Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Entrance to the Cave
The tall and thin villager looked at the red-faced scholar whose frightened body was like a sifting chaff, and scolded with a smile: "Hold his old mother, another one looking for death?" What are you going to do, you damn thing? ”
The red-faced scholar looked nervously at the masked villager in front of him and said, "...... You...... You guys are bandits! Extremely daring! I...... I tell you...... It's too late for you to escape, we're ...... Someone has already gone back to report the news...... There will be troops here soon...... Then you won't be able to run away! ”
At this time, the peasant bandit boss looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hold your mother!" You still want to scare me?! It will take at least four or five days to get out of this isolated barren mountain, and even if you find the troops to come back, it will take at least seven or eight days. What's more, Lao Tzu knows that you haven't sent someone back to report the news, this ghost place is so hidden, even if Lao Tzu asks you to send someone back to report the news, you may not be able to find this place again, hahaha! ”
The tall and thin villagers exuded murderous aura and scolded: "You dead nerds, you dare to cheat Lao Tzu when you are dying, Lao Tzu will kill you now!" And then he took the gold! ”
"Wait, King Five." The boss of the peasant bandits suddenly said, he stared at the upright Li Wanfa, and suddenly said with admiration: "This brother is a man, he refuses to leave his own people, he is not afraid of death, Lao Tzu admires such a person very much!" ”
The peasant bandit boss strode up to Li Wanfa and said, "Lao Tzu hates scholars the most, and his stomach is full of bad water that harms others, but Lao Tzu admires real men." He said viciously: "Lao Tzu thinks of his comrades on the battlefield, a platoon of brothers live and die together, never give up, surrounded by the Yankees, no one surrenders and kneels, they are not afraid of guns, and in the end, except for Lao Tzu, all his mother's death!" But there is a kind! There are too few people with this kind of backbone now, brother, you are one, and that dead old ghost. He went on to say: "Lao Tzu, I rarely leave a living mouth in my work, although you are all damned scholars, but for the sake of your profession, it is also very hard, and there are men like you, Lao Tzu decided to take only gold this time and let you go." He winked, and the masked villagers pushed the archaeologists aside with guns, tied them up with hemp ropes, and ordered them all to squat together and stand guard.
Seeing that there was no danger to their lives for the time being, Li Wanfa and the red-faced scholar helped Wu Honghai to the side and gently placed him on the ground, Wu Honghai trembled all over and breathed very quickly.
A short and fat masked villager raised his earthen gun and shouted: "You all stay honestly for Lao Tzu, don't move, if Lao Tzu takes more gold today, maybe he will be in a better mood and leave you alive!" He said viciously: "Whoever dares to be dishonest, Lao Tzu will kill you all!" ”
Several masked villagers kicked and beat the archaeological team members, and when they saw that no one dared to move, the peasant bandit boss led a few people to the edge of the cave. These people carried tools on their backs, including ropes, shovels, shovels, cloth bags, candles, etc., and they often robbed tombs.
The hole, which is about four meters in diameter and two meters deep, was dug by the archaeological team, and after digging up the earth, a smooth gray-brown spherical stone wall is revealed underneath (the full volume of the buried spherical stone wall cannot be seen), and there is a dome with a diameter of two meters. This round cover is twenty centimeters thick, carved with lines around it, and there is a huge strange ancient text engraved in the center, several villagers looked at it, this round cover is made of bronze, I don't know what treatment, it has not corroded at all. The bronze dome has been removed, and there are a few crowbars next to it, which seem to have been excavated by the archaeological team and pried open with great effort.
Several villagers stood on the edge of the hole and looked down, and suddenly a dazzling flash flashed in the air, shining between the dim heaven and earth, and then a thunderclap sounded, and the villagers were frightened, they looked up at each other, and they all felt inexplicable fear. Not only the masked villagers, but also the archaeological team members squatting together were also nervous, could something happen in this barren mountain and wild place?!
A few villagers on the edge of the cave suppressed their shock, and then looked down, and the bronze dome on the spherical stone wall was moved, revealing a black hole.
The villagers jumped into the hole and stepped on the stone wall, and their hearts were not bottomed at all, for the first time they had seen something like this, unlike the graves they had encountered before. The villagers found that the spherical stone wall was very large, and the arc was gentle, like a huge flat stone slab paved in the ground, but the excavated part was the highest point of the spherical bulge, and the position of the black hole was at the top of the spherical surface.
Several villagers walked to the edge of the black hole, looked down, the cave wall was carved with exquisite patterns, the cave body was smooth and clean, and the spherical stone wall was actually a whole, which was made by artificial excavation. This alone requires a huge amount of engineering. The black hole is not deep, about three meters downward, and leads horizontally to a passage to the west. Several villagers wondered: What the hell is this place? Where do you lead?
There is a small amount of dirt at the bottom of the black hole, and it seems that the archaeological team has gone down after removing the copper cover.
The villagers looked up at the boss standing by the hole, and the boss nodded, knowing that they would go down. The villagers first put the candle into the bottom of the cave, probed the air, and saw that the air was circulating, so the two villagers tied ropes around their waists and went down the cave.
The dark clouds in the sky are getting heavier and heavier, the lead-colored clouds are implied with billowing red, as if stained with blood, the sky is dim, as if entering the night, dazzling lightning shuttles through the sky, and the scene between heaven and earth is very strange. The two villagers reached the bottom of the cave, lit the torches, looked into the horizontal passage, nodded to the people above, and another villager went down the rope to the bottom of the cave. The three villagers walked into the passage with tools on their backs, a gun in one hand and a torch in the other.
When the other villagers saw the three people enter, they all sweated, and they didn't know what treasures they could find here. The boss of the peasant bandits on the edge of the cave saw that the team of tomb explorers had entered first, and it would take some time for him to come out to report the news, but his eyes were very nervous, as if he had a premonition that things would not go smoothly and would develop in an unpredictable direction. The boss looked back at the archaeological team members and saw that the archaeological team members were also very nervous and very concerned about the situation below.
The members of the archaeological team were threatened by the masked villagers with guns, and they all squatted on the ground, not daring to move, so they could not see the situation in the hole, nor could they see the villagers descending the hole and entering the spherical stone wall. However, the archaeological team members can still tell from the demeanor of these bandits that they have begun to move and are ready to rob the tomb. There are three things that the archaeological team members are most concerned about at the moment: First, can they survive today? Second, to what extent have these bandits been robbing their tombs? Third, what is this ancient ruin?
The col became quiet, and the masked villagers and the archaeological team members were silent and waited quietly. Everyone's attention was focused on the spherical stone wall, and suddenly a huge flash of light struck from the air, and then the ground shook, as if there was some kind of sound from the ground, something was moving, and a red light shot out of the hole.