The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 499 Ruins
They are a group of nine people in total, three people from each group.The teammates with Wei Liming are a man and a woman. The woman's name is Cai Yun, and everyone simply calls her Caiyun.Wei Liming and Caiyun have been working together for more than two years. They are young people who get along day and night and come together naturally. The two have a deep relationship and are nicknamed the "golden partner".

The nine people sailed the fishing boat all the way, and there were some small accidents in the middle, but overall it was very smooth. In the daytime of No.20 for three days, they reached a piece of sea area.Since the small island has no specific coordinates, they can only stay in that sea area and wait until night to search.

The moonlight was very bright that day. At around ten o'clock in the evening, there was almost no need for people to search deliberately. Everyone saw a hazy light on the dark sea level, as if coating the sea with a layer of silver yarn. eye-catching.

The crowd immediately approached with their boats. The so-called ghost island that exudes hazy light is actually not that big, and its shape is uneven.

They docked the boat at one of the corners of the five-pointed star, which was a natural pier, and immediately the nine of them boarded the island with their equipment.

The island is wet, the depressions are full of water, there are fish and shrimps in the puddles, and the whole is a black reef, with various shellfish and soft tissue organisms attached to the reef, it seems that a certain corner of the seabed was suddenly pushed out Like the surface of the sea, the fish and shrimps who had no time to retreat lingered in the shallow puddles. Some sea crabs tried to go back to the sea, but the undulating reefs often made them fall a few times.

A group of nine people started to investigate on Ghost Island. For the nine people, this island was full of infinite attractions. They stayed for six nights in a row. Every day in the early morning, the surrounding sea water seemed to rise suddenly. The island is submerged.

Everyone speculates that this place should be in an area where the tide or the earth's magnetic field is very unstable, so this ghost island phenomenon is formed.Everyone had brought diving equipment, so after the sixth day, in order to save time and get a better understanding of this ghost island, they decided to go into the water.

A total of five people went into the water, Wei Liming, Caiyun, Wang Chenggang, Liu Fengwei, and Mingzhou, all young people, and there were three older people on board, that is, the leaders of each team did not go into the water, and the remaining one was in charge of looking after the boat. vessel.

After the five people entered the water, they dived about ten meters and saw the ghost island in the water.

It was not until they were at the bottom of the water that they could see the whole picture of the ghost island. It was quite miraculous. It was like a mushroom. extended into the deep sea.

This is too strange, and this kind of shape is absolutely impossible to be formed naturally.

The five people underwater were greatly shocked, so they decided to continue diving and headed for the column under the island.When approaching this reef pillar in the sea, an even more shocking situation appeared. I saw that there were a lot of holes on these reef pillars.

These holes are not big, but the holes are densely packed, filled with human heads one after another!
Everyone was startled, they were still young after all, it was unbelievable to encounter such a situation, they immediately floated to the surface of the sea, boarded the boat, and told the four people on board the situation in the sea.

Three of the four people are old seniors. Hearing this, Professor Xia of the archaeological team thought for a moment and speculated, "Could it be a sea burial?"

Among the five, the one named Ming Zhou is an archaeologist, and he knows more about these burial customs than the others, but when he heard the words, he showed doubts and said, "Sea burials? Sea burials were not like this in ancient times. .”

Professor Xia said: "The sea area is vast, coupled with population migration, many large islands have some unique civilizations. There is a kind of sea burial that is very rare, and most of the people who carry out this kind of burial are islanders." Immediately afterwards, Professor Xia Then I talked about the sea burial customs of these islanders.

Due to the limited area of ​​the island, and the islanders also have a very simple concept of heaven and man, they are worried about living on the island and constantly asking for it. Sooner or later, the resources on the island will be exhausted, the trees will die, and the plants will no longer sprout. .

And people are the biggest takers of all these. If you want to recycle the life of the island, you must return your body and soul to the island after death, so a very peculiar form of sea burial was born.

That is, after a person dies, the head is cut off, because the ancients believed that the head is where the soul of the person resides.

Then a hole was drilled on the reef under the island, and the head was placed in it, meaning to support the island with the soul so that it would never fall into the sea.After the head is cut off, the corpse will be buried in a place far from the water source, and the corpse will be used as fertilizer and given back to the island.

This peculiar form of sea burial, with the relocation and landing of the islanders, is only a flash in the pan, and there are few records. If professionals like Professor Xia know something, ordinary people really can't figure it out. The reef below will be covered with dense holes and human heads.

This discovery made Professor Xia very excited. He said: "It seems that the area of ​​this island should have been very large, otherwise it would be impossible for the islanders to reproduce for a long time. Perhaps it is because of an abnormal magnetic field that the tide submerged the island, so the It has become what it is now.”

Ming Zhou said: "Those islanders died due to the abnormal tide?"

Professor Xia said: "This possibility is very high. If we want to know the truth, we should go into the water and take a look." For archaeologists, this discovery is tantamount to a surprise, and Professor Xia seemed very excited.

However, at this time, Wei Liming felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, he came up with a suspicious point and said: "Suppose, this island used to be very large, and some islanders had multiplied here, then this The foundation of an island must be connected to the seamount, and it must be strong enough to support the entire island."

Professor Xia said, "That's right, of course it is."

Wei Liming added: "But now, the foundation we see is a reef pillar, and the artificial traces are very obvious."

Ming Zhou said: "This island has been split before, and it is not impossible for the foundation to be damaged and cracked."

Wei Liming asked further: "Could it collapse into a regular cylinder so precisely? Assuming that it was indeed formed by the collapse of the mountain the day after tomorrow, then those heads should be on the periphery, and they fell into the deep sea together with the collapse." That's right. How could there be a human skull intact inside after the outer layer cracked?"

Ming Zhou was stunned for a moment, and said, "It's true when you say that. Old Wei, I found that you are quite suitable for archaeology, why don't you change careers."

Caiyun laughed and said, "It's not that Ah Ming is suitable for archaeology, it's because you are too excited and your minds are dazzled by the excitement."

Mingzhou scratched his head in embarrassment. After Professor Xia calmed down, he also noticed something went wrong and had to overthrow his previous thoughts.Perhaps no islanders were born on this island at all. It has been like this since the beginning, and perhaps it has not experienced any mountain collapse.

But then, where did these heads come from?
Could it be that the inhabitants of the nearby islands did it?
But putting the skulls of one's own people at the bottom of other islands is against the wishes of sea burials. Who would do such a thing?
Soon, Professor Xia thought of a possibility. This possibility made him slap his thigh in shock, and stood up all of a sudden.

The people around were startled by him, Wei Liming and Caiyun's team leader Nan Zheng said: "I said, Lao Xia, you are so startled, what are you doing!"

Professor Xia wiped his face and said, "Quickly, bring the chart." Mingzhou immediately brought the chart to Professor Xia, and then, Professor Xia looked at it carefully, and said while looking at it: " Centering on where we are now, there are no islands around, and the only one that is the closest is only two days away by boat, and the area of ​​that island is not very large.”

"Ghost Island is definitely a sea burial place for islanders. It can't be wrong. There is only one situation where our current situation will occur, the archipelago."

As soon as he said these two words, everyone suddenly realized that if it was an archipelago, then everything would make sense. The underground mountains of the archipelago are the same, that is to say, if you live on island A, then the skulls or corpses of the islanders , It doesn't matter if they are buried on Island B, because it is an archipelago, so the distance between the islands must not be far, and the leylines are connected.

This is the only possible explanation so far.

Professor Xia excitedly said: "The archipelago will definitely have a large population, and a very unique civilization may even be born. I remembered that in the Western Miscellaneous Notes of the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called 'Sea Snake Country'. No accident, This should be the ruins of the Sea Snake Kingdom!"

(End of this chapter)