Human fear comes from the unknown, and speculation about unknown things can bring about the fear deep in human hearts...
At this time, except for Ning Min'er, who had her back turned to the six-meter-wide silver river, Liu Shiba and his group were all looking behind her with dazed expressions.
Ning Min'er's hair stood on end. She knew very well that she couldn't act rashly, so she moved forward gently and in small steps...
"Ouch!"
Lao Hei's eyes glowed with golden light, and he roared viciously!
The blue-eyed rat king hid behind Lao Hei in fear, his golden rat tail trembling...
A few minutes later, Ning Min'er finally threw herself into Liu Shiba's arms, then looked back and fell down softly.
Except for Liu Shiba who was holding Ning Min'er, the other eight people were holding their own close-quarters weapons, either military spurs or engineering shovels, and looked at the silver river with frightened faces.
"Old, Old Cao! What is that? Am I not dazzled?"
There was a cry in Lu Xiaolin's voice.
"Yeah, what is that? It's so scary."
Tian Mingjian asked breathlessly.
Cao Xiong had a gloomy face and used the miner's lamp to shine on the thing that looked like a human hand by the river. He was speechless for a long time.
Just now, at the moment Ning Min'er turned around, this pale white hand with five fingers and fair arms emerged from the water, as if it could grab Ning Min'er down the river at any time...
If Lao Hei hadn't suddenly roared and scared the hand back into the river, Ning Min'er might not be visible now...
"call!"
After a few minutes, Ning Miner took a long breath and woke up!
Liu Shiba looked at Ning Min'er solemnly, waved his hand in front of her eyes, and said anxiously:
"Are you okay, Min'er?"
Ning Min'er suddenly cried and said:
"There is a ghost in the lake, there is a ghost!"
Finally, Cao Xiong came to his senses after hearing Ning Min'er's scream and said seriously:
"There is something strange in this silver lake, don't get too close!"
Liu Shiba felt a chill in his heart and asked hurriedly:
"Old Cao, what is that? A human hand?"
At this time, I heard Zhu Yingtai shouting in a drake voice:
"Needless to say, it must be a drowned ghost. I heard when I was a child that a drowned ghost is like this. It will pull you down into the river with a pale hand."
Drowned ghost?
Liu Shiba turned around and glared at Zhu Yingtai, and said angrily:
"Bullshit, is this possible? The legend of the drowned ghost has always existed in China, but who has seen it?
Who can come up with a solid evidence? It’s all just rumors! I don’t believe in ghosts and gods..."
Cao Xiong seemed to have thought of something at this time, looked at Liu Shiba and said solemnly:
"We have to figure out what this thing is, otherwise no one will be able to bear it if someone comes from behind us after we cross the bridge..."
"That's right! It looks like human hands at first glance. I really can't believe that there is such a weird thing in the tomb of Qin Shihuang and in the legendary Mercury Galaxy. Could it really be a human?"
Luo Zhan also looked frightened at this time. Even though he was a soldier, he had never seen such a weird thing.
Liu Shiba shook his head and said:
"If you say it's a human hand, it does look like a white hand at first glance, but it's not logical at all.
It seems that we must take a closer look, and this uncertain danger must be eliminated first..."
Liu Shiba picked up the military spur as he spoke. Luo Zhan, Sun Wenming, Zheng Weida and Zhu Yingtai were also ready. Tian Mingjian even asked for Luo Zhan's pistol and held it in his hand!
"Lu Xiaolin, protect Min'er and wait here. Don't run around!"
Liu Shiba ordered solemnly. After speaking, he seemed to think of something again and added:
"Zheng Weida, give your pistol to Lu Xiaolin!"
Zheng Weida casually threw the loaded pistol to Lu Xiaolin...
After saying that, Liu Shiba led a few people and slowly approached the silver river!
"eighteen!"
At this time, Ning Min'er screamed strangely, startling the few people Liu Shiba went to investigate.
"What happened? You scared me!"
Liu Shiba turned back to look at Ning Min'er unhappily.
Ning Min'er pointed to the glass bottle in her hand sheepishly and said strangely:
"Silver water is actually not mercury, but caused by the large amount of silver nitrate contained in the water."
"Silver nitrate?"
Liu Shiba turned his head to look at Luo Zhan in a daze, then looked back at Cao Xiong, and said in confusion:
"Do you know what silver nitrate is?"
Cao Xiong, like Liu Shiba, shook his head in confusion!
"Min'er, don't say something we don't understand. Just tell me what kind of silver nitrate is this?"
Zhu Yingtai asked carelessly.
Ning Min'er calmed down at this time, smiled sweetly, and explained:
“In fact, general tap water must be disinfected with chlorine, which generates hypochlorous acid and hydrochloric acid in the water, so there are hydrogen ions and chloride ions.
Silver ions and chloride ions can produce a silver-white precipitate that is insoluble in nitric acid. In fact, there are other salts that contain silver ions!
However, only silver chloride is insoluble in nitric acid. Silver nitrate contains nitric acid, and water contains hydrogen ions, so there is nitric acid in the water.
So the river water is silvery white, which can only be silver nitrate."
Liu Shiba was stunned and said:
"I still don't understand, what is silver nitrate?"
Ning Min'er rolled her eyes at Liu Shiba and said softly:
"Silver nitrate is just a kind of salt!"
"brine?"
Liu Shiba turned his head strangely and stared at the six-meter-wide silver river glowing with silvery white light.
Is this the legendary Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, with gold beads as stars and mercury as rivers and lakes?
"Hehehe!"
When Liu Shiba and everyone heard this, they all laughed at themselves!
It turns out that many legends are not reliable, and the idea that mercury is a river is a complete lie.
Think about it thousands of years ago, with the handicraft industry and technology of mankind at that time, how could it be possible to extract large amounts of mercury?
How much mercury would it take to circumnavigate this extremely huge underground palace and create a river with a width of six meters and an unknown depth?
I dare not think...
But now everything makes sense. It turns out that the so-called mercury in the legend is caused by silver nitrate or "salt".
At this time, I suddenly heard Zhu Yingtai shouting in horror:
"There's something in the water, it's that thing again! She caught it again, Edi Niang..."
In a state of fear, Zhu Yingtai randomly raised the engineer shovel and chopped it into the water!
The few people standing next to Zhu Yingtai were also frightened and nervous. Without looking at it, they raised their military spurs at the same time, and the engineers shoveled into the river to say hello...
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
Several strange screams came from the river, the sharp and penetrating power was shocking.
Creepy...
Among several people, Liu Shiba was the only one who did not take action!
It’s not that he doesn’t want to take action, it’s that he simply can’t squeeze in for a round!
These guys are too violent...
Liu Shiba quickly turned on the miner's lamp, adjusted the brightness, and looked towards Zhu Yingtai.
I saw something white behind the silver water splash, swimming rapidly towards the depths.
"What kind of monster thing has hands like humans?"
Zhu Yingtai muttered, standing by the river, waving the engineer shovel in his hand dissatisfied!
On the shovel, a few drops of bright red blood strangely dripped...
Liu Shiba looked at Cao Xiong in confusion and asked:
"Old Cao, do you see clearly? What is this?"
Cao Xiong frowned, looked around in fear and said:
"The old man is sure that it is definitely not a fish, this thing has fingers!
To be honest, it looks a bit like a woman's hand, maybe it's a woman..."
"That's nonsense. I don't believe that there could be ancient people from the Qin Dynasty who could live in the river to this day and still be women..."
Liu Shiba cursed angrily, and then looked around in the silver-white river with the same fear, looking scared!
Cao Xiong smiled disdainfully and said:
"Aren't you talking nonsense? Why are you so scared?"
Liu Shiba's face was livid, and he turned back to glare at Cao Xiong ferociously:
"Tell me, Lao Cao, have you ever seen a ghost? Are there really ghosts in this world?"
When Liu Shiba said this, everyone at the riverside was immediately frightened and took three steps back. Their hearts were broken...
