Originally, the water quality of Erhai Lake was clear, but after that time in the afternoon, the water was extremely turbid, and it was impossible to see the affairs under the water at all. According to Li Lingyun's estimate, there is no three to five days, and these floating dust cannot be settled, plus it is dark, there is no light, and when it enters the water, there is really a sense of panic that does not know whether the north and the south are up and down. At this time, although each diving motorcycle has a powerful searchlight, it is not possible to see far, but fortunately, the general orientation has been determined, and it has already dived above the ruins in less than ten minutes.

During the day, everyone only looked down on the ruins from above, but now it was dark all around, and the range of illumination was limited, so they did not dare to dive deeply, so they could only head towards the temple-like building at the top of the ruins. The so-called looking at the mountain and walking the mountain tired people to death, I thought it was not a long distance. However, when they arrived at the door of the ruins, they found that half of the air in the compressed air cylinder had been used, and the pressure gauge showed a depth of 35 meters, far exceeding the original expectations and assumptions. Fortunately, each underwater motorcycle has four additional compressed oxygen cylinders, so you don't have to worry about oxygen for a while, which makes everyone feel a lot more at ease.

The four sailors in the back put a few underwater flares in time, barely taking a rough picture of the surroundings. Only then did everyone realize that although it was underwater, the castle tower was magnificent, although there were some silt and aquatic plants attached to it, but the corrugated that occasionally leaked out was still brightly colored, and it was as good as new, and it should be a building material such as glass. The castle tower is divided into three floors, all of which are steep cornices, and looking up under the water, it gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression. Below the city tower is a door hole, is the entrance of the city tower, the black hole hole, next to the station four huge statues, enough to be as high as the city gate, but the body is covered with water and grass, and I can't see what it is, it is estimated that it is the god who is responsible for guarding the city gate in the idolatry of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

Zheng Ping'an took a closer look and knew that this city tower should be built in accordance with the palace regulations of the Han Dynasty, and this regulation was not available to ordinary state and county governments on land, so he was secretly surprised. But you can't communicate with each other underwater, you can only remember it in your heart and go back and tidy it up.

Lisa Liu took out an underwater camera in front of her, took a lot of photos back and forth, and then beckoned everyone to swim towards the doorway of the city gate tower. With the help of underwater flares, the door hole can be seen clearly, it is full of murals, the murals are still brightly colored, not stained with any weeds, you must know that this is 30 meters underwater, immersed in the water for thousands of years, it is still amazing, I don't know what material is painted, this material should be able to shock the world if it is taken out. Lisa Liu did not stop, and the people behind her kept shooting underwater flares, swimming towards the depths of the city gate as she went.

Beyond the doorway is an atrium, the middle is paved with white fine sand, and above is an enclosed space, as if entering the interior of a cave, on the left and right there is a statue of a woman holding a round drop of water, under the illumination of the flare, faintly glowing. Further on is a building in the shape of a large hall, and when you get to this place, you can no longer use underwater motorcycles. Li Lingyun glanced at the pressure gauge, and the pointer was still 35. After entering through the doorway, it is supposed to enter a platform, and the depth has not changed significantly. That's barely good news.

In order to prevent the lack of oxygen, everyone changed to a new compressed oxygen cylinder. Just in case, two people were left outside to respond, and the rest of the people Lisa Liu was in front, and Li Lingyun finally swam into the main hall. This hall is supposed to be the second underwater cave, and it is very spacious, with many beams and pillars for support, and the floor is paved with dark brown stone, neat and level, and under the light, it glows black and faint. I don't know what the surrounding pillars are made of, they are all red lacquer, there are dragon pattern reliefs on them, and there are green dragon lampstands on the head of the dragon, and they are all round beads on them, although they have been around for a long time, they still exude a faint light, they should be polished by something like fluorite, but for a long time, they have slowly lost their effect. There are murals on both sides of the main hall, and the colors are the same as the murals in the doorway, which are extremely bright, as if they had just been painted, and still exude the smell of ink.

Further on, there is an offering table with bronze vessels enshrined in various offerings such as pig's head, wild goose, ox head, rice, etc. Zheng Ping'an guessed that it should be a tribute placed according to the ritual of the Han Dynasty. At a glance, the tribute was the same as the fresh, especially the head of the ox and the head of the pig, as if the blood had not dried up, steaming hot, and the godless eyes were staring at everyone, and after watching it for a long time, it made people feel a little hairy.

Li Lingyun and Lisa Liu You came to take a closer look, these tributes were actually carved out of jade, in fact, this kind of tribute does not require much carving, but the most important thing is to find a similar jade, and then carve it according to the situation. The most famous of this kind of craft in later generations is the jade cabbage that the Empress Dowager Cixi likes to play, the material itself is actually not valuable, when one is the shape and the cabbage is the same, and the other is that the Queen Mother Lafayette has played with it, but it has become the treasure of the Taipei National Palace. But at present, the jade of these tributes is not comparable to the jade cabbage, and the shape of the cow's head and the pig's head is afraid that it will be difficult to find, especially the hair on it, and the blood seems to have just spurted out, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best in the world.

Looking up along the offering table, there was no statue, and on a dragon-shaped offering shelf was a huge bead, and the searchlight shone coldly. Along the way, Zheng Ping'an has basically determined that whether this relic is a relic of the ancient Dian Kingdom or not, but this civilization must be this bead worship, and the development of the entire culture is based on the bead as the source and core. It's just that I don't know if the beads on the offering table are the mirages that Lisa Liu has been looking for. If so, it can be said that the journey has been too smooth!

Swimming here is the end, and there is no way out. Lisa Liu was very cautious, holding a searchlight and looking carefully at the offering table. Zheng Ping'an swam to the side, holding a searchlight to carefully observe the murals on the wall. The colors on the murals are extremely gorgeous, and the paintings are in a realistic style, and the paintings are vivid. Murals generally have a narrative function, and this one is no exception. The content of this mural depicts a group of people under the leadership of a leader, worshipping a piece of water, and after worshipping, the water splits open and a dragon flies out. The leader sacrificed boys and girls, and after devouring the boys and girls, the dragon led the people into the underwater palace and gave them a pearl.

Zheng Ping'an took a cursory look and knew that the murals here recorded the origin of the divine beads, and as for the divine dragon, splitting water, etc., it was probably a mysterious saying that was chiseled and attached to it, and was used to fool the people. However, judging from the clothes worn by the characters depicted on the murals, there is a clear Han Dynasty style. As for the sacrifice of boys and girls, it was not uncommon in the long history of China, and Zheng Ping'an did not doubt the authenticity of this matter.

After Zheng Ping'an took a cursory look, he swam to the other side, and this part of the mural tells the story of how the leader used the divine bead to retreat from the enemy. There are three places recorded, one is the demon head outside the sky who stepped on the black clouds, with a black face and black hands, three heads and six arms, and a hideous face, and the leader used the divine bead to attract light to drive away the evil spirit. the second is the story of the leader who used the divine bead to transform thousands of divine soldiers to subdue the rebellion; The third is the story of the leader who used the Divine Bead to retreat from foreign enemies. The reason for this judgment is mainly that the clothes of the enemies in the two places in the mural are different, the costumes of the two sides in the second mural are basically the same, and the costumes of the two sides in the third mural are very different. However, what is impressive is that the leaders holding the divine beads in the mural are wearing a bronze mask, the mask has prominent eyes, high eyebrows, no nostrils, only a huge mouth, and looks like smiling rather than laughing, crying rather than crying. In the mural of the subduing rebellion, the rebel leader also wears a bronze mask, which is the same as the mask worn by the leader, and he also holds a treasure orb in his hand to meet the enemy. It's just that according to the records of the mural, at the last moment, the orb of the rebel leader was shattered, and the rebels were wiped out. All the rebels have descended into the Infinite Hell, suffering from flesh-eating and soul-spitting!

Zheng Ping'an roughly finished reading the mural, swam to the mural, and couldn't help but want to touch it with his hands to see what kind of material it was, and it still maintained such a bright hue after being soaked in water for so long. I was about to reach out and touch it, but I was stopped. Zheng Ping'an was concentrating and was bluffed. In a blink of an eye, it was Li Lingyun. Li Lingyun gestured with his hand and asked Zheng Ping'an not to move. This underwater seems to be calm, but in fact, it is full of dangers, especially this kind of temple, altar and the like, which belong to the core place of a certain civilization in ancient times, and most of them will have some news of the mechanism. If you accidentally touch it, it is easy to attract death! Although this site has a history of thousands of years, it is not wrong to be cautious and cautious.

Zheng Ping'an immediately understood, and secretly complained about his sloppiness. But Li Lingyun can manage Zheng Ping'an, while Lisa Liu is not so cautious. One of the two sailors who came in with Lisa Liu took pictures of the black beads on the offering table, up and down from different angles, and accidentally scraped the bronze utensils on the offering table. The bronze vessel has been soaked in the water for an unknown amount of time, although the face is still intact, but the inside has long been decayed, a slight touch into powder, scattered in the water, the tribute in the vessel is carved from jade, floating on the ground, making a crisp sound, because it is carved from jade, to no damage.

Everyone was in the water, and their ears were full of breathing and blisters, and it stands to reason that this slight sound would not attract attention, but this crisp sound reached everyone's ears. Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing, stayed where they were, and did not dare to move. It took half a minute, and seeing that there was no movement, everyone put down their psychological worries. Li Lingyun pulled Zheng Ping'an and Lisa Liu to meet in front of the offering table, gesticulating, and found that there was no surprise, and he was slightly relieved.

Just when everyone was completely relieved, they heard a crisp sound again, and saw a black hole exposed behind the black beads on the offering table, and the black beads slowly rolled into the hole. Everyone has the heart to prevent the black beads from falling into the hole, if it is on land, Li Lingyun can do it with a single walk, but here is 35 meters underwater, and the underwater resistance is extremely viscous, who still has this ability? I could only watch the black beads slowly roll into it, and then there was a "pop" and it returned to its original state, as if the black beads had never appeared.

The beads on the offering table fell into the information mechanism, and the sound of "crackling" came from the ears, and the beads on the vermilion dragon pillar also sank into the black hole that suddenly appeared. The whole hall went dark. This change came suddenly, the big guys looked at each other, not daring to move, Zheng Ping'an could even hear the sound of his heart beating.

After a while and a half, seeing that there was no accident, things were already like this, and Lisa Liu was not a person who dragged mud and water, so he gestured, and everyone returned the same way. When you come out, you will find an atrium covered with white sand, but strangely enough, the sailors and underwater motorcycles that are left behind are gone. The square is so big, and the searchlight is repeatedly illuminated, and the specific situation is in full view, but the surroundings are silent, and there is no shadow of the people before. Everyone looked at each other under the water, and there were still traces of the changes in the hall of the people, but at the moment, this change was really clueless, two living people and a bunch of equipment disappeared out of thin air, and they all felt a chill on their backs.

At this point, even the dullest person knows that the situation is not right. Lisa Liu gestured and continued along the circuit, passing through the doorway to enter Erhai Lake. Now that the situation is unknown, it's not too late to think about it when it surfaces! The others hurriedly followed, but after swimming a few meters, Lisa Liu stopped, and it was true that she had passed through the doorway, but there was still an atrium covered with white sand in front of her, and in the distance was still the temple that had been surveyed!