Chapter 8 Chapter Eight

"It's strange—how did this footprint disappear?" Originally, I was the one who walked in the front, but because of the footprints leading the way, Fatty Hu wanted to show off in front of Dandan, so he grabbed the first one.Now, it's shining around with a flashlight. Yes, the footprints have all disappeared, and the moisture on the ground has actually become heavier. "The humidity here is too heavy, and after leaving footprints for a long time, they will naturally disappear!" I explained lightly. "That's right!" Professor Qian also nodded and said, he gently pulled me and asked in a low voice, "Do you see this wall tile?"

"Uh..." I had been paying attention to the footprints on the ground, but I didn't pay attention to the wall bricks next to me, so I listened to Professor Qian's words and took a flashlight to shine on them—there is nothing weird about the wall bricks, they are all thick blue. Bricks, the green brick paving of the corridor alone is not a small project. How big is this ancient tomb? "This blue brick doesn't look like something from the pre-Qin period." Professor Qian whispered. "Hmm!" I took a photo with a flashlight, and even touched it with my hand. Sure enough, this blue brick does not look like something from the pre-Qin period, and it is definitely not a thing of the same era as the stone tablet on the longan.

"The firing of this kind of blue bricks, the specifications and sizes are all like those of the Han Dynasty." Professor Qian whispered. "Old man, if you don't understand, don't pretend to understand, okay?" Fatty Hu who was walking in front shouted dissatisfied, "What is the Han Dynasty? Our boss said it was from the pre-Qin period, so it is from the pre-Qin...Boss, what is the difference between Qin and Han?" ?” The last sentence naturally caused Dandan and Xiao Zhang to roll their eyes, but when asked by Fatty Hu, the tension in everyone's hearts was relieved a lot.

"Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms and established the Great Qin Empire!" I felt that I needed to give Fatty Hu a little bit of historical knowledge, lest this guy lose my face sooner or later. "I know this fat man, so you don't need to talk too much!" Fatty Hu replied loudly, not at all humbly receptive. "What kind of country is the country below Qin?" Professor Qian has been robbed by Fatty Hu in the past few days. The old man's field, therefore, found an opportunity, and naturally he did not forget to refute, he was sure about Fatty Hu, and he definitely didn't understand the historical relationship.

"Old man, this question will not trouble you and me!" Fatty Hu said with a smile, "But old man, you are a student of archaeology, so why don't you know such a simple question? You still ask me? Qin Xia In a country, everyone knows that it was the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu conquered the world, don’t you go to the theater? Oh, that Farewell My Concubine, don’t mention how exciting it is...Old man, I advise you to read more books when you have nothing to do, and watch less women... " Dandan suppressed it so hard that she didn't laugh out loud, but Xiao Zhang and I couldn't help it anymore and both laughed out loud.

Professor Qian shook his head. Regarding Fatty Hu, I am really speechless.He was born with this guy, he pretended to understand, and he was serious—but, he was right, it was indeed the Han Dynasty under Qin Dynasty, not because he had a good history, but because he listened to a lot of dramas. "Old man, do you want Fat Master to give you a whole part of Farewell My Concubine?" Fatty Hu looked at Professor Qian deflated, and was extremely proud. "Fatty Hu!" I gave him a hard look, seeing that Professor Qian was about to go crazy, if this guy was talking nonsense, I doubt that Professor Qian might strangle him to death.

Fatty Hu was really planning to talk nonsense, but at this moment, a black shadow suddenly flew past the beam of some kind of flashlight... "Are there mosquitoes?" Fatty Hu started to shoot while talking. "It's not a mosquito!" I was busy and stopped Fatty Hu by the way. The black shadow just circled around in the beam of light of the flashlight, and disappeared in an instant, but in such a startling moment, I also knew that it was definitely not a mosquito. Besides, where do mosquitoes come from in this underground world? "Boss Xu, this follower of yours is very unreliable!" Professor Qian whispered as he walked beside me.

I hurriedly said, "Leave the hard work to him!" "Hey..." Hearing what I said, Professor Qian was embarrassed to say anything more, and said in a low voice, "The stone tablet outside is from the pre-Qin period, but this tomb brick is from the Han Dynasty. It looks really weird..." "I suspect that the stele may have been there early in the morning, and it has nothing to do with this tomb!" I whispered. "Then us?" Professor Qian said generally, and generally gestured at me. I whispered: "Professor Qian, I know your purpose. If this ancient tomb is unearthed, it will naturally shock the ancient and modern. It may be a major breakthrough in archaeology. However, I still kindly advise you that this ancient tomb It's weird, it's best we don't move anything..."

"Xiao Xu, can you explain a thing or two?" Professor Qian frowned. "Think about Xiao He and Huang Chang!" I said, for an old man like Professor Qian who is deeply obsessed with archaeology, what I say is useless, he knows cultural relics are cultural relics. "Ah..." Suddenly, Fatty Hu, who was walking in the front, exclaimed, "Boss Xu, look!" In fact, needless to say, I saw it too. At the end of the tunnel, it suddenly opened up, and an underground lake that could not be seen at a glance suddenly appeared in front of us... "My God, this magical underground world..." Professor Qian said tremblingly with a flashlight constantly shining on the lake.

It is not unusual for there to be an underground lake under the Yellow River. However, the underground lake is too big. We used a flashlight to illuminate it, but we couldn't see the edge, and we didn't know where the other shore was? "Boss, what should we do?" Fatty Hu leaned over and asked in a low voice, "I didn't prepare for the smash this time, and I didn't prepare a motorboat or something. How can I get through this water?" I am also troubled by this problem. The footprints of Xiao He and Huang Chang disappeared in the corridor not far away. Because of the underground lake, the corridor is damp, and the footprints are evaporated by moisture, which is reasonable. But - we can't get through this huge lake, so naturally Xiao He and Huang Chang can't get through it, and that mysterious old man Jiang can't get through it even more.

The beams of light from several flashlights fell on the dark water, revealing an undeniable eerieness. Where did Huang Chang and Xiao He go? And where is the other side of this underground lake? "Could we have gone in the wrong direction?" Xiao Zhang asked in a low voice. "You saw the footprints just now. There are no other forks in the corridor!" I whispered, and I can understand Xiao Zhang's question. If you think about it, you wouldn't dare to swim in the water rashly. "Boss Xu, let me check the reality of this water, what do you think?" In this weird underground world, Fatty Hu didn't dare to mess around, and asked me in a low voice. "Don't, I see that the water in this lake is so weird, it's better not to take risks!" Although Professor Qian felt dizzy when he saw Fatty Hu, he was an elderly person after all, and he tried to dissuade him. "I'll find a rock to test the depth of the water!" Fatty Hu laughed. "Let Fatty try it, it's not the way to go!" I whispered, and at the same time I was walking towards the edge of the lake, along the way, the ground was paved with blue bricks, and it was the same all the way to the edge of the lake. The blue bricks are very neat. The lake is as quiet as death, without a single wave, and under the beam of the flashlight, it is impossible to see whether it is cloudy or clear. Fatty Hu searched around, but he couldn't find any bricks or stones. He immediately searched through the backpack, but couldn't find anything convenient. Dandan groped around for a while, then handed a pebble to the fatty and said, "Brother Hu ,this is for you!" Fatty Hu was almost lost when Dandan called him "big brother". He took the cobblestone and just kept giggling. "Fatty, hurry up, don't dawdle!" I urged impatiently, this damn Fatty Hu wants to chase girls, and there is a time and a place. In this tomb, there are strange things everywhere. Such a huge underground lake, I still can't wait. I have never seen it. However, judging from the attachment of the blue bricks, this place is still within the scope of the tomb. There was a crisp sound of "pa", Fatty Hu heard my urging, and it was rare that he didn't talk nonsense, and slammed the pebbles in his hand towards the water surface hard. Fatty Hu gave a brute force, but it was really not built, and the pebbles were thrown far away in an instant.I took a flashlight and looked at it from a distance. I saw splashes on the water, and then the pebbles just disappeared. The lake still looks very deep, and it doesn't see the edge, it seems unrealistic to swim across it, but——Where did Xiao He, Huang Chang, and that old man Jiang go? While thinking, I held up the flashlight and shone around.Better to find them right here and go away... "Ah—" Suddenly, Dandan exclaimed. "What's wrong?" I asked anxiously. "Look, there is a raft on the lake, and there are people punting..." Dandan said tremblingly. "Where is it?" Hearing that, Fatty Hu immediately held up the flashlight and shone randomly on the water surface. A pale beam of light just swept across the water surface. "It's there—it was there just now—" Dandan was obviously frightened. It's really weird and inexplicable that there are rafts and people punting in this place. However, I shined it with a flashlight, and the lake was as calm as death, and there were no people and rafts there. "Ah..." Suddenly, Professor Qian also screamed in a low voice. This time, no matter it is Professor Qian, even I can see clearly that a wooden raft and a figure wearing a black bamboo hat appeared on the calm as dead water. The raft is slowly approaching us... The way to the underworld, crossing the maze! These words suddenly flashed through my mind, and I shivered involuntarily—except for us uninvited intruders, are there any living people in this place?This lake water is fundamentally Huangquan water, and the raft is clearly a labyrinth crossing... On the other side, what awaits us is clearly the Underworld. Ferry?Or not? This scene is really too weird, a wooden raft, a man in black who doesn't know whether he is dead or alive, holding a bamboo pole, is approaching us. As for the lake water, it was obviously as calm as death, no longer floating. Under the pale beam of light from the flashlight, all this is not an illusion, but it is so real, so real that it is weird.I suddenly wanted to turn around and run away, far away from this damned underground nether world. However, no matter whether it was Fatty Hu or Professor Qian, even Xiao Zhang and Dandan, they were all dumbfounded, watching the raft approaching a little bit in a daze. Finally, when the raft was less than four or five meters away from the lake, Fatty Hu couldn't bear it any longer, and asked Dandan in a low voice, "Are there any stones?" "Yes!" Dandan's voice was a little trembling, and he groped to take out a pebble from his backpack and handed it to Fatty Hu. "Why are you carrying so many stones?" I wondered in my heart, doesn't this little girl despise weight? "I picked it up on the ghost beach of the Yellow River. It looked fun, so I put it away..." the little girl said in a low voice. Some little girls just like these messy things, I sighed in my heart, Dandan is also a quirky little girl, but she can live a good life, why study archaeology?Turn over the bones of the dead and deal with some mysterious and evil things? As I expected, Fatty Hu's target was the man in black wearing a bamboo hat on the raft.The not-so-big pebbles passed a beautiful throwing line in the dark air, and smashed hard on the man in black. The man in the black cloak fell on the raft without warning, his head rolled around on the raft, then rolled to the edge of the raft, and fell into the water with a snap. I can see clearly that there is only a skeleton left of the man in black. For some reason, the clothes are not completely rotted. From a distance, there is only a skeleton with the clothes and cloak in the dark. people. Yes, he was a man—at least, he had been a man, and he should still be a man, a dead man. I breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know who this person is, why would he support the raft in such a weird way after death? "Hey..." Fatty Hu laughed dryly, "I really have something, so it's nothing more than that. With this raft, everyone can get there." However, when Fatty Hu hit a rock, the raft actually drifted, getting further and further away from the shore. "Fuck, molesting Fatty?" Fatty Hu stared wide-eyed, watching the raft go farther and farther, I hesitated in my heart, should I take this raft, or not? This weak water yellow spring, to cross or not to cross? But when the raft drifted five or six meters away, I couldn't bear it anymore. I took out the three-grab zip line from the backpack, swung my arms, and threw it towards the raft. "Boss Xu, it's still up to you!" Fatty Hu saw that I had brought a zip line, "I'm well prepared." "Didn't I tell you to prepare everything?" I glared at Fatty Hu, very dissatisfied with him, and asked him to prepare everything, but this guy didn't prepare anything. "I thought I would dig slowly, and I don't need these things." Fatty Hu laughed dryly. "What are you preparing?" Professor Qian leaned over and asked. "Flares, do you have any?" I asked. My hit rate was still very high. The three-catch zipline firmly grabbed the raft. Fatty Hu came to help and pulled the raft towards the shore. While waiting for the raft to approach the shore, Fatty Hu jumped on it regardless of what happened, stamped his feet vigorously, and shouted: "It's okay, it's pretty strong!" I felt strange in my heart, I don’t know when this raft was built. Ethics, the wood has been soaked in water for a long time, and it will naturally rot, but this raft is dark, and it has been bounced around by Fatty Hu for a few times. It fell apart on the spot, and it seemed to be strong enough. "Boss Xu, come and have a look!" Fatty Hu knelt down, looked at the remains scattered on the raft, and greeted me. "Okay!" I nodded, climbed onto the raft, and walked to the scattered remains. "Look at this dress, it's a good thing, but it's a pity that it's so torn!" Fatty Hu shone it with a flashlight. Under the beam of light from the flashlight, I could clearly see that the clothes were shining with a dark metallic luster. No wonder the corpses were all turned into bones, but the clothes were not completely decayed. With the support of Xiao Zhang and Dandan, Professor Qian leaned over to look at it, nodded in praise and said, "This dress is really a good thing, this - you need to study it carefully, what kind of fabric is it, I haven't seen any records in books before. "As he spoke, he wanted to squat down and study the black and torn clothes. "Don't move!" I shouted suddenly. The raft appeared strangely, and the corpse was even more strange. The clothes were worn on the dead, and God knows if there was corpse poison or something? "What's wrong?" Professor Qian looked up at me in confusion. I looked at Fatty Hu, and Fatty Hu understood what I meant, and immediately kicked the scattered corpses and the black clothes, including the tattered cloak, into the lake. "Hey——" Professor Qian's face turned yellow, and he asked in surprise, "What are you doing? This is an important discovery." "I found your size!" Fatty Hu pointed at his nose and cursed, "I've been dead for so long, and this is the only clothes left, are you willing to snatch it?" Professor Qian was stupefied by his scolding, but Fatty Hu smiled and said to the lake: "Brother, Fatty, I will help you support the raft, and it will save you hard work day and night. The feng shui here is excellent, so you can rest in peace." , don’t be polite with Fatty Master, just bless Fatty Master, I’ll be promoted and get rich, hehe…” "Fatty Hu, what nonsense are you talking about?" I glared at him fiercely, then turned to explain to Professor Qian, "This raft is weird and tight, it hasn't rotted after being soaked in water for such a long time, and the corpse, Therefore, it is best not to move these things!" "Such an important archaeological discovery, you actually—" Professor Qian shook his head, disapproving of my statement. However, the body and clothes were kicked into the lake by Fatty Hu, and he was asked to fish it out. If he had the courage, Professor Qian might not dare, so he had no choice but to give up. Fearing that Professor Qian and Fatty Hu would quarrel again, I immediately asked Professor Qian to walk to the other end of the raft together to spread the weight of the people on the raft and stabilize the raft. Fatty Hu found a stretchable plastic pole from his backpack, pulled it out, and used it as a bamboo pole—then, he used brute force to paddle the raft to the other side of another underground lake. "Fatty, when did you learn to punting?" I felt very strange. I heard that people who don't know how to row a boat can't row a raft with a bamboo pole, and it will only cause the raft to spin on the water. But Fatty Hu has never heard that he learned to punting?Now, the small raft was rowing steadily towards the center of the lake. "Fatty Master, I'm smart, I can teach myself without a teacher!" Fatty Hu laughed. Dandan stood beside me and said in a low voice: "Brother Xu, I don't think it's Brother Hu who can support a raft, it's the water in this underground lake that floats towards the middle..." "Uh..." I looked at Dandan puzzled. Dandan explained in a low voice: "This underground lake looks calm, but there is an undercurrent underneath. Now, our raft should be drifting towards the middle of the underground lake. If you don't believe me, even if Brother Hu doesn't row, the raft will move by itself. .” "Is Fatty Emotion wasting his energy for nothing?" Fatty Hu heard us talking, and immediately closed the pole. Sure enough, the raft was still drifting steadily and slowly towards the middle. I think of Old Man Jiang, Xiao He, and Huang Chang. Their footprints disappeared in the corridor nearby. They should have been to this place too. Could it be that they also found the raft, and then, like us, took the raft and went down the river? drifting? But where is this raft leading us? I illuminated it with a flashlight, the way I came from was already dark, I couldn’t see the way back, and the front was also boundless darkness... All of a sudden, the raft seemed to hit something, and it turned suddenly and violently, almost throwing me into the water, and Dandan was even more unstable, and almost fell down. "What's wrong?" In my busy schedule, I gave Professor Qian a hand to prevent him from falling into the lake. Fatty Hu stepped on the raft vigorously with his huge body, then inserted the plastic pole into the lake water again, trying to stabilize the raft, and shouted at me: "There seems to be a dark vortex in this place..." It is not surprising that there are whirlpools in the lake water, and we have no experience in propping rafts, so it is really dangerous to bump into it so rashly. "Didn't you say that you are self-taught?" I scolded angrily. "Fatty, I'm working hard—" Fatty Hu said while using brute force, trying to row the raft forward.However, without knowing what was going on, he suddenly exclaimed. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I said generally, while pulling Professor Qian over and telling him to stand behind the raft and stabilize the raft, I ran towards Fatty Hu. "It seems to be stuck!" Fatty Hu said anxiously, "Boss Xu, come and help me!" In fact, needless to say, Xiao Zhang has already rushed over to help, and I also rushed over, trying to pull the plastic pole. Unexpectedly, there seemed to be something under the plastic pole that was pulling desperately. With the strength of the three of us, it turned out Can't pull it up. Professor Qian wanted to come to help, but I hurriedly stopped him. Everyone gathered at one end of the raft, and the center of gravity was unstable. The raft must capsize. "One, two, three, everyone work hard together!" I shouted. Fatty Hu is extremely powerful. When I said "three", I suddenly felt that there seemed to be some heavy object under the plastic pole, which was pulled up by Fatty Hu. "It's done, Fat Lord, I don't believe in this evil anymore..." Fatty Hu didn't say a word, and suddenly exclaimed. Under the beam of light from the flashlight, I could clearly see that one end of the plastic pole was soaked in lake water. The hands that had been there for a long time, grasping the plastic pole firmly, have already emerged from the water...