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Chapter 12 Digester, Huangquan Road...
Before entering the mountain, everyone saw Abu walking down the mountain at the foot of the mountain with a basket on his back.
Although there were seven of them, Abu only saw Bao Le, and ran over excitedly to say hello to her.He said: "I didn't see you when I went to Meiduo's house after yesterday. Meiduo said that you went underground, which made me worry for a long time."
Seeing them carrying luggage, they asked again: "Are you going into the mountains? My father is in the tea garden, I'll call him."
"No need," Shen Wangyan refused, "We just looked around casually, and brought the map we made during the previous exploration, you are busy with your work."
Abu nodded, turned around and continued to talk to Bao Le with a playful smile: "I picked mushrooms and planned to make mushroom sauce. It's my birthday on Thursday, are you coming?"
Bao Le hesitated: "I'm busy recently."
Abu looked disappointed.
"Okay, if it's okay..."
Before Bao Le finished speaking, someone shouted "Wang Pubu" in the distance, and Abu raised his head and waved to the distance."My mother came to see me, so it's settled, you must come on Thursday." The young man gave Bao Le instructions with a smile, and ran away.
Shen Wangyan looked back at her and couldn't help saying: "You are liked by little boys."
"It's like how old you are. He looks like he is in his twenties. How dare you ask Master Shen Guigeng." Bao Le turned his head and followed his pace.
The young master snorted coldly: "My time is precious, so I'm not on the same age scale as you."
Bao Le was taken aback for a moment, but Young Master Shen ignored her, and just quickened his pace, leaving the little girl behind.
"What do you mean, young master?" Bao Le asked Shen San behind her.
Shen San shook his head innocently, expressing that he didn't know anything.
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The crowd shuttled through the forest for a while, and they climbed to the halfway up the mountain. The sky became cloudy, and it rained lightly after a while.Although it was much cooler in rainy days than in sunny days, the air pressure was lower, and the unbearable sweltering heat now became stuffy, and Bao Le almost couldn't breathe.
Their current location is closer to the center of the mountain, and the woods are denser.Ordinary villagers would not go into such a deep place, and the surrounding environment was full of unknowns.
"This should be the location indicated on the map."
Jiang Ning obviously didn't agree with Shen Wangyan's words: "Didn't it mean that the inspection team that came first found the entrance? It doesn't look like there is an entrance here."
Young Master Shen raised his eyebrows: "Are you doubting my professionalism?"โโOtherwise, you'll come looking for me.Young Master Shen didn't say this, but Jiang Ning heard what he meant.She definitely didn't have the ability to find the entrance. In fact, among them, if even Shen Wangyan couldn't find the entrance, then it was even more impossible for them to find it.
Jiang Ning put on a "please" gesture and let Young Master Shen continue to express her views.
"Shen San, dig here." Shen Wangyan first pointed to the nearest big tree, and then pointed to the surrounding trees, "You guys, dig here."
Several servants of the Shen family took out their shovels from their bags and dug hard.
While they were looking for the entrance, Bao Le casually found a tree root to rest on.Her face was flushed with boredom, and she felt that after a while, the whole person would be familiar.
"There are no bugs here, you can unbutton the collar." Shen Wangyan walked over and handed her a pot of water.
Bao Le obediently removed two pills, and immediately felt that he could breathe.While drinking water, she looked at this Young Master Shen. His complexion was normal, his heartbeat was normal, and his breathing was normal. He didn't feel a little sick, and he was even in a much better state than her.
"Aren't you in poor health?" She finally raised the doubts that had been pent up in her heart for several days.
Shen Wangyan smiled: "My body is much better than yours. With your physical fitness, can you pass the 800 meters in college sports?"
Bao Le raised his chest: "It must be. Passing the line is my strong point."
She was quite proud, Young Master Shen had never seen such a cheeky one.
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After a while, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the dense leaves in the woods could not cover the rain. Baole felt that his clothes were half damp and very uncomfortable.They don't bring umbrellas when they go out, because the clothes have hoods, and it is more convenient to put on the hat than to hold an umbrella. Only the delicate Bao Le feels that the rain is uncomfortable.
But in fact, not everyone didn't bring an umbrella, Jiang Ning stood not far behind her holding an umbrella.Her umbrella is not ordinary at first glance. The ribs made of special metal can make a crisp sound like wind chimes when opened and closed.The umbrella surface has no texture, monochrome and all white, and it can easily accommodate two people when it is opened. don't know what to do, but she is sure that the function is not only waterproof or sunshade.
Bao Le quickly approached her.
Jiang Ning glanced at her.
"Squeeze." The little girl hugged the big beauty's legs with a face full of mischief.
...
About half an hour later, Shen San said that the entrance was dug, but the entrance stairs hidden under the soil layer were not complete, and it was not clear how high it was.
"It should be a landslide on the mountain, which buried the entrance dug before. But the stairs are too damaged, no wonder the previous archaeological team didn't dare to go down easily." Shen San said towards the hole that was dug out a person wide.
After confirming the entrance, Shen Wangyan asked two people to pitch a tent nearby, set up the equipment, and left another person to guard.
"You wait here for the analysis results from the hotel, and you can contact me anytime if you need anything."
Shen Wangyan looked at the rest of the people: "Find a rope, let's go down."
"I don't know how deep this hole is." Shen San took out a pyrotechnic stick from his pocket, "Master, I'll throw a fire down to have a look, just to test the air condition below."
Shen Wangyan nodded, but before Shen San lit the fireworks stick, Jun Zhi stopped him.
Jiang Ning happened to come over, frowned, covered her nose: "Marsh gas."
Shen San was surprised: "Isn't it? This is a mountain forest, and there are tombs and palaces below. How could there be methane gas? Why didn't I smell anything?"
Shen Wangyan also had this doubt, his eyes fell on Jun Zhi, as if he was asking.
Jun Zhi didn't speak, but nodded in agreement with Jiang Ning's statement.
Young Master Shen stood up and clapped his hands: "Shen San, go get the gas detection equipment."
The instruments they used for this operation are very complete. In addition to the basic tools brought to Guyu Township together, the archaeological team later sent them a lot of professional analysis and testing instruments.Fortunately, there is this instrument specially used to detect the composition of the air. The concentration of methane under the cave has completely reached the range that can explode. The consequences of throwing sparks at this point will be disastrous.
Shen San asked: "With this biogas concentration, there is a high probability that there is a biogas digester below. Should we find another entrance to go down?"
"This soil is new." Shen Wangyan squatted down, touched the soil that Shen San had piled up around the entrance of the cave, thoughtfully.
Shen San couldn't keep up with their young master's brain circuit. Originally, the landslide piled up the soil at the entrance of the cave, and it was understandable that the color was newer, but their young master didn't seem to think so.
Shen Wangyan stood up again, and said seriously: "Turn up the exhaust fan from the hotel."
Bao Le is amazed, this is okay, their equipment is too complete!
When the biogas in the cave was almost exhausted, Jun Zhi changed into a pair of half leather gloves, fastened the buckles, walked to Shen Wangyan, and nodded to him.
"There may be a biogas tank below." Shen Wangyan tied the safety rope for him himself, "Be careful."
After Jun Zhi went down, Bao Le asked Jiang Ning: "Every time you encounter danger and need to find the way, is Jun Zhi the first one to go?"
"That's uncertain, it depends on who goes second. If it was me, he would definitely go behind me." Jiang Ning showed a cruel expression, as if recalling some bad past.
Bao Le felt embarrassed for a while when he thought that he, a rookie like himself, could only walk in the middle, and was dragging his legs backwards and forwards.But then again, using people as a tool to find the way is somewhat too cruel and cold-blooded. Just like Shen San said, they can find another way if they are not sure about the specific situation below.She didn't quite understand Shen Wangyan's judgment, but re-finding the way might not be an effective and feasible method. When she was away from home, she chose to follow the instructions.
"Don't worry, just like Shen Wangyan believes that Jun Zhi can go first," Jiang Ning said, "Jun Zhi also believes in every judgment made by Shen Wangyan."
Bao Le thought about it.
The corner of Jiang Ning's mouth twitched: "My intuition tells me that you are not thinking of anything good."
The little girl's eyes were shining golden light: "How can there be, socialist brotherhood, I understand, I understand!"
"..."
Jiang Damei thought about it, and decided not to talk to fools, so as not to be infected.
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Three minutes later, Jun Zhi sent back a "safe" signal flare from the ground.
Everyone repacked and went down one by one along the climbing rope.Bao Le thought, sliding down should be easier than climbing up, at least it should save effort, fastened the safety buckle confidently, and glanced down the cave.The first batch of people who went down lit the light below. Through the light and the proportion of the characters, it is estimated that they are five or six meters high, which is not too high.
But she found herself still afraid.After hesitating at the entrance of the cave for a long time, seeing that everyone except Shen Wangyan and Jiang Ning had almost gone down, the little girl was still moaning, desperately trying to build herself up mentally.
Shen Wangyan checked the safety rope for her, and said a few words by the way: "Grab the rope with the palm of your hand when you are about to fall. You are wearing gloves, which can play the role of friction and deceleration. Don't touch the skin. If you don't want your hands toGet rid of it."
Bao Le listened carefully to the teaching, wishing he could take a notebook to take notes on the spot.
"By the way," Shen Wangyan asked her with a very malicious smile, "Are you afraid of heights?"
Before Bao Le could finish saying "no", she felt Young Master Shen push her on the back shoulder.The little girl, who didn't react at all, screamed and fell into the hole, and almost instinctively grabbed the safety rope. The friction between the rope and the glove made her palms burn, but all her attention was on the rapid fall.Come to the sense of weightlessness.
Bao Le's screams almost resounded throughout the forest.
Jun Zhi turned his head abruptly, and helped her before her buttocks hit the ground.
The culprit, Young Master Shen, also slid down another climbing rope, with an elegant posture and a playful face.Bao Le almost didn't fight him hard, but considering that this was her boss and she hadn't paid her salary yet, she decided to keep the accounts first.
Jiang Ning, who was last in line over there, also came down smoothly, but she didn't even tie the safety rope.
Bao Le happened to turn around, and Jiang Ning "floats" down from above with an umbrella, it really "floats", as if there is no gravity.This is not a question of good-looking or not, because she is extremely beautiful, but if someone with her appearance falls from the sky like this, one has to exclaim that she is a fairy.Bao Le mainly felt that she was able to jump from a height of five or six meters with only an umbrella without any damage, which is beyond the scope of human beings.
Jiang Ning put away her umbrella, turned her head and saw Bao Le staring at her dully, smiling and pinching her soft face with her red nails.
"You look stupid?" She laughed at Bao Le.
Bao Le called out: "Fairy, fairy."
Jiang Ning raised her eyebrows, and said coldly next to her, "Maybe it's a female ghost."
Bao Le shuddered.
Over there, after everyone got down, Shen Wangyan used a flashlight to look at the place they were in now - an entrance to an underground passage that wasn't too wet.It's not particularly big, and besides that, there are some piles of dead leaves scattered in the corridor.
It's hard to imagine that this place was full of methane just now.
Compared with the one in Meiduo's house, the passageway in front can be regarded as spacious, and it is paved with bluestone floor tiles.The walls on both sides of the passage are made of solid stone slabs, and there is a bronze wall lamp every fifty centimeters.Bao Le took a flashlight to illuminate the interior, but he couldn't see the bottom of the corridor, and the corridor was not in a straight line. The place where the light finally hit was a wall panel to the right.In other words, the corridor is in the shape of a left arc.
Shen Wangyan took out the map, scanned the mountain before, and basically drew the outline of the tombs under the mountain.The corridor is a left arc, and the tomb at the end is a huge octagonal structure. The boundary between the ear chamber and the auxiliary chamber is not very obvious on the map. Of course, it may not be scanned, so a group of people have to be left in the hotel, continue to repeatedly measure the mountain structure.
Instrumental scanning and their artificial exploration can restore the most authentic appearance of the ancient tomb as much as possible.
Bao Le is more interested in the bronze wall lamps on the two walls.
The wall lamp is in the shape of a bull's head, the bull's eyes are as big as a camel bell, and the bull's mouth is opened to the greatest extent, revealing the oil lamp on the cow's tongue inside. To be honest, the bronze sculpture image can even be described as "sinister".Generally, in the Bashu culture, totem worship is mostly based on the tiger.The cow has always been a representative of farming in ancient China, and its simple and honest appearance is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This evil ghost cow lantern is somewhat interesting.
Bao Le saw that the oil in the lamp hadn't evaporated completely, and suddenly wanted to light it up, so he turned around and asked the team leader for advice.
Shen Wangyan touched his chin, and said to Shen San, "Lighter."
Shen San took out the lighter, found the nearest evil ghost bull lamp, and lit the wick on the lamp holder.After the wick was lit, it stood up little by little, and the wick emitted light from the two huge eyes of the bull, as if the eyes of the evil ghost were shining.
Bao Le hadn't researched the material of the wick yet, suddenly there was a sound of "puff puff puff" one after another, and the evil ghost bull lanterns in the entire corridor were lit one after another in less than a minute from near to far.
Looking from a distance, in the dark corridor, it seems that many evil ghosts with glowing eyes appeared at the same time.
In modern technology, various sensors are often used as organs, such as heat sensors, light sensors, water sensors and so on.But it is hard for you to imagine how in ancient times without these advanced technologies, craftsmen achieved such shocking effects through the linkage between various utensils.There are many such institutions, which have gradually disappeared in the long river of history.
"Yellow Springs Road." Jiang Ning sighed softly.
Shen Wangyan smiled: "I don't want people who step on this road to turn back."
Seeing what he said so confidently, the weak, pitiful and helpless Bao Le carefully retracted the legs that were about to step on the corridor.
"Let's go." Shen Wangyan said again.
The words "Are you serious" were almost written on Bao Le's face, full of rejection.So, Young Master Shen, you know that she is timid, so what are you doing to scare her?
Unsurprisingly, Jun Zhi walked first, and Shen Wangyan walked into the corridor following his steps.
Jiang Ning originally thought that with Baole's courage, she would definitely want to be the last one to go in, but before she was about to go in, the poor little girl who was always timid had a heart attack, and the third rushed into the tunnel.Jiang Ning was speechless, and followed Bao Le with a smile.