Judging from the distribution and state of the pile of human bones in the soil, Long Yuehong is more inclined to the team leader's statement that the bones are picked up and buried.
This can indeed rule out the possibility of survivors doing it, because after many years, even if some survivors return to Linhe Village, knowing that life is difficult, they will not be able to take away useful supplies.
If they don't do this, the wilderness wanderers who find this side will do the same in the future.
So, who will bury these villagers in the ancestral hall?
Shang saw Yao pestle the sapper shovel and slapped his face:
"I know who it is!"
"Who?" Although Long Yuehong didn't expect to hear a normal answer from this guy, she still couldn't help but want to hear what "whimsical thoughts" the other party had.
This may be an inspiration for everyone.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"Xiao Chong."
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian and others to question, he explained in detail:
"Didn't Xiao Chong stay in the ruins of Swamp No. 1 for many years?
"He also has a group of 'heartless people' under his command, who often work for him, and it is a twenty or thirty minute drive from here to the ruins of Swamp No. 1.
"Will one day, he suddenly remembered the people in his hometown, remembering that his bones were cold, but they had not yet been buried, which was not in line with the folk custom of burying him in the ground, so he sent a large number of 'heartless people' to bring his body turned into white bones, buried him under the old locust tree, and at the same time collected the body of the villagers in Linhe Village and stuffed it into the ancestral hall?"
This is really a pure ghost story, what does it mean to remember that your bones are cold and have not yet been buried...... Uh, it's a bit funny again...... Long Yuehong muttered a few words to herself.
He had to admit that the situation described by Shang Jianyao was really possible!
After all, Xiao Chong cannot be treated as a normal person, there is a high probability that it is a personality or one of the incarnations split by the "Zhuang Sheng" of the year, and he does have a precedent for driving the "heartless people" to work, and even let those higher "heartless people" work to support him.
Based on his relationship with Linhe Village, he accidentally remembered this place and sent his "subordinates" over to let the people in his hometown settle down, which is a very reasonable development.
Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:
"This possibility is quite high.
"Well, because this is Xiao Chong's hometown, those 'heartless people' are restrained and do not take things indiscriminately, or even bring their own dry food."
Slapping, Shang Jianyao let go of the hand holding the sapper shovel and applauded himself.
And the engineer shovel stood in the soil, unshakable.
Bai Chen also nodded slightly and said:
"Indeed, Xiao Chong has motivation and ability, and he used to live very close to here."
Jiang Baimian wanted to pace back and forth a few steps, but when he saw graves everywhere, he would accidentally step on "others" and gave up this plan.
She said after consideration:
"But there are two problems, one is why the bones under the old locust tree are incomplete, and the other is why Xiao Chong didn't bury himself in the ancestral hall as well."
"Maybe the old locust tree has a special meaning to him." Shang Jianyao looked like "I am very familiar with Xiao Chong".
"What is the point......" Long Yuehong muttered.
Bai Chen said "Hmm":
"There are so many possibilities for this."
Shang Jianyao's eyes lit up, as if he had conceived a big drama of love entanglement.
Jiang Baimian didn't give him a chance to play, and nodded slightly:
"What if it wasn't Xiao Chong, but those who buried the remaining bones in the ruins of the Swamp No. 1 Ruins Laboratory?"
This obviously did not refer to the three relic hunters, but to those behind the scenes.
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong began to ponder this possibility.
Jiang Baimian said to himself:
"They obviously have a certain understanding of the ruins of Swamp No. 1, or Dajiang City, and they know where the secret laboratory is, so it is not too strange to find Linhe Village.
"Well, one year after the destruction of the old world, they took Du Shaochong's bones into the depths of the swamp, came to Linhe Village, and buried it under the old locust tree, but for some reason, they took Du Shaochong's bones apart and buried only half of them......
"Hehe, this reminds me of the technique of disgust that I said before.
"At the same time, it may be in cooperation with the technique of defeat, or it may be that they have received instructions from a certain being, these people collected the bones of the villagers of Linhe Village and buried them in the Du ancestral hall."
Long Yuehong recalled the experience of herself and others, and boldly guessed:
"They only half buried it, probably because they know that something bad will happen if they bury it.
"However, before Qiao Chu came in, the ruins of Swamp No. 1 were not known at all......"
Jiang Baimian immediately smiled:
"Qiao Chu knew this because he belonged to the Eighth Research Institute.
"Those people may also have a certain relationship with the Eighth Research Institute."
She only said that there was a certain relationship, but did not mention those who might be the Eighth Research Institute, because according to the Eighth Research Institute's style, they prefer to blow up the old locust tree, blow up Linhe Village, and destroy everything that involves a certain truth in the old world rather than burying the bones.
"But why don't those people collect some supplies?" Bai Chen raised an objection.
Coming here from outside the swamp will definitely consume a lot of supplies, and normal people will replenish some on the spot.
Shang Jianyao suppressed his voice and replied to Jiang Baimian:
"Because those materials are poisonous."
Everyone has a brain, why can you come up with such a strange answer? Long Yuehong didn't know what to say.
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"It is impossible to be poisonous, but this is Xiao Chong's hometown, the hometown of 'Zhuang Sheng' incarnation, even if they just take something away, they will be afraid of not sleeping well at night."
"They all dare to take away the other half of the bones." The honest Shang Jianyao pointed out the problem.
Jiang Baimian was quick-witted and immediately replied:
"Because they have been instructed and know that as long as the bones are not intact, nothing will happen, uh, it's only limited to the bones themselves."
After hearing this, Bai Chen nodded thoughtfully:
"There are almost two explanations."
One is Xiao Chong's words, and the other is the behind-the-scenes words.
Jiang Baimian looked around and gave an order:
"Although time has passed, the sun and rain, and the possibility of traces remaining is extremely low, we still have to do a lot of work, well, go around, go into each room and simply search it to see if we can get anything."
She wanted to find traces of the buried people.
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Baimian added:
"This is Xiao Chong's hometown, and a certain house here should belong to his grandparents' house or some other relative.
"There may be enough valuable clues hidden inside."
As for Xiao Chong's own family, there is a high probability that he moved to Dajiang City, and then moved to Taicheng.
Hearing that the next main direction was to find out Xiao Chong's grandparents' home, Shang Jianyao suddenly became excited, as if he was playing hide and seek with Xiao Chong.
In this way, the "old tune team" wandered around the village, entering different houses to look for possible clues.
Unfortunately, decades have passed, and this area has often been covered by wind and rain, and many traces that should have been there have been erased by time.
It was almost noon, and Shang Jianyao, who was always at the front of the line, pushed open the door of a house.
Entering the house, Jiang Baimian checked it briefly, frowned and said:
"Something is not right here."
"What's wrong?" Long Yuehong didn't find any problems.
Jiang Baimian looked around again and said:
"Compared with other houses in the same village, there are a lot less things here.
"The shrine dedicated to the previous generation has no tablet, and there are no family portraits or photos of some people in the family on the walls, coffee tables, and TV cabinets like many people, and there is no place where words exist at a glance......"
She simply picked out several things that were wrong.
Several members of the "Old Tune Team" immediately dispersed, and the two of them worked together to carefully search the first and second floors of the house.
They were unable to find anything to prove the owner's identity as they did in other houses in Linhe Village, and they weren't even sure how many people there were in the family.
After meeting in the living room on the first floor, Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin and said:
"There is no clue that there is something abnormal, which just means that this is the home of Xiao Chong's grandparents."
"Someone deliberately erased the traces of Xiao Chong's past existence to prevent latecomers from investigating related matters? This is a bit of the temperament of the Eighth Research Institute." Jiang Baimian's eyes turned slightly.
At this point, compared to Xiao Chong's claim that he sent "heartless people" to bury the villagers, she was more and more inclined to the guess she made.
"It looks a lot like it." Long Yuehong and Bai Chen both thought so.
Then, they left here and prepared to go to the surrounding houses.
When they went around to the side, Jiang Baimian and others saw someone painting a painting on the wall of the house just now.
This painting has been very blurred by the sun and rain, and it can only be vaguely seen that it is a sea and a bird, and the style is very childish.
"A sea, a bird......" Jiang Baimian looked sideways at Shang Jianyao.
She remembered that this was the content of the recent dream that "Zhuang Sheng" had.
…………
After leaving Linhe Village, I returned to the camp.
Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and slapped his left palm:
"I'll go down to the 'Spiritual Corridor'."
"Don't explore the dream of 'Zhuang Sheng'." Jiang Baimian hurriedly stopped it.
Shang Jianyao shook his head:
"No, I just want to see what changes there.
"Then, go to Xiao Chong's gap and try to wake him up."
"How to wake up?" Jiang Baimian frowned and asked.
"How can you be sure that it is Xiao Chong who wakes up?" Long Yuehong was inexplicably frightened.
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"I'm going to play a game next to that gap!"
(End of this chapter)