"I thank you for the reminder." I always feel that Mu Qiang's remarks made me feel uneasy: "Old Mu, there are so many people walking back and forth on this road, and the bridge over there is obviously a reinforced load-bearing bridge, which means that they need to transport some heavier things, in your understanding, will those people be repairing the tomb?" ”

"Probably not." Mu Qiang shook his head, with the geographical environment of Ta'er Lake, it is not suitable for building a relatively large-scale mausoleum, and the people in this place are different from the funeral customs in the mainland.

"Then how could so many people die?"

"It's not clear yet, you can't judge until you actually see it."

The two of us muttered here for a while, and Mu Qiang continued to explore the way ahead. The road beneath your feet is always sloping, occasionally undulating with the terrain. The road was very long, at least about a kilometer long, and the angle of inclination of the road suddenly increased, about 35 degrees.

The sloping pavement was cut diagonally into a large pothole. The pit was so big that it was hard to see what was in the pit from this position.

But as soon as we got here, we found something. There was a mess of bones on the side of the road, looking like the bones of animals such as mules and horses, and next to the bones, there were many tools, shovels, large hammers, and things like pickaxes. The wooden handles of these tools are rotten and have been discarded here for a long time.

These tools are enough to show that there are many people who have done manual labor in this big pit in the past, Mu Qiang slowly walked forward while watching, the more he walked, the more obvious the traces of man-made people became, messy and discarded tools, and some wooden cars, which can be seen everywhere.

In addition to this, we also saw some stones, which were supposed to have been dug out of the pit, but when the people here were evacuated, the stones were not completely carried away, and some of them were scattered. It is impossible to tell what kind of stones are from these stones, but this large pit is like a mining pit.

If this is really a mining pit, then some of the previous problems will be solved. The pit requires a lot of labor, some of whom are mining here, and some of whom have to constantly transport the mined ore along this road. The ore is too heavy, and on a very steep road surface, you have to rely on the strength of livestock.

I don't know anything about geology and minerals, and I can't tell what kind of ore is from the ore left in the pit. But I have a feeling that this pit was mined by the Zhangxiong people, and they were digging a pit thousands of miles away from their homeland, so the ore to be mined in this pit was urgently needed and necessary for them. If it is the kind of iron ore that is used in daily life, the cost of mining, transportation, and smelting is estimated to be much higher than buying and exchanging directly in the surrounding areas.

What are they mining, immortal copper?

From the ore, there is no indication of copper, which means that if these ores are copper ores, the content is very, very low, and ten tons of ore are mined, and I don't know how much copper can be refined from them.

However, if these copper ores are really one of the indispensable alloys of immortal bronze, then the Zhangxiong people must think that no matter how high the cost is, it is worth it.

The two of us slowly walked towards the depths of the pit, this pit is not very large, but in those days, such a large pit had to be excavated by manpower, and the difficulty can be imagined. To be able to dig a pit of this scale, it is likely that for the male people, it is already the strength of the whole country.

The structure of the pit is simple, and the terrain is not complicated, it is just a pit. When the pit was excavated, none of the ordinary rocks were removed, and most of them were left in the middle of the pit. Mu Qiang and I were both looking carefully, and apart from the pile of livestock bones we saw when we came down, we hadn't found human corpses yet.

But at this time, even I could vaguely sense that there was a very uncomfortable atmosphere in this mine, and it was very cold. I wrapped the clothes on my body and kept scanning around, thinking to myself that the very uncomfortable aura I was sensing now was probably the kind of yin qi that Mu Qiang said.

"It's too heavy." Mu Qiang frowned: "If it weren't for the death of hundreds of people at one time, there wouldn't be such a thick qi." ”

I couldn't help but shudder secretly, hundreds of people, it seemed like four words, but only when I saw it with my own eyes did I know what the concept of hundreds of corpses piled up together was.

In the middle of the pit, there is a large pile of stones, and around this huge pile of stones is a circular tunnel. Those who mine ore here work in a circular tunnel, dig out some of the ore, and immediately transport it away. I stood here in the tunnel and looked at the huge stone pile, there was a lot of wood piled on top of the stone pile, I don't know if it was used for lighting or heating in the past, after all, the temperature in this ghost place is so low, and it is so humid, people will not be able to stand it after staying for a long time.

Mu Qiang and I came out of the circular tunnel and walked slowly around the huge stone pile, but it was too long to find any clues here, and when these people were evacuated, they cleaned up all the traces that could be cleaned up, and only with the ore left in place and some broken tools, there was nothing to see at all.

The two of us walked for about thirty or forty meters, and I suddenly felt something hang on the hem of my trousers, and when I looked down, a cold sweat broke out in my head.

The stones on these piles of stones, all knocked down during excavation, are very irregular shapes, and the stones are piled up together, and there are many gaps between the stones. I saw a rotten hand in the gap between the stones, and the phalanges were hanging right on the leg of my trousers.

I pumped my leg and found that the hem of my pants was hanging very strongly, and I didn't even pull it back. At this moment, in the mine pit, which was immersed in darkness, there was a sudden sound that seemed to be the wind whistling.

It couldn't be windy in this place, but that whistling sound was not an illusion, and Mu Qiang and I both heard it. The whistling sound grew louder and louder, and there was a faint mixture of human cries and roars, and in just half a minute, the entire pit was drowned out by this sound.

At the same time, I felt the ground tremble slightly, followed by the huge pile of rocks, and a piece of wood rolled down one by one. This kind of wood is not too big, about the thickness of the thigh, four or five meters long, and the wood has become black and swarthy in such a damp environment.

Although the wood was not large, rolling down from such a high pile of rocks made people's legs and feet weak with a bang, I didn't care about anything, and with a fierce force, I pulled back the hanging leg and took a step back.

Click.........

The log rolled down from me, and I didn't know how it could have such a big reaction, but as soon as I turned my head, there was a tingling click between the cracks in the stones.

The sound, as if something hard rubbing against a stone, gradually intensified as soon as the clicking sound appeared. In the light, I could see the stones and the cracks in the stones, slowly stretching out one white hand after another. Those hands poked out through the gaps, stretching outward.

"The dead here are all under this pile of stones." Mu Qiang pulled me, and the two of them immediately retreated to the back.

As we retreated, the hands between the cracks in the stones were still sticking out, and I couldn't count how many hands there were. The whistling, mixed with the sound of wailing, seemed to be heavier again, and kept ringing in the ears.

Bang.........

I don't know if there was any chain reaction from these unusual movements, but in the whirring sound, the ground trembled a little more obviously, and the wood piled on top of the stone rolled down one after another.

"Withdraw!" Mu Qiang pulled me violently: "The stone is going to collapse!! ”

We were standing next to the pile, which was so big that it would be too late to run around it. The two of them were quick to see and move forward, and at the same time they took a few steps back, and then turned over and hid in the circular tunnel.

I felt like I had just climbed in, and the huge pile of rocks began to rumble and collapse, and hundreds of stones of various sizes rumbled down.

The collapse of the pile of rocks came so suddenly, and the falling stones rolled out far away, and the two of us luckily hid in the tunnel in advance. One by one, the stones, like a surging tide, constantly hit the tunnel, the tunnel could not withstand such an impact, and collapsed, and we quickly moved more than ten meters to the side.

The huge pile of stones, immersed in darkness, only the light in the hands of the two of us is the only source of light, under the movement of the light, the stone pile seems to be a giant that has been sleeping for a long, long time, suddenly woke up, slowly reaching out and stretching out his feet.

In a short time, the pile of rocks almost collapsed to a flat ground. I could see the hands sticking out of the cracks in the stones, still trying to pull out, as if trying to crawl over.

My whole body seemed to shrink in a circle, and the current scene was as if the two of us had fallen into a haunt's den, and there were miserable bones everywhere.

"Flash!" At this moment, I feel that my whole body hurts everywhere, quite uncomfortable, the stone pile is not far from the tunnel, if we are a little late, it is really surrounded, it is estimated that if you want to run out, you have to pay a considerable price.

I waved my hand at Mu Qiang and stepped out first. The tunnel had been knocked down by the falling stones, and we had to risk running over the collapsed tunnel and running back to the same path we had come from.

"Mr. Lian, wait." I only ran a few steps, and Mu Qiang reached out and grabbed me, and he used a flashlight to shine a light on the collapsed stone pile, saying, "These things can't get by." ”

Following the position of the light in Mu Qiang's hand, I took a look. The huge pile of rocks completely collapsed, but between the collapsed piles of stones, a black shadow appeared.