An idea flashed through my mind, but I wasn't sure if it was correct, so I quickly walked to the other side and opened the two sandalwood coffins.
Sure enough, as I expected, the corpse contained in the coffin of the two boys near his father's coffin also had a blue skull, but this boy did not have a peacock on his head.
Just a crown.
The scene in front of me finally made me understand that the blue skull is probably a symbol of identity. The person who owns this kind of skull is probably the patriarch or priest of the family.
However, there is a problem here, that is, a person has to die for a certain period of time, and then the skull can only be seen after the body melts. So how is the person's life determined?
Therefore, the blue skull is just a hidden symbol. There must be another obvious symbol that everyone knows to identify who is the patriarch.
Is it the same as the ruling system of rulers in our feudal society, which is also the eldest son inheritance system?
It's definitely not that simple.
Will...
Suddenly a piece of information flashed through my mind, which scared me so much that I broke into a cold sweat on my back.
Will the heir to the patriarch be like me, a child who was born three months into pregnancy?
Full of doubts, I walked to the golden nanmu and opened the lids of the two coffins.
Inside the coffin are a man and a woman. Judging from the teeth in the skull’s mouth, these are two elderly people. So my guess just now is correct. The golden nanmu contains the belongings of this family.
elder.
According to the order of the coffins, the boy with the blue skull should be the great-grandson of these two old people.
The firelight in the study could not shine into the mourning hall, but due to the scattering of light on the wooden stairs, the room was not completely dark, but in a dim state.
I leaned down and carefully observed the bones lying in the golden nanmu. Just like Tou Xian, there were no obvious wounds on the two white bones. The color of the bones was also normal, and there was no sign of poisoning.
This is strange. If it was not an external injury, how could a family of ten people die at the same time? But if it was an external factor, why were there no traces found on the bones?
I opened all the coffins in the mourning hall again. At this time, something unexpected happened.
It wasn't that there were any flaws in the bones, but that the coffin next to the coffin of the boy with the blue skull was actually empty.
According to the order of the coffins in the mourning hall, this coffin should contain the mother of the little boy.
However, there is nothing inside now. Why is this?
Suddenly, I thought of the woman hanging on the bed, and I seemed to understand a little bit.
If I guessed correctly, something happened to this family suddenly. All four generations of the family died unexpectedly, including the boy who was the patriarch. However, for some unknown reason, the hostess of this family escaped.
After a disaster, she took care of the funeral for her family and then hanged herself.
However, why this family suffered catastrophe and how the woman sometimes escaped may become an eternal mystery.
At this time, the murals in the tunnel suddenly appeared in my mind. Could it be because of the Younger Dryas incident?
In fact, I don’t know much about the Younger Dryas incident. I just listened to Andrew’s rough whisper in the tunnel. I roughly know that it was because the weather suddenly turned cold, and all the creatures were frozen to death in an instant, including those living in the tunnel.
Mammoths in severely cold areas were not spared either.
Therefore, could this family that suddenly died together be caused by the sudden change in climate?
But, in this case, how did that woman survive the cold?
And since she had a way to survive, why would she commit suicide? And in such a cruel way.
Because the distance between the curtain frame on the Lychee bed and the bed is actually less than one and a half meters, therefore, as long as there is a little bit of will to survive, a woman can stand up and save herself at any time. What is the reason for this?
Why is she so fierce?
When we were in the yard just now, we could see that there were floors above the enclosure on this floor of the yard, but it was filled with white smoke, so we couldn't tell how many floors there were.
And after I cracked the hidden mechanism in the nave through the information my father left for me, I kept going down. So where are the stairs that can lead to the floors above the courtyard?
Judging from the places inside the enclosure that I have walked through so far, the floors above the enclosure courtyard may be the clan leader of the enclosure, or in other words, the residence of the ruling class of the enclosure.
Just like our ancient palaces.
The astrolabe we are looking for must be hidden in those floors. What's more, I may be able to find out about the astrolabe, about the blue heads, and about the hidden contents of this special race.
's secret.
And if the blue head's conjecture is correct and the little boy is the heir to the future patriarch, then there must be a staircase in this vertical row of buildings that can lead to the upper floors.
However, along the way, the rooms I passed through really didn’t have any unreasonable designs.
Is there something I've overlooked here?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but close my eyes and carefully recall the experience along the way.
In the nave, three children were chasing and playing.
In the toy room, the lonely child rocked the wooden horse alone.
In the wine cellar, there seems to be no so-called "people" appearing in the wine cellar.
I paused here.
At that time, because I had to avoid the attack of the Iron Worm people, basically all my attention was focused on the Iron Worm people. I really didn't notice whether there was wisdom from another dimension in the wine cellar.
No, there were four cups placed on the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the wine cellar. In my memory, there seemed to be residual alcohol smell in the quilt.
Next is the candlestick bedroom. In the bedroom, the mistress hanged herself on the big lychee wood bed.
Below the bedroom is the study room, and in the study room are portraits of a family of five.
There are five members of the family, so why are there four coffins in this mourning hall? Which child does not appear in the family photo? Is it the boy without the blue head?
After the study is the mourning hall. There are ten coffins in the mourning hall.
Is it a number?
Thinking of this, Wu ran out of the mourning hall and walked quickly down the wooden ladder.
After a while, the door to the room below the mourning hall appeared in front of me. I took a deep breath and silently prayed that my guess was correct. Then I raised my hands and opened the carved door.
Behind the door is a small hall. There is a purple clay pot on a small red clay stove. There is olive stone charcoal in a basket on the floor. There is a set of pumpkin-shaped purple clay pots on a small sandalwood table.
This time, I did not go in, but stood at the door and listened quietly.
Sure enough, after standing still for about three minutes, I heard a faint conversation coming from the house, like a young couple in the family whispering.
I stood there for about ten minutes, whispering intermittently, and from time to time there was the sound of pouring water and making tea.
After confirming that only the couple was drinking tea and whispering in the small hall, I gently closed the door and walked down the wooden stairs.
Below the small hall is the kitchen and dining room. At this moment, the six adults in the family are eating, but it is unknown where the children are.
When I got here, I had no intention of going any further. These two rooms had basically confirmed my suspicion just now - there was a digital mechanism hidden in this vertical row of houses.
If we start from the middle hall and link the number of characters in this room, it is 31415926.
I haven't opened the rooms below to verify them one by one, but I can basically confirm that the digital secret hidden here is pi.
However, there is another problem here, that is, the ten coffins in the mourning hall do not match the sixth number of pi, nine. Could it be that the staircase leading to the top floor is actually hidden in the mourning hall?
Thinking of this, I turned around and walked out of the corridor, then walked up to the mourning hall.