Huaiqinglin's uneasiness caused everyone's uneasiness at the same time. The monks and the others subconsciously tightened their grip on the things in their hands. Mustache went over and whispered a few words to Huaiqinglin. Huaiqinglin's expression had returned to normal. He just
He said a few words to Mustache, then nodded slightly and stepped aside.
"This pool must be dug, start now." Mustache turned around and ordered everyone.
"What's in there?" The monk and Liang Zi looked a little uncertain. From Huaiqinglin's actions just now, everyone could see something wrong.
"Whether it's in here or not, we have to dig." Mustache's tone was very calm, but I could see his brows frowning slightly.
What on earth is going on? I stood aside secretly and guessed that this small pool that was about to dry up not only made Huaiqing Lin's expression change, but also made people like Xiao Hu start to frown. What could be in it? Could it be something?
It was indeed here, but there was an invisible danger lurking, so the group of Xixia people led by Shi Pan failed to take the things away?
Mustache was the absolute core of the entire team, and no one dared to contradict his words in person. The monk, Liang Zi, and Da Zuo only hesitated for a moment, and immediately began to prepare to go into the pool.
At this time, Jiang Chen, who had never expressed any opinions, started to get ready to go into the water. Mustache did not stop him.
The small water pool is very small, and you can see the scene below clearly when you stand on the shore. The monk and Liang Zi Jiang Chen stepped into the layer of mud at the bottom of the water pool. They walked very slowly, and their mustaches were on the shore.
He pointed out a rough direction to them, which was the center of the small pool.
The three people walked step by step towards the center of the small water pool. There was mud everywhere and a little residual muddy water. The monk was holding a very long stick in his hand. When they were approaching the center of the small water pool, their steps stopped at the same time.
Come down.
"There is a pit here." The monk turned around and said to us. The stick in his hand was suddenly inserted into the mud in front of him. The mud was very thick. I don't know how deep it was. All the sticks more than two meters long had not been inserted yet.
Bottomed out.
"Clean out the pit." Xiao Hui and Huaiqing Lin looked at each other secretly, with ugly expressions on their faces.
Although the pool is small, it is a huge task to drain so much silt and muddy water. The monks discussed it for a while, and then asked the people on the shore to move stones for them. The monk used a stick to remove the invisible hole in the center of the pool.
The approximate location of the pit was determined, and then we began to send stones towards them. Stones surrounded the outside of the pit to block the silt and muddy water in other places.
The pit in the center of the pool was completely surrounded by stones and was about four or five meters in diameter. The monks and the others began to clear out the mud inside. The people on the shore kept staring and were a little nervous.
The monks and the others squatted beside the pit and continued to dig deeper. Gradually, the shovel was no longer long enough, and after the upper layer of sediment was dug out, an indescribable smell wafted out of the pit, which was worse than ordinary rotten leaves.
There were a lot of them, but the smell was not very pleasant anyway, and they floated all the way from the pool to the shore. The monk wiped the mud on his face, and then inserted the two-meter-long branch into the pit. The branches were all in, but the bottom of the pit was still not there.
It looks very deep.
At this time, the three of them were already very difficult to work. They could only pull out a rope from the shore and lean down to dig. The monk specially used a shovel to clean the wall of the pit. The wall of the pit was very hard, like
It's stone.
Liang Zi emptied a backpack and threw it into the pit. When the monk filled the backpack, he pulled it up, poured out the contents, and started digging again. It was okay at first, but as he kept digging, the sediment became as sticky as rice porridge.
The same, and the stench is getting worse. The deep pit at the bottom of the pool is impervious to water. Once it rains, the pit will be filled up. Although part of it will evaporate, the remaining part will be accumulated inside.
The monk was so tired that he was sweating profusely. The smell in the pit was not only unbearable for his nose, but also made him unable to open his eyes. The smell in the dry toilets in the early years was better than this. Liang Zi looked at the monk and said:
I couldn't hold it anymore, so I asked him to come up, and the three of us took turns to do it. I became more and more curious, and as soon as I stepped towards the water pool, Mustache immediately stopped me and said, "Just stay up there, people have died in this pit."
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I was startled and asked casually: "How do you know?"
"This stench is mixed with a very faint corpse odor. Although it is not strong, it is definitely corpse odor."
I subconsciously looked at the bag of sticky stuff they had just pulled up. My throat itched and I almost vomited out yesterday's meal.
"What's so weird here?" I asked Mustache quietly, "Even Huaiqinglin's face has changed."
"If there's something fishy, it's a big fish." Mustache looked back at me, and I noticed a hint of helplessness in his expression that was hard to detect.
When the monks came up, they could hardly stand. Their eyes were full of tears. They sat holding their heads for a while before they recovered. They got a piece of gauze to bandage the trauma, dipped it in water and covered their mouths and noses, and continued down the pit.
Dig and use as many vertices as possible without getting fainted.
The three of them took turns digging like this, bringing up more and more sediment, but the two-meter-long branch still couldn't be inserted to the bottom. They had to stop after dark. The three of them smelled better than a swill bucket.
Don't go there.
After another day of work the next day, the pit at the bottom of the pool was cleared out to a depth of three meters. At this time, almost everyone knew that the pit at the bottom of the small pool seemed to have been dug out manually, because the walls of the pit were
The ax chisel marks are very obvious.
"Why did you dig such a hole at the bottom of the pool? Did Shi Pan and those Xixia people dig it?"
I vaguely realized that Xiao Hui and Huaiqing Lin might have insight into the truth, but they kept silent about it and only supervised the monks and their work every day.
We dug here for three days, working hard to clear the pit to a depth of five meters. The branches were finally able to reach the bottom of the pit, and a skeleton was dug in the middle. It was the remains of some animal, it had long since rotted.
It's all gone, and there is no other gain except that the immunity to odors has been greatly improved.
However, it seems that the stone pit is almost at its end. What is inside will soon be revealed.
When the pit was dug to a depth of more than seven meters, there were a lot of gravels of different sizes at the bottom of the pit, which were covered with a layer of gravel. After clearing away this layer of gravel, the monks and the others brought pieces of gravel from the bottom of the pit.
Something came out.
First of all, there are a lot of bones, which makes people want to vomit just looking at them. Mustache is not disgusted, so he roughly makes these bones into human shapes. Some of the bones are broken, but there are not many bones, which shows that these people died directly.
In the pit. Moreover, they were thrown into the pit alive and then crushed to death by the rubble.
Little Beard was piecing together these bones, while Big Zuo was sorting out other things. There were daggers, a weird-looking kettle, and two almost unrecognizable box cannons.
Seeing the box cannon, you can tell the approximate age of the people who died in the pit. It wasn't very long ago, but it wasn't very recent either.
The three corpses were all pieced together by mustaches to form complete remains. I only took one look at them and vowed not to look at them a second time. The skulls of the corpses were all filled with holes the size of rice grains, and they were so densely packed together that it made people spit out gall.
Neither is satisfying.
I stood behind Mustache, my scalp felt tight, and I couldn't help but turn around and wanted to leave. At this time, Mustache used a dagger to pick out an object from the neck bone of a corpse, rinsed it with water, and I took a step forward.
He stopped moving and immediately came over.
This is another Huwei card, firmly tied to the neck of one of the skeletons. There is no doubt that it must be the Wei family.
I didn’t think about anything anymore, and immediately used a knife to pry open the silver medal, just to confirm the identity of the body. The inside of the Huwei medal was well preserved, and the two lines of small words were very clear. I knew at a glance that this piece
The owner of the brand is Wei Changxin, the old man’s fifth brother.
I was silent for a moment and put away the Huwei card, but I couldn't figure out why the old man's fifth brother died in this stone pit and died so miserably.
"Can you tell how a person died from the bones?" I asked.
"Their skulls are all abnormal, but all three of them were thrown into the pit and stoned to death. Otherwise, there is no need for three people to squeeze into such a small pit together. The Wei family are all old people.
I won't make such a stupid mistake."
After these things were brought up, the monk and the others were still working, cleaning up all the gravel bit by bit. After maybe more than three hours, the monk climbed out from the bottom of the pit and told us that the pit had really bottomed out.
, nothing more.
Xiaozi and Huaiqinglin jumped into the mud from the shore almost at the same time, and then quickly came to the edge of the pit, looking very unwilling to do so.
"What's in this pit?" Ma Dad pulled me and whispered, "It makes Beard so nervous."
The pit was bottomed out, and there was nothing but the three bodies that were smashed to death inside and some random things. Looking at the actions of Huaiqinglin and Xiaozi, a bright light suddenly flashed in my heart.
There was probably something in this pit originally, but it is gone now. In other words, the thing was taken away. When we first arrived here, Huaiqinglin probably noticed something was wrong.
Soon, Xiaozhu and Huaiqinglin returned to the shore one after another. They each washed the dirt on their bodies without saying anything. Xiaozhu slowly walked alone into the sparse forest on the bank of the pool. I thought about it.
I thought, and then followed him.
"Is the information in the parchment wrong? Maybe the thing called the artifact is not here at all?"
"No." Mustache shook his head and said, "Most of the information in the parchment is correct."
"Since the information is correct, we, and... and my eldest uncle and five uncles, will all return in vain."
"There is only one reason for our failure." Mustache retracted his gaze and smiled complicatedly: "Lu Xiuhuang deceived everyone."