Chapter 209: The Mass Burial Pile Added for the birthday of book friend Dark Ye Fengyun
Rumors about human skin lanterns were circulated just before liberation. After that, the development of the times and some environmental changes gradually buried the ancient skills inherited by these aristocratic families, and they could only be heard occasionally from the mouths of some experienced old people.
There are some clues, but the real thing is basically invisible. Normal people don’t have the mental quality to make such a thing, and it’s useless to make it.
I don’t know who left the human skin lantern in the stone house, but it confirms Mustache’s idea that it must be the work of future generations. The human skin lantern itself is nothing, but what is the significance of its appearance? If we follow common sense
When I think about it, I feel like sweating on my back.
In the past, the Lu family used human skin lanterns to dissipate the evil spirit of the evil place. However, what is the purpose of this stone house including four human skin lanterns? The lanterns are located in the center of the ravine. Doing so can only make all the
The yin energy is gathered here and will not dissipate year after year. As a result, this place will become an evil place that will make all the earthworms feel their livers tremble.
As for the stone sculpture with the head of a leopard and the tail of a crocodile, although it is unknown, it can be imagined that it is also an evil beast that gathers energy.
"Who left this behind, and why did they do this?" Jinpu Ngawang didn't know what was going on, and felt a little chilled after listening to Mustache's story.
Mustache had a guess in his mind. He felt that not only them, but people in the past must have also inferred that there might be something hidden in this ancient battlefield and mass graves. However, due to various special reasons at the time, they could not find clues or
Things, and the follow-up time is running out, so we have no choice but to use evil methods to seal this place so that no one can enter.
The exact age of the person who left the human skin lantern is unknown. Xiaozhu inferred that they may have been people who came from the mainland after the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains. Their methods obviously have some shadows of wangqi and magic. There is something evil about this kind of thing.
But at the same time, there are some fixed patterns that can be explored. Mustache went back into the stone house and took off all the remaining three human skin lanterns. The lanterns were completely dry and hard, and the corpse oil inside was burned out, but
Staying here always makes people feel uneasy.
When Mustache took off the three lanterns one by one, a faint wailing sound echoed in his ears again, as if many, many people were abandoned in an abyss with no light and no way out, alone.
Waiting for death, they watch death approaching them day by day, but there is no way. The only thing they can do is to make such a heartbreaking wailing sound.
After handling a few lanterns, Mustache began to look for other places. He already had a general idea in mind, so the target of the action was relatively clear. He and Jinpu Awang cleared a patch of snow on the east side of the stone house.
, here, they saw a somewhat special stone.
The stone is very big, like a flat plate lying flat on the ground, but there are several smaller stones on the corners of the stone. No one has been to this place. Except for the influence of the natural environment, everything else remains intact.
It looked like it had been many years ago. This large stone looked like a manhole cover, covering a hole that was not too big on the surface. Mustache felt that this should be something similar to an air hole. This was definitely not the case.
The entrance to the mass grave, but digging from here can lead directly to the mass grave.
"Some people must have gone down there before, but they gained nothing. It may be that the danger down there is unexpected, or it may be that the situation is relatively confusing. In short, no clues or things have been found."
Mustache started digging, and followed the hole that looked like an air hole. After digging for a while, he changed the direction of digging and continued digging like a hole-puncher. He was very sensitive to changes in the soil and felt that he was about to dig.
When it was clear, I slowed down and shoveled down, hollowing out the last piece of soil. A lot of soil crumbs fell into the hole below. From this position, you couldn't see much of the mustache.
Inside this huge cavity, there seems to be a dense air floating all the time, which makes people feel very uneasy, but they can't detect any signs of danger. This is the most difficult situation. Facing a dangerous and unknown place, it is still necessary to enter.
Mustache stayed for a long time before following the dug hole into the large cavity. Judging from the size and location of the cavity, this may have been an underground settlement originally selected by the ancient religion, but due to conflicts and fighting,
When the outbreak broke out, they abandoned this place and moved to Nuo Tuoche.
Jinpu Awang also came down. The two of them adjusted the light to the strongest level and glanced left and right. Many people did die in the fierce conflict at that time. There were many simple log coffins around the hollow, but the dead were too
There were too many. It was impossible to find so much wood in the Bingcheng and Nuotu sub-regions with thin vegetation. More dead people were wrapped in a kind of cloth and put into mass graves.
The two people came down the air hole. In the middle of the hollow, very close to their left, there were several rows of neatly arranged corpses. These corpses were all wrapped in white cloth. Of course, the color of the cloth changed completely.
This kind of corpse wrapped in cloth is easily reminiscent of a cocoon. Jinpu Awang couldn't help but shudder, thinking of some things he had encountered before.
They were very close to these things and walked over in a few steps. When Xiaohu walked to the nearest corpses, he saw that their chests were decorated with some small black ornaments, most of which were bones and
Made of stone.
"These are all women." Xiaozhu had come into contact with a lot of history and objects about ancient religions. He could tell that these ornaments polished with bones and stones were all women's ornaments. There was no such thing in the war caused by the religious schism a long time ago.
Survivors, women and children were wrapped in it.
"Where should we look for it?" Jinpu Ngawang was very reluctant to look at these cocoon-like corpses. The corpses were completely whitened, and even the bones were eroded by the environment, turning yellow and black. The eyes of each corpse were exactly like two
It was a black hole with no bottom, and the more I looked at it, the more uncomfortable it became. Jinpu Ngawang wanted to get down to business as soon as possible.
"I don't know either. I can only choose a direction, search for it first, and then talk about it after the end." Mustache also felt that these corpses wrapped in white cloth might be ordinary women among the believers of the ancient religion, and did not have much value, so he thought
Give up here.
The two of them turned around together, preparing to look elsewhere. Mustache was walking behind Jinpu Awang, and turned around a second too late, but in that second, his eyes suddenly opened.
As he turned around, he vaguely glanced at the rows of corpses wrapped in white cloth behind him. One of them seemed to be sitting up slowly. Because of the light, he didn't know if what he saw with his peripheral vision was real.
However, that feeling was extremely weird and terrifying. Mustache immediately turned his head, wanting to see it more realistically, but after turning his head this time, the light source in his and Jinpu Awang's hands suddenly went out, and the two figures were like
It was plunged into a darkness like thick ink.
"What's going on!" Jinpu Awang was surprised, and immediately went to adjust the buttons of the light source. The equipment they chose would definitely not have quality problems, let alone any poor contact. However, the light source of the two people
They were extinguished together, and it couldn't be explained by coincidence. Sweat suddenly broke out in the palms of Mustache's hands. He knew that something must have extinguished the light source in their hands.
"Go back first! Go back!" Mustache immediately became anxious. This kind of danger is not something that people can fully cope with and fight against. The only way is to leave temporarily.
They were not far from the entrance of the cave, and there was a fixed rope hanging there. Although he couldn't see anything in front of him, Mustache remembered the approximate location. He turned around and walked back quickly, taking it out of his backpack.
Backup light source. After the light source is turned on, it only lights up for a moment, and then goes out again, without any response.
Mustache took out the lighter again. There was no wind under the hollow, but after the lighter fired a bunch of jumping flames, it was as if someone blew a strong breath next to it and blew out the flames. Mustache's heart was very tight.
, walking faster and faster, the flames kept lighting up and extinguishing, going back and forth several times. With the fleeting light, Mustache ran to the place where they came down and grabbed the rope.
"You go up first, hurry up!" Mustache handed the rope to Jinpu Awang and urged him.
Jinpu Awang knew that now was not the time to hesitate and push back, so he took the rope casually and climbed along the rope with both hands. However, his toes had just left the ground, and the entire rope did not know whether it fell off from the fixed point or was interrupted.
It fell, and Jinpu Ngawang almost fell down. A large piece of soil fell together with the broken rope, covering both of them.
When the rope was broken, Mustache's heart also sank. The height of this hollow was four or five meters, and the only way to go up and down was by relying on the rope. If there was no rope, and there was no climbing object to borrow strength from, the two of them would definitely go up and down with their bare hands.
Not going.
"The rope is very strong! How could it break!" Jinpu Ngawang spat out the dust in his mouth, looking angry and puzzled.
Just as Mustache was about to speak to calm Jinpu Ngawang, he felt itchy on the back of his left hand, as if someone was gently scratching the back of his hand with fluffy grass, or as if a bunch of long hair tips were floating in front of him.
Before this feeling completely disappeared, Xiao Hu felt his neck itching. This time the feeling was very obvious, as several hairs scratched across his neck.
Immediately afterwards, his scalp almost exploded because a hand stretched out from nowhere and grabbed the mustache's left hand.