"Ah!" Pei Mianman screamed, but she immediately realized that exposing her position in such a strange environment was not a good thing, and hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth.
She subconsciously grabbed Zu An's arm and pressed her body tightly against him, as if she could feel some warmth in this way.
Feeling her slightly trembling body, Zu An secretly lamented that although she was usually majestic, she was still a little girl at heart. It was normal to be scared after seeing this visually shocking scene.
Not to mention the other person, even if he was a man, he would be frightened when he saw this scene. If he was the only one, he would have jumped up in fright.
But there was a woman next to him, and she was a beautiful woman. For some reason, he suddenly became less afraid.
No wonder companies in previous lives often arranged for men and women to collaborate on various tasks. Women can inspire men's courage and hormones, greatly improving work efficiency. In the same way, men have similar stimulation to women.
He cleared his throat and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, they are just bones. They have died long ago."
Pei Mianman's face turned red, and he was obviously a little embarrassed about his gaffe: "Huh, I'm not afraid of them alive. By the way, is this an ancient battlefield?"
Zu An came to a nearby skeleton and knelt down to observe it for a while. He shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not. I didn't see any weapons nearby. It shouldn't be a battlefield."
"What if the victorious side kills the surrender? Naturally, it is impossible to place weapons beside them." Pei Mianman said, "There is a legend that in ancient times, a demon god killed 400,000 surrender soldiers at once. It is really terrifying."
Zu An was stunned, was she talking about Bai Qi? He didn't expect that there was such a legend in this world.
He always felt that this world was inextricably linked to the Earth in his previous life, but he had studied books on the geography of this world in college before. If the above descriptions were not exaggerating, this world was much larger than the Earth, so he did not
Maybe the Earth.
Shaking his head to dispel the distracting thoughts in his mind, he replied: "It's unlikely that they are Sha Jiang. The postures of these people do not seem to be tied up with their hands behind their backs, nor are they kneeling on the ground. They don't look like they are Sha Jiang."
Look."
He had just observed several nearby skeletons in succession, and naturally noticed these.
"Could it be that you were buried alive? I just noticed that you can't seem to grasp the wall." Pei Mianman came to the wall beside him and poked it with his finger. It was hard and seemed to be coated with a layer of grease.
The thing is extremely smooth, "This seems to be to prevent people in the pit from climbing up."
"Buried alive?" Zu An looked strange, "Did you forget one thing? There is no soil here."
Pei Mianman's face instantly turned red, and then he realized that he had been stupid. If they had been buried alive, these skeletons would still be buried in the ground. But the reason why they fell down just now was because the pit was hollow, with only one on top.
A fragile soil layer.
"Then tell me what's going on?" She felt embarrassed and snorted angrily.
"I don't know how they died. I just think one thing is strange, that is, their heads seem to be pointing in the same direction." Zu An said solemnly.
Pei Mianman was stunned and hurriedly looked at the bones around her. She also thought it was a bit strange before, but she couldn't tell where the strange thing was. Now after being reminded by him, she finally understood that although these bones were lying on the ground in different postures, they had some differences.
One thing is the same, that is, the heads of almost all the skeletons are lowered, as if they are looking at something under their feet.
Zu An checked again and said: "They were not hanged. The neck bones of the hanged people were broken back without bowing their heads. And I just checked other places specifically. There is nothing obvious about these skeletons."
The existence of wounds proves that they were not killed by weapons; and there is no blackening on their bones, nor does it look like they were poisoned."
Pei Mianman's face turned pale: "Don't scare me. What you say is getting weirder and weirder."
Zu An sighed: "This place is already weird, so there is no need for us to find out the cause of their death. Let's find a place to go out first."
As he spoke, he came to the wall next to him and observed it, and said with some confusion: "Hey, I remember that we rolled over a long slope when we fell down. Why are these walls straight now?"
"This place is so weird." Pei Mianman also thought about it. Just now Zu An hugged her and rolled down from it, but now the surrounding walls are at a 90-degree angle to the ground. Where is that?
Existence of slopes?
Zu An also had an ominous premonition in his heart. He put aside the various thoughts in his head, then looked at the top of his head and said to himself: "This doesn't seem to be very high."
This pit is about twenty meters deep, which is definitely out of reach for ordinary people, but for practitioners, this distance can still be tried.
"Wait here for a moment. I'll try to jump up first and take a look." Zu An said to Pei Mianman. It's not like he had never jumped so high before, but he often needed to borrow some strength midway, but now the wall is so smooth.
It was so hard that I could only try to jump out at once.
It would be okay if he fell down, but Pei Mianman was injured. If he failed to throw her off when he jumped up with her in his arms, it would be troublesome.
"Well, be careful!" Pei Mianman was as obedient as a little daughter-in-law.
Zu An nodded, then took a deep breath, slightly bent his legs, and then kicked the bottom of the pit suddenly, and rushed up like a cannonball.
"You should be able to jump out." Seeing that he was about to reach the ground, Zu An said with a smile. He could feel that there was still a lot of room for his upward momentum. He would definitely be able to carry Pei Mianman out later.
"Be careful!" At this time, Pei Mianman exclaimed from below.
Suddenly there was a bang, and he felt a sharp pain coming from the top of his head. Two
My ears also buzzed and hurt, as if I accidentally bumped into the tempered glass door when I entered a shopping mall in my previous life.
If his body hadn't been extremely tough, I'm afraid his head would have been bruised and bloody at this moment.
He screamed and fell from the air. Pei Mianman on the side rushed to pick him up, but she was seriously injured and did not have enough strength, so they both fell to the ground soon.
Zu An hurriedly looked up at the sky. He just seemed to faintly see a blue light curtain appearing above his head.
Sure enough, a transparent seal appeared on the top of the pit out of thin air. The light blue runes on it were extremely strange. They were completely different from the runes he had seen in this world. However, it looked vaguely familiar. What on earth was it?
Woolen cloth?
His thoughts were racing in his mind, and he suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "I remembered, this is the Taotie pattern!"
I have seen some TV documentaries in museums before. Many bronzes unearthed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties have such patterns on them. Some are called "taotie patterns" and some are called "animal patterns". Anyway, they are all similar.
mean.
"Can you please take your hands away first?" At this time, an angry voice came.
Zu An looked down and realized that he was right on top of Pei Mianman. Because of the fall, he subconsciously wanted to support the ground with one hand, but it happened to be pressed on her chest.
“So soft!”
This was Zu An's first thought.
"so big!"
At this time, Zu An had his second thought, but he immediately came back to his senses and hurriedly let go of his hand: "Well, do you believe me when I say I didn't mean it?"
"I know." Pei Mianman's face turned red and he stood up again with his help.
Now it was Zu An's turn to be dumbfounded. She was not angry at all. You know, in the past, someone in the academy tried to pretend to be accidentally hit by her, but she chased her with black fire for a long time. In the end, the teacher came forward to save him.
.
"Why is there a seal above?" Pei Mianman didn't seem to take it seriously at all, and just continued to look above his head, "We just fell from above."
As he spoke, the seal with flashing blue lines above his head slowly dissipated, and finally turned transparent again, but everyone knew that it was still there, and would appear again once triggered.
"It seems that we can only look for any other way out of this pit." Zu An could feel that the seal above his head was almost the same as the previous stone tablet, and it was not something they could break with their power.
Pei Mianman hummed and was about to answer when his voice suddenly trembled: "Why are the eyes of those skeletons over there glowing..."
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That’s it for today. I’ll make up for it tomorrow.
This chapter has been completed!