The call from the headquarters caused all three people in the dark room to panic.

Taijiro said bluntly: "General, could it be that our actions were learned by the headquarters?" ”

"Impossible!" Kenji Ishihara shook his head and said, "The whole plan is only known to the three of us. ”

Taijiro and Mikami glanced at each other.

Kenji Ishihara said, "Will you betray me?" ”

The two immediately shook their heads.

Kenji Ishihara said: "Either it's a coincidence, or the operatives below us are exposed. ”

Taijiro immediately said: "This is also unlikely, they have been in closed training and have no chance of contact with the outside world." ”

Mikami said: "General, I didn't agree from the beginning, let those anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements participate in this operation. ”

Kenji Ishihara said, "Do you think that if we use our own soldiers, they will shoot that person?" Even if the operation fails, we are only responsible for the dereliction of duty, and in the strict sense of the word, our action is a mutiny, but if it is not exposed, it is only an assassination campaign by anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements. ”

Taijiro said, "Let's evacuate the people first, shall we?" ”

Kenji Ishihara shook his head: "There are only three days before the League of Nations press corps comes to Gongei Village, and before that, the delegation will definitely arrive first, so there is no need to evacuate people, wait for news." ”

Mikami suddenly thought of something and asked, "General, what if the observation group and the League of Nations reporters arrived on the same day?" ”

When the three words "how come" were about to come out of Kenji Ishihara's mouth, he thought that Kyoji Miyake was also in the observation group, and there was also the Tojo who was known as the monster of the army.

Maybe that's going to happen.

"If we really arrive on the same day...... "Kenji Ishihara took a deep breath, "and we'll change our plans." ”

Change your plans? So what's the plan after the change? Kenji Ishihara didn't say.

Besides, Tang Qianlin and the others, who were already in the underground cave, were led by An Ran to the bronze statue at the end of the cave, which was seven or eight meters high.

The crowd shone their flashlights at the bronze statue of the bear's head, wondering what it was.

Jelly Bean hid in Ni Xiaowan's arms, staring at the bronze statue vigilantly.

Yi Mochen exclaimed: "Is there really a bronze statue? ”

An Ran looked at Yi Mochen: "It seems that Boss Yi has already done an investigation." ”

Yi Mochen didn't want to deal with An Ran, but when he thought that Tang Qianlin wanted him to get close to An Ran, he had to put on a smiling face: "It's not an investigation, I just learned by chance, Miss An, don't call me Boss Yi in the future, if you see outside, call me Mochen." ”

Yi Mochen's poor mouth was met with a calm response: "Okay, Mochen." ”

An Ran smiled at Yi Mochen, and continued to look at the bronze statue.

In fact, Yi Mochen really didn't want to do what Tang Qianlin said, the reason why he forced himself was entirely because Li Yunfan persuaded him, because relying on their minds and strength alone, there was really no way to find out the truth.

Yi Mochen touched the bronze statue: "Did Bohai Kingdom have the technology of casting iron back then?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "It is possible that this thing is not from the Bohai Kingdom, and even if it is, it should be from the Tang Dynasty." ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "Miss An, are you sure that the entrance is near the bronze statue?" ”

An Ran said: "This is what my mother said to my father before she disappeared, and they also entered from under the moat. ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "What did you say to your father in person?" ”

An Ran said: "Yes, my mother found the entrance next to the moat of the ancient city ruins of Bohai Kingdom, and went down to explore three times, all in order to find the entrance, and later told my father that the entrance was found near the bronze statue, but my father did not ask in detail. However, when I came down later, I found only the bronze statue, not the entrance. ”

Yi Mochen asked, "Wasn't the bronze statue found in the moat?" ”

An Ran said: "No, rumors are always rumors, the bronze statue has always been in this passage under the moat, this is a passage dug by man, you can look up carefully." ”

The group looked up at the top of the cave and saw that although the top was covered with dirt, they could also see something resembling a stone slab in the exposed area.

Tang Qianlin picked up his tools and walked to the cave wall, beckoned others to help, and after digging up the soil on the surface of the cave wall, he found the granite slabs that had been artificially built inside.

Tang Qianlin said: "It is really a passage that has been dug manually and fixed with stone slabs. ”

Yi Mochen was puzzled: "Did the technology of Bohai Country develop to this extent back then?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "It doesn't matter whether it has reached this level, what matters is why the Bohai Kingdom built this passage back then, and what this bronze statue represents." ”

Everyone's eyes were once again on the bronze statue of the bear-headed human body, and they approached with a flashlight and searched carefully, hoping to find something like a mechanism on it.

Tang Qianlin walked up to Ye Da and asked, "If I remember correctly, there is a bear god worship in shamanism, right?" ”

Ye Dadao: "Yes, the bear god is worshipped among the Oroqen, Evenki and Hezhe ethnic groups......"

Although these peoples worship the bear god, they are also bear hunters, and on the one hand, they highly deify the bear, set many strict taboos, and on the other hand, they also hunt bears.

Among these ethnic groups, they even use kinship titles, referring to bears as grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, etc., to show kinship closeness. For example, the Oroqen people call the bear Yaya, which means grandfather. The Dahaner people are also known as Erterken, which means old man.

The reason why bears are worshipped is that bears have many characteristics similar to humans, such as the bear's ability to walk upright with its hind limbs, its paws to grasp objects, and its paws to put it in its mouth when eating. At the same time, when bears find things in the distance, they sometimes look at them with their hands on their pergolas like humans, and these behaviors lead to shamanic myths about bears.

At the same time, shamanism also believes that bears can learn the words and actions of humans and other animals through the ground, so it is often said that the earth is the ears of bears.

According to shamanic taboos, after hunting bears, the bear's head must be buried by wind and not skinned.

What is a wind burial? As the name suggests, it is a weathered burial method, including tree burial, cliff burial, cave burial and so on.

Ni Xiaowan didn't understand: "Why do you respect bears as gods and hunt bears?" Isn't that a contradiction? ”

When Ye Da didn't know how to explain, An Ran said: "According to the current statement, the production value of bears exceeds the value standard of faith, you think, bear skin can keep warm, bear meat and bear paws are delicious, and bear bile can be used in medicine......"

Yi Mochen seized the opportunity and continued: "Bear teeth and bear claws are also important magic weapons in shamanism, and they also believe that eating bear bile can transfer the power of bears to people, so this contradictory phenomenon has emerged, not only worshipping bears, but also hunting them in order to obtain psychological balance. ”

An Ran looked at Yi Mochen and said approvingly: "Boss Yi knows a lot. ”

Yi Mochen smiled: "I understand a little, it's just that I just followed your words." ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the bronze statue and said: "After hunting the bear, there is also a set of sacrificial methods, wrap the bear's head with grass and put it on the tribute platform, and the older hunter leads everyone to bow, saying that it is a manslaughter or that the bear is asleep, in short, it is taboo not to say the word death." But shamanism also has differences in eating bears among several ethnic groups, and I know that the Evenks do not eat bear brains, bear hearts, bear livers, and eyeballs, believing that these contain bear spirits, and eating them will disturb bear spirits. ”

Ye Da continued: "After eating bear meat, there will be a funeral, which is very complicated to say, in short, very strange and contradictory. ”

Li Yunfan in front of the bronze statue found something, turned to look at Tang Qianlin and said, "There is text down here, I can't read it, what is written?" ”

Tang Qianlin stepped forward and looked at it for a while and said, "It's a shamanic cipher, it should be a prayer, and I also have a hard time reading some words, Ye Da, do you know it?" ”

Ye Da stepped forward, read the prayer and said: "It says that you fell to your death from the tree to the point of half-flashing foot, and you fell to your death from the cliff after eating grass seeds...... This probably means that the hunter tells the dead bear that he did not hunt it. ”

Ni Xiaowan couldn't help but say beside her: "Isn't this quite hypocritical?" ”

Li Yunfan just smiled and didn't say anything, in his heart, most religions are like this.

An Ran said: "There is a mechanism under that ciphertext, but that mechanism does not open the entrance, I have tried." ”

When Tang Qianlin heard this, he immediately stepped forward: "Where is it?" ”

An Ran pointed to the belly of the bronze statue: "Here, you see, there is something that looks like a mirror, and there are many strange symbols on it, I have looked for many people, but I don't know what the symbols on it mean." ”

Everyone gathered around and looked closely at the strange symbols on them, which did not look like words, but like scribbles on them.

After looking at it for a long time, Tang Qianlin said with certainty: "It's the Eight Gate Star Map." ”

Enron wondered: "What is that?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Sewing a thousand corpses, that is, a kind of Qimen Tiantu drawn by those corpse chasers, is generally designed to hide some kind of secret, in the early years I heard that when the corpse chasers found a rare zombie, they designed a kind of copper coffin, sealed the zombie in it, and the way to open the coffin is to unlock the eight star maps on it, and the general star maps are drawn on a copper mirror, so it is also called the eight star mirrors." ”

Yi Mochen joked on the side: "With this bear god, isn't it equivalent to the bear god eight-door star mirror?" It's really interesting, this thousand corpses seem to want to combine their own beliefs with the shaman's beliefs. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Sewing thousands of corpses has no beliefs of their own at all, what they worship is only evil arts, and there are no specific idols. ”

Ye Da said at this time: "I have also seen similar symbols like this in the Holy Mountain. ”

Tang Qianlin was stunned: "Holy Mountain? ”

Ye Dadao: "Yes, when I escaped from the Holy Mountain, I saw marks like this on many stones. ”

Tang Qianlin pondered in his heart: Could it be that the relationship between sewing a thousand corpses and shamanism is to that extent?

An Ran didn't seem interested in Ye Da's words, and just asked, "Do you know how this diagram is unraveled?" ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the bronze mirror and said, "I'll try it." ”