"Slow down, slow down, my waist is not good, don't break it for me."
Unable to turn his head over, Brother Yu and Bean Sprouts each grabbed one of his arms and dragged him up. Their posture looked a bit funny.
Ah Chun smiled when he saw this and said: "Haha, Wang Bantou, you are so old and half of your body is almost buried in the ground. It is not easy for you to be so lively and vigorous."
Brother Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Pay attention to the tone of your words."
"Hey, you idiot, are you trying to scare me?"
"Tch, what's the use of all that brute strength?"
"How dare you call me that?" Brother Yu narrowed his eyes and became angry.
After all, they just met one day, and Brother Yu was called stupid by this woman one after another. How could he not be angry?
If she were a boy, I guess Brother Yu would have done it this morning.
"Stop fighting among ourselves."
"Let's go, Wen Bin." He patted Brother Yu on the head.
The air in the underground cave is very humid and very dark, so you must turn on a flashlight for lighting.
As we walked, there were more and more gravels on the ground, all of which were limestone stones, the same material used for the stone carvings at Guizailing on the ground.
There was no road in the first place, so we walked along the clear underground river.
It was the first time I saw this kind of landform in the south. Some of the rocks were stacked one on top of the other. The color was dark yellow, as if someone had pooped on the ground.
"Look at these walls around you. It's amazing. It seems like popcorn grows on the walls." Xiaoxuan said, looking at the surrounding stone walls.
He glanced at his head and said, "That's not popcorn, it's a rock salt layer, as well as those stalagmites from before. See, these take tens of thousands of years to form naturally."
Stalactites can be seen everywhere here, and they are basically still growing. Some stalactites and stalagmites grow together. From a distance, it looks like a stone pillar covered with spikes standing there. It is the first time I see these.
To me, the thing is spectacular.
Daoxian County has been trying to develop tourism in the past two years to increase the income of villagers. I think the development of Guizailing is in vain. Those weird and ugly stone sculptures are so scary. Who would travel to a place like that?
I think if Daoxian County can improve this underground cave, hang more colorful lanterns in the cave, and give it a cool name, like Queen Mother Cave, Love Cave, Fairy Cave, etc., it will definitely attract people.
Many foreign tourists come to see it because it is really spectacular.
If you don't believe it if you are adventurous, you can come down and look for it.
This underground cave really exists, provided you can find the entrance and get down.
The ground was full of gravel, and some places were very slippery. For safety reasons, I couldn't walk fast at all. After walking for about an hour, the front suddenly narrowed and a triangular entrance appeared.
Entering from the triangular entrance, there is a large area where the ground is very clean. What I mean by clean is that there are less gravels. It seems that it was manually cleaned up a long time ago.
"Hey! Boss, come on! Look here!"
Bean Sprouts discovered a place.
Next to the southwest corner, there are two stone walls piled up with gravel pieces, about 1.5 meters high. One part is intact, while the other part has collapsed by more than half, and is only a few dozen centimeters high.
Walking to the front of the low stone wall, you can vaguely see a small circular pit on the ground inside the wall. Maybe it has been too long, and the pit is filled with a thick layer of dust.
"Huh?"
He raised his head and said in surprise: "It doesn't look like something formed naturally, including this low wall made of piled gravel. How can there be a pit on the ground? Douya, go and take a look."
Dou Sprout squatted down and put on a glove. He looked at it first, and then carefully reached down to see if there was anything inside.
"Ah! Oops!"
Dou Sprout's face suddenly changed and he screamed loudly.
"What's wrong!" Brother Yu and I ran over immediately.
"hey-hey....."
"It's okay, I'm just teasing you, haha." Dou Sprout said with a smile.
I scolded him.
"Huh? There is something. Is this a stone?"
While talking, Dou Sprout took out a long strip-shaped object from the bottom of the pit. It was gray-white and looked like a stone.
He looked carefully and suddenly said: "This... this seems to be human feces..."
"What the hell? Shit?" Dou Sprout threw it away immediately with a disgusted look on his face.
He turned his head, unsure, and looked carefully again.
Really, I really didn’t expect this. After I don’t know how many years, it turned into something like a fossil-like hard object.
Then this place is a latrine...
This wall made of stacked stone sheets used to block the toilet.
Under normal circumstances, human feces will naturally decompose within 10 days to a few months after being buried in the soil, but there are exceptions where it will be preserved, mainly depending on the people's usual eating habits at the time, the surrounding preservation environment, etc.
The cave does have this condition.
There is a large amount of limestone and nitrate layers here. Dust accumulates at the bottom of the pit over a long period of time, forming a certain thickness. The limestone will quickly absorb the moisture contained in human feces itself, and eventually turn into a semi-fossil in this hard lump state.
He guessed: "The specific time is hard to determine, but I estimate that it is at least a thousand years ago, which means that there were people here before us. There are two toilets, and there is a distance between them. It may have been divided at that time.
Men’s and women’s restrooms.”
"Wait! I got it!"
Dou Sprout suddenly clapped his hands and said: "Head up! I know what's going on!"
"Look! There are thousands of stone carvings in Guizailing above. Those stones are the same as those in the underground caves."
"But there are no traces of extensive mining in the mountains around Guizailing. Didn't Lao Tian say before that the stones for the Guizailing stone carvings were taken from the local area, but we have never found where they were taken from. Isn't it right here!"
He raised his head and his eyes lit up.
"Indeed, and this possibility is very high. The stone carvings on the ground span a wide range of ages. They were carved from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the late Qing Dynasty. It turned out that the materials were taken here..."
Ah Chun looked at Dou Sprout and said, "You are pretty good at guessing these things."
Dou Sprout looked happy, waved his hand and said, "Where is it? I just like to read books and have a little more knowledge."
I knew he was just being blind. Seeing him like that, I just had to write four words on my face, "I'm awesome."
"No wonder... no wonder Junior Brother and Tian are so anxious. It turns out there is really a secret underneath."
He thought about it and said, "The ground here is clean. Let's take a rest and eat something to keep warm before walking."
Our bags were rich in supplies, including canned yellow croaker, sesame seed cakes, ham sausages, biscuits, chocolates, etc.
We turned on a headlamp and put it on the ground for lighting, and turned off the other lights to save power. We sat around eating and drinking water to regain our strength.
"Wen Bin, have you eaten?"
Brother Yu nodded and said yes.
The head said: "Then go ahead and stick two pieces of reflective road signs on the wall, and we will try to mark them all the way."
"good."
Brother Yu got up and took the reflective strip from his bag, walked over to find a smooth place to stick it on.
Marking is something that almost all professional cave exploration teams can do. We rarely go into caves, so we follow what others have done.
Brother Yu put up a sign saying that he would relieve himself behind the stone wall.
The wall is only over one meter high. Brother Yu is tall, and we can all see him unbuttoning his pants.
Ah Chun kept watching while eating the canned food.
Brother Yu was a little embarrassed and squatted down.
As a result, Brother Yu just squatted down.
All I heard was a "crash!"
The low stone wall stacked on top of each other suddenly collapsed! A lot of dust was thrown up.
"Cough! Cough!"
Brother Yu was choked by dust and coughed. He quickly raised his hand and explained: "I...I didn't move or touch..."
Before she finished speaking, Brother Yu saw the way Achun looked at her and immediately put on his pants.
Holding half of the sesame seed cake in his hand, Dou Ya Zai laughed and said, "Haha, Brother Yu, you are gone, I saw it."
"What's going on? It's so damn unlucky."
Brother Yu kicked a stone away, cursed, and jumped out.
After walking only four or five steps, Brother Yu suddenly turned his head in confusion and walked back again.
"What's wrong, Brother Yu, what are you looking at?" I asked.
Brother Yu waved to me: "Bring your flashlight and let's take a look."
I took a flashlight and went over to take a look.
I saw a few oval-shaped stones at the top of the pile of collapsed stone walls.
And on the surface of the stone, there are neat scratches carved one after another. Some of these scratches...
Some are like someone counting the days and recording the days.
