Chapter 218: The Altar

The ancients worshipped nature, often in the form of murals and totems.

The murals in the cave in front of us have been very blurry because of the corrosion of the years, and it is not clear to see, Dr. Liang looked carefully and said to us: "This is the worship of the mountain god. ”

But now that the creature is in the cave, there is no time for us to look at the mural again.

The people of the Daomen urged them to leave quickly, but Dr. Liang stood still and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

At the entrance of the cave, there was no movement, could it be that the creature just went into the cave to rest? Or is it already gone?

Dr. Liang whispered to the Taoist priest to send a few rats to the place where we came to be on guard, and we stayed in the cave and watched carefully.

Dr. Liang looked at the surrounding murals again, and walked inside, and then there was a surprise in his eyes.

We hurried over and found that the cave had become very wide.

Where Dr. Liang's flashlight shines, there is a platform built with stones, and there are many ravines on the stones on the table. Dr. Leung must have seen this table before he made a sound.

When the Taoist priest saw it, he asked, "What is this, how does it look like a stone bed?" ”

Don't you say, the top table is just the size of a person, is this the bed used by the ancients to rest?

Dr. Liang shook his head and said, "This is an altar. ”

I was a little confused, in my impression, the altar is not all set up with incense burners or something, there is no trace of a bonfire here, and there is no tablet.

The Rat Daoist was puzzled: "Altar? Sacrifice what? ”

Dr. Leung moved the light of the flashlight further in, and I saw a pile of stones erected behind the platform, the top of which was a vertical stone with strange words engraved on the surface.

Is this altar for the sacrifice of these stones?

Dr. Liang said to the Taoist priest, "Lie down on the stone platform and go up." ”

The Rat Daoist was very puzzled, but still according to Dr. Liang's words, climbed onto the stone platform and lay down.

Dr. Leung continued, "Open your arms. ”

Like a cross, the Rat Taoist priest slept on the stone platform and looked at us suspiciously.

Dr. Liang leaned next to him, took an arrow from his quiver, and scraped the dirt on the surface of the ravine.

Soon, the dirt on it fell off, and the inside of the ravine turned out to be dark black.

Blood, the first thing that comes to my mind.

Dr. Liang said to everyone, "This is the worship of the mountain god, and it seems that the mountain god has been in many years longer than we thought. This cave, long ago, should have had primitive inhabitants who believed in the mountain gods and sacrificed the living as sacrifices to the mountain gods. If you look at the ravines on this platform, the starting point is all lying on the arterial acupuncture points of the human body on it. ”

I stretched out my head to see, and sure enough, there were furrows next to the important arteries of the Rat Daoist, and the human arteries were cut, and blood would gush into the ravines, and the stone platform itself was tilted at an angle, and the Rat Daoist was lying on it, with his feet up and his head down.

The blood will collect along the ravine, from the lying body, from the foot to the head, and finally in a thick furrow above the head.

The blood would pass through the slabs and pour onto the piles of stones behind.

Dr. Liang approached the stone pile behind him, looked at the text engraved on the top, and said to us, "This text is a bit like Yin Shang's text. ”

I was already poor at reading, and it was impossible for me to know these ancient characters, but when Dr. Liang mentioned Yin Shang, I naturally thought of the witch Pu Jia, and if it was her, most of them would be able to know her.

Dr. Liang continued, "During the Yin Shang period, it was popular to sacrifice and bury people, and this cave may have been used by the ancestors of that era to worship the mountain gods. ”

If the mountain god existed at that time, how old it must be.

Thinking of this, I'm a little afraid, can we Taoist priests really deal with the mountain gods?

But Master Zu once entered and left safely, maybe the mountain god is not very powerful.

The Rat Priest got up from the platform and said, "Don't study history here, let's go out early." I don't want to wait for that creature to come in and we'll all be its food. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Dr. Liang said to himself, "Mountain God? Creature? Are they related? ”

Daoist Mo said: "Let's think about this later, now let's go out first, it's only temporarily safe now." ”

Everyone nodded and continued to walk into the cave.

After walking for a long time, we saw a bright light in front of us, which proved that it was an exit, and everyone was overjoyed and rushed over.

What you get is a great disappointment, there is indeed an exit ahead, but it leads straight to the top, in other words, the exit is vertically upward.

And the rock wall at the exit is full of rocks and moss, and we can't climb up it at all.

Further inside, there was no way, and the hole was at the end.

Now we are trapped in a cave with no way out but to turn back.

However, I don't know if the creature is still on the other side of the cave.

The Rat Priest commanded the rat to explore the path first, and we followed, hoping that the creature had left.

When we returned to the altar again, Dr. Liang was still curious, and shone the light of the flashlight past, thinking that this was a place for the sacrifice of the living, my heart was a little uncomfortable, and under the altar, there were all kinds of ancient stone tools, some of which were in the shape of nails. I doubt that those ancestors nailed people to the stone platform first, so that the blood flowed out.

I didn't dare to look closely just now, maybe there was a hole in the ravine covered by the dirt and left by the nails.

At this time, several rats turned back to report, and the Taoist priest of the Royal Rat was full of joy and said to us: "The rat scout reported that there is no creature at the entrance of the cave. ”

When everyone heard this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and now they had to hurry out.

I didn't expect us to go around in circles and waste a lot of time.

After walking for a long time, we finally saw the light coming from the entrance of the cave, and we came out again. But then, I suddenly felt water dripping from above.

I reached out and touched it, and it was red, like blood.

I was so frightened that Dr. Liang turned his head, saw me, and asked, "Why is there blood all over your face?" ”

But I wasn't hurt, I realized, and instead turned the light of the flashlight at it.

I saw that the huge creature was coiled on it, with a hundred legs like needles, piercing into the top of the cave, and the two tentacles at the very front, like human arms, were wrapping a corpse.

The creature's mouth was wide open, and a thin, black tube protruded from its mouth, smooth and reflective, like a straw, into the corpse's skull.

The creature is sucking human brains like we are drinking drinks.

I saw that the blood in the skull of the man was sucked in, and a small amount of it gathered into droplets, which merged with the mucus of the creature, stretched into a thread, and slowly dripped down.

What just dripped on my head was the blood of this corpse and the slime of the creature.

I felt sick.

The light, which also disturbed the eating creature, slowly withdrew the straw from its mouth and hid it in its stomach again.

It turned to look at me with a flashlight, and its countless compound eyes like sapphire were all staring in my direction.

Dr. Liang grabbed me and shouted, "Run." ”

I didn't dare to hesitate, I turned around and ran, but as soon as I ran a few steps, I felt something hit me from behind, and instantly knocked me to the ground and pressed against me.

I reached out and pushed it, feeling that it was the corpse, the surface of the jacket had been soaked with blood and mucus, and I felt nauseous.

The people of the Daomen noticed the sound of my fall, and they all turned around, but the creature moved quickly, and it had come to me, and I saw the creature's tentacles, suddenly extended, and if two fallen ropes suddenly wrapped around my body, pulled me up from the ground, and lifted me into the air.

The painting on my chest and the bronze sword on my back both fell.

I tried to pull out the sigil from my clothes, but I was already in front of the creature.

The creature's thorny feet pierced through my clothes and pinned me above the cavern, immobilizing me.

Doctor Liang at the bottom of the cave, they shone the flashlight on my side, I heard the sound of Dr. Liang drawing arrows from the quiver, and then an arrow sounded, but this time the creature was on guard, and the soul-breaking arrow, blocked by the hundred-legged shot, changed direction, shot next to it, and couldn't hit the creature at all.

At this point, I saw that the creature opened its mouth, and the straw reached out again, aiming at my skull.

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