Chapter 64: Detectives
...... Under the action of the eight-pound hammer, the red carbon steel chisel penetrated deep into the wall little by little, knocking out the ten-centimeter area of the "probe" that I thought in my heart. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Under the pink and black particles, my chisel went deeper and deeper, stirring the wall with a dull sound.
At first, after I broke through the wall skin, I dug up some mats and white ash for filling and shaping, and then I dug up some old green bricks and ash after I passed through this layer.
These things, one by one, are dry and hard and thieves love to splash, and it is very time-consuming and laborious to chisel, and I have a heavy gas mask to prevent accidents, so the speed of digging is very slow.
But even so, I don't dare, let alone increase my strength or change people, because I'm afraid that if I overdo it a little bit, or if I don't have a good sense of proportion, I will be like the third child in the exorcist group, and penetrate the entire "corpse sac", so that some of the toxic substances existing in it will be sprayed out one by one, causing a large area of "exposed poison".
If that's the case, I'm afraid that simple anti-virus measures will not fully guarantee our safety.
Therefore, I smashed the small hole ten centimeters square for half an hour, until there was a trace of a different movement on the chisel of my left hand!
After a fragile "pop", my chisel head finally came into contact with a completely different kind of mezzanine from the brick wall when it went deep behind the seven-centimeter brick wall.
The touch that came from the chisel made me know exactly what I was digging in!
Following the sound, I slowly took the chisel out of the probe.
Then, after taking a few steps back to make sure that nothing dangerous would eject out of the visit, I couldn't wait to take off my gas mask, gently hold up the chisel, and look at the light to carefully observe a kind of black-gray slag on it.
With my actions, Zhao Haipeng and Ah Si also took off their masks at the same time, leaned over in my direction, and stared at the things on the chisel together.
"What!" my brother asked.
"It's ...... Furnace ash?" Zhao Haipeng, who has a wide range of knowledge, replied on my behalf.
Faced with Zhao Haipeng's speculation, I nodded and told Zhao Haipeng, "Indeed...... It's furnace ashes! This thing was used to suck blood and prevent plague when the dead were buried in the old society. ”
With that, I looked down and sniffed the ashes from the shovel again.
A faint fishy smell.
In that smell, I frowned, and told Zhao Haipeng and Lao Sidao: "Slag...... There should be lime underneath the slag, and in addition to lime, there should be a straw mat or white cloth to wrap the body. ”
Listening to my words, my brother asked me very puzzled: "I said, brother, why are you so familiar with the matter of hiding corpses in the old society? You can't do it, do you?"
My brother's words made me very angry, so I slapped him on the head and replied very unceremoniously: "Fuck it! Did you say that about your brother? This kind of corpse without a coffin, I saw it a lot when I was at the construction site, so I know what is probably going on!"
Speaking of which, this is actually not a secret, because those who have worked as construction workers for a few years have basically encountered these things.
Especially in our urban area, the north and west are the Yellow River, the south is the Heigu Mountains, and the east is Xiaohua Mountain and Xiaoqing River, and there is little construction land, so the newly built building land in recent years is basically the mass graves and beachhead depressions in the early years, and even sometimes a shovel goes down, and three or five barren mounds and wild corpses will come out.
Because there are many wild corpses I see, I know very well that people buried corpses in the past, even if they were nameless corpses, they would not be thrown around, they were all added with lime, straw mats, slag and ashes, and often had to ask for excesses such as Mr. Taoist priests.
As for why this is done, I heard the master at the construction site say that this is nothing more than to disinfect and prevent the epidemic of epidemics, and it can also make the corpses buried in mass graves somewhat comforting, so that snakes, insects, rats and ants will not eat them.
Therefore, before exhuming the corpses, I felt that the six nameless corpses buried in the basement were probably made through such a step.
...... After listening to my words, the fourth child suddenly realized, nodded slightly, and then asked me in a twelve-point inquiring tone: "Big brother, let's finish exploring the party, what should we do next?"
Listening to the words of the fourth child, I waved my hand and threw away my flat chisel, and then picked up the newly bought electric pickaxe and prepared to "start a big job"!
The main purpose of the chisel is to measure the thickness and depth of the layer of the dead buried in the interlayer, after this time is completed, there is no need to take the chisel a little bit to buckle, only need to use a large tool, along the contour of the human body, to remove the epitaxial head.
Therefore, for the rest of the work, I was relieved to use the electric pickaxe boldly, and as for whether there would be an accident, I felt that it should not be possible.
After all, in terms of human body structure, the part of the human chest is the thickest, so relatively speaking, as long as I take that thickness as the benchmark and gradually expand to both sides, there is no problem, not to mention that as early as when I just moved over, Zhao Haipeng had already used the method of "Sixiang Exploration" to help me roughly determine the outline of these six positions, so I was also prepared.
Therefore, after about an hour, I had already completely sketched out the outline of the corpse hidden in the east wall of the first place.
Then I picked up the chisel and detached the remaining bricks and dirt little by little, revealing only the first slag and part of the lime that had wrapped the dead man.
Basically, this sac wrapped in a dead body...... Intact.
After about three hours, I finally lifted my waist and looked at the "masterpiece" in front of me.
At this moment, what appears in front of us is a semicircular "silkworm chrysalis".
Looking at it in detail, this chrysalis is composed of gray-black slag, thatch and lime, with an elongated and irregular border, but on the whole, it can barely take on the shape of a human figure.
It was such a chaotic shadow, it was recessed in the walls of my room, and I don't know how many years I hadn't seen the light of day, so it was soaked in indescribable desolation in my eyes, like a prehistoric monster that had just been unearthed.
Seeing that this "monster" was intact and unawakened, the nerves in my heart suddenly relaxed a lot.
With a sense of relief, I took off the gas mask on my head again, asked Zhao Haipeng for a cigarette, and then smoked while telling Zhao Haipeng and the fourth child: "That's it, if you want to dig out as a whole when you look back, you can get it in five minutes with a steel drill." ”
After saying this, I stretched out my trembling hand, took out my mobile phone, glanced at my watch, and continued: "It took more than three hours...... At this rate, it would take three days to get everything out. ”
And just as I finished speaking, the door of the basement suddenly opened, and then Zhao Shuihe stretched his head over in horror, and then shouted at me: "Come out quickly!