I said, "My master told me before that in the past, people were used to sacrifice in the past, which was called "head annihilation blood sacrifice", but later we Tima changed this custom to use a sharp knife to cut one's forehead to take blood and sacrifice it, to isolate ghosts and fortune-telling, which is called "opening the red mountain". Nowadays, few people open the Red Mountain, but the people who kill chickens or take their place with the Zha Mao. ”

Professor Wen said: "There are actually a lot of human sacrifice customs in ancient times, especially in our Yin Shang period, but then they have been slowly replaced, but this custom of the Ba people has been passed down for a long time, you also know, your Tujia people are the descendants of the Ba people, this Ba people, is a martial and migratory nation, according to legend, the Ba people are brave and martial, with the white tiger as the totem, sharp and joyful dance, believe in ghosts, alchemy dansha, like fishing and hunting. We have been talking about Di Jun these days, do you know that this Di Jun is not just a Tima, Di Jun is the earliest outstanding leader of the Ba people, "Hou Han Shu" records, Di Jun died, the soul turned into a white tiger, Ba Shi drank human blood with the tiger, so he worshipped it. The head of the slaughtered person is dug up and the flesh is dug up, the fat is boiled and pasted, and it is smeared with dansha, and placed in a clay pot to sacrifice to the king, and men, women, and children sing around it. ”

I nodded, seeing that the human head on the ground had already had shriveled skin, sunken eyeballs, thinning hair, and a large amount of red dansha in the clay pot, I frowned and said, "What is the White Tiger Soldier?" ”

Professor Wen said: "Since the Ba people began to migrate with the five surnames of the Ba people, the regimental tribe has been standing, gathering and moving, and fighting together, and has been circulating in migration, conquest, settlement, and migration. Almost everyone in the Ba people is a warrior, but most of the Ba people are still engaged in other work on weekdays, but there is an army called the White Tiger Soldier among the Ba people, because the Ba people believe in ghosts and gods, this army is also recorded in some historical books as "ghost soldiers". This army should be regarded as the earliest professional soldier in China, there are records in historical materials that this army is brave and thirsty for killing, good at witchcraft, elusive, like to sing war songs, dance war dances, raise the white tiger battle flag, wear tiger skin, wear a tiger head mask, all the way to the tiger button to advance to the enemy. The enemy often saw this army and fled. ”

I said, "Then why does this gathering platform have the altar of the White Tiger Soldiers?" ”

Professor Wen looked at the fierce tiger statue and said, "I guess this is not just a gathering platform, this is also the main altar of Yu, so there will be an altar for human sacrifice." During the battle of Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms, although the White Tiger soldiers were fierce, they were not the opponents of the Qin people's tiger and wolf divisions after all. ”

Tuesday Mao glanced at the human head on the ground and said: "These people may be prisoners captured by these White Tiger Soldiers, and the sacrifice has been completed, more than 2,000 years, let's burn them, dust to dust, dust to earth." ”

Everyone had this intention, so they piled up the scattered jars and the heads of the fallen people in a corner, poured gasoline, and I stood in front of the heads and recited a spell for the undead, which was also an explanation for the souls of these two thousand years ago, and then lit a match and burned them.

The firelight illuminated the whole room, and we found a hidden stone door behind the tiger statue, which should be the exit of this place. The road slopes upward, it is estimated that the security was heavy before, and it is not far to walk, you can see a narrow whistle, only one person can pass, and it has been walking up for a long time, it is estimated that it has walked out of the sinkhole, but the road is still upward, and there is no strange thing to cross along the way, and the whole pit is very neat, and there is no trace of large-scale fighting, it seems that these white tiger soldiers were not in a hurry at that time, and they do not know where they went later.

Turning the last bend, between the two rows of mountains in front, two huge stone pillars appeared, which were also full of human heads, and the stone gate in the middle was opened, and copper pots were placed on both sides of the stone gate, which were probably used for lighting. In the claustrophobic deep mountain and ancient cave, a stone gate from ancient times is so open, and it is estimated that there is a huge space behind the stone gate, and the light of our flashlight cannot shine so far at all.

I still walked first, Lin Xia followed, a team member supported the somewhat tired Tuesday Mao to walk at the end, and Professor Wen was a little out of breath with his crutches.

Walking into the stone gate, the inside is indeed too big, and it seems that this place is not artificially built, but cleverly uses the karst cave of the mountain, and is used to store soldiers and grain after reinforcement. On the side of the stone wall is a plank road similar to that of Qixing Mountain, which winds upwards in a zigzag way to a higher place.

Lin Jing looked at his watch and said, "It's already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the terrain here is also good, and it's dry, so I'll camp here today." Everyone was a little tired, so they ate some dry food on the spot and prepared to rest.

The dry food and fresh water we brought when we entered the cave were enough, so everyone dealt with it and ate it, Lin Xia gave me and Zhou Mao a black candy from the backpack and said: "Today's physical exertion is too great, you can taste this." ”

Tuesday Mao took the candy to his nose and sniffed it: "This black is not slippery, what kind of sugar is this?" ”

Lin Xia said: "This is called milk chocolate, it is delicious and can quickly recover physical fitness." ”

I didn't want to eat it because I didn't want to eat it, but seeing that Lin Xia was still looking at me with interest, I had to peel it open and take a bite, only to feel sweet and tender, and it also had a strong aroma, so I couldn't help nodding again and again, and said, "This thing is much better than these biscuit grains." ”

On Tuesday, Mao had eaten a piece for a long time, and cheekily asked Lin Xia for another piece.

There is no day and night in the cave, we are ready to go to bed after eating chocolate, on Tuesday Mao suffered a big crime today, a little weak, I snored from time to time after eating something, but I still can't sleep, I lit a cigarette and leaned against the stone wall to think about all kinds of strange things that happened today.

But after thinking about it for a long time, I still didn't have a clue, so I said to the brother who was on duty in the first half of the night, and I wanted to go pee and come back to sleep.

I took the flashlight and walked a little far away from the camp, I always felt a little strange when I peed, it seemed that something had been staring at me, I turned my head to look, there was no one, I thought it was too tired today and hallucinated, I was about to go back, suddenly found a black shadow from in front of me and disappeared, I was shocked, is this Nima the beast that Mao saw below on Tuesday? It's fucking consumed with us! I didn't care about informing the vigil brother, I took out a pistol and rushed towards the place of the black shadow just now, the flashlight shone, I didn't see any animals, but I accidentally found that the place where we were standing was actually a high platform, and in the middle was a step down, the steps were paved with large pieces of white marble, I was a little curious, walked down the steps, and saw the white marble road leading directly to a closed stone door, This stone gate is obviously different from all the others, even the entire door is carved from white marble, and on either side of the stone door are two lifelike carved white marble tigers, and the tiger also carries a round ball on its back.

I didn't care about greeting everyone, thinking that it was not too far from the camp, and it was too late to call for help loudly, so I went in to push the stone door, and the stone door was easy to push open, and the moment I pushed the stone door open, I only felt a strange fragrance coming to my face.

Walking through a passageway, there was a sunken room below, and in the middle of the room was a stone coffin, on one side of the coffin there was a shelf, on which hung a set of black armor, and on the other side stood a strangely shaped axe carved with tiger stripes.

This turned out to be a burial chamber, which we didn't expect, I tried to push the sarcophagus, but the sarcophagus lid weighed 3,400 pounds, and I couldn't push it at all, I walked along the sarcophagus, and I felt that I really couldn't get my hands, so I took a flashlight and looked around in this small stone room.

The stone room is carved with a variety of scenes of soldiers wearing tiger head masks killing the enemy, which should be some of the merits of this master during his lifetime, the battlefield involves mountains, jungles, rivers, and the middle section also has the picture of the master accepting some kneeling people to worship, it is estimated that some prisoners of war, the final picture is a picture of a general wearing a tiger-shaped mask kneeling in front of a white tiger through the clouds, which should reflect the general's death* entered the ranks of the family immortals, and the merit was complete, and he was rewarded by the white tiger king.

Suddenly, there was a soft sound behind me, and a blue smoke suddenly appeared in the center of the dark room on the ground, illuminating the whole room very strangely, I was startled, and was about to exit the tomb, and suddenly found that on the coffin opposite, a strange animal that looked like a monkey but was much larger than an ordinary monkey was half-squatting on the coffin lid, and a pair of dark blue eyes stared at me viciously in the firelight.

I only felt that my whole body was weak, and I retreated in a panic, and suddenly the stone door that was originally opened "Bang!" With a bang, he locked himself up.