Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Silent Dead
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Soon after, the sound of eager footsteps appeared, and the three ancestors came to look for us with torches, and when they saw me lying on the ground, he immediately squatted down and asked me anxiously, "Little Liuzi...... This...... What's going on?"
The little Taoist priest told him what had just happened, and the old ancestor's face changed, and he was busy checking the wound on my foot, and said, "Ah, it's quite ......deep."
I reluctantly looked back at my ancestor's concerned eyes, my heart was hot, and said, "It's not tight, it's just a small injury." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
The old ancestor saw that I didn't get up, and he didn't feel at ease, so he immediately glanced at the little Taoist priest and wanted to get confirmation, but the little Taoist nodded and said that I was fine.
I sat up slowly, there were so many people that my attention was not on my feet, and the wound on my ankle didn't seem to hurt so much. The old ancestor came to pick me up, You Chi and the Kushi picked up Wang Bajian and the treasure, everyone was about to leave, but the little Taoist priest was stunned in place, and said: "Wait......" After that, he held the torch and approached the earthen platform.
Before, at the moment when the fire flickered, I saw the things on the earthen wall, and now there are four torches illuminated, and the dense holes seem to have increased all of a sudden, I can't help but gasp, and follow the ancestor to follow the little Taoist priest in front of the earthen platform.
At this moment, the coolness in the air was even worse than just now, I looked at the earthen platform, and thought of the enlarged version of the beehive, there was a corpse lying horizontally in the hive, the torch was close, and the dead corner that could not be illuminated in the hole became a deep black shadow, illuminating the bones of the corpse, only half of the dry and dry face could be seen, it was really terrifying and weird to look at, if it wasn't for the ancestor holding me, I guess I would have been paralyzed by the sight.
The corpse was silent in the dark earth trough, and it seemed unfathomable, and I stared at the shocking gravel-colored corpse in front of me, confused in my heart, and said in a trembling voice: "This ...... Is this a tomb?"
The little Taoist priest shook his head and said, "I'm not sure ......" As he spoke, he walked to a larger earthen trough and observed the sleeping corpse inside, and after looking at it for a while, he checked several other troughs in succession, and seemed to see some clues, he muttered in surprise: "What happened to them?"
When the old ancestor heard this, he was suspicious and said, "What do you say?"
The little Taoist priest turned his head and said quietly: "They all died at the same time, I don't understand what can cause so many people to die at the same time." ”
I felt a sudden break in my heart, and I didn't feel a cold sweat oozing out of my back, and I guessed, "Could it be a burial?" I had also seen batches of corpses in the tomb of Princess Chu, so I instinctively thought of going together.
The little Taoist priest said in a deep voice: "No, the yellow sand here is full of yellow sand, and the loneliness is endless, I'm afraid those nobles and rich armor will not choose this place as a burial ground." ”
The more the old ancestor listened, the more itchy his heart became, and he eagerly approached me, I was afraid that it would be inconvenient for him to check on me, so he let go of his hand, and limped to follow him, and the treasurer and You Chi used the firelight to help us illuminate, but he didn't have any words at this time, and he was preoccupied, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
After watching silently for a long time, I found that most of these dried corpses had hideous faces, and they had obviously encountered some terrible things before their deaths. They wore hats on their heads, which had been weathered for a long time, and only a little brim remained, and from the material of the brim, it should be wool. They were also draped in long, wide cloaks, which were covered with grit and whose colors had been lost by time, but on closer inspection they still retained their original delicate patterns. The clothes of the dried corpses are mostly sleek short clothes, and the feet are wearing cowhide boots, and they are also from the Western Regions. Most of their flesh and skin have been dried, and some have turned into white bones.
This kind of collective death is distressing, and everyone does not speak for a while, speculating separately.
The trough does not extend to the top of the platform, only to the point where we can reach it. They were all very crudely dug, and some of the taller and burly men did not match the trough that looked like a wooden coffin, but they were still forced into it, and their foot bones were being squeezed, twisted, and even broken, and it seemed that this burial was carried out in a hurry. I don't understand why they should be so casually buried and not dig a good hole for them.
It's been so long, and we don't know the context of the death, so it's a bit difficult to think about what happened back then. When he looked carefully for the second time, the little Taoist priest found that the children lying next to the woman had no eyes, and their eye sockets were dark and faint, which made people shudder.
Coincidentally, the ancestors found that among all the corpses, all the children had no eyes, that is, their eyes were gouged out raw. I watched the children's distorted, frightened expressions, and a chill seeped into my bone marrow.
The eyes are the windows of the soul, and the children without eyes are so empty to themselves, as if they have fallen into the deep ocean, and the sense of panic is suffocating.
I took a deep breath and didn't dare to look at it again, and when I turned my head, I saw You Chi standing behind the old ancestor, there was a trace of pain on his face, I noticed that his lips were shaking, but he was trying his best to restrain himself, and I remembered the way I looked when I first saw him...... In an instant, my scalp exploded violently, like a drink, my throat tightened, and You Chi's dress was seven or eight points similar to the person lying in the trough.
At this moment, You Chi seemed to feel my surprised gaze, and turned his face to me, and we looked at each other silently for a few seconds, he frowned slightly, and stood as if to see me through, and I was very uncomfortable with his staring, and hurriedly took his gaze back.
At the same time, a strange thought arose in my heart, could it be ...... You Chi is of the same race as them?
In order to verify, I no longer care about being afraid, I moved my injured foot to the side of the little Taoist, and sure enough, these people's eye sockets were deep-set, which was different from the people in the Central Plains. I paint on a daily basis, and many of my thoughts and ideas are considered to be Pegasus starry skies, so I can roughly imagine what they looked like when they were alive based on the outlines of these bones, and this thought is basically certain that they have a great relationship with Yuchi.
The thought itself was a bit treacherous, and when I turned to look at You Chi, he didn't look at me anymore, his face was blocked by the torch he was holding, and he couldn't see his expression clearly. But the strange thing is that the face of the Kushi next to him is extremely gloomy at this time, his facial muscles are still twitching, and under the firelight, his appearance looks a little terrifying, even-a little fierce!
His two contrasting expressions constructed an extremely strange picture, and I was surprised to see it, but I didn't know much about the two, so some things were confused, although I was suspicious, but I couldn't think of a reason in my heart.
I took back my mind, in fact, the corpse in the soil trough, to put it bluntly, has nothing to do with our half-dime, but subconsciously, I want to peel off the cocoon to know the truth. So at this moment, I was brave enough to hold a torch for my ancestor, he used the leather gloves made by Liu Siniang to look through the corpse, and then said with a serious face: "These people are not sick, they are all persecuted, they all have knife wounds on their bodies, judging from the mouth, they were all pierced to death by a wide and long blade, and some of the ribs were broken, and it seems that they were hit hard." ”
The little Taoist priest also finished checking and said, "There are also some people who have black throats, thinking that they were forcibly poured poison before they died, and the residues of these poisons are still left between their teeth, their hands and feet have been tied, and there are strangulation marks on their ankles and hands. ”
The ancestor said: "These people died miserably, I don't know what happened back then, even the young children are not spared. ”
The little Taoist priest shook his head and said: "The reason is difficult to understand, but among the people who died unjustly, the most fierce are children, they were originally innocent, but they didn't want to be persecuted, so the innocent and pure eyes will imprint the appearance of the enemy into their minds at the moment of death, and even after death, they will turn into powerful ghosts and come to entangle and ask for their lives...... If I'm not mistaken, the people who killed them gouged out the eyes of these children out of fear. ”
When the old ancestor heard this, he was puzzled: "But this kind of statement and practice is only available in the Central Plains, and these dead people remind me of a painting I once saw, which depicts a Loulan woman, I just took a closer look at the clothes and appearance of these people, and the woman in the painting should be from the same place." ”
I listened to the conversation between the two, goosebumps instantly rose, and the little Taoist priest said: "That means that the Central Plains people killed the Loulan people?"
As he spoke, a gust of wind swept past his ears, and the fire burst out. It came so coincidentally, as if there was something in the air that we could not see listening to us, and when it came to the right place, it responded to us in a special way.
I myself have encountered the ghost of a child who died in the urn coffin, is the gust of wind just now the same as the group of children buried in the tomb of Chu, with a thirst? For a moment, my heart was awe-inspiring, and I looked around in horror, in exchange for weekdays, I may be frightened by this inexplicable wind, but now that the ancestors and the little Taoist priests are there, I am much calmer, thinking that I have encountered a lot of strange and bizarre things recently, and I have become a frightened bird, so I always love fantasy. After worrying, I waved away this unprovoked thought, and pondered: "If things are as the old ancestor and the little Taoist priest guessed, then what is the reason why the Central Plains people slaughtered these Loulan people? and since they were killed, why did they go to great lengths to place their bodies in the earth trough?" (To be continued.) )