Chapter 165: Joints
Situ Fang hovered in front of the skeleton, looked at it carefully, and after feeling that there was no information, he continued to dive down for nearly three meters. At this time, a circular stone gate with a diameter of about two meters appeared below him. Situ Fang used gestures to direct the two team members, and asked them to use the camera to make detailed close-ups along the perimeter of the door.
Situ Fang saw that the surroundings of this gate were all dug by hand, and there was no possibility of a mechanism, so he took people up.
After coming up, Situ Fang took a breath and said loudly: "Professor, the stone gate below is bare all around, and I don't know how to open it." ”
Professor Chen nodded, thought for a moment and asked, "Are there any other discoveries?" ”
"Nothing has been found other than the skeleton and the stone door."
Professor Chen nodded again, turned his head and asked Zhang Gong, "Old Zhang, how do you think this door should be opened?" ”
Zhang Gong touched his head and said unconfidently: "This is not good, after all, the underwater experience is only once or twice, and it is not so complicated, so now there is no experience to talk about, so I can only go down and explore it myself." ”
"Let's watch the video replay and see if we missed any information."
After saying that, several people stared at the monitor. When the picture reached the skeleton, Zhang Gong paused the video and asked Situ Fang, "When you are below, is there anything special about this skeleton?" ”
Situ Fang thought for a moment and replied affirmatively: "No, it's just a rotten skeleton, and the skeleton is hooked by golden nails and hangs there." ”
"It's strange, when people die, the flesh is rotten, and the hair can still stick to the scalp, which is unreasonable."
Situ Fang suddenly understood, so he asked, "You mean that this skeleton has a specific meaning?" ”
"Yes, why don't you leave it alone?"
"Then I'll go down and have a look."
After speaking, Situ Fang and the three of them finished dressing up again, and went down with the camera.
Coming to the skeleton again, Situ Fang stretched out his hand to brush away the hair floating on the head of the skeleton, and finally knew why there was no skin restraint, the hair was still in good condition, and it was not scattered into the water, it turned out that the hair was braided into strands, fixed to the oval golden metal, and placed on the skull, so it has always existed. After Situ Fang asked the camera to take a close-up of this place, he was about to pick up a bone to take a look, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he realized that the bones of this skeleton were all connected with small gold wires.
He didn't move the skeleton again, but looked at the small platform and nails carefully. There is nothing unusual about the platform, just an ordinary stone slab, which is inlaid into the groove that has been hewn out, and the nails are extraordinary, all of them are gold, and there are incomprehensible patterns on them. He didn't have any idea of this, so he went down nearly 20 meters shallower, and after making sure that there was nothing, he went up again.
Situ Fang took off his equipment, took a sip of water, and said to Professor Chen: "Professor, the nails below are all gold, and there are incomprehensible patterns on them. ”
Professor Chen said: "Well, I see, it's Sanskrit, but unfortunately there is too little information to understand." ”
"Sanskrit? Is that the kind of writing in Buddhism? ”
"Sanskrit is a language of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian language family of the Indo-European language family, and many Chinese words in China are directly transliterated from Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures."
"So early Sanskrit was exclusively for Buddhism?"
"It can be understood that way."
"If so, then the Sanskrit words on this golden nail may have a special meaning."
Zhang Gong thought for a while and said to Professor Chen: "I agree with Situ Fang's statement, but he doesn't understand Sanskrit, so I'd better go down and take a look." ”
"It's okay, after all, the water is not deep, you can go down and take a look to increase your certainty, so let's let Situ and them accompany you, and a few of you go down together."
With the help of Situ Fang, Zhang Gong took the lead in launching after putting on the diving equipment.
When he arrived at the skeleton, Zhang Gong looked at it carefully, then reached out and lifted the skeleton hanging on the nail, and looked at the contents of the nail one by one. After watching for fifteen minutes, Zhang Gong signaled to go up.
After Zhang Gong took off his equipment, he said excitedly: "Lao Chen, the nail is engraved with a quasi-lifting mantra!" ”
Professor Chen said, "Oh, isn't that three-faced Buddha Zhun Ti Guanyin? There is a quasi-mention Guanyin, and here there is a quasi-mention mantra, is it a coincidence, or what does it mean? ”
"I haven't figured out what it means for the time being, besides, I think there is a problem with this nail itself, it's not good, the mechanism is on this nail!"
"Nails? How so? ”
"I saw that the number of Sanskrit characters engraved on each nail is different, more and less, and the length of the nail protruding on the outside is also long and short, which is very abnormal; The nails must be made in batches, so why are they of different lengths? It is supposed that the nail is driven into the stone after the Sanskrit text is carved, in that case, there may be different lengths, but why is the text on the nail long and short? Some nails can be carved with a few more words, so why don't they carve them? By the way, one more thing I forgot to mention, why are the nails distributed in such an order that they are out of order? Why not distribute them in order? I think all of this adds up to the biggest problem. ”
"Then you can introduce the relationship between the bones, the golden nails, and the quasi-mantra."
"I haven't figured it out yet, I don't have an idea, but I think I'll get inspiration soon."
"Then salvage the bones now, whether the golden nail is a mechanism or not, it's not a matter of putting the bones there."
"I took the photos first and then salvaged them, and I think the bones and nails have special significance."
Situ Fang took the two people again, picked up the professionally modified SLR camera, and went down with an empty backpack. After taking pictures of the skeleton, they carefully packed it into their backpack and took it with them.
There was nothing unusual about the skeleton, all the joints were tied together by fine gold wires, and the joints of the fingers and toes were all joined together by delicate tubes.
After reading the skeleton, Professor Chen said, "Lao Zhang, I have an idea, I don't know if I can inspire you." ”
Zhang Gong knew that Professor Chen had an idea, so he glared excitedly and said, "Don't sell it, hurry up!" ”
"Look at this skeleton, now I can only preliminarily judge that it is an adult male, judging from the skeleton, his entire skeleton is intact, and there are no scars, the only strange thing about me is that his finger joints and toe joints, these are not tied with gold wire, but are butted with gold tubes, and they are all specially made, each of them is carefully processed, aren't you curious about this?"
Zhang Gong seemed to understand Professor Chen's hint, and said excitedly, "What do you mean?" ”