Judging by the indications at the scene, they committed suicide here.

"Maybe they're stuck here, and then they're desperate." Sun Yang said after carefully examining the corpse.

The cave is dry and there are no branch caves around it, which may be the reason why they are so well preserved.

Judging from the remaining clothes, they should be high-ranking figures among the Sanmiao people. On the woman's head on the left is a large horn-shaped silver headdress, beautifully crafted, except that the silver surface is blackened. The man on the right hangs a long knife with a decayed scabbard and almost complete rust from the hilt.

"Maybe they came here to be martyred...... Lu Xiaoling had a different opinion.

Of course, this is not completely impossible, but Sun Yang trusts his own judgment more.

He turned his head to look at the entrance to the cave, and the giant spiders hissed quietly, but they remained outside.

"Look at that statue!" Lu Xiaoling said suddenly.

The flames were constantly shaking, making the hideous sculpture seem to suddenly come to life, but Sun Yang knew that it was just his own illusion.

He looked at it carefully, with a bull's head, two horns, a human body, two wings on its back, four eyes and six hands, and each holding a weapon.

"It's ...... Chiyou? Sun Yang said in surprise.

Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling looked at the statue in front of them dumbfounded, who is it not the legendary Chiyou?

"This is the temple of the Sanmiao people." Lu Xiaoling said.

Sun Yang nodded in agreement.

Legend has it that Chi You once competed with the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, the first ancestors of China, in the Central Plains, because he was too brave, and his eighty-one brothers were all good at fighting, and he once defeated the Yan Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor joined forces to defeat him. In the Battle of Zhuolu, if it weren't for the Yellow Emperor asking for the help of the gods, perhaps the Huaxia lineage would not exist.

After the defeat of the Jiuli tribe of Chiyou, they moved to the south, and now the Sanmiao, Baipu, Di and many barbarian tribes take Chiyou as their ancestors. And Sanmiao simply listed Chiyou as the great ancestor god of his own clan, with a high status.

It is not surprising that there is a statue of Chiyou in this Sanmiao Temple built in a natural karst cave, but Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling have been growing up in areas dominated by Han nationality and are accustomed to those Buddhist and Taoist temples.

"It's copper." Sun Yang gently knocked on the statue of Chi You, and the pythons outside suddenly stirred, and several giant spiders began to build webs at the entrance of the cave.

"Leave them alone." Sun Yang said.

The flames can quickly burn away the cobwebs, which is a kind of protection for them.

They began to observe the sculptures carefully, and Lu Xiaoling made another discovery.

"This!"

Sun Yang walked over quickly, it was obviously a mountain ghost, but there was an extra horn on his forehead.

"And this ......" Lu Xiaoling pointed to the side again, it was a huge spider, carved vividly, but there were some terrifying spikes on its body.

"Those were the enemies that Sanmiao's ancestors had defeated before......" Sun Yang muttered, could these be the creatures they once ruled?

A monster with a tiger's head and a human body, a monster with a bull-headed body with tiger claws and a long tail, a monster with a hideous face, a strange animal with six legs but a tiger head, a fox with four tails, a giant with two heads, a giant bird with three legs, a monster with no body but a huge head, and his hands and feet are directly on his head and a strange man with a weapon in his hand......

It's like a sculpture exhibition of the myths and stories of the three seedlings, many things have not even appeared in the mythological stories, but with the examples of mountain ghosts and pythons, how can you rashly think that these things are all fictional?

The mountain ghost and the python are located very far behind the two rows of sculptures, which may indicate that they do not have a high status in the overall mythological system. Most of them are surrounded by giant centipedes, giant snakes and other things that are not too mythical. And the further forward you go, the more bizarre the sculpture becomes, making people feel unbelievable.

"If these things really existed......" Sun Yang couldn't help but shake his head. He couldn't imagine that the people of ancient times would be able to survive surrounded by these things.

The entrance to the cave had been covered with a thick layer of cobwebs, but it was quiet, and the two of them walked back cautiously.

There are still a lot of cockroaches outside, but the number is much smaller than just now.

"Can't wait any longer." Sun Yang said to Lu Xiaoling.

There was no sound coming from the direction where Huang Dou disappeared, which made him a little worried.

It stands to reason that sound should be able to travel far along the rock walls in such a cave. Has he already ...... Or have they already run a long way?

"How do you get out of here?" Lu Xiaoling asked.

That's a big question.

When they first entered the cave, they used a highlighter to draw a mark on the wall at intervals, but after encountering the python, no one did it. Especially when he just escaped, he didn't remember the position at all.

If the worm flute was still there, they could have driven those giant spiders away and slowly searched for the path, or they could calmly continue to look for Master Cao's traces, but now, their own survival has become a problem.

"There must be something that keeps them from coming in." Sun Yang gritted his teeth and said. "It should be near this door, look carefully!"

Carrying torches, the two began to look closely at the doorway, and the giant spider in the web outside was crawling restlessly around the web, but did not attempt to attack them.

"Help me!" Sun Yang saw the problem at this time. There is a hole on each side of the doorway that is blocked by stones, and it would not be obvious if you didn't take a torch and look around carefully.

He handed the torch to Lu Xiaoling, took out the dagger and dug it there vigorously.

The stalagmites used to plug these two holes were almost completely connected to the doorway, and Sun Yang was so busy sweating that he carved a groove out of almost the entire circle around him, and kept trying to pry it, and it took nearly half an hour before the stalagmite in the middle finally loosened.

He carefully pulled it out.

The pungent smell hit their faces, and they both covered their mouths and noses with their clothes, and Sun Yang tried to pull something out of it with a dagger.

It was a black powder with an unpleasant smell.

Sun Yang didn't touch it with his hands, but picked it with a dagger and shook it directly at the spider web at the entrance of the cave, and the giant spider suddenly let out a scream and fled from the spider web in a panic.

"That's it!" Sun Yang said in surprise.

Now there is no time to think about whether it is poisonous or not, and whether it is harmful to the human body.

He picked up a long, unknown metal rod from the side and dug hard into the hole, creating a small pile of black powder.

"What's it for?" Lu Xiaoling asked.

"Wrap it in empty rune paper!" Sun Yang said.

Fu ash or incense ash was also often wrapped in this way, and it was not complicated for them, and the two of them quickly wrapped a triangle that would not leak out of the powder, and carefully held it in their hands.

"I'll go out first." Sun Yang said.

"Why?" Lu Xiaoling felt offended, she was never the kind of girl who needed to be protected.

Before Sun Yang could say anything, she had already used a torch to burn the cobwebs in the doorway and climbed out first.

There was a terrible scream, but there was no follow-up attack, and the rustle was quickly moving away, as if there was something in them that could kill them.

Sun Yang immediately followed, and he shook his torch around, and the spiders crawled away.

"It worked!" Lu Xiaoling said excitedly.

"Let's go!" Sun Yang said.

Lu Xiaoling ran back again.

"I have to get two more, one for Uncle Cao and one for Huang Dou!"