Yes, what appeared in front of Zhuang Rui was a row of wooden houses, with about twenty rooms. However, after Zhuang Rui took a closer look, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
Even from a long distance, Zhuang Rui could tell that these wooden houses were already dilapidated. He was standing on a relatively high ground and could clearly see that the roofs of many wooden houses were gone. There was no possibility of anyone being inhabited.
not very big.
"Is...is there anyone?"
Zhuang Rui held the javelin tightly in his hand, walked to a place twenty or thirty meters away from the wooden house, and shouted tentatively, his voice trembling slightly.
Although we have entered the 21st century, there is no guarantee that the indigenous people on this isolated island will still retain the habit of eating people. Although barbecue is delicious, roasting your own meat is not a wonderful thing.
In short, it's not wrong to be careful. Zhuang Rui planned to turn around and run away as soon as he saw those people with ghostly symbols painted on their faces and people with naked buttocks exposed.
But Zhuang Rui didn't even think about it. His current situation was no different from that of the natives in those movies. Apart from the jeans turned into shoes, he only had a pair of briefs.
There were also two holes in the briefs, so they probably wouldn't last long.
At this time, Zhuang Rui was filled with both expectation and fear. He hadn't seen anyone for more than a week. Even if he was a native, he would still be able to speak out, right?
However, after Zhuang Rui finished shouting, the situation he imagined did not happen. Zhuang Rui's shout had no echo except for the dust on the shaking wooden house.
What's even more exaggerated is that a wooden house collapsed suddenly at Zhuang Rui's shout, raising dust all over the sky.
"no one……"
Zhuang Rui was already certain that this was an abandoned village. Although he was a little disappointed, it also showed that humans had once lived on this isolated island.
Human beings who can build wooden houses must have had contact with modern civilization. Since they are not here, there are only two possibilities. One is to move to other places on the island, and the other is to have left this isolated island.
No matter which possibility it is, it is good news for Zhuang Rui. If others can leave, of course he can leave too.
Boat... Zhuang Rui can't build it, but as long as he can find tools here and chop down trees to build a canoe, Zhuang Rui is still somewhat confident.
Approaching a wooden house, Zhuang Rui stretched out his hand and pulled on the door. He didn't use much force, but the whole door was pulled down by him, and the door handle Zhuang Rui pulled directly became
The wood slag slipped from the fingers and fell to the ground.
This situation made Zhuang Rui frown. The wooden house was in such a state of decay. It must be at least two or three hundred years old. Could it be that... the people here had left hundreds of years ago?
Because the wood was so rotten, Zhuang Rui did not dare to enter the house, but walked around the village.
"It shouldn't have been built by the indigenous people..."
Zhuang Rui discovered that these wooden houses are all made of log willow nails. Their architectural style is very mature, a bit like the style in Finland and North America. Although it is simple, it is extremely practical, and it is more than 20 meters outside the village.
There are traces of a fence in the place.
"Could this be the pirate's lair?"
Zhuang Rui suddenly had such an idea in his mind, but he dismissed it immediately.
Because according to Zhuang Rui's understanding of pirates through movies and books, these robbers across the ocean attach great importance to their lairs. They have always built their lairs that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is impossible to build their lairs under the gentle slope of Mapingchuan.
place.
Even in the 15th and 16th centuries, those pirates would build their lair like a castle, instead of being so simple. If they encountered an enemy, they would have nowhere to run.
"Let's look for something that we can use first..."
Although Zhuang Rui has a net worth of hundreds of millions outside, in this place, he is a real poor proletariat, and he has to use fucking leaves to go to the toilet.
As long as it is something that humans can use, in Zhuang Rui's eyes now, it is a treasure.
It's just that these dilapidated wooden houses can be classified as ancient protected buildings. Zhuang Rui doesn't dare to go in. Although the wooden beams above have become rotten, someone will still die if they are hit on the head.
After thinking for a while, Zhuang Rui walked towards the collapsed wooden house. The ceilings of these wooden houses should be made of dried coconut leaves tied together and spread on them. However, due to the age, they have already turned into ashes.
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Zhuang Rui took the javelin in his hand and fiddled with the large pile of wood. After lifting up two beams that broke easily, only a thick layer of rotten wood residue was left on the ground.
"This is……"
Zhuang Rui suddenly jumped up an object with his javelin. This object was oval in shape, with a bulge on it and tilted back and forth, but it didn't look like it was made of cloth, otherwise it would not have been preserved to this day.
"hat?"
A term suddenly popped up in Zhuang Rui's mind. Isn't this the hat from the 16th and 17th centuries in the movie? It's exactly the same as the one worn by the pirate with the dark circles under his eyes.
I used a javelin to pick up the object and bring it to my eyes. Sure enough... it was a piece of fur, covered with a thick layer of dust. If I use the terminology of the antique industry, it is an old object with thick patina and age.
Zhuang Rui took the hat and shook it. He couldn't tell what kind of leather it was made of. It was very tough and had not deformed much after hundreds of years of wind and rain.
"Brother, take this thing away..."
Zhuang Rui took the hat and looked at his body. There was no place to put it on. He simply put it on his head. Anyway, after getting up every morning, salt and alkali would be discharged from the chicken coop head, so Zhuang Rui was not afraid of it.
Dirty hair.
"Hey, what is this?"
After putting the hat on his head, Zhuang Rui took the javelin and fiddled with the wood again. Suddenly a gray-white object appeared in front of his eyes. Zhuang Rui hurriedly squatted down, picked up the sawdust with his hands, and picked up the object.
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"Damn it, damn, I don't have such a scary thing..."
After Zhuang Rui picked up the thing, he realized that it was actually a human skull. When he picked it up, the two black eye sockets happened to look at Zhuang Rui. Zhuang Rui was so frightened that he threw it away.
"Snapped……"
After the skull rolled on the ground a few times, a two-inch-long reptile crawled out of the eye socket. Zhuang Rui seemed to be very dissatisfied with his sleep being disturbed.
"Ignorance is not a crime. Your Excellency has a lot of it. Don't blame me. Don't blame me..."
Zhuang Rui bowed his hands to the skull on the ground and muttered a few words.
When he looked into those dark eyes just now, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but think of those cursed pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean, and he couldn't help but feel a little creepy.
"He didn't wear this hat before, did he?"
Zhuang Rui touched the hat on his head. He originally wanted to throw it away, but considering that he was very poor now and it was not easy to accumulate some wealth, he still kept it on his head.
After all, Zhuang Rui is also a person in the antique business. Which of those precious antiques has not been played by countless dead people?
Coupled with his status as a graduate student in archeology, Zhuang Rui calmed down after the initial panic. He took a few steps forward and picked up the skull, holding it in his hand for a while.
To be precise, this should only be half a skull, because the mandible and pharynx are gone, leaving only three dark holes for the eyes and nose.
In archeology, the history of human evolution is also an extremely important course. Archaeological experts must learn to judge the approximate age, gender, cause of death, etc. of the deceased from the bones found in the tomb.
Zhuang Rui naturally didn't have this ability, but he also saw something. The owner of this skull during his lifetime was probably not a local aboriginal, but a Westerner.
According to the knowledge Zhuang Rui learned from books, the bridge of the nose of indigenous people is generally collapsed and the supraorbital rim is raised. However, this skull has a high nose bridge and a flat supraorbital rim, which is more in line with the physiological characteristics of Westerners.
Archeology, like judging a case, is a process of reasoning. Archaeologists have to judge what happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago based on physical objects. Holding this skull, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Judging from the color of this skull, it is already white with a hint of yellow. It must have been a long time ago. Why did these Westerners come to this island hundreds of years ago? How did they leave?
Relatively speaking, Zhuang Rui is more concerned about the latter issue. After Zhuang Rui's observation this week, he found that the island is surrounded by numerous rocks on all sides.
Not to mention a huge ship, even an ordinary yacht would hit a rock and sink if not careful. Zhuang Rui didn't know why those people came here? How did they avoid the rocks?
After standing there stupidly and pondering for a long time, Zhuang Rui shook his head. It was impossible to deduce anything from a dead skull. Moreover, there were no scars on the skull, and the cause of death could not be seen.
After putting the skull back on the ground respectfully, Zhuang Rui started rummaging through the wood debris again, but this time he moved much softer, almost following the archaeological excavation, trying to uncover the person's death.
The mystery requires more physical evidence.
Zhuang Rui's efforts were not in vain. After more than two hours of cleaning, a relatively complete corpse skeleton appeared in front of him.
Although the collapse of the wooden house caused some damage to the bones, Zhuang Rui could still tell at a glance that this person definitely died abnormally and was murdered!
The reason is very simple, because there is a rusty iron piece stuck in the ribs of the skeleton.
After Zhuang Rui and Huangfu Yun got to know each other, they also did more research on foreign weapons from the cold weapon period. If Zhuang Rui saw it correctly, this should be a knight's sword from the 16th and 17th centuries.
