After leaving the tower, the Qin brothers and sisters and Gongsun Zhi went to the bamboo forest and caught a big black fish to make sashimi, which was so delicious that the brothers and sisters wanted to live here for ten days and half a month, and they had already forgotten the missing Jiang Jin wine.

Fortunately, Gongsun Zhi has been thinking about it, and the three of them went on the road after eating.

As early as when Qin Zhaoyun was tracking, he had already discovered the stone road to Que Mu Mountain.

The three of them walked forward quickly, and soon came to the front of Que Mu Mountain.

As far as the eye can see, the steamed bun-shaped mountain is bare, and there is no soil on the surface, and it is full of rocks. There are many semi-circular openings in the mountain, which are thought to be mine caves.

If the people here had survived for more than 2,000 years and dug the mountain so full of holes, it is estimated that there would not be a few catties of ore left in the mountain, and perhaps Quemu Mountain would have been reduced to a barren mountain and uninhabited.

The three of them climbed to the top of the mountain and looked out from above, and vaguely saw that there were several houses near the river at the foot of the mountain on the north side of the mountain, which had a strange shape and looked like a conical tower from a distance. Next to each house there is a windmill, the blades are missing, and none of them are turning.

It seems that the houses at the foot of the mountain are most likely deserted, and the three of them do not plan to go there, but when they look at the mountain peak that does not exist on the map, they find that the peak is surrounded by dense forests, and only a stone road leads from the east side of the house into the nameless mountain.

The three of them had no choice but to move towards the bottom of the mountain, and it was not easy to walk along the way.

The rocks on the north side of the mountain have been washed smooth and round by the rain, and the slope is very steep in many places, so if you accidentally slip, you will roll to the end.

There are only a few wild grasses and wild flowers growing between the cracks of the rocks, and there is nothing to cling to, so you have to be careful every step.

Halfway up the mountain, the mountain is like being bitten off, and a wide platform appears. There is a large cave inside the mine, and the entrance is huge, and two buses can enter in parallel. There are many carts and tools in the cave, and there is no bottom inside, and it is estimated that it is deep into the mountain, and it is not known that the whole mountain has been hollowed out.

On each side of the platform, there is a large turntable lying flat, through which the iron cables with thick calves pass through it, and then pass through the iron hangers at intervals at intervals at the bottom of the mountain until the large turntable at the foot of the mountain.

Near the turntable are a number of iron hanging baskets with hooks, which can seat four people. The three of them exclaimed, isn't this a human-operated high-altitude cable car!

Unfortunately, it takes more than six people to turn it, and three people can't use it, so they can only walk down the mountain.

On the left side of the platform, a groomed serpentine path leads down the hill, ending in a small square behind two rows of willow trees. Not far from the square is the cone-shaped tower seen at the top of the hill, and there is still a part of it at the bottom, which is shaped like a semi-circular loaf of bread, and the whole is a smelting furnace.

There are nine smelting furnaces, lined up, each spaced about five meters apart.

The three furnaces closest to the square were foundry rooms, which were now empty, without even a single piece of raw material.

The farthest furnace was very close to the river, and a culvert was built and a sluice gate was built along the river. The trio discovered that the culvert ran underneath the nine smelting furnaces, and that the mouth of the ditch was in a large stone pool on the west side of the square.

Shitan is also very close to the river, no one has cleaned it up for a long time, it has been overgrown with weeds, and sewage has accumulated, if you don't pick up the grass, you will definitely not be able to see the mouth of the canal.

Gongsun Zhi praised that the design of the ancients was really close to the people.

The culverts under the nine smelting furnaces are more than 100 meters long, and if the smelting furnaces are in operation at the same time, even if the high temperature of hundreds of degrees is transmitted to the ground, there will be only 100 degrees Celsius, and the water flowing through the river will be at least 40 degrees Celsius when it enters the stone pool, which is just right for bathing.

But if a mountain needs nine smelting furnaces, will there be such an abundance of minerals?

Gongsun Zhi was very puzzled by this, and when he saw the six residences a hundred meters away from the west of the square, he wondered even more, "If there are only these few households, how can they do such a huge operation?" ”

In this case, I had to look around the house and maybe find useful information.

When I got closer, I found that the entire house was a stone structure, and the exterior was painted as if it was made of trees. The house has only one floor, more than 200 square meters. The door is on the left side of the east wall, with two windows on the right side, and four at the back of the house, with no windows on either side.

The triangular roof is covered with fish-scale tiles, and although the surface is rough, it flashes with light, presumably cut from ore.

Each house is surrounded by a bamboo fence and is divided into a front, back, and side yard. There is no sign of cultivation in the courtyard, but there is an iron cage in the front yard, which is supposed to be used for raising poultry. The backyard is paved with stone slabs and a canopy, which looks like it is for storing items. In the courtyard on the right, there is a stove, a bamboo table and six bamboo stools. There is a bamboo hut in the left courtyard, in which several wooden barrels with lids are placed, which is a thatched house.

The three of them entered the first stone house, and the layout of the main hall was very simple, cleaner than expected.

There is a flower stand under the window on the east wall to the right of the door, and the plants in the pot have long since died. Next to the trellis are two wooden shelves that look like they are used for clothing.

On the south wall to the left of the door are two wooden boxes with various tools.

Rao is three people are well-informed, and they can't even recognize all of them. In particular, a six-pointed long knife, shaped like a cucumber with a hedgehog head, is almost the same as a weapon. There is also a leather armor, which has a tough texture and is inserted with iron pieces to strengthen protection, but the leather armor that cuts off both breasts and stomach is the size of a fist, can this still protect people?

However, these objects are made of excellent materials, strong and resistant to corrosion, and the three of them are puzzled.

There is a wooden couch on the north wall and a wooden couch on the west wall, with a small table and cloth cushions next to it.

At the end of the west wall, there is a door missing, and a curtain made of bamboo knots hangs. Inside is a horizontal corridor, four rooms side by side, about the same size.

The three of them opened the door of the first room and saw a human skeleton lying on the ground!

Seeing the human bones coldly, the three of them gasped.

The skeleton lay on its side on the ground, wrapped in a blue cloth skirt, undamaged, badly faded. On the beam above the human skeleton is covered with a cloth belt tied with a dead knot, the fracture is torn, and some liquid has been absorbed and has turned black, and it can be preliminarily judged that the deceased was hanged.

Although the three of them had seen two human skeletons on the tower, there were at least signs in the building. However, the appearance of a human skeleton in a quiet and peaceful dwelling with no signs of fighting indicates that strife is everywhere, and it cannot help but make people feel uneasy.

The three of them went to check the human bones and found many suspicious points. First of all, the room is relatively clean and there is no smell.

A large amount of solution will flow out of the corpse during the process of decay, but there is not a trace under the human bones. If the human bones had been moved here from somewhere else, then the clothes would have been too intact. If the cloth is contaminated with the solution, it will become tattered, and there will not even be a hole like now, unless someone waits for her to turn into white bones and puts on a new dress.

However, the hair is scattered in the skull, and the ends are concentrated, and the ends of the hair are stuck to the ground with oily solidified objects.

It is speculated that no one cared about the person after he hanged himself, until his body rotted and the cloth belt rotted before falling to the ground. Because the hair hangs down on the back, the ends of the hair absorb the putrid liquid, and the oil in it contains oil, so the ends of the hair stick to the ground when the person falls to the ground. This indicates that the room is the first scene, unless the hair is not of the human skeleton.

Moreover, the human bone was very white in color, and the percussion sound was hollow.

Human bones that naturally decay in an indoor environment do not become as white as paper, but rather waxy yellow. Even if the bone is left for 180 years, it will not become hollow, but will be honeycomb inside.

If he wants to become what he is now, it is likely that this person has severe osteoporosis and was bled when he died. Otherwise...... Boiled people in wine......

However, is it necessary to make a simple death by hanging so complicated!?

Qin Xuan also found that there were many white thorns on the inside of the deceased's clothes, as if they were barbs on some kind of thorn, but they were much longer than the thorns. What's even more strange is that there are some fine spines in the inside of the nasal bone, the inside of the vertebrae and ribs, and the space between the tibia, and they pierce into the bone, but the color is black.

Qin Xuan shuddered, "Senior brother, you say, could these thorns be pierced when people are alive?" ”

Gongsun Zhi didn't speak, got up and went to check the room.

In the corner of the wall to the left of the door stood a wardrobe, which was full of neatly stacked cloth shirts and long skirts, some women's belongings and bedding.

There was a crib in the middle of the house, the mattress inside was free of dirt, and a carved sheep was placed at the head of the bed.

The cloth on the windows of the west wall was torn, but the dressing table under the window remained neat, and the bronze mirrors standing on it had not been blown down by the wind.

There are several hairpins and headdresses in the makeup box, and a comb, all of which are made of silver, and the style is very simple and simple. There are also two small boxes of rouge, one white powder and one red grease, but now both have solidified into lumps.

The bed is on the right side of the dressing table, with only a small wooden stool on it. There is a low cabinet at the foot of the bed, on which is placed a copper kettle with a thin bottle mouth and a large belly, which should be filled with water on weekdays. In the cabinet are copper chopsticks and utensils, and a small stove.

Gongsun Zhi took a turn and didn't find anything abnormal.

However, if there is no abnormality, it is abnormal, otherwise how could a human skeleton appear for no reason.

The three of them went to see the second room, and Qin Zhaoyun pushed the door and knocked it down!

However, what greeted me was a patch of green, and the house was overgrown with grass!

This is not surprising, seeing that there is no foreign object inside, the three of them go to the next room.

There was a bolt in the third room, and Qin Zhaoyun had no choice but to make a miracle and kick the wooden door that could not stand the years in half.

The door panel smashed up a puff of dust and a sour smell of rot, so smoke that the three of them covered their mouths and noses and stayed away from the door.

When the dust was scattered, the three of them came to the door, and when they looked out, they saw a person on the bed!

In the past, it was two people, and they have become white bones.

The two of them sat opposite each other on the couch, their tops were less rotten, and their hair was still hanging on their heads, so they looked like people.

The bed and floor under the two of them were all dry and dark in color, and there were many dried corpses of flies and insects on them, indicating that the two died here until they were ossified.

Although the process is the same, what is strange is the way the two died.

The two bodies were held against their heads, their left hands resting on each other's shoulders, and each holding a short knife in their right hand to stab under their ribs until the tip of the knife was level with their collarbones.

That is, when they were alive, they stabbed each other in the abdomen with knives, and then the tip of the knife turned up and pierced the heart. The key two need to exert their forces at the same time to pierce each other's hearts, so that the two of them will die instantly, and they will always maintain the posture of stabbing each other.

However, even if the two of them agreed, it would be difficult to do it at the same time, unless they didn't feel pain.

Looking at their clothes, the two are a man and a woman, and the difference between strength and weakness is more difficult to achieve, what is the situation that can make the two so ruthless, just based on the situation in the house, the three of them can't guess.

There were no signs of a fight in the room, the furniture was not damaged, and the room was not cluttered, as if the two of them did it on a whim.

At this time, Qin Zhaoyun noticed that the short knife used by the two of them was brown color as a whole, with a slight rust spot, and the blade was still sharp.

He thought that if the dagger was made of copper, it should have become darker and more rusty after being stained with the putrid liquid. If the iron is rotten early, I think that there is gold in the picture that there is gold in the Quemu Mountain, could it be that the short knife is plated with a layer of gold?

Thinking of this, he became interested, and took a knife to watch. I didn't expect the weight to be heavier than iron, and the sound was crisp and solid when I knocked it, but it looked like pure gold!

Qin Zhaoyun was shocked: "No! The two of them are not golden swordsmen! He hurriedly handed the knife to Gongsun for examination.

Sure enough, the dagger was pure gold.

No wonder the two were able to stab each other successfully, and the short knife of pure gold was extremely sharp, and the weak woman could use it easily.

But this made the three of them even more puzzled, and they couldn't guess the reason.

Three words "why bother".