Chapter 7 Section VII

"Barely see, the style of painting is good, a bit like Banpo painted pottery." Xia Mingruo tried to raise his head, "Where's the camera?" "I didn't bring it down, I'll get it later." Chu Haiyang asked, "What scene is it painted?" Xia Mingruo said: "It's more like a war and a sacrifice. A big battle, the captives are captured, a mysterious ceremony is held, and then the head is beheaded...you go forward." Chu Haiyang took two steps forward and looked carefully. "Oh, it's really beheading!" Xia Mingruo said, "Beheading in batches."

"It's so straightforward," Chu Haiyang asked, "There's no words, right?" "No, there are cows in the painting." "The tribe domesticated cattle?" "Then ride the bull and fight." The two researched and discussed, and finally Xia Mingruo said, "Ocean." "Ok?" "Uncle is gone." Chu Haiyang also raised his head: "I found it." Xia Mingruo asked while looking at the rock paintings, "Aren't you going to find him?" "Forget it," Chu Haiyang said, "Just now I was thinking, if you don't let him come down, he will come down sooner or later, it's better to drive him away quickly, so as not to frighten Xiao Chen when he does, this uncle is dangerous gone."

"Do you think he killed the man in the cave?" Xia Mingruo climbed off Chu Haiyang's body. "Maybe it's not true. The unlucky guy must have been beaten to death a long time ago. The uncle seems to have just climbed up from below. The question is: how did the uncle get down there? Is there another passage or did he go down first?" Xia Mingruo shook his head and said, "I don't know." Chu Haiyang also couldn't figure it out, and finally said: "Never mind him, let's go to the empress first." Ma'am, ma'am, where are you? The two walked in the dark for three hours, burned out three candles and replaced two batteries. After finally hearing the sound of water, they began to think about a problem: being cheated.

"Karst caves, underground rivers, minerals, nature, how wonderful!" Xia Mingruo squatted down and said with emotion, "Why didn't I study geology. Otherwise, it wouldn't be like a mouse falling into an oil nest." After a while he was worried about Xiao Chen again: "Leave him in the coffin hole in the middle of the night, is it all right?" Chu Haiyang suddenly turned off the light. But it was still too late, a sudden light shone on their faces, blinding their eyes. When they saw clearly, they found that there were black muzzles of guns facing each other across the river.Fortunately, Lao Huang did not follow. This trip was more dangerous than imagined.

"Ouch!" Xia Mingruo immediately stood up and made a gesture of surrender. "A submachine gun made in the Soviet Union," Chu Haiyang said with narrowed eyes, "we have met an acquaintance." "Come here." There were two shadows on the opposite bank, and the one in front said loudly. The two of them hurriedly waded into the river with their tails between their legs, imitating someone's tone and saying, "Hey, my own people, my own people!" After a while, I found that "my own person" was tied up firmly, and he was also squatting on the opposite bank.

Xia Mingruo said hello, "Uncle, we meet again." The uncle said: "It's a pleasure to meet you, it's a pleasure to meet you." After lighting the torch, the other party pulled the two of them up and searched them. Even the short knife inserted in the upper of the shoe was found and thrown away, so it was a good thing that they forgot to bring the panchi knife just now.After the body search and began to extract a confession, Xia Mingruo dodged the gun in fear. Just as he was about to speak, the uncle preempted him by talking nonsense: "My two nephews." "Li Ergou." The uncle nuzzled Chu Haiyang with his mouth.

And Nunu Xia Mingruo: "Li Sangou." Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo turned their heads away and cursed "your grandma's" at the same time. "Old Bandit Li," said the leader, "you have quite a few nephews." "Hehe," the uncle smiled flatteringly, "The main reason is that my younger sister will give birth, mother hero, it's easy to work if there are so many people, let's answer Chairman Mao's call." "You are a lot of people to rob graves." The leader raised his gun as he spoke, "You have been famous for stealing in your life, and you have accumulated good deeds. Let's leave something good for the younger generation."

The other quickly grabbed the leader and said, "Leopard, wait." Leopard asked, "What are you doing?" Another person said: "He is considered to have real skills, let's keep it. We have already lost two people before we found the thing. Proceed carefully." Leopard tilted his head and thought for a while, then pointed his gun at Xia Mingruo: "Old thief, if you can lead us to find the treasure, I will politely send your nephew on the road." Chu Haiyang blocked the front without any trace, and also smiled: "My uncle will definitely find it, don't worry."

The uncle murmured bitterly: "Who said..." Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo stared at him fiercely, almost burning a hole in his body. The team became five people, the uncle was still in the lead, Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo followed closely, and behind them were two dangerous men with guns, one short and the other thin, both of them looked scary. The torches illuminated the cave, and they walked along the river for more than two hours. They only felt that the sound of the water was getting louder, and the cave was wider. The air was so humid that water could drip, and the front was still dark.

After walking a little longer, the ground has disappeared, and the water is up to the ankle.The artificial traces seen when we first came down have long since disappeared around the cave. It is dark, wet, and smooth, which is entirely the result of natural forces. Xia Mingruo caught up with the uncle and shouted softly, "Uncle." The uncle replied: "Hey." Xia Mingruo asked: "Have you arrived yet? The skinny guy behind me keeps poking me with a gun. Look at my back, it's all blue." "Nephew," the uncle whispered to him, "the three of us are going to lose our lives here today. Do you know where this river leads?"

Chu Haiyang was surprised: "Does it lead to the outside? The one at the foot of the mountain?" The uncle nodded: "After walking for another hour, we will see the entrance of the cave, and we will be finished by then." The leopard behind roared: "What are you talking about!" The three of them were startled, bowed their heads and walked obediently. Twenty minutes later, anxiety spread in people's hearts, and the leopard roared, "How long do we have to go?" The uncle turned his head, looked at him resentfully and angrily, and immediately said in a dying struggle, "Brother, I really don't know where the empress grave is... Ouch!!" The leopard rushed up and kicked the uncle far away. The uncle screamed and rushed forward. Chu Haiyang tried to pull him, but was pulled down by him instead.When he turned around, the uncle spat out a few words from between his teeth, Chu Haiyang was taken aback for a moment, then he got up and walked back silently behind Xia Mingruo. The sound of water gradually became deafening, and the uncle turned around and shouted: "Waterfall!" Chu Haiyang let out a "hmm", implying that Xia Mingruo hastened his pace until he was a few meters away from the two people behind him. There is a gap near the waterfall, like a gate, so narrow that only one person can pass through.Xia Mingruo watched the uncle go in, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Before he could react, Chu Haiyang suddenly pushed him.Xia Mingruo fell into the gap with a sound of "Oops", and in the next second he felt the cold groundwater pouring straight into his ears, nose and mouth. He had just thumped twice and was supported by someone's arms. Chu Haiyang's voice was next to his ears: "Run!" !" Xia Mingruo ran wildly in the pitch blackness, bumped and fell and didn't care, Chu Haiyang ran in front of him, holding his arm tightly.The two had no direction at all, and could only judge by their hearing that they were getting farther away from the water. There was an uproar behind him, someone fired, and someone shouted, "Stop! Stop!" The uncle said: "Leave them alone, just follow me!" Chu Haiyang said: "I'm pulling your clothes, run!" "My fucking wound must be infected!" Xia Mingruo fell again, got up and continued running, grinning his teeth, "Maybe my bones are broken!" The uncle braked suddenly: "Stop!" Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo bumped into him together. The uncle said: "From here on, you can't run anymore." Chu Haiyang asked, "Why? Can you see things in the dark?" "Of course not," the uncle rustled for a while, then lit a match, "It's okay, it's almost wet." "Because I have stepped here a little bit, and I ran up from the bottom to the one hundred and eighty-sixth step, and I reached the one hundred and eighty-seventh step," said the uncle. It's over." tomb passage. The tomb passage means that although there is a hanging coffin on the top of the Niangniang Tomb, it is not a hanging coffin itself, but a huge stone tomb dug out of the mountain, with a tomb passage, a corridor, a main room, and hopefully a coffin. Chu Haiyang was excited, and Xia Mingruo was also excited. The uncle felt that he was okay because he had been excited last time. "Just hide here, I know those people, they are all desperadoes." The uncle said. "You also do research on ancient tombs?" Xia Mingruo asked. "No," the uncle said contemptuously while lighting a candle, "They are all robbers, without quality, morality, and civilization!" The flame crackled softly in the humid air, and the uncle said, "The last three are fortunately hidden in the crotch..." He asked Chu Haiyang, "Do you still have a flashlight?" Chu Haiyang shook his head. He looked at Xia Mingruo again, and Xia Mingruo said, "Don't count on me, I even lost my shoes." The uncle gave a thumbs up and said, "Hero." Xia Mingruo said modestly, "Where." "Heaving a mountain into a mausoleum is a big deal." Chu Haiyang walked over them to the tomb. "It's pretty well designed," said the uncle. "Generally speaking, you can only go to the entrance of the waterfall, because there are two streams of water flowing into it. Once you pass the waterfall, the water will be very powerful and there will be no way. In fact, the entrance is at the waterfall." But if you walk down from above, you have to swim a few meters to find it. Well, of course, you may not be able to find it if you swim, there is a problem with the angle, and besides, there is a stone at the entrance of the tomb that blocks the view." "But I swam up from below, so I found it." The uncle scratched his head suddenly annoyed and said, "I also have scars on my eyes and didn't see the cave on the mountain, otherwise I wouldn't swim if I was killed, and I almost drowned My old man." The tomb is quite regular, divided into front and back rooms, the front room is small and empty; the back room is about five meters long and wide, and Chu Haiyang can reach the top of the tomb with his hand: "Two meters, two or three, no more, yo, what is that?" The uncle held up the candle, and at the end of the tomb was a huge blue sarcophagus. "Ma'am," Xia Mingruo said, "It's so kind to see you." He was just about to go in but was suddenly stopped by the uncle: "Wait! Look at the things on the wall first, that's why I didn't open the coffin last time." He didn't say that he didn't know, but when he said that, the two people discovered that there were petroglyphs on the front wall.This time the paintings are not villains, cows, or hunting and fighting, but monsters, tomb-slayers. With two heads, two bodies, red flames as horns, blue flames as eyebrows, squatting like a lion, staring at you coldly with its protruding eyes, baring its teeth, sticking out its tongue, clasping its sharp claws, as if It only needs a slight movement to be exchanged for its ruthless devouring... Of course, in the eyes of some people, it is full of the fierce beauty of an ancient civilization. The uncle said kindly: "Comrades, please save candles. Have you finished your research? Not that." The two men squinted their eyes and continued to search, and finally saw a line of vague inscriptions on the wall above the sarcophagus. "Damn it, it's still Chinese characters," Xia Mingruo read, "Whoever opens it dies." The uncle nodded solemnly.