I took out some of the plastic bags in the backpack, and then cut a few wooden sticks to tie them, Qiu Yan saw this, also took off the backpack, and made two torches like me, I inserted the two excess ones in the backpack, and then one person lit one and went into the cave.

As soon as I entered the cave, I felt a cool breeze, although it was only early spring in March, but after climbing the mountain for a long time, the three of us were also sweating profusely, this cool breeze shocked our spirits, and immediately reduced most of the fatigue.

In addition, as the saying goes, since there is wind, it means that this cave is not a dead end, there must be an exit, then Qiu Yan's speculation is likely to be right: this cave leads to the top of the mountain.

"The wind is blowing from the outside and inward, indicating that the hole has an exit, and the exit is above us." I said to Qiu Yan.

"Hmm!" Qiu Yan agreed and stopped talking.

We walked less than a hundred meters along the cave before we saw that the cave began to extend upwards, and from the smooth walls of the cave around it, it was clearly polished.

As I climbed further, I saw some notches in the walls of the cave and some small holes that had been hewn out.

Qiu Yan leaned over with a torch and looked at it carefully, and then said:

"These small holes should be used to insert torches, these nicks are words, you see, these words are crooked, and not into sentences, I guess those people were idle and carved to play, just like who we are here now to visit a meaning."

After listening to Qiu Yan's explanation, I was a little disappointed, I originally thought that I had found some historical mural!

"Hey, it's boring, if only they carved a few murals!" I grumbled.

After listening to my words, Qiu Yan finally squeezed out a smile and said:

"You think the mural is like a printer, you can print it if you want! You know, carving a mural not only requires profound art skills, but also strict requirements for craftsmen, in ancient times, in addition to the royal relatives, who has the ability to carve murals everywhere! ”

I grinned and said:

"That's what I said, when I used to read novels, those tomb robbers were full of yellow intestine questions, or the murals on the walls told the past of the tomb owner, didn't I touch the scene?"

"It's a shame that you're still a scout, you can't figure out such a simple reason, at that time, the road was long and the road was far away, and any large-scale construction activities were a matter of labor and money, and people would not casually put this kind of energy on the tomb."

I buried my head and listened to Qiu Yan's words, and my heart suddenly relaxed: as long as she was willing to speak, it proved that she had put down what she had done before.

As we walked on, there were small holes in the walls of the cave with torches, and the nicks popped up from time to time, until at last we came to a steep slope, and I saw that there were steps on the steep slope.

Now it seems that Qiu Yan's speculation is completely correct, this is indeed a jump passage, and judging from the slope, this passage leads to the top of the mountain nine times out of ten.

Sure enough, after climbing a few steps, we came to a gentle passage, and I saw some bright light in the pile of weeds at the end of the passage.

"Brother Zimu, it's an exit!" The second baby shouted excitedly as she ran forward.

After the second baby left, Qiu Yan pulled me behind me:

"Zimu, I spoke too impulsively before, don't you mind."

It's the first time I've heard Qiu Yan call me without a surname, and my heart suddenly blossomed.

"Hey, what's that, I know you're in a hurry."

Qiu Yan smiled and said:

"Zimu, I'm so glad I met you, I really saved a lot of heart with you."

I continued to walk forward, saying as I went:

"No, don't you still have Xiang Wei? He didn't help you worry? ”

Qiu Yan paused, and then said:

"Xiang Wei? He's pretty good, but ~~"

"But what?"

"Forget it, don't talk about it, you call the second baby back, I don't know if there is any danger outside!"

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The exit of the cave does not lead directly to the top of the mountain, and there is a stone path about two or three meters wide after the cave, and the entrance of the cave is specially supported by stone pillars, although the whole passage is built on the basis of the original cave, but it obviously took a lot of effort to build such a passage.

I was curious about what those people were spending so much effort for, and just when I was standing there and thinking about it, the second baby, who had disappeared, suddenly shouted above our heads:

"Brother Zimu, Sister Qiu Yan, come and take a look."

When Qiu Yan and I heard this, we quickly ran over, and we ran a circle along the gravel road until we came to the top of the exit, which was the summit of the mountain on the left side of the canyon.

I looked around curiously, and found that the top of the hill was actually a platform four or five meters wide, and the two sides of the platform gradually converged, making the platform take on a fusiform shape.

The platform was obviously excavated by hand, and some square stone scraps can be seen around the platform.

"Here!" The second baby shouted again.

I followed the prestige, and I saw Erwa and Qiu Yan standing under the other side of the platform, Erwa beckoned to me, and Qiu Yan was staring down and could see it.

When I walked over and looked, I saw a path on the edge of the platform, which ran down against the mountain, and on either side of the path, on the almost straight mountain, were lined with various rectangular stones in different directions.

I looked at both sides of the mountain and saw that there was more than one such path, and that the other paths were lined with the same stones on both sides.

"This is a hanging coffin!" Qiu Yan didn't raise her head, and whispered such a sentence.

Qiu Yan's voice was small, but it sounded like thunder to me.

Hanging coffin!? In other words, everywhere I looked, there were coffins!

"Damn, there must be at least a hundred!" I couldn't help but sigh.

Qiu Yan suddenly pointed to the nearest sarcophagus and said to me:

"You see, most of these sarcophagi are embedded in the mountain, that is, these sarcophagi were hewn directly out of the mountain."

When I looked, I saw that if this was the case, these coffins only protruded a small part, and most of them were directly connected to the mountain.

"This is too ~~ awesome!" I sighed, I really can't think of any other adjective than awesome.

"Hehe, it's really good, but it's also weird. Hanging coffins are not new, many ethnic minorities have a tradition of hanging coffin tombs, but this is the first time I have seen this kind of stone hanging coffin. Qiu Yan said with a smile.

"That's right, I've also heard of hanging coffins, it's hard enough for those people to put the coffin on the cliff, and the coffin is still being chiseled out on the cliff here, I really don't understand, why do you spend so much effort?"

Qiu Yan seemed to be hesitating at this time, and I saw her put her fingers in her mouth and bit them.

After a while, Qiu Yan turned her head to look at me and said:

"Why don't we open it up?"

Just what the doctor ordered!

"Okay!" I replied cheerfully.

I have to say that the terrain here is very dangerous, the whole cliff is almost straight, you have to lie on the cliff to move on the path, fortunately I brought two climbing ropes up, I tied the climbing rope to the trunk of the tree above, and then hung one with Qiu Yan on my waist, and then carefully walked down.

After coming to the sarcophagus, Qiu Yan and I inserted the sapper shovel into the gap of the sarcophagus at the same time, because the sarcophagus only had a small section sticking out, so the coffin lid was not very large, and Qiu Yan and I didn't take much effort to pry it open.

After priing open the lid of the coffin, the first thing that caught our eyes was a mask, the shape of this mask was different from the one we found in Pukeiling, but the pattern on the mask was exactly the same.

In addition to the mask, there was also a pair of dry bones in the coffin, and the dry bones were dressed in a cyan national costume and held a cane in their hands, but other than that, there was nothing else in the coffin.

Qiu Yan and I were not reconciled, and then pried open a few nearby sarcophagi, but the result was the same, except for masks and dry bones, there was nothing in the coffin.

"It's taken so much energy, presumably the people who can be buried here are not ordinary people, why don't you even have something to accompany the funeral, so you can bring a piece of jade or something!" I couldn't help but complain.

Qiu Yan glared at me and asked:

"He Zimu, do you really think of yourself as a tomb robber? How about bringing a piece of jade, is it possible that you still want to take it? ”

I stuck out my tongue and cursed in my heart: How did you accidentally say the truth!

Then, we went back to the top of the mountain, and then hung a rope to pry open a few coffins on the side of other paths, and the result was still the same, only the mask and clothing style were slightly different.

After returning to the top of the mountain again, Qiu Yan sat down.

"It seems that the burials here are all Tujia Tima, and it is estimated that these Tima must be hundreds of years apart, maybe the year before last!" Qiu Yan said.

I was untying my safety rope, and after listening to Qiu Yan's words, I couldn't help but glance at the sarcophagi again.

"Thousands of years? You don't think these coffins and that passage were built more than a thousand years ago, do you? I asked.

Qiu Yan took a sip of water and replied:

"Those sarcophagi, if you look closely, you can see that there are new and old, and that passage, I don't think it was built like that in a short time, it should be someone who has been constantly repairing and improving it over a long period of time, so that we can see it today.

In any case, at least it proves that this place is indeed extraordinary, and it is likely to be a sacrificial place, He Zimu, you guessed it right! ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately swelled:

"What do you mean by guessing, buddy, this is a well-founded analysis, okay!"

Qiu Yan glanced at me with a smile, and then frowned again:

"It's also quite suspicious, I don't know if you've found these Timar masks."

If Qiu Yan didn't mention it, I almost forgot: these timas all have masks, although the size and shape are different, but the content on the masks is exactly the same, I remember when I was in the ancient village of Wutang, the dancer said, he said that the mask is engraved with Chiyou.

"You mean the mask, right?"

Qiu Yan nodded and said:

"That's right, not to mention whether these masks are Chiyou or not, just because these Tima masks with the same content are enough to prove that the content on this mask is not ordinary."

As soon as Qiu Yan's words were finished, a few words immediately flashed in my mind, mask, sacrifice, and resurrection.

I don't know what the connection between these words is, but I always felt that they didn't exist alone.