NIP Chapter 370 The Graveyard
Chapter 370 The Graveyard
Chapter 370 The Graveyard
Because they walked all the way and observed the surrounding reasons, Liang En, it took them an hour after they got off the helicopter to cross the distance of more than 1000 meters to the flat ground surrounded by hills at the destination.
Almost at the moment of arriving here, everyone could see the specialness of this place.
Nothing else, the several neatly arranged stone piles at the bottom of the hill are abnormal at first glance, not to mention the largest stone pile with a wooden stick stuck in it, so normal people can tell at a glance that it is not normal. Naturally occurring product.
The first time the target location was determined, the bodyguard took the rifle and climbed up the small hill with a height of seven or eight meters in three steps and two steps to start guarding, and the photographer also prepared his camera and started shooting. .
"It seems that there are words carved on it." After all the preparations were done, Fan Meng, who was the first to approach the stone pile, looked at the wooden stick carefully, then turned his head and said to Liang En who was waiting underneath. .
"See if the wooden stick can be removed. If it can be removed, you can take it down so that you can check what is carved on it?" Liang En shouted to Fan Meng.
"Understood." Fan Meng nodded, then grabbed the thick wooden stick and tried to move. Soon, he successfully pulled the wooden stick out of the stone pile and placed it on the temporary plastic sheet superior.
"HMS Erebus, 25th April, 1848" It took a little time for Liang En and the others to recognize the crooked writing on the stick.
"The Royal Navy HMS Nether, April 1848, 4. It seems that we were lucky enough to find the target on the first attack." Liang En turned his head and said to Scudder.
These hillocks made of local gravel are indeed more difficult to find, at least the current artificial satellites can't do this at all, and aerial reconnaissance or ground reconnaissance were equally ineffective when it was covered with ice and snow.
This is why so many search teams came to this area before but found nothing. As the first search team to set foot on this land after the ice and snow receded, it was not surprising that Liang En and the others found these things.
"What should we do next?" Fan Meng asked while taking off the engineering shovel and pickaxe from his back.
"Of course, dig up all these piles of rocks." Liang En said after pointing at the piles of stones in a circle with his hand, "If I guess correctly, there should be valuable items under these piles of stones."
"However, it is also possible that this is the body of the victim." Joan of Arc suddenly added on the sidelines. "The boat was in trouble at the time, so it is likely that there were bodies in this place."
"The corpses don't matter. I have already asked the British side before I came, and they said that if we are willing to bring these remains back to the UK, they will give these victims a military funeral that meets their status."
Scudder said from the side after finishing the call with the ship. "So I plan to bring them back to the UK as much as possible after studying the remains of these victims. After all, they have been away from home for more than 100 years, and they should go home."
After deciding on the next course of action, everyone immediately started to get busy. Except for the sentinel and the cameraman of the Discovery Channel, everyone else devoted themselves to the excavation work.
And when they dug up the first hill made of rubble to reveal the bone-baked corpses underneath, the six people from the second batch of reinforcements also rushed here by helicopter.
Unlike Liang En and the others, these people did not carry guns and some things that were definitely not needed, but replaced all those loads with tools for easy digging and some other useful things.
The first excavated remains had been completely boneless, and only fragments of clothes were left on his body, but judging from the style of the pipe he carried, the copper buckle and the remaining clothes, he should be a sailor.
But after a simple inspection, everyone suspected that he was not an ordinary sailor, because there was a gold ring on his finger, and traces of silver plating were also found on the copper buckles.
Considering that the sailor was buried in uniform, and the possibility of messing with the uniform on a very strict naval vessel is extremely unlikely, he is likely to be a senior sailor or officer.
After taking pictures and registering, everyone carefully put the skeleton and belongings into the body bag brought by a group of people just now, and when removing the skeleton, they were attracted by the metal objects that were pressed under the skull. Everyone's attention.
"He is most likely the bosun or navigator on the ship." After taking out this palm-sized metal object, Liang En immediately recognized that it was a sailor's whistle, which is often only known by captains, navigators and bosuns. have.
As for why Liang En didn't guess his captain, the reason is also very simple. Senior officers can be recognized even if there are only fragments of their uniforms left, not to mention that the captains of the Royal Navy use silver whistles instead of the copper whistles dug up now. .
At the same time, the Mariner also has the inscription of the Nether, which proves that this is indeed the cemetery of the victims of the Arctic expedition.
Until dark, they excavated a total of six hillocks made of gravel, and all the remains were buried under these hillocks. Judging from the remains, these people included sailors and officers, and the highest status should be First boatswain dug out.
"There are a total of 12 hillocks that look like cemeteries, so if all goes well, we should be able to dig them all tomorrow." Liang En sat by the campfire while drinking hot cocoa, and talked to Scudder about the next day. s arrangement.
"However, during the excavation just now, I found that there are traces of a small-scale landslide near the hill, and there seems to be something hidden underneath, so I want to dig this place first tomorrow."
When excavating before, because there were not too many people around the small tombs, Liang En simply searched around this place as the center.And during the search, there was a metal reaction under a landslide area with a metal detector.
"It's all up to you to arrange, and you don't have to consider my ideas." Skold lightly raised the cup in his hand and signaled to Liang En, "I came here to participate in an important archaeological operation. Everything else is up to you."
"Then thank you." Liang En nodded. Investors like this who are willing to invest and don't just point fingers are definitely the kind of investors that explorers like Liang En like best.
Because there was still an excavation task the next day, everyone went to bed soon. To be honest, although Liang En chose to major in archeology and engaged in this industry, Liang En still felt that a tent full of human remains was not far away from him. Some mind to 10m.
Although he has always been a materialist before, since he appeared in this world and obtained the card system, his overall cognition has turned to agnosticism, which naturally gave rise to some other ideas in some aspects .
Fortunately, there was Joan of Arc among the people who came this time, and her tent was next to Liang En's tent, so Liang En quickly overcame the discomfort in his heart and fell asleep.
In his opinion, if it is a purely materialistic world, then everything will be fine, and if there is something messy, then it is impossible for this place where Joan of Arc is sitting.
(End of this chapter)