Chapter 18 Tower Burial
I could close my mouth tightly, but I didn't have time to block my nose, and for a while I only felt that my throat and nasal cavity were full of itchy and numb crawling sensations.
These things originally flew out of the corpse's mouth, it is estimated that the environment is too cold, so this small flying insect treats the corpse as a nest, after all, in comparison, the corpse is much warmer than the ice crevice, and it is estimated that it is attracted by my heat, so the insects in the corpse began to rebel and wanted to fly out, this time the corpse was unbalanced and slid down the wooden tower.
At first, I really thought that I had answered Rehaman's words and entered a Burning Finger Demon Tower.
The thought of the insects crawling in my mouth was originally gathered in the corpse, I felt sick, and I didn't know what kind of damage it would cause to the human body, and I immediately didn't care to observe the surrounding environment, endured the severe pain in my back, sat up on my knees, and immediately began to force myself to vomit.
Because I had eaten food before the next bucket, there was some stock in the stomach, and with vomiting, the things that crawled into the throat were suddenly brought out by the food residue, and the feeling of numbness and crispiness in the throat disappeared, but I still had that kind of bugs on my face, and I kept crawling down my nose, I didn't care so much, I didn't dare to stop vomiting, and I rubbed my face with my hands, these bugs were too small, and they could only be strangled to death like pinching ants, and I had a handful of them that worked, and the bugs on my face died in a moment, and the rest crawled into my mouth, and I vomited out.
After more than ten minutes of tossing, my entire stomach twitched due to the forced vomiting, but I was finally relieved.
It was only at this time that I had the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment, and at a glance, my scalp was numb, and the wooden tower was still not in the end, but the structure of the wooden tower was wider and wider the lower it was, so I fell on the edge of the wooden tower, and in this fast place, in the gap of the wooden tower, more female corpses gathered, they were still Tibetan clothes, but the color was not so gorgeous, it seemed that the level was lower, and one of them was almost less than twenty centimeters away from me.
I didn't know if there were any of those insects in these corpses, so I hurriedly retreated, and because there was not much space, I only took two steps back, and my back was against the hard ice wall. Although I was carrying an equipment bag, it was a hard thing such as a folding shovel, and instead of falling, it did not offset the slightest impact, but increased the pain.
However, I had only been there for a long time, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound in the silent ice cave, which was not as loud as that of bees, but extremely low, but also heard very clearly.
The voice seemed to come from overhead, I was startled, and hurriedly put up a flashlight.
I saw that about five or six meters above my head, there was a rope hanging, which was the one I had before, that is to say, I didn't fall much just now, the rope just hung next to the female corpse, at this moment, countless flying insects flew out of the mouths of the two female corpses, and the specific appearance of the flying insects could not be glimpsed at all, I only felt that it was a puff of black smoke in my eyes, black smoke hovered in the sky, some rested on the rope, the original brown rope turned into jet black, and I don't know when these insects will pounce on me.
I couldn't help but secretly cry out in my heart, and said in my heart, how did the stuffy oil bottle deal with this situation in the first place? After thinking about it, I couldn't help but pat my head, I really went back more and more, the stuffy oil bottle has precious blood in his body, it is estimated that if he goes down to the ice cave, those flying insects will probably not dare to move, let alone stage any strange scenes of female corpses climbing.
My scalp is numb, my heartbeat is speeding up, I think there is only one way, now climb up, that is to find death, can only avoid it for the time being, although the rope is gone, but the structure of the wooden tower goes down, the more wood is used, the shape is more complicated, there are many places for people to climb, go down with bare hands, as long as you are careful, it is estimated that it is not difficult.
Thinking of this, I immediately hit the flashlight down, this time quite unexpectedly, the end of the light, it seems to have reached the bottom, faintly revealing a texture of ice, the range of this flashlight, in about seven or eight meters, that is, another seven or eight meters to the end.
I was overjoyed, and immediately carefully dodged the female corpses and began to climb down.
The further down you climb, the more alarming it becomes, because the number of female corpses is almost doubling again, and it seems that the lower the female corpses, the lower the status, and in the end, almost all of them are naked corpses, with strange shapes, and I don't know how long they have been sleeping in this ice cave.
I'm almost certain that this is supposed to be a funeral custom, and I was a little puzzled for a while.
The Zhang family originated in Tibet, with huge branches, although this is not the masterpiece of the Zhang family, but as long as I think that it is the same branch and the same vein after all, I will use such a terrible martyrdom, I feel cold.
Fortunately, it was divided into three veins, among which the Sinicized Zhang family did not inherit these cruel bad habits, Han culture, since ancient times, pay attention to benevolence, in thousands of years of assimilation, has long been thrown away cruelty, and even the face has been completely sinicized, otherwise, I really can't associate the stuffy oil bottle with the Tibetans with high foreheads and high cheekbones.
When I finally went down to the bottom, the number of female corpses had reached a terrifying level, piled up at the bottom in an orderly manner, as if it was the base of the tower, and I couldn't help but wonder if this wooden tower was really the Burning Finger Demon Tower that Rehaman said?
In the Tibetan area, Buddhism prevails, so in ancient times, the Tibetan elite also prevailed in the tower Tibet, which has a very cruel burial custom, that is, 'hanging tower', of course, this has not been confirmed, only recorded and scattered in the literature, so far no one has excavated the hanging tower in the literature.
The so-called hanging tower is very well understood, that is, the body of the tomb owner is placed in the center of the tower, and the person who accompanies the funeral will be tied up like hanging bacon, hanging alive around the tower, and slowly being dried.
I don't think the legend of the burning demon tower is credible, but if it is said that this is a 'hanging tower', it is a little different, and after only looking at it for a while, I will no longer be entangled. These insects covet the heat of the human body, if I stay any longer, it is estimated that the insects in the corpses of other women will also be seduced, just thinking about that scene is enough to make people tremble.
Immediately, I began to move away from the wooden tower and take in my surroundings.
It's a relatively large ice cave, which is supposed to be natural, and then it has been artificially processed, and there is a puddle of filth not far from my feet, which is what I vomited out before, and it fell from above, forming a big puddle of filth, and I feel sick to see myself.
Soon, I found a passage on one side of the ice cave.
This passage is the only opening in the ice cave, and it is so narrow that only one person can crouch in it.
But the ice around the passage, the color is obviously very different, obviously, this should have been a more formal passage, but due to the long time, the ice gradually froze thicker, the passage lost its original appearance, there is only such a hole left, it is estimated that in a few tens or hundreds of years, even this cave mouth has disappeared.
I hurried into the passage, and it was icy on all sides, and it was frighteningly cold, but the colder it was now, the less attractive I was to the flying insects, and it would be more protective.
With the passage mouth to run forward, from time to time you can see some frozen things in the ice, such as the bones of the animal that are buried, and occasionally you can see some bottles and cans of things, the Tibetans are buried from time to time, more are buried in the sky, there are also rich tower burials in the past, but the cost is relatively high, so the excavated relics are also very few.
The layout of the tower burial has its own style, which is very different from the tombs of the Han people, I don't know much, but like this kind of burial animal bones and utensils put together, it generally rarely appears in the Han tombs, and even if there is, it is a very ancient tomb.
I crawled along the passage and was out in a short time, but I was disappointed by what I saw. ,
It's also an ice cave, but it's much smaller, and because of the thickening of the ice, the shape has become very untidy, and a lot of things are frozen in the ice, but I can't even tell what it is because of the depth of the freeze.
Originally, there should have been another passage here, but it is estimated that because the design is relatively small, the passage port has been completely frozen, and only some traces can be faintly seen, which can be used to judge the initial location of the passage mouth.
I felt a little disappointed, it seemed that there was nothing here, not even the body of the tomb owner, and the main burial chamber where the tomb owner was located was probably frozen in ice.
There are no clues here.
I couldn't help but touch the silver nugget in my clothes, it seems that I was wrong, maybe the entrance that looks like a thief hole above is not a stuffy oil bottle at all, maybe the source of this silver nugget is not here at all, it should be somewhere else.
I was so discouraged that I was about to quit when suddenly the flashlight accidentally hit a corner, and I looked at it and my heart jumped.
There is a hole there, very irregular, which must have been dug out recently.
The hole is relatively small, I can't go through it at all, if the average person wants to hit the hole, at least compared to the body to play, and this hole, it is estimated that only weasels can get into, I immediately thought of a word: bone shrinking work.
The person who hits this hole will definitely shrink his bones.
The conjecture I originally denied was suddenly self-defeating, and this person was almost a stuffy bottle.
He entered here alone, naturally he didn't have time to make a bigger hole, that would be too wasteful of time, so he hit this small hole, and then shrunk his bones and drilled in.
I wanted to jump with joy, but then I calmed down, this hole was not a problem for the stuffy bottle, but it was difficult for me.
After thinking about it, there was only one way, to widen the hole, at least as far as I could get into.