“Grave Robbers’ Chronicles”

Chapter 6 An Unexpected Change

"Yunfeng, find a good place to pile it up first. Don't be stupid and put it in someone else's field."

"Second Brother, don't worry. I know."

There wasn't much blue and white soil. I took out seven or eight small bags from my backpack, separated and packed them little by little, and piled them together.

"Huh?"

At this time, Sun the Second was in the soil pit, and the whirlwind shovel in his hand suddenly stopped.

"Second, what's wrong?" Captain Wang asked from above.

"Captain, look," he reached out and grabbed a handful of soil and said, "It's getting wetter as we go down. This is not a good sign. There might be water in the pit below."

Captain Wang frowned and said, "A water pit? Can't we be so unlucky... Try digging another twenty centimeters down."

Sun the Second nodded and started to dig down again.

"Second Brother, we can't dig anymore! This is the tomb passage below. There's definitely water!" Sun the Third shouted anxiously.

"If there's water in the tomb passage, even if we dig down, the tomb robbery hole will be soaked in water! It won't hold up at all!"

Captain Wang couldn't help but swear: "Damn it, I didn't expect this. Second and Third, come up first. We don't have enough time to explore a water-filled tomb."

The Sun brothers first threw up the whirlwind shovel and then climbed up the tomb robbery hole with their legs stretching.

"Captain, I can guarantee that if we dig another one and a half meters down, we'll definitely see the stone roof!"

The stone roof is called the "pouring top", and the brick roof of a tomb from the Ming and Qing Dynasties is called the "vault top".

Sun the Second lit a cigarette. He looked at the tomb robbery hole he had dug and said with narrowed eyes, "Captain, we've come this far. Do you want to take a gamble?"

"What do you mean, Second?"

He flicked the cigarette ash and said coldly, "Ask One Mole to bring the compressed water pump and the small generator over."

Captain Wang immediately shook his head and said, "Pump water? That's too risky. It's not the rainy season. Judging from the temperature in Shunde, there definitely won't be ice in the pit. If we can't pump out the water in two hours, once the sun rises, we're all doomed. All our efforts will be in vain."

"Second Brother, I also agree with the captain. For now, it's certain that there's water in the tomb passage. If there's too much water, a single pump won't be able to finish pumping it." Sun the Third frowned and expressed his thoughts.

"Then what the hell do we do? We can see the fat meat but can't eat it!"

Captain Wang stroked his chin and thought for a while. He suddenly turned around and asked me, "Yunfeng, what do you think? Should we call it quits and go down the mountain or continue?"

The two brothers also turned to look at me.

"Huh?"

I was squatting on the ground separating the soil. I didn't expect him to ask me suddenly.

After thinking about it, I just said one sentence at that time.

"Captain, I want to make money."

"Brilliant!" Sun the Second laughed and said, "The brave ones get the spoils, and the timid ones starve. Captain, this little kid isn't afraid. Why should we be?"

The red light on the walkie-talkie lit up, and Captain Wang immediately said, "Contact One Mole and ask her to bring the things over within an hour. If she's one minute late, she'll get one percent less of the money after we divide it."

Speed is of the essence.

This was the first time I saw the organizational ability of the Logistics Department. In less than an hour, a water pump and a small generator were delivered to us on time.

As soon as the water pump arrived, Sun the Second rolled up his trouser legs, directly took the shovel and went down the tomb robbery hole. Then, soil was constantly being thrown up from below, and the soil was getting wetter and wetter.

A few dozen minutes later, only to hear Sun the Second shout from the pit.

"Damn it! There's a big flood!"

Just after he came up, the underground water had already flooded more than half of the tomb robbery hole.

After connecting the generator and the pipe, Captain Wang directly threw the water pump into the tomb robbery hole.

The water was bubbling below, and water was being pumped and drained continuously above.

We were also lucky at that time. It didn't take long for the water pump to reduce the water flow, and it didn't collapse the newly dug tomb robbery hole.

After taking up the water pump, Captain Wang said, "Second, use the 'needle' directly and break through the 'pouring top'!"

The "needle" is a special pointed crushing tool in the tomb raiding business. The pointed tip is made of diamond and is specially used to break through the "pouring top". It has great power.

The sound of chiseling stones came from under the tomb robbery hole.

Sun the Second's voice came later, "Captain! It's through!"

Captain Wang immediately smiled and looked at the time and said, "We've wasted a lot of time pumping water. Yunfeng, you go down too. One more person means one more pair of hands. Hurry up and take as much as you can."

I was stunned for a moment and asked him, "Captain, don't we need to test the air? What if there's no air below?"

Captain Wang smiled and said, "Hehe, you... Yunfeng, think about it. If the tomb was well sealed, could so much water have flowed in?"

"Don't worry. The air circulation below is fine."

Then I put on a headlamp and went down the tomb robbery hole for the first time in my life.

Sun the Second had broken a big hole in the "pouring top". I stretched my legs against the sides of the tomb robbery hole and slowly descended.

There were still two or three meters from the "pouring top" to the tomb passage below. I was a little scared when I saw it was so high and didn't dare to jump.

There was still some water in the tomb passage, which could submerge a person's calves. The Sun brothers were both standing in the water.

"Jump, Yunfeng. It's not that high! We'll help you up later!" Sun the Second looked up at me with a headlamp and shouted.

Immediately, I silently prayed to God and jumped. As a result, I didn't land steadily and fell flat on my face, swallowing a big mouthful of the water in the tomb passage.

"Yunfeng, you need to practice more. Look at your thin arms and legs. Are you okay?" Sun the Second smiled and helped me up.

This tomb passage was in a cross shape. We were now in the middle. There were turns to the left and right in front, connecting to the east and west side chambers. Going straight ahead was the main tomb chamber.

Sun the Second rubbed his hands and smiled and said, "We're lucky. The tomb passage hasn't collapsed. Looking at the style, it's still a prince or nobleman from the early to middle Western Zhou Dynasty. With this rank, there must be a sealing stone in the main tomb chamber ahead. If it had collapsed, we wouldn't have to waste our energy. Even if the sealing stone is still there, it doesn't matter. Third is very good at dealing with this kind of thing."

"Right, Third?"

"Second Brother, you praise me too much," Sun the Third stared at the darkness ahead and said, "For a sealing stone under three tons, as long long as there's no self-locking stone inside, I can still open it."

Our plan at that time was to explore the main tomb chamber first and then the east and west side chambers.

We walked forward in the water.

At this time, a red thing floated over on the water surface in front.

"What... what is this?" Sun the Third fished this thing out of the water.

When he spread it out, it turned out to be a modern pink towel that had rushed over from the main tomb chamber ahead... and there was a brand logo printed on the towel.

Seeing this towel, the faces of the Sun brothers became very ugly.

Sun the Third looked up, and the headlamp illuminated the "pouring top".

It was very clear that in the northwest corner of the "pouring top", there was a small hole that had been directly broken through. The stone "pouring top" around the small hole was cracked, densely cracked.

"Damn it!" Sun the Second threw away the towel in his hand.

He looked at the small hole in the "pouring top" and said, "This was made by a jackhammer. There was originally dynamite in it. These bastards didn't have a diamond needle. They wanted to blow up the 'pouring top'! This towel was used to block the small hole and reduce the noise of the explosion!"

"This Western Zhou tomb has been robbed!"

"It must be those guys from the south. We've worked so hard!"

"This is like picking up someone else's leftovers!"