The identities and causes of death of the skeletons that serve as nests for human infant fleas are equally curious.
Wu Chan has an intuition.
These skeletons are just the beginning.
Everyone continued to move upstream along the river.
Gong Tiantian asked: "Are we almost at the center of the old city?"
Wu Chan said: "We are still far away. Although we have been moving forward, we are taking a diagonal path, from the due south when we first entered the city to the southwest."
Gong Tiantian couldn't help but sigh: "The old city is really too big."
Wu Chan said: "The D-level new city has a population of 100,000, while the D-level old city can accommodate millions of people before the disaster. You will think that it is normal to be huge."
As he walked, Chu Kuang sniffed his nose: "There is a strong smell of corpses around here."
Sure enough, everyone found another pile of corpses. Fortunately compared to the previous pile, they were not used as nests by any insects, and the corpses decomposed in a normal way, leaving bones behind.
Rollo squatted down, observed for a while, then stood up and said: "These people should have died of poisoning."
The superpower called the Eye of Bones makes him an expert in identifying bones. In his eyes, the condition of bones is like a simple arithmetic problem. The answer is either correct or wrong. Such ambiguities rarely arise.
Wu Chan asked: "Should? What confuses your judgment?"
"Half of the bodies were consistent with signs of poisoning and the other half were not," Rollo said.
Gong Tiantian said: "Isn't this simple? It means that half of them died of poisoning, but the other half didn't."
Shen Jin said: "But it cannot explain why the other half who was not poisoned also died here."
Gong Tiantian said: "The other half who was poisoned was killed."
Shen Jin said: "It can be seen from the distribution of the corpses that these people did not die in fierce fighting, but some kind of collective death due to incapacity. These people are not a resource recovery team."
Gong Tiantian said: "Why?"
Shen Jin said: "Clothes can rot, but weapons will not. No matter whether it is the previous pile of corpses or this pile, there is no weapon left behind."
Only then did Gong Tiantian notice that there were no items left behind, let alone weapons.
"Could it have been recovered by other resource recovery teams?"
Ma Sang said: "If you were the one who recovered the weapons from these corpses, would you burn these corpses and let them bury them in peace?"
Gong Tiantian said: "I can. But I can't ask others to be as humanitarian as me."
Ma Sang said: "The problem is that when encountering a group of corpses with unknown causes of death, experienced resource recovery teams will not recover them at all, because no one knows that the corpse's belongings will be stained with everything."
Gong Tiantian said: "That's right. So the question is, who were these unarmed corpses before they were alive?"
Wu Chan said: "Go forward a little further."
Before leaving, Wu Chan lit the body with a fire.
As expected, everyone moved forward about a hundred meters and found a new pile of corpses, the number of which was larger than the previous ones.
This makes people think of some kind of evil ritual of blood sacrifice.
"All of these bodies died of poisoning."
This time, Rollo sounded certain.
Wu Chan made a rough judgment.
"The three waves of corpse piles we saw should have died from the same poison, but the dosage was different. Those with deep poisoning died here, while those with shallow poisoning fled farther away, which is the bone pile we saw first. Because the dose of toxins is small and dissipates quickly, the corpses were destroyed by wild beasts, and the bones left behind were colonized by human infant fleas. The pile of corpses we just encountered had a medium dose of toxins, and the muscle tissue was naturally decayed. Some of them dissipate completely, while others remain, so Luo Luo is confused by the ones in front of him.
Wu Chan emphasized this point again, and the subtext was that the place where these people were poisoned was nearby!
Everyone split up and searched in a large circle, and finally found a clue based on Chu Kuang's sense of smell.
Gong Tiantian said: "You are a real dog."
Chu Kuang said: "I feel like you are swearing."
Gong Tiantian said: "Hey, don't you usually have to add a little age in front of it?"
Chu Kuang said: "Because you have moved closer to the merciless old woman."
Gong Tiantian said: "Bah, you go to hell!"
What Chu Kuang found was a dark cave.
To be precise, this is a slope leading underground. Because it is covered with grass, it is difficult to be discovered.
Wu Chan used the ferocious leopard to probe in and beat around, making a metallic sound when he knocked upwards. It shows that this is a manually dug passage, and it can be hidden after closing the metal door.
Wu Chan lit up a beam of light: "Does anyone want to take a look?"
No one would refuse this invitation.
Because I'm just too curious.
More beams of light were lit, and everyone seemed to transform into a treasure hunting team entering the ancient tomb.
Part of the beam is used to explore the path, while the other beams are used to shine everywhere. There was nothing on the wall except some lights that didn't work.
The slope leading underground is not deep, only about a hundred meters. When you get to the bottom, there is a pool of water that can't cover people's calves. Fortunately, everyone's boots and combat uniforms are waterproof, otherwise Gong Tiantian would not want to go down. past.
"Wait a moment."
Wu Chan stopped the rash Gong Tiantian.
The water vapor in the Jishui Pond and the metal on the ceiling above condensed into a damp, musty smell unique to metal. The surrounding environment was pitch black, and the only light source was a few beams of light in everyone's hands. The beam of light is cast on the pool, and the water surface turns brown-green. Who can guarantee that there is nothing hidden in the water
Wu Chan moved the two fingers of his left hand together.
Dozens of ectoplasm swords appeared behind him like a peacock spreading its tail.
He swiped with two fingers.
All the ectoplasm swords flew into the water and shuttled back and forth.
After half a minute, after confirming that there was no danger lurking in the water, Wu Chan led the group to wade into the water.
After passing through Jishuitan, everyone found the steps, climbed up the steps, and came to a round passage.
The passage is an all-metal structure, and shoes make a clanging sound when you step on it.
Gong Tiantian said: "What on earth is this place?"
No one answered her.
This metal passage was very short, no more than thirty meters. After passing through, everyone came to a relatively square space.
The beam driven by curiosity swept around, and equipment similar to "cabins" were neatly placed on the left and right walls.
They are like coffins placed at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground. The cabin is large enough for an adult to lie down, and the base is connected to various cables.
All the glass-like hatches were broken, and everything that should have been inside the cabin was gone, leaving only some unknown slime that has not dried up yet.
"What the hell is this place?"
Gong Tiantian asked the same question again.
But at this time, she actually had the answer in her heart.
Wu Chan said: "This should be a factory for manufacturing deformed bodies."