Chapter 592: Ship Coffin

As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't wait to jump into the sand pit and dig up.

When Luo Fatzi was digging sand in front of the wheel just now, he looked half-dead, but now, when he dug up the sand, he was like taking a stimulant, and after a while, a complete boat-shaped coffin appeared in front of them.

"Sure enough, it's a ship coffin, I guessed it right." Jiang Yan said excitedly.

"Yan'er, what's going on with this coffin?" Liu Rumei next to her asked curiously.

"Thousands of years ago, Lop Nur was not as barren as it is now, it was not a desert, on the contrary, it used to be a water town with abundant water and grass, with dense lakes and vegetation."

"At that time, the Lop people in this area, and fishing for a living, were fishing in Lop Nur in canoes before their death, and after death, their relatives used coffins made of poplar wood to pack the deceased and bury them, because this kind of coffin made of poplar wood is like a small boat, so some people call it a boat coffin." Jiang Yan explained.

In the whole Lop Nur area, there are many forms of burial in various dynasties and generations, including the bottomless boat coffin tomb covered with cowhide in the Xiaohe cemetery, the tomb form covered with reeds, red willows, poplar sticks and other materials, and the tomb in the form of a poplar boat made of poplar wood more than two meters long.

The boat coffin in front of them is not the same as the boat coffin in the Xiaohe cemetery.

The boat coffin in the Xiaohe cemetery is made of two pieces of poplar wood hollowed out and then put together like brackets, with a row of short planks on top, and then the outermost layer is covered with a layer of freshly slaughtered raw cowhide, so as to form a bottomless poplar coffin.

And the coffin in front of them is the bottom of the coffin carved into the shape of a wooden boat with poplar wood in the lower part, and the top is covered with a whole piece of flat poplar wood, and the lid made of poplar wood is also carved with some peculiar ornaments, this kind of ornament Wu Ze has never seen, and he doesn't know what this means at all.

"Yan'er, have you ever seen a coffin covered with these ornaments before?" Wu Ze turned his head and asked.

"No, this kind of ornament, this is the first time I've seen it, maybe it's the totem symbol of a tribe in ancient times." Jiang Yan said uncertainly.

"Then you can just take a picture of it and pass it on to your mentor when the time comes, and see if there is any special meaning in it." Wu Ze said.

"Well, okay, then I'll take a few pictures first." Jiang Yan replied.

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yan picked up her mobile phone and took a few photos on the bunker, and after she took a photo, Wu Ze jumped off the bunker and continued to clean up the sand around the coffin.

After discovering the coffin, everyone's thoughts were focused here, and the off-road vehicle that was still stuck in the sand behind them had been completely forgotten by them.

"Why is this coffin here?" Liu Rumei asked with some confusion.

"Who can tell you clearly, maybe this was originally a tomb, and this coffin was buried here." Luo Fatzi said while shoveling the sand.

"Yes, it is very possible that many of the tombs in this area of Lop Nur are covered with dozens of centimeters of sand on top of the coffin, and then they are hastily done, and this wind and sun are exposed, and after a thousand years, the original tomb structure has long been eroded by the wind." Wu Ze explained.

Thanks to their efforts, the sand around the coffin was quickly cleaned up by them, and this rather peculiar coffin was completely displayed in front of the four of them.

Luo Fatzi patted the yellow sand on his hands, stood in front of the coffin about two meters long, and said in surprise, "It's the first time I've seen a coffin like this, it looks quite strange, and I don't know who is buried here." ”

"Maybe there's a Loulan beauty buried here, fatty, you can look forward to it." Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"Don't guess, let's open the lid of this coffin, won't we know what's going on." Wu Ze said.

"Well, that's right, let's open the coffin first." Luo Fatzi copied the sapper shovel and pried it up on the lid of the coffin.

On the lid of this coffin made of poplar wood, a whole circle of wooden coffin nails sharpened with wood were nailed, and these wooden coffin nails have been buried in this dry yellow sand for thousands of years, and there is no trace of decay.

These densely nailed wooden coffin nails nailed the lid of this coffin tightly, and Luo Fatzi pried it up alone, which was very laborious.

"Brother Ze, come and help, what are you doing there, these coffins are really nailed, it's so hard to pry." Luo Fatzi complained.

"Comrade Fatty, I also want to go out for this little thing, it seems that you haven't eaten enough at noon, right? Dropping the chain at a critical moment is really unreliable. Wu Ze said as he copied the sapper shovel to join the ranks of prying the coffin lid.

"It's not that the brothers don't give their strength, but the enemy is too cunning, you see, there are so many coffin nails nailed to this coffin lid, it's really difficult to pry, and I don't know what treasures are buried in this coffin." Luo Fat complained in his mouth.

Indeed, there are too many coffin nails nailed on this coffin lid, even if Wu Ze joined the battle together, it took the two of them nearly five minutes to pry the coffin nails on this coffin lid.

"Okay, it's finally clean, Brother Ze, now you can open the coffin." After Luo Fatzi pried up the last coffin nail, he urged.

"Well, okay, please wait a moment."

Wu Ze took out his coffin claw, scraped it under the coffin lid in a decent manner, and then lifted the coffin lid upward, feeling that the coffin lid had been loosened, so he asked Luo Fatzi to come over and help lift the coffin lid.

Wu Ze and Brother Luo Fatzi stood at one end, and the two of them used force at the same time, and the whole coffin lid made of poplar wood was lifted by him at once.

Before Luo Fatzi put the coffin lid in his hand on the ground, he couldn't wait to put his head above the coffin to see the situation inside.

The first thing that caught his eyes was a pair of empty eyes, Luo Fatzi was stunned, what was lying in this coffin was not the dried corpse or bones he imagined, it was actually a stone statue lying inside, and there were no eyeballs in the eyes of this stone statue, it was two hollow holes.

It is already a very strange thing to place a stone statue without eyes in this coffin, but what is even more strange is that on this stone statue, there is a huge poisonous snake corpse.