Chapter 111: The Forbidden Gate 4 (B)
Kerry is a generalist, and paleography is part of much of his expertise, but his research topics are offbeat and authoritatively challenged, and are not well accepted by traditional academics, and his cynical personality is frowned upon by academics. Dick, however, thought he had some talent, and took him under his command to do some preliminary appraisal of antiques and the like, even if he was really talking serious nonsense - as long as someone believed the nonsense and was willing to pay for it.
Dick did not trust Sharjah Jean, and Dick wanted to give Sharjah Jean a good price to hand over the information in his possession, but Sharjah Jean refused, preferring to pay for it himself rather than the treasure in the hands of others. It took a lot of talk for Dick to reach an agreement with Sharjah Jean about the distribution of the treasure once it was found, but he had to guard against Sharjah, which is why Crussell and Kerry became his agents.
Now the time is a little out of control, Sharjah Jean urged a few times but had to compromise, the machine gun that could have given him infinite prestige is now a thousand pounds in his hand, and the not tall Sharjah Jean is equipped with such a big machine gun It is very funny, but everyone in the world of local tyrants does not understand, maybe carrying such a machine gun, and clicking a few powerful photos, it is also a kind of talk that can be shown off when he goes back.
Anyway, the local tyrants have money, and they are willing to spend money on anything, including ethereal vanity.
Chen Badai had nothing to do, wandering around, and the twisted little figures on the murals quickly made him lose interest, and he ran to the wrapped corpses with interest. If compared to the coffin mountain, there are not many corpses here, that is, dozens of well-preserved, and the rest are almost rotten and there are no teeth left, and only a little trace of what was left can be seen.
All the corpses were wrapped in layers of linen, and they were still carefully arranged, all of them bent and cross-legged, their hands folded in front of their chests, and their heads tilted. Under some rotten and dilapidated linen, some skulls were exposed, and the hollow eye sockets looked at the "sky" at the top of the cave, and the mandible was wide open, as if to shout for help, or for help.
Chen Badai walked in front of a corpse, the linen wrapping cloth had rotted, revealing the bones of the person's upper body, maybe the time was a little long, there was no smell of corpses here, this corpse was different from others, and the head was drooping. Chen Badai took out a diving knife and stabbed the skull, and the skull "bone" actually rolled down at Chen Badai's feet.
"No taboos, no taboos......" Chen Badai didn't expect this to be the case.
"Chen Badai, can you stop being cheap?" Sherpa said dissatisfied.
"Hey...... I'm just looking at ......" Chen Badai picked up the skull and looked at it, this skull was a little smaller than a normal person, and then took a closer look at the other bones, it seemed to be smaller than a normal person, and the visual inspection was about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall when they were alive. Chen Badai held the skull and looked at it, feeling that there was an inexplicable fear from the bottom of his heart, he quickly put the skull back on the cervical vertebrae, but as soon as he let go, the skull rolled to his feet again.
"Oops...... Don't follow me......" Chen Badai was a little flustered, in this legend, people will have a soul when they die, if the soul is possessed, everything will not go well in the light, and the heavy one will have a life!
Although there is no scientific basis for this soul, it may be the fear of death in the hearts of the people, and almost everyone has a reverence for the dead, which is why all the peoples of the world have their own rituals and procedures for the dead and funerals. Chen Badai felt that he must have broken some etiquette, otherwise this skull would not always follow him.
Wang Xingguo stepped forward and put the skull on it, and Chen Badai breathed a sigh of relief.
"A woman just coming of age." Wang Xingguo looked at the skull and said.
When Kerry heard this, he finally retracted his head in front of the stone wall and leaned over as well. For those who are engaged in academics, this research specimen may provide new ideas for him, and he pulls out his diving knife and carefully cuts the layers of wrapping cloth.
The cloth was in tatters, and the blades shattered themselves everywhere, revealing the bones in front of them in a few moments. But what is strange is that without the restraint of the wrapping cloth, the bones are not scattered, and they still remain in a sitting position.
"Well, it's really a woman." Kerry tilted his head and looked at it for a moment, then said.
"How do you know, Woo Dog?" With people around him, Chen Badai became bolder.
"A woman's pelvis is wide." Kerry explained.
"There are no traces of fractures, it should not be an injury or death." Wang Xingguo looked at it, and then ran to the side to look at some other wrapping cloths that exposed the bones, "They are all the bones of some newly grown women." ”
"Huh?! Word on the back? Chen Badai saw that the stone behind the bones was vaguely carved with some distorted symbols and patterns.
This sentence made Kerry's eyes light up: "Quick! Fast! Fast! Move the rest of the bodies away......"
How can this expert be lazy? Even Mr. Min came to help, and everyone moved some of the corpses away, and sure enough, there were some crooked symbols or some twisted patterns carved on the stones and stone walls where the corpses were sitting. Kerry rubbed his hands excitedly, and involuntarily muttered: "This is a major discovery, a major discovery......"
Everyone gathered around this great discovery and found that nothing was known about the meaning behind them except for the symbols and patterns. As if possessed by something, Kerry muttered words that others couldn't understand, and ran here and there, and ran for half an hour in full view of everyone. Sharjah Jeandu had already sat down and stood up several times, and looked anxiously at his watch several times, the M60 Rambo spear that was supposed to bring him infinite majesty was already lying quietly on a stone at this time, and it was obvious that the owner was about to abandon it.
"Sacrifice...... Sacrifice...... Sure enough, it's a sacrificial ......" Kerry finally calmed down, his tone trembling with excitement.
"What are you talking about?" Crussell asked.
"Their ancestors lived in a paradise, but they didn't know how to anger the gods, the gods made the Garin people rain down countless mushroom clouds of death in the promised land, and overnight, the earth cracked, and the once paradise was divided into small pieces of cages, imprisoning them, severing their connection with the promised land, they tried every means to communicate with the gods, but they were punished again and again, the earth trembled, cracked again and again, people fell in the shadow of death and trembled, they were told to sacrifice the virgin to the gods, will be forgiven...... Not...... So every 10 years, they dedicated a virgin to the gods in this forbidden place, as if there were some other things...... The bones were written with some confessions and prayers to the gods, and some of them also recorded some simple messages about the girl...... "Kerry finally calmed down, and according to the information he had, he organized the text.
"Well, Dr. Kerry, we'll have to get to Argo before dark, or we'll have to spend the night in the treacherous jungle......" Sharjah urged him as he showed no interest in the records.
"Third brother, it's pretty good here, why don't you spend the night tonight and leave early tomorrow morning?" Chen Badai said. What kind of place is this Argo, seeing that it is not too late, why is Sharjah so anxious?
"You are insulting me, naked provocation, I want to duel with you!" Sharjah Jean suddenly shouted.
"I'll ...... How this is a provocation. Chen Badai was startled when he saw that Sharjah Jean was about to go to find the Lamp Gun and beat himself into a sieve.
"Don't think I don't know, you mean that Indian Asan is contemptuous." Sharjah Jean lifted Rambo's gun, and Krussell was startled when he saw it, it is not a trivial matter for this boss to be angry, especially at the beginning of this expedition, there must be no infighting in the team, so he hurriedly stepped forward and pressed his gun. Mr. Min also stepped forward and blocked in front of Chen Badai.
"No, no, no...... You misunderstood, Morocha is the meaning of contempt, the third brother is an honorific title, and the brother is the meaning of respect......" Chen Badai was anxious and explained, "In the past, the British were the boss, the official was the second child, and the third brother was Indian, just to distinguish it from the third brother in the family, a ...... word was added."
"Is that so?" Sharjah turned his head to Kerry, and the muzzle of the gun turned away, almost not allowing Kerry to jump behind a large rock.
However, the level of research on the name Kerry in interpersonal relationships is only limited to relatives and friends, and he thinks it should be like this, at least, "brother" is not as dejorative as the word "dog", looking at the muzzle of the black hole, he quickly nodded......
"Well, I'll take back what I was going to duel with you just now." Sharjah Jean put the gun down, and it wasn't easy to carry it.
"Hey...... Brother A, we are all teammates, teammates...... Can you please not turn the gun on me in the future. Chen Badai's heart was still pounding, this Indian Ah San, usually stuffy and don't hum, when he hums, he is carrying a machine gun to fire, this is to scare people to death!
"You can, Chen Badai, you will give the two of you nicknames as soon as you come......" Sherpa looked at Chen Badai meaningfully and said in a low voice.
"Hehe, I've won a prize...... Mr. Xia is wise. Chen Badai touched the cold sweat on his head, is it just an adventure, can you use it so tensely?
“OK! OK! OK!, action, action! Crossell urged again, and this time Kerry reluctantly removed his nose from the mural, and before leaving, he reluctantly glanced at it, checking the footage on the camera to make sure that not an inch had been missed.
"Mr. Xia, why do I always feel that something is wrong?!" Chen Badai felt a chill down his spine, and his hairs stood on end, and he looked at the Sherpa who was packing up his things and said.
"Don't worry, there's Wang Xingguo." Sherpa didn't know whether to really have a big heart or comfort Chen Badai, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hurry up." ”
"Hey, they're so nice, one person and one small bag, why are we so heavy." Chen Badai carried a large backpack on his back, and the backpack contained equipment and supplies.
"Look at the third brother, people still carry machine guns." Sherpa reassured.
"Hmph, that is, the rat carries the gun in the nest, I don't think it will go far, or we will help him carry it." Chen Badai said hatefully.
Along the rugged cave road, the group walked into the sun, Chen Badai squinted his eyes, and after a while of adapting to the excessive sunshine of the equator, his head began to have a headache as if he was conditioned.
Sharjah let hurry up, taking the lead, without waiting for the people behind the slightest meaning, Chen Badai and Sherpa who were left behind hurriedly quickened their pace to catch up, everyone didn't notice that the entrance of the cave seemed to be a bloody mouth, there were traces of artificial processing around the cave, and the whole mountain looked like a skull with its head up and mouth open...... On the cliff wall on the top of the cave, there are also many strange symbols and patterns depicted......
A telescope poked out of the trees on the cliff, and several sturdy, heavily armed soldiers, with oil paint on their faces, looked indifferently at the distant expedition.
"Tchaikov, do you need to get rid of them here?" One person asked.
"No, they don't know what they're going to face, this jungle will help us get rid of them, follow them, and get the map!" The man named Tchaikov lowered his binoculars and smiled meaningfully.