Chapter 366: The Altar of Sacrifice for the Pauper
I originally thought it was a temple, but when I approached Zhang Yi, I noticed that it was surrounded by walls on all sides, and there were entrances and exits, but there were no doors.
If it is a temple, how can there be no temple gate?
With this doubt in mind, Zhang Yi and I entered it along a stone path with reliefs.
Upon closer inspection, I realized that my previous judgment was wrong.
Those buildings that look like temples actually have only one wall, and it looks like they should serve the same purpose as the light wall, which is to block evil energy.
However, unlike the Zhaobi, which is generally placed outside the gate of the building, these strangely shaped stone walls are placed inside.
I tried to call Leng Yue again, but I shouted several times, but I didn't hear Leng Yue's answer.
Zhang Yi asked me a little uneasily, "What should I do?" Cold Moon doesn't seem to be here. ”
I pretended to be calm and said, "Since he said he was coming here, we will wait here for him." ”
"So what do we do now?" Zhang Yi asked.
I can only reply: "Wait, wait patiently." ”
It was very painful to wait for someone in such an environment, and because I had nowhere to place my attention, I began to feel a burning pain from the wound on the back of my hand, and I shivered with pain.
Zhang Yi walked back and forth in front of me because he was restless, and he saw that I was a little upset, so he hurriedly asked him not to circle around me.
So, he stepped aside to observe the stone wall inside.
"Hey, Old Five, there's a mural here, come and take a look."
In ancient tombs, it was common to have murals painted on the walls. In addition, the murals painted convey a lot of useful information in addition to expressing some beliefs.
After all, in the era when human beings drank blood, there was no writing, and humans at that time would use murals in the caves where they lived to record some important events and some daily activities.
I shook off my painful hand, walked quickly to Zhang Yi's side, and observed the mural on the wall with him.
If, as I suspected, the mural hill depicts what this building once did.
The style of the murals here is mainly freehand, so it looks rough, which may be related to the cultural style of the ancient Jinsha country.
Still, I was able to dig up some useful information through the murals.
This place is not a temple, but a huge altar, which is dedicated to sacrifices.
The ancient kingdom of Jinsha sacrificed not gods or heroes, but two people.
These two men were dressed in white and black, respectively, and had the same green eyes as Leng Yue, the same two people I had seen on a mural in a secret room earlier.
According to Leng Yue, these two people turned out to be Leng Yue's ancestors.
With this relationship, I became more interested in the identities of these two people, and since Leng Yue had not yet appeared, I decided to take this opportunity to learn more.
The sacrifices of this altar were not cattle or sheep, pigs and dogs, but living people, men and women, young and old.
However, the common feature of those sacrifices is that they are very shabby, and they look like the poor people at the bottom of society.
What did the two men in black and white do with so many living people as sacrifices? With such doubts, I continued to look down, but the more I looked, the more confused I became.
According to the contents of the frescoes, the sacrifices were sent into the tower.
As soon as the offerings enter the tower, the tower's gate closes, and a dazzling fire lights up at the top.
In the firelight, the dragon wrapped around the tower will begin to swim around the tower, adjust its posture, swallow the living sacrifice from an exit at the top of the tower, and then adjust its orientation, from head and tail to head and tail up, and spit out the previously swallowed sacrifice.
The sacrifices spit out by the dragon are not dead, but they have changed their appearance, some are human heads and beast bodies, some are human and animal heads, and some have some more body parts, such as three heads, such as four pairs of arms, such as two horns......
However, these sacrifices, which had changed their appearance, seemed to be so disliked that they were thrown into a large furnace as waste.
Of course, there are also individual sacrifices that did not change their appearance after they came out, but they were even worse than throwing them into the furnace, and they were disemboweled by the two green-eyed people dressed in black and white, and even craniotomy and **, just like the anatomical research done by modern Western medicine.
Zhang Yi couldn't stand it anymore, waved his hand and said, "No, I won't watch it, I'm going to vomit if I look at it again." ”
I asked him to wait for me where he was, and then continued to look down.
I suspect that the message conveyed by these murals is true or false.
For example, the information that the dragon around the tower swallowed the sacrifice and spit out the sacrifice, I felt that there was an element of exaggeration or concealment of the truth.
And the information that those two people did a living human dissection should be true.
I don't know why these two people are so respected for doing such cruel things, could it be that the king of the ancient country of Jinsha is a pervert, or has he lost his mind because of some kind of **?
Looking further back, I saw that the two men had disemboweled the unaltered sacrifice, removed the living heart, and somehow refined it into a golden pill and offered it to a man sitting on a golden throne wearing a golden mask.
That person is most likely the King of Jinsha.
From this point of view, the so-called love for the people like a son and the so-called dislike for war should all be fake.
There is only one truth, the king of Jinsha must be regardless of the security and development of the country, regardless of the life and survival of the people, and desperate to pursue the so-called immortality.
I was taken aback by this idea of my own. If this is the case, then the relief ball must be related to the two ancestors of Leng Yue, then Leng Yue's intention to find the relief ball has also surfaced, it must be to find the method of immortality left by the ancestors.
Sacrificing so many people's lives in pursuit of personal immortality, what the is this immortality? It's not many people like this to die 10,000 times!
I was confused and lost.
If I finally find a way to resurrect Zhao Ye, is to kill so many people, will I still insist on resurrecting Zhao Ye?
If that's the case, I'm afraid I can't do it, and I won't do it.
I walked around the mural and before I knew it, I had already walked around the tower.
Then, I saw the stove in the mural.
The furnace is a bronze product, the surface of the patina is blue-green, the volume is huge, the diameter is more than three meters, a bit like the alchemy furnace of the Monkey King in TV, there are hollow patterns on the surface, it looks very exquisite.
There are sun, moon and stars in the pattern, there are four sacred beast totems, auspicious clouds, flames, and sunbirds......
Many patterns are piled together, not only do they not look compact, but they have a strange beauty, so beautiful that I almost suffocate after looking at them.
Suddenly, Zhang Yi shouted from afar: "What about Wu Yishu? Cold Moon is back! ”
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