Chapter 11: Mysterious Death
"What is this salamander god? I don't know if it's the demon-like idol enshrined in the village. "As we walked down the cracks in the mountain wall, I was still thinking about the guide's words from time to time, but I was quickly drawn to the environment in front of me.www.biquge.info
The place in front of me is just a crack in the mountains, no more than three people wide, but there are high and low, the high ones are a few meters, and you have to bend down to pass through the low. There are traces of artificial chiseling on the mountain wall, and you can vaguely see the potholes cut with sharp weapons, and I don't know who dug such a passage in this kind of place, if this passage really leads to the mausoleum of some prince and general, I am afraid that there are not a few people who built this passage in the first place.
Two foreign bodyguards held torches in front of them to carefully explore the way, as the mountain crack slowly sloped downward, the road became more and more difficult to walk, sometimes the drop was as high as two meters, and they had to be carefully climbed to fall. The air slowly became moist, until at last it dripped from the rocks overhead.
"Professor Jia, whose tomb is your archaeological team investigating? Although I am not a member of your archaeological team, I promise not to divulge state secrets. After sliding down the slope just now, the ground gradually became flat, and the air was not as humid as before, so I breathed a sigh of relief and asked the questions in my heart while everyone sat down to rest.
Professor Jia glanced at me, his eyes seemed to be smiling, I was flustered, and I didn't know what he meant, and after a while, he said slowly: "Have you read history, do you know what country existed in this Nanling land?" β
I was stunned, although history is not my strong point, but I still know some major historical information, thought for a while, and said: "The land of Nanling has survived under the rule of the Central Plains since ancient times, except for the separatist force of Nanyue during the Han Dynasty, there are no other countries, even the vassal state of Nanyue, which existed for a very short time, I am afraid that it will not exceed a hundred years......"
I haven't finished my own words, and I sighed in my heart, since I can have the power of a country, and use such a huge amount of manpower to open a mountain as a tomb in this kind of deep mountain, except for this Nanyue country, it seems that there is really no country in history, but no, hasn't the cemetery of the king of Nanyue been excavated in this Yangcheng a few years ago, and the tomb and scale are said to be quite large, and it is so far away from the capital of the Nanyue country, could it be the tomb of the kings of Nanyue in later generations?
Professor Jia saw that I didn't speak, smiled, and said, "What? Thought of it? β
I nodded, shook my head again, and said: "No, the tomb of the king of Nanyue has been excavated in Yangcheng in the early years, the scale is large, it is far away from the capital of Nanyue, I am afraid that it will go to the junction, and the next few generations of Nanyue kings are afraid that they will not have the ability to build the tomb so far." β
Professor Jia smiled and said, "Then do you know who the first generation of the founding monarch of the Nanyue Kingdom was?" β
This can make me upside down, I have read history, but I don't study history, let alone archaeology, how do I remember so much, Professor Jia just smiled at me and didn't speak, and then said: "The first generation of the founding monarch of Nanyue is Zhao Tuo, he lived more than 100 years in his life, not to mention in ancient times, even in modern times, it is rare. Historical records record that in the following decades of his life, he has been making arrangements for his posthumous events to prevent the theft of his grave after his death......"
I was shocked in my heart, and said unconsciously: "You said that what we are going to is this Zhao Tuo's mausoleum?" β
Professor Jia coughed lightly twice, but didn't answer, but said: "Then Zhao Tuo built dozens of tombs in the vast mountains outside Yangcheng back then, and after his death, he arranged four identical funeral processions to hold high the flags, escorting the identical Quartet coffins from the four city gates to different burial sites, in an unprecedented way, which confused everyone's eyes......
I waited quietly for him to continue, who knew that Professor Jia said this, he actually stopped, I didn't see him speak for a long time, I was strange and wanted to continue to ask, but suddenly I heard the rapid footsteps of "Tata" in the crack of the mountain, and there was a fire in the darkness ahead, and it was two foreigners who came forward to explore the road not long ago.
The two foreigners spoke English in front of Professor Jia, my English level is limited, and I can't hear it clearly, generally I should have found something earlier.
Professor Jia immediately told everyone that there seemed to be a trace of Captain Luo and them in front of him, and told everyone to hurry up. Everyone had rested enough, and as soon as they heard that Luo Dascar and them might be found in front of them, they immediately followed the two foreigners who were exploring the path to find them together.
After everyone walked a short distance, they heard the foreigner in front of them say, "Here!"
I saw that the crack in the mountain came here, it was actually open, and it seemed to be connected with the hole in the ground, but not far in front of me, there were several mountain cracks, dark and gloomy, I don't know where it leads, and the foreigner pointed to the ground of a mountain crack.
Professor Jia shone it with a torch, only to see a pottery, broken into countless pieces, and some liquid was wet on the ground.
Professor Jia dipped his fingers in the liquid on the ground, rubbed them with his fingers, but his brows were slightly furrowed, I squatted down and asked, "Professor Jia, are these left by Luo Da Scar?" β
He shook his head and stood up, and said, "This pottery is not modern, it must have been brought here by someone to break it, whether it is Captain Luo They don't know, but these liquids ......"
"What's wrong with the liquid?" I dipped my finger in it, and it was sticky and slippery, and I felt indescribably disgusting.
"I don't know, but now there are a few roads ahead, and I don't know which one Captain Luo is taking, so it's a bit troublesome." Professor Jia looked at the roads in front of him with a sad face.
The surveyor took a closer look during the day and said, "This is not simple, these broken pottery shards are on the way, they must be going here." β
"Not necessarily, maybe they came from this road, they are different from the entrance we entered here, otherwise they would have been spotted earlier." A young man with glasses behind Professor Jia said.
Professor Jia held a torch to take a picture of several holes in turn, and said, "It seems that we can only choose a random path to go, I hope we are lucky enough to catch up with them and see what happened to them."
"Wait!" At this time, the mango head behind me suddenly shouted, and when everyone didn't know why, he ran into a hole with a flashlight, not far away, and squatted down again.
I was afraid that something would happen to him, so I followed him in and said, "What the hell are you doing?"
Mango's hand touched the ground for a while, then stood up and said, "Uncle, look!"
I followed the light of the flashlight in his hand, and saw that he was holding a cigarette butt in his hand, and at this time, Professor Jia and the others also followed, and looked at the cigarette butt in Mango's hand, and the young man with glasses shouted softly: "This must have been left by the exploration team, I have seen some of them smoke this brand of cigarettes." How did you find out? β
Mango smiled and said, "This cigarette butt wrapping paper is silver, I have good eyes, and, uncle," he turned to me and said, "This is left by Brother Da Da."
I was stunned and said, "How do you know?"
Mango Tou held up the cigarette butt, pointed, and said, "Uncle, look, this filter has bite marks, Brother Dam has a cheap mouth, everything that comes to his mouth, he will always bite it, like a straw or something, uncle, he is often scolded by you, have you forgotten?"
As soon as the mango head was mentioned, I really remembered it, Luo Dascar's kid was really cheap, what he caught and bitten, I scolded him for whether he was a dog, he said that he was used to it, and he couldn't change it.
"Even if this is what Captain Luo left behind? It's not that it's impossible to tell which way they're going. The surveyor said during the day.
"No!" I thought about it, turned to everyone: "With my understanding of Luo Dascar, every time this kid makes a decision, there will always be some small movements, if I guess correctly, he must have chosen to take this path, and then throw away the cigarette butt in his mouth." There was still a little left on the cigarette butt, which proved that he had not completely finished smoking, so he threw the cigarette away. β
Bai Bai pouted disdainfully and said, "Guess, can you rely on guessing?" If we make a mistake, not only will we not save anyone, but we may all be in danger. β
I didn't want to deal with him, so I turned my head to look at Professor Jia and waited for him to decide. Professor Jia looked at me, then at the cigarette butt in Mango's hand, and said to me, "How sure are you?" β
"Eighty percent!" I replied without hesitation.
"Then go down this path, I hope you're right." Since Professor Jia has decided, the people of the archaeological team and a few foreigners naturally have nothing to say. Although he opposed my decision during the day, Professor Jia had decided, and he didn't dare to oppose it, muttering something in his mouth, but he was afraid that he would not have anything good to say.
Everyone still walked in the same word, two foreigners explored the way in front, Professor Jia and the archaeological team followed behind, and then down was me and Mangotou, walking behind us during the day, and two foreigners behind the palace.
I didn't go far, and the mango head behind me whispered to me, "Uncle, do you smell anything?" β
I frowned, but I didn't need to say it, I had already smelled a faint smell of burnt in the air, but I just wanted to smell it carefully, and it disappeared again. But at this time, one of the two foreigners in front of him suddenly shone a torch on the mountain wall on one side, signaling everyone to take a look.
Following the firelight, I saw that the original green mountain wall, when I arrived here, turned black, at a glance, I knew that it had been roasted by the fire, and when I got closer, there was a faint smell of burnt, it turned out that what I had just smelled all the way was actually from the mountain wall. As the crowd walked forward, the black on the mountain wall became more and more black, and the smell of burnt paste became heavier and heavier, as if to show that something had happened here.
I don't know how other people feel at this time, anyway, I feel extremely depressed, there seems to be an answer in front of me that is about to be revealed, but I don't want it to be revealed.
"Ahh Suddenly, someone in front of me shouted, although the sound was not loud, but it formed an echo in the mountain road, which also startled all of us. After the foreigner finished calling, he and his companions quickly ran forward, and I knew that they must have discovered something, and they also ran forward with them.
If someone were to ask who had ever seen hell alive, I would say that it was the hell I had ever seen in my life. The torches in the hands of the two foreigners shone on the mountain road in front of them, and there were five or six corpses lying horizontally and vertically, and the reason why they could be immediately judged to be corpses was because in addition to the clothes on their bodies, their hands, feet, and heads were exposed, all of them showed bloody bones, and two of them were burned to charcoal, revealing hollow skeletons and gums.
I saw that the mango head on one side of the face instantly turned pale, his stomach twitched, and he turned his head to look at me, but I was afraid that my face would not look much better than him at this time, and during the day, he just glanced at it, and immediately ran to the back and vomited, looking at the situation, I was afraid that yesterday's meal would also vomit out for him.
Professor Jia and the two archaeological team members were also pale, and the foreigner bodyguards were fine, although their faces changed, but after all, they belonged to professionals, and their psychological quality was only stronger than ours.
βdonβttouchanything!β Professor Jia suddenly screamed, but he was a step too late, only to see a foreigner use the submachine gun in his hand as a stick, and picked up one of the lying corpses, and the other foreigner immediately exclaimed: "Mygod, itisanna!" β
Professor Jia and a few foreigners took a closer look, only to see that the corpse had been burned like charcoal, but she had a heart-shaped necklace hanging around her neck, and a foreigner was holding him in his hand to look at it carefully, I was afraid that it was judged according to this. I looked at the clothes of the other corpses, and except for the two charred ones, which were unrecognizable, the others turned out to be waterproof suits that the engineering team often wore.
My heart was beating so hard, could it be that the engineering team and the archaeological team that came first died here mysteriously? What about Luo Da Scar, that kid? Could it be that he also confessed here?
I had the courage to endure the bouts of nausea, and picked up the waterproof suit of one of the corpses, almost throwing up, and the clothes were empty, and the whole person was gone, except for the bones, and all the flesh and blood were gone, or it was as if it had been eaten by something, and there was no blood or water. Just as I was about to step back, a pack of things suddenly fell from the pocket of the waterproof suit, and by the light of the flashlight, it turned out to be a cigarette.
I was stunned, I recognized this cigarette, it was brought to Yueren Village by me, it is a special product, it is easy to see outside, I have only given it to one person, that is, Xiao Yang, the young man who took us to the school on the first day of the engineering team, could it be that this corpse that was eaten so much that only bones remained, turned out to be his?