"Look."
Brother Yu squatted down with a flashlight, pointed to a place next to the pool and said.
"Nothing, Brother Yu? What's this?"
I only saw one floor of gravel.
"here."
Brother Yu took a few strokes with his hands and reminded me.
The next second, I suddenly saw a skull.
The skull rolled behind the stone, which was quite secret and could not be discovered without paying attention. The two black eye sockets were just looking at us.
Normal human bones will definitely appear burnt yellow when exposed to air all year round in exposed environments. However, the skull discovered by Brother Yu accidentally is "milk-white" overall, very white... It even looks "shiny" when shining it with a flashlight one meter away, like an ice flower.
After touching it with my hands, I found that the surface of the skull was covered with a layer of "covered with milky white cream of unknown ingredients".
I buckled my nails a little and licked it with my tongue.
The taste is astringent, bitter and salty, like a handful of soil added to dry salt.
For us normal people, the posterior occipital bone is below the capsular bone, and there is no posterior occipital bone under the capsular bone of this skull, and the defect has disappeared. In addition, there are small holes at the connection between the nasal bone and the eyebrow shoulder, which I don’t know how it was formed.
"What do you think about it?"
"Look for the surroundings and see if there is any more." He said.
Brother Yu and I looked around the pool carefully.
No, there is only this skull, not even a body.
From my experience, I mainly look at the forehead, nose bone, eyebrow arch, and cheekbones. This person is definitely a man. He died about thirty to forty years old, and was in his prime, but I could not judge the exact time when he died with his naked eyes.
At this time, Xiaoxuan said, "I think this is like some kind of ancient sacrificial priest. This man was cut off his head and a piece of bone behind his head was taken away. Then he used nails or some tool to punch more than a dozen small holes in his nose bone."
"You are guessing, there is no evidence." I said.
Xiaoxuan shook her head, looked around and said, "Anyway, I feel that this place is a sacrificial site in ancient times."
Brother Yu said: "I have a different view. I think this is the place where Fang La's rest of his troops secretly escaped. There are bluestone steps under the pool, which proves that this was a tunnel that led to other places a long time ago."
Brother Yu pointed to the skull on the ground and continued: "This person may be one of the people who escaped with Fang La back then, maybe a general, or a family member. I think the family member is more likely."
Xiaoxuan asked why.
Brother Yu explained: "Think about it, the Song Dynasty army had all attacked Bangyuan Cave at that time, and countless casualties of Fang La's remaining troops were killed by the Song army. It was almost impossible to escape with a complete body under that situation at that time, so he could only retreat and take the head away. The last group of people escaped here and left the head for some reason."
What Xiaoxuan said makes sense, and what Brother Yu said makes some sense, but they all lack evidence. To put it bluntly, it is just a fantasy, and I also have my own fantasy.
There are many white bones from the Song Dynasty, and only a small part of them retained skulls. Where did the extra skulls go?
It will definitely not disappear out of thin air.
According to the precise research, the behavior of "Jingguan" did not gradually disappear until the early Qing Dynasty. Using human heads to forge Jingguan was the victorious side to put psychological pressure on the defeated side. Rebellion was a serious crime, and it was not an exaggeration to kill the nine clans in ancient times. I assume that the disappeared heads of the vanishing source were transported to the cave by the Song army to build Jingguan. Later, one day in history, floods broke out, forming the earliest Laolong Reservoir. The heads of those who were originally used to build Jingguan were washed into the reservoir.
For some reason, the salt content of this reservoir is extremely high, so there is a layer of white frost crystal at the bottom of the deep pit, so there is a similar crystal on the surface of the skull we found.
As for why this human skull came here, as we previously speculated, due to the siphon caused by the terrain, a deep pool was formed here after the reservoir was dry.
The above are my thoughts relatively reasonable, but there is still a doubt.
There is a blue brick wall between the deep pit and the deep pool. How did the human skull pass through the wall?
The road leading to the deep water pool here is only one cave, no forks.
At present, I can't find a perfect explanation. It's like a homeless land forgotten by time, with many mysteries.
If you want to completely solve these mysteries, you can only hope underwater at the moment.
"It seems that it's Yao Zai coming up!"
Brother Yu first saw the light rising under the water and shouted.
Soon, Douyazi surfaced.
He swam for two meters and reached out to me.
I pulled him up.
Taking off the exhaler, Douyazai took a few deep breaths and wiped his face hard.
“What’s the situation?”
"Don't worry Fengzi! Let me breathe a sigh of relief, my fucking dizzy."
After sitting on the ground for two minutes, Douyazai's eyes were excited and said, "The guide rope has been put to the head, but this water hole is far from the end! I swam to a very narrow place, full of black water plants and stones! There are many weapons around, and I saw a knife and a pointed gun!"
"Weapons?! Are you sure?"
"Can I read it wrong? I'm sure! It's just a weapon, it's still sharp! Just a guide rope like ours! You can cut it with just a touch!"
Brother Yu said, "Yunfeng, what I said just now is the secret passage where Fang Lacan's troops escaped with gold, silver and treasures. The weapons that Yazai mentioned must have been left by the rebels back then. We have found the right place."
After saying that, Brother Yu seemed to have thought of something, and immediately turned his head and asked, "Where is the duck?"
"My X! Brother Yu, I'll be angry when you mention this!"
Douyazi immediately said excitedly: "You said you asked your duck to help me explore the way, but you didn't see it! What kind of way to explore it? Not swimming far after getting into the water, it lay directly on my back and didn't move! It wasn't helping me explore the way! It was so lazy that I asked me to take it to swim!"
"Ah? Ye Zai, that's not possible?"
Douyazai said excitedly again: "I don't need to lie like this! The hole is hidden underwater and must always be kept floating! I don't even carry flippers! I can't do too much movement! I can't touch it with my backhand! So I can only slow down and feel like I'm like its mobile car underwater."
When Douyazai said the four words "mobile car", Xiaoxuan couldn't hold back and laughed.
Douyazai asked with a dark face: "What are you laughing at? Zhao Xuanxuan, are my words funny?"
"No." Xiaoxuan waved her hand.
As we were talking, we suddenly heard a slight paddling sound from behind.
When I turned around, I saw a duck head emerging from the water. Brother Yu shouted, and the echoed duck immediately swam towards Brother Yu.
After it came up, it tried hard to shake off the water droplets on its body, splashing Douyazai and Xiaoxuan's faces.
Douyazi had quick eyes and quick hands, and he grabbed its long neck with one hand.
"I'll let you ride me the fuck!"
The duck yelled!
Brother Yu prysted Douyazi's hand hard, and the echo duck immediately ran behind Brother Yu's butt.
Douyazi wanted to catch him, but I hurriedly said, "Okay, why are you competing with a beast? I think it might like you and want to interact with you."
Douyazai said a few more words cursing.
At this time, Echo Duck hid behind Brother Yu and looked out.
When he saw the bean sprouts, it immediately shrank back.
Chapter completed!