"Ship coffin?" Xu Yunshu shouted, "Isn't this a funeral custom that only exists overseas?" ”

"Don't forget, they're from overseas!" I reminded Xu Yunshu and said, "Since you said that there is such a custom overseas, it is not surprising that the Haiwan people have followed it!" ”

So, we approached the wooden boat. The wooden boats had long since decayed, and the wood on them fell off at the touch of their hands. We checked each wooden boat, and sure enough, there was a coffin on each one, and there were as many as seven of them. Each sarcophagus has a human face carved into the lid, exactly the same as the one on the stone door at the entrance.

"Here...... There are so many coffins here? Is it really a burial chamber? The jar cried.

Xu Yunshu originally saw the interruption of the rock paintings, and felt a little lonely, because although these rock paintings explained the origin of the Loulan people, there are still many things about Gu Loulan that are still unknown, and of course she hopes to know more secrets about Loulan. At this time, Che Dong and the others found new clues, which made it possible to make more discoveries, and Xu Yunshu immediately became happy again.

Not everyone has the same good mood as Xu Yunshu when they see these coffins...... I don't know what the jar will be, but at least I'm already starting to drum in my heart. I don't know what's going to be in that coffin, if only the bones are good, if I really pop up a terrible dead wood or Tai Sui, the consequences are really unimaginable...... However, I see that Hu Yunting is strolling around, and he is not afraid of these sarcophagi that suddenly appeared.

As for Ji Shanchuan, Zhang Deming and others, after seeing these sarcophagi, they also felt a little creepy, and they didn't know what they would encounter next. Che Dong, Huo Ming, and Luan Kun were engrossed in guarding the surroundings.

After Jin Yuxiang saw the sarcophagus, a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then he gave orders to Huo Ming and Luan Kun: "Open it and take a look!" ”

Huo Ming and Luan Kun glanced at Che Dong, and when they saw Che Dong nodded, the two of them walked to the side of a sarcophagus. The owner of the car and the jar followed closely behind, raised their rifles in their hands, and aimed their muzzles at the sarcophagus. The moment Huo Ming and Luan Kun opened the sarcophagus, as long as there was any abnormal movement, the two of them would immediately pull the trigger just in case.

With a "boom", the lid of the sarcophagus was lifted by Huo Ming and Luan Kun and pushed to the ground. During the process of opening the coffin, nothing escaped from the coffin, and nothing special happened. Everyone slowly leaned forward, and we took a searchlight to shine into the sarcophagus, and the probe looked into the coffin - only to see that there were no whole bones in the sarcophagus, only human heads! And there's more than one!

The skulls are divided into three layers, with nine at the bottom, three at the middle, and one at the top, and the entire skull pile is arranged in the shape of a pyramid.

Everyone was a little surprised when they saw the skull, but then a chill and horror followed. The holes left by the seven orifices on those skeletons were all black and strange to us, especially the eye sockets of the two black holes, as if they were staring at us, staring at us.

Skull? I immediately thought of the headless corpse in the Haiwan tomb in Jinzhou, and the strange rule that Fang Jinhua told me - before a person is about to die, the head will be cut off, so that the soul of the person can be left intact. Is that the same for the skulls here? It's just that I didn't find the skull in that Haiwan tomb, but only the skull was found here.

Ever since I knew that the Haiwan people were Loulan people, no matter what I saw, as long as it involved Loulan, I couldn't help but confirm what I saw and heard in the tomb of the Haiwan people.

"Open the rest of the coffins for me, too! One does not pull! Jin Yuxiang asked everyone to open the other sarcophagi, for fear of pulling down any of them.

The other six sarcophagi have all been opened, and the inside is exactly the same as the first sarcophagus, even the number of skulls, the way they are placed, and the direction in which they are placed are exactly the same.

Jin Yuxiang looked at all the sarcophagi and saw that there was nothing in them except the skull, and his disappointed expression could no longer be hidden.

"I didn't expect it to be like this!" Xu Yunshu said to me, "I was talking to you just now about whether the Haiwan clan here in Lop Nur would have their heads cut off, but I didn't expect to see it so soon." When I heard you say that you saw a headless corpse in the Haiwan tomb, I was thinking that maybe it was just a coincidence, after all, you didn't see the skull. But seeing it with my own eyes today was really an eye-opener for me! It seems that in the early days of the establishment of the Loulan Kingdom, there was still a custom of beheading. ”

"You seem to know that?" I looked at Xu Yunshu with questions.

Xu Yunshu looked at me and said, "I once read an ancient book called "Anecdotes of Haiguo", which is dedicated to writing about some unknown things overseas, including the Haiwan people. It is described in the book that the Haiwan people love to be closed and do not like to associate with outsiders; They worship a god who believes that if a person's head is cut off before death, the soul will not dissipate. With the blessing of the gods, you can enter the Illusory Country......"

"Phantom Country? What is that? "I wondered.

"It's a place similar to the Western Elysium in Buddhism." Xu Yunshu said, "The beheading of the Haiwan clan is not something that anyone can do casually, only the priests in the clan can carry it out!" ”

At this time, I thought of the five dead trees sitting in the tomb, they should be the priests in Xu Yunshu's mouth, but they all kept their bodies intact after they died, and they were not beheaded. So I asked Xu Yunshu, "Before the Haiwan people die, they want the priest to cut off their own head, so who will cut off the head of the priest when he dies?" ”

The altar squinted at me, pouted, and said, "I don't know this, of course it's other priests!" And it is not said that there is only one priest! ”

"And what if there really aren't any other priests?" I glared at the altar and said, "Do you remember those five dead trees we saw in the Haiwan tomb?" They may be priests, but why didn't anyone cut off their heads? ”

"Actually, it's easy to explain!" Xu Yunshu explained, "The Haiwan priesthood is only available to men, and they can only become priests at the age of sixteen. During the rite of becoming a priest, the new priest had to sacrifice a piece of his skull to the gods to prove that his soul was connected to the gods from now on. So when the priest dies, he doesn't have to have his head cut off! ”