What we burned were leaves and branches on the pit, some of which were not dry yet. The fire was not big, but there was a lot of smoke.
I covered my nose with a cloth and said, "Okay, third brother? There was a big fire just now."
After half an hour, most of the pottery jar was blackened. Yao Wence poked it down with a stick, but this time he did not bring out the Corpse Horn Immortal.
"It should be useful, who will go first?" the boss asked in a deep voice.
"Me! I'm coming!" Sun Laosan gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go down and explore the way for you first. If the second brother is down there, I can also rescue him."
He scratched the edge of the tank and first explored the depth with his legs.
"It's not very deep, it seems to be touching the ground."
suddenly.
There was a sound of gravel collapsing below, and Sun Laosan exclaimed!
"Catch! Don't wander around! I've caught you, third brother! Yunfeng, come and help!"
I hurriedly ran over and grabbed Sun Laosan's other arm. Seeing this, the Yao brothers and sisters also ran over to help. Together, they pulled Sun Laosan up with his feet dangling in the air.
"What's going on, Third Brother!"
Sun Laosan was dragged up by us, and he said in shock: "It's so... it's so dangerous, it must have collapsed."
Yao Yumen looked down with a flashlight. It was pitch black under the pottery jar, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen.
Sun Laosan didn't give up, so he made another suggestion: tie a rope and slide down.
Not knowing how deep it was down here, we tied a climbing rope around his waist.
The boss and I held the rope tightly.
"Third brother, be careful. If anything goes wrong, just shout and we will pull you up immediately!"
Sun Laosan nodded with his headlamp.
He slid down the big tank little by little.
Two meters, three meters, five meters, and the rope was quickly extended to ten meters.
Yao Yumen frowned and said: "Is there an underground palace down there? How can it be so deep?"
Finally, when the climbing rope was lowered to 18 meters, it stopped walking. Sun Laosan below should have reached the end.
The boss couldn't hold back his anger. After all, it was his younger brother who disappeared in the pit.
"Just talking and guessing from above, what's the use? If there was a big earthquake in ancient times, it wouldn't be impossible for it to sink eighteen meters!"
"You guys hold on to the safety rope, I'll go down to find the third child." Boss Sun took up the rope and began to wrap it around his waist.
"I'm fine, brother! Come down and take a look, my God! I've never seen anything like this!" Sun Laosan's loud shouting came from below.
So, several people slid down one after another. I was the third from the bottom, and the Yao brothers and sisters were at the bottom.
I don’t have much strength in my hands, and the climbing rope I’m holding on to tightly hurts my hands.
The hole was very dark, and when I was halfway down, I looked up.
On the inner wall below the entrance of the cave, there are several flat beetles crawling. These are the corpse horned immortals that were not burned to death just now. When I shine a light on them, these beetles are motionless.
After warning the Yao brothers and sisters above me, I grabbed the rope and slid down a little bit.
Then came Yao Yumen, and finally Yao Wence. When Yao Wence came down, he tied the rope loop to the big tank. He said we would need the rope when we went back up.
Coming down from the top, the space below is very large. Not only me, but also the Yao brothers, sisters, and Sun brothers were stunned.
It was very dark, so I used a flashlight to look around.
The surrounding area is very empty and surrounded by stone walls. This underground space must have been artificially constructed.
It was difficult to see clearly in the dark, and the lighting range of the flashlight was limited. Sun Laosan, who was walking in front, noticed it first. He suddenly asked us to stop and said that there were dead bones on the ground in front of us.
It is not surprising that there are bones of dead people in the tombs. What is strange is that these white bones scattered on the ground do not look like they are very old, because they are still very white, and at a glance, there are leg bones, hand bones, and finger bones.
But only the skull was missing.
Sister Yu was very brave. She knelt down and looked at it and said, "A few months to half a year is not a long time."
I also found an empty Nongfu Spring bottle on the ground nearby.
Although there are many doubts, such as no human skull, no clothes, etc.
But at that time, several people whispered among themselves and made a summary. Everyone temporarily agreed with Sun Laosan's idea. This was what he had guessed.
On the night when we first entered the pit, we found a hole blasted by a detonator on the ceiling of the tomb passage. At first, we thought our trip was in vain. This was because a group of local tomb robbers from the south had arrived first and stole all the funerary objects below.
Already.
The result was just the opposite. We found modern towels and traces of other people coming down, but the Xi'er Room was still rich in burial objects. We filled seven or eight large sacks. At that time, the second brother said that the southern rats had become vegetarians and gave them to us.
You left so much fat out of kindness.
Now when we go down here and see the Nongfu Spring bottle and these bones, we guess that this must be related to the group of tomb robbers a few months ago.
We don't know how they died or how they got here. The only reasonable explanation is that they were playing tricks on each other.
At this time, Yao Yumen took out a compass from her bag, and she began to squat down and play with the compass.
"Sister Yu, what is this?" I asked because I didn't understand.
"Boy, don't ask random questions. Don't distract my sister now. There are still many things you don't know." His brother Yao Wence gave me a cold look.
There are two long needles and one short needle on the compass. Strangely enough, no one touches the compass, but the short needle keeps shaking by itself.
"Over there..." Yao Yumen stood up and pointed to the northwest.
I didn’t understand it at the time, but now that I have been in the industry for a long time, I can tell you that that kind of compass is specially made, and the short needle is made of a material called Tiantie. Tiantie is what the ancients called it. This kind of thing was actually used in the past.
Yes, now people call them meteorites.
This kind of compass is used exclusively by the descendants of the Futou sect in the south who look at the afterlife and choose the cemetery. They look at the mountains to see the improvement, and they use the silver needle to break the position. This involves complicated knowledge of Feng Shui and magnetic fields, which I can't explain clearly in a sentence or two.
Several people followed Yao Yumen to walk northwest. Along the way, I saw several stone oil lampstands. I secretly guessed that thousands of years ago, there should be bright lights below.
After walking for more than ten minutes, we were blocked by a large stone gate.
There are many patterns and words carved on the surface of the stone gate, which are so densely packed that most of them are incomprehensible. It seems that the culture carved on the stone gate is from another world.
There are four characters in the middle of the stone gate. They are not the nine-fold seal script above, but should be the bird seal script. It is more conspicuous.
"Do you know bird seal script?" Seeing Yao Yumen staring blankly at the big stone gate, Boss Sun asked casually.
It took a while before she came back to her senses, and she nodded with a pale face.
"That's it... we can't go any further." She said in a lonely tone.
Boss Sun frowned and said, "What do you mean, you plan to quit?"
Yao Yumen nodded with a pale face.
"This level... has surpassed the Mawangdui Han Tomb. Those four characters are... Mustard Seed Palace."
"Behind this stone door are several tons of tapstone. It's impossible for just a few of us to open it from the outside."
"You accidentally discovered something incredible. This, this is... a national-level underground palace."