Inside, it was pitch black and dark, very suitable for those bats to survive. Now that Ye Qiu ca in with a torch, possibly due to the torch’s effect, those bats sensed it and flew outside.
The ground was covered with bat droppings.
"Ye Qiu, why did you bring us in here?" Zhou Wenting asked curiously.
"Didn’t you see those bats? These bats are likely one of the sources of the infectious disease virus, so when we go back later, we need to take a few bats with us."
Bats?
Both felt a bit disgusted by these creatures, but indeed, as Ye Qiu said, they could really be one of the sources of the infectious disease virus.
"Then let’s catch so bats and leave!" Zhou Wenting suggested again.
"Why the rush? I want to see what’s inside those coffins."
Ye Qiu constantly felt that the coffins in this cave were strange. As he walked in from the entrance and counted along the way, there were already more than eighty such coffins.
Moreover, it’s not just one cave. There was a row of caves seen outside, most likely filled with these things.
"Could it be that the villagers put the coffins up here after they died?" Wen Xin asked.
"That’s possible, but it doesn’t seem like it. These coffins look aged, not sothing from recent years. Also, it seems like no one has been here for a long ti."
Ye Qiu and the two won arrived in front of a coffin. Most of the coffins were inside small caves within the cave, only part of them exposed. Now with Zhou Wenting holding the torch, Ye Qiu prepared to pull the coffin out of the small cave.
He felt it was heavy, perhaps filled with many things inside.
However, for Ye Qiu, even sothing weighing over a thousand pounds wasn’t a problem.
As Ye Qiu directly pulled the coffin out from the small cave and onto the cave floor.
Looking at the appearance of this coffin, it was indeed a coffin, though different from others, it wasn’t painted, but made of solid wood, possibly lasting hundreds of years without decay.
As Ye Qiu slowly pushed open the coffin, revealing a large part inside, and he looked in with the torch, he didn’t expect to find inside a mummified body. Ye Qiu remained calm, but Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin felt like they were about to vomit just by glancing at it.
As the two won dared not look any further, Ye Qiu saw inside, in addition to the mummy, clothes resembling those worn by ordinary people during the Republic of China, made of linen. There were also so burial items like silverware and porcelain.
Just the solid wood was very heavy, and with these items, it weighed even more.
Ye Qiu hurriedly covered the coffin lid, and the two won’s faces looked very unpleasant.
"These could very well be one of the sources of the infectious disease virus," Ye Qiu said.
Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting didn’t know what to say, but now both of them felt that inside every coffin were these corpses.
So, the two won felt scared.
"Ye Qiu, maybe we should leave first," Wen Xin suggested.
Ye Qiu picked up the coffin again and placed it back into the small cave.
No need to look inside anymore.
In Ye Qiu’s opinion, either the source of the infectious disease virus was the corpses inside these coffins or these bats. Both were possible.
With two remaining torches not yet burnt out, Ye Qiu decided not to explore further but to lead Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting outside.
...
Outside, the soldiers and dical experts involved in the search still hadn’t seen Ye Qiu and the two won, except for identifying a suspicious spot, they didn’t know where the three had gone.
They feared most that the three might have encountered tigers or wolves or had co to harm.
However, without any trace of the three, giving up was not an option.
Ye Qiu led the two won out of the cave.
Exiting the cave and climbing down the mountain, in the presence of sunlight, the two won felt much better for sure.
From the two hundred ters high grassland below, looking in this direction seed close, but in reality, with their walking and getting lost, it took them a whole day.
So, often, things may seem close, but in truth, they’re far away. It’s just that your eyes deceive you.
"Ye Qiu, do we have to walk back again?"
"Of course."
"Aren’t you bringing the bats back?" Zhou Wenting asked.
"No, I’ll tell the other dical experts to find them themselves. As for the bodies inside, I think I have already guessed their identities."
"Who are they?"
Zhou Wenting asked curiously.
"Didn’t the old lady say that during her mother’s generation, there was a sudden outbreak of a similar plague that wiped out most of the villagers, and no one knew where they went after they died? Now seeing so many coffins inside, I feel those dead villagers might have been placed here."
Back in those days, there wouldn’t have been any cremations; people were usually buried underground. But why weren’t these buried but placed inside caves? It’s probably because they didn’t die naturally and thus weren’t buried traditionally.
In many ethnic minority areas, there are similar cave burials, where bodies and coffins are placed inside caves.
So who don’t understand might truly be scared to death upon seeing this.
Ye Qiu felt like he might have found so reasons, but specifics should be left for others to investigate. He knew the two won were exhausted and hungry, their bodies couldn’t endure much more.
If he were alone, there would certainly be no problem.
"We should descent the mountain first."
Although climbing up was challenging, Ye Qiu felt going down was much easier.
Hand in hand, Ye Qiu held Zhou Wenting, and she held Wen Xin, and the three left the cave, following the original route back.
After about three hours of walking, Ye Qiu suddenly heard soone calling his na.
"Doctor Ye!"
"Doctor Ye, where are you?"
...
"Ye Qiu, it seems like soone’s calling you!"
"Not just seems, they are looking for ."
Ye Qiu thought it might be because he’d been gone so long without returning, the people down the mountain thought he was missing.
"I’m Ye Qiu, I’m here, I’m here." Ye Qiu shouted.
Soon, those searching soldiers and dical experts, hearing Ye Qiu’s voice, hurried in his direction.
About half an hour later, several soldiers who had been searching all night finally saw the silhouette of Ye Qiu and the two won.
But these three seed completely unscathed.
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