Chapter 340: Red Water
In Tibet, there are ghosts, but the ghosts in Tibet are all part of the Lamaism system, and both humans and ghosts believe in Lamaism, which is Tibetan Buddhism. Therefore, Tibetan lamas are not afraid of ghosts, but this face really scares Zha Brown a lot.
He gestured with his hands: "It's so big." After thinking about it, he drew a larger circle in the air and said, "No, no, it's so big." Well, it could be even bigger! ”
Chaozi was afraid that he was talking nonsense, and the atmosphere was already tense, so he said angrily: "Who are you bluffing?" ”
Zha Brown hurriedly waved his Buddhist robe and explained: "We lamas are not allowed to talk nonsense, it is really that big!" ”
Cha Wenbin pondered for a while and said, "How big can the biggest face you ever see?" ”
Zhuo Xiong thought about it, and the biggest thing he had ever seen was probably the horizontal fleshy face of the mountain, which was about the same as the bottom of a medium-sized washbasin. But it's far from the one that is compared to Zha Brown, and the one that is compared to Zha Brown is bigger than that of the bathtub.
"It seems that there is an unusual face here." Thinking of the previous things, everyone who saw it repeated the phrase 'what a big face', but those people were either crazy or had passed away, and the only one who saw the reflection of Zha Brown could not even describe it in words, what kind of face should this be?
It turned out that the new canteen that the school planned to build was still in the piling stage, and this section of the project was taken over by Cha Wenbin and them, and they said to the outside that construction was going on here, but in fact it was not. The next day, Chaozi asked someone to get a few excavators from the provincial capital, and the necessary detonators and explosives were also in place, which is much more difficult to get now than a few years ago.
The master of the excavator is a few young men, they have been working for many years, and they often dig out some strange things from the ground, coffins and the like are very common, and they are quite bold. The mud of Yangcun Middle School, as soon as it was dug down, a thick layer of bones mixed with loess, and all kinds of pottery shards mixed with rotten wood.
The pottery pieces that came out, Chaozi has seen it, and the age span is very large, but all of them are civilian goods, and I haven't seen any precious official kilns. That means that most of the people buried in this field are also civilians.
After digging down for three days, the depth was close to 10 meters, without exception, the loess, the face did not touch a decent stone, and then the color of the soil began to change from yellow to red.
The presence of red soils in the southern mountains is not a strange thing, and that is because of the high iron oxide content in the soil. But the water that seeped out of the soil was also red, and later, like fresh blood, it could scoop up half a paw of water with one claw.
They brought in pumps, and they had only one purpose, to keep digging down, and no one could say where they were going to dig to, and no one knew what they were going to do.
On the fifth day, the surrounding mud was like red paint, and the windshield of the excavator was completely blood-red, and the water began to look strange.
Fishy, a strong fishy smell began to appear. Not only Yangcun Middle School, but also the people of Yangcun Village, where the middle school is located, can smell that a fishy smell began to appear in the air. That kind of smell, if you have raised pigs in a rural area, anyone who has seen pigs bled when they are killed will know that fishy smell.
The fishy smell came suddenly after a night, and several people in their sleep were awakened by the fishy smell. The water in the pit began to bubble out, and the two excavators parked below had been completely submerged, and the pumps had no time to operate, and the playground of the entire Yangcun Middle School became red.
Za Brown kept turning his prayer wheel engraved with the six-character mantra and chanted "Hum, Ma, Well, Horn, Mi, Ng", bluntly saying that this is the Shura of the world, and he wants to send all these demons and monsters to the hell of Ah Bi.
Cha Wenbin frowned and didn't say a word, all the workers who were invited fled and didn't dare to take this kind of work anymore. The water in that pit does not bubble during the day, but at night. During the day, the water level drops very quickly, but at night, the big crater is like a fountain, and the blood-red water can shoot up to two or three meters above the ground.
Chaozi borrowed a few more pumps, but at night, the red water gushed out, and during the day it receded on its own. This kind of tossing lasted for three days, and the people of the entire Yang Village closed their doors and windows, and they were really scared by the fishy smell.
In those days, nothing dirty, and they couldn't sleep in the house, only Zha Brown yelled that there were too many devils here.
On the fourth day, the water stopped gushing, and the water level in the pit began to gradually recede, and a large hole had collapsed under the pit, and the two excavators were stuck at the entrance of the hole, and it was dark and unclear.
The geology in the crater is extremely unstable at this time due to the continuous impact of water pressure, but who is afraid to guarantee whether the water will continue in the future, because the weather forecast shows that there will be widespread precipitation in the northwest in a week. The location of Yangcun Middle School was originally a mountain col, and the heavy precipitation combined with the unstable subsidence may make this pothole buried again.
After several trade-offs, they decided to go down.
Loess is extremely clayey and laterite is even more clayy, but when exposed to water, these soils become very fragile because the water content multiplies the weight of the soil, and the ability to support the pressure on the surface becomes critical.
The fishy smell inside the cave is a little bigger than the outside, and Chaozi is the first to go down with his nose covered. Because there was nowhere to focus here, the equipment was first placed on the excavator stuck in the hole. The entrance to the cave was very large, the size of half an excavator, and when Chaozi was sorting out, he found that the iron rake of the excavator was stuck in a metal object, which had obvious fractures.
It was a broken thick water pipe, the thickness of a bucket that is usually used, the fracture on the surface is still new, and the broken part of the water pipe is still dripping with red droplets. Chaozi wanted to lean over and smell it, but he was immediately smoked back by the fishy smell, and he realized that this pipe might not be that simple.
The rest of the people also went down to the location of the excavator one after another, and Chaozi told them about his discovery. The surface of this pipe has been covered with patina, and the red soil is extremely corrosive, and it is impossible to distinguish the state of the surface of the pipe at all, but the broken cut surface is five or six centimeters thick, and it is still as bright as new.
Chaozi pointed behind him and said: "The water is discharged from here, it should be the excavator master who dug up this pipe, but it seems that this pipe ends here, and there is no end to it." ”
"Is it a sewer buried by the ancients?". Zhuo Xiong asked.
Cha Wenbin thought to himself, even if it was a sewer or some kind of underground drainage facility, it was impossible for the pipe to be gone when it got here, otherwise where would the water go? He said: "It shouldn't be, it seems, this pipe will end here, there is no pipe on the side of the excavator that breaks the pothole, if it is a pipe, there should be an outlet, not halfway." It might be clearer if you could go down and find the broken part. ”
Below is the part of the collapse, and the huge pothole exposed makes the people standing on this excavator feel bottomless, like a beast with a huge mouth open, which can swallow the entire ground in the next second.
Not entering the tiger's den to get the tiger has always been the style of this group of people, Za Brown has an indescribable sense of excitement about this unknown, holding the prayer wheel, he kept urging Chaozi to take him down first, he said that this must be the devil's lair below.
Chaozi didn't dare to make up his mind easily, and went down the whole pit, the risk was too great, even if it didn't collapse, in case this pipe suddenly came out of the water, the people below would definitely have to be drowned alive, he asked: "Brother Wen Bin, what do you see?" ”
Cha Wenbin picked up a stone and threw it, and there was a "snap" sound below. "It's dry, if there is no water level, we can at least go in and stay until evening, the weight of this excavator is several tons, it can get stuck, it should be able to hold for a while."
From here, the distance was not as deep as they thought, but it was only about ten meters to the bottom. The bottom was a bit of a surprise, the whole bottom layer was very dry, except for a low-lying spot next to it, and there were some red traces of water.
Soon, they found the broken pipe, which surprised everyone. The other end of this tube is not a tube, but an artifact!
It is not exact to say that it is an artifact, and Chao Zi found it in a low-lying place. Several of their adult men couldn't move a single bit, it was a huge dragon head, and the place where it was broken was the neck, and the whole dragon's head fell into a deep pit. After removing the dirt from it, they found that the faucet was a little too large.
Chaozi measured the circle with his hand and sighed, "My God, if this is the head, how big does the whole dragon have to be?" ”
"At least more than 100 meters!" Cha Wenbin said affirmatively, "This material, this weight and volume are by no means what a temple can pour." It's not a dragon either, it's an Ao! ”
"Ao?" Several other people think that this is a dragon head, and the dragon pattern can be seen everywhere in China, and adults and children know it, but why does Cha Wenbin say that this is an Ao?
"If you look closely at this broken part, if it is a dragon, the scale pattern of the neck should be dragon scales, which are lumpy, and this one is vertical stripes, wavy. This pattern is to imitate the neck of a turtle, so I conclude that this is the head of the turtle, not the head of the dragon, and the place we are in now is probably the legendary Aofu! ”