Mantra

Chapter 233 Iron Cast Human Shell
Xian Hongye almost cried when she spoke, but I couldn't figure it out.

I flipped through the "head piece" with human eyes in my hand for a long time, but I didn't see why.

This is obviously a stone sculpture, so why did Hongye say that she used to be a living person?Even if it was a living person, how could there be such a thick shell on the outside, but the people inside were gone.

At this time, Xian Hongye knocked off the things in my hand and told us the truth in a stuttering manner.

It turns out that, different from my understanding, the stalactites in this Custer landform can grow, and they will slowly grow up due to the impact of the water flow, and the carbonates will ooze out. What kind of shape does it become? After adhering to the human corpse, it will become a hard shell over time, and this shell will continue to grow with the flow of water and time, so that the people inside are completely rotten and oxidized. Nor will it collapse.

Hearing Xian Hongye's words, I felt nauseated, and hurriedly threw away his blood-red thing, and at the same time kept looking up at the "empty shell" on top of his head.

I suddenly understood that this "brother" on top of my head might have been placed here for many years. Over time, even I was wiped out, but there was still such a red shell left.

For a moment, there was a chill on everyone's face.

Regardless of whether the person was crucified like this while alive or dead, it was a cruel punishment.

"Wait!" I suddenly asked myself: "Why is this shell red, the stalactites are obviously gray..."

At this time, the pungent iron smell caught my attention again. I looked up at the maroon "human shell", and suddenly realized that these red things were all rust.

Why is there rust?I don't know, but with this question in mind, I still raised my flashlight and looked into the dead man's empty shell.

After a while, I found that this guy didn't seem to be "rotten", at least in the empty shell, there was still a thick layer of armor-like rust, and...a jar? !

Looking at the jar, I was surprised, and then I pierced the chest cavity of the "human shell" with the extended dagger in my hand, causing the jar to fall out.

I held the jar firmly with my hand, took a quick look at it, and handed it to Xian Hongye, who majored in literature and history.

"You are a student of literature and history, can you tell what this is?" I asked.

Hongye looked at it for a while, shook her head and said, "The jar is covered by stalactites, so I can't see it. Let's open it after I go back."

I nodded, quickly removed the flashlight from the top of the cave, and sighed again: "There were so many tortures in ancient times, and this man is miserable enough. He was fixed to the wall by an iron shell, and a pot was stuck in his chest. I don’t know how much torture I suffered during my lifetime.”

What I said made Batulu feel disgusted for a while, and he quickly pointed out: "Old Bing Tian, ​​stop talking, it's too disgusting, let's move on."

Everyone seemed unwilling to think deeply about this issue, so they all left the place with the "empty human body" early, turned around and walked deep into the cave.

On the way to the end of the tunnel, there are more and more imprints and empty shells of this human body shape, some with only red spots left, and some with parts of the body left. The most vivid ones even have loose hair. shape and contour.We ventured to open several human-shaped empty shells, and we also found that kind of salty iron can.

These empty shells gave me a chilling feeling, as if I was in a mortuary more than a hundred years ago, looking at a pile of ancient corpses that would never make a sound.

In this apprehension and surprise, we walked another [-] meters until we came to the end of the tunnel.

Baturu took a flashlight to take a picture, and shook his head in disappointment.

What we saw before us was a disappointing pile of rubble, large and small, all of which blocked the road ahead and made it impossible to pass.

This result was very unexpected and made me very helpless. The most important thing is that we can no longer reach the so-called "square" space from this passage.

Facing everyone's disappointment, Lin Shaosong suggested: "Don't be discouraged! Let the Golden Fleece take a look first, in case we can explode it with explosives!"

Following the Lord's order, the Golden Fleece came over. This time he did not bring any advanced electronic equipment, but took out a small hammer from his clothes, and then a tuning fork.

He slammed the small hammer on the stone wall, and then quickly placed the tuning fork on the stone wall to "resonate".

After a while, the Golden Fleece shook his head and told Lin Shaosong what he knew.

It turned out that the Golden Fleece had used the simplest equipment to echolocate and measured the thickness of the gravel, and the conclusion was very pessimistic. He estimated that these stones were blown up by professional engineering troops. At least ten meters above, relying on our manpower to dig a passage in a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to blow up with explosives, because the places that have been blown up generally cannot withstand secondary blasting. collapse.

None of us expected that things would turn out like this, so we once again fell into a rather disappointed situation. Among the crowd, the most disappointed person was probably Xian Hongye.

After all, behind that gravel wall, there is likely to be the remains or whereabouts of his grandfather. If we can get there, we will end this journey completely and satisfactorily, without having to spend a lot of time looking for blood wells and black holes. Lambert City.

But, at this point, what can we do?

In my disappointment, I comforted Xian Hongye and said, "Don't think about it, I don't think we have gained nothing. At least everyone knows that this landslide was done by professional engineers, which means that people from Project 74 have been here."

Xian Hongye nodded indifferently, and while touching the large and small gravel, she said to herself: "Why did they blow up the entrance..."

"This situation..." I further guessed: "There are only two possibilities. First, you don't want people from the outside to come in. Second, you don't want the 'things' inside to go out. I think it's more likely to be the latter."

Before we came, we had already learned clearly from the Letter of the King of Medicine that there is a "power" in the city of Helanbo that can harm the people of the world.And Project 74 is obviously also aiming for some kind of "power" that can bring strong combat effectiveness. If political and military backgrounds are discarded, Zhao Gong and Project 74 have exactly the same purpose.

Thinking about it this way, I can even boldly speculate that even in the years when Project 74 was implemented, human beings were unable to control the so-called "power" in the city of Helambo. In order to prevent that so-called "power" from causing catastrophic consequences, The military used stroke soldiers to destroy the entrance of Helanbo City and the main part of Project 74 B.

But when I think about it, I don’t have any evidence to prove this, and what I can’t figure out is why the king of medicine swears in his hand that the Zhao family’s “shark knife "It can be controlled.

While I was thinking, Batulu suddenly patted my shoulder and said excitedly: "Old Bing Tian, ​​look at that yellow thing in the water, is it gold?!"

While speaking, he stretched out his flashlight to shine on a pool of muddy water.

(End of this chapter)