33, pot man
The impact of the human skin codex in that bronze box on my psyche was enormous.
I sat on the floor for a while before I recovered.
"Brother, that is a sacrifice, the supreme glory. Don't be too upset. Mi Ye said to me when he saw that I had eased up a little.
After listening to Mi Ye's words, I felt very sad, the sacrificial activities of the ancients were for their own purposes, and many terrible things were given a lot of so-called sacred missions, or the most good terms. For those of us, this is a brutal deprivation of someone's life. Hearing Mi Ye say this, my heart was sour.
"What's on the sorghum!" I lay on the ground and pointed to a humanoid object on a rock.
Brother Neng and Mi Ye were attracted by my words, and looked at the humanoid thing hanging at the intersection of several shadows.
The object on the sorghum hung like a piece of jerky on the sorghum, motionless. Due to the relatively high height of the house, and the humanoid object in a relatively shadowed corner, we went in and looked around but did not notice its existence.
I motioned for Brother Neng to put this humanoid object down, maybe there would be some clues.
Brother Neng prepares to shoot at the thing that hangs from the humanoid object.
Mi Ye had already climbed up from the stone pillar next to her, and soon reached the place where the humanoid object was hanging. She tied one side of the rope to the thing, and threw the other rope over the stone beam, and then said, "Brother Neng, you pull this end and put it down lightly." ”
Brother Neng walked over and pulled the end of the rope, I was afraid that Brother Neng would have some difficulty alone, so I also went over to help pull the rope.
After seeing that Brother Neng and I were preparing, Mi Ye took out her bronze dagger and slashed hard at the hanging thing. It's different from what we imagined, Mi Ye slashed it a few times on it, and that thing didn't mean to break at all.
We are all a little anxious when we look at the things that we can't get any longer. At this time, Mi Ye took out a small bamboo tube and a bottle of water. Mi Ye poured the white powder from the small bamboo tube on the surface of the rope of the hanging monster, and then poured water on it. Soon white smoke rose from the sorghum.
"Hold on!" Mi Ye shouted at us.
Soon there was a feeling of weight in my hands, and Brother Neng and I grabbed the rope that was about to fall. It seems that Miye's method succeeded in cutting the rope.
Brother Neng and I began to slowly put the rope back, and the humanoid object that you were hanging from the stone sorghum was also slowly lowered to the ground. Mi Ye came down from the sorghum. Walked next to us. We walked up to that thing. I saw that this thing was tightly wrapped in a piece of skin. Because of being tied up for a long time, the skin in many places is tightly glued together.
The three of us each took out our knives and began to cut the skin on it.
Mi Ye looked a little speechless, I looked at her like this, I thought that it would be a corpse or something. I asked, "Sayo, you know what's inside, right?" ”
Mi Ye looked at me and Brother Neng and said, "Brother, the things in it may be a little disgusting." ”
"Disgusting? Sayoko, the disgusting thing you all think is actually in here. Brother Neng listened to Mi Ye's words, and the movements in his hand immediately stopped and said to Mi Ye.
"What is it?" I asked.
Don't say what kind of organ it is, I really can't accept it. But if it were a whole corpse, I would still be able to bear it.
Mi Ye thought for a while and said, "Brother, this is a pot man." ”
"The Lakers? Is it a race? I asked, a little puzzled.
Mi Ye calmly continued: "Brother, the pot man is a container for storing very important things. Choose a pious virgin, put what needs to be preserved into her body, then seal the nine orifices with a kind of soil peculiar to the mountain, and then stick it to her little by little with the freshly slaughtered and flaked cowhide and blood. Then apply a special potion to the cowhide, and this human pot can be preserved for 10,000 years. ”
Listening to Mi Ye's explanation to this pot man, Brother Neng and I went from chills down our backs to nausea and vomiting. It's terrible to treat your own people in such a cruel way.
Mi Ye looked at us a little embarrassed. In her mind, she probably thinks that this is a very honorable thing for these people who have become pot people.
Originally, I was not at all as afraid of a whole corpse as there was a single part and some living things. But after listening to Miye's explanation, I don't feel in the mood to touch this thing again.
Mi Ye looked at my disgusted and frightened expression, and said, "Brother, I know how to open this, you can rest for a while." ”
After saying that, she didn't care about us, pulled the pot man into a corner, took her bronze dagger and separated the cowhides little by little along the sticky gaps, and said something in her mouth. Brother Neng and I looked at her like this, a little uncomfortable, and after a struggle, we still felt that it was inappropriate to let her do this kind of thing alone.
So we endured our various reactions and walked to Mi Ye's side to join her.
Mi Ye looked at us joining and said with a smile: "Brother, a pious girl who sacrificed to become a pot man, can get the help of my brother, the great witch, to unseal it, and will definitely become an immortal." ”
I smiled at Mi Ye, if it really happened like this, it would be considered to help her get rid of her, and I hope she will not suffer like this in the next life.
Because the three of us worked together, soon a large piece of the cowhide on the pot man was peeled off. Her skin was already stuck to the cowhide, and some of the charred things stuck to it when she peeled it off. Although there was no taste anymore, Brother Neng and I couldn't help but vomit twice. Because Mi Ye said that in order to preserve the contents, before she sacrificed her, she would drink a kind of hardy worm, and those worms would eat her internal organs and flesh while consuming air.
"It's so cruel." Brother Neng spat out a mouthful of sour water and said.
There were also some black round things inside, and I picked one up with a short knife and asked, "Is this what you said is precious?" ”
Mi Ye looked at it and said, "This is an egg." ”
Hearing Mi Ye's words, I instantly threw out the short knife in my hand. This short knife asked me if I couldn't look directly at it in the future.
Brother Neng gave me a sympathetic look. He also took a step back from the corpse.
"I finally understand why those people on the road are so awesome, I will definitely take a good look at our store from this time on, it is better to come to this kind of place less." Brother Neng took out a pack of cigarettes, handed me one and said.
Mi Ye squatted in front of the pot man and continued to rummage through the so-called treasures. I think even if I find it, I'm afraid I won't dare to touch it for the time being.
When Brother Neng and I finished smoking a cigarette and were about to help again, Mi Ye turned around and said excitedly, "Brother, I found it." ”