"Are there frozen bodies in the cave?"
Before Song Siyuan finished speaking, Yue Guanchao also turned on his flashlight and shined a light on it. Initially, he thought it was dazzling, but after the light intensified, even the details of the corpse began to become clear.
There were more than one corpses, almost all on the beach. They were either running, standing, or pushed to the ground, crawling forward, squeezing each other, and being knocked upside down. Frozen on the beach, the fog condensed all over my body, and thick white frost appeared. Looking from a distance, if you don't distinguish carefully, it looks like a pile of gray and white sculptures.
Under the light of a kerosene lamp and flashlight, a group of ice sculpture corpses appeared in the cave. Everyone who looked at it could feel a cold air rising from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads, making their brains hurt.
Whenever a large number of corpses appear nearby, it at least indicates that the environment is unsafe and everyone becomes anxious.
"Stop. This corpse appears too strangely. We can't go any further. Let's see what's going on first."
After Song Siyuan finished speaking, the carriages had stopped one after another near the river beach. Yue Guanchao, Song Siyuan, and Xu Xiake got off the carriage. Gui Fangzong also got off the carriage. They got off the road together and walked dozens of meters downhill. Beach.
Walking on the tidal flat, their feet were filled with cold gravel and mud. There were more corpses than they thought, and more details of the corpses began to become richer.
Yue Guanchao picked up the engineering shovel in his hand and patted the corpse several times. After the cold white frost fell, the true appearance of the corpse was revealed from the ice and snow.
"They are all ancient people."
Yue Guanchao took pictures of a few more ice sculptures and found that the clothes were all ancient clothes, with no modern clothes at all.
Upon closer inspection, these people were probably some ancient soldiers. They were tall and strong-looking, with different appearances from the north to the south. Most of them were wearing soft armor and swords. Their eyes were full of fear, and even their necks had varying degrees of scars. He was stabbed, as if something had pierced his cervical vertebra, and he died of panic after being bled.
Although all people die in different ways, they all die for the same reason.
Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight, carefully observed the corpses, and explained to everyone: "Judging from the clothes of the corpses, these are not corpses that were recently produced. Some corpses have become swollen and soaked, as if they had been thawed and frozen repeatedly. It is very possible that They are ancient soldiers."
"Beifu soldiers?"
Xu Xiake's eyes lit up. Shennongjia was strange and strange. The only people who had really been here were Beifu soldiers.
His guess was obviously interesting. Song Siyuan nodded: "It is very possible that these soldiers are wearing the two-crotch armor from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. This kind of two-crotch armor is different from the personal armor. It is level with the shoulders and reaches the upper knees. It can be held with a thumb-thick finger. The pieces are woven into a rectangular shape, with two pieces on the front and back forming an enclosure, and there are ties on the shoulders and waist.”
"If we look at these clothes again, they are no different from the two-crotch armor. They are most likely to be soldiers from the Northern and Southern Dynasties."
"Just why do their bodies appear here."
Seeing now, Song Siyuan was no longer curious about the identities of these corpses, but the reason why the corpses existed in the cave.
"Could it be that the Beifu soldiers forgot them in the cave?" Yue Guanchao guessed.
Seeing that they were heading outside the cave, Song Siyuan seemed to have guessed something, and explained: "It's impossible. These people are not dead. They can still go out if they are forgotten in the cave. Judging from the direction they are walking, they are probably heading towards the gods." They were in the direction of Jiling, but they were probably attacked by something before they even got out. The penetrating wound in the neck directly pierced the cervical spine, causing them to die on the spot."
She paused and continued to explain: "Because the temperature in the cave was very low, their bodies were frozen before they had time to rot. It is likely that they had thawed and thawed over the course of thousands of years, causing the skin to become blistered. Signs, a little bit giant-minded."
"There's a different body here."
While they were talking, Gui Fangzong stood nearby and reminded Yue Guanchao. They came closer to take a look and found that they were completely different from the Beifu soldiers.
Just now, all the corpses were covered with snow-white frost, and their physical features were not outstanding. Now the white frost on their bodies has been knocked off, and one of the corpses is obviously shining white. It looks like white jade, which is really different from Ban Shu's skin color. They look so much like each other that they are almost certainly from Guifang.
"Kikata Ren died here too? Look how she died."
When they learned about this situation, their eyes became confused.
Song Siyuan carefully searched the neck of the corpse, but there were no puncture wounds from the Beifang soldiers. Her eyes lit up: "Could it be that the Guifang people chased and killed these Beifu soldiers? The wounds on their bodies were actually some kind of injuries caused by the Guifang people." arms?"
Guifang Zong said: "These Beifang soldiers all died in the same way, but this Guifang man has no wounds and is still here. Then, he is probably the murderer of the Beifang soldiers."
Although Song Siyuan knew part of the truth, she was really puzzled about this point: "Since the Guifang people want to kill the Beifang soldiers, does it mean that these Beifang soldiers did something to the Guifang people? Are people hunting them for other purposes?”
"Then, who killed this Guifang man?"
This string of questions came from Song Siyuan's mouth, which also made others confused.
Yue Guanchao chewed his teeth and shook his head from side to side: "Since we entered Shennongjia, we have discovered giant statues and giant heads, and also found that the Guifang people have lost control of the Guifang artifact. You said that the Guifang people are chasing them. , could it be the traces left by the loss of control back then?”
"possible."
Song Siyuan nodded: "Indeed, this proves that our guess has indeed come true. Something must have happened in that ghost world for these Beifu soldiers to escape."
"Now, we can't see anything. I would rather know why there are such groups of ice sculpture corpses in this cave. Has it been so cold in the cave for these thousands of years?"
After that, Song Siyuan walked along the tidal flat to the river, squatted on the ground and stretched her hand into the underground river. The river water was not too hot. It felt close to the temperature of the human body. The temperature was just right. There was a very rich mist floating on the water. The smell of sulfur.
"This is a geothermal river!" She returned to Yue Guanchao and explained: "A geothermal river is just like a hot spring. It is geothermal water produced by an underground heat source close to an underground water source. It is estimated to be the geothermal heat generated in the Danxia Basin. The water flows through the river and flows directly to it. Entering the valley, and there are probably geothermal rock formations underground in these caves, this kind of geothermal river is formed, and the smoke is the mist released when the geothermal heat encounters cold air."
"Since the geothermal river has always existed, the fog in the cave will never dissipate. I guess the fog condensed on the corpse and formed thick white frost."
Xu Xiake asked: "But the key is, where does this air-conditioning come from? This tunnel has nine twists and turns, and the thing that blows in can only be cold wind, and it can't be air-conditioning."
"It's extremely cold above and extremely hot below. I suspect the problem lies in the upper part of the rock formation."
After saying that, Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight and looked up. The light was blocked by the fog and completely impenetrable.
She then returned to the carriage, stepped on the pedals and stood directly on the top of the carriage. This position was high enough to touch the fog.
After Song Siyuan stood on the top of the carriage, half of her body had already penetrated the fog, and she saw lights appearing in the upper layer of the fog, hazy and endless.
"Yue Guanchao, come up and take a look, I found the reason."
Seeing the situation, Yue Guanchao also stood on the carriage and got into the fog. When the haze in front of him dissipated, he gradually saw the scene in the upper layer of the fog clearly.
Under the illumination of a flashlight, the upper layer of the cave is completely covered with almost transparent ice, as if a layer of translucent grease has been applied along the upper part of the tunnel. The jagged rock formations and pillars inside are clearly visible, and even some of them can be seen. The plants were frozen in it and could not be freed.
The closer they got to the upper level, the greater the chill. White mist appeared between their breaths. The air they breathed into their noses seemed to be filled with ice particles, causing pain all the way from the nose to the lung tubes. Even the runny noses were covered with it. It was frozen into ice, and the body began to be covered with a layer of frost.
The two of them endured the severe cold and looked around to observe. After the mist emerged from the river, it continued to spread towards the caves on both sides of the river. Because the water mist was relatively heavy, they could only float into the air. As the mist continued to generate, these mid-air mist The fog will be raised above the ice layer, turn into hoarfrost during condensation, and fall directly to the ground. Then, the fog will be continuously generated from the river, which will cause the fog to remain in the cave all year round.
Yue Guanchao picked up the engineering shovel and threw it towards the ice skate closest to them. With a click, the ice skate broke and hit the ground.
They got off the carriage and picked up these ice skates. The tentacles were extremely cold and there was no sign of melting in their hands. They picked up a flashlight and shined a light on them. They could see that they had a translucent texture, which looked like ice skates but also a bit close to crystal.
Yue Guanchao picked up the kerosene lamp and placed the half of the ice skate in the center of the flame. After being heated, some water droplets appeared around it, but there was no sign of melting: "It's strange, it's as cold as the ice skate, and it doesn't burn." Hua, what on earth is this?" Everyone became curious about what was in front of them.
Song Siyuan looked at this thing with curious eyes and explained: "Judging from the transparency, it is probably the crystal of some kind of ore. It feels so cold to the touch, and there is also ice in it. I suspect it is impurity ice formed by certain ore crystals and ice. "
"Impurity ice?"
Yue Guanchao motioned for her to continue explaining.
Song Siyuan pointed at this thing and explained: "Impurity ice is between ore and ice. It has the coldness of ice and the stability of ore, and is not easy to melt. Although this kind of thing is rare, it is still possible."
For example, some icebergs on the plateau have frozen soil that has not melted for thousands of years. Because the icebergs on the plateau have a cold climate all year round, the ice and snow here have never melted. Dust and impurities have accumulated on the ice for many years, which will make the ice melt. Frozen together with impurities, forming ice and frozen soil that will not melt.
This frozen soil looks very hard, but as long as the temperature is high enough, once the frozen soil melts, it will turn into moist soft mud, and at the same time, the water in the frozen soil will also be released.
