pappabearbooks Chapter 1241: Weird Cave
Chapter 1241: Weird Cave
After passing through the darkness, my eyes suddenly became clear.
Under the searchlight, a row of dilapidated houses appeared in front of them.
It is a private house built with new materials mixed with soil and a kind of plant.
It actually looks a bit similar to the houses in the village, but it's not the same.
"Is this the ancient city?" Wang Jinpeng looked extremely excited and grabbed Xu Ning next to him.
Everyone else was in excitement, but Lin Ran was unusually calm.
Lao Hei also poured cold water on them: "How can there be anything valuable in this broken house?"
"You don't understand this. We are here for archeology, not to rob tombs." Wang Jinpeng thought that their excitement points were different.
Lao Hei was very disappointed with the scene in front of him. He originally thought that it was at least a house from ancient times, and it should at least have some appearance.
Lin Ran said: "It looks quite dilapidated, but let's go in and have a look."
Lin Ran was disappointed because he felt that from the appearance of the house, it was mainly built with a mixture of soil and straw. This method is still used today and there is nothing special about it.
As for what valuable things he could find in the ancient city, he really didn't think about it.
What good things can be found in a place like this.
Lin Ran originally regarded it as a test and did not have high hopes, so he was not as excited as them.
Lao Hei thought that all lake bottom cities should be relatively luxurious, at least like the tombs of nobles.Like the Forbidden City.
Lao Hei asked: "This place is so bad, what can be worth exploring?"
Lin Ran smiled and said: "Old Hei, you are wrong to think so."
"What's the problem?" Lao Hei asked doubtfully: "Do you think there are valuable things in the thatched house? It seems that they are all poor people."
If you want to sell them for money, antiques alone are not enough, they must at least have some quality.
For example, fiction.
Counterfeiting is a method used by counterfeiters. Some counterfeiters do not go to archeology at all, but rely entirely on their own imagination to fabricate a period of history, such as coins and items that did not exist in history, and put them on the market. Sell.
Because the targets of counterfeiters are experts who are half-understood. In addition, China has a long history, and it will be difficult to explain it for a while.
The antiques they fabricate are often based on legends or myths.
Therefore, in the eyes of half a bucket of water, it looks a bit like reality, but it is only a bit like it.
Fictional products have no cultural relic value at all, no space worthy of study, and collection is even more nonsense.
The most famous among them is the portrait of Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty.
In fact, anyone who knows history knows that Guangxu was already in 1886. How could the court at that time make and issue these silver coins?
Later I learned that it was issued by the unscrupulous money dealers at that time.
The purpose of creation was not to please the emperor, but to make profits.
Because the currency is not issued, the amount of money in existence is low.
And because of the integration of modern craftsmanship, the coin structure is more exquisite than before.
Many people believed the seller's words and invested in the market one after another. As a result, the seller made a lot of money and left the market.
The collector took it to the museum for appraisal, and then he cried out that he had been deceived.
The market is always there, and scammers are never absent.
Lao Hei thought that Lin Ran's idea was to get some random items from there, then make up a story and sell them in the world.
You can deceive laymen, but if you want to sell it at a good price, you might as well close your own business and build the car yourself.
Fictional products are often written by counterfeiters to deceive sellers and have no room for appreciation. From an investment perspective, they have no collection value.
Most people can only suffer a dumb loss and buy them at genuine prices to use as handicrafts and keep them for themselves.
There is no collection value. The so-called cultural toys are just a pile of junk.
But Lin Ran believed that Lao Hei's idea was not correct.
"Why do you say that? Do you think there is anything valuable in this straw shed?"
"Of course there is a reason." Lin Ran nodded and said with a smile, "Don't think these are straw houses, but in fact, you have to consider the age."
If it were before the Ming Dynasty, there would be such densely packed houses, and the structure of the houses would be pretty good.
If you guessed it right, this is also a big city.
Ordinary people can live in such a house and have more or less status. The things in the house are naturally valuable for research.
Unfortunately, contrary to expectations, they did not find anything of value in the thatched hut.
The wood has completely decayed, and some earthen cans have formed thick patina.
Lin Ran was also a little surprised when he saw the can in this shape.
This is already the oldest clay. Could it be that this ancient city is older than he thought.
After exploring a few thatched houses, Lao Hei seemed a little weak and asked, "Where are we going now?"
Since the light of the flashlight could not shine very far, Lin Ran said: "A tribe with so many houses must have a central area."
The area they were in now was no longer as narrow as it was at the beginning, and gradually became more open.
Others felt that Lin Ran only said these words deliberately to comfort them.
However, Wang Jinpeng and Xu Ning were not as frustrated as Lao Hei.
They had been vaccinated and came down just to explore.
Of course, they don't have to find treasures. At least they got two crucial pieces of information from this expedition.
It is indeed possible that cities exist underwater, and the other is the diving device they made themselves, which can still play a certain role.
Lin Ran told everyone that they were just testing this time, and the real underwater ancient city was still waiting for him not far away.
I hope everyone will not be frustrated, and this ancient city has not yet been explored.
Anyway, they are already here. Even though he was a little disappointed, Lao Hei nodded.
Indeed, if it were an ancient city, it would be considered very exquisite for ordinary people to live in such a house.
Instead of exploring the nearby thatched houses, they focused on looking for the big house.
Even in ancient times, there was a gap between rich and poor.
Instead of looking for a small house, there is a greater chance that there will be art in a big house.
"Do you find it difficult to breathe?" Wang Jinpeng asked.
Everyone else shook their heads. For some reason, the air inside was better than outside.
Even if you exercise a little outside, you will feel weak due to altitude sickness.
But here, they had walked such a long way without even taking a breath.
This is what Wang Jinpeng wants to say.
"Why do you think there is an oxygen generator here?" Wang Jinpeng began to speak incoherently.
Mainly because he didn't know how to express it.