Chapter 90: The Man in the Ice Martyrdom
Chen Zhijun was a little bored watching the monitoring and debugging screen in the Hades Temple, so he walked up to Zhu Gong and asked, "Uncle, are there beasts in the cold environment?" Now I'm thinking about the paintings on the bridge, and I'm a little panicked. ”
"The beast will have it, but how will it get in? No one has fed it for so many years, and if there are any, they will starve to death, hehe, I guess there will be nothing in it. ”
"Oh, there won't be any other animals in such a cold place?"
"Chen Gongzi, are you scared? Haha, there won't be anything in it, don't worry. ”
"Who is afraid, I want to go in with a little bit of convenience if possible."
"You carry my bag in, our special shovel is much better quality and function than the sapper shovel bought outside, and in addition, I have a secret weapon in my bag, which guarantees that you will be able to use it."
"Oh, thank you so much, uncle."
As he spoke, the delivery of supplies from outside came. Large bags and small bags, large boxes and small boxes of supplies, soon piled up a small mountain here. Feng Weiguo came over to see that there was a surplus of clothes and other clothes, so he gave priority to the personnel of the archaeological team to select and try them on first, and let Chen Zhijun give the rest to the migrant workers.
Professor Chen looked at the chocolates and compressed biscuits in the materials, and after instructing everyone to pack more, he called the technical and electrician who did the monitoring together, and Zhang Gong still took the lead and formed a team to go in.
Now that there are LED lights overhead, repeaters and monitoring lines, everyone is climbing carefully. Forty minutes later, Professor Chen led 10 of them to the ice cave.
Chen Zhijun looked around excitedly and said to Professor Chen, "Dad, this is amazing! If it is developed into a scenic spot, there will definitely be no shortage of people all year round. ”
"If it becomes a scenic spot, it is estimated that the wonders here will be gone! Forget about the economic accounts, now let's see if we can find a real channel. ”
After speaking, Professor Chen and Feng Weiguo each took a team of people and began to search in two directions. Professor Chen: They weren't very lucky, and after going around the left side they didn't find anything.
Just as Professor Chen took out the thermometer and was about to measure the temperature here, Feng Weiguo's voice sounded on the walkie-talkie: "Professor Chen, Professor Chen, come here, there is a situation on our side, and we have found that many people have been martyred." ”
"Okay, I'll come right over!"
After Professor Chen put away the walkie-talkie, he didn't care about the smoothness on the ground, and immediately ran in the direction of Feng Weiguo with a team of people behind him.
When he walked up to Feng Weiguo, Professor Chen, who has rich archaeological experience, was shocked: there were many martyrs standing here neatly, all frozen in it by huge ice cubes, lifelike. The martyrs were arranged on both sides, and on the right were all open-eyed warriors in military uniform, standing in 11 rows of 11 people in each row. From what they were wearing, Professor Chen immediately made a judgment that this was from the early Western Han Dynasty. On the left, it is different, and there are 11 rows and 11 columns of men and women, and all kinds of dresses, which can be roughly judged to be servants.
Chen Zhijun saw these people die and felt a chill on his back, walked up to Professor Chen and asked, "Dad, are these people frozen with ice water?" ”
"No, it's usually like this after they get hypothermia or freeze to death, and then forcibly sort out these corpses out of a standing posture and put them together, and then pour water on them over and over again, and finally slowly become like this."
"That's cruel!"
"Yes, in those absurd times, among all kinds of burial methods, this is relatively merciful, compared to those living people who open their heads and pour mercury and so on."
"How do they open their eyes when they're hypothermic? When hypothermia, the person should be in a coma. ”
"Zhijun, you take a closer look at these martyrs, most of them are pale, some are pink, this is like nitric oxide poisoning, indicating that some of them are still alive before the ice freezes, but their physiological functions have not obeyed the call, and some of their functions have been lost, if they are not insulated at that time, they are basically living corpses, of course, the living corpses mentioned here are not corpses in the real sense, this is to describe the state of these people before they die, they have lost their sensitivity to light, etc., Organs can also gradually fail until they die. ”
"Are all these people coerced?"
"Some of the historical records say that they are voluntary, but in fact, these are not necessarily like that, and the servants of emperors or important ministers often have no chance to choose, and they will be forced to be martyred."
After Professor Chen finished speaking to Chen Zhijun, he walked to the back of these martyrs and turned around, carefully looked at the costumes and costumes, and then walked to Feng Weiguo's side and said: "Director Feng, the significance of the martyrdom here is extraordinary, you see that in front of them, that is, behind us, is a high platform, and now it is sealed by thick ice, and it is impossible to see what is in it for the time being, looking at this scene is the same as the housekeeper in a meeting, after all, no emperor or minister will directly communicate with his subordinates." ”
"Professor, how can you be sure that these are all subordinates?"
"You see that these warriors are wearing uniform uniforms, leather armor and bronze swords, a bit of a caretaker feeling, from the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, the official uniforms are clearly different; Looking at the martyrdom of ordinary dressed people here, since the Qin Dynasty, there have been specific regulations on clothing, "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty? The Chronicle of Etiquette clearly stipulates that "below Sashi, the cloth is well-dressed," and all the people here are not wearing hats, some of the men are wrapped in headscarves, they are wearing ordinary fabrics, and the shapes are simple, the men are wearing straight robes, the women are wearing short clothes and trousers, and some are wearing long skirts, but the materials are all coarse cloth. ”
"Or are you knowledgeable! What kind of clothes does the housekeeper wear? I'm curious about that. ”
"The words of the housekeeper depend on what kind of housekeeper it is, and there is also a distinction, for example, if it is simply a housekeeper of a large family, in addition to the improvement in fabric, it is not allowed to wear silk and satin, and they are also subject to the constraints of 'cloth and cloth';
"And what information can we get from this?"
"Looking at it now, we can roughly think that this is a tomb, and it is a tomb of considerable size, and since we have found this, it means that we are much closer to the real tomb."
"So we're close to the center?"
"I'm not sure! Now it's like this, you have worked hard to accompany the electrician to install the lights, and you have also instructed the monitoring master to install the cameras, and from now on, everything here must be paid attention to. ”
As Professor Chen and his team continued their search, the god of luck descended, and they found a sacrificial platform on a hill more than three meters high about 40 meters to the right of the martyrdom, on which the heads of some livestock were placed on a stone table.