At the very least, you should keep a number, right?

Thinking of this, Wu Liang asked Dian Wei to smash the copper lock on the iron fence and enter this strange niche to take a closer look.

Although there are only dry bones left in the more than a dozen corpses, it can still be judged from these very complete dry bones that these people should not have suffered serious external injuries before their deaths, and there are no signs of poisoning.

Then there are only two causes of death for these people to die.

Either they were killed and buried here in a relatively mild way, such as cutting the veins and bleeding, so that there would be no external injuries on the bones.

Either that or it is buried alive.

Wu Liang prefers the second type, after all, if it is killed in advance, there is no need to install an iron fence to transform this niche into a "cell", isn't this taking off his pants and farting?

Unfortunately, there are only these bones in this alchement, and nothing else has been found that can prove the cause of these people's deaths.

Exiting from this niche like this, Wu Liang entered a wider niche room next to him.

This niche is a great thing, and the setting is very similar to that of an ancient dispensary.

Except for the entrance wall, the other three sides are all leaning against a row of wooden cabinets like ancient medicine chests, and all of them are densely packed with small drawers with bronze pull rings.

Each drawer is also engraved with a few small letters:

Cinnamomum camphora, Yin incense, laurel, white orchid, yellow orchid, smiling, Tiannu flower, Epiphylla, yellow gardenia, golden cherry seed, fragrantberry, Huoxiang, musk, rat incense......

These small words should be marked with the contents of the small drawer...... Medicine?

Wu Liang knew that in this era of many alchemists, anything could be used as a medicinal herb.

Even mercury and some heavy metal minerals containing highly toxic can be used by those alchemists to refine the "elixir" of immortality, and there are a lot of people who believe in it.

Of course, many Western medicines in later generations will also use some elements in poisons to make medicines.

But the two really can't be compared, at this time, the "alchemy", the emphasis is not on what is the right medicine, but about these messy "medicinal materials" put together and boiled and burned, as long as it can become a pill, the monks dare to say that this thing is a gift from God, and it will have the effect of prolonging life and immortality.

That's how gunpowder came out......

Although the names engraved on these small drawers, most of them were indeed medicinal herbs in later generations.

But if you judge carefully, it doesn't seem so appropriate, if you have to put them into the same category, they are not all medicinal herbs, and the more appropriate classification should be spices!

Categorize it like this.

Combined with the strange fragrance that permeated the entire burial chamber, and the pressing device outside, which seemed to be most likely used to refine the "essence", it seemed much more reasonable.

Could it be that it is precisely because of this that the fragrance found after the excavation of the tomb of the Marquis of Hailun will be so lasting?

After all.

The "essence" pressed out by the device had overflowed the small jade bowl, blending with the masonry and soil on the ground, and was later completely filled with stagnant water, although these rich "essences" were diluted a little, but they soaked every corner of the entire tomb of the Marquis of Haidu.

And one bubble is nearly two thousand years, so the aroma lasts for a long time?

That's a big possibility......

With such speculation, Wu Liang opened a few drawers to check, because of the age, these spices have all rotted and moldy, but through the simple gas mask, he can still smell the unique but somewhat deteriorated smell of different spices.

It seems that these "spices" are not available.

Wu Liang closed the drawer again with some regret, retreated from this alcove again, and walked to the next one, which was really equipped with a complete iron door.

But at this moment, this iron door is in a state of concealment at this moment.

Wu Liang easily pulled it away.

And then.

I saw a familiar scene!

I saw that more dry bones were stored in this niche, and a thick layer had accumulated like the "shadow corpse" outside the tomb!

It's just that these dry bones look a little more slender and lower than the "shadow corpses" outside.

In addition, these bones are a little different from the bones in the previous fence, there is no clothing left on them, and they are relatively intact...... Especially the crotch, so Wu Liang can easily identify their gender by the characteristics of the bones.

This is also a compulsory course for archaeology majors - physical anthropology.

The easiest way to do this is to look at the pubic bone, which is more than the right angle in women and less than the right angle in men.

Female......

Female......

Female......

Still female!

Wu Liang checked more than a dozen corpses in a row, all of them were women without exception!

Looking at the thickness and length of these dry bones, there is not much difference between them and the dry bones in the iron fence...... Therefore, it is not difficult to judge that the dry bones there and the dry bones here are both girls who have not yet reached the age of prostration!

What the hell is going on?!

Wu Liang was puzzled.

There are at least hundreds, and maybe even more bones of young girls piled up in this small niche, even if it is a human martyrdom, I am afraid that there is no such rule, not to mention the Western Han Dynasty, which has basically eliminated the vulgarity of human martyrdom?

That's when it happened.

"Squeak ......"

A slight strange sound suddenly sounded under the dry bones not far away, and Wu Liang woke up in an instant, and immediately picked up the sapper shovel and took a few steps back, taking precautions.

Dian Wei hurriedly blocked the front.

And Bai Jingjing and Yu Ji also looked nervous, looking nervously at the place where the voice came from.

A moment later.

"Whoa!"

A few dry bones flipped a little, and a slightly smaller insect emerged from it, and then swayed its not-so-sharp arthrops and crawled out of the niche.

This is supposed to be a strange insect larva that is aware of it in hindsight......

"Hoo ——!"

There was a false alarm, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, at this moment, Wu Liang suddenly realized something, and immediately said to Dian Wei: "Dian Wei, cut these dry bones with a sapper shovel and see what is underneath?" ”

"Yes."

Dian Wei reacted slightly, and immediately started drying.

It only took a dozen breaths to dig a pit about half a meter deep in the same place.

And under the excavated pit, sure enough, a "beehive"-like nest was found again, and nine out of nine of these strange insects are an ancient species of burial insects!

And obviously.

These burial worms did not appear in this niche out of thin air, but were kept in captivity, and the food provided was all the corpses of young girls!

"That alchemist named Lian Shi?"

Wu Liang naturally thought of this person who had appeared in it.

He single-handedly prepared for the construction of the mausoleum and was voluntarily sealed in the tomb...... All signs point to this man, and only he has the possibility to do these things!