The Lost Tomb Chapter 17 Hair

The tunnel was not far from the ship. I saw a big hole blown out on the seabed, and the hole was at the bottom of the hole. I thought it was indeed Uncle San's doing. We searched around the tunnel, but were relieved when we found no other tunnels. However, I did see several stone anchors, the same as Uncle San described, but I couldn't be sure that they were what Uncle San said.

We searched for about 5 minutes, and it seemed unnecessary to search any further. The fat man waved his hand at me, asking if we should go in now. Aning looked at the diving watch and nodded.

Our equipment now is no better than it was 20 years ago, so we are all traveling light. We finally checked the equipment and the agreed codeword at the entrance of the cave. After making sure that everything was OK, the fat man calmed down and was the first to go in. The rest of us turned on the searchlights and followed, diving five or six meters in one go.

This stolen hole was very irregular, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow. I swam and looked at the hole wall. The more I looked, the more strange it seemed. It didn't look like it was dug by humans. If it was a hole dug by Uncle San, he would have dug it very neatly, one shovel at a time. But now the marks on it were messy, with holes and digs everywhere, which made it look like a hole dug by an animal.

We swam for more than 20 meters with difficulty. The light from the cave entrance could no longer reach us. At this time, the direction of the tunnel suddenly changed and it went vertically down. I couldn't help but feel a little strange. Since we hadn't dug the tomb yet, why change the direction?

Unable to speak, I also couldn't express my doubts, so we rested for a while at the vertical hole. The fat man made a careful gesture to us, and then swam down first. I saw his light going down and down until it became a small dot. I couldn't help but gasp, wondering how it could be so deep.

At this time, he flashed the searchlight below, indicating that it was safe. We immediately dived one after another. I looked at the diving watch and saw that it was already more than ten meters deep. I had never dived so deep before, and I didn't know if my body could hold up.

A large space had been dug up underneath, and we immediately saw the tomb wall with a big hole on it. I was even more confused when I saw it. The hole was so irregular, not like the bricks that were carefully removed piece by piece by the tomb robbers. Some bricks were even broken. The fat man looked at me, and I looked at him. We both blew a few bubbles. He pointed at the broken bricks and made a monkey gesture. I knew he wanted to say: This hole might have been dug by sea monkeys, not a robber's hole.

I nodded in agreement and pointed to the underwater air rifle on his back. He took it off, pulled the safety, and swam into the cave.

This is my second time entering an ancient tomb. Although I am a little excited, I still feel uncomfortable when I think of my last experience, especially underwater. The resistance of my hands and feet is very great. If I encounter danger, I am afraid I will not be able to escape as quickly as on land.

The tomb passage was much bigger than I thought. I turned up the brightness of the searchlight, turned on the waterproof flashlight in my hand, and followed the fat man. Our lights were very bright and shone far away. Suddenly, the whole passage was lit up. I saw that on the wall of the tomb, there were indeed human face reliefs as Uncle San said. Not only that, there were some strange animals carved on the foreheads of these human faces, and the carvings were very delicate. I swam and looked at it, and the more I looked, the stranger it seemed. Most of these animals were tomb beasts, but they didn't have eyes carved on them, which looked a bit weird.

At this moment, I suddenly saw three bronze fish with snake eyebrows carved on the forehead of a human face. My heart tightened involuntarily, and I hurriedly pulled Fatty to ask him to stop, and then went to study the relief.

The fat man was rushing inside, very impatient, and didn't know what I found. He turned around and looked for a few times, but didn't see anything special, so he waved his hands anxiously. I asked him to wait, and leaned over to take a closer look. I saw three snake-browed copper fish connected head to tail, forming a ring. Each shape was different. I could see that two of them were in my bag, and there was one with three eyes. I had never seen it before, so I didn't know what this was a hint for. The face under the fish was different from the others. It was a face with obvious female features, but because there were many things attached to it, the face looked a little disfigured. It made people feel uncomfortable.

I wanted to study it more carefully, but Aning behind me urged me. I had no choice but to keep swimming forward. Fortunately, the sculpture would reappear at certain intervals, so I could take a few more glances at it. However, I didn't find anything more, but I vaguely felt that something was wrong.

As I looked at it, it was not until I counted the fifth time that the face relief appeared that I discovered the problem. I remembered that the face on the first stone slab had its eyes closed. On the second stone slab, the eyes seemed to be opening a little. On the third and fourth stone slabs, the eyes opened wider and wider. Now on the fifth stone slab, the eyes are almost fully open.

I felt something was wrong, so I grabbed the fat man and told him not to go forward. Then I took out the underwater drawing board and wrote on it: "The human face on the tomb wall, the eyes are gradually opening, I'm afraid there's a problem!" After writing, I pointed to the wall.

The fat man touched the face, shook his head, and wrote: "I didn't pay attention, it's just some stone reliefs, there must be a whole stone inside, you think too much."

I shook my head firmly and told him to raise his gun. Seeing my serious expression, he had no choice but to do as I asked. After a while, I saw the same relief sculpture in front of me. The fat man was a little scared by what I said, so he stopped and shone the light on it. The stone face had its eyes fully opened, and its entire face was facing forward, with its eyes looking straight ahead. It looked a little dull. The fat man looked at it again and again, but there was no change. He plucked up the courage to walk over, touched it, and then made a gesture to me that it was okay.

I swam over and saw that it was still a whole piece of stone, nothing special. I poked its eyes with my fingers, but there was no response. I shook my head in self-mockery. It seemed that this was just a gimmick played by the designer of the tomb to scare the tomb robbers who might come recently , or there was some special meaning. I actually scared myself here, which was really embarrassing. The fat man patted me and signaled me not to think too much and to hurry on.

We continued to swim forward, and I remembered Uncle San told me that he was sucked into the spring after hitting a mechanism. But the walls of these tombs all look the same. How could we possibly find the one he hit?

My mind was racing. It was not a good idea to just keep swimming forward. I had no idea where this tomb passage led to. It might be a loop. I would be doomed if I got lost in it. I thought to myself that since Uncle San could see the last person at a glance, it should be a very long corridor. We had just turned several corners and there were only two such corridors. So it wouldn't be difficult to find it, but it would take some time.

At this time, the fat man in front of me stopped, and I couldn't brake and bumped into his butt. I thought something happened in front of me, so I was nervous and went to take a look. It turned out that the tomb passage had come to an end. There was a stone slab blocking the way in front. The stone slab was bare, with no words or reliefs on it. I felt around for a long time but couldn't find any mechanism. I scratched my head and looked back to see if there was anything on the side. Aning asked me, "Why is it a dead end?"

I wrote back: "There is a clever stone mechanism nearby. Let's look for it and see if there is any loose tomb wall."

They all nodded, and the fat man knocked here and there, but there was no response, so he got angry and kicked those faces. The buoyancy in the water was great, so he could float and kick several times in a row. I thought it was very inappropriate, but there was no way to blame him, so I pretended not to see it.

We searched for a while and carefully examined the human face reliefs, even cutting through every crack on the edges with a dagger, but there was no progress. The stone slab was still there, not moving at all. I couldn't help feeling depressed, and turned back to see how Fatty was doing.

This fat guy kicked for a while and probably hurt his foot. Now he was standing there, not knowing what to do. I patted him and asked him, "Did you find anything?"

He looked at me with a strange expression and asked me, "Do sea monkeys have hair?"

I didn't know what he meant by asking this suddenly, and I couldn't help but laugh. I really didn't pay attention to whether sea monkeys have hair or not. From my memory, it seemed that their entire heads were bald and covered with scales.

I wrote back and asked him why he asked this. He pointed to the crack in the wall. I looked in the direction of his finger and immediately saw that a strand of black hair was floating out from the gap between the stone slab and the tomb passage.

I was stunned with surprise. How could this be possible? Was there someone leaning on the other side of the stone slab?

The fat man was brave enough to reach out and pull it, but he didn't expect the hair to shrink suddenly and was pulled back into the gap. The fat man looked at me and wrote: "There is a ghost behind the stone slab."