CHAPTER XXII

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They were a group of nine people, with three people from each group. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info and Wei Liming's teammates are a man and a woman, the woman's name is Cai Yun, and everyone simply calls her Caiyun. Wei Liming and Caiyun have been partners for more than two years, young people, get along day and night, and naturally come together, the two have a deep relationship, and are laughingly called 'golden partners'.

The nine men sailed the fishing boat all the way, and there were some minor accidents in between, but on the whole it went very smoothly, and on the twenty-third day, they reached a sea area. Since there was no specific coordinate point on the island, they had to stay in that area and wait until the evening to search.

The moonlight that day was very bright, and at about ten o'clock in the evening, almost no one deliberately searched, and everyone saw a hazy light on the dark sea level, as if the sea surface was coated with a layer of silver veil, which was extremely eye-catching.

Everyone immediately drove the boat closer, and the so-called ghost island that emitted a hazy light was actually not large in size, and its shape was uneven, slightly close to the shape of a five-pointed star.

They docked the boat at one of the corners of the pentagram, a natural pier, and the nine men quickly trodged to the island with their equipment.

The island was wet, the depression was full of stagnant water, there were fish and shrimp in the puddle, the whole was a black reef, and the reef was attached to all kinds of shellfish organisms, soft tissue organisms, just like a corner of the seabed was suddenly pushed out of the sea, the fish and shrimp who had no time to retreat, lingered in the shallow puddle, and some sea crabs tried to return to the sea, but the undulating reef often made them fall a few big heels.

The group of nine began to investigate the island of ghosts, which was so attractive to the nine that they stayed for six nights, and every morning in the early hours of the morning, the surrounding waters seemed to rise suddenly, and then the island was submerged.

It is speculated that this place should be in an area where the tides or the earth's magnetic field are very unstable, which is why this ghost island phenomenon is formed. The group had already carried diving equipment, so after the sixth day, in order to save time and get a clearer understanding of the ghost island, they decided to go into the water.

A total of five people were launched, Wei Liming, Caiyun, Wang Chenggang, Liu Fengwei, and Ming Zhou, all of whom were young people, and there were three older ones on the boat, that is, the leaders of each group did not go into the water, and the remaining one was responsible for taking care of the boat.

After the five of them entered the water, they dived about ten meters or so and saw the ghost island in the water.

It wasn't until they were at the bottom of the water that they could see the whole picture of Ghost Island, which was quite magical, it was like a mushroom, and the umbrella cover on top was the island, and the bottom of the island quickly narrowed, turning into a columnar body, and extending into the deep sea.

This is very strange, and this kind of shape is absolutely impossible to be natural.

The five people under the water were so shocked that they decided to continue the dive and headed towards the pillar under the island. When approaching this reef pillar in the sea, an even more shocking situation appeared, only to see that there were many holes in these reef pillars.

These holes are not big, but the holes are densely packed, stuffed with one head after another!

Everyone was startled, after all, they were still young, and it was really unbelievable when they encountered this situation, so they immediately surfaced on the sea, got on the boat, and told the four people on board about the situation in the sea.

Three of the four were old-timers, and when they heard this, Professor Xia of the archaeological team thought for a moment and speculated: "Could it be a sea burial?" ā€

Among the five people, the one named Mingzhou is an archaeologist, and he knows more about these burial customs than the rest, but when he heard this, he looked puzzled and said, "Sea burial? In ancient times, the sea burials of the sea people were not like this. ā€

Professor Xia said: "With the vast sea area and the migration of people, many large islands have some unique civilizations. There is a very rare type of sea burial, and most of the people who perform this kind of burial are islanders. Immediately afterwards, Professor Xia talked about the sea burial customs of these islanders.

Due to the limited area of the island, and the islanders also have a very simple concept of heaven and man, they are worried about living on the island, and they keep asking for the island, and sooner or later, the island's resources will be exhausted, the trees will die, and the plants will no longer bud.

And man is the biggest taker of all this, if you want to live the life cycle of the island, you have to return the body and soul to the island after death, so a very peculiar form of sea burial was born.

That is, after death, the head is cut off, because the ancients believed that the head is the soul of a person.

Then a hole was drilled in the reef below the island and the head was placed in it, meaning to support the island with its soul so that it would never fall into the sea. After the head is cut off, the corpse will be buried in some place away from the water source, and the corpse will be used as fertilizer to give back to the island.

This peculiar form of sea burial, with the relocation and landing of the islanders again, so it is only a flash in the pan, too little record, if it were not for professionals like Professor Xia to know some, ordinary people really want to break their heads and can't figure out why the reef under the island is full of dense holes and human heads.

Professor Xia was very excited about this discovery, and he said: "It seems that the area of this island should have been very large, otherwise it would be impossible for the islanders to reproduce for a long time." Perhaps it was the magnetic field anomaly that flooded the island with the tides, which is why it became what it is now. ā€

Ming Zhou said: "Those islanders, all died in the anomaly of the tide? ā€

Professor Xia said: "This possibility is very high, if we want to understand the truth, we should go into the water and take a look." For archaeologists, this discovery is tantamount to an unexpected joy, and Professor Xia seems very excited.

However, at this time, Wei Liming felt that something was wrong, he thought about it, and then said a suspicious point, "Assuming that this island used to be very large, and some islanders had bred here, then the foundation of this island must be connected to the submarine mountain range, and it must be strong enough to support the entire island. ā€

Professor Xia said: "Yes, of course it is. ā€

Wei Liming said again: "But now, the foundation we see is a reef pillar, and the traces of artificiality are very obvious. ā€

Mingzhou said: "It is not impossible that this island has been divided, and the foundation has been damaged and cracked. ā€

Wei Liming asked, "Will it crack into a regular cylinder so just right?" Assuming that it is indeed the day after tomorrow when the mountain breaks and becomes like this, then those heads should be on the periphery, and with the collapse, they fall into the deep sea together. How is it possible that after the outer layer has cracked, there is still a human skull completely inside? ā€

Ming Zhou was stunned for a moment and said, "When you say that, it's true." Old Wei, I found that you are quite suitable to do archaeology, or change careers. ā€

Caiyun smiled: "It's not that Ah Ming is suitable for archaeology, it's that you are too excited and carried away by the excitement." ā€

Ming Zhou scratched his head embarrassedly, and after Professor Xia on the other side calmed down, he also sensed that something was wrong and had to overturn his previous thoughts. This island may not have been born at all, it has been like this since the beginning, and it may not have experienced any mountain collapse.

But where did these heads come from?

Could it be the inhabitants of the nearby islands who did it?

But putting one's own skulls at the bottom of other islands is contrary to the will of sea burial, who would do such a thing?

Soon, Professor Xia thought of a possibility, which made him pat his thigh in shock and stand up all of a sudden.

The people around him were taken aback, and Wei Liming and Caiyun's leader Nan Zheng said: "I said Lao Xia, you were shocked, what are you doing!" ā€

Professor Xia wiped his face and said, "Quick, bring the chart." Ming Zhou immediately brought Professor Xia the chart, and then, Professor Xia took a closer look, and said while looking at it: "With the place where we are now as the center, there are no islands around, the only one that is closest to it, it takes two days for the boat to sail over, and the area of that island is not large." ā€

"Ghost Island is definitely a sea burial ground for islanders, this can't be wrong, there is only one situation that will appear in our current situation, the archipelago."

As soon as he said these two words, everyone suddenly realized, if it is an archipelago, then everything makes sense, the underground mountains of the archipelago are the same, that is, you live on island A, then it doesn't matter if the skulls or corpses of the islanders are buried on island B, because it is an archipelago, the distance between the islands is definitely not far, and the leylines are connected.

This is the only thing that can be explained at the moment.

Professor Xia said excitedly: "If the archipelago is concerned, the population will definitely be large, and it is even possible to give birth to a very unique civilization, I remember, in the Western miscellaneous records of the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called 'Sea Snake Country', not surprisingly, this should be the site of the Sea Snake Country!" ā€

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