"Lao Peng, Zhang Xiaotong, follow me down. The others are waiting above."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Long handed the straw rope to Wang Kaixuan, held the oil lamp in one hand, and pulled the other end of the rope down.
Zhang Xiaotong followed closely, and Peng Hai walked at the back.
This is a space of about ten square meters, with a table and a chair in the middle, and places for oil lamps on the walls on both sides.
Further down is a pile of things that you can't tell what they are.
There were white, yellow, and some wood residue. These things were placed against the wall on three sides, and the remaining side was where they came from.
"What are these?"
Peng Hai squatted on the ground and picked up a piece of white stuff with his thumb and index finger. Unexpectedly, the thing turned into powder and broke into pieces when touched.
"Let me see."
Zhang Xiaotong took out his glasses from his pocket and put them on.
After observing it carefully for a moment, he picked up a piece of wood and observed it for a while, then put it up to his nose and smelled it.
"This piece of wood has a straight texture, a light reddish-brown color at the edge, and a very light fragrance. It should be fir."
"Ouch!"
Then there was a tremor on the ground.
Zhang Long reflexively looked back.
I saw Peng Hai sitting on the ground, his face flushed, and the table just now fell apart.
"Fuck...I just held the table up. How could this fir wood be so weak?
Was there such a crappy project decades ago?”
Zhang Long held his forehead for a while.
"No, what do you think?
Seeing that the bookcase made of the same material is broken into pieces like this, why are you trying to hold up the table? If not, who are you going to knock?"
After saying that, I rummaged through the pile of things.
"This is a bookcase made of cedar wood, as are all those. However, because it was so old, the wood and books were damaged. The reason why it can be preserved to this day is probably because it was vacuumed."
"vacuum?"
Peng Hai patted his butt and stood up.
"How can this be sealed?
Didn't you just say it's so old? How could there be vacuum technology..."
Zhang Xiaotong pointed at an oil lamp not far away.
"Use that."
"Burning oil lamps will consume a lot of oxygen. This basement is airtight. As long as the exit is blocked tightly and an oil lamp with enough fuel is lit indoors, this should be possible."
"Hey, if you tell me, the people who lived here before were pretty smart."
"Okay, let's go. There seems to be nothing visible here. Take the oil lamp with you."
Several people returned to the ground along the hemp rope.
Sitting in the main room, we talked about the things we had just discovered.
"I observed it carefully when I went down before. The table has a mortise-and-tenon structure. Tables of that style are very rare now."
"Do you need to tell me?
It would take at least fifty or sixty years for something made of fir wood to start rotting, not to mention that if it is vacuumed, it would take at least hundreds of years for it to rot to that extent."
"Tsk, no, no, no."
I saw Wang Shengli holding the oil lamp in both hands and looking at it carefully.
"Do you know which dynasty this oil lamp comes from?"
"Which dynasty and which generation?
Brother, don’t make fun of me. How can such a piece of shit be considered a dynasty?"
Wang Shengli gave Wang Kaixuan a violent shock.
"I told you to study hard before, but you didn't listen! Now you meet a real treasure and you still can't recognize it!"
"This is a very typical pottery oil lamp that was made in the Qin Dynasty. Please note that it is pottery, not ceramic. Look at the workmanship and the depth. If it was not from the Tang Dynasty, I would eat this lamp!"
After Wang Shengli finished speaking, he slapped his chest loudly, and the expression on his face was one of determination.
In fact, before coming to this deserted island, Wang Shengli did a wide range of things, including these jade antiques.
He has been to antique markets of all sizes across the country, and has seen a lot of fakes, as well as a lot of genuine goods. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and the more you see, the more you will understand.
Zhang Long looked at him with some confusion, then looked at the others.
"Hey, who did you think built this place?
I saw that the basement was in good order just now."
"Yeah, if you ask me, this place seems to be better than the camp. It can be lived in with a little tidying up. It's a pity that it is built in such a ghost place."
"If this was built outside, we wouldn't have to waste so much time building the camp. After working for so long, it's still not as comfortable as other people's places."
Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Wang Shengli was so angry that he blew his beard and stared.
"Hey, what are you doing? Brother, what I said is true!"
"Tsk, alas, I'm talking about Wang Shengli, you said this thing is from the Qin Dynasty, do you have any evidence?
It's just an oil lamp in this form. If you ask me to make one for you now, I can do it too. After it's done, leave it for a while, or bury it in the soil for a few years and dig it out. Wouldn't it look exactly like this one?"
"Oh, I don't have any evidence, but my intuition has always been accurate. Oh, oh, why don't you leave? Everything I said is true!"
If these words came from Zhang Xiaotong's mouth, Zhang Long thought it could be studied.
When he was in the camp before the critical moment, Wang Kaixuan had already wiped out all the bad things about his brother.
He won the lottery in his early years, and after eating and drinking for a while, he fell in love with a piece of beautiful jade and bought it at a high price. It was fine, just like showing off the jade to his friends.
At that time, someone actually knew the jade and said that the jade he said was fake. When Wang Shengli heard this, he immediately became angry and almost got into a fight while talking.
The two of them made a bet that if it was true, the other person would pay double the price to buy it. Wang Shengli patted his chest and agreed, going on the show to ask for expert appraisal.
The three old men were happy when they saw the jade, and asked him how much he paid for it. Eight hundred thousand, the price is not low, right?
After hearing this, the three of them were so happy that they almost died laughing.
It is said that this thing is a glass species, a pure glass species.
Wang Shengli was so angry that he couldn't eat for several days, and then he became so thin.
Zhang Long really didn't believe that he could still see something like this.
A few people wandered around in other rooms but couldn't find anything useful. It was getting dark gradually, so they simply made a fire on the spot.
Although the room here is sufficient, it is an unfamiliar environment after all, and several people did not dare to sleep separately. They took a few blankets to the main room to make the floor.
We heated canned food and boiled water. After eating, we each found a place to rest. Of course, for safety reasons, several people took turns standing guard.
Zhang Xiaotong was the first, then Wang Shengli, Wang Kaixuan, and the most restful ones were Zhang Long and Bai Wenwen in the second half of the night.
After they were divided, everyone fell asleep quickly, perhaps because they were too tired from the long journey during the day.