From this point of view, as long as a female camel smells the bloody smell of a calf, she will go there even if she is hundreds of miles away to see if she can save her cub. This relies on the parent-child nature of animals. However, these are not Related camels will only slowly move away from their destination once they smell the blood of the same kind.
From the perspective of these camels, when they smell the bloody smell of the same kind, they will think that certain places are dangerous, and they may become restless even after being tens of miles away. This is different from a female camel looking for her calves. We don’t know if he can smell the same kind of blood from two thousand years ago.
"But at least your approach is okay. You can indeed use camels to lead the way."
Song Siyuan nodded: "Okay, then tomorrow, please take the camel with us to the snowy mountains. Maybe on the way, the camel can smell other smells, even if it is not the bloody smell of the same kind, if it is the bloody smell of other animals, at least it can smell it." It proves that a large amount of sacrificial blood appeared in those frozen soils in previous historical periods, which may also be related to the tombs we are looking for."
After a night, the next morning.
Yue Guanchao and the others took Hua John and started to go straight to the snow-capped mountains along the lake. Along the way, they always paid attention to the state of the old camel. The old camel was always calm and calm, with no mood swings. It was not until they approached the highest snow-capped mountain that the old camel changed Gotta get agitated.
Keli noticed the old camel's condition, touched the old camel's head and looked at everyone: "He seems to have smelled some special smell. We have to follow him to the snow-capped mountains."
After that, he took Na Yi to ride on the camel, and started to smell the smell with the old camel and ran forward. Hua John drove the car and followed the old camel closely. It wasn't until we were completely close to the foot of the snow-capped mountains that we came to a gentle slope before we stopped completely.
When they got here, the old camel finally stopped and started tapping his hooves on the spot. It was obvious that he was unwilling to go any further. Keli and the others got off the camel and signaled to everyone: "This should be it. He doesn't want to go forward because of the smell." It’s gone, and the smell most likely appeared here.”
Although John Hua did not believe that camels could really smell the smell of thousands of years ago, since he was staying here, there must be something here. He looked at the people around him. These helpers took down the drilling tools. Following the place where the camels walked in circles, a piece of frozen soil approximately several hundred square meters was circled.
Afterwards, several people began to continuously dig into the frozen soil along this area. Because the frozen soil was very hard, much harder than ordinary soil, and its texture was a bit close to that of completely solidified cement, the digging process was extremely difficult. But fortunately, the drill is much easier to use than manpower. It took about a morning to drill out all the surface frozen soil in the entire area and clean it elsewhere.
After clearing out the surface frozen soil, you can already see the dark soil further down, and you can clearly see the bones of many small animals in this soil.
Keli stepped forward and pieced together the bones scattered in the black mud. In a moment, he had pieced together the complete skeleton. Judging from the shape of the bones, it should be a small camel.
Seeing this scene, Keli nodded towards them: "It seems that the old camel took us to the right place. It is indeed the burial ground of some young camels. The family members of Jieli Khan should have marked the location of his tomb. , the baby camel was killed and buried here, so that the blood of the baby camel could be used to attract the female camel to determine the location of the tomb."
"Over the past thousands of years, they may have killed many baby camels in order to worship Jieli Khan, leaving many bones of baby camels. Judging from the degree of corrosion of the bones, it seems that no human sacrifices have been made for hundreds of years. Having worshiped him, this means that his descendants are now probably completely gone or extinct.”
Judging from this, it proved that they had found the right place. John Hua also understood that the entrance to the tomb must be here. He led these thugs to continue digging. When they dug twenty meters below the soil layer, they finally appeared. Stoneware brick strips.
Most of the bricks placed regularly were used to pave the tomb passage. They began to dig where the bricks appeared, and soon found a doorway with a brick walkway in the soil.
Thick rocks were built up, down, left and right to form a rectangular tomb passage structure. At the same time, a round vault was made of bricks and stones on the top of the door opening to form a tomb chamber door structure with a domed square door.
The door of this tomb is about two meters high and about two meters wide. The domed roof is covered with bricks and stones, and is carved with a pattern of cattle, sheep, and wooden horses galloping on the grassland. On both sides of the door, there are two stone pillars in relief, showing an eagle. The pattern of spreading wings is very finely carved, but due to years under the frozen soil, the color has been corroded, and the outer skin is mottled and chipped.
Looking at the door panel again, you can see that the two door panels are tightly sealed together, and a square blanket is woven with wolf skin, which can just cover the entire door panel. I don't know what kind of thing was used to glue it together and it was very strong. It was dug out. Afterwards, a lot of dust stuck to the wolf's fur to avoid some mess.
"What does this mean? Why is the wolf skin glued on the door panel?" Yue Guanchao didn't understand the reason.
Sun Daqiao explained: "This is the custom of nomadic people to seal the door of the tomb. The thing stuck to the door is made of several wolf skins sewn together. They are usually old wolves. These wolves have strong body odor and tough fur. As long as they When they appear on the grassland, other animals will definitely flee. After peeling off the skins of these old wolves, they are dried to make wolf skin blankets, and glue made from animal bone marrow is used to paste them on the wooden doors. Once they are stuck, it will be difficult to move on."
Doing so is not only a ritual, but also has many practical effects.
The old wolf's skin is sealed on the door to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants living in the mud from approaching the wooden door and damaging it. It also protects the wooden door. Wolf skin has always been famous for keeping warm. A wooden door stuck with wolf skin will It is not easily cracked by the frozen rock formations. At the same time, the wolf skin can also seal all the breath inside the wooden door, prevent the exchange of breath inside and outside the tomb, and delay the corrosion of the corpse.
However, precisely because the wolf skin blocks the tomb passage, the gas after the body decays will be blocked in the tomb passage and difficult to discharge. If someone who does not understand the situation removes the wolf skin and walks into the tomb passage, he may be poisoned to death by these poisonous gases. , this situation can be regarded as a warning to the tomb robbers.
"The old gentleman is very knowledgeable."
John Hua originally wanted the thugs to open the tomb passage, but after listening to the old man's introduction, he was cautious. After everyone was evacuated, he asked the thugs to wear gas masks to uncover the wolf skin, and then used door-breaking equipment to directly open the tomb passage. The door burst open, and a lot of gas generated began to disperse outward after the tomb passage shattered.
They could clearly feel a translucent gas that looked green but not black, constantly floating outwards, and eventually dispersed into the air. Only when the gas gradually became transparent and dissipated like smoke was the gas completely dispersed.
John Hua put on a gas mask, picked up a candle and walked into the tomb passage. He gradually lit it in the tomb passage. When the candle light went out and stabilized, it meant that the poisonous gas in the tomb passage had been completely dissipated.
Then he signaled to the thugs, picked up the flashlight and continued walking into the tomb passage. He walked about three hundred meters before reaching the end.
John Hua stood on the ground and roughly estimated the distance. From the porch of the tomb passage to the entrance of the tomb, there was at least three hundred meters, just across the entire slope to the foot of the snow-capped mountain.
John Hua picked up the telescope and explained: "From their observation, the tomb passage is sloping downward. Jieli Khan's tomb should be in the cavity of the mountain. Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng used the cavity to build the tomb chamber." , placing all the tombs of Jieli Khan under the snow-capped mountains, so that the cavity can be used to accommodate the tomb chamber, and the frozen soil under the snow-capped mountains can be used to fix the tomb chamber."
At this point, they were about to enter the tomb. For safety, Yue Guanchao and the others brought everyone with them. Wearing gas masks, they turned on their flashlights, walked into the tomb passage, and opened the door to the tomb at the end.
