"strange……"
Although the words of the soldier next to him were not loud, they still sounded very clear in this environment where the sound of burning flames and breathing could be heard.
Ye Qiong himself murmured, the tower in front of him was indeed strange, the kind that the soldiers had never seen before.
In addition to the visual strangeness, there is also the psychological strangeness. After entering this big hole, Ye Qiong has not felt any sense of crisis all the way up to now.
But when he and the two soldiers beside him stepped onto the stone square area, that uneasy feeling immediately appeared.
When this feeling appeared, Ye Qiong knew that he had to be careful.
"Let's go back first..." Ye Qiong had no intention of getting entangled. This tower had been here for who knows how many years, and he couldn't escape.
"..."
The two soldiers beside him immediately nodded in agreement. Although they were quite curious about the tower in front of them, they were also worried that something would come out of it.
The monsters are not afraid. Even if a few king beasts rush out, the soldiers will not be afraid at all. Under the leadership of Ye Qiong, they will rush forward roaring.
I'm afraid that some inexplicable things will come out of it...
After Ye Qiong finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the stone gate, followed by two soldiers.
One day later.
Several simple tents have been set up at Shimen, and a long-lasting grease lamp was lit on a wooden pile.
This wooden stake was moved out by two soldiers from the construction area in front. It is quite convenient for hanging lights.
During this day, the team was divided into three waves. One wave was led by Ye Qiong, which bypassed the circular tribal ruins and continued to explore an area of about ten kilometers.
I didn't make any new discoveries, so I turned back.
In the second wave, Ye Tianling led a few soldiers to search inside the circular city wall, and found a bunch of messy things, which were piled together, waiting for Ye Qiong to come back and study them.
The remaining few soldiers were responsible for setting up this temporary camp.
Originally, the team could live directly in the houses built by this circular tribe, but when Ye Tianling opened one with several soldiers, he directly rejected this plan.
Those five-meter-high stone buildings are divided into two floors, a bit like a duplex structure house.
After confirming what was inside, Ye Tianling led the soldiers out directly...
Bones!
Human bones...
There aren't many, just scattered on the ground.
Ye Tianling and the soldiers would naturally not be frightened by such a thing, but if they wanted to live in it, forget it.
Ye Tianling, who was free, continued to lead a few soldiers around the circular city wall and explored the buildings in the dense area. He found that almost every five-meter-tall stone building contained human bones, and less than three people. Five, if there are more, there are more than a dozen.
It seems to be some residential areas, but why the people inside suddenly died is unknown.
After Ye Qiong returned with the first team of soldiers, the two sides exchanged information, and Ye Qiong went to a stone building to take a look.
Although Ye Qiong was not a professional in analyzing corpses, he had some systematic study. In ancient times, there was absolutely no problem in being a charlatan.
After examining the bones, a preliminary judgment has been made.
They were all the bones of adult men. After some research, Ye Qiong had to doubt that these outer stone buildings were places where humans were imprisoned. As for whether they were prisoners or something, he couldn't be sure yet.
The base of the rock pile and the cliff of the basin.
As night falls, it is no longer a dark night on the cliff side, and many lights are lit on the temporary high-slope base.
Several teams of more than a dozen people could also be seen in the distance, heading this way.
Under the cliff, inside the big cave!
The stone door, with a circular dragon picture engraved on it, was illuminated by the light of several wooden barrel grease lamps. The firelight shone on the stone door, giving people a very rustic feeling.
The two newly lit wooden barrel grease lamps were hung on the other two wooden stakes, both of which were moved from the tribal ruins.
The light emitted by the burning flame enveloped the entire small camp, giving people a warm atmosphere. Compared with the lifeless tribal ruins, the small camp outside had a strong vitality.
Ye Qiong was sitting directly in front of a tent now, holding a map in his hand and studying it, as if he wanted to determine his current location.
However, since entering the big hole, there is no reference around, so trying to determine where the team is on the map is basically useless.
Ye Qiong took out the map now and was thinking about what to do next.
The team has been in the cave for a few days, and they stayed at the tribal ruins alone for nearly two days.
Although I have wandered around the ruins tribe several times and opened several rooms on the periphery, I still know nothing about the origin of this ruins tribe.
The bones in the stone building mean that this may be a place where humans are imprisoned, rather than a residential area for some tribe.
Ye Tianling came over from a distance, sat directly in front of the wooden pile that had been buried in the ground, and then leaned against it in a very comfortable posture.
After turning his attention to the map in Ye Qiong's hand, Ye Tianling asked: "What to do next? I don't know where this tribe migrated from. They really know how to find a place. It seems good to spend the winter in a place like this... …”
Ye Qiong put down the map in his hand and looked at the stone gate. He glanced at the dragon's eyes on the dragon-shaped pattern in the center of the stone gate. Then he withdrew his gaze and looked at Ye Tianling and said, "It's really good to spend the winter, but it's so far away from here." The entrance to the cave is too far away. It’s a two-day journey and it’s too troublesome to transport supplies and food. Second uncle, do you think... is it possible that they came out of it?"
Ye Tianling was stunned for a moment, and looked deeper into the cave, as if he could see through the ruins tribe: "I don't know, why don't we just keep walking in and take a look, we will eventually end up. If you say so, Maybe they really came out from inside, so... this is a transit point for them to communicate with the outside world? "
After listening to Ye Tianling's words, Ye Qiong couldn't help but smile. This possibility...
Needless to say, it is indeed quite big. If the people who built this place really came out of it, then it is very likely that this place is really a transfer station, and it is the kind that escorts prisoners here to let them go to the outside world to hunt monsters?
Ye Qiong continued to think for a while and said: "We really don't know much now. We will check the supplies and food later and stay here for two more days. I plan to divide this tribal ruins into several areas. Every time you bring A few people will go in and search, and if they encounter anything that seems out of place, they will exit immediately."
Ye Tianling nodded: "We don't have enough manpower. Let Xiaoguang go back tomorrow and call some people in. This time we entered the fork on the far right. Will the other two also have such a place?"
Ye Qiong had no way to answer Ye Tianling's guess. After all, no one expected that there would be the remains of a human tribe inside this time.
However, Ye Qiong still feels that it is necessary to increase manpower. The few people around him are indeed not enough.
After finishing the calculation with Ye Tianling, the team left two soldiers to keep vigil while the others fell asleep one after another.
The next day, there was no way to tell what time it was inside the cave.
However, there are soldiers who watch the night, which means that the time can still be roughly judged. The soldiers who watch the night will control everyone's sleeping time.
After Ye Qiong and all the soldiers woke up, the team began to divide the work.
The three warriors have new tasks and will return.
However, Ye Qiong did not let them go back outside directly, but asked the three of them to guard the fork in the road.
Before entering the large cave in the cliff, Ye Qiong had already arranged the follow-up matters. On the seventh day, if the team had not come up yet, they could let the rescue team behind them come down.
This time is almost right. When the soldiers come to the fork in the road, they only need to follow the three soldiers and enter from the far right. Otherwise, if that group of soldiers enters the other two forks.
That would be troublesome...
When the time comes to find someone, time will be out of control.
After checking the supplies, food and equipment, the three soldiers took a torch and walked back towards the entrance.
The figures of the three people gradually disappeared, but the light of the torch was always within everyone's sight, extending into the distance.
The remaining people were also divided into two waves. Ye Qiong took a team of ten people and went in to continue exploring.
This time, Ye Qiong and the soldiers searched very carefully, checking every stone building in the periphery to see if there were any dark rooms or the like.
Inside the stone building, in addition to the human bones, there are some living materials that have long been weathered. Some wood has been charred, and there are also a lot of linen and other things that can be turned into dust with a gentle blow. .
The stone building is divided into two floors. After entering the upper floor, you will have a very depressing feeling. The space is about 30 square meters, and there are only two palm-sized holes for ventilation.
There is not much air convection in this big hole. Opening two such small holes in this kind of space can only prevent the people inside from dying of lack of oxygen. As for ventilation and smell removal, there should be no This ability.
Bones can also be seen upstairs, but the density is lower than below.
There are corpses in every stone building here. If there are fewer upstairs and downstairs, there are seven or eight bodies. If there are more, it will be more terrifying.
After Ye Qiong and several soldiers opened the door of one room, the ground was filled with corpses. Visually, there were more than a dozen corpses on the ground on the first floor alone.
With such a density of bones in a space that covers an area of less than forty square meters, it is difficult to imagine what their environment was like during their lifetimes.
The density of Datongpu in some detention areas is about this.
More than a dozen people are crowded together, eating, drinking, and eating in such a small space, which is a double torture for both the body and the mind.
Ye Qiong's initial judgment on this tribal ruins is that it is a prison cell!
At least the high-density building areas on the periphery are used for incarceration, and the doors can be locked directly from the outside.
What puzzled Ye Qiong was that the people in the stone building seemed to have died at the same time. There were no signs of fighting in the room, and the bones on the ground were not in chaos.
It is the natural process of decay after a person dies. The bones left behind can roughly tell what posture they were in when they died.
Some were lying on the ground, while others were leaning against the wall, keeping their heads down.
After years of fighting with monsters, plus many battles with madmen in the past few years, warriors are naturally not afraid of such human bones.
Even like Ye Qiong, he was also very confused. How did these people die?
Bizarre sudden death, no struggle, no signs of struggle, just such a quiet collective death?
disease?
Famine or something else?
After wandering around inside for so long, the clues I found temporarily could not explain how those people died in the stone building.
One day later, Ye Qiong had already led the soldiers to explore almost the outer areas of the tribal ruins.
I basically checked all the stone buildings outside.
Inside the big cave, there are three forks in the road.
A wooden barrel grease lamp is burning quietly and has been adjusted to the minimum state. This grease lamp can burn for a long time.
The three soldiers had already arrived here, and following Ye Qiong's instructions, they did not move forward and stayed where they were waiting.
Just half a day after the three of them arrived here, there was movement from the distance of the cave...
A team of twenty people arrived at the three-way intersection.
After the team met, when they saw the three people at Sanchakou, the soldiers who came to support them also felt nervous, as if they were afraid that something would happen to the remaining people.
After asking about the specific situation, the team was divided into two waves again.
One of the three soldiers who came over earlier took out one of them and took the three soldiers who came to support him back to the original route. They need to continue to increase the number of troops below. At the same time, Ye Qiong also has to pass on the news below. Otherwise, there will definitely be people outside. It's going to be a mess.
If a large force from the central tribe comes over then, there will be a lot of trouble.
The other two warriors, leading the remaining warriors, entered the fork on the right.
After the two waves of teams disappeared, peace returned to the three-way intersection once again.
However, the peace did not last long. There was a sudden fluctuation at the leftmost fork in the road!
The fluctuations were not so great that the soldiers marching in both directions did not feel anything unusual...
With two warriors leading the way and supporting the team, they were moving very fast.
When Ye Qiong and the soldiers came over, they didn't know anything about the depths of the cave, so they didn't move very fast and had to ensure safety.
But now that they had guidance, the team moved forward at a trot. It wasn't long before they saw the light of those grease lamps lighting up in the distance.
In the large empty cave, the light emitted by several grease lamps is not very bright, but if seen from a distance, it gives people a very penetrating feeling.
Looking from the current direction of the soldiers, this time, the outline of the thirty-meter-high tower in the ruins can be seen...
