Human bone cart
"Hey!" Gao Wenwen subconsciously wanted to reach out and pull her, but his current position and posture only allowed one arm to fit in, so he could only watch Zhai Ting fall.
Then there was a loud crashing sound, and no one knew what they had fallen on.
But judging by the sound, it should be a relatively shallow place.
They couldn't tell anything just by observing her, so they decided to follow her route. Yu Fu took the flashlight from Gao Wenwen and said, "Let me go in first."
He turned sideways and slowly stepped one leg in until he was actually in the narrow gap. He felt his body being squeezed from all sides, and his breath would bounce back after hitting the stone wall.
The oxygen around seemed to be constantly compressed at the same time, making it almost impossible to breathe.
The back of his head slowly rubbed against the rough stone surface. Yu Fu held his breath slightly, trying his best to avoid getting the tip of his nose hit.
He was taller and took longer than Zhai Ting, but during this time, apart from the initial sound of falling, there was no new movement from the crevice.
I don’t know if he fainted from the fall or what happened.
It took Yu Fu several minutes to finally reach the edge. He shone the flashlight outward with difficulty and saw the scene inside.
"It's safe, come over."
He placed the flashlight on the ground in the narrow gap and then slowly climbed down. The flashlight was very powerful, enough to illuminate a large area.
After seeing him out of sight, Ding Can followed closely behind and was the second one to walk to the edge of the slit. As soon as he stuck his head out, the scene in front of him suddenly became clear.
It is not known whether the adjacent space was discovered when the air-raid shelter was built, or whether the crack gradually widened over time.
In short, the shallow pit under the body must have existed here a long time ago. Looking at it, Ding Can even felt that it was a bit like a burial pit in a history museum that was enclosed and silently waiting for researchers to excavate and explore.
Could it be possible that he had accidentally stumbled into the tombs of the royal family of the Nanhu Kingdom thousands of years ago?
The shallow pit below is only one meter high from where I am standing now. Even if I jump down directly, I will hardly suffer any damage.
Just now, Zhai Ting fell sideways and fainted because she was in a trance and didn't even look down.
Yu Fu was now taking her out of the pile of bones and placing her on the flat ground nearby. After confirming that she was fine, he began to look up and pay attention to the situation in the narrow gap.
Seeing that Ding Can had reached the edge, he immediately ran over in small steps, moved the bones that might be touched when jumping down to the side, and then stood in a protective posture.
Ding Can had already stretched out one foot, and seeing Yu Fu right under his feet, he quickly waved his hand: "Move to the side, or I'll step on you later."
"It's okay. The road below is uneven. Just jump down. I'll get out of the way if there's any problem."
After seeing Ding Can land smoothly with a thud, Yu Fu followed her out.
Gao Wenwen, who was behind, happened to arrive at this time and of course heard the entire conversation between the two.
"Hey, I'm here too. Why did you leave?" He stretched his head out with difficulty to look at Yu Fu's back, causing quite a stir here.
"I'm worried something might have happened to Zhai Ting, so I'll go check on her first. You're tough, so you'll be fine."
"I..." Gao Wenwen was thinking about what reason to use to refute the past when he heard the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
Yang Qi then urged, "Don't stay here too long. Prolonged breathing obstruction will affect the brain, especially in a dark environment."
Gao Wenwen believed everything the doctor said, even though he was a forensic doctor. So he forgot the ridicule he wanted to say in an instant and sped up his pace to squeeze out.
When Yang Qi came down, he brought a flashlight with him, illuminated the surrounding area, and then looked at the bone fragments under his feet.
Most of them are human bones, but there are also some bones of ferocious beasts such as tigers, leopards, wolves and jackals.
We can't just leave Zhai Ting here like this. If she wakes up and goes crazy again, it would attract other creatures underneath, which would be bad.
Moreover, they also wanted to know where Zhai Ting would have gone if she had not fainted.
At least as things stand now, "she" knows more about this place than the three of them combined.
While others were trying to wake up Zhai Ting, Yang Qi's professional habit took over and he walked to the pile of bones and began to sort them out.
First, separate the species, then according to the location and function of the bones.
Among the several tibias found here, he noticed that the surface edges of the bones were not smooth, but were carved with something.
Thanks to the special material of bones, they will not be corroded for tens of millions of years, and the scars and marks on them can of course be preserved very perfectly.
It was something like an inscription, which he couldn't recognize. He felt that it looked very much like a combination of circles and straight lines of different sizes.
The mysterious and strange characters remind people of the wizard that the village chief once mentioned. It makes sense that these exorcism spells were carved when the leg bones were being exorcised.
Ding Can squatted beside him and watched together. Although he didn't understand, it was very interesting for a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder to see the messy bones arranged in rows and columns in front of him.
"Any explanation?"
Yang Qi explained, "After death, the bones themselves still remain attached and remain combined into a single unit, which is what we usually call a skull."
"Even if the bones were shattered by external impact, they would still be surrounded by bones from the same individual. However, it's difficult to find a strong correlation between these bones based solely on gender and age."
This means that the bones are so scattered because before they turned into bones, what was piled here were no longer complete bodies, but body parts from different identities.
"When the bone cart was made, it was only mentioned that the leg bones were used. There was no mention of how the other body parts were processed."
Gao Wenwen snapped his fingers and speculated, "If that's the case, maybe the wizard is worried that the ghost will want to come back for revenge even if they lose their legs, so they're preparing more efficiently, cutting up the body and storing it separately so they can't find a way back."
If I can't even put my own body together, how can I have time to think about other things?
Yu Fu saw Zhai Ting's hand on her leg move: "She's about to wake up."
In view of her previous performance, they all took a small step back tacitly. In the light of the flashlight, they saw her eyelashes fluttering for a while, and then slowly opened.
The sudden sight of the light source did not affect her eyes at all. She did not even blink, and sat down again and stood up.
In the midst of the chaos, he still had time to raise his hands and brush off the dust on his body.
Ding Can tried to speak to her: "Zhai Ting, where are you going?"
When she heard the name, the girl's expression seemed to pause for a moment, but it was only a moment, and she immediately took a step forward.
At first, we were in a shallow pit and didn't see any particularly obvious passages. We thought it was just a burial pit somewhere. Maybe the main body of the tomb had been destroyed many years ago, so we couldn't conduct any useful research.
But following Zhai Ting's steps, she stopped in front of another pile of bones. There were piles of bones here, and no one thought it was anything special, so they lost the desire to explore.
She opened her hands, lowered her head and dug around for a while, and actually found a hole hidden deep inside.
"Hehe..." A few strange laughs came from her mouth, floating in the entire space, making people's scalp tingle.
"What is she laughing at?" Gao Wenwen looked at the dark entrance of the cave and silently prayed in his heart for the evil-repelling spells he had learned, hoping that one of them would work at this moment.
Zhai Ting put her hands on the ground and crawled in fearfully using her hands and feet. Her crawling movements were much faster than her walking just now, as if she had found the meaning of life again.
After she advanced a few meters and confirmed that everyone around her had caught up, she stopped again and said to Yang Qi, the last person standing, "Hide the cave entrance."
Zhai Ting's voice was noticeably hoarse at this moment, and only a small amount of her original tone could be heard from it, making people feel that at least part of the person in front of them was still the same person.
Yang Qi was stunned when he heard this, and then realized the current situation. It seemed that if he didn't take any action, Zhai Ting would really be stuck here and could not move forward.
He remembers to close the door when entering someone else's house. How should I put it? He is quite polite.
So Yang Qi turned around with great difficulty, grabbed a handful of bones, and after rolling them up, he was able to at least block the view of the cave entrance.
Now, there was no need for anyone to remind her. Zhai Ting continued to move forward, and her speed was much faster than before.
Fortunately, the corridor is actually very small, otherwise it would be really difficult to keep up with her current speed.
Just like that, we finally arrived at the underground palace in front of us.
With the illumination of the eternal lamp, the flashlight is useless here.
Gao Wenwen looked at the huge oil storage barrel connected to the back of the eternal lamp with a mysterious expression. After so many years, only a small half of it had been consumed.
It is really difficult to fathom the wisdom of the ancients, and it will take a long time for the experiments to be completed.
This underground palace is extremely empty, and it is difficult to identify the identity of the tomb owner based on the utensils placed there.
The most visible burial objects were the row of carriage plates in front of him, but Ding Can felt a little puzzled.
Shouldn't this be a cart for human bones? Why are the wheels empty?
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