Chapter 228

rfectly as we expected.When he wasn't feeding the cattle, San Ge would take his hammer and chisel and tap away at the stone gate. After about two months of work, he finally managed to chisel out a cow...We walked over to take a closer look, and it was a mass of black cloth. The outline under the black cloth looked like a person.

Alxa is always dry with little rain. The sand also has a strong water absorption capacity. In a sealed space, the fabric dries to near weathering. I reached out and pulled forward, and the fabric was brittle like tofu, shattering at a touch.

Upon seeing what was covering it, Xiao Xuan gasped and covered her mouth.

It turned out to be a dry corpse.

What's even more eerie is that it was a corpse with a large, bloated belly.

I've seen many skeletons, but a corpse like this is the first time I've ever encountered.

The body's skin was shrunken and sunken, its facial features caved in. There were a few sparse strands of hair on the scalp. Judging by the length of the hair, this corpse was likely female in life.

After calming down and observing carefully, he pointed at the corpse and said: "You guys take a look at the body's belly."

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I nodded and said, "I also noticed that her head is fine. Her corpse's belly isn't sunken in, it's very swollen. Maybe she was pregnant before she died"

"That's impossible," said Douzi. "Even if she were pregnant, her belly wouldn't be this big. The fetus would have dried up and shrunken long ago. I think there's something strange inside this corpse's belly."

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Actually, what the sprout said makes sense. If it's a few months old embryo, once it dehydrates, it will definitely dry up. Drying up means shrinkage, and it won't bulge outwards like the corpse in front of us.

He and Qin Xingping looked at each other, then he said, "I don't know much about the burial customs of Xixia. Most people in Xixia are Dangxiang people, and the Dangxiang people are descendants of ancient Qiang people. There aren't many people in China who study ancient Qiang."

Yúnfēng.

Understood, I'll keep that in mind.

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I take a deep breath and draw my dagger forward.

Xiaoxuan and Douzi looked at me nervously, they weren't stupid enough to not know what I was going to do next.

I mumbled an apology to the lady and then began to cut.

The blade was extremely sharp, cutting with a feel like slicing through cured meat. The body was desiccated, skin and flesh indistinguishable, and I slowly pulled it downward.

"Ugh!" Xiaoxuan couldn't help herself, she turned her back and didn't dare to look.

"What is this so hard" I felt like the knife in my hand hit something as hard as iron.

Gritting my teeth, I reached in and rummaged around. Soon, a hard sensation came to me, and I touched a triangular hard object.

When this thing was taken out, everyone in the room was surprised.

Inside the corpse's stomach was a black iron tower, twenty to thirty centimeters tall. I just touched the top of the tower, and the tip happened to be triangular.

The little bean sprout narrowed his eyes and said, "Little one, how could there be the Tower of Tota in someone's stomach"

We started to research this thing.

The iron tower, over thirty centimeters high, is divided into six sections. Each section has doors and windows. The doors are flanked by small Xia script characters more intricate than traditional seal script. There are four flying eaves on both sides of the tower top, each with two copper bells the size of a fingernail hanging from them. Originally, there should have been four, but two are missing now.

The tower is surrounded by a nine-petal lotus, which is carved with three-dimensional relief. There is a circle of small Buddha statues carved around it. Some of these protruding small Buddha statues have halos and some do not.

This is a pagoda.

I can hear my heart beating, thump-thump.

My gut feeling tells me this is not simple.

In ancient times, there were indeed specialized artisans who crafted iron pagodas. However, the varieties were limited. For example, Emperor Qianlong built a pure gold gratitude pagoda for his biological mother, and there were also Wenchang pagodas placed on top of tombs as soul towers (made from fired clay, similar to funerary urns).

That's just a stupa.

And there is a rarer and more precious kind of stupa within the stupas. Some people call all these types of stupas:

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The stupa of King Ashoka.on wood. In the center of the picture is a pure white coffin, surrounded by many ragged people kneeling on the ground, looking as if they are worshipping the white coffin.The entire mural style has a...