From the outside, the cave looks long and narrow, with a wooden coffin lying horizontally and quietly in the middle, with the coffin tilted upwards at both ends, in a somewhat strange shape. In this cave where the hanging coffin is placed, people do not need to be short to stand up straight, and the front and back are wide and the bottom is flat, so it is not a big problem to stand on a dozen people. In the meantime, I only feel that the upward cliff is towering and towering, I am a little dizzy after looking at it for a long time, there is a dark half-human high hole at the end of the narrowing and extending inward around the cave wall, and I can feel a cool wind blowing out from the inside to the outside when I get a little closer, with the humid and rainy weather, although it is said that summer is coming, it still makes people chill.

The second group of people hung down from above, it was Datou, Professor Zhang and Chen Xu, but I never saw the figures of Lao Lin and Gu Guangming, I looked at everyone with some puzzlement, and I didn't bother to ask more. Professor Zhang on the side helped the stone wall out of the hanging basket, gasped, slowly put on a pair of white gloves, and then nodded to Gao Tong, "Let's start." ”

The tedious preliminary work was carried out for about an hour, Professor Zhang and Gao Tong took detailed photos of the simple wooden coffin, the coffin lid is still not opened, I am not worried, if the coffin thousands of years ago is not particularly well closed, the corpse is usually weathered and dried very badly, most of the skeleton of Bai Sensen remains, not as rotten and clean as hundreds of years ago, and even the belt is glued together, which makes people sick and disgusting to look at.

After taking the trouble to take photos and recording the direction and position of the wooden coffin in detail, Gao Tong asked Professor Zhang's opinion and prepared to open the coffin in the next step. But Lao Lin and Gu Guangming still didn't come down for a long time, and I couldn't help but ask Gao Tong: "Lao Lin hasn't come down yet, won't we wait to open the coffin?" ”

Gao Tong shook his head, glanced at Professor Zhang, and said, "Before I came down just now, Lao Lin told me to be responsible for him, and he probably won't come." ”

may have been accustomed to Lao Lin's leading soldiers, and it made me feel awkward that he was so idle, but why did Gu Guangming wait for him together? Damn, this kid is lucky.

The material of the coffin is dense, the weight looks very heavy, after so many years of rain and sun, it has not been too weathered and decayed, the original paint on the surface is only a few mottled traces, and the overall relief is also blurred to see clearly, except for the peculiar shape, the others are no different from the ordinary coffin, the part of the coffin that several bronze sealing nails exposed to the air has completely decayed, and the position of the coffin nails around the coffin lid can see a faint patina. These details that are different from the hanging coffins found in the early stage have caused Gao Tong and Professor Zhang to re-discuss the age of the coffin, and the earliest time when the coffin was painted and the bronze seal nailed to the coffin has become the focus, especially in that early age, it stands to reason that bronze is still a relatively expensive thing, and it seems unreasonable to seal the coffin, unless the person buried in the coffin is particularly noble.

Gao Tong looked at the watch, the time was still a while away from noon, so he beckoned to arrange for everyone to open the coffin lid, I and the big head Mao couldn't intervene, I could only hand over the tools or something, this year down the coffin is not uncommon, no matter how small the courage is, it has become rough, so many people are guarding this ancient coffin at close range in the daytime, I am not too afraid, but think about the bottomless black hole behind it, which makes the hair in my heart cold.

Professor Zhang kept telling Chen Xu, who took the crowbar, to be careful, seeing that the coffin lid was pried up with a "squeak" sound, revealing a bronze coffin nail with the thickness of a little finger hidden in the wood, without a trace of rust, and instantly I felt that I was so close to the original thousands of years ago, and I suddenly had a feeling in my heart that I had been in the sea.

I didn't count how many coffin nails were on all sides, and when Chen Xu pried up several places where the coffin lid and the coffin body were connected very carefully, he was already tired and sweating, Gao Tong led me and the big head to help quickly, and gently lifted the coffin lid aside, and then looked down at the coffin, but they were all a little disappointed.

A skeleton lay naked and lay flat in the coffin, its hair was yellow and ugly, and its mouth was wide open, looking like it was grinning weirdly. Not counting the complete skeleton of the coffin, there is a thin layer of powder-like things at the bottom, I guess it may be the carbonization and accumulation of body organs and skin tissue, anyway, it will not be a good thing to increase appetite. In addition, there was not a single burial item around, not even a piece of cloth could be seen, and I don't know if this person was originally buried naked, or if the clothes he was wearing had weathered into part of the underlying powder because of too much time.

Professor Zhang leaned down half of his body and fell into the coffin, twisted a pinch of powder, then straightened up and rubbed it with two fingers, and frowned after looking at it for a long time, I thought to myself that he must not announce the answer, it is still so mysterious, otherwise I will not be able to eat at noon.

This coffin is obviously larger than the hanging coffins in front, and Gao Tong and Professor Zhang finally decided to put it here for the time being, and then find a way to hang it when the archaeology is over. After being busy for a long time, there was nothing in the coffin except dry bones, and the tools that were prepared to hold the burial goods did not come in handy, and everyone suddenly became busy.

Gao Tong looked at the cave behind him with a little hesitation, squatted at the entrance of the dark cave and looked at it with a flashlight for a long time, then turned around and said, "The flashlight does not shine to the end, and this hole is very deep in an oblique direction." Let's go up for lunch and go into the cave in the afternoon. ”

As soon as I returned to the top of the cliff, the cool wind and the rain made my chest, which had been suffocated for a long time, take a few breaths, and in a blink of an eye, I thought of Gu Guangming again, and looked left and right, everyone else was there, except for him and Lao Lin, and I couldn't help but wonder secretly. I lit a cigarette and took a few puffs, and when I heard someone shouting "open dinner", I asked Gao Tong as I walked towards the tent: "Why are Lao Lin and Gu Guangming gone?" ”

Gao Tong also didn't know why, and a person from the archaeological institute next to him said: "Maybe there is something going back to the town, you two will leave as soon as you go." ”

This is really strange, I saw with my own eyes that Gu Guangming was also given a miner's lamp for lighting in the cave in the morning, could there be something wrong? I gradually felt an indescribable worry, and when I thought of what Gu Guangming said to me last night, I felt more and more uneasy in my heart.

After eating and staying in the tent for a while, Gao Tong and Professor Zhang invariably had questions about the hanging coffin that had just been opened, whether it was the importance of the feng shui topography or the laws summarized these days, valuable cultural relics should be unearthed, but now there is not even a broken clay pot, it is really unreasonable.