The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 54

In the end, I didn't know where I climbed to, because the trend of the snake cave was too weird, and the depth was so deep that people even blurred the direction. The only good thing was that the snake cave I was in at the moment had changed. The width is relatively wide, and people no longer need to crawl with their whole body on the ground, they can crawl with their knees bent, and when necessary, they can also turn around directly.

After crawling for a long time, the joints of my limbs were bent for too long, and they seemed to be stiff. Just when I couldn't support myself and wanted to stop to catch my breath, I suddenly heard a very slight movement.

As I said, my ears are very sensitive, and the movement is very small. If Wang Zehai and others were in this environment, they would definitely not be able to hear them, but they couldn't escape my ears.

After listening carefully for a while, I was surprised to find that it was the sound of water!

Why is there the sound of water in this snake cave?

I was startled, and not forgetting to be tired for a while, I immediately continued to climb along the entrance of the cave. The snake cave became wider and wider as I went forward. Finally, the whole snake cave suddenly expanded to a full height of a person. At the same time, I felt The soil under my feet has become very hard. Since I am crawling, this hard feeling is obvious, and it hurts to kneel on it.

I pulled the ground with my hands, and a thin layer of soil was removed, exposing the rocks below.

I froze for a moment, I know that the yellow sand in the desert is just the surface layer after the weathering of rocks, generally speaking, there is a small amount of soil layer under the desert, and then the lithosphere, and in deeper places, it is said that there are "ancient underground waterways", But I didn't expect that I had already climbed to the rock circle?
At this time, I also discovered the source of the water sound.

The end of the snake cave has finally arrived. At the end is a circular cave with a diameter of about three meters. Many carved murals.

On the ground in the center of the cave, there is another hole, which goes straight up and down. When the lights are turned on, you can’t see the bottom. The sound of water I heard before came from this vertical hole that goes straight up and down.

Apart from the vertical hole in front of him, there were no other openings around, and even the giant python disappeared.

I was stunned for a moment, thinking: Is that giant python still under the vertical hole?Is this vertical hole connected to groundwater?What about Tan Ren and the others?Is it also down here?Who made this 'snake hole'?

My mind was full of fog, and I just felt that this matter was extremely weird. I glanced at the pattern carved on the rock, and couldn't help but observe it carefully.Perhaps from these patterns, we can see some clues.

The patterns on this rock look extremely ancient, because the lines and drawing methods are very simple and primitive, and I feel that there is no technical content. For this reason, I can't recognize many things depicted on it. content on it.

This should be a recorded petroglyph. The specific time is not shown, but according to the above content, it is revealed that this oasis, including a large area around the oasis, was once the territory of an ancient civilization. Due to a very serious disaster , so at that time a 'water fetching' campaign was carried out.To put it bluntly, it is to dig groundwater.

Gurbantunggut is a semi-fixed and semi-flowing desert. Unlike the Taklimakan Desert, it is not full of grass-like sand seas. On the contrary, there are still many plants such as Haloxylon on the ground, and the depth of sand content is far away. It is not as good as Taklamakan, that is to say, its actual formation time is not long, so various resources under the desert are still very rich.

Han Zitong is engaged in geological research. I heard her talk about the condition of the desert along the way. In fact, the investigation of Gurban began before 1949, but for some reason, it was suddenly interrupted for a period of time. Wang Zehai’s father, Wang Aiguo, was at that time The expedition we did was the initial stage of the recovery of desert expeditions.

The current Gurbantunte has a large oil field, and sand prevention and forest protection are also actively carried out, with remarkable results.However, among the numerous investigation results, there is very little information about ancient groundwater.Han Zitong didn't mention this matter at the time. Unexpectedly, in ancient times, someone had already started to think about ancient underground water.

I can't help but speculate, could it be that those burrows are actually the product of the ancients' "featuring water"?

But this petroglyph seems to be very old. If the cave is the product of the ancients, why hasn't it collapsed yet?You must know that the location I am in is actually not deep, so the sandy soil structure on the surface is soft. Even if a hole is made, it is impossible for the hole to last for too long without reinforcement.

Could it be that the burrows I saw were not dug by the ancients?If it was excavated by today's people, then who made such a big project?

The cave I am in at the moment and the 'snake cave' I climbed when I came here are obviously of two styles, which makes me more sure of this guess: the snake cave and the current cave were not excavated by the same group of people.The cave I am in now should be a 'water-drawing' cave excavated by the ancients, while the snake cave I came here was probably excavated by other people in recent years.

In this way, the weird structure of this 'snake cave' can also be explained. Using modern technology, digging such a cave is not too difficult, and it doesn't even take too long.

The current situation is beyond my comprehension.

Who on earth would dig such a burrow?It is obviously not a coincidence that this burrow happens to be connected to the "water outlet" dug by the ancients.

Could it be that the real goal of the person who dug this burrow was this 'water outlet'?
Not daring to waste any more time, I took my eyes off the petroglyphs, climbed to the vertical hole, and turned down the lights.

It was still dark, and I couldn't see anything, but I could only hear the sound of water flowing. Judging from the sound, the groundwater connected under the vertical hole should be very abundant.There were no other entrances and exits in this place, and both Giant Python and Tan Ren had disappeared. Obviously, they must have all descended to the bottom of the vertical hole.

What's next?
I don't know, but since I'm here, I can't just go back like this, people haven't seen the shadow yet.

When I simply came in, I had sufficient equipment belts. I untied the rope around my waist, tied a portable searchlight for lighting to the end of the rope, and then put the rope into the vertical hole.

The length of this rope is about 12 meters, and the small searchlight used is a spotlight type. Although it is discounted because of its size, the lighting distance is several levels higher than that of ordinary flashlights. , a small cluster of straight light that can reach 30 meters away.

But just now, I used this small searchlight to shoot down, but I couldn't see the head, so now I can only add another ten meters of rope to explore the situation below.

Soon, the rope was lowered to the bottom, and the searchlight was already close to 40 meters underground.

The depth is astonishing.

The rock formations closer to the interior of the earth's crust are harder. Similarly, the deeper the groundwater, the higher the quality. So far, such deep groundwater, even in modern times, has not been exploited for resources.But people in ancient times dug such a deep hole to exploit groundwater to fight against drought.

How did they do that?
The diameter of this vertical hole is about one meter, and it goes straight up and down. If a person goes down, he must use something like a rope or a hanging basket.I find it very strange, if it is for fetching water, then the structure of this vertical hole is not convenient for fetching water at all. Since the ancients were able to dig this water fetching hole, why didn't they just make stone steps or water wheels?

At a depth of more than 40 meters, from where I am, I can't see the details clearly, but there is still no bottom.

My heart cooled down.

With such a deep water hole, if Tan Ren and the others fell, they must have fallen into the groundwater.

If groundwater is flowing, then they are likely to be washed to deeper formations.

Omg.

I suddenly felt that the possibility of them surviving was too low.

This great possibility, like a basin of cold water poured down, chilled me from head to toe.

Now how to do?
Go down and have a look?
But how deep is the water hole?

My current rope is obviously not enough.

If I want to go down and explore, I must go out to get the rope. As soon as I thought about it, I suddenly thought of one thing, that is, even if all the ropes we have added up, I'm afraid it won't be enough.Because we are going into the desert, not for mountaineering expeditions, the ropes we carry are not the kind of long professional climbing ropes, but the kind of ropes that tie things and buckles.Even if I go out now, I can't make up 40 meters if I buckle up the rest.

What's more, the vertical hole is obviously more than 40 meters.

I became anxious and couldn't help scratching my hair, feeling powerless and manic.

How to save people?

These five words are spinning in my mind.

I forced myself to calm down and think about a countermeasure, but in this gap, a harsh voice suddenly sounded.

The sudden sound made me tremble.

The sound also came from the vertical hole, but it was different from the sound of water. It was the sound of a whistle, the signal whistle that each of us hung around our necks!

(End of this chapter)