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In a village in Xintian County, Hunan Province, there is the legendary "Dragon King's Well", which not only affects the weather during the ebb and flow of the tide, but also has arowanas patrolling it.
According to local people, the bottom of this well leads directly to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea. After hearing about this, the reporter immediately rushed to the scene to investigate. So, can she unlock the secret behind the "Dragon King's Well"? Three rounds in a row, like and follow.
1. The mysterious Dragon King
That day, Xiao Li from Xintian County, Hunan Province went to Shiguwan to visit relatives alone. When he walked to the entrance of the village, he suddenly saw a well. He happened to be thirsty and squatted down in the well. Next, he drank heavily.
As a result, before he took two sips, he noticed something was wrong with the well. Suddenly there was a "gurgling" sound from the bottom of the well, which scared him and took a few steps back. Curious, he was about to stretch his head to take another look, but found that the well Water actually came out.
Xiao Li was very surprised when he saw that the well water would "high tide" for the first time. But at this moment, he found that the sky seemed to have changed. The originally clear sky turned into dark clouds, as if it was about to become dark. It's like pouring rain.
Xiao Li was caught off guard by the sudden change in the weather. He looked down at the well water and found that several strange golden fish with long beards had appeared in it. The group of fish kept tumbling in the water. This whole weird phenomenon , which lasted for nearly ten minutes.
The sky cleared up, the water returned to its original position, and the strange fish disappeared. Xiao Li felt as if he had just had a dream. In shock, he quickly glanced at the time and found that it was late, so he hurried on.
When he arrived at his relative's house, before he could sit down, he grabbed his relative's hand and told him about the strange thing he had just experienced at the entrance of the village. Unexpectedly, the relative not only was not surprised, but also comforted Xiao Li not to make a fuss.
Xiao Li was confused by these words. Why did he make such a fuss? Could it be that the well at the entrance of the village has some unknown secret? Seeing Xiao Li's confused look, relatives told him the legend of the well.
It turns out that the well at the entrance of the village is called "Dragon King's Well", and the underground of this well leads to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea. The big golden fish is actually the dragon fish sent by the Dragon King to patrol. It is precisely because of its appearance that the water in the well will rise and fall, and the weather will be cloudy, with lightning and thunder.
When I heard what my relatives said, I knew it was a legend. Xiao Li didn’t believe even a word of it. How could he still be so superstitious in what age he was? There must be a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of ebb and flow of well water.
So, Xiao Li told a reporter friend of his about the "Dragon King Well". After the reporter friend heard about it, he immediately rushed to Shigu Bay. After a preliminary visit and investigation, the reporter learned that this " "Longwangjing" is really quite old, having existed for six to seven hundred years.
As the most important water source for the village, this well is very magical. It never dries up in the dry season and never gets flooded in the rainy season. Under the guidance of villagers, the reporter saw the legendary "Dragon King's Well" for the first time. She found that the well was actually three square pools connected to each other. On the stone wall beside the well, there was also a carving of "Watching the Tide in the Dragon Well" Four big characters.
This "Dragon King's Well" seems to be quite similar. The reporter quickly asked the villagers who were washing clothes by the well, asking them if they had ever seen such wonders as "dragon fish playing in the water" and "the ebb and flow of the tide".
"Sometimes you come early in the morning, and the water will rise at six o'clock, and the water will rise at twelve o'clock, or at four o'clock in the afternoon."
"It's not about today, it's not about eight days in ten days, we I’ve seen rising water since I was a kid.”
After receiving affirmative answers from many villagers, the reporter felt that the legend of the “Dragon King Well” was indeed true.So she decided to squat by the well to see if she could see those wonders with her own eyes, but to the reporter's disappointment, after waiting for several hours, there was no movement in the well water.
Just when the reporter thought that he had no chance to see the magic of the well water, suddenly there was a sound under the well water. The sound was exactly the same as when Xiao Li discovered that the well water was strange.
The reporter who noticed something strange in the well water quickly sat up and stared at the well water with his eyes. He saw a "gurgling" sound coming from the bottom of the water, and the water level began to rise slowly until it overflowed the well surface.
Twenty minutes later, the overflowing well water began to fall back. This "ebb and flow" scene gave the reporter a clear view. Although it was a bit regretful that he did not see the so-called "dragon fish playing in the water", this It is indeed a miracle that the well water will "rise". In order to find out the truth of the matter, the reporter called Professor Zhai Fudong from the School of Geography of Hunan Normal University.
2. Expert Exploration
Before he came to the village, Professor Zhai directly denied the theory that the well water leads directly to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea. The reason is also very simple. Xintian County is thousands of miles away from the East China Sea . How can it be connected underground? In addition, the rising tide of seawater will follow a pattern, usually twice a day, and it cannot be as frequent as the "Dragon King Well".
So, what is the truth behind the wonders of "Dragon King's Well"? After Professor Zhai came to the village, he did not go to see the scene immediately. Instead, he paid attention to the mountain structure and tree growth beside the well.
He found that the trees beside the well grew very tall. You must know that the growth of trees is inseparable from water. This also illustrates a problem, that is, the groundwater resources in this area are rich.
During the visit, Professor Zhai also heard a story from the villagers. A few years ago, a villager wanted to reclaim a piece of wasteland to the east of the village. As a result, when the cow was pulled to that area, the cow But as if possessed by a demon, he refused to move even half a step forward.
At that time, the villager thought that the cow had just finished plowing the land and was tired, so he brought another cow from home. As a result, something strange happened. The cow in exchange arrived here. The place also dares not to take a step forward.
This frightened the villager. He thought there was something strange in that area, so he quickly took the cow home. After hearing this story, Professor Zhai thought it was very magical, so he borrowed a cow from the villagers for experiments, and found that it was really like this. When the cow reached the position of the wasteland, it stopped moving forward.
After a thorough investigation, the professor came to the conclusion that there is a lot of groundwater in Shigu Bay, and the geological structure here is likely to be different.
We all know that well water is essentially groundwater. Could it be that groundwater with different geological structures can cause so many strange phenomena? Seeing that everyone was a little confused, Professor Zhai told everyone a story.
That is in Tiandeng County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. There is a very strange "water rush". The water in this place always rises inexplicably, and sometimes it rises to the farmland beside it, leaving the pool There is also a very magical way to go into the water, and that is to find a group of people to go into the water, shout, and splash water non-stop.
If you continue to operate like this, the water in the pool will not only drop, but will even dry up. The villagers there thought it was very magical, and later they asked experts to take a look. After the experts drained the water completely, they also discovered the secret of the water.
It turns out that there is an underground river connected to the bottom of this "Catching Water Tan". There is a thin crack between the underground river and the pool. The underground river When the water level is high, water will flow into the pool. The water level will rise.
When the water level of the underground river decreases, a gap will be created between the two. People shout and stir the pond water to disperse the silt connecting Tanli to the underground river channel, allowing the pond water to flow along. The cracks flow back into the underground river.
Professor Zhai believes that the mystery of "Dragon King's Well" should be hidden underground like "Chu Shui Tan".So how do you get down to the bottom of the well? Professor Zhai said that there is no need to go to such trouble. If there is underground water in the local landform, there will definitely be a sinkhole. So, everyone started searching for it with the "Dragon King Well" as the center of the circle.
Not long after, everyone discovered a cave halfway up the mountain not far from the "Dragon King's Well", which was the so-called sinkhole. After everyone was ready, they started to enter the cave. At first, the space at the entrance of the cave was very small, and everyone could only bend down and move forward slowly. But as they continued to go deeper, they found that the space gradually became larger. The waist can also be straightened.
Soon, an underground river appeared in front of everyone. Professor Zhai said: "This underground river, when there is heavy rain, the water level rises sharply, and it meets this tributary and the tributaries of several branch holes. In the future, because it forms an underground lake, the water flow is extremely slow, and then it accumulates here, and the thick mud layer of this lake "
Professor's meaning is very clear, the water source of "Dragon King Well" comes from this. underground river , the reporter didn't think there was any problem when he first listened to it, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with the problem.
According to the professor, the water level of the underground river rises because of rain, but the ebb and flow of the "Dragon King's Well" does not seem to have anything to do with whether it rains or not. The professor listened to the reporter's question and expressed the truth about the "Dragon King's Well" It's not that simple.
According to his observation, the absolute terrain of "Dragon King's Well" is very low, and it forms a special structure with the underground river, and this structure also causes the phenomenon of " siphon" often said in physics. .
Although this phenomenon is relatively rare, it is not exclusive to "Longwangjing". In geography , this phenomenon is also called "tide spring". According to the investigation here, the phenomenon of the ebb and flow of Longwangjing can be regarded as Now that we’ve figured it out, what happened to the strange golden fish that Xiao Li saw back then?
Professor Zhai and others discovered several very special catfish in the underground river of the sinkhole. These catfish were white in color and their shapes were very different from normal catfish.
Professor Zhai judged that these fish have lived in the dark underground for a long time, and their bodies have long mutated. Presumably the golden strange fish that Xiao Li saw at the beginning was these catfish. It's just that the local villagers have never had such a catfish, so they gave it a "myth".
This is almost the end of the story of Longwangjing. Next, I will tell you the story of the "Murderful Well". It happened one morning in May 2010. The villagers of Shiduohe Village, Heqing County, Yunnan Province Zhao Hansong died inexplicably on his lawn.
That morning, villager Wang Youmei was about to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Suddenly she felt a pain in her heart. Sensing something bad, she hurried home. When she got home, her husband Zhao Hansong was missing.
3. The terrifying "people-eating well"
When people disappeared, Wang Youmei began to search nearby. After calling for a long time, no one answered. At this time, she discovered that her husband's coat and clothes were placed near the well next to the vegetable field. Mobile phone, could it be said that the husband fell into the well?
In a panic, she quickly called relatives and friends from home for help. When she went down into the well, she saw that her husband was really at the bottom of the well, but he was already a corpse.
She was fine before going out, but when she came back, her husband was gone. Wang Youmei couldn't accept this at all. She fell to the ground crying, and she couldn't understand why her husband died in the well.
After the people in the village learned about this, they felt very strange. The water in the well was less than half a meter deep. How could a living person drown in such deep well water?
This is obviously a bit unbelievable. Some people think that Zhao Hansong was not drowned, but slipped and fell to the bottom of the well and was killed. Although there was not much water in the well, its depth was not ordinary. This guess seems reasonable.
However, when the villagers inspected Zhao Hansong's body, they found that this was not the case. Apart from a few scratches, there were no fatal injuries on Zhao Hansong's body. So how did he die?
At that time, some villagers suggested asking a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy to see what caused Zhao Hansong's death. However, Wang Youmei was unwilling to say anything. She felt that everyone was dead, and an autopsy would not only not change the facts, but also disturb the soul of the deceased. .
Seeing the family members saying this, the people in the village couldn't say much. According to local customs, the deceased needs to wear his life clothes when he is buried. And when they were sorting out Zhao Hansong's clothes, they discovered that one of his clothes The shoe is missing.
Everyone searched around him for a long time, but they couldn't see where the shoes were. At this time, some people speculated that they had fallen into the well. So, several good friends of Zhao Hansong went down the well to look for the shoes. As soon as they got down, they found The water at the bottom of the well has actually risen.
The water has risen, making it hard to find shoes. The three of them brought a water pump and prepared to pump out a little of the water in the well before going down. However, no one expected that the well water was pumped up. , but people stayed at the bottom of the well.
At that time, due to the limited space at the bottom of the well, only two people went down to look for shoes. However, after they went down, there was no response. The man by the well realized that something was wrong, so he quickly returned to the village to find someone to help.
Although everyone knew that going down a well might be dangerous, two villagers gritted their teeth and went down the well in order to save others. As a result, the two villagers made no sound.
After the four people went down, there was no movement. The villagers did not dare to go down anymore and quickly called the county fire brigade and emergency center. After professional firefighters arrived at the scene, they were fully prepared to rescue the four people. Unfortunately, two of them were dead and two others fell into a coma.
In just two days, three lives were lost in this well. For a while, the saying of "murderous well" spread throughout the village. Many people began to avoid this well, and many people speculated that there was a man-eating monster in the well.
People in the village are panicked, and the truth about the strange well's harm to people still needs to be found out. Some educated people in the village speculate that the bottom of the well is a closed space, and oxygen is scarce. If there is some poisonous gas in it, people will naturally die if they inhale it. will die.
This guess sounds reasonable, but it is not the case. The reason is also very simple. It was not only the three people who died in the well, but also the two who were unconscious and the firefighters who came later. Aren't they all fine?
After the county police learned about this incident, they immediately took professionals to the village to investigate. The professionals went down to the well with instruments for inspection and found that although the oxygen at the bottom of the well was low, it had not reached the point of causing death. , and, through testing, no toxic gases such as carbon monoxide were found, so how did the three Zhao Hansong die?
When the police were at a loss, the water pump placed aside caught their attention. The police carefully inspected the water pump and found that the water pump actually released carbon monoxide when it was working. If used indoors, there may be a risk of poisoning.
Thinking back on the three people who were killed, it seems that they all used this water pump in the well, and the space at the bottom of the well was small, wasn't it just like a small room?
After making the guess, the police immediately conducted an experiment. First, they asked the inspector to go down into the well with instruments and measure the carbon monoxide content at the bottom of the well. The results found that there was no abnormality.
And when they turned on the water pump and put it into the well for five minutes, they then entered the well. At this time, the instrument showed that the carbon monoxide level had exceeded the safety standard by more than fifty times. At the same time, the two people died. The autopsy reports of the villagers also came out. They all died of rapid carbon monoxide poisoning.
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