Dragged by chains, a large black object was whistling and being lifted from the pool. Because of the limited light of the torches, the object was black, and at first only a rough outline could be seen, round and thick, like a large water tank, but one thing was certain, it was not an animal in the water, it was a huge object.

None of us have ever seen Taishang Laojun's Dan furnace, is it really what I said? In order to see more clearly, I asked Shirley Young to hold up a flashlight to illuminate it, and I myself raised the torch on the ground and took a closer look.

At this time, the entire huge black object was hoisted out of the water, and the militia platoon commander and others fixed the winch and came over to watch. The waterhole is less than three meters in diameter and more like a larger borehole, and we can reach out and touch what is hanging up from the edge of the pool.

Under the illumination of the torch and flashlight, I saw very clearly this time, and I saw that this was a "big tank", at least the shape was very similar to a water tank, and there were countless small holes in the tank body, and a lot of strange patterns were carved. Shirley Yang and I have seen a lot of antiquities, this is the first time I have seen this strange thing, I really can't figure out what it is, I can't see the origin of the age and history, and I don't know who went to great lengths to hang it in a waterhole with several chains, is this broken tank worth such a secret?

The cylinder mouth is sealed, the lid is a spire, very heavy, and there are six bolts on the side, if you want to open the cylinder head, you only need to remove these six bolts.

The tank is surrounded by holes the size of the little finger, and once it sinks into the pool, the tank can be filled with water, but as long as the iron chain is lifted up with a rocking winch, the water stored in the tank will leak. The water tanks in the world are all used to hold water, but the function of this strange tank does not seem to be so simple.

Even rough people like the militia platoon commander could see that this was not Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace, and couldn't help but ask: "Chief Hu, why doesn't this look like Taishang Laojun's furnace for containing pills, but it is a bit like the broken tank that leaks water in my house." ”

I said to the militia platoon commander: "Comrade platoon commander, this is what you don't understand, do you have so many patterns on the water tank in your house?" You see that these many patterns are simple and peculiar, they must be antiquities, so you just wait for the Cultural Relics Bureau to give you village militia a certificate of merit. ”

Shirley Yang looked at this strange tank, and he was also puzzled: "This is not like a water tank, I think it is more like a torture tool for torturing people." ”

I said to Shirley Young, "I know what you mean, you mean to put a living prisoner in a leaky tank, dip him in a pool, and when he is about to drown, then hoist the tank out of the water and drain the water inside." I have seen in movies before, and the reactionaries often torture our heroic and unyielding underground party with that kind of torture. But I don't think this strange jar is very much like a torture tool, how can the torture tool be so finely carved, the painting patterns on this tank are extremely exquisite, and it looks like something that is some years old. It's useless for us to guess, go up and pull out the plug, and see what is in it, it's an elixir. ”

The militia platoon commander stopped me and said, "Chief Hu, don't you dare to open it indiscriminately, in case there are any demons sealed in the tank, how about releasing them?" ”

I said to the militia platoon commander: "How many times have I told you that there can be no monsters in this kind of place, just now we saw the iron chain in the pool shaking, it may be that the pool is connected to the underground lake, and the big fish and shrimp in the lake hit this tank, don't be suspicious." If you still think like this now, I can't help it, let's let the facts speak, you all step back and cover me, see how I can go and remove the cylinder head single-handedly, there are really vicious monsters inside, and they will bite me first. I'm going to fucking see who dares to bite me. ”

They couldn't stop me, so they put up their hands and lifted me to the top of the tank. The strange vat was very strong between it and the chain, and I stood on it, though it was a little dangling, but the chain showed no sign of being overwhelmed and broken.

I climbed to the top of the strange tank, and when I touched it, I found that the outside of this tank was wrapped with three layers of iron sheet brushed with raw paint, which was very strong, not an ordinary clay tank, and I secretly said in my heart: "Damn, what is such a strong tank filled with?" I don't know if it's really a ghost, just look at it after opening it, and seal the lid immediately if there is a situation. ”

Shirley Young and the militiamen stood below, looking up at me, sweating for me, and they kept reminding me to be careful. I dismantled two bolts, raised my hand and waved to the crowd below: "Hello comrades, comrades have worked hard———" and then continued to bow my head and disassemble the next bolt, which has been soaked in water for a long time, but it is not rusty, and it can be pulled out with a force.

I had just removed the fifth bolt when suddenly the strange tank under my feet shook, and something seemed to be struggling vigorously in it, and I stood on it, unsteady, and almost fell headlong, and hurriedly grabbed the chain above with my hand.

In fact, there was something moving in the strange tank hanging in the air, after all, this tank was heavy, and the swing was not large, but I was not prepared, but I was startled by it, I climbed the chain, only to hear the crackling sound in the tank, it really looked like something was struggling.

Could it be that Professor Sun is trapped inside? Soaking in the pool for so long and not drowning? Shirley Yang and the three militiamen below also heard the voice, and they all shouted Professor Sun's name into the strange tank, telling him not to worry, we will rescue him immediately.

There was a lot of noise in the cylinder, but no one answered, I was eager to save people, where there was a lot of control, immediately pulled out the last bolt, the space for maneuver on the cylinder was limited, so I used my hands to hold on to the chain, trying to kick the cylinder head open.

At this time, a thought suddenly appeared in my mind: "In ancient times, there was a kind of jar coffin, using the jar as a coffin, and the dead were buried in it, but it was very rare, and I had never encountered it." Could it be that this peculiar leaky vat is a coffin with dead and indestructible zombies? ”

We only brought two flashlights with us to Shaanxi this time, but they were all in Shirley Yang's bag, and I now climbed to the top of the tank, and I didn't carry any equipment except for touching the gold talisman, not even a black donkey's hooves. But I immediately dispelled this thought, I trust my half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" very much, since according to the book, there will be no zombies in this kind of place, there will definitely be none, if there are really zongzi here, I will go back and tear up that half of the book. The next moment he gritted his teeth and kicked the cylinder head open.

The cave was already dark, Shirley Yang and the three militiamen were holding torches below, and I was in the air at the moment, only to see the black rumbling in the strange tank, and I couldn't see anything by the torches below. I leaned down to get someone below to throw a flashlight up, but as soon as I bent down, I could only smell a fishy smell rushing to the end of my nose, and I choked on it.

I hurriedly covered my nose and glanced at the strange vat with my eyes, only to see a white human hand stretched out of the vat in the dark, and I exclaimed, "Professor Sun? He quickly reached out to shake the hand, trying to pull him up.

But as soon as my hand touched the arm at the mouth of the cylinder, it felt wrong, wet and hard——— it was a hand bone and not a living man's hand. It was too late to react, because he was in too much of a hurry, and he had already pulled up a skeleton human bone with a wide open mouth.

Although the light was dim, the skeleton was torn out by me, and it was real, white and watery, and it was completely beyond my expectations, so frightened that I screamed, flipped off the tank, and fell headfirst into the pool.

The water in the pool was so cold that I fell head down and foot up, choking on the water and causing unbearable pain in my nose. Fortunately, I grew up on the beach in Fujian since I was a child, whether it is a swimming pool with a jumping platform in the military region, or a seaside with high winds and waves, it is a place where I and the fat man and others swim when I was a child.

At this time, he fell into the pool, but his heart was not panicked, he opened his eyes in the water, there was no light source, and he must swim back to the mouth of the pool immediately, otherwise he would choke to death in the water. But it was pitch black, and when I fell, I was dizzy, I lost my sense of direction completely, and I couldn't hear anything in the water, so I felt as if I was dead.

Just when I was already in despair, suddenly my eyes lit up, and someone with a waterproof flashlight swam towards me, it was not someone else, it was Shirley Yang. The mouth of this pool is small and large, and once you fall down, if you don't swim back within two minutes, you will have to drown below. Shirley Yang did not dare to delay, grabbed a rope from the militia, and jumped into the waterhole with a flashlight.

I knew I couldn't do it anymore, so I grabbed Shirley Young's hand and the militiamen pulled the ropes on top of us and dragged the two of us up.

Shirley Yang's face turned white: "You old Hu, this time it's really dangerous, I'll be a few seconds later...... I can't say anything about you, it's unimaginable. ”

It took me a long time to come back to my senses, and I was grateful and ashamed to Shirley Yang: "I almost went to see Marx again, but I was born twice and matured, and I wandered around before the ghost gate closed more times, so I wasn't afraid." It doesn't matter if it's a few seconds late, it's a big deal that you can drag me up and give me a few more respirations......"

I was about to say a few more words when there was another sound from the strange tank hanging in the air, as if someone was knocking on the wall of the tank for help......

Everyone looked up at the strange tank hanging in the air, and they all had a thought in their hearts: "Hell it." ”

I said to Shirley Young, "Don't worry, I'll go up and see again, if I fall into the water again, you remember to give me artificial respiration quickly, it's too late." ”

Shirley gave me a blank look, pointed to the militia platoon commander and said, "What do you think, if you want to do artificial respiration, I will also ask those militiamen to do it for you." ”

I said to Shirley Young, "Why are you so out of sight? In other words, if you fall into the water and hold your breath, and you need artificial respiration, then I am absolutely obligated to ......."

Shirley Young interrupted me and said to me, "I found out that one is you, and the other is the dead fat man, who never takes life or death seriously, and is still in the mood to joke about the occasion." By the way, I ask you, what do you see up there that scares you into falling into the water? Is Professor Sun in there? ”

I have always regarded myself as bold and bold, and this question can reveal my shortcomings, how can I say that I can not lose face? I looked at the strange tank hanging in the air and told Sùshirley Yang and others: "This ...... As soon as I opened the cylinder head, a string of invisible chain of life-killing golden needles swished out inside, which is really a powerful hidden weapon, this is also my skill, not in a hurry, calm and relaxed, a harrier turned over and avoided it, in exchange for others, where is there still life at the moment. ”

Shirley Yang said helplessly: "Forget it, I won't listen to you, you can blow you, I'd better go up and take a look myself." With that, he twisted his long wet hair a few times, coiled it casually, and also let the two militiamen take a ladder and lift her to the top of the tank.

There was still a noise in the tank, and the militiamen began to get nervous again, afraid that some monster would suddenly come out of the tank, I warned them not to shoot casually, and then threw the flashlight at Shirley Yang below, telling her that there was a dead man's bone rack in the tank, so that she could be mentally prepared not to fall from above like me.

Shirley Yang looked at it for a long time, reached out and took something, then jumped down from the strange tank, and held up a jade bracelet for us to see, and I and the militia platoon commander took the jade bracelet and looked at it, even more puzzled.

I have been in business in Panjiayuan for a while, and my eyesight has grown a lot, and I can see at a glance that this jade bracelet is fake, and it is worth two yuan a stall, which is not worth anything at all. Could it be that the white bones in that monster vat are a woman? And she hasn't been dead for long, so how did she get into this strange tank? Was it put in after death, or was it put in and drowned alive? The "tank coffin" burial point can be ruled out, the Chinese pay attention to the soil for safety, will never soak the dead in water, this chaotic and complicated situation, really has no clue.

Shirley Yang said to me, "Old Hu, guess what's the noise in that jar?" ”

I said, "Could it be that the bones are made into essences?" In ancient China, there was such a thing as a white bone spirit, but the white bone spirit was wiped out by Sun Wukong many years ago, is there a new debut here? Do you want our people to suffer twice and suffer two more sins? ”

Shirley Yang smiled: "You really know how to think, it's not a white bone spirit, I can see clearly just now, there are three human bones in the tank, all of them are adults, and there are more than 20 round strange fish at the bottom, although they are only two or three feet long, but this kind of fish is extremely powerful." The pool of water in the tank was drained, and the strange fish were fluttering in it, so there was a sound. Before we lifted the tank, we saw the chains shaking in the pool, which may have been caused by the fish fighting and swimming in the tank. ”

I said to Shirley Young, "That's weird, what kind of fish are those fish?" How did they get into the closed tank? it

Do we eat the dead? ”

Shirley Yang shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, I have never seen such a strange fish, I think this kind of fish is not loaded in advance, it is possible...... It is possible that these fish themselves grew in the pools of this underground cave, and someone deliberately put the dead bodies into a tank full of fine holes, and sank into the pool, so that the small fish that did not grow into the tank could swim into the holes......"

I listened to Shirley Yang's words and was surprised: "I understand what you mean, you mean that this is using human flesh to raise fish?" When the flesh has been eaten and the fish have been fattened, it is impossible for the big fish to swim out of the holes in the walls of the tank. But what's the use of raising fish in this way? It's also too ...... It's so disgusting. ”

The militia platoon commander suddenly interjected: "No. 1 and No. 2 two leaders, I have been looking at it for a long time, this bracelet, I seem to have seen it somewhere, it looks like a woman in the village wears it, she has been married for many years, and she has been in contact with different families, and she only returned to her parents' house for the first time a few months ago." At that time, she wore this bracelet for us to see, and told us that she bought it in Guangdong, which was worth thousands of yuan, and the mothers-in-law and aunts in the village all looked red-eyed, and complained that their men were incapable and could not afford to buy thousands of yuan of jewelry. ”

As soon as I heard this, I was surprised, and I hurriedly asked the militia platoon commander what happened.

The militia platoon commander said: "Later, the woman left quietly, and the villagers thought that she had another awkward quarrel with her family and ran back to the field." Looking at this bracelet now, it is not that the woman was killed by the gangsters. ”

We were discussing, and suddenly heard the sound of footsteps on the ramp of the crypt, I thought it was the two militiamen waiting outside who saw that we hadn't gone back for a long time, and they were not very relieved, so they came down to look for us.

I was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly walked over to Professor Sun and said, "Professor, you can frighten me, I came all the way to you for a big event, and I thought you let the piranha gnaw, where did you go to play?" Why did it suddenly come out of the back? ”

Professor Sun was also stunned when he saw me, but he didn't expect me to come to him again, and he would meet here, and only after listening to me briefly explain the cause and effect of the cause and effect, did he understand what was going on.

Professor Sun took a closer look at the scene in the cave and said to us, "This jar is a harmful evil art, I have seen it in Yunnan before. It seems that this matter no longer belongs to the scope of archaeological work, and we have to find the Public Security Bureau. This is not a place to speak, everyone should not destroy the scene, let's go up and talk in detail if we have anything. ”

So the group of people returned the way they came, and the village chief and the others were very happy to see that all the people were safe and sound, and I paid the labor fee promised to the militia in advance. Although the militiamen did not eat the elixir, they were all happy to be paid.

Professor Sun asked someone from the village committee to inform the police, and then took me and Shirley Yang to the village chief's house for dinner.

Professor Sun told me and Shirley Yang what had happened, it turned out that he had gone down to the crypt with his assistants, and had also seen the iron chains that had sunk into the pool, and when they came up, at the end of the first layer of the tunnel, they found a secret passage with many stone tablets.

The structure of the tunnel is ╠╡ shape, there are two roads, a bright road with a dark road, the height difference is two meters, the double line is the open road, the single line is the dark road, there is a horizontal open road in the middle, and the stone tablets are all in the dark road. The so-called dark road is a cut lower than the bright road, there is a gap, do not go to the front to see, it is not easy to find, there is a stone house at the end of the bright road and the dark road.

Professor Sun took his assistant into the underground passage below to check the ancient stone tablet inside, but he didn't expect that due to the lower terrain here, the water seepage was much stricter than the above, and the middle part connecting the two tunnels suddenly collapsed, and Professor Sun and the two were trapped inside.

The people who went down to the rescue did not find these two parallel tunnels, but fortunately, the area of the collapse was not large, Professor Sun and the two took a lot of effort to move away from the stone that had collapsed and sealed the passage, and as soon as they came out, they happened to meet the militia who stayed behind, and knew that someone went down to the stone house crypt to save them, and they did not come back for a long time, so they went down with the two militiamen who stayed behind to check.

After investigation, the underground tunnel of the stele shop belongs to the site of the Qin Dynasty, there are several places in the vicinity, all of which are the places where Qin Shi Huang sent the alchemists to refine the medicine, and then it was abandoned, except for some stone tablets remaining, there is no rest of the harvest, but these steles still have a very heavy research value.

I asked Professor Sun, "What are the six jade beasts in the stone box and the strange jar hanging in the cave waterhole used for?" Could it be a relic of the Qin Dynasty? ”

Professor Sun shook his head and said: "No, the stone box jade beast, and the cave under the stone house, including the iron chain hanging cylinder, are two different from the tunnel ruins of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and they were all put in by later people." I heard in Gulan County that there have been people missing every now and then over the years, and it is likely that it has something to do with this matter, and I am not a criminal investigator, but I can make inferences based on the things I saw at the scene. Of course, it's not a state secret, so it's okay to tell you. ”

Professor Sun analyzed it like this: This set of stone box jade beasts is priceless, and it is very likely that it came from the ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan. The ancient Dian Kingdom is a mysterious kingdom, historians call it a lost country, there are not many records in the history books, it is rumored that there are many people in the country who will know evil arts, "Lu 1 2 Citation Examination" has a record of the six demons and jade beasts of the king, which is an ancient sacrificial ritual utensils. The ancestor of the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop in Shibeidian Village is one of the few outsiders in the village, and it is impossible to find out from which generation he moved from, and he is now deceased, so how he got this set of treasures, people can't know.