Chapter 7: The Coffin
"In this way, I will send you back to the base camp first, and then I will go to Professor Wang and them. You can't afford to delay your poisoning, or your arm may be scrapped. Zhao Aiguo said as he shrugged Han Dong on the back of the camel.
"No, I can go back by myself, you have to go to Professor Wang. The two horned snakes don't know if they're chasing him, and I'm not worried. ”
After Han Dong finished speaking, he threw the machete to Zhao Aiguo, slapped the camel himself, leaned on the hump and returned the same way, he was indeed going to take medicine.
Zhao Aiguo thought that this bodyguard was really dedicated, and he didn't forget the boss when he was injured, and he secretly praised it in his heart. He turned over and mounted his camel and chased in the direction where Professor Wang's camel was running.
Chasing people in the vast desert is definitely an extremely challenging thing for Zhao Aiguo who has entered the desert for the first time, even if he is Zhao Daring. Fortunately, the weather is fine today, there is no wind yet, and there are still camel footprints on the sand.
Zhao Aiguo is not stupid, it is easy to get lost when running blindly in the desert, he decided that if he could not find Professor Wang after the camel footprints disappeared in front of him, he would follow his footprints and return the same way, no matter what kind of belly snake he was, Professor Wang was neither his boss nor his relative.
After running for a while, the camel's footprints gradually became lighter and then disappeared, and there was still no shadow of Professor Wang. What's even more unfortunate is that the wind is blowing at this time, Zhao Aiguo looks back, I go, and his own footprints have disappeared.
Looking at the vast desert Gobi around and the yellow sand in his eyes, Zhao Aiguo felt panicked for the first time, what should I do?
Just as he was looking around with apprehension, a jingling camel bell sounded. Zhao Aiguo was overjoyed when he saw a camel coming out from behind another sand dune in the distance.
"Heaven, earth, which fairy sister are you the big star who came down to save me!" Zhao Aiguo saw the camel and knew that his trek was over, but the next second he was stunned, and his excited mouth had not yet closed, because there was no one above the camel.
At this time, the camel's bell sounded not pleasant to Zhao Aiguo, but a little harsh, why was there no one on the camel? Was it killed by the belly horn snake?
Zhao Aiguo's brain is almost blank, is Professor Wang's group the beautiful daughter-in-law who slaughtered the king of the belly horn snake before? Why are they chasing us so endlessly?
Wait a minute! Zhao Aiguo found that the camel did not flee as frightened before, but now it seems to be walking very calmly, and its direction is in the direction of the base camp, does this mean?
Zhao Aiguo suddenly remembered the very limited knowledge reserve about animals in his head, as the saying goes, the old horse knows the way, here, the camel is the desert ark, it is returning to the team on its own!
This shows that Professor Wang may have deliberately put it back to find someone, yes, it should be like this. Thinking of this, Zhao Aiguo couldn't help but secretly boast that he was too smart. He immediately urged his crotch mount to gallop in the direction of the camel.
Turning two dunes, he smiled. In front of me was a ruined ruin, where Professor Wang and his two students were bent over and carefully observing something.
These remnants are really striking in the surrounding sea of sand. Zhao Aiguo, a layman, could feel that this ruin should have been very prominent when it was intact before.
There was also a stone monument bare on the sand, on which there was a beast of prey, which looked like a lion, but half of its head had been smashed off by something, and even if there was only one eye left, it still looked majestic.
Behind the stele are some tall stone blocks that look like former gate pillars. From a distance, it can be seen that the stone pillar is still engraved with strange beasts from the Western Regions, and with Zhao Aiguo's poor knowledge system, he doesn't recognize any of them.
"Patriotic classmate, you came just in time, you don't need your help in the affairs here, all you have to do is go back and call all my students." Professor Wang was a little surprised to see Zhao Aiguo, but it was better than nothing.
"You are a little contemptuous of what you say, of course I can give you a hand, you don't know if the belly horn snake was killed by me and Han Dong together. Besides, the camel has already returned, and I think Uncle Bahar will soon bring someone over. ”
was regarded by Professor Wang as a dispensable person, and Zhao Aiguo quit. Although he is a five-guarantor of knowledge, his force value is definitely 10,000 yuan, even if he fights with Han Dong, he is not far behind.
Zhao Aiguo has loved martial arts since he was a child, and secretly apprenticed to practice a one-handed Bajiquan master, and during the ten-year sports martial arts, no one was invincible.
"Okay, you can help us take care of the security work, and you won't come in for the archaeological survey here, so as not to damage the scene." Professor Wang weighed it up and smiled.
"Perimeter security? I still can't do anything. ”
"Classmate Zhao Aiguo! Please have a little bit of organizational principles. This is an archaeological site, not an amusement park. Please obey the archaeological team's arrangement. Professor Wang's face sank when he saw that Zhao Aiguo always wanted to enter the ruins.
"Okay, okay, can't I do security work?"
Zhao Aiguo simply climbed to the stone monument to see Professor Wang squatting in the sand with two students, slowly cleaning up the sand.
An hour later, Bahar and Xu Shan came with Da Niu and the remaining four students, and the injured student remained in the base camp. Pang Weimin and none of them came, guarding the base camp according to Bahar's requirements.
Zhao Aiguo noticed that Da Niu was still holding a wooden box, which was brought by Bahar at the beginning, and he didn't know what it contained.
These people were very happy to see the ruins, except for Zhao Aiguo, they all devoted themselves to the cleaning of the ruins, looking at their prosperity? Is there really a treasure down there?
The day passed quickly, and the sand of the ruins had been scraped off a layer to a depth of nearly half a meter, the size of three basketball courts.
The layout of the yard before the ruins has been cleared, and some wooden utensils are exposed. Seeing this scene, the smile on Professor Wang's face never dropped.
"Click! Ah! ”
Suddenly, one of Professor Wang's students seemed to have stepped on something, screamed, and his right foot sank in, causing a burst of dust. The people around were startled and immediately gathered around.
"Stupid! Spread out now! Professor Wang yelled, and everyone immediately woke up, where was the void in the first place, so many people squeezed over together to find death?
"Xiao Li, Xiao Cheng, you two go over and get Xiao Liu out, be careful not to fall into it again." Professor Wang ordered two students and instructed.
They tested the strength of the ground, slowly approached Xiao Liu, and then dug the sand around him with a sapper shovel, and soon Xiao Liu's feet were exposed.
"Skull, Xiao Liu's foot is stuck on the sternum!"
After Xiao Cheng on the side cleared out a few pieces of broken wood, he screamed silently, and Xiao Liu stepped through the coffin with one foot and collapsed the sternum of the corpse, so that his ankle was stuck by the ribs.
"It's a tree coffin!"
Xiao Li also shouted loudly, they knew that this kind of coffin would only appear in the Loulan area. Professor Wang also saw it, and ecstasy surged in his heart, is it really the tomb of Queen Loulan?
Three students cleaned up the coffin and dug down another meter. It was a small coffin that was hollowed out from a tree trunk, and the dead were wrapped in it, and then bought in sand. Compared with the coffins of the Han people, this is very simple.
"There's a good chance there are other coffins here, you spread them out and clean them up slowly. Remember not to stomp or tap too hard. The coffins of the Loulan people were hollowed out of trees, and after thousands of years, they could not bear the weight at all. Professor Wang commanded loudly, and the disciples nodded.
"Professor Wang, didn't I say in the past that the coffins of dignitaries and nobles were all buried deep underground, and there were underground palaces or something, why did they come out now only one and a half meters and a half?" Zhao Aiguo didn't feel too crowded to see the excitement, so he asked.
"So, it's all a cemetery for ordinary people. Besides, the funeral culture of ethnic minorities is different from that of our Han people, and they do not pay attention to deep burial. Professor Wang smiled back, and then Zhao Aiguo completely shut up.
"Hey, what are these things?"
After removing the last rib and freeing his feet, Liu found something black underneath the corpse, like some kind of small bug. He smacked with his hand, and the black worms didn't respond, maybe they starved to death after the corpses were eaten by them with all the flesh and internal organs.
Xiao Liu carefully sorted the inside of the coffin, but unfortunately there were no other objects except for these small black insect corpses and some rags.
"Professor, there's a coffin unearthed here!"
"There's that too!"
Soon, the voices of excitement came one after another. Professor Wang looked at them one by one with a smile. As the surrounding sand cleared, almost twenty coffins were found, all of which were small tree trunks hollowed out.
"Students, start opening the coffin immediately. I remind you that all the cultural relics in the coffin belong to the project team, and even more to the country, and each of you must put them away and clean them carefully when you return to Jiangcheng University, have I made it clear? ”
Professor Wang's stern gaze swept over the eager students at the scene, and everyone responded in unison. Obviously, they have seen a lot of this kind of occasion, and the process is very clear.
Zhao Aiguo sat on the stele and looked at the excitement of these people, knowing that the critical moment had come. At this time, the sun was about to set, and Bahar, Xu Shan, and Han Dong were preparing torches, and it seemed that they would be busy for a while.
Night was approaching, and when Xiao Li inserted the steel drill in their hands into the first coffin and pried it hard, the creaking sound sounded a little creapy. Woohoo, woohoo! A low cry suddenly came from all around, and Zhao Aiguo was bold and a little hairy stood on end.
Is there really a ghost? The students were a little shocked and did not dare to continue to pry the coffin. Professor Wang coughed and said:
"You don't have to be nervous, these sounds are just the sound of air convection after the coffin has been closed for a long time and pry open, plus the desert wind at night is whirling around the ruins, not a ghost cry."
Xiao Cheng and Xiao Li glanced at each other, nodded, and with the steel drill in their hands, the trunk coffin was pried open, and a pair of bones were exposed. Strangely, the skeleton was crooked and missing, and neither of them knew why.
Similarly, there were no artifacts in the coffin, let alone valuable gold and silver. Subsequently, these coffins were opened one after another, and almost all of them were the same, poor, white and nothing, except for the white bones, which were black worm dried corpses.
Professor Wang took advantage of the fact that everyone was opening the coffin and he walked around to check it, and found that some of the coffins seemed to have traces of passing, but this was an old wound, and it seemed to be similar to having not moved. Only he could see that.
The low crying sound around the excavation site has been lingering in his ears, making Zhao Aiguo's scalp numb and goosebumps all over his body. This Nima, this is a ghost call?
He didn't care about Professor Wang's ban anymore, and jumped directly into the excavation site and ran into the middle of several students, although they were also a little surprised, but after all, they were engaged in archaeology, and quickly stabilized their minds and continued to clean the coffin.
"Professor Wang! A huge ship-shaped coffin was found here! Suddenly, Xiao Liu's excited voice came from the innermost position of the ruins.