The Lost Tomb Chapter 30: Bottom of the Pool

After saying this, Menyouping ignored my questions and ran down quickly. I saw a glimmer of truth, so I naturally didn't want to let it go, so I hurriedly chased after him. The fog under the pool was constantly rising. I only walked ten steps before I entered the thick fog. The visibility dropped sharply. I could still see the fat man's back at first, but after a few steps, all I could see in front of me was a flashlight. In addition, the fat man was very brave and ran three steps at a time. As a result, he left me far behind. As a result, I couldn't even see the fat man's flashlight before I went down a circle. I was a little panicked. I was now surrounded by clouds and fog. I could only see less than half a meter forward, backward, and to the right. This feeling of being able to see but not clearly was more uncomfortable than being in absolute darkness. The vertical distance between the pool surface and the bottom is not long. After walking for about a cigarette, the fat man shouted from below: "I'm at the bottom!" I heard the sound of his feet stepping on the accumulated water, and hurriedly ran down in a few steps. Suddenly, my feet felt cold and stepped into the water. It turned out that the water at the bottom of the pool had not been completely drained away. There was still accumulated water about calf-deep. No wonder I couldn't see clearly when I looked down from above. I observed this place and found that it was almost the center of the fog, and the visibility was even lower. I walked a few steps along the wall of the pool, and heard the fat man shouting from the left: "Pay attention to the bottom of the water. There are holes where water comes in. Don't step into them." I used my feet to explore, and sure enough, there were bowl-sized pits in front and behind. It seems that walking here requires extreme caution. At this time, the fat man came out of the fog with a flashlight and asked me to follow him. I nodded and followed him into the water. After walking a few steps, I suddenly saw several black outlines in front of me. I didn't know what they were. Fatty had obviously seen them before and was not afraid at all. He told me not to dawdle. I walked over with him and saw that they were four stone monkeys more than half a person tall, squatting on stone seats, facing the four directions, and I didn't know what they were praying for. I knew that this was called Dinghai Stone Monkey, which was usually sunk to the bottom of the pond to ward off evil spirits. It was normal for them to appear here. I felt relieved and walked a few steps further. I saw a two-meter-high Daqinggang stone tablet in the middle of the four stone monkeys. Menyouping was using a flashlight to shine on the stone tablet and looking at it carefully. I walked over and asked him, "Well, do you remember anything after seeing these?" He pointed to the cornerstone in front of the stele. I saw a few lines of small characters engraved on it. The fat man didn't understand it and asked me what it meant. I said, "These words are telling us that the owner of the tomb built a heavenly palace. The door to the heavenly palace is inside this stone stele. If you are destined to be with me, the door will open. You walk through this door and you can go to heaven." The fat man looked at the stele and said, "What a shitty door." I said to him, "This sentence is a bit like a Zen saying. Everyone has a different understanding of this kind of saying. His original meaning is not that there is really a door in this stele. It may be that the content on the stele may hide something." The fat man said to me, "Damn it, is there 'content' on this stele? I can't see a single word!" I looked up and saw that the front of the stele was bare and polished to an unusually bright finish, almost like a piece of jade , but there was not a single word on it. I was also puzzled and said, "It says here that it will be opened only if you have destiny. You have no destiny with the Heavenly Palace, so of course not." The fat man made a spit, sighed, and bent down to feel around in the water, muttering as he felt around, "It doesn't matter that I have no destiny with the Heavenly Palace, as long as I have destiny with the funerary objects." I turned to look at Men Youping, his face looked very bad. I asked him a few questions, but he ignored me and just stared at the stone tablet carefully, as if he was looking for something. I found it strange. It was just a blank board. I didn't know what he was looking at so intently. At this time, the fat man clapped his hands. I turned around and saw him pick up a diving mask from the water and said, "It seems that many people have been here." I walked over and said to him, "When my third uncle went out, he didn't have any diving equipment on him . These things may be his. See if there is an oxygen tank." As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man had already taken out a flattened oxygen tank from the water. He tried to use it, but it didn't seem to work. He threw it back into the water and said, "There are only some broken things down here. It's hard for me to run down from such a high place. It's really a false alarm. I think we should go up quickly. There's no guarantee that the water will fill up again. By then, it will be too late to fly." I looked at the water level and felt that what the fat man said made sense, so I went back to find the swimming bottle. I looked and found that he was not there. I called a few times, but no one answered. My heart suddenly skipped a beat. This kid is like a ghost. He often appears and disappears suddenly. This time, I must not disappear again. I thought of this and hurriedly asked Fatty to look around. Although the fog was thick, the place was not big. We circled twice and finally found him sitting in the corner of the pool wall, staring blankly ahead. I felt something was wrong when I saw his eyes. His eyes were no longer as calm as usual, but were replaced by a look of almost despair, and he looked like a dead person. I hurriedly asked what was going on. He looked up at me and said in an almost inaudible voice: "I remember what happened 20 years ago--"