Chen Cheng squatted at the entrance of the cave, and didn't dare to get up at all, because his legs and feet were a little weak now, and he didn't feel that there was a breeze in the cave for a while, as if the air was about to freeze.

"Director Zhou, what is that?"

Zhou Ning glanced back at Chen Cheng and knew that he was really scared, so he hurriedly waved his hand.

"You go to the entrance of the cave, talk to Zhu Xingxing and Liu Yufei, let them come in, the four offering porcelain bowls here, the contents should be human blood or some meat corruption, but the years are not short, the smell of corruption has basically dissipated, ask them who has Lumino."

"What's the lumino?"

Da Zhao waved his hand.

"Don't talk nonsense, just go and say it, don't ask them, let Zhu Xingxing bring the backpack over, I'll bring the luminol reagent."

Zhou Ning raised his head in surprise, Da Zhao pouted and sighed.

"Mistake, when I was packing my luggage, I didn't know how to mix this thing in my toiletry bag, I couldn't keep it there, I felt very uncomfortable, so I threw it in the middle of my backpack."

Zhou Ning nodded, looked at the stone countertop where the high-legged porcelain bowls were placed, and brought the LED light closer.

"There are a few bloody handprints on the outside of the porcelain bowl, and there is also dripping blood on the stone table, and I am not sure about the contents of the bowl, but if there is meat rotting in this semi-closed hole, and then it dries up completely, and the taste is clean, it will not take several years.

Moreover, inside the high-legged porcelain bowl on the side, if you take a closer look, the dry things are one by one, a little curly, but the surface does not look like that kind of bright surface, it seems to have a bulge, it looks a bit like a tongue, but the size is too small, unless you tell Mr. Li."

Da Zhao's face turned white, and he quickly raised his hand to stop it.

"Stop, I don't want to listen to Mr. Li Chengbin's insights now, his insights are too terrifying, especially in the United States, guns are free, you can see everything, I have read all the journals you brought back, I can't stand it for weight loss, did you read it in the hole next door?"

"I didn't go, I feel like the wind is coming from that direction, wait a minute, they came over and said that if I quit with a flashlight, I'm afraid that your high-octave sound will make an avalanche of the perennial snow on it."

Da Zhao hugged his arms and looked Zhou Ning up and down with a helpless expression.

"I said Zhou Xiaozhou, when you get married, you let yourself go, right? Who did you learn these words from, Mr. Xia? Individually small stove training? ”

As he was talking, Zhu Xingxing's voice sounded behind him.

"I can hear you chattering outside, but it's a shame that Teacher Xia didn't come in with you, so you can shut up quickly, aren't you afraid?"

Da Zhao grinned and didn't dare to resist, Liu Yufei also came from behind, and was still a little surprised when he saw the situation in the cave, after all, there was still a difference between hearing people and seeing it with his own eyes.

"It's so big inside, why is it so dilapidated outside, and there are many cocoons hanging from it, what the hell does this mean?"

Zhou Ning shook his head.

"Spray luminol reagent to see if it's blood, let's go next door first, Dr. Chen and Momo are at the entrance of the cave?"

"Well, I'll let Chen Cheng accompany Teacher Xia, I'll try it first."

Da Zhao didn't talk nonsense, he stepped forward and began to spray color reagents, in the four high-legged porcelain bowls, all of them had fluorescent reactions, and there were also fluorescent blood droplets on the ground around the stone table, and on the outside of the bowl, there were several fluorescent fingerprints, which could see some fingerprint traces, and Da Zhao hurriedly took pictures.

After all, the fluorescence reaction can last for thirty seconds, and those fingerprints are even more carefully taken a lot, just when he retreated, two meters away from the stone table, there was a long strip of dark traces on the ground, Da Zhao was still spraying reagents, and then took pictures, looking at the photos on the camera, Da Zhao blinked.

"I don't know what the offering is, it feels like it should be a living thing, it can't be a piece of meat, right? There are a lot of blood droplets around, very thick blood droplets, there are blood fingerprints on the bottom of the bowl on the outside, this one on the ground should be the shape of a knife, but why is the shape of this knife so weird? ”

Liu Yufei also nodded.

"In form, it looks similar to the Mongolian scimitar, but this one is definitely different, if you slaughter or ordinary stabbing and slashing, you can't make the blade to the hilt stained with blood, and it is impossible to leave such a complete mark on the stone slab.

I think the blood was deliberately smeared and rubbed on the stone tablet, and you see, the scimitar is only about thirty centimeters long, about the same as a dagger, and I don't think it looks like it could be used in war, as if it was a ritual vessel for sacrificing or slaughtering sacrifices. ”

Zhou Ning agrees with this analysis very much, and Liu Yufei's insight is absolutely okay.

However, this is a scimitar-shaped dagger and a sacrificial item, and it seems that it is still something cut from a living thing, especially the thing in the bowl on the very edge, which looks more like a dry tongue, which makes Zhou Ning feel a little tumbling in his stomach.

Without further thought, he waved his hand at everyone.

"It's very dusty here, and it looks like no one has come in for years, so let's go and see next door."

As he spoke, a few people walked towards the entrance of the cave next door, this time it was still Zhou Ning in front, holding up the LED light to illuminate it, but there was no scene of small animals such as bats scurrying around.

The inside of the cave is very large, about four times larger than the next door, wider than a basketball court, and there is a hole directly opposite the entrance, and the wind is blowing from there, because when he walks here, he can obviously feel Zhu Xingxing's hair floating, but seeing the things placed in the corner, Zhou Ning shuddered.

The coffin, which turned out to be all coffins, dark wood, with patterns painted on it, was suspended on the stone wall by several pieces of wood, about fifty centimeters from the ground.

Zhou Ning leaned closer and motioned for Da Zhao to take pictures, after all, the patterns on it were complex, there was a green tara next door, and there were strange scenes, and the content painted on each coffin was different.

Da Zhao patted it, and his mouth kept making slurping sounds.

"I said, this level is very high, and there is gold painting, the content painted on the coffin, although it is a little strange, but this wood looks like cypress, not something that ordinary people can touch casually, after all, Nanmu is generally enjoyed by the royal family, and the official eunuch can use cypress."

"You know a lot."

Liu Yufei praised Zhao Xinli and wanted to reach out to push the coffin, but Da Zhao was so frightened that he quickly stopped her movements.

"Sister Fei, stop, I don't know what it is, you just go and push it away, what if the corpse changes?"

Da Zhao's eyes widened, if someone else said this, he would have owed his son a long time ago, but on the other side was Liu Yufei, this idea had long since disappeared, after all, Liu Yufei could kick him down the mountain with one kick.

"I've seen too much, right, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, you are not allowed to become a fine, don't you know? Less nonsense, I'll take a look. ”

Zhou Ning leaned over and pressed the coffin board.

"Let's wait for the local people to come, we have carefully checked next door, although there are sacrifices, there are too many coffins here, and they are all in a suspended state, and as Da Zhao said, the material of this coffin, as well as the patterns on it, is not from recent decades.

Besides, how did such a big and heavy guy come up from the bottom of the mountain? Several of us climbed up the mountain by ourselves, and we were all terrified, and when the coffin and these stone statues were brought up, the entrance to the cave should not have been sealed.

Does it mean that the things hanging in the main cave on the outside, as well as these offerings, are carved Buddha statues and these coffins are placed, and then the entrance of the cave is covered, and then there is a seed of a tree, which falls in the middle of it, takes root and sprouts, and grows into a diameter of 20 centimeters. ”

Da Zhao snorted and glanced at the small hole at the end, although the wind blew, but the eerie chill made people feel the most.

"Ahem, why don't we go out and wait, we don't dare to open the coffin, we don't dare to go inside, there's no point in staying here."

Zhou Ning didn't expose him, but he did stay here for a long time, and he felt uncomfortable breathing, and several people directly exited the hole in the hole, and walked to the location of the main cave outside, and could see Xia Momo standing at the entrance of the cave, lying on the edge and looking down.

Looking at Xia Momo's direction, Zhou Ning's speed under his feet also accelerated, and he didn't pay attention, stepped on the plate that was high above the ground under the cocoon, and slipped under his feet.

Zhou Ning knelt directly on one knee, and the LED light was also thrown out, and he quickly looked back, only to find that inside the plate that was stepped on, there was a piece of blood red under the dust, Da Zhao picked up the LED light, walked next to Zhou Ning, and laughed at him.

"I said, when I see my daughter-in-law, I can't help but look at my feet, hurry up, why is the fall so serious?"

Zhou Ning grabbed the LED light in Da Zhao's hand and quickly shone it on the plate under his feet, with such irradiation, Da Zhao almost screamed.

"I'll go, I'll go! What is this, is this the blood that comes down from the cocoon? ”

Zhou Ning stretched out his hand and wiped it on the bright red, the cold touch, with the reflection of the mirror, it was hard and slippery when he stepped on it just now.

"It's not blood, it's a stone, but I don't know what kind of stone it is, and it's polished into the form of a lotus leaf, as if it's following a silkworm cocoon."

In the end, Zhou Ning stopped.

The bottom simulates a lotus leaf plate filled with blood, so what's on top?

The sacrifices placed inside looked fresh at the time, so weren't these hanging cocoons the raw materials for those sacrifices?

Zhou Ning shuddered for a moment, squatted down, and photographed the bottom of this lotus leaf plate with a camera, and found that after zooming in, it was actually a horizontal buckle below, and the plate was inserted horizontally by a tight seam, which also explains the problem of different materials, and such a delicate design is convincing.

Squatting on the ground, Zhou Ning looked at the cocoon above his head, counted a total of eight, and the cocoon that Da Zhao had just punctured, it seemed that something was exposed, Zhou Ning stood up and walked over.

Liu Yufei and the others took paper towels and wiped them one by one on lotus leaf plates, and sure enough, each one was covered with such blood-colored stones, translucent, very smooth, and even the outer walls were wrapped in dark stones, but they couldn't tell what kind of stone they were.

Da Zhao leaned next to Zhou Ning.

"I said Zhou Xiaozhou, can we not move these things? After a while, the local police and people from the museum will come, so let's talk about it when they come! ”

Zhou Ning nodded, didn't poke at the hole in the silkworm cocoon, and just as Zhou Ning was about to turn around, there was a clicking sound above his head.

The moment he raised his head, accompanied by the screams of several women, the silkworm cocoon fell straight into Zhou Ning's arms, and the feeling of holding it in his arms was like the kind of crisp broken lantern swaying, and he could easily feel that there seemed to be something in it, shaking in the cocoon, and then a crack stretched from the hole below to the top of the cocoon.

Zhou Ning had already held his breath and glanced at Da Zhao, who was stunned beside him.

"Here, hold it for you!"

(End of chapter)