I raised my wrist to look at the time, inserted the hammer back into the ground to make a mark, and then said to the people, "It's been a long day's work, let's rest and eat something."
This time, we prepared extra ingredients such as cabbage, vermicelli, potatoes, and pork, as well as an induction cooker.The air in the northeast is dry, especially in the mountains and forests.If it is not particularly necessary, I don't want to start a fire, which could easily cause a large-scale forest fire.We started a portable diesel generator, connected an induction cooker, washed the ingredients with snow, stewed a large pot of noodles, huddled together in a folding steel room and ate noodles to replenish energy, and then continued to dig the big hole.After the division of labor was clear, Shen and I vigorously dug the soil, and Zhang Yi and Liu Fatzi poured the soil outward and dug until it was dark.As the sapper shovel slammed into the hard object, we finally dug into what was deep in the ground.It was a large clay pot with a sealed mouth, and I don't know what was inside.We didn't stop and continued to dig around the area, digging out more clay pots.There are quite a few clay pots, one next to the other, and each clay pot is half a person high.We used a rope and related auxiliary equipment to lift a clay pot to the ground with the joint efforts of everyone.At temperatures of about minus 20 degrees, I wasn't worried about the poison inside, I was only worried about the venom or gas inside.Shen Dali put on a gas mask and gloves, fully armed himself, and carefully opened the lid under the illumination of many flashlight beams.Under the cap, a dark red silk cloth is wrapped around a wooden stopper, which seals the mouth of the bottle.Shen Dali stretched out his hand to grab the stopper, and after a moment of silence, he pulled out the cork with force.With a "poof", the mouth of the pot was opened, and a faint white smoke emerged from it, accompanied by a pungent stench.I asked Shen Dali to step aside quickly, and then led everyone to wait around for a while, knowing that the smoke inside had cleared, before I went up to check.At this glance, I couldn't help but gasp.The clay pot was black and contained half a jar of earth-like things, and among the black substances, several white bones and a skull were very conspicuously revealed.Before opening the pot, I guessed a lot of possibilities, and I guessed that it would contain human bones.Although I was mentally prepared, I still found it incredible.Could it be that so many clay pots are filled with human bones?
Yang Qing stared at the side for a while, and suddenly said "Huh", as if she had discovered something.I hurriedly asked Yang Qing: "What do you see" Yang Qing frowned and said: "Fifth brother, have you noticed it, that skull seems to be smaller than a normal person, could it be a child" After Yang Qing's reminder, all of us noticed the size of the bones inside.Leng Yue, who had been beside us and didn't participate in our actions, suddenly walked over, separated the crowd, leaned out his pair of iron chopsticks, pinched out the bones inside one by one, and pieced them together on the snow.In a short time, a complete human skeleton was presented in front of us, causing everyone present to look at each other.The length of this skeleton is no more than one meter two, so it should indeed be the bones of a young child.However, I soon discovered that I had completely overturned my previous conclusions."
This is an adult skeleton, looking at this length, it is estimated that he must have some kind of disease, so that he can maintain such a height as an adult."
When I finished speaking, Zhang Yi asked suspiciously: "How do you see it?"
I pointed to the sacrum on the skeleton and said: "A child's sacrum has five pieces, and when he becomes an adult, he will be combined into one; Here, too, the child's tailbone also has five pieces, and when he becomes an adult, he will also form one; And" Liu Fatzi poked out his round head, looked down carefully for a while, nodded and said, "Don't say it, what the fifth brother said is true."
Looking at it this way, this is really the skeleton of an adult.But this man is too short," we looked at the skeleton for a while, and we all fell silent.I asked Leng Yue to use the pair of iron chopsticks to flip through the sleeve again to see if I could turn over a few more bones.Leng Yue nodded in agreement, poked out the iron chopsticks and rummaged for a while, shook her head and said to me, "It's gone." ”I nodded thoughtfully, lost in thought.Suddenly, I thought of a possibility, a very absurd possibility.So, I hurriedly said to everyone, "Come, everyone, take a hand, and drop a few more clay pots." ”Everyone said yes in unison, and they all moved.Although there are many of us, under this already dark sky, it is still quite panicked to look at a skeleton.When you have something to do and get busy, you can suppress the fear in your heart.However, fear accumulates in our hearts layer by layer as the clay pots are opened.Each clay pot is filled with a complete skeleton, and all of them are adult skeletons, with a height of between 1.2 and 1.4 meters.A pair of skeletons were placed on the snow by the cold moon, which deeply stimulated our eyeballs, and then the howling cold wind blew, and the moon in the sky flickered and darkened, and the unprecedented coldness and fear began to tear at our fragile nerves.Zhao Zitong hid behind Yang Qing, and said very dissatisfied: "You said, everyone is here to rob the tomb, why are people dead when they dig up so many skeletons, don't bother, let's bury them back" Yang Qing comforted: "Don't worry, the fifth brother must have his reason for doing this, let's see what the fifth brother means." ”Zhao Zitong shouted at me: "Wu Yi, no, fifth brother, if you have anything to say, say it quickly." ”Liu Fatzi laughed and teased Zhao Zitong: "I can't see it, you are also afraid of being like this."
Come, my brother will lead you to touch the bones of the ancients, this is a new experience. ”Leng Yue moved next to me and whispered in my ear, "Proportions." ”I have no interest in Zhao Zitong and Liu Fatzi's bickering, so they are all emboldened.I was more concerned about what Leng Yue had just said, because this discovery confirmed my previous ridiculous speculation.If the dead were dwarfs, the skulls should be unusually large, and the limbs should be incongruously short.However, the size of each piece of these skeletons is just right, as if the skeleton of a normal person has been reduced in equal proportions.The proportions are just right, and it is not a child, then there is only one possibility of the result.I beckoned Yang Qing over and asked her in a low voice: "Have you ever heard of dwarves" "Ah" Yang Qing was startled, frowned and asked: "Fifth brother, you said these are dwarves" Before I could answer, I heard someone say behind me: "That's right." ”At first, I thought it was Zhang Yi or Shen Dali, but soon I noticed that Zhang Yi and Shen Dali were also looking behind me, and both frowned.Zhao Zitong and Liu Fatzi were arguing, and Leng Yue and Zhao Zitong were next to me.In this way, who is the person behind me who is speaking, please visit: aa2705221: