Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 298 Stone Pillar and Stone Platform

The three people in the car all kept silent, Instructor Liu concentrated on driving his car, while Chen Ziyang stared intently at the desert illuminated by the headlights of the car.

The multi-purpose off-road vehicle drove forward along the canal, probably because of Chen Ziyang's cautious expression, which made Instructor Liu impatient. This time, the speed of the vehicle was much faster than before. Anyway, this is a relatively flat area in the desert. , and don’t worry about obstacles appearing suddenly.Under the low-beam light, all that could be seen was yellow sand except for the weird water channel.

After the vehicle drove for a while, Instructor Liu turned his head and asked Chen Ziyang, "What on earth did you think of?" As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Ziyang's eyes widened suddenly, and he opened his mouth and shouted, "Stop the car!" !"

Just as instructor Liu turned his head to speak, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in front of the vehicle.But at this moment, Instructor Liu was turning his head to talk to Chen Ziyang. He didn't see the situation in front of the vehicle at all, but Chen Ziyang, who had been carefully staring at the road ahead, saw this scene, so he hurriedly shouted loudly. remind.

Although Instructor Liu didn't know what happened, but after hearing Chen Ziyang's loud shout, he instinctively stepped on the brakes.After sliding forward for a certain distance, the multi-purpose off-road vehicle came to a sudden stop.Because the car stopped too suddenly, the team doctor sitting in the back of the car was caught off guard. Her body suddenly leaned forward, and the team doctor's head hit the back of the front seat hard.

Instructor Liu, who stopped the car, looked at the large black shadow in front of the car with lingering fear. He didn't expect such a big thing to happen after turning his head for a few seconds.But the shock was the shock, and the three people in the car got out of the car immediately.

The three people came to the front of the vehicle and stared at the black shadow in front of the vehicle. It turned out that the black shadow was a deep pit that wasn't too big.This deep pit is about a circle, with a diameter of five or six meters. The deep pit is pitch black, and it is impossible to tell how deep it is.

The front wheels of the vehicle were almost on the edge of the deep pit. If Chen Ziyang's reminder was later, or if instructor Liu's reaction was slower, it is very likely that the car would have plunged into the pit directly. up.

Turning on the flashlight, Chen Ziyang pointed towards the bottom of the deep pit. This deep pit is in the shape of an inverted cone. The further you go down, the smaller the cross-sectional area of ​​the deep pit.The sides of the entire deep pit are covered with yellow sand, which is very smooth. It seems that the sand and soil on the side walls of the deep pit are very tightly combined, and there is not even a single scratch on the entire side.

At this time, while rubbing the big bump on his head, the team doctor leaned over and looked down and said to the two of them, "Look, there seems to be something under the hole."

Under the illumination of the flashlight, the three people saw that the deep pit was not too deep, about 50 meters deep, and the bottom of the deep pit was still yellow sand, but it was in the middle of the bottom of the deep pit. , there seems to be a raised thing, but because it is far away, I can't see what it is.

Handing the flashlight to Instructor Liu, Chen Ziyang pressed a few times on the edge of the pit.The feel of the side wall of the deep pit is basically the same as that of the previous pool. The sand here is also like the sand on the side wall of the canal. It has been completely solidified together, and it feels like cement when pressed. Zi Yang judged from his hand feeling that the thickness of the condensed sand on the side wall of the deep pit should be thicker than that of the condensed sand on the side wall of the pool.

The three of them have been researching here for a long time but have not figured out why. It seems that if they want to find out, they must go down to the bottom of this deep pit.But because the conditions for going down into the deep pit are not available now, Instructor Liu feels that today's exploration mission is over, and the three of them return the same way, and let the whole convoy come here to find out the next day.

Chen Ziyang had guessed before that it was very likely that the hint given by the bloody diamond this time was still a deep well, just like the deep well that Lao Lu saw in the ancient tomb before. He knew that this should be the last hint given by the diamond. A reminder, it is very likely that the bottom of this deep pit is the location of the ancient country of Yumi.

When the three of them were preparing to return, Chen Ziyang realized that the location of the deep pit was not too far from the convoy's camp. Standing on the edge of the deep pit, he could vaguely see the sporadic lights of the convoy in the distance.It seems that Instructor Liu still has a certain level of attainment in stargazing, and he only deviates by more than a kilometer when choosing an excavation site within such a large area.

On the way back, Chen Ziyang kept thinking about the deep pit, while instructor Liu, who was driving beside him, looked excited.Ten years of hard work was finally about to pay off, and he couldn't help being excited.

After returning to the carriage, Yang Lei was still lying there soundly asleep, but Chen Ziyang knew that he would not be able to sleep that night, so he spent the rest of the time carefully observing the roll of sheepskin, hoping to be able to Get some more clues, so that you can find some hints for tomorrow's action.

From time to time, miscellaneous voices came from the camp outside the carriage. Chen Ziyang knew that it was Instructor Liu arranging personnel and supplies overnight to prepare for the next day's action.This night, except for Yang Lei, almost everyone in the motorcade didn't sleep well.

Instructor Liu, who had been happy all night, received bad news early the next morning. The two people who had pulmonary edema caused by drinking car antifreeze before had died together because of the lack of necessary treatment conditions and medical equipment. up.Now there are only 21 people left in the entire convoy, and one person became blind because of drinking glass water and antifreeze.

But no matter how difficult it is now, instructor Liu's determination to explore the ancient country of Yumi can't be stopped. After everything has been arranged, instructor Liu ordered the entire convoy to set off and march along the canal towards the deep pit one kilometer away.

After arriving at the location of the deep pit, the others were all amazed at the strangeness of the deep pit.Because it is daytime and there is plenty of light, everyone can clearly see the structure of this deep pit.The pit was almost straight up and down, and the side walls of the pit were almost vertical, which surprised everyone.

When the previous large excavator was digging, it had to dig out a very small angle of the digging surface to ensure that the surrounding sand would not fall into the big pit.But even so, just because the angle of the excavation surface was slightly larger, the sand under the excavator completely collapsed, and the excavator fell into the big pit.

But this deep pit is only five meters square, but it goes straight up and down, and not a single grain of sand on the side walls of the deep pit falls down. No one understands the reason, only Chen Ziyang and Instructor Liu know. , this big pit formed in the yellow sand is much stronger than it looks.

Because he had planned for one night, Instructor Liu had already thought up a solution. He first ordered people to build a shelf above the deep pit with a few thin steel pipes, and then installed a pulley and a pulley on the shelf. A long rope, in this way, can use this frame and pulley to lower the person to the bottom of the pit.

While building the shelf, Chen Ziyang kept using a flashlight to shine on the bottom of the pit, trying to see exactly what was in the pit.Although it is daytime now, because of the angle of the sun, the two-thirds of the bottom of the pit is still very dark, and the situation below can only be seen clearly with the help of a flashlight.

There is a protruding column-shaped object in the middle of the bottom of the deep pit. It looks like a half stone pillar. The lower half of the stone pillar seems to be connected to a round stone plate. The lower half of the stone plate is buried at the bottom of the deep pit. There is only one A small part was exposed, but because they were too far away, Chen Ziyang could only see the outline of the stone pillar and the stone plate clearly.

"Er Yang, I know what the thing below is." Yang Lei, who was lying on the edge of the deep pit and watched it with Chen Ziyang for a long time, said.

After hearing Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang showed doubts in his eyes, and felt that this kid was going to start being dishonest again.But then he looked at Yang Lei, and found that Yang Lei's expression was serious this time, and he didn't look like he was joking.

Originally, Chen Ziyang didn't think that Yang Lei could know what the following things were, but after recalling that Yang Lei reminded him about the Samsung line, he felt that it was very likely that he would get some more from Yang Lei this time. An important clue, so Chen Ziyang asked: "Tell me."

"The thing below should be a stone mill."

"Stone mill?" After repeating Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang looked down the pit again for a while.Although there seems to be a round stone plate under the stone pillar, this stone plate does not look like a stone mill.

"Why do you think it's a stone mill?"

"Think about it, what's the name of this ancient country, the ancient country of corn, right? That means there are so many corns in this country, how can corn be eaten the best? It is to use this stone mill to grind corn into small balls and cook porridge. Drink, so the round thing below must be a stone mill."

After listening to Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang was so angry that he almost couldn't hold back his anger. It was really hard for Yang Lei to show such a serious expression. Unexpectedly, he was still not serious at this time.After taking several deep breaths, Chen Ziyang managed to calm the breath he was holding in his chest, and then he said to Yang Lei, "The ancient country of Yumi is not the ancient country of corn."

"That's right, you've been talking about it for a long time, isn't it still corn?"

"I'll sum up what you just said with a sentence from my hometown. I'll go to your uncle."

In a short while, the shelf above the deep pit was built. Instructor Liu pulled the rope on the shelf vigorously, and found that both the shelf, the pulley placed on the shelf, and the rope connected to the pulley were very tight. After being firm, Instructor Liu looked at Chen Ziyang.

Understanding what Instructor Liu meant, Chen Ziyang nodded to him, then took out the bloody diamond from his pocket, and held it tightly in his right hand.Chen Ziyang came to Instructor Liu and asked Instructor Liu to tie the rope around his body.

The stone pillar and stone plate below are likely to be the mechanism to open the treasure of the ancient country of Yumi, so the first person to go down into the deep well is none other than Chen Ziyang.

"Er Yang, be careful when going down." Yang Lei said with concern.After nodding his head, Chen Ziyang signaled to Instructor Liu that he could start to act.

Seven or eight people tightened the long rope together, and then Chen Ziyang jumped from the edge of the deep pit to the middle of the deep pit with a slight push of his feet. Pulled down and hung in the mid-air of the deep pit.

Under the command of instructor Liu, these seven or eight people carefully put the rope forward, and Chen Ziyang at the other end of the rope slowly descended, getting closer and closer to the bottom of the deep pit.

The closer you are to the bottom of the deep pit, the more obvious the object under the deep pit is. Chen Ziyang saw that his guess before seeing it was correct. The thing under the deep pit is indeed a round stone plate connected with a square The stone pillar, but the top of the stone pillar is not flat, but like a pyramid, showing a four-sided spire.

After descending to the bottom of the deep pit, Chen Ziyang didn't untie the rope wrapped around himself. If anything happened, he could let instructor Liu and others pull him up, but he didn't know if he would be able to make it in time.

Standing at the bottom of the deep pit, Chen Ziyang carefully looked at the stone pillar in front of him. The stone pillar was not too high, it only reached his waist, and this stone pillar was indeed connected to the circular stone plate below. .When carefully observing the stone pillar and the round stone plate, Chen Ziyang found that there seemed to be some regular scratches on the surface of the two.

When he put the bloody diamond into his pocket, Chen Ziyang gently wiped the surface of the stone pillar with the sleeve of his right hand.As he wiped, some of the yellow sand that had previously covered the surface of the stone pillar slowly fell off. After wiping all four sides of the stone pillar, the whole picture of the stone pillar was finally revealed.

The pyramid above the stone pillar has no tip, but a groove on it. Many notches extend from this groove. These notches are about a few millimeters deep, and extend down along the four sides of the stone pillar. to the round stone plate.

Because his left hand is inconvenient, Chen Ziyang did not bend down to wipe the round stone plate. He just rubbed his shoes on the surface of the stone plate casually. Chen Ziyang found that these scratches were also covered with The surface of the circular stone disk extends down along the edge of the stone disk. These notches on the surface of the stone pillars and the stone disk look very regular and should be chiseled by humans.

Because the sand around the stone plate is relatively hard, Chen Ziyang didn't know where these scratches extended. After studying for a while, he took out the blood-colored diamond again, hung the blood-colored diamond on the top of the stone pillar, and compared it carefully. .Chen Ziyang found that a protruding corner of the blood-colored diamond seemed to fit perfectly with the groove on the top of the stone pillar.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Ziyang placed the blood-red diamond on the top of the stone pillar.

(End of this chapter)