Chapter 38 Ancient Architecture



It's November weather, but when you get into the water, apart from the initial coolness, you only feel warm, like being in warm water. I flipped and found that even if I didn't move, there was a current pushing me out, and oddly enough, it was pushing us away from the island.

Since we were underwater and we were wearing diving helmets, we couldn't communicate much, so we saw the German beauty make a lip shape and say, "Warm current." I nodded, indicating that I understood.

The phenomenon of undercurrents under the sea is not uncommon, most of them are formed by the underwater landforms, the most common is the warm current caused by the magma activity of the submarine gully, but the location of this warm current makes people feel very wonderful, even if it appears in any place, I will not find it strange, but instead, it will appear near this small island.

Our group tried to swim forward, the visibility in the water was very low, even with the high-pressure searchlight, I could only see a distance of about three or four meters, I could only see the underwater reef island in front of me like a black, huge monster, the closer to this monster, the greater the resistance of the warm current, to the approach, I could barely control the body.

At this time, I realized that not only me, but also the fat man and others, were all shaky, and the German beauty was the lightest, and even planted a heel in the water, which looked very funny, but I couldn't laugh at the moment.

Obviously, the German beauty was more anxious than I was, and after she had planted a heel, her face was obviously angry, and she gestured at the four Germans who were traveling with her, and soon, the five of them formed a posture of lake on their shoulders, and they continued to swim forward, and the resistance of the warm current was significantly less.

The fat man and I, drawing a scoop according to the gourd, followed them closely, and soon passed through the warm current zone, and gradually approached the reef island, and the further we went, the reef island became bigger and bigger, and when we swam to it, we could no longer see its whole picture.

In addition to the mausoleum exposed on the surface of the sea, the reef here does not see too many traces of artificial carving, we circled around, did not find anything similar to the exit, only saw a lot of sea creatures attached to it, I look at the fat man's expression, there is a great sense of can't find the tomb, so I first fished some back to eat seafood impulse, let him go to such a rich place to fight, it is really difficult for him.

I gave the fat man a push, gesturing in the water, and said, "Disperse, find the entrance." "For the sake of underwater communication, we try to speak as concisely as possible so that the other person can read the shape of the lips.

Everyone nodded, and the German beauty pointed to the right, signaling her people to search to the right, and then pointing downward, and gesturing to a five, indicating that the search depth was fifty meters. I made an ok gesture to say no problem.

Then, the four of us on my side searched to the left, and Tongzi and Gray Mouse were responsible for the upper and lower range of searching, and I and the fat man conducted a horizontal search, and soon, everyone dispersed.

In the dark seabed, it is actually a dangerous thing to separate, but fortunately, the powerful searchlight equipped on our helmets is very attractive, even if we are far away, we can see the cool yellow light.

I and the fat man searched along the reef, and soon found some traces of artificial carving, at first, the carving was very rough, and the hardness of the reef was considerable, so I didn't feel strange about this kind of clumsy carving, but the further I went, the more and more things were carved, and when I put them together, I gradually saw some doorways.

These carved ornaments are not actually animals or other meanings, it is more like a building, but because the angle of view is too small, we can see very limited, and we can only see the hooked eaves in front of us.

I looked at the hook and couldn't help but feel a little understood.

This island bucket is made of reef stone, and the reef is extremely hard, if you want to build it as a mausoleum, even if it is modern, it is impossible to complete the project, so the people who built this island bucket retreated, but on the periphery of the reef, carved out the appearance of the mausoleum, in other words, this reef island, should be solid, there can be no entrance at all, the real mausoleum entrance, should be in deeper water.

I was secretly frightened, and in order to confirm this suspicion, I tugged at the fat man, and the fat man turned his head with a puzzled look. Underwater, I couldn't explain much, so I pulled the fat man out and swam out until I was about five or six meters away from the reef, and then I stuck behind the fat man and put my head on his shoulder.

The fat man was made blue by my series of actions, and his face was blue, probably thinking that I was leaned over by the forbidden woman, and his elbow was about to attack me, I quickly pressed his hand and said, "Don't move!" ”

The fat man read the shape of his lips and looked depressed, he pointed to my head and asked me what I meant, so I pointed to the high-voltage searchlight on my helmet, indicating that it was for the light source.

The fat man immediately understood, and immediately turned his head away, and the searchlight above our heads, the light sources hit together, and immediately the light skyrocketed, and the emission range became larger, and it was at this moment that we finally saw the whole picture carved on the reef, no, maybe not the whole picture, but a part of its contents.

But this part alone has shocked me and the fat man.

Because in front of our eyes, there is an ancient building of Zhangjia.

To be exact, this is a Zhangjia ancient building carved on the reef, and its shape is completely different from the style of Lei, but there are a few very significant features that allow you to connect it with the Zhangjia ancient building at a glance.

I don't know how big this carving group is, the 'Zhangjia Ancient Building' carved on it seems to be only a part of a large building, because from the background, you can see many carvings of other buildings, but these reliefs are too big, we can't see the whole picture at all, but at this time I have understood that this is a place carved on it, but it is certainly not the Zhangjia Ancient Building of Banai.

The fat man and I looked at each other, and then we both began to swim downstream at the same time, hoping to see the rest of the carvings. As the lights went down, we realized that the 'Zhangjia Ancient Building' did not exist alone, but was built on top of another building, in other words, it was actually only a small part of a certain building.

I was shocked, and said in my heart, could it be that the design of the Zhangjia Ancient Building was built with reference to this? Or was it not designed by Style Lei himself at all, but someone gave him a pattern somewhere and asked him to draw a gourd to make it?

As we go on, the carvings are so large that I can't imagine how the ancients did it a thousand years ago, and unless the sea had not risen to the present level, no one can explain how those people did it when there was no diving equipment.

The fat man and I hope to see the whole picture, or at least to know whether the reef is carved into a place, or the surface mausoleum designed by the builder of this sea bucket.

If it is the first case, then this big project, the building recorded on the reef, must exist somewhere in this world, but if it is the second case, I need to wonder if this sea bucket has something to do with the people of the Zhang family, isn't it buried in which great ancestor of the Zhang family?

If that's the case? German beauty and second uncle, why do you have to go to the ancestral grave of the stuffy oil bottle?

I think this thing is a bit confusing, so I pulled the fat man to continue diving, because of the location, what we have seen, has been just a section of the image in the middle of the architectural carving, about 20 meters or so, the building is finally to the end, from the bottom of the carving can be seen, this building, in fact, is built on a cliff, with several green pines behind the paving.

I can understand that the overall structure of this building should be built against the cliff, just like the famous Hanging Temple in Sichuan, which is built on the cliff, with thousands of wooden piles at the bottom to elevate the temple on the cliff.

It is said that the purpose of building that is to isolate the people in the temple from the world, so as to achieve the purpose of penance, and later in order to receive pilgrims who come to worship, a plank road leading directly to the temple was built, which is called the 'hanging ladder', and it is said that the visitors who have walked through it once, the thrill and ingenuity of the plank road, almost unforgettable for life.

However, that temple, although it was built wonderfully, but after all, the size of the temple is there, and it is not a miracle, but the huge building in front of me makes me have a feeling of doubt, is it really in this world?

Its structure is so large that even if I only see the middle part, I can imagine how magnificent this building would have been if it were real, but there is absolutely no place in my memory that has such a building.

I searched in my mind, and recalled the places I knew, from Tibet to Guangdong, from Kyoto to Bashu, and most of China's famous places, but it was difficult to find a match.

Could it be ...... This building is a fictitious mausoleum created by the builders of the island bucket?

If it is really the top of the mausoleum, then what about the green pines and white clouds that represent the cliffs behind?

The fat man obviously thought it was strange, but he was very energetic, and immediately grabbed my arm, moved to the right, and then began to go upstream, probably in this way, to see the whole picture of the building, but we looked all the way, except for all kinds of houses that resembled the structure of the ancient building of the Zhangjia family, there was nothing else to find.

It is also difficult for me to see which dynasty it belongs to through the structure of the style, it stands to reason that I am a graduate of architecture, although I cannot say that I understand the characteristics of all the buildings from ancient times to the present, but at least I know seven or eight points, however, the buildings in front of me, in my opinion, have both religious nature and minority style, and then look closely, it is difficult for you to associate it with a specific religion.

But if it's an ethnic minority, I think, in the long course of history, it is very difficult for any ethnic minority to have the capacity to build such a building, after all, their manpower and physics are all there, and if it is really built by any ethnic minority, there will definitely be a few words left in history.

I thought about it for a long time, and finally I only came up with two inferences, either that this building did exist, but it was destroyed in a short period of time, or that I had seen and heard too little, or maybe it really existed somewhere, but I was alone and didn't know about it.