Half a moment later, the searchlight on the top of the diving bell flashed and a white beam of light lit up around them, sweeping vertically towards the nearby area.
Dongting Lake is a freshwater lake. The deepest point is only 50 to 60 meters. If you include the areas near the islands, the deepest point is only 20 meters. With a searchlight, you can basically see the bottom directly. With the diving bell, you can continue to dive. , Yue Guanchao and the others followed the light pillar and dived down, and were already able to stand on the mud at the bottom of the river.
As mentioned earlier, the entire island has been artificially carved. It took thousands of years after the water level rose to form what it is today. Yue Guanchao turned on the searchlight above his head to observe the surrounding area.
There are indeed traces of chiseling on the mountain, and it has an abnormal sense of regularity, as if it was a deliberately gentle slope.
The farther you go towards the island, the smoother it becomes. If you look further towards the island, the jagged place is the real edge of the island.
Due to the lush aquatic plants and the barrier of the lake, only the hazy outline of the mountain remains. Dense water-weed algae is grown everywhere. Walking through it is like walking through a field of green rapeseed flowers. Under the disturbance of the lake, there are sometimes loaches, eels and countless fish. The shrimp escaped from the mud of aquatic plants and hid aimlessly.
When walking, because the mud was full of stones, they had to be careful to avoid being scratched by sharp objects.
Yue Guanchao looked up and saw that the buoy was still shining faintly above their heads. Although they were safe for the time being, they always felt a sense of panic in their hearts, as if they had walked to the edge of a cliff and would be doomed if they took just one step. .
According to John Hua's instructions, in order to find the entrance as quickly as possible, they had reduced the missing part of Yangyu, only staying at the position of Yangyu's eye. They trudged through the lush aquatic plants, and when they saw the circle buoy above their heads, it had already represented them. Came near Yangyu's eyes.
It has to be said that the water under the water of Yugou Island is extremely large. Even if it is just a fish eye, it only covers two or three acres of land, which is about more than a thousand square meters. Everywhere the buoy touches is considered to be within the fish eye.
The two picked up the sickle on the diving bell and started groping on the ground. When they raised the knife and lowered it, the sickle slashed across the water. Many aquatic plants were cut directly in half. The two were like farmers harvesting wheat, throwing the partitions of aquatic plants aside and waiting. After the aquatic plants broke, they began to explore the ground with iron rods.
After about half an hour, their strength was almost exhausted. The aquatic plants themselves were strong enough. After being cut, they floated nearby, blocking their sight. In addition, the water flow hindered their movement, which added to the trouble.
Yue Guanchao looked at Xu Xiake, made gestures and decided to change his approach. He picked up a rotten severed hand next to him and compared it with the little Taoist priest a few times. He immediately understood what it meant.
Song Siyuan said that in order to make the Jin people atone for their sins, the Southern Song Dynasty rebels buried the corpses of all the Jin people's generals near the entrance. As long as you find these graves, you can probably find the entrance.
The two nodded to each other, hung up the sickles and iron rods in their hands, slid their arms upwards, and floated directly on the grass using the buoyancy of the lake water, as if they were drifting with the current in the wheat waves and paddling forward.
Although John Hua didn't understand what the two were doing, when he saw them moving water plants and observing the mud, he probably understood that they were looking for an entrance, so he simply let the barge follow behind, always exploring the location for them.
Yue Guanchao and the others glided all the way, and after swimming for several hundred meters, they came to a very lush aquatic plant.
Seen from a distance, these aquatic plants are completely different from those in other places. Most of the aquatic plants in other places are half waist high, and the longest is only near the head. The group of aquatic plants in front of you, if counted from the bottom of the lake, is basically more than ten meters. High, as high as two or three stories high.
Among them, the aquatic plants are no longer a single species, there are countless, including Myriophyllum paniculata, Hydrilla verticillata, evergreen dwarf Vallisneria, evergreen Vallisneria, wild rice, hornwort, precious water lily, top lotus, Canna mosaic, osmanthus Fish grass, water lily, water hyacinth, ground water vine... These water plants have grown and mixed with each other for a long time, and they have long been indistinguishable from each other.
In order to keep warm, they often grow among aquatic trees such as water pine, water fig, metasequoia, water willow vine, and water poplar. They cling to these ancient trees that have flourished for thousands of years, forming numerous underwater forests.
Under the clear water, it seems that there is a primeval forest that has flourished for thousands of years. Many shrimps, crabs, mussels, snakes, eels, and fish are hidden in it. Under the sunlight, it seems that they are wandering around in the forest at will. shuttle.
Yue Guanchao did not expect that the Dongting Lake, which was calm on the surface, would actually have places like this underwater. If these currents were abandoned, it would basically be equivalent to a fairyland on earth.
The two of them knew that there would not be an underwater forest here for no reason. It was probably due to years of nourishment that such a wonder under the lake could be formed. This meant that there must be something here that constantly attracts algae and plants to breed here.
They said hello to the diving bell behind them, picked up their sickles to cut off the surrounding water plants, and dived into the underwater forest.
After entering it, the diving bell was already inaccessible. Even those with such dexterity had to pay attention to move forward in such a place.
"Yeah, woo hoo." Yue Guanchao saw Xu Xiake pulling his arm. He looked in the direction of the man. Under the cover of the trees, countless corpses were hung among the treetops and shrubs. Some had become bones, and some They were so rotten that they no longer looked like humans. They were all broken and rotten flesh. Some of them were still in a freshly dead state, swollen and white. Fish and shrimps had already penetrated through their mouths and noses, biting them until they were bleeding.
Even though Yue Guanchao had seen many corpses, his scalp was still numb with nausea when he encountered this thing underwater. In this environment, seeing piles of corpses can almost be regarded as entering a dangerous zone.
In particular, these corpses had huge tooth marks on them, which further showed that his guess was correct. Most of these corpses were pulled in by something. Otherwise, how could there be so many corpses gathered.
They had no choice but to hold on to the sickle, cut the weeds and continue walking forward. When they walked deep into the woods, they could already see many tombs as big as water tanks appearing in front of them.
These tombs are like water-soaked cages. They are made in the style of hollow hills. The surface stones are built in the style of a semicircular dome. There is a copper ball iron cage. There are many openings around the dome and it is covered with a grille net to completely confine the corpse. Let the fish and shrimps get into it and swim around.
The flesh and bones have been used for thousands of years, and even the bones are riddled with holes. But from the style of the clothes, it can be seen that they are the armor and red cherry hat of ancient soldiers.
If you look closer, you can see the black iron tombstones in front of the stone tombs. Most of them have no names, no surnames, no nationality, only
These eight characters, "The Song Dynasty was destroyed, and the sinners were burned to death. They must redeem their sins now and suppress them forever." After thousands of years, these eight characters have only rusted slightly and are still clearly visible.
After they turned on the searchlight, the surrounding underwater forest became much sparser. As the lamppost illuminated the distance, hundreds of stone tombs were faintly visible among the water plants.
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