Chapter 23: Sand Digging (1)
"Professor! There's a discovery here! ”
Xiao Li's extremely excited voice suddenly burst out, which made all the temporary sand diggers who were working hard cheer up and gathered around. Professor Wang, accompanied by Xu Shan, walked over quickly and asked, his tone full of surprise:
"Xiao Li, what did you find?"
"Professor, first of all, my sappers cut a hard object when digging sand, so I slowly scraped off the sand around the hard object and saw that it looked like a coffin!"
"Oh, get out of the way for me to see. Han Dong, you bring another small torch! After Professor Wang finished speaking, with the support of Xu Shan, he went down to the excavation area that was almost one meter deep and close to Xiao Li.
Xu Shan held the small torch handed over by Han Dong, and Professor Wang carefully touched a piece of black wood unearthed by Xiao Li with his hand, and nodded affirmatively after a while:
"This must be the coffin of the Guloulan people, a few of you will come over to help Xiao Li excavate it first! Be careful not to break the coffin. And in order to prevent the appearance of corpse maggots like last time, if you find any insects in hibernation, you should immediately smash them with a sapper shovel. ”
Professor Wang summoned all the students and instructed him that he didn't want Xiao Cheng's tragedy to happen again, and this time he wanted to kill the insects without leaving any trouble.
The saying that there is strength in numbers is too true.
In less than fifteen minutes, after digging down half a meter of sand, the entire coffin was already exposed. The shape is still the traditional round tree-shaped coffin of the ancient Loulan people.
Everyone looked at this familiar coffin, and did not dare to pry it open immediately, and the terrible scene of black corpse maggots gushing out and devouring people was still vivid.
Pang Weimin and Zhao Aiguo stood on the side of the coffin, very close to the sand. They also maintain a fighting posture, and if they find that the situation is not right, they will immediately start fighting, and if they can't fight, they will climb onto the sand and run.
Pang Weimin's purpose is to find his father, and archaeology is just a convenient thing, so if he can't get the cultural relics, he won't feel pity and pain at all. Zhao Aiguo took Pang Weimin as the leader and kept the same advance and retreat.
"Professor, do you want to open now?" Xiao Li suppressed his excitement and nervousness, and turned his head to look at Professor Wang.
"Han Dong, take a few more torches down. If there is an abnormality in the opening, just put the torch in it and burn the corpse insects. ”
Professor Wang turned his head and instructed Han Dong on the sand, who and Bahar had already prepared, and handed down five small torches in less than five minutes.
The small torches that flamed brightly lit the coffin again, very clearly. Professor Wang nodded and motioned for Xiao Li to start opening, and the others took a step back and remained vigilant.
Xiao Li, like Xiao Cheng before him, took out the steel drill and exhaled deeply, and then put on their specially customized masks and gloves.
He didn't want to inhale the corpse of a thousand-year-old zombie, he was thinking that labor and management were not married yet, and they didn't know what it was like to be a woman, and they must not die in the wilderness.
The steel drill was slowly inserted into the crack of the coffin, and Xiao Li's wrist was broken outward, and the coffin board made a creaking sound.
Suddenly, a low sobbing sound suddenly appeared, lingering over the excavation site, making everyone's hearts sink, how similar is this scene, could it be that there are corpse maggots?
"I have explained before that this is the convection sound of the air inside and outside the coffin, so you don't have to make a fuss and continue to open the coffin." Professor Wang immediately waved his hand, and he was like a needle that fixed the sea, surrounding everyone's thoughts.
However, Pang Weimin has a different opinion. He didn't know what was going on with the whimpering sound at the excavation site of Loulan's female corpse last time, but this time he listened to the hissing sound that looked like some kind of animal gathering together, and it was very real.
The voice was very low, and the desert night breeze mixed with it sounded like some kind of low sob. He pulled Zhao Aiguo over and whispered a few words, and the latter's face immediately changed.
Of course, on such an occasion, Pang Weimin cannot question Professor Wang in public, and it is not his style to demolish the stage.
In the end, the front panel of the coffin fell off under Xiao Li's vigorous prying. Immediately, a smell of decay and rancid smell rushed out. The others, who were not wearing masks, immediately covered their noses with their hands and waved their palms at the tip of their noses to dispel the unpleasant stench.