The audience in the live broadcast room looked at the scene of Xu Hua and others groping in front of the stone bed in shock, and couldn't help but post comments one after another.
[No way, there really is a sink under this stone bed? ]
[No, my heartbeat is getting a little faster. This is getting more and more exciting!]
"What the hell is going on? This is just an ordinary stone bed. How could someone carve a water channel underneath it?"
Could it be that the sages who originally lived here, seeing the abundant rainfall in Monkey Valley, carved a channel at the bottom of the stone bed to divert the water away when a flood came, in order to prevent the cave from being submerged?
Doesn't this cave have only one entrance? So where does this water channel beneath the stone bed divert the water? And how can it maintain the water level within a certain range?
"No, this is getting increasingly chaotic. Aren't we supposed to evacuate the cave? Are we really not going to evacuate just because there's a sink under the stone bed?"
Regardless, the situation still looks dangerous. It's wise to evacuate first. It won't be too late to return once we're sure the water level in the cave won't change.
[No, it's raining so hard outside right now. Tiantian and the others' tents are all soaked by the muddy water. Even if we go out and try to find a new place to camp, it won't necessarily be better than the cave.]
With the reminders of Song Tiantian and Xiangfangnan, Xu Hua found and touched the carved water trough under the stone bed.
However, he still couldn't guarantee whether the water channel could divert the sewage from the cave and maintain a certain water level to prevent the water from overflowing.
After all, the rain outside has not stopped, and the speed at which water flows into the cave is getting faster and faster. In this situation, everything is unknown and cannot guarantee safety, and there are certain dangers. He cannot make decisions rashly and miss the best opportunity to escape.
For this reason, even if Xu Hua determined that the water channel under the stone bed could divert the rainwater in a short time, he could not leave Song Tiantian and Xiangfangnan in such a place where they didn't know how long they could last.
Xu Hua looked out of the cave. After hearing only the sounds of rain and rushing water, he looked at Bai Shangye and said, "Xiaobai, control the drone and immediately find the next place to set up camp."
"Others, take Tiantian and Nannan with you first..." Before Xu Hua finished his words, Song Tiantian, who had come to a corner of the stone bed at some point, looked at Xiangnan and quickly squatted down. She picked out a piece of stone that had been covered by dust for a long time and seemed to have almost completely merged with the stone bed.
When Song Tiantian dug out the stone, which was not even the size of an egg, it seemed as if some sleeping stone monster in the stone bed was waking up. There was a loud "boom" sound, followed by a series of "cracking" sounds and teeth-grinding "creaking" sounds, which came from the stone bed at the same time.
As soon as they heard the sound coming from the stone bed, Xu Hua and others didn't have time to think about what Song Tiantian was doing on the stone bed. They quickly picked up Song Tiantian and Xiangfangnan and moved away from the stone bed.
Not to mention the golden monkeys. As soon as the colleagues heard the sound, they quickly left and climbed towards the rock wall of the cave, leaving only the golden monkey that was fixed with branches, struggling on the stone bed with a slow reaction.
Fortunately, Bai Shangye and others were quite fast and quickly picked it up and hid away from the stone bed.
And the next moment they moved the golden monkey away, the stone bed began to move.
They saw that the giant stone bed, which was originally more than one meter high, was gradually split into two with a series of teeth-grinding sounds. At the same time that the stone bed was split in the middle, they could hear the sound of rolling chains. Then they saw a one-meter-wide hole appear in the middle of the split part of the stone bed.
This made Xu Hua and others who were standing at the entrance of the cave, ready to evacuate at any time, stop in their tracks and look at the cave entrance that appeared in the middle of the stone bed in shock.
"Gulp!" Bai Shangye cleared his throat and looked at the stone bed in disbelief. "Old Xu, I feel like my eyes are blurry. Not only did the stone bed split in the middle, but I also saw a dark hole..."
"You're not seeing things, I saw it too." Xu Hua now understood that the secret passage that Song Tiantian had mentioned just now really existed.
There was an uproar in the live broadcast room.
[Oh my god, there really is a hole under this stone bed!]
[Fuck! I heard that groaning sound just now and knew this was no small matter. But I never imagined such a large and thick stone bed could be made of two giant stone slabs! And there's such a huge hole underneath!]
[Ahhhhhh, I knew there must be a secret passage here when Tiantian said it. Sure enough, Tiantian actually figured it out!]
[My old swan, how did two such huge stone slabs form such a large stone bed, and how could it be so obvious?]
[I want to know what secrets this black hole under the stone bed holds. Why is it hidden so deep?]
[That's right, if it weren't for the discovery of a treasure, who would have believed that someone would go to such great lengths to build a cave in such a remote place to live in seclusion, and even build such a large stone bed!]
[There really is a secret passage! I thought Tiantian was just talking, but I didn't expect such a thick stone bed to have a mechanism...]
[I was wondering why I felt this cave was extraordinary from the moment I first laid eyes on it. It turns out there's something hidden inside!]
"That's right! Ever since Tiantian and the others arrived at Monkey Valley, I felt it was truly extraordinary and that there would definitely be some treasure hidden there. And it turned out just as I expected!"
[Can you guys stop talking nonsense? I'm different. The moment I saw Tiantian dig the stone out of the stone bed, I knew there was a secret in this cave!]
[Goodness me, I really listen to your every word! However, did you notice that after the stone bed was split apart, the water level under the lower part of the stone bed remained unchanged.]
[Really? With all that noise, how does this tank maintain the same water level?]
[I am now increasingly curious about the secrets of this cave.]
After hearing that there was no sound coming from the direction of the stone bed and the water level in the cave remained within a stable range, Xu Hua asked Bai Shangye to operate the drone to check the situation of the secret passage of the stone bed.
Bai Shangye, who had long been curious about the situation under the stone bed, raised his wrist without saying a word and started operating the control screen.
After a while, the drones that were originally surrounding them to monitor the changes in rainfall and water levels outside quickly flew towards the secret passage that appeared on the stone bed.
The dark secret passage is clearly visible under the drone's ultra-clear infrared lens.
A deep staircase appeared at the bottom of the tunnel, and on one side of the staircase were candlesticks embedded in the rock wall. As soon as Bai Shangye saw the candlesticks, he let the drone move closer.
When he got closer, Bai Shangye realized that these candlesticks were all made of bronze, and there was a small ball of unburned oil in the center of the candlestick.
After seeing this, Bai Shangye's eyes lit up: "Brother Xu, there are still candles on these bronze candlesticks. We can light them for lighting later."
"Don't even think about going down yet." Xu Hua, holding Xiang Nan, urged Bai Shangye, who was still distractedly studying the tunnel's furnishings, "Hurry up and explore the situation down there to see if there's any danger."
"Oh oh." Bai Shangye quickly became serious and continued to operate the drone to explore the secret passage.
Going down the steps of the secret passage, what comes into view is an open space, which is covered with one-meter-long stone bars. With the naked eye, you can see that these stone bars were all artificially carved out of the rocks and laid on the flat ground by manpower.
Not only that, there are also dark holes around this empty space. Each of these holes is only two meters high, and there are some rotten wood blocks scattered around it.
Bai Shangye piloted the drone towards the nearest cave entrance. Then, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes: "This...is this a room?"
"What room?"
"No way? Could you be seeing things?"
"It's real, look." Bai Shangye hurriedly tapped the operating screen on his wrist, and then the image on the screen was projected onto the rock wall of the cave.
Although the projected images were distorted to varying degrees on the irregular rock walls, they were still able to see from these distorted images the rows of scenes in the room where the drone was located.
There was a stone bed exactly the same as the one in the cave, and against the inside of the room there was a chiseled shelf for displaying utensils and bamboo slips.
Not only that, there are also several wooden boxes inside. Although these wooden boxes have corroded and broken into pieces of wood over time, and the clothes inside have also weathered into pieces, the largest one is only the size of a palm, but it can still be seen that they are made of linen.
In addition to these, there is also a bronze mirror and other items, which are obviously objects that indicate that someone once lived in this room.
After realizing this, Lou Yiqiang couldn't help but mutter, "Who are these people? Why would they come out here in the wilderness and dig a cave to live in? Why would they even build a room underground?"
"It's not a room." Xiangfangnan said, "Those dark holes we saw just now should all lead into this room."
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