Chapter Twenty-Four: The Steps Down

The fat man was unhappy and said, "You let the old branch secretary prepare so many things for you, and none of them can be sent?" ”

While thinking about how to break through this rammed earth layer, I looked around, saw the bag on Wang Ye's body, and suddenly thought of the pangolin we caught earlier, so I said to him: "Brother Wang, can you catch a few pangolins and throw them underneath, so that the pangolins can dig it up?" ”

Before Wang Ye could speak, the fat man said first: "You are stupid, we are holding a German-made sapper shovel in our hands, and I used the strength of milk to smash a trace, can the claws of the pangolin be as hard as the sapper shovel?" ”

?? I thought it made sense, but in order not to embarrass myself too much, I still quibbled: "I just said casually, I didn't expect your brain to be quite good now, if this rammed earth is not softened by acidic things such as vinegar, we won't be able to dig up anything in three days."

?? Li Er suddenly interjected and said, "Brother Zou, is it just a sour thing?" ”

?? I said, "Theoretically, this should mean that as long as the acidity reaches a certain concentration, it can soften the rammed earth, but where do we find this kind of thing in the mountains?" ”

?? Wang Ye said: "I remember, second brother, you are talking about Duo Yiguo. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Duoyi fruit, a unique fruit in Yunnan, looks a bit like a small apple, most of this fruit is not used to eat, but used to "burn persimmon", is a natural ripening fruit, the nutritional value is extremely high, but because the taste is extremely sour, ordinary people are not used to eating. We had seen this fruit in the past when we were soldiers.

Now that there was a glimmer of hope, the four of us each took four big hounds to find Doigo, and whoever found the fruit tree asked the hounds to inform the others.

A touch of sunset rose in the sky, and the Duoyi fruit picked by sight was already able to pile up the cave dug in advance to a meter high, so that Li Er and Wang Ye above threw the fruit down, and the fat man and I went down to the hole and smashed the fruit with a big wooden stick, and then dug out the smashed pomace, and used the acidity of the Duoyi fruit to soften the solid rammed earth layer.

After two hours of taking turns, the fruit had been pounded by two-thirds, and the juice under it had completely covered the entire cave five centimeters high. The fat man and I were so tired that we fell to the ground and couldn't lift our arms in pain, let alone Li Er and Wang Ye.

The fat man grabbed a Doyiguo and said, "Is this thing really that unpalatable?" After saying that, he took a bite, and then spit it out: "Bah, bah, this is a fucking fruit, and the vinegar is boiled out of something, which is more sour than the apples that have just grown in our hometown." ”

I said, "I told you a long time ago, this thing is not eaten by a group of people, we are all from the second class, and it is not the right thing at all, how can you be embarrassed to eat it." ”

Taking advantage of the rest of the kung fu Wang Ye let the two big hunting dogs go out hunting, when he came back, he took two wild pheasants in his mouth, and lit a bonfire at the entrance of the cave.

After we ate the roast chicken, and then took a flashlight to shine into the hole, the original five-centimeter-thick Doi juice at the bottom had penetrated into the rammed earth layer, jumped down and shoveled a few times with a sapper shovel, which was much looser than before, and I quickly beckoned the fat man to come down.

At this time, digging down is like digging tofu dregs, a shovel down is a large piece, and soon the original thick and hard rammed earth layer was dug through a hole by us, a black rumbling piece at the bottom, the flashlight shines down not as deep as I imagined, and the ground from the tomb is less than two meters away, the fat man immediately stood up and rolled up his sleeves and was ready to jump in, I grabbed him: "You are looking for death, go up and bring the two live chickens, put them in to see the air quality inside." ”

I asked the old branch secretary to prepare two live chickens for us in advance, one is to find a cemetery to test the air quality, and the second is naturally to fill our stomachs, in case we can't catch wild meat for a while, we have to be hungry all the time, domestic live chickens are tied to the body longer than the wild ones, and if we really don't find food at that time, we can also fill our stomachs with these two chickens.

He tied a chicken's paw to a rope and lowered it to the deepest part of the tomb, smoked two cigarettes, and took the rope back when it was almost time. When I saw that the chicken was shrugging its head, rolling its eyes, taking less air and exhaling more, it must be no good.

The tomb of the king of Dian has been sealed in the ground for more than 2,000 years, such a thick rammed earth layer is sealed, the air inside can not be circulated, the ethnic minorities at that time are popular for the burial of living creatures, I don't know how many corpses are buried, the corpse gas produced after the corpse decomposes has long enriched the entire tomb, after more than 2,000 years of time, the corpse gas has evolved into a poisonous gas that is enough to kill people, once a person inhales, the light is dizzy, vomiting and diarrhea, and the heavy is not guaranteed, unless it is equipped with a gas mask. This link is absolutely careless.

It seemed that it would take some time for the poisonous gas in the tomb to blow away, but fortunately there was a wind in the mountains tonight, so we went back to the campfire at the entrance of the cave and lay down on the ground, we had not slept for two days and one night, and the continuous manual labor had made our two veterans who had not been trained for many years a little unbearable. Li Er and Wang Ye fell asleep after lying on the ground for a while, and the fat man and I were also tired, but when we thought of a bunch of ghost goods in the tomb of King Dian waiting for us to get it, we couldn't sleep at all, for the tomb robbery, it used to be just in the stories and theories told by my grandfather, this time we started for the first time, it was really not too difficult to say, after all, we had two old hunters who were very familiar with the mountains and forests as guides. It also has a certain relationship with the target we chose, a tomb of the Dian King has a history of more than 2,000 years, unlike some imperial tombs that use a lot of anti-theft measures, and it is a hidden weapon as soon as it is used, and it is not as rare as the trapped dragon pond.

?? The fat man and I smoked a few cigarettes, looked at my watch, it was already past one o'clock in the morning, and I was ready to go down to the cave again.

?? As before, I first tied the chicken paws to the rope and hung them, smoked two cigarettes at the mouth of the hole, and then took the rope back, and the chicken paws were tied to the rope, and when I pulled it like this, it immediately fell down, and the chicken kept struggling in the air and stirring its wings. It seems that there is no problem, I patted my face to make myself sober, and then asked the fat man to wake up Li Er and Wang Ye and let them wait outside, I and the fat man brought a mask, I grabbed the ghost talisman in my hand, and silently recited a blessing from the ancestor in my heart, and prepared to go down with the equipment.

?? Seeing this, Wang Ye hurriedly stopped us and said, "Take me down to have a look, right?" ”

?? I said: "Here is the dead body and the burial goods, nothing to see, we are also the first time that the big girl has been on the sedan chair, maybe there will be any hidden weapons in it, it is too dangerous." "I was going to say something scary to scare him so that he would get out of the way.

?? But I didn't expect him to be stubborn, and he was justified when I said this: "Then you have to take me down, I will call the hounds, if there is any danger, the hounds are more agile than us, and they can detect it in advance." ”

?? I don't know what he thinks, maybe it's to find Sister Wang's brother as soon as possible, I can't imagine that this kid is quite grateful, anyway, we are in the mountains and forests, no one will come to this place for hundreds of years, and there is no need for anyone to let go of the wind, not to mention that what he said is also reasonable, he will call the big hound, his own skills are also good, and the advantages of going in outweigh the disadvantages, so he simply told a few words, first, after going in, you can't take off your mask anyway to prevent the entrance of poisonous gas, Second, don't touch anything inside without my permission, to prevent touching the hidden weapon.

?? I wanted to say a few more words, but the fat man urged impatiently: "Zou Yi, when did you become such a mother-in-law, it's all the old men who want you to talk about it here, if you don't want to go, I'll go first."

?? I simply said to Wang Ye that everything will have to be under my command in the future, and then said to the fat man that if you want to go down, don't say that there is no map, even if you are given a map, you can't find the southeast and northwest, okay, don't make trouble, work, it's almost dawn.

?? The ground of the tomb is less than two meters high from the entrance of the cave, you can jump directly without a rope, there are many firsts in your life, but this first time to rob the tomb, the first time to jump into the tomb I am afraid that few people can understand, as soon as the toes hit the ground, my heartbeat can't help but speed up, and the remaining trace of tiredness is also swept away.

?? The fat man, Wang Ye, and Li Er also jumped down, and Li Er said that it was better to let him guard it alone, and it would be better to follow him down, and there would be someone to talk to, so as not to be overwhelmed by the dead atmosphere in the mountains and forests.

The area of the burial chamber is not large, at most thirty square meters square, the flashlight swept around, there was nothing, there was a doorway nearly one meter high in front of us, and at the other end of the doorway was a downward staircase, I thought to myself that this is really a strange thing, could it be that we arrived at the 'antechamber' of the burial chamber so there was nothing?

Wang Ye suddenly said: "Brother Zou, you see there are paintings on this wall." ”

I used a flashlight to shine at the place where Wang Ye was pointing, and sure enough, there were colorless relief pictures, and the figures in the paintings were simple and lifelike. There was no color, probably because the moving air entered the burial chamber, and the original color on the frescoes was oxidized.

The fat man sighed: "Oh, you're welcome, the tools we brought are really not enough, otherwise these paintings can be taken out for some money." ”