The tunnel is illuminated by the trajectory of the flares, and the left and right ends can be seen, with an opening in an asymmetrical position. Both sides of the main road are piled with white bones, and only a large number of huge ivory in the shape of a cone arc can be distinguished, and the lighting projectile is shot to the end, and you can also see the flash of water waves on that side, which should be the underground water system of the Snake River.

Although this tunnel has a powerful mechanism, compared to the boundless mountain miasma poisonous fog, it is still feasible to venture into the tomb of King Xian from the underground tunnel. Anyway, the three of us are not bad, and it is not like the last time we went to the desert in Xinjiang, where we brought a group of intellectuals, and it was very cumbersome to do things.

So we took a short rest at the entrance of the cave and packed up some equipment, because there was no bamboo raft, if there was an underground river, we needed to swim in an armed way, so all unnecessary things had to be temporarily left in the temple dedicated to the mountain god.

First, I changed into a shark skin diving suit, put on elbow pads and knee pads, adjusted the spotlights on the mountaineering helmet to the side, replaced the new battery, equipped with diving goggles on the helmet, and hung a simple small refillable oxygen cylinder on the back, and each person only brought a waterproof carrying bag, which was equipped with emergency medicines, spare batteries, cold fireworks, gas masks, fluorescent tubes, candles, evil things, and wolf-eye flashlights......

The fat man's diving tights didn't fit well, so he didn't plan to wear them. I said to the fat man: "It's okay if you don't wear it, anyway, you are a stupid boy sleeping on a cold kang, and it is all based on firepower." ”

Shirley Yang said: "If you don't wear it, you can't remember how cold the water is under Shalong Mountain?" If you spend a long time in the water, you will easily suffer from hypothermia, and even if your clothes are a little narrower, you have to put them on, otherwise you will stay and wait for us, and you will not be allowed to go in. ”

The fat man remembered the scene when Shirley Yang fell off the bamboo raft in Shalong Mountain, and his lips were frozen purple when he swam back, it seems that although it is humid and stuffy around here, the groundwater is cold and abnormal, not to mention that a large number of Ming vessels that offer the tomb of the king are not far away, how can he stay here and wait, so he had to inhale and close his abdomen, and forcibly put on the diving suit, and complained again and again after putting it on: "Fucking shoes and pants are short, who is uncomfortable and knows for themselves." ”

By the time we were ready, it was already a golden wuxi, the birds had returned to their nests, and by the twilight of dusk, the three of us entered the tunnel.

Shirley Yang carried a vajra umbrella and held a wolf's eye to clear the way ahead. Together, the fat man and I walked behind with the large pile of equipment packed in the waterproof plastic bag, and slowly descended the slightly steep slope.

This section of the tunnel at the entrance is obviously artificially built, both sides are neatly built with large blue striped stones, the stone joints are sealed with red lacquer, and the large square bricks on the ground are very flat, like the corridor in the ancient tomb.

On both sides of the tunnel, the whole elephant skeleton was neatly stacked, which was the skeleton of the whole elephant, which was obviously brought from outside after being slaughtered. The whole elephant bone or ivory is placed in the burial pit in order to take the homonym "auspicious" of the elephant. As early as the Shang Tang period, elephant bones and ivory were used as burial objects, and a large number of ivory were unearthed in Yinxu.

These bones of the martyrs are deliberately half-buried, rather than buried in the whole soil like the burial ditch, which shows that the tomb owner is to become an immortal, and no longer cares too much about worldly things.

I counted the burial pit alone, and there were sixty-four holocyte bones, and countless tusks. There were also scattered bones of small animals, which had decayed over time and could no longer be discerned, and Shirley Young deduced that they might have been hounds and horse bones, as well as human bones from slaves.

Once again, we appreciated the huge scale of the tomb of the king and the luxury of the funeral goods, I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "The king's tomb in a small country like ancient Yunnan in southern Xinjiang is so pompous, for one person, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from upside down, and in the end, after death, ascend to heaven and become immortals, and keep the country for 10,000 years, it is just a dream, these things are also left in the deep mountains, and the sun and the moon die." How ridiculous it seems now, like this ancient tomb built with people's fat and people's ointment, it should be poured as much as it wants. ”

Shirley Yang said: "I didn't expect that the tomb of the king was so big just a burial pit. As she spoke, Shirley Yang had already gone to the intersection of the "╣" shaped tunnel, only to hear her wonder: "What are these for?" ”

The fat man and I used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine at the bend in it, only to see that it was not a tunnel, but only a piece recessed in the stone wall, only a few meters deep, scattered with a few long poles, which seemed to be connected together. I also thought it was strange, so I wanted to reach out and pick it up and take a look, but when I touched these long rods, they rotted like mud. Because of the groundwater, things from 2,000 years ago rot at the touch of a button.

This pit in the stone wall of the tunnel seems to have been specially used to hold these long poles, is it used to measure the depth of the water? The three of them couldn't figure out what it was for.

Walking to the end of the tunnel, it is about tens of meters away from the ground, from here, it is no longer a tunnel built by artificial excavation, but a natural cave underground, and there is no way to follow, if you want to continue from here, you must go into the water to swim.

There are several ancient wooden boats lined up by the water, and it is possible that the people who go to Minglou to worship the tomb of the king take these boats, but after a long time, these wooden boats are also so rotten that only the boat frame remains, and it is difficult to use them anymore.

We pulled the airbag tied to the big backpack and let it fill the air and float on the water, with weapons such as submachine guns on top so that they could be taken out and used at any time. Put away the wolf's eye flashlight, turn on the tactical spotlight on the helmet, and then follow into the water, holding the air bag on the backpack, and wading through the water.

Walking out of the water for more than ten meters, my feet could not reach the ground, the cold and biting groundwater was getting deeper and deeper, I looked at the compass, and the direction of the water flow was just parallel to the worm valley.

There are many huge natural stone pillars in the water, like coral on the bottom of the sea, with thousands of branches, and because of the darkness in the cave, it is difficult to see how these strange stone pillars were formed.

The roof of the cave is very low from the surface of the water, which is particularly oppressive, and I looked up and saw that there were many huge rhizomes of plants growing from above, and some even reached directly into the water, forming a rare plant cave roof.

The terrain gradually decreased, the distance between the water surface and the roof of the cave gradually increased, and breathing was much easier than before, while the plant roots hanging overhead and those strange stone corals became denser and denser. There were also some fish in the water, which occasionally touched our bodies under the water and swam away, and I was secretly glad that they were not piranhas.

In order to confirm the direction of progress, Shirley Yang asked the fat man to take out the flare gun and fired a flare in front again, and the fat man counted the number of flares left: "There are eight more rounds, this time there are too few to bring, so we have to use them leisurely." After saying that, he loaded a shot in the flare gun, adjusted the range, and fired forward.

The flares made a shining arc, and finally hung on the intertwined plant vines not far away, and at this moment, the white light illuminated the surrounding caves, and a rare and terrifying natural landscape appeared in front of us.

It turns out that the coral-shaped stone pillars are all fossils of trees from ancient times.

Fossils are ancient relics buried in the strata, formed by tens of millions of years of sediment burial, the most common are animal fossils, because the bones and teeth of animals have less organic matter and more inorganic matter, after being buried by sediment, the decay process will slow down, washed away by the slow-flowing groundwater in the sediment voids, and the excess minerals will be precipitated to form crystals, and before the bones completely decay, if the crystals of these minerals can completely replace the organic matter, they will form real fossils.

But fossils of plants are much rarer, due to the fact that plants decay much faster than animal bones. Shirley Yang said excitedly: "Shalong Mountain may have been a huge active volcano hundreds of millions of years ago, and during the last apocalyptic eruption, there was also a mudslide nearby, and the magma engulfed the forest below the mountain, and the trees that were carbonized by the high temperature in an instant were immediately swallowed by the ensuing mudslide, and the temperature was also cooled in an instant. ”

After tens of millions of years, as the earth's crust subsided, and after repeated erosion by the underground water system, the forest, which had been sealed in the sediment for countless years, was revealed underground.

I didn't think there was anything unusual about these stone trees, I had dug them out in Kunlun Mountain, but recently Shirley Yang has always been worried, her expression has always been melancholy, and it is rare to see her happy, so she said to Shirley Yang: "Although we came to Yunnan this way, we were not less frightened, but we also saw some real mountains and real waters, and saw some things that ordinary people can't see in their lives, which can be regarded as a worthwhile trip and a lot of gains." ”

The fat man interjected: "Just look at some broken stones, it will inevitably seem to be a fly in the ointment, and then touch a few earth-shattering artifacts to go back, and shake the big golden tooth in the Pan homeland together, and then kill out of the Pan homeland, and enter the glaze factory, it is almost complete." ”

I was about to speak, but the flare hanging in front of me ran out of energy and slowly darkened, and the hole was pitch black again, except for the faint glow of the tactical spotlight on our helmets. I felt as if we were drifting in a black ocean, with only the three of us left alive in the world, and a sudden loneliness and depression spread through my nerves.

I felt very strange about myself. In the process of moving from light to darkness, I felt as if I was struck by a faint electric current, and then I had this inexplicable sense of loss, and my mood suddenly became depressed. I looked at Shirley Young and Fat Man, and the two of them also seemed to sense that something was wrong, but how did this subtle change come about, what exactly did it portend, and why did they suddenly feel a panic?

At this time, the flare that was fired directly in front of it was finally completely extinguished, but we found that at the same time that the last ray of light of the flare completely disappeared, in the dark depths of the groundwater, a faint white figure slowly appeared, although the cave was very dark, but the white light on the figure became clearer and clearer. It was like a corpse of a woman with a whole body, and she seemed to have floated from the water. As the female corpse got closer and closer to us, the frosty face of the female corpse gradually became clearer. My heart began to beat faster, and my nightmarish panic intensified.