"You said there was a 'green gang stick' underwater?"

Lin Yi got up and chased Chen Erwa with a flashlight.

Chen Erwa's body has not been dried yet, and her clothes are not neatly dressed, so she hurriedly protects the important parts first.

"I said Brother Lin, you don't want to be like this, so you can respect my privacy!"

"Excuse me!"

Lin Yi hurriedly turned off the flashlight switch, and the surroundings immediately fell into darkness.

"If you want me to say, don't change your clothes, let's go into the water and take a look."

Chen Erwa turned her head and thought about it, yes, she simply folded the clean clothes, put them in a sealed bag, put them on a stalactite, took the liquor handed over by Lin Yi, raised her head and took a sip.

The liquor entered his throat, dispelling the chill on his body, and the whole person instantly became a lot more sober.

"Cool! Let's go, I'll take you to see it! ”

After that, Chen Erwa unscrewed the flashlight, held it in her mouth, and dived underwater step by step, Lin Yi also took off her clothes and followed with a backpack.

The position is still in front of the big iron chain just now, Chen Erwa pointed to the feet of the skeletons hanging on the iron chain, Lin Yi understood, poked his head out of the water, took a deep breath, and dived underwater.

Under the reflection of the flashlight's light, at the foot of the skeleton, a neat stack of wood appeared, forming a triangle.

The wood has rotted a little after years of soaking in water, and the rusty metal rings can be seen exposed under the turquoise aquatic plants.

The bottom of the timber is about forty or fifty centimeters in diameter.

In the middle of these timbers, a log stake with a diameter of about one meter stands out.

Lin Yi's unequipped breath-holding time has basically reached the limit, and he can only float to the surface of the water for the time being.

Chen Erwa also floated up.

"What's the matter, Brother Lin, is it the thing you're looking for?"

"Quite possibly! These people are not ordinary cunning, and they deliberately create so many ruts and footprints in the back that they stretch into the depths of the cavern that people mistakenly think that they have transferred all these things to the rear.

If we had recklessly walked backwards just now, maybe there would be something more sinister waiting to be cleaned up in the back. ”

When Chen Erwa heard this, she immediately felt a little afraid.

Lin Yi sighed.

"I know why these people are hanging here, they are the cushion of these 'green gang sticks'."

"Cushions?" Chen Erwa was a little puzzled.

"A few hundred years ago, the water level of the Min River was much higher than it is now, and these green gang rods entered the cave through the siphon effect, accelerated all the way to this position, and needed a buffer to intercept them.

The chain is an important barrier, and by hanging something on it, it will act as a cushion and prevent it from being damaged by a violent impact. ”

"Oh, are these people like a curtain on the door of a slaughterhouse, and they are up to them to stop the pigs from the conveyor belt?"

His analogy is not so appropriate, but it does mean exactly that.

It is not difficult to explain now that some of the skeletons with their clavicles are intact, while others have different heads.

Under the tremendous impact of these wooden stakes, how is it possible not to fall apart from the bones that have been hit?

Who are these people who are hung on chains as cushions?

Why was he treated so cruelly?

These questions remain unanswered.

However, the neatly stacked wooden stakes under the water gave Lin Yi a new hope.

He reached for a roll of rope from his rucksack and handed it over.

"Erwazi, you take this rope, after you go into the water, tie it to the iron hoop of the top green gang stick, you push it in the back, I pull it in front, let's try to see if we can pull it out of the water."

"Okay, Brother Lin, I'll listen to you."

After speaking, Chen Erwa took a breath, dived underwater with the umbrella rope on her back, and it didn't take long for her head to poke out her head and give Lin Yi a thumbs up, and threw the remaining rope into a pimple towards Lin Yi.

Lin Yi caught the rope, swam to the shore, found a few suitable footholds, and pulled the rope hard, feeling that the rope was strong, and was sure that there was no problem.

Turned around and picked up a thick firewood stick from the shallows that had not yet rotted and threw it to Chen Erwa.

Chen Erwa received the signal, took the firewood stick, dived underwater, while overcoming the impact of buoyancy, while exerting the strength of breastfeeding, forcefully stuffed the firewood stick into the gap of the wooden stake, and the whole person used his hands and feet to pry hard.

Lin Yi pulled the rope like a slender man on the shore, and the two of them worked together, and the top stake finally began to loosen.

As the strength of the crowbar and the rope increased, the aoka stick was finally pried off.

Set off a burst of muddy water and rolled down from the top, Chen Erwa took advantage of the situation to push forward sharply from behind, Lin Yi exerted force on the shore and continuously found the focus point under his feet, dragging upward.

The stick passed under the chain and was dragged to the shallows by the two of them.

After a trip, they were tired enough.

"This kind of work, if only Lao Wang was here, Lao Wang will be out, a top two."

Lin Yi turned over and lay on the ground, relieved for a long time, and Chen Erwa also gasped and came out of the water.

This green gang stick has been soaked in water for too long, it is thick in the middle, and the two ends are thin where they are covered by iron hoops, and it looks like a sausage.

"Brother Lin, what's wrong with this thing?"

Lin Yi got up, pulled out the barrier knife, and aimed at the two iron hoops that had been rusted.

"Bell" two crisp sounds, after the sparks splashed, the two iron hoops were disconnected.

Without the restraint of the iron hoop, the expanded timber was finally released and opened in unison from the middle.

The parasitic shrimp and crabs in the trunk of the tree all came out, and the hollow interior was presented to the two of them.

It was black, filled with silt, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Chen Erwa picked up her dogleg knife and pulled it twice in this pile of black mud, and there was a muffled sound of metal impact.

"There's something! Brother Lin, there's something here! ”

Lin Yi picked up a short stick and stirred it inside, and sure enough, something was buried inside.

He motioned for Chen Erwa to step aside, and then picked hard, and several black objects were picked out and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

The two followed the sound, and Chen Erwa opened her hand to pick it up, but was pulled by Lin Yi.

I took a few handfuls of water from the pool water, washed the mud on it, and finally revealed my true face.

It is two silver ingots that have been seriously oxidized, and the words "Daxiku silver, ten taels" are written in the faintly visible handwriting on them.

This font is almost no different from the current simplified characters, and Chen Erwa can recognize it at a glance.

"Isn't this the same as the silver ingots excavated at the 'Jiangkou Ruins'?"

(End of chapter)