He tugged at the twine, carefully controlling the force, pulling it in this direction until he could see what was on it.

The huge iron cage, lying on a rotten bamboo raft, rusty, was full of iron fences the thickness of chopsticks, almost the size of three or five water tanks side by side, in the gap of the fence, densely packed, all a pair of hands stretched out in both directions, some only showed a few fingers, some stretched out a palm, and some stretched out a whole arm!

These things are evil, but they can be endured.

What's worse is that the cage is obviously full of skeleton shelves, but when I pull it, I feel that the cage obviously has a force, as if it is pulling with us.

I was a little nervous, looked at the rusty big iron cage, and said, "This thing is quite evil, is it pretending to be dead?" ”

Old Tan lame shook his head: "This must have been filled with living people at the beginning, otherwise those hands would not have stretched out." ”

When I heard what he was saying, I asked him, "Do you know what's going on?" ”

Old Tan nodded solemnly and said, "I heard the ancestor say something similar, this is human sacrifice. ”

"Human sacrifice?" I don't understand.

Old Tan nodded seriously and said, "Yes, this thing is the sacrifice that people offer to the god of the sea." In some places, pigs, sheep, and cattle are sacrificed, and in other places, boys and girls are sacrificed, that is, people. ”

My face was full of surprise, "Is there really a sacrifice for someone?" ”．

"Before liberation, there was really such a thing, but after liberation, this kind of thing has not happened. Moreover, generally speaking, the sacrifices are for boys and girls, and there are very few sacrifices for adults, let alone such a large number of people, which should be out of order! ”

"I've heard a fellow say this kind of thing before. He used to be a seaman, and he worked on a fishing boat in Weihai for many years, and he heard some rules of human sacrifice over there. He said that at that time, if there was a typhoon or tsunami on the sea, there would be sacrifices. ”

"However, the human sacrifice on his side is actually fake. In the case of human sacrifice, a movable bamboo raft is set up on a cliff near the sea, and the bamboo raft has an iron chain attached to it and a millstone is attached. From the outside, the human sacrifice looks like a person is tied to a bamboo raft with an iron chain, and a millstone is tied to the bottom of the foot, and when the bamboo row is tilted, the person sinks to the bottom of the sea with the iron chain and the millstone.

"Actually, when the real sacrifice is made, the iron chain and the millstone are not tied to the person, they are just an ornament. At the time of the sacrifice, a person with good water quality will be found and let him lie on the bamboo raft, and after everyone has finished the sacrifice, he will smash it with a huge iron hammer, and the bamboo raft will tilt down, and the person will fall into the sea along the bamboo raft. Because the cliff was originally near the sea, people who fell down could not die. ”

I said, "I've seen some things on the Internet about the sacrifice of living people, but in many places in feudal society, mountain gods are sacrificed, but I have never seen the sacrifice of living people to the sea." ”

Old Tan lame nodded: "It's almost, it's generally fake, even if it's real, it's all children, no adults." ”

"So, I don't think this thing is a human sacrifice."

I asked, "What's that?" ”

Old Cripple Tan suddenly said, "I suddenly remembered something. It has been said before that when the ancients used to catch sea monsters, they also used living people as bait. ”

I was startled, "Using a living person as bait?" What kind of monster do you have to catch? ”

"I've only heard that it's hard to say what's going on." Old Tan waved at me.