Chapter 136: The Devil Cries and the God Howls
It was only at this time that we suddenly thought that perhaps the artifacts in this copper box might be the artifacts used by the local people of Shalong Mountain to worship the mountain gods in ancient times.
I said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: In the barren land of the frontier in the past, the Yi people had many customs of fertility worship, which was related to the harsh living environment in the remote areas in ancient times, when human beings were incomparably small in front of nature, the number of people was very scarce, large and small natural and man-made disasters may lead to the extinction of the entire tribe, the only way is to have more babies, more babies, more population, and only then can productivity be improved. Therefore, I think this jade fetus may have been used in ancient times to pray for women to have more children, and it is a fetal-shaped totem, symbolizing the prosperity of people.
The fat man smiled: It's still good in ancient times, which is like now, everywhere is a person, we have to engage in family planning, we should now oppose having more children, we should have more trees, so this kind of thing that does not meet the trend of social development, it doesn't make much sense to put this, I will take it first, and go back to exchange for some cigarettes and alcohol.
I nodded and said: Although there is some truth in this, of course we should support family planning, but now it is best not to move these things casually, because the details of this jade fetus have not yet been figured out, our action is to sacrifice the king's tomb to dig out the dust bead that is related to our net worth, this is the top priority, you have to prioritize.
Before I finished speaking, the fat man had already taken it as a deaf ear, reached out to take the jar, and was about to smash it, and took out the jade fetus in it, and Shirley Yang stopped him. Said to the fat man: These antiquities were hidden in the belly of the giant worm by the priest of the king, which means that it is extraordinary, and before we know their purpose, we should not act rashly, but look at the other two things first.
I saw the fat man's eyes shine, if I didn't hear what we said to him, I just reached out and dragged him back, the fat man couldn't stop complaining when he saw this, and said that he came to Yunnan to eat and drink dew. Pin your head to the waistband of your trousers. How many dangers have been encountered. Rolled a few times on the tip of the knife, a few shabu-shabu in the oil pot, and finally saw something real, how could it not be justified?
I said to the fat man: The treasures in the ancient tomb of the king must be piled up, why not covet the jade fetus in this jar, not to mention that this jade fetus is faintly full of evil spirit, not an ordinary thing. If you bring it back, it may cause trouble, we should take a long-term view, don't always stare at the little thing in front of you, haven't you heard the chairman teach us that complaining too much is too strong to prevent intestinal breakage, and the scenery should be long-term?
The fat man muttered: I also heard his old man say that the water in the Kunming Pond is shallow. Watching fish is better than Fuchun River, but the pond water in Yunnan is not shallow at all......
Complaining is complaining, or continue to check the other two mysterious artifacts in the big copper cabinet, otherwise one will be exposed. Leaving some troubles behind will only bring us more trouble to enter the tomb of King Xian later.
The three of us looked at the other two squares of the square copper box, and on the other side was a large leather bag, the skin was the fur of the clouded leopard, and there were gold and silver threads tattooed on it, all of which were patterns such as charms and secret words, and the inside was bulging, as if it contained a lot of things, and when it was brought out, it didn't feel heavy, at least not as deep as expected.
Seeing those peculiar spell marks, it can be shown that no matter whether the jade fetus is left by the ancient Yi people, at least the things in this leopard skin bag are related to the dedication of the king, and the talisman of the soul suppression technique is very unique, like a bunch of tadpoles crawling in one place very regularly, which is unforgettable.
At this time, it has to make people a little nervous, this technique is vicious and ferocious, mainly to concretize the grievances of the deceased, injustice may become an invisible poison to kill people, and it can transfer this resentful and vicious breath to other objects, which is difficult to prevent, but since you know that it is related to the sacrifice of the king, you have to turn your heart and open the skin to find out.
At the moment, I inspected the weapons and anti-poison equipment, discussed a few words with each other, and saw that the leopard skin was firmly tied with animal tendons, and it was difficult to untie it for a while, so we could only use a paratrooper knife to cut.
Peeling aside the leopard skin bag, a large pile of scattered human bones was revealed inside, we had already been mentally prepared, there must be corpses on the inside of the soul talisman, so we didn't panic when we saw this, and then stepped back and watched the changes.
After a while, I saw that there was nothing unusual, and then I went back to check, and I poured those bones from the big skin bag on the ground, and immediately saw that there were three skeletons, and these three dry bones had no clothes on them, I don't know if they were rotten, or they didn't wear anything at all, and the shape of the bones was also very peculiar, with a large skull, long arm bones, and short leg bones, and the size of them was five... Big, but look at the bone density, the bone age is old and old, the most obvious is the teeth, the injustice has grown together, and the wear has been very bad, it can't be a child.
Judging from past experience, the people who were sealed with soul piercing talismans were all slaves and other adults, and they had never seen any children, and the bone age was too disproportionate to the body shape, and it was difficult for people to figure it out.
The fat man and I had the courage to rummage through the chaotic bones, trying to see if there was anything else peculiar, but when we didn't think about it, we turned out some ornaments, such as animal teeth strung on gold rings, and scattered jade walls, the most conspicuous of which was a small stone statue of a black toad.
Shirley Yang saw it and immediately said: Yi people to the mountain god statue to wear jewelry, this is not a human bone, must be the legendary mandrill, often considered to be the mountain spirit, there is no lack of detailed descriptions of it in ancient books, short stature, long arms like an ape, black face and white hair, can understand human language, in the mountains can do wind and rain, but modern people have never seen, thought it is a fictional creature, some people say that it is a black-faced baboon as the prototype, so now the African black-faced baboon alias is also called mandrill, The legendary mandrills in ancient China are not the same as the black-faced baboons of today, and now it seems that these bones are most likely to be the ancient mandrills, and they are the true bodies of the mountain gods.
It seems that these three mandrills were all killed by the king of Xian, they were regarded by the Yi people as the gods who guarded the mountains, and the jade fetus may be the sacred objects valued by the Yi people, and the king of Xian occupied here, and must have been tyrannical, and the bones of the mountain god were so corrupted, and the artifact of the Yi people was filled into the stomach of the giant worm, making it so that it was to prevent the Huo's undead from digesting the floating corpses and insect eggs and stomach tumors, and using this perverted means to destroy the beliefs of the local people and achieve the purpose of consolidating their dominance, is this really the case? I'm afraid I won't know the exact answer until I enter the tomb of the king in the dragon halo and learn what he did in his life.
We glanced at the giant insect that fell to the ground not far away, covered with dragon scale demon armor, and could not die no matter what, it turned out that this big insect was not the original form of the mountain god, but the real mountain god was in his belly.
Pandora's box, that is, the things on both sides of this square copper box, we have read it, only the middle and the most mysterious thing remains, the reason why we didn't move him the first two times, but specially left him at the end, is because we can't figure out what this thing is, I want to see what the other two are first, and I can have a little bottom in my heart, but I didn't expect the first two squares to be extremely unexpected, and the most middle thing in this copper box, but I can't guess it clearly.
The middle of the copper box, its space is much wider than both sides, look at this pattern, the placement should be the most important items, the remaining two grids, are related to the ancestral home of the ancient Yi people, this is most likely, but what is the specific, it is difficult to say, I started with the fat man to move the middle of the things, while thinking nonsense: eighty percent is the corpse of the leader of the Yi tribe, and it is more likely to be an important artifact that the king plundered from the Yi people.
In the middle is a small copper box similar to the square copper box outside, with a grimace cast on it, the face is extremely ugly, and there are wings on the back, as if it is a yaksha surveying the sky, and there are all kinds of strange ornaments in the details, so that people can feel that the inside is not an ordinary thing, is it the seal of the first evil ghost.
A closer look, the original copper box has a part of the hollow, and the tiger lock hole on the side of the large copper cabinet is connected, the inside is hollowed, black and the color of the black water under the copper cabinet is the same, I didn't notice just now, there is no lock on the box, only can it be opened in the copper box.
In order to avoid being injured by the mechanism, he still turned to the back, and used a pickaxe to hook open the lid with a ghost head, and with the opening of the ghost box, there was a faint blue and cold light inside, and the copper letter was a blue three-legged toad, and the fat man sighed, and gently stabbed the toad with the pickaxe in his hand.
I don't know what material it is made of, the blue three-legged toad, the size of a human head, the body is plump, the head is raised, showing a complacent look, the shape is rare, regardless of the material, it is a rare masterpiece from the image alone, it is really a divine object.
I and the fat man swallowed saliva when I saw it, it is said that Chang'e ate the elixir, flew to the Moon Palace, and changed into a toad, so he was also the representative of the Moon Palace, symbolizing the high above, describing a person flying Huang Tengda, it can also be said that it is the Toad Palace, I want to take this strange toad out of the Toad Palace, I can't hold back a burst of ecstasy in my heart, this blue three-legged monster toad, must be the most valuable treasure in this Dragon Mountain, like this divine object, unless the fate comes, let alone put it in the bag and bring it back, It's a blessing that you have cultivated in your previous life.
Shirley Yang was much calmer than me and the fat man in the face of such treasures: be careful, be careful, the plants and insects in the cave are getting bigger and bigger, and there are at least two or more planes attached to the jungle, and the root of it may be here, it guards the sky of the king's tomb......
As soon as Shirley Yang's words fell, the fat man and I hadn't fully reacted, and suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the cave was a little wrong, and there was a burst of bone explosion sound under his feet, and he hurriedly looked down to see that the three bones of the mountain god placed next to his feet were undergoing accelerated qualitative changes due to the excessive oxygen content in the gourd cave, and all the bones were shrinking and blackening.
The rapid rate of oxidation, coupled with the fact that the density of the corpses of this pile of mountain gods is several times higher than that of human bones, causes the bones to emit a sharp and strange cracking sound.
I took two steps back, and said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: These messes are all evil, whether they are artifacts or evil weapons, just blow him up with explosives to avoid future troubles. After that, he took out the explosives from the fat man's backpack, but the fat man stuffed a lot of gold fragments into the bag, and it took him a long time to turn the explosives out.
The fat man turned around and tried to help me install the detonator, and as soon as he turned around, he jumped on his feet, as if he saw something scary, and he hurriedly pointed at Shirley Yang's legs, and I looked along his hand, and I almost jumped up, and a baby's cry went straight into my ears.