Chapter 9: Invasion of the Road

The giant hand was grayish-white all over and was buried under a pile of huge rocks. Just one finger was as thick as my thighs. The fingers were twisted unnaturally, as if they wanted to grab something.

I was startled and thought that the legendary giant had appeared, so I almost fainted, but I immediately discovered something wrong. It turned out that the nails and fingers of the giant hand were actually of the same color.

Immediately, I immediately discovered that this giant hand was not "meat", but was carved from stone. However, his carving technique was too realistic, and only when the light was insufficient can it be misunderstood to become a real giant hand.

However, despite this, I couldn't laugh. This stone hand is simply a magical skill and the carving is so realistic. Even if we look at it up close, we still find the scene terrifying and sweating on our heads.

It feels like you are in a wax museum. Even though you know that the wax figures are fake, you still feel that they are looking at you.

The stone hand was pressed into the pile of gravel stones, probably falling down as the stones on it collapsed. I looked up and saw that there was a loose rock above the cliff, but the entire mountain was tilted, forming a blind spot, and I couldn't see the actual situation.

Lao Yang was impatient. Before I could see clearly, he climbed up with a slutty footsteps. I followed him on the cliff, moving little by little along the slope, and soon climbed to the place where the collapse occurred.

I originally thought that there was a statue of gods on it, but because of disrepair, it collapsed naturally. When I looked up, I found that it was actually a half-body statue carved against the mountain. The chest and head had been blown away, and only one hand and half of the shoulder could be distinguished. But based on these parts, I could not tell what the statue was. I only found that the person who carved this statue had a unique style. Almost the remaining parts of the statue were carved in the form of a real person. Then what he carved was definitely not something like Buddha statues that required artistic exaggeration. As for who it was, I could not infer.

In the middle of the collapsed mouth, a dark and faint hole the size of a basketball was blown out. I took a flashlight and found that the space inside was extremely large. There might be a large piece of the mountain behind it that was hollow.

My intuition tells me that behind this huge stone statue, there may be an ancient tomb, but I don’t know where the master is, and I have already walked in. Generally speaking, those who can think of cultivating the tombs in such places are definitely not ordinary people, but those who can throw away all the landfights in such places are even more masters among the masters. Even if an ordinary tomb robber is asked to walk back and forth hundreds of times in this Jiazigou, he would never have imagined that there is another world above his head.

Lao Yang and I decided to go in and take a look, learn how to learn masters, and check if there is anything left. He is thinner and he gets his head into the hole. The hole is in the high position, so he can't step on the bottom, so he has to stick it to the wall. I handed him the flashlight, he took it and said, "Damn it, there is water inside."

I leaned into it and saw that there was a stone chamber with a vault inside, which was carved out, and there was green and stagnant water below. I don’t know how deep it was. When it rained, rainwater would flow in from the entrance of the cave.

Lao Yang told me that the place did not collapse when he came last time. In this way, this job should have been done in the past three years, and three years are short, but it is unlikely to accumulate too deep water.

I didn't agree with it, so I asked him to be careful. Lao Yang relied on his good water quality and jumped down as soon as he let go. The water suddenly fell to his chest. He was shocked and almost slipped.

I looked at it and the water was too deep, and asked him: "How about you step on the bottom of the water? Is there mud or stone underneath?"

Lao Yang said, "It's a stone, flattening the ground. Damn, this water is so fucking cold."

I took out the tarp in both backpacks, wrapped it up, and gave it to him, and the other one on his back, and then carefully slid into the water. Immediately, a cool air came up from the soles of my feet, shaking me so coldly.

However, as soon as my foot stepped on the bottom of the water, I felt relieved. The bottom of the water was very flat and it would not take too much effort to walk. If it was mud, it would be troublesome. One foot was one pit, not only was it difficult to walk, but it was also dangerous to fall into the trap.

Because I didn't expect to work in the water in advance and didn't prepare any equipment to deal with it, we had to walk inside with a flashlight, and only walked a few steps, and saw a low stone door open on the innermost stone wall. The entire design here was almost without any decoration. It could be said that it was digging for the sake of digging holes. This was definitely not the excavation method of the tomb. I looked around and had a vague idea in my mind.

The short stone door was very short and you had to lower your head to enter. The water would not reach our necks. The water would not circulate for a long time and emit a strange smell. It was a bit disgusting to get so close. I stopped and wanted to ask Lao Yang for his opinion. After all, we came here just to take a look. The road was so uncomfortable, and I didn't want to continue.

Unexpectedly, Lao Yang was in high spirits and walked away from the low door without thinking. He asked me to follow me, but I didn't want to sweep away his nature, so I had to follow me.

There was a stone path in the low door, which was pitch black. We swept the flashlight across the ground, and there were white, green and gray stone walls. The same random chiseling was scattered, and there was basically no sign of cultivating the ground. We walked more than ten meters inside, and suddenly the stone path turned around at a right angle of 90 degrees. I illuminated it with the flashlight and found that it was so deep inside that it was scary. I couldn't help but stop and dared not go in rashly.

In fact, it is not wise to go inside now. The water is so deep that it is not visible, and I can't see the scene in the water. It's really a bit panicking. If something comes out of the water for a while, even a piece of wood can scare me to death.

Lao Yang saw that it was so deep inside. He was a little guilty and was scratching his head and couldn't make up his mind. We leaned against one side and shone on the lamp. While discussing what to do next.

Lao Yang looked at the stone walls around him and asked me: "Have you noticed that although this tomb is quite large, it is very roughly built. Look at these stone stubbles, one piece is ugly than the other, and it has never been repaired. I heard that the mountains were created in the Tang Dynasty. Could this be the tomb of the Tang Dynasty?"

I said, "You only know one thing about this, but not the other. What is the opening of a mountain? It is hollowing out the entire mountain. There are rooms several meters high inside, and there are stone slabs inside, and there are still bricks and tiles, so you can't be careless at all. There are giant stone seals in all passages, which need to be pulled by horses. Look at it, the strange rocks are rugged, it's simply an air raid shelter. I think this may not be an ancient tomb."

When Lao Yang heard this, he hurriedly asked, "No, don't fool me."

I saw him and found it funny and said, "I'm just a guess. If it's specific, you have to walk in to know. However, according to my experience, this place should not be an ancient tomb, but an ancient mine. This place may be a mine road, go in. If you see a deep well that goes straight down, you'll definitely not be wrong."

When I said this, I found something wrong. It was filled with water. Even if there was a deep well, it was underwater and we couldn't see it even if we wanted to.

Lao Yang heard what I said and found it boring. He asked me if there were any good things in the ancient mine. I shook my head. The jade and gem mines in the ancient mine are very rare now, so if you can find the remaining veins, you will never finish them in your lifetime. However, due to special reasons, the ancient mine is a taboo in the backfloor, and you cannot go in casually. My grandfather has also dug up the ancient mine. Every time he walks, he retreats and leaves a mark on the hole to make people later be careful. My grandfather said that if he walks like an ancient mine as an ancient tomb, he will most likely die in it.

Lao Yang heard what I said, and was a little dissatisfied, so he said, "I don't believe it. This mine can be more dangerous than an ancient tomb. Is there any zongzi here? What's the danger?"

I was the same as he thought at first. But when I thought about it, I felt that the rules of my ancestors were reasonable, because mines in ancient times were mined across dynasties, and mines in the Tang Dynasty might not be completed until the Ming Dynasty. The mining methods of each dynasty are different, such as single entry, backward, and excavation. Therefore, the structure of the cave can often be so complicated that it is endless. If you go a little deeper, you may be confused, let alone go in and look for mineral veins.

Moreover, to put it bluntly, most of the miners in ancient times were prisoners, with high-intensity labor and no medical insurance, and the mortality rate was very high. There was usually a place where people were lost in the mine. It was called a straight burial well, where people died in it piled up layer after layer, so the ancient mine was a more unlucky place than an ancient tomb. If it were the straight burial well that was opened on the corpse-raising ground, maybe the whole dozen black-haired rice dumplings pressed down were all. What a spectacular scene if it jumped out.

Lao Yang thought about it carefully. He thought my analysis was quite reasonable and said, "Since that's the case, let's not behave like this hero, or go back. Besides, we don't know what kind of mine it is now. If it's a broken iron ore, it would be a waste of effort. But by the way, Lao Wu, do you see what this mine is mining? If it's a jade ore, we'll record it and come back in the future."

I have a very shallow understanding of ancient jade, which is why I don’t do much business. However, in front of Lao Yang, I have to maintain the image of an expert, saying: “The “jade” in ancient China is very messy, in addition to soft jade and jade. It also includes crystal, agate, serpentine, white marble, turquoise, and lapis lazuli. However, there are only a few places where jade is produced since ancient times, including Hetian, Xinjiang, Dushan, Henan, Xiu (xiu) rock in Liaoning, and Lantian, Shaanxi. But there are not. Look, although the rock here is green, it has white flowers in the green, so it should be a copper mine.”

Lao Yang was very disappointed, and his high interest finally suppressed me. Once a person lost his goal, all the adverse factors would magnify infinitely. He immediately started to yell and became cold. As soon as he said that, I felt that the water was bitingly cold, which was beyond the limit I could bear. After we finished the equipment, we turned back to the same path.

Just as we were passing that turn, we went to the darkness behind, and there were a few dull sounds of water, as if something was sneaking in the water.

I grabbed Lao Yang's hand and forced the flashlight in his hand to the direction where the sound of water came. Immediately, I saw a huge dorsal fin that instantly sank into the water. At the same time, a triangular water mark appeared on the water surface, swam towards us.
Chapter completed!