Chapter 1175 Focus (III)

After the charter was finalized, the camp became busy all of a sudden, and it proved that once the national machine was functioning, the efficiency was not generally high, Zhuang Rui just briefly mentioned the underground situation to Prof. Meng yesterday, and a lot of related equipments were already prepared for this day.

Five sets of diving equipment representing the most advanced level of the country, placed in front of Zhuang Rui and others, as well as a variety of wireless equipment and lighting systems that can work continuously for more than seventy-two hours, are all to be brought down this time.

If not for the preliminary survey, it is estimated that even the bulky diesel generator to bring down.

In addition, there are five sets of clothes specially used for dangerous work, according to the relevant professionals, these clothes can resist the erosion of strong acid in a short period of time, used for Zhuang Rui and others to pass through the passageway with “slugs” hanging on the rock wall.

In addition to Zhuang Rui, the people who followed him into the water this time are all young scientists who have a certain status in the domestic archaeological or historical circles, and the main criterion for selecting the team members this time is that they must be strong and healthy.

This is also something that can not be helped, the bottom of the lake is rough, can not let the seventy or eighty-year-old Professor Meng and young people like diving into the dark river, right? Of course, this young is also relative, the oldest one is also forty-eight or ninety years old.

Ren Chunqiang was the second person to enter the underground dark river, coupled with his age advantage, he also had the honor of becoming a member of this exploration squad, and within the other three people, there was also a professional who debugged the wireless equipment.

Through Zhuang Rui and other people carry underwater camera, the shore line of people clearly see the situation at the bottom of the lake, this is to let them marvel, if not Zhuang Rui’s “mistake”, anyone can not be found in the grassy bottom of the lake, will actually be hidden in such a shocking secret.

With professional diving equipment, into the lake waterway becomes very easy, a few minutes later, Zhuang Rui with four people smoothly through the waterway, into the dark river.

After hanging a few lights on the rock wall, the situation inside the cave suddenly appeared clearly in the ground monitor, the camera is aimed at the underground pile of gold cake.

Counting the various dynasties in China, the Yuan Dynasty is an era that has left the least historical imprints, whether it is the items or cultural heritage, are few and far between, the immediate appearance of these items with a strong Yuan Dynasty color, suddenly let the ground of the scientific researchers excited.

That old Mongolian linguist with half of his teeth lost, looking at the piece of gold cake that was pulled close to the camera, was even more excited and almost dancing with his hands.

“Zhuang Rui, you guys go forward a bit to the one with the strong acid and take a look.” From his temporary command headquarters on the ground, Professor Meng issued instructions to the exploration squad below.

“Understood.”

Zhuang Rui nodded his head in agreement and led the four people to the depths of the river, this time, several people were wearing one-piece clothes and boots, the speed of travel was much faster than when Zhuang Rui first came in, more than ten minutes later, he came to the top of the rock wall dissatisfied with the densely packed “slugs” place.

“This is a phenomenon unique to karst landscapes.”

“That’s right, these objects do have strong acids within them.”

After seeing those “slugs” at the top of the rock wall, the two geologists at the scene gave an answer, this phenomenon is extremely common in karst landscapes, and is caused by changes in soil and rock structure.

“Both of you, I would like to know if people can pass through here without any defense measures?”

Professor Meng asked the two geologists, all the times he was concerned were related to archaeology, this kind of geomorphic phenomenon had definitely existed for more than a thousand years, and it should have been already there when the mausoleum was built.

So it gives rise to a problem, if those people a thousand years ago could not pass through here, the mausoleum is absolutely impossible in the depths of the dark river, and deeper, whether there is a mausoleum inside is questionable.

In fact, from the camera to observe the underground situation, many experts present, for the depth of the dark river whether there is Mongolia emperor mausoleum, has begun to hold reservations.

Because some parts of the dark river channel is very narrow, simply can not be used to build the mausoleum materials transported over, of course, the field of the crowd who did not think, here but only at that time those craftsmen an escape route.

A geological expert observed through the camera for a while, said: “as long as attention is paid to a point, people can pass, the formation of these strong acid substances, need a long time, a drop may take years or decades, otherwise the underground is not a river but a strong acid flow. If the human body accidentally comes into contact with those strong acids, it only needs to be rinsed with water in time, as long as it’s not a strong acid rain, it’s not fatal.”

“Alright, Zhuang Rui, you guys pass through this area and continue traveling inside.” After receiving the geologist’s reply, Professor Meng gave instructions.

With the protection of the protective clothing on his body, Zhuang Rui and his group quickly passed through this area of strong acid and continued to travel deeper into the dark river, and in some of the places where the terrain was narrower, a few more traces of man-made excavations were found.

All of this makes the people on the ground are very puzzled, saying that there is no mausoleum below, right? These traces and show that there have been human activities here, but to say that want to build an imperial mausoleum through this dark river, that is simply a fantasy.

Traveled about seven or eight hundred meters, the underground dark river appeared fork, but fortunately, at the fork there are obvious man-made marks, which also allows Zhuang Rui to save a lot of work, or else directly bring the crowd into the correct river, may be someone will think about it!

Although the straight line distance on the ground, from the entrance of the dark river to the mausoleum secret passage, only a short three or four miles, but in the complex and winding terrain of the cave dark river, this distance is unlimited enlargement.

Plus in the dark river, there are also many do not know whether the poisonous underground creatures, but also slowed down the speed of Zhuang Rui and others, in some places need to be surveyed while moving forward.

A group of people walked nearly ten hours, in the middle of the rest three or four times, until the ground is already the time of the dark sky, only came to the exit of the secret passage of the tomb.

The exit of the secret passageway was in an open area of the dark river where the water flowed swiftly.

Since this was an exit rather than an entrance for escape, those craftsmen did not cover up the place, the traces of artificial excavation were very obvious, Zhuang Rui and the others did not take much effort to discover the hole that was covered with ringworm moss.

“Thief hole?”

In the ground is already boiling red eyes of the experts, after seeing that hole, can not help but unanimously issued this voice, they are all archaeological experts, have rich field excavation experience, for such holes are not strange.

The appearance of this hole, but also some experts in the heart of the doubts to dispel.

There is a hole, there must be a large tomb, which is common knowledge for the archaeological community, especially in the underground such a mysterious and unpredictable place, the burial on the other side of the hole, I think it will not be simple.

However, the appearance of the robbing hole also indicated that the tomb had most likely been damaged, which made the hearts of the many experts also have mixed surprises.

“Zhuang Rui, your work for today has been completed, you can now return the way you came.”

After the people in the temporary command center on the ground deliberated for a while, they decided to withdraw the underground survey team, because if they rashly entered the tomb through the robbing hole, they would face many unknown dangers, and the next survey would have to do a lot of thorough work before they could proceed.

And Zhuang Rui and others did not carry some of the necessary equipment to protect the burial goods, will also cause damage to some of the precious cultural relics in the tomb.

When Zhuang Rui and his party returned to the ground, it was already more than twelve o’clock in the morning, but a group of scientific research experts inside the big tent had no sleep and were having a heated discussion.

After hastily replenishing some drinking water and food, the exhausted Zhuang Rui and the others, were also called into the tent, as the first batch of expedition members under the supervision of the relevant departments, they would all be part of this excavation.

“Now basically it has been determined that there is indeed a large tomb underneath this ground, initially identified as a bit of Mongolian emperor’s tomb, but the identity of the owner of the tomb, there is still to be further investigation, I suggest that the excavation can be set up for this excavation of the relevant commanding department, to unify and coordinate the follow-up work.”

After some discussion and argumentation, Prof. Meng announced the establishment of the Mongolian Emperor Tomb Excavation Command, due to today’s date is July 28th, this scientific research act is also named “7-28 Inner Mongolia Major Scientific Research Project”.

All the people present, including the initial and Zhuang Rui together with the discovery of the dark river at the bottom of the lake Bartels and other people, were also included in the scientific research working group, which also has Bartels and the local people to coordinate the work of the consideration.

In addition, Ouyang Zhenwu became the chief commander of the excavation, but he was busy with things and had to return to Beijing first thing tomorrow morning, so Prof. Meng became the chief on-site commander of the operation.

As for the deputy commanders, there were six of them, including a leader of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and several well-known experts in the field of domestic archaeology.

As the discoverer of the tomb, Zhuang Rui in Professor Meng’s nomination, also became a deputy commander-in-chief of the action, which is a little unexpected for Zhuang Rui.

However, Zhuang Rui had previously discovered a large number of valuable cultural relics and historical materials unearthed in Liu Xiu’s tomb, and there are Peking man skull fossils and Song Dynasty shipwrecks of the two achievements, in the domestic science and research community is also a small reputation.

Coupled with the fact that this tomb was discovered by him, there was no objection from the side, and the framework of the command was structured in this way.

Such a far-reaching scientific research project must be announced to the world, so Minister Ouyang’s task is to return to Beijing, immediately held a press conference to announce the news to the world.

This remote place located deep in the prairie will surely become the focus of the world.