Walking through the dense primeval forest, there is always a kind of uneasy tension and anxiety, feeling so hot that everywhere will be religious to unknown dangers, and Scar, who leads the way in front, walks very slowly.

Heavy vines clinging to the upright trees, some bending the branches, some wrapping around the small trees, crushing the small trees, and lying down among the other trees along with the vines, plus the vines climbing in the air, there is no way to see the way, and it is necessary to use a machete to open up a passage.

As soon as I looked up, I couldn't prevent an oblique vine from touching me, shaking in front of me, I wanted to lower my waist and flash to the side, the oblique vine was actually moving, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a snake with thick wrists, and I asked myself if I was bold enough, but I was afraid of this thing, goosebumps appeared on my body instantly, my feet were weak and I couldn't stand steadily, and Ye Zhiqiu behind me grabbed me tightly and screamed.

The palace lord in front turned around, glanced at the two of us speechlessly, stretched out his hand and gently held up the snake, and stroked it calmly: "It turns out that you are afraid of this, hehe." ”

"Throw it away." I said with a clattering of teeth.

"Yo, didn't you say that you want to protect her, even if you are like this, you can also protect people?" The palace lord deliberately pointed the snake's head at me, and the constant spit of the letter made me creep, and then smiled gloatingly.

Boom!

A long, low, long trumpet sound came from far behind us, and the lord threw away the snake in his hand and looked back with us.

"Who's blowing the trumpet?" Tian Ji asked vigilantly.

"I have heard such a trumpet in Miao Village, Jiangxi, which is a part of the sacrificial process." Wen Ru walked up to us and said with a solemn face. "In the process of sacrificing to the ancestors, when the sacrificial cattle and sheep are offered, the trumpet will be sounded to tell the ancestors that the sacrifice has begun."

"......," the general smiled coldly as he took a cigarette in his mouth. Fuck, there's no intention of us going back, the funeral music is all on. ”

The low sound of the horn echoed in the mountains and forests for a long time, as if to awaken the god who rested in the forbidden land, and I felt an inexplicable uneasiness in my heart.

Bite!

There was a crisp sound of metal crashing ahead, and we looked over, and the man with the scar found the bronze pillar covered with vines when he opened the way, and walked up to clean the vines on it, and the solemn three-eyed unicorn ornament appeared in front of us again.

On the mysterious three-eyed unicorn pattern, the concave and convex eyes stared at us majestically, as if to warn everyone who trespassed here, the priest had said that these bronze pillars were a sign of the way to the forbidden land of the gods, and it seemed that we were on the right path, but the dense vines in front of us blocked the way forward.

Everyone stepped forward to clean up, it is not difficult to see from these vines, no one has set foot here for a long time, according to what the priest said, the ancestral god of the Jiuli tribe woke up, came here and took something away, at that time it has been thousands of years ago, what can make the descendants of the Jiuli tribe so afraid and awe.

Yes!

Ye Zhiqiu's screams interrupted my thoughts, and the general rushed over and pulled Ye Zhiqiu behind him, and before the gun was raised, I saw that he had always been brave and fearless, his face turned pale, and he looked at the depths of the cut vines in fear.

We ran over and stood beside the general, our mouths wide open, and the dense crevices of the trees and vines were full of human corpses, and those eerie white dry bones were dotted with green vines like ornaments, which looked like a bone wall composed entirely of vines and corpses.

"Aren't you an archaeologist, you deal with dead people every day, are you still afraid of this?" Gong Jue laughed at Ye Zhiqiu, who looked flustered.

"Who said I was scared!" Ye Zhiqiu pursed his lips and pushed back.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you're an expert in archaeological research." Gong Jue said and handed the machete in his hand to Ye Zhiqiu. "Go get a corpse and study it, so that we can know how long these people have been dead and why they died."

Ye Zhiqiu left tooth marks on her lips, I knew that she was not timid, but the dead people she saw were all lying down, and the strange bone wall in front of her, the corpses inside were strange and terrifying, and I saw that her hands were trembling slightly.

"It's endless, isn't she stepping on your tail and competing with a girl every day." I angrily pushed away the palace jue, took the machete in his hand and lifted Ye Zhiqiu to relieve the siege.

"See, childhood sweethearts are just different." Behind him, the palace lord said to Tian Ji playfully. "I'm not happy to say a few more words."

"Don't talk nonsense, come over and help." I used my knife to cut the vines and clean up the corpses inside.

It wasn't until the evening that we cleared out the bone wall and found dozens of corpses inside, and strangely enough, we couldn't find any wounds on all the bones, and most of them were in a standing position, these people were actually standing before they died, but they couldn't tell the cause of death for a while.

"Could it be the people who followed Liao Gaogu to bury the treasure forty years ago?" Tian Ji squatted beside the bones and asked.

"Probably not, it will take hundreds of years for the vines to grow from here, and these people should have died here first, and then these vines intertwined with each other to form a bone wall, which means that these people died even earlier." The palace lord shook his head.

"These people should be the ancestors of the Jiuli tribe." Wen Ru used a tree branch to find a teardrop-shaped stone carving with a pattern in a corpse, surrounded by polished marks, like some kind of ornament. "This is a female corpse, and this stone is the pendant of the necklace, and the pattern on it is similar to the traditional ornamentation of the Jiuli tribe."

"The ancestors of the Jiuli tribe......" I frowned and looked at Wen Ru. Didn't the priest say that this is a forbidden place of the gods, and even the Jiuli people are not allowed to enter it without permission? Why are there so many bones of Jiuli people here? ”

"They're just like us." Wen Ru looked at the stone carving in his hand, then looked around at the corpses placed around him, and took a deep breath.

"Where are they like us?" Tian Ji asked in surprise.

"It's all a tribute to the ancestral gods!" Wen Ru replied in a low voice. "It seems that the Jiuli tribe has been sacrificing to the ancestral gods for a long time, and it has always been sacrificed by living people."

"Since it is a sacrifice and should be offered to the ancestral god, why do so many people die here?" Ye Zhiqiu asked while taking notes on his notes.

No one can answer this question, these people died so bizarre that they couldn't even find their wounds, and the general's expression was serious after turning over several corpses with the butt of his rifle: "The climate here is humid, and people will decompose quickly after death, why can these corpses be preserved?" ”

"It is believed that these people died at least a few hundred years ago, perhaps because the tree vines entwined the corpses together, and the humid climate allowed the bones to be preserved." I looked at it and said.

"That's not right." The general looked around warily. "There are many beasts in this place, it stands to reason that these people should have no bones left, what is the reason why the beasts dare not approach these corpses?"

Liao Kai asked Scar to come over in front and urge him to find a place to rest, the general threw down the gun and took off his clothes, took out the shovel without saying a word, found a vacant place and began to dig a pit, Scar said again in an aggravated tone, and the general replied without raising his head: "The dead are the greatest, whether you recognize it or not, you must go into the ground for peace when you encounter it, this is the rule." ”

The general is strong and savage, but he is a very disciplined person, follow him to learn to dig graves, although he has been beaten and scolded for ten years, but I have learned the most precious thing from him, morality.

I took off my clothes and stood next to the general to help, Gong Jue and Tian Ji didn't say a word and took out a shovel, Liao Kai is a businessman, and he is not a businessman who is doing business, the so-called no traitor is not a businessman, in his eyes, he should not care about these bones and corpses in the wilderness, but if we don't leave, it is estimated that he has no bottom in his heart, and there is no way for him to let the people with scars come to help.

It was already late at night after burying the corpses, so we set up tents nearby, and set off the next day after a night's rest, burying so many corpses at once, we were really tired enough, and the general told us to go to the stream next to us to wash it, and I didn't even have the strength to walk, so I fell on the general.

He put the gun in his hand, rolled the leaf cigarette and put it in the corner of his mouth, and did not forget to laugh and scold me for a useless thing, when I was a child, I followed him to dig the grave, and I was tired of digging and I slept on him like this, and I could smell the familiar smell of sweat mixed with the smell of leaf smoke, the general's body was no longer as strong as when he was young, like an old poisonous snake, but I was very down-to-earth and relieved to sleep next to him.

When I closed my eyes, I saw the clearly visible wound on his forehead, which I had smashed with a stone, and it was ten years in a flash, and the man who had left me in the grave was vicious, and now his sideburns were gray, he was really old, but the general was still used to patting me on the back, and perhaps in his eyes, I was still the unruly child I was before.