Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 31 The Ball



After passing out, there is no sense of time, and I was woken up by freezing.

My back felt sore and numb, my chest hurt even when I was breathing, and I didn't know if my ribs were broken.

"you're awake."

I lay on the ground and turned my head to look. A mole was arranging her wet hair. She was soaked like me.

I could hear the sound of the river flowing in my ears, and I endured the pain in my chest and asked: "Hong...Sister Hong, did we survive?"

"Yeah, my life is pretty big," she didn't even bother to joke with me.

I struggled to get up from the ground, and this movement hurt my ribs.

"Slow down, I've seen your wound, the rib is not broken, it's a sprain," a mole helped me up.

At this time, I was free, so I looked around.

In front of me is an underground river. The place where I and a mole are located is barely on the shore, and the space is very small, less than two meters.

The backpack I was carrying was gone. It must have been washed away in the underground river. Fortunately, a mole was still there.She has some crackers and emergency kits in her bag.

Leaning on a rock, I looked at her and said, "Sister Hong, thank you for saving my life. I don't know how to swim. If you didn't save me, I would have drowned."

A mole acted like no one was around, and she began to take off her clothes on her own.

I hurriedly lowered my head.

Her voice came: "There is nothing to burn here, and there is no way to start a fire. Don't thank me in advance. Take off your clothes and wring out the water, or you will lose temperature."

Seeing me swaying, she shook her head and chuckled: "Ma'am, I haven't seen any big guns and cannons before, so I'm afraid of you, a young chicken? Hurry up quickly."

In this way, after 5 minutes, all I took off was the briefs, and I covered my crotch with both hands, no matter what she said, I refused to take it off, this was my last stubbornness.

"Hey, forget it," a mole helped me twist up my clothes, and she wasn't asking me to take off my briefs.

Below is the cave structure. The walkie-talkie in her bag is useless, and there was no satellite phone at that time. Beidou’s second communication satellite was launched in 07. In this way, we can’t contact Big Brother in a short time. and third brother.

Now, it's up to us.

The biscuits in the backpack were soaked in water, but now we can only eat this to replenish our strength. The soaked biscuits are cold and loose, it really melts in the mouth, like drinking soup.

After resting for over an hour and putting on my clothes, a mole asked me if I could walk, and I gritted my teeth and said yes.Together, the two began to walk along the narrow river bank with unsteady steps.

The flow direction of this underground river is from west to east, and we are walking in this direction. The platform like a cistern is no longer visible, so heavy, it probably sank to the bottom of the river.

I thought about it carefully on the way, and to be honest, I still couldn't figure it out.I was really impressed by those thick bronze chains.

I know one thing. The casting of bronzes in the Western Zhou Dynasty used the fan line mold method. The lost wax method is very late. The bronze chains are interlocking. After 2000 years, in my understanding, the Western Zhou Dynasty Bronze chains of this length could not be made during the period, because of the limitation of technological conditions.

As we walked, the current became more and more urgent, and the small river bank we walked on became narrower and narrower. At first we were able to walk side by side, but later, worried that our feet would slip into the water, a mole and I changed to one in front of the other. Go behind, she is in front, and I am in the back.

Fortunately, I bought a high-end waterproof flashlight before, and this flashlight helped a lot at this time.

There is a cool wind blowing ahead, and I feel it.

This is a good thing. At that time, I thought that as long as I walked straight along the underground river, I would definitely find the exit smoothly.

"Wait!" She stopped suddenly.

"What's wrong, Miss Hong?"

"Yunfeng, what do you think that is?" She turned sideways and pointed her flashlight in front of her.

The range of the flashlight lighting is limited, and the distance is a bit far away, so I can't see clearly. I only saw some vague circular shadows, like some balls hanging on the ceiling of the cave.

"What is this?" I couldn't see clearly either.

"Be careful, go over and have a look," a mole turned her head and told me.

As the distance draws in, this time I can see clearly...

It is some kind of long and trapezoidal bronze ware...

In front of these bronze wares, there are many round mud balls hanging with thinner copper chains, and it is completely unclear what these things are for.

A mole raised his head and frowned, "Yunfeng, do these... look like chime bells?"

"Chime? A trapezoidal bronze chime?" I was taken aback.

Hearing what she said, I became more and more like her.

There are many kinds of ancient bronze wares, about 34 kinds, and chime bells are only one of them. Later generations classified them into round chime bells, square chime bells, hat chime bells, and trapezoidal chime bells.

Why is there such a huge set of bronze chimes hanging on the underground cave at the foot of Moth Mountain?What are those round mud balls in front of the chime for?

People are always curious about some unknown food.

"Pick one down and have a look," a mole picked up a small stone from the side.

She raised her hand and threw it vigorously, like hitting fruit, but unfortunately the first drop fell to nothing.

Then she tried a second time, but still couldn't hit the balls.

"Let me try Hongjie," I took a small stone from her hand.

I loved to shoot birds with a slingshot when I was young, so I still have some accuracy in my hands.

I hit it with the first hit, and the ball swayed back and forth like a swing, but it didn't fall because of insufficient strength.

This time I used all my strength.

"Plop," the round mud ball fell into the river.

"Sister Hong was hit!"

A mole gave me a white look.

Seeing that the falling ball was floating towards the center of the underground river, and a mole quickly took off her shirt, she turned around and said, "Wait for me here, I'll go fish it up and have a look."

"Plop," before I could tell you to be careful, she jumped into the river with a single leap.

It's been 2 minutes, the water is calm, I haven't seen her figure, and the dropped ball is gone.

"Miss Hong!"

"Sister Hong!" I stood on the shore anxiously and shouted.

A ball was pushed under my feet by the water, a mole disappeared... I was terrified, and I stayed where I didn't know what to do.

"Hula!" The upper body of a person emerged from the water.

I was relieved to see this person, it was a mole.

After swimming ashore, her face was cloudy and uncertain.

"Did you hurt Miss Hong? What's the matter?" Seeing her complexion, I asked worriedly.

She slowed down for a while, then turned her head to look at me and said, "There is something under the water... I can't see it clearly, it looks like a big turntable built by someone."

"Huh? Big turntable? What do you mean?"

"I don't know, let's not talk about this, let's see what this thing is," she pointed to the ball under my feet.

"Oh, alright."

This thing is very hard, the size of a football, I smashed it with a sharp stone several times before breaking a small crack.

Like opening a coconut shell, I reached in and tried to break the thing apart.

It didn't break open the first time, but the opening was widened, so I took a look with a flashlight.

There was a white thing inside and I tried to reach out and feel it.

As I touched it, my face changed.

It feels like I have caught two holes with my fingers.

"What's wrong?" A mole asked.

I hurriedly withdrew my hands, sat on the ground and backed up several steps with my hands supported.

"Human...human head."


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