Zhu Ke was silent and said: "I didn't explain clearly enough just now, the hanging coffin on the cliff existed for a long time, long before the legacy of generations of ancestors. We are Mo people, there is no custom of hanging coffins for burial, and we still believe that we are buried in the ground. ”

I was taken aback, "You mean these coffins are more than a few hundred years old?" ”

She shook her head, "It's not a few hundred years, if you look at the traces left by the ancestors, it's at least more than a thousand years." ”

Moved again, I can't believe that these hanging coffins have been hanging for thousands of years!

In fact, the hanging coffin itself is a mystery, and no one knows how the ancients hung the heavy coffin on the cliff. Even in modern times, in this kind of deep mountains and old forests where there is no way to drive the crane into, it is impossible to rely solely on manpower to lift the coffin up and embed it into the gap.

And just now I thought, these coffins have been exposed to the wind and sun for thousands of years, and they have not decayed, what is the reason for this? One mystery after another came to my mind, and when I looked at the various sides, I suddenly stopped on the vines and asked, "Are these vines originally there or planted later?" ”

"It was planted more than ten years ago."

At this time, if Zhu Ke said that this vine has also grown for a thousand years, I will not be surprised anymore. However, she mentioned that it was planted more than ten years ago, so I probably knew the purpose: "Have you ever opened those coffins?" ”

Zhu Ke nodded calmly, "That's right, after a long unsuccessful search, I tried to climb to the cliff wall with vines and pry open the coffin lid with tools." ”

When I hesitated and was silent, Xiao You asked with a frightened face, "Is there a body in the coffin?" ”

Zhu Ke glanced at her indifferently, and when he raised his head to stare at her, his expression was uncertain, and he only heard her whisper: "We have opened a total of 108 coffins, and each one has a white bone inside. ”

Since thousands of years have passed, the corpse has naturally become white bones.

However, I saw that Zhu Ke's expression seemed to have a hidden meaning, and I couldn't help asking, "Is there something going on?" ”

Sadness flashed on her face, "Among the people who opened the coffin at that time, my father was also among them." I thought that these coffins might be a mystery of the cliff, but after risking my life to climb on the cliff and open so many pairs, I didn't find any of them. Except for a skeleton, everything else in the coffin was rotten. My father proposed to take out a few of them for further study, but he didn't think ......," she paused, her eyes darkened, "and all the people who went up the mountain to open the coffins died that night. ”

There was silence.

This is the first time I've heard Zhu Ke mention her father, but in such a way of remembering. At the same time, I also felt very strange in my heart, why did these people die after the coffin was opened?

After being silent for a moment, I heard Qin Zhou asking, "What kind of bizarre death method?" ”

I thought that Zhu Ke would not continue, but after a few seconds of calmness, she said: "The body twitched inexplicably, the blood vessels burst out, the limbs began to stiffen, and finally the heart stopped beating." There were a total of eighteen people who opened the coffin, and all of them died in the same way. ”

I couldn't help frowning, this symptom is like a sudden attack of cardiovascular disease, but the problem is not one person, but eighteen all die like this, it is really incredible.

I only heard Elder Gemu say in a mournful voice, "This is a curse!" It is our retribution for forgetting the teachings of our ancestors and disrespecting the dead. Everyone in the Mo clan on the field had a sad face, which showed that that the incident had become a shadow in their hearts.

I heard Qin Zhou asking Gu Xi: "Ah Xi, what do you think?" ”

I immediately pricked up my ears, and I really wanted to hear his opinion. But he didn't answer but asked: "In the past ten years, you can't just use this method to find a way to solve the mystery of the cliff, right?" ”

After Gemu and Zhu Ke glanced at each other, they both chose to be silent.

Gu Xi sneered, paced forward, looked up at the hanging coffins, and said, "You put all your energy on this cliff, and death can't stop you from continuing to pursue its secrets." What's more, the 'curse' in your mouth has not ended, and you are still dying in the same way, so you have to find another way to break it. ”

Gemu staggered under his feet and asked, "How do you know that the curse continues?" ”

Even I was amazed to hear this, in addition to the mysterious death of the eighteen people who opened the coffin, there were other people who died one after another? What's going on here? You can't really fall under the curse.

I don't really believe in this kind of mythical statement, there must be some special reason why I haven't found out.

However, how did Gu Xi know these things?

At this time, Gu Xifeng pointed calmly towards the crowd: "Isn't it still clear?" In addition to the younger generation of women and children, there are very few middle-aged men in their fifties, and the rest of these people are not so much devotion to this cliff as prayer and awe. At first, they may have thought that they had offended the spirit of the dead and were cursed, but when people were dying one by one, you couldn't hold your breath. I don't dare to open the coffins, but I've dug them out of the cracks. ”

Just look at the expressions of the Mo people to know that Gu Xi is right again, I took a closer look at those hanging coffins, there are indeed many coffins that are not tight at the junction with the cliff, and even show signs of loosening, and most of them are like nailing the coffin into the mountain wall, tightly sewn together.

Zhu Ke finally spoke: "Elder, there is no need to hide it anymore. If we want to solve this mystery, hiding what we know will only become an obstacle and will not help our people change their fate. ”

Gemu sighed heavily, his expression already loosening.

Zhu Ke began a statement, her tone was calm from beginning to end, but I noticed tears shining in her eyes.

It turned out that as Gu Xi said, after the eighteen coffin openers all died mysteriously overnight, the entire Mo clan from top to bottom was shocked and frightened. In their opinion, these many hanging coffins were left by the ancestors of the Mo tribe, and they had to open the coffins in order to find the secret of Fusang in order to teach them, but they didn't want to offend the undead and get a curse.

There was a period of silence and sadness, but the sadness continued, and just half a year after the coffin opening incident, suddenly one day someone in the clan also died mysteriously. The way to die is exactly the same as those eighteen!

This mutation suddenly made all the clansmen panic, thinking that the curse was limited to those who opened the coffin, but they didn't expect the curse to continue. When a second person died a few days later, everyone couldn't calm down. Because the people who died were all strong men in the clan who had participated in the exploration of the cliff, there were nearly fifty or sixty people at that time, and there were still twenty or thirty people left except for the two who died, so it was impossible to wait for death like this. So the patriarch led a group of people to this cliff again, and after opening 108 coffins and finding nothing, they moved their minds beyond the coffin.

The coffins were carved out of the cliff with the strength of the people, and after a few pairs, they finally dug up and found that there were deep holes behind some of the coffins. At this time, the people seemed to see the dawn of the secret of Fuso again, and firmly believed that if they found Fuso, they could break the curse of death. However, not only was the curse not broken, but as long as it entered the deep cave, it never came out again.

After five or six more people disappeared in a row, and after nearly two months of waiting, the patriarch made the most painful decision: to put all the coffins that had been dug up back and seal the holes in dust.

This decision means...... Give up on the seekers who go in! Even those people could not survive more than two months without food and water, but as long as the hole was not sealed for a day, it meant that there was still hope left, but this hope eventually turned into despair.

For in the last two months there was another death in the waiting crowd, as before.

No one would ever think that this death had nothing to do with this strange cliff and hanging coffin, and they even began to bow down and pray to God to spare them, and also to spare this withered Mo tribe with only a few hundred people left.

However, the prayer and kneeling did not move the heavens, and the Mo people still died one after another, some only half a month apart, some half a year apart, and a longer one for two years, and when people thought that the curse had ended, death came again, and some people died in the same way.

However, this man's death brings a very important clue.

It may be precisely because he is the person who has died for the longest time that there are signs that have been discovered by his family and himself before he dies, such as mottled marks on his hands; For example, strange patterns gradually appear on the back.

But this did not curb the continuation of death, and the curse did not stop, until later the clansmen pessimistically thought that God wanted to destroy their Mo clan. Until it was suddenly discovered that Gu's poisonous gas was able to contain it! This was a huge turnaround, as the people found that not only those who had participated in the exploration were dying one after another, but even those who had not participated in the exploration began to have black lines and patterns on their bodies.

In fact, if you really go to the young generation who have received education outside, they will gradually sober up, just like Zhu Ke.

She realized that it wasn't a curse, it was more like poisoning, and the poisonous gas of the Gu poison was just right to contain it. But even so, it still can't stop this thing from spreading like a germ or a plague. Most of the people in the clan began to have that strange pattern on their backs, including Zhu Ke, who had shown it to me, when she used the excuse that she was tattooed on her back by Xie Ze.

Bagua diagram.