Although the textbook-like explanations of the old men were long-winded, I still understood them in general. They wanted to tell me that there were people in ancient times who traveled through time and space.

It's just that these stories of time travel are recorded as anecdotes and in ancient books like "Sou Shen Ji".

The old glasses pointed to the three rings on my hand: "It can be seen that human beings in ancient times did master a kind of divine power, maybe these twelve rings are the key to unlocking that divine power!" ”

I nodded: "Several, two months ago, we found the 'old nest' of the Dongyi people in the underground cracks of the Yellow River, when in addition to a mysterious huge meteorite copper, we also found another more ancient remains of human activities. ”

"We know about this - in fact, after you left, we also formed an expedition team to go down, and we came to the same conclusion, the ancestors of the Dongyi tribe slowly mastered the control method of that mysterious ability, and also learned the art of witchcraft, but according to our judgment, there should be drawbacks to using this ability."

I hurriedly asked, "Downsides?" What are the drawbacks? ”

Lao Wang smiled bitterly and took over the conversation: "Well, this! We were puzzled until yesterday ......"

"Yesterday?"

"That's right! Before the old glasses brought you here, a few of our old bones discussed, guessing that this drawback should be the zombie disease that later spread throughout the Dongyi tribe, or a curse, which is also the reason why the powerful Dongyi tribe was later defeated by the Yanhuang tribe, and then split and decayed! ”

I pondered for a while before I understood what Lao Wang meant.

"You're saying that it's not that the Dongyi people deliberately 'hidden', but forced?"

"It can be said that before Chiyou, the Dongyi tribe only curled up in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, living a life without fighting with the world, but the appearance of the Chiyou brothers changed this situation, they should be "militants", first defeated many small tribes nearby - including the very powerful Yandi tribe at that time and the Manmiao tribe living in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but unfortunately, in the end, before the decisive battle with the Yanhuang tribe, there were problems within their own tribe. ”

I didn't understand: "Are you saying that at this time, many people in the tribe began to develop sleepwalking and gradually turned into zombies?" ”

Lao Wang nodded: "Otherwise, it is impossible for the Yanhuang tribe to win - in order to break the curse or to complete self-redemption, one of the Chiyou brothers became a sacrifice and completed this highest-level sacrificial activity of the tribe." ”

I heard a throbbing in my heart: "Could it be that the Thirteen Ghost Caves of the Yellow River are the altar?" ”

The old glasses nodded: "After they finished the sacrifice, they sealed the entire mahogany coffin in the thirteen ghost caves of the Yellow River, and at the same time used thousands of people to accompany the burial - or to use the souls of these thousands of people to suppress the souls of Chiyou's twin brothers." ”

I don't really understand: "He didn't do it voluntarily!" Still need to be suppressed with souls? ”

Several people snorted coldly in unison.

"Do you remember what we saw in the red coffin before?"

Lao Wang asked me.

In the coffin lid?

"Those traces of varying lengths – at the time...... At that time, the forensic doctor judged that it was made by a person with a fingernail! ”

"That's right! Think about it! What does the appearance of these nail marks indicate? ”

I thought for a moment: "Does it mean that the person in the coffin was in pain at that time and was struggling desperately?" ”

The old glasses snorted coldly: "Brother, this 'desperate struggle' is so good!" Think about it, if it was a voluntary sacrifice, what else would you need to do? ”

It dawned on me: "It seems that he was forced!" ”

Unexpectedly, several old men shook their heads in unison: "This is not very likely, after all, he is one of the leaders of the tribe and holds the supreme power - maybe he was voluntary at first, but with the progress of the sacrificial activities, he later ...... I regretted it later! ”

"I regret it, but it's too late?"

"That's right! Since it is the highest level of sacrifice, it should not be interrupted in the middle! ”

Listen, this scene comes to mind:

Hundreds of primitive people, naked, with animal skins around their waists, singing and dancing, long sticks in their hands, and strange noises in their mouths, followed behind a large red coffin, which was carried towards the cave.

There was a handsome man in the coffin, because he was poisoned, his body couldn't move at this time, and he couldn't shout in his mouth, he suddenly felt how beautiful it was to be alive, and he thought of the girls who had a night with him, and thought of the kind of stimulation that pressed people down and stabbed them with all their might...... He began to regret his decision to be a sacrifice, so he slapped the coffin board hard. doll

Maybe the noise outside was too loud, or maybe it was "on the bow", and no one even opened the coffin lid.

Later, he was sent to the deepest part of the cave, where the tribesmen sealed the stone gate and diverted the water of the Yellow River, making it a suspenseful place that outsiders could not approach.

The air in the coffin is getting less and less, he is already desperate, at this moment, there is a wave of hatred in his heart, he hates his impulsive decision, and he hates the people of his tribe who will not save him when they see death!

With the last bit of strength, he scratched the coffin with his fingernails until he lost consciousness......

"So it's the evil spirits of the Chiyou brothers who do the evil?"

Lao Wang nodded: "In our cognitive world, the same can be said. ”

"So......... So according to what you said at the Hekou District Cultural Relics Bureau, if this evil spirit absorbs the souls of a hundred people, it can be resurrected? But...... But when the corpses are reduced to ashes, how can they be resurrected? ”

The old glasses took over the conversation: "Well! It may be that the way of cognition is different, the 'live' we understand is the living life of flesh and blood, maybe in their cognitive world, the word 'live' has another interpretation! ”

I don't seem to understand this, and I want to ask again.

The old glasses waved his hand: "There is no point in dwelling on these now, the top priority is how to eliminate him!" ”

After saying that, several old men looked at the ring on my left hand in unison.

"That's right! I haven't told you yet—if I'm right, this She's Ring can see a person's past! ”

Maybe I didn't express it clearly enough, or maybe it was too weird, and after several old men looked at each other, they didn't seem to understand, and they all stared at me.

I had no choice but to put my left hand on Wu Jinghan's shoulder just now, and the moment my right hand touched the ring on my index finger, I saw that on the edge of the Yellow River, the little girl was walking slowly with the old man, and said it briefly.

"I think that old man is Wu Jinghan's grandfather Wu Baocai, and the little girl is Wu Jinghan when she was a child, because of Teacher Wu's accident, she evokes her miss for her grandfather......"

The old men all looked surprised.

"It's amazing!"

After a full half minute of silence, Professor Han broke the silence.

"Actually, I'm not sure, so I'll have to try!"

The old glasses gritted his teeth and stretched out the next door: "That's good!" Let the old man be this guinea pig! ”

Several others nodded at me in support.

"Good!"

I slowly put my left hand on the shoulder of the old glasses, and I could feel that his heart was beating a lot faster at the moment.

I'm nervous too!

The outstretched right hand also shook uncontrollably.

The moment my right index finger and middle finger touched the ring of her left index finger, everything in front of me changed with a tremor all over my body.

I found myself in the wilderness at this time, and there were several large pits in front of me, and at least hundreds of people were busy working, some people were using simple cranes to lift soil from the pits, some people were using small carts to push the earth, and some people were squatting in the big pits, holding small shovels and brushes in their hands, carefully looking for something.

After watching it for a minute, it dawned on me that this was the excavation site of the ancient tomb!

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting in the pit in front of me: "I have dug up the coffin!" Dig up the coffin! ”

Following the prestige, I saw several bespectacled staff members in the pit surrounding a big black coffin.

The coffin board was slowly pried open, and not too far away, I saw a strange skeleton lying in the coffin—two heads, four arms.