The pit was clearly hand-excavated, with a sleek top and a flat bottom, like half a pot lid on a platform.

The platform is more than 1 meter wide at its widest point and 50 centimeters deep at its deepest point.

And the two things that made Liu Manqi and I stunned were placed in the middle of the platform.

The oil lamp reflected the two objects, and on the left was a strange-looking wooden plaque with no pattern or lettering.

On the right is a human skull that is facing me and Liu Manqi—

No, that's not a human skull!

Although at first glance, Bai looked miserably like a human skull, anyone who looked closely could be sure that it was definitely not a human skull—at least not a normal human skull.

I haven't actually seen a human skull, but I've seen a lot of pictures on the Internet, movies and television.

In my opinion, the most obvious sign of a human skull is that it has two round, large, and abrupt eye holes.

But the skull in front of me, the mouth, the teeth, the nose holes, the ear holes, all have them, and they are all similar to the shape and structure of a normal human skull.

But its eye holes, if they were eye holes, were very different from those of humans!

It was just two long, thin holes in the shape of willow leaves.

Moreover, these two willow leaf-shaped holes are not in the place where the eyes should be, but in the position of the normal human eyebrow bone.

It's as if someone's cheekbones are too wide, squeezing the eye holes into a flat shape and raising them to the brow bone.

"This, this, this...... What are the bones? Liu Manqi asked in a trembling voice.

I can't answer.

In fact, I was as full of horror as Liu Manqi, and I felt that the few black holes in this skull could suck my soul into it at any time.

"Perhaps...... This is the skull of a deformed child! I remember that there was often news on the Internet that in some backward countries, deformed children are often worshipped as gods, and perhaps the same is true in this nation. ”

I tried to find a reasonable explanation, not only to appease Liu Manqi, but also to appease myself.

Liu Manqi let out a slight breath, as if he had believed me—or he had just forced himself to believe it.

In fact, I still have another thought in my mind: maybe this is just a model made by the barbarians themselves, but the skill is not high enough, and it is somewhat deformed;

Or maybe they just deliberately made it like this, so as to get close to what they thought of as gods.

So I mustered up the courage to look at the strange skull again, and reached out and took it in my hand to examine it closely.

At first impression, I dismissed the speculation of the "model".

It can't be a model, it's a given. It feels like the skeleton of an ordinary animal, and its tip and back of the head are as sleek and sturdy as a human skull.

It's just that on the front part, there are two less round eye holes and two more slender "eyebrow holes".

"You say...... Could this thing be the skulls of those ancestors? Liu Manqi asked.

The idea was quite novel, but after a moment's thought, I shook my head.

"Probably not!" I replied.

I have already decided that the old man in the portrait outside is the ancestor of the people, after all, I have seen the ghost of this ancestor with my own eyes.

And the old man is not deformed.

But I can't tell Liu Manqi this reason, it will definitely make the atmosphere at the moment even more terrifying.

Fortunately, Liu Manqi didn't ask, just let out a long sigh.

"Then you say...... Why did Jiang Xin become an idiot? Could it be because of ...... This skull? ”

Because of fear, Liu Manqi's voice was very low. But it was already making my heart tremble, almost instinctively, and I immediately put the skull back in its place.

In fact, after only a few minutes of holding this skull, it felt like an ordinary animal skeleton, and my hairs still stood on end, as if I would be bitten by it at any moment.

I didn't even dare to look at the strange skull again, but turned my eyes to the wooden plaque next to the skull.

It seems to be an ordinary wooden card, but the shape of the wooden card is very irregular, the left half is high, and the right half is low.

And because the bottom is narrow, it is difficult to place it vertically, so behind the wooden card, there is also an elaborate small wooden frame that supports the wooden card obliquely.

But I don't know why, but I didn't dare reach for such a light-weight wooden plaque, as if it was even more terrifying than the strange skull next to it.

Of course, it wouldn't be an ordinary wooden plaque, otherwise it wouldn't have been enshrined in this "cave" with the skull.

Liu Manqi didn't think about it as much as I did, and he probably didn't want to look cowardly than me, so after I tried a few times and didn't dare to stretch out my hand, Liu Manqi had the courage to reach out and take the wooden card in his hand to check it.

The front looks like an ordinary wood, but it's made very smooth.

Turning over the back, there seems to be some uneven patterns.

Liu Manqi approached the oil lamp to take a closer look, and couldn't help but ask me, "This pattern is very exquisite, but what does this mean?" Why do you have your back to the inside? ”

I have no way of answering him. Although I couldn't see it very clearly in his hand, I still felt a chill running through my body.

"Advisor Gao, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Manqi turned his head to look at me, probably seeing that I was pale, he couldn't help but ask me.

I still didn't answer, but stretched out my hand to take the wooden card from Liu Manqi's hand.

But my hand was trembling violently, so much so that when Liu Manqi let go of his hand, there was a "snap" sound, and the wooden card fell to the ground.

"Advisor Gao, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Manqi was also startled, looked at my face, and then looked at the wooden sign on the ground, and didn't dare to bend down to pick it up for a while.

I closed my eyes and cheered up, and then I smiled at Liu Manqi reluctantly.

"It's fine!"

I wanted to say one more word, but these two words had exhausted my strength, so I could only lower my head and look at the wooden sign at my feet.

The wooden plaque lies quietly on the ground, still smooth on its side up, and it looks like it is really made of ordinary wood.

But I, just holding Liu Manqi's hand, glanced at the patterns on the wooden card, and vaguely felt that it was very much like a woman holding a child.

I felt the urge to escape from the cave, but the entrance was sealed, and I had to face my fears if I wanted to escape.

So I finally bent down and picked up the wooden plaque, and plucked up the courage to flip it over to the back to take a closer look.

(See Chapter 153 "Back")