14. Water Cave

The two possibilities were temporarily merged together somewhat far-fetched, so that the originally small hope suddenly became bigger, and the fruitless search for a few days was indeed embarrassing, and everyone was unconsciously a little impatient excited. Lao Wu said that cave burial is one of the traditional funeral forms of the Miao people, if the king of Luo Dian is really a cave burial, it can be traced back to such a long time ago, it is also a major archaeological discovery, but everyone has no heart to think about these, to find the tomb of the king of Luo Dian, whether there is a mystery there or not, the key is to end a qiē.

It had just rained, and the waterfall at the mouth of the waterfall was at its most abundant, so we had to wait for tomorrow to observe. Everyone went to the scene not far away to inspect, and then there was nothing to do in the afternoon, playing cards and chatting to pass the time, but one by one the mood was very good, although no one could guess what the result was, but finally found a plausible clue. I saw the opportunity to take Bai Lu to pretend to familiarize myself with the terrain, and naturally there was a lot of affection between the two people.

The next morning, the water flow at the entrance of the waterfall cave was obviously small, and after lunch, seeing that the cave entrance could already climb into the people, Zhang Xuan first asked a few fellow villagers to help, climbed to the top of the cliff from the other side, brought a few strong ropes, found a thick trunk to tie one end firmly, and the other end hung down to the bottom of the waterfall. Turning around, half-lying and half-kneeling, he got into the hole.

Seeing the back of the big head disappear, I suddenly had a strange feeling, King Luo Dian is not an easy person to follow, his tomb will not be as simple as putting a few coffins in the cave, and in a daze, my heart is beating faster and faster, and the six gods are worried about the big head.

Picking up a cigarette, my fingers trembling slightly, I fixed my eyes on the hole, and it wasn't until a few minutes later that I saw the big head grinning out of my head, and I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that I had thought a little too much, and that it was far from the time to be nervous.

The big head gestured at a few of us at this time, and said loudly: "Come up, there is a large large cave inside." ”

Zhang Xuan and I nodded at the same time. Although Lao Wu and Chen Blind are old, once there is really something else in the cave, the two of them have experience that others cannot replace, anyway, there is no danger for the time being, my plan is to except for Bai Lu and Xia Wenjie, the rest of the people will go in and quietly attach to Zhang Xuan's ear to discuss.

Xia Wenjie is a competitive and strong woman, she saw the entanglement between me and Zhang Xuan, and said with a smile: "Don't look down on our aunt and nephew, the woman who grew up in the mountains is no worse than you men." It's easy to find a little sign, and you can't be dumped at this point. ”

Zhang Xuan looked at me, and between the two of them, they may have thought of Xia Wenjie, as a descendant of Lao Zhai, who was a free guide, and may not really believe that we have the purpose of not harming the tomb of King Luodian, she may still have the intention of watching us, so it is not good for us to say anything more if she wants to follow up.

Zhang Xuan nodded reluctantly, in fact, my original idea was that no matter what others were, I just left Bai Lu, but now I naturally can't say it, so I agreed with Zhang Xuan, thinking that I really encountered any danger, no matter how I said it, I would also drive Bai Lu back.

The carabiner on the waist was firmly enclosed on the rope hanging down, and the feet were pressed on the stone wall to borrow strength, climbing to a height of no more than three stories was not a problem for everyone, Zhang Xuan and I took care of one by one and climbed into the hole, and told the two honest and credible villagers to be optimistic about the camp, and then followed everyone and finally got in.

Different from the observation and imagination from the outside, this hole only climbed into a depth of more than one meter and suddenly opened up, up and down more than three meters high, left and right parallel two cars are not a problem, the foot is not more than ankle deep shallow water, I stood on the ground for a while and couldn't help but be a little stunned, the shape of the whole cave inside and outside seems to be a big mouth closed by a giant beast, from the outside the narrow hole seems to be just a narrow slit slightly exposed between the upper and lower teeth, but it is a large volume of mouth inside, unfathomable forward, the black hole leads to the distance.

From the monster thinking of the Tai Sui I encountered nearby at the beginning of last year, I couldn't help but feel a little panicked, and I clenched the half-meter-long mountain knife with my hand, stabbed left and right, until I confirmed that there were hard rocks all around, and then I relaxed slightly. I'm not a big grinning character, Bai Lu followed by me and suddenly had an extra sense of responsibility, and I became very careful unconsciously, which I hadn't done before, the boy's escape can be forgiven, but the man must bear it, I don't know whether life is sad or happy to leap to this point.

The entrance of the cave is just a narrow slit, walk a few steps inward and you can't see the light of day, everyone turned on the miner's lamp on their heads, it took a long time to adapt to the dark environment, Zhang Xuan leaned over and looked around, still did not find the trace of the Venus jade rough, straightened up and touched the surrounding cave walls, and said: "The perennial flowing water washes this place very smoothly, it looks like it is naturally formed, and then go inside." ”

Following the cave to grope forward, I turned my head to look at Bai Lu, and suddenly felt in my heart to protect her, holding a knife in my right hand and taking the lead in the first place, with a big head, I looked at me, and then looked back at Bai Lu, walked two steps side by side with me, and muttered to myself: "I'm ...... Awesome, even the personality has changed. ”

My face flushed, and I secretly took a big bite, and no one cared about the black rumbling around me, and everyone was careful all the way to the depths of the cave.

The terrain rises slowly, the sound of water is continuous, the water seeping out of the top and the two walls converges into a shallow stream at the foot, quietly flowing behind me, I thought while walking, if it suddenly rains heavily, the water here rises, I am afraid that several people will have to be washed away, some secretly worried, I was about to talk to Zhang Xuan about this worry, when the lights flickered, the road in front of me suddenly divided into two irregular forks.

Among the two forks in the road, one can be seen to be the natural continuation of the hole in front of you, the closer the cave wall is to the foot of the part of the more obvious traces of perennial erosion by the water, and the other one makes people feel wrong, in addition to the elevation of the position, the circular hole also seems extremely abrupt and narrow, although the creation of nature is strange, but there is always an indescribable harmonious law, the first impression of the hole from a distance is superfluous, and the heart is slightly frightened, Could there be an artificially dug cave in the belly of the mountain?

Zhang Xuan took a few steps forward, leaned into the hole half a meter above the ground and looked left and right, and immediately said with certainty: "There are traces of chiseling out of it, and this hole is artificially cut out, it seems that there is something strange in it." ”