"So I think the sect should always be the same. Even if there are dissidents, they have been eliminated. At least the sacrifices performed in the main altar follow the same policy." Zhang Ke said, "Therefore, it is the teachings of the Qingtian Sect.
In itself, believers are required to divide the sacrificial process into six steps and perform them one by one. They cannot be completed all at once in a single area, so six rooms are specially divided for the ceremony."
"Your statement makes sense, but I think there are still some unreasonable aspects." Ye Suling also questioned, "If it is because the sacrificial process is too complicated and must be divided into six steps and carried out on six different occasions, then that means
There must be six distinct environments in each room—"
"Suppose a certain step in the sacrifice involves burning it with fire, then the room responsible for this step will naturally have charcoal basins, firewood and the like. The other step is to sink the sacrifice into the water, so the room responsible for this step
In the house, at least one man-made water pit must be dug... According to the different needs of the sacrifices, different environments need to be set up. This is why each room needs to be separated. They cannot be put together to prevent water vapor from contaminating the firewood and interfering with each other.
.but--"
Ye Suling said very sharply: "Will a room that can accommodate a puddle be the same size as a room that only needs a brazier? The rooms separated according to different sacrificial steps must also have different functions because of the need to perform them.
Structures occupying different areas—unless the builder of the ruins has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has to forcibly build the six rooms into the same size."
"It makes sense. If it's just because the sacrifice needs to be divided into six steps, then there is no need to divide each room equally-"
This time, Zhang Ke failed to come up with a new point of view immediately. It is better to say that the existing information is too little, whether it is the spinning of the sky around him, the shaking of the earth, or the person who was cut into six equal parts but kept away from the future.
Mysterious altars, if you want to decipher their secrets, it is currently completely impossible to do so.
"By the way, I feel... the wall in the center seems to be rotating." Suddenly Ye Suling interrupted Zhang Ke's thinking. She walked forward and carved a white line on the wall with a random stone picked up from the ground.
mark.
Then the two of them stood still, but the white mark carved on the wall, along with the old bricks and soil, gradually moved away from the two of them at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally disappeared from sight.
The two of them did not speak or move. They just continued to stand there and wait. During this process, the movement around them calmed down for a while, but soon began to tremble again.
About twenty minutes later, the familiar white mark appeared from the other side and entered their field of vision. After getting closer and closer to the two of them, it gradually became farther away again.
"That's right - the wall near the central area seems to be really rotating. It has just made a full 360-degree turn, so the white seal that went away before has circled around and come back again."
Seeing the phenomenon in front of them, Zhang Ke and Ye Suling were basically certain of this fact. This also meant that the ruins were not vibrating irregularly, but rather rotating in a circular motion.
"Inside the wall is the core sacrificial area. In other words, are the six rooms rotating around the central axis?" Zhang Ke asked strangely, "If you can't understand it with common sense, just consider that this is a condition required for sacrificial rituals. Maybe.
Does it require those rooms to keep rotating so that some kind of special sacrifice can be carried out?"
"Hmm... But what kind of sacrificial method has such weird requirements? From the ancient folk religions I know about, there are no similar cases - ah!"
Ye Suling walked around the not-so-wide corridor, thinking about the possible reasons while strolling, but accidentally kicked a hard object under her feet, almost falling, and couldn't help but blurt out.
With her agility, she quickly used her arms to push against the wall to stabilize her balance. Naturally, she did not fall down. However, when she looked closely at the "uninvited guest" at her feet who tripped her, she let out a cry.
More surprised voices:
"Ah?! How could this happen...it's actually——!!"
"What's wrong...ah???" Zhang Ke ran all the way over, and then he understood why Ye Suling reacted so excitedly.
It turned out that there was another square stone protruding from the ground. It was still exactly the same as the previous two stones, but it seemed shorter.
"This is already the third square stone. I'm very sure that... there was absolutely no stone like this on the ground before." Ye Suling's voice was slightly trembling. Although it was not obvious, it was obvious that even though she had never been afraid of ghosts and monsters, she
She was gradually infected by this eerie and eerie atmosphere.
"Well, I can be sure there is not, because after the first square stone appeared, I walked around the corridor carefully and did not see any other stones on the ground, so the one just now and
The current piece has all appeared in the past half an hour." Zhang Ke nodded and said, "I have a hunch that after a while, more square stones will appear on the ground, and the overall number may stay at...
…”
"Six yuan." Ye Suling said subconsciously.
"That's right, it's six pieces - because I just visually measured the distance between each square stone, and the distance between each piece is almost the same. Together, it already accounts for half of the length of the circular corridor." Zhang Ke said, "If
The spacing between the stones after that will still follow the current rules, so the entire corridor can only accommodate up to six square stones."
"There are six altars in the room and six square stones. As the altar rotates, the square stones are slowly revealed..." Ye Suling murmured, "Is this number just a coincidence, or is there indeed some internal connection...
…”
"The previously hidden bricks used to lead to the ground also had six threads. Could it be relevant?" Zhang Ke asked.
"Well... that's true, but the Liuhe thread is just an ordinary decoration, and it still has some special meaning. The folklore academic community has not come to any conclusion. I always feel that something is missing..." Ye Suling thought deeply.
"Let's look for it again." Zhang Ke's eyes lit up and he suddenly said.
"Ah? What are you looking for?"
"I don't know what to look for - but we can look around to see if there are any other items related to 'six' in this corridor - such as six identical items, or sets of six items.
, or it can be something with six written on it." Zhang Ke said:
Chapter completed!