Chapter 138 - Flexed Burial (2/2)
Gu Jun’s hands that gripped the file popped with green veins The nerves on his forehead were pulsing It ht just be a number there, but it represented the heartbreak of so hts suffered by the parents…
These disappearances were the start of the case Due to the severity of the situation, Phecda sent out a Special Mobile Force unit to aid the police in their investigation The unit was none other than the Phoenix unit headed by Elder Tong They were then a general unit, with 105 per was only twenty-seven He graduated froation Department Despite his youthful impetuousness, his talent was undeniable He was bound for a bright future However, even with the intervention of the Phoenix unit, the case did not solve itself that easily
This was because this was not a si; there was no connection between the fa children They were not blood-related, and they caeting appeared to be coation reached a dead end
According to the files, the breakthrough came froical professor tenured at Guang Ting University called Liu Daze He was quite famous within the academic field Some of his students came to the police to report that in their recent visits to Prof Liu’s ho, but to their knowledge, Prof Liu was single and had no faave off a ‘strange feeling’ The students felt anxious in his presence and made the connection to the recent disappearance cases
After the Phoenix unit paid Prof Liu a visit, they understood what his students ly calist invited thes on Earth, the planet was inhabited by a higher presence Their influence was visible through huht that normal humans would not notice their existence
“The children have been sent to a location that no one will be able to reach,” the archaeological professor informed them “But I knohere they are safely buried”
That was basically a confession, but one would not think so based on the look on the professor’s face It sounded s of a madman But with no other lead to follow up on, Phecda arrived at the location provided by the old professor They started the excavation at aTo their surprise, their digging revealed an ancient to put it from the Early Qin Dynasty It was not decorated and proures but instead…
“Hmm…” Gu Jun frowned as he studied the pictures of the to with the pictures Ies started to ju, and she instantly told Gu Jun, “Take it easy over there”
Gu Jun responded with silence These were pictures of the unearthed bodies They had decayed to white bones already The pictures were labelled with the term ‘flexed burial’ Flexed burial was a type of burial method back in the Early Qin Dynasty Unlike ements, the tradition of flexed burial first bent the dead’s lower body up to their chest and then bound theether with ropes before burial Flexed burial was a unique mark on the history of funerary study Its history, locale, , and so on were still shrouded inat the pictures, Gu Jun had a pree unyielding shapes post- as they were twisted into unnatural for these corpses was not the keeper of the toe stone statue
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“But where’s the picture?” Gu Jun h the files He failed to find any recorded picture of the stone statue In fact, there was not even a written description on it The only thing he had to go on was the quick mention of it
Other than the buried dead and the stone statue, there was nothing else inside the ancient tomb After some research, it was confir pose It would explain the strange position their bodies were found in This was clearly some kind of sacrificial ritual, but that led to another question to be answered Hoould that ist know about the existence of this old to broken into, so that eliminated the possibility that he had been here before
The question remained unsolved to this day because no h, Liu Daze did not confess In the end, the old archaeologist died inside his cell fro first aid, he left the world with so about, and there was no recorder nearby to record it In fact, the doctors at the tiof new infor, as present at the ti were: “Ph’nglui n”