At the very least, you should remember a number, right?

Thinking of this, Wu Liang asked Dian Wei to break open the copper lock on the iron fence and enter this strange niche to take a closer look.

Although only dry bones are left among the more than ten corpses here, it can still be judged from these very complete dry bones that these people should not have suffered serious trauma before they died, and there were no signs of poisoning.

Then there are only two causes of death for these people.

Or they were killed and buried here through a relatively mild method, such as cutting the veins and bleeding, so as not to leave any trauma on the bones.

Or they would be buried alive.

Wu Liang prefers the second option. After all, if he is killed in advance, there is no need to install an iron fence and transform the niche into a "cell". Isn't this taking off his pants and farting?

Unfortunately, this niche only contains these bones, and nothing else was found that could prove the cause of death of these people.

After exiting this niche, Wu Liang entered a wider niche next to it.

This niche is amazing, its setting is very similar to that of an ancient dispensary.

Except for the entrance wall, the other three sides are all lined with a row of wooden cabinets like ancient medicine cabinets, which are densely packed with small drawers equipped with bronze pull rings.

There are also some small words engraved on each small drawer:

Camphor, cinnamon, laurel, white orchid, yellow orchid, smile, goddess flower, epiphyllum, yellow gardenia, golden cherry, fragrant berry, patchouli, musk, rat fragrant...

What these small characters label should be the... medicinal materials contained in the small drawer?

Wu Liang knew that in this era when there were many alchemists, anything could be used as a medicinal material.

Even highly toxic mercury and some heavy metal minerals can be used by alchemists to refine the "elixir" of immortality, and many people believe in it.

Of course, many elements in poisons will also be used in many Western medicines in later generations to make medicines.

But the two are really not comparable. The "alchemy" at this time is not about prescribing the right medicine, but putting these messy "medicinal materials" together and cooking them. As long as they can turn into elixirs after burning, the alchemists dare to

It is said that this thing is a gift from God and it must have the effect of prolonging life and becoming immortal.

This is how gunpowder comes out...

Although the names are engraved on these small drawers, most of them are indeed just medicinal materials in later generations.

But if you judge carefully, it doesn't seem that appropriate. If you have to put them into the same category, they are not all medicinal materials. A more appropriate classification should be spices!

Classify it this way.

Combined with the strange fragrance that permeates the entire tomb and the pressing device outside that looks most likely used to extract "essence", it seems much more reasonable.

Is it precisely because of this that the aroma found during the excavation of Haihunhou's tomb was so long-lasting?

after all.

The "essence" squeezed out by that device has overflowed into the small jade bowl and merged with the bricks and soil on the ground. In addition, it was completely filled with stagnant water later. Although these rich "essences" were diluted, they were still intact.

Every corner of Haihunhou's tomb was soaked.

And one brew lasts nearly two thousand years, so the fragrance lasts for a long time?

This possibility is very high...

With this speculation, Wu Liang opened several drawers and checked. Due to the age, these spices have all become rotten and moldy. However, through the simple gas mask, you can still smell the unique but somewhat spoiled smell of different spices.

It seems that these "spice" are no longer available.

Wu Liang closed the drawer again with some regret, backed out of the niche, and walked towards the next door that actually had a complete iron door.

But at this moment, the iron door is ajar.

Wu Liang pulled it open easily.

Then.

I saw a scene that seemed familiar!

I saw that there were more dead bones stored in this niche, forming a thick layer just like the "shadow corpses" outside the tomb!

It's just that these withered bones look slender and lower than the "shadow corpses" outside.

In addition, these dead bones are a little different from the dead bones in the previous fence. There are no remaining clothes on these dead bones, and they are relatively intact...especially the crotch, so Wu Liang can easily pass the characteristics of the bones.

to identify their gender.

This is also a required course for archeology majors - physical anthropology.

The simplest way is to look at the pubic bone. If the angle between the pubic arches is greater than a right angle, it is a female. If the angle between the pubic arches is less than a right angle, it is a male.

female……

female……

female……

Still female!

Wu Liang inspected more than a dozen corpses in a row, and without exception, they were all female!

Looking at the thickness and length of these dead bones, they are not much different from the dead bones in the iron fence... Therefore, it is not difficult to judge that the dead bones there and the dead bones here are girls who have not yet reached the age of hairpin ceremony!

What exactly is going on?!

Wu Liang was filled with doubts.

There were at least hundreds of corpses, and possibly even more, of girls piled up in this small niche. Even if human sacrifice was required, there might not be such a rule, not to mention that the Western Han Dynasty had basically put an end to the bad custom of human sacrifice?

at this time.

"Creak, creak, creak..."

Suddenly there was a slight abnormal sound under the withered bones not far away. Wu Liang woke up instantly and immediately picked up the engineering shovel and took a few steps back, taking precautions.

Dian Wei quickly stepped in front.

Bai Jingjing and Yu Ji also looked tense and looked nervously at the place where the sound came from.

After a while.

"Wow!"

A few dead bones turned over, and a slightly smaller strange insect emerged from it, and then it swung its limbs that were not too agile and tried to crawl out of the niche.

This should be a strange insect larva that was belatedly realized...

"call--!"

It was a false alarm, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, at this moment, Wu Liang suddenly realized something and immediately said to Dian Wei: "Dian Wei, use an engineering shovel to dig open these dead bones and see what's underneath?"

"yes."

Dian Wei reacted briefly and started doing it immediately.

In just a dozen breaths, a pit about half a meter deep was dug on the spot.

And under the dug pit, a "honeycomb"-like nest was discovered again. Ninety-nine percent of this strange insect is an ancient variety of burial insects!

And it's obvious.

These burial bugs did not appear out of thin air in this niche, but someone was keeping them in captivity, and the food provided was all the corpses of young girls!

"That alchemist named Lian Shi?"

Wu Liang naturally thought of this person who appeared in "Tomb Building".
Chapter completed!