Just when I felt I was about to cross this threshold, I suddenly heard the sound of branches and leaves not far in front of me. Judging from the trend, they were moving towards me.
I stopped quickly, feeling a little uneasy, but I still forced myself to reach out and pry open a leaf in front of me.
Suddenly, a blood-red human face suddenly flashed in front of my eyes, less than half a foot away from my face. It had a weird smile on the corner of its mouth and stared straight at me with a pair of big black eyes. Hold me.
All the hairs on my body suddenly stood up. This time I finally saw it clearly. It was indeed a piece of human skin, and it was so close to me. I could even see the roughness on the face. Hairy.
Subconsciously, I wanted to shrink back, but the human skin suddenly rushed over. It was just a human skin, but its movements were even more agile than mine. It pinched my neck with one hand and pressed down on me, tightly holding my body. Body entangled.
I quickly grabbed its arm with both hands and tried to pull it away, but I forgot that I was in the tree now. At this time, my foot slipped and I felt my body was empty, and I fell down.
On the way down, my body hit hard branches several times, but they didn't let me stop. Instead, I rolled down and fell. The human skin wrapped around me tightly and showed no intention of letting go. , I kicked it on several times, but it was like kicking on cotton, with no effect at all.
Finally, I fell hard to the ground. I almost vomited blood from the fall. The force of the terrifying human skin became stronger and stronger, and I began to feel like I was suffocating.
Suddenly, it opened its mouth, revealing two rows of dark red teeth with some pieces of meat hanging on them. It looked like it wanted to bite me.
But I was stunned, not because I was frightened, but because I discovered something. In an instant, I understood what happened, quickly took out the spray gun from my waist, and shot the man twice in the waist. .
The human skin screamed twice, jumped away from me, quickly turned around and ran towards the darkness beside it. But after running two steps, it fell to the ground, screaming miserably, and Climbing forward with hands on the ground, the ground was dragged out into a bright red color.
I didn't care about the pain in my body and quickly got up. Half of the body of the human skin was already buried in the bushes. I was so angry that I walked over with the spray gun and fired two more shots. The human skin twisted and rolled on the ground. After a while, the movements slowly slowed down, and finally stopped moving.
"Hutou, where are you? What happened over there?" The monkey shouted anxiously. It must have been because he heard my gunshot. I shouted to indicate my current location, and soon he and Shui The two of them emerged from the bushes on one side.
"Damn, Tiger Head, did you do this?" The monkey looked at the human skin with blank eyes. I forced a smile and then felt the burning pain all over my body. I said no, this thing is really tight. It almost killed me. If it hadn't been for my good luck, I might have been the one lying on the ground now.
After saying that, I walked over, took the long-handled knife from his hand, and then made a big gash on the back of the human skin with the knife.
"Tiger Head, we don't have to do this. Even if you want to vent your anger, people are dead, no, people have died twice. Let's not torment it, okay? It's so disgusting. Eh? Why is this human skin like this? Is there any hair inside?"
The monkey came over curiously. I had already cut open most of the human skin, and soon a dark thing was exposed from it.
When we got it completely out, we discovered that this thing looked very weird. It looked a bit like an ape, but it was much larger. It also had black hair all over its body. The tip of its mouth was extremely long, and a pair of
The eyes are pitch black.
"It turns out it's just an act. Let me just say, if even human skin can move on its own, how can we people get along? But what on earth is this? It looks like a monkey but not like it. It always feels a little weird.
"said the monkey.
In fact, at first I couldn't believe that something was wearing human skin and pretending to be a human to attack me. But at that moment, when I saw its mouth full of dark red teeth, I was sure that there was something weird about this human skin.
The teeth of the skinned person were still there, so I hit it with a spray gun. But I’m not sure what this thing is. It looks like it’s wearing human skin and pretending to be a human. This looks like the habit of a monkey, but its size
It doesn't look like it, but it looks a bit like a mandrill. To be more precise, it's a creature between a monkey and a mandrill.
"This is the Hozen." Shuiyue's voice suddenly sounded.
"Hozen? Isn't that still a monkey?"
"No, monkeys are just a type of hozen, and this thing is the offspring of a macaque and a mandrill. Because it has no name in the first place, it can only be called a hozen."
"Have you seen this thing before?" I asked.
Shuiyue shook her head, saying that this kind of thing is cruel in nature, but very smart. It likes to imitate all the creatures it has seen, and it is very big. This one may only be a female, if it is a male, it may be a bit bigger.
times. However, the number of hozens is very small, so it is not common among people. Many people even do not know that there is such a creature. Therefore, she said that we don’t actually need to worry too much about this kind of thing. Maybe there is only one like this here.
Only.
After hearing this, I felt a lot more at ease. The general habit of this kind of creature is to live in groups. What I am most afraid of is that a large group suddenly appears, which will cause trouble. Fortunately, the number of these hozens is very small, otherwise even escaping would be a problem.
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Now we have climbed into the "fence", but what we see is a huge ball. These ghost locust trees have their branches and leaves intertwined together to form a huge tree ball. If we want to get over, we must move this tree
Get the ball out of the way.
The monkey started chopping the branches with a long-handled knife, and we saw a strange scene. The huge tree ball trembled slightly under the monkey's chopping, and the branches shrank toward the middle and became more tightly wrapped.
"Hey, you still dare to hide, I don't believe that I can't deal with you today."
The monkey worked harder, perhaps because he was afraid, and the branches finally began to close to the side, forcing a door more than two meters high and one meter wide to come out.
"Haha, I thought these ghosts were so difficult to deal with. It turns out that they are also bully and afraid of the strong. Now let's see how arrogant you are." The monkey laughed proudly, and I couldn't help but smile. These trees can move. I
We have been mentally prepared for a long time, but it does not seem to have the ability to hurt people and only has the instinct to avoid danger. In this case, we don't need to worry too much.
After checking that there was no danger around us, we filed into the portal. Suddenly, a huge tree trunk appeared in front of us.
It is also the trunk of a ghost locust tree, but it is too big. It is estimated to be at least ten meters in diameter. It is covered with ravines and looks very old. The most bizarre thing is that there is a hole in the trunk, which is enough to accommodate two people side by side.
When I passed, it was pitch dark inside and I couldn't see anything.
The three of us looked at each other, and then we all shined the light in our hands. The inside suddenly became brighter, and the first thing that came into our sight was a altar with a bronze figure with three heads and six arms erected on it. The tree trunks inside were covered with
A blank space was cleared and a line of complicated ancient text was written.
We walked in. The space in this tree cave was large enough for the three of us to do anything inside. I focused my eyes on that line of ancient characters. This kind of characters was very ancient. I could barely recognize one of them.
With the word "Zhou" in mind, I couldn't help but wonder if this was built during the Zhou Dynasty. I asked Shuiyue if she recognized it, and she shook her head, but she said that these things must have been from before the Zhou Dynasty, because the bronze statue was
The style does not look like that of the Zhou Dynasty, but should be a product of the Xia and Shang Dynasties. This line of characters may have been engraved later.
Since we couldn't figure it out, we didn't delve into it. Anyway, it didn't mean much to us. At this time, the monkey had already walked to the altar and picked up something from it.
"Monkey, what are you holding?" I asked curiously. Just now I was only looking at the words and didn't notice anything on the table.
The monkey turned around and looked at me, then handed the thing in his hand to me.
When I saw that thing, I couldn't help but feel shocked. It was a unique bronze vessel, only half a foot long. It was a strange-looking monster, holding a person in its claws, and biting the person's face with its huge mouth.
On the head, blood dripped down the head, and underneath was a container similar to a wine glass. I saw some brown powdery things in the container. I guessed it was what was left after the blood dried up. Of course,
The blood in this was added by humans.
This bronze vessel looks very exquisite. It is simply the most exquisite bronze vessel I have ever seen. I watched this monster repeatedly for a long time before I was sure it was Suan Ni. Legend has it that a dragon gave birth to nine sons, and one of them was Suan Ni.
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Judging from its overall shape, it looks like a 卣, but it doesn't look like it in terms of body shape, and it looks a bit nondescript. But one thing is certain, this is a sacrificial vessel, and the blood contained in it is the sacrifice. In ancient times,
During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there was a kind of witchcraft called "curse killing", which was to put opponents of war or hatred into the mouths of beasts, and use this to offer sacrifices to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, which meant praying for victory and revenge on the opponent.
There is such a thing here, which allows me to get some information from it. Could it be that the people of this tribe encountered a war at that time, so they prayed for victory and revenge on their opponents in this way? And the reason why this tribe declined and disappeared, was it?
Is it because of that war?
"Tiger head, what is this?" The monkey finally couldn't help but ask after seeing that I was silent.
I shook my head, put the thing on the stone platform again, and said, "Monkey, it's better not to take this thing."