Chapter 435: Human Leg Bone Palm
If you take a few steps back and look at these pillars, you will find that although they look like pillars, they are not standing upright in the barren sand - the one on the left is thick and short, and its top is warped "outward", and the four pillars next to it are longer and close to each other, although they are different in shape and thickness, but they all bend "inward" without exception.
If you look closer, you will see that they are not hard rocks, but more like sandstone that has not been completely compacted after sedimentation.
I walked up to the stubby pillar and picked at it with my hands, and found that the surface was a loose layer of yellow sand, which must have been buried in the sand dunes and then stuck to it, so with a little force it fell to the ground.
I scratched off a layer of sand, and suddenly I felt a "click" of my nails, as if I had picked something hard.
Is it really a stone under the sand?
I hurriedly pulled off all the sand on the surface, and sure enough, I saw a white thing inside, which was pounding and rattling, and it should be a stone.
However, the stone is thin and long, and it looks as if it is embedded in it, as if it were embedded in it, unlike the hard earth slabs around it.
It's a bit interesting.
I'm a person who always wants to understand something new when I encounter something new. Seeing these strange stone pillars today, I immediately became interested, and the fatigue after the difficult trek just now, and the feeling of despair after being blown by the wind and sand disappeared in an instant.
It occurred to me that I still had a bunch of keys in my backpack. I quickly unloaded my backpack, found the largest key, and dug down the edge of the slender white thing.
The deeper you dig, the more the white thing sticks out, but its shape makes it strange to look at......
It wasn't until I had completely cleared the edges around that thing from the "stone pillar" that I realized where the strange spot was.
It is a bone that, in shape and size, resembles an adult's leg bone.
What does this mean?
I touched the pillar closely, and although it felt old, it was by no means a fossil artifact.
Could it be that in ancient times, when the water and grass were abundant, an unlucky man accidentally fell into the river and turned into white bones after death. Later, the soil was compacted by acclotation and slowly evolved towards sandstone.
Later, the lake turned into a desert, and the clods of earth were eroded into pillars by the wind and sand, and finally his bones were left in the stone pillars?
But this plausible inference was soon falsified, for when I scraped off more grains of sand from the column, I found that there was not just a single bone on it, but a dense and regular arrangement of bones.
And they're all neat leg bones!
Where do these leg bones come from? Are the owners of the leg bones that have been broken off and molded on them dead or killed?
This is by no means some unlucky bastard, this is a massacre!
An inexplicable fear welled up in my heart, and I rushed to the other stone pillars to clean the yellow sand from them one by one, only to find that they were exactly the same as the first one.
It's all white bones, dense leg bones, and that's enough to make people explode with dense phobia.
What kind of demons and monsters are these, and in what era did they come up with these things! Why did they use human leg bones to shape these stone pillars?
My head was in a mess, and I took a few steps backwards and sat down on the sand.
The vast yellow sand can cover everything on the ground, but it can't bury the evil thoughts of people's hearts.
These pillars are probably what Hua Hu called "weird things", even after a hundred years and thousands of years, she can still detect that evil things have happened here.
However, if you look at the pillars from a further angle, you can see that they are becoming more and more evil.
I looked at it for a long time, and suddenly realized that these were not a few pillars!
It's a palm!
The short and thick pillar is the thumb, and the other four pillars are the four fingers that are slightly bent.
The shape they form is like a five-fingered mountain that is slightly raised!
This is the palm of a clay sculpture, and the clay tire is its shape! Those white bones are more like "sinew bones" embedded in them!
And I, right now, sit in the palm of this bone-covered clutche!
If the palm of a hand is so huge, what kind of behemoth is buried under the sand dunes?
I finally understood why this is always the highest point of the sand dunes, even after the wind and sand blow. Because there must be a huge statue under this sand dune, and the yellow sand is just piled up on top of it.
What kind of giant monster is this, and who would spend a lot of manpower and material resources to make such a large statue for it?
I suddenly remembered a passage -
"Western Night...... The Demon Kingdom is also ......"
This is the record in the booklet given to me by the visitors from hell at the beginning, and it is the Western Regions document of the Tang Dynasty that the archaeologists of the Republic of China have compiled from the ancient temple of Qiuzi!
In the early years of Tang Gaozong, Chai Zhewei, the protector of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, received news that the Western Night Kingdom believed in the Demon Religion and plundered and killed merchants on the Silk Road.
Chai Zhewei then summoned the troops and horses of the Western Regions to attack the Western Night, but after besieging the city for a night, he found that the tens of thousands of people in the city of Huggandu, the capital of the Western Night Kingdom, were gone!
You must know that at that time, the area around the Western Night Country had been eroded by the long desert.
Moreover, in the early Tang Dynasty, the military system was strict, and if they gathered all the power to protect the government and besiege a small country, they must have absolute certainty that they would trap the small city and not let a single person escape from the city, not to mention the more than 10,000 people in the entire city.
Could it be that this statue is the last remnant of the people of the Western Night Kingdom? Could it be that under this sand dune, is the ruins of the Western Night Kingdom that they once discovered in Wen Mushan and then disappeared inexplicably?
Shen Yu and I came to Yecheng this time to explore the mysterious disappearance of the archaeological team of the Western Night Kingdom many years ago. But who knew that the difference in thought, Hua Hu and I decided to go to the desert at night, and then because the action was too hasty, we lost our way like this.
However, it is really Seong who lost his horse, and he knows whether it is a blessing!
When Hua Hu and I were mistaken, we actually found the suspected ruins of the Western Night Kingdom!
But when you think about it, it's not a coincidence.
At that time, I asked Hua Yu to choose an oasis to prepare for a temporary residence with Shen Yu today, she once jumped into the air to find a suitable place, that is, when she was looking down from above, she noticed that there was "something strange" here.
So she took us and chose an oasis that was quite close to here, and then put down the trees as an indication.
Hua Fei didn't know about the West Night Country, she just should be interested in this place. For her, these days in the world, she already knows the clothing, food, housing and transportation of human beings well.
Recently, strange things have happened frequently in Weiyang, but for her who has just arrived, it doesn't seem like a strange thing, because everything in the world is new in her eyes, and there is no priority.