"Help you die?" I couldn't help but be stunned: "Do you still need to help?" There are a thousand and ten thousand ways to die. ”

I don't know if the weird thing's brain is rusty, but judging from its actions and conversations, its thinking is relatively organized, and it is definitely not the kind of crazy person who doesn't know anything.

If a person really wants to die, it's too easy, just find a place, find a way to die.

The strange thing disagreed with my statement, and it had a slight look of contempt, probably thinking that my idea was too simplistic.

Actually, I was surprised by the strange thing, but I quickly had other ideas. The three-eyed female corpse looks like she has been dead for a long time, but her consciousness has always been there, and if a person's consciousness has always been there, then it cannot be arbitrarily said that this person is dead.

The strange thing said that it had wanted to find the bronze statue, because it felt that only the bronze statue could make it truly dead.

"We help each other, but you have to answer my questions." I asked tentatively, "Tell me first, who are you, and who are those who were once imprisoned in the ancient city?" ”

The strange thing's eyes were staring at the car where the bronze statue was, and it took a long time to turn its head. It hesitated for a moment, then slowly spoke to me in that stiff and strange accent.

It asked me, knowing if it had been alive for how long, and I shook my head. It bowed its head on its own, as if calculating.

"There's always ....... It's been more than a thousand years......"

"I'll tell you first, let's take what we need, but we must ensure a premise, be honest, don't lie, and don't talk nonsense."

"Eyes like a mouse."

The strange thing was still a little disdainful, but as it spoke, its expression darkened. I closed my eyes slightly, not knowing what I was thinking.

I didn't rush it, the strange thing is actually not willing to cooperate so far, the more you push, the more counterproductive it may be. Fortunately, I've pried its mouth open, all I have to do now is be patient.

After a while, the strange thing said that its people might not be there. It also said that when it is talking to me now, it is not that it is bending its knees and begging for mercy, but that it really wants to die.

Death, for anyone, is actually not far away, even if it is the same as the forgotten dust of Fangshan Taoist Temple, after living for more than a hundred years, there will be an end after all.

The strange thing comes from the distant plateau, their tribe, called Gask, I don't know exactly where it says, according to some details, I feel that the Gask tribe should be in the Ali region, but I can't judge the more detailed location.

The Gask tribe, which belongs to Zhangxiong, is mainly tasked with hunting Tibetan antelopes, which is an important material for Zhangxiong to exchange with other countries and regions. The Gasks do not herd or farm, their only means of livelihood is hunting, except for furs, the Gask tribe has nothing, and their usual necessities are provided by Zhangxiong. Therefore, Gask has a very strong dependence on the males, which also leads to their inability to get rid of the control of the Zhangxiong for hundreds of years.

When the weird thing tells me this, I feel like it's not a joke. The ancient kingdom of Zhangxiong has long been wiped out and has become a wave in the long river of history. The strange thing says this, which means that it lived from the time of Zhangzhung to this time.

I don't really believe that there is such a thing, people will die after all, it cannot be denied, some people have been ordained for a long time, but the strange thing has been said for too long, and the legendary Peng Zu is only eight hundred years old.

However, I didn't have a completely negative attitude, the ancient city, the strange things, and the bronze statues mixed in with it were not normal, so I was patient and continued to listen to the strange things.

Strange things are not clear about some words or objects, and if a word is not clearly expressed, it must be explained in other ways. In fact, these situations also mean that the mainland dialect is not its native language, and sometimes it will pop up a string of obscure syllables when it is spoken quickly. These obscure syllables may be its true mother tongue.

For many years, Gask was attached to Zhangxiong, and he spent it safely. But one year, Zhangzhung asked Gask to select fifty newborn babies to sacrifice. For such a request, the Gasks found it strange and could not understand. The explanation given by Zhangxiong is to raise these babies from an early age, and then let them follow some nobles who often go out to the Tang Dynasty and Central and Western Asian countries as servants.

The Gasks could not fully accept this explanation, but the survival habits formed over the centuries made it impossible for them to break away from Zhang-zhung, and the Gasks knew that once they refused Zhang-zhung's request, it was equivalent to a slave who refused his master and would be severely punished. As long as Zhangzhung cut off all supplies to Gask, the entire tribe would not survive. For so many years, the Gasks did not farm, graze and do business, and without Zhangxiong, they could not survive.

The Gaskers were only able to pick a few newborn babies and give them to Zhangxiong. This year passed, and in the second year, Zhang-zhung made the same request, and this request has been put forward for ten years. In ten years, the Gaskers sacrificed four or five hundred babies who left and never returned.

The strange thing was taken away by the Zhangxiong people the next year, and at the beginning, he definitely didn't understand anything, didn't know anything. He only remembers the circumstances in which he grew up.

He lives in a large basement that is divided into many smaller rooms. This is where they eat and sleep, and above the basement there is a piece of land about a mile in circumference, all fenced off by a wooden fence, guarded by Zhangxiong's soldiers. The weird thing, along with many other children, is taken to the fence every day to learn things like juggling.

There are about three or four hundred children, divided into several teams, and when each team is learning, someone will teach them to speak some words from other places, and the strange thing to learn is the dialect of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty at that time, as well as the Gask language of their own people.

They had been studying here for about twelve or thirteen years, and in fact, when the strange things were sensible, they gradually discovered that these children were different from those who taught them to juggle, to teach them to speak, and even to the elephant-male soldiers outside the fence.

These children all looked strange, some had three eyes, some had faces like a piece of tofu, no facial features, and some had arms almost above their knees.

There are all kinds of them, it's hard to say in a word, anyway, one of these people is picked out at random, and they are all rare freaks.

When the strange thing was a teenager, they were sent away, and the strange thing didn't know where the other people were sent, and the team he was in was the largest number, and they came to the capital of the Tang Dynasty at that time.

The Tang Dynasty was probably the most ethnically tolerant dynasty in Chinese history, with many foreign and even foreigners serving as high-ranking officials in the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an was an international metropolis at that time.

The strange things and the other messy people were sent to the church in batches. Because they had been trained for more than ten years before coming here, they were able to perform juggling that was a novelty for the people of the time without being taught. What's more, the appearance of these people is very peculiar, and for a while, Chang'an's dignitaries and dignitaries flocked to see it.

The narration of the strange thing is a bit general, and many details are not said in the middle. However, I deduced something from what he said.

The Gask tribe where the strange thing is located, as well as some other tribes that belong to Zhangxiong, have all sacrificed babies, and these babies must have been normal before they were taken away by the Zhangxiong, but in the hands of the Zhangxiong, they gradually grew into freaks.

This is not an isolated case, but a universal phenomenon, and the point is that the freaks are all in these children who fall into the sacrifice from the outside.

I have to suspect that the Zhangxiong people have done their hands and feet on these children, and if they have done anything, I think, they are bronze nails on their bodies.

I suddenly understood something, why this bronze is called immortal bronze, because it may really give people an unimaginably long lifespan.

However, the long life of immortal bronze is not without a price, and I now finally understand why when the Mediterranean Sea moved the grave to Forgotten Dust, I saw that Forgotten Dust had a tail, and the Mediterranean Sea thought that Forgotten Dust was a demon.

Forget Chen is definitely not a demon, his change is just because, he has been staying with the bronze statue in the secret room for many years, and for a long time, he has been affected accordingly.

Compared with the strange thing and the three-eyed female corpse, Forget Dust was very little affected, so he only grew a tail in a place where no one could usually see it, and because of this, Forget Dust only lived for one hundred and forty years, which cannot be compared with the long life of the strange thing.

Immortal bronze will bring this kind of effect to people, whether it is strange things, whether it is a three-eyed female corpse, they are not only inlaid into their bodies by immortal bronze, but the immortal bronze spreads out countless copper wires thinner than spider silk, entering their bone veins. In a way, these bronzes have been fused with their bodies.

Strange things have gained a life that no one can imagine because of immortal bronze, but it is also because of immortal bronze that people lose the right to be a normal person.

I feel that at that time, Zhangxiong gave strange things to Datang, most of which meant to flatter. At that time, the Tibetans had risen on the plateau and suppressed Zhangxiong. Zhangxiong needs strong foreign aid, and Datang is the best choice, with the geographical location of Zhangxiong and Datang, it can flank Tubo on both sides.

These freaks who were paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty may be just one of the many tributes to Zhangxiong. Freaks have no other use, just a tool to make those dignitaries and dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty happy and entertained, that's all.

"It's not that I don't believe what you say." I haven't thought deeply about it for the time being, what the strange thing said is true or false, now I have to try my best to get more clues from its mouth, and then I can secretly distinguish it: "You were sent to Chang'an, but why, did you come to this underground ancient city again?" ”