Chapter 139 The Last Man Carrying the Corpse
Xiang Gong's words. To everyone's surprise, it's all artificial? How can it be?
Very possibly!
There are large footprints here, and judging by the shape and smoothness of the footprints, it is certain that they must have been left by wearing shoes.
In many places, there are traces of fires, and the scope and location of fires are very regular, and it looks like someone is heating or eating.
Everything can prove that someone must have been active here, and what surprised Xiang Gong even more was that this footprint was extremely similar to the footprints left by Xiang Gong on the night they encountered the ambush on the snow line.
So now, the most important thing is to find out the "person" who is suspected of being a bigfoot, and if you find him, it will be possible to find the Divine Mountain Snow Lotus, because Xiang Gong is already sure that he is the guardian beast that guards the Divine Mountain Snow Lotus!
But how do you lure him to show up?
"Witch doctor, you said that as soon as a corpse appears here, it will disappear without a trace, right?"
"yes, what do you want to do?"
"It's nothing, I just think that among us, there may be one person who becomes a corpse to do things, what do you think?"
"What do you mean?"
What else could it mean? Xiang Gong shrugged and smiled, causing the witch doctor to tremble in fright, staring at Xiang Gong's face in horror as he moved backwards.
"No...... Isn't it, no...... Don't...... Beg...... Please! The witch doctor's voice was trembling out of rhythm.
Unexpectedly, Xiang Gong just leaned over to the witch doctor's ear and whispered, "Bury me!" ”
The witch doctor was blindfolded and buried in the sky...... A celestial burial of a living person? This......
It's impossible!
Sky burial is a custom in many countries at the foot of the sacred mountain, and the locals believe that after death, there is no spirit, and leaving the body is useless, so it is better to give the corpse to the bulunin, that is, the vulture that eats the corpse meat.
The specific method is to use a red clay pot to hold food for the deceased to enjoy on the Huangquan Road when a person is about to die, and then the person carrying the corpse will take the family members to carry the body of the deceased to the burial site.
When they arrive at the burial site, the family members break the clay pot and return with the person who carries the corpse, while the body of the deceased is handed over to the celestial burial master for disposal.
The celestial burial master will strip the flesh and bones of the deceased, and then light mulberry smoke to attract Butuolin to come and peck at the flesh and blood of the corpse, and after the flesh is pecked clean, the bones of the deceased will be burned and brought back.
After listening to the witch doctor's explanation, Xiang Gong suddenly discovered a problem, this kind of sky burial seemed to be different from the sky burial carried out by the witch doctors.
"Then what is your celestial burial custom......" Xiang Gong asked.
The witch doctor immediately froze for a moment, and quibbled, "Of course ours is the same, but it's just ...... It's just that since the disappearance of our last corpse bearer eighteen years ago, the custom of sky burial has changed, but we don't dare to make a public announcement. ”
Well, it was the battle in front of the Nantianmen of the Great Snow Mountain eighteen years ago, how many countries and regions were affected? How did it have such an impact on so many people?
"The last corpse bearer?" Xiang Gong wondered.
"Well, although the corpse bearer did all the meritorious things of extradition for the gods, he eventually came into contact with too many dead corpses, and he would inevitably receive a lot of criticism.
Therefore, most of the corpse bearers do not marry in their lifetime, adopt orphans as heirs, and pass on the ritual system of corpse bearers from generation to generation.
In the great war eighteen years ago, countless innocent people were involved in the smoke of gunpowder, and we also suffered countless casualties here in Uszang, and the corpse-bearers were exhausted, and a few people died of exhaustion.
There are also some aliens who do not understand the rules of heavenly burial and do not recognize the identity of the corpse bearer, and only the last person is left, struggling to support.
But the flames of war were extinguished, and the last corpse-bearer disappeared inexplicably......"
The grief that the witch doctor said actually had the taste of the sadness of the dead rabbit and the fox, and Xiang Gong was embarrassed to hear it.
War is ruthless and fair, whether you are a prince and a general, or a pawn of a peddler, sometimes in your life, you can't escape death after all.
How many people are buried in other places, how many people are exposed to the wilderness, and the corpse bearers were originally seeking a posthumous home for those poor people, but how many of them can predict what will happen after their death?
"What's his name?" Xiang Gong asked sadly.
"Shavarson!" The witch doctor said, it was obvious that this was a very important name, otherwise the witch doctor would not have just heard Xiang Gong's question, and immediately said it.
Looking at the witch doctor's face full of respect, Xiang Gong smiled faintly, "He will be blessed by your gods!" ”
"Well, certainly, the reason why our celestial burial custom has been simplified to what it is now is because he, many years ago, a certain priest found that as long as the dead body is sent here, it will disappear inexplicably, and everyone thinks that it must be the god who summoned Shavassen and gave him eternal life, so that he has been extraditing believers to heaven for the gods."
The witch doctor spoke with reverence on his face, which made Xiang Gong's heart tremble, Shawason disappeared inexplicably, and then there was a strange appearance of the body disappearing mysteriously, perhaps, it was not Shawasen who was summoned by the gods, it was simply that Shawason was not dead, but he had been hiding around here and continuing to carry out his vocation......
But why is he hiding here? Isn't the corpse bearer an upright and revered profession?
"Shavason......" Xiang Gong muttered the name, and suddenly his eyes widened, and a very ridiculous idea appeared in his mind.
Could Shavassen be a sand monk?
Oh my God, this is just a conjecture caused by Xiang Gong reading a homonym of his name, but if you think about it, it doesn't seem to be impossible.
Because among the many rivers that flow into Daqing Pond, the largest one is called the Liusha River!
The sand monk recorded in the Journey to the West, "with fluffy red hair and a gloomy face", happens to be the physiognomy characteristics of the Hu people in the Western Regions.
And the quicksand river "connects the sand moraine in the east, reaches Zhufan in the west, reaches Ugo in the south, and leads to Tartary in the north", isn't this just within the geographical location of the Usi-Tibetan area?
Wait a minute!
If Shawason is really a sand monk, then why is it the turn of the sand monk to appear before Zhu Fengchun's plot is over? It's not right.
Moreover, according to the known clues, this white-haired monster is not a sand monk? Isn't that a contradiction? It's impossible for a sand monk to bleach, right? Red hair turns white hair......
"Act now and throw me out like a dead body!" Xiang Gong immediately made up his mind.
Xiang Gong has been aggrieved for so long, what is it for? Isn't it just to make compromises, and then gather the Journey to the West team, and then put back the lost ones?
Now a suspected Sha monk, who is also the last member of the Journey to the West team next to Xiang Gong, is about to appear, doesn't that mean that the hard days are about to pass? How could Xiang Gong be able to bear it?
"No, let me come, I'm a little better than you, what do you think?"
Xiang Gong didn't even look back, and immediately knew who had this voice coming from him?
"Dirt!" Xiang Gong shouted helplessly.