Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Legend of Zoroastrianism

After walking a few hundred meters down the street, we saw that the doors of all the houses were closed, and there was no one on the street.

Wang Qianmo said: "It seems that this village is similar to our village!" This point, they are all busy, and there are few people on the street ......"

I know she's pretending to explain, even in our Kofun Village, the adults are busy working, but the children are running all over the street! I secretly said in my heart: If we can't meet a person after walking another 200 steps, we will take out the peachwood sword and the ghost suppression talisman, and then rush through the village.

Then, with every step I took, my heart "chuckled". Think about what it's been like these days! I really don't want to do anything more.

One step, two steps...... Twenty Steps...... One hundred and fifty steps...... One hundred and ninety-five steps......

After walking a hundred steps, I deliberately slowed down, but until I took one hundred and ninety-five steps, I still didn't see anyone. At this time, I am in a hurry! Damn it! People in this village don't all hide at home and make children!

Just as I was about to shout out the 998th step in my heart, a person suddenly walked out of the alley in front of me, it was a man in his forties, with a dark face, attractive ears, a nose facing the sky, and a strange dress.

I finally saw someone, although it was an ugly monster, and my heart hanging in my throat finally let go.

"This ...... This big brother, we want to get out of the valley, please ......"

The man looked up and saw the three of us, and seemed to be startled: "You guys...... You're from outside the valley, aren't you? It's bold enough, no stranger has entered the valley for at least ten years......" he said as he walked toward us.

When I hear it, my scalp is numb, no! Ten years without strangers in the valley? Can...... But Xue Chunshan said before that he eloped with Xiaoyu to Longyin Valley seven years ago, and often brought his prey to the Yin Tomb Village to exchange things......

The man quickly walked over. I saw it clearly that although his face was dark, there was no blood on his face, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

"Since you're here, let's meet the owner of the village with me! Otherwise...... Otherwise, you won't be able to get out of the stockade. The man's voice was flat, but there was no change in expression on his face.

Can't get out of the village? My scalp is numb again, and I actually don't understand what this means, does it mean that we can't find a way out of the village? Or do you say that if you don't see the owner of the village, you won't let us go out of the village? Whatever it means, it sounds terrifying.

Liu Ruyan and Wang Qianmo are also "asking" what I should do with their eyes, my heart is crossed, at this point, I can only come to cover the water and follow him first.

After walking a few steps, the man turned around and smiled at me: "My name is Tuoba Zhenye, what do you call me?" "! He didn't look better if he didn't smile, and when he smiled like this, his whole face looked distorted and deformed, which scared me.

"O'...... My name is Yang Xiaoxie, and her name is ......" I still introduced it very politely.

Tuoba Zhenye nodded, turned around and continued walking.

I muttered in my heart again, this person's surname is Tuoba? As far as I know, Tuoba is a noble surname in the ancient Xianbei tribe of our country, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, this nation produced a very bullish person, that is, the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong, he not only established a dynasty, but also hit the Central Plains in one fell swoop, the capital Datong, but the early thirties of the people hanged, otherwise China's history may not be rewritten into something.

After Tuoba Hong marched into the Central Plains, he implemented a series of sinicization policies, including changing the Han surname, for example, the Xianbei people have an equally awesome surname "Dugu" changed to Liu in the Han surname, so today's "Liu" everywhere is actually not all descendants of the Han people.

Looking at Tuoba Zhenye's appearance, I suspect that he, and even the entire Yin Tomb Village, is not Han. This would explain their strange customs and behaviors.

Thinking about it like this, I was somewhat relieved.

"That's right! Brother Tuoba, it's been seven or eight minutes since the three of us entered the village, why did we only see the two of us? ”

After I said this, Tuoba Zhenye's body shook obviously, but he didn't stop, and asked me softly: "Apart from me, have you seen anyone else?" ”

"Hmmm! When I entered the village, I saw an old lady, she didn't seem to like to talk much! ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, Tuoba Zhenye suddenly turned around and stared at me with a serious face for ten seconds.

"Did you see her?"

"Who...... Who is it? ”

"The old woman you just mentioned!"

"See! What's wrong? ”

"You shouldn't see her!" Tuoba Zhenye's voice suddenly rose.

She ...... She squatted in the room outside the stockade...... Outside the room...... "I didn't know what to call the house that looked like an ancient temple. It looks like an ancient temple, but the temple is an architectural title in Buddhism.

Seeing Tuoba Zhenye's appearance, I always feel that the people in this village are not good men and women, and they may not believe in Buddhism, so naturally it is not appropriate for me to call the temple.

"You probably don't know - she's been dead for more than ten years! You should see someone who has been dead for more than ten years?"

The three of us let out an "ah" at the same time and shook our heads.

it! Hell in broad daylight!

Then while walking, Tuoba Zhenye generally introduced the beginning and end of the matter.

It turns out that today happens to be the annual "cold fasting day" in the Yin Tomb Village. The so-called Lenting Day is actually somewhat similar to the traditional Han Food Festival, on which everyone does not make a fire to cook, and they all gather around their homes to pray.

On the day of Lent, except for those who are in charge of patrolling the village, there are no people outside at all. The so-called patrols are not aimed at people, but at the wolves and beasts in the valley to prevent them from taking advantage of this unpreparedness to attack the village.

Tuoba Zhenye happened to be one of the two patrolmen responsible for the security of the village this morning.

Speaking of the old lady at the entrance of the village, Tuoba Zhenye was a little reluctant to talk about that person and this matter.

The old lady died about sixteen or seventeen years ago, when several strange things happened in the village, one of which was that the old lady hanged herself in the ancient temple at the entrance of the village.

Originally, it was not uncommon for someone to die, so the owner of the village asked her body to be put in the temple for a celestial burial the next day.

Speaking of celestial burials, I immediately thought of a book I read about Zoroastrianism when I was madly obsessed with history in middle school. According to the book, after the death of Zoroastrians, the corpses were placed on cliffs or steep places to be eaten by animals such as vultures and wolves.

The so-called Zoroastrianism is just a name for us now, this mystical religion has a history older than Christianity, and was originally called Soloaster (Persian translation), which was the state religion of ancient Persia.

I remember that the book described that the highest god of Zoroastrianism, the "Lord of Wisdom", was divided into seven stages at the beginning of creation: sky, water, earth, plants, animals, humans, and fire, and fire was created first.

In fact, Mr. Jin Yong, the most powerful contemporary martial arts master, quoted Zoroastrianism, that is, the Mingjiao in the book, in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and their holy relic is the Holy Fire Order.

According to the custom passed down for thousands of years, after the old lady was mortuary in the ancient temple for one night, she would be carried to a nearby mountain for a sky burial the next day, but the person who went to carry the body the next day found that the old lady was gone.

How can the dead not be seen? There will be no outsiders in this valley either......

At that time, the door of the ancient temple was closed, and the only thing that could enter and exit was one window, but no matter how powerful the birds and beasts were, they couldn't get a dead person out of a small window, right? The only thing that can be done is one other person.

The owner of the village suspected that someone in the village had done something to achieve a certain goal, so he began to search from house to house.

Halfway through the search, still nothing, a villager overheard something moving in the haystack they had passed. At first, I thought it was a beast, but when a few people used sticks to pick open a layer of grass outside, the seven or eight people present saw an extremely terrifying scene.

There was no beast in the haystack, but a man squatting, the old lady who died yesterday.

Could it be that the old lady died and came back to life? Not! The people who saw the old lady at the time would never think so, because the old lady was no longer human.

Her eyes were blood-red, her teeth were bared, and her throat made a sound similar to a wolf's howl.