Shen Muhan glanced at the corpse in front of me, did not show a trace of surprise, and gestured at me. I followed Shen Muhan back to the place where she had just stayed, and there was also a corpse nailed to the plank. Judging from the wetsuits on their bodies, they are the same group of people as the one I just found, and the appearance of the corpses is basically the same. I glanced back at the dark cabin, wondering if there were any other bodies. Seeing that Chuanzi on the other side did not send any signal, there should be no signal on his side.

Now that you know that these are already corpses, there is nothing to fear. I put away my diving dagger and looked along the board of the boat on this side with a flashlight, and found six more bodies, all dressed in the same clothes and in the same state of death. I couldn't help muttering in my heart: Could it be that I guessed wrong, these people are not Sea Buddha? Judging from this number of people, it will definitely not be a private fishing, killing eight people in the same way underwater, and even the position of the dagger is not bad at all, and it is definitely not as simple as black eating black.

I thought about the death of the eight corpses and felt a little familiar, and after thinking for a while, it suddenly dawned on me that the death of these eight corpses was more like a sacrificial ritual.

In the era when the ancient ancestors were not yet civilized, people believed that all things were gods, and all major festivals or events needed to hold sacrifices to worship the gods in order to seek the protection of the gods. In ancient China alone, there were a variety of complex sacrificial activities such as sacrificing to the sky, sacrificing mountains, sacrificing rivers, sacrificing bridges, sacrificing kilns, etc., and the most cruel way of various sacrificial methods was living sacrifice, that is, sacrificing living people to the gods. There are also many ways of sacrifice, such as flooding, fire, and live burial, among which there is a kind of nailing people to death, which is called nail sacrifice. The earliest nail sacrifices used sharpened wooden stakes, but later with metal smelting technology, they were changed to metal nails, and the executors of the sacrifices were called shamans, and the process of sacrifice was also very exquisite.

The ancients believed that the three souls and seven spirits, the three souls refer to the fetal light, cool spirit, and ghost spirit, also known as the heavenly soul, the earth soul, and the human soul. The seven spirits refer to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire, and the corresponding human organs are the heart, liver, lungs, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, and kidneys. During the sacrifice, the living person will be tied to a wooden pillar, the first two will be nailed into the shoulders first, extinguishing the spirits and ghosts, and then the seven will be nailed into the order of kidney, stomach, spleen, gall bladder, lungs, liver, and heart, cutting off all desires to show respect for the gods, and the last one will be nailed into the womb light, completely dispersing the heavenly soul.

Generally, the person who chooses to be the sacrifice passes out after nailing the second one, and the whole person is bleeding like an infusion until the ninth nail, like a blood gourd, because the head is still intact, so there is still some residual consciousness, and it is not dead. After the last nail is inserted, the shaman will use a special small hammer to hit the nail on the head to see if the sacrificial limb will twitch, which is now called a nervous reaction.

In addition to making the life that is used as a sacrifice worse than death, the nail sacrifice also has very strict requirements for the shaman. First, the sacrifice could not die completely until the last nail was completed, and secondly, after the sacrifice was completed, the ropes were untied and the sacrifice had to be hung on the pillar for three days with the ten nails on its body alone, during which time the shaman would stay at the place of execution day and night, guarded by special men. If the sacrifice dies before the sacrifice is over, or if the body falls from the pillar before it has been hung for three days, it is considered a failure of the sacrifice and disrespectful to the gods. The person in charge of guarding the shaman would tie the failed shaman to a pillar as the next sacrifice to worship God.

At the earliest time, the nail sacrifice only used enemy prisoners of war or heinous people, and then slowly began to choose innocent people, and even once turned into a girl who did not leave the cabinet, but because the girl was weak, she generally could not insist on nailing ten roots, many priests died as a result, and there were fewer and fewer people who did this business, and this kind of sacrificial ritual was too bloody and cruel and was slowly banned, and only appeared for a short period of time in history.

The appearance of the eight corpses on the board of the ship is somewhat similar to the description of the nail sacrifice in the historical materials, if this is really a sacrifice, who is the priest and what is he sacrificing? I didn't expect the situation in the ship to be so complicated before I came in, but now it looks like it's not just a sunken ship.

After Chuanzi finished checking the side, he also came over, and saw the corpse in front of him gesturing at me vigorously, asking what was going on. I thought to myself that if I showed you this, my granddaughter would have to be a grandmother. At the moment, he didn't care about Chuanzi's random gesture, turned around and swam towards the hatch of the ship. Seeing that I didn't pay attention to him, Chuanzi also understood that he couldn't understand this for a while, so he had to follow me.

After about fifteen minutes of swimming, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Because I have to calculate the air consumption, I have been keeping an eye on the time, from the time we enter the wreck and look around, it will definitely not take more than fifteen minutes, and I have not stopped when I walked back, so the speed will be faster, and now it has already exceeded the time when I came in, and the hatch of the ship should have been seen a long time ago, but now there is nothing in front of me except the board full of attachments, and the hatch of the ship has disappeared fucking away!

Obviously, Shen Muhan also discovered this and kept gesturing at me. I've always been a disbeliever in weird things, but I didn't know how to explain this scene in front of me for a while, and I was a little upset. I forced myself to calm down and wondered if we were going in the opposite direction.

With the increase of diving depth, the pressure on the human body will continue to increase, and the sense of fear will gradually rise, which will further affect the judgment of the direction.

I gestured to Shen Muhan and Chuanzi to wait in place, ready to continue swimming forward for a while. Shen Muhan was obviously a little scared and insisted on following me.

As soon as I swam for a while, a series of footprints appeared on the board of the boat in front of me, exactly the kind I had seen before. At that moment, he accelerated his paddling speed and swam directly towards the boat board on the right, and soon saw the corpse nailed to the boat board.

Wrong! I chuckled inwardly. Even if it is in the opposite direction, the corpse should not be on the right side of the boat, I clearly remember the first time I saw the corpse was on the right side, if we are in the wrong direction, then turn back, the corpse should be on the left side, is it possible that there are corpses at both ends of the boat?

Shen Muhan also found a problem and grabbed my arm nervously. I pulled out the dagger and leaned over, cut a hole in the corpse's wetsuit, and then pulled Shen Muhanchong to swim back again, and when I passed by Chuanzi, I made two gestures for him to follow.

Not long after passing from Chuanzi and the other place, the row of footprints appeared in front of me, and before I had time to look closely, I continued to swim towards the boat board on the right, and there was still a corpse nailed to the boat board, fluttering slightly with the current. I held back the fear in my heart and kept silently chanting "not the one" in my heart and slowly leaned over, and a hole appeared on the corpse's wetsuit, which was the one I had just scratched, and when I saw the scene in front of me, I suddenly felt my hands tremble a little.

I didn't have a problem with my sense of direction, we didn't have a problem going, it was the boat that had a problem. No matter which way we swam towards, the final destination was the same, this nailed place, that is, we entered a dead loop in this boat.

It's not the same as walking in a circle blindfolded.

When walking, the brain will automatically correct the direction according to the information obtained by the eyes, and after being blindfolded, the brain cannot effectively control the direction of walking without receiving information from the outside world. At the same time, there is a certain distance between the feet of the person, and there is a slight difference in the length of the steps taken by the two legs, and the resulting step difference leads to the deflection of the walking direction, and if the distance is far enough, it will eventually form a circle.

Although this ship has a lot of space, it is a boat after all, and the distance between the two sides of the boat is limited, and the probability of throwing away the brains of three people and losing the ability to correct direction at the same time is small, even if we are affected at the same time, the space of this ship is not enough to form a circle.

Even if I don't believe in strange powers anymore, I have to admit that this ship is weird.