Everyone gathered around to look at the past, there were obvious traces of knives and axes in the fork hole, and the deep and crooked inside could not be seen to the end, it seemed that it was not an ordinary large number of manpower to dig out, and they looked at each other, everyone's hearts were similar to the idea, spending so much effort in the belly of the mountain to dig out a passage, would it be the king of Luo Dian who deliberately took it to bury it?

The custom of "cave burial" originated from the dynasty and the dynasty is impossible to investigate, more than 1,600 years ago if the king of Luodian finally used the cave burial, it is likely to be the earliest discovery so far. Miao people live in mountainous areas, after death, the coffin containing the body is placed in a natural cave and slowly becomes a unique burial custom, but Lao Wu thought for a long time, and did not think of any kind of "cave burial" is completed by manual digging of holes, there are deep and shallow natural caves in Yunnan-Guizhou Mountain, and it is really unreasonable to waste that manpower and material resources in vain.

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look." The big head is a man of action who is not afraid of anything, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, jumped into the hole, looked left and right for a while, stepped on the gravel under his feet, and walked forward with a loud voice.

Zhang Xuan shook his head and hesitantly stepped into the fork in the hole for the second time. I stepped on the edge of the cave and took a step, and then helped Dai Yan pick up the blind man Chen, and saw that Bai Lu waved his hand at me without helping, and turned around and walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Datou and Zhang Xuan.

There are two meters high up and down in front of you, and when you lift your toes, your head almost touches the top of the cave, but fortunately, it is much more regular than the natural cave that is high and low, so you don't have to worry about bumping into it, and the width of the left and right is not crowded with two people in parallel. Zhang Xuan was very slow, looking around as he walked, occasionally squatting to pick up the gravel under his feet, and gradually fell behind.

After walking a few steps, I accidentally stepped on a stone under my feet, and the moment I lost my balance, my arm swiped backwards and touched the stone wall, and the person barely fell, but the back of my right hand slammed heavily on the stone wall and cut a hole, and the blood immediately gushed out, and I cried out in pain. Seeing this, Bai Lu hurriedly caught up, and while taking out gauze from his backpack to wrap it for me, he complained softly in a low voice: "Why are you so careless." ”

I just wanted to take the opportunity to secretly laugh with her, but when I saw the sharp stone that scratched my hand, my brain suddenly flashed, and I couldn't help but say "Huh", "This excavation mark is wrong." ”

The first few people didn't go far, and when they heard my somewhat surprised voice, they all turned their heads, and Zhang Xuan was close to me, staring at me with wide eyes suspiciously, and I pointed to the jagged chisel marks on the stone wall and said to Zhang Xuan: "Why are these traces coming out in the direction behind us?" ”

Bai Lu approached the stone wall and touched it with his hand, and instantly reacted, "The traces rushed out...... I understood that this artificial passage was opened from the inside out, and that the place where we came in was not the entrance, but the exit that was carved out of this passage. ”

It dawned on me that the passage was being dug in the opposite direction to the direction we were going, and that someone had carved it all the way from the depths of the mountain to the natural cave we had just walked through. But this new discovery is even more puzzling, and as we go deeper and deeper, who will open the way from the belly of the mountain?

I suddenly remembered that Blind Chen had said in the tomb of King Zhou Yuan that the craftsmen who repaired the tomb usually secretly left their back hands in the mausoleum to escape, and asked the blind Chen: "Old man Chen, could this be the escape passage opened by the craftsmen from the inside out?" ”

Blind Chen asked Dai Yan to hold him close to the stone wall, gently groped with his hand, shook his head and said, "No." The escape tunnel is dug to a thickness of more than half a meter at most, and people can get into it, who will spend a lot of effort in vain to open an escape road so wide and neat? ”

Zhang Xuan, who had not spoken for half a day, took a few small stones in his hand and rubbed them, frowned and looked at them carefully for a while, and suddenly sighed, "If you are not mistaken, this is a mine cave along the direction of the jade ore vein, I didn't expect that there is really a jade mine in Yunnan, but unfortunately it has been mined and abandoned for many years." ”

Among all the people, only Zhang Xuan is a geology major, and no one expected it to come in handy here. I secretly wondered, if this is a reverse mine in front of me, then it means that there must be another entrance, and at the same time, the Venus Emerald Rough Stone was washed by the mountain water to the outside stream, and it is not a mystery that it can be found, but will this qiē have anything to do with the tomb of King Luodian?

After a few twists and turns, the mine in front of me began to straighten, I took out my compass and repositioned it, and the direction of travel was about north-east, and I recalled in my mind the direction and structure of the mountains in the basin outside, and I was suddenly startled, and said loudly: "Wait a minute." The direction of this mine seems to be directed towards ...... That Tai Sui went. ”

Zhang Xuan and Datou both stopped when they heard this. Zhang Xuan came over and looked at the compass in my hand, raised his eyes and looked forward, with a look of hesitation on his face. The big head pondered for a moment and said, "Go on." That Tai Sui is still far from here, and besides, we have burned to the ground last year, and nothing will happen again. ”

I have secretly listed three coincidental puzzles before, in addition to the tomb of King Luodian, which has not been found at all, the two clues of the jade rough stone and Tai Sui seem to be about to merge together, the end of the other end of this mine, if it is near Tai Sui, then will the prehistoric sites we encountered last year be connected with these?

After more than a year of encounters, my curiosity was worn out, and this impulsive attempt to come to Yunnan to unravel the last secret of King Luodian finally became perfunctory, and I had no intention of exploring it for a long time. I gave up the analysis that continued to be tiring and exhausting, looked back at Bai Lu, and my heart suddenly settled down, and my heart said that the end of my happiness was not the answer to a puzzle, nor was it the salvation of the future by being held high, but the little woman in front of me.

From the beginning of entering the mine, there is half an hour along the way, there are twists and turns left and right in front of this section, but basically in the direction of the northeast, there will occasionally flash some extremely shallow holes on both sides, the deepest is only one or two meters, and the shape is irregular, Zhang Xuan said that this is the ancient miners followed the main ore vein, left and right to dig left and right to find the remains left by the branches, at most dig a few meters into the mine and throw it aside.

The cave is getting deeper and deeper, but the air is not thin, Chen Blind Man relied on the experience of tomb robbery, and said that there must be air flowing together before and after, and both ends are leaky, otherwise even if there is no lack of oxygen, the breathing will not be so smooth.

Walking up this section of the mine, the black and swarthy on both sides did not change, and people gradually felt extremely bored, and the caution at the beginning was transformed into drowsiness by natural inertia, and it was at this moment that a cave hall connecting several mine roads suddenly appeared.