After walking around the hill, Professor Chan found that there was a man-made spiral staircase on the right side of the hill leading up to it. After following the steps to the top, the group was shocked: in addition to the discolored heads of cows, sheep, and pigs on the stone case, in front of these ordinary sacrifices, there was also a beheaded female corpse lying quietly. I saw that the woman's body was in a different place, and all the places that could be seen were miserable white and shriveled, and there was a large pool of frozen blood on the ground, which was very terrifying.

Chen Zhijun, who saw these for the first time, was already shocked when he saw the martyrdom just now, and now after seeing this, he couldn't accept it, so he ran behind Professor Chen and forced himself to ask: "Dad, who did this, just throw this here?" I don't bury it either. ”

After rounding the stone case, Professor Chen squatted down and looked at the female corpse and said, "This is not ordinary killing, this is human sacrifice, it was done by a special sacrifice, and it is evil!" ”

"Human sacrifice?" Hearing this, Chen Zhijun was a little curious again, and asked, "Human sacrifice is to kill people and throw it away?" ”

"Human sacrifice mainly occurred in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, mainly in the way of felling, 磔, nai, slashing, shining, burning, scooping, figurines, fire, Yi, etc., in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, in addition to the 'slave martyrdom, wife and concubine martyrdom', the system of human sacrifice was basically abolished; Yi is a bit similar, that is, he killed Chen's corpse, and this woman is dressed ordinarily, almost the same as those martyrs, she should also be a servant. ”

"Then why is it that everything over there is so much left as it is, and this place is so coloured and dehydrated?"

"The martyrdom is frozen from head to toe, the air can't enter, and there will be no dehydration, this cave is cold, and the temperature is estimated to be minus 3-5 degrees, although it is below freezing, but it is not enough to preserve the corpse, and the dehydration phenomenon is still occurring, unless the corpse is directly sealed with water."

"So what's the point?"

"What is the meaning of the things of those barbaric times? Their starting point is actually contradictory, since they believe in the gods and hope to be blessed by the gods, they choose such a barbaric thing as human sacrifice, in exchange for the blood of others in exchange for their punishment, it is really ridiculous! ”

"It seems that the cancellation of the human sacrifice system really has to thank someone in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, otherwise I don't know how many more unjust souls will be there."

"In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, human sacrifice was not completely stopped, at that time there was still a prevalent in the society'slave martyrdom, wife and concubine martyrdom', at that time this was still regarded as a virtue; the real period of abolition of human sacrifice was the Qing Dynasty, in the twelfth year of Kangxi, Kangxi explicitly forbade the burial of slaves under the leadership of the Eight Banners, and officially ended the barbarism of human sacrifice."

After Professor Chen communicated with Feng Weiguo about the discovery through the walkie-talkie, everyone began to start a new search around the martyrdom and the sacrificial platform.

When the search area was expanded to 10 meters away, Zhang Gong returned with a few people. With Zhang Gong's right-hand man, the speed of the search team is much faster. Soon, a burial pit was found about 25 meters in front of the altar, filled with corpses of various forms, all of which had obvious slashing marks.

Now not only Chen Zhijun couldn't help but vomit, but even the archaeologists in several places on the side also turned around and vomited "whoosh". After crouching down in front of the burial pit to watch for a while, Professor Chen took out his gloves from his pocket and prepared to go down to see what was going on. Seeing this, Zhang Gong hurriedly stopped him and said: "Don't worry, sometimes it won't be so peaceful in the burial pit, here I and Lao Qin will go down first, and you can help us watch the point above." ”

After speaking, Qin Gong took out the rope from his bag, ran to a low hill on the side, and after wrapping the rope around and tying it up, Qin Gong and Zhang Gong went down cautiously.

The two of them went down, but they were worried about finding a place to stay. There are corpses all over there, how can they find a place for them to stay? In desperation, they could only step on these corpses, but they all carefully watched their feet to avoid stepping on their bodies and heads. Qin Gong turned over a few corpses on the side vigorously, and after not seeing anything abnormal inside, he raised his head and said to Professor Chen: "Old Chen, there is nothing abnormal about this burial pit, judging from the palms of these corpses, they all have thick calluses, and the clothes on their bodies are also slave clothes, and they are both old and young, ranging from 17, 8 to 50 years old. ”

"How many corpses are there?"

"Now I can't judge the approximate number, how can this pit have more than 300 square meters, the depth is now unknown, according to this stacking method, hundreds of large bodies are certain, so if a pile of 5 meters to 10 meters, it will be more."

"What a sin! Lao Qin, Lao Zhang, you two will work harder and see if there are any other discoveries. ”

Chen Zhijun was relieved on the side for a long time, and now he is relieved. He walked among the crowd, and after seeing Zhang Gong and Qin Gong who were turning the corpses below, he walked up to Professor Chen and said, "Dad, let Lao Ma and them go down to help, if you can't move these corpses up, let's dig a pit for them outside and bury them, let them be buried in the ground." ”

Professor Chen turned around and looked at Chen Zhijun with puzzled eyes, as if he was very unfamiliar. After a few seconds, Professor Chen smiled kindly and said to Chen Zhijun, "Child, this is up to you, you can arrange it." ”

With Professor Chen's authorization, Lao Ma left two migrant workers to answer on it, and then took the other five migrant workers to wear gloves and went down. In their struggle, they quickly moved up the corpses from the three floors below. In fact, it is inaccurate to move, because these stiff corpses are about two meters away from the vertical height outside the pit, and it is too difficult to lift them, so Lao Ma and them worked in pairs, lifted the corpses and then threw them on it, and after reaching the top, the two migrant workers left behind stacked the corpses.

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal below, Zhang Gong and Qin Gong came up. Zhang Gong breathed a sigh of relief and said to Professor Chen: "Old Chen, I conservatively estimate that there are more than 400 corpses here, and now where are they, obediently, dozens of corpses have come up." ”

"Don't get tangled, leave Ma Kai and Zhijun to keep an eye here, let's go look elsewhere, don't put all your energy on this."

"Okay, then let's fan out in pairs, and whoever gets to the end first will join the closest group next to us."