Not long after walking forward, I saw the ancestor worship pile in the sacred forest! The branches on the ancestor worship pile can still be vaguely seen to be distributed in three layers according to nine, seven and three, which is related to the simple "Three Realms View" idea that the Qiang people believe that "there are nine layers in the sky and seven layers in the earth" and "three and three mountains" are harmonious, and it is directly related to the Qiang people's gratitude to the gods for blessing the world "nine poplars, seven willows and three cypresses".

It's just that because no one has taken care of it for a long time, the area around the ancestor worship pile has been barren and overgrown with weeds! There are still some strips of white cloth hanging on the trees around them, which seem to have been hung by Lao Shibi when the people in their village worshiped their ancestors more than ten years ago, and they still exist until now!

"Let's go!"

I saw that Lao Shibi was a little sad when he saw the lonely situation in front of the ancestral stake, so he said a word to everyone and continued to rush in the direction of the ancient tomb.

The entrance to the tomb is a shaft, on which a small house is built out of stone to protect from the wind and rain, and at the entrance of the small house is a tombstone more than one person high; After more than ten years of wind and rain, the tombstone has been broken into two; One was planted in the ground and buried in the soil, and the other was still standing in the doorway!

When we saw the entrance of the shaft, the people who had come before were gone, and only a rope was left at the mouth of the shaft and penetrated into the shaft, and there were still stains of blood and a lot of messy footprints at the mouth of the shaft, it seems that those people should have been killed or wounded!

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong and not repeat the mistakes of Lao Shibi more than ten years ago, we decided to let Hu Yifei and Labazi guard the well, and Lin Zi and I went down the well!

The reason why he made such a decision is because Lao Shibi began to be very stubborn after he arrived here, and if he had to go down, none of us could stop him! But he didn't feel at ease when he left Labazi alone at the wellhead, so in the end, Hu Yifei stayed with Labazi; After all, Hu Yifei has a strong investigation ability, and he can also appear and deal with things in advance!

It was dark in the shaft, because I was worried that the group of people at the bottom of the shaft would appear, so I didn't turn on the flashlight, so I could only go down the well in the dark!

When we reached the bottom of the well, the smell of blood filled the air; When I looked down, I saw three or four corpses lying at the bottom of the well, all of which had been eaten by the beast, leaving only a miserable skeleton of bones! And I don't know what the reason is for the ever-bright light in the corridor in front of me? It's also lit!

"Are they all dead?"

Just when I was staring at the dead bodies at my feet, Lao Shibi also came down the rope, but I didn't expect his old waist to be quite strong.

"Dead! Others don't know where? ”

I knew that Lao Shibi was asking about the whereabouts of the Thirteenth Master's group, so I answered him vaguely.

The reason why it is described in vague terms! Actually, it's because I don't know where the others are other than these corpses?

The smell of blood in the air tells me it's dangerous!

Of course, we knew it was going to be dangerous. But that's not what I mean by danger! It's because it's so quiet! Not only are the rest of the people not here, but even the beast has no whereabouts.

"Brother Tian, it's too quiet in this ancient tomb, isn't it? Could it be that all those people are dead? ”

Finally, the forest that came down from the wellhead also showed this problem, and said to me with a frown.

"Perhaps! Be careful, let's take a look inside the tomb! ”

What Lin Zi said has some truth! But I still don't believe that those people were killed by the beast so easily? After all, more than ten years ago, Lao Shibi only took two people down the well and didn't bury them, not to mention that they were more than a dozen people!

The lanterns on the walls on both sides of the corridor are made of sheep skulls, which is particularly strange in such a scene!

However, the road is not long, and it is similar to what Lao Shibi told us before, and it is only more than 20 meters.

After we crossed the corridor, we saw the scene in the tomb!

Strictly speaking, what we see is not a burial chamber, but more like a place of sacrifice!

As far as the eye can see, the entire burial chamber is square, about the size of two basketball courts! On the wall on one side of the burial chamber, the skulls of cows, sheep and dogs are hung. Underneath the animal skulls, there was a long table for the offerings!

On the other two walls, there are murals carved all over the wall, and I glanced at it casually and saw that the above descriptions were probably some things about the ancient Qiang people from ancient times to the present!

As for the floor of the burial chamber, there is a stone platform more than two meters high in the center, and a bottle of sheep is carved from a stone nearly two meters high on the stone platform! Lao Shibi told us that this is the totem that their ancient Qiang people believe in!

Since it's a totem, I didn't pay too much attention to it and shifted my gaze to the ground!

The ground is covered with bones of all sizes! Judging from the degree of weathering of the bones, there are far and near; And not only human, but also a lot of animal bones.

These things didn't catch my attention though! What I noticed were five fresh corpses on the ground, and another tomb door on the opposite wall.

Those corpses were lying on the ground, and they had already been eaten and couldn't see their true faces, but when I saw that the large blood stains under them had not completely dried up, I knew that they must be the group of people sent by the Thirteenth Master!

But according to what we found in the ancient village! These five corpses, plus the four corpses under the shaft, are only nine people, so where did the rest of the people go? After all, the fact in front of us is that not only did we not see the rest of us, but we also didn't see the shadow of the beast!

This is also the reason why you noticed another tomb door on the opposite wall! Because the tomb door was closed, I didn't see any signs of anyone entering it, so I was surprised at what I saw.

It's just surprise that surprise, business still has to be done!

I just grabbed the seven-star sword in my hand in case I needed it, and then made a gesture to old Shibi and Lin Zi and entered the tomb in front of me.

"Not good!"

The ever-bright lamp in the corridor pulls our shadows to the old elders! What I didn't expect was that as soon as I entered the tomb, I saw a fourth shadow suddenly appear in front of us, and the protrusion on the top of the shadow's head was particularly clear under the illumination of the everlasting lamp. It's hidden above our heads!

"Whew......"

The beast roared from above our heads, and the old man was caught off guard and fell to the ground; However, my movements are not slow, and when the shadow of the deer beast is now, I have already raised the seven-star sword and slashed at the deer beast; It's a pity that because I only saw the shadow of the deer beast, the direction judgment was not very accurate, and I just cut off one of the deer beast's claws.

(End of chapter)