Stalactites will grow even if they are broken, but they grow slowly. The ceiling of the cave here is not high, probably less than three or four meters.
Strips of stalactites hung down from the ceiling of the cave. After they were broken due to gravity, a long, crystal-clear crystal grew out of the fracture.
These transparent long strips of crystals hang down densely, like a "crystal curtain" appearing in front of us.
This kind of crystal-like long strip should be called "goose tube" in geology.
Goose tubes are the initial form of stalactite growth and development. They are rich in calcium carbonate and aqueous solution. They can generally grow one centimeter in a few decades. Natural caves like this are not polluted, resulting in goose tubes that grow from the top of the cave to be flawless and white in color.
Jade, so I call it Crystal Curtain.
I don’t know if this thing can be sold as crystal, because it looks very similar. If it can be sold as crystal and made into jewelry, it would be worth a lot of money. I saw Bean Sprout hiding a piece of it in his bag.
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Passing through the goose tube area, I saw a few scattered bones on the ground.
I knelt down and took a look, and asked, "Look, is this an animal bone or..."
"It's not animal bones, it's human bones." Ah Chun said calmly.
"Human bones...dead people...?"
At first, there were not many bones scattered here and there. The further you go, the more human bones there are. You can easily spot one by shining a flashlight on it.
There are small finger bones and a thigh bone broken into several halves.
It's a bit strange, not a single skull was seen.
When we were doing this, we saw a lot of dead people's bones. I wasn't that scared, but I was surprised. I didn't know why there were so many bones here.
He stopped his head, frowned and asked me: "Yunfeng, do you remember that sentence?"
"It's on the stele of Gui Zai Temple?"
"Under the head, the underworld becomes a temple..." Baotou murmured to himself, "Is this a kind of funeral culture?"
"Headou, you mean...these bones are those of the people who mined limestone at that time? Then where are their heads?"
He looked around, frowned, shook his head and said, "I don't feel like this is a sacrificial culture, like some kind of funeral ceremony."
Let’s start by talking about funeral culture, that is tomb culture. Relevant experts once speculated that it was the mausoleum of Emperor Shun. This is wrong. Emperor Shun lived more than 4,000 years ago. Let’s not talk about whether there was the concept of “imperial mausoleum” at that time. Even if there was, in
In a cave environment with such high air humidity, it is impossible for such white bones to be preserved and will rot into slag.
Time must be pushed back.
After walking a few dozen meters further, suddenly, a deep pit appeared in front of us, with a circle of stones piled around the upper edge of the pit.
The pit is bottomless and very dark.
He raised his head and frowned and said, "Wen Bin, don't let us go down. You tie a flashlight with a rope and send it down for a look."
Brother Yu nodded.
Brother Yu first tied three flashlights together, turned on the flashlight, and slowly sent it down with a rope.
The three flashlights are placed next to each other, and they are turned on as diffuse light, illuminating a large area. When they are sent downwards, they are like small suns, dispersing the surrounding darkness inch by inch.
Everyone lay down on the hole and looked down.
When the rope was halfway down, for some unknown reason, our flashlight suddenly started to flicker, as if the voltage was unstable.
"careful!"
Wow!
No one expected it, and I don’t know if it was affected by the strong light.
Suddenly a swarm of bats flew up from the bottom of the cave.
