In this oppressive environment, I desperately wanted to leave, so my movements kept accelerating, and from time to time I would hit Liu Ran's leg in front of me.

Crawling through this cave in such a depressing environment, I felt like I was living like a year, and I couldn't wait to leave in the blink of an eye.

In the dark, I tried to calm myself, gently soothe my breath, and try not to pay attention to the small space around me.

In this way, crawling slowly and continuously, when I finally crawled out and saw the spacious space outside, I took a few big breaths to release the depression in my heart.

As the feeling of depression disappeared, I came back to my senses, but as soon as I looked up, I put it on the ground by the old clock; By the light of the headlamp, I noticed that the burial chamber we had broken into was filled with human bones.

The bones were arranged in a triangular order, between the stone walls of the burial chamber, and as far as the eye could see, each skeleton was intact.

We stood next to these skeletons and felt like we were in the same room as death, because there was nothing else here but the human bones.

The flashlight flickered over the skeletons a few times, and we split up to look for clues.

The old bell walked around the tomb, looked along the skeleton, and then turned back to me with a flashlight, and signaled everyone to be careful of the bones and not to break them apart.

I couldn't figure out what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, and I was about to ask, but I saw that he was using a small sketching machine, slowly grazing over the skeleton.

The sketch machine in his hand is an advanced scanning device used to read some words or patterns carved on stone and wood.

After inserting the memory card, these scanned items are saved in the form of files, and the contents can be extracted by a specially read device.

I had heard about it before when I was in college, and it was very popular with the archaeological teams, but this was the first time I had seen a real thing.

I turned on the flashlight, staring at the red ultraviolet rays, and I saw that under the ultraviolet rays, these gray-white bones slowly showed some ancient texts similar to micro-carvings.

Because I didn't have much knowledge in this area, I couldn't make out what kind of style it was for a while, and I didn't think the old clock could see it, so I scanned it and asked an expert to check it when I got back.

"What is this carved into the bones?" I frowned, but I asked anyway.

"It depends on where we guess, it may be a memory of the deceased, or it may be a record similar to what is in the murals outside." ”

According to the meaning of the old bell, this is actually understandable;

After death, the soul will remain in the world for seven days, and then take away all the memories scattered in the world, but some souls will be reluctant or regretful, but they have left the body and can no longer be explained to others in words.

Therefore, the only people who can communicate with the soul are the bones, which can be used as a medium to transmit the last wishes of the deceased.

But the elaboration of the soul is invisible to the naked eye, and those contents may be some sentences, some patterns, or even transmissions in a higher dimension.

And those who can read through these bones and understand their meanings are called bone sealers.

It is said that the ancestor of the bone seal master was the bone demon Wan Zhongzhen, who once borrowed the deer bones left by the human emperor Fuxi to make paper, and wrote a memory left by the deceased, and it was confirmed to a certain extent.

Wan Chongzhen, the name appears very vaguely, and even the contemporary humanities and societies have never acknowledged the existence of this person.

But many ancient legends are related to it, such as the world after death, which he read from the bones of those who died.

The connection between the bones and the soul is very subtle, and it is not easy to find anything from it, because after all, it is separated by yin and yang, and what the deceased writes on the bones also needs to be read in the state of the soul.

Since the Bone Demon Wanzhong Zhen, the Bone Seal Master has begun to pass down, and it is divided into three doors and six factions, three doors are divided into the inner door, the middle door, and the outer door.

The outer door looks at the bone phase, the inner door is the root of the bone, and the middle door gathers the qi and imprints the bone.

In addition to these three gates, there are six sub-factions, such divisions have begun to gradually form since the Zhou Dynasty, and they are hidden between night and day.

The whereabouts of these six factions are secretive, and they are also strict with the disciples of the three sects, in addition to avoiding outsiders, they also have to abide by many rules.

As the bones know, do not despise others, because of the difference between life and death, the heavenly opportunity can not be revealed, the way it masters, only for the cultivation of its body, the fate of the world.

The six sects are hidden in the world and are not known, so it is difficult to pass on the craftsmanship in the door, and with the death of the elders, the bone sealers are becoming more and more scarce.

Later, after the change of several dynasties, among the six factions, only two factions were left to find a way out, turned their backs on the ancestral teachings, selected talented people in the world, and then passed them on.

But the remaining four factions are still conservative, so many things have not been completely handed down.

In this most recent case, there are almost a handful of orthodox bone sealers in the world, and all of them are too old to read the contents of the bones and admit the existence of bone sealers.

With this in mind, I couldn't help but ask, "What should we use to interpret the contents of these bones now?" And what's inside? ”

The old bell didn't raise his head and answered, "Have you forgotten the purpose of our coming here?" ”

"Could it be that they are the secret book of exercises that Liu Qingchun found here?"

We are here to help Liu Ran find out the origin of his family's tragic death, that is, the beginning and end of Liu Qingchun's original acquisition of that exercise.

Lao Zhong didn't answer directly, but looked back at Liu Ran not far away, where she was inspecting another corpse.

"The Bone Seal Master is now extinct, and whether the deceased here will have their memories of their life on the bones or not, the content presented is definitely not something we can discern about, otherwise, the Bone Seal Master will have no meaning to exist."

I listened to the meaning of his words, and it felt plausible, "Could it be that this content is still from someone else, and who else has been here!?" ”

"Just like the murals that we saw, the people who built this place are moving, and their numbers are very large, so it's possible to create such a tight space in this underground, and it's not a tomb or complete."

"Imagine if you were Liu Qingchun, seeing everything here, what would you think of after entering it."

"Their purpose is not as clear as ours, and there are no clues like Liu Ran brought us."

His words are somewhat similar to what Dongfang said to me when he opened the door, but we haven't seen what Liu Qingchun did when he came here to lead to the destruction of the entire Liu family.

Now we only do conjecture, hoping to get closer to reality through this conjecture.

When we find clues about Liu Qingchun, it may not be when they also find us.

Liu Qingchun kept the method of opening the door in his memory and recorded it, indicating that he was ready to return here from that time.

And now, we are fulfilling this wish for him, and through the clues he left, he pointed us out the current path.

Their speculation is still too vague, so we can only abandon this path for the time being, and instead focus on these skeletons.

If the memories of the deceased are recorded in those ancient texts, we can only ask the bone sealer to translate them, but looking at the current form, it doesn't seem to be like it.

Of course, this does not rule out another possibility, that is, back then; As soon as the construction of this underground building was completed, among the people involved in the construction, there was also a bone seal master, and he translated the memories left by the deceased (the original owner of the exercises obtained by Liu Qingchun, that is, an elder of the clan when he moved), and this memory was the exercise obtained by Liu Qingchun.

By reading the contents of the bones, in order to add a historical record to the clan, the 2nd bone seal master asked the master of miniature carving to engrave these contents on the skeleton to pass on the latter.

With this speculation, things get a lot more complicated, because these ancient texts are so old that it is difficult to find out when they appeared.

At this point, we can't confirm these speculations, and even translating them is a hassle.

But fortunately, these skeletons are very complete, and they have not been damaged by the corrosion of time, and then some of the contents have been lost.

Along the skeleton, we scanned everything and then moved on to the other skeletons, but we couldn't tell if they were duplicates or in what order.

If there is a purposeful connection between these skeletons, it means that it is not a one-person memory, but a collective, as illustrated in the fresco.

Their memories are segmented into each person, linked to each other, and presented into a common story.

There may be two parts to these stories, one is the practice of cultivation to preserve the culture of the clan, and the other is what happened at that time, why did they move and why they built this place?

There is such a speculation because the content of the bones is not manifested by itself, but was later translated and engraved by the bone printer.

Another factor that makes some of the content on this bone have more reason and significance to be recorded, which may be related to the events of the time (the cause of the Great Migration)

Everything that appears here, is related to it and is preserved here in this method of bone carving. They use these contents to record the process of their migration, which also shows that they have migrated more than once, and thus also shows this kind of mastery of survival.

If this place only exists to preserve an important piece of history, and the surrounding bones will be the most important part of this history.