After Qin Fei had eaten, Zhu Yu took out three fist-sized figurines from his "backpack", handed them to them and said:
"Come on, absorb some energy. Now that Qin Fei has found it, it may be a tough battle for us next. We have to keep our spirits up!"
The three of them didn't show any pretense and all took it.
Qin Fei solemnly said to Zhu Yu:
"Thank you, boss!"
Then he said to Ran Jie and Cao Dalong:
"thank you all!"
In fact, no one said it, but Qin Fei knew it.
If Zhu Yu and the others didn't enter the underground river to look for him, there was a high probability that he might not be able to get out alive.
Zhu Yu had every reason to take Ran Jie and the others to search for the treasure.
Finding the entrance to the underground river along the way may not be that simple!
He didn't say much, but he remembered it in his heart.
"What are you doing!" Cao Dalong slapped him, "Our future lives belong to the boss. The boss doesn't like these nonsense, does he?"
Qin Fei lowered his head, stopped talking, and quickly absorbed energy.
Zhu Yu himself also took out a human figurine and absorbed it.
Half an hour later, all four people stopped.
"Let's go forward now. Let's make some small profits first." Zhu Yu put away the human figurines and said, "There is an impact zone in front, and there should be something underneath."
The three people followed Zhu Yu forward, where the rope was nailed.
"I caught two gold coins in the river earlier." Zhu Yu said this to Qin Fei, "So I guess the upper reaches of the underground river must be related to treasures. In other words, at least there should be treasures in the upper reaches of the underground river. "
"I'm going!" At this moment, Cao Dalong was the most active.
Qin Fei is fine, he is the happiest.
"This pit shouldn't be shallow, but your water quality should be fine, so be careful. You should be able to touch something good down here."
Cao Dalong took off his clothes, leaving only his shorts, then put on the waterproof goggles handed over by Zhu Yu, and jumped into the water.
The water was relatively murky, and through the waterproof glasses, he could barely see a little of what was in front of him.
After Cao Dalong dived to the bottom of the water, he began to explore.
This looks like a sword?
This is the gold coin that has not escaped.
This is... a set of armor? How could there be such a thing underwater?
Cao Dalong only went into the water to explore, so there was no need to bring a bag or net.
He was groping like this, and soon he couldn't hold it in his hands, so he had to float up.
"There are so many things underwater!" Cao Dalong walked out of the pit and threw the things he was holding on the ground. "I don't know where so many things came from!"
"Gold coins, this sword... is quite exquisite, and the scabbard is inlaid with gems. This armor should be inlaid with silver..."
Zhu Yu read them one by one and said while watching:
"They should all be from hundreds or thousands of years ago and are worth a lot of money."
"I'll go down again!" Cao Dalong took out a net bag from his backpack this time, turned around and jumped into the water again.
When he came out, he came home with a full load.
The things were very mixed. There were two candlesticks fished out from the river earlier, but they were too rusty to look good. There is a golden mask, which has also been washed away by the water and deformed.
There were quite a few gold coins, with figures embossed on them, in an irregular circular shape.
There are also some weapons, hand axes and maces.
It's just that except for gold and silver products, most of the other copper and iron products are severely corroded.
Later, when Ran Jie went into the water again, he only picked up gold coins and went fishing.
In the end, more than a hundred gold coins were fished out, along with eleven items of relatively high value.
"Okay, these things are worth hundreds of thousands. Mainly because they have rusted badly in puddles, otherwise the value could be ten times higher."
Zhu Yu finally came to a conclusion.
There are still some things left in the puddle, but there is no need to go into the water.
The four of them continued walking forward, and after a few hours, they reached the place where Zhu Yu and the others fell.
"Should we not go up?" Zhu Yu glanced up and found that the sky was already bright.
"No, let's continue!" Cao Dalong, who had gained something, was very excited, "keep going, maybe we can find more things without spending much energy!"
"Bang bang bang!"
Suddenly, dull gunshots were heard from the hole above.
This time there was constant gunfire, a few shots from time to time, and occasionally someone shouting.
"This is..." Qin Fei understood that Zhu Yu and the others were talking about more than one group of people outside.
"The fight started."
"Then let's go!" Zhu Yu smiled, "Let them fight. It's a pity that they can't watch the show."
The four people continued walking forward.
The river is getting narrower and narrower, and the water depth basically remains about 30 centimeters.
The higher you go, the more things you encounter.
This time, even Cao Dalong picked up two gold coins.
"This treasure... is quite a lot!"
The harvest is not small, but the situation seems rather strange.
"Take a rest here." Zhu Yu stopped.
He found the most things along the way, not only gold and silver coins, but also gold masks, gemstone rings and other things.
This made Zhu Yu feel that the legendary treasure should not be far away.
"Eat something and get ready! Next, we may have a tough battle to fight!"
The action of rescuing Qin Fei further enhanced Zhu Yu's high prestige among the four people, so after hearing his order, several people immediately put down their backpacks and started preparing food.
"Boss, do you think that if we find the treasure later, will we encounter those people above?"
"There is a high probability that we will encounter it." Zhu Yu said, "Since those people have found this place, they must have their own intelligence sources. Maybe they will find the treasure before us."
In fact, Zhu Yu was not in a hurry, at least they were in the dark and the other party was in the open.
Regardless, they now have an advantage.
After eating, the four men took out their guns and continued to move forward cautiously.
"Have you noticed that we seem to be going down?" Ran Jie suddenly said.
"It is indeed going down, getting deeper and deeper - you see, the water level of the underground river is much deeper." Cao Dalong also discovered this.
"It's also possible that the terrain above is too high. There may be a mountain or a hill above." Zhu Yu said, "But don't worry, even if it's a dead end here, at most we can turn back."
After walking for nearly an hour, they stopped.
"I never expected that the source of this underground river would look like this!"
At the source of the river, there is an artificial stone platform. There is a hole on the side of the stone platform, and most of the water gushes out of this hole.
However, the water source here should be relatively abundant. There is not only water in the holes, but also water seeping out from the stone crevices on both sides.
This sufficient amount of water is the original water source of the underground river.
Then the underground spring water collected along the way formed an increasingly larger underground river.
There is an arch above the stone platform, and steps go deep into it.
Zhu Yu opened his eyes and could see that there was an iron gate deep in the steps.
"Let's go up and have a look." Zhu Yu walked over first.
His celestial eye peered through the iron door and saw that inside was a place similar to a water storage tank.
And just at the bottom of the reservoir, there are many gold coins and valuables scattered.
It turns out that the treasures in the underground river flow out from here!
The iron door is bolted with an iron rod from the inside, but after so many years, not much of the finger-thick iron rod remains due to the erosion of the moisture.
Zhu Yu just shook it vigorously a few times, then broke the iron rod and opened the iron door.
"I didn't expect it to be like this inside?" Cao Dalong said softly after the four people entered.
The reservoir is now full, with water flowing down from a higher level through a half-exposed pipe.
The diameter of the pipe is almost half a meter, and the water volume is only one-third.
The opening of the pipe is decorated in the shape of a mythical beast, which reminds Zhu Yu of the twelve animal heads.
This thing seems to be made of copper as well, and if it is produced, it will probably not be cheap.
The iron gate was a little higher than the water tank. The water tank looked like it was carved out of stone. The surrounding walls were covered with copper plates, but they were already rusted.
“What a luxury!”
The water tank is adjacent to a high wall, which leads to a series of steps.
The steps continued to the center of the wall, and then went deeper. This time it was a wooden door.
The four people came to the wooden door. Zhu Yu found that there was no lock behind the wooden door and there was no one there.
He opened the wooden door, and the hinges were rusted, making an unpleasant sound.
Zhu Yu was startled, but after waiting for a while and finding no movement, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked in first.
Inside the gate is a small square the size of two football fields. In the center is a round small pool with exquisite sculptures.
Zhu Yu approached the pool and found that it resembled a wishing pool. The water inside was half full, and there was a layer of gold and silver coins on the bottom of the water.
"I'll go! Are you so rich?" Cao Dalong followed, took a look, and complained.
"Stop it and talk about it later."
Several people immediately went into the water and picked up everything inside.
Zhu Yu looked around again and found that there were four gates around the square. The top was about four meters high. There was a huge painting on the ceiling. Judging from the content, it seemed to be about a god riding a war elephant and fighting the devil. .
This god has three eyes. Like Erlang Shen, the third eye is vertically located above the eyebrows, radiating light and possessing strange bravery.
The god held a torch in his hand, and the light of the torch turned countless demons into ashes.
Zhu Yu couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and take a photo of this giant painting.
"Boss, where are you going next?"
After fishing out all the gold and silver coins, Ran Jie came over to ask Zhu Yu.
Zhu Yu first walked towards the door they came up to face.
Behind the door were steps going down, and to Zhu Yu's surprise, that was where the garbage was thrown. Although hundreds or thousands of years have passed, there is still a smell there.
Under the door on the left are also downward steps, leading deeper underground, where there are rows of small houses with iron railings. There are still corpses inside.
It turned out to be a place where prisoners were imprisoned!
There is only a door on the right, and the steps at the back go up.
"Let's go!" Zhu Yu led him towards the door on the right.
Of these doors, except for the one where the prisoners were imprisoned, which was an iron door with three large locks, the other doors were all wooden doors and were not locked.
It's just that the door is very exquisite, covered with copper and decorated with exquisite lines and decorations.
After opening the door and continuing upward, Zhu Yu found that there was still a door at the end of the steps.
It’s just that this door is made of thin copper plates, and even the handle is gold!
This is too luxurious!
Open the door and enter a corridor.
There are exquisite paintings on the walls on both sides of the corridor. They are also gods and men, either fighting on war elephants or living in the divine world.
"Separate searches, everyone should be quick!" Zhu Yu said, "Be careful, send a signal if there is any situation!"
The temple was a bit big, but no one from the outside came in, so Zhu Yu made a bold decision.
He walked to the right and saw a door.
Ran Jie, who was following Zhu Yu, saw him stop and said:
"Boss, you are here, I will go to the next door."
Zhu Yu's eyes swept across, and Zhu Yu couldn't help but take a breath of air.
Here is the warehouse of this temple.
There are more than a dozen boxes placed in the warehouse. Inside the boxes are all gold coins, silver coins, gold nuggets, gems...
Zhu Yu had some doubts. How could these things be collected in this seemingly barren land?
Zhu Yu roughly unscrewed the lock and pushed the door open.
After entering, he put these boxes into the space one by one.
Now is not the time to take stock.
It’s important to collect things!
After coming out of this door and walking a few steps forward, he found Ran Jie also walking out of another door.
"This is a dormitory, and everything in it is rotten."
Zhu Yu was a little surprised. He thought Ran Jie entered the warehouse as well.
It seems that my luck is as good as ever!
The corridor is circular, eventually going around in a circle and back to the dot.
In addition to the first warehouse Zhu Yu discovered, there was another warehouse.
However, it was filled with animal skins and various kinds of cloth, but they were completely rotten.
There is basically nothing valuable in the remaining dormitories.
They found the secret door that continued upward.
There are also steps behind this door, but at the end of the steps, there is no longer a wooden door, but a stone door disguised as a brick wall.
The stone door was pushed by a mechanism. Zhu Yu and the others quickly found the mechanism from inside and opened the stone door.
After going out, I found that outside the stone door was the temple.
The stone gate is located behind the statue of the god. Here is a giant painting depicting the achievements of the god and man.
The painting is very clever, and the gaps in the stone door cannot be seen at all.
Zhu Yu and the four of them walked around the statue to the front, and were shocked!
The statue is more than three meters high, and it looks very majestic riding a war elephant.
The torch in his hand is held high, as if it is shining on the world and his followers.
Of course, what surprised Zhu Yu and the others was not the statue of God, but the place facing the statue where believers originally knelt to worship the statue. At this moment, there were more than a dozen soldiers wearing German World War II uniforms lying around, and dozens of others. A man in strange clothing.
You can guess from the scene that they probably died after fighting each other.
"Boss, do you feel that the oxygen content in the air here has dropped a lot?" Ran Jie looked solemn.
"Yes." Zhu Yu nodded. He took a few steps forward, looked around, and found a small door next to him, so he walked over.
Opening the small door, Zhu Yu was surprised to find that there was also a warehouse inside!
It's just a temporary warehouse. Inside the warehouse, there are some military wooden boxes!
Obviously, the Ten Thousand Character Army came here to bring these boxes and bury them!
Zhu Yu stepped forward and opened a box and found information inside.
Open another box, still data.
Then, there were several boxes of weapons, but more of them were some gold and silver jewelry that had been collected and not completely melted, as well as some rough gems.
Zhu Yu suddenly thought that the desert fox in the past seemed to have plundered a lot of property on the African continent and was said to be buried deep in the desert.
Could this be part of it?
After all, there are only a dozen boxes here, so it certainly cannot be the entire collection of Desert Fox.
"Come on, take some with you." Zhu Yu called Ran Jie and the others in, "You can't finish these things, take as much as you can. Pick out the valuable ones!"
When Ran Jie and the others saw the soldiers of the Ten Thousand Character Army, they had already made some guesses.
Without saying much, they immediately cleared out the unused or worthless items in their backpacks and began to pack them.
Even if three people packed it, they could only pack the contents of two boxes. After all, precious metals are too heavy to hold much of.
The three people went out with their backpacks, and Zhu Yu put the rest into the space.
After leaving the warehouse, Zhu Yu closed the door and looked around.
What surprised him was that the statue was facing the door leading out, but behind the door, there were actually many boxes.
It was probably that the Wanzi Army had not been completely transported out, but there were more corpses of the Wanzi Army on those boxes.
Zhu Yutian glanced around and found that almost all of these people had been poisoned to death!
Be careful!
After all, bullets are easy to prevent, but poison is hard to say!
However, Zhu Yu didn't plan to go out from the underground river anymore, so he planned to find an exit from here.
"Go, be careful, there might be some poisonous insects here." Zhu Yu warned, and took out some anti-insect powder from his backpack and distributed it to the three people.
The three of them were not surprised that strange things appeared in Zhu Yu's backpack from time to time.
They opened the door carefully and walked out.
There were a lot of things here, but they couldn't take them out, so Ran Jie and the others simply didn't look at those boxes.
Zhu Yu took a quick look and found that they were basically ammunition supplies. He walked at the end and inadvertently put away a few boxes and didn't move again.
This is a huge corridor-like place. It surrounds the previous temple on both sides, but the corridor is diagonally upward, and the slope is not very obvious.
Zhu Yu and the others chose to go to the right, and could see a lot of corpses that had fallen down along the way. Due to the climate, they were basically mummified.
At the end of the corridor, a large iron gate blocked the way.
There was light coming in from outside, but it wasn't very strong.
"We're finally out!" Seeing light, even a faint light, was enough to make several people excited.
Cao Dalong even planned to open the door and go out immediately:
"I'm almost suffocating in this dark place. I need to get out quickly!"
"The air has warmed up. It should be possible to get out." Ran Jie also analyzed.
Zhu Yu waved his hand:
"Don't worry, we don't know what's going on outside, so let's not act rashly yet. Wait, listen and see!"
Before he finished speaking, several muffled gunshots came in!
