In the evening, Danma led He Changqing out of the tent, and before leaving, He Changqing told Wei Chiran to stay in the tent, not to come out, and to keep in touch with him without wires.

In fact, these words should have been Wei Chiran telling He Changqing, and the reason why it was the other way around was because of the strange thing that happened to Wei Chiran last night - He Changqing needed Wei Chiran to report to him at all times.

Danma checked the flares he was carrying, the starting pistol in his hand was modified, in addition to firing flares, he could also fire some incendiary grenades for self-protection.

But what He Changqing didn't expect was that Danma actually led him to the building where he and Wei Chiran were trapped the night before.

After walking into the building, Danma went straight to the corner where He Changqing and Wei Chiran curled up in order to avoid those weak men, the cinnabar powder in the corner was still in place, and there was a dark grid in the center of the cinnabar powder, after Danma opened the dark grid, he dragged it with He Changqing, and then pulled out an iron chain, and then hung the iron chain on the chandelier at the top, and then opened another slightly larger dark grid in the opposite corner, and a turntable appeared in it.

As Danma turned the turntable, the chandelier began to spin, dragging the chains, and the entrance to the center of the floor slowly appeared in front of the two of them.

He Changqing finally understood why those frozen corpses would surround this building, and it turned out that all the secrets in the Jiaguo Canyon were here.

So, those frozen corpses, that is, corpse beasts, are guards?

Danma didn't explain, just led He Changqing into the stairs at the entrance, the stairs went down about five meters, although there were still stairs below, but the height between each step was at least two meters, and there were colorful paintings on the stairs.

Danma raised the torch to illuminate the below, but even then, at best, it could only illuminate the two steps below.

Danma said: "I haven't been there any further, I don't dare to go down, because I don't know what is there, but there is one thing, the young man is right." ”

The figures in the paintings are very simple, just like stickmen, just like the oldest primitive murals, and the presentation is also very clear, that is, the living are studying the dead, but in each painting there is a person wrapped in a circle of light all over his body.

He Changqing pointed to the person wrapped in an aperture: "Who is this person?" ”

Danma's answer was simple, with only one word: "God." ”

He Changqing was surprised: "God? The gods of Tibet? ”

Danma shook his head: "No, it's the god that the primitive sect thinks, you have a misunderstanding of the order, it is the primitive sect first, and then there is Tibet." ”

He Changqing said: "I don't understand too much. ”

Danma explained: "Before the emergence of the Tubo State, there was a primitive religion, and the primitive religion at that time did not have a specific name, but the history was earlier than the Tubo, and after the existence of the Tubo State, the primitive religion evolved into the Black Religion. ”

He Changqing asked: "In other words, Jiaguo Canyon has something to do with the Primordial Sect?" ”

"After Songtsen Gampo became the lord of Tibet, the beliefs of Tibet had changed and they were inclined to Buddhism, but many customs of the primitive religion were not allowed by Buddhism, such as blood sacrifices," Danma said and jumped down, standing in front of one of the staircase paintings, "You see, this is the blood sacrifice of the primitive religion." ”

On the left side of the painting were three people, each with an animal next to them, a sheep, a dog, and the remaining one looked a bit like a child, which Danma explained was a monkey.

The primitive religion of Tibet, like shamanism in other places, worships both nature gods and believes in animism, and has its own shamans, who worship not only nature, but also ghosts and totems. But strictly speaking, the black religion at that time was divided into three stages, the first stage was the primitive religious stage, that is, shamanism, the second stage was to integrate shamanism with the characteristics of its own nation and evolve into a primitive black religion, and the third stage was to integrate black religion with Buddhism.

What is shown on the painting is actually the second stage of the Black Sect, and it is also of interest to today's research scholars at this stage, after all, there are too few materials left before the original religion, and there is almost no breakthrough in research.

In the primitive religion, the ritual of exorcising evil spirits and praying for blessings begins with the purification of the body, followed by the burning of cypress wood and herbs, followed by blood sacrifices, small prayer rituals as shown on the left side of the painting, which require the slaughter of sheep, dogs and monkeys, while large rituals require the slaughter of horses, cows, dogs, donkeys, and even human sacrifices.

He Changqing thought for a moment and said, "According to the order of development, it should be the primitive sect, the primitive black sect, the mixed sect, and then the existing Buddhism?" ”

Danma nodded: "After the rise of the primitive black religion, the common people abolished human sacrifice and replaced it with dolls, and only the princes and nobles at that time maintained this tradition. This tradition was not completely abolished until Buddhism completely replaced the original faith. However, the Black Sect also brought a lot of influence to Tibet at that time, changing the living habits of the Tubo country at that time, the Black Sect believed that the underground is the underworld, which is similar to other sects, so they believe that the underground animals and ghosts and gods are connected, and cannot be offended, and it is forbidden to kill and eat fish, snakes, frogs and rats. ”

However, during these stages of the primordial black cult, several branches were born, one of which retained the customs of the primitive sect such as human sacrifice, believing that only in this way could they get closer to the ghosts and gods.

When He Changqing heard this, he had a bad premonition: "Closer to ghosts and gods?" ”

Danma said: "The primitive sect believes that all things have spirits, and this spirit contains ghosts and gods, which should be opposites, and there is no so-called distinction between good and evil. Therefore, they study the resurrection of the dead, or the transformation of the dead into another form after death. ”

He Changqing asked tentatively: "Could it be that Wei Chiran is right, what does this really have to do with sewing a thousand corpses?" ”

Danma turned around and sat on the steps, and only after a while did he affirm: "I think it should be so, I later checked the information left by thousands of corpses in the Central Plains, and found that their method of refining zombies is almost exactly the same as the way of creating monsters in the primitive sect, but there is one thing, I have always been puzzled." ”

He Changqing asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"In the historical records of the Tubo Kingdom, there is not much left about the primitive sect, but the information left by those descendants in the Guyan Village shows that many years ago, at least the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Songtsen Gampo period, did not succeed in creating zombies, even if it was done step by step according to some of the ways left by the primitive sect, it could not be created," Danma said and looked at He Changqing, "In the next few hundred years, all zombies, monsters and other creatures no longer exist, but why now, But these corpse beasts in the village have been resurrected? ”

He Changqing also had this kind of puzzlement, since he became a ghost, he had never really seen the so-called zombies, the first time he saw it was in the torture cave, and at that time he was convinced that there was really that kind of thing in the world. But why do these things exist in ancient books, and at some point in history, all of them disappear?

When did these things start to appear in modern times? Yes, it was around the time of the lieutenant's belated departure to Kitamori Island.

Is this the fulfillment of what Agi said? It seems that the space between the parallel worlds has begun to distort, and it is because of the distortion that this world has changed? But the question arises again, did those things exist in this world in the first place? And why, at some point in history, these things disappeared again?

If the space warp theory is valid, that is, according to the time when these monsters appeared, history can be divided into three stages, the first stage is the birth period, in this stage there are those monsters, there are strange arts recorded in the alien way; The second stage is the extinction phase, during which the monsters disappear and the magic no longer exists; In the third stage, that is, at this stage, the monster reappeared, and the magic gradually recovered, but at this time, the recovery of the magic turned into a talent for special people with AP blood type?

Similarly, are both stages 1 and 3 due to spatial distortions, in other words, only stage 2 is considered a normal world?

He Changqing thought of this and asked: "What is the purpose of the establishment of this Jiaguo Canyon?" ”

Danma explained: "After the founding of the primitive black religion, human sacrifice was abolished, but the primitive religion has been committed to studying how people live in another form, in the final analysis, the princes and nobles are eager for eternal life, so they built the village of Jiaguo, and created the so-called immortality with the method left by the primitive religion, in fact, according to the Central Plains, Jiaguo belongs to a mausoleum. ”

He Changqing was puzzled: "The mausoleum built on the ground? ”

At that time, the psychology of some Tibetan nobles thought that what they were like during their lifetime and what they should be like after death, which was not much different from those nobles in the Central Plains, except that they thought that they should live on the ground, not underground, and at the same time, the environment they lived in should be exactly the same as when they were alive.

Of course, there was also the instigation of the primitive sect, so they selected one of the nobles, and after the death of this nobleman, according to his last wishes, let everyone in his family be buried with him.

He Changqing was surprised: "Everyone!?" ”

Danma nodded slightly: "Yes, everyone, regardless of men, women, young and old, no matter what status, not to mention those slaves, including those livestock he owned during his lifetime, all of them were buried together, but the way of burial was different, it was to let the people of the primitive sect control them, and refine them into the so-called immortals according to the methods of the primitive sect, but they were actually corpse beasts." ”

He Changqing asked: "So, the primitive sect deceived the Tibetan nobles at that time?" ”

Danma said: "It's not a deception, the people of the Primordial Sect just firmly believe that doing that can make people live in this world in other forms, but unfortunately, after they did that, they didn't let these people move, but the people of the Primordial Sect were unwilling, and felt that sooner or later they would succeed, maybe because of the lack of time, just like what the Central Plains Sewn Thousand Corpses said did not absorb enough of the essence of the sun and the moon." ”