Chapter 54: The Glass Burial Chamber
I know that the desert is stupid by the sun, and there are hallucinations, which are explained by modern science as a natural phenomenon formed by the refraction of light, and there will be lakes, rivers, food, and oases in front of them, and those who are hungry and thirsty will naturally walk desperately towards the beautiful scenery, saying that it is an illusion, and of course they will not reach death. The sound of the sand in the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" is the friction of a special substance in the sand driven by the wind blowing, and the sound produced may be the sound of horses' hooves, fighting, and drumming, in short, it is an auditory hallucination.
Dachun said that this is the root of all evil, almost no one can walk through here, and the devils of hell will confuse our eyes and ears here, but as long as we have a Buddha in our hearts, the Buddha will bless us to come out, Amitabha.
Emma said: "People who encounter both hallucinations and auditory hallucinations are really difficult to get out of without strong inner support. ”
As they were talking, Li Mei and Tong Qin whispered two of them, and then got up and went behind the sand dune.
Two girls together, no need to guess to know that it is convenient, a timid person, looking for someone to be with, I made a look at Emma, Emma knowingly said to them: "Bring a flashlight, if there is something to call us, go and go back quickly." ”
The two men agreed and held hands and walked behind the sand dunes not far away.
The fat man sighed with two sips of water: "How refreshing it would be if you had a cold beer at this time." ”
I said that we can also drink beer, we can manage this little water for four or five days at most, and if we can't find a water source at that time, we have to plan to drink this little water, and it is not good that a person can only have less than a glass of water a day.
The fat man doesn't care, saying that he has so many reserves, there is no need to be afraid at all, and besides, there is an underground river under this desert, and there is a way to ensure the minimum water use if he can't find water.
If the fat man had told me this before, I would have thought he was bragging, and after so many days, I had a new guess about the months after he left the army, but this kid was too strict to put on half a word.
Da Chun refused to go into the desert with us at the beginning, looked at our route, the head had to be like a rattle, the most important point is that this barren sand sea is not compared to other places, although the water source is there, but it is all under the extremely deep yellow sand, relying on manpower to dig water, the possibility is zero, although there is water under some plants in the desert, but because of the salt content of the desert, the water dug out is no different from the seawater.
The method that the fat man said is nothing more than the simplest distillation method, after the water is heated at high temperature, the minerals in it will precipitate, and the water vapor rises and condenses into water droplets, although the amount is small, but there is no problem to maintain the life of the whole team.
After drinking the water and resting enough, everyone was about to find a place to get into their sleeping bags to rest, when suddenly a cry for help sounded from behind the dunes, and everyone was startled, and they picked up the guy and ran behind the dune. We were at the bottom of the dunes, but the dunes were not high, not too far away, three steps and two steps, and we were there in an instant.
I saw Li Mei's left hand tightly holding the wrist of her right hand, with a painful expression on her face, because the sky was too dark, she couldn't see what was going on, and Tong Qin on the side shouted anxiously.
Seeing us coming, she hurriedly shouted, "Her wrist has been cut, and there is quicksand here." ”
I felt a sigh in my heart, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly asked the second child on the other side to bring the medicine box. Tong Qin did a simple bandaging treatment for Li Mei, and the bleeding stopped, but the person passed out, looking at the blood on the ground, he shouldn't have suffered multiple injuries, how could he pass out.
Everyone asked Tong Qin what was going on, how could Li Mei's hand be cut out with such a big opening, and what was going on with the quicksand.
The third child carried Li Mei back to the camp, and Tong Qin took a deep breath: "We just walked over, Li Mei stepped on the air under her feet, turned over in the sand, and when she got up, her wrist was cut, and she kept bleeding, I hurriedly called you." After Li Mei got up, I took the flashlight and shone it, and I saw a reflective thing, which disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the sand under the ground was still flowing in, so I pulled Li Mei's feet and dragged it this way. ”
I was confused when I heard it, it was quicksand and glowing, and Emma also felt strange: "It shouldn't be quicksand, the speed of quicksand is not something that a girl can pull and run away at all, not to mention that when you find quicksand, there will be at least a gap of about three seconds from the time to react, these three seconds, Li Mei should have been swallowed by the sand a long time ago." ”
I asked Emma again, "Regardless of whether this is quicksand or not, will there be anything here that will reflect the light?" With that, I looked at the fat man again.
The fat man shook his head: "What is there to guess, dig it up and you will know." ”
Adhering to the principle of curiosity about everything, we took a shovel and dug it up under the guidance of Tong Qin, under a layer of yellow sand that was not too thick, parallel to the steep slope of the sand dune, the flashlight looked for it, and a burst of reflection revealed a piece of transparent glass.
There is a big hole on one side of the glass, just enough to accommodate a person, from the side, the glass is at least fifty centimeters thick, the accumulation of yellow sand in the hole is not much, it should have exploded a few days, and what cut Li Mei's wrist should be the glass slag that was blown up.
Everyone looked at the entrance of the cave, you look at me, I look at you, look at each other, how can there be glass here? And so thick.
I have been an engineer for many years, and I think I know this kind of blasting operation well, and I carefully looked at the hole and the direction of the explosion.
It seems that we are a narrow road, meet an expert, look at the terrain and landform, whether it is equipment or look at the ability to see feng shui is not lost to us, the ability is more than I can say, although it is a half-hanging, but met an expert, but the heart is not frightened, but a little excited, think about it, let's not run into the wonderful, peers are enemies, it is an illegal business, meet not to kill us is strange.
Gradually clear the sand dunes, this is a cone-shaped glass wall, the flashlight shines down, everything inside is unobstructed, each piece of glass is about fifty centimeters long and wide, it looks like a standard cube, and the things are glued together, the specifications in the tomb, the furnishings are not too many features, only these glass walls, it really makes people feel strange.
I said strangely, "Is it difficult to bring the ancients to make glass?" And it's still such thick glass? ”
"Glass is not a modern invention, as early as 4,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians had learned the craft of glass, and many glass balls were unearthed in the ruins of ancient Egypt and Mesopotasia. In the fourth century, the Romans have used glass in the windows, and the Italians in the thirteenth century have been very developed in the level of glass technology, but our country only officially had glass production in the Kangxi period, and the tombs below are earlier than the Qing Dynasty in terms of pattern, even earlier than the Qin and Han dynasties. ”
It is better to see than to hear, and finally we decided to go down to see what was going on, Gu Tong walked in front anxiously, it should be the reason for the glass roof, we saw the following part of the situation in advance, directly below the hole is a burial chamber, about two hundred square sizes, the ground is scattered with seven or eight broken coffin boards, everywhere has been turned into a mess, as if the devil has entered the village and swept it.
The coffin is large and small, it seems to be a joint burial tomb, some of the ancient corpses in the coffin have only white bones left, and some are still very well-preserved dry corpses, from the characteristics, it is basically certain that they are all female corpses, and the body of the dry corpse has been destroyed, and it is estimated that it was done by the previous tomb robbers.
Ancient tombs in the desert of Xinjiang, due to climate reasons, there are many normal corpses buried in the natural dried corpses, I heard Gutong and Emma mention, the ancient tombs excavated in the Loulan Xiaohe tomb group, the coffin has been very dilapidated, and it will be broken when touched, but the ancient corpses inside are very well preserved, which is somewhat different from the dried corpses of ancient Egypt, the dried corpses of ancient Egypt belong to the artificial dry corpses, mostly after the death of people, dig out the internal organs, and form them after special processing, and the Xiaohe tombs found are natural dry corpses, It has not undergone any manual processing. There is also a kind of frozen corpse, which is mostly seen in relatively cold climates and high altitudes, and this kind of corpse is called wet corpse because the water in its body is still there.
Emma, who had worked at the British Museum, lamented the destruction of these ancient corpses. In the eyes of some foreign museums and collectors, such naturally formed dried corpses are priceless treasures, and they are also of great value for the study of ancient history.
We looked for it in this messy tomb, and after Tong Qin's identification, the wooden coffins in it were all female corpses, which was heavier and which was bigger, and which was smaller, we didn't know. In the middle of the burial chamber is a glass coffin, which looks like a crystal coffin, with no signs of being pried at all, and a vague figure can be vaguely seen, and there are seven circular holes on the surface of the coffin, and an oil lamp is placed on each hole.
The shape of the round hole is like a spoon, like putting the Big Dipper on it, looking around, but not finding a place to open the coffin, the whole glass coffin seems to be natural, and the ancient corpse inside seems to have grown in it.
It seems that those tomb robbers did not move the coffin, but did not find a place to start, if it is blown up with explosives, it is almost no different from not opening it, and nothing can be obtained, so they decisively gave up.