Chapter 233 (1/2)

”What on earth is such a thick chain used to lock?” The old river worker's voice trembled.

Hemp rope is used to take fiber on the Yangtze River, and coarse hemp rope is also used to tie big ships. Even the ship anchor, taking the large ship sailing on the Yangtze River as an example, can not use such a thick bronze chain.

This bronze chain is extremely cold. It exudes an amazing chill as soon as it is unearthed. In the hot sun, even standing next to the chain can feel the cold.

”Dig up so much copper that we can sell some of it. Our wife and children won't be hungry for years.” The river workers were really hungry and afraid. In their eyes, only copper chains could pay back the money. There was too much time to think about it.

A line of 17 people dug down the copper chain. After digging for more than ten meters, I only heard a few people's hoe ping-pong ring, and a burst of sparks sprang from the tip of the hoe. The accounts of the river workers were numb and shouted at the mouth of the bowl.

”The end?” Laohe Gongxi said.

Such a long and thick bronze chain weighs dozens of tons. As long as they are shipped out, each of them can make a windfall. After all, copper is much better than cultural relics.

The old river worker carefully wiped off the end of the chain. Suddenly, he frowned: ”no, there's something below.”

When they saw it, they were sure. The bronze chain with a diameter of more than one meter locks a white column. The pillar seems as white as ivory. Even if it has been soaked in mud for thousands of years, it is still as white as jade and dazzling.

”What is this? Why is it locked with a chain? This pillar is neither jade nor stone. Eh, I have been a river worker for more than 50 years and have never seen this thing. ” The old river worker was puzzled.

He knocked on the strong column, which was about two meters thick and thin. His fingers banged and chilling, and kept drilling straight from the white post into his bone.

For a moment, the old river worker was almost frostbitten.

”This thing is so evil. It's so cold.” He hurriedly took several steps back.

The other 16 River workers were stunned when they saw the white pillar. A river worker said greedily, ”maybe there is an ancient tomb under the white column. If we find the funerary objects in the tomb, we won't worry in our life.”

His words aroused everyone's greed.

Regardless of their fatigue, the river workers summoned up their strength and began to dig up the white pillars. Although the pillar is huge, the whole body seems to have been carefully polished, very delicate.

The river workers then dug deeper and deeper. Finally, when they dug to a depth of seven or eight meters, everyone dared not dig any further.

Because they found that the so-called white pillar, where is the pillar. Obviously, it is a huge and incomparable bone, the spine of a certain creature, which is deposited section by section at the bottom of the rolling Yangtze River and directly runs through the whole riverbed.

It was only because it was too big that they mistook it for a white column at the beginning by greedy River workers.

All the river workers were surprised. They had never heard of what kind of creature's spine could be so big. Although there are large fish in the Yangtze River, they belong to the finless porpoise. They can grow up to three meters at most. No matter how big the fish is, it has only appeared in legend.

Besides, this huge spine can't be fish's.

Instead, it's like human. Spine by spine, evenly distributed. The strong bronze chain is clearly used to lock the skeleton.