Niu Ping was not far from Fang Ming, Fang Ming shouted loudly, and he heard it immediately.

"What's ......?!"

Niu Ping's words hadn't finished yet, he immediately woke up and Fang Ming must have found something, and immediately didn't care about the hole he had dug, and immediately rushed towards Fang Ming.

"What's wrong? What did you find? ”

Fang Ming put the Luoyang shovel in front of Niu Ping and said, "Niu Lao, you see, there is such a thing in the soil layer I punched. ”

Niu Ping immediately squatted down and stretched out two fingers to pick up the soil brought out of the Luoyang shovel.

As soon as the soil arrived in his hand, he immediately noticed that the soil was very loose, and his heart moved, knowing that it must have been filled in later, or it could not be so loose. I put the soil on the palm of my hand and rubbed it, and found that there were fine white particles inside.

"Niu Lao, what is this?!"

Fang Ming also squatted down, he had found the white thing in the dirt before, but he didn't know what it was.

"Bones!"

Fang Ming was stunned for a moment and said, "What? Bone? ”

"Well, yes, this gray-white thing is a human bone, and it's been rotting for some years."

"This ...... If it's bones, doesn't that mean that there were once corpses under the dirt that were beaten? ”

Fang Ming's brows furrowed, "But, no=one=book=read=novelxtxt has a coffin." ”

The tradition of the Chinese people is to enter the earth for peace, and before entering the earth, they must first enter the coffin. The coffin is an important thing in the burial. Not to mention the princes and nobles, even the common people, before entering the ground, they have to find ways to get a coffin, but if they can't do it, they have to get a straw mat!

So, under normal circumstances, if there are human bones in the mud that is beaten, should there be some residue of a coffin or something?

However, judging from the dirt that came out, it was not visible at all, which was a bit strange.

"Hmmm! Yes, it does. ”

Niu Ping nodded in agreement, he had many years of experience in tomb robbing, and he could tell at a glance whether this was a human bone or something else's bones in front of him, but as Fang Ming said, if this was a human bone, then there should be a coffin, right? Since there is no coffin, it proves that the people buried in the soil below did not use coffins.

If there is a coffin, it may have hit the place where the imperial tomb is located, but if

If there is no coffin, it is definitely not an imperial tomb.

"How deep did you hit it?"

Fang Ming pointed to the pole and said, "I found it when I was still using the pole." ”

At this time, Fang Ming had also calmed down, if it was a shallow distance, it would definitely not be an imperial tomb, and no imperial tomb in this world was buried so shallowly.

Niu Ping stood up, picked up the Luoyang shovel, continued to fight where Fang Ming had punched a hole, raised it and looked at it and said, "It shouldn't be the imperial tomb down here, but it is very likely that there are a lot of bones, that is to say, there may be a lot of people buried." ”

When the first shovel was laid, Niu Ping felt that the soil layer below was very soft, and the Luoyang shovel ate it down at once, and there were no white broken bones on the soil brought out by the shovel head after a total of more than a dozen shovels, which showed that the soil layer with bones below was more than half a meter, and the distance of more than a dozen shovels down was almost this distance.

Judging from this, it naturally means that there are bones in a distance of about half a meter!

"Huh? No way? So what do we do now? ”

Kanping looked at the surrounding terrain, thought for a while, and said, "Fang Ming, if you look at the terrain around here, the area around about fifty square meters is slightly concave, so I think this is probably a pit." ”

Fang Ming took a look and found that Niu Ping was not wrong at all, it was indeed a slight concave place under his feet, which was probably because the soil below was softer than the normal soil layer, and it naturally sank down under the effect of years or rain.

"It should be, let's dig it?"

Fang Ming hesitated for a moment, but finally said such a sentence, judging from the soil layer that was now beaten out by the Luoyang shovel, the place where there were bones below was not deep, and the soil layer was not hard, it was not too difficult to dig it out to see what was underneath.

Obviously, Niu Ping thought the same way, because as soon as Fang Ming finished speaking, he immediately nodded in agreement. The two of them went back to the place where they were encamped, took out the small shovel they had prepared before, and began to dig without nonsense.

Fang Ming was young and strong, and his movements were fast, as for Niu Ping, he was also an experienced person, so he dug very quickly, and after only digging half a meter deep, bones had already begun to appear.

Niu Ping's judgment was not wrong at all, it was indeed a human bone, because when Fang Ming carefully sorted out a piece of ground, he found a basically intact corpse.

When you continue to dig down

Later, there were more and more bones, and many of them were stacked on top of each other.

Fang Ming and Niu Ping were busy for a long time, basically cleaning up the entire ground.

"Niu Lao, there are a lot of people buried here, if not a hundred, but there are dozens."

Fang Ming looked at the bones in the pit, shook his head and smiled bitterly, although he said that he and Zhao Zhuzi had also put down two people and buried them in the desert before, but after all, there were only two, but there were a hundred or dozens of them in front of him!

Even if it's a pig, it's a lot, let alone a human?

"Well, why are there so many corpses here?"

At the beginning, Niu Ping felt that this might be the person who built the imperial mausoleum at that time, and after it was built, he killed them all in order to destroy the mouth, and then buried them here, but now it seems that it is not the same thing, because things like the imperial mausoleum have to be hundreds of years old, and if these people who were killed at that time built the imperial mausoleum, they should have been buried in the soil for such a long time, and they should have rotted long ago, at least it is impossible to keep it so intact. Therefore, the bones in front of him should not be those who were killed to build the imperial tomb, and thus they could not be buried with them.

That...... Who is it?

Niu Ping's brows furrowed.

"Niu Lao, did you say that there was someone who came here to dig the imperial tomb before?"

Niu Ping looked at Fang Ming sharply, this was a very possible thing.

However, if it was really the one who came to dig the grave as Fang Ming said, then why did so many people die here?

Found the treasure and there was a conflict, and then these people were killed in the conflict? But another question arises: since they were killed in the middle of the conflict, why not just storm the wilderness of corpses and dig a big pit and bury them?

This doesn't make sense!

"Niu Lao, this should be a military card, this is English, and the one buried here must be a soldier!"

Fang Ming suddenly found that there was an iron piece-like thing on the side of one of the bones, and when he picked it up, he found that it had been rusted quite badly, only a small half remained, but he still saw two English letters from it.

Niu Ping took it and looked at it, he didn't understand English, but at a glance, he knew that this thing couldn't be ancient, so he speculated that these bones might be the corpses of the people who blew up the tomb here decades ago.

"It seems that there were a lot of people here back then!"

Fang Ming sighed

In a sigh of relief, there are already so many people who have died here, and naturally there are even more people who come.

"Let's go back. Let's continue tomorrow. ”

Niu Ping looked at the corpses in front of him for a long time, but finally shook his head, turned around and walked towards the camping place, although he knew that it was unlikely before digging, but he still hoped that these bones in the ground were buried with him, but he didn't expect that it was someone who came to rob the tomb, which didn't seem to be of much use.

The fire was burning very strongly, Fang Ming, Niu Ping and Zhao Zhuzi were sitting around, but there was nothing above the fire, nothing at all.

"Excavated a large number of bones? Found a military card? That's a good thing. ”

Zhao Zhuzi shouted, he had been in charge of "security" work recently, and he had only heard about the excavation of a large number of bones now.

"Huh?"

Niu Ping's mood was a little low, but Zhao Zhuzi's words attracted attention.

"This shows that the people who came here back then were here for the Imperial Mausoleum, and I think it is very likely that they have not succeeded yet."

Fang Ming picked up a twig and picked it up into the fire, pulling out a few ball-shaped, blackened mud balls that were tonight's dinner.

"Oh? Why? ”

"It's very simple, those people must have had an accident in the process of robbing the tomb, so they died, and only in this way will those who are alive bury the dead."

"Moreover, I thought that because there were so many dead people, the people who came to rob the graves did not dare to continue digging, so I left. When they went back, they left the information here, and that's why we had the people we met. ”

Fang Ming and Niu Ping glanced at each other, the possibility analyzed by Zhao Zhuzi was completely unexpected, but it was reasonable, maybe quite close to the truth.

"Niu Lao, is it possible that there will be a large number of casualties in the process of robbing the tomb?"

"Yes! Of course! ”

Niu Ping didn't hesitate at all, and immediately nodded and said, "In fact, in our industry, there are many people who die every year because of the mechanisms in tomb robbing. Especially those large tombs, there are often delicate mechanisms, these organs are generally poisoned arrows, poisonous smoke, traps and the like, although these things were arranged many years ago, but until today they will still have great lethality, once encountered, it is very likely to kill people. ”

"Actually, even if there is no kind of arrangement, but after so many years, it is unpredictable what kind of things will be in the tomb or what kind of poisonous gas will accumulate, so many times the tomb robbers are killed by invisible killers as soon as they enter the tomb."

"It is highly probable that the pillar's reasoning is valid, and the bones we found should be those who came here to rob the tomb. This imperial tomb doesn't seem to be easy to mess with. ”

Fang Ming's brows furrowed tightly, if those people from decades ago had retreated because they had died too many people, then even if he and Niu Ping could find the location of the local officials, they would have faced the same problem.

Niu Ping was not far from Fang Ming, Fang Ming shouted loudly, and he heard it immediately.

"What's ......?!"

Niu Ping's words hadn't finished yet, he immediately woke up and Fang Ming must have found something, and immediately didn't care about the hole he had dug, and immediately rushed towards Fang Ming.

"What's wrong? What did you find? ”

Fang Ming put the Luoyang shovel in front of Niu Ping and said, "Niu Lao, you see, there is such a thing in the soil layer I punched. ”

Niu Ping immediately squatted down and stretched out two fingers to pick up the soil brought out of the Luoyang shovel.

As soon as the soil arrived in his hand, he immediately noticed that the soil was very loose, and his heart moved, knowing that it must have been filled in later, or it could not be so loose. I put the soil on the palm of my hand and rubbed it, and found that there were fine white particles inside.

"Niu Lao, what is this?!"

Fang Ming also squatted down, he had found the white thing in the dirt before, but he didn't know what it was.

"Bones!"

Fang Ming was stunned for a moment and said, "What? Bone? ”

"Well, yes, this gray-white thing is a human bone, and it's been rotting for some years."

"This ...... If it's bones, doesn't that mean that there were once corpses under the dirt that were beaten? ”

Fang Ming's brows furrowed, "However, there is no coffin." ”

The tradition of the Chinese people is to enter the earth for peace, and before entering the earth, they must first enter the coffin. The coffin is an important thing in the burial. Not to mention the princes and nobles, even the common people, before entering the ground, they have to find ways to get a coffin, but if they can't do it, they have to get a straw mat!

So, under normal circumstances, if there are human bones in the dirt

, should there be some coffin remnants or something?

However, judging from the dirt that came out, it was not visible at all, which was a bit strange.

"Hmmm! Yes, it does. ”

Niu Ping nodded in agreement, he had many years of experience in tomb robbing, and he could tell at a glance whether this was a human bone or something else's bones in front of him, but as Fang Ming said, if this was a human bone, then there should be a coffin, right? Since there is no coffin, it proves that the people buried in the soil below did not use coffins.

If there is a coffin, it may have hit the place where the imperial tomb is located, but if there is no coffin, it is definitely not the imperial tomb.

"How deep did you hit it?"

Fang Ming pointed to the pole and said, "I found it when I was still using the pole." ”

At this time, Fang Ming had also calmed down, if it was a shallow distance, it would definitely not be an imperial tomb, and no imperial tomb in this world was buried so shallowly.

Niu Ping stood up, picked up the Luoyang shovel, continued to fight where Fang Ming had punched a hole, raised it and looked at it and said, "It shouldn't be the imperial tomb down here, but it is very likely that there are a lot of bones, that is to say, there may be a lot of people buried." ”

When the first shovel was laid, Niu Ping felt that the soil layer below was very soft, and the Luoyang shovel ate it down at once, and there were no white broken bones on the soil brought out by the shovel head after a total of more than a dozen shovels, which showed that the soil layer with bones below was more than half a meter, and the distance of more than a dozen shovels down was almost this distance.

Judging from this, it naturally means that there are bones in a distance of about half a meter!

"Huh? No way? So what do we do now? ”

Kanping looked at the surrounding terrain, thought for a while, and said, "Fang Ming, if you look at the terrain around here, the area around about fifty square meters is slightly concave, so I think this is probably a pit." ”

Fang Ming took a look and found that Niu Ping was not wrong at all, it was indeed a slight concave place under his feet, which was probably because the soil below was softer than the normal soil layer, and it naturally sank down under the effect of years or rain.

"It should be, let's dig it?"

Fang Ming hesitated for a moment, but finally said such a sentence, judging from the soil layer that was now knocked out by the Luoyang shovel, the place where there were bones below was not deep, and the soil layer was not hard, it was not too much to dig it out to see what was underneath

Hard stuff.

Obviously, Niu Ping thought the same way, because as soon as Fang Ming finished speaking, he immediately nodded in agreement. The two of them went back to the place where they were encamped, took out the small shovel they had prepared before, and began to dig without nonsense.

Fang Ming was young and strong, and his movements were fast, as for Niu Ping, he was also an experienced person, so he dug very quickly, and after only digging half a meter deep, bones had already begun to appear.

Niu Ping's judgment was not wrong at all, it was indeed a human bone, because when Fang Ming carefully sorted out a piece of ground, he found a basically intact corpse.

As we dug further down, there were more and more bones, and many of them were stacked on top of each other.

Fang Ming and Niu Ping were busy for a long time, basically cleaning up the entire ground.

"Niu Lao, there are a lot of people buried here, if not a hundred, but there are dozens."

Fang Ming looked at the bones in the pit, shook his head and smiled bitterly, although he said that he and Zhao Zhuzi had also put down two people and buried them in the desert before, but after all, there were only two, but there were a hundred or dozens of them in front of him!

Even if it's a pig, it's a lot, let alone a human?

"Well, why are there so many corpses here?"

At the beginning, Niu Ping felt that this might be the person who built the imperial mausoleum at that time, and after it was built, he killed them all in order to destroy the mouth, and then buried them here, but now it seems that it is not the same thing, because things like the imperial mausoleum have to be hundreds of years old, and if these people who were killed at that time built the imperial mausoleum, they should have been buried in the soil for such a long time, and they should have rotted long ago, at least it is impossible to keep it so intact. Therefore, the bones in front of him should not be those who were killed to build the imperial tomb, and thus they could not be buried with them.

That...... Who is it?

Niu Ping's brows furrowed.

"Niu Lao, did you say that there was someone who came here to dig the imperial tomb before?"

Niu Ping looked at Fang Ming sharply, this was a very possible thing.

However, if it was really the one who came to dig the grave as Fang Ming said, then why did so many people die here?

Found the treasure and there was a conflict, and then these people were killed in the conflict? But another question arises: since they were killed in the middle of the conflict, why not just storm the wilderness of corpses and dig a big pit and bury them?

This doesn't make sense!

"Niu Lao, this should be a military card, this is English, and the one buried here must be a soldier!"

Fang Ming suddenly found that there was an iron piece-like thing on the side of one of the bones, and when he picked it up, he found that it had been rusted quite badly, only a small half remained, but he still saw two English letters from it.

Niu Ping took it and looked at it, he didn't understand English, but at a glance, he knew that this thing couldn't be ancient, so he speculated that these bones might be the corpses of the people who blew up the tomb here decades ago.

"It seems that there were a lot of people here back then!"

Fang Ming sighed, there were already so many people who died here, so naturally there were even more people who came.

"Let's go back. Let's continue tomorrow. ”

Niu Ping looked at the corpses in front of him for a long time, but finally shook his head, turned around and walked towards the camping place, although he knew that it was unlikely before digging, but he still hoped that these bones in the ground were buried with him, but he didn't expect that it was someone who came to rob the tomb, which didn't seem to be of much use.

The fire was burning very strongly, Fang Ming, Niu Ping and Zhao Zhuzi were sitting around, but there was nothing above the fire, nothing at all.

"Excavated a large number of bones? Found a military card? That's a good thing. ”

Zhao Zhuzi shouted, he had been in charge of "security" work recently, and he had only heard about the excavation of a large number of bones now.

"Huh?"

Niu Ping's mood was a little low, but Zhao Zhuzi's words attracted attention.

"This shows that the people who came here back then were here for the Imperial Mausoleum, and I think it is very likely that they have not succeeded yet."

Fang Ming picked up a twig and picked it up into the fire, pulling out a few ball-shaped, blackened mud balls that were tonight's dinner.

"Oh? Why? ”

"It's very simple, those people must have had an accident in the process of robbing the tomb, so they died, and only in this way will those who are alive bury the dead."

"Moreover, I thought that because there were so many dead people, the people who came to rob the graves did not dare to continue digging, so I left. When they went back, they left the information here, and that's why we had the people we met. ”

Fang Ming and Niu Ping glanced at each other, this possibility analyzed by Zhao Zhuzi they had not thought of at all before, but

But it makes sense, and perhaps quite close to the truth.

"Niu Lao, is it possible that there will be a large number of casualties in the process of robbing the tomb?"

"Yes! Of course! ”

Niu Ping didn't hesitate at all, and immediately nodded and said, "In fact, in our industry, there are many people who die every year because of the mechanisms in tomb robbing. Especially those large tombs, there are often delicate mechanisms, these organs are generally poisoned arrows, poisonous smoke, traps and the like, although these things were arranged many years ago, but until today they will still have great lethality, once encountered, it is very likely to kill people. ”

"Actually, even if there is no kind of arrangement, but after so many years, it is unpredictable what kind of things will be in the tomb or what kind of poisonous gas will accumulate, so many times the tomb robbers are killed by invisible killers as soon as they enter the tomb."

"It is highly probable that the pillar's reasoning is valid, and the bones we found should be those who came here to rob the tomb. This imperial tomb doesn't seem to be easy to mess with. ”

Fang Ming's brows furrowed tightly, if those people from decades ago had retreated because they had died too many people, then even if he and Niu Ping could find the location of the local officials, they would have faced the same problem.