"Dead?" My brain buzzed, and my heart said, how is that possible?

After Ah Gui said this, his emotions completely collapsed all of a sudden, and the whole person almost collapsed in the lake. I had to pick him up and help him back into the canopy. He went to the mule and took some jars of rice wine and poured it for him, and he was relieved. But the mood is still extremely depressed, and the words are incoherent.

I listened and organized, and finally understood what was going on here.

It turned out that after following me away, when I returned again, Agui found a few people to help carry food and things to the lake, to see if there was anything wrong, and Yun Cai followed those people home to do something else, and he was the only one left to watch here.

By that time, the stuffy oil bottle and the fat man had already salvaged a lot of things, and they had already discovered the place where the bodies might be hidden. But by then the rain had started to fall endlessly, and the water level began to rise, making their salvage stalemate.

At this time, in the process of sorting out the salvage objects, they found a complete set of salvage equipment, including diving suits and towing ropes. The fat man said that they must have used this equipment to salvage the iron pieces in the ancient village at the bottom of the lake.

The whole set of equipment has been underwater for a long time, and most of the parts are no longer usable, but the diving helmet at that time used very corrosion-resistant materials, and the packaging in the equipment bag was not permeable, and the inside was still dry, only the outer layer of rubber fell off and was mottled.

The fat man had a whim, and wanted to use this helmet and some rubber to make a simple diving equipment, the air in the helmet can provide him with seven to eight breaths, because the breath exhaled by the person also contains a lot of oxygen, so this bit of air is still very considerable, and if used well, the fat man can stay underwater for five minutes.

For diving, five minutes of relaxation is a world away from that minute. They used this equipment to find the bones underwater. At that time, they used two ropes, one of which was tied to the fat man's waist, because the helmet was heavy, and the fat man's strength alone might be dangerous in the process of floating, and they needed to pull him in. The other rope was made of hooks bent in wire—the wire was taken out of the keel of the suitcase—and when the fat man dived down, he hung all the things he had caught on the hook, so that he could catch a lot of things in one trip.

The bones were all scattered and scattered at the eastern end of the hedge, and they salvaged them, and according to their location, they put them together with branches to determine the number, and the cāo was very easy and smooth.

After they had salvaged all the bones they could see, they discovered a problem when they put them together.

All the bones were put together in a roughly human form, and they were surprised to find that none of the bones had a right palm.

According to the method of bone counting, the skull and pelvis are the most important basis for judging the number of people, because the other bones are too fragmented to be missing, but it is very strange that there is no right palm. This should not be accidental.

The fat man and the stuffy oil bottle began to wonder what caused this situation, whether there was any special circumstance when throwing the corpse that caused the right palm to be missing, or was it artificially chopped off?

During the process of talking to me, there was no mention of them cutting off the palms of the corpses, and there was no reason for them to do so. As a result, he couldn't explain it, and the fat man wondered if those people were all bears, and the bear's paws were chopped up and stewed in secret dishes.

In the end, Agui came to a conclusion, he said that these people themselves did not have a right hand, and all of them had a fake right hand made of wood, and as a result, the wooden prosthetic hand rotted after being thrown into the lake.

When I heard this, I didn't think so at all, because the premise that everyone didn't have a right hand was so weird, I really couldn't think of any situation like that, but I felt that there was something about the right hand of these people, and someone chopped off their hands in order to hide the identity of these people. Or, like trophies, the right hands of these people were collected. But Panma didn't mention this matter, could it be that after they threw the corpse, the corpse was still fished and reprocessed? But this idea was later confirmed to be impossible, because in Ah Gui's narrative, the fat man also thought of this, but looking at the wrist bones of those people, there were no traces of being cut by a knife. The right palm of those people seems to have fallen off naturally. The joints of the wrist part are all there.

In Daddy Panma's account, the archaeological team all had a right hand, apparently the right hand was missing after they died, and they really couldn't think of a reason, so they dived again to find clues.

They found nothing near the fence, and the fat man suspected that the bones had sunk into the ancient village inside the fence.

When they first started diving, they had a tacit understanding that they would never enter the ancient village at the bottom of the lake, and only move around the periphery with a relatively simple environment. Because the inside of the village is several meters deeper than the outside, and this kind of lake bottom exploration is very dangerous, no one has tested the environment at the bottom of the lake, maybe some ancient villages have been very fragile, and they will collapse when touched, and more complete diving equipment is needed.

The fat man couldn't wait, thinking that it was no big deal to go over and see, so there were some contradictions at this time, but I wasn't there, and the stuffy oil bottle wouldn't say anything gossipy, and it was impossible for Agui to refute the boss, so the fat man dived down.

This time, there was an unexpected change.

At that time, the rope was a nylon rope brought back by Agui from the county town, which was very strong, and it was 300 meters long, so the fat man was not worried at all, he could dive deeper. After the fat man dived down, he gradually went deeper, as before, Ah Gui didn't worry too much, he looked at the time, and was ready to bring the fat man after the point.

They made an appointment for four and a half minutes, because it takes about 30 seconds to a minute to float, and if you float too quickly, you will get sick from diving.

Diving underwater, in fact, four minutes gives people the feeling that it is very long, and in the water is fleeting, soon Agui began to pull the rope, did not think about this pull a few times, suddenly the rope was straight, and no matter how to pull it, it was not able to pull, as if something was bitten below.

At that time, the first thought was that it might be hung on the fence, and I had encountered this situation before, those fences had been watered for I don't know how many years, all of them were as soft as Wangzai's small steamed buns, as long as you pulled hard. Ah Gui pulled hard a few times, and sure enough, the rope moved.

Agui pulled up quickly, but this pull, he found that the feeling was wrong. The rope eats with much less force, and it is very light to pull.

This feeling is a bit scary to say, much like when fishing, after the fish bites the hook, the line is frozen with the fish for a few seconds and the line is loosened, which means that the bait is bitten off, but the fish is unhooked, and now, the bait is fat.

Ah Gui was in a cold sweat at that time, and the more he pulled him, the more wrong it felt, getting closer and closer to the water, and the feeling was getting lighter and lighter. As the underwater shadow could be seen gradually, he almost suffocated, and when the shadow pulled out of the water, he found that the fat man was gone, and what he pulled was just a helmet.

As soon as he speculated, it was probably the rope hooked somewhere, and the fat man saw that the situation was not right, and immediately took off his helmet and floated by himself. After taking it off, the thing that somehow hooked the rope came loose again. In this way, the fat man will soon float in.

However, after waiting for more than a minute, nothing came to the surface.

He felt a little bad, it was different from other situations, after a minute of being underwater, the average person would definitely drown.

At that time, the stuffy oil bottle was on the shore, and Agui gradually panicked, not to mention that a good business could make money, as long as he could swim here, he could easily get rid of the boss, but now there was a situation all of a sudden, and he was responsible. In a small place like the mountains, something like this can be passed on for a lifetime.

He took off his clothes and shouted to the shore, and after seeing the stuffy oil bottle running into the lake, he jumped into the lake and dived with a rock, but unfortunately he was really inexperienced, and after sinking a few meters of the stone, he got rid of it, and struggled to float again. Just as the stuffy oil bottle arrived, Agui told him about the situation, and the stuffy oil bottle immediately put on the helmet he had fished out and jumped down.

Agui pulled the rope and begged God to bless him, what he didn't expect was that after waiting for five minutes, not only did the fat man not come, but he didn't even make any movement from the stuffy oil bottle that went down, and the rope hung down in the water.

He dragged the rope, and the familiar feeling came over again, and when he pulled it out of the water, he found that the same situation appeared again, and the other end of the rope, the stuffy oil bottle was gone, and only the diving helmet remained.

After listening to it, I was blinded, my mind was in a mess, I didn't accept these things in my heart, I felt too nonsense, how could this kind of thing happen, but at the same time I clearly knew that Agui couldn't lie, then this thing was terrible for me.

I asked Gui when this happened, and he said it had been almost two weeks now. He waited on the surface of the lake for a day after the incident, but nothing came to the surface.

Two weeks? It's a whale that dies after two weeks in the water. No wonder Agui said that they died, whatever caused them to take off their diving helmets in the water, death is certain.

After that day, Agui had to go to the lake every day to look around the lake, trying to see if there were any corpses floating, but there were no corpses. He had thought that some strange fish had eaten them at the bottom of the lake, but it was clear that there was no trace of blood or attack left in the diving helmet.

I took a look at the helmet and noticed that the fat man had made a very interesting change that made it difficult to take off the helmet underwater, which became a "problematic" thing. I've dived underwater, and I know what the situation is like underwater, and although there is a potential danger in entering the ancient village, I won't let them take off their helmets with so much effort.

I doubt that it is a diving sickness, because after diving to a deeper place, the proportion of oxygen inhaled seems to be modulated, otherwise drunk oxygen will be formed, but drunk oxygen is not drunk, and it will not be drunk to take off clothes.

Something must have happened underwater that made them have to take off their helmets, and the fact that the stuffy oil bottle also took off their helmets meant that it must have been an inoptional process. Stuffy oil bottles don't whims like fat people.

So why didn't they reappear after taking off their helmets underwater, and did the incident they encounter eventually lead to some accidents?

I was physically and mentally exhausted from the long journey, and it was really a bit overwhelming to encounter such a tricky situation. But I absolutely don't admit that they are dead, we have been through so many things together and can die anywhere, but we are all desperate, how can we die in such a half-tourist, half-investigative journey.

Even with that, as soon as I pondered the matter, my heart fluttered and I immediately gave up my luck. Because I know that accidents don't make sense to you, and even if you have encountered great danger before, you will not be able to escape it when it is time for you to die. Many big heroes in history died in the hands of little people in their lives, could it be that the emperor played me, and the two of them were really gone?

After thinking about it, my heart still couldn't accept it, and the person became irritable, and said that it was already raining at that time, and the sight on the lake must not be good, and they may have floated at that time but were far away from Agui's position, so Agui didn't see it, and then for some reason, they went ashore alone.

Anyway, there was one thing I had to do, whether they had an accident or not, I had to dive down to see what was going on, to see people alive and dead to see corpses.