When the monster landed on the branch and opened its mouth to roar at the two Japanese soldiers on the bronze tree opposite, the people under the tree finally saw its appearance clearly.

The monster's body was almost transparent, and the bones in it could be clearly seen, with sharp knife-like hooks growing from the back of its limbs, and antlers growing from its head.

Bei Zihong stared at the monster on the branch and said in surprise: "Ya Xuan? ”

Yan Liuyan was stunned when he heard this: "Isn't Yaqi a monster in shamanic myths and legends?" ”

"yes, I didn't expect it to exist." Bei Zihong retracted his head, "Or am I dazzled?" ”

Yan Liuyan took another look and found that the translucent monster that Bei Zihong called Yaqi was still staring at the two Japanese soldiers who were already so frightened that they were about to pee their pants.

This time Yan Liuyan saw it more clearly, the monster's bones looked exactly the same color as the bronze tree, so in the dark, even if there was light shining through, it was easy to confuse this monster with the bronze tree.

Yan Liuyan said in a low voice: "Master Hong, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, since you have come in, then we have to find the secret before the others." ”

Bei Zihong said: "Yes, let's go." ”

With that, the two of them disappeared into the darkness and ran towards the depths of the bronze forest.

Maeda Masaji stared at the Ya Gong on the branch of the tree, slowly raised his gun, and at the same time said to the two Japanese soldiers in a calm voice: "When I asked you to jump, you jumped down and ran behind me, understand?" ”

At this time, the soldiers in the rear arrived one after another, but after seeing the sub-iron on the branches clearly, they were all dumbfounded.

What is this!?

Masaji Maeda aimed his gun at the monster and suddenly shouted, "Jump!" ”

The two Japanese soldiers immediately jumped under the tree, and Maeda Masaji pulled the trigger and began shooting at the monster.

Naya threw himself straight under the branch and directly rammed into a Japanese soldier in mid-air, piercing his chest with the horns on his head, and then rushing into the darkness against the screaming soldiers, but quickly reversed his direction and rushed out, piercing the horns on his head with another Japanese soldier who had just landed and was about to run in the direction of Masaji Maeda, and at the same time slammed straight into Masaji Maeda.

"Fire! Fire! Maeda Masaji shouted, and the stunned Japanese soldiers in the rear raised their guns and fired indiscriminately at Ya.

Because of the relationship between the two Japanese soldiers on the top corner of Ya Zhan's head, all the bullets hit the two of them solidly, although some of the bullets penetrated the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, but did not cause enough lethal damage to Ya Kai.

At the moment when he was about to hit Masaji Maeda, Maeda Masaji rolled and dodged, and after knocking down several Japanese soldiers who were blocking the road, Ya Qi rushed into the dark bronze forest with two corpses on his head, and soon disappeared.

The terrifying roar of Ya Qi could still be heard in the woods, and each roar made those present tremble involuntarily.

After witnessing all this, Ye Da, who was lurking in the woods, turned around and ran for fear of being discovered by the Japanese, but when he ran past a bronze tree, he was directly dragged by a hand.

When Ye Da was about to fight back, his mouth was covered by a hand, and he saw clearly that it was Tang Qianlin standing in front of him.

Tang Qianlin motioned to Ye Da not to make a sound, Ye Da nodded, and Tang Qianlin motioned for Ye Da to follow him.

The two walked in the darkness for a long time, and after finally returning to the others, Ye Da breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to speak, the happy Xia Shuang hugged him: "I'm scared to death!" I thought something was wrong with you. ”

Ye Dadao: "It's okay, it's not dangerous." ”

As he spoke, Ye Da recounted what had happened before.

"Planning is not as fast as change." After Ye Feng finished speaking, she changed her words, "Probably this is the will of heaven." ”

Tang Yushi was very interested in the monster: "Uncle Yi, what is that monster?" ”

Ye Dadao: "If I'm not mistaken, the monster should be the shamanic mythology of Yaqi, which is the Chinese transliteration, and when translated into Chinese, it means night beast." ”

"Night Beast?" Li Yunfan was puzzled, "I don't understand, what does it mean?" ”

Ye Da explained: "The trouble is that shamanism does not actually belong to a real religion, it should be said that all human primitive nature worship belongs to a kind of shamanism, such as the name of the night beast, which comes from the 'Malu god' in the Evenki people, the Malu god is generally composed of 12 kinds of objects and gods, with different functions, such as the reindeer god, is the god who blesses the baby, and the bear god is the god who blesses the wolf, but in the shaman worship of some peoples, the reindeer god and the bear god play other roles. ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "What about this night beast?" What does it represent? ”

"In short, the role of this night beast is similar to that of the Buddhist goddess of mercy." Ye Da thought for a moment and then said, "Shamanism believes that some newlyweds are unable to have children, or that children are prone to death, because there are evil spirits that haunt them, so they need to ask the night beast to protect them. ”

To invite the night beast, it takes a lot of effort, and you first have to choose the day of the sacrifice, which is usually after the beginning of spring, and within two hours after the nightfall, about 8 o'clock. The sacrificial shaman would build an altar out of straw, twigs, and other objects found in nature, and place the sacrificial offerings, three kinds of meat, cattle, sheep, and pigs, and hang a live chicken from the door frame.

Then there was the fire, and the brazier was to be placed in front of the woman, so that the night beasts who came to the house would be the one who needed to pray for the birth of the child.

When everything was in order, the shaman invited the night beast by chanting.

Ye Da continued: "The reason why this way of shamanism was later called the great god of dancing is because they danced and sang in the process of sacrifice, in fact, this way is just an expression of people begging for the natural world, they think that the so-called ghosts cause themselves to be unable to have children or children to die, these ghosts usually come from the soul of the natural world, in the process of sublimation, become gods, then worship, become ghosts, you have to find a way to drive away." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "In other words, in fact, the role of the night beast is to devour the so-called evil spirits? ”

Ye Da said: "Yes, it is used to devour evil spirits, the appearance of the night beast is described as a leopard, and it has the horns of a reindeer on its head, just said that the reindeer are protective of babies, and the leopard is aggressive, and the combination of the two forms the worship of this creature is to help raise the next generation." ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the depths of the woods: "I feel more and more now that maybe there are some strange creatures in the world or underground, which causes the people who find these creatures to worship these things as gods." ”

Ye Dadao: "Yes, if it is really a god, it will have the so-called divine power, what kind of swords, guns and bullets are you afraid of if you have divine power?" The night beast was also clearly afraid of the guns in the hands of the Japanese, which means that the so-called god night beast is just a strange creature that we have not seen before. ”

Li Yunfan said: "We can ignore that monster, but where are we going?" How to get out of this bronze grove? ”

Tang Qianlin pondered for a moment and said, "We came down from above, and Ye Da and they broke through the wall from the ancient tomb of the underworld, but they have one thing in common. ”

Yefeng said: "You mean the city wall?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Yes, the city wall, the city wall above is cyan, and the city wall here is white, what does this mean?" ”

Li Qingxiang replied tentatively: "You mean, here is still related to the five elements and five colors?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "That's right, if the five elements correspond to the five colors, fire is red, gold is white, wood is green, earth is yellow, water is black, if the speculation is correct, there are at least five small cities from top to bottom, according to the five elements and the five evil stars." ”

"From top to ......bottom," Ye Da was silent for a while after listening, "In the earliest primitive shamanism, it was believed that in order to become a so-called god, one should be close to nature, and even integrate with nature, and the heavens are far away from nature, so they believed that the underground within reach was the mother of nature, so the shamanism at that time believed that the divine realm was after the underworld, or the underground, and after death, people had to pass through the underworld, and finally reached the divine realm through the sublimation with nature. ”

The crowd looked at their feet.

Tang Qianlin said: "When I was in Shanghai before, I heard a foreigner say that this kind of primitive worship is not only in our China, but also abroad, and the starting point of primitive worship is to construct a variety of different orders between man and nature, even man and the supernatural, as well as man and the real society, and use the so-called order created by man to solve some problems that human beings cannot solve at that time, for example, when people are sick and cannot be effectively cured, then use the divine power of nature. ”

Tang Qianlin said this, and everyone heard the roar of the night beast from the woods again.

Tang Qianlin looked around and said: "Or according to the above practice, let's go to the location of the city wall first, measure the area here along the city wall, observe the surrounding environment by the way, and roughly guess the location of the entrances and exits, but because there are Japanese people here, there are also night beasts, so we must not act separately." ”

With that, Tang Qianlin discerned the next direction and led everyone to walk straight towards the north.

Deep in the woods, Kyoji Miyake and the others dismantled the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, gave a brief condolence, and then began to discuss what to do next.

Without the guidance of experts, the only people Kyoji Miyake can rely on now are Masaji Maeda, who has little experience, and Victor, a doctor and explorer from Germany.

"Mr. Victor, now we can only rely on you." Kyoji Miyake said cautiously, "On the one hand, we are here to explore the secrets of this place, and on the other hand, we want to get out of here in order to survive. ”

Victor held his notebook, on which he drew a section map, and there were rough data on it: "I have drawn a simple legend from entering the ghost forest outside, to the later Hades City, all the way to here, from the legend you can see that we are moving in an oblique plane to the ground, according to past experience, this kind of place, will only go down more and more, and it is almost impossible to move forward in parallel." ”

Kyoji Miyake said, "In other words, it is almost impossible for us to find an entrance to this place?" ”

Victor said: "That's right, it's completely impossible, either you find the final location, or you will find a way to return the way you came, waiting for rescue." ”

Kyoji Miyake looked at Victor and didn't say anything, but in his heart he guessed that this German wanted to find the secret here more than him, so he deliberately said such a theory.

However, the retreat has been blocked, and the most important thing is that he is not sure if the command will actually come to the rescue.