I actually took out the five-flower soil.
Since there is five-flower soil, it means that it has been disturbed underneath, so there must be a tomb.
Without thinking much, I waved to Sanji and the others: "I've discovered something here."
Sanji and the fat translator ran over immediately and asked me what I had found.
The foreigners also looked this way, but they didn't understand what I just said, so they didn't go this way. Xiaoye seemed to translate for them, and then they got up and ran over.
When everyone came over, I showed them the five-flower soil: "Here is the five-flower soil. You should understand what it means, right?"
The fat translator immediately jumped up excitedly: "Haha, it seems that the tomb of King Zao is down here."
I said it’s still hard to say whether it’s the tomb of Zao King inside, but it must have been man-made to ram the earth.
"Then if it is the tomb of King Zao, can we find the location of the main tomb?" Sanji asked.
I said I would give it a try and explore more places, and then based on the depth and the marked plan, I could find the location of the main tomb.
These foreigners obviously knew something about this. Before anyone could translate my words for them, they took out a lot of drawings and pens from their backpacks, drew a plan based on the surrounding mountains, and marked a Point, this point, is where we are currently.
Maybe we have finally gained something. Our "morale" is much higher than before, and I am more energetic at work. The other people did not go back to rest, but gathered around me to watch and chat.
The first hole was drilled for about seven meters and could not be drilled. The bottom seemed to be very hard. There was some white slag on the soil that was taken out, which looked like gravel. Obviously there were stones there.
I guessed it might be the top of the tomb passage. I drilled several holes in the four directions, east, west, north and south, and found that I encountered gravel at the same depth of seven or eight meters.
Obviously, a large area of stones was laid underneath, with a depth of about seven meters. Could such a large area be the main tomb chamber?
I told the fat translator my idea, and the fat translator said: "You mean, the bottom is the main tomb chamber? How come the top of the main tomb chamber is flat? And if it is all made of stones, what is the use of such a heavy weight to support the tomb chamber from collapsing?" It can’t be a complete stone, right?”
I shook my head and couldn't tell clearly, but it should be made of many stones. It couldn't be complete. After all, the area was too large. It would be impossible for modern people to transport such a large complete stone, let alone the ancients. Come here and bury it in the ground, right?
I originally wanted to take a look at my family's ancient books to see if I could find any useful information, but when I thought about it, there seemed to be relatively little information about the tombs in Tibet, so it was in vain.
Sanji also said at this time: "The tombs here may be a little different from those in the mainland. The five temples here are emphasized."
"Five Temples?"
"Yes, there are generally five tombs at the bottom. The main tomb is in the middle, and then there are four small tombs at the four corners of the east, west, north and south. Each tomb actually represents a temple, and the top of the tomb generally does not use stones. Instead, strong logs were laid flat and finally tamped with soil. Because the wood deteriorated over time, the tomb collapsed easily, which is why there are so few tombs left here."
"But now it's obvious that there are rocks underneath. Is it possible that it's the top of Zao's tomb?" I asked.
Sanji shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. We have to dig in and take a look."
The fat translator also muttered: "How did such a big stone come from? It is so flat, and the length and width are fifty meters. It must not be naturally formed."
"It's not mined from the surrounding mountains, right?" the short-haired woman looked around and asked.
Sanji shook his head: "I took a look when we checked the exit around the mountain. If the mountain has not been damaged, there should be no mining."
I also looked around at this time, and the mountains were indeed in good condition.
If it wasn't a mountain, could it have been transported from a tunnel?
I still stick to my guess, saying that the stones underneath should be piled one by one, and may have been brought in through tunnels.
The fat translator insisted on his opinion, saying that the stone must be one piece, otherwise if there were small pieces and nothing underneath, it would have collapsed long ago.
Looking at it now, we can only dig it out and look at it again.
Before digging the soil, we also dug a few holes outside the stone. After making sure that there was no harvest elsewhere, we started digging holes above the stone.
Sanji and the others brought tools for digging holes, but they were not advanced and they didn't even have a big shovel, so digging was quite laborious. I thought about a seven-meter-long hole. Even if they dug until dark, they probably wouldn't be able to do it. Especially there are a lot of stones in the stratum here, and digging them out is not as fast as pure soil.
Because I had already spent a lot of energy exploring the cave with the Luoyang shovel, the task of digging the robbery cave now fell on Sanji and the foreigners.
When I was taking a break, I said to the fat translator: "Your tools are too backward. Now you use a big shovel to dig. Two people each grab one end and go down with a shovel to get half a bucket of soil. It is very efficient."
The fat translator sighed: "No way, we actually have relatively advanced equipment, even fully automatic equipment, but you know, this place can't be transported in at all, let alone this place, many even domestically No one can get in."
I was already curious about those foreigners, so I asked the fat translator: "What is Jack's job abroad? Are they tomb robbers?"
The fat translator said: "To be precise, they should be explorers or treasure hunters. In most places abroad, anything you find and dig out belongs to you personally, so there are a considerable number of treasure hunters. A few are one of those teams.”
"Have they ever been exposed to underwater treasure hunting before?"
The reason why I ask this question is actually related to our next mission. Aren't we going to recover sunken ships at sea? But we have no experience in this area. If these foreigners know something, they can ask for some advice.
The fat translator nodded: "Of course I have been in contact with it. You know about Titanic, right?"
I nodded and said yes.
The fat translator pointed at Jack: "His brother participated in the search for the Titanic and found the wreckage of the sunken ship. It's just that the place where the ship sank was too deep from the water and it was impossible to salvage it."
"Titanic?" The short-haired woman was obviously interested at this time: "I have read a novel before, which was about the Titanic. It was said to be the largest cruise ship of the year and could carry thousands of people. But I was unlucky. It is said that many people died."
