The three of them stood there motionless for half a minute. Everyone wondered if they were dreaming that so many treasures were piled up in such an inconspicuous stone room.
In addition to the sound of water bubbling from the spring, the strange sound of the fat man swallowing saliva happened to be just right.
It's not that he has never seen treasures before, it's just that he has never seen so many treasures. Any one of them can be called a rare treasure.
"Put yeast in white flour... it's risen! It's really risen this time!" The fat man couldn't restrain his ecstasy. He wanted to rush forward and stuff all the agates into his own body. Put all the gold chains on your ears and neck, and just stuff those dizzying emeralds into your mouth!
The fat man shook his head vigorously to make sure that he had seen correctly and that he was not dreaming. Then he made a request to me: slap him in the mouth!
I refused his request. Fatty didn't care whether I refused or not. If Sayazi stepped into the water, she would rush to the Jinshan and Silver Mountains to decorate her whole body with gold.
If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. I gave Long Wu a wink. As the third child, Long Wu is the one with the best skills.
He moved his body and grabbed the fat man's back collar. The fat man was no match for Long Wu. He suddenly felt like a huge steel pliers tightly trapped him, and he could no longer move forward.
The fat man turned around and said in confusion: "Third brother, why are you stopping me? These treasures will definitely be enough for you to eat for ten years if you take them out casually! How about the second brother lets you go and pick them first?"
Long Wu shook his head and didn't answer, but looked at me.
I frowned, and the previous shock was gradually replaced by calmness. There were no such secret rooms made of stone recorded in "The Universe in the Tomb", let alone so many treasures stored in them.
Moreover, if we are really within the scope of the tomb of King Longquan Jing, then haven't so many people discovered this place before?
I scanned the surroundings carefully, but fortunately there was no corpse or skeleton. That was even more strange because I didn't find any entrance.
We are now putting the cart before the horse and got it from the Outer Jin Dynasty and Inner Han Dynasty Tombs. If we are now reaching the sphere of influence of the Longquan Tomb, then there must be an entrance here, otherwise there will be no way to connect to the Outer Jin Dynasty Inner Han Tombs below!
I rubbed my chin and squinted my eyes tightly, unable to fully comprehend the strangeness.
I said to the fat man: "There is something wrong here, but I can't see clearly what is wrong at the moment, but you must not touch this treasure mountain. It is not uncommon for treasure mountains to be poisonous. The reason why a treasure mountain is piled here is most likely to be a bait, in order to hide it." A bigger treasure. If this pile of treasures had been coated with poison in advance, once we went crazy and got into the treasure pile to pour gold and silver, we would probably die on the spot."
To be honest, I am very contradictory when I say these words. Human beings have an innate greed for gold, which is engraved in their genes.
There are mountains of gold and silver piled up in front of you and you resist not touching them, which is like a tiger and a beast not eating the fat sheep in its mouth! This in itself is a destruction of one's own heart and even nature!
But now there are so many doubts, and there are more important things waiting to be solved, that I can just use this excuse to suppress my manic heart, and tell you to refuse, which is completely different from not taking something when it is placed in front of you. Plant the concept of heaven and earth!
Fatty knows he can't beat me and Lao San. I had to say.
Okay, I don’t need to take the treasure, but among these six springs plus the one outside, which one is the real Longquan water? Isn’t it time to try everything? Putting longevity aside for now, let’s detoxify our bodies first.
There is a phoenix crown among the Baoshan pile that caught my attention early. The hollow carvings are so beautiful that they transform into reality, just like a golden phoenix that has just been reborn from nirvana! Just by looking at it from a distance, you can tell that it is the best in the world and a rare treasure in the world.
To put it harshly, for someone like me who is squandering antiques and cultural relics, seeing this kind of thing is like a mouse that doesn’t want to poop and is suffocating itself to death.
After all these years of doing business, no treasure I have ever come across can compare to this phoenix crown! He is not even qualified to carry shoes with him! It's like a urine jar compared to a gold spittoon.
I also forgot how I managed to stop looking at the phoenix crown on my head. I asked Long Wu to keep an eye on Fatty, while the three of us clung to the wall and began to observe every boulder.
The fat man wanted to be stared at like a thief, so naturally he felt uncomfortable. He muttered: "What kind of brothers are these? Not even enemies would stare at them like this."
Long Wu didn't pay attention to this and obeyed my words. At the same time, he was also afraid that the fat man who was greedy for money would cause some trouble.
The wall behind us has little observation value. We entered through the small door on this wall. The stones on the other three walls are also smaller than this wall. We lay on the wall and knocked stone by stone, hoping to hear the sound of an empty drum, indicating that there were other secret doors inside.
The quiet environment just now has been replaced by the sound of knocking and banging. Under the residual light of the searchlight, Baoshan still reflects a strange light on the shallow water. Everyone turns their head to listen to the sound on the wall. Sometimes, the other side of the face can be covered by the brilliance of jewelry.
The stone wall is white and feels scummy to the touch. However, upon closer examination, it turns out that what oozes out is salt particles. These salt particles are almost the size of sesame seeds and are densely packed on the stone wall.
Isn’t groundwater fresh water? Why are there precipitated salt particles?
When the old turtle appeared earlier, I had a big question. Logically speaking, sea creatures cannot survive in fresh water. Looking at it now, it seems that we made a mistake. This is a seawater resource!
The earth is so big, but only 29.2% of its surface area is land! The rest is covered in blue ocean!
Once the underground world is connected to the sea, it will be in trouble. All kinds of huge and terrifying creatures may appear!
I can't help but recall the horrific scene we saw when we entered the moat. A blackbird was shot down in the water of the moat, and there was a huge figure below that silently knocked down the blackbird!
Is that a big fish? It hides in deep water without showing its head. It can swallow living creatures on the surface of the water by just opening its mouth and sucking fiercely.
Although I dare not claim to be an expert in geography, I can still understand some basic geographical knowledge.
As the saying goes, rivers flow into the sea, which means that the final destination of large rivers in freshwater basins is the ocean.
The two seemingly extreme conditions of fresh water and salt water create a buffer zone when they merge.
You can take a migratory creature as an example - salmon.
Salmon are fundamentally marine fish, but they don't stay in the sea all the time. They are cold-water fish, so they are more distributed in high latitudes.
To put it simply, they live in the sea when they are juveniles, but when they are sexually mature and can lay eggs, they will go to fresh water to lay eggs.
As mentioned before, when rivers flow into the sea, every autumn during their breeding season, they will swim upstream in groups to lay eggs in fresh water. In this process, they have gone through a lot of hardships, being preyed upon by bears, swallowed by fish-eating birds, and captured by humans along the way.
However, the risk of a near-death encounter cannot stop their determination to reproduce. After this, the salmon that can still survive will return to the ocean again. Of course, these survivors can be counted as only a handful.
The above is to say that during that period thousands of years ago, there were several little-known deep-sea beasts that were also migratory creatures. They were caught midway and continued to survive in the artificially created saltwater environment. In this way The essence of migration is interrupted, and they can still survive here to guard the secrets of the imperial tomb.
However, in ancient times, the technology of drying salt was backward and poor, and salt was too precious. You must know that selling and manufacturing illegal salt was a serious crime in ancient times. Did King Jing of Longquan Kingdom have such ability? Even if he had this ability, would he really be willing to use extremely precious salt to create an artificial saltwater environment?
Salt will continue to be diluted, which means that if you put a fixed amount of salt in a large pond, the water in the pond will always become salty water.
What's more, this is still a living water resource. The salt content in it is easily lost under the erosion of living water and cannot be maintained for a long time.
Unless...a bold guess suddenly pops into my mind!
They discovered salt deposits here!
In ancient times, salt mines were as valuable as today's gold mines. This could have been a strategic resource in ancient times. If it were left here alone, unless the salt mine cannot be mined or it contains some special substances. .
If there really are salt mines here, it all makes sense.
Salt mines with huge reserves can slowly form salty water in a wide area. Although it cannot completely match the seawater, some special marine life can definitely adapt to the environment here.
Although there were no modern giant ships in ancient times, the whaling industry has been practiced for thousands of years. Just like chickens, everyone has his own way.
Ambergris and whale oil are not just things that fishermen along the coast catch by luck.
Stranded whales do happen from time to time, but if you think about it this way, it's almost like sitting back and waiting, carrying a chamber pot to the toilet to urinate, just trying to be smart.
I was about to think carefully about the deep-sea monsters that had been recorded stranded along the coastal coast in ancient times.
At this moment, the shallow water under our feet suddenly felt like a boiling pot. Strings of bubbles emerged from all over the place. The three of us couldn't even bother knocking bricks on the wall. I hurriedly lowered the angle of the searchlight, while the fat man looked at the pile first. Gold mountain treasure.
I thought the water was boiling under my feet. I was so nervous that I couldn't help but lose control. I subconsciously wanted to throw my backpack under my feet to cushion myself.
At the same time, I looked at the six springs, and found that those springs were gushing out water like crazy, which was at least three or four times greater than the water that was pouring out just now.
When we entered this place before, those springs were like the end of a volcanic eruption. Although something kept coming out, the amplitude was very small and they just kept gushing outward.
But looking at it now, it seemed that a giant creature was violently stirring deep below, exploding the energy accumulated in the spring in a short time.
