Volume 2 Southern Xinjiang Strange Mounds Chapter 38 Tai Sui
Wang Yuesheng took out the tools from the toolbox, walked cautiously to the statue, and took off the two gems without much effort. Wang Yuesheng handed the gem into the hands of Pu Yifan. Park Yifan couldn't wait to remove the ring on the palm of the stone statue and set two emeralds into the skeleton's eyes.
"Hey, just right!" Park Yifan said excitedly. I saw that in this dimly lit environment, the eyes of the skeleton on the ring suddenly emitted a light. Park Yifan shone the light to the ground. This time, Moyu was not used, but it also showed clues. A square pattern appeared on the ground in the area shrouded in green light. The pattern is divided into 7749 squares, but more than a dozen of them are obscure and not shiny like the others.
"What is this?" This square saw that Park Yifan was confused. Not only him, but everyone present didn't know what it meant when they saw this pattern. Just as everyone was thinking to themselves, the sound of the mechanism "clicking" sounded again. The sound of this voice made everyone look around nervously like frightened birds, for fear of triggering some crossbow and other mechanisms. Now that everyone is in the main hall, if crossbow arrows are fired from all directions, I am afraid that no one will be able to escape.
Just when the people of us were terrified, the pillar supports on the walls on the left and right sides of the main hall began to slowly rotate one by one. When the pillars turned one hundred and eighty degrees to reveal the side that was originally facing the outside of the wall, all of us present couldn't help but gasp.
There are seventy-two stone pillars on both sides of the wall, thirty-six on each wall. The seventy-two pillars were not entirely solid, but had been hollowed out in the middle, and in their place were seventy-two children dressed in ancient red garments, thirty-six boys on one side and thirty-six girls on the other, all of whom seemed to be only six or seven years old. Although I knew that none of these children were alive, it was easy to think that they were just asleep.
In front of the sitting children, there was a burning, thick white candle. Although the candle was white, the whole hall was red in the light of the candlelight.
It was originally just an empty underground palace, but now there are seventy-two more corpses of strange children for no reason, which is indeed terrifying. Standing in front of the stone statue, I looked behind me and saw two rows of children's corpses, stretching all the way, unusually conspicuous. Under the flickering candle flame, their bodies seemed to be constantly shaking, as if they were about to come back to life at any time, which added a bit of horror to the atmosphere in the main hall. I only felt that the wind was gusting behind my head at the moment, goosebumps were standing up all over my body, and I even felt that my back was crawling with the ghosts of dead children, who were all blue in their eyes, opening their mouths and baring their teeth, wanting to bite down on the side of my neck, and then suck my soul and drink my blood......
"Tai Sui?" Situ Feng frowned and blurted out.
As soon as I heard this word, I turned my head to look at him with a surprised face - how could he, Situ Feng, know this word?
"What are these?" The jar suddenly screamed, "Why are there so many children?" ”
Xu Yunshu pulled the corner of his clothes and told him in a low voice: "This is a human sacrifice for the burial." She looked at the corpses of those children, her eyes full of unbearable: "Such a young child, before life has begun, will be buried in the grave...... It's cruel......"
I also think the same way in my heart, in ancient times, people were divided into noble and low, if you were born in a rich family, you will naturally not worry about food and clothing, but if you are born in a poor family, let alone food and clothing, even life is difficult to guarantee. It's better to live now, at least you don't have to live that kind of life that is precarious, and you don't even know when your life will be lost.
"No, these children are not burial ......" someone put forward a different view.
This was said by Ma Xiwen.
"If this is a tomb, then the bodies of these children should be considered to be buried here. But now there is not even a coffin here, how can it be a burial? If it is said that the people and animals used for the foundation of the building are used, first, the people and animals should be buried under the foundation of the building, and the second is that they are not used so much! Ma Xiwen said.
I didn't listen to Ma Xiwen's explanation, but went straight to Situ Feng, stared at him and asked, "Who are you?" How do you know the word 'Tai Sui'? ”
Situ Feng didn't seem too surprised when he saw that I asked this question, as if he had expected it. He took out a piece of jade hanging around his neck and showed it to me, and said, "You're not the only one who belongs to Yunmen!" ”
"You...... You are also ......" I saw that the piece of jade was very similar to the one hanging around my neck, the only difference was that the originally prominent auspicious clouds became flowing clouds.
"Yes, I'm also from Cloud Gate!" Situ Feng said calmly, "Liuyun Situ Feng!" ”
At this time, Tanzi and Xu Yunshu also discovered the abnormality of me and Situ Feng, so they all came over. Seeing the two of them coming over, Situ Feng didn't say a word, turned around and left.
"What's wrong with you?" The jar asked me.
"He's also from Cloud Gate! It's just a person who is in the same vein. I said. I have already told Tanzi about the matter of Cloud Gate, I don't think there is any need to hide this kind of thing, as for Xu Yunshu, Uncle Xu must have told her the story of Cloud Gate, so there is no need to carry her on this matter.
Tanzi nodded and said, "No wonder he is so familiar with the organs, it turns out that he is also a family student." I thought he had been trained in a hundred battles! ”
Xu Yunshu asked, "How did you find out?" ”
"Because he said the word 'Tai Sui'!" I said, "Say 'Tai Sui', and everyone knows that it's either the year star, which is Jupiter, or the flesh reishi...... and I pointed to the corpses of the children...... But only the people of Cloud Gate would call this kind of non-rotting wet corpse Tai Sui! ”
"Tai Sui?" Tanzi asked with Xu Yunshu.
"That's right! I had seen these words in my grandfather's "Miscellaneous Records". The people of Yunmen call the 'wet corpse' 'Tai Sui', and the 'dry corpse' 'dead wood'. And my grandfather also warned in the book: 'Don't break ground on Tai Sui's head, don't look for things around dead wood'. The 'Tai Sui' here refers to the 'wet corpse'! And the meaning of this sentence is also obvious, that is, to keep people away from wet and dry corpses. I explained, "It's just that when I read this paragraph, I thought that Cloud Gate was the Dao Gate where my grandfather practiced Taoism!" ”
"Why stay away from wet and dry corpses?" Xu Yunshu asked, "There are a lot of wet corpses and dried corpses that have been excavated by archaeology, but there is nothing wrong?" ”
"But what's going on behind the excavation, you know? That kind of thing is kept secret and won't be known to outsiders...... These two corpses are visions, and there must be a reason for their formation, so my grandfather warned me to stay away and not to wade into this troubled water. "I said," my grandfather admonished in his book: 'Tai Sui is coming, and there is no one for ten miles; When the dead wood is in spring, new graves will be added. ’......”