"Or ......" Thinking of this, Gao Chao said: "Either I'll go down first to find out the situation, if you can, you can come down again, if not, I'll climb the rope up and find a way." ”

Hua Ye thought for a while and said, "That's fine, but you can't go by yourself, so let's do it, I'll work with you and let Xiaopang stay and take care of Lian'er and Xia Qing." ”

Xia Qing listened to Hua Ye's words, but suddenly said: "No, I also want to go, just let the fat man stay and take care of Lian'er, I am still very good at the mechanisms in the ancient tomb, although this is not an ancient tomb, but maybe I can help." ”

Gao Chao glanced at the fat man, and the fat man said helplessly: "Actually, I also want to follow you down first, but for reasons of my personal size, I'd better stay, so don't make trouble for you." ”

The fat man said this truthfully, he really couldn't take the lead in drilling holes, after everyone heard it, they couldn't help laughing, and the atmosphere of some pathos and tension suddenly eased down.

Gao Chao had no choice but to nod and said, "Okay, then it's decided, I remember that there are ropes in Hua Ye's backpack." ”

Hua Ye nodded, and Gao Chao continued: "Then Hua Ye and I, as well as Xia Qing, will go down to the maintenance room first with the help of the rope, and when we find the exit, we will pull the rope to give you a signal, and then the fat man will come down again with Lian'er, but if it can't go down, then we will come back and find a way." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but Lian'er suddenly said to Gao Chao: "Gao Chao, I saw some strange corpses in the water before, those people don't look like modern people, and this place is likely to have been invaded by people a long time ago, so you must be more careful when looking for the main passage." ”

Gao Chao thought for a moment and said, "Are you talking about those corpses where half of the body is decomposed into skeletons, but the other half is like a zombie?" ”

Lian'er nodded and stopped talking.

Xia Qing answered: "I have also seen those corpses with Hua Ye, judging from their costumes and dresses, they are very similar to the warriors of the Qin Dynasty, so I think those people may have come here during the Qin Dynasty." ”

Gao Chao pondered: "During the Qin Dynasty, ......"

He suddenly thought of the captain's diary found in the Japanese research ship before, which mentioned that they had been looking for the tomb of Xu Fu, who was a person from the Qin Dynasty in China.

So Gao Chao hurriedly received: "Could it be that the corpses of these Qin Dynasty warriors still have something to do with Xu Fu?" ”

"There must be something to do with it......," Hua Ye suddenly said: "If the clues of those Japanese are not wrong, then this place may have been visited by Xu Fu in the Qin Dynasty, but whether Xu Fu buried himself here or not is another matter." ”

The fat man had been listening to the side, and at this time he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "These Qin people are too powerful, such a deep seabed, even if we come down, it takes a lot of effort, how did they do it thousands of years ago?" ”

Hua Ye smiled and said: "China's pre-Qin era is very mysterious, and many things at that time are not something we can understand. ”

Gao Chao nodded and said: "Yes, since they can get down, it proves that they are indeed not weaker than us, so the more we go down, the more careful we must be." ”

He looked at the dark holes in front of him and continued in a deep voice, "Prepare the rope, I'm the first one." ”

The first section was relatively smooth, they went down one of the vertical circular passages, the walls of the holes were very smooth on all sides, but after descending a distance of about ten meters, Gao Chao, who was at the bottom, suddenly noticed that the passages began to diverge.

He used the diving lamp to shine down, and saw that the passage below had become two forks, which continued downward diagonally in two directions, and these two forks had no signs or differences, but only different directions, which made Gao Chao a little embarrassed.

He only discussed with Hua Ye and Xia Qing above the rope, and the last three people came to the conclusion that this kind of fork in the road may just be to share the pressure of the maintenance peak, just like the diversion measures used to prevent traffic jams, so no matter which one is chosen, it should be the same result.

So Gordon chose one of them, lengthened their ropes, and continued diagonally downward.

The descent after that is much easier, because the passage already has an angle, and basically they no longer need the help of ropes, but only rely on their own gravity to glide through the smooth passage.

It didn't take long for the sloping passage to begin to spiral, like a spinning slide, and Gao Chao slid through two corners at the bottom, and suddenly noticed a bright light coming from the passage below.

So he hurriedly grabbed the rope and stopped, and immediately turned around to remind Hua Ye and Xia Qing behind him to keep them quiet.

Then he cautiously slid forward, and at the third corner, he found that the sloping passage had come to an end.

He turned off the diving lamp, first shrunk into the passage to observe the outside, and found that the light that entered the passage was very soft, not too bright, not too dim, and there was silence outside, as if there was only the occasional "ticking" sound, the sound should be from the falling water droplets, I don't want to be so clear in such a quiet environment.

He quietly observed for a minute, feeling that the outside should be safe, and then slowly poked his head out to observe the environment outside the passage.

As soon as his head poked out of the passage, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because he really couldn't imagine that the room they were about to enter was so spacious.

It may not be appropriate to describe this room as spacious, because the area of this room is actually larger than the previous mine, but the height of this room is not large, and the distance from the floor to the ceiling is only 2.5 meters at most.

So for such a large room, this height is really a bit oppressive.

Although the room is large, the lighting is very good, because whether it is the uneven walls around the room, or the roof, or the smooth floor, all radiate that soft light, so that Gao Chao can see far away at a glance, and he looked like this for a long time, but he did not find anything suspicious in this room.

But there was no doubt that there was nothing suspicious in the room, but it was full of mining machines of the kind they had found earlier.

The machines weren't very numerous, they were all neatly parked on the ground on the other side of the room, as if they hadn't been touched in a long, long time, and they looked lifeless. (To be continued.) )