"Is it supposed to be okay? Brother Zhuang's lung capacity is very large, and his diving record is several minutes higher than the world record. Nothing should happen..."
After Zhuang Rui returned home from Pirate Island, he once showed off in the manor's swimming pool, so Peng Fei knew this.
However, looking at the calm lake surface, Peng Fei was also anxious. After all, this was not a diving competition. There was no need to hold himself in so hard. It would not delay anything if he came out of the water to take a breath before diving in.
"Then wait a little longer..."
Dr. Ren said with a worried look on his face. He didn't care about the old turtle whose shell had been peeled off in his hand. He stood by the lake with Timur and others, waiting for Zhuang Rui to show up on the lake.
Ten minutes passed, and except for the occasional fish jumping out of the water, the lake was still silent.
"Is something going to happen to Zhuang Rui? It's been more than ten minutes..." Dr. Ren's voice sounded again, which seemed so harsh in this silent place.
"It will be okay, it will definitely be okay..." Peng Fei seemed to be answering Dr. Ren's words, more like mumbling to himself, his face turned a little pale.
Twenty minutes passed, and everyone on the shore had changed their expressions. Peng Fei had already taken off his clothes and was about to go into the water, but he was held back by Battelle, Dr. Ren and others.
"Papa, I promised my godmother to protect Brother Zhuang. If he stays here, I won't have the shame to go back..."
Peng Fei, who was hugged by Battle, looked very excited. If he hadn't been weaker than Battle, Peng Fei would have knocked Battle to the ground by now.
"Feizi, please calm down. Zhuang Rui is also our good brother. He is also Timur's Anda. Can we not worry?"
Battle's thunderous voice rang in Peng Fei's ears. After seeing Peng Fei's struggling movements soften a little, Battle continued: "It's not that I won't let you go into the water, but you have to tie a rope to go down..."
No one knows what the situation is under the water, but Zhuang Rui never returns, and everyone lists this lake as an extremely dangerous place. Battelle knows the relationship between Peng Fei and Zhuang Rui, but he can't look at Peng Fei either
Go and die?
Peng Fei took a deep breath, nodded and said: "Okay, bring the rope..."
"Qiqige, bring the rope..."
Seeing that Peng Fei had calmed down, Battle was overjoyed. The rope was ready-made, and it was already buckled. He just tied the noose around Peng Fei's waist and tightened it.
"Feizi, don't be brave. If you see anything wrong down there, pull the rope quickly..."
Although Battle was willing to go down with Peng Fei, people living on the grassland were not very good at water, so he knew that he would probably become a burden to Peng Fei if he went down.
"Peng Fei, if you find Zhuang Rui, you must pull him up quickly..."
Dr. Ren on the side is also very weak in the ability to save people. He looked at Peng Fei helplessly and said that he can only hope that Peng Fei can find Zhuang Rui underwater, because if the drowning time is short, there is still a lot of danger.
It's possible to save it.
"I know……"
Peng Fei nodded, then flipped his wrist, and a three-inch long crescent-shaped knife appeared in his hand. After biting the knife in his mouth, Peng Fei jumped into the lake.
This Swan Lake was formed due to changes in the earth's crust. It does not go from shallow to deep like ordinary lakes. Instead, the water is waist deep. After taking two steps in, Peng Fei immediately felt that his feet were empty and the lake water was flowing.
It has already submerged the top of my head.
The lake water was very clear. Peng Fei, who entered the water, could clearly see the situation within more than ten meters around him. After rising to the surface and taking a deep breath, Peng Fei swam to the place where Zhuang Rui last emerged from the water.
"Isn't it... very deep here?"
Peng Fei discovered that this place was only a little over two meters long. After a careful search, Peng Fei breathed a sigh of relief because he did not find Zhuang Rui's "body".
Peng Fei's diving ability is far inferior to Zhuang Rui's. Every three or four minutes, he has to surface for a breather. After nearly an hour of this, Peng Fei has searched the surrounding thirty or forty meters of water.
After passing by, there was still no trace of Zhuang Rui.
Seeing Peng Fei lying on the grass tiredly like a little dead dog, Battle said: "Fei Zi, you take a rest, or I'll go down later..."
Peng Fei waved his hand and said feebly: "Old man, you can't do it. The water flow at the bottom of the lake is a bit fast. You won't be able to stabilize it. There are also a lot of aquatic plants at the bottom. If you are not careful, you will get entangled..."
Peng Fei was telling the truth, because at this moment, his body, which was only wearing a pair of underwear, was covered with green water plants. Even his hair was covered with a patch of water plants. At first glance, he looked like a legendary water ghost.
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Unlike Zhuang Rui who used brute force to pull off the water plants, Peng Fei used his extremely sharp knife to cut off the water plants as soon as they wrapped around his body.
If Battelle, who is weaker than Zhuang Rui and not as skilled as Peng Fei, goes down, he will really be left by the water plants at the bottom of the lake as an unjust ghost.
"There is no Brother Zhuang at the bottom of the water. It doesn't look like he is entangled in aquatic plants. I just looked at the side of the bottom of the water and there seemed to be a hole. I will take a rest and then look in the direction of the water flow..."
After searching the bottom of the lake but not finding Zhuang Rui, Peng Fei felt a little calmer, because the bottom of the lake covered with water plants could be seen very clearly under the direct sunlight at noon, and there was no trace of Zhuang Rui at all.
This rules out the possibility that Zhuang Rui was entangled in water plants and died.
Although the current at the bottom of the lake was a bit turbulent, even Peng Fei was able to escape, not to mention Zhuang Rui, whose water quality was much better than Peng Fei's.
In this case, there is only one possibility, that is, Zhuang Rui entered the underwater cave that Peng Fei saw just now. Although life or death is still uncertain, it is better than finding Zhuang Rui's body at the bottom of the lake.
Already.
If Zhuang Rui had just been found dead at the bottom of the lake, then Peng Fei really didn't know how he would deal with himself. He didn't know how he would have the face to return to Beijing to face Zhuang Rui's relatives.
As for the current situation, if we use the professional terminology of exploration, it can only be classified as missing, and it cannot be determined as death.
Panting heavily, Peng Fei took the dried meat handed over by Battle and started eating it. He now needed to replenish his strength before he could approach the lake bottom cave to explore.
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"Haha, don't waste your time now. Go back and drag Brother Ren in. He will definitely believe that there is an emperor's tomb buried here..."
At this time, Zhuang Rui was smiling happily in the underground river of a cave more than 30 meters below Battle and others. There was a small pool behind him, with water splashing upward from time to time. It was the entrance and exit to the lake outside.
Zhuang Rui's body was covered with green water plants just like Peng Fei outside, but Zhuang Rui didn't care about it at all, because after entering the underground river, Zhuang Rui found that this place was even better than he imagined.
Not to mention anything else, first of all, the existence of air down here made Zhuang Rui inexplicably happy. This was also something Zhuang Rui was worried about before.
After all, the underground river is deep underground and has no outlet above the ground. If it takes on a vacuum form, it will cause great disadvantages to subsequent excavation work.
The second point that made Zhuang Rui happy was that he originally thought that in this underground river, it would be so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. But when he entered, he found that on the damp rock walls on both sides of the underground river, there were actually
There is a stone that emits faint fluorescence and is covered with moss.
Although the light emitted by this stone is very limited, it can still meet the eyesight needs of ordinary people. With this weak light, Zhuang Rui directly observed the water at the entrance of the underground river not with his spiritual energy but with his eyes.
Condition.
This observation made Zhuang Rui even more happy, because he discovered something that he had not noticed before, that is... there were obvious traces of human excavation on the rock wall at the entrance and exit of the underground river.
This means that those who dug the secret tunnel connecting Genghis Khan's mausoleum deep in the underground river did not dig the tunnel casually because they were sick and sought medical treatment, but after careful survey.
When using spiritual energy to survey outside, Zhuang Rui focused all his attention on the exit of the underground river. But when he first came in, in order to avoid some unknown dangers, he carefully observed the area around the exit.
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This allowed Zhuang Rui to discover many valuable things. The above discoveries are not the most important. The reason why Zhuang Rui forgot about the situation outside and the worries of Peng Fei and others was because he was four or five meters away from the pool.
An iron box was found underground.
The iron box was not buried very deep, only about 20 to 30 centimeters. Due to the humidity of the underground air, the outer skin of the iron box had long been rotten and would rot at the touch of a touch, but the contents inside were well preserved.
This is a box of gold, not the kind of gold bricks, but flattened gold cakes. There are more than thirty pieces in total, each piece is about the size of a palm, and the words "四儿久金" are printed on it.
Obviously... this is exclusive to the Mongolian royal family.
With these gold cakes and the artificial traces at the exit, Zhuang Rui believes that Dr. Ren will never ask himself to return to Beijing again. Compared with any tomb of a Mongolian emperor, the influence of Dunhuang documents can be ignored.
of.
"These gold cakes must have been reserved by the craftsmen who dug the secret tunnel. These people are not greedy. They did not plan to plunder Genghis Khan's treasures, but they actually took such a small amount of gold..." Zhuang Rui guessed easily.
The origin of these gold cakes was revealed.
Gold cakes are easier to carry than gold bricks, and the gold cakes are thinner and tend to melt after being taken out. These skilled craftsmen are not stupid enough to go out and spend money with gold with the words "四媛 Only Jin" on it.
