Chapter 16 Meeting

I saw the fat guy's face change, and I couldn't help but cheer up. Although this fat guy is not very reliable, his performance in the ancient tomb is still remarkable. At least in terms of experience, I don't know how many times better he is. I have never overturned a tomb independently, and I don't know if there needs to be a mobilization before going down the tomb. I will just be a student for now and listen to what he has to say.

The fat man ate a lot, his stomach was swollen, he patted his stomach and said: "I have never fallen in this sea bucket, I must prepare in advance, so as not to be in a hurry when entering. It must be different from the land bucket, I also want to see how the equipment you prepared for me is."

Aning said, "Mr. Wang, how confident are you this time? Why don't we plan it first so we can have a better idea."

The fat man shook his head. "It's hard to say. According to my experience, this sea bucket is difficult to locate, difficult to dig, and unknown. Let's not think about the first and second for now. The main thing is the third. I don't know if there are any zongzi in this sea bucket. If there are, it will be troublesome. If not, then this sea bucket is just a dry bucket in the water and can be easily captured."

Speaking of zongzi, I suddenly remembered what my uncle told me about the monster I encountered in the tomb passage. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it might be the sea monkey I encountered on the ghost ship today. I couldn't help but feel a little scared and said, "I don't know if there are zongzi here, but there may be something more troublesome." Then I told these people about the thing I saw on the ghost ship. The foreigners had heard about it from Menyouping a long time ago, but Menyouping probably didn't explain it clearly, so they felt more comfortable listening to me. After I finished speaking, the fat man frowned and asked, "Is there really such a thing?"

I nodded and said, "When I was climbing the cable, I was pushed into the water by the waves. I saw an iron chain under the boat. I guess it was an anchor chain. I don't know which ship dropped anchor and the anchor hooked on the sunken ship. As a result , when the anchor was raised, the ship was brought up. The sea monkey might have panicked at that time and locked himself in the sealed iron warehouse in a panic."

Aning shook his head and said, "No, it would have to be a big ship to have this power."

I thought it made sense, and at this time, the captain of the boat interrupted and said, "No, no, you don't understand. The fishing boats here are all offshore boats of our size. It is impossible to use such a heavy chain anchor. The only ones who use this anchor nearby are the speedboats that go to Qilian Island to fish. Those speedboats can only seat 50 people, but the anchor hoist is very powerful, and it is definitely possible to pull up such a sunken ship. Moreover, the seabed of Xisha cannot bury anything. Qinghua porcelain from more than 200 years ago can be picked up casually, let alone an iron ship. The anchor must be hooked on the keel of this ship, otherwise it would not be so easy to break the keel of such an iron boat after being on the seabed for more than ten years."

The captain is an authority, and since he said so, we have no objection. The fat man said, "Since there are such things on the seabed, we must have weapons. What if the sea is their lair, then we will die. Miss Aning, do you have any harpoons or something?"

Then Aning said, "We have considered this situation and prepared some diving guns, but these guns are very large and can only fire one round at a time. If there is an emergency, I'm afraid they won't be of much use."

I know that this kind of gun is fired with compressed gas, and its effective range is less than 4 meters. Fortunately, it can also be used as a spear. However, the length of this gun is indeed too long, and it may not be able to be used in the narrow tomb passage.

The fat man ignored all this and shouted, "No matter if it's useful or not, there's no such thing as too many guns. Take all you can. Tomorrow, I'll be the first to go down, Comrade Xiao Wu will follow behind me, and you and the shorty will be at the end. If I see something wrong, I'll wave my hand and you'll stop immediately. If I wave my fist, you'll ignore everything and just run away."

We thought the arrangement was reasonable and nodded, then discussed some other things. I thought about the experiences that Uncle San and I had mentioned, and made a list and asked them to prepare them overnight, including searchlights, daggers, tinderboxes, sealed bags, nylon ropes, carabiners, food, first aid supplies, gas masks, and treasure boxes. They prepared quite a lot, even black donkey hooves. Some of them, such as treasure boxes, they had never heard of, so I asked them to find some wire and make a few themselves. These things are mainly used to destroy the mechanisms in the mausoleum. In fact, they are just hooks and needles of various types.

After giving the orders, it was almost dawn. The fat man said we couldn't talk anymore as we couldn't get into the water. We needed to rest. So we each found a place to lie down. The coconut wine was very strong and the sea breeze made my head feel heavy. I fell asleep in a few seconds and didn't wake up until the afternoon.

The other people woke up earlier than me and were already preparing. They washed their faces with sea water. At this time, several kids floated up from the water. One of them took off his respirator and said, "We found it. It must be this place. Moreover, we found a tunnel."

When Aning heard this, his face changed and he asked, "Did you dig through it?"

The man shook his head and said, "I don't know. The tunnel is very long. I went in for a while but didn't see the bottom. I didn't dare to go in any further, so I came out."

Aning's face was very ugly. He turned to me, as if asking for my opinion. Of course, I knew that the hole must have been left by Uncle San . Something must have happened in the sea bucket, but it was not easy to say it clearly. I shrugged and said, "We still have to go down and take a look. It would be better if someone helped me dig a hole. We are already here. Can we not go down just because we see a hole?"

The fat man also comforted him: "What's so strange about having a thief's hole? Most of the buckets I robbed were 2-entry palaces, and there are still good things inside."

Aning nodded, asked the kid a few more questions, and said to us: "Okay, let's get ready. They will call us after they finish cleaning the cave entrance. There are signs of landslides in the cave entrance, so they will use brackets to fix it."

We each put on our diving suits. They fit me and the others very well, except for the fat guy whose stomach couldn't be covered, so his belly button was exposed. Although it was not very elegant, at least we put them on. After checking our equipment and putting on everything we needed, we fell into the water one after another.