Chapter 32: The Pagoda at the Bottom of the River
Just as we were changing into diving suits, Dou Xiaoyue suddenly pointed to the computer screen and shouted, "Come and see!" What's under the river? ”
Curious, we leaned over and saw a blurry pattern in the shape of an inverted cone in the center of the screen, and around this inverted cone pattern, there were more than a dozen rays extending outward, each of which ended in a circular black circle.
I smacked my lips and said, "This can't be an alien flying saucer, right?" ”
Dou Xiaoyue raised her hand and patted me on the back of the head, and said angrily: "I think you look like an alien!" ”
I covered my head and bared my teeth and said, "Then what do you say this thing is?" ”
Dou Xiaoyue put her hands on her cheeks, thought for a while, and said seriously: "I think this thing looks like an octopus!" ”
Black Sunglasses looked at us with a disappointed expression: "No one believes you two if you are not a couple." ”
At this time, I suddenly heard a little policeman next to me say: "What kind of mess are you talking about, isn't this a pagoda?" ”
Pagoda?!
This inverted cone-shaped blurred pattern turned out to be a pagoda?!
It occurred to me that the little policeman was standing opposite us, so when I looked at the computer screen from his point of view, the images on the screen were reversed.
Yes! Why didn't we even think to turn the image upside down?
Thinking of this, I quickly turned the computer over, and sure enough, it was the same as the little policeman said, that pattern did look like a pagoda, we looked at each other, is there really a pagoda under the river?
And this pagoda is still upside down? How is this possible? It's completely beyond our knowledge, and what are those rays and circular black circles? It seems that there are many secrets hidden under this river that we don't know.
We were both surprised and excited by the discovery of an ancient tower underwater, even if we knew that there was a lot of danger below, we wanted to break through, we quickly changed into diving suits, put sapper shovels, submachine guns, flares and other things into waterproof backpacks, and then each put on a waterproof and anti-pressure watch on their wrists, this is an underwater special watch, in addition to the positioning function, it can also display the depth of the water and water pressure.
Because we can't speak underwater, we can only rely on sign language to communicate, put on special fins for diving, each carry a large oxygen cylinder, wear diving goggles and oxygen masks, and at the same time we also have waterproof miniature communicators stuffed in our ears.
When everything was ready, we came to the side of the boat, climbed the hull of the boat, and slowly slid into the river.
The icy river swept us, fortunately the wetsuit we wore was a relatively high-end import, with the function of cold and warmth, otherwise we would probably be frozen to death, the world below the river was extremely dark, we were like falling into a boundless strange world, the surrounding silence was terrible, we could only hear our own heavy breathing.
Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!
We turned on the underwater searchlight one after another, and the three snow-white beams overlapped each other, like three snow-bright knives, cutting through the endless darkness, although the surroundings became brighter, but the searchlight was only about less than 20 meters under the water, and it was still dark like ink 20 meters away.
We slowly swam towards the water, and there were plankton swimming in front of us, and we looked down at the waterproof watch, which showed that we had dived nearly thirty meters underwater, and Dou Xiaoyue's voice came from our ears: "Attention! Note! You're close to the ancient tower, and now everything is normal! Everything works! ”
As soon as Dou Xiaoyue's words fell, the things under the water had already appeared in front of us, our guess was not wrong, under this body of water, there was really an ancient tower, and this ancient tower was actually standing upside down at the bottom of the water, like an upside-down cold weapon, dozens of meters underwater.
Most of the ancient pagoda is shrouded in darkness and it is impossible to see its full extent, but it is already very majestic to see such a strange sight under the water, it is like a giant beast dormant under the water, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, it still exudes a shocking spirit.
We held our breath and swam towards the ancient tower, and when we got closer, we found that it was an octagonal ancient tower, which was made of blue-gray stone bricks, and copper juice should be poured between the stone cracks so that the ancient tower would not seep water.
The four sides of the ancient tower are all carved with half-height Buddha statues, but this Buddha statue is more peculiar in shape, not like the kind we usually see in the temple, plus it has been washed in the river for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to tell which dynasty it belongs to.
To our surprise, at the bottom of this ancient tower, there are more than a dozen unusually thick bronze chains, the chains are glowing with dark green cold light, like twelve water dragons lying at the bottom of the river, one end of the chain runs through the bottom of the ancient tower, and the other end is hidden in the darkness.
I suddenly remembered those mysterious rays on the screen image, and my heart was suddenly shocked, and then I realized that those rays were these bronze chains, and what could be the dozen or so oval black circles connected at the other end of the chains?
Lian Mingche gestured to us, then turned and swam along one of the chains towards the river.
We understood that Lien Mingche was going to take us to solve the puzzle of the oval black circle, so we quickly swam forward after him.
After swimming for dozens of meters, we came to the end of the bronze chain, what we never expected was that the end of the bronze chain turned out to be a circular cave more than one person high, and the cave was dark inside, no wonder there was a circular black circle on the screen.
The black cave was like a monster's mouth, as if it could swallow us at any time, Lian Mingche took the lead in swimming to the front of the cave, the beam of the searchlight shot into the cave, and the scene in the cave appeared in front of our eyes.
No way!
If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't speak under the water, I was afraid that I would have exclaimed, and there was an octagonal copper coffin erected in this cave, and we went up to take a closer look, and found that this bronze coffin was exactly the same as the two we had seen before.
In addition to the octagonal copper coffin, there is nothing else in the cave, and then we observed several caves in a row, without exception, each cave is placed in the octagonal copper coffin, the copper coffin is tied by a bronze chain, and the ancient tower in the middle is linked together, counted, ten caves, ten copper coffins, they are like loyal soldiers, stationed here for hundreds of thousands of years.
Then we found two empty caves, which we analyzed to be after the high tide, and the bronze chains fell off under the impact of the strong current, and the copper coffin in the cave was also washed away by the water.
One of the bronze coffins rushed out of the cave and went down the Haihe River, only to somehow reach the surface of the Kakeji River, and the other surfaced when we left the cave that day.
After figuring out the structure of the buildings beneath the river, we swam back towards the upside-down tower again. Now we can be 100% sure that this is the origin of the octagonal bronze coffin, and the secrets about the copper coffin, the hydra tattoo, and the mysterious corpses may all be hidden in this inverted ancient tower.
Although there is silence underwater, I can still clearly hear my excited heartbeat, these secrets that I don't know how long they have been in the dust, it seems that they will soon surface, maybe our exploration of this trip can not only solve the problem of the disappearance of the female corpse, but also find a major discovery that is enough to shake the archaeological community, thinking of this, I can't help but speed up the speed of diving.
At this moment, Lian Mingche, who was in front of me, suddenly stopped moving, I didn't have time to stop, and suddenly hit Lian Mingche's back, and the black sunglasses behind him were also caught off guard, and then hit my back, knocking the underwater searchlight above my head crooked.
Black Sunglasses kept gesturing behind me, and I turned to look at him, knowing that he was asking why he stopped and what was going on in front of him.
I also turned around and said in sign language that I didn't know what the situation was, and then shrugged my shoulders helplessly, pointed to Lian Mingche in front of me, and told Black Sunglasses in sign language that Lian Mingche was the first to stop, and I didn't know what he stopped to do.
I straightened the underwater searchlight above my head, slowly came to Lian Mingche's side, and asked Lian Mingche why he stopped in sign language.
By the light of the underwater searchlight, I saw that Lian Mingche's face was very solemn, and he simply gestured to me to look under the river.
I muttered to myself as I looked down into the water.
Day!
It didn't matter what I saw, I was so frightened on the spot that I couldn't move my limbs with cold limbs.
At a depth of about 20 meters underwater, a black whirlpool with a diameter of more than 10 meters suddenly appeared, and the black whirlpool was like the eyes of death, constantly turning rapidly under the water, and the river was rolled into the whirlpool, and there was a rumbling sound like thunder at the bottom of the water, which made us tremble.
A powerful attraction arose beneath the whirlpool, and we swam to a thick bronze chain and clinged to it so as not to be sucked into the terrible maelstrom.
At this moment, I really felt that death was so close to us.
I turned my head to look at Lian Mingche and Black Sunglasses, I didn't know what to say, I could only nod at them, and the two of them probably understood what I meant, and nodded at me.