Chapter 127 The Silk Road
In the eerie and dark cave, countless people stared at the skeleton in horror. Bifang half-knelt in front of the skeleton, carefully examining the clothes on its body.
From top to bottom, from left to right, from style to color, combined with the characteristics of each era and unique climate clothing, Bifang held his chin, thoughtful.
He understood.
The human brain has limits.
The clothes were a mess of black and he couldn't make out anything.
The underground cave was too humid, and the bones and clothes were covered with a thick layer of calcification, almost solidified into a stone. Even the skull could be seen to be connected to the ground when looking back.
"Normally, a human body will turn into bones within one to two months, but bone brittleness will only begin after more than ten years."
Bifang picked up the broken bones and broke them apart with his hands.
Click.
The bone fragment, which was already small to begin with, was broken into the size of a fingernail. With a press of the finger, it became even smaller, like biscuit crumbs.
"But to be this brittle, it would take at least a hundred years!"
Hundreds of years!
So long?
The time span is so large that many viewers felt they had heard it wrong.
[Shit! Is this an ancient person?]
[Has anyone entered this cave hundreds of years ago? ]
[How did he die? Did he starve to death in here?]
【This is a large archaeological site! 】
Bifang stood up again, took out a bunch of flower sticks from his bag, lit them and continued to move deeper into the river beach, probably less than a hundred meters away.
An even more shocking scene appeared.
Another skeleton!
More than one person died here?
Bifang shone the torch downwards. This skeleton was basically similar to the previous one, but the limbs had long been separated from the torso. The hand bones fell three meters away, and the leg bones disappeared directly!
"It should have been eaten." Bifang looked serious.
After these people died, they were most likely eaten by Tiktaalik after they crawled ashore, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why their bodies were scattered so fragmented.
Of course, there may be a darker ending, but this is not the Jedi, and there are so many fish in the river that such a thing cannot happen.
As soon as the second skeleton appeared, the viewers in the live broadcast room felt the place was even more eerie and terrifying.
It's very gloomy.
Why did these people die here? What led them to this cave? Did they leave any information?
"Can you... not hold me so tight? I can't... breathe." On the sofa, Bao Xuan's neck was strangled by Ning Zhiyun, making her roll her eyes.
Even the King of Mixed Martial Arts doesn’t have her standard strangling moves!
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Ning Zhiyun let go of her hand in surprise and apologized repeatedly, "I didn't mean to do that, it was just too scary!"
Bao Xuan felt the same way. She was also frightened by the sudden appearance of the skeleton. She nodded and said, "This guy is too amazing. He dared to go to such a place without saying a word. Last time, I was curious about where his money came from. I didn't expect that he was actually broadcasting live!"
"I don't know if he can escape this time." Ning Zhiyun was worried. She still had a good impression of Bifang.
The big bag of cat food that Bifang sent last time has not been finished yet. It is all very expensive brands. The three cats have become picky eaters and no longer look down on the food they ate before.
The result is that they end up doing such a dangerous thing. They are risking their lives to make money.
If the police hadn’t told them, Ning Zhiyun felt that she would still be kept in the dark.
I really didn't expect that the two guys with shifty eyes were not bad people. Fortunately, they didn't come back to settle the score with them, otherwise Bao Xuan would have to apologize.
In the dormitory building, Wu Gang and Gu Qingyuan were also very confused at this moment.
"Teacher, why are there so many corpses here?"
Gu Qingyuan shook his head. This touched upon his blind spot in knowledge. How could he, a biologist, know about such things?
He waved his hand, picked up the phone beside him, and searched for contacts in his phone: "Wait, I'll call Lao Song."
"Is it Professor Song who teaches history?" Wu Gang was surprised.
While waiting for the call to be connected, Gu Qingyuan nodded to Wu Gang: "Yes, he should know more after seeing this video."
Looking at Gu Qingyuan who was on the phone, Wu Gang smacked his lips repeatedly: "Strange, Professor Song was even called."
Professor Song from the History Department and Professor Gu from the Biology Department are the dragon and phoenix of their school... ahem, two pearls.
When the superior leaders came to inspect, they respectfully called the two of them "Mr. Gu" and "Mr. Song" when they saw them. They didn't expect that they would be alarmed by a live broadcast room at the same time today!
Soon, a viewer named Song Tingning entered the live broadcast room, but unfortunately there were too many people in the room and no one noticed him.
After a while, Song Yanning on the other end of the phone shook his head. He was helpless: "Too few clues. There are no clothes or words. I can't tell who this person is."
The clothes in the cave were all rolled into a piece of rock, making it impossible to distinguish their styles and characteristics, and there were no written records.
Just when Gu Qingyuan was extremely disappointed, Song Yanning suddenly changed the subject: "However, I think this is most likely a caravan from the Song Dynasty."
"Oh? What do you mean?" After a sudden turn of events, Gu Qingyuan asked curiously.
"The Qaidam Basin is a lowland surrounded by mountains and is located in the middle of the Western Regions. This location is very ingenious."
Song Yanning paused, began to sort out his thoughts in his mind, and then, based on his many years of historical experience, gave a more reliable guess.
"Before the Song Dynasty, Qaidam was just an ordinary territory ruled by the Central Plains dynasty, or a performance venue for the successive regimes of other ethnic minorities such as the Qiang people. But there were only vast expanses of desert and salt marshes, not good pastures, so there were few people since ancient times."
"But all this was broken in the struggle between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia. During the confrontation between the Song and Xia, the Western Xia occupied almost the entire Hexi Corridor. The Northern Song Dynasty launched five wars to try to retake the Hexi Corridor, but all failed."
"The Hexi region has been a hub connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions since ancient times. The Northern Song Dynasty conquered it many times but failed. If the Western Xia wanted to use it to contact the Western Regions through the border, it would not allow it."
"This became a threat to the Song Empire, and forced the Song people to find other routes to the Western Regions."
"Speak human language, don't be fussy, just tell me the conclusion directly. I don't understand and I don't care. Do you think I'm your student?" Gu Qingyuan was getting impatient. What about the two Song Dynasties, Western Xia, and five wars? It was a headache just to hear about them.
Song Yanning: “…”
Pressing down the tic-tac-toe sign on his forehead, he added speed.
"There have been few people here since ancient times, and it is impossible for people to survive here. Except for wars, the people who pass through here are basically caravans. These people are obviously wearing ordinary clothes, without armor or swords, so they are not soldiers. Only in the Song Dynasty did caravans pass through here. This is the Silk Road."
"Then why not the Ming Dynasty or the Yuan Dynasty?" Gu Qingyuan was very confused.
"The territories of the Yuan and Ming dynasties were much larger than those of the Song dynasty. They went to the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor, so judging from the probability and time, the Song dynasty has the highest probability!"
Gu Qingyuan nodded. If you had said that earlier, he would have understood . After all the chatter, there was no useful information at all.
"Okay, I'm hanging up."
"Hey hey hey, wait, don't hang up yet!" Song Yanning became anxious when he heard this.
So I helped, but you didn't show any appreciation at all?
Don’t be too picky in life!