A corner of the stone chamber built under the roots of the tree broke, and a crack in the half-human position opened there, and the wind, which I don't know where it came from, whined through the crack and blew in.

I breathed a sigh of relief, bent down and gasped for breath with my hands on my knees.

But even so, the question is still here, where does the wind behind the stone chamber come from? The forests are densely wooded, and the vegetation is abundant, so it is impossible to have such a strong wind!

After a moment's rest, I stepped inside, and then leaned down on the crack and looked out......

But just looking at it like this, I was shocked.

It turned out that behind the stone chamber was a bottomless abyss, and the pitch black under it stretched for hundreds of miles, and there was a cross wind whirring around it.

"Ahh......h

With a sneeze, I touched my nose and pulled my head back.

"What's going on? What the hell is this place? How could there be such a long abyssal rift. ”

Thinking that this is the depths of the earth, if such a crack is added, then wouldn't the bottom be to the center of the earth?

But that's not the point, the point is who built this place?

Holding my flashlight, I looked at the masks hanging from the stone walls.

It was a bronze mask, the whole of the mask was square, the tips of its eyebrows were raised, its eyes were huge, and its ears were spread out to the sides, like that of a bat. A wide mouth, the mouth slit is deep and long, as if it is smiling, it looks so good, they are so densely hung on the wall, at a glance can not help but be a little scary, but the only strange place is that there is a hole in the middle of its forehead.

This kind of square hole is a bit similar to the heavenly eye of Erlang God, and the straight eyes are multiplied.

"Bronze Straight Eye Mask?" I muttered to myself.

The mask was exaggerated in shape and had a mysterious expression, and upon closer inspection, I realized that I really knew where it came from......

No, I shouldn't say that I know it, but I've read about this kind of mask in a book at home, and it seems to be an ancient mask.

The Wu mask is derived from the ancient Chinese Wu Wu culture, and "Wu " is the name of people to take refuge in it, which means "the ghost who frightens and drives away the epidemic". So those masks are all very prominent and weird, think about it, it's so, after all, you want to scare ghosts, how can you do it if it's not weird?

Moreover, the Wu culture is indeed spread in Jiangxi, and it is mentioned in the book that the activities of the Wu Wu can be traced back to the Yin Shang in the land of Jiangxi. After 3,000 years of inheritance and development, it has formed a rich history in Jiangxi, and Jiangxi's ritual activities are widely distributed, and many of its folk relics and influences have continued to this day.

"So look at it this way, this totem on my back and this weird "mountain" underground, are all from the so-called Wu? ”

Shaking his head, it was clear that even I could not convince myself of this statement.

But there seems to be a slight connection between the two.

I sat down on the floor and pressed my temples to the bottom of my mind to reason, for I had some clues at this point, and I felt it was time to connect them.

So let's start with the Wu......

As far as I know, this modern Nu culture is mainly distributed in the Yellow River Basin, the Yangtze River Basin and the southwest region in China. These are dazzling, varied, and have their own characteristics. It is divided into four types: folk nu, court nu, military and temple nu.

There are also rituals in these four kinds, and when it comes to the play, the ancient rituals have two major tasks: first, to drive the rituals regularly; 2. Funeral for the deceased emperor. Compared with the solemnity of the ceremony, the drama is much simpler, you must know that this is the ancient ritual of expelling the epidemic and blessing, praying for blessings and disasters, and eliminating the difficulties of Najib. The singing and dancing of Wu Wu gradually integrated into the content of acrobatics and witchcraft, and the factors of acting and performance also increased, and there were references and exchanges with other local dramas, and even the situation of Wu and Miscellaneous. Subsequently, there was a tendency for witch witch activities in various parts of our province to gradually become dramatized, and the repertoire increased day by day. In the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, the opera has initially detached from the altar and stepped onto the stage, and it can be performed all year round. In the thirties and forties of this century, the opera also entered the lively towns and cities.

Of course, these are modern Wu, and they have not yet involved the ancient Wu, and the ancient Wufu is even more weird and mysterious, even in the book, it is only written a few words, saying that it involves ghosts and gods, and it has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth......

And whether it is an ancient or a modern one, in fact, they all have a fixed feature - they can communicate with the dead.

Meaning: "to extradite the soul of the departed from the land of death"

Looking at the mask on the wall, I gradually fell into deep thought.

"The Realm of the Dead?" I read silently.

At this point, I soon found that I couldn't get into it normally, because modern people know very little about the Nu culture, and once ghosts and gods are involved, it becomes a superstitious theory.

But now my mind can no longer deduce the whole problem in a conventional way, because when the architecture of another world appears, I should already be in some kind of logic that does not conform to the rules, then I can no longer use normal logic to look at the whole thing, if this is the case, my thoughts will definitely be like before, into a dead circle from which I cannot extricate myself.

So what I need now is to break this logic with something unconventional. Obviously, this thing is what I see now. ”

In ancient times, this kind of thing was used to communicate heaven and earth, from the god of Wu to the witch, in fact, the ancients have always used this kind of thing, together with the three worlds of heaven, earth and man.

To put it bluntly, Nu culture can involve some mysterious worlds.

For example, the "underworld" mentioned above.

Thinking of this, I shuddered coldly, but my thoughts haven't stopped yet, because it's not groundless that I can involve things here.

After all, the "mountain" is not a normal world, so it is very likely to be an independent space, in which there are all possibilities, it may be different from the rules of the normal world, but the two are inextricably linked.

The ancients believed that the so-called underworld actually existed in the real world, with certain rules similar to the real world, but the entrance could not be found, and only after death could humans enter.

"Entering after death?" That's right, this sentence perfectly fits Li Jun's words at the beginning.

I remember him saying "guys who can't really die after they die." ”

What does it mean to be unable to truly die after death? Doesn't death go to hell? Before the introduction of Buddhism, the traditional belief that after death, the souls of ordinary people would return to the underworld or ascend to heaven to continue their lives, which was an alternative kind of eternal life.

In the dark, there was a "click" as if all the rings were snapped, and I gasped sharply, so that everything seemed to make sense.

Corpses that keep dying, buildings that don't exist in the human world, "mountains" that don't exist in common sense, another self, and huge bones.

In other words, the place where I am staying now should be the world of the dead?

This is also known as the "underworld"