gifted collector

Chapter 388 Corpse Pit
Niu Ping was not far away from Fang Ming, and Fang Ming yelled loudly, and he heard it right away.

"What's up……?!"

Before Niu Ping finished speaking, he immediately realized that Fang Ming must have discovered something. He immediately rushed towards Fang Ming without caring about the hole he dug.

"What's wrong? What did you find?"

Fang Ming put the Luoyang shovel in front of Niu Ping, and said, "Old Niu, look, there are such things in the soil layer I dug out."

Niu Ping squatted down immediately, and stretched out two fingers to pick up the soil brought out from the Luoyang shovel.

As soon as the soil came into his hand, he immediately found that the soil was very loose, and his heart moved, knowing that it must have been filled in later, otherwise it would not be so loose.Put the soil on the palm of your hand, rub it, and found that there are fine white particles in it.

"Old Niu, what is this?!"

Fang Ming also squatted down. He had noticed something white in the soil before, but he didn't know what it was.

"bone!"

Fang Ming was taken aback, and said: What?bone? "

"Well, yes, the greyish-white thing is human bone, and it's aged and decayed."

"This... If it's a bone, doesn't that mean that there used to be a corpse under the excavated soil?"

Fang Ming frowned, "But, there is no coffin."

The tradition of Chinese people is to be buried in the earth, and before being buried in the earth, one must first enter the coffin.The coffin is an important thing in the burial.Not to mention princes and nobles, even ordinary people have to find ways to get a coffin before they are buried in the ground, and if they can't, they even have to get a straw mat!

So, under normal circumstances, if there are bones in the excavated soil, shouldn't there be some remnants of a coffin?

However, judging from the excavated soil, you can't see it at all, which is really a bit strange.

"Well! Yes, indeed."

Niu Ping nodded in agreement. He has many years of experience in tomb robbery, and he can tell at a glance whether the bone in front of him is a human bone or something else. But as Fang Ming said, if it is a human bone, then There should be a coffin, right?Since there is no coffin, it proves that the people buried in the soil below did not use coffins.

Those with coffins may have hit the place where the imperial mausoleum is, but if there is no coffin, then it is definitely not the imperial mausoleum.

"How deep did you hit?"

Fang Ming pointed to the pole and said, "I discovered it when I was still using the pole."

At this time, Fang Ming had already calmed down. If the distance was so shallow, it would definitely not be the imperial tomb—there is no imperial tomb buried so shallow in this world.

Niu Ping stood up, picked up the Luoyang shovel, and continued to punch where Fang Ming made the hole. He lifted it up and looked at it and said, "This is probably not the imperial mausoleum, but it is very likely that there are many bones. A lot of people were probably buried."

When he made the first shovel, Niu Ping felt that the soil below was very soft, and the Luoyang shovel went down and ate it all at once. Moreover, after a total of more than a dozen shovels, there was no white debris on the soil brought out by the head of the shovel. There are no bones, which means that the soil layer with bones below is more than half a meter-the distance that a dozen shovels have driven down is almost this distance.

Judging from this, it naturally means that there are bones in a distance of about half a meter!

"Ah? Isn't it? So what should we do now?"

Kan Ping looked at the surrounding terrain, thought for a while, and said, "Fang Ming, look at the surrounding terrain. The area around [-] square meters is slightly concave, so I think this is probably a pit. .”

Fang Ming took a look and found that what Niu Ping said was not wrong at all. It was indeed that the place under his feet was slightly concave. This was probably because the soil below was softer than the normal soil layer. Under the action, it naturally sank.

"Should be, shall we dig?"

Fang Ming hesitated for a while, but finally said this sentence. Judging from the soil layer dug out by the shovel in Luoyang, the place with bones underneath is not deep, and the soil layer is not hard. It's not too difficult to have something.

Apparently Niu Ping thought the same way, because Fang Ming immediately nodded in agreement after he finished speaking.The two returned to the place where they camped and took out the small shovel they had prepared before returning, and started digging without talking nonsense.

Fang Ming was young and strong, and moved quickly. As for Niu Ping, he was also experienced, so he dug very quickly, and bones began to appear after only half a meter deep.

Niu Ping's judgment was not wrong at all, it was indeed a human bone, because when Fang Ming carefully sorted out a piece of ground, he found a basically complete skeleton.

When we continued to dig down, there were more and more bones, and many of them were stacked together.

Fang Ming and Niu Ping worked hard for a long time, basically clearing the entire ground.

"Old Niu, it looks like there are a lot of people buried here, dozens if not a hundred."

Fang Ming looked at the bones in the pit, shook his head and smiled wryly. Although he and Zhao Zhuzi had brought down two people and buried them in the desert before, there were only two of them after all, but there were hundreds of them in front of him. ah!
Even if it is a pig, this is not a lot, let alone a human?
"Well, why are there so many corpses here?"

At the beginning, Niu Ping thought that it might be the people who built the imperial mausoleum at that time. After it was completed, they were all killed in order to silence them, and then buried here, but now it seems that it is not the same thing, because the imperial mausoleum is so The things must have been hundreds of years old. If the people who built the imperial mausoleum were killed and buried naked in the soil for such a long time, they should have decayed long ago, at least it is impossible to keep them so intact.Therefore, the bones in front of me should not be those who were killed to build the imperial mausoleum, so it is impossible to be buried with them.

So... who is it?
Niu Ping frowned.

"Old Niu, do you think there are people who came here to dig the imperial tomb before?"

Niu Ping looked at Fang Ming suddenly, this is very possible.

However, if it was really the people who came to dig the grave as Fang Ming said, why did so many people die here?
The treasure was found and there was a conflict, and all these people were killed in the conflict?But in this way, another problem will arise: since he was killed in the conflict, why not just dump the corpse in the wilderness, and dig a big pit to bury it?
This is unreasonable!
"Old Niu, this should be a military plaque, it is written in English, the one buried here must be a soldier!"

Fang Ming suddenly noticed that there was a piece of iron on the side of one of the bones. He picked it up and found that it had been corroded quite badly. Only half of it was left, but two English letters could still be seen from it.

Niu Ping took it over and looked at it. He didn't understand English, but he knew that this thing couldn't be ancient, so it was reasonable to speculate that these bones might be the corpses of people who came here to blow up tombs decades ago.

"It seems that there were a lot of people who came here back then!"

Fang Ming sighed, so many people have died here, so there will be even more people coming.

"Go back. Continue tomorrow."

Niu Ping looked at the corpses in front of him in a daze for a long time, but finally shook his head, turned around and walked to the camping place. Although he knew that the possibility was unlikely before digging, he still hoped that the corpses in the ground were buried with him. and the like, but he didn't expect that it was someone who came to rob the tomb, which didn't seem to be of much use.

The fire was burning brightly, Fang Ming, Niu Ping, and Zhao Zhuzi were sitting around, but there was nothing in the sky above the fire, nothing at all.

"Dug out a large number of bones? Found the military plate? This is a good thing."

Zhao Zhuzi yelled. Recently, he has been in charge of "security" work, and it is only now that he has dug up a large number of bones.

"Ok?"

Niu Ping was a little depressed, but Zhao Zhuzi's words attracted his attention.

"This shows that the people who came here back then were aiming at the imperial tomb, and I think they probably haven't succeeded yet."

Fang Ming picked up a twig and scratched it into the fire, and pulled out a few spherical, burnt black mud balls—it was dinner tonight.

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

"It's very simple. Those people must have had an accident during the tomb robbery process, so they died. Only in this way, those who are alive will bury the dead."

"Moreover, I think that because too many people died, the people who came to the tomb did not dare to continue digging, so they left. After they went back, they left the information here, so there are those who we encountered. people."

Fang Ming and Niu Ping glanced at each other. The possibility Zhao Zhuzi analyzed had never occurred to them before, but it was reasonable and probably quite close to the truth.

"Old Niu, will there be a large number of casualties during the tomb robbery?"

"Yes! Of course there is!"

Niu Ping nodded without any hesitation at all and said, "Actually, in our line of work, a lot of people die every year because of robbing mechanisms in tombs. Especially in those large tombs, there are often exquisite mechanisms. Generally speaking, there are poisonous arrows, poisonous smoke, traps and the like. Although these things were laid out many years ago, they still have great lethality until today. Once encountered, it is very likely to kill people."

"Actually, there is no such arrangement, but after so many years, it is unpredictable what kind of things will be in the tomb or what kind of poisonous gas will be accumulated, so many times when grave robbers enter the tomb, He was killed by an invisible killer."

"Zhu Zi's reasoning is very likely to be valid. The bones we found should be people who came here to rob the tomb. This imperial tomb doesn't seem to be easy to mess with."

Fang Ming's brows were tightly frowned. If those people from decades ago quit because too many people died, then even if he and Niu Ping could find the location of the magistrate, they would face the same situation. The problem.

(End of this chapter)