Chapter 11: Sudden Death
The fat yellow man climbed up to the crack and peeked inside, beckoning us to come over, and it seemed that there was something surprising about it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now our curiosity has been suspended, people are sensory animals, the flow of consciousness in the brain is always changing rapidly, we were still worried about our embarrassing situation a second ago, and now we are attracted by the unknown scene behind the crack, and we are busy climbing up this ancient road built by our predecessors.
This branch is not wide, and according to the natural stone bed, a few pits are dug in several places that are not easy to settle down to make it easy to pass. It didn't take us long to climb to the edge of the crack. But the yellow fat man happened to be blocked at the entrance of the cave, and we couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so we asked him to go inside, don't block us, but the yellow fat man said:
"I don't dare to go in, who of you is bolder, go in first!"
I was in a hurry, so I told him to quit and let me see what was going on. The yellow fat man moved back, turned sideways to give up a place, handed me the flashlight, and gave me a look, saying that you have to be mentally prepared for the next child, don't be scared stupid.
I ignored him, so I went through this "door" and took a flashlight to shine it.
At first, I didn't see anything strange, but I found that there was a huge cave inside, about 200 square meters, and the top of the cave was densely covered with bats. I said it's just bats, what's so scary, you're really, like you've seen a ghost. Huang Fatzi asked me to shine a flashlight on the ground to see what was there.
I was puzzled, so I moved the light source down according to his wishes, and when I looked closely, I didn't feel a shiver, and I felt a yin wind blowing in my face, and my back began to feel cold.
At the bottom of this cave, there is a flat clearing, against the wall of the cave somebody put a wooden bed, on the bed actually lay two corpses, I don't know how long they have been dead, hugged together, have turned into white bones, look very strange. When I looked to the side, I saw a "table" made of earth, and there were two stone benches beside the table, on which sat two white bones, lying on the table. In front of the white bones, there are two bowls and chopsticks, the bowl is porcelain, the chopsticks look to be made of silver, and there are things in the bowl, it should be food, all of which have dried up and become solid, and the whole picture looks extremely strange, as if these two people are eating, and they are lying on the table and dying while eating.
I felt a little flustered when I looked at it, and there were always some terrifying images lingering in my head. I gathered myself and moved the light to the side, and on the left side of the cavern were two pairs of smaller bones, which should be two children of about ten years old, and the corpse of an animal, presumably a dog, lay next to the dry bones. The two children seemed to be teasing the dog before they died, and they died inexplicably while teasing.
Moving out again, there were a few more beds against the stone wall, the beds were full of white bones, sitting or lying, all maintaining the posture before death, judging from the movements alone, it seemed that there was no pain before death, and the movements were very peaceful. At the outermost point near the crack, there were two skeletons half-leaning against the cave wall, holding a Han-style rifle in their hands, presumably from the Hanyang Arsenal.
The whole cave is like a huge room, and there are more than two dozen people living in the room, and they are in the same state as before they were alive at the moment, as if they have turned into white bones in an instant. In the room, there is a stove made of mud and stone, pots and pans and other daily utensils, and there are more than a dozen sacks next to the stove, probably food. How to describe it, the whole picture seems to give people a very peaceful feeling, as if the deceased did not anticipate the coming of death in the period before death, and under careful consideration, it reveals an infinite sense of weirdness.
The only thing that is not very harmonious is that it is covered with bat droppings, and there is a foul smell that makes people very uncomfortable. I don't know when these bats moved here, but it won't be when these people are alive anyway.
After watching it for a few minutes, Boss Chen urged me in the back and asked me what the situation was. Although my hair stood on end, fortunately I was not the only one here, and I was not too scared to go in, so I asked them for a mask, put it on my mouth, and walked in first.
Several people followed me in, and there was no other exit to the cave except for the crack in the doorway, and it was filled with the smell of bat droppings, which made people suffocate a little. When several of them looked at the scene inside the cave, they were all amazed, saying how these people died so strangely.
I said, "It's strange that you see these people dying like they don't feel any pain, as if they died in an instant. ”
The braces spun around and stood next to the table, reaching for the silver chopsticks, ready to put them in his pocket. The fat man scolded him, saying that you are a street boy, and we are not tomb robbers, and you have to move the dead man's things. The braces were reprimanded, a little unhappy, glared at the fat man, and put the things back again.
I sighed in my heart, saying that this person is real, and I don't look at our current situation, and I am still greedy for those small gains. At this time, I suddenly found that there were several cowhide boxes under the innermost bed, which were very old styles, the corners were wrapped with cowhide, and there were puff-shaped nail caps on the boxes, and there was an old-fashioned copper lock in the middle, because of the humid environment in the cave, the copper lock had been overgrown with green patina.
I hurriedly beckoned them over and told them about the discovery of the box. I thought to myself, who are these people, why do they still put a few boxes under the bed, is it really a bandit force?
We discussed it for a while and pulled the box out. There were three boxes, one of which was lighter and the other two were heavy, and it was not known what was inside. Boss Chen looked at it and said that the style of this box was probably from the Republic of China, and these copper locks had been rotted and should be easy to open.
We found a rock nearby and struck it a few times on the brass lock, which fell down. We first opened the first box, and found that it was full of clothes, the style was very old, I pulled it, there were several kinds of clothes, Zhongshan suits, cheongsam, underwear, and several sets of Kuomintang style military uniforms, the top was a set of big red cheongsam, the workmanship was very fine, the chest, cuffs and hem were embroidered with gold thread, it seemed that it was the owner's clothes when he got married.
The second box is relatively long, and when you open it, you can see that it is full of arms and a variety of types. I was more interested in firearms in private, so I identified them, and found that these weapons were old, and some of them could not be named, only known as Han-style rifles, 38-style rifles, and Mauser guns and "Wang Ba boxes" that often appeared in anti-Japanese dramas, in the middle of the box, there was actually a "crooked neck" light machine gun, and there was a partition in the corner of the box, and some bullets and wooden-handled grenades were scattered around.
I told them not to mess with the contents, saying that the grenades were kept in boxes to keep out the air, and maybe they could still be used, but they were old and very unstable, and if they exploded, we would all have to explain to them.
The last box was relatively small, and when we opened it, we were all fascinated by the contents.
It turned out that two-thirds of the space of this box was full of silver dollars wrapped in red paper, and most of the red paper had been decayed, revealing the silver dollars inside, according to the packaging of the Republic of China silver dollars per roll of 100 pieces, the total would not be less than 10,000 pieces!
When I saw this, I clearly felt that my heart was beating faster, and in the face of a huge impact of wealth, people's self-control was often vulnerable. I suppressed the urge to reach out and hold it, and when I looked closely, it was even more incredible, and in the upper right corner of the silver dollar, there were more than 20 gold bars scattered together!
I retracted my gaze and looked at a few of them, and found that except for Boss Chen, the braces and the yellow fat man's face were a little unnatural. Before I could say a word, the braces kid suddenly pulled the backpack off his back, opened it and stuffed gold bars into it. After he finished loading the gold bars, he had to stuff the silver dollar into the bag, but was stopped by Boss Chen, saying that you don't want to be greedy, this silver dollar is not worth much compared to the gold bar, so you don't have to load it anymore, when you carry such a heavy bag, how can you run away.
The braces didn't listen, and the whole person seemed to be obsessed, and took out the contents of the backpack indiscriminately and threw them on the ground to make room for silver dollars. I saw a very grim smile on his face, smirking to himself, and digging into the box mechanically with one hand, as if he didn't feel our existence at all, and fell into self-madness.
Boss Chen saw that he didn't listen, so he handed a look to the fat man Huang next to him, although the fat man was also blinded by the gold and silver in front of him, he was still sane in the end, only to hear him scold, and flew up and put a foot on the chest of the braces, the force was so great, he kicked the braces out for several meters!
The braces were kicked hard by the fat man, and the whole person rolled backwards, rolled on the ground a few times, and the silver money in the backpack was scattered all over the ground, and finally knocked down an earthen pot next to the stove, and fell there, embarrassed.
The braces were kicked like this, his face sank, and he was about to turn his face, but before he could attack, suddenly, from the rolling earthen pot, a white thing slowly crawled out, like a hand, and wrapped around the back of the braces' neck in the blink of an eye.