Hao Youfu led the way, and several people followed him into the doorway, climbing for a while, and then heard Hao Youfu shouting loudly: "Oh my god!"
Li Zisheng heard Hao Youfu's voice and hurriedly grabbed him. Zhou Xuehai behind also went to grab Li Zisheng, and as a result, both of them were led by Hao Youfu and fell forward.
Zhao Yihui hadn't reacted yet, and felt that no one was in front of her.
"What happened? What's going on?" Liu Kaiwen asked behind her.
"I don't know, I just heard Hao Youfu's voice," Zhao Yihui reached out to feel around in the dark passageway and became more urgent as she spoke, "there was no movement ahead suddenly. I can't feel anyone!"
"Is there a deep pit or a broken wall in front?" Liu Kaiwen grabbed Zhao Yihui's feet, "I'm holding you, take it slow, use your hands to feel first."
Zhao Yihui slowly crawled forward, carefully exploring the walls of the passageway with both hands. She felt a few pieces of wooden strips embedded in the wall, like a nailed wooden frame, and then felt nothing. Her heart sank as she withdrew her hand and searched forward along the ground, feeling the downward curve of the ground. She couldn't help but exclaim, "There's a steep slope ahead."
Liu Kaiwen breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't a vertical wall, there was a chance for Hao Youfu and the others to survive. He instructed her, "Go slow! Remember to use your hands to protect your head."
"Okay." Zhao Yihui slowly crawled to the top of the steep slope and slid down cautiously, but the soil under her feet was too loose to control her speed.
When Liu Kaiwen slid down, he used both hands to support the walls on both sides to slow down his speed. However, he found that as soon as he exerted force, the soil layer on both sides would collapse.
He quickly retracted his hands, let himself slide down, and saw Hao Youfu tumbling down all the way to the bottom, gasping for breath, spitting out a few mouthfuls of soil debris, crushed by the figure behind him.
"Hey! Who's that?" Hao Youfu hit his forehead on the ground and felt a burning pain.
"It's me... " Li Zisheng answered weakly. "And me... " Zhou Xuehai also gasped and coughed, turned over and lay on the ground, "uh... Li Comrade, Hao Comrade, are you okay?"
Hao Youfu looked at Zhou Xuehai, "What do you think? I guess I got a big lump on my head."
Zhou Xuehai also glanced at Hao Youfu, "It's okay. Let's go out and get some pig fat to apply."
Zhou Xuehai slowly stood up and helped Li Zisheng up. "Hey! Let's get out first. Apply pig fat? I'm hungry and thirsty now, I can hold the pig fat and drink it,"
Hao Youfu stood up by himself, touched his forehead, and looked around, "Where are the people who came down earlier?"
The three of them looked around here. The tunnel in front of them was more than one person tall, with a faint blue light coming through, but there was no one in sight.
Zhou Xuehai thought about it and said, "They must be in front. This is the only way."
Hao Youfu's eyes glimmered with surprise as he felt the indentations on the wall of soil, muttering thoughtfully, "Why do these soils look so familiar?"
"Familiar with what?"
"Nothing. There are two people behind us!" Hao Youfu ran back to the steep slope, sticking his head in and looking around, "Hey! Can you hear me? Respond... Ah!" A whirl of earth and stones fell down, hitting him all over his face. He quickly withdrew, just hearing Zhao Yihui's voice approaching from afar, and saw her sliding down from above.
Zhao Yihui hugged her head, unable to see clearly, feeling dizzy and dizzy. "Comrade Zhao Yihui, I now seriously criticize you!" Hao Youfu stared at her. The others also looked dazed, not knowing what was happening. Hao Youfu pointed to his forehead and walked up to her, "Can't you see this big lump? Care for comrades should be like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves. How can you treat us differently?"
Zhao Yihui was stunned for a moment, but soon reacted and couldn't help but chuckle, "It's too dark, I can't see."
Hao Youfu nodded, "Pay attention in the future!"
Zhou Xuehai listened to this and felt strange, seeing that the two were okay, and said with a grin, "Let's go find them." Liu Kaiwen patted Hao Youfu's shoulder and whispered to him, "Be careful not to get swept away.”
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Several people followed the light and walked forward. The dirt path was only a few meters long and at the end was a stone door. The door was half open and there were sounds of arguing between a man and a woman coming from inside.
Zhou Xuehai squeezed in and Li Zisheng and Zhao Yihui followed behind him.
Hao Youfu stopped in his tracks and carefully studied the stone door. Liu Kaiwen touched the door and felt the engraved patterns, which had peeled off in some places due to age and were incomplete. "This door is not an ordinary one. Look at the hinge on both sides..." Hao Youfu crouched down and tapped on the stone threshold, "There's also this, it's the door sill. There's a hinge socket reserved between the top and bottom door sills. After attaching the hinge, the door can be opened and closed."
Liu Kaiwen had a bad feeling and stared at Hao Youfu's eyes, asking, "So, this is..." Hao Youfu stood up and dusted off the dirt from his hands. "It's a tomb door. I used to find this kind of stone slabs and pillars a lot in my hometown. The villagers used them to make thatched houses, grind disks, and make food troughs for livestock. But I've seen mostly broken ones. This is the first time I've seen such an intact double-door stone tomb."
Liu Kaiwen rubbed his temples and said helplessly, "So, we just from the air-raid shelter and now we're entering an ancient tomb?"
"Exactly!" Hao Youfu nodded seriously, "A Han tomb."
Liu Kaiwen stopped moving and looked at him suddenly. "How do you know it's a Han tomb?"
"Hey! The first ones to get rich in our village are either dealing with electrical appliances and clothing in the south or dealing with soil. My uncle on my mother's side played with antique stuff. He earns at least this much a year. His house is the most awesome in the village, living better than the landlords of the past." Hao Youfu stretched out a hand, waved his five fingers, touched his nose, and continued to say, "I used to be interested in rich with the villagers, but my uncle wouldn't let me. He said I had to at least get an education. But I often go to his house to chat, and I've learned some tricks. Look! The ornamentation is clear and smooth, it's obviously from the Han dynasty."
Liu Kaiwen sighed and said to him, "Let's go inside to discuss."
The door opened up to an octagonal space with all eight walls and the floor made of bricks. The top was a polished stone wall with a height of nearly three meters, which immediately caught the attention of the two men.
Hao Youfu rubbed his eyes, reached over and pinched Liu Kaiwen beside him. Liu Kaiwen gritted his teeth and scolded, "What are you doing?"
Hao Youfu pointed to the light source above and asked, "What is that? Is it a lamp? Did they install electric lights in the ancient tomb?"
Liu Kaiwen was also puzzled and shook his head. "Doesn't look like it."
Hao Youfu swept his eyes around the room, "Why isn't there a coffin?" The spacious tomb had only one square stone table in the center. The others were gathered around the table arguing. Jia Jing glared at Wu Wei while explaining to Zhao Yihui the reason for their dispute.
Just now, Jia Jing and Xue Fang followed Hu Zili from the passage to this stone chamber and were immediately shocked by the scene before them. In the center of the stone chamber's ceiling was a huge glowing round stone emitting a blue light. On one side of the stone were many irregularly shaped glass beads reflecting a faint blue light in a ribbon-like arrangement supporting the stone above. On the other two sides were figures outlined in lines that couldn't be distinguished as any known animal. The eight walls of the stone chamber were made of evenly spaced stone bricks covered with paintings, and there was only one stone table in the center.
"What kind of lamp is this?" Xue Fang said incredulously, looking at the light source above, "Are those glass beads?"
Jia Jing, on the other hand, studied the paintings on the ceiling. "That pattern looks like a frog. Hu comrade, don't you think?"
Seeing both of them looking at him, Hu Zili replied uncertainly, "It could be a frog? But those beads don't look like glass, glass doesn't emit light on its own. Look at them, those beads are glowing."
"I think the central round stone and the small beads below it should be some kind of mineral. Those small beads aren't made of glass, but are crystalline, similar to fluorite. But how can a round stone emit light?" J Jing looked at the round stone above with great confusion.
"How beautiful!" Xue Fang exclaimed, her eyes fixed on the biggest round stone.
"This place is too strange. Let's split up and find a way out.
Even if there's gold inlaid here, Hu Zili isn't interested.
Xue Fang looked at Jia Jing and rubbed her arms, embarrassedly saying, "Let's go together. Don't you think it's creepy here?"
Jia Jing looked around and saw only Hu Zili's back, then nodded at Xue Fang, saying, "Actually, I'm quite scared too. We can bolster each other's courage."
Xue Fang nodded repeatedly, taking Jia Jing's arm and walking slowly ahead.
"Jia Jing, aren't those stones at the top worth a lot of money?" Xue Fang whispered to her.
"Natural ones should be worth some money. I don't know much about it...why do you ask?"
Jia Jing turned her head to scrutinize Xue Fang's expression, biting her lip and speaking seriously. "Stones that can glow on their own might contain radioactive materials that are harmful to the human body. Besides, we're trying to find a way out, how can we carry those things with us?"
"Where are you going with this? How could I...?" Xue Fang frowned, tears beginning to well up in her eyes, and looked at Jia Jing pitifully. "Do I look like that kind of person to you?"
Jia Jing sighed at her pitiful look. "Okay, it was my mistake, I shouldn't have been suspicious of you."
In fact, Hu Zili looked around the stone chamber and examined the brick walls one by one, but didn't find anything unusual. Feeling a figure darting next to him, he was startled and looked closely, only to find that it was Wu Wei: "Oh, it's you! Where are they?"
Jia Jing and Xue Fang heard the question, turned their heads and saw Wu Wei running to the stone table, sitting on it and gazing up at the ceiling.
Jia Jing seemed to particularly dislike him and scolded him when he didn't reply, "I'm talking to you!"
Wu Wei then turned his gaze to Hu Zili indifferently and said, "I don't know. I didn't go with them."
Suddenly, Xue Fang's amazed voice came from the tomb chamber.
"There's something on the ground!"