Chapter 19: The Headless Burial Pit
Li Xinwen stretched out her finger and pointed forward, Liu Xiaoge took a look, and found that although the entire karst cave space was not large, it was very long, from the perspective of Liu Xiaoge's archaeology and geology. Although there are traces of artificial processing in this cave, a large part of the traces of natural caves are still retained.
The rocks on the walls of the cave are smooth by rubbing water, suggesting that the cave was probably a paleochannel of an underground river. As for whether it is a natural diversion or an artificial diversion, it is unknown. In the direction that Li Xinwen pointed to, there were many strange potholes on the ground, which should have been artificially processed, as for what was in the potholes. Because the distance is too far, Liu Xiaoge can't see it very clearly.
At the moment, he stretched out his hand to signal Li Xinwen not to be impatient, and Liu Xiaoge planned to take the lead in going over to find out. Following the pillar of light of the strong flashlight, Liu Xiaoge walked cautiously all the way, and it didn't take long to come to the front of the hole. Looking down at the flashlight, the things in the pit suddenly sent chills down Liu Xiaoge's spine.
These potholes look like they are rectangular in shape, and the length is very amazing, at least at present, Liu Xiaoge's current line of sight is not visible at all. What made Liu Xiaoge feel cold all over his body was that there were countless corpses standing densely in this tunnel, and these corpses knew that they were very old at a glance.
But the miracle is that these ancient corpses are relatively well preserved, and they are not completely decomposed, the surface of the corpses is blue-black, and some of the corpses are still wrapped in a layer of white fine hair. If it was just like this, Liu Xiaoge would not be frightened, but the weirdness of these ancient corpses is far more than that.
The most important thing is that all the ancient corpses have no heads, so many headless corpses, just standing neatly in the pit one by one, it feels weird. Li Xinwen had already followed at this moment, took out a dagger, and squatted down to play with the white hair on the skin of the ancient corpse.
Liu Xiaoge hurriedly grabbed Li Xinwen and said, "What do you want to do, these ancient corpses know that something is wrong at a glance, so let's not touch them and find a way to bypass them." Li Xinwen snorted coldly, picked up a strong flashlight and shone it around, signaling Liu Xiaoge to see the current situation clearly.
Liu Xiaoge reluctantly found that there was no other way to go in the entire cave except for the pit full of corpses in front of him, unless you could fly over the heads of these ancient corpses. Li Xinwen ignored Liu Xiaoge's objections, and continued to inspect one of the ancient corpses, first saying that a layer of white hair-like things on the corpse had been scraped off, and she got closer and took a closer look.
Liu Xiaoge also leaned in to take a look, after these white hairy objects were scraped off, they quickly dissolved into a puddle of viscous colorless liquid, like a mouthful of colorless thick phlegm, not to mention how disgusting. Li Xinwen looked at it twice more and wanted to reach out to touch it, but Liu Xiaoge hurriedly spoke: "According to my estimate, this thing is some unknown fungus that grows on the corpse, as long as these white hairs are not formed by corpse transformation, there is no need to study more." ”
Li Xinwen nodded and agreed with Liu Xiaoge's statement, diverted her attention and continued to check the wound on the neck of the ancient corpse, it didn't matter if she didn't look at it, her face changed when she saw it. The wound on the neck of this ancient corpse is smooth and neat, and the skin around the neck is a little atrophied, obviously when someone is alive with the ancient corpse, the head is cut off alive to form such a wound.
Seeing such a wound, Liu Xiaoge felt a sense of unease in his heart, according to the location of this pit is estimated to be on the periphery of the mysterious ancient tomb, if there is no mistake here, it should be a burial pit, and it is not uncommon to use living people to bury in ancient times. Prisoners of war or slaves were generally used, and most of them were buried alive.
Not to mention the first time Liu Xiaoge saw this method of beheading and burial, it is estimated that it is extremely rare or even never happened in the entire archaeological industry. Li Xinwen's eyebrows also wrinkled slightly, obviously she also realized that something was wrong. Liu Xiaoge suddenly asked suspiciously: "Where are the heads of these people?" ”
Li Xinwen was asked by Liu Xiaoge, and suddenly thought of a strange cliff stone carving she saw not long ago, and the characters on it were very poorly portrayed. The scene depicted above is a lot of people holding a celebration, singing and dancing, but the strange thing is that all the people carved on these cliffs have no heads.
Li Xinwen had always been puzzled by this cliff carving before, but now when she saw such a large-scale headless burial pit. Everything suddenly had a little eyebrows, and he jumped into the burial pit without hesitation, this time the speed was very fast, and Liu Xiaogera couldn't hold it.
watched Li Xinwen flexibly shuttle among the headless ancient corpses, walking towards the depths of the burial pit. Liu Xiaoge could only grit his teeth and sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, and jumped into the burial pit with a hard head, but fortunately, these ancient corpses were all standing straight, and there was a little space between each one, this arrangement was really a bit like the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qinling when you got closer.
Just as Liu Xiaoge was struggling to walk between the ancient corpses, Li Xinwen's scream suddenly came from not far away, followed by several gunshots, and then there was a dead silence. The battle came so fast that it only lasted a few seconds, and Liu Xiaoge almost didn't have time to identify the exact direction from which the sound came from, and the sound disappeared.
It's not good, Li Xinwen may have had an accident, Liu Xiaoge's heart tightened. At this moment, he couldn't take care of these terrible ancient corpses in front of him, so he pulled out the sapper shovel and directly knocked down an ancient corpse in front of him. Because Liu Xiaoge knows that he can't be grinding and chirping at this moment, if there is an accident in the ancient tomb, time is life, and every second counts.
So this time Liu Xiaoge exerted great force, and under this knock, he suddenly felt that his palm was numb. These ancient corpses are hard not like human corpses at all, as if they are wrapped in a layer of iron sheets. Ordinary ancient corpses have been eroded for thousands of years, and even if they can be preserved, they are still fragile and vulnerable at all, and there has never been such a bizarre thing.
didn't give Liu Xiaoge time to think about it, the ancient corpse in front of him staggered and finally fell, it didn't matter, one body pressed to the other, like dominoes, a chain reaction was formed, and a large piece fell in a blink of an eye. Liu Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, then immediately came back to his senses, and was about to step on the ancient corpse and go forward. Where did the white-haired fungus on this ancient corpse bear Liu Xiaoge's weight, and a sticky and slippery mucus flowed out of it when he stepped on it.
Liu Xiaoge stepped on the corpse and didn't run a few steps, he felt that his feet were slipping, and his body lost his balance at once, and he fell towards the ancient corpse in front of him with an exclamation. This fall is really not light, because the ancient corpse is hard and carved in stone, this head door knocked, Liu Xiaoge's eyes suddenly appeared with gold stars, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
At this time, Li Xinwen's voice in front of him sounded again: "Liu Xiaoge, don't make a mess, okay?" Liu Xiaoge was about to retort, but he looked at the pile of ancient corpses that had fallen in front of him, and clusters of blue-green glowing objects appeared here and there.
Moreover, the number of luminous objects began to increase rapidly, and by the time Liu Xiaoge struggled to stand up, all around him were already full of turquoise clusters of light. Liu Xiaoge observed carefully, these light clusters should be phosphorus fire, which is a natural phenomenon that occurs in places with many corpses.
So he wasn't too afraid, and then a pillar of light shone towards him, followed by several gunshots. Liu Xiaoge was shocked by the thunderous gunshots, and his eardrums were buzzing. Then Li Xinwen shuttled through the ancient corpse dexterously, as if she was dodging something, and disappeared after a few clicks.
Then Li Xinwen shouted at Liu Xiaoge: "Turn off the flashlight and find a place to take refuge." Although Liu Xiaoge is still puzzled, Li Xinwen is different from him, Li Xinwen's tomb robbery is an ancestral handiwork. The level difference between himself and the tomb robber who became a monk halfway is not half a star, so Li Xinwen's words still carry a lot of weight.
Liu Xiaoge didn't dare to disobey, turned off the flashlight, and the whole person squatted down. At this time, the number of phosphorus fires in the burial pit was already very staggering, illuminating almost the entire burial pit. At first glance, it looks like a flowing green Milky Way. But now Liu Xiaoge is also starting to feel that something is wrong, because there are too many phosphorus fires, which is very abnormal.
Liu Xiaoge had also been to some mass graves and other places to do rituals before, and there would also be phosphorus fires there, but they were all sporadic fires, and it was absolutely impossible for such a dense phosphorus fire to occur. Unless this is not phosphorus fire at all, but something else, but it looks similar to phosphorus fire, so many corpses, it is difficult to be a ghost fire. (A lot of people have watched some science revealing shows, so let's explain a little here.) Phosphorus fire is considered to be a ghost fire, but in fact ghost fire and phosphorus fire are not the same thing, but they look similar but are actually completely different in nature. )
Sure enough, these ghost fires in front of Liu Xiaoge's eyes began to gradually gather, and then gradually deformed, and it didn't take long for a fire ball the size of a human head to appear. Floating towards Liu Xiaoge faintly, Liu Xiaoge saw that this posture was even more unscored, and hurriedly turned around and wanted to retreat.
This turned around, looked up, and suddenly a human face appeared in front of him. However, the face is translucent blue-green, the facial features are blurred, the eyes and nose are almost invisible, only a hollow eye socket and the boss's mouth, and the most terrifying thing is that this face is wrapped in a flame.
Liu Xiaoge was suddenly frightened and shouted: "My mother! What the heck! Subconsciously, he immediately turned around and wanted to stay away from this human-faced ghost fire, but after turning around, I don't know when another human-faced ghost fire leaned up almost face to face, and the moment the tip of the pen touched the blue-green flame, what he felt was not a scorching burning sensation.
Instead, a strange cold penetrated into the body through the skin, and the frozen Liu Xiaoge shuddered, and hurriedly distanced himself from this human-faced ghost fire again. It only took less than a second to touch the blue-green flame on the human face ghost fire, and Liu Xiaoge's nose, which was already frozen, was unconscious.
Liu Xiaoge covered his nose and retreated, but at the critical moment, he mixed garlic under his feet, and the whole person fell to the ground again, and before he could stand up, Liu Xiaoge already had a chill down his spine, because he was surrounded by more than a dozen groups of human-faced ghost fires.