapse, which can be explained." Or the wooden stake that the old man Xiang Liangzhong saw, it was just the wooden stake after the Miao people built the house that was washed out of this sinkhole because of the flood, and it has nothing to do with the gas gathering platform, but fortunately, the Miao people left the elevator for convenience, otherwise how can we judge that there will be other relics here besides the Miao people. ”

The two of them continued to walk along the cave, but the cave was indeed too shallow, and they walked more than 100 meters to the end, and there was nothing around, I was also a little disappointed, and when I was about to return, I suddenly remembered what Professor Wen had just said.

I said: "These Miao people should have left in a hurry, otherwise it is impossible not to collect the corpses that died in battle, if the Ming army killed all the Miao people, then the Ming army should also clean up the battlefield and restrain their comrades." So could there be another possibility? ”

Lin Xia said: "What is possible? ”

I said, "There's something else going on in this cave!" ”