Chapter 9: The Second Floor of the Ancient Tomb
To say that Lao Jiang just got down the stream, he only felt that the water in the stream was extremely cool, he was already steaming by the fire on the shore, and the heat was unbearable, and suddenly he immersed his body in the stream, and let the stream flow around him, when it was hot and cold, his mind was confused, and soon he was planted in the stream. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info poker face and zhuo fan were both on the shore with their eyes closed and recuperated, where did they notice that Lao Jiang had been washed down the current.
When Poker Face and Zhuo Fan woke up, Lao Jiang had long since disappeared, so they had to hug Lao Jiang's clothes and go downstream. There was nothing to say all the way, just walking, and Poker Face and Zhuo Fan both fell into a huge underground lake downstream.
To say that Lao Jiang originally drifted downstream along the current, who knew that the downstream turned out to be such a big lake, Lao Jiang sank into the water all of a sudden, he was already in a semi-comatose state, entered the water, suddenly couldn't breathe, and the survival instinct prompted him to wake up. He threw himself twice in the water, and when one hand suddenly caught something, he clung to it and refused to let go.
Zhuo Fan and Poker Face fell into the lake, and had planned to swim up, just as Poker Face pulled Zhuo Fan out of the water, Zhuo Fan's ankle was grabbed by something, and as soon as he turned around, a big white face came to him, which looked particularly clear and scary under the light of the flashlight. Zhuo Fan opened his mouth wide in horror and screamed, the scream was drowned in the water and big bubbles bubbled, this time, Zhuo Fan choked on several mouthfuls of water, only to feel that his throat and eyes were hot and painful, and he didn't come up in one breath, and immediately pouted.
The poker face had already seen that it was Lao Jiang who grabbed Zhuo Fan, and seeing that Lao Jiang was groggy, Zhuo Fan, who had finally been caught, fainted again, and the two of them were about to sink into the water. I had to hit Lao Jiang's head with a flashlight. Lao Jiang was in pain, and his instinctive sense of resistance made him sober up, only to find that the three of them were all underwater, and Zhuo Fan had lost consciousness. Immediately teamed up with Poker Face and brought Zhuo Fan ashore.
The poker face didn't care about resting at all, so he rescued Zhuo Fan. And Lao Jiang was already exhausted, lying on his back on the shore, panting heavily.
finally rescued Zhuo Fan, and the poker face had already lost his strength. The three of them could only lie down and rest to regain their strength.
I don't know how long it took, but the poker face only felt that the wet clothes were sticking to his body, and his whole body was cold. He stood up and took off his clothes three or two times.
When I was standing on the shore and twisting my clothes, I heard Lao Jiang's whispering.
"Poker face, your body." Lao Jiang's voice frightened the poker face, and he remembered that his body had already changed, but he had just experienced life and death, and he had forgotten about it.
Zhuo Fan also turned over and looked at the poker face. Poker's face was stunned for a moment, and then he put his clothes on his body as if no one was around.
"Your body ......" Lao Jiang clearly saw that the poker face's originally strong body was already skinny at the moment, as if overnight, all his essence and energy had been withdrawn, leaving him with only a pair of bones wrapped in skin.
Zhuo Fan looked at the poker face motionlessly, he had seen a similar body before, it was his grandfather, before he died, the skinny appearance was exactly the same as the poker face. "Pokerface, are you sure you're okay? My grandfather was also ......"
Lao Jiang turned his head and glared at Zhuo Fan, "What's your grandfather." The poker face is still young, how can you compare your grandfather to him? ā
The poker face is calm. When he came back from working on the Gate of the Realm, he had already found that his body was completely different from before, and he knew that the Gate of the Realm was not something that ordinary people's bodies could withstand, and it was reasonable that it was like this now. "Lao Jiang, don't say it. Let's go after a break. Pokerface rearranged his clothes to make his figure look less emaciated and terrifying.
"But where do we go?" Lao Jiang gestured to his poker face, "There's nothing down here except this lake." ā
Lao Jiang is right, except for a small piece of open space in the lake where they stayed, the rest of the place is full of black pressure lake water, where to go, where can they go?
Zhuo Fan turned on the flashlight and looked around, "This seems to be a natural cave, it's really strange, we obviously fell into the lake along the stream just now, and the stream is completely invisible here." ā
"Not only that, but you can't even hear the slightest sound of water." Poker Face's eyes had swept the cave back and forth.
Lao Jiang saw that Poker Face and Zhuo Fan both looked extremely solemn, and hurriedly added, "It's too quiet." ā
"Look, what's that?" Zhuo Fan's flashlight shone to the bottom of the lake, and something was shaking in the white-blue spots.
Lao Jiang tried his best to squint his eyes, and he couldn't see clearly when he got closer, "I'll look at it or I'll go down and take a look, the bottom of this lake is weirdly tight." ā
"I'll go." Poker Face stopped Lao Jiang and jumped into the water with a pop. In the dim light, I saw the poker face swimming to the bottom of the lake like a black fish. With the halo of the wolf's eye flashlight shining on the bottom of the lake, Lao Jiang and Zhuo Fan watched with bated breath as their poker faces lay at the bottom of the lake, not knowing what they were doing.
Time passed very slowly, and Lao Jiang counted the seconds silently in his heart, and his anxious forehead was full of sweat. "Why hasn't the poker face come up yet?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a bang on the surface of the water, and he was pushed away. Poker Face floats on the surface of the water, gasping for air. In the darkness, his face became more and more pale.
"What's down there?" Zhuo Fan couldn't help but ask, but was interrupted by Lao Jiang, "Don't worry, let him take a breath." ā
Poker Face climbed up and sat on the edge of the lake, shook his hair and said, "There's something down there." Lao Jiang immediately heard the heavy tone of poker's face, and asked, "What is it?" ā
"It's the entrance to the tomb."
"Tomb entrance?" Zhuo Fan and Lao Jiang were both taken aback, "It's not enough to have such a big tomb outside just now, why is there a tomb here?" ā
"This tomb, to go down or not to go down?"
"Down." Poker Face didn't say a word, picked up the backpack that fell on the ground, took out the key utensils, and carried the rest on his body, ready to go into the water.
"The water pressure is high underneath, are you sure you can turn it on in a short time?" Lao Jiang stopped him, his expression was very serious.
"What do you say?" Poker Face asked Lao Jiang.
"Three minutes, your limit. If you don't come up yet, I'll come down for you. "What Lao Jiang said was categorical. Poker smiled with satisfaction, patted Lao Jiang's shoulder, and went into the water again.
"You know him well?" Zhuo Fan was beside Lao Jiang, and asked while helping poker face with a flashlight.
Lao Jiang's gaze never took off the blurred figure of poker's face, nodded and said, "Yes"
The three of them dived underwater in relay, opened the door to the underwater tomb, and then successfully dived into the tomb. "This tomb, looking curious."
"What's so strange?"
"Didn't you all find out? The one we are staying in now should be the ear chamber of the tomb, and in the middle of the ear chamber is the main burial chamber. If this is calculated, this tomb is too simple. Lao Jiang analyzed, "Although it is at the bottom of the lake, there is no water at all in this tomb, and it is extremely dry." Even the water that overflowed when we entered the tomb just now has already been drained, which shows that the drainage system of this tomb is very strong. ā
"This ear chamber is about ten meters long and wide, and there is nothing except a few pieces of pottery." Pokerface said, "Let's go to the main burial chamber." ā
Poker Face was the first to come to the main tomb, and saw seven large coffins placed side by side in the tomb, which startled Lao Jiang, "Why are there so many coffins in this main tomb." And you see, these coffins are all the same size and specifications, and you say, who are these people buried? ā
"Whoever it is, they should be people of similar status. That's why they share the same main burial chamber. Poker Face stroked the pattern on the coffin and said.
"Do you think it's strange" Zhuo Fan took a flashlight to shine on Poker's face and Lao Jiang respectively, "Just now we were outside, and we saw so many coffins, scattered in different rooms, and now these seven coffins are side by side in the same main burial chamber." It's like ......" Zhuo Fan interrupted himself, looking at Poker Face and Lao Jiang in the dark.
"Like what?" Poker face thoughtful.
"I don't think it's like a hierarchy?" Zhuo Fan boldly said what he thought in his heart, "It's like people of the same class are buried in the same tomb. Zhuo Fan looked at Poker Face and Lao Jiang, and saw that neither of them wanted to interrupt him, so he continued, "The upper layer seems to be buried by civilians, so the tomb is simple, and it can even be buried together." And this layer is already regarded as the regulation of the regular tomb, and the seven coffins are also well buried in the main burial chamber. What's more, there is also a good drainage system in this tomb, which is precisely to protect the existence of the tomb. ā
"I know what you're going to say, what you're going to say is the hierarchy of status." Lao Jiang said.
"Yes, although our society now advocates equality, these people live in an era where there is obviously no equality at all. The hierarchy is strict, so the status of these people must be higher than that of the person in the tomb just now. ā
"Zhuo Fan has a point." Poker Face approvingly, "Open the coffin." ā
Lao Jiang and Zhuo Fan both opened the two coffins, only to see that only one person was buried in the coffin. The flesh has rotted into bones. Judging from the burial goods and the clothes they wore for burial, their identities were indeed incomparable to those in the previous tomb.
Pokerface nodded approvingly, "This is indeed the tomb of the nobility. These people should have different identities from the people in the tomb just now. ā
"But why bother to build tombs for all those who died outside?"
"If your people die, the tomb is a must, right?"
"Old Jiang, do you also think that whether it is the tomb just now, or this, it is the tomb of the clansmen of the Moonlight Clan?" Poker Face asked Lao Jiang again. The answer he had already come to in his heart was as if it was slowly floating from the bottom of the water at this moment, and it was about to surface.