I don't know if it was my brain reminding me that I was still in the car, I woke up suddenly, and found that the carriage had stopped, I hurriedly looked out, and found that there was no sign, so I asked a middle-aged man next to me: "Big brother, which station is this?"

The eldest brother reported the name of the place.

"Huh?" How did I get here? Not good! Sitted!

I quickly picked up my luggage and ran outside, and as soon as I got off the bus and saw the word "place", the carriage started again.

Fortunately, I only sat for one stop, and if I slept a little longer, it wouldn't be so far. I left the station with my luggage to pay for the ticket, but I felt empty in my stomach, so I went outside to find something to eat first.

Fortunately, just across the road, there is a shopping mall, next to the bus station, I thought that after eating, I could take a horse-drawn carriage to Lake C, and I didn't have to panic. If you want to say that the most shops here should be Huainan beef soup, there are all such shops coming out of the station, so I found a shop with a relatively clean façade and sat in.

I went to C Lake City, took a two-hour car, the scenery on the road was still good, and there was a unique verdant dripping in summer everywhere, which made people indulge in it unconsciously.

After arriving at Lake C, I took a taxi to the meeting place, I didn't expect it to be a community, after finding a place, I knocked on the door and went in, okay, a three-bedroom house, there were several tables in the living room, I looked into the room, it was full of people.

This is the zero-hour residence where Jinshi trains, training in the pool during the day and staying here at night. I came just in time to catch up with the meal, an uncle was cooking a big pot of rice in the kitchen, one on one table, and standing around the table to eat. But this is not a problem, there is such an air-conditioned house to live in is very friendly to Jinshi.

The next day I went to the swimming pool with them, and the person in charge said that it was assault training and that it would be hard, but fortunately I could swim, so it was not a problem for me.

After about ten days, our 20s were dragged to the village on the edge of Lake C, which meant that the underwater gold stone was really coming.

The Jinshi team leader here is surnamed Yin, generally we call him Lao Yin, he is usually very strict when he trains, but he is still relatively kind after training every day, and he wants to suppress more than 20 young people, which is indeed like this. This time, I also specially invited a diving expert, Lao Zhao, and he arrived the next day after we arrived.

Lao Zhao first gave us a theoretical lesson, and blew for nearly an hour, talking about which places he had been to, and which water he had dived into, which we were all impatient to listen to.

It wasn't until he started to cut to the chase that he said something useful.

"The most important thing about diving is overcoming two difficulties, do you know which two?"

"Oxygen and swimming." I don't know who interjected.

"No, is there anyone else to answer?" Lao Zhao asked. There was silence below, and he continued, "I know you don't know, to overcome fear and physical strength."

The discussion is open below, what is there to be afraid of?

Lao Zhao continued: "Don't believe it, generally diving has to overcome the three problems of deep water fear, physical consumption and water pressure, but the water depth here is more than 7 meters, you guys, don't worry about nitrogen drunkenness." However, the water here is relatively turbid, and it must be relatively dark underneath, so you will be able to experience it yourself when the time comes. As for physical fitness, don't think that diving is easy, in addition to the strength of swimming, the temperature under the water is relatively low, and the physical consumption will be accelerated. ”

Theories are always false, and these problems can only be realized after practice.

That afternoon, we went to the lake to get into the water. When I got on the boat, I saw a lot of pottery shards on the shore beach, it seems that they are some of the Han Dynasty and Shang and Zhou dynasties, pottery is the main living utensils of the ancients, so it seems that there is indeed a city site or a settlement of the ancients under this water.

In order to ensure our safety, the Jinshi team invited a medical team to be stationed on the shore to prevent special situations from occurring and rescue them as soon as possible.

"What's the danger here, what about being bitten by a fish in the water?" A guy who has always been very skinny said something, and everyone was amused by him.

Lao Zhao finished laughing and said, "Fuck you, do you think diving is fun?" Isn't it dangerous if anyone of you suddenly has a heart or lung disease, a problem with their equipment, or a leg cramp? Remember, I told you that you are not allowed to be left alone. ”

I looked at the diving equipment on the boat, everything was available, and it wouldn't be a problem, right?

The boat drove to the middle of the lake, and Lao Zhao began to instruct us on how to wear wetsuits. After checking them one by one, and getting all the safety ropes in place, he threw a few long iron chains down from the boat: "Today's task is to follow the iron chain and go down to the bottom of the lake. Let's start with two people, turn on the special oil lamp on your head, and I'll take you in groups. ”

However, after he finished speaking, no one took the initiative to step forward.

Lao Zhao said: "I usually look at you all alive and well, but at this time, how can you be like a grandson, is there anyone who is willing to do it, no one I ordered."

I thought to myself that the water quality is okay, and the water quality should be the best after the first wave, so I raised my hand.

"Good, there's one, is there anything else?" Seeing that I took the lead and a few more people came out, Lao Zhao said, "Okay, okay, just a few of you." Lao Yin, you are on the boat to time, and we will pull people before we come out in three minutes. Remember, don't be nervous when you go down, breathe evenly, or the oxygen will run out quickly. I really can't feel it, so I slowly float up on my own, and this little depth will come up in a few seconds. ”

After everything was explained, Lao Yin took a few of us to turn over and go into the water. Then we grabbed the chain and slowly descended, and the speed was almost in sync.

Indeed, as Lao Zhao said, diving here is not like in the sea, the water is very clear, we can only see each other's water and oil lamps, our bodies are very blurry, and we can only rely on the iron chains in our hands. We slid down, and sure enough, we were surrounded by darkness and visibility was very low. I began to believe the "sense of fear" that Lao Zhao said. Luckily, we were two stories deep, and if we went any deeper, I am afraid that the darkness around us would bring the most real sense of fear.

But it didn't take long for us to reach the end, and everything else went smoothly except that it was hard to see all around. Lao Zhao gestured for us to wait here and not go up, maybe it was for us to get used to it psychologically. I looked up overhead, and the sun seemed to turn into a light bulb that turned on to the dimest level, and the sunlight was floating on the water and couldn't come down.

I know that when we really start working, we can't hold on to this chain, but now I don't want to let go anyway, it seems that if I let go, I will lose touch with the world and be washed away by the lake, maybe this is also fear.

After staying underwater for a while, the temperature was indeed lower than above, Lao Zhao finally gave an order, and we went up together. So we began to slowly and orderly ascend, but it was much faster to go up than down, and it seems that this is a human instinct for self-preservation.

After going ashore, Lao Yin said that it was only less than two minutes, but I felt that a long time had passed. Lao Zhao took the oxygen mask and said to us: "Diving is different from swimming, especially this kind of muddy water, your range of movement is too large, the visibility is low, and you can't see anything after sweeping the silted sediment. After saying that, he arranged another group of people and took them down.

I rested on the boat for a while and wanted to go down and experience it again. After telling Lao Yin, Lao Yin asked if there was anyone on the ship who had already tried it once and still wanted to go down? Three of us were put together, and we went into the water along another chain, and the time was in control of ourselves.

I sank to the bottom and tried to let go of my hand, but I was pushed by the water and shook for a moment, so frightened that I grabbed the chain again. Slowly I tried to swim at the bottom of the water and found that it didn't make much difference, so I slowly let go. I shifted my body position and put my head close to the bottom of the lake. If you look closely to see if there is anything, you can see that there seems to be a small flat spot in the turbid water. Professional sensitivity made me notice this instantly, and I reached out and touched it, wiping a little bit of the mud and sand from it, hey, it was a brick.

So I cleared the surrounding mud and sand and pulled it out. The feeling of holding it in your hand is like a Han brick. I showed the bricks to everyone, and it was kind of funny to see a bunch of people circulating bricks under the water.

After a few more days of training, I gradually got used to diving in the water, and I didn't feel anything, and I was able to come and go freely in the water, and I think I could still adapt to the job.

One night after dinner, Lao Yin gave me a history lesson, some of our people are from their own hands, so they know better, while I don't know what kind of ruins and what the situation is.

Lao Yin said that the main task this time is the investigation of underwater gold and stone, not the excavation of underwater gold and stone, because so far there are no underwater gold and stone excavation conditions. The ancient ruins under the C lake are likely to be the legendary country of Ju C, which was the Fang country of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but there are very few records related to it, but the word "C" is difficult not to be related to the C lake in China. At present, the time of the cultural relics collected and collected is as early as the Neolithic Age, and the latest is to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, so it is likely to be a city in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Its rise and fall and even disappearance have a lot to do with the hydrological changes of Lake C, and finally the disappearance of this place in history may be like folklore, "trapped in C State", because after the Han Dynasty, there is indeed a deterioration of the climate and environment in the Lake C Basin, causing frequent earthquakes and floods, and the ability of the ancients to deal with natural disasters is very poor, much worse than modern people, so it is not surprising that a city suddenly disappeared.

Our goal is to find a lot of ruins and relics related to it underwater, and it would be better if there were other discoveries, such as the remains of buildings. This is only the first phase of the underwater survey, and other underwater gold and stone work will be carried out slowly and systematically in the future.