Chapter 19: The Book of Human Skin
Big Mouth reached out and grabbed the book in his hand
The mouth still can't stop slurping, what to say is delicate and soft, this is the most special book he has ever seen, aside from the content inside, just talking about the feel is not comparable to other books. It looks like I can't put it down.
The big mouth pasted the book on his face like a treasure, rubbed it a few times, and grinned: "It's really his grandmother's good thing, it's even more delicate and silky than Yu Ye's face, and I don't know what material it's made of, but it must be a first-class product, it seems that I have made a fortune, and I can't stop it if I really have luck."
Then Big Mouth put the book on the back of his hand and rubbed it a few times, with a very satisfied smile on his face, and it looked like he was about to put it in his mouth and lick it.
"It's just a book, don't you need to exaggerate, right? Okay, I'll take a look at the contents first, and when I get back, even if you sleep in your arms every day."
I couldn't stand the unproductive appearance of Big Mouth, so I took the book from his hand and flipped through it, as Big Mouth said, it is true that the quality is not generally good, just like a girl's skin. However, this also has a certain relationship with preservation, imagine that this book has been stored in the ancient jade for hundreds or even thousands of years, and it is no wonder that it absorbs the true spirit of the earth with the ancient jade.
The book is only a dozen pages in total, and it is bound with a bag back, just like the "Yongle Canon", which looks exquisite and beautiful, and is easy to flip through.
When I turned the first page, I found that there were only five traditional Chinese characters carved with a knife, and the knife technique was delicate and exquisite, so I read from the top down: "The Book of Human Skin "Soul Covenant"". Because I often visit the Qi Xun Dragon Recipe and the Tomb Robbery Sutra, I think that I will not be wrong with the traditional Chinese characters, so I am sure that the name of this book is Soul Covenant, made of human skin.
In that barbarian era, it was not surprising that something made of human skin appeared, and I just read him as an ordinary book, but the big mouth didn't think much of it at this time.
The big mouth face became greener and greener, and he looked at me with a little horror in his eyes, and said to me, "Old Cui, what did you just do?" Are you saying the book is human skin? Did I hear me right? ”
I forgot, Big Mouth just had a while with this human leather book, in order to eliminate Big Mouth's mental obstacles, I quickly explained to him: "In ancient times, skinning people was a kind of high-standard etiquette, and the requirements for the source of goods were quite harsh, generally boys and girls born when the moon was absent, the body was feminine, and the appearance was excellent.
I didn't know if my explanation would dispel Big Mouth's concerns, but then I turned the second page of the marriage contract, and there was a faint sound of vomiting around me.
The second page, also a knife engraving, is a vivid and rich picture, showing a closed passage in which countless people are running, their faces hideous and frightened, and behind them are men who think they are dressed in robes, holding a heart in both hands.
The third page is also a vivid picture, but with a different scene, showing several large vats with several struggling and twisted human figures, and the vats are pressed against large thick stone chips. I know this, I have seen a similar scene in the Tomb Robbery Sutra, refining the Yin General.
The fourth and fifth pages are also pictures, and there is no textual expression.
It wasn't until page 10 that four sentences appeared, and the poor lived in the village, and the pedestrians on the ridge were different. It is difficult to part with sorrow in the world, and the Qinghe River will eventually be drained. And at the end of the four sentences, there is a word painted red with cinnabar, which is incomprehensible to the living.
"It seems that the Heihe wooden bridge is not used to scare people, it is true, but I and Dazui came in alive, so what, is it ......" I didn't dare to think about it anymore Thinking of this, I felt a pair of black eyes staring at me behind me.
At this time, Dazui looked at me in the same astonishment, as if he was about to speak, and seeing that I ignored him, he began to fiddle with the two square jades.
The next few pages were filled with a variety of symbols, occasionally embellished with a few patterns, which seemed to be added, and perhaps an unknown ancient script, which I didn't recognize anyway, and just as I was about to close the human skin, the last page caught my attention.
The whole picture was all viewed with cinnabar, and it looked like the red painting homework assigned by the teacher when I was in elementary school, but this picture made my scalp tingle and my legs weak.
A towering altar, the outer circle and the inner square, there are five scattered circles around the square hole, each circle has something in it, I basically understand when I see this, it is exactly the same as the altar in the black water, but the proportion is much different, the altar on the screen does not show the height of the altar, but directly into a bottomless river.
And what surprised me was that the man in the robe on the second page reappeared, this time with a book in his hand and his mouth slightly open, as if he were reading words.
I slammed the book shut, and my intuition told me that the real Hades had not yet appeared, and what I and Dazui saw was only the tip of the iceberg of the Hades, and according to the contents recorded in the book of human skin, it seemed that our life and death had been agreed.
The big mouth was still fiddling with the jade on the side, closing it for a while, and breaking it apart for a while, like a child who didn't know anything about the world.
I walked up to Big Mouth and said to him in a serious tone, "Brother, it's time for us to act, we can't wait to die any longer."
The big mouth didn't react yet, he squinted at me and said: "What wait for death or not for death, isn't Yu Ye alive very moisturizing, after going back, throw these two pieces out, build a small second floor and enjoy the life of the emperor for a few days, you just get out of the way, don't spoil my mood"
Well, I just had to repeat the contents of the book to him, and then tell him my inferences and thoughts.
The big mouth was hot, and some began to blow, "Old Cui, what you said is all true?" Could it be that his grandmother's is still the opposite, let's go, let's blow up his little second's nest for him, the uncle really doesn't believe in evil."
I said to Big Mouth, "Let's go down first."
Now we are still on the altar, although the ground in the altar is only more than three meters high, if according to the soul covenant, this altar is directly leading to the ground, then it will be more than three meters, I am afraid that it is thirty meters, three hundred meters more. Anyway, things are not as simple as imagined, so let's take a step at a time.
According to the depiction in the picture, there should be steps on both sides of the altar leading all the way, I used a flashlight to shine down, and sure enough, less than a meter away from us, there were steps one after another, densely leading to the darkness.