The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 62
go right...

Who is this message from?what's on the right
Now there are two roads in front of me, I just choose one of the two. I was surprised, so I held up the lighter and looked to the right.The passage on the left is round and dark, and it leads to nowhere, while the passage on the right presents a regular quadrilateral, with edges and lines, and neat stone bricks can be seen where the fire shines. With a strong western style.

Where does this right lead to?Compared with the rough-looking burrow on the left, the obvious artificial style tunnel on the right makes people feel more relaxed.I took a look at the traditional Chinese characters on the wall, and decided to follow its instructions and go to the right to see what would be on the right.

Going forward along the square tunnel, but about thirty steps away, the tunnel in front of me has come to an end. At the end, on the left and right sides, there is a square stone pillar more than three meters high, with two lizard-like pillars wrapped around it. animal, spitting out pointed letters.

Behind the stone pillar is a khaki-colored stone gate. The gate is like the petroglyphs I have seen before, with simple lines engraved with many human figures, flowers, trees, animals and the like.

I couldn't help being surprised, how could there be a stone gate in the ground?What is behind this stone gate?
I held up the lighter and looked closer. The stone gate was half opened, revealing a width for people to enter and exit. The people on the stone gate were dressed in Western Region costumes, most of them were shirtless, only wearing trousers and belts, and their faces were very serious. Pious, all eyes are looking at the same place.

Following the line of sight of these people, one can see that where the line of sight converges is a circle, resembling the sun, but in the center of the circle, there is a big human-shaped mouth. Surprisingly, there are still many little people.

This thing is eating people!
I froze for a moment, feeling that what this ancient stone painting expressed completely puzzled me.What does this circle represent?Why does it eat people?And for its cannibalism, the people around not only did not show panic, but why did they seem to be very reverent and pious?

Of course, no one can answer these questions for me, because the person who carved on the stone gate has already died for hundreds or thousands of years.I withdrew my gaze from the weird stone painting, held up the lighter and started to walk inside the stone gate.

The scene behind the stone gate surprised me, because as soon as I walked in, I saw stone steps.It is the kind of stone steps that are very big and tall, with one layer on top of another, resembling a pyramid. I counted the stone steps. There are eight floors in total, and the above eight floors are covered with dry earth and rocks.

I immediately realized that this pyramid-like stone step probably led to the ground at the beginning, but now it has been buried by soil.

I held the lighter and walked around. Except for the stone steps at the entrance and an open space, the rest of the place was full of landslides. The real face behind this stone door was hard to see.Other than that, there is no junction to the ground.

I decided to go back and take the road on the left. Since this place is blocked, the exit must be on the left.

Unexpectedly, when I turned around and planned to go back, I suddenly found that there was something sprawled out in the corner behind the opened stone door!
When I came in before, I only looked at the environment in front of me, and didn't notice the back of Shimen. Now I turned around, but I could see it clearly. I was so scared that my scalp exploded and I took a step back.Due to the relatively short distance, it can be clearly distinguished from the weak light of the lighter that it is actually a person.

To be exact, it was a mummy.

It was lying on the ground, skin covered with bones, and its whole body was black. Under the firelight, the corpse oil secreted on the surface glowed with a layer of oil, as if it had been waxed.The clothes it was wearing were mixed with the corpse oil, and its shape could not be seen clearly.

The dehydrated mummy is lying there, only the size of a dirt dog. I probably have been frozen in the water for a long time, and I have some colds. Nor would it have been discovered until now.

To be honest, I was quite scared. It's not that I haven't seen dead people recently, but this is the first time I've seen a mummy, especially since this mummy has been behind my back for so long.How could a normal person have the opportunity to see this? I was afraid on the one hand, but on the other hand I couldn't help guessing the identity of this corpse.

who is it?
Why did it die here?

With this kind of doubt, I approached him, and couldn't help but look at it up close.The corpse was lying on its side on the ground, with one hand on its chest, as if covering something, and the fingers of the other hand were slightly bent into claws, as if it had experienced some painful struggle before death, or as if it was dead. At that time, I was pushing hard to reject something.

In addition, there was a bag on the corpse's back.

It was a flattened bag, and there seemed to be nothing left, but judging from the shape of the bag, it can still be seen that this mummy is a modern person, not an ancient person.

Could it be that group of people?

With a thought in my heart, I pulled out the dagger and cut its bag with the dagger, intending to see what was in its bag, maybe I could use this to confirm its identity.

"No wonder, I just want to find out your identity. You are famous in life and famous in death. You definitely don't want to die in such a place without a sound. As long as I can get out alive, I will help you to inform your family. Bless you." As I said that, I cut open the corpse's backpack, and something suddenly leaked from the backpack.

Most of these things were soaked with corpse oil and looked greasy. Inside was a compass, an empty water bag, a thick black pen, a small bottle of ink, a bundle of paper tied with a rubber band, and It is a black leather notebook.

I cut the rubber bands of the bundle of paper and spread out the paper. The paper was completely soaked with corpse oil. There should have been something drawn on it, but I could only see some blurred and intermittent lines. Other than that, nothing can be seen clearly.

There are no clues.

I pushed the paper away and turned to the notebook.It was an old-fashioned black leather notebook, which some government officials or scholars liked to use in the past. I opened the notebook. Similarly, the notebook was soaked with corpse oil along the edges, so the front and back were glued together. , the things written on it are completely invisible, only the middle part is less wet, and the words can still be seen. ,
The characters are traditional characters, and the font is correct and tough, showing that the owner of this notebook has a good education.

Although traditional characters are not commonly used, most people can understand them, only a few rare characters have to be guessed.I started reading from the middle and found that it was a study notebook.The owner of the notes, that is, the owner of this mummy, is actually an archaeologist.

I am in awe, but at the same time feel that this matter is even more confusing.An archaeologist, why did he die here?What was his cause of death?I looked down the notebook, and the more I looked, the more frightened I became.

Since I looked at it from the middle, and there was a lot of corpse oil in the middle, I actually didn’t understand many parts when I looked at it from the beginning to the end, but those parts that I understood were enough to make people shocked.

The owner of the notebook, whose name is unknown, should be around 45 to 25 years old when he died, and the time of death was about [-] to [-] years ago.

Entering the Gurbantunggut Desert is for an investigation, looking for a place called 'Yellow Nest Ancient Country'.

Huang Chao, a transliteration, is a small country in the Western Regions. The history of the Western Regions has always been rarely recorded, so the history of the ancient country of Huang Chao is even more confusing.There is a very frightening legend about the ancient country of Huangchao.

According to legend, there lived a god in the underground of the ancient kingdom of Huangchao. Under the blessing of this god, the ancient kingdom of Huangchao once prospered and prospered. Under the rule of this tyrannical monarch, someone made a plan to destroy Huang Chao's patron saint.

This patron saint was dug out from the ground in a sophisticated plan, and at the moment it was dug out, suddenly there was a strong wind, the ground burst, and the entire capital and palace of Huangchao fell into the ground in an instant. underground.

The surrounding small countries took the opportunity to annex Huangchao completely, and this legendary country disappeared into history just like a flash in the pan.

According to records, most of Huangchao's territory was annexed by a warlike country called 'Zi Liu', and the oasis we are in now was once the territory of 'Zi Liu' country.In other words, it is the territory of the ancient kingdom of Huangchao.

This group of people found this place and stayed in this oasis for more than a month. The ecological environment of the oasis is perfect, and food and drink can be replenished on the spot. The snake hole leading directly to the water outlet was dug out by them.

The reason why the snake cave is curved is for underground positioning. This underground positioning is more professional. I don't study archaeology, so I don't understand it.

(End of this chapter)