Silent...... Fear followed, and the pores of the whole body were opened, as if countless cool air had been poured in.

There are still people in this stone room!

We walked in and thought about all kinds of things we might see, weapons, cultural relics, antiques, classics, but we didn't think there would be a person in it! Because there was only one oil lamp lit in the stone room, the light was dim, and we could only see that the person was facing away from us, and it seemed that he did not know whether he was kneeling or sitting on the ground.

My first reaction after the horror was that this person was the owner of the ship, but Sheng Shiyao said that the ship was a hundred years old, and it was impossible for people to live so long. So who is this person? Why is he in this stone chamber? The reason why he is used is because judging by the broad body of this back, it does not look like a woman. This man is hiding here quietly, even if we make such a big noise outside, he doesn't come out to take a look, is he waiting for us to come inside?

My body couldn't help but tremble, and I leaned towards Sheng Shiyao's side, almost behind him, but I still felt fear coming from me so closely. Because, that man hasn't moved since we pushed open the stone door and entered. Is it immovable, or is it ...... Won't move? Unable to stand the silence any longer, I stood on tiptoe close to Sheng Shiyao's ear and asked in a voice as light as a mosquito, "Is that a person?" He nodded quickly, his eyes shining fiercely, and he didn't leave the man for half a minute.

This stiff atmosphere lasted for about ten minutes, and I saw Sheng Shiyao's complexion change, and his face loosened a little, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief before he spoke: "That person is dead." "I'm stunned, dead? Why can you sit or kneel so straight when you are dead? And from the perspective from behind, the person did not have his head hanging down, but with his head up.

Sheng Shiyao said in a very affirmative tone: "I listened carefully for ten minutes, this person does not have any breath, and the average person who has more than five minutes of breath is the limit. Just walk over and take a look, whether it's a living person or a dead person, there is no need to be afraid. ”

This is reasonable, if it is a living person, there are two of us, as long as Sheng Shiyao is there, there is no need to be afraid at all; If it's a dead person, there's nothing to be afraid of, just a little cautious. But...... What if it's not the living and it's not the dead? People will always be unable to control their thoughts to think about some weird and terrible people or things. Because the atmosphere is so weird and eerie.

Sheng Shiyao has already strode forward, I don't dare to leave him no matter how scared I am, so I tugged at the clothes behind him and kept up. When we were two meters behind the man, we stopped, and we could already see clearly.

The man was sitting on his knees, wearing heavy silver armor and a helmet on his head, and the shape and texture of the armor showed that it was an antiquity. It is likely that this man was the owner of the house, the king of the Khitan descendants, who had died in the stone chamber of his house. In this way, it was less fright than when they first entered the door, and the two walked directly to the person, stunned at the same time.

Just now I wondered why this man was able to keep his body from falling, and he actually stuck a short gun in his chest, and the tip of the spear pierced his heart, but the iron handle was pointed on the ground, which means that this person was supported by the iron spear, and kept his body in a posture that did not fall. As for why his head didn't droop, it was because the helmet was too big, and the man's body was left with only a skeleton.

It seems that this village, if there was really a war again, the quiet place here was still found by the Jurchens, and then they were wiped out, and they escaped to death, and even the owner of the house finally died in his stone room. sighed with embarrassment: "I didn't expect that in the end, this Khitan king was still killed." Sheng Shiyao said: "He is not the king of Khitan, and he was not killed, he committed suicide." ”

Suicide? I asked, "How can you be sure?" ”

He pointed straight ahead, "Look, that's the Khitan King." Instinctively looked up, and found that there were several paintings hanging on the wall in front of him, and there was a portrait of a person in the middle, which painted a hat wearing a fur-brimmed crown, and a purple jade inlaid on the brim, wearing a purple robe trimmed with fox fur, and a jade belt buckled around the waist, which was very noble. But the strangest thing about this painting is that the face of the person in the painting is wearing a silver metal mask, which obscures the person's face, but does not damage his royal aura, and almost immediately I feel that this person is the real Khitan king.

Sheng Shiyao said again: "Look at the short spear that pierced his body, the tip of the spear pierced into the body from the oblique downward direction, if it was killed, then it would only be from the oblique upward direction or flush, only he himself held the iron spear and inserted it into the heart, and then at the last moment of death, he supported the handle of the iron spear on the ground." In order for him to bow down to the Khitan king in the painting forever, in order to show his loyalty. ”

I see, so it seems that the Khitan king should also be dead. Suddenly, he heard Sheng Shiyao make a puzzled sound, and when he followed his line of sight, he was looking at several other paintings next to the Khitan King. Because of the dim light, the paintings are very unclear, and I can only vaguely see that they are also human figures, as if they are looking at something around a huge pit, there are three in total, and they are all painted with the same scene, but the people in each painting are gradually decreasing, and there is only one person standing on the edge of the pit in the last one. It's very strange, that person's outfit is a bit like a Han costume, could it be that there are still Han people in this group of Khitans?

I wanted to take a closer look, but as soon as I took a step, I felt that my feet were light, and the stone slab under my feet began to sink, so frightened that I hurriedly gathered my feet back, and next to my ears was Sheng Shiyao's loud shout: "Don't move!" But evidently it was too late for him to warn, and I must have struck some mechanism, and after a few rumbles, the stone chamber was quiet again, and suddenly four oil lamps sprang out from the four corners of the wall, and at once they lit up, and in front of the ancient man arched a large stone platform, and the stone platform was full of words.

Curiosity drove me to leave and go to see it, but I was frightened by the unknown danger, and Sheng Shiyao had been very stern since he entered this stone room, and he had scolded me so fiercely more than once. He shouldn't be sure if there is a deadly mechanism in this stone chamber, just the ancients kneeling on the ground next to us are terrifying and weird enough.

I couldn't move, so I stood on tiptoe and looked at it from a distance, looked at it at a glance, was stunned, and looked at it again in disbelief, and then said in surprise: "It seems to be Chinese characters on it." "Along the way, I basically saw things with words, all of which I didn't recognize, and I just saw on tiptoe, at least the outlines of several characters resemble the structure of Chinese characters, but there is no doubt that this is not modern Chinese characters, but ancient Chinese characters.

Sheng Shiyao also seemed to be surprised, originally he probably didn't want to make a fuss, so he stopped exploring this stone room, but now the words on it also aroused his interest. But from where we were three meters away from the stone platform, and the words carved on it were so small that we couldn't see it clearly with our eyes alone, so we had to go to the edge of the stone platform. In the end, Sheng Shiyao thought of a way, went back to the stone room on the previous floor, took several classics over, and threw them forward one by one to see if he would touch the mechanism again, until he threw it in front of the stone platform, and the stone room did not move at all, so he was sure that there should be no other mechanism.

But he was still not very relieved, so he took the basic books again, drew a gourd and threw a path beside it, and then said: "Be careful, let's walk over those books, don't step on anything other than the books, and don't touch anything." ”

I was frightened just now, how dare I be reckless, and nodded hurriedly. He went first, and before and after watching him carefully step on the classics to the stone platform, I stepped on the road paved by another book and also stepped forward, and by this time he was already studying the words on the stone platform. I was indeed right, the engraved characters on it are all ancient Chinese characters, read vertically from left to right, and a lot of dense writing is written. Except for some individual special words that I don't know, most of them can still be understood, and even if they can't understand it, they can be deduced from the meaning of the words before and after.

The more I looked at it, the more shocked I became, and I didn't expect the truth of the matter to be like this.

The first half of the Shitai text is roughly the same as our previous guess, so I won't elaborate much. The difference is that from the moment they arrived at this place, the owner of this house was indeed the king of a certain Khitan tribe, and he was the leader of these nearly a thousand people, not only in a physical sense, but also spiritually. Five years after they had settled here, everyone had become aware of the problem of reproduction, and some of the generals suggested that they should go out of the mountains, or take some women back from outside the mountains.

But the Khitan people are very arrogant, they disdain their bloodline to be contaminated by foreign races, and most people think that even if they solve the problem of reproduction, the bloodline of the children born is not pure-blooded Khitans. The contradiction arose, the two sides had their own opinions, and some even tried to sneak out of here, but they were immediately executed after being discovered. They themselves are an army, and it is normal to militarize their management, and no one dared to put forward a plan for the mountains for a while.

At this moment, a major event happened, the Khitan king died suddenly one night, and the reason is unknown. At that time, only the personal maid of the Khitan king and the person who carved the seal knew about this matter, and this person should be the person kneeling there, that is, the most powerful military advisor beside the Khitan king. He immediately made a decision that the news of the sudden death of the Khitan king could not be allowed to leak out, otherwise the people in the entire mountain col would collapse, riot, and even kill each other. He must not let such a thing happen, and on that night, he endured the great sorrow of losing his lord, and quietly put the body of the Khitan king into this stone chamber, and he disguised himself as the Khitan king.

Because he was the closest courtier next to the Khitan King, he imitated the words and deeds of the Khitan King vividly, and no one noticed his strangeness. Just when he thought he could hide from the world and continue to maintain the original appearance of the village, strange things happened again. Overnight, many families died suddenly, and the cause of death was unknown.

At a glance, he knew that it was the same as the death method of the Khitan king, and his first instinct was that it was a plague, and the plague was avoided in ancient times. He didn't say anything, but immediately mobilized everyone to gather and began to have the military doctors investigate one by one, bringing up those who were weak and might get the plague. In the end, it was found that nearly 100 people looked depressed.

At that moment he reorganized his guards, dug a large pit somewhere, pushed all the hundred people into the pit, including those who had died, and then a fire burned them all to ashes. In ancient times, this was the most commonly used method of preventing the spread of the plague, cruel and bloody.