A few hours later, Zhou Yong arrived with some people, some equipment, and some supplies. But as soon as he heard that the entrance of the ancient tomb was at the bottom of the river, his expression changed, and he said, "I hope it's not a water hole." ”

Water cave is a jargon in the world of tomb robbing.

The so-called water hole, that is, the ancient tomb that is not well sealed, enters the water or is damp, some tomb robbers, and then after stealing the tomb, they will not fill the soil, so that the rainwater will pour into the tomb, so when encountering the water hole, it means that the Ming weapon in the tomb is likely to have been damaged, or has been taken by the peers.

Of course, there are water caves and fire caves. A fire cave is an ancient tomb that has been sealed and has not been stolen. This kind of tomb, generally after opening the tomb bricks, can not use open flames, because the perennial closed air flow in the tomb will form a combustible gas, as soon as you see the open flame.

In the past, tomb robbers did not have flashlights, and before digging the grave, they would first insert a hollow bamboo pole or iron rod into the tomb, and then light an open fire at the end of the iron rod facing outward. If the fire is lit like an air gun, it means that it is a sealed tomb that has not been stolen. When encountering this kind of tomb, it is necessary to pry open the tomb bricks for ventilation, otherwise people will burn themselves as soon as they use an open flame when they enter.

On the other hand, if it is not lit, it means that the tomb is likely to be flooded, out of gas, or has been visited.

Judging from the spectacular scene last night, this is a water hole, and it is filled with water. Even if there are treasures in it, after soaking for more than a thousand years, it is estimated that it is almost rotten, right?

Wang Wenwen's face is not very good-looking, what he is worried about is not the treasures in the tomb, but Master Yunji, if Master Yunji is really inside, it is estimated that it will be more auspicious now......

Of course, these are the worst-case outcomes. Maybe the tomb wasn't completely submerged?

I suddenly thought of something, so I said: "Actually, I have been here before, and I also encountered the Yin corpse that came out of the river, combined with the history of the Song Dynasty, the last Yashan naval battle in the late Song Dynasty, the number of Yin corpses is two or three hundred thousand, plus the number of broken corpses that floated up last night, at least five or six hundred thousand, right?" Think about how big the tomb must be if it can hold so many corpses! When the water in the tomb is drained tonight, we can go down and have a look. ”

As soon as Zhou Yong heard what I said, he immediately came to his senses and said, "Yes, yes, what Xiao Chen said is right, how can I know the result if I don't go down and see it?" ”

"But those yin corpses ......"

Zhou Yong interrupted me and said, "What is there to be afraid of!" Your grandfather once said that if you touch gold, you are not afraid of ghosts, and if you are afraid of ghosts, you will not touch gold. ”

……

In the morning, everyone sorted out their equipment with the sound of quarrels, and it was naturally Zhou Yong and his baby daughter who quarreled. In the end, Zhou Yuting was tied up by his father and thrown on the boat back to Yamen Town.

After the oil bottle was removed, it was already sunset, and we each had something to eat, and then sat by the river and waited quietly.

Wang Wenwen took out his pocket watch, stood by the river, and counted word by word: "3...... 2…… 1……”

Whoa!

The position of the water in front of me is like a fountain, and the water is constantly boiling upward.

"Holy shit! This Nima is also spectacular, isn't it? ”

Zhou Yong opened his mouth wide, like a catfish about to suffocate. I know we certainly didn't look much better last night than he did......

In a few moments, the water in front of him was already densely filled with dead fish, and countless severed limbs were sinking up and down in the water.

Zhou Yong is also a person who has seen the world, so he quickly calmed down, turned around and greeted the strong man in the crew: "Dongzi, get ready to go into the water!" ”

The strong man named Dongzi threw me and Wang Wenwen, Wu Meng, and Dai Gaopeng a set of diving suits, as well as diving glasses and the same air call for the fire brigade. After everyone was ready, they stepped into the muddy river......

I have to say that the quality of this respirator is really good, I can't smell the slightest smell when I put it on, and I don't feel suffocated after entering the water, but the more I go down the river, the more turbid it becomes, and I can't see it clearly with diving glasses.

Although it is summer, it is a little cold after swimming in the water for a long time.

Because I can't swim, I have been holding on to the belt of the person in front of me, but the huge buoyancy under the water makes my whole person seem to float, and the person in front of me swims very fast, I didn't grasp it steadily, and I broke away from the team at once.

I want to scream, but how can I open my mouth in the water?

Just when I thought I was going to float to the surface, someone suddenly pushed me on my back, and I was able to dive again!

The person on my back was pressing me down, and at first I thought that the other party was trying to stop me from floating, but the next second I suddenly found that my back was like pressing a mountain, and I completely lost my self-control. I looked sideways, and on my back, there was a dark figure lying on my back, and the strange thing was that this person was not wearing a diving suit, and a pair of blood-red eyes were looking straight at me.

"Water ghosts! Woooooo

I was caught off guard, startled, and choked on the water, and the weight of the things on my back became heavier and heavier, gradually pressing me to the bottom of the water, I struggled desperately, but I got closer and closer to the silt at the bottom of the river.

Soon, my hands and feet were sunk into the mud, and my head was pushed into the mud with a lot of force. I knew this thing was trying to suffocate me in the mud. As the saying goes, rabbits bite even when they are in a hurry, and if they are forced to do this, they can't be afraid.

I tried my best to keep my head from getting my head down. At the very beginning of my struggle, my hand stuck in the mud suddenly touched a hard stone slab under the mud. I was overjoyed, and I immediately didn't care about the struggle, and with all my strength, I pulled the stone slab out.

The strength in my body was exhausted, and in an instant, my whole body was pressed into the mud. The feeling is like Mount Tai pressing on the top, not to mention the feeling of not being able to move, and holding your breath!

Fight!

In his heart, he silently thought of the blessing of Taishang Laojun, and hit the backhand with the stone slab, and when he hit it, he suddenly heard a muffled sound of "dong". And the thing on his back also seemed to be a little afraid, and suddenly rolled over, and disappeared into the mud at once.

I put on a respirator from the beginning, and let the buoyancy carry me up, thinking to myself, forget it, the matter of tomb robbery should be left to someone who has the ability......

Just as I was about to float up, a hand suddenly grabbed me, scared my mouth, and I took a big sip of water. But the purpose of that hand was obviously to drag me to the bottom of the river, and it was quite strong! I picked up the stone and threw it at his head, several times in a row, almost exhausted, but the thing still dragged me down the river!

By this time, my brain had stopped thinking and my consciousness was blurring......

Crash!

Just when I thought I was about to drown, my head popped out of the water, and then a pair of hands pulled me hard to the shore.

"Whew...... Whew......"

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a dark space, and I only felt an indescribable nausea in my stomach, and I tilted my head and threw up "wow", and a burst of sourness lingered in my throat.

Syllable!

As soon as the flashlight hit me in the face, I heard Wang Wenwen's voice: "Fuck, I thought you kid was going to give his life today." ”

Gradually getting used to the light of the flashlight, I looked around, Wang Wenwen, Wu Meng, Dai Gaopeng, and Zhou Yong and his party were all here, but the strong man named Dongzi stared at me with unkind eyes, and only when I saw the big bags on his head through the flashlight, did I understand what was going on.

So I asked awkwardly, "Brother Dongzi, where are we now?" Have you already entered the spring? ”

The other man nodded, and then withdrew his gaze.

Our location is very narrow, except for the waterhole leading to the outside, the surrounding dark stone walls are smooth and translucent because they have been washed by water all year round, and the whole space exudes a strong smell of water, and there are a lot of dead fish wrapped on the ground.

Swimming retrograde into the water spraying spring made everyone very embarrassed, but fortunately, the equipment was not lost, opened the waterproof bag, Zhou Yong and his party took out a variety of operating tools from it, such as Luoyang shovel, nail key, etc., and finally took out the things, but also let me and Wu Meng exclaim "fuck", they not only have explosion-proof armor and flares, but also AK47, known as the world's gun king, and even explosives.

Looking at the other party's vigorous show of equipment, I patted Dai Gaopeng and whispered, "Didn't you also bring a gun?" Take it out. ”

Dai Gaopeng smiled awkwardly and took out an old revolver from his pocket. Looking at this little pistol, which was older than my grandfather, I motioned for him to put it away quickly, so as not to be ashamed.

"Come here!"

The King of the Darkness waved at us, and everyone gathered around us, only to see a large crack in the area covered in silt. The flashlight shines along the crack, the inside is straight up and down, the flashlight can't shine to the end, the cracks are rocks on both sides, covered with sharp water chestnuts, people can only go down one by one. The probe looked down, only to feel that at the bottom of the crack, a yin wind blowing up from the darkness was blowing on the face, making people feel a little numb in their necks.

After all, Zhou Yong was used to robbing tombs, and of course he knew that he couldn't go down directly, so he picked a stone the size of a human head and threw it into the crack. I only heard that the stone did not end all at once, but in the middle of the fall, and it was estimated that it was blocked by a slope or other rocks, and it was thumping all the way, and there was no sound for a long time.

After listening to the voice, Zhou Yong said very firmly: "About thirty meters deep." ”

The depth of the burial chamber is actually exquisite.

The burial depth of ancient tombs is a process that first gets deeper and deeper, and then slowly becomes shallower. The excavated ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty are represented by the tomb of the Shang King in Yinxu, Henan, which is about ten meters deep, 27 meters deep in the No. 1 tomb of Qin Gong in the pre-Qin era, 35 meters deep in the geophysical measurement of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and the high-level tombs of the Han Dynasty are mostly 20 or 30 meters deep. Then it became shallower and shallower, and in the Tang Dynasty, the tombs of high-ranking nobles that had been excavated were more than ten meters deep.

Although the imperial tombs of the Song Dynasty have not been excavated, the tombs of the wealthy have been excavated less than ten meters long. In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, the excavated Ming Ding Mausoleum is 17 meters deep, and the Qing Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum is shallow, also around 10 meters. Others' large brick chamber tombs are mostly between three and seven or eight meters.

In general, the burial depth of the early pit soil pit plaster mud coffin tomb is deeper, while the burial depth of the later horizontal pit masonry chamber tomb is shallow. This may also be related to the fact that the later transverse chamber tombs abandoned the plaster seal, and if the burial was too deep, the burial chamber was prone to water accumulation.

This depth is obviously somewhat different from the specifications of the tombs of the Song Dynasty at that time. On the contrary, it will be a demon, which is not a good phenomenon.