52. Ancient corpses in coffins

"The locator is in my stomach, oh, now I guess it's to the large intestine. Ye Shichao said.

No wonder he hasn't eaten much all the time, and he hasn't drunk a sip of water, so he was worried that his intestinal peristalsis would be too fast, so he drained the locator in advance...... Well, exposed.

Xin Pet was surprised and admired, but he was so curious, he endured and endured, but he still couldn't help asking: "Locator...... Is it swallowed? Isn't it harmful to the body?"

"The spherical miniature locator, the latest biomimetic invention in our lab, mimics Ma Lu's body structure, which can shrink electronic components into a spherical shape, so it will not scratch the intestines when swallowed. Ye Shichao said and said to Singh: "Take us back to the main tomb, we seem to be lost." ”

The main burial chamber is only separated by a wall from this side, and at this time, there are already policemen taking pictures and collecting evidence, Ye Shichao walked in quickly, leaned down and carefully observed the sarcophagus in front of him.

The sarcophagus is huge, enough for two people to lie side by side, and there are very exquisite stone carvings on the coffin lid and coffin, although it may have passed two thousand years, but after the baptism of the years, it is no longer clear what is carved.

There is a white skeleton inside the sarcophagus, the white bones have been moved, the bones are dislocated and scattered, and they are thrown indiscriminately in the coffin, and the clothes and ornaments on the body are looted, leaving only some tattered rags and half a piece of loess.

Seeing this scene, Ye Shichao was both angry and sad, every burial object in the coffin, every ornament on the white bones, was an important clue to confirm the identity of the tomb owner. And these clues are the gift of time to modern humanity, telling us what happened here 2,000 years ago and how our ancestors lived.

Ye Shichao looked at everything left in the coffin with full attention, and finally found what he was looking for, and took out a "black stone" from the sarcophagus with two fingers, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "I found the signal left by Xie Xi." ”

The "black pebble" is not a pebble, it is the same insect that Xie Xi swallowed his stomach, a coleopteran corpse insect called the hooked skin sac, but two thousand years of time have made his body dry and hardened, lifeless.

Ye Shichao reverently put the hooked leather bag in the palm of his hand, and then looked at the sarcophagus, "As long as the identity of the owner of the tomb and the age of the tomb are determined, the specific year in which this leather bag lives can be determined." It can also disprove the previous assertion of entomologists that the hooked skin sac originated in the Americas. What a major entomological discovery. ”

Xin Pet understands why he is so excited, the development of modern civilization to this day, what is more difficult than development is "tracing the ancients", development can be artificial, and "tracing the ancients" must be at the right time, in the right place and in the right people. It is easy to be human, but not every scholar can be fortunate enough to meet it.

When Ye Shichao saw this hooked skin bag for the first time, he seemed to see this moment, whether it was to solve the case or for the entomology he loved, he would not give up, even if it was a tiger and wolf den, he would not make a mistake.

Thinking of this, Xin Pet was also happy for him.

Ye Shichao couldn't wait to ask Singh, "What about the toolbox I asked you to bring?"

"Take it, don't worry. Singh took a small cowhide box with a handle from a criminal policeman behind him, Xin Pet took a look, and thought it looked good, like the current popular retro makeup box, and his seems to be handmade, the texture is very good, I can't help but want to ask Ye Shichao for a similar model, but at the moment, I obviously didn't want to do it at this time, so I endured this impulse.

The box was prepared by Ye Shichao in advance, handed it to Singh, and told him to bring it with him when he came in to collect the net. It is estimated that since that time, he has been looking forward to the moment when he can find bugs in this tomb.

Ye Shichao hurriedly took the toolbox, opened it, took out the sample box from it, and carefully put the crochet leather bag into it, with a relieved face: "I wronged you, old man." See if there are any other friends of yours here. ”

This kind of behavior of talking to insects in the ancient tomb is not only strange but also weird, the first time the criminal police see it, they can't help but stay away from him, and only Xin Pet Singh is not strange, and his face does not change and starts his next work.

Singh worked with the local criminal police to find traces of Xie Xi's visit, but Xie Xi and the female deceased were both killed by poisoning, and there was no external force to beat and bleed, so they could not find blood stains, so they could only try their best to search for other trace evidence, such as hair, clothing, etc.

Singh asked Ye Shichao, "That worm and Xie Xi swallowed the one, isn't it...... Family?"

Ye Shichao, who was concentrating on the crack of the coffin, looking for insects with a magnifying glass, raised his head when he heard the words, with an expression of "Are you an idiot?" It's your police's job to find direct evidence, I'm only responsible for bugs!"

Singh was speechless, it was indeed for Ye Shichao to find and solve the mystery of the bug two thousand years ago, even if the work was completed, he had to solve the case.

Xin Pet came over and asked Singh, "Have all those people outside been caught?"

Singh: "When we heard the explosion, we rushed in, but only caught four, one of them was called Lao Bao's confession, they usually listen to the orders of a person named Yue Wang to go out to solicit customers and sell goods, but we searched the tunnels and found Yue Wang." I guess I ran away at the sound of the explosion. ”

"Didn't you make the explosion sound from the explosion?" Xin Pet was surprised and then choked again, "King Yue escaped?"

"What are you kidding? My people are still inside, how can they use *?" Singh's eyes widened, "Besides, who told you that this is in the mountains?"

"Not the mountains?"

"The mountains are ghost mountains. Singh was furious, "Yesterday I followed the locator in Dr. Ye's body around and around, and finally came back, where is the mountain here, is an orchard outside the city. ”

Xin Pet struggled to recall the route he had taken, and he felt as if he had climbed over the mountain, "I remember that it was uphill, and the wind and insects around me were very similar to the mountains. ”

"It was a dirt slope in an orchard, and there were fruit trees planted on the soil slope, and it sounded like walking in the woods. Singh secretly rejoiced, "Fortunately, Dr. Ye has brought a locator that can swallow it, if you locate your mobile phone, it is estimated that we will still be scurrying around in the mountains outside the city." ”

Xin Pet still couldn't believe it, and walked out by himself, half of the dark tunnel outside the tomb collapsed due to blasting, but fortunately, the tomb was built very solidly and was not buried, and the earthen room where they saw King Yue was no longer visible. She searched for the remaining narrow tunnels and walked out, trying to make out the direction with what little sense of direction she had left.

After walking through it carefully, I found that this burial area is very large, in the shape of a hollow figure, the burial chamber where they are located is inside, and the tunnel is also connected to other burial chambers, but it is not as large as the main burial chamber, and the hollow shape of the periphery mainly plays a role in security. The stone chamber used to hold them was not within the scope of the tomb, but was half-ground, apparently built by later generations.

Go around the stone chamber and go up again, and you will reach the ground. Speaking of the ground is not appropriate, she finds that the place she has drilled out is a dry well in the orchard.

The dry well is not deep, there is a ladder, and when you climb up it is a dirt hill, an ordinary orchard and a deep pit that has been blown out of the ground of the orchard not far away.

In the distance, the white of the fish belly is slowly rising from the horizon. It was all dawn.