Chapter 10 Chapter Nine "Until the Yellow River, My Heart Will Never Die"

(Of course I was disappointed again, otherwise, the discovery of these treasures would have already caused a sensation in the world, but even though the treasures were not found, the bureau chief has become a world-renowned news person. There are many rumors about him. Mysterious and far-reaching, but completely irrelevant to this story.) Everyone knows what the phrase "until the Yellow River will never die" means.But if you think about it carefully, this sentence really doesn't make sense.Why is it "the heart will never die until the Yellow River", but the heart will die when it reaches the Yellow River? What does "Yellow River" represent here?Is there any special significance, or can any place, such as the Yangtze River or Qinghai, be substituted?

There is no need to delve into this. In short, this sentence means that people have to try again and again, and they will not give up until the last moment. The situation of Qi Bai, Bandon and the director is exactly the same. The strange thing is that Bandon is not very enthusiastic about trying again and diving into the water. After leaving, Qi Bai prepares equipment, but Bandon expresses , he wants to quit and doesn't want to participate anymore. This surprised Qi Bai, because Bandon spent many years on this, and even changed his life, but at this time, he was the first to give up.

Qi Bai didn't ask him "why", but just stared at him closely, trying to squeeze out the secrets in his heart with sharp eyes.Bandon just spun the wine glass, taking a sip slowly. After a while, Qi Bai said: "Okay, why?" Bandon's answer was obviously not true: "I feel tired, and I feel unable to compete with the ancient Chinese." Qi Bai snorted, his expression extremely dissatisfied. Bandon said again: "And I also expected that there would be no discovery. Besides, it's too dangerous. If something happens, it's the same as something happened in the African jungle."

Qi Bai snorted again, and Bandon also remained silent. When the bottle of wine was about to run out and the two of them broke up, Bandon suddenly asked, "When you enter an ancient tomb, do you usually avoid contact with corpses?" Qi Bai was annoyed: "I don't know what you mean by asking that." Bandon took a breath: "I mean...it's..." He showed a very unspeakable expression, and waved his hands vigorously, as if he could say the unspeakable words in this way. Qi Bai sighed: "What do you want to say, just say it, although I don't know the real reason why you want to quit."

Bandon blushed, but suddenly, his face became very pale again. From this, it can be seen that his mood fluctuated very violently. He took a deep breath and said, "Have you ever entered the burial of the main figures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" in the tomb?" Qi Bai shook his head: "No, the main figures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? It seems that none of them ended well. The time they experienced is too short, so short that they have disappeared from the stage of history before they have time to manage their own graves." Bandon took another breath, and asked an even weirder question: "In that case, it is impossible to see the remains of those few people...the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?"

Qi Bai was inexplicably surprised: "You want to see the bodies of those people? Why?" Bandon's demeanor was even more different, panting quickly: "Don't ask me why, answer my question." Qi Bai thought for a while: "It's impossible. Those people, some died on the execution ground, some died on the battlefield, some died of cannibalism, and some disappeared. None of them had a 'good end'. After so many years, how could it be possible to see their dead body?" Bandon muttered to himself: "Then, no one will know what they... look like."

At that moment, Qi Bai, if he hadn't been with Banden for a long time, would almost have regarded Banden as an imbecile. He pushed Banden to watch, but Banden had a kind of restraint on this issue. He was not interested in She, but he was met again: "The leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are absolutely opposed to being painted for them, so they have no portraits left at all, and even in many murals with realistic styles, there are no portraits at all." Qi Bai was a little puzzled: "There seems to be an image like 'Portrait of Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan'?"

Bandon shook his head: "It's just a pretense of some painters. There is no real evidence to prove that it is my sketch." Qi Bai was suspicious, but also felt amused: "Excuse me, what do you want to prove? Or, what do you want to find out?" Banden hesitated to speak, his expression was cloudy. Finally, he sighed and shook his head slowly: "I don't know, really, I don't know what I want to find out, I don't know..." From his demeanor, one can be sure that there must be some problem bothering him. Qi Bai was quite unhappy at this time, because he also saw that Bandon must have some important things to hide from him.

But it's another matter for Qi Bai to only think of Bandon's secrets. I closed the matter with the hidden treasure. Everyone has secrets in their hearts, so naturally he won't go to the bottom of it. He was trying his best to persuade Bandon to go on a diving treasure hunt, but Bandon had already asked, "That Wesley, if I want to see him, can you arrange for me?" Qi Bai said: "Yes, when are you going to see him?" Bandon hesitated for a moment: "I can't decide yet, I just want to..." Qi Bai said angrily: "You can see him whenever you want? Who do you think you are, just wait there, waiting for you to summon?"

Bandon hurriedly said: "No, no, that's not what I mean, it's just... I only trouble him when I really need it." Qi Bai snorted unhappily: "If you go directly to ask for a meeting, even if you use my name, he may not necessarily meet you, and his whereabouts are erratic, and he may not even be on the earth at all... How about this, I will give you a few Personal name and their phone number, you can contact them, if necessary, they can arrange for you to see Wesley." (Among the names Qi Bai gave to Bandon included the host of the music concert that night, and it was there that I met Bandon for the first time.)

(And Bandon’s purpose in meeting me was to ask such a question: Why are there no portraits in the murals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.) At that moment, Bandon carefully wrote down the names provided by Qi Bai, looking serious. That made Qi Bai couldn't help asking: "What intractable disease do you want to see him and solve?" Bandon smiled bitterly: "Not sure yet." Qi Bai didn't ask any more questions. (Later, during my conversation with him, while he was telling what happened, he was also curiously asking: "Did he see you? What did he ask you?") (I told him Bandon's question, Qi Bai was dumbfounded, and kept saying: "It's weird, it's weird, why does he have such a strong interest in the portraits of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?") (Qi Bai's question was also my question. At that time, of course, there was no answer.) Qi Bai persuaded Bandon again, but Bandon shook his head resolutely to express his refusal, and Qi Bai had nothing to do, so he had to go alone. The bureau chief was looking forward to Qi Bai's return, it was really like looking forward to Yunni in a severe drought, Qi Bai came with his equipment, and that night, the two of them dived into the round pipe together (the bureau chief insisted on going into the water together). There are thick iron cables on the wall of the round pipe, equipped with diving equipment, it is not very difficult to enter the water.Since it was considered in advance that the range of motion of the circular tube is not too large, Qi Bai also prepared the flat one for the compressed air cylinder. It was not the first time for Qi Bai to dive into the bottom of the water to explore ancient tombs. He had once dived under the river for nearly a kilometer before finding the entrance of an ancient tomb.But like this, diving in a straight up and down round pipe is a new experience. He was at the bottom, and the chief was at the top, grabbed the iron chain, and sank down. The light from the powerful underwater lights can be projected quite far, and you can also see that the water is very clear, and it does not know where it came from. The water was actually quite warm. It didn't take long before it sank to the bottom of the round tube, and saw the round iron plate at the bottom of the round tube. At that time, because the accident happened so fast, they only saw the iron plate rising upwards, and the water sprayed out like a fountain, and they never saw the detailed situation clearly. Thinking about it afterward, Qi Bai also thought that the circular iron plate was the same size as the circular pipe, even if it rose upwards and there was a gap, the water would not rise so violently and quickly. He thought about it. I can't figure out why, until now, when we reached the bottom of the pipe again, the pool can see clearly that the rising part of the circular iron plate is only four-fifths of the iron plate.In other words, the diameter of the iron plate is one meter, and the rising part is only about 80 centimeters. There are a lot of gaps around it, so the water flow is so rapid. Since the gap that appeared was only 20 centimeters wide, it was naturally impossible for people to get in. The two of them had to put the lighting tools in as far as possible, and looked forward with their heads sideways. The light can be projected as far as three or four meters, and within the reach of the light, it is full of water. It seems that it is like an extremely large underground reservoir. Since Qi Bai is an expert in tomb robbery, he knows all kinds of geological formations.Naturally, he has also done some research on the shape and condition, but he has never encountered this kind of "underground water reservoir". He and the director made gestures in the water, and the director pointed to the raised round iron plate and made several gestures determined to remove it.Indeed, if the raised round iron plate can be removed, people can dive into the "underground reservoir" and continue to explore. Qi Bai took out a tool that could turn his eyes around, put it into the gap, looked at it himself, and then signaled the director to look.The situation they saw was naturally the same. They saw that under the iron plate, there were two pillars and many gear devices. This kind of mechanical device can last for thousands of years, which naturally made the iron plate pass After a certain procedure, the power to rise upwards. It is not difficult to get rid of the iron plate and those devices, Qi Bai reckons that a small explosion can achieve the goal. Qi Bai and the director made gestures, signaling to go up to discuss it first, and then they pulled the iron rope together, and then they got out of the tree hole when they reached the ground, and the director said in a hurry: "There is no doubt that as long as you can pass , the treasure must be at the bottom of the water." Qi Bai thought about it for a while, he is not as sure as the chief, naturally, that means that even if he can't find the treasure, he can live a good life, unlike the chief, who put his life's hope on this treasure, besides Besides, life is meaningless, so he said: "It's possible." The director first proposed: "Blow it up." Qi Bai asked back: "Is it safe?" The director stretched out his hand and pointed to the surroundings: "There will be no sound waves when the underwater explosion occurs. This place is all under my control. Even if there is a sound, no one will investigate it. We have been coming in and out, but has anyone interfered?" Qi Bai thought about it, and felt that what the director said was reasonable, and he also knew that even if there was a little accident, the director could control it with his official position.But he always felt that something was wrong, but at that time, he couldn't tell where the problem was, so his expression was a little hesitant. But the director was impatient and urged: "What are you thinking? You don't know how to use explosives?" It is a great insult to the tomb robbery experts to ask the director. Qi Bai's ability to use explosives has reached the level of a god. He can even put explosives into eggs, blow up eggs in human hands Never hurt anyone.He can also use dynamite to clear a path in the mountains through ingenious calculations.Therefore, in order to maintain his reputation at the time, even though he felt something was wrong, he didn't think much about it. Qi Bai immediately said: "Okay, just use explosives, do you think I don't want to find the hidden treasure?" As he answered, he already calculated the amount of explosives that should be used in his mind. Then, he took the explosives and dived down again. After only twenty minutes, everything was arranged properly, and he climbed out of the tree hole again, and connected the link to the trigger. The device of the explosion line was handed over to the director, and he pointed to a button, indicating to the director that as long as the button is pressed, the explosion will happen. The director stretched out his fingers towards the button, and his fingers were shaking violently because of his nervousness. When Qi Bai said this, he stopped, showing a very depressed and tired expression, stretched out his hand to wipe his face vigorously, and took another big gulp of wine.Judging from his expression, it doesn't look like he's trying to show off on purpose. Liangchen Meijing was very clever, good at distinguishing appearances and colors, and immediately asked, "What's wrong again?" Qi Bai smiled wryly, and stretched out his hand to grab the wine bottle. Wen Baoyu hurriedly handed it to him, but he still didn't speak, and looked at each of us. At this time, his dejected expression faded away; I took a breath: "You once said that the water overflows from the bottom of the circular pipe, and it doesn't stop until it is far from the mouth of the circular pipe?" Qi Bai looked at me with a look of admiration on his face, of course it was because I got to the crux of the question right away. He said: "When it was three meters away from the mouth of the pipe, it stopped for a while, but then it continued until it was only half a meter away from the mouth of the pipe." I said: "Qi Bai, you have made a big mistake, you should know that water has the property of maintaining a level, no matter what height the water in the round pipe keeps itself, overflows into the round pipe, stops, This means that the water level of the 'underground reservoir' is exactly at this height." As soon as I said these few words, all the people let out a low voice of "ah", obviously they also understood why I raised this question.Wen Baoyu immediately added: "The round pipe will play a 'capillary effect'. In fact, the water level of the 'underground reservoir' may be slightly lower, about 20 centimeters lower." Liangchen Jingmei stuck out her tongue: "That is to say, the thickness of the ground in that area is less than one meter, and the thickness of the ground below one meter is groundwater. The ground in that area is simply a thin shell. If you are not careful, Breaking through this thin shell──" They stuck out their tongues again when they were talking, and kept silent, and fixed Qi Bai with a rather strange expression. Hu Hua shook his head: "If the thin shell is broken, then naturally this whole area will become a country of Ze, I think... the earth will crack and an artificial lake will appear in the end?" Qi Bai snorted, and drank another big sip of wine: "It's very pleasant to talk to you people. You don't need to elaborate, you can understand everything." Wen Baoyu puffed out his chest, looking at him, he seemed to be doing his part, and wanted to say a few words to boast of himself. Liangchen Meijing glared at him: "Stop bragging again, what is that strange thing, I don't know how it came and went, so I have the nerve to brag." The basin of "cold water" poured by the two sisters drenched Wen Baoyu's words back into his mouth, and he could only roll his eyes again and again. Qi Bai suffered again: "It's not that I didn't think of this at the time, just when the director's trembling fingers were about to catch up, I already thought of it──" When the director's fingers were about to touch, Qi Bai suddenly thought about why he felt uneasy. He thought that the groundwater is like a large reservoir. Under the ground, the ground layer is not too thick, and the explosion in the water will form a force of outward expansion and impact. This is a physical phenomenon that will inevitably occur in an explosion in water. There is a spray water column on the water surface. If the groundwater is close to the ground, if the stratum is not thick enough, it will crack because it cannot withstand the huge impact of the water waves. Cracks are malleable, and the degree of extension naturally depends on the stability of the stratum structure. Qi Bai had already thought of this point, that is to say, he thought that once the chief's finger was pressed, the explosion would be triggered, which might cause a considerable degree of catastrophe, but he did not stop it. The reason why he didn't stop it was because he knew that the director's anxiety was out of control, and he would definitely not listen to his explanation.Secondly, he estimated that there would be a little gap between the "underground reservoir" and the formation. As long as there was a little gap, the momentum generated by the explosion could be dissipated, and there would be no problem. So, he didn't stop it, and the director's finger pressed the button at this moment. The explosion at the bottom of the water hardly made any sound, but suddenly, a jet of water burst out from the trunk of the big willow tree, not even very thick and urgent. However, before the jet of water dispersed, Qi Bai already felt that something was wrong. First, the big willow tree suddenly tilted, and then, Qi Bai felt that the place he was standing on was rapidly weakening. Because Qi Bai has lived underground for a long time, he is unusually sensitive to various catastrophes. Many animals that are accustomed to living underground will have this instinct. For example, gophers can predict earthquakes, rats in coal mines can predict mine collapses, etc. Well, Qi Bai's ability in this area is far above ordinary people. He knew that there was going to be an accident, and immediately shouted: "Follow me, run!" As he screamed, he spread his legs and ran out. The director was stunned for a moment, but in the moment, half of the big willow tree in front of him sank into the ground, and he Feeling that the ground was moving and he couldn't stand still, Qi Bai had already run several tens of meters away, and he called the second call, and the director followed him and ran forward. Qi Bai and the director ran less than a hundred meters away, and there was an earth-shattering sound behind them. They continued to run forward until they reached a building not far away before stopping. When I looked back, I was dumbfounded, and I saw a large area collapsed, and the water spray and water column, along with the collapsed ground, splashed high and high, and the sound was naturally amazing, but everything lasted less than three minutes What appeared in front of them was a large lake that was equivalent in size to the abandoned garden. At this time, of course, there were voices from all directions, and the cries of "earthquake" and "earthquake" sounded extremely shrill, one after another.Qi Bai and the bureau chief were stunned, and they couldn't help but sweated. Qi Bai wiped his sweat with his hand. Based on his experience, he naturally knew that the catastrophe came so fast and so big, and it was naturally arranged by the agency at the beginning. The planner thought that the saboteur might use explosives, so he designed it to cause catastrophe once it exploded. At this moment, Qi Bai can really be sure that there must be a large number of treasures in this hidden treasure, because if there is no hidden treasure, why make such an ingenious and extremely difficult arrangement? The director stood dumbfounded, the newly appeared lake, the surface of the lake was turbulent, but it was also quickly calming down. Before the noisy voices flooded into the garden, he asked, "What... what should I do?" Of course Qi Bai is not going to "play" anymore, his answer is: "I leave all the equipment, you can take diving as a hobby, whenever you have free time, dive to the bottom of the lake, maybe you can find hidden treasures .” The director clenched his fists tightly, looking a bit like a mad dog. Qi Bai naturally didn't want to spend any more time with him, so he turned around and left. The director seemed to be still yelling at him, but at this time, the noisy voices of people had come from all directions. , the tide came, and he was not sure whether the director had called him. In order not to cause trouble, Qi Bai left late at night, and the joint treasure hunting operation of him, Bandon and the director came to an end. After he left, he kept an eye on the changes afterwards, but he couldn't get any news. It was a place where any news could be blocked. Naturally, the director could say that it was a small earthquake. No one would pay attention to it anyway. It's not a big deal that there is a lake in the garden of the house, so where can we find any news.After leaving, I wanted to contact Bandon, but I couldn't find Bandon. At that time, Qi Bai didn't care about it, and still lived his erratic life. Not long ago, he was still in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand; he was still there, using a piece of letter paper with numbers and English letters watermarked, to send A letter to me, this is what I mentioned at the beginning when I was narrating this story. At that time, I thought he wrote to me on that special letter paper, which had a deep meaning, but I naturally knew later that there was nothing special. The intention is that he just happened to use such a piece of letter paper. Not long after he wrote to me, according to his own account, when he was visiting a Buddhist temple, he suddenly thought of the treasure hunt—at first, he had already forgotten about it. When he was visiting that Buddhist temple, a guide pointed to a rather tall Buddha statue and said to him: "This Buddha statue, the one that was placed on the Buddha seat before, was made of pure gold. Later, during the war, it was stolen. I left, that’s why I reshaped the current one and put it up.” Qi Bai just smiled. He knows that most people don't know the weight of gold very well, so there are all kinds of rumors. If such a Buddha statue is pure gold, it will weigh several thousand tons. Who can move it? Walk? However, before his smile disappeared, his heart suddenly moved, and he remembered the treasure hunting incident of the circular tube. In an instant, he couldn't help being dumbfounded, because he thought of a very important key issue. At the same time, he also thought that there must be a reason for Bandon's sudden loss of interest in underwater treasure hunting, and this reason must be an act of deceiving his partner. Qi Bai couldn't tolerate being deceived by others, so he was determined to find out Bandon. He left Thailand and tracked down Bandon's whereabouts until he tracked down the owner of the concert. Only then did he know that Bandon had been there He found it and contacted me. He immediately called me. When I received his call, it was the end of the fifth chapter of this story. Bandon deceived us and abducted that strange thing. Bai Su and I were trying our best to trace his ins and outs On the occasion, so when I heard Qi Bai mention the name "Bandon" on the phone, I yelled at the phone: "You bastard, what kind of weird person was introduced to me? This strange doctor..." I momentarily In between, I don't know how to describe Bandon. Qi Bai hurriedly asked: "Where is he, I want to find him." I shouted loudly: "I am also looking for him, where are you, you are limited to one hour to come before me." Qi Bai smiled wryly: "I'm in Switzerland, so I can't show up in front of you an hour later." I also couldn't help laughing: "Maybe if you dig a tunnel, it will be faster. Like you, you really should learn the 'Earth Dunjia' in the Five Elements Dunjia. There were people in ancient China who knew this kind of magic, and that person was called Shangxing." Sun." Qi Bai couldn't help but laugh: "Fuck you, I'll come as soon as possible. I have a long story about Bandon." Not long after I put down the phone, Bai Su came back and found nothing further. I told her Qi Bai's phone number, and Bai Su was surprised: "Then...the weird thing...will it be related to the ancient tomb?" From the fact that Qi Bai wanted to look for Bandon, Bai Su immediately thought that the strange thing was related to the ancient tomb, which made me stunned: "Then I won't know until Qi Bai arrives, Qi Bai said there is a very long story, related to Bandon."