Chapter 220 Let the two of them hold the switch
As Li Mengman was walking and observing, someone suddenly shouted, "Look, there's a hole here! But it's not very big, only as big as a person!"
Everyone walked towards where the sound came from.
"Don't go down! Wait until we finish the survey!" Li Mengman stopped the man, fearing that he would rush down to grab the credit and get into danger.
The expert and Li Mengman arrived at the cave entrance. The expert took out the instrument and fiddled with it for a while, then said, "Based on the blueprint, this should be the cave."
Li Mengman looked at the cave entrance and then looked around. She found that this cave was indeed very strange. If she had not walked to a distance of five meters away from the cave entrance, she would not have been able to find the cave entrance at all.
"Test whether there are any dangerous factors in the cave." said Li Mengman.
"There should be no problem with this cave. It won't be suffocating inside. Look at the lush vegetation at the entrance of the cave, and there are many small animals crawling around," said the expert.
"Who's going to go down and check it out first?" Li Mengman asked.
"Li Yongjun, you go down first! Be careful." Deputy Director Zhang said, pointing at the sentry who was on duty the first night.
"Yes." Li Yongjun answered and was about to go down the cave.
"Wait a minute," said the expert.
Li Yongjun looked at the expert, wondering what instructions he had.
"Come, tie it with this rope." The expert took out a long rope.
After Li Yongjun put on the rope, he entered the cave. After a while, Li Yongjun shouted in the cave: "Come down! It's so spacious here!"
Li Mengman looked at the expert.
The expert nodded towards Li Mengman.
"Deputy Director Zhang, what do you think of this arrangement? Let eight people stand guard up there, and the rest go down. Do you think you should lead the team on guard, or should you go down?" Li Mengman looked at Deputy Director Zhang.
"Is it necessary to have so many people standing guard?" Deputy Director Zhang asked in confusion.
"If there is really treasure in the cave, it cannot escape. Safety is the most important thing." said Li Mengman.
"Okay. I'll listen to you. I'll select eight people to stand guard, and you take the others down. Listen to me! Those who go down must absolutely obey Director Li's orders! Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy! Do you understand?" Deputy Director Zhang said in a fierce manner.
"I understand!" more than a dozen people responded.
A dozen people went down to the cave one by one, and they saw a wide flat land. Li Mengman also came down, and he admired the expert's professional knowledge. There was indeed a river at the end of the platform.
Li Mengman looked around and saw that the river cut off the way forward. The platform was visible from the end. She looked around and found that the treasure could not be hidden around this wide platform. Could it be that the treasure had to be transported through the river in the cave? Although the water in the river was not fast, it flowed slowly, but strangely, after flowing to the other side of the cave, the water did not know where it went?
Li Mengman walked over to take a look and felt even more strange. The water was flowing downwards, but the end of the water was the cliff of the cave. If the water flowed further down, the flow should become very fast. Why was there no movement on the surface of the water? Did the water seep down? Seeping down should not be so fast? The water flow in front was not fast, but it was not slow either!
Li Mengman looked at the expert.
The expert looked at the rock wall intently, muttering, "Strange, is there a mechanism under the water flow? Where is the switch of the mechanism?"
The expert's suggestion prompted Li Mengman to start searching on the rock wall. Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she found a strange round stone that was slightly convex.
"Do you think that's a switch?" Li Mengman said, pointing at the slightly convex round stone.
"It's very possible! But people can't reach it, so why not give it a try?" said the expert.
As soon as the expert finished speaking, Li Mengmeng suddenly stepped forward with her feet and bounced up. She pressed her hand on the round stone, and a "rustling" sound was heard.
Li Mengman fell back to her original place and suddenly increased the speed of the river she was driving. However, after a while, the sound of water stopped and the speed of the water quickly returned to its original state.
Li Mengman smiled. She knew that this cave did have a mechanism. A cave with a mechanism was an extraordinary cave. Only such a cave could hide treasures.
A dozen people saw Li Mengman's graceful movements just now, and they all showed surprised expressions, and the change in the water flow made them even more surprised.
"You all saw it just now. The stone I pressed is a switch. When I press the switch, the water in the river will flow down quickly, and we may be able to cross the river." Li Mengman said.
"Director Li is right. This river is just a shallow river. The switch is like a sluice gate. Once we open the sluice gate and let the water flow, we can go over and get the treasure." said the expert.
Li Mengman stretched out her hand to test the water in the river again and felt it was freezing cold. She knew that if someone swam across, they would get cramps at any time from the cold.
Li Mengman shook off the water on her hands, looked at the two tall men and said, "You two come here."
The two walked up to Li Mengman and looked at her. They couldn't help but that such a delicate beauty actually had such good kung fu, which was really amazing, no wonder she could become the director.
"You two stand in a pyramid, and the person on top presses the switch. I'll see how long it takes for the water to flow." Li Mengman said.
"Yes." The two replied.
"You squat down, you're on top." Li Mengman pointed at a burly man and asked him to squat down, while the other stood on her shoulders and held down the stone.
Don't worry, you two. I'm by your side. Nothing will happen.
"It's okay." They both replied.
After a while, the people on top held down the round stone, and only the sound of water splashing could be heard. Everyone watched the water on the surface of the river slowly move downwards.
After about five minutes, the bottom of the water could be seen. However, the water was still half a meter deep. The top was also about half a meter deep, which meant that the river was about one meter deep, but more than ten meters wide. How to cross the river? Li Mengman thought about this question.
"Look here!" someone shouted.
Li Mengman walked over and took a look, then smiled. It turned out that there were bricks in the river, large bricks arranged on the other side of the mechanism, about one meter away from the rock wall on the other side. These bricks were obviously arranged by humans to cross the river. It seemed that this cave was carefully designed by humans.
The bricks have emerged from the water, which means people can pass through.
Li Mengman thought, as long as two people hold the switch here, the others can go over. After the others go over, the person holding the switch can come down to rest. When the people over there finish their work and are about to come out, the people here hold the switch again, and five minutes later the people over there can come over again.
Li Mengman looked at the expert.
The expert nodded and said, "Go ahead! Let them hold the switch."
"Okay, everyone else go over! You two hold the switch, and after we pass, you two come down and rest and wait for us here." Li Mengman said.
"Got it, you guys go ahead!" they said.
Li Mengman asked two people to take care of the expert and let him walk in the middle and cross the river.
"You all go over, I'll follow behind." said Li Mengman.
Everyone crossed the river one by one. When Li Mengman saw that everyone had crossed, she followed behind, stepped on the stone bricks, and started walking towards the other side.
When Li Mengman just stepped on the sixth stone brick, she heard a cry of "Ah!" and the person pressing the switch fell down. She found that the river water was flooding up quickly, and she saw herself flying over the stone bricks as quickly as a dragonfly skimming the water and reaching the other side.
After crossing to the other side, Li Mengman looked at the person who had fallen to the ground and asked, "Are you hurt? Go up there and call two more people to come over here to help us!"
"It's okay! I just have some minor skin injuries ." The person who fell to the ground said as he got up.
"Be careful." Li Mengman did not blame you, but only showed concern.
"The rocks above were too cold, my hands got cold, and I slipped again, and I couldn't keep my center of gravity stable," said the person who fell.
Li Mengman recalled that when she pressed down the stone, she felt a chill all over her body. She said, "I know. Go and call two more people down! Let's continue to look ahead."
"Okay. Go ahead!" said the man who was driving the piles below as he walked towards the cave entrance.
Li Mengman and the experts continued to walk inside.
"Be careful in front, you guys slow down, let me lead the way!" Li Mengman was worried and quickened her pace.
"Director Li, please let us go ahead!" said Li Yongjun, the first one to go down the cave.
"Li Yongjun, you are very brave! Okay, you go in front and be careful." Li Mengman admired this brave and responsible young man very much.
Li Yongjun was walking in front, but the road was getting smaller and darker.
"Flashlight, turn on the flashlight." Li Mengman said as she took the flashlight from her back.
Everyone took out their flashlights and started to illuminate. After walking for a while, the flashlights were like tiny dots of starlight, and could only illuminate a short distance. Li Mengman followed Li Yongjun and observed carefully. She felt something was strange. This passage seemed to be artificially dug, but not entirely. She guessed that this passage was originally very small and low, and it became what it is now after artificial processing.
Li Mengman was thinking this, looking at the bright light ahead, and she said, "Maybe there's a lot of open space ahead!"
Li Yongjun also discovered it, and he said happily: "There is light ahead, it must be open!"
After a while, they really arrived at the open area, and they discovered a miracle. In the middle of the open area, there was a round hole as big as a washbasin that was open to the sky. The light came from there. Looking around, they saw strange shapes and rocks everywhere, some like arhats, some like turtles, and some like carp jumping over the dragon gate.
Li Mengman found that as long as you have a rich imagination, the stones in this big cave can be said to be everything in the world. What a good cave! Such a cave is a treasure even if there are no treasures. If the transportation is convenient and it is developed, it will have great ornamental value and tourists will come in an endless stream.
Of course, Li Mengman only had a fleeting thought. She quickly realized that the purpose of coming here was not to enjoy the unique scenery, but to search for treasure. She began to search carefully. However, there was no way to find other places.
