hotmtlnovel Chapter 576: Bones in the Cave
Chapter 576: Bones in the Cave
"Ah!" Luo Zijia screamed, lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The candle in her hand tilted and almost went out, but luckily she reacted quickly and stood the candle up again.
Only then did he look at the thing that had just tripped him, and it turned out to be a long white bone.
Before she could scream again, Gu Chaoxi squatted down and covered her mouth.
"Shh, keep your voice down."
Luo Zijia forced himself to suppress the fear in his heart and did not shout out. Instead, he nodded with some frustration.
Shen Lan looked down at the thing that had just tripped her, a long, thin bone. Looking forward, she could see a skull.
The skull lay horizontally on the ground, and the pair of deep eye sockets looked somewhat creepy.
Especially since the candlelight in their kerosene lamps swayed from side to side, making those hollow eyes look even more frightening.
Gu Chaoxi grabbed Luo Zijia's arm and pulled her up from the ground.
She staggered back two steps and was supported by Shen Lan.
Raising his hand to cover his mouth, Luo Zijia stared at the bones on the ground in confusion: "Why is there this here?"
"It's hard to explain." Pei Yan replied, squatting down beside the bone and reaching out to touch it.
There are no scars on these bones, they are all very intact.
Obviously, this person died from external factors, such as starvation or lack of oxygen.
Although there is little lighting in this cave, oxygen is not scarce to some extent.
It looks more like he died of starvation.
And most of the bones are still in place, looking like they are tucked into this little corner.
Gu Chaoxi looked around the corpse and felt a little strange: "This person is dead, and the flesh rotted and was eaten by the actions in the cave. This is reasonable, but where are the clothes?"
Even if human clothes can decompose over time, since they are made of stones, not soil, the decomposition process will definitely be much slower.
But when I looked around, I didn't see any clothes or anything like that.
If we talk about things related to clothes, there is only a little bit at the entrance of the passage when they entered it just now.
Gu Zhaoxi looked at both ends of the passage and pursed his lips: "Keep looking forward."
The few of them continued to walk forward, and it became increasingly damp and cold inside.
Shen Lan couldn't help but raise his hand, poked his arm, and exhaled.
It seemed as if water was dripping from above my head and landing on my forehead, it was extremely cold.
Pei Yan raised his hand to wipe away the water drops on his face, frowned slightly, and walked forward holding the kerosene lamp.
"There's water under my feet."
Shen Yao looked at the puddle he had just stepped into and reminded everyone.
The deeper you go, the closer you are to the water source.
This cave didn't seem as simple as they imagined.
Gu Chaoxi stopped, Pei Yan raised his hand, and the people behind him also stopped one by one.
"There's no way to go ahead."
Gu Chaoxi squatted down. It looked like a small river. She moved the kerosene lamp closer and could see the bottom of the water.
Although it is not very deep, when you go deeper, it is all water.
Pei Yan looked left and right and saw that the passage here was only wide enough for one person to pass through.
The waters become much more spacious starting from this area, but it is not easy to leave here along the current without a boat.
"Let's go back." Gu Chaoxi stood up.
When Joseph, who was walking at the back, heard this, he turned around with the candle in his hand and walked back the way he came.
The passage is narrow, so even if you speak quietly, everyone can hear you clearly thanks to the echo.
"If we go further in the direction of the water flow, there will be nothing left."
Without the ships, this was probably as far as they could go.
But apart from the skeleton just now, Gu Chaoxi couldn't think of anything else useful.
Returning to the larger cave, it is very empty.
She pursed her lips, walked slowly, and stopped again.
He raised his eyes and looked somewhere, as if thinking about something.
Pei Yan noticed that she stopped, turned around, and without disturbing her, he saw her touching her chin and muttering something.
After a while, he raised his head.
"There is no secret room or anything like a room in this cave."
"Then why set up a stone gate?"
If there were no enclosed space, the existence of this stone door would seem strange because it was redundant.
"So you don't want others to disturb what's being done inside?" Shen Lan put forward his idea with some uncertainty.
It's possible.
ferry?
Gu Chaoxi was stunned. The reason why she felt that there was no way to go on was because there was no boat for them to take from there.
But what if there was a boat that could carry people out along the current?
In that case, it makes sense.
Violet looked in another direction, a direction they had not gone to just now, opposite to this passage.
He pointed over there, a little confused: "Shouldn't we go over there and take a look?"
"Let's go and see." Gu Chaoxi nodded. He had to look at the entire cave to know what was hidden inside.
The appearance of white bones means that someone has been here.
Since someone is here, there will always be some loopholes, right?
The group went to explore that direction again. Luo Zijia followed Shen Lan closely at this time, and he realized how powerful the plane was.
Here, you could really die at any time, and I'm not kidding.
As we walked forward, other things began to appear on the ground, plant debris.
Pei Yan squatted down with the kerosene lamp in hand and took a look. He touched the ground with his fingers and put it in front of his nose to smell it.
"It smells like herbs, very similar to the smell in Dr. Zhao's room, but the smell is lighter."
The debris on the ground is in clusters, extending in a certain direction.
Everyone looked in the direction and it seemed that they could still go further ahead.
Pei Yan stood up, rubbed his fingers twice to shake off the debris that had just touched him, and caught up with the team.
Walking forward, I saw a pile of grass branches and leaves piled in the corner, looking a little wilted.
Gu Chaoxi looked over and pursed her lips, "Doctor Zhao also has this at home, but it's cut into small pieces."
Luo Zijia did not go to Dr. Zhao's home, and did not know how she made the judgment. She just listened in confusion.
Violet was a little curious: "How did you tell the difference?"
Gu Zhaoxi tilted his head and raised his hand to touch the wilted grass: "Taste, the same taste."
She was curious about what those things were and went closer to smell them.
This smell is consistent with one of the smells she has smelled before.
Moreover, the leaves of this thing are green on the front, much lighter on the back, and the stems are whitish.
Violet nodded. She didn't expect that they paid attention to so many things.
He originally thought that he was just searching for something special, but he actually had to remember such tiny things.
It seems that it makes sense that Gu Chaoxi and Pei Yan can experience so many planes.
At this time, Pei Yan looked at the thing in the corner and shook his head.