At this moment, blood suddenly spurted out from the top of the stone seat in the pool. The blood that fell was scattered around the stone seats, and some of them landed on the bronze incense burner. The blood spurted out for about a minute or so, and the column of water suddenly stopped as if it had been cut off by something.

At the same time, a puff of white smoke rose from the bronze incense burner, hovering over the incense burner for a long time, gathering but not dispersing.

"Blood...... Blood incense? Xu Yunshu said dumbfounded.

"Blood incense? What blood incense? The altar was the first to ask.

Although the rest of us didn't ask, we also turned our eyes to Xu Yunshu, expecting her to tell the origin of this "blood incense".

"Blood incense is incense that is ignited with blood." Xu Yunshu explained, "According to the Ming Dynasty's Strange Tales of the Kingdoms, the blood incense was produced in the body of a fox called Xiangsha fox. This kind of fox lives in the desert land of the Western Regions all year round, and the number is scarce, and in its stomach it can give birth to this kind of blood incense, similar to bezoars and the like. This kind of incense was first seen in the Han Dynasty, one of the 36 countries of the Western Regions, Cheshi State, and it was once presented as a gift by Ban Chaojin to Emperor Liu Zhao. This incense is lit with fire, and it is not burned, but it is drawn with blood that its smoke is seen. It is said that Emperor Xiaohe lit the blood incense, and there was no fragrance around him, but the smoke was swirling, always connected into a silk thread, and never dispersed. Emperor Xiaohe was furious and wanted to punish Ban Chao. Ban Chao hurriedly stepped forward and waved his sleeves, so that the smoke could disperse in all directions, and at the same time, the fragrance stood out, intoxicating. Emperor Xiaohe turned his anger into joy. ”

"The aroma of blood is strong and the taste is light, and its smell can make people intoxicated, and it is refreshing and refreshing, and has the effect of making people happy. It is said that just the size of a fingernail can make the whole palace fragrant and long-lasting. Since then, blood incense has become a rare thing, attracting everyone to rush to buy and search. For a while, Luoyang paper is expensive. But although the Xiangsha fox lives in the desert, the blood incense is only produced by the driver, but somehow, its production has always been a mystery. Therefore, during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after the destruction of the Cheshi Kingdom, the source of blood incense was lost, and only some of the things that remained in the world were those that flowed into the Central Plains before, but no one has seen this kind of blood incense since the Yuan Dynasty. I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet ...... here," Xu Yunshu said, picked up her mobile phone and took pictures non-stop, "I thought that the time recorded in "Strange Stories of the Kingdoms" was the earliest time when Blood Yinxiang appeared, but I never thought that I would see this legendary thing with my own eyes in this stone chamber in the late Qin and early Han dynasties. This is simply a new discovery!! She said excitedly as she patted it.

"Blood incense? What a rarity! When the altar saw that we were all standing still, he suddenly shouted, "Then what are you hesitating about, if you don't hurry up to put out the fire, how can such a valuable thing just watch it burn?" Isn't this a tyrannical thing? It's really not a family that doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, a group of losers! How much does this have to sell for? As he spoke, he glanced at Xu Yunshu, and saw that she was looking at him with fierce eyes, and hurriedly turned the words back: "Just ...... Even if it is handed over to the state, it is fine! ”

Then he was about to rush up, trying to wade into the water to reach the bronze incense burner.

At this moment, there was a muffled sound of "clang" from the ground. The altar suddenly stood up, and all of us listened. Then a slight tremor came from under his feet, and then "cluck" and "cluck" came and went, as if something like a winch or gear was biting into each other under the ground.

We were all taken aback, could it be that some other mechanism had been triggered?

Immediately after that, the water level in the pools and channels began to gradually decrease. I looked at the slowly lowering water level, and a sense of déjà vu rose in my heart. But it was a fleeting feeling, and I was quickly drawn back to what was going on in the pool.

After the entire pool and waterway were drained, the bottom of the pool was revealed to us.

Unexpectedly, under the bronze incense burner and the stone pedestal was a life-size stone statue, which stood in the water of the pond as a pillar under the stone pedestal. But what surprised us the most was that there was a bone banner erected in each of the four directions under the pool, which would not have been revealed if the water level of the pool had not dropped.

The so-called bone banner refers to a banner made of bone. Each of these four-sided bone flags is composed of ten human skulls, one of which is at the top of the flag, and the remaining nine are divided into three layers, three skulls at the top, middle and bottom, each layer is separated by a certain distance, connected side by side with human leg bones, filled with canvas, strung together and hung on the flagpole, like a flag. It's just that these flags have been soaked underwater for a long time, and the canvas has long been tattered, and only a few of them are still stuck to the bone flags, making people barely see the material.

"This ...... What is it? "Although Xu Yunshu saw a lot of human bones during her archaeological internship, she had never seen bone flags, and to be honest, I didn't see them either, but I mentioned them in the book left by my grandfather.

"It's a bone flag!" I said to Xu Yunshu, "I said that this place is a big murderous place, but you still don't believe it?" How about now? Nothing to say, right? ”

"Seeing so many bones is a big murderer? Isn't the ancient tomb where 100 people were buried a great murderer? Even this girl in the tomb has seen it! Not standing here intact? Xu Yunshu still said unconvinced.

I sneered and there was no interface.

At this time, Hua Tianyu came over and asked me, "Brother Pei, what is the bone banner you are talking about?" ”

I glanced at Xu Yunshu and saw that she didn't care, but her eyes always glanced this way. I said to Hua Tianyu, "This bone banner originated from black witchcraft at the earliest. In ancient times, some ethnic minorities in the wilderness believed in shamanism, but with the passage of time and different regions, shamanism also derived many branches. One of them gradually went to the evil path due to the influence of the black witchcraft of southern Xinjiang. For a long time, it was believed that the bones left behind after death could bring back the soul of the deceased. The shamanic sect that went down the wrong path believed that it was the human skull that really brought back the soul. Therefore, they used human skulls to make this kind of bone flag, and used black magic to summon yin spirits, so this kind of bone banner also has another name, called 'Soul Gathering Banner'. It's just that the ghosts summoned by this Soul Gathering Banner are not limited to the dead on the banner, but will attract all the Yin Spirits within a certain range. ”

"So ferocious?" The altar exclaimed, "Then there are soul flags gathered on all sides, isn't it even more powerful?" ”

I nodded: "Judging from the arrangement of these four-sided soul gathering flags, they are square, distributed in four directions: southeast, northwest, and northwest. And these four-sided soul flags are so close to each other...... That is, there must be some overlap in the range of their influence. And these overlaps are more attractive and more attractive to the Yin spirits......"