Looking at this strange hemispherical building made of loess bricks and the corpses inside, Yang Lei scratched his head and said, "Could it be that this loess bag is a tomb?" If you look at it this way, is there a corpse under all the loess bags in it! That's too much of an exaggeration, how many people have to die? ”

After listening to Yang Lei's words, the others shone their flashlights around. Around a few people, densely covered with countless such loess buildings, if there is really a skeleton under each loess bag, then the number of people buried here is staggering.

It may be difficult for other people to believe this, but Chen Ziyang feels that it is very likely that what Yang Lei said is the truth. Recalling the scene where the little girl's ghost was counting the trees and carving patterns on the wall, Chen Ziyang probably understood what was going on.

The little figures lying on the horizontal line depicted by the little girl on the wall should refer to the corpses buried here, and the strange characters next to those patterns should indeed be numbers, and these numbers should record the number of people buried here every time the little girl sees them, or the number of stretchers carried in front of her.

By this reasoning, it is likely that the number next to each figure lying on the horizontal line refers to the number of people who died in a single day. There are more than 100 villains painted on that wall, which means that for more than three months, people have died every day in this ancient country, and the number of people who die every day is definitely not a few, why is this?

Although Chen Ziyang had a hard time believing this, he felt that his inference should be correct. Because there were so many people who died, the little girl didn't write the numbers on the sides of the patterns, because she couldn't count how many people died that day.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang squatted down and carefully shone the white bone with the beam of the flashlight, trying to find out the cause of this person's death. He had guessed before that the only thing that could kill so many people at once was war.

If this man really died in the war, then there must have been some marks left on his bones. Either the damage caused by a sharp object, or the fracture caused by a strong blow, is also likely to be the cause of the person's death. Figuring this out helps you to speculate on what is going on in this ancient country.

The skeleton was wearing clothes made of burlap, although the burlap was very strong, but after all these years, the burlap clothes had been broken into pieces, and the whole skeleton was exposed, Chen Zi looked carefully at the skeleton in front of him from head to toe.

It is likely that because of the special geographical location and climate here, this skeleton has been preserved intact. Except for a few relatively small bones, there was not a single bone missing from the entire skeleton, but there was not even a single break on the skeleton's body.

This is a little strange, could it be that this person didn't die because of the war? Of course, if the skeleton is not damaged and it is inferred that the person did not die in the war, it is likely that the person died by cutting his throat, or that he was injured by other internal organs without destroying the bones, which is possible.

Just as Chen Ziyang was studying the skeleton, there was a sound next to him, Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren had already smashed open another intact loess building with tools, and sure enough, there was also a skeleton lying under these loess bricks.

The sound attracted Chen Ziyang's attention, and he hurriedly walked to the side and stared at the second corpse, but this time, he was a little confused. The skeleton was still intact, and there was not a single break on the skeleton's bones.

Because they are so old, these loess bricks have completely lost their moisture and are very brittle, and it is easy to open these tombs with very little force. Just as Chen Ziyang was looking at the second skeleton, Instructor Liu and the others had already opened several more of these loess bags.

Seeing that there was a skeleton underneath each loess bag, Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren stopped, and it would only be a waste of physical strength to continue, seven or eight such loess bags in a row, and the rest should be the same. So the two of them wandered around to see if there was anything else worth watching.

Chen Ziyang still stayed where he was, staring at the other skeletons, and the more he looked at it, the more strange it became. The third skeleton was particularly conspicuous, it was not the skeleton of an adult, but a child of eleven or twelve.

The child's bones are still very intact, but because the bones are relatively small, many of the bones have rotted away. But Chen Ziyang saw that the edges of the bones missing from the skeleton were very smooth and natural, and they should have corroded away naturally, and there were no obvious wounds on the bones.

The first two skeletons were adults, even if there were no wounds on them, Chen Ziyang also felt that it would be more likely that these two people would die in the war, after all, if it were not for the war, it would be difficult to die so many people at one time.

But it doesn't make sense for an eleven or twelve-year-old child to be buried here, no matter how tragic the war is, such a child should not be sent to the battlefield.

Even if the child died in the slaughter of the enemy, then there should be some traces, and there will be some damage to the bones, so it is very likely that the child did not die in the war, and the reason for the death of the people buried here is not because of the war? There are other reasons.

It may be an accident that one person's bones are not broken, and it may be a coincidence that two people's bones are not broken. But what about the three? Even Chen Ziyang looked at all the seven or eight skeletons, but he didn't find a single skeleton that was damaged by the attack of an external force. So Chen Ziyang changed his mind, his previous speculation should be wrong, and these people died in another way.

Seeing Chen Ziyang staring at a skeleton and looking at it carefully, Yang Lei, who was standing on the side, was a little strange. "Er Yang, what's so nice about these skeletons? Have you ever seen fewer skeletons? What are you staring at these loess bags? ”

"These are not loess bags, they should be coffins." Chen Ziyang replied unintentionally.

"I don't read much, don't lie to me, I've seen a lot of coffins, I've never seen a coffin like this. I've seen coffins made of wood, I've seen coffins made of stone, I've seen coffins made of copper and iron, but I've never heard of anyone making a coffin out of loess. ”

"There are many kinds of coffins, and the materials you just mentioned can indeed be used as coffins, but they must also be adapted to local conditions, and they cannot be generalized.

It was supposed to be on the edge of the desert, so the wood in this place should be very valuable, and the number of trees should be very small, so it is impossible to use wood to make coffins here.

By the same token, stones are also unlikely. Even large stones are very rare in the desert, let alone stones the size of an entire coffin, so there are no stone coffins to be seen here. It's strange if you can see it, no one would have transported such a heavy, bulky stone so far just to make a coffin.

Copper and iron and other utensils were very valuable in that era, except for making weapons, there were few other applications, and no one would use these metals to make coffins, it was not easy to smelt a piece of iron, it was not enough to make weapons, how could copper and iron and other materials be wasted on making coffins.

I didn't lie to you, these are indeed coffins. I once saw a news that it was about a tomb in the Western Han Dynasty, when the coffin in the tomb was built up with this loess block, which played the role of a coffin.

The loess coffin in the picture is very similar to the appearance of these dirt bags, and I just thought of that. It is likely that because of the geographical location, the people who died here could not afford to use the coffin at all, so this disguised method was used for burial. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ziyang suddenly remembered a question, why do these people have to be neatly buried here? Even if the people of the ancient kingdom of Sumi died, they only needed to wrap the people in sackcloth and then find a place to bury them, and there was no need to build such a building out of loess outside this corpse, which was a bit too wasteful of energy.

If the person who died was a person with status, there was nothing wrong with doing so. But there are so many corpses here, it is impossible for everyone to have some identity, it is estimated that civilians account for the vast majority, why would the people of this ancient country use this way of burial for them? Chen Ziyang couldn't figure this out.

Seeing that Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren had already walked far away, the other three people followed, after all, there would be nothing to find if they stayed here, the bones in these loess coffins were all the same, and it was a matter of whether they looked at it or not.

Maybe Instructor Liu was anxious about the treasure of this ancient country, so after a brief look at a few loess coffins, he led Xiao Ren to a far place.

After the other three people followed the flashlights of Instructor Liu and the two people to find them, they found that these two people were staring at the vines and plants on the wall.

Probably because the light here was not good, Instructor Liu and the two of them walked a little off the direction, and the two of them came to the edge of this space again.

Chen Ziyang looked at the place where the two of them were looking, and the side walls of the space here were still crawling with vines, and these vines and plants were still arranged horizontally, one next to the other, crowding the entire wall.

"What are you two looking at?" Chen Ziyang asked strangely. The five of them had divided into two teams and explored the left and right sides of the space, and all of them reached the side wall of the space, and they all saw these vines. So Chen Ziyang didn't understand why Instructor Liu and the others were so fascinated by what they had already seen.

"Do you feel ...... These plants seem to be a little thicker. Instructor Liu said to Chen Ziyang while looking at the vines on the wall.

After being reminded by Instructor Liu, Chen Ziyang found that it seemed to be the case. The vines on this wall did look thicker than the ones I had seen before.

When I first entered this space, the plants on the side walls on both sides of the space were about the thickness of a human finger, and at this time, these vines and plants climbing on the walls in front of everyone looked slightly thicker, thicker than a normal person's thumb.

Instructor Liu turned his face away and shone a flashlight along the vines and plants on this wall. Within more than 100 meters of the flashlight, the entire wall is still crawling with this plant, but because the plants in the distance are a little unclear, there is no way to tell whether these vines are getting thicker and thicker.

"What's so strange about the plants getting thicker. You say that you people like to make a fuss every day, and the root systems of all plants are not all thick at one end and thin at the other, you really have little knowledge, what is there to make a fuss about? Yang Lei said disdainfully.

"You're right, all plants have a thick root system, so have you ever thought that these plants are most likely the root system of some kind of plant? Such weird, such hard vines, show that these plants are extraordinary.

If these things are not vines at all, but the tip of the root system of some plant, then we will see what we will see when we follow these plants and reach the focal point where these roots converge. ”

On the surface, Instructor Liu's words were answering Yang Lei's question, but in fact, he was talking to himself, these words were all for himself, not so much that Instructor Liu was talking, but that he was thinking.

Chen Ziyang also found this problem, generally speaking, the thickness of most vines and plants is basically the same. And these plants in front of everyone were obviously thicker, coupled with Instructor Liu's reminder, he felt more and more that these were not vine plants at all, but really could be the roots of some plants.

That's an exaggeration, isn't it? Chen Ziyang thought in his heart, what kind of plant will grow so many roots? And the root system is still so hard! Even after more than 2,000 years, these plants are still able to protect the integrity of this underground space.

Reaching out, he touched these strange plants again. As before, the plants are still very hard, they feel like they're pressed against a stone, and they seem to be darker.

Before Chen Ziyang could finish looking at the strange plants in front of him, Instructor Liu, who was standing on the side, thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes widened, he hurriedly turned around and looked into the depths of this underground space, and then he said loudly to everyone:

"Follow me, let's follow these plants."

(End of chapter)