Chapter 4: Iron Cast Human Shell
Hyun Momiji was about to cry when he spoke, but I was inexplicable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I looked at the "head piece" with the human eye in my hand for a long time, but I didn't see any reason.
This is obviously a sculpture of stone, why does Momiji not say that he was a living person before? Even if it is a living person, how can it be that there is such a thick shell on the outside, but the person inside is gone.
At this time, Hyun Hongye knocked out the things in my hand and stumbled to tell us the truth about this.
It turns out that, unlike what I know, the stalactites in this karst landform will grow, and will slowly grow up due to the impact of the water flow to produce carbonates, and these salts will become what shape they attach to what kind of thing, and attach to the human corpse, and over time it will become a layer of hard shell, and this shell will continue to grow with the flow of water and time, so that the people inside are rotten and oxidized, and it will not collapse.
Listening to Xian Hongye's words, I felt sick in my heart, and quickly threw away his blood-red thing, and at the same time kept looking up at the "empty shell" on the top of my head.
I suddenly understood that the "benevolent brother" on the top of my head may have been placed here for many years, and over time, even he himself has been wiped out, but there is still such a red shell left.
For a moment, a chill appeared on everyone's faces.
Whether the person was nailed like this alive or dead, it was a cruel punishment.
"Wait!" I suddenly asked myself, "Why is this shell red, and the stalactites are obviously gray......
At this time, the pungent smell of iron caught my attention again, and I looked up at the maroon "human shell", and suddenly realized that these red things were all rust.
Why is there rust? I don't know, but with this question in mind, I held up the flashlight and looked into the empty shell of the dead man.
After a few moments, I noticed that the man didn't seem to be "rotten", at least in the empty shell, there was still a thick layer of armor-like rust, and ...... A jar?!
I looked at the jar and was amazed, and then used the long dagger in my hand to pierce the chest cavity of the "human shell", causing the jar to fall out.
I caught the jar with my hand, took a cursory look at it, and handed it to Hyun Hongye, a major in literature and history.
"You are a student of literature and history, can you see what this is?" I asked.
Momiji looked at it for a while and shook his head and said, "The jar is wrapped in stalactites, I can't see it, let's open it when I go back." ”
I nodded, quickly removed the flashlight from the top of the cave, and sighed again: "There were many tortures in ancient times, and this benevolent brother was also miserable enough, he was fixed to the wall with an iron shell, and a jar was inserted in his chest, and I don't know how much torture he suffered before he died." ”
My words made Baturu disgusted, and he hurriedly pointed out: "Old soldier Tian, don't say it, it's too disgusting, let's take a look." ”
Everyone didn't seem to want to think about it, so they all left the place with the "empty shell of the human body" and turned around and walked deeper into the cave.
On the way to the end of the tunnel, there are more and more marks and empty shells of this human shape, some of which are only mottled red, some of which are still partially torso, and the most vivid ones can even be seen in the shape and outline of loose hair. We had the audacity to open several empty human shells, and we all found the salty tin cans.
These empty shells make me shudder, as if I am in a morgue more than 100 years ago, looking at a pile of ancient corpses that will never make a sound.
In this apprehension and amazement, we walked another hundred and ten meters until we came to the end of the tunnel.
Baturu shone his flashlight and shook his head in disappointment.
What we saw before us was a disappointing pile of rubble, large and small, but all of them sealed the road ahead, making it impossible to pass.
This result was very unexpected and frustrating to me, and the most important thing is that we are no longer able to reach the so-called "square" space from this pathway.
Faced with everyone's loss, Lin Shaosong suggested: "Don't be discouraged! Let's take a look at the Golden Fleece first, in case we can blow it up with explosives! ”
Following the order of the gold lord, the Golden Fleece came over, and this time he did not take any advanced electronic equipment, but took out a small hammer from his clothes, and then took out a tuning fork.
He slammed the hammer into the stone wall, and then quickly placed the tuning fork on the stone wall to "resonate".
After a short while, Golden Fleece shook his head and told Lin Shaosong about his cognition.
It turned out that just now, the Golden Fleece had used the simplest equipment to carry out echolocation, the thickness of the gravel was measured, and the conclusion was very pessimistic, he estimated that these stones were blown up by professional engineering troops, and the thickness of the gravel was at least 10 meters or more, and it was difficult to rely on our manpower to dig and open the road in a short time, and it was absolutely impossible to blow up with explosives, because the blown up place generally could not withstand the second blasting, and the whole mountain would collapse.
None of us expected things to turn out like this, so we fell into a rather lost situation again, and the most disappointed person in the crowd was probably Ken Momiji.
After all, behind that rubble wall, it is likely that his grandfather's corpse or whereabouts will be there, and if we can get there, we will be able to end this trip completely and successfully, without having to go to great lengths to find the blood well and the city of Helamber.
But, at this point, what can be done?
In the frustration, I comforted Xian Hongye and said: "Don't think about it, I feel that we are not all without gains, at least everyone knows that this landslide was done by professional engineers, which means that the people of Project 74 have been here." ”
Hyun Hongye nodded indifferently, touching the large and small gravel, while muttering to himself: "What are they blowing up the entrance for......?"
"This situation ......," I speculated further, "there are only two possibilities, the first is that you don't want people from the outside to come in, and the second is that you don't want the 'stuff' from the inside to go out, and I think it's more likely to be the latter." ”
Before we came, we had clearly understood from the Medicine King's Codex that there was a "power" in the city of Heilamber that could harm the people of the world. The 74 Project is obviously also going to a certain "force" that can bring strong combat effectiveness, and if the political and military background is discarded, Zhao Gong and the 74 Project have exactly the same purpose.
Thinking about it this way, I can even boldly speculate that even in the implementation era of Project 74, human beings could not control the so-called "power" in the city of Helamber, and in order to prevent the so-called "power" from causing catastrophic consequences, the military used stroke soldiers to destroy the entrance of the city of Helamber and the main part of Project 74 Project B.
But after thinking about it, I don't have any evidence to prove this, and what makes me wonder is why even the military can't control the power, but the medicine king swears in his hand that the Zhao family's "shark knife" can be controlled.
While I was thinking, Baturu suddenly patted me on the shoulder and said excitedly: "Old soldier Tian, do you see that the yellow in the water is gold?!" ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his flashlight and shone it on a pool of turbid water.