Chapter 382: Secret visit to the mass grave
Jonas naturally couldn't hear these words, as soon as he left Jana's barracks, Jonas went directly back to his military tent, because this matter was not a thing worth making a big deal about after all, so Jonas only took Vig and three other knights, plus himself, a total of four people found an excuse to hunt and left the camp, trying not to alarm others, and when they arrived at the gate of the barracks, they did not arouse the slightest suspicion, such a long march and battle, as long as they were nobles, there was no one who did not complain, and now it was just when winter was coming, and the animals were also hurrying to forage for food, preparing for winter, and going hunting at this time, It is the time to be able to hunt the fattest game, before Jonas, there were already several groups of people going out, Jonas said that he wanted to go out, naturally he didn't ask too much, but he felt that this little nobleman brought too few people, and he was afraid that it would not be safe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Jonas left the barracks, and immediately hurried towards the place marked on the map, which was not far from the barracks, and it took the dead man only about an hour and a half to see a village overgrown with grass in the fields, and there were no people inside or outside the house, and seeing this, Jonas knew that he had found his destination.
According to the marks on the map, the last place where the villagers disappeared was in a forest two kilometers away from this village, Jonas and Vig and others followed the map for a while, and finally found the location that Jona said in a dense forest, this place is about 500 square meters in area, the soil is exceptionally soft, different from the surrounding black and dry land, with a slight wetness, stepping on it, there is a feeling of sinking, Jonas knows that this should be the place where thousands of villagers are buried.
Found a place, Jonas naturally wanted to dig up this mass grave to see, this is also the reason why Vig and the other two knights came here, if Jonas did it himself, maybe it would not be possible to move the soil out in a day, and under Vig's hands, only about twenty minutes later, a seventeen-meter-deep earth pit was artificially created by Vig, and then shoveled down, Vig glanced at Jonas, obviously, the experienced Vig felt the difference.
"Got it!?" Jonas sat on the stone, watching Vig and the other two knights work, for those corpses that Jona called dried corpses, Jonas was afraid in his heart, mummies and these things, he had seen them in the National Museum of Egypt, but the dried corpses he saw at that time were placed in the glass alone, and here, there were thousands of dried corpses, the difference in quantity will lead to a gap in quality, and it is normal for this feeling to cause fear.
Besides, the mummy in the museum has been accumulated for more than 3,000 years, and when he is presented in front of Jonas, it is no longer as simple as a corpse, it can be said that to a certain extent, he has humanistic value, archaeological value, and economic benefits, which can be viewed as a work of art, but the dried corpse here is a villager who was alive a few days ago, and it is a healthy people, this strong gap makes Jonas need to prepare for a long time, and he was caught off guard when he heard that Vig had dug it up, Jonas was excited for a moment, and he was also a little afraid in the depths of his heart, and now he, how I wish Vig could dig for another two or three hours so that he could calm down a little.
"Yes, sir. "Shoveling soil and shoveling bones, the texture is not the same, especially Vig's strength is very large, the bones of those dried corpses have been sucked dry, and as soon as the shovel goes down, there is a crisp sound immediately, which is also the reason why Vig can be sure.
It's just that for what is buried underneath, even now, Vig still can't believe it.
When he first heard the news that Jonas was going out in the military tent, Vig, like everyone else, simply thought that Jonas was not used to staying in the barracks, but after leaving the barracks, Jonas immediately told Vig and the other two knights the purpose of this trip, these people are people who have been with Jonas for a long time and can be trusted 100%, and it is because of this that Jonas will take them out instead of others.
Of course, although Jonas told Vig about the existence of these dried corpses, he did not tell the origin of these dried corpses related to the Count of Il, and even the name of Zigar, Jonas did not tell Vig and others, of course, this is also to protect Vig and others, the fewer people who know about this matter, the safer he is, telling Vig that he has taken a certain risk, if it is widely publicized, Jonas is very worried that he will be threatened by his personal safety.
But even so, after hearing the news, Vig and the other two knights were shocked by the tragic situation described by Jonas's mouth, thousands of people turned into dried corpses, this kind of scene, for the knights, it is impossible to imagine such a supernatural thing, but looking at Jonas's serious face, and the sonorous pace of the marching war horse, Vig had to believe that in the destination that was about to arrive, there was something described by Jonas, and now, these dried corpses have been found, which makes Vig's heart full of an unknown feeling, overnight living people turned into dried corpses, how did this happenVig couldn't think of an answer.
"Dig it out. Jonas took a deep breath and gave an order to Vig, now that he has made a decision, then there is only one way forward, Jonas thought so in his heart, and the fear of what he was about to see in his heart was also reduced a lot, but the nervousness was still fermenting in his heart, standing on the edge of the stone, Jonas almost couldn't breathe.
Vig glanced at Jonas, the knight in his heart was also very afraid, for killing, Vig did not have too much fear, but for such a strange way of death, Vig was in a cold sweat, and slowly brushed the soil layer away from the body of the corpse with a shovel, and a dry corpse was quickly presented in front of Vig.
If you look at it from the point of view of an archaeologist, this is a very perfect dried corpse, if you ignore the terrifying expression on his face, all his teeth are neatly preserved, and all over his body, except for the bones of his left thigh that were cut off by Vig's shovel, there are no other injuries, and even the clothes on his body are still fresh and colored, and there are no insects on it, if in the words of archaeologists, this is a work of art with considerable value.
It's just that this dried corpse is more terrifying than the dead corpse in the eyes of Vig and others, without him, the death is too weird, the general mummy is dried for a long time, and the automatic processing of nature, and it is necessary to maintain good dry conditions, a dry corpse can grow space, such a dry corpse, generally will be in a black state, and the bones of the whole body will also be petrified, become as hard as a stone, a shovel is absolutely impossible to shovel, but now the dried corpse that appears in front of Vig does not have the appearance of a dry corpse at all, except for the wrinkled skinThis dried corpse is white and green all over its body, which undoubtedly proves that the existence of this corpse is not long, from Vig's experience, it is only two days at most, and it is absolutely impossible to exceed three days if it is conservatively estimated, and it is impossible to form a dry corpse in such a time.
And this corpse does not have the petrified state that would occur in the general condition of a dry corpse, Vig just touched the skin on the dried corpse with his hand, and the skin was accompanied by a thin layer of fat that slipped off the bone, Vig was startled, the area in the pit was also small, Vig took a step back, and his foot happened to step on the thigh of the dry corpse, Vig thought it would be fine, after all, he was not wearing armor, but he was wearing civilian clothes, and stepping on a foot was not too much of a problem for the stone, but when he moved his foot away and looked at the masterpiece under his feet, Vig was stunned by the power of his own kick。
The bones under his feet turned into powder, this is what Vig saw, and it was also from this moment that his back was full of sweat, his intuition was telling him that these dried corpses were not unusual at all, and the death of these people must be full of things that he didn't understand at all, thinking of this, Vig quickly asked a knight to jump down and work together to carry the corpse, since this trip was decided by Jonas, then Jonas must know a lot of things he didn't know, if he wants to continue to understand, the sooner he shows Jonas, these dried corpses are obviously the best solution。
Vig and another knight teamed up to tie a hemp rope to the body of the dried corpse, and after making sure that the rope was not tied in a wrong way, Vig made an upward pull posture towards Gulliver, and Gulliver outside the pit immediately pulled the hemp rope, and soon pulled the dried corpse up, and Jonas finally saw the legendary dried corpse made by Zigar.
Holding back the stomach acid that kept tumbling in his stomach, Jonas walked towards the salvaged dried corpse, Vig and another knight, Carter, also climbed up, and the four people gathered in front of the dried corpse, the fear in Jonas's heart, and the physical churning finally calmed down, looking at the dried corpse in front of him, Jonas squatted down, leaned very close, hesitated for a while, and finally put his hand on the dried corpse.
It's a touch that Jonas can't describe, very rough, like tree bark, it's not that he hasn't touched the body of a dead man, but he has never touched a dried corpse, as soon as he put his hand on the chapped skin here, Jonas asked Vig, Carter, and Gulliver beside him, "Have any of you ever seen a dry corpse, and you touch it to see if the skin of this dried corpse is the same as what you have seen before, or how you have touched it." “
In Jonas's opinion, since these three people are all knights, then death must have been commonplace, so he wanted to let these knights identify, these three people looked at each other, in fact, they are not as Jonas thought, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, for the unknown, the fear in their hearts is not necessarily less than that of ordinary people, it can be seen that Jonas's hands have been placed on the dry corpse, and they naturally can't retreat, they have taken off the gloves they were riding on, put them aside, and stretched their hands to the skin of the dried corpse。
"My lord, the ancestors of our family once went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and when they came back from there, they brought back a dried corpse, I was ignorant when I was young, I have seen and touched it, the skin of that body is very delicate, and even silky, and the touch of this dried corpse in front of me is completely different. “
The hands of the four people kept stroking on this female corpse, hoping to get some inspiration from this corpse, but none of them spoke, Italy is a moist land, here, the corpse is not much of a growth environment, in the later generations of the most dry corpses, that is, Central Asia and the Middle East These dry places, in the end, Gulliver opened his mouth to tell a piece of their family's past, the dried corpse brought back from Jerusalem is very likely to be the dried corpse of ancient Egypt, then Gulliver's words are very credible, Jonas continued to ask: "Well, I also think this skin is too rough, generally speaking, after death and being air-dried, the skin should become more delicate, how can it become so rough, this doesn't look like human skin at all, Gulliver, and you two, how do you think this is caused by this? “
Jonas's question made everyone fall silent, how did they know how these dried corpses were formed? Vig, Carter, and Gulliver all had been killing people since elementary school, how to kill people faster, and the aristocratic thing, but they had not studied science or medicine, they only knew that it was definitely not a normal formation, but other than that, they didn't know anything else.
Jonas also knew that he was embarrassed by this question, looking at the dried corpse in front of him, Jonas could only use his imagination to figure out why this body became like this, and how could it be possible to turn a dried corpse like this? This must not be speculated by common sense, the appearance of a dried corpse here is not a normal thing.
Yes, the appearance of dried corpses is not normal, then it must not be formed due to natural causes, and Jonas does not think that Zigal has the ability to manipulate nature, if he really has, then why does Il need to attack the karst city with a single soldier, it can be easily solved by a flood or mudslide, so it must not be so simple.
Looking at this corpse, Jonas suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his brain, is it possible that the enlargement of these pores is due to the excretion of liquid in the body through the pores?