Chapter 5: The Underground Tomb
When I finally arrived at the ancient tomb, I walked into the ancient tomb in a trance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAlthough I have been in and out of this ancient tomb a lot in the past few days, and almost every place is very familiar, but at the moment I feel very unfamiliar with it, and I have to stop and observe carefully every step I take. I walked for nearly half an hour from the passage to the burial chamber and into the ear chamber, but found nothing.
Could it be that I was frightened and had a delusion? I tried to calm down, sat down on the floor, and began to think about what had just happened. Just as I inadvertently slipped the flashlight out of my hand, and just as I got up to pick it up, I suddenly noticed that the position of the dragon pillar had changed. My reason told me that it was absolutely not mistaken, and it did change, and I went up to look closely, and sure enough, a dragon lived in front of my eyes and moved. And the other dragon pillars have also moved.
There were traces of the dragon's movement, and just as I wanted to record something, I suddenly felt empty under my feet, and I secretly felt bad. Luckily, I only did two seconds of freefall, but it was a long slide that I couldn't see at all. Dark, eerie, like a passage to hell.
The rapid descent is like a roller coaster. I could only use the endless howl to ease the fear in my heart. After some time, I suddenly felt a violent impact and lost consciousness.
In the drowsiness, I felt drops of water fall on my face, and I knew I wasn't dead yet. I tried to keep my eyes open wide, but I couldn't see anything clearly, and in the blur, I felt a lot of ghostly lights arranged neatly around me, and I even thought I was sitting in a time tunnel and traveled to another place. Suddenly, a figure shook from a distance of more than ten meters from me. My first reaction was excited, as if I was desperate in a strange place and suddenly encountered an old acquaintance.
I screamed with all my might: "Help me, I'm in pain all over my body now, I can't see clearly." ā
After a while, the figure didn't respond to me, still dangling like that, but he kept moving towards me.
"Who is it? Is it Ringo? Or a colleague? I whispered.
But the figure hadn't responded to me, still shaking me closer and closer. I continued to scream a few more times, but there was still no response. That's when my heart started to panic. In fact, people have a great fear of the unknown, even if the unknown does not hurt you at all. But if you know that thing, you know that it is dangerous, and you may not be as afraid as you don't know anything. Now I am in the most frightened state, and my imagination is almost bursting with my guts.
Probably out of the instinct of survival, I was able to stand up and run in the opposite direction like crazy by the faint light, I don't know how many times I was hit by the rocks around me, but I felt that my hands had already been scratched all over my body.
Finally I tripped again, and I felt like I couldn't exert any strength anymore. I looked back for a moment and saw that the figure wasn't coming after me, and I took a deep breath and told myself that I had to calm down now. At this time, the surroundings were unusually quiet, and the only thing that accompanied me was the sound of my breathing. I'm starting to come to my senses.
What the hell is this place? What is this neatly arranged ghostly light? Why did the movement of the dragon pillar in the tomb cause me to fall into this inexplicable place? What the hell was that figure just now? Did the vanishing archaeological team also enter this strange place? This barrage of questions rushed through my brain, confusing my newly awake mind again.
"I can't waste my energy like this, the top priority now is to recover my vision as soon as possible, if I can't recover then I can only wait for death." Oh yes, what the hell is going on? Brother Lin, where the hell are you? I yelled at the last sentence.
I closed my eyes and slowly rubbed the acupuncture points around my eyes. Maybe luck has finally come to me. Half an hour later, I was finally able to see my surroundings clearly. It was a cave, staggered and complicated, and there were four intersections in front of me, and I was running for my life, not necessarily going through many forks in the road, and there was no hope of returning the way I came. And the figure in the back really didn't make me feel at ease. The faint light I saw was the lamp placed in the cave. This lamp is double-layered above and below, and judging by its shape, texture, and rust, this lamp has been sitting on the rock walls of the cave for a long time, and the place is full of such lamps.
Could this be an everlasting lamp in the tomb? So this staggered complex cave is an ancient tomb? As soon as this thought came to my mind, I was really surprised. How much effort does it take to put so many lanterns in this ancient tomb! And the places I've passed through aren't all there is to the tombs! This is completely beyond the knowledge of archaeology. If this place is made public, it will shock the world.
However, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to complete such a project. If this is the case, who would be the owner of this tomb? Now I'm sure the archaeological team must be in this tomb, and it's not my concern why they left me behind and disappeared suddenly, and the main task now is to join them as quickly as possible.
There were now four holes in front of me, and I watched for ten minutes trying to figure out the mystery. But I was too scummy in college, and I couldn't see any reputation at all. If I can go out, I will definitely follow Chairman Mao's teachings, study hard, and make progress every day. Now I can only leave it to fate, and I really hope that luck can come to me again. With my heart crossed, I walked towards the leftmost hole.
After walking for an hour, the water under my feet began to increase, which made me really unsure. Because I don't know what it means to have more and more water.
"You can only take one step at a time." I said weakly.
Fatigue, hunger, fear, and constant torment of my spirit forced me to pause for a moment. I put my hand on the wall, and accidentally knocked off an ever-bright lamp and fell into the water. A plop scared me half to death. As a result, what I saw next had scared me to the core. The everlasting lamp that had been knocked down into the water was still burning, and the faint light looked unusually strange under the ripples of the water. If I was amazed by the ancient people who built a huge tomb in this cave, what I see now can only make me shudder. Because it was completely beyond my knowledge, my mind was spinning rapidly, hoping to come up with something to give a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that the torch relay for the Athens Olympics was underwater. This calmed my mind down a little, and although I don't know what the principle is, this phenomenon can give a scientific basis. Could it be that our ancestors have already mastered this technique? Well, it must be like this, I kept comforting myself. I picked up the lantern from the water and blew it hard, but it didn't go out! I blew again with all my strength, but it was still not extinguished. This reminds me of the legend of the Everbright Lantern.
In 527 A.D., when Syria was under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire, Eastern Roman soldiers in Syria discovered a lamp lit in a niche in a pass, which was covered by an elaborate hood that seemed to be used to keep out the wind. According to the inscriptions found at the time, the lamp was lit in 27 AD. When the soldiers found it, the lamp had been burning for 500 years! A Greek historian once recorded a lamp burning on the door of the Temple of the Sun in Egypt. This lamp does not use any fuel, it has been on for centuries, and it will not go out no matter how windy or rainy. According to the Roman theologian St. Augustine, the temple of Venus in Egypt also had a similar lamp, which could not be extinguished by the wind or by the rain. In 1400 AD, it was discovered that such a lamp was also lit in the tomb of Peles, the son of the ancient Roman king, and this lamp has been burning for more than 2,000 years! Wind and water were helpless against it, and the only way to extinguish it was to drain the strange liquid from the lamp bowl. In 1534 AD, the army of King Henry VIII of England stormed the English church, disbanded the religious community, and excavated and looted many graves. While digging the tomb of the Roman Emperor Constantine in Yorkshire, they found a still burning lamp, whose father died in 300 AD, meaning that the lamp burned for 1234 years!
When I first saw these legends, I just thought they were made up by idlers, because they completely violated the law of conservation of energy. Could it be that the lamp in front of my eyes is the legendary everlasting lamp? But I still believe in science, and I must have missed something, or maybe I didn't have enough knowledge. If you think that there is a supernatural phenomenon in this tomb now, you will definitely not be able to get out.
I made up my mind and continued to walk forward, after a turn, there were traces of artificial carving in front, and there was a stone tablet placed next to it, which read three big characters "Yinhe Cave" in red.