Chapter 11: New Discoveries
"Just fainted?"
Shen Yungui grabbed Xu Yuan's shoulder and shook it a few times, and after making sure that he shouldn't wake up in a short time, he put the person directly on the ground.
"This kid's psychological tolerance is too poor...... Shen Yungui complained quietly, turned his head and asked Xia Beifeng: "What should we do now?" ”
"I'm thinking," Xia Beifeng was staring thoughtfully at Xu Yuan lying on the ground, "Sometimes this kind of temple or something, if there is a blood sacrifice, there will be magical changes, such as the sudden appearance of a door or something. They also disappeared last night after Lu Mingsen died, maybe that's the reason...... Shall we give it a try as well? ”
Shen Yungui followed his gaze and saw that Xu Yuan was lying motionless in the corner.
He instantly understood what Xia Beifeng meant.
"No, no, no...... Xiaobei, calm down, killing people is a crime, do you know! There must be another way...... You wait for me to think about it......"
"Anyway, there is no one else here, and it doesn't have to be killed, maybe it's okay to shed a little blood......" Xia Beifeng looked at Shen Yungui's flustered expression with interest, and after feeling that his bad taste was fully satisfied, he continued slowly: "I'm just joking, why should you take it seriously." ”
Your tone doesn't sound like a joke at all, okay? I think you must be serious!
Shen Yungui glared at him, anger all written on his face.
Xia Beifeng said "sorry" without much sincerity, turned around and walked to the front of the statue, sat cross-legged on the ground, looked up at the "stone girl" with a broken head, lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
It's not easy to raise children! Shen Yungui thought badly.
"Generally, people go missing in ancient tombs, all because there are some hidden passages or something. If you look closely, you should find it. Seeing that "others" probably couldn't count on it, Shen Yungui had no choice but to go into battle with his own arms, he walked around the statue, trying to find any clues, "They just used it last night, in my experience for so many years, as long as you see the kind of place that looks cleaner than the surroundings, there is a chance that it will ...... Oh my day! ”
In the middle of his sentence, he suddenly cursed a dirty word.
"These guys are pretty fucking moral, and they actually know how to clean rooms."
The floor around the statue was spotless, clean as if it had just been washed with water.
He didn't give up and looked around the wall where the heads were piled up, but he didn't find anything different.
It can't really be nothing, Shen Yungui found it difficult to accept this result.
But the facts are in front of you, this room is not big in the first place, and there is nothing left except the "stone girl" and a bunch of human skulls that can't be moved.
Shen Yungui stood in place for a while, sighed, and walked to the corner resignedly. "I can only start from scratch and find it little by little" He rolled up his sleeves, squatted down and began to knock on the floor tiles with his hands, preparing to try them one by one, and listen to if any of the floor tiles sound different from others, "I said, can you not sit there like an uncle, so come over and help." ”
Xia Beifeng was watching the "stone girl" distracted, and only after a while did he reject Shen Yungui's request for help.
"You find it first, don't bother me, I'll think about it for a while, if I really can't think of it, I'll help you."
Xu Yuan was still dizzy, and at this time, in this small space, except for the breathing of a few people, only the sound of knocking on the stone was not too loud.
Xia Beifeng has always thought that he is not a particularly smart person, he has never encountered a flash of inspiration when those "geniuses" reasoned, for things that he has not seen with his own eyes, he can only rely on careful observation, constant imagination and scrutiny to complete the truth of the matter.
After carefully memorizing every detail of the statue in front of him, he closed his eyes and imagined to complete the missing part of the "Stone Girl's" body. This is not a particularly easy thing to do, otherwise Venus with a broken arm would have been completed a long time ago, and it would not have become an unsolved mystery and sought after. What's more, this statue is not only missing an arm but also a head, and the carving technology is also primitive and miserable.
The "stone girl" was not very tall, and with the unknown creatures under her feet, she only reached Xia Beifeng's shoulders. Looking at the remaining small upper arm angle, it is probably the posture of holding something with both hands up; She stretched one leg straight, and stepped barefoot on the base of the unknown thing, and the other leg only half of the calf remained, and the rest of the leg had disappeared along with most of the base, which seemed to be bent backwards, but stopped at an angle that could not go up or down; I don't know what kind of animal or insect the base under my feet is, and there are a few horizontal lines on my back.
He sketched the statue in his mind little by little, and when the whole picture of the "stone girl" gradually became clear, he also had some clues about what had happened in the past two days, as well as the past of this temple.
It should not be used very often, at most a few times a year, or maybe only once a few years, and the floor tiles have hardly any signs of wear.
But the worship is definitely a very important god, judging from the scale of the sacrifice alone, maybe it has been one of the main gods believed by the locals for a long time - the population of the Western Regions is not as large as the Central Plains, and it is not possible to do it in a short period of time by saving so many heads, not to mention decades, but hundreds of years.
Xia Beifeng opened his eyes and looked at the place where it should have been the statue's arm, the sunlight was shining from above, making people a little dazzled, he blinked, and in a trance seemed to see the place they were in a thousand years ago.
The statue of the maiden stood quietly in the middle of the temple, gazing at the temple in front of her, and sometimes the faithful brought slaves and prisoners of war to her as sacrifices, praying for a good harvest, peace, good weather, or victory in war.
Who are you, Stone Girl?
As the minutes ticked by, the smell of the burned tobacco spread through the small temple, and the ash that had been left alone had accumulated for a long time, and finally fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces.
Xia Beifeng stood up and flicked away the burned cigarette butt, which crossed an arc in mid-air and landed in the stacks of skeletons, flickering a few times before finally extinguishing.
"Yo, Young Master Shen, what's wrong, I finally remembered that it's not good to let the elders work alone?" Shen Yungui raised his head, but saw that Xia Beifeng was staring at the direction behind him motionless, not knowing what he was looking at.
"What do you see, there's a ghost behind me or something" he glanced back, "Damn, what the hell!" ”
There's a fire there!
The color of the flame was not ordinary orange-red, but a blue-blue with a ghostly glow!
Shen Yungui stood up, rushed to Xia Beifeng's side in two steps, and then looked back at the pile of skeletons behind him just now.
It's a ghost fire! Shen Yungui looked at the burning flame and felt that his current mood was very complicated.
"It's just phosphorus fire, it's not like you haven't seen it, what a fuss about" Xia Beifeng didn't feel guilty at all about throwing cigarette butts and causing a fire, but had the leisure to tease others. "It's not very common in cemeteries in summer, as long as there is a certain temperature and humidity, the phosphorus in human bones will form phosphine, and then it will ...... Well? ”
The two glanced at each other and saw the same question in each other's eyes.
The temperature in this place is enough, but there is no water, where does the humidity come from?
The fire came and went quickly, and it only burned for less than a minute before it was extinguished, but there was no explosion or lack of oxygen that the summer north wind feared, which was a good thing.
"There should be water, I just don't know where...... But it's certainly not far off. Xia Beifeng waited until the phosphorus fire was completely extinguished, walked to the place where the pile had just caught fire, and reached out to flip the neat pile of skeletons that had been stacked in the original yard.
He tossed the skeletons aside, revealing the lowest floor, and saw a small patch of moss.
"Found it."
Xia Beifeng took out a knife and inserted it into the stone crack in the center of the moss, shaking it from side to side a few times.
** The knife was taken out earlier, and I didn't need to knock on the floor tiles one by one. Shen Yungui looked at Xia Beifeng's series of discoveries dumbfounded, and he didn't feel happy at all.
"It's empty down there, and there's water."
Xia Beifeng pulled out the knife and showed Shen Yungui, who came over, what was on the blade of his knife - a small piece of moss mixed with a little water droplet.
Shen Yungui turned on the flashlight to look at the stone crack, which was about a finger wide and more than ten centimeters long, and nothing could be seen in the darkness underground.
"They definitely didn't go down from here, but no matter what, it's a clue, try to dig it up first" Standing and seeing clearly, Shen Yungui simply knelt on the ground and looked at it "Hey, I still can't see what is underneath." ”
"This stone is at least thirty centimeters thick, and it is estimated that the two of us will not be able to move it" Xia Beifeng frowned and looked at the floor tiles, and asked, "What would you do if you dug this kind of thing before?" ”
"If you dig a pit in a different direction, you can always find a place where there are no stones" Shen Yungui tried hard to see what was under the crack in the stone, and replied without raising his head: "If you can't find it, forget it, it's too dangerous to use explosives...... Speaking of which, I didn't know what mechanism I couldn't get out of after entering the main burial chamber once, but the situation after that time has no reference value for this matter now. ”
"You talk about it first, maybe it will be useful."
"It's useless" Shen Yungui changed the angle of the flashlight and shone downward, but still didn't see anything, "Later, the one in the coffin got up, chased us around, split stones with his bare hands and cut tofu, and made a big hole in his bedroom wall, and we came out." ”
It's really not a good reference for this, and I'm more curious about how you survived. Xia Beifeng heart said.
"I have an electric drill in my car, you wait for me to get it."
"Huh!?"
What do you want to do with a drill in your car?
When Shen Yungui raised his head and wanted to ask, only Xu Yuan, who had fainted, was left in the temple.
At the same time, in the crack of the stone that no one was paying attention to, something reflective flashed under the light of the flashlight.
I'm the dividing line*****************************
Finally transferred to the main station, happy
This morning, I was lying in bed until ten o'clock, and suddenly I heard that there was an exam at 10:20
And then, naturally, it was late
There are a total of 40 questions in the exam, and I have never seen 20 of them
sorrowful
If I click on it tomorrow and increase it by ten, I'll double change