Chapter Eighty-Eight: Hanging Coffins on Water
Before everyone swam to the bottom of the well, suddenly from the depths of the tomb, there was a strong suction, like a large pumping machine, at this moment everyone was sucked back together with the stagnant water, seeing that it was getting farther and farther away from the bottom of the well, and returned to the road, and everyone was cold in their hearts. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
From the passage to the chamber of the ear, from the chamber to the chamber of the main tomb, and then to be sucked into the pit, it is only a matter of an eye......
As soon as he fell into the deep pit, Ling Xian felt like he had fallen into a deep pool, and a cold and biting chill spread all over his body, making him shiver.
Opening his eyes slightly, this was a very deep pool, the bottom of the water was muddy, and he couldn't see anything three meters away at all, so Ling Xian had to hold his breath and swim out of the water.
"Whew!"
"Ling Xian, this way, swim over quickly......"
As soon as he poked out of the water, Ling Xian heard Lin Xiaobo's voice, and he fixed his eyes to see that it was Lin Xiaobo standing on the shore of the waterhole, wet, and the chemical protective suit had already been taken off.
Ling Xian swam over, Lin Xiaobo and He Zhengyi pulled him ashore, he didn't care about the clammy and cold on his body, and looked at the waterhole anxiously, but he didn't see Xia Qiongyao and the others, but he saw a strange scene.
I saw that on the waterhole, there were eight huge coffins floating, all of which were made of golden silk nanmu, six of which were of equal size, and the other two were one size larger, looking like they were filled with coffins.
Between the coffins, all of them were connected by thick chains, and each coffin, along with those chains, was pasted with yellow talismans, and the strange thing was that although these yellow talismans touched the water, there was nothing unusual, and they did not even fall off.
The eight coffins faintly seem to form the direction of the eight trigrams, in the center, is a huge stone stele, the stele is about three meters wide, only the one that exposes the water surface is more than four meters high, there seems to be words on the stele, but it is far away, and it is not true.
At this time, Ling Xian heard the sound of popping water, it turned out that the rest of the people also swam out, and when they saw them, they swam over one after another, and Ling Xian and the three of them hurriedly pulled one by one up.
"It's so cold, do you want to make a fire to dry your clothes first?" Zheng Xiaoyu shivered, and her lips turned white.
"No, there is very little oxygen here, what if there is a fire and the oxygen runs out later?" He Zhengyi shook his head.
"Do you have dry clothes with you? Replace it with. ”
Ling Xian took out his backpack, fortunately it was waterproof, but fortunately, his cousin thought thoughtfully and asked them to put the guns and ammunition in the backpack in time, so that they were not soaked by the stagnant water.
After taking out his clothes, seeing everyone looking at him strangely, he wondered, "What's wrong?" ”
Lin Xiaobo said faintly: "It's really good to have such a caring cousin, even the dry clothes are ready for you, to be honest, does she still have dry food in your backpack?" ”
Ling Xian nodded: "Yes, how do you know?" ”
"! Really! Get some out, I'm starving......"
Lin Xiaobo snatched the backpack and took out a bag of bread from it, which moved him to tears.
"I see that this place is connected to the outside, and the oxygen should not be exhausted for a while, so let's light a fire first, we can't make you sick, and if you find it difficult to breathe, we will extinguish it."
Ling Xian saw that he was the only one with his own clothes, so he had no choice but to order a fire, and he looked up, where there was only a one-foot-wide hole except for the dark and secluded wall.
The entrance of the cave is twenty meters high, so it's a bit difficult to get out......
"I almost forgot my Trap Sword, haha......"
He Zhengyi laughed, and pressed the hilt of the sword with his right hand, and the peachwood sword retracted, revealing a curved silver hook.
Everyone was overjoyed, this silver hook was connected to a hundred-meter-long nylon rope, if it hooked the hole, it would be easy to escape!
"Great, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and burn the fire, I'm cold. ”
Lin Xiaobo rubbed his hands happily, and found another problem, there is no firewood here, what do you use to make fire?
Helplessly, everyone had no choice but to throw everything that could be burned on their bodies into it, including Ling Xian's peachwood sword.
When everyone was warming, their attention was on the eight water coffins, and they all guessed what the water coffins were for.
"Since it is a dragon locking array, these eight water coffins should be used to suppress demons, but there are only stone tablets there, where are the demons?"
"Maybe the demon is hiding in the stone tablet?"
"Or not necessarily under the stone monument, we didn't see it clearly under the water just now, I don't know if there are monsters down there......"
"It's been fine, why is there water pouring out all of a sudden? And why did it suck us in all of a sudden? ”
“……”
Everyone shouted and shouted, Ling Xian heard it for a while, and said loudly: "Wait, let's ask questions one by one, first of all, why were we sucked in?" And why does the water back-fill? Where does the traction come from? ”
Xia Qiongyao looked at Lin Xiaobo: "Originally, everything was fine, maybe it was because I picked the bones, I always felt that the bones were not so simple, but now it seems that there should be some kind of mechanism, or introduction, when we pick, the waterhole will suddenly pour ......"
"Then why did you suddenly absorb water again?" Lin Xiaobo protested, as if it was his fault.
Xia Qiongyao couldn't answer this question, everyone was silent for a while, and Ling Xian suddenly said: "Since there is such a big waterhole here, every time it rains heavily in summer, the water from the waterhole should be poured out until the bottom of the Yongdao well, but when we came in, there was no water, and the water that was poured out was also very sudden, just like it, its entry and exit were controlled......
"It makes sense," He Zhengyi added, "that many underwater tombs have this design, taking advantage of the rise and fall of the tides, or the depth of the river, when the water level rises during the rainy season, flooding the hole, and during the dry season, the water level drops, and the hole is exposed......"
"Maybe there was a mechanism here, a gate was built, and when the mechanism was touched, the gate opened wide to let the water out, and then another gate was opened and the water was sucked in......"
This explanation is reasonable, although you can't think of the designer's intention (as if you are full of food), but at least it can explain the strange scene just now.
"Don't you think that hole looks like a thief hole?"
Wan Qianxi, who had been silent, suddenly weakly asked a question.
Everyone raised their heads violently and looked carefully at the entrance of the cave for a long time, Lin Xiaobo suddenly slapped his legs: "Yes, why didn't I think of it?" Don't you think the entrance to the cave is abrupt? ”
It's no wonder they didn't think that after all, they weren't professional tomb robbers, so why would they think so much? At this moment, when I heard Wan Qianxi mention it, everyone suddenly woke up.
"But doesn't that mean this place is newly discovered? Has there been a tomb robber before? Zhu Huizhi asked another question.
Ling Xian said with a deep gaze: "There is another possibility, that is, among the four people who came in before, there are professional tomb robbers......
Zheng Xiaoyu's body trembled, and he shook his head suddenly: "Impossible, at least my sister is definitely not ......"
As she spoke, her head also lowered, and along the way, she didn't find the bones of the rest of the people at all, even if they were dead, there were still bones? Those poisonous snakes can't eat all the bones, can they?