Zhong Linger apologized to Wu Lele, she pushed Wu Lele off the cliff and fell into the underground river, and almost killed me and Wu Lele. Wu Lele said that Zhong Ling'er was not to blame, after all, she was bewitched by a dwarf mule.

I secretly summoned He Shuo and Ran Ran. They have been in the Yin and Yang Knife for so long, and they have basically reached a heart-to-heart connection with me.

After a while, He Shuo and Ran Ran really came back, the two ghosts looked quite nervous, I asked them what was going on, He Shuo handed the bow to Wu Lele, saying that they had encountered a very shocking thing. I asked him what was the matter, and he told us to come over and have a look, and as he spoke, he turned around and ran out of the cave with Ran Ran.

We immediately followed.

Zhong Ling'er looked at Wu Lele's bow and asked her if this was an ancient magic arrow, otherwise He Shuo, as a ghost, would not be able to take it. In other words, He Shuo is a ghost, the more ordinary the thing, the more he can't hold it, but if it is an artifact, he can pick it up instead. Because ghosts are things in the underworld, in the yang world, they are like air, they can't take the things of the yang, and they can only control people with their minds. What Zhong Ling'er didn't expect was that He Shuo and Ran Ran had been cultivating in the Yin Yang Knife, if the ghosts were divided into three levels: low, medium, and high, they would now be intermediate, no different from people, so they could not only pick up the things in the general yang world, but also use them, and this point, I didn't expect it with He Li and Ran Ran.

"This bow is indeed an ancient artifact," Wu Lele did not conceal it: "It can kill ghosts and gods." ”

It dawned on me that it was no wonder that Wu Lele's bow and arrow could break the chains on the horse's face.

Following He Shuo and Ran Ran forward, they turned a few corners, walked about thirty or forty meters, and there was a faint low sound coming from the front, like moaning, like crying, and the voice was ethereal and extremely desolate. He Shuo and Ran Ran were attracted by this strange sound from the beginning.

Zhong Ling'er frowned, I asked her if she also heard the voice, she nodded, said that this is the sound of the undead, and these undead, like prisoners in prison, are locked in the cell, unable to leave, just as she is talking, the passage to the end, there is a very wide stone room in front of us, we use a flashlight to shine into the stone room, surprised, there are many skeletons in it, and these skeletons are all hanging in the air, as soon as we come, I don't know where to bring a wind, those skeletons are all shaking, The scene is magnificent.

And these skeletons seemed to be able to see us, and when we came, they moaned even louder, sobbing and screaming so loudly that for a moment it seemed as if the ears were full of ghosts and wolves.

"Why are there so many skeletons?" I was amazed.

Wu Lele locked his eyebrows and said: "Skeletons can't be hung up, they will fall apart once they are hanged, how can these skeletons be hung out of thin air?" ”

Zhong Ling'er stepped forward, shone a flashlight at the skeleton for a while, and said in a deep voice: "These skeletons are connected by a red rope, so they didn't fall apart." This red rope is called the Soul Binding Rope, and it can bind the soul of a person to a skeleton so that they cannot leave. ”

"Who is so cruel?" I couldn't help but feel a sense of pity for the skeletons.

Madness silently shone a flashlight at the wall, looked at it, and said indifferently, "These skeletons are for burial." ”

We also looked at the wall, and saw that there were a lot of words on it, and there were murals, because the age was too long, basically it was not clear, and those words were Tibetan, I couldn't read a word, but Wu Lele could understand one or two, saying that according to the written records on it, this mausoleum was a man named Nurhad, the king of Tibet, and the people who were buried here were all his relatives.

"With the martyrdom of his clan, is he going to destroy his nine clans?" I was surprised.

Wu Lele said that this is not surprising, since ancient times, many people have liked to do this.

Burial refers to the burial of the deceased in the grave with utensils, livestock, or people and servants to ensure the well-being of the deceased's soul.

It can be said that human martyrdom is barbaric. But in many cases, some people are not passively martyred, but actively commit suicide from death. For example, the four palace maids who died for Nurhachi were willing to die, and were not forced like the eldest concubine Abahai.

In the early days, it was a kind of treatment and honor to be able to bury His Holiness, so the way to end one's life by active martyrdom was very simple, it was suicide; The way a passive undertaker ends his life is naturally that he kills.

But the means of his killing will not be one, and they are all secretly executed.

Now the method of executing martyrs clearly recorded in ancient books can be seen in the method of "hanging" the martyrs after Zhu Di's death. This has been detailed above, so I won't say much about it here.

One thing is that before hanging, the person in charge will arrange a meal for the mourner, the high status will be sent to the room alone, and the low status will generally gather together and have a group meal. This "Last Supper" is quite rich, but due to the fear of imminent death, I am afraid that no one has the intention to eat it, most of the time it is tearful, and the cry at the scene is shocking, as is the case with the history books of Zhu Di's martyrs.

As far as the hanging skeletons are concerned, it seems that these people were not buried voluntarily, but forced, so that their souls will not rest in peace after death, and the person who presided over the funeral apparently expected this, so they bound their souls with soul ropes, so that they could stay here forever and forever with the owner of the tomb.

I asked Zhong Ling'er if I cut off the soul rope so that those souls could be released, Zhong Ling'er said yes, I said it was not easy to do, since we came here, we have a fate with these unjust souls, so let's liberate them. Zhong Ling'er said that there are so many skeletons, each skeleton is hung by a soul rope, if we want to cut the rope, it will have to be cut to what year and month, from the number of these skeletons, at least hundreds or thousands. I shone my flashlight at the skeleton, pointed ahead, and said, "You see, although there are many of them, they are all arranged in a neat and orderly manner, like a straight line, and they are all like an army, as long as they are not chaotic, then it will be easy to do." As I spoke, I pulled out the Yin-Yang Knife, looked at the red rope above the row of skeletons in front of me, and shot the Yin-Yang Knife out with confidence.

A white light flashed, like a meteor straight into the night sky, accompanied by the sound of a "pop ......" skeleton landing on the ground. In an instant, the row of skeletons in front of them all broke off and fell to the ground.

I caught the Yin Yang knife that was flying back, and looked at Zhong Ling'er proudly, Zhong Ling'er nodded slightly, and his eyes showed approval.

Not to be outdone, Wu Lele also pulled out an arrow, pulled the string on the arrow, and shot the arrow out, "Whew!" With a bang, the arrow disappeared and reached the opposite side like lightning. The skeletons fell to the ground, all shattered into pieces.

However, countless green souls floated out of the pile of skeletons, wandered through the stone chamber, and then slowly disappeared into the air.

Wu Lele and I concocted the same method, and released all the souls bound in the skeleton. I said that since this is the burial chamber, the main burial chamber should not be far from here. So, we walked around the stone chamber, and found that except for the entrance where we entered, the rest of the stone wall was a whole stone wall, and there was not the slightest gap, let alone a way to the other places.

I thought there would be a mechanism on the wall, but after searching for a long time, I still found nothing, and even called He Shuo and Ran Ran out to help, but I didn't find anything. In desperation, we had to go back the way we came, and went out through the hole that Wu Lele found in the stone chamber.

Once outside, it was already dawn and we found that it was actually a canyon. The two sides of the river are cliffs, as high as a thousand feet, almost as high as the sky, so the whole canyon looks dark and gloomy, and the cool breeze fills the ears, as if it is in the wind. And the strange rocks on the cliff stand upright, like people and tigers, strange and strange, ghostly and magical.

In the canyon, there is a road paved with gravel, and strangely, there is not a single weed. I said this is strange, not to mention that no one is here, and even if someone comes, it will not be without any grass. Crazy people say it might have something to do with geology. I said could it be the bones of the people under the area, the evil spirit is too heavy. Crazy said coldly: "Your ghosts and gods are too heavy, and it should be explained from a scientific point of view. ”

I didn't argue with him on this topic, and then we have two paths to choose from, one is to the left, the other is to the right, according to my opinion, if you look left, it is possible to find Yu Feng, Mu Lanlan and the master.

So, we headed to the left.

Walking forward for about twenty or thirty meters, there is a small river about one zhang wide in front, the river water is turquoise, clear to the bottom, you can see the small fish swimming in the water. Both sides of the river are also cliffs, strange rocks.

On the shore, we found two rafts, one of which was the one they were holding. Who will hold up the other one? Wu Lele said that it was either Xia Mengyao or Li Jinghao, and Xia Mengyao also brought several people this time, such as local guides. I said that since this is the case, Xia Mengyao has little hope, and since there are several people, there is not only one raft.

Now that Yu Feng and the others have gone ashore, they must have entered the canyon. We went to the river to drink enough water, and ate some dry food, I raised my wrist to look at the time, and found that it had been nearly eight hours since we entered the cave, Yu Feng had said, twelve hours later, we would meet at the separate place, we had little time, and we were looking for nothing, I thought, instead of blindly looking for the key, it would be better to go to Yu Feng and them first, maybe with the guidance of the master, it would be easier to find the key. I shared my idea with everyone, and they all agreed. So, I took out the Japanese saber and threw the big black bag behind a rock. In fact, we have our own tools, and it is really too difficult to carry them. Then we turned back and walked back into the canyon.

I walked about thirty or forty meters inside, and saw a hole about three meters wide on the top of the cliff from a distance, and there was a black thing in the hole, because it was too high, I couldn't see what it was at all, only that it was square. Wu Lele said that it should be a coffin, that is, a coffin embedded in the stone wall. There are one every five or six meters, and there are about a dozen or so in a company.