Chapter 102: Crematorium
I have long noticed that there is a narrow half-buried tomb passage behind the mountain of shell coins, the tomb passage is completely artificially excavated, and the stone wall is very smooth, I can only see the little bit at the entrance of the tomb, and I can't see anything in the dark, I don't know how long.
They seemed to have discovered this hole by accident, and felt that it was suitable for a burial pit, so they opened a tomb road leading here, since it was a burial, it should not be far from the main tomb, but I had seen the ancient tomb in Taixing, I didn't dare to draw conclusions, in case this builder was a whimsical guy, no one knew how he would arrange the layout of the ancient tomb.
It is much easier to build a tomb in a cave, and the naturally formed cave only needs to be repaired, and the tomb is so large that the real manpower may not be as good as the tomb that has to hollow out the mountain little by little.
Brother Shen took a flashlight and shone it into the tomb, most of the entrance was buried by shell coins, and some of them had been piled into the tomb, and when I looked at it now, I found that this tomb road was oblique upward, with a very large slope, at least forty or fifty degrees.
This is not a place for people to walk at all, the tomb road is smooth, but there are no carvings on it, and it is narrow and low, it stands to reason that this is already the center of the ancient tomb, and it should not be so simple.
"This place looks like a cellar." Lao Huang muttered beside him.
"Of course, you have to find a good place to hide the money." Ah Chuan is still smiling.
Brother Shen bent down into the cemetery, this kind of narrow and oblique place is difficult to walk, I got in, I can only climb with my hands and feet, crawling over those shells, I stepped on the tomb, but found that the feet are very slippery, I did not slip down, hit the old Huang behind.
"Daze, what are you doing?" Lao Huang was knocked back a few steps by me.
"The graveyard is anointed."
Brother Shen's voice came, and he did not step on the ground, but propped his feet on both sides of the tomb, relying on the strength of his hands and feet to form a "big" character.
Fortunately, the tomb was narrow, but it could hold up, Ah Chuan pulled me and Lao Huang out, squeezed to the front, stretched out his hand and wiped it on the ground, leaned in front of his nose to smell, and his brows gradually wrinkled.
I also squeezed over and stretched out a finger to wipe it, and my hands were really smooth and greasy like oil, and the smell was very strange, like a lot of things mixed together.
"It smells of herbs, and corpse oil." Ah Chuan said.
"Corpse oil?"
"Herbs?"
Lao Huang and I shouted at the same time, and our concerns were completely different.
"The smell of herbs is very strong, it must be used to repel insects, corpse oil...... Maybe they really put this place in the cellar, and there is oil lubrication to pour money down to prevent it from clogging, and I guess the whole cave is covered with a layer of corpse oil. ”
"Why use corpse oil?" I couldn't help but ask.
"In the past, the oil was more expensive, the corpse oil was so simple, there were so many slaves, and they had to eat if they kept it, so they could make the best use of it." Ah Chuan said it very easily.
I feel weird in my heart, fortunately, Ah Chuan was born in modern times, if he is allowed to go back to be a slave owner, it will definitely be another Zhou Peel.
"This guy is really careful, I guess the road above is not easy to walk." Ah Chuan said a word, and stood up like Brother Shen.
Brother Shen has already climbed out of more than half of the way, this tomb road is not long, only seven or eight meters, Ah Chuan's speed is not as fast as him, but it is not slow, but I am in a dilemma, I can't raise my arm to support it, and my shoulder blades have a tendency to crack in half with a little force.
The corpse oil here is too old, and although it is very slippery, if you take it slowly, you can climb up, but I am very disgusted, and I really don't want to rub it.
Seeing Ah Chuan climb farther and farther, I still leaned down and stepped on it, I really don't want to be a burden anymore, corpse oil is corpse oil, I just took a bath in the corpse water, and now my clothes are wet, what is it to get some corpse oil?
Even if I climb, it was very strenuous, my feet were too slippery, my hands were covered with oil, my strength was not enough, and now it hurts so much that I can't climb up at all, I can only half-prop up my body and use my back against the top of the cemetery, my legs are as straight as possible, and I rub up a little bit.
No one urged me, Lao Huang and Xiao Qi were still behind, I couldn't block them, I really tried my best, the backbone must have worn off a layer of skin, and the sweat washed down all the smeared medicine, flowing through the injured skin, like fire.
I can't use my strength, and I can't make it to the point, I have a premonition that there will be an upward road, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to walk, if it is really a vertical cliff, I can completely give up, just a slope, and I am not reconciled.
What's more, there is a dead end in the back, I can't jump into the autopsy lake anymore to get out, this is the only exit, I have to climb up no matter what.
"Catch it!"
Achuan's voice came from above, I raised my head, the flashlight was very bright, I couldn't help but squint my eyes, and a rope hung down, right in front of me.
I slowly reached out and grabbed it, the rope and my hands were all slippery and greasy, and it was very difficult to grasp, I wrapped the rope around my arm twice, and as soon as my feet slipped, the whole person fell down.
Ah Chuan They grabbed me, I didn't slide back, half of my body was covered with corpse oil, I tried to raise my head as much as possible, my face was very close to the ground, the strange smell of herbs and corpse oil mixed rushed into my nostrils, this smell was not unpleasant, but I couldn't help but feel nauseous when I thought of corpse oil.
They began to pull the rope, and the knots slid from arm to wrist, grinding against the injured skin, and the pain made me break out in a cold sweat.
I was finally dragged up, my whole body exuded a greasy and greasy smell, I sniffed, and found that the smell of the mixture of corpse oil and herbs here seemed to be heavier than in the tomb, Ah Chuan took the rope away, and hung down again, Lao Huang was also injured, and his strength was saved.
I also wanted to pull, but Brother Shen waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it, so I smiled bitterly and took out my flashlight to look around.
This is a natural cave, very large, much larger than the autopsy lake below, where we are standing is a raised rock, the rock is not small, but it is not enough to see compared to the whole cave.
The cave is not deep, nor is it high, up and down more than ten meters, but the cave is a hellish scene.
The cave was supposed to be a crematorium, and I saw that the bottom of the pit was full of charred dust and sticky, and piles of bones that were burned black, emitting a strong smell of corpse oil.
With such a large stone pit, how many corpses do you need to pile up three or four meters? I feel creepy, no matter how powerful a tribal leader is, he can't kill so many people for burial, unless there's a big war.
If it was a war, it would be much more complicated, and it would probably not be a cemetery in the first place, but a place where the corpses of a war were accumulated, but it was later excavated as a cemetery.
This cemetery is so vast, and the burial and burial are quite large, why would such a person build a mausoleum in such a place?
I don't know anything about tombs, but I also know that the ancient battlefield is the most taboo, the battlefield has the most unjust souls, it is a bloodthirsty place, Jianyang Mansion has many disasters and reduces life, and the undead who are washed by blood will become powerful ghosts.
This tomb owner fears ghosts and worships ghosts, does he want to use the anger of thousands of unjust souls to turn into a powerful ghost?
I slowly lifted the flashlight and turned from the edge of the pit to the distance, there seemed to be a deeper pit in the center of the bottom of the pit, and the flashlight could only shine a few meters, and I couldn't see what was below.
The sight outside was horrific enough, the charred bones had not yet been completely burned, and as far as the eye could see, the piles of bones were hiding skulls, half-burned or intact, all of them blackened and staring at me with hollow eyes.
Lao Huang and Xiao Qi both came up, Brother Shen put away the rope, even if it was stained with corpse oil, it couldn't be thrown away, I don't know if it can be used in front of us, we don't have a waste of capital.
The space here was too big, everyone turned on the flashlight, the cave became bright, Lao Huang stood on the edge of the rock and glanced into the pit, and quickly retreated.
"it, this is Hades' barbecue place, this person is a bit big, how many people have to be buried here, and they are all burned alive?" Lao Huang asked, pointing to the bottom of the pit.
Ah Chuan turned around on the side of the rock, with a strange expression: "It's not burned alive, they were burned when they died, you see that skull, there is a knife wound on it, this can only be a remnant of a war, it is impossible for the previous ethnic minorities to have so many people, they must have started a war with the Central Plains, these corpses were not burned at one time, this cremation may have been used for hundreds of thousands of years."
Their own people will definitely be buried in the ground, and the corpses of the enemy will be thrown here and burned, I will say, well, it must have been used many times, you see the edge of the pit, the corpse oil is layer by layer, hey, war, I can't say. ”
Ah Chuan's tone was full of unbearability and regret, I looked at the edge of the pit, and I couldn't see any layering, I felt that everything I thought of had been subverted, this was not the pattern of a tomb at all, they had something as useful as an autopsy, why did they burn the corpse? If it's not for burial, why are shellfish coins stored here?
If this crematorium has really been used for many generations, there must be people entering it often, no tomb owner will want others to disturb their peace, this place may not have anything to do with the ancient tomb we are looking for, we go around and around, I don't know if it is back to the right place.
I couldn't help but wonder, but Brother Shen could feel the jade, the road was brought by him, how could he take us elsewhere?
I didn't dare to doubt him, but Ah Chuan said very calmly: "Are you sure you are on the right track?" ”
Brother Shen was not angry at all, nodded and said, "This is the nearest road." ”
Ah Chuan didn't say more, Lao Huang walked around the rocks several times like visiting the relics of the war, his spirit was very good, the side effects of that medicine seemed to have passed, and now he couldn't see depression at all.