But the shadow is the shadow, and the work of gold and stone cannot be ended because of this.

There is a problem that Lao Yin and I thought of, the place where the body was buried should not be far from the place where the gang stole the cultural relics, so the focus of our work was naturally placed in that vicinity.

But before entering the water again, everyone's negative emotions are relatively strong, and they are afraid that they will encounter unclean things under the water again, and they will suddenly appear in the muddy water and scare people to death. Lao Yin has done psychological work for us for a long time, such as what dead people are not terrible and so on. But there are still people who are too scared to go into the water.

In the end, Lao Yin couldn't do it, some of the divers were still not well trained, and only a few of us could start work in advance, so he finally thought of the best way to eliminate his fear - a hand-in-hand small-scale carpet search.

It's a bit funny, but it's effective, a few of us put on wetsuits, dive underwater from the last beacon site, and then follow the planned route, hand in hand to form a human wall of nearly ten meters, slowly moving under the water, so that I'm not afraid, people are like this, even in this environment, as long as the crowd is bold, it becomes bigger.

The search route is set on the shore, Lao Yin takes the lead with a compass, we walk a hundred meters in one direction, and then the person on the far right does not move, turn a semicircle with him as the center of the circle, turn back and investigate another hundred meters, the oxygen cylinder is almost gone, go up, and then press the coordinates again, so that five times a day to run back and forth, we search 10,000 square meters, which is the size of a playground.

It doesn't sound difficult, but it's actually very easy to do it on land, but it's a different story altogether in the water, and it's so difficult that people suspect that they came out to suffer from it. Because the bottom of the water is too turbid, people pull each other, even if there is a compass, it is useless, and the direction of the trip is a mess.

We went back to the boat for a long discussion, and finally decided that the direction was decided by the boat, because there is a coordinate system on the ship, we first got off the boat from the predetermined starting point, and then drove the boat to the end of this trip, Lao Yin dragged the safety rope to control the direction, we followed him without being crooked, and then we could concentrate on investigating the situation under the water.

After swimming back and forth, the oxygen cylinder was not empty, and Lao Yin took us up.

Maybe I was just under the water and couldn't feel the passage of time, only to know that nearly half an hour had passed. After getting on the boat and sitting down, I felt very tired, it can be said that I had back pain and muscle weakness, and I just wanted to collapse on the boat. Sure enough, the physical exertion of diving is no joke, not to mention carrying this oxygen cylinder. No wonder I heard that some undersea gold and stone people think that they can only dive twice a day, and one time is only ten or twenty minutes, which is indeed very physical exertion, and the water pressure on the bottom of the sea is incomparable to our lake.

We rested for a while, but no one wanted to go into the water anymore, everyone was very tired, and so was Lao Yin. So we took the boat back to the station, and after lunch, Lao Yin told us to rest for an extra hour at noon and take another dive in the afternoon.

A day passed, and we surveyed a total of 5,000 square meters, and half of the goal was completed, and only picked up some pottery shards that were not new. Although I didn't make any big discoveries, I was like a wolf when I ate at night, and I slept after eating, washing, and I was definitely not so tired after a day in the field.

The next day, the weather was still so good, which meant that we had to continue to enter the water, and today there were two more people involved in our team, and the width of our team became almost 12 meters, which meant that we could swim one less trip, and still have one round trip in the morning and one in the afternoon.

After two days, we didn't find anything. However, there was no look of disappointment on Lao Yin's face on the boat back, just as expected. Seeing his calmness, I felt that my temper was too anxious. But anyway, there is one thing that I am still very angry about, why is our luck not as good as a few thieves?

However, when we returned to the station, we found that another official had arrived, and we were very happy to see Lao Yin, and told him a lot of things before leaving.

When Lao Yin sat down to eat, he told us: "Just now they said that someone in that gang was caught when they were selling stolen goods, and today they have all confessed, and he said that they found an ancient well under the water, and took out a lot of cultural relics in the well, because these two missing locals were temporarily joined to enter the water, and they also had to participate in the distribution of the spoils, so they killed them and tied them to stones and sank into the water."

Hearing this, we had at least one stone fall to the ground in our hearts - there should be no other corpses under the water, but that wasn't the point of being a matter anymore.

"What about the location of the ancient well?" I couldn't wait to ask Lao Yin.

"Don't worry, I've already counted them, and if I'm lucky, I'll find them tomorrow."

Hearing this, my fatigue over the past two days seemed to subside a lot, and I even became a little more excited. I can't help but sigh in my heart that the officials here are so efficient in solving cases, and they have caught people so quickly.

The next day, we sailed to the place that Lao Yin had deduced, and yes, it was a guess, and he circled a range on the map according to the description of the prisoner's confession, believing that the well that "produced cultural relics" must be within this range. It's a bit unreliable, but it's much better than looking for a needle in a haystack.

It stands to reason that there is nothing terrible underwater now, but the effect of sweeping under the drainage in the first two days is still good, and we are becoming more and more proficient, so Lao Yin also used this method again, in the turbid water, it is indeed not easy to miss any clues.

Once again, we put on our wetsuits and went into the water one by one, and when the boat was in the navigation position, we turned our heads down one by one and began another hopeful search.

I don't know how the others are doing today, but I am very careful, except for my own vicinity, I have to observe carefully as far as I can see, for fear of missing this wellhead. But after a morning, I still didn't find anything.

On the boat back, I asked Lao Yin: "Didn't you say that you could find it today, half a day has passed, what if you can't find it in the afternoon?"

"You're in the most anxious place, you can't find it in the afternoon, what if you can't find it?" He said as he smoked a cigarette.

"Yesterday you patted your chest and boasted about Haikou, and today you said you couldn't find it, how can this work."

"I can't find it this afternoon, I'll pay for it out of my own pocket and invite you to drink."

"Come on, you want to drink it yourself." My words made everyone next to me laugh.

Our group of young people are not very good at drinking, Lao Yin, who is in his thirties and forties, basically drinks when he has nothing to do at the Jinshi construction site, and he is also idle when he is idle, so he will be addicted if he does not drink for a long time.

A noon passed quickly, and Lao Yin on the boat in the afternoon took out another picture, which was messy, but circled a location with a red pen, near the range of our morning search, Lao Yin pointed to this place and said, "Look at this place."

"I've been watching it for a while, what's wrong?" I asked him.

"This range, it's absolutely good, I didn't sleep at noon and specially went to ask the boat boss about the hydrology in this area, combined with the location of the boat where the prisoner confessed and the escape route after the sinking body, it must be here."

I saw the serious look on his face, but he spoke like a stubborn child, and I couldn't help but want to laugh. But now there is no better way but to keep looking.

I went into the water this time, but my heart was a lot calmer, it was not easy to find a needle in a haystack, and it was all up to luck to bump into it.

However, things are often like this, the more anxious you are, the less likely it will be to get results, but if you are not in a hurry, it will come to the door by itself.

We were swimming forward the same way we had done before, when suddenly there was a "downhill road" in front of us, and the mud and sand under our feet gradually disappeared into the deeper water.

I felt that something was wrong, and gestured to Lao Yin if we should continue to investigate, he nodded, and then used his gesture to command us not to keep this formation, but to take the lead, and follow one by one.

I didn't go down a little bit, but the descent was getting steeper, and there were a lot of building materials on the slope, and there were rows and rows of brick tiles - it must have something to do with housing, and it didn't look like a house, the whole place was littered with these things. I became more and more excited, so many must not have been washed by the water, but should be the place that was destroyed by the water in the first place.

I don't know how far I went, but the downhill was gradually smoothing out, and Lao Yin may have realized something, and his swimming speed slowed down a lot. Suddenly, he turned around and pointed ahead, and I followed his hand to see that there was indeed a dark place over there, which should be a wellhead, and I couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

All of us slowly gathered around this well, which looked like a Han Dynasty well, because there was a circle of bricks, about the size of my arm's span, and I looked inside, and it was so black that I couldn't see anything but mud and sand.

Now that the place has been found, Lao Yin signals that we should go up.

After getting on the boat and recording the coordinates, Lao Yin asked me proudly: "How is it, will you obey me?"

I nodded, "Yes."

"Go back to drinking tonight!"

In fact, it is not uncommon to find a well in the Han Dynasty, but after all, it is the biggest harvest in so many days. You don't have to think about it to know that the next step of the gold and stone work must revolve around it, because the well is often the place where the whole vessel is produced. In addition to reinforcing and preventing collapse, a well on land has to be dug while pumping, but how to do this underwater work?