"Slow down, slow down, my waist is not good, don't break it."
Unable to turn his head over, Brother Yu and Bean Sprouts each grabbed one of his arms and dragged him up. Their postures looked a bit funny.
Ah Chun smiled when he saw this and said: "Haha, Wang Bituou, you are so old and half of your body is almost buried in the ground. It is not easy for you to be so lively and vigorous."
Brother Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Pay attention to the tone of your words."
"Hey, you idiot, are you trying to scare me?"
"Tch, what's the use of brute strength?"
"How dare you call me that?" Brother Yu narrowed his eyes and became angry.
After all, they just met one day, and Brother Yu was called stupid by this woman one after another. How could he not be angry?
If she were a man, I guess Brother Yu would have done it in the morning.
"Don't fight among yourself."
"Let's go, Wen Bin." He patted Brother Yu on the head.
The humidity in the air in the underground cave is very high and it is very dark, so you must turn on a flashlight for lighting.
As we walked, there were more and more gravels on the ground. They were all limestone stones, the same material used for the stone carvings in Guizailing on the ground.
There was no road in the first place, so we walked along the clear underground river.
It was the first time I saw this kind of landform in the south. Some of the rocks were stacked one on top of the other. The color was dark yellow, as if someone had pooped on the ground.
"Look at these walls around you. It's amazing. It seems like popcorn grows on the walls." Xiaoxuan said, looking at the surrounding stone walls.
He glanced at his head and said: "That's not popcorn, it's the rock salt layer, and those stalagmites from before. See, these take tens of thousands of years to form naturally."
Stalactites can be seen everywhere here, and most of them are still growing. Some stalactites and stalagmites grow together. From a distance, it looks like a stone pillar covered with spikes standing there. It is the first time I see these. To me, the stuff is spectacular.
Daoxian County has been trying to develop tourism in the past two years to increase the income of villagers. I think the development of Guizailing is in vain. Those weird and ugly stone sculptures are so scary. Who would travel to a place like that?
I think if Daoxian County can improve this underground cave, hang more colorful lanterns in the cave, and give it a cool name, like Queen Mother Cave, Love Cave, Fairy Cave, etc., it will definitely attract people. Many foreign tourists come to see it because it is really spectacular.
If you don’t believe it if you are adventurous, you can come down and look for it.
This underground cave really exists, provided you can find the entrance and get down.
The ground was full of gravel, and some places were very slippery. For safety reasons, we couldn't walk fast at all. After walking for about an hour, the front suddenly narrowed, and a triangular entrance appeared.
Entering from the triangular entrance, there is a large area where the ground is very clean. What I mean by clean is that there are less gravels, as if it had been cleaned manually a long time ago.
"Hey! Boss, come on! Look here!"
Bean Sprouts discovered a place.
Next to the southwest corner, there are two stone walls piled up with gravel pieces, about 1.5 meters high. One part is intact, while the other part has collapsed by more than half, and is only a few dozen centimeters high.
Walking to the front of the low stone wall, you can vaguely see a small circular pit on the ground inside the wall. Maybe it has been too long, and the pit is filled with a thick layer of dust.
"Huh?"
He raised his head and said in surprise: "It doesn't look like it was formed naturally, including this low wall made of piled gravel. Why is there a hole in the ground? Douya, go and take a look."
Dou Sprout squatted down and put on a glove. He looked at it first, and then carefully reached down to see if there was anything inside.
"Ah! Ouch!"
Dou Sprout's face suddenly changed and he screamed loudly.
"What's wrong!" Brother Yu and I ran over immediately.
"hey-hey....."
"It's okay, I'm just teasing you, haha." Dou Sprout said with a smile.
I scolded him.
"Huh? There is something. Is this a stone?"
As he spoke, Dou Sprout took out a long strip-shaped object from the bottom of the pit. It was gray-white and looked like a stone.
He looked carefully and suddenly said: "This... this seems to be human feces..."
"What the hell? Shit?" Dou Sprout threw it away immediately with a disgusted look on his face.
He turned his head uncertainly and looked carefully again.
Really, I really didn’t expect this. After I don’t know how many years, it turned into something like a fossil-like hard object.
Then this place is a latrine...
This wall made of stacked stone sheets used to block the toilet.
Under normal circumstances, human feces will decompose naturally within 10 days to a few months after being buried in the soil. However, there are exceptions where it will be preserved. It mainly depends on the people's usual eating habits at the time and the surrounding preservation environment.
The cave does have this condition.
There is a large amount of limestone and nitrate layers here. Dust has accumulated at the bottom of the pit for a long time, forming a certain thickness. The limestone will quickly absorb the moisture in the human feces itself, and will eventually turn into a hard lump of semi-fossil.
He guessed: "The exact time is hard to determine, but I estimate that it has been at least a thousand years, which means that people have been here before us. There are two toilets here, and there is a distance between them. Maybe they were separated at that time." Men’s and women’s restrooms.”
"Wait! I know!"
Dou Sprout suddenly clapped his hands and said: "Head! I know what's going on!"
"Look! There are thousands of stone sculptures in Guizailing above. Those stones are the same as those in the underground caves."
"But there are no traces of extensive mining in the mountains around Guizailing. Didn't Lao Tian say before that the stones for the Guizailing stone carvings were taken from the local area, but we have never found out where they were taken from. Isn't it right here!"
His eyes lit up.
"Indeed, and this possibility is very high. The stone carvings on the ground span a wide range of ages. They were carved from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the late Qing Dynasty. It turned out that the materials were taken here..."
Ah Chun looked at Dou Sprout and said, "You are pretty good at guessing these things."
Dou Sprout looked happy, waved his hand and said, "Where is it? I just like to read books and have a little more knowledge."
I knew he was just being blind. Seeing him like that, I just had to write four words on my face, "I'm awesome."
"No wonder...no wonder junior brother and Tian are so anxious. It turns out there is a secret underneath."
He thought about it and said, "The ground here is clean. Let's take a rest and eat something to keep warm before walking."
Our bags were rich in supplies, including canned yellow croaker, sesame seed cakes, ham sausages, biscuits, chocolates, etc.
We turned on a headlamp and placed it on the ground for lighting. All other lights were turned off to save power. We sat around eating and drinking water to recover our strength.
"Wen Bin, have you eaten?"
Brother Yu nodded and said yes.
The head said: "Then go ahead and stick two pieces of reflective road signs on the wall, and we will try to mark them all the way."
"good."
Brother Yu got up and took the reflective strip from his bag, walked over to find a smooth place to stick it on.
Marking is something that almost all professional cave exploration teams can do. We rarely go into caves, so we follow other people’s lead.
Brother Yu put up a sign saying that he would relieve himself behind the stone wall.
The wall was only over one meter high. Brother Yu was tall, and we could all see him unbuttoning his pants.
Ah Chun kept watching while eating the canned food.
Brother Yu was a little embarrassed and squatted down.
As a result, Brother Yu just squatted down.
All I heard was "crash!"
The stacked low stone wall suddenly collapsed! It stirred up a lot of dust.
"Cough! Cough!"
Brother Yu was choked by dust and coughed. He quickly raised his hand and explained: "I...I didn't move or touch..."
Before she finished speaking, Brother Yu saw the way Achun looked at her and immediately pocketed his pants.
Holding half of the sesame seed cake in his hand, Dou Ya Zai laughed and said, "Haha, Brother Yu, you are gone, I saw it."
"What's going on? It's so fucking unlucky."
Brother Yu kicked a stone away, cursed, and jumped out.
After walking only four or five steps, Brother Yu suddenly turned his head in confusion and walked back again.
"What's wrong, Brother Yu, what are you looking at?" I asked.
Brother Yu waved to me: "Bring your flashlight and come and have a look."
I took a flashlight and went over to take a look.
I saw a few oval-shaped stones at the top of the pile of collapsed stone walls.
And on the surface of the stone, there are neat scratches carved one after another. Some of these scratches...
Some are like who is counting the days and recording the days.
