Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 561 The Drifter’s Secret Method

"What's going on?" I asked.

Douyazi was also stunned. He shook his head and said, "I don't know."

This thing has been air-dried, and you can still vaguely see blood vessels on the surface. It seems to be the skin of some large animal.

After a while, the thing was gradually blown up. Piaozike patted it with satisfaction. It was still elastic. He turned around and said a few words to Chaosheng.

Lao Zhang translated, "Uncle said he's not sure this time and needs your help."

Chaosheng nodded and said he understood.

Douyazi asked, "You're just going to watch without getting in the water?"

He explained that he was not as good a swimmer as Chao Sheng and that he was only responsible for translating and delivering messages.

Douyazi said unhappily, "So you don't have to take any risks, but you want one million just to translate two sentences?"

The other party was also unhappy after hearing this and said, "Brother, if you feel that you have wasted your money, then our cooperation can be cancelled. At worst, we will not take this job, and you can find another expert."

After all, I needed help from someone and didn't dare offend him. I gave Douyazi a look and said with a forced smile, "Brother, what are you talking about? What the hell is this? Is it an airbag?"

He said calmly, "This thing is very ancient. You can think of it as the gas cylinder used by the Tanka people. It not only provides oxygen for a certain period of time, but also reduces water pressure and maintains body temperature."

"Is this made of sealskin?" I asked again.

"Sealskin? No." He shook his head.

I asked doubtfully, "Do you want someone to get in?"

He nodded.

"Should we drill now, or drill underwater later?"

"Brother, don't ask me. This is my uncle's way of making a living. It's a secret that's never passed down in the martial arts world. Do you understand?"

I said okay, then I won’t ask anymore.

As he spoke, the drifter took out two more things from the snakeskin bag.

A bamboo tube and a leather strap.

There was a kind of "black mud" in the bamboo tube. He dug it out and smeared it all on his ear holes, then handed the bandage to Chaosheng.

Chaosheng tied the strap around his waist and asked, "Are you ready?"

Douyazai and I nodded.

Chaosheng glanced at the time and said solemnly, "You guys are responsible for picking me up. I will take him down to a depth of 200 meters. From then on, we'll have to rely on him. I hope everything goes well."

Before we went into the water, Xiaoxuan was very worried about me. She held my hand tightly and said, "My right eyelid is twitching uncontrollably. I don't know what's wrong. I feel like there might be something creepier than a hairy watermelon in that place."

I whispered, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Fortune and wealth are sought through risk. It's precisely because it's so difficult to imagine, and no one can do it, that the treasure has been preserved to this day. Wait patiently for good news from us."

After a final look at Xiaoxuan and Baotou, we went into the water one after another.

I don't know if it's because of the continuous rain in Qiandao Lake in the past few days, but the water here seems to be a little turbid. The guide rope placed at the beginning is still there. Seeing is believing. The drifter really doesn't need to rely on the oxygen tank. He paddles with one hand and drags his so-called large air bag with the other hand. According to common sense, he will be affected by buoyancy by holding this thing, but the fact is that he is not affected. Looking at his smooth swimming posture, I thought of the four words "like a fish in water".

They could hear the sound of running water and their own breathing. Since they were relatively familiar with the route, it took them about fifteen minutes to pass through the weapons room and tunnel area and arrive near the abyss area.

Douyazai's diving light flashed in my face, and he pointed downwards, indicating that the rope he had put out before was still there.

At this time, the drifter puffed out his cheeks and made a gesture to us.

I gestured and asked him what he meant.

Chaosheng understood what it meant, that we had to turn around and not look.

Soon, in less than a minute, when we turned around, the drifter and the tide-born man were gone.

I immediately looked down into the abyss.

In the endless dark abyss, we saw Chaosheng’s headlamps flashing. The hundreds of meters long climbing ropes we had let down earlier were like signposts leading directly to the bottom of the abyss. They were diving down quickly along the ropes.

Maybe I was too nervous, I felt a little dizzy.

Time flies here, and every second of waiting is torture.

Just now Chaosheng raised two fingers, which means twenty minutes. If no one is seen after this time, it means something has happened.

What's down there? What's there? Is the abyss connected to the formation of the hairy watermelon? Or, as Xiaoxuan said... is there something even creepier down there?

No one knows this.

In the next twenty minutes, Piaozike, one of the four top water ghosts of the Southern School, might be the first living person to dive to the bottom of the abyss in eight hundred years.

Suddenly, Douyazai, who was not far away, waved at me.

I looked over and saw a pile of rubble stacked up together, about as high as my thighs. It looked like it had been placed there by humans.

Douyazi leaned over and pushed hard, and the upper part of the pile of stones fell over.

I shone the light and saw that there was still a stone inside, a larger one at that.

wrong....

I looked closely and found that there was a pattern engraved on the surface of this big stone, which was the "box pattern" that I had seen several times in different places before.

Why is there one here too?

Douyazi obviously recognized it as well, because he had seen it twice before. Douyazi made a gesture to me and asked.

I don't know how to explain it, because until now I still can't figure out the meaning of this kind of box pattern.

I suddenly began to worry. The bottom of the abyss was unclear, but at least here, we might not be the first wave of people to visit here.

I've previously researched this "box pattern," or symbol, and wondered if it could have been a communication signal between the rebels. Or perhaps it represented some kind of secret message? Manichaeism was severely suppressed by the Northern Song Dynasty government, and the rebels had close ties to it. Could this strange pattern be some kind of Manichaeism code?

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But this is not right.

Because there is a box pattern left on the stone wall of Dongshan Longdong, and a group of words are clearly engraved at the bottom: the 13th year of Daoguang, Jiang something.

My breathing grew heavier, due to the water pressure and the tension. I couldn't figure out the meaning of these checkered patterns, or even the exact date they were carved. Why were they found in so many places around Qiandao Lake? And were they carved in relatively obvious places? Was it intentional?

Take the present for example. If it were not blocked with rubble, we would not notice it at all. On the contrary, covering it with rubble would attract attention, making it seem like there is something fishy going on.

Just when I was wondering, Douyazi suddenly sent me a signal.

We swam quickly over and looked down into the abyss.

I saw a "spot of light", like a firefly in the dark, slowly rising.

Suddenly, the rope moved and the light began to flash, as if sending us some kind of signal.

Douyazi and I started pulling the rope without thinking.

The rope was too long, and it was incredibly difficult to pull it up! And because there was no leverage under my feet, I couldn't apply my strength in one place. The rope had barely been pulled up a few meters when the downward force instantly pulled it back.

In desperation, Douyazi came up with an idea. He quickly untied the buckle on his waist used to hang the auxiliary gas cylinder and buckled it around my waist. In this way, we were pressed tightly together and leaned on each other for strength.

As the rope was pulled up, the "light spot" became brighter and brighter.

That's Tide's diving light.

I could vaguely see that Chaosheng had a belt around his waist, and the belt was tightly connected to the inflated airbag.

With the help of a rope, Douyazi and I pulled the person up.

After getting up, I noticed that the airbag seemed to be much smaller than before. I shone the headlight up, and through the blurry light and shadow, I saw that the drifter was like a sleeping baby, curled up in a ball, with his head buried between his legs, and his hands seemed to be holding something.