"You can only go down into the mud, but not up. Use a hood to fix the rope to the edge of the mud, and then call them down."
Although the words on the soft paper were simple, they made it very clear. It meant that the mud people below could only go from top to bottom, but not from bottom to top. Shan Di was asked to use the hood he pulled up as a cushion to rest on the mud. Then go and ask Shen Shiran and others to come down.
There were many protruding stones around the mud. Shan Di was carrying various tools. Although she was at the bottom of the river, it was not difficult for her to fix the hood. After a while, she used ropes and steel nails to fix the hood. I waited for someone to secure the hood and the ropes used to go up and down, tried it, and found no problems, so I dived up with confidence.
"What, the mud can only go down but not up?" Professor Ma frowned after hearing Shan Di's simple report.
"Professor Ma, what do you think?" Although Shen Shiran decided to take the plunge, she still asked Professor Ma for his opinion.
Professor Ma said: "Since Qin Xiang asked us to go down, it will be okay. I believe him."
"We all believe in him." Shen Shiran said: "Okay, Sister Di, you are in front and we are following behind. Let's go down together."
Shan Di was in front, followed by Feng Xiaoxiao, Shen Shiran, Professor Ma, Shen Tiefeng, and the other three were an archaeological expert sent by the Shen family and two capable men of the Shen family. A group of eight people slowly followed the rope. Slowly dived underwater.
When they got down to the edge of the mud, the archaeological experts from the Shen family searched the mud with their hands, exchanged opinions with gestures, and decided to go down one by one.
Shan Di was naturally the first one. She made a gesture to everyone, then quickly grabbed the rope and slid over quickly. With a "pop" sound, she had already sunk into the mud.
As soon as Shan Di sank into the mud, she realized that what Qin Xiang said was indeed correct. There was a floating layer of about twenty to thirty centimeters on top of the mud. As soon as her feet landed on it, she could clearly feel a wave of With a large elastic force, if this elastic force were applied to ordinary fish and shrimps, they would not be able to squeeze into this floating layer.
But as soon as her feet squeezed through this floating layer, she immediately felt a strong suction force in the mud, sucking her down. And as her body sank further, the suction force became stronger and stronger. When her body was completely submerged in the layer of mud below, she almost had to use all her strength to hold on to the rope and prevent herself from falling quickly.
"No wonder when Qin Xiang went down, I felt a strong pull and almost couldn't catch it. So that's what happened." Shan Di figured out the mystery, controlled the strength, and the sinking speed accelerated. It was so large that it slid down more than ten meters in a short time.
"Qin Xiang stopped for a moment after sinking more than ten meters. It should be almost this distance." Shan Di thought to herself, and suddenly felt her feet stagnate. She found that she had stepped on another layer of floating mud, and the elasticity of this layer of floating mud It's so huge that it takes one-third of the strength to squeeze it out.
"It turns out that there is another layer of floating elastic mud here, and looking here, it seems to be pure silt without any water. Could it be that there is a waterless space underneath this layer of elastic floating mud?" Shan Di thought to herself.
Although she couldn't personally feel the mud outside, she could feel that the mud under the river bed of more than ten meters was indeed just mud, and there was no sign of flowing water. In other words, it was very likely that this layer of mud more than ten meters deep was The river water above has been completely cut off. If this is the case, there is probably a waterless space below the silt.
This thought just circulated in her mind. She didn't think much about it. She exerted force on her feet and squeezed into the floating mud layer below.
After squeezing down about 40 to 50 centimeters, I suddenly felt empty under my feet. It seemed that there was really no water.
She felt happy, she loosened her grip a little, and with a crash, it fell to the ground.
But what she landed on was actually on the ground, which could be considered a waterless space. However, the place where she stood slipped and she slid downwards.
It turned out that the place where she fell was a canal that sloped downwards. The water flow in the canal was very fast, and the surroundings were slippery. After sliding down five or six meters, she slipped through a small hole and immediately felt like her body was hanging in the air.
It was thrown out, more than twenty meters straight, and with a "plop", it fell hard into the water.
"Xiao Di——"
Shan Di emerged from the water and heard Qin Xiang's shout.
"Qin Xiang, is this a strange tomb?" As soon as Shan Di emerged from the water, she saw dozens of bright lanterns surrounding her. Before she could take a closer look, she shouted excitedly. As soon as her voice came out, she realized that she was still wearing her head.
Qin Xiang couldn't hear what he was saying, so he quickly took off his hood.
"No, this is just the construction site outside the tomb of Wei Tomb." Qin Xiang jumped into the water and grabbed Shan Di's hand, unbuttoned her from the rope, then pulled the rope to bring up the energy and shook it, hinting at the above.
Ren Shandi had reached the bottom safely, and then he pulled her up to the pool.
Shan Di took off her diving equipment and looked around.
The place where she fell just now was a huge pool, two to three hundred square feet in size. The space they were in was a huge underground natural cave. There were passages on both sides of the cave. There were many broken cars and various tools parked in the cave.
On the surrounding walls of the cave, dozens of ever-bright lamps were lit, illuminating the huge cave dimly.
"This should be the outermost construction site of the tomb project. The workers used to get water and materials here, and then transported them inside through the inner tomb passage. However, after the tomb was built, this place was sealed off," Qin Xiang pointed out.
He introduced the people around him.
Shan Di said curiously: "I heard that after the ancient emperors built their tombs, most of them killed the people who built the tombs and buried them with them. It seems that there are no corpses here."
Qin Xiang smiled bitterly and said: "How can these people be spared? Come and see."
As he said that, he led Shan Di to a corner of the cave. There were six ever-burning lamps lit side by side above it, but there was a big pit below.
"Look into the pit!" Qin Xiang pointed at the big pit.
Shan Di looked down, and even though she was brave enough, she couldn't help being startled, and couldn't help but move closer to Qin Xiang.
She was afraid not because there were skeletons everywhere in the pit, but because there were rows of spiritual tablets underneath the pit.
The large pit, which is more than a hundred meters long and forty to fifty meters wide, is lined with spiritual statues. There are arrows every few dozen centimeters. It looks like there are thousands of them. Standing there, Shan Di has already felt a powerful force.
The yin energy hit her face, making her feel like she couldn't even breathe.
"If my prediction is correct, these tomb-builders were willing to build this strange tomb. After the construction was completed, they all committed suicide. The person who stayed at the end to commit suicide followed the instructions of the tomb-builder and killed all the tomb-builders.
Their skeletons were incinerated in a special way and then buried in this large pit to form a tomb forest barrier."
Qin Xiang looked at the spiritual tablets under the pit with a solemn expression.
————PS: I have a serious cold, and I wanted to go to bed early, but seeing that my book friends have been working hard these past few days, and the red flowers have also increased a lot, Xiao Ding insisted on finishing coding this chapter and presenting it to me.