I zoomed in on the skull. Inside the cranial cavity, the machine showed a strange shadowing. The brain… it had petrified too, before it could even decompose. This meant the process took moments, not years.
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At that moment, our radio operator burst into the tent. “You have to see this!” he yelled. We ran outside. It had started to rain. The water was washing the centuries of dirt off the other statues left by the truck. Under the rain, the “stone” crust became translucent.
Through the wet stone, veins were visible. The eyes of one statue seemed to be staring right at us. And then I realized that the “bracelet” on the first figure’s arm wasn’t jewelry. It was a modern rope. Synthetic nylon. These statues weren’t ancient. These “people” were barely ten years old.
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