Chapter 462: Cave Graveyard
Hearing Wang Chuyi say this, Huzi's face was full of confidence, straightened his waist, and said, "Look, I'm right, that road can't be walked at all, otherwise everyone will die there." With that, Huzi took out a torch from his backpack and lit it. 、
The diagonal staircase was not wide, only about two meters, and the light of a single torch was enough to illuminate the entire passage.
Huzi walked forward with a torch, the seventh master followed Huzi, and Wang Chuyi supported me at the end.
We walked forward for about two or three minutes, only to see that the walls on both sides suddenly began to change, and the lampstands on both sides of the walls began to bulge outward, just in case, we checked the liquid in the lampstand to make sure that it was not the kind of volatile liquid with hallucinogenic effects, and then let Huzi use a torch to ignite the lampstand.
As the walls on both sides were constantly ignited, I looked up and found that many murals began to appear on both sides of the wall, several of which were similar to the statues of the flying goddesses in Dunhuang, and they were very similar in style and character structure.
When I saw these murals, the first thing I thought of was the Xiliang Tomb in Gansu, which was the place where my inverted career began, and similar murals appeared here.
While thinking so, I walked forward, carefully observing the mural, just when I was fascinated, suddenly there was a sound at the end of the stairs, and the tiger who walked in front immediately stopped, and then the seventh master raised his hand and signaled me and Wang Chuyi to be careful.
The four of us just stopped on the stairs of the passage, and we didn't dare to breathe, and cautiously shone our flashlights ahead of us, for fear that something would rush out.
But we have to continue to walk, the more up the steps, the steeper the steeper, and finally it seems to have formed a steep slope of nearly 70 degrees, due to my crotch injury, at this time it has been very difficult to walk, almost all rely on the strength of the upper limbs to climb, very hard.
Just as we had climbed the steep steps, we suddenly heard a dog barking from behind us, and at least a dozen dogs appeared not far behind us.
"I'm rubbing, what the hell are you afraid of, how can there be a zongzi dog in this ancient tomb? It's fucking weird. As he spoke, Huzi climbed down from the top of my head, crossed my body, and then said, "Lao Bai, your legs and feet are inconvenient, you go first, my palace, if these beasts rush up, Lao Tzu will give it a shovel." With that, Huzi took out the whirlwind shovel from his backpack and held it in his hand.
To deal with wild dogs, it is indeed much better to use a whirlwind shovel than a saber, the shovel is large, and it is enough for those zongzi dogs to drink a pot when they are smashed down.
I continued to climb up, and Huzi followed closely behind me, climbing up while being on guard, ready to fight those zongzi dogs at any time.
It was like this for about a few minutes to climb up, and the barking of the dogs behind him did not stop, but even so, none of those dogs rushed over, but they kept barking, and I don't know why.
At this moment, the Seventh Master shouted, "It's here!" Got it! This is it! As he spoke, he shone his flashlight on the wall on our left, and when I looked up, I saw a square stone hole about three meters above our heads.
The moment I saw the entrance of this cave, I knew that this must be the entrance of the ancient tomb, a familiar smell has wafted out of it, it is a smell that only exists in the tomb, so many years of inverted experience, the smell of the ancient tomb has been very familiar, absolutely can not be wrong.
It's just that this step continues to move forward, and it doesn't come to the end, and the appearance of this cave is too abrupt, although the smell wafting from the cave mouth tells us that this cave must be connected to the ancient tomb, but no one dares to be sure that this cave must enter.
Looking at the long and narrow steps, the seventh master and I hesitated, whether to continue to walk forward and look for other convenient entrances, or choose this stone cave about three meters high?
In the middle of this hesitation, more than a dozen black shadows have quickly rushed towards us, and I fixed my eyes to see that it was the kind of dog with a complete upper body and a skeleton in the lower body, and it was running towards us like crazy at this time.
"Damn, there's no time, hurry up and slip up!" After speaking, Huzi threw up the triangular hook and threw it towards the hole, and soon the triangular hook was stuck, and Huzi pulled the climbing rope hard, and after making sure that there was no problem, without saying a word, he began to climb up.
I saw that the tiger was climbing so fast, I must have been determined to enter from here, and I didn't dare to hold it up, because of the inconvenience of my legs and feet, I could only grab the climbing rope and climb up.
Luckily, the entrance to the cave was only three meters high, and soon the four of us had already crawled in, and those weird big dogs rushed below us and barked at the hole.
Huzi stood at the edge of the cave and glanced down, and smiled, "Phew, Sun thief, can't you come up?" Grandpa can climb! As he spoke, he shook the leash in his hand at the dogs.
After entering the cave, I hurriedly raised my flashlight to look around, only to see that about three or four meters in front of us, there were many broken coffins, wooden structures, the surface was painted with black paint, at this time, due to excessive weathering, the wooden structure of the coffin has been cracked, and the white bones in the coffin have been exposed.
"Seventh Master, look!" I pointed to the coffin in front of me.
"Be careful, this must be the entrance to the ancient tomb, don't be careless!" The seventh master reminded, slowly stood up, and held a flashlight to shine at the back of the coffin.
Behind these ruined coffins, there was a large clearing, on which were scattered with white bones, and not far away a few skeletons, their hollow eye sockets right at us, as if they were staring at us.
"Fuck, what are you waiting for? Hurry up, if these brutes do climb up, it's going to be trouble! Huzi held a torch and took the lead in walking forward.
When we crossed these dilapidated coffins, the scene in front of us suddenly opened up a lot, I was shocked to see the scene in front of me, I have never seen such a huge burial site, on the flat ground in front, there are many coffins densely placed, dense and difficult to count for a while, but at least there must be hundreds.
At this time, Wang Chuyi frowned and said, "It seems that this is a group burial ground?" ”
My brain is blank now, and I don't have time to pay attention to Wang Chuyi, I just raised the flashlight and walked forward, the ground in this cave is staggered, every ten meters, it will rise about thirty centimeters, showing a step-like distribution.
"Look here!" Huzi, who was walking in the front, shouted, and the seventh master hurriedly rushed over.
Hearing Huzi shout, I was also anxious, I just wanted to raise my leg and rush over, but I found that I had a sharp pain in my crotch, I forgot that I was still injured, so I had no choice but to stop Wang Chuyi and help me to move forward.
When I came to Huzi, I found that in front of us, there were hundreds of crockpots arranged horizontally, and each crockpot was engraved with some ancient characters that I couldn't understand!
"Seventh Master, what the fuck is this? How can there be so many? Huzi said as he raised his hand to count, but after counting for a long time, he couldn't count how many there were.
At this time, the Seventh Master said with a gloomy face, "This is a bone urn, and it is engraved with an inscription for resurrection!" ”
As soon as the seventh master's voice fell, I trembled when I heard it, this bone urn is a unique container, which is used to collect the bones of the deceased, in other words, it is similar to what we call an urn today.
It's just that cremation was not popular in ancient times, and there was no such thing as urns and cemeteries, and the so-called bone urn was actually a sacrificial tool, or deliberately made to achieve a certain purpose.
Now that such a dense bone urn has appeared in front of him, it means that something earth-shattering must have happened in this ancient tomb, so that the remnants of Guge have to take this way to sacrifice, if this is the case, then this ancient tomb is really dangerous.
At this moment, Wang Chuyi seemed to have discovered something, and while holding up a flashlight, he beckoned at us and motioned for us to go over. 、
I saw Wang Chuyi tear off a piece of cloth from a corpse and said, "The corpse here is wrong, the age is wrong, it shouldn't be the remnants of Guge!" ”
After careful inspection by the Seventh Master, he also came to the same conclusion, that is, the age problem, the clothes worn by some corpses are very different from the era of the Guge relics, whether it is the material or the style, there is a big difference.
Looking at the large corpse field in front of him, where did these corpses come from? Now that it had become a permanent secret, I stood up, looked around by the light of a flashlight, and found that the ground was high and well ventilated, and in the cave, although it was a huge cemetery, there was not a single smell of peculiar smell, just like an ordinary cave, but much drier than an ordinary cave. Therefore, most of the corpses did not decompose, and formed into a dry corpse over time, many corpses were well preserved, hair and clothes were basically preserved relatively intact, but unfortunately I don't know what the reason was, the coffin was seriously damaged, and many corpses were exposed from the coffin.
The corpses in the coffin, most of them are dressed similarly, it looks like they should be the corpses of the remnants of Guge, and the way of burial is almost identical, it is a dark wooden coffin, wrapped in a straw mat, and the body is placed in the straw mat.
I suspect that this may be a family cemetery, or a village cemetery, and it will take at least hundreds of years to take that size.
Looking at the coffin that was opened, and the dried corpses scattered on the ground, there were old men, burly men, young women, and small coffins, in which there were a few pieces of children's bones.
It's just that many coffins are so badly damaged that few bodies are intact. On the corpses and on the ground were scattered many unrecognizable clothes, as well as intricately sewn cloth boots and delicately embroidered shoes of women with bound feet. I didn't see a headdress or anything like that, and I didn't see any funeral goods.
At this moment, Huzi shouted, "Look, ahead, there's something ahead!" ”
I was observing these coffins and corpses, but Huzi's cold shout made me tremble, and I hurriedly looked forward, only to see that about seven or eight meters in front of us, there were two dried corpses, standing up by a tree, as if silently guarding this messy cemetery.