Chapter Forty-Seven: The Ladder of Hanging Souls?
Emma glanced at the two of us, her eyes were a little strange, and she didn't know what to do, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said to us: "I studied archaeological appraisal in England and in China, but in the army I learned medical appraisal..."
Emma can be said to be a talented woman who reads poetry and books, she grew up in the army compound when she was a child, and she is naturally no stranger to the things of the army, and she has learned a lot of skills from the military doctor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBefore going to college, I ran around with a surgeon in the military hospital all day long, and it was also said that Old Man Duan had a big face and wanted to be a bystander, so I was afraid that he would have kicked her a long time ago. Medical identification naturally includes forensic identification, a corpse placed on the ground, whether it is poisoned or injured to death, in our eyes, there is almost no difference, but in her opinion, the difference is big.
The corpse in front of him was sat on by An Changwei's buttocks, if this person was really poisoned to death, before the corpse decomposed to the point that only the bones remained, the deadly poison had already penetrated into the bone marrow, An Changwei was so abrupt that he pierced his buttocks, then it was not a matter of external injury. Emma also did not notice the slightest sign of poisoning when she cleaned his wounds. But the corpse that died of poisoning, no matter how many years it has experienced, the bones will be blackened, and the white bones of this forest forest can not see the slightest trace of blackening, and the possibility of death by poisoning is almost impossible.
The fat man stroked his chin and suddenly gasped: "Could it be that these two unlucky people are really starving to death?" “
I was confused by his sudden suddenness, and came back to my senses and said to him earnestly: "Comrade Li Hanlin, you can rest assured that we will not starve to death with the experience of the past." Being hungry for a while is also a good thing for you, just in time to lose weight. “
What the fat man said did resonate with me, that these bones were neither killed by trauma nor poisoned, and there seems to be only one explanation here, starvation. Or that the sealed cave died due to lack of oxygen, but the possibility of dying from lack of oxygen does not seem to be very large, after all, the mechanism that can be opened will also have some breath inside. But then I thought that Emma hadn't heard anything since she entered the secret door, could it really be sealed?
Emma shook her head: "When I was in England, I participated in the excavation of an ancient underground palace, and the ground of the underground palace is also a castle, and the underground palace exists like a reflection of the ground. At first, the castle had been unoccupied for many years, and it became a deserted castle. The official was ready to recycle the castle and auction it, and when it was cleaned up, the underground palace was discovered. ”
In foreign countries, all kinds of castles are commonplace, the royal relatives live in the castle, and the princes and nobles live in the castle. These wealthy people with big families and big businesses naturally have secrets that are not enough for outsiders, so there are secret palaces under the castle almost everywhere. By the second year of Emma's arrival in England, the castle had been in the works for almost two years, and the discovery of the underground palace had led the government to abandon the idea of auctioning it off and to turn it into a museum.
The first batch of archaeologists to investigate the palace was a total of 12 people, and the number was not large, after all, it was not the first time that such an underground palace had been discovered. Everyone took it for granted.
The twelve-man archaeological team entered the underground palace and did not hear from it for two weeks. At this time, someone noticed that something was wrong, so they wanted to send someone down to find it, but they sent three groups of people in a row, but they all went and did not return, but the news was always blocked within a certain range. Britain as an old aristocratic country, those British archaeologists are very disdainful of Chinese, even if emma mixes well in the UK, as long as she gives birth to an Asian face, no one will take her too seriously, and such a thing will naturally not let her know.
After all, someone is missing, and they are all well-known archaeological experts in the UK, how can this kind of thing be hidden, within two months, rumors began to spread in the industry, cows, ghosts, snakes, gods, fairies and thieves, alien creatures, in short, only what you can't think of, no one can't pass it on, and there is nothing to say.
Under pressure, the government had no choice but to organize all the archaeologists who could be named, and EMMA went to the UK as a scholar to study and exchange, so naturally it was also excluded. Later, on the strong recommendation of a British friend of hers, Lawrence, she was allowed to join.
At first, Emma, like everyone else, regarded this as a supernatural event, but a person who has been dealing with ancient tombs for many years will actually believe in supernatural ghosts, and no one will believe it when he says it. For the sake of the so-called academic research, and for the so-called truth, she asked to lead the team down and explore it again, but at this time, no one wanted to go down with her, except for Lawrence, the British scholar who recommended her. got the official nod, and the two of them went down to the dungeon with simple equipment.
Lawrence is from an old British aristocratic family, but he doesn't like the British always thinking of themselves as nobles, and he attaches great importance to those who have real talents and learning, and he also likes to communicate with them very much, and is regarded as an outlier by some Englishmen who are also old aristocrats around him.
But after all, he is still a big arrogant rooster, and if something really happens, it will be too ugly. After getting off the underground palace, the two of them walked down one floor, and the light of the flashlight didn't have much effect, and could only shine at the distance under their feet.
At that time, Emma naturally listened to the craft of the wind, and after pricking up his ears and listening for a long time, there was no response, and Lawrence saw that the light of the flashlight was getting weaker and weaker, and his timid heart could no longer be hidden, and his whole body was trembling.
I passed through a few doors, but there was no sound in front of me, and everything seemed to be calm. But the two of them didn't go far, but they found the bodies of those who went to the cave first, more than thirty people, lined up, lying against the wall in the passage of the underground palace. Because I don't know why these people died, I don't dare to move easily.
After that, Emma safely led Lawrence out of the dungeon with a pair of ears that listened to the wind, told the people above about the situation below, and led the way to transport the corpses out. After forensic identification, these people who died in the dungeon, except for some minor abrasions on their bodies, none of them had fatal trauma, no signs of poisoning, they were all suddenly violently frightened, cardiac arrest led to sudden death, but then went down to the dungeon Emma and Lawrence, and all the rescuers, none of them found any other terrible events.
This event also became emma's fame in the UK, and with Lawrence's encouragement, she soon became an honorary advisor to the British Museum for life. But what happened in that underground palace has never been solved, and why those people died in the underground palace, and what kind of stimulation and fright they were subjected to, no one can understand.
What we saw before us was very similar to what Emma had encountered in England, the corpses on the ground were not poisoned, not killed by external injuries. Due to the age, there is only a pile of white bones left, and it is impossible to tell what exactly died, but most of them will also die in terror, as Emma said.
Originally, I was still thinking about countermeasures, but I didn't notice An Changwei coming over at all, and the fat man took advantage of my inattention, pulled An Changwei, and told him the before and after of the incident, wanting to scare him. The fat man said that these people were all dead, and they were miserable. As a result, An Changwei was unmoved, stroking his chin and thinking about something.
He seemed to have a better idea than we did, so I went up to him and asked him if he had found anything.
An Changwei said: "I don't know if you have heard of the Soul Ladder? ”
The Soul Ladder is like a labyrinth that can't be reached, whether you go up or down, you never want to go to the end, it is an extremely sophisticated mechanism design, and it has long been lost.
The passage we are walking on now is not up and down, and if we have to say that it is different from the Soul Ladder, it is nothing more than this.
The fat man listened to An Changwei's words and disdainfully said: "I said Lao An, how can you make it up so much, and you still hang the soul ladder, where are those hanging things, it's a big deal, let's go back and try it." ”
Although An Changwei put forward the conjecture of the Soul Ladder, after all, we did not walk the Soul Ladder, which was fundamentally different from what we saw. At the moment, no one has a better suggestion, and the fat man's proposal is also said that he can give it a try.
Only then did everyone get up, although An Changwei's buttocks were injured, after EMMA's treatment, there was no big problem, and the fat man was broken in the back.
The four men walked in opposite directions, and since we had walked for more than half an hour, we had walked for more than half an hour, hoping to find the door to enter.
The four of them searched for a long time on the wall, and then asked Emma to prick up his ears and listen for a while, but there was no movement. At this time, everyone fell into a mysterious atmosphere, the fat man held the sapper shovel in his hand on the ground, the wall knocked hard, and all the anxious pleasures were vented to the wall through the sapper shovel, and the sparks were bubbling up one after another.
Although Emma An Changwei did not speak, the silent atmosphere has said everything, as the old saying goes, "The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind." The fat man slammed the sapper shovel on the wall with a sapper shovel in his hand, and Martian flashed and flickered, and on his side, the looming white flowers that were illuminated by Mars.
I walked over step by step with a flashlight, unusually uneasy in my heart, emma and An Changwei also seemed to notice the abnormality, and hurriedly followed me step by step.
The light of the flashlight was limited, and the fat man saw us coming, and hurriedly put away the sapper shovel in his hand. (To be continued.) )