"What's wrong with you two?" Water Pump asked confused.
Huang Mao didn't say anything, and he didn't even need the shovel or pickaxe. He ran out rolling and crawling.
I ran faster, and before Huang Mao moved, I turned around and ran away.
"What is this? It's so sticky."
The water pump doubtfully grabbed the thing in his hand, looked at it, threw it away and ran away.
"Snakes! There are fucking snakes!"
Because it was inconvenient to put the ladder up and down to dump the soil, and the buckets kept bumping into each other, so the ladder was removed when we were working.
Huang Mao shouted: "Three guarantees! Three guarantees! Ladder! Put down the ladder quickly!"
"What's wrong with you?" Sanbao asked.
"Snake... dig up a lot of snakes!
"Hurry up and put down the ladder!" Huang Mao shouted in horror.
"snake!"
Sanbao was so frightened that he covered the hole with a wooden board.
The light in the cave instantly dimmed, and if it weren't for the headlights, I wouldn't be able to see anything.
The water pump that finally ran out saw that the hole was covered, and immediately cursed.
"Shh..."
"Don't make a sound..."
"Did you hear any noise?" I asked.
"I didn't hear anything, there was no movement."
After Huang Mao finished speaking, he cursed again: "Three guarantees! I am xxxxx"
I was shocked when I first saw a snake, but now I am calmer, because anyone who has studied biology knows that snakes are similar to turtles. If they are in hibernation, they are basically not very aggressive. When they wake up from hibernation,
Come here, it takes time.
Also, it is not uncommon to find snakes when digging in the soil. Snakes may be dug up during road construction at many construction sites.
Because it gets cold in winter, snakes go into holes underground to hibernate, which is a natural phenomenon.
I said Brother Pump, go back and take a look. The snake is hibernating and won't move.
"What the hell! Why don't you go! If you don't bite anyone, go ahead!" said the water pump.
I said again: "Brother Huangmao, go ahead, you will never bite anyone."
Huang Mao glared at me and said, "Brother Feng, go ahead and bite you to death. I will cremate you."
"Oh shit."
"What's the big deal? You two are timid, so I'll go."
I grabbed my headlamp and started climbing back.
At this time, Huang Mao was heard yelling at Sanbao for not erecting a ladder.
Climbing back this time, I could see clearly.
The water pump dug out dozens of snakes with a pickaxe.
The long ones are more than one meter long, and the short ones are less than half a meter. There are several hanging on the wall, and there are also several hanging on the handle of the iron pickaxe.
Some of these snakes move, but most of them are motionless. The scales on the snakes are yellow-black with patches of round spots.
What kind of snake is this?
At this time, the importance of knowledge comes into play.
Sister Hong used to be interested in botany and biology. I read several books in her room. One of them was about snakes. I just opened a few pages and saw this kind of snake. I remember it seemed to be called
The flower snake is still a flower snake, it is not poisonous.
I thought about it and realized something was wrong.
Think about it.
The current depth of the burrow is about six meters underground, and is surrounded by solid soil. Can a snake burrow into such a deep underground to hibernate?
Is this a snake or a burrowing dragon?
I carefully avoided a few flower snakes on the ground and looked at the wall carefully. After looking at it, I used a shovel to pull up the soil twice.
Soon, I discovered a small hole spreading to the right, hollow, as big as a fist.
At this time, a cry came from outside the cave: "Hurry up! San Bao has put down the ladder!"
I ignored it and used the pickaxe to dig at the wall on the right side of the cave.
A large amount of broken soil fell down, and after a few digs, a big hole suddenly collapsed.
The entrance of the cave was pitch black, there was no wind, no sound, and it was very quiet.
"Have we reached the underground palace? No, right? This is still far away."
I grabbed the headlamp and leaned sideways to take a look.
Next to the hole we dug, there is a robbery hole on the right!
There is a layer of wooden boards on the top of the cave, and the lower part is supported by a stick as thick as an arm. The horizontal robbery hole we dug and the sudden robbery hole are separated by a layer of soil, and the distance is less than thirty centimeters!
I was dumbfounded.
Those snakes of love did not crawl down from the earth. They first crawled into the thieves' cave, and then crawled into our cave.
At this time, my headlight suddenly started to flash on and off. I didn't know if the power was out, so I hurriedly exited and called someone.
Yang Kun was not here just now, so I said Brother Yang, please come down and take a look. The situation is good. I found a robbery hole with the same route as ours.
You need to know one thing.
The route Yang Kun decided on was the coordinates he asked Huang Mao to use the theodolite laser to draw, which was the closest road to the ancient pagoda.
...
ten minutes later.
"What should I do, boss?"
"The front of this hole seems to be very deep. I can't even reach the end with my flashlight." asked the water pump.
Yang Kun cursed: "What are you looking at! This must have been climbed first! Damn it, let me know who did it! You have to bury him alive!"
I didn't say anything because I felt there was something wrong.
When I raised my head and encountered a wooden board, I squatted half-crouched and walked about a hundred meters along this robbery hole. I found that there was a dead end in front of me. There were gravel and soil on the ground. After turning over the soil, I could not determine the hole.
Whether it leads to the underground palace under the tower.
But judging from the current situation, the backfilling of this stolen tunnel was only halfway done before it suddenly stopped. The people before were so panicked that they even confiscated the supporting boards above their heads. It was precisely because of these boards that the stolen tunnel did not collapse.
I thought about it and said to Yang Kun: "Brother Yang, the way forward is blocked. If we want to find something, I'm afraid we have to crawl backwards to see where this mouse hole was dug from."
Yang Kun grimaced, nodded and said: "That's right, you go first, I will follow."
I cursed in my heart: "You old bastard, I'll go ahead, if something happens, I'll die first."
After squatting and crawling forward for more than ten meters, I looked back and found that none of them had moved.
"Let's go, what are you doing?" I shouted.
"Don't panic, let's keep our distance while you move forward and take a look."
"That's right, the boss is right, keep your distance," the water pump shouted.
I cursed quietly and crawled forward.
"what?"
I saw something lying on the ground seven or eight meters away in front of the Robber's Cave.
I speeded up and crawled over, and when I shined a light on it, I couldn't help being frightened by the scene in front of me. I let out a cry!
"Brother Yang! Come here quickly! Someone is dead!" I turned around and shouted.
There is no one behind me.
The yellow hair on Yang Kun's water pump has disappeared.
It's a dead person, that's not right.
A more accurate description is that of a dead person with some flesh left on his face. He is rotten, but not completely rotten. A faint stench can still be smelled even in the winter.
The lower part of the body was wearing tattered jeans and a black travel shoe on one foot. The other foot was bent outward without any shoes.
He didn't wear a jacket on his upper body, only a round-neck black sweater.
From the style of the travel shoes on the dead man's feet and the thickness of his socks, I concluded that the man may have died last winter.
I covered my nose with my clothes, stepped over the corpse and walked to the second half of the robbery cave.
I looked up from here and watched for dozens of seconds, and I understood everything.
"Are you okay, brother? Come up quickly."
Yang Kun pulled me up from the ladder.
"What did you call just now? What was it?"
I ignored him.
After patting the soil, I took a shovel and ran to the back of the house, where the soil was dumped.
Following the spot where I found the rotten down jacket last time, I used a shovel to dig down a few times, and soon found a square wooden board.
Use a shovel to pry open the wooden board, revealing a large hole about 60 centimeters in diameter on the ground.
I waved my hand to drive away the dust and looked down with my flashlight.
The height was about 4 meters, and I happened to see the undecomposed corpse lying in the robber's cave.
I speculate that the dead person should be the fat man with a round face in the photo. The water pump burned the photo, but even if it was there, it would be of little use and he would not be recognized at all.
"Who is this person? How did he die?"
"Did you get tricked by your accomplices?"
This 100-meter-long tunnel discovered by accident was definitely not dug by one person, but by a group of people.
What happened at that time? That caused the group to leave in a hurry without even finishing backfilling.
This dead fat man’s body is at the bottom and his clothes are at the top.
Was there an accomplice above who tried to pull him up, but failed and only pulled him up with a down jacket?
Does the underground palace under the Kaiyuan Temple Tower hide any secrets?
Yang Kun coughed and said, "Brother Xiang, you have a lot of ideas. Now that something like this suddenly happened, what do you think we should do next?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, let me think about it."
"Brother Pump, I'm scared. There is a dead person. Is he the fat man in the photo?"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, brother is here, Tingting is not afraid."
There are still a bunch of snakes in the cave that have not been cleaned up. This must not be done anymore, so we will call it a day.
It was around three o'clock in the middle of the night when I returned to the house on the second floor. I didn't know where the water pump was. I lay on the bed and turned over and over, unable to sleep.
Suddenly I felt like going to the toilet, so I got up, put on my clothes and went downstairs.
Before I reached the bathroom door, I suddenly heard Tingting's soft cry.
"Oops...Brother Pump, I feel numb..."
The water pump said: "It's good to be numb, it's good to be numb."
I didn't dare to disturb others, so I thought I'd just go to the door and solve the problem.
I opened the door and came out, walked to the wall to untie my pants and put some water in. At this time, the cold wind blew, and my mind became clearer.
I couldn't sleep anyway, so I wasn't in a hurry to go upstairs. I sat on the steps, took out a cigarette and lit it, while smoking and thinking.
I wish I were Conan. There is only one truth. The key is that I don’t have the brain.
It was quiet at night, and I could hear any movement clearly. I was smoking and thinking about something, and suddenly I heard a rushing sound coming from somewhere behind me.
I turned around and rubbed my eyes, thinking I was being blinded.
It was pitch black, and I could see an old man with white hair squatting in the garden not far away.
The old man was squatting on the edge of the crabapple lace with his back to me.
I saw him squatting there, holding the water pipe with both hands, motionless.