"Do you want to go down?" Ren Heming asked, he frowned, and he also felt the gloom coming from below. The talisman used to protect the body emits a faint heat, "The evil spirit below is not weak, maybe the evil spirit has stayed, and it always gives me a bad feeling."
Dong Zheng pondered for a while, the unknown darkness below may be quietly breeding danger, and rashly stepping on it does not know what the consequences will be: "Let's stop, let's search nearby."
Ren Heming had this intention. Although the two were born in Maoshan, Dong Zheng was a junior junior brother after all, and he was not proficient in the mastery of spells. The evil spirit that escaped was enough for the two of them to chase after him.
The entrance of the underground cave opened obliquely on a gravel beach. It was an open area with slightly undulating terrain, lacking the cover of trees, and the near-noon sunlight shone on the two of them, dispelling the chills that had arisen when they looked at the underground cave.
Most of the gravel beach was made of white stones, the size of a fist. Dong Zheng picked one up and observed that the texture of the stone was brittle, like dolomite.
Throwing the stone aside, Dong Zheng walked carefully on the stone pile, looking for anything unusual. The core is a little disordered, but the source of the abnormality cannot be found, but it is not serious. Dong Zheng guessed that because he was suddenly pulled into the test, his spirit has not yet eased.
At this moment, he kicked something under his feet.
Dong Zheng looked down, he squatted down, lifted the corner of Jin Yiwei's uniform to wrap his palm, and pulled out the small half of the bone that was exposed to the stone pile.
It was a human forearm bone.
There was no flesh and blood on the bones, and they were very clean. Ren Heming, who was not far away, saw Dong Zheng crouching down and walked towards him, asking, "Did you find anything!"
"Human bones." Dong Zheng showed him the arm, put it aside, and began to excavate. Ren Heming also joined it. After a while, the two had cleared the topmost stone to one side, revealing the bottom of the stone. Buried bones.
The corpse was completely ossified, and the bones were scattered chaotically. Among the piles of bones, Dong Zheng saw at least five metacarpal bones, but no head.
If the bones hadn't been transported here to be mixed and discarded, there's only one explanation left - there used to be a lot of corpses piled up in this place, and the corpses were not piled up intact, they were dismembered and decapitated, and then thrown away it's here.
In the pile of bones, a dark red object caught the attention of the two of them. Ren Heming pulled it out from the bones of both hands. It is not difficult to see that this object was tightly held in the palm of the hands of the deceased.
This is a small statue more than ten centimeters high. It is made of stone. I don’t know if it was originally scribbled, or it is often held in the hand and the details are smoothed out. It can only be roughly seen that it is a standing person, with arms folded and pasted. on the chest, as in prayer.
The statue was originally supposed to be blue-gray, and the so-called dark red was entirely due to old bloodstains. Ren Heming looked at it over and over again, and handed it to Dong Zheng for observation: "What is this?"
Dong Zheng couldn't see the way out, he frowned and asked, "Senior brother, do you know this place?"
Ren Heming pointed to the west: "This is close to Dashi, if you continue to chase in the direction of the evil spirits, you will be there in a short time. The caravans that trade between the two countries often pass by this generation, and I can't see them now. What kind of people, when you get to the caravan's lane, it won't be so desolate."
Dashi, an Islamic empire established by the Arabs in the Middle Ages, and the name has been used since the Tang Dynasty, which is a transliteration of Persian. Dong Zheng always felt that the statue had a religious meaning and asked, "Could this be something they brought over there?"
"It's possible." Ren Heming didn't know much about Caliphate, but he was sure that the statue should not be a product of this side. "Take it first."
They cleaned up at least six corpses, and there were still uncountable corpses below. Dong Zheng stopped first. He raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, looking at the sun that had moved due south, and said: " So be it."
Looking around again, there were no other clues, the cave was still there, the darkness in the depths swallowed the sunlight, Dong Zheng and Ren Heming took the blood-stained mysterious statue, led their horses, and continued to feel uneasy. go ahead.
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