After the team went down to the bottom of the river, they quickly approached the stone house complex.
There was a fishy smell of seaweed mud in the air.
The bluestone road under the feet is also covered with thick moss, which is slippery and difficult to walk on.
These people are strictly disciplined, no noise is made, and no one communicates in private.
They all followed closely behind the unibrowed middle-aged man called Shen Dui, vigilant all around.
When stepping into the area of the stone house complex, one can see that the surroundings are full of collapsed ruins. Almost all the stone houses have been destroyed, only two solitary ones are still standing in the middle.
"Search."
Everyone scattered and began to carefully search the buildings left by the ancients.
Team Shen, with a few people around him, a total of ten or so people, personally searched for the only two intact stone houses in the middle of the group of stone houses.
When I approached the two stone houses, I found that the design of the stone houses was very strange, and there was no window, only a bronze door with two pages. After such a long period of immersion and corrosion in the river water, the bronze door has long been covered with a layer of patina green.
At this moment, among the two stone houses, one bronze door is intact, but the bronze door of the other stone house has been damaged and collapsed due to long-term soaking. Looking from the outside to the inside of the house, it is pitch black and you can’t see your fingers. You can only vaguely see the deposits at the door. There is a lot of river bottom sediment.
"Li Heng, take a few people over to clean up that stone house and see if you can find anything. I'll continue to search the stone house in front of me."
The team of ten or so people was divided into two.
With the rest of the team, Team Shen began to clean up the sand on the intact bronze door to see if there were any clues. He was calm and steady, and did not rush to open the door and enter without knowing the situation.
However, these people are not archaeologists after all, and the cleaning action is inevitably a bit rough, but the speed is better, and the cleaning was completed quickly, and clues were found on the bronze door.
The ancients have always respected the bronze ware culture and often used bronze ware as sacrificial vessels. For example, when princes and generals were buried, there were many bronze ware among the funeral objects. And on the bronze door in front of him, there is a suspected person's life and past engraved on it.
However, after being exposed to the harsh and humid environment for a long time, the surface of the bronze has been severely corroded, and the carvings have been destroyed in a large area, which can only be seen vaguely. The beginning seems to be unfolded by a man.
But there is a large blur in the middle.
So the eyes jumped directly to the end, and finally made a new discovery.
There are two parts of the body cut in half on the carving, and a few thin lines are carved on the wound, which seems to show that the person who was cut in half was still alive at that time, and the thin lines represent fresh blood.
Then two coffins appeared, and a group of people began to lift the two corpses that were still bleeding.
Then the screen is broken.
When I saw the picture again, it was engraved with someone lifting a hammer and nailing the coffin lid to death.
The picture behind it was completely destroyed, and it was completely impossible to see what was described behind it.
I didn't see where the two coffins were finally buried.
"If the man at the beginning is the one who was cut in half as mentioned in the carving, it seems that this man has just been cut in half, he is still alive and bleeding, and then he was brutally sealed into two coffins and the lids were crucified. Smothered in a coffin."
"Is this cut in half and buried alive?" Dui Shen's eyebrows were already tightly knit together, his face extremely serious.
Whether it is beheaded in half or buried alive, it is extremely cruel torture.
Who exactly was this man, what kind of powerful person did he offend, and he was subjected to two kinds of cruel torture at the same time? It is conceivable how much resentment he had before he died.
No wonder it will be buried at the bottom of the river and sink into the nether world forever.
The others were very disciplined, and none of them answered. Team Shen thought for a while, then picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Old Yan, I found some interesting clues on these stone houses. Have you found anything over there?"
On the other end of the intercom, a reply came quickly: "Did you also find the carvings on the bronze door on your side?"
"It seems that you have also made a discovery." Team Shen said as he ordered people to open the bronze door.
At this time, Captain Yan said mysteriously: "Let me give you another clue. Look carefully at the orientation of these stone houses. Have you noticed that these stone houses are not facing north and south, but all of them are facing east and west?"
Hearing this, Team Shen's complexion changed drastically.
Quickly raised his head to check carefully, no matter whether it was collapsed or not, the stone houses were all facing east and west.
There is a folk saying that if the gate faces south, the children and grandchildren will not be cold; if the gate faces west, there will be noise and crying.
It means that the gate faces west, the lighting is extremely poor, the sun cannot be seen all day long, and the house is cold and extremely cold.
There are also folk rumors that newborn babies can see things that ordinary people cannot see, so they often cry when they are young, because they are frightened by seeing terrible things. The gate faces west, making noise and crying, which means this.
The reason why Team Shen's face changed drastically was because he thought that the stone house complex under the river might not be reserved for the people who built the mausoleum back then!
It is very likely that there are other uses!
As they dug deeper, Team Shen began to feel that the things buried under the river were too deep, and they were gradually exceeding everyone's expectations.
Just when he was worried, Captain Yan's exclamation came from the intercom.
"Huh? This is...old man, you would never have imagined that I have made a major discovery here!"
"What did you find?" Team Shen cheered up.
However, in the intercom that followed, there was a dead silence, as if the signal was interrupted.
Team Shen immediately had a bad feeling.
But his eyes were calm, and instead of yelling into the walkie-talkie, he held his breath and waited quietly for a reply. At the same time, he kept everyone around him quiet.
Ten seconds... twenty seconds... one minute, whoo, whoo, the intercom was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, only the sound of Team Shen breathing.
Slightly, slightly...suddenly! A strange sound came from the walkie-talkie, like the sound of twisted bones.
Slightly, slightly...
The voice continued to come, and Team Shen suddenly changed his expression.
"run!"
Captain Yan's weak voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie, but he stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking. He was yelling at Team Shen to run away, telling Team Shen to lead people to evacuate quickly!
Team Shen had pain and sadness in his eyes, but he ordered everyone to withdraw from the bottom of the river immediately and go ashore immediately.
However, at this juncture, someone discovered that Li Heng and others who went to another stone house to search for clues had not moved since entering the stone house.
Team Shen immediately led people to look for it.
In the end, no trace of Li Heng and others was found. When I asked other people nearby, they also said that after Li Heng and others entered the stone house, they never came out again.
For a while, no one was alive, no dead body was seen, and five or six living people disappeared under the noses of all of them.
When everyone was looking for the missing people, someone exclaimed: "When did this fog appear at the bottom of the river!"
(end of this chapter)