While I took off my wetsuit and tried to recover my strength as soon as possible, I asked the fat man, what is the speculation about how long they have been here?

He shook his head: "I think the most reliable speculation is that we are all dead, and it is our ghost who penetrates the rock into this cave." ”

I smiled wryly, I understood the meaning of this, he didn't really think that we were all dead, what he wanted to say was that other speculations were more unreliable than this, and that there was no cause or effect. Speculation requires clues, but now there are no clues, everything can only be assumed.

The fat man said: "If the purpose of that strange thing is not to kill us, then, no matter what happens next, we will not die!" If you want to kill, why change places? ”

I smiled bitterly and didn't die, so what is the matter? Could it be that a big man will suddenly appear here and rape us? I shook my head and said, "It's not necessarily related, and it's not necessarily a good thing to be alive now." Isn't it fresh for you to eat drunk shrimp? ”

The fat man took a breath of cool air, thinking that it was indeed terrifying, he was a little depressed, and scolded: "Lao Tzu hates this kind of thing that I can't touch and can't understand!" Do you think the three of us are guilty of eight characters, how can we meet this kind of kiln together? The dog rì is really a magic barrier! And that Agui is really, I don't know anything, otherwise there is a hint, and I can be a little wary. ”

I frowned secretly, the fat man was right, the reason why there was no clue at all about this matter, and there was no way to speculate, was because of this, the current situation happened inexplicably, and in our knowledge, there must be something very crucial missing.

The investigation started from the village, little by little, all the information was brought out by the first-level information, and now I know that the source of the iron is those iron figurines, I know that Wenjin has been to this lakeside, and I have also determined that the archaeological team has been dropped, and I know some secrets of the ancient village under the lake, although some of the clues have not been completely connected, such as what is going on with these iron figurines, but as long as the investigation continues, I believe that everything will be connected.

But what is happening here at the moment, the current predicament, has nothing to do with these messages, that is, one of the many clues we have learned in the village is completely missing.

Where did it slip out?

When I asked the fat man about his speculation just now, I found that this matter could not be speculated, and there was no factor that could be corroborated by bad news. With this in mind, I said to him and the stuffy oil bottle, "We should go through what we know from the beginning." This place definitely has something to do with the whole thing, and if it's all listed from the beginning, maybe you'll find some hints. ”

The fat man blew and pointed to the ground, with traces of his inscription in stone, "I've done it before, but I really can't think of it." It's okay if you want to take care of it, you read a lot, you should be better than me, I have a headache after I straighten it out! ”

I looked at the words, which were his special enumeration method, which wrote down all the possible xìng, including all the clues, and then drew circles there to find the connection.

I said, "This time is different from what I have encountered before, all the information is fragments, and if you write like this, it will only become more and more chaotic." I'll sort it out first, and then we'll start with a concept and see if we can build the whole line like a building block. ”

I picked up a rock and wrote a few keywords in a different place. From the beginning of entering the village, the things that were discovered one after another were connected to the subsequent parts.

Pieces of iron—fragments of iron figurines—villages at the bottom of the lake—for some purpose—everywhere—as if dangerous—smelling strange

Photo - burned

Panma's Statement—The Archaeological Team Was Transferred—The Body Found—The Iron Piece Recovered—The Purpose?

Underwater ancient village - Han-style ancient building - underground passage - a large number of iron figurines - jade mine?

The closed mine cave - the iron figurines - the same chisel marks

, b - tingling - coma

- Suffocation - coma

When you're done, cross out all the things you've already identified, and the table becomes:

I don't know what the use is—it seems dangerous—the strange smell—the purpose?

- A large number of iron figurines - jade mines?

The closed mine cave - the iron figurines - the same chisel marks

, b - tingling - coma

- Suffocation - coma

In this way, we can be sure of everything and what we can't be sure of.

Then, we began to connect some of these factors and said: "First of all, let's affirm that the owner of the Han-style ancient building in the ancient village is surnamed Zhang, and temporarily call him the owner of the Zhangjia building. I glanced at the stuffy oil bottle, "This person has military merits, and he is a master of Chinese studies, he may be a local warlord, of course, he may also have other backgrounds, and he has nothing to do with the core of the matter." ”

"In a certain month and year, this man named the owner of the Zhang family, for some reason — again, we don't need to know for this reason — discovered that there was a jade mine under the village. Tempted by the huge interest, he teamed up with the Yao King to build a sturdy Han-style building in the Yao village for his subordinates. The building is so sturdy that it's clear that they've been digging here for a very long time, probably for generations. ”

"The cave we are in now, looking at the traces of excavation, should be the cave they dug, at least one of them."

After saying that, I looked at the fat man and asked him if he had anything to add? He shook his head, and I said, "Okay, everything is normal and common sense here, but this contradicts our current situation." Obviously, the mine I am currently in is completely closed, so I can say that in the time between everything is normal and the current situation, something happened that caused the mine to change inexplicably. ”

The fat man nodded and said, "Don't say it so literately, it's the fucking thing that happened to this hole." ”

This part was the initial assumption, and it was relatively certain, so I wrote it down as a starting point and then drew a question mark on the side, "What's going on here?" It certainly won't be a sudden closure, because if it did, someone would be trapped and killed. ”

"No, you think, it's inexplicable for us to come in, maybe they found a way to get out later." The fat man said.

I shook my head, what was the cultural quality of the miners in those years? Can they think of a way, I can't think of? And even if they could think of it, it wouldn't be too fast, so with the fact that they had the tools and physical strength at the time, they should have the idea of "smashing" it out first, and leaving a lot of rubble marks on the ground.

However, after all, I was not present at the time, so I couldn't make a positive judgment, so I didn't refute the fat man. We bit our lipes and began to think of all sorts of assumptions.

Before he thought twice, the stuffy oil bottle spoke, and said lightly: "The idol in the mine is the god of the Thunder King of the Yao clan, and it is a fierce god, and it is generally not publicly worshipped, unless something terrible has happened." ”

We were all stunned for a moment, and the fat man said, "Damn!" How do you understand this? ”

The stuffy oil bottle did not answer, and continued: "This thing is inside, which means that the incident did not happen suddenly, and after it happens, you can also bring a stone statue from the outside to worship here, which means that although this incident is terrible, it will not scare them away." ”

I thought about it and felt that it made sense: "Set up a god statue, it shows that they still want to continue digging, so use this god statue to suppress something, although the thing is terrible, but it is just a psychological panic, and it has not threatened life safety, let's think about it, empathy, if we are miners, under what circumstances will we do this?" ”

The fat man took a breath of cold air: "Why does this sound so familiar?" Could it be that they have dug up something unlucky here? ”

I also nodded, as if the same thought came to me at the same time, I used to hear this kind of rumor in my hometown, what factory started, as soon as the foundation was dug up, and the bones of the dead buried were dug up, so I set up a Guan Gong town.

"This is a rock formation, what can you dig in this kind of bullshit place?" The fat man said, "Could it be a fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex?" After speaking, he sighed, obviously feeling that his statement was quite possible, "You think, they are digging and digging, and suddenly digging such a prehistoric monster, they must be half scared to death, thinking that they have dug up the bones of the monster." ”

I patted him: "Comrade, if you have time, read more, the age of dinosaur fossils is hundreds of millions of years different from the age of jade, and the dinosaur fossils dug up here are like KFC family buckets." ”

"And what do you say?" The fat man was not convinced.

We shook our heads when we thought about it, but we couldn't even think about it, what could be in this kind of vein that was reasonable and unlucky? I really can't think of it. What could reasonably exist here be a stone, could it be a stone that makes them feel unlucky? If it doesn't make sense, then anything is possible.

The fat man walked up to the statue and asked the stuffy oil bottle, "Little brother, how fierce is this tired king and god?" Is it the same as our Zhong Kui, who catches ghosts? ”

The stuffy oil bottle shook his head: "King Thunder, he specializes in restraining evil gods. ”

The myth of Yao Miao is different from that of the Han people, many of the evil things in it are gods, and they can be equal to the gods of justice, and ordinary gods cannot move them.

The fat man snorted: "In other words, Zhong Kui is just a public security, and this Lei Wang is the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee." Two sticks of fine wood were found in the bonfire on the side, inserted into the incense burner, and bowed, "Lei Ji, I'm sorry, the little brothers didn't know Taishan before, and they haven't recognized you." This thing is not the same, but it is also a formality, it is regarded as a white strip, if we can go out, the younger brothers must make up the sesame oil. I know that you are engaged in the work of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and it is inconvenient to receive a lot of things, so you can tell me your wife's phone number when you go back, and we will contact your wife......"

I said in my heart that this guy is too unreliable, and said, "You are not a Yao person, how can people bless you?" Don't waste your firewood. Besides, only the subordinate gives a white strip to the subordinate, how can there be a subordinate who gives a white strip to the subordinate? ”

The fat man said: "You know a fart!" You pay taxes in Hangzhou, and you don't pay taxes when you go to běi jīng? I'm not calling it a white strip, it's an option. Let's say hello first, it's better than regretting later. ”

As he spoke, he turned around, not wanting the fine wood to be top-heavy, so he suddenly drove the incense burner to fall down, the roots were warped, and the incense ashes were all turned out.

The fat man immediately turned around to support him, and I smiled and said, "You see, people are honest and honest, and they don't accept it." ”

The fat man snorted again, tore half of the fine wood, inserted it again, and then smoothed out the spilled incense ash with his foot, wiped it a few times, and as the incense ash was smeared, I suddenly saw some strange lines on the rock face under his feet.