We can't think too much, the current has already rushed the bamboo raft to the beast gate in the cave, the natural stone beads hanging in the air are extremely low, only more than half a meter high from the river surface, just blocking the way, we quickly leaned down, clinging to the bamboo raft to avoid the stone beads in the middle.

Just when the bamboo raft was about to float into it, the strong light searchlight set at the front of the bamboo raft flashed twice, and it could no longer light up, probably because the water flow accelerated and it was not turned off, and the continuous application time was too long, and the power in the battery ran out.

I thought to myself: "Oops, the battery was exhausted at this time, and the cave in front of it looks very weird, and I can't be careless here, I must change the battery first, so as not to hit the stone and capsize the boat after going in." ”

I raised my fist to the fat man and Shirley Yang in the back, made a stop gesture, and asked the two of them to help me park the bamboo raft at the entrance of the hole, and then inserted the bamboo pole in my hand as a brake into the water, and stopped the bamboo raft, fortunately the water flow here is slow, otherwise a bamboo pole alone really can't support the weight of the whole bamboo raft.

Since we can't get any additional supplies in the future operation, so the energy consumed by the battery must be retained as much as possible, but the stone figurines in this cave seem to have some kind of connection with the "Tomb of the Sacrifice King", it is necessary to investigate carefully to see if we can get some clues about the main tomb of the "Tomb of the Sacrifice King", after all, we still have too little information about the main tomb.

I replaced the battery of the strong searchlight to make it light again, and under the light column of the searchlight's orange strong light, I saw the natural beast head formed by the melted rock, like a strange-shaped dragon head, but after the dissolution of the limestone for thousands of years, its shape has been blurred, and it is completely impossible to see whether there are traces of human processing.

The fat man patted me on the shoulder from behind. Signaling that they had removed the balance pole, I pulled the pole out of the water, and the raft followed the current into the cave through the strange and ugly dragon's mouth.

This stretch of river is extremely narrow, but it is deep and straight ahead. The distance was also very long, and when we entered, we poked the stones on the cave wall with bamboo poles. Slow down the raft and take a closer look at the stone figurines hanging upside down in the hole with their heads and feet.

Due to the damp and cold of the underground environment, the surface of the stone figurines has been gray-brown, and the outline of the facial features is completely blurred, and it seems that the surface is covered with a layer of "Quinone" (a mildew substance produced by the rock in a special environment, non-toxic).

In terms of appearance, it is basically impossible to identify the male and female appearance of the stone figurines, only from the point of view of the figure, there are tall and short, fat and thin, it seems that in addition to the prime of life, there are some teenagers who have not yet grown up, and it is not according to the uniform standard of the system. It is completely different from the figurines buried in the Qin and Han dynasties, all of them are sergeants and figurines.

On the top of the cave, there are green copper chains, hanging these stone figurines on both sides, some of the chains have fallen off, and some are empty, probably for a long time. The stone figurines have fallen into the water, and the stone figurines are hanging less than a foot from the water surface like hanged ghosts.

Shirley Yang asked us to stop the bamboo raft first, at the edge of the waterway, there was a stone figurine that fell off the copper chain and fell to the ground, Shirley Yang pointed to the stone figurines and said: "Although these stone figurines are vague in appearance, but from the outline of the hair clothes, there is a little bit like the Han Dynasty, I think something is wrong, I will go down and take a look." As he spoke, he adjusted the head light circle of his mountaineering helmet to make the light more concentrated, and then jumped off the bamboo raft and squatted down to look at the stone figurine underground.

I reminded Shirley Young: "Wear gloves and be careful that there are bacteria on them, if you are infected by bacteria, even if you do 10,000 artificial respirations, you will not be saved." ”

Shirley Yang waved her hand, let me and the fat man not distract her, she seemed to have found something on the stone figurines, put on rubber gloves at the moment, scraped twice on the stone figurines with the paratrooper knife, and then reversed the paratrooper knife and raised it in front of her eyes to look at it, sniffed it lightly, and the brick said to us: "This humanoid figurine does not seem to be made of stone." ”

The fat man said strangely: "It's not a stone? Is it still muddy? ”

I think of a scene on the highway by the Lancang River, sitting on a bamboo raft and saying to Shirley Yang, "Could this be done by a living person?" You cut open a part with a knife to see what is inside the figurines, the human skin map is very clear, there are a number of burial pits near the tomb of the king, but the specific location is not marked, maybe this Longkou Cave is one of the burial pits. ”

Shirley Yang used a paratrooper knife to cut off a small piece of the figurine's leg, and sure enough, it was the same as what he saw on the road, although the skin of the figurines was tough, but there was only a thin shell, and the inside was full of rotten dead maggots, Shirley Yang saw those dried maggots, and couldn't help frowning, and used the paratrooper knife to pierce two holes in the figurines' chest, and the inside was the same, full of dead maggots and insect eggs.

Shirley Yang said to me and the fat man: "It seems that it is not a burial pit, but it is certain that these figurines are made of living people, and they must be related to the sacrifice of the king, which should be the ancient evil and notorious manipulation in southern Yunnan during the period of the sacrifice of the king."

In addition to more than 100 figurines and copper chains, there are all jagged and protruding alien rocks in the cave, and no superfluous things were found, so Shirley Yang returned to the bamboo raft, and we continued to slowly move along the river in the waterway.

As I controlled the raft, I asked Shirley Yang where he could see that these figurines were made of living people. How can you be sure that it has something to do with the king's receptive technique?

On the way to Yunnan, in order to grasp more information, Shirley Yang did not work hard, before setting off in Beijing, he searched all the historical materials that could be found, and kept looking at them along the way, hoping to increase the certainty of pouring the tomb of the king. A European scholar once said that under every tombstone is a long story. And in the tombs of some important figures in history, they contain a lot of historical information at that time. The tomb of the king can be said to be a crystallized synthesis of the social economy, culture, religion and other aspects of the time, and these most outstanding tomb robbers in history are all people who are well-versed in the past and the present without exception.

There are many "dedicated kings" in Chinese history, but they are not the same era, except for the dedication of the king of the Dian Kingdom, the rest of the dedication kings are not in Yunnan. Even the peasant rebel army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a dedication to the king after the founding of Tianjing, and in the Warring States and the Five Dynasties and other periods, there was a title of dedication to the king, just like the title of Zhongshan in history, which also appeared in history as a country name and a king name. And those sacrifices to the kings are just taking the meaning of the word "dedication", not that there is any connection between these sacrifices.

The target we are ready to start, this Xianwang, is a generation of witch kings in the ancient Dian period, his "hemorrhoids", is to use the dead as a medium, and the more the number of unjust souls, the greater the power of this "hemorrhoids", the process and means of using the dead to make hemorrhoids are very numerous, these living figurines in the cave, from the strange way of death, and the degree of change has been made, are consistent with the means of offering the king, which shows that this should be a secret place to exercise "hemorrhoids" in ancient times.

Shirley Yang judged that this river through the mountain should have been built when the king built the tomb, using the original natural formation of the melting hole, and then manpower to repair and dredge the river, so as to transport materials for the construction of the king's tomb, from here to use water transportation, should be the most appropriate shortcut.

In order to keep the secret of the "Tomb of the King", these people were buried after the completion of the project or the body of the "Offering the King", they were the loyal subordinates of the "Offering the King", according to the "Healing Technique", they were bound and strong all over their bodies, forced to swallow a kind of "Blood", and sealed the seven orifices of the human body, and then hung in the cave with a large chain, suffocating to death. First, they can keep the secrets of the royal tomb, and second, they can be used to scare off outsiders who have strayed into this secret waterway

The so-called "hemorrhoid" is a certain kind of "hemorrhoid", the necessary pill, after being swallowed by a living person, it will parasitize in the body to lay eggs, it only takes about three to five days, the more eggs are laid, the flesh and blood in the human body become the nutrients of the larvae, and they are filled in instead. Because it loses moisture quickly in a short period of time, human skin will quickly dry up, as hard as the bark and stone shell of a tree. In the shell formed by the human corpse, when the eggs suck up all the juice and bone marrow in the human body, a vacuum environment will be formed, and the eggs will not become larvae without seeing air, and they will always maintain a state of hibernation. In a shady environment, it can last for more than a thousand years, so until today, when the human skin is cut, there is still a possibility that countless live "lure" larvae like fat maggots will appear in it immediately, but depending on the degree of preservation, it is also possible that the eggs inside have long since dried up.

Since there are relatively few records of "scabium" in various classics, including wild histories, Shirley Yang has only found this information these days, and as for what the living people are used as insect chrysalis, and what is the purpose of the maggot-like insects in human skin, all this is unknown.

Not only are there a large number of figurines in Shalong Mountain, but there should also be a few more in the nearby mountains. On the cliff road by the river, we encountered the figurines that had fallen to the road due to the rain. Although the rule of King Xian is only a corner of southern Xinjiang, from this large number of slaves who were made into figurines, we can see the cruelty and ruthlessness of the western Yunnan region under the rule of King Xian in ancient times.

After listening to Shirley Young's analysis, the fat man and I both felt goosebumps on our bodies. At first, it was a mud statue like a terracotta warrior, but it turned out to be made by a real person, and I couldn't help but look back, but those hanged ghost-like figurines had already disappeared into the dark cave behind them, and they could no longer be seen.

The more I thought about it, the more brutal I felt, and I couldn't help but scold: "These ancient princes of his mother really don't treat people as people, and in the eyes of the nobles, those slaves are not even as good as cattle and horses." If a fat man is like you, if he were a slave, he would definitely be able to mix a sacrificial head and a top man in ancient times. ”

The fat man in the middle of the raft was fiddling with the spotlight on the helmet that had gone out, and after two strokes, he finally returned to normal again, and when I heard me talk about him, he said to me: "Fuck your uncle's old Hu, your words have fully exposed your true colors of ignorance and inskill." As far as I know, in ancient times, people were proud to be selected as martyrs or sacrifices, it was a supreme honor, the selection of martyrs was extremely strict, you had to check the ancestors for three generations, the slightest problem with political face, many people couldn't line up to write blood applications, and it was most suitable for a guy like you who pretended to be positive. You must have been energetic at that time, jumping on your feet and shouting, 'Take me to the sky, I am the most suitable to light the sky lantern, let the people of the motherland wait for my good news, for the sake of victory, take me to light the lantern ......'"

I was furious when I heard it, and the fat man's grandson was too immoral: "I don't have as much fat as you, how can I be suitable for lighting a sky lantern, you ......"

Shirley Yang interrupted me and the fat man: "You two are endless, why are you talking and talking again, have you noticed anything wrong?" This waterway is not at all like the proprietress of the Caiyun Inn described......"

The fat man said: "The proprietress has never come in person, and she hasn't listened to the stone miners, it is inevitable that there will be some errors, so we don't need to be suspicious." ”

I said to Shirlye Yang and the fat man: "It's not necessarily that the boss lady is wrong, the river we passed through earlier has a very fast current, which may be related to the heavy rain in the past few days." The section of the river where the water is flowing is very wide, and it may connect the two rivers together, so we only care about the balance of the bamboo raft, and the angle of the beam of light from the strong searchlight is very small, and the field of vision is also limited, and it is possible to enter a fork in the road. ”

The fat man hurriedly said: "That's troublesome, it's better to turn around and go back to find the way, don't follow us back to the spider's nest, get into the maze, and in the end you can't get out, we don't have too much dry food." ”

I said to the fat man, "Don't worry if it's really just a fork in the river, these currents all flow in one direction, and eventually they will pass through the Shalong Mountain and join the valley of the Snake River, so there will definitely be no problem of getting lost." And the river is very straight, obviously artificially processed, as Shirley Young said, it may have been a transportation waterway for transporting materials during the construction of the royal tomb, and it must be right from here. ”

Shirley Yang said: "The old nonsense is right, in ancient times, large mausoleums would be built using rivers to transport stones, and the craftsmen who built the Qin Tombs would sing when they were working, 'Take the stone from the mouth of the spring, and the water will not flow'." From these two short sentences, you can imagine the huge construction of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor back then, because of the transportation of stones, the Weishui was blocked. ”

The fat man said: "We saw the Wei River last time we went to Shaanxi, compared to the big river, here is at most a sewer, and the king is probably a poor man with a small family compared to Qin Shi Huang." Let's go and pour his bucket, and it can be regarded as giving him face...... Alas...... What's wrong? ”

The bamboo raft that was slowly flowing down the river suddenly seemed to be hanging on to something, and it jolted violently, and then returned to normal, but I heard a "gala gala" heavy and rusty heavy metal stirring sound in the river. I, the fat man, and Shirley Yang and I, had a sense of foreboding in our hearts at the same time, not good, I am afraid that the bamboo raft has hit a trap in the river ambush.