"Wood, come on!" Shen Muhan didn't look up and beckoned to me.

I walked to Shen Muhan's side, there was a dried corpse leaning under the tree in front of me, the whole corpse was completely dehydrated, the dark red skin was shriveled and attached to the bones, a thin layer of wax had formed on the surface, and the entire facial features on the face were twisted and squeezed together, looking like they had experienced unbearable pain before death, and a round hole in the chest could see the trunk behind it, which should be the cause of death. The clothes on the corpse's body had already rotted, only a few pieces of rags remained, and his left hand was hanging on the ground, and his right hand was on his knee, palm facing up, as if he was holding something.

In the past, when I was in an archaeology class, there was a special class on the evolution of ancient traditional clothing, and based on the remaining cloth patterns, it could be concluded that the dried corpse was a robe and horse coat.

The robe and horse coat is the clothing often worn by men in the Qing Dynasty, the horse coat is a short gown worn on the outside of the robe, the length is only to the waist, it was originally worn by the northerners when riding a horse, the Manchus have undergone a reform of the clothing system after entering the customs, and in the Qianlong period, a detailed crown and clothing system was formulated, and the descendants were required to keep it forever, and the robe and horse coat gradually became popular.

Although I have not been in contact with archaeology for a long time, and I have not participated in many projects, I have not been in contact with corpses, not to mention that Shen Muhan has studied physical anthropology, and I deal with dried corpses and white bones every day.

How did the people of the Qing Dynasty get here?

Looking at the shape of the cadre's right hand, the thing in his hand was at least there before the zombie formed after death, and it should not have been taken by the person who killed him, so who came back after his death to take the thing in his hand?

I thought about it and shook my head, he has already done this, how can I know the answers to these questions, and he won't tell me, if he really wants to tell me, I really don't dare to listen.

Due to a layer of wax on the surface, the banyan tree emitted blue light on the dried corpse, and the whole dried corpse was glowing with a faint halo, Shen Muhan lifted the remaining hair of the dried corpse: "Wood, what do you see this thing is?" ”

After death, people will slowly become dehydrated, and in the process of muscle atrophy, the oil in the human body will slowly penetrate the skin and accumulate on the surface of the body, eventually forming a thin layer of corpse wax, but the hair will not. Although the dried corpse in front of him was wearing Qing Dynasty clothes, he did not comb the big braids of the Qing Dynasty, and his hair hung down like a ball of dry grass behind his head, covering part of the tree trunk.

Looking in the direction of Shen Muhan's hair, there was a diamond-shaped black object on the trunk, which was dark all over, and it looked a little similar to the material of the steps and gates outside, and the middle position was a diamond-shaped groove.

I asked Shen Muhan to get out of the way, put the dagger into the gap next to him and pried it, trying to pry the diamond-shaped object off, the bark around it was already unrecognizable, and the diamond still had no traces of looseness, it looked like the banyan tree should have been pierced into it in the process of growth, and as the banyan tree became thicker and thicker, it was slowly completely wrapped in. I pulled out the dagger and looked at the diamond-shaped groove in front of me, and suddenly it felt very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

Shen Muhan looked at it for a while, and then stretched his hand into my neckline. I was startled by her sudden movements, and quickly hugged my arm and pressed her hand tightly, and Wang Chuan next to me had already blocked his eyes with his hand.

Shen Muhan glared at me: "Let go!" What to cover? I've seen you bare-chested! After speaking, when I let go, I pulled out a pendant: "Do you think that pattern is very similar to this?" ”

This pendant has been following me for more than 20 years, and I heard that I have been wearing it when I was adopted by Professor Yu, and it has already become a part of my body, so that I am too familiar to think about it. I've had someone identify it, and although I don't know the exact material, it's at least a few hundred years old. The entire pendant is in the shape of a snake, with the front end standing and the tail coiled together to form a base, and below the base is a diamond-shaped logo.

I took the pendant in my hand, turned it over and placed the raised diamond on the base next to the diamond groove, and the two looked exactly the same.

I put the bottom end of the pendant close to the diamond-shaped groove on the trunk of the tree, and at the moment of approaching, there was a faint suction force that pulled the pendant towards the groove, and with a slight "click" sound, the two parts were firmly together, and then slowly rotated clockwise, turned about 90 degrees, and there was another "click", and a piece of bark next to the dried corpse slowly moved, and after a while, a hole was revealed.

Looking at the open hole, I began to believe that the word on the seal just now was Lin, and I was even more convinced that this place really had something to do with my life experience as Uncle Li said.

Shen Muhan looked at me and nodded, her translucent face looked a little awkward, but I could understand what she meant. The two of us have been together since we were children, and we don't know our own background, it is very likely that there is a connection, and this is related to my background, maybe it is also related to her background.

We used to think about whether our background would be a very strange story, but we didn't expect it to be so strange. There is a strange tree under the 100-meter deep sea, there is a strange door on the tree, and there is an ancient corpse of the Qing Dynasty guarding it, and the pendant I have carried with me for more than 20 years is the key to open the door.

"Do you want to go down and have a look, maybe there will be an exit down there." When Wang Chuan saw the sudden appearance of the hole, he couldn't hold it back, and raised his feet and stepped in.

When I first entered the door, I almost fell and bubbled because I was in a hurry, and now I am still in such a hurry, if I didn't know that he was from the archaeological team, I would have thought he was a tomb robber.

Wang Chuan stepped in with his front foot and seemed to think of the situation when he had just entered the door, and retreated with a smile, standing at the door and looking at me.

I pushed Wang Chuan aside and glanced inside. Inside the entrance of the cave was a staircase, with black walls on both sides of the steps, and with the help of the blue light emitted by the banyan trees outside, it was only possible to see the situation near the entrance of the cave, and further inside it was pitch black.

One of the flashlights had just fallen into the liquid below, and the remaining two were running out of power, and I had a few diving glow sticks with me. I took out a bend and shook it, and when it lit up, I threw it down the steps, and the glow stick flew forward not long before it hit the wall and rolled down, and after a while, I couldn't see much light.

"The steps are spiraling down, I'll go down first, girl, you follow me, Chuanzi is behind your palace."

I took out a glow stick and took it in my hand and walked down the steps, the steps were also black, the same as the one outside, the surface was smooth and a little slippery, but the width was much wider than that, and the whole foot was more than enough to put up. Holding on to the wall, he walked down slowly, but nothing else happened, and after a while, he came to the place where the first glow stick stopped.

I picked up the dropped glow stick, the two of them together lit up in a much larger area, but I still couldn't see the end of the steps.

"Isn't it like the stairs outside?" Shen Muhan said as he took out a glow stick and threw it down, if it was really like the steps outside, this would be able to be found earlier, so that it would not be a waste of physical strength.

After throwing it, he glanced behind him, and there was no shadow of a glow stick, and continued to descend the steps. Although this step is much easier to settle on than the one outside, but because it is downhill, it does not save much effort than that, every time you lift your foot, the foot that lands on the ground must use your toes to hold the steps vigorously to avoid falling, and after a long time, your toes begin to cramp.

Just when I was exhausted, I finally reached the end of the stone steps, and the ground in front of me turned into a flat ground, and a room appeared in front of me. In addition to the four walls in the room, there is only a stone pillar in the middle, which looks like a stone pillar with a banyan tree, like a mold that has been reduced many times, and the top of the stone pillar is also a platform, but the platform is not a tree, but a mask, under the illumination of the light stick, the mask is faintly wrapped in a layer of light blue halo.