Chapter 67 Excavation

We got back to camp, and Sander saw us pulled together, but the corners of his mouth smiled, knowing that we would do our best to help them and find something.

In the afternoon, we spent another four or five hours locating the terrain in three places, and finally detected a narrow underground cavity.

After careful comparison by the computer, it is not a geological crack, it is very likely to be some kind of passage built by the ancient tomb, Sander almost got excited, and took the compass in the area of discovery, and looked at it, although the surrounding terrain has been vicissitudes, however, he is proficient in feng shui secret arts, good at dragon vein points, after careful calculation, it is determined that this must be an ancient tomb site, buried under the yellow sand.

The yellow sand layer was not very deep, and Sander immediately determined the location of the archaeological excavation, and Professor Liang and Professor Wasson also ran over excitedly.

I, Don, Zach and the other young people had no choice but to dig in the enclosed area and began to dig with shovels.

Sander used the terrain oscillator to take into account the compass positioning, delineated the best area, I, Don Jr. and Zack three young people took shovels and began to dig, fortunately the sand and dust was not thick, Sand and others also made a slight sand blocking gauze baffle next to it, preventing the dug yellow sand from flowing in again.

Even so, the three of us dug for more than three hours before digging a large pit more than three meters wide and two meters deep, and there was a very hard soil and stone deposit underneath.

At this time, Sander beckoned us not to dig first, he put down the small drill rig on it, and after connecting the electricity, he also jumped down, and also held a small computer, which showed the topographic map manifested by the oscillator, he selected a few places in the big pit, and let little Zach take the drill rig and drill a small hole half a meter deep.

A total of four small holes were drilled, and then, Sander asked Mia to drop a backpack on it, and he actually took out a few detonators from it, but I didn't feel like it was as simple as a detonator, and when I looked closely, I almost broke out in a cold sweat, they actually carried C4 high explosives.

Sander seemed to see my fierce expression, turned back to me and smiled, "Don't worry, this is only a limited explosive for archaeological use, not a prohibited item?" ”

I frowned and turned around, saw Professor Liang above, saw him nodding, and had to helplessly see them put four detonators into four small holes, and then, we all climbed up, lying on our stomachs seven or eight meters away from the big pit, Sander pressed the detonator, and with an explosion, the yellow sand and gravel all rushed out of the big pit.

When the sand and gravel fell, little Zach got Sander's instructions for the first time, got up, rushed to the side of the explosion, looked inside, and nodded back to us: "Blown through, there is a big hole?" ”

Professor Liang and Professor Wasson were the most excited, stumbling over, but Sander walked directly behind to a Humvee, lifted the Imperial Falcon cage out of the trunk, and walked towards the hole.

I helped Mia up, and when I saw Sander's actions, I knew he was trying to find out if the mysterious toxin was in this tomb? I just don't know if he's doing it for the detoxification, or if he's trying to get more toxins?

We came to the top of the big pit, and sure enough, we saw a deep pit more than one meter big under the pit, which was dark and secluded, I don't know how deep, of course, according to the test of the oscillator, this pit should be five or six meters deep, and the high explosive just now only blew up the rock layer at the top of the deep hole.

Everyone didn't go down for the first time, and they didn't know what the air quality was inside? Little Zack took the air quality tester and put it in the cavity to test, and at the same time let the fresh air into it, forming a circulation, ten minutes later, there was no problem with the air quality test, and Sander was holding the cage of the imperial falcon, and he was holding a small bottle in his hand, I was next to him, and after seeing him open it, there was a foul smell, and he was busy holding Mia and flashed to the side, but the imperial falcon in the cage gradually woke up.

Sander put the cage down slowly, and at first the Emperor Falcon didn't make any strange sounds, however, before it was put down three meters, that is, the hole that had just exploded, the Emperor Falcon suddenly screamed fiercely, but without a few screams, the voice of the Emperor Falcon became strange, but Sander knew what the Emperor Falcon's calls meant? Something seems to have been discovered? But he couldn't be sure, and it became such a strange cry, but his heart was very happy.

After enduring hardships in the desert for so long, I finally found a trace that may have the mysterious toxin, at least it means that there is this smell in this ancient tomb, but I don't know if there is such a thing, but I found the trace, and it was not in vain.

The air quality was okay, so Zach Jr. and I started to build two soft ladders and put them into the deep hole, and then discussed the number of people who entered.

Sander and Little Zach both entered, Mia and I had to go in, Professor Liang and Professor Wasson also had to go in, and the rest was only Xiao Tang and Xiao Tong, someone had to watch it, but it didn't take much skill, when we used the terrain oscillator, we tested a narrow underground cavity, however, the depth is not small, the oscillator on the surface is not enough to show the terrain below, and it needs to be carried at any time to test the terrain, so there is no need for any professional people to watch it, of course, I'm also worried that I won't be able to protect Mia and Professor Liang alone, so I have to follow one more person down, and only one person can be left behind.

Xiao Tang and Xiao Tong argued, but in the end, it must not be what I expected, Xiao Tang is a master of computers, only he is the most suitable on it, of course, Sander They don't know the details of Xiao Tang, just as an ordinary bodyguard. However, I was a little distressed that the two women were with me, and their heads were a little big.

I went to Xiao Tang's side and carefully told him some things, Sander looked at me with a smile from a distance, and grabbed the rope of the soft ladder and slowly climbed down, and then, it was Xiao Zach Liang who taught them, and then, I walked over again, afraid to go down, which made Mia afraid and helped her, and finally, it was Li Tong, she was a little weird, and she had to let me help her, Mia also shook her head secretly when she saw it next to her, she already knew that Xiao Tong was my former girlfriend, and it seemed that she was still in love now, but fortunately, she was pregnant, I also love her deeply, and it is impossible for me to change my mind, and forget these personal feelings for the time being.

We all went down to this bombed pit, Sander and Xiao Zack walked in front, turned on the miner's lamp, Mia and Li Tong and I walked behind, Xiao Tong came to harass me, I was glared at fiercely, and it was not good to bother me, I also picked up a flashlight and looked at the surrounding rock walls, which were all uneven rock formations, which did not look like there were traces of artificial excavation, but like a large channel cracked by an earthquake.

None of us are looking in this place, though.

This empty passage sloped down slightly, fortunately, the road surface was quite smooth, and we did not have the slightest difficulty in walking, but as we went deeper into the passage more than 20 meters below, Professor Liang suddenly asked Sander to stop in front, and then, he turned on a flashlight, shone on the rock walls on both sides, and reached out to touch the rock wall, and then, turned his head and signaled to Professor Wason, seeing him nodding, Professor Liang showed a look that seemed to be a little distressed.

I saw them stop in the back, thinking that they had discovered something, and I was busy taking the test, and I saw them communicating with body language, and I thought to myself, what are you doing so mysterious? I hurriedly asked Professor Liang, what did you find?

Professor Liang knew that I was not good at this mouthful, but he was also a little curious, so he said, "What is the difference between you looking at the whole up and down of the rock wall?" ”

I looked at the rock wall illuminated by the lights with some wonders, and there was nothing too big to find, if there was a real discovery, it was that there were many more uneven places on the rock wall above, but there were not so many below, but some places seemed to be a little rounded, and the rock formations below were slightly darker, but what did it matter, so I shook my head at Professor Liang.

Professor Liang told me that these uneven and gentle places, the junction of yellow and deep colors, are actually flooded places, that is to say, in this passage, once encountered water inundation, the time is not short, it is very likely that the groundwater once flowed from here, however, they found that the traces of the rock wall left by these groundwater, the further down they went, the more obvious they were, they were worried that if there was an ancient tomb of the Loulan aborigines below, would it be flooded by the former groundwater, if so, then I don't know what else would be left?

They were worried. Sander said in front: "Since you are so worried, then let's hurry up and go down, the passage from this underground river seems to have a depth that slopes downward, I don't know if there really seems to be an ancient tomb in it?" ”

However, Sander is not worried about whether there is an ancient tomb down here, what he needs is that kind of strange toxin, the Imperial Falcon has already reacted at the entrance of the cave, which means that there must be this substance in it, however, Little Zack is carrying the cage in front, and the Imperial Falcon's reaction in it is not strong, it may be that the smell has been deposited in this passage for a long time, and it has just leaked out, and now that the air is circulating, the smell is thin.

We continued to go down, and finally, we descended to a depth of fifty or sixty meters, and we came to a very large space cave, and Professor Liang and they found a large number of traces of underground rivers, that is to say, there used to be a large underground river here, and it is very likely that it was the Peacock River, which was once dry.

Sander took out his tablet here, looked at the terrain tested by the terrain oscillator, and when he got here, it was gone, but he took out two alloy oscillators and inserted them in the distance of the two underground clearings, and used the oscillators to finally locate a large space, which was about a kilometer upstream of the dry underground river.

Sander put the tablet on a stone, everyone gathered around to analyze, Professor Liang and others are not too familiar with high-tech, Sander explained to him the terrain tested on the computer, and found a large tomb similar to the underground palace, not only the main burial chamber, but also the back room, two ear chambers.

Sander is proficient in the secret art of feng shui, and through these black-and-white line-like topographic maps, he analyzed that this ancient tomb is a bucket-like tomb pattern in the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, the shape of the sealed mound, like a funnel buckled on the ground, however, integrating the local culture, he did not see the four directions of the diamond and the corner, but it is also in line with the secret techniques of the Feng Shui tombs in the Central Plains.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the tomb pattern with the main burial chamber, the back room and the ear chamber was already regarded as a burial system for the kings and grandsons at that time, of course, this is not the Central Plains, but in the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Loulan in the Western Regions, however, absorbing the culture of the time, the person buried here is certainly not a small person.

A happy smile appeared on Sander's face, cleaned up, and everyone followed him to pull out, walking to the upper reaches of the underground river, sure enough, before he walked a kilometer, he came to the bottom of the opposite side of the underground river through the terrain of the tablet, and suddenly took the miner's lamp in the hand of Little Zack, and shone it on it, and saw that more than three meters above, there was a raised stone, which looked very dangerous, but fortunately, it was not very high, Sander looked back at me, and pointed to it again.

I knew what he meant, so I stepped forward, took the rope, hung it on my shoulder, and began to climb this rock, which was not visited by any human being, so the rocks looked very sharp and piercing in some places, but they were all prepared and gave me a pair of gloves, and I climbed the steep mountain more than three meters high with difficulty, and stood on top of the spitting rock.

When I got to the rock, I saw a half-man-high stone cave in the place of the rock wall, because below Sander they called me, find a stone, fix the rope, I didn't look closely, on the side of the stone cave, fortunately, there were a few raised stones, I tied a knot and put it on it, and then tightened, pulled, and then dropped one end.

Since the height here is not high, it is a little steep, and if you climb up the rope, you will go up to the rock without any danger, but this raised rock is not very wide, and Sander climbed up first, and told the people below that there is a cave half a man high, and if a man comes up, he will climb into the cave.

After Sander finished speaking, he was not polite, took a flashlight, shone it inside, and crawled in with his hook.

Then, it was little Zack who came up, and he climbed in while carrying the cage, but as soon as he climbed in, not two or three meters, the imperial falcon screamed excitedly in the cage, and Sander was overjoyed to hear it in front, and they really found the right place.