"Let's go." Feng Rui still looked impatient, and took the lead along the path.

Guan Hongru followed closely behind with the corpse and Xiangsha on his back, and Wei Chiran looked at the three people who were advancing, subconsciously touched the pistol on his waist, and slowly walked up.

Both sides of the road are filled with strange stalactites with all kinds of strange shapes, most of which look weird, a bit like three-dimensional murals of hell.

After only twenty meters of progress, the four of them involuntarily stopped, because a huge stalagmite appeared in front of them, the stalagmite extended from the top of the cave and fell to the ground, and there were countless small stalagmites all over the main stalagmite, and each small stalagmite had a skeleton stuck in its tip.

Wei Chiran exclaimed: "What is this?" ”

Feng Rui looked at the thing, took out Fang Xunyi's notebook, looked through it for a while, and said, "It should be the Gate of the Living." ”

After Feng Rui finished speaking, Guan Hongru immediately looked at him, his eyes were very strange.

Wei Chiran asked, "What is the Gate of the Living?" How do you know? ”

Feng Rui said: "It's a totem, this is what I learned from Xie Qingfei, the first time I found this thing was in the cave of the generation of Chenzhou in Xiangxi, according to the introduction of the local guide, this is called the Gate of the Living." ”

Wei Chiran asked, "Why is it called the Gate of the Living?" What does it mean? ”

Feng Rui looked down at the notebook and said: "The guide can't explain it clearly, in short, the living here is not as simple as a living person, and it also has the meaning of ordinary people, which means that this thing is used to distinguish ordinary people from local ethnic groups." ”

Ethnic group? Wei Chiran wondered even more, it seems that this thing originated in Xiangxi, could it be said that it has something to do with sewing thousands of corpses?

At this moment, Guan Hongru pointed to a rock next to him and said, "There seems to be writing on it." ”

Feng Rui and Wei Chi immediately stepped forward and looked at the rock, and found that there were indeed words on it, but to be precise, it should be hieroglyphs, and some were even simply patterns.

Feng Rui pointed to the so-called words on the rock and said, "Exactly the same. ”

Wei Chiran asked, "What exactly is the same?" Have you seen this too? ”

Feng Rui explained: "There are also such characters in the cave where the Gate of the Living was found in Xiangxi, Xie Qingfei showed me the photos, it was exactly the same, but he searched in various documents, and found no record of this kind of writing. ”

Wei Chiran looked at it carefully: "What is written?" ”

Feng Rui shook his head slightly, he couldn't read it at all, he didn't know what was written on it.

Wei Chiran asked Guan Hongru: "Is this the text of the dumb village?" ”

Guan Hongru shook his head and said: "Dumb Village has always used Chinese characters, and if you don't use this kind of script, I can't understand it." ”

As he spoke, Guan Hongru took a flashlight and shone it on the rock, slowly shining it from top to bottom, and when it shone next to the rock, Wei Chiran suddenly said: "Stop!" ”

Guan Hongru immediately stopped and found that there were traditional Chinese characters on the right side of the rock, where the flashlight was illuminated.

Wei Chi stepped forward to look carefully, Feng Rui also stepped forward to look, and the more they looked, the more surprised they became.

Why be surprised? Because the traditional Chinese characters are obviously a translation of the hieroglyphs on the left, it probably means that this drooping stalagmite is called the Gate of the Living, and the totem of the Gate of the Living originates from the ancient school of sewing a thousand corpses.

Wei Chiran was puzzled: "The ancient sect of sewing a thousand corpses, what does this mean?" ”

Feng Rui raised his eyes and looked at the stalagmite again: "I don't know, the written record here is also very general, and it is not clearly written, let's go, let's take a look further." ”

Feng Rui walked in the front, looking a little excited, Wei Chiran followed closely, and Guan Hongru led Xiangsha with the corpse on his back and followed the two of them quietly, not saying a word, just looking at the backs of the two.

After rounding the hanging stalagmites, there is a narrow passage ahead, and on both sides of the passage are smoothed stone slabs, all of which are covered with strange characters, but have been retranslated in traditional Chinese characters below or on the sides.

Feng Rui looked at the translated words and said, "What is recorded here is the history of the ancient Thousand Corpse Organization. ”

Wei Chiran asked, "Then who made the translation?" ”

Feng Rui looked at Guan Hongru in the back: "Could it be a blind old man?" ”

Guan Hongru shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

However, Guan Hongru immediately came up to read the text on it.

After Wei Chiran read the above text word by word, he suddenly realized: "It turns out that the dumb village is the village established by the descendants of the real Sewing Thousand Corpses faction. ”

According to the above text, sewing a thousand corpses was not another name for corpse expulsion at the beginning, and corpse expulsion has always been considered an evil art, and people who can use corpse exorcism are also considered hereticals, so those who inherit the art of corpse exorcism usually live in isolation.

The sewing of a thousand corpses refers to a craftsman who specializes in sewing the heads and bodies of condemned prisoners.

In ancient times, there were many ways to carry out the death penalty, but the most common were hanging and beheading.

Beheading was an extremely cruel method in ancient times, and in the eyes of the people at that time, it was far more cruel than hanging, because it would separate people's heads and leave them dead.

And the purpose of beheading is this, so many family members of death row prisoners will secretly buy the executioner for execution, just so that when the executioner is under the knife, he must leave a layer of skin between the head and neck, even if there is a little bit of skin connected, it is not considered dead.

After the family retrieves the body, they will ask the mysterious craftsmen to sew the head back together along the skin.

And this kind of craftsman is called sewing a thousand corpses.

But in fact, sewing thousands of corpses is not only a craft, but also a group of Taoist priests, a group of Taoist priests who try to discover the mysteries of the human body through cultivation, but this group of Taoist priests later found that they could not achieve their desired goals through the so-called cultivation, so they simply adopted the most direct way, that is, to study the human body.

But where can you find so many human bodies for yourself to study? If you're going to dig someone's grave, it's against the law, and you have to have someone who has just died, so eventually they came up with a way to help the condemned prisoner stitch up the body.

After sewing thousands of corpses to obtain the corpse, they would first sew the corpse's head together, and then study the body, especially the internal organs of the human body, which in ancient medicine believed to have a direct connection with human consciousness and senses.

According to the above records, the industry of sewing thousands of corpses first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and began to develop and grow in the Tang Dynasty, becoming a unique and secret organization.

However, what happened and why it was exposed, the text is not clearly written, only that the Sewing Thousand Corpses faction went to Xiangxi, and finally merged with the local natives, because legend has it that the natives of Xiangxi have the ability to control corpses.

The fusion of sewing thousands of corpses and the aborigines of Xiangxi finally gave birth to a faction of corpses in the different ways, which was later called sewing thousands of corpses, also known as hanging feet.

The ancient sect of sewing a thousand corpses found that Xiangxi's corpse expulsion technique was directly related to medicine, and also found that their research in the past few hundred years seemed to have taken a wrong path, so they re-conducted human body research on the basis of Xiangxi's corpse expulsion technique.

The purpose of sewing thousands of corpses is to find out the relationship between the human body and the soul.

Does the human body really have a soul? If so, if the body is kept from decay and the soul is summoned, can the person be resurrected? If the soul does not come back, then can it simply manipulate the soulless human body?

After the organization of sewing a thousand corpses gradually grew, it was considered a heretical cult by other sects.

Even in the heretical way, they felt that their actions were a kind of desecration of the dead, and finally in the Ming Dynasty, a war broke out against the thousands of corpses, and the leader of this war was not the heretical sect, but other so-called righteous ways in the rivers and lakes.

The Quilting Thousand Corpses faction was isolated and helpless, and was finally defeated, and the part of the people who survived escaped and fled to the jungle of Menggenfu, but the strange thing is that when they left, a new Quilting Thousand Corpses faction reappeared in the generation of Chenzhou in Xiangxi, these people came from unknown sources and called themselves the Situ family.

The Situ family inherited everything left behind by sewing thousands of corpses in the past, and became more secretive, and the eight major sects of the rivers and lakes did not pursue it.

The birth of a new sewing thousand corpses has also become the only sect in the heretical way that has a hereditary system of masters.

Wei Chiran looked at the words on the rock and said, "It turns out that the Situ family is not authentic. ”

Feng Rui recalled: "It seems that this should be the case, but now there should be no more sewing corpses in the world. ”

Wei Chiran nodded and said: "Yes, I said in the early summer that during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, because of the reason that the lone army and the sewing thousand corpses snatched the seven courages, the new sewing thousand corpses collapsed, but since the dumb village exists, the pure sewing thousand corpses faction also exists." ”

Feng Rui analyzed: "According to this, in 1944, Shan Zhenping came here, was it not because of chance? ”

Wei Chiran said: "It shouldn't be accidental, but Shan Zhenping doesn't know the relationship between Wailing Village and Dumb Village, and he doesn't know that Dumb Village is a village established by ancient sewing thousands of corpses. ”

At this time, the question that Wei Chiran was thinking about in his heart was - did the Seven Spirits have any connection with the ancient Thousand Corpses Organization?

Perhaps, the Seven Spirits were created or discovered by the ancient Thousands of Corpses organization, in other words, perhaps this organization discovered the ultimate mystery of the human body?

Wei Chiran looked at Guan Hongru and asked, "That blind old man is a person from the dumb village, that is, a descendant of the ancient sewing thousand corpses, did you know anything about this place?" ”

Guan Hongru still had that expression: "I don't know, it's my first time here." ”

Feng Rui raised his feet and left: "Let's go." ”

Moving on, two forks in the road appeared, one on the left and one on the right, leading to two different caves.

Feng Rui looked very anxious: "Let's look separately." ”

As soon as the words fell, Feng Rui walked to the left cave alone, but Wei Chiran did not go to the right cave, but stood in place and waited for Feng Rui.

Guan Hongru led Xiangsha to stand behind and watched like that.

Not long after, Feng Rui returned: "It's a dead end, it's a cave full of plants, what did you find?" ”

Wei Chiran just said, "I didn't go." ”

When Feng Rui heard this, he said angrily: "Don't you know that time is precious!? ”

Wei Chiran looked at Guan Hongru: "Can we talk about it alone?" ”

Guan Hongru turned to leave, and after he walked away, Wei Chi stepped forward and lowered his voice and said to Feng Rui: "What are you anxious about?" ”

Feng Rui said: "I want to get all the memories back!" ”

Wei Chiran said: "Even if it is recovered, so what? The clues you get now are enough to prove that you are Feng Rui, you are the lone spy sent to Shan Zhenping's side, your purpose is to find immortality, but you yourself have become immortal. ”

Feng Rui shook his head and said, "No, I'm not immortal, if I am, will Lone Army let me go?" ”

Wei Chi said: "Yes, so, even if you find it, what's the point?" You give me the impression that you don't want to get your memories back, but have other purposes. ”

Feng Rui sneered: "Don't live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, I am now an immortal, what else do I want to achieve?" ”

Wei Chiran said: "I don't know what you think, but Fang Xunyi, who I know, wants to change back into that normal person." ”

Feng Rui asked rhetorically: "Wei Chiran, then what is your purpose?" ”