Chapter 97: The Fine Hole

All of us looked up at the “strange tank” hanging in the air, and we all had one thought in our mind: “I’ve seen a ghost in my life.”

I said to Shirley Yang: “Don’t worry, I’ll go up again to take a look, if I fall into the water again, you remember to hurry to give me artificial respiration, late will be too late.”

Shirley Yang gave me a blank look, pointing to the militia platoon leader and said to me: “What are you thinking about, if you want to do artificial respiration, I will ask those militia to do it for you.”

I said to Shirley Yang, “Why are you so outgoing? In other words, if you fell into the water and closed your breath, and you need to do artificial respiration for you, then I am absolutely obliged to do it ah I ……”

Shirley Yang interrupted my words, said to me: “I found one is you, and one is that fat man, never take life and death as a matter of fact, what is the occasion and mood to joke, right, I ask you, you see something on the top? Can you be scared to fall into the water, Professor Sun in it?”

I have always Hu bold self-proclaimed, this question can be revealed to my shortcomings, how to say in order not to lose face? is my hands, a not panic two not busy, calm and relaxed, a harrier rolled over to avoid the past, change to the other side, at this moment where there is life in.”

Shirley Yang helplessly said: “Forget it I do not listen to you, you blow it you, I still go up to see for myself.” Said will be wet long hair twisted a few wring, hand coiled, also let the two militiamen built a hand ladder, put her up to the top of the tank.

“Strange tank” in the sound, the militiamen began to become nervous, afraid of the tank suddenly drilled what monsters, I warned them, don’t just shoot, and then below the flashlight to Shirley Yang threw up, told her that the “strange cylinder “There is a dead man’s skeleton, so that she can also have a psychological preparation, do not fall from the top like me.

Shirley Yang looked at the top half a day, reached out for something, then jumped down from the strange cylinder, raised a jade bracelet for us to see, I and the militia platoon leader took over the bracelet to look at it, but also confused.

I did a period of time in the Panjiayuan business, eyesight has grown a lot, I can see that this jade bracelet is fake, two dollars a stall goods, not worth the money, and is a recent thing, is not that “strange tank” in the white bone is a woman? And still not dead for a long time, that she is exactly how to put into this “strange tank”? Was she loaded in after death, or was she loaded in alive and drowned? To “tank coffin” burial this can be ruled out, the Chinese people pay attention to the ground for peace, will never soak the dead in the water, in front of this mess like a complex situation, really is not a clue.

Shirley Yang said to me: “Old Hu, you guess what is in that tank rattling?”

I said, “Is it a skeleton that has become a spirit? In ancient China, there was a white bone spirit, but that white bone spirit has been eliminated by the Monkey King many years ago, is there a new one here? Do you want the people to suffer again and again?”

Shirley Yang laughed: “You really will associate, not what the White Bone Demon, just now I see clearly, the tank has three human bones, are adults, underneath there are more than twenty round strange fish, although only two or three feet long, but this fish strength exceeds the ordinary, the tank in the pool was released, those strange fish in the inside of the flopping non-stop, so there is a ringing sound comes, no Before lifting up this strange tank, we saw the chain shaking in the water pool, probably also caused by these fish fighting and swimming in the tank.”

I said to Shirley Yang, “That’s strange, what kind of fish are those? How did they get into the closed tank? Do they eat the dead?”

Shirley Yang shook her head and said, “This I don’t know, I’ve never seen such a strange fish, I think this kind of fish is not pre-loaded in, it’s possible …… it’s possible that these fish themselves are growing in the water pool of this underground cave, and that someone purposely loaded the dead body into a tank full of tiny holes and Sink into the water pool, did not grow into a small fish, can swim in through the fine holes in the tank body ……”

I listened to Shirley Yang’s words, surprised: “I understand what you mean, you are saying that this is to use dead flesh to raise fish? When the human flesh is chewed up and the fish are fattened, it is impossible for the big fish to swim out of the holes in the tank wall, but what is the use of raising fish this way? This is also too …… too damn disgusting.”

Militia platoon leader suddenly interjected: “One two two chiefs, I looked at half a day, this bracelet, I seem to have seen where, rather like a woman in the village to wear, she married out for many years, but also from the different families to come and go, a few months before the first time back to his mother’s home, when she wore this bracelet for us to look at, but also said to us that this is her in Guangdong to buy, worth thousands of dollars, the village The village aunts-in-law all look at the eye red, go back to complain about their own son is not capable, can not afford to buy thousands of dollars of jewelry.”

I heard here can be fishy, busy asking the militia platoon leader later how?

Militia platoon leader said: “Then there is no later, the woman went without a word, the village people thought she had a quarrel with the family, ran back to the field to go, and now look at this bracelet, is not that the woman was outlawed to death.”

We discussed, suddenly heard the crypt on the ramp footsteps sounded, I thought it was outside the two militiamen waiting to see us half a day did not go back, not too assured, down to look for us, who thought to turn around and look at, down a few people, the leader of the very Professor Sun.

I was surprised and happy, busy walking over to Professor Sun said: “Professor, you can scare me, I came a long way to look for you for a big thing, I thought you let the piranhas gnawed on you, where did you go to play? Why did you suddenly come out from the back?”

Professor Sun saw me was also stunned, did not expect me to find him again, and will meet here, listen to me to the causes and consequences of the briefly said once, only to understand what is going on.

Professor Sun carefully looked at the cave in the scene, said to us: “This tank is harmful to the evil ah, I have seen before in Yunnan, it seems that this matter does not belong to the scope of the archaeological work, have to look for the Public Security Bureau, this is not the place to speak, do not destroy the scene, what do we have to say go up and then say in detail.”

So all the people, etc., are according to the original way back, the village chief and other people to see all the people are safe and sound since they are very happy, I promised to the militia beforehand to pay the labor fee, the militia, although they did not eat the elixir of immortality, but got the payoff, but also is all happy.

Professor Sun asked the village committee to notify the police, and then took me and Shirley Yang to the village chief’s house to eat dinner, I have a lot of questions in my mind, so I asked Professor Sun what this crypt is all about?

Prof. Sun told me and Shirley Yang about the incident, it turned out that he previously took his assistant down to the crypt, also saw the chain sunk into the pool, at that time, they did not move the winch, when they came up, at the end of the first level of the tunnel, and found a dark tunnel, inside a number of stone tablets.

The so-called “dark road” is lower than the open road, there is a gap, do not go to the front to see, it is not easy to find, the open road and the end of the dark road each has a stone house.

Prof. Sun took his assistant into the single line labeled the following layer of the dark tunnel, to check the preservation of ancient monuments inside, I did not expect due to the terrain here is even lower, seepage water than the above is much more serious, connecting the two tunnels in the middle of the part of the tunnel, there was a sudden cave-in, Prof. Sun and his two were trapped in it.

Go down to rescue people, did not find the two parallel tunnels, but the area of the collapse is not large, Prof. Sun and the two people spent a lot of effort to move away from the spoils fall sealing the channel out of the stone, once out of the militiamen who just happened to meet the guards, know that some people go down to the crypts of the stone house to save them, half a day did not come back, will follow the two militiamen who stayed with the down to check.

After investigation, the stone store underground tunnels, belongs to the ruins of the Qin Dynasty, this kind of place in the vicinity there are a few places, are the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang when he sent Fang Shi refining medicine lead place, and then probably abandoned, in addition to the inside still remains some stone tablets, and then there is no rest of the harvest, but these tablets are still have a very significant value of the research.

I asked Prof. Sun: “What were the six jade beasts in that stone box and the strange tank hanging in the crypt’s water pool used for? Could they also be relics from the Qin Dynasty?”

Professor Sun shook his head and said, “No, the stone box jade beasts, as well as the stone house under the hole in the ground, including the chain hanging cylinder, and the pre-Qin tunnels relics are two different things, are later people put in, I heard in the Gutian County, every now and then over the years there is a population disappearance, it is likely that there is a relationship with this matter, I’m not doing forensic investigation, but I can based on what I saw on the scene, these things. Make the inference to you guys, of course it’s not what state secrets anymore, so it’s okay to say to you guys.”

Professor Sun is so analyzed: this set of stone box jade beast value, it is very likely to be from the ancient Yunnan country, the ancient Dian country is a mysterious kingdom, historians call the lost kingdom, not many records in history, according to legend, the country in the people will be more evil, “Jewel Drinking Exotic Examination” has a dedication to the king of the six demons of the Jade Beast of the record, this is a kind of ancient sacrificial rituals with the artifacts, Shibidian store coffin store of the old shopkeeper, the village is one of the few The old shopkeeper of the coffin shop in Shibidian Village, who was one of the few outsiders in the village, was unable to find out from which generation he moved here, and he has passed away now, so we can’t know how he got this set of treasures.