Chapter 0779: A Mystery Through the Ages
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The speed of cleaning up the collapse was very fast, and it took two days to open up a passage with a height of more than seven meters and a width of about four meters, and the traces of the original stone walls on both sides were seen to ensure that the two sides would not collapse.
After more than 30 meters, when the front leaked out of the roof of the cave, revealing the original cave wall, everyone included, did not rush to drill over to explore jìng, quickly cleaned the passage, confirmed that it would not collapse, and left a passage more than one person wide, standing outside the collapse.
The air outside is a little dirty, and it is estimated that if the passage is not opened for more than five hours, I am afraid that it will be even more dirty. Apparently there is no exit, there is no air circulation.
The ground, there is not much dust, one or two centimeters, but it is already very hard, obviously not a short time.
However, there is nothing else weird, it is estimated that it has been a thousand years, and even if there is, it will be gone long ago.
In the flashlight column, outside, it is indeed a passage, the passage is only more than 30 meters wide, the two sides are densely covered with holes of one foot square, 100 meters ahead, at the end of the pillar of light, you can also see huge stones blocking both sides of the road, leaving only six or seven meters of passage.
But the distance between those small holes is very high, and they look like they are three or four meters above the ground, and they don't have to climb up to see it for the time being, and they don't bother to climb up to see.
Out of the position of the boulder blocking the way, the passage is slightly wider, there is a forty meters of appearance, and there are caves on both sides, but the cave is very small, more like a shop, and there is no living environment inside, just a depth of five or six meters, a width of more than ten meters, more than twenty meters, open one, or a few holes called windows.
It's the ones that are a little bigger, with facilities like stone beds, and the appearance of cubicles, which may be inns and other places.
However, everyone soon saw a strange phenomenon, because even if these are pigeon-cage-like caves, there are many items, which are probably related to the closure of the cave, and they are not completely rotten, and even the appearance of some items can be seen.
Could it be that this is the place of trading, or the market, is not the same thing as the inside? The inside is inhabited by the people in this cave, and the outside is inhabited by foreign merchants and passing guests?
Looking at the flowing water tank carved into the cave wall, and the gradual lowering of the terrain all the way, they carefully bypassed those items that might still have sorting value, hoping to know the reason for the disappearance of this place first.
As they went, they saw the bones, which were still well preserved for more than a thousand years.
The bones lay on the road, or rather, all over the road, almost all over the ground, and when touched by hand, they were quite hard, and apparently dry and not excessively rotten. But the clothes were gone, only a few items that had fallen from the bones.
These items include gold, silver, copper, jade, etc., everything, and even piles of gold coins and copper coins, and the copper coins are relatively well preserved, and the oxidation is not very strict.
There are also some large vessels, even gold, bronze, porcelain, but the porcelain is mostly no longer complete.
Here, at first glance, it looks like a massacre was carried out, or rather, these people are trapped here for some reason.
In the suspicion, everyone did not pause, and after walking more than 100 meters cautiously, they were walking, when Liu Yucheng suddenly stopped, and the flashlight shone to a position.
Everyone paused, and flashlights pointed there.
In the bright light, everyone's eyes were empty.
It was a half-seated, half-lying skeleton leaning against the wall of the cave, no, it should be called a mummy.
The mummy is quite well preserved, except for the lack of clothing and hair on the body, it can basically be seen that it looks like a woman.
When I got here, the bones gradually decreased, and in front of me, the same mummies appeared again, and more and more, walking a few hundred meters, even in the room, and there were traces of smoke in the room, objects, only some gold and silver, bronze and iron, etc., but most of them were slightly deformed.
What's going on here?
Everyone is puzzled, but they will not suspect that it is a war, because all the dried corpses cannot see the scars, you must know that in the war in ancient times, it was normal to cut off heads and arms.
And the dry corpse, not to mention the limbs intact, there are no knife marks on the body, although the muscles and fat are dry, they are still intact and have not been broken.
Everyone walked more carefully, and along the way, they had to carefully clear out the position of standing and walking, lest they step on something of great value.
Here, even if it is a copper coin, the value is not low, although it is not a hundreds of thousands or millions, at least the historical value is very high.
With a slow march, the group walked five or six hundred meters away.
Ahead, the traces of smoke are still there, the dry bones are gone, and they are all dried corpses.
There were fewer items on the ground, and most of the bodies were in the room, or on the road, but there weren't many on the road.
This also leads to a faster pace of travel, so you don't need to look carefully at the soles of your feet.
When we got to the point where the cave was reduced, there was a fork in the road.
Saeki Yang watched with a compass all the way, and when he arrived here, he confirmed his guess, pointed to a slightly narrow position on the left and said: "Inside is the core direction of the spiritual land, and this side is the way to live, but it is also blocked." ”
Xue Lang looked at the direction of the exit and found that the width of the cave wall was only twenty or thirty meters, and it was also a natural crack that was dug out, and there was not even an end in sight on the top of the head.
After thinking about it, I thought it was better to look inside, maybe I could find the answer.
So, pointing to the passage in the direction of the core of the spiritual land, he said, "Let's go, go inside." ”
So, the group quickly walked into the passage with almost no clutter and advanced to the core position.
As soon as they walked out less than fifty meters, everyone saw something like a barricade, or a bunker, which was cut directly out of the boulder, leaving a not very wide passage through it.
On both sides of the cave wall, there are also densely packed one-foot square openings, which are staggered.
This place seems to be a fortress......
Everyone's intuitive judgment felt that this was a position where soldiers were stationed.
Sure enough, when I got close to the boulder, I saw the dried corpse lying backwards behind.
However, the shape of these dried corpses is no longer so normal, but most of them are curled up, becoming very small.
Xue Lang's eyes were empty, and he pointed to a corpse and said, "Moon Fox, why does it feel like it's burning?" ”
Everyone felt the same way, Liu Yucheng squatted closer, touched it with his hand, stood up, looked at the slightly blackened marks on his hand and said: "That's right, there was a fire here, and the corpses still have carbonized characteristics after one or two thousand years." ”
As she was talking, the little girl, who was not afraid at all, approached the holes and said, "Look, the wall!" ”
Sandwich the wall?
Everyone was attracted by the force, and came to the hole in front of them to take a look, in the light, everyone saw that it was really a sandwich wall inside, and the bones were there, and they were all curled up in the same way, and the items, except for the metal part and arrowheads, could not see anything else, but it was already seen that this was a defensive sandwich wall, a shooting port that could be used for external attacks.
Seeing that the width of the firing port was ten meters, the height was also four meters, and there were living facilities such as stone beds, everyone's judgment was that this was the location of the garrison defense, and they would not be wrong.
Confirming this, everyone remembered that when they just left the location of the collapse, the small hole there, I didn't know what to do at the time, but I didn't look at it, so I didn't search carefully, and now it seems that it is also used for defense.
It seems that this is the core of another cave dweller, and like the environment under the great chasm where there is a water source, it is the dwelling of the aborigines, and it is heavily guarded and not approached by outsiders.
At this point, the answer is on the horizon.
It seems that there was a fire here, there was a lack of oxygen in the smoke, and the person fell, but there was no trace of damage from the struggle, the form was intact and smooth, and due to the high temperature, the moisture of the body was quickly dried, leaving a dry corpse.
And the origin of the fire seems to be in this heavily guarded direction, because only the corpses here are carbonized and burned, and the rest is all smoked and on fire, and it doesn't seem to be violent.
Could it be that something is wrong with the spiritual core?
Everyone looked at the end of the defensive position, in the dark direction where the light could not shine, and guessed that something might be wrong there.
So, put qì to study carefully, and under the leadership of Liu Yucheng, the group quickly walked inside.
The position of the defense is more than 200 meters, and there are constantly blocks built of boulders in the middle of the road, not to mention, there are even traces of portals, but it is estimated that the wooden door is burned down, and there is a gap in the rocks.
On the road, there is basically nothing, and the cave is completely artificially excavated, although it is not straight and smooth, but it is definitely not original, and there are traces of excavation.
The amount of work is really not small......
Everyone was amazed at the magnanimity.
Even with today's level of science and technology, such a project is still not a small project, not to mention the era when there are no electric drills and explosives, and it is difficult to dig mountain rocks by chisels.
Walking through the defensive zone, the passage inside narrowed, and another fork in the road appeared, with cracks, extending overhead, and below, it was only artificially repaired and widened.
After walking for almost a kilometer, the road was a bit winding and getting lower and lower, but the cracks that stretched overhead were still there.
On the road, there was nothing, no trace of fire, it seemed that there was nothing combustible here, or rather, there was no fire here.
How so......
Could it be that the fire in the protective position was ruined here?
Everyone speculated and quickened their pace.
Suddenly, in the flashlight, the cave wall changed, and artificial traces appeared on both sides three or four meters above the ground, and extended upward, densely covering the entire stone wall.
Those traces are like blocking windows one by one, and the square openings more than a meter wide are blocked with stone slabs, but they don't fall off or anything.
Liu Yucheng stood still, looked at the compass and said, "This is where the dead are buried." ”
Xue Lang looked at the sink that was still preserved on the stone wall, and asked puzzledly: "Since it is a cemetery, or a sacred place for the aborigines here, why do you still dig a tank?" ”
Liu Yucheng glanced at the water tank on the wall that was more than a meter above the ground and said: "The waterwheel on the miàn is always rotating, so the water source will not be exhausted, and it will not stop, and the rest will flow down the river, and it is estimated that there is a place like an underground river below." ”
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