Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Second Brilliant Pearl
After smiling at her, I jumped into the water and prepared to cross over. When I crossed to the halfway point of the river, the position of the whirlpool, Zhou Jun had already landed.
My speed is much faster than Zhou Jun's, and I am already a little excited when I am still in the river, and I will be able to leave this unlucky underground river space immediately.
However, I don't know if it was joy or misfortune on me, the damn whirlpool opened at this time, and I even witnessed how the mouth of the one-meter-large black whirlpool opened.
The violent hurricane struck again, and the air and the river spun sharply in an instant. I was pulled all at once, and I couldn't help myself.
"Hold on and don't move!" I was helpless, but when I saw that the three people who were already clinging to the cracked rock were about to reach out to me, I was startled and quickly screamed.
As soon as my last voice sounded, I felt the world spin and my eyes went black. The next thing happened, as before, was that I fell into a long fear of falling.
"Smack!" I was slammed into the water with my back down.
Again, very deep water, I survived. But after such a long fall and such a heavy fall, I was stunned and lost consciousness in an instant.
When I woke up groggily, I was already on the shore, as if I was pillowed on someone's leg. There may only be one person who can put my leg on my pillow now.
"Are you awake? Scared the hell out of me! "Sure enough, it's her, Yu Qian.
"Why did you come down too?" I reproached her a little.
"It's not just her, we're down too. Hey, if you hadn't fallen, we wouldn't have known this place was so special. "Boss Taiyi's voice came from the direction above me, and I couldn't see it. But listening to his voice, it seems to be quite excited.
With Yu Qian's support, I sat up, and after rubbing my head, which was still a little dizzy, I looked in the direction of Boss Taiyi by her light.
Boss Taiyi and Zhou Jun were on the high ground five or six meters away from me, and they were sighing at the rock wall.
"What is it?" It was too far away for me to see clearly, so I simply asked him.
In this place, the sound of the water is already very small, only the sound of the whirlpool of water falling, and we can speak and hear normally even if we don't have to roar.
"O fresco! What a big pair! Boss Taiyi said.
"Murals? How can there be murals here? "It's my turn to be amazed, this hellish place is under the underground river, how can there be murals here?
"It's true, I also saw the mural, it is an elaboration of the cave civilization, and it introduces the sacrificial scene of the cave civilization in detail. This cave is the sacrificial site of this cave civilization and their holy place. This waterhole was the altar of their sacrifice. If you are not mistaken, there are countless bones and strange treasures down here. ”
Yu Qian is an archaeologist who can decipher ancient texts and murals, which she has browsed.
Listening to her say this, I noticed that there was a pool of water around me that would not flow. Then I noticed the cave, which was bigger than a basketball court.
"This water is also strange, it has been flowing down from above for many years, right? So you didn't fill the cave? "Boss Taiyi and Zhou Jun have already walked back.
"There must be another one down the waterhole
A cave, this underground world, is not just an underground river running through it. There is a river under the river, criss-crossed, one vein after another, and it is extremely complex. I explained.
"You mean, there are other underground rivers under this pool? Wasn't all the treasure washed away? Boss Taiyi suddenly cried with a sad face.
"This sacrificial sanctuary has been around for many years, hasn't it? It is estimated that it is a very thick layer. Although I still have to figure out other underground rivers, the water flow is definitely not large, and there are definitely still strange treasures that should be there. I said again.
"Well, this cave civilization has existed for no less than a hundred years, and there are three important rituals almost every year. There was already a thick layer of bones and sacrifices underneath. Yu Qian also echoed me and said.
The cave civilization, which still has a bit of a primitive civilization, is a more cruel hierarchy. The bone sacrifice that Yu Qian said was not a simple animal corpse, but more of a living sacrifice.
"I'll go down and take a look!" Hearing our words, Boss Taiyi was full of interest.
"Then be careful." I was already thinking about instructing Boss Taiyi to go down, and I was still thinking about finding some excuse to fool him just now, but I didn't expect him to be so conscious.
"Don't worry, I'm good." I don't know what kind of motivation these two goods received, but the bull gave me a thumbs up, and then walked straight to the water's edge and jumped down towards the center.
I relieved myself a little bit, and my head didn't hurt as much. Taking advantage of the time when Taiyi's boss is in the water, he can also stand up and move.
After walking around the cave, I found that the remnants were still obvious. But most of it was broken and rotten. The murals they are talking about are very complete, although they are relatively simple and not so beautiful, but they record a lot of content.
And looking at this situation, it seems that these murals are still a necessary part of the sacrifice, which is a bit similar to the process of the meeting. That's why it's portrayed so profoundly, and it's still clearly recognizable.
It didn't take long for the boss of Taiyi to float up, with a depressed face. When I asked, I found out that these two goods couldn't dive to the end at all, and I couldn't hold back even if I didn't see a single hair.
Zhou Jun took it out of his bag for a long time and got him a gas canister similar to a lighter. It's a new tech thing, a small-capacity compressed oxygen tank that lasts a few minutes.
With the help of this, the boss of Taiyi went into the water again, and we waited quietly by the water. At first, for the past two or three minutes, we could still see the underwater lights. But it didn't take long for it to be pitch black underwater, and there was no trace of Taiyi's boss at all.
After about five minutes, Zhou Jun was in a hurry, because the oxygen tank was only a few minutes. But the lights still didn't come on.
"There won't be any surprises, right?" More than a minute passed, and Yu Qian was also anxious. In fact, I'm also quite uneasy, if it takes so long and can't get to the end, no matter what Boss Taiyi says, he will have to float.
"Why don't I go down and have a look......" Zhou Jun was already impatient, and both feet stepped into the water.
"Don't go, I'll go!" Naturally, I couldn't have let her go down. But just as I was about to enter the water, there was a sudden huge wave on the surface of the water. Boss Taiyi rushed out of the water with his mouth wide open!
Immediately, the two goods of Taiyi Boss began to paddle desperately to the outside like installing a motor. Before the outside had time to be surprised, they suddenly found that there was a jet-black striped creature behind the two goods.
"Haha...... Run! Run! Haha......" The second cargo was paddling wildly and laughing wildly, without the embarrassment that he should have when he ran for his life.
"What the hell did you mess with?" All three of us shrank to the shore in fright, but when we saw the menacing appearance of the thing, we couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"Snakes! O big water serpent! Haha......" shouted and laughed, and the second cargo quickly jumped ashore, and then crawled towards us.
As soon as I bent down, I grabbed the collars of the two goods, pulled them and ran to the high ground of the stone wall. The water snake in his mouth was also completely exposed at this time, it was really not an ordinary water snake, it was black, and the size was bigger than my thighs. A pair of eyes as round and bright as an incandescent light bulb, with an open mouth and two fangs, scared to death.
The water snake didn't seem to want to leave the water, and when it saw that we had reached the high ground, it didn't chase it again. After spitting letters at us for a long time on the shore, we went down again.
It wasn't until it was gone that the four of us relaxed.
"Why did you mess with such a thing again?" After leaving Boss Taiyi aside, I couldn't help but complain.
"That can't be helped, that thing is guarding this thing. I'm sorry to offend this thing for the sake of this thing. Boss Taiyi's face was excited, if he hadn't estimated Zhou Jun's face, he would have laughed again.
"What this thing that? What did you get back? Yu Qian was annoyed when she heard this, anyway, she saw that Boss Taiyi was holding something in his hand, so she simply reached out and grabbed it.
Boss Taiyi was so excited that he shook his hand and knocked Yu Qian's hand aside, so angry that Yu Qian bared her teeth and almost broke out.
Fortunately, Boss Taiyi quickly opened his hand, revealing the thing he was holding. This thing, black and shiny, is engraved with strange symbolic patterns, and in my ability, I can't understand what those lines represent. couldn't help but look at Yu Qian.
"It's just an ordinary ornament, nothing special." Yu Qian saw my doubts at a glance, so she immediately said.
I smiled awkwardly and motioned for Boss Taiyi to continue. We can see at a glance that this thing that Boss Taiyi is holding is just a box made of special materials.
He used both hands, and with a vigorous break, he heard only a "click", and the box was opened.
"Hua Canzhu?" As soon as the box was opened, the entire cave was illuminated by a fluorescence, which we were very familiar with. Looking at the glowing objects in the box, we are even more familiar.
"Didn't it fall into that underground river up there? So it came out here? Boss Taiyi was surprised. Not to mention him, several of us were so shocked that we couldn't keep our mouths shut.
"Could it be the second one?" Yu Qian prompted.
"The second one? Could there be two of them for something so rare? "Boss Taiyi still doesn't believe it.
"How else would you explain this?" Yu Qian pointed to the Hua Canzhu in his hand and asked.
"This is not Hua Canzhu." As they argued, I kept looking at the beads, and finally, I saw the flaw.
"Not really!" At this time, Zhou Jun also opened his mouth. I glanced at her, and she nodded at me.
So, I followed her and said, "This thing should be an organic sphere!" ”
"Organics? Sphere? What do you mean? Yu Qian and Boss Taiyi were confused.