Chapter 96: Nine Que and Eighteen Caves

Zhou Xuanfu looked down at the entrance of the cave. The entrance was round, with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. He saw only three or four meters away. He went down and was black and pitch black. He could see nothing. The cold air flow from the inside could be clearly felt.

Zhou Xuan picked up a stone as big as a fist and threw it in, then turned his ears to listen carefully. The action lasted for more than a minute, but he still didn't hear the sound of the stone falling to the bottom.

Zhou Xuan shook his head. This unfathomable hole was different from the water hole that happened in the United States, but one thing was the same, that is, it was also a terrifying place.

Wei Xiaoqing also picked up a stone beside Zhou Xuan and imitated him to throw it down, and then listened.

Seeing that she was quite close to the cave, Zhou Xuan quickly pulled her back a little and said, "I don't know if I'm afraid of a girl's house!"

Wang Qiang and Wang Sheng brothers brought the tools they carried to the ground, checking the terrain near the entrance of the cave, while drawing lines on the paper. Zhou Xuan looked at it with interest, probably calculating the depth and direction distance of the entrance in the cave. What they have been doing for a long time is to drill holes.

The others looked at this bottomless deep cave, and then sat in the open space outside the cave entrance waiting for Li Jinlong and others to arrive.

After Wei Xiaoqing pulled Zhou Xuan backed away, she didn't hear the sound of the stones she threw falling from the bottom for a long time. She couldn't help but stretched out her tongue, with a look of fear on her face: "It's so deep!"

"That's more to say!" Li Quan is a local and knows much more about this cave. After listening to Wei Xiaoqing's words, he said, "In the cold winter, there will be fog in the cave, which is too much fog to cover the entire mountain. After the heavy rain in June, sometimes a rainbow will rise from the cave to the sky."

"Rainbow? Have you ever seen a rainbow come out of this hole?" Wei Xiaoqing asked in surprise. She had seen the rainbow, but she had never seen it where it came out.

Li Quan nodded and replied, "Yes, I have seen it with my own eyes. I have seen the rainbow that comes out of this cave and connects to the sky five or six times. Every time it is after a heavy rain. I heard from the old people that there are practicing demons in the cave to refine elixirs and exhale, and the rainbow is the demon's inner elixir!"

Zhou Xuan was a little funny. Although he was afraid of unknown things, he never believed the sayings of immortals, monsters and demons. He believed that there were superpowers in this world, aliens, and many strange things that he didn't know, but he never believed in the sayings of ghosts, gods and monsters.

Fu Ying also smiled and said: "The rainbow is caused by the dispersion and reflection of the sunlight when it hits small water droplets that are nearly circular in the air. When the sunlight hits the water droplets, it will be incident at different angles at the same time, and it will also be reflected at different angles in the water droplets. Among them, the reflection to about forty degrees is the strongest, forming the rainbow we see. When this reflection is formed, the sunlight enters the water droplets, refracts first, then reflects on the back of the water droplets, and then refracts again when leaving the water droplets. Because water has dispersion effect on light, the refractive index of light of different wavelengths is different, and the refractive angle of blue light is greater than that of red light. Since light is reflected in the water droplets, the spectrum we see is reversed, red light is at the top and other colors are below!"

Fu Ying's explanation can be said to be a direct and clear textbook form, and everyone can understand it.

How can Li Quan's understanding of scientific and cultural knowledge be as good as Fu Ying, who was taught in a foreign higher education institution?

But Li Quan also disagreed with Fu Ying's statement. In his opinion, the teacher's teaching may not be all right. For example, for ghosts and gods, they are the most particular about the tomb robbers. They steal things from dead people and have many rules for dead people, otherwise they will not be able to take away the things from dead people.

As time passed quickly, twenty minutes later, Li Jinlong and Li Yong and the others came with tools. About five minutes after they arrived, Ling Hui also arrived. With her, there were six or seven policemen in the bureau, bringing several large bags of cave exploration equipment.

Ling Hui also reported to the Lan senior management: "Chief, there are plainclothes police guarding them within 500 meters around Xiaoyang Mountain, so there will never be outsiders who can break in."

Ling Hui and several policemen who came together opened the bag and took out the equipment they brought, including strong lights, DV cameras, nylon ropes, wire pulleys, and a DV display receiver.

One of the police officers introduced: "Chief, this kind of steel wire pulley can be fixed on it. The length of the steel wire is one thousand meters and the load-bearing weight is four hundred kilograms. The speed of rising and falling can reach up to 35 meters per minute. When it is falling, the speed can be adjusted by itself."

Then he took out more than a dozen communication equipment as exquisite as mobile phones. The policeman introduced: "This is a wireless powerful intercom, shock-proof and water-proof. The communication distance can reach 2,000 meters, and under obstacles, it can reach 200 meters."

Finally, it was a batch of gas masks. It seemed that Director Wu had prepared their requirements very well.

In addition to all the tools needed to rob the tomb, Li Jinlong and others also brought a bamboo basket, a rooster, a horse tail lamp, and a piece of red cloth.

Zhou Xuan has seen that lamp. Some places are called horsetail lamps and some places are called horse lanterns. When I was young, I used the lamp when I was not powered on in my hometown. There was a glass cover on the outside, an iron oil box at the bottom, and kerosene was installed inside. After the lamp was lit, it was covered with a glass cover. The wind could not be blown out. This lamp is not common now because there are basically no places without power. Even if there is no power outage, there will be candle lighting.

Zhou Xuan still understood these things when he saw them, but he had seen them in his hometown.

In Zhou Xuan’s hometown, there are many sinkholes, but they are usually much larger than the ones now. They are not that small. The sinkhole in their hometown is hundreds of meters wide. When they were young, the old ox from Uncle Liu Er’s house next door was eating grass on the edge of the cliff in the back mountain sink, they fell into the sinkhole. Uncle Liu Er invited someone to pull the cow.

Zhou Xuan and more than a dozen children watched with him. They all had a sense of fear and curiosity about the sinkhole.

The people Liu Er invited first put a rooster and a lantern in a bamboo basket to put it down. Zhou Xuan heard at that time that the purpose of the lantern is to test whether there is oxygen air at the bottom of the sinkhole. When the lantern is on, the lamp needs air when it burns. If there is no air, the lamp will be turned off. The use of the rooster is basically the same. One is to test whether there is air at the bottom of the sinkhole, and the other is to test whether there are monsters or other things in the sinkhole. I heard that the old people talk about the old caves and the sinkhole. In those old caves, there are usually monsters practicing in the sinkhole. Putting the chickens down is to see if there are monsters. If there are any, it will swallow the chickens.

Li Jinlong lit the lantern first, covered the cover and put it in the bamboo basket. The rooster tied its feet and wings, unable to move, but just crooned.

There are three ears next to the bamboo basket. Li Jinlong tied the nylon rope to the three ears, and then wrapped the red cloth around the bamboo basket.

This has a name, called "Release Red!" Red means respecting God and warding off evil spirits.

After Li Jinlong made these things, he was about to put the bamboo basket into the hole. The Blue Higher Staff suddenly shouted: "Slow down!"

Li Jinlong was stunned and asked, "Do you still have to wait?"

The Blue High-level Manager shook his head, pointed to the bamboo basket and said, "Tie a strong light on the rope above the bamboo basket, then tie the DVD machine to see if you can see anything."

Li Jinlong suddenly realized that this would be better.

Immediately tied the dv and the bright light to the bamboo basket, turned on the bright light, and then slowly put it down. The rope was very long, almost 300 meters in one circle, and took a total of four circles.

The policeman who came with Ling Hui arranged the monitor and debugged it. The screen immediately showed an image of the direction facing the DV lens.

After putting the bamboo basket into the hole, it was put to about 100 meters and then I saw a little light like stars. After putting the ropes, the light could not be seen. However, the bamboo basket had not yet sunk to the end. Li Jinlong waved his hand and Li Feihu quickly dragged it over again, connected the knot, and then put it down again. Seeing the ropes put them down and disappeared in the hole, the people at the entrance couldn't help but gasp!

Zhou Xuan's head was also numb. In the United States, although the underwater Yinhe Cave was gloomy and terrifying, it was only more than 200 meters deep, which was not like this cave, and it really seemed like there was no bottom.

The flat direction facing the dv camera lens is not facing the downward direction, so what you see in the monitor is always the rock cliff.

Immediately afterwards, the third round of rope was almost finished. Li Feihu took the last round of rope and connected it. The people who turned the hole were all so dark that they didn't look very good.

The rope I put down was already nine hundred meters long. It was not even as deep as it was, what would happen if that person went down?

The four uncle, nephew and son-in-law of Li Jinlong and the brothers Wang Qiang were not very good. They were good tomb robbers. There were not a thousand holes and eight hundred holes to dig into the tomb, but they had never entered the sinkhole. After going down such a deep cave, the deeper the hole, the more they imagined. The more ropes were placed, the more fear they were.

When the last circle was about fifty meters, the pressure on the rope loosened, the monitor screen shook for a while, and then stabilized.

The policeman immediately shouted excitedly: "It's the end!"

Because it is too deep, it is impossible to adjust the direction of the lens even if you pull the rope. You can only see the side facing the lens. Under the illumination of the strong light, you can only see five or six meters away. It is obvious that the extension in front is obviously a horizontal cave, so dark that it is impossible to see.

`Next, everyone had to wait. Li Jinlong set the time to fifteen minutes. If there was no air at the bottom of the hole, fifteen minutes would be enough to try it out. It would be impossible for the rooster to live for fifteen minutes without air.

Watching the time pass by minute by minute, when it reaches fifteen minutes, Li Jinlong said in a deep voice: "Flying Tiger, Dagui, pull!"

Li Feihu responded with a strong force. At this moment, when the rope was lifted up, the lens moved and the monitor screen shook.

When Li Jinlong glanced at the screen, he waved his hand and said, "Flying Tiger, stop, don't move!"

Li Feihu and Wang Dagui were stunned, and then pulled the rope and stopped moving.

Li Jinlong looked at the screen carefully. At this time, the rock wall above the horizontal cave was displayed, and five large characters were engraved on the rock wall.

These five characters are difficult to recognize, they are both like seal characters and shapes. The first character is curved and looks a bit like a "nine" character!

But I couldn't recognize the ones behind me. Zhou Xuan looked at them for a while, and then looked at the others, but they couldn't recognize them either.

However, Li Jinlong's expression changed drastically. He took out a small cloth bag from his backpack with trembling trembling. The cloth color was dim, as if it was something from many years ago.

Li Jinlong opened the cloth bag layer by layer. In the eyes of everyone, he uncovered the last layer of cloth. One side was exposed. One side seemed to be a piece of cloth woven in thick linen. There was a picture on the cloth, but the picture was very strange and curved, as if it was an architectural picture, but it was completely different from the current architectural picture. There were five characters above the picture.

When he saw the word, Zhou Xuan was stunned and looked at the display screen. The five words on the rock wall on the screen were exactly the same as the five words on the picture!

Zhou Xuan's heart moved! Did he really happen to find the ancient city? He really found the treasure? And that terrifying strange stone from the sky? He was surprised and scared for a moment!

Of course, the surprise was that I caught Li Xinyuan’s wife and found the flaws and finally found the address of the disappeared ancient city!

Of course, what I am afraid of is the invisible alien stone. From the horror of the pocket coffin, you can imagine that the alien stone is even more terrifying. How should I deal with it?

After trying hard to calm down, Zhou Xuan held his breath and used ice gas to measure the picture in Li Jinlong's hand.

The result is indeed a year of 3,600 years!

It seems that the authenticity of this legend is a bit credible!

Li Jinlong held the picture and was stunned for a while. After recovering from his emotions, he looked at everyone's eyes, all looking at him.

After Li Jinlong took a deep breath, he trembled and said in a trembling voice: "Lan Highlander, I guess, this is indeed the entrance to the treasure of the ancient city!"

Although the blue high-level expression was a little excited, it was much calmer than the others. He said in a deep voice: "Tell me!"

"Look." Li Jinlong pointed to the five words on the screen and said, "Look, the five words on the rock wall are exactly the same as the five words on my picture. These words are called 'Nine Curves and Eighteen Caves'!"

"Nine Curves and Eighteen Caves? What is this? What does it mean?" Senior Lan asked, staring at the screen.

Li Jinlong was indeed excited, his hands were still trembling, and his voice was also trembling: "Nine Qu Eighteen Caves, that is me... the most profound craftsmanship technology of our ancestors of the Li family. Nine Qu Eighteen Caves is the name of this craft, which represents the highest craftsmanship of the Feng Shui mechanism for building a tomb!"

Li Jinlong tried to calm himself down again, and then continued: "This picture is one of the craft drawings of the Nine Curves and Eighteen Caves inherited by my ancestors. This picture is actually just a general plan, and the drawings and techniques for making and constructing have been lost. However, I can be sure that the entrance is the address of the treasure of the ancient city, because my ancestor's quilt, Tang Wangzheng went to build this ancient tomb, and the five words on the rock wall in this cave can be confirmed in terms of strokes and brushwork. It is exactly the same as the picture of my ancestor, that is," he said.
Chapter completed!