The moment my ankle was tightly grasped by that hand, I had a vague feeling that I couldn't control my bladder. If I hadn't been concerned about the two Russians on the other side of the lake, I would have screamed for my life.
That hand was cold, without any warmth, and it was held very tightly. I didn’t know whose hand it belonged to, but I vaguely felt that it was the black shadows that had been following me closely under the lake. I died.
I was holding my breath and didn't dare to make a sound, but I concentrated all my strength on my left foot and kicked hard, trying to get this hand free. As I exerted my strength, the strength of that hand also gradually increased.
Pull it sharply inward.
It was only then that I felt that the hand seemed to be stretching out from the crack at the same level as the water level on the inside of the lake edge. It was pulling me towards the crack. I thought that I was still careless.
Although the gap is not particularly wide, it is still very easy to accommodate some things. However, the situation is too tight and I am not in a position to observe it carefully before stepping on it.
It has reached this point. I was pulled so hard that I could hardly stand. When I tilted my body, my entire left leg was pulled into the gap. However, my right foot and both hands were firmly grasping for help.
place, desperately fighting against that hand.
"It's me...why the hell are you using so much force..."
Just as I was trying my best, I suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the gap. This time I couldn't mishear it, it was Zhao Yingjun's voice. I was stunned for a moment, but then I thought about it,
Although this gap is on the shore, it is still located inside the lake. It is not impossible for Zhao Yingjun to get in. But I still can't figure out why he wants to get in.
Thinking this in my mind, the strength in my body relaxed. At this time, a very weak light lit up inside the crack, and I saw Zhao Yingjun's face. I gave up my resistance and was about to ask him about the two people on the other side of the lake.
A Russian seemed to have noticed the movement here, and the light beam and infrared sight swept over from not far away.
"Come in quickly! Let's talk after you come in."
I bent down and flattened my body, and Zhao Yingjun pulled me from inside. The lake water continued to surge inward from the cracks, but their positions were parallel. Only when the lake water level exceeded the cracks, there would be a large amount of water.
Water poured in, and the space behind the crack was tortuous and unimaginable. When such a small amount of water poured in, it immediately dispersed.
"What's wrong with you! Why did you come here!" Zhao Yingjun panted slightly, as if he had just gone through a very strenuous exercise and had not yet completely calmed down.
I briefly told him what had happened, and the flashlight beams of the two Russians had gathered around the gap. Zhao Yingjun said to walk inside. He stood up, holding a flashlight covered with a cloth strip, until
At this time, I discovered that not far from us, there was a Russian lying motionless, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Zhao Yingjun and I lifted up the Russian and walked towards the depths. The ground was all covered with water. We walked 20 meters until we found a relatively dry place, and then we stopped. Zhao Yingjun looked around,
He let out a deep breath and said that he almost confessed here.
In fact, Zhao Yingjun felt that there would be something in the lake before he entered the water. As for what it was, he couldn't say clearly, but those things could not be measured and explained by common sense. Originally, he was very sure, but
I was left alone so close to the water. Zhao Yingjun was not sure what to do, so he ran back before entering the water and handed me the piece of rag riddled with holes.
My mind was always in a mess. It wasn't until he said this that I realized that the rag wrapped around my wrist might have something to do with it. Otherwise, those strange black shadows under the lake would not be released so easily.
Pass me.
"This is a thing given to me by a great wizard in the Tibetan area." Zhao Yingjun took off his clothes, squeezed out the water, and said, "It is specially designed to deal with all kinds of resentful spirits. It is very effective."
When I looked at the bearded Zhao Yingjun, I felt a little moved in my heart. He knew that something was wrong with this underground lake, but he still left the rag to me. This is not something ordinary people can do.
It was precisely because he left the rag to me that Zhao Yingjun got into a lot of trouble. After he got into the water, he probably swam to the area where the raft was overturned, and then he got entangled in those very strange things. Zhao Yingjun was not yet
Dare to make too much noise, he only had the idea of escape. He spent a lot of effort and almost died in the water before diving to the shore of the lake with all his strength, but he did not dare to go ashore directly. He happened to find
There is a crack on the edge of the lake, so I plan to go in and hide for now.
But what Zhao Yingjun didn't expect was that there was already a Russian in the gap, and he was attacked as soon as he came in. Zhao Yingjun still didn't dare to make a sound, so he dragged his already tired body to get rid of the Russian.
"Are the two of us stuck here and unable to get out?" I also wrung out the water on my body and said worriedly: "Those old guys who evacuated will definitely come back. They are guarding the shore, and we will fight to get ashore.
There’s no way to escape.”
"Whatever, at least they can't threaten us yet." Zhao Yingjun kicked the tied Russian and said, "When this guy wakes up, ask about the situation first."
"By the way, look at this." I took out the thing that I had snatched from the frogman's hand from my arms. This thing was very hard, just like the blood-patterned pottery. It had been in the water for too long and became blurry.
Covered with a thin layer of whitish limestone, it is no longer possible to tell what its body is.
It is about twenty centimeters long and five or six centimeters wide, and its shape is very irregular. It is not a complete thing, but rather like a piece that fell off from some object. Based on the analysis of the specific gravity, it is not
It will be a rock.
Zhao Yingjun took the thing and coughed, probably to cover up his embarrassment. His original intention when he entered the water was to find this thing, but he didn't expect that I would get in first.
However, thick-skinned people have the advantage of being thick-skinned. Zhao Yingjun only coughed and then acted as if nothing had happened. He took this thing and looked at it carefully. He used a dagger to hang off the white layer of limestone.
When the knife occasionally collides with this thing, you can hear a sound similar to metal hitting each other.
After the lime was scraped off, the irregular piece showed a deep and mottled green color. Seeing this, Zhao Yingjun was more sure and said: "A piece of bronze fragment."
"Bronze?" I also took a closer look. If you look at the mottled moss-like green, it does look like bronze.
"The green you are talking about is not green." Zhao Yingjun explained: "This is not the color of the bronze body, but the rust. Bronze that is truly intact and has just been cast is bright yellow or copper yellow, which is very beautiful."
Zhao Yingjun is not an expert in this field, but he does have some experience. He said that if Jin Ping Mei came over, he might be able to deduce the shape and age of the entire bronze body based on this fragment.
"Maybe it's something from before the Western Han Dynasty." Zhao Yingjun wiped off all the debris and moisture on the outside of the bronze fragment, observed it for a while, and said: "The pattern on the vessel is very strange. It is not the most common breast nail pattern or cloud and thunder pattern."
If you get a piece of bronze, the most important feature to judge its age is the text and patterns on the body. The patterns on this fragment are different from what Zhao Yingjun knows. The prosperous period of bronzes was in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the Qin and Han Dynasties
In decline, the patterns on this fragment are not the phoenix, swirl, and snake patterns that were most common in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
"It's probably from the period from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the end of the Qin Dynasty." Zhao Yingjun finally concluded.
"You can't tell the difference clearly. If you don't recognize the decoration on it, how can you be sure that it is something from the Warring States Period to the late Qin Dynasty." I can see that Zhao Yingjun has made the mistake of empirical dogmatism.
I really want to bring this thing closer to the Qin Dynasty.
"It's absolutely true." Zhao Yingjun gently knocked the fragment on the stone and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is a fragment that fell off the braid."
The chime that Zhao Yingjun is talking about is the name of a kind of bronze instrument. It is an elegant palace percussion instrument. The shape of the chime is not much different from the well-known chime, except that the mouth of the chime is slightly tilted towards both sides.
On the other hand, the bell mouth should be flush with the weaving pattern.
If Zhao Yingjun is really right, then his previous inference has been verified invisibly. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, due to the emergence of ironware, bronzeware gradually lost its practicality. Although the court and the people still retained the habit of casting bronzeware,
But the main use of those bronze vessels is no longer necessary. One of the bronze vessels like this can be used when holding large banquets in the palace, and the other is used in relatively large-scale sacrifices.
"We can make an inference now." Zhao Yingjun didn't show any shame. He directly put the piece of braiding into his arms and discussed with me as if nothing was wrong: "The Qin people may have carried out at least one large-scale operation here.
A big sacrifice.”
If this kind of sacrifice was brought in to make palace musical instruments such as porridge, it means that the scale is indeed very large, but the sacrifice may be completely carried out underground, which is relatively secretive. This is an incomprehensible phenomenon. The Qin people carried out large-scale sacrifices in this place.
What is the purpose of offering sacrifices? You must know that the Qin Dynasty was in the period just after the Warring States Period, and offering sacrifices was still a very important activity. It was not as simple as going to burn paper on ancestral graves today. Since offering sacrifices must have a clear purpose and necessity.
"I can believe your inference." I said to Zhao Yingjun: "But what about the motivation and reason for the sacrifice?"
"I don't know about this problem, but it's not completely impossible. At least we can ask this stupid friend." Zhao Yingjun kicked the Russian lying on the ground.
At this time, I realized that the Russian was awake, but he didn't make a sound, and only opened his eyes slightly. He might want to play some trick when Zhao Yingjun and I weren't paying attention. But Zhao Yingjun is a thief, and the Russians
This point of view is simply not enough.
"Come on." Zhao Yingjun grabbed the Russian, patted his face, and said: "As an old friend of the Chinese people, you will definitely not refuse to answer my questions, right?"