Chapter 44: The Living Coffin
According to the direction of Huang Rong's fingers, we followed, and every time we came to a waterhole, she stopped and waited for us, just like this, diving down in a waterhole. I simply couldn't tell the direction anymore, I just knew that I just had to follow her.
She still seems to care about the little wolf, and she will exchange a few words with the little wolf every time she goes to a waterhole. But the little wolf didn't seem to have lost his initial enthusiasm, and didn't pay much attention to her at all, just picked up a few words without too many verbal replies.
The little wolf's performance made me feel very puzzled, and I said that when I first met Huang Rong, didn't you behave very ambiguously? said that he came for her, and he cried to take her out, which is not the same concept as now, it is simply like two people.
What surprised me the most was that the little wolf seemed to be only interested in its surroundings, and seemed to be a little afraid of something. I always know that this feeling makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I don't understand why the little wolf is like this. After all, he is not like Ma Daha, if there is something in his heart, he communicates with me as soon as possible, and if he has anything, he often pretends to be in his heart, even if I have to ask, what else is there, whether he is willing to answer.
Although I am very willing to try to figure out the hearts of others, especially the hearts of people like Little Wolf. I always feel that people like him have a sense of mystery, once they can perceive his heart, they can control him very well, so I always try to explore his heart, but unfortunately, every time it doesn't work, but he always has insight into my heart.
The further back we dived, the more similar the waterhole became, and I even wondered if she was leading us in the same pool. Of course, this is certainly not a waterhole, but the resemblance is a bit excessive.
When we got to this pool, we took a little rest, took a big breath, and for the first time after diving in the water for so long without the help of any equipment, my body was a little tired.
If you look closely at the waterhole where we are resting, it is the same size as the ones we just came over, and even the rock wall structure of the surrounding karst cave is the same. I vividly remember that there was a protruding stone on the edge of the waterhole I had just come over, and there was such a protruding stone on the edge of this waterhole.
The most puzzling thing is that the stone protrusions are exposed in the same position on the water. I thought that this is not scientific, even if you want to place the same stone deliberately, it is impossible to expose the water at the same distance, the stone can be placed in a fixed position, but the water in the pool is circulating, even if you can control the position of the stone, there is no way to control the water level.
So I was very curious, and I became interested in this stone, and just wanted to go and touch it, but the little wolf grabbed me and shook his head at me, meaning that I didn't want to touch it. I glanced at the little wolf, and said to myself, this guy knows what I'm going to do, and he knows what I'm thinking.
After resting for a while, we began to dive into a few waterholes again, and only then did we get to the floating coffin that Huang Rong said, and we probably dived more than 20 waterholes in total. In the middle of this pool, as she said, there was a coffin floating. Of course, this is obviously not the waterhole where she said she opened the floating coffin. The coffin floated in the water intact and did not swing, and it still looked really heavy.
But I never figured out why this coffin was floating in the water if it was really heavy. Could it be that there is a special buoyancy in the water, I lay flat in the water and made a backstroke pose, but my hands and feet did not move, and I sank in an instant. My experiments have shown that there is no special buoyancy in the water.
Seeing the little wolf swimming towards the coffin, I followed it, and when I got to the floating coffin, I found that the coffin was not wooden, but made of some kind of coarse rattan pressing. From the outside, like an ordinary coffin, only if you look closely, you will find that there are many traces of being squeezed on the coffin board.
"Have you ever seen a coffin like this?" I asked, looking at the little wolf swimming to the side.
"Well, I've seen it in Cambodia."
As soon as I heard the little wolf's answer, I said in my heart that I had seen it in Cambodia, and you robbed the tomb and stole it abroad, no wonder, now it is so awesome. "Can you tell me what's going on with this coffin?"
It was also the first time I had seen such a coffin, and I asked the little wolf to know the characteristics and principles of this coffin. It turns out that all the coffin materials are compressed by hollow coarse rattan, and the coffin is floated on the water by using the corrosion resistance of the coarse rattan and the air buoyancy in the middle.
And the little wolf also told that this kind of coffin is also called a living coffin, and these thick vines are not dead, and they are still using the water in the waterhole to survive. It looks very dry on the surface, but in fact, the thick vine contains a lot of water inside, so it is very difficult to move it. In Cambodia's water burial tombs, almost all of them are coffins, but this kind of thick vine is only found in Cambodia's rivers, and we in China do not have this material at all.
Listening to the little wolf say this, it really feels amazing, and I feel that this tomb owner is also quite remarkable, and he can connect with international standards thousands of years ago and go to foreign countries to get materials to make coffins, which is by no means something that a big family can do, and at the last time it has to be a prince and prince.
"Look at it first, I'm resistant to this, I'll go to the waterhole next to me and stay there, and I'll pick you up later." Huang Rong stood by the waterhole and said to us.
"Well, it won't take long either." I replied politely.
After listening to me, Huang Rong dived into the water, and as soon as she dived, the little wolf said, "Follow her." ”
Ma Daha and I, before we could react, the little wolf had already dived. As soon as Ma Daha and I were diving, the wolf swam back in the water and pushed both of us hard. I felt the wolf pushing me back, and I immediately surfaced.
Ma Daha and I looked at each other, unaware, not understanding what the little wolf meant, and not seeing the little wolf emerge. After a while, the little wolf's hand first appeared on the water, and he held something in his hand, and when he fixed his eyes, it was his short knife.
Then the little wolf's head surfaced, and he shouted directly: "Go up quickly." ”
Listening to the little wolf's shout, I immediately realized that it was not good, the little wolf was not acting like this, something must have happened. Ma Daha and I swam directly towards the edge of the pool, and Ma Dahar was fortunately very close to the edge of the pool, and I was a little farther away.
Madahar had swam to the edge of the pool, and I followed him closely, and just as he came ashore, I felt something seize my legs. I was pulling hard, and at first I thought it was a little wolf pulling me. But looking back, the location where the little wolf dived just now was still gurgling up.
I can't see it well, it's not the little wolf, the little wolf is still in the underwater position just now. Both hands fluttered, hoping to get to shore quickly, and the shore was already close at hand. But no matter how much I tossed, I couldn't get to the shore, and at the same time I felt that my other foot was also grabbed by something.
It's not an option, I've got to get rid of what was holding me back. I wanted to lift one leg up and touch what it was with my hands, but it was simply impossible, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't lift the leg in the water.
In desperation, I dived down again to find out, and when I touched something on my leg, I realized that I had made a decision to force me to do so.
Something instantly grabbed my head firmly.