Chapter 8: The Harvest of the Sinkhole

The equipment has not yet arrived, and the French have not allowed us Chinese personnel to participate in the expedition on the pretext that the expedition has been very dangerous in the past few days, and I always feel that they have something to hide from us.

With nothing to do, I made an appointment with a winter melon to inspect the cracks in the sinkhole.

Because the sinkholes were first discovered and investigated by the Americans and the British, they became their "sphere of influence", so the target of this French expedition was not the sinkholes. I figured that since I came to this place, I had to go somewhere.

As soon as they met, the winter melon asked: "Dog, how was that beautiful woman yesterday?" I specially greeted Yuan Ju and assigned one of the most beautiful local tour guides. ”

I knew he had this question, and said lightly: "It's okay, a very simple girl." ”

Winter melon tilted his head to look at me, and then smashed his fist on my shoulder: "Your baby's vision is too high, Tang Wanli is a flower in the triangle dam (Xinglong Town)." ”

I wrenched him over and punched him too: "If you like it, mix it yourself." ”

Winter melon broke free from me and scolded: "Dog's day, you know that Lao Tzu has a wife and children, and you don't have a lot of money, how can people look down on me." ”

I responded, "If you don't have any money, you still want me to live, and I don't dare to find a girlfriend." ”

Winter melon counterattacked: "With your baby, this identity, you can soak your sister with or without money." ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I took pictures on a long journey, and after a while, I arrived at the sinkhole.

When I saw the sinkhole, I thought it was strange, and I always thought that it was some organ of the earth: the navel or the open mouth, and the mouth was so big that it could swallow several buildings. It was as if this mouth could enter the center of the earth and see the beating of the heart of the earth.

There is a Yin River under the sinkhole, which flows continuously throughout the year. July is the watery season, and the transpiring mist spreads up from the bottom of the pit, which is unfathomable. Listen to the local villagers, in ancient times, in order to avoid the disaster of war, the mountain people often helped the old and the young to go down to the pit to avoid disasters, so it was named "Xiaozhai Tiankeng".

There are many caves in the sinkhole, some deep and some shallow, so we can understand that people hide in the sinkhole and there are caves that can be hidden, but how can this black rumbling dong ensure that they will not get lost and come out? Because of the amazing discovery of the three-eyed cave, I paid special attention to the hole, so I specially brought a miner's lamp and flashlight before leaving.

We chose a hole that looked big to go into, and soon found some boiling pits, but there was nothing I needed. After walking dozens of meters inside, the road was broken, and no other forks were found, so I had to go back and continue to explore, but I entered three holes in a row, all of which were shallow, and no other holes were found.

Lying down on a big rock by the stone wall at the bottom of the pit, looking up at the basin-like sky at the mouth of the pit, I felt that compared to the magic of nature, people really seemed small.

Winter melon suddenly shouted: "Dog's day, it's cold behind your back." ”

I pushed him away and saw a cool breeze blowing through the crack in the stone behind him, accompanied by a cool breeze and a trace of water vapor, could there be a hole behind the big rock.

I shot it into the crack under the boulder with a strong light canister, and sure enough, there was a black hole inside, and water vapor kept coming out from below. So he took out the miniature engineering shovel he carried with him and slashed under the boulder, and a hole that could enter people became a hole.

I was afraid that the camera would get wet, so I hid it in a crack in the stone behind the boulder, and only took the miner's lamp and a flashlight to grope in, I was in front and the winter melon was behind.

This cave feels deeper than the previous holes, and when I came in, I found that this was originally a hole, but it was just covered by falling boulders, and I really couldn't see it if I didn't look closely.

The slope was steep, so I bent down and leaned forward with my right foot, and then took the next step.

After entering the hole, it is basically down, the slope is steep and the road is slippery, but with the experience of the three-eye cave, I don't feel particularly difficult. Just like this, I went down for dozens of meters, and the ground became flat, but it was covered with sharp stones, and it vaguely felt that it was a hall, and there seemed to be red, red, green, and green dense starlight on the innermost cave wall, flashing and flashing, and I could vaguely hear the squeaking sound, which was creepy.

Courage was raised, and the strong light flashlight was shot towards the wall of the cave that emitted starlight, and the starlight immediately moved, and scattered with an even more terrible cry, it turned out to be a large group of bats, panicking and fleeing in the cave, some even pounced on me, fortunately this bat did not suck human blood, but also scared out of a cold sweat.

Winter melon said fiercely: "Dog's day, a big eaves mouse (bat), one day Lao Tzu brings a net, catch some and go back to stew, called stewed mouse." ”

The complaint of the winter melon made me feel a lot more relaxed, and said with a smile: "You know how to eat it in one day, and if you eat it again, you won't be able to climb out of the hole." ”

Winter melon gave me another punch: "Lao Tzu died here and he was also a full ghost." ”

I smiled, continued to move, walked in one direction, and finally touched the wall of the cave, slippery, where the light shined, there were also faintly visible depictions, there were figures, animals, and tigers, the figures were larger and more numerous than those found in the Dragon Bridge, which made me very excited.

Winter melon scolded again: "Who in the dog's day has the leisure to drill this ghost place to paint." ”

I ignored him, continued to investigate carefully, after checking the cave wall and checking the ground, there were a lot of broken stones, I picked it up piece by piece and approached the flashlight to observe, to see if there were stone tools, I touched a flat circle with a few holes, close to the light to see, and immediately frightened stupid, it turned out to be a dead man's skeleton, quickly threw it away, and the heart was pounding as if it was about to jump out.

Seeing this, Winter Melon scolded: "Dog, we have arrived at the underground graveyard. ”

I was also a little frightened in my heart, and I pretended to be a hero: "I don't know that the skeletons many years ago have turned into stones, what are you afraid of, look for it carefully, maybe there is a treasure inside?"

Winter melon continued to scold: "Your baby wants to make a windfall in one day, and if you want to live, even if you can get out alive today, you will have nightmares at night." ”

Then continue to explore, one after another such skeletons were discovered, is this a burial pit?

I became more and more frightened, and I thought about retreating. But the strong desire to explore secrets and make a fortune made me want to stop. I forcibly suppressed my timid heartbeat, tried to calm myself and continued to search, and soon I found a new harvest, and I found metal objects, a copper ge, and a copper spear, and packed them into a camera bag, and my heart suddenly became motivated.

So he doubled his confidence, and searched the whole hall inch by inch, and found a few more bronze weapons, and still included them in the camera bag, and the rest of the things except the rocks were skeletons, it seemed that these skeleton human bones had been here for a long time, and they were almost petrified, showing a blue-gray color.

Suddenly found that there is a crack in the corner of the cave hall, the width of the place is about forty or fifty centimeters, there seems to be a faint light at the bottom, I can vaguely hear the sound of rushing water, through the light, I see that the narrowest part of the crack seems to be stuck with a thing, with a strong light flashlight, it seems to be a bronze weapon, in the shape of an axe, but much wider than the ordinary axe.

The thing was more than two meters high from the ground, and it couldn't reach it with your hands, but unfortunately there was no rope on it, so I thought I'd forget it, and I'll come back when I go back and find some professional tools. But this thing has never been seen before, it is too tempting, and I thought that the value of this thing must be much higher than that of other bronze weapons, so I was reluctant to leave.

After observing it, the upper part of the crack is V-shaped, and the widest part is more than 50 centimeters, which is enough for my body to probe down, and then untie the strap of the camera bag, which is almost enough.

I tied a rope around my waist, handed it to the winter melon to pull, and began to carefully move down against the seam wall, the stone wall was a little slippery, I didn't dare to slack off at all, inch by inch, and finally reached the right distance, covered the thing with a photographic strap, slowly tightened my hand, and gently lifted it up.

Seeing that it was about to arrive, suddenly the thing touched the stone wall, and the object that was not tightly attached came out of the strap loop, and suddenly slipped down, I instinctively leaned down, trying to grab it, but the whole body fell with it, I wanted to climb the stone wall, but the stone wall was too slippery.

It happened so suddenly, the melon was unguarded, didn't hold back, and watched me slide down with the thing.

Fortunately, the crack was not too deep, and it quickly stumbled to the bottom of the crack.

There was a call from above: "Xiaohu, it's okay, squeak!"

I touched my head, and it seemed to be fine, but my foot was scratched, but it was fine, and I was still able to walk, so I replied, "It's okay, I'm still alive." ”

Winter melon laughed: "Dog's day, your baby's life is bigger than Lao Tzu's life, and there will definitely be a future in the future." ”

The bottom of the seam is brighter than the top, and there is a faint light coming in from not far away, shining on the strange object, and quickly holding it in the hand to observe, it is a thing like a copper axe, and the difference with the copper axe is that its chisel part is flatter than the axe, and the blade edge is long and curved, and the shape is very strange.

And not far from it, there was still a humerus-shaped thing, but obviously heavier than a bone, thin in the middle and two ends larger, about 30 centimeters long, like a stone tool made by hand, I also took it, carefully pinned it to the back of the waist, and then looked for a way out.

The only rope was tied to my body, and it was obviously impossible to go back the way I came, so I walked over to the light, and soon saw a hole with water rushing down from the hole. I couldn't contain my excitement, and I didn't care about my broken foot, so I hurried to the entrance of the cave in three steps and two steps, and poked my head out to see a cliff with bushes and vines overgrown.

Take off your coat, wrap the axe and bone-shaped vessel, tie it around your waist, and go to the entrance of the cave, grasp the vines and shrubs on the cliff face, and slowly climb up. Very lucky, less than half an hour to reach the platform on the cliff.

Returning to the entrance of the sinkhole just now, I went in the same way, groped my way to the hall, and saw the winter melon lying on his stomach in the crack of the stone to probe his head, shouting. I slapped him on the ass and scared him into screaming, "Oh, mom! you scared the hell out of me!

I pulled him up from the ground and hurried out of the hole.

Spread out the pile of treasures just now under the strong light outside the cave to observe, and found that there were many carvings on this bone-like stone tool, and there was a slight transparency, like jade, but it had decayed over time and had lost its original transparency. One end of the big head is inlaid with a round green orb, and the center of the small head has a deep circular hole, and it seems that there should be a connecting part underneath.

What could it be? I haven't seen anything in the catalogue of archaeological artifacts I've seen, but it's certainly something used by very important people, and it must be of great value.

Look at this axe again, the height and width are about 20 centimeters, but the rust is bad, there is an animal on the shoulder, like a tiger, there are text-like graphics on the chisel, the blade is long and curved, it is an ancient weapon that cannot be recognized.

Strange, how can there be so many strange things in this hidden cave, and so many bones, could it be that there was a war here, so many people died, and many weapons were left, and these weapons were obviously weapons from ancient times, and they were by no means left by the people who used to escape the war as the villagers said.

These things are piled together and weigh a hundred and ten catties, but the winter melon is too lazy to carry it, and said that he will call a Qiu Er to get it in a few days. So I only wrapped the "jade bone" and "bronze axe" and put them in my camera bag, and hid the rest in a stone crevice in the cave, and brought in a few large stones to block the small hole that was dug out.

Then tell the winter melon: "We're going to get rich, these things, conservatively estimated, the market price is more than one million." ”

Winter melon scoffed at this: "With these broken copper and iron, they are worth a million, I think your baby is a ghost!"

I replied, "Maybe it's much more than that, and when the time comes, you'll sell two or five more, and you won't have to work so hard every day to keep the store." ”

I originally wanted to go to the ground to sew, but the winter melon was killed and I didn't want to, and muttered in my mouth: "Come out with you, what is it called playing, don't talk about the coolies, and be scared, Lao Tzu is going back, today a few friends are going up to play cards, and they said that they would get some game for him to eat." ”

I had to part ways with him and went to Tianjing Gorge alone, but I didn't get anything.

When I returned to the station, the owner of the shop stopped me and said that a beautiful tour guide had come to look for me and had left something behind. I opened it and saw that it was a hand-sewn heart-shaped amulet with a pair of mandarin ducks embroidered on it.