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Chapter 312 The Thickened Plant

Looking at this strange hemispherical building made of loess bricks and the corpses inside, Yang Lei scratched his head and said, "Is it possible that this loess bag is a tomb? If you look at it this way, is it true that all the people inside are here?" There is a corpse under the loess bag! That’s too exaggerated, how many people will die.”

After listening to Yang Lei's words, the others shone around with their flashlights.Around a few people, there are countless such loess buildings densely packed. If there is a skeleton under each loess bag, then the number of people buried here is staggering.

It might be hard for others to believe this, but Chen Ziyang felt that it was very possible that Yang Lei was telling the truth.Recalling the previous scene where the ghost of the little girl was counting trees and carving patterns on the wall, Chen Ziyang probably understood what was going on.

Those small figures lying on the horizontal lines carved on the wall by the little girl should refer to the corpses buried here, and the weird characters next to those patterns should indeed be numbers. These numbers record The thing should be the number of people buried here every time the little girl sees, or the number of stretchers carried in front of her.

According to this inference, it is very likely that the number next to each small person lying on the horizontal line refers to the number of people who died in a day.There are more than 100 villains drawn on that wall, which means that for more than three months, people in this ancient country died every day, and the number of people who died every day was definitely not a small number. Why is this?

Although it was hard for Chen Ziyang to believe this, he felt that his deduction should be correct.Because there were too many people who died, the little girl stopped writing numbers on the sides of those patterns, because she couldn't count how many people died that day.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang knelt down and carefully illuminated the bone with the beam of the flashlight, trying to figure out the cause of this person's death.He had guessed before that the only thing that could kill so many people at once was war.

If this man really died in the war, there must be some traces left on his bones.Either the damage caused by a sharp weapon, or the fracture caused by a strong blow, this is also likely to be the cause of this person's death.Knowing this will help you to speculate on what happened in this ancient country.

The body of the skeleton is wearing burlap clothes. Although the burlap is very strong, after so many years, the burlap clothes have been broken into pieces, and the whole body is exposed. Chen Zi He carefully looked at the skeleton in front of him from head to toe.

Probably because of the special geographical location and climate here, this skeleton has been completely preserved.Except for a very few relatively small bones, there is not a single bone missing in the whole skeleton, but there is not even a single damage on the skeleton.

This is a bit strange. Could it be that this person died because of the war?Of course, there is a loophole in inferring that this person did not die in war just from the fact that the skeleton was not damaged. It is very likely that this person died by cutting his throat, or was injured by other internal organs. All of this is possible without breaking bones.

While Chen Ziyang was studying the skeleton, there was a sound from the side. Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren had already smashed open another intact loess building with tools. As expected, under these loess bricks There was also a body lying there.

The noise attracted Chen Ziyang's attention, and he hurried to the side, staring at the second skeleton, but this time, he was a little confused.This skeleton is still intact, and there is no damage to the bones of the skeleton.

Because the age is too long, these loess bricks have completely lost their moisture and are very brittle. These tombs can be easily opened with very little effort.When Chen Ziyang was looking at the second skeleton, Instructor Liu and the others had already opened several such loess bags.

Seeing that there was a skeleton under each loess bag, Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren stopped, and it would be a waste of energy to continue, seven or eight such loess bags in a row. should be the same.So the two of them wandered around, wanting to see if there was anything else worth noting.

Chen Ziyang still stayed where he was, staring at the other skeletons, and the more he looked at them, the weirder he felt.The third skeleton is particularly conspicuous. This is not the skeleton of an adult, but that of an eleven or twelve-year-old child.

The child's skeleton is still very complete, but because the skeleton is relatively thin, many bones have rotted away.But Chen Ziyang saw that the edges of the missing bones of the skeleton were very smooth and very natural. They should have been corroded naturally, and there were no obvious traumatic wounds on the bones.

The first two skeletons belonged to adults. Even if there were no wounds on them, Chen Ziyang felt that it was more likely that these two people died in war. After all, if it wasn't for war, it would be difficult to kill so many people at once. .

But it doesn't make sense for an eleven or twelve-year-old child to be buried here. No matter how tragic the war is, such a child should not be sent to the battlefield.

Even if the child died in the massacre of the enemy, there should be some traces left, and the bones will be more or less damaged, so it is very likely that the child did not die in the war. Could it be that he was buried here? Isn't the cause of the death of the people because of the war?But there are other reasons.

It may be an accident that one person has no breaks in the bones, and it may be a coincidence that two people have no breaks in the bones.But what about three?Even after Chen Ziyang looked at all the seven or eight skeletons, he couldn't find a single bone that was damaged by an external attack.So Chen Ziyang changed his mind. His previous speculation should be wrong. These people died in other ways.

Seeing Chen Ziyang staring at the skeletons carefully, Yang Lei who was standing aside felt a little strange. "Er Yang, what's so interesting about these skeletons? Have you seen too many skeletons? Why are you staring at these loess bags?"

"These are not loess bags, they should be coffins." Chen Ziyang replied unintentionally.

"I don't study much, don't lie to me. I have seen a lot of coffins, but I have never seen a coffin like this. I have seen wooden coffins, stone coffins, and copper and iron coffins, but I have never seen one. I've heard of someone making a coffin out of loess."

"There are many kinds of coffins, and the materials you just mentioned can indeed be used as coffins, but they must be tailored to local conditions and cannot be generalized.

This place should be on the edge of the desert before, so the wood in this place should be very precious, and the number of trees should be very small, so it is impossible to use wood to make coffins here.

By the same token, stone is unlikely.Even large stones are very rare in the desert, let alone stones that can be made into a whole coffin, so there are no stone coffins here.It would be strange if you could see it. No one would transport such a heavy and large stone so far just to make a coffin.

Artifacts such as copper and iron were very precious in those days. They were rarely used except as weapons, and no one would use these metals to make coffins. It was not easy to smelt a piece of iron. There are not enough weapons, how can materials such as copper and iron be wasted on making coffins.

I kid you not, these are indeed coffins.I once read a news report about a tomb in the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the whole coffin was built with this kind of loess blocks outside the coffin in the tomb, which played the role of the coffin.

The loess coffin in the picture is very similar to the appearance of these soil bags, and I just thought of this.It is likely that because of the geographical location, people who died here could not afford coffins at all, so this disguised method was used to bury them. "

Speaking of this, Chen Ziyang suddenly thought of a question, why are all these people buried here neatly?Even if a person from the ancient Yumi country died, all he needed to do was wrap him in sackcloth and find a place to bury him. There was no need to build such a building with loess on the outside of the corpse, which was too much. It's a waste of energy.

If it is said that the dead person was a person of status, there is nothing wrong with doing so.But there are so many corpses here, it's impossible for everyone to have some status. It is estimated that civilians account for the vast majority. Why would people from this ancient country use this method of burial for them?Chen Ziyang couldn't figure this out.

Seeing that Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren had gone far away, the other three followed. After all, they would not find anything if they stayed here. That's it.

Perhaps instructor Liu was anxious about the treasures of this ancient country, so after simply looking at a few loess coffins, he led Xiao Ren to a very far place.

The other three found them by following the flashlights of Instructor Liu and the two, and found that the two were staring at the vines on the wall in a daze.

Probably because of the bad light here, the two instructors Liu walked a little off the direction, and the two of them came to the edge of this space again.

Chen Ziyang looked at the place where the two people were looking. The side walls of the space here were still covered with strips of vines. These vines were still arranged horizontally, one next to the other, crowding the entire wall. up.

"What are you two looking at?" Chen Ziyang asked strangely.The five people were divided into two teams before, and they explored the left and right sides of the space respectively. Both teams reached the side walls of the space, and all of them saw these vines.So Chen Ziyang couldn't understand why instructor Liu was so fascinated by what he had seen.

"Do you think...these plants seem a little thicker." Instructor Liu said to Chen Ziyang while looking at the vines on the wall.

After being reminded by Instructor Liu, Chen Ziyang found that this was indeed the case.The vines on this wall do look thicker than those I have seen before.

When I first entered this space, the plants on the side walls on both sides of the space were about the thickness of a human finger, but at this time, the vines climbing on the wall in front of everyone seemed a little thicker, and they were thicker than normal people's. The thumb is thicker.

Instructor Liu turned his face away, and shone a flashlight along the vines on the wall.Within a range of more than 100 meters illuminated by the flashlight, the entire wall is still covered with such plants, but because the plants in the distance are somewhat unclear, everyone has no way of judging whether these vines are getting thicker .

"It's not surprising that the plants are getting thicker. You said that you people like to make a fuss every day. Aren't the roots of all plants thick at one end and thin at the other? I really don't know much, so there's nothing to make a fuss about." Yang Lei Said disdainfully.

"You are right. All plants have thick roots at one end, so have you ever thought that these plants are likely to be the roots of some kind of plant. Such weird, hard vines indicate that these plants are unusual.

If these things are not vines at all, but the tip area of ​​the root system of certain plants, then we walk along these plants, and when we reach the focus of these root systems, what will we see. "

On the surface, it seems that instructor Liu's words are answering Yang Lei's question, but in fact he is talking to himself. These words are all for himself. Rather than saying that instructor Liu is talking, it is better to say that he is thinking.

Chen Ziyang also discovered this problem. Generally speaking, the thickness of most vines is basically the same.The plants in front of everyone were obviously thicker. Coupled with the reminder from Instructor Liu, he felt more and more that these were not vines at all, but might really be the roots of certain plants.

This is too exaggerated!Chen Ziyang thought to himself, what kind of plant can grow so many roots?And the roots are so strong!Even after more than 2000 years ago, these plants can still protect the integrity of this underground space.

Reaching out, he touched the strange plants again.The same as before, these plants are still very hard, the feeling of pressing them is like pressing on a stone, and the color of these plants seems to be darker.

Before Chen Ziyang finished watching the strange plants in front of him, instructor Liu who was standing aside thought for a while, then his eyes widened suddenly. He turned around hastily and looked into the depths of the underground space. Then he said loudly to the crowd:

"Follow me, let's follow these plants."

(End of this chapter)