Chapter 6 Skeleton
After leaving the courtyard and not walking far, Zhou Cheng heard a familiar squeaking sound.
When I looked up, I saw the little monkey jumping on the branches, looking very excited.
"Thank you, little monkey. If it weren't for you, I would have died in the mountains. I..."
Zhou Cheng felt his body and found that he had no food on him except the piece of bacon given to him by the old people.
"I'll give you something delicious to eat when we get back."
After a long journey and with the guidance of the little monkey, Zhou Cheng finally returned to the pickup truck parked at the end of the road.
The car was not affected at all during the night of wind and rain.
Lifting the wire mesh, Zhou Cheng fumbled around and found a can of beef. He opened it and placed it on the side of the road.
The little monkey rushed over happily, no longer afraid of Zhou Cheng who was only one meter away from him, and ate voraciously.
That day, Zhou Cheng did not transport supplies to the mountains again, but took a good rest. It was not until the next day that Zhou Cheng once again carried the heavy backpack weighing dozens of kilograms.
"Let's go and get to work."
The little monkey squeaked and rushed into the jungle first.
There were no further accidents in the next few days.
Zhou Cheng put his backpack into the cave and breathed a sigh of relief.
The material delivery has been completed and it is time to move on to the next step.
The arrangement of materials and equipment, the reinforcement and repair of the wooden doors of the cave, the debugging of equipment, the formulation of excavation plans, and so on.
That night, Zhou Cheng set up a tent in the cave and spent the night in the tent.
The next morning, Zhou Cheng brought a shovel and an assembled cart to the tomb of the tribal priest.
Following the traces left by the archaeological team several years ago, Zhou Cheng worked hard to start the earthwork, digging out shovelfuls of soil.
The little monkey was playing by itself nearby, squeaking from time to time to announce its presence.
There was a lot of excavation to do, and the workload was immense. Each shovelful of dirt wasn't very heavy, but the repetition of thousands of shovelfuls a day still left Zhou Cheng exhausted.
This was the foot of the mountain, and there were many rocks in the soil. Some of the rocks were so large that Zhou Cheng couldn't even move them, and had to use a crowbar to pry them away.
Of course, no matter how tired he was, Zhou Cheng always carried his pistol, long dagger and submachine gun on his back.
He never forgot that this was a small plain between two mountain peaks, and the wildlife here was no less than that in the real deep mountains and old forests.
Today alone, he had seen more than a dozen hares, pheasants, foxes, weasels, and other animals. He had also vaguely spotted several large animals, which seemed to be wild boars and deer.
They didn't approach Zhou Cheng, so Zhou Cheng ignored them.
The sun rose, climbed to the center of the sky, and then gradually slid to the west.
Amid the chirping of unknown insects and birds, the sound of the gentle wind and swaying branches, and the roars of wild beasts coming from nowhere, Zhou Cheng finally completed his work for the day.
After returning to the cave with the little monkey and closing the wooden door, Zhou Cheng almost collapsed to the ground, feeling overwhelmed by endless fatigue and pain.
But now is not the time to rest.
I'm so hungry.
After a whole day, the solar film had fully charged the battery. Zhou Cheng did not light a fire, but took out the induction cooker.
He put the filtered water into the pot, took out the piece of bacon given to him by the old people, thought about it, and directly cut off more than three pounds of it, cut it into small pieces and added it to the pot, and also added some seasonings brought from outside.
The water finally boiled, the bacon rolled in the water, and a strange aroma came out.
The little monkey seemed to smell the aroma and jumped up and down around the pot anxiously, squeaking and trying to touch the pot several times, but was too timid to take action.
"Little monkey, don't worry, the meal is not ready yet."
Zhou Cheng said this with a smile, covered the pot, and went to wipe his body to wash away his fatigue.
It was not until almost an hour later that Zhou Cheng opened the lid of the pot and put some compressed biscuits in it.
The broth was boiling and the compressed biscuits were gradually melting, turning the soup into a thick porridge.
After that, Zhou Cheng took out a handful of wild vegetables he picked, washed them, chopped them, and added them to the pot.
The red and white bacon, the white thick porridge, and the emerald green wild vegetables complement each other at this moment, creating a strange picture that makes people drool at the first sight.
But this is not the end.
After turning off the fire, Zhou Cheng took out sesame oil and sesame oil and added some of each to the pot, making the aroma even more unique and rich.
"It's too hot now. We have to wait a little longer."
When the temperature of the meat porridge gradually dropped, Zhou Cheng filled it with two bowls and handed one to it.
After a few mouthfuls of the porridge, Zhou Cheng closed his eyes comfortably, feeling the fatigue of the day quietly dissipate. Looking at the little monkey again, Zhou Cheng saw that it had finished the bowl without knowing when. Now it was leaning comfortably against a rock, its small belly slightly bulging.
Although it was already dark at this moment, it was actually still early.
Zhou Cheng didn't rush to sleep, but came to the entrance of the cave.
The weather is clear at this moment, and there is not a cloud in the sky.
The vast Milky Way stretches across the sky, and a bright moon is surrounded by countless stars.
Zhou Cheng looked for a long time before standing up.
"Go away little monkey, it's time to rest."
Time passed slowly as the excavation continued day after day. As shovel after shovel of soil was removed, Zhou Cheng expanded the small pit left by the archaeological team into a large one, more than two meters deep.
Zhou Cheng dug in with his shovel as usual, but this time he seemed to have unearthed something different.
It has a certain hardness, not like soil, but it is not very hard, nor is it stone.
He squatted down, switched to a small shovel, and cleared away the dirt bit by bit. Finally, a grayish-white bone appeared in front of Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng continued to expand the cleaning range, and then a twisted skeleton with a large pelvis appeared intact.
Zhou Cheng, who had a minor in archaeology, immediately recognized the skeleton as a woman. Furthermore, she was pregnant.
From her twisted bones, it can be seen that she must have been abused and suffered great pain before her death.
"Why……"
With a sigh, Zhou Cheng collected the bones of the unfortunate man one by one.
The discovery of the pregnant woman's skeleton was just the beginning. Subsequently, more skeletons were unearthed.
There were bones of animals and bones of people. Among the human bones, there were bones of pregnant women and non-pregnant women, men and women.
By the twentieth day of the excavation, Zhou Cheng had already unearthed more than a dozen human skeletons.
Zhou Cheng placed them one by one in the cave.
At this moment, the number of specimens is sufficient, and Zhou Cheng knows that he can proceed to the next step of analysis.
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