"Zhou Cang, what happened?" Zhang Jisheng looked at me and asked in confusion.
I put the phone into the waterproof bag, along with the dark red stone piece, and then put it into the inner pocket of the diving suit. I replied: "Before I set out for Poyang Lake, I asked the old owner of the city museum
I asked some questions, and this phone call he made was to answer those questions of mine."
"Oh, that's right. If there's no problem, let's get ready to go into the water." Zhang Jisheng could see that I didn't want to answer his question, so he wisely changed the subject.
"Suddenly the wind has picked up, and the sky on the lake looks like it is about to change. I see black clouds rolling in from a distance. Do you want to change the time? I feel that it may be dangerous to enter the water rashly at this time." Lao Li frowned.
Staring at the lake wrinkledly.
"It's okay. At this time, there are a lot less boats on the lake, so our underwater archaeological activities won't attract too much attention." Zhang Jisheng said. "Besides, it's raining on the lake, so it may be calm underwater."
"I agree with Jisheng's statement. If what Miao Zhu said is true, then in this extreme weather, if we conduct underwater archeology, we may have a greater chance of obtaining more useful information." Xiangyu said.
I didn’t want to reschedule originally, and even a weak woman like Xiangyu thought this kind of weather was okay, so I, a grown man, couldn’t be timid, so I also said, “I don’t think it’s a problem, anyway, we
It's aerobic diving, there's nothing dangerous about it."
Everyone hit it off, but Lao Li still felt uneasy and asked us to put down the guide rope. He said to us: "Although I don't have much diving experience, I still know that if something unexpected happens underwater, without the help of the guide rope,
It is very easy for people to get lost when they are nervous. Once they choose the wrong path underwater, they may not be able to return to the boat on time, causing the oxygen available for breathing to be exhausted in advance. Therefore, the guide rope is your key every time
The last life-saving straw for diving must be the guide rope. This is your way home."
We had to admire Lao Li's thoughtfulness, so everyone followed his arrangement and entered the water while placing the guide rope.
The oxygen tank he prepared for us this time is a tank containing 55% nitrogen and 15% oxygen. Its purpose is to prepare for replacement after diving to about 45 meters, because as the diving depth changes, the underwater
As the pressure increases, the lungs in the human body are squeezed and become smaller, and the demand for oxygen absorption decreases. If pure oxygen is inhaled, oxygen intoxication will occur.
When we went down to a depth of only five or six meters, the visibility began to decrease. Even though we were wearing strong flashlights on our heads, we could not see anything clearly. There was turbid mud all around, and we could only use our bare hands to see.
Groping in the mud.
"Jisheng, the visibility is too low, do you want to go down further?" Xiangyu's voice came from the intercom.
"Dive another ten meters or so and have a look. If this continues, we'll go up first. Zhou Cang, do you think it's feasible?" Zhang Jisheng said.
"No problem," I replied, giving them an OK sign.
After we went downstream for about ten meters, the water that had been mixed with silt suddenly became clear, and the surrounding scenery was suddenly clearly visible.
"Finally, the clouds have cleared and the moon is bright." Xiang Yu said half-jokingly. "Why does this lake seem to be separated by a layer? The boundary between clear and turbid is so obvious. There is no need to overdo it."
"Have you ever found it strange that the water quality here looks particularly good, but why didn't you see any fish at this level?" I asked in confusion.
"When you say it, I really think it's a bit strange. Just now, there were schools of fish swimming in the mud, but there aren't any fish here. It's really strange." Zhang Jisheng said.
"Zhou Cang, Jisheng, look, there seem to be some huge wolf-shaped boulders in front of you. Let's go over and have a look." Xiang Yu said, pointing not far ahead.
The hernia lamp on her head illuminated the place pointed by her finger, and there were indeed some stone pillars with very sharp tops.
We swam over and found that there was an island at the bottom of the lake that was made up of huge rocks. The boulders we saw from a distance that looked like wolf teeth surrounded the island in the middle.
"Is it possible that what the temple Zhu said is true? There is really an ancient city hidden under the waters of Laoye Temple." Zhang Jisheng said excitedly. "If this is the case, then this will definitely be another big news that shocks the entire archaeological world.
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"Not necessarily. I think these gravels may be the product of geological movements." Instead, Xiangyu said calmly.
"I don't think it's likely to be a natural formation. Look, the size of the stone pillars and the spacing between them have such obvious artificial traces." I said,
"Don't speculate, let the facts tell us. If it is really an ancient city, then there must be something humanistic left in it." Zhang Jisheng said and swam forward.
"Look at the faint textures on the boulder that appear behind the water plants. It's obvious that they are not naturally formed, but were painted on them." I said, swam forward and pulled off the water plants attached to the boulder.
Come down a little and let the boulder reveal its true colors.
Sure enough, there are some colorful rock paintings inside.
"Please help me cut off the water plants on the boulder, so that we can clearly see what the mural is about?" Zhang Jisheng said, having already pulled out his short saber and was about to cut off the water plants on it.
When we saw this, we all took out our short sabers and kept cutting the water plants.
After arriving for about half an hour, we found a stone pillar of about sixty or seventy square meters exposed in front of us, with a relatively complete mural painted on it.
The burnt gray stone pillars are covered with characters and scenery painted with colorful paints. The size of the picture almost refers to the volume of the original object, so it is lifelike.
We swam a little further back so that we could have a full view of the murals on the part of the stone pillar that appeared in front of us.
The lines and colors all over the wall are very different from the reliefs in ancient temples. We feel like we are wrapped in beauty. It is a kind of vivid beauty. It uses a realistic technique to show the beauty of the real life of this race.
The picture is roughly like this. The king of an ethnic group is praying to the god with the head of a human and the body of a snake sitting high in the clouds. He is probably praying for good weather and good luck so that his people can live and work in peace and contentment.
The wind and thunder roared under the God, and auspicious rain fell from the sky. Splashes of water began to appear in the dry lake. The tribesmen lying on the ground couldn't help raising their hands above their heads, clapping their hands and cheering.
In order to thank the gods for their great kindness, the king invited the Lord of the Twelve Hours to come and sing for the gods. Sheng Dan Jing Mo Chou did his best and won the applause of the whole house.
The rock painting in front of us is probably due to space limitations, so in the whole painting, only the gods and immortals can be seen from the front, and other figures, including the kings of this race and their people, can only be seen from the back.
, Therefore, in this mural, it is temporarily impossible to tell whether these people in the painting are the descendants of the Yufu King and the mermaid tribe, as the temple blessing said, but what is certain is that the underground water area of the Laoye Temple
, there must have been a civilization.
"Look, this rock painting seems to be praying for rain, and it seems to have succeeded." Xiangyu pointed at the auspicious clouds above and said. "I wonder what kind of special paint they used, which can actually make it rain."
The bottom of the lake has stood for hundreds or thousands of years, and it is already filled with water plants and will not fade."
Xiangyu said, swam a little further, and then said to us a little excitedly: "Zhou Cang, Jisheng, I discovered an interesting phenomenon. The statue with a human head and a snake body sitting on top of the auspicious cloud.
The head will lower, raise, and swing left and right according to the direction we are in. I don’t know what kind of principle this is, do you know?"
Since the distance between Xiangyu and the mural was very close, the overhead lamp could illuminate part of the mural clearly. Zhang Jisheng and I noticed something was wrong with the mural almost at the same time.
"Xiangyu, swim back quickly, the rock paintings are weird." I shouted hurriedly.
However, almost at the same time as I shouted the words, a loud buzzing sound suddenly came from the intercom. Inadvertently, my eardrums were almost shattered.
Xiangyu didn't hear our shouting. She was too close to the mural and was still observing the paint on the mural, so she didn't notice the changes in the mural——
The statue of a human head and a snake body above Xiangyun, at this moment, a living human face, through the thin layer of paint on the mural, is fully presented in front of us. It is a moving human face, at this moment, it is
He bared his teeth and stared down at the Xiang Yu who was touching the twelve hour figures on the mural with his hands.
Reflexively, I rushed forward to pull Xiangyu back.
At this time, Zhang Jisheng swam to my side and gestured with his hands, as if he wanted to express some emergency to me.
Our walkie-talkie was pregnant, and there was a mask on his face, so I couldn't understand what Zhang Jisheng wanted to say. He gestured for a long time, and maybe he felt that he was playing the piano to an ox, so he simply pulled the traction rope on his body into my hand.
When I saw it, I was shocked. There were many jagged cracks on our guide rope, as if it had been cut by some sharp metal piece.
The most important thing is that the length shown on the traction rope does not seem to match the depth of our dive.
Xiangyu must have discovered the existence of the human face. Her body shook violently and she was about to swim back. However, her feet were entangled in water plants at some point, and she lost her balance.
It's impossible to break free.
At this time, the traction rope on Xiangyu's body suddenly broke, and her whole body was sucked into the stone pillar.