This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

Do trees howl?Dryads might.

The skin of the thick ancient sycamore tree is mottled, just like the wrinkled face of the elderly.

It seemed to have witnessed something that made the tree extremely angry. It tried its best to stop it but was powerless, and finally could only cry in vain.

"Cuckoo-"

Yan Buzhou's memories about the sycamore tree were interrupted by the crowing of the rooster, which made Zhu Ming tie the rooster with a rope and put it down the robbery hole.

From the loud crowing of the pheasant, it is estimated that the tomb below does not seem to be in danger for the time being.

As usual, Zhu Ming put down the rope and walked in the front to explore the way.Zhan Zhao led Yan Buzhou and jumped down with light kung fu.

After passing through the robber's hole about two or three feet deep, the three found that the tomb did not need more torches for lighting.

I saw a row of ever-burning lamps on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor leading directly to the robbery cave.

These candles have a dark blue wick flickering slightly.In this tomb passage that does not feel damp and cold at all, one can even feel the salty smell of the sea coming from the light.

"It's a mermaid ointment candle." Yan Buzhou was very sure that he heard it right.Jiaoying once gave her exactly the same ever-burning candle, which is a common thing in Diaoti Kingdom and other mermaid gathering places.

Just as shark gauze is the skin that sharks shed and can be made into clothes that are incompatible with fire and water, the oil secreted by sharks can be used as ever-burning candles.

It is not obtained by cutting open the belly like people think that you have to kill the chicken to get the eggs. Merman will secrete oil every day when they practice.

This is similar to human hair loss, the difference is that the metabolism of fat can maintain the shapely figure of mermaids, so fat mermaids are rare.

Among them, the stronger the smell of sea water, the longer the burning time of the shark ointment candle.

The cause of shark ointment may not be important, but it is indeed rare in the world.

According to legend, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor is illuminated by merman ointment candles, and this tomb uses a lot of them, which reveals three points of the unusualness of this place.

The three of them moved forward all the way, and the stone walls of the corridor were covered with oracle bone inscriptions.

Each group forms a unique formation, and this place can finally force a fiery breath on it.

Yan Buzhou didn't touch it rashly, but she already understood why she couldn't detect anger on the ground.

I saw entangled and intertwined dry branches and roots rooted on the stone wall. These are the roots of the sycamore tree.

The ancient sycamore is not rooted in the land to absorb nutrients, but what supports its growth is the spiritual energy transformed from the fiery air in the tomb.

What can last for two to three thousand years and continuously release fire energy for the transformation of spiritual energy?

The answer is ready to come out, it is almost likely to be the suppressed Fat Relic Basilisk.

The builder of this tomb has a very ingenious design. On the one hand, the water vapor from the shell of Shizuku is used to restrain the fire.

Worried about the leakage of anger, he engraved oracle bone inscriptions to transform the anger, in order to turn it into the aura that makes the phoenix trees grow.

The phoenix perched on the phoenix tree, and the phoenix, a mysterious bird worshiped by Yin and Shang, was attracted by the phoenix tree.

Whether these guesses are accurate, the main tomb will give the answer.

The three of them continued walking, but they didn't encounter any traps along the way, and there were no traces of arrows or poisons that triggered the trap.

Zhu Ming also felt strange, this tomb is not incapable of setting up traps, why the previous batch of tomb robbers, and the later ones can come in and out without hindrance.

To talk about the ease of entry and exit of the last group of tomb robbers, this can be seen from the footprints in the corridor and the traces of heavy objects being dragged.

"Strange, why didn't we add more mechanisms? Did the designer think that there would never be grave robbers here?"

As soon as Zhu Ming's voice fell, his footsteps stopped.

At the end of the not-so-long corridor is a huge tomb.

The walls and roof of the tomb are covered with dry tree roots, but its floor is not made of stone, but paved with bronze panels.

The ground is even more densely cast with oracle bone inscriptions.

The three couldn't understand the meaning of the oracle bone inscriptions on the ground, but they could clearly count 81 bronze plates on the ground.

Every time the gaps are connected like canals, these are enough to form nine wide ditches. At the intersection of the wide ditches is the opened bronze coffin in the center.

Zhan Zhao stepped on the bronze floor tentatively first, and quickly responded to the slightest mistake, but just like the calm in the corridor, there is no need for a specific position here.

"The coffin is empty, and there are no funeral objects left."

Not long after, Zhan Zhao approached the inner and outer coffins. As expected, there were no burial objects, but unexpectedly, there was no corpse lying in it!

Why is it speculated that there should have been a corpse in the coffin?Or something like a corpse?

This means that the other end of the nine wide grooves on the ground extends to the wall, and there are nine tall humanoid clay sculptures kneeling in that direction, which are about three or four times the size of ordinary people.

Yan Buzhou and Zhu Ming could see clearly that all the clay sculptures had pious and solemn expressions, kowtowing to the center in nine different postures.

What is very strange is that the clay body does not have clothing, but is carved with oracle bone inscriptions from head to toe.

The arrangement of these characters on clay sculptures is different from that on the ground and on Shizuku shells. There are often three or two characters with a slight gap.

"Strange, I don't understand what it means, but the same inscription appears repeatedly in each column of text, and after every few columns, it changes into another identical inscription."

Zhu Ming couldn't help muttering in a low voice, "I seem to have seen this kind of arrangement and distribution of characters somewhere, if it's not in the tomb, where could it be?"

When Yan Buzhou walked into the clay sculpture, she also felt that she had seen such an arrangement of characters somewhere, it was very familiar but she couldn't do it for a while.

What's even more peculiar is that the whole tomb doesn't see much yin, perhaps because it's a land full of oppressive anger, but there are some scattered on the nine clay sculptures.

Zhu Ming looked at the nine clay sculptures repeatedly, and he still had an important question, ""Mozi? Festival Burial" said, "The emperor killed hundreds of people. Generals and officials killed dozens of people. The widows counted. .”

In the pre-Qin period, people were usually buried alive. Didn't Mr. Yan say that there was a price to be paid for the sacrifices, but here he didn't even see a single person buried with him. "

wrong!

Who says there are no funeral companions!

Yan Buzhou suddenly realized what the lettering on the humanoid clay sculpture was.This is not like the last stone tablet erected when bridges and roads were built. One side will be engraved with the names of the contributors to show their merits.

"The rows of inscriptions on the clay sculpture should be the names of the martyrs. Those same pictures and texts are not arranged according to the family name or surname."

As soon as these words came out, the three of them looked at each other in blank dismay.

No one would naively think that the host of the sacrifice replaced the living person with clay sculpture.So where are the bones of these people whose surnames are engraved on the nine huge clay sculptures?

"I was in a situation once."

In a few words, Zhan Zhao narrated a cruel murder method in Jianghu, using a living person as the inner core mold, and sealing it from the outside with clay.

"Use this to suffocate a person alive and make a clay sculpture. And the nine clay sculptures in front of us, even if they are huge, can seal up three or four people at most, and it is absolutely impossible to hold so many people whose names are engraved."

If you can't hold a corpse, then change to a method that can hold it.

Yan Buzhou came from an era when cremation was prevalent, and almost immediately thought of a certain possibility.

"Nine clay sculptures, at least a thousand surnames are engraved on each one. What if everyone is burned to ashes, and the ashes are mixed with clay to make puppets?"

That also explains why there is Yin Qi on clay sculptures, which all come from the ashes of the deceased.

"This, this is too cruel!"

It's not that Zhu Ming doesn't believe in this speculation, because he accepted this inference instantly, he feels that this place is not like other gloomy places of ancient tombs, but instead reveals a sense of utter misery.

The basilisk was born, and the Shang Dynasty, which had just been established, suffered a severe drought for five years. The Yin Shang Dynasty was about to collapse.

Under normal circumstances, hundreds of people can be killed to be buried for the emperor. In times of crisis, tens of thousands of people come to kill monsters and pray for rain, which is not an outrageous guess.

Inside the cemetery, there was a moment of silence.

Whether it is a shark lamp, a clay sculpture of human ashes, or a dry sycamore tree root, all these indicate that the tomb is extremely unusual.

So, what about [-]% of the corpses in the coffin in the middle?

The length, width, and height of this coffin are similar to those of ordinary coffins, which means that the possibility that it is not a human corpse lying inside is very low.Otherwise, it can be molded into another size and shape.

It is said in the historical records that King Tang of Shang intended to sacrifice himself to the heavens to pray for rain, but he did not die.

If we want to replace them with people, I am afraid that the ten thousand people with nine huge clay sculptures are not enough, and they still lack a leader who is willing to sacrifice himself.It should have been lying in the coffin in the middle.

"Come and take a closer look at the inner wall of the bronze coffin. The size of the shellfish found before is just right to be stuck in the coffin. The shell is very hard, leaving a stuck mark on the inner wall of the bronze. This trace is consistent with the small wear on the edge of the shell Right on."

Zhan Zhao approached the coffin with the lit torch, his words broke the silence in the tomb, and Zhu Ming also leaned forward to take a closer look inside the coffin, and saw that the position of the scratch on the shell was just above half the height of the coffin .

At such a height, Shizuku's shell should just cover the chest cavity of a corpse lying flat.

However, the scratch on Shizuku's shell is no longer important.The eyes of the three people all focused on a light white solidified spot on the lower side of the inner wall of the coffin.

Yan Buzhou immediately understood why the ancient tomb could be located so accurately with the silk handkerchief that Zhu Ming picked up.

The white spots in the bronze coffin are exactly the same as the breath on the silk handkerchief, and someone had sex in the coffin.

"The yin energy on the silk handkerchief..." Yan Buzhou hesitated to think of a possibility, why is the semen mixed with yin energy?

The answer is only two possibilities.The first possibility is that the sacrificial priest is a male, and the body has not decayed for more than 2000 years, and it is as if it is alive and has all the functions of an ordinary living person.

There is also a possibility that the living person who entered the cemetery had sex with the corpse in the coffin.

Which of these two options is more likely?

The three of them thought of the mournful face of Gu Wutong.

The old tree Youling was on the verge of death after being struck by lightning. Could it be that he had witnessed what happened after the tomb robbers entered but could do nothing about it.

Zhu Ming's complexion turned dark. The so-called robbers have their own way. Maybe to outsiders, tomb robbers are all the same, but in fact there is a set of rules.

Destroying and insulting corpses definitely touches the bottom line, but there are indeed a small group of people in tomb robbers who specialize in killing corpses, either to satisfy their selfish desires or to sell them at high prices.

"I heard in the past that at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, Murong Xi, the emperor of the late Yan Dynasty, was licentious and innocent, and outrageously raped the corpse of the dead queen Fu. This is the most well-known thing about humiliating corpses. I really didn't expect it. In this life, I will still bump into the real thing..."

Zhu Ming's tone was not without anger, Zhan Zhao's expression changed before he finished speaking.

Under the bronze floor tiles, there was a slight abnormal sound!

At two o'clock in the unitary hour, the cell of the Mangshan county government.

The head of the meal-serving team was carrying a rice basket, and a bunch of keys around his waist jingled.

The next moment, the food in his hand was scattered all over the floor, and he screamed, "Something happened! The two father and son of the Ji family were struck to death by lightning!"