Chapter 25: The Ghost Head
I felt a little disgusted, Wu Laosi obviously didn't expect these clay pots to contain such things, and they all looked disgusted and surprised.
The others saw the crowd gathering and gradually gathered over, and several Tibetan drivers had never seen this before, so they were very curious and came over to take a look.
I covered my nose and watched Wu Laosi put on his gloves, then picked up the human head and cleaned the dirt on it. The thing was very old, but the hair was still very strong, the flesh was rotten, and when the dirt was torn off, you could see the shriveled skin and hollow eye holes. This is the skeleton of an ancient man.
The bespectacled man on the side compared the diameter of the human head with the mouth of the jar: the skull was large, and the mouth of the clay pot was small, so it was obvious that the human head could not fit into the clay pot.
What was going on, I asked him.
"This is the strange tradition of the Western Queen Mother tribe, this must be a slave of other tribes in the Western Regions, maybe when he was two or three years old, his head was put into this clay pot, and then he grew until he became an adult, and his neck and the gap between the clay pot could not be stuffed with food, and then his head could not come out for a long time, and then he cut off his head, sealed this clay pot, and offered it to the Queen Mother of the West as an offering, this is the tradition of human head sacrifice." Four Eyes said.
"Damn, this is too evil, the Queen Mother of the West in our Journey to the West is quite kind, not like such a poisonous one." A man smacked his tongue.
"That Queen Mother of the West is the humanized Queen Mother of the West in the Central Plains, in the real ancient legends, the Queen Mother of the West is a ghost-like thing, not a person at all." Someone gave him illiteracy. "At that time, people could not be ruled by kindness, and the rulers relied on these strange and cruel rituals of mysticism to exaggerate their own supernatural powers."
I asked Wu Laosi. So why is this head in this jar? If you cut it, you cut it, why bother so much.
Wu Laosi said: "There are many tribes in the Western Regions who believe that after death, the soul flies out of the eyes or ears, and is put in a clay pot to kill the head, just to trap the person's soul in this clay pot. In this way it makes sense to offer sacrifices. After the sacrifice is completed, these heads are usually piled together and fed to things like crows, or thrown into the sea to feed the fish. This is the same in the Central Plains, we call it a ghost head pit, and there is a head pier in Yanxia, Yi County, Hebei. It's similar to this one. ”
I felt very uncomfortable in my neck when I heard it, and this kind of thing only happens in the time of ignorance. However, I sometimes really wonder who invented this first. When did the ancients begin to believe in such bloody things?
"But with his head stuffed into this clay pot since he was a child, how does he usually live?" Someone asked. }
"Life? You don't have to say that the life of the sacrifice is quite superior, and the people who are chosen as sacrifices generally eat the food for the gods, the best food for the whole tribe, and usually do nothing at all, and the most beautiful maidens will mate with him as soon as the xìng matures, so as to conceive the next generation of sacrifices. In order for his neck to grow thick enough as soon as possible. They would restrict the activities of the offerings, and some people ate too fat. Before he reached the age, he was strangled to death by the mouth of a clay pot. "In contrast, the other slaves who worked so hard outside that they might not even live to the age of thirty lived comfortably for more than ten years and then died happily." Maybe it's a good choice. ”
The man touched his chin: "That sounds good." I'm not interested in eating, but I'm interested in the most beautiful girl. If I were a sacrifice, I wouldn't eat, and my neck wouldn't be thick, and then I could ......."
Before he could finish speaking, the Tibetan drivers burst into laughter, and I patted him on the head and scolded him for what the hell is in your head.
Everyone laughed for a while, Wu Laosi began to use a solution to wash the skull, this is an archaeological operation, a few people around to watch it is not interesting, some people are clapping their hands on the side, let them all go back to work, prepare for the retreat, and repair the car to repair the car. When we were ready, we set off.
Before the people could walk away, suddenly, everyone heard a strange sneer, which came out of the crowd with great clarity.
As soon as I was covered in a cold sweat, several people stopped, looked at each other, I saw their expressions and knew that I would not hear wrong, my heart hung up, what the hell is going on? Who's laughing?
I couldn't help but think about it, the sneer sounded again, and this time we were prepared, and we all followed the sneer, and found that the sound actually came from the pile of people piling up on the ground.
Wu Laosi was so frightened that he threw the head of the person in his hand to the ground. My scalp was numb, and I thought to myself, how could there be such a thing? At this moment, several people suddenly jumped up, and then screamed, and someone shouted: "Look, the head is moving!" ”
I hurried to look at it, and saw a human head in the pile of skulls, the earth was cracking, and the human head was shaking, as if it were alive. I almost suffocated, and my heart said how could it be? At this time, in the place where the soil cracked, it suddenly broke, and two blood-red insects crawled out, each of which was only the size of a fingernail, and it was very familiar.
As soon as I saw it, my brain buzzed, I couldn't believe my eyes, I didn't believe it, and when I looked closely, my soul suddenly flew away, it turned out to be several kings!
My feet went limp, and I almost took a few steps back. Just look, two, three, four, and then a cloud of red sè worms spewed out of it, exactly like the one I saw in the palace of King Lu at that time! Crawl everywhere in one go.
"Damn, what kind of bug is this, I've never seen it before." At this time, some people were still strange, and they saw a Tibetan driver walking over and wanted to take a closer look. I yelled, "Don't fucking be an idiot! Poisonous, quickly back off, can't touch! ”
The man looked back at me, and as soon as he turned around, suddenly a king flew up and stopped on his shoulder, and I cried out no! It was too late, so he grabbed it, and with a scream of "ah", he immediately retracted his hand as if he was burned, and when he looked at it, he saw a red rash like a piece of cháo water spreading on his hand in an instant.
Everyone around them screamed and retreated. He watched his hands quickly turn red as if they were melting, and he was so frightened that he cried out, "Team doctor! Doctor! "One fell to the ground.
Some people went up to help him, and some people ran to the team doctor's tent, and I knew that the man was finished, so I cursed secretly, rushed up and grabbed those who came forward, and shouted at the others: "Don't touch him, touch him and die!" Don't be in a daze, find a way to kill these bugs, and we'll be dead when they're all flying! ”
Only then did those people react and began to back off, and a few drivers took off their clothes and went to shoot the bugs. However, to no avail, the bugs quickly dispersed, and few of them died, and more crawled out. Soon two more people screamed.
In the chaos, Wu Lao Si picked up a tool box on the side and smashed it at the human head, which had already been crisped, and it was all shattered when it was smashed. When I looked, oh my God, the entire human head was almost like a beehive, full of gray eggs and bugs, and it was disgusting.
My back was covered with cold sweat, and my heart said that it seems that what the glasses said is completely unbelievable, this human head is definitely not used for sacrifice, but like a medium used to raise insects, is this kind of king laid eggs in the human brain? Damn, if this insect flies into the city, the status of the traditional four pests will not be guaranteed.
"Oh no, the other heads are moving!" Then someone shouted, and I didn't have time to pay attention to it, and everyone quickly retreated, and then I began to hear a buzzing sound, and a red light flew up. Immediately a few flew past my ears, and I was so frightened that I shrunk my neck.
At that moment, the first thought in my mind was that it was over, and many people were going to die this time! As soon as I finished thinking about it, someone screamed again, and when I turned my head to look, I saw Wu Laosi falling to the ground, rolling in pain. When I looked at the clay pot again, I saw a blood-red patch, and the whole sandy ground was covered with red spots. Countless kings have flown up, and the sound of wings fills all around.
This is completely impossible to deal with, and if one king can't get it right, he can kill all of us here, let alone ten thousand. I said in my heart that this fucking sacrifice is a sacrifice, it's obviously a weapon, this thing is the atomic bomb at that time, if anyone is not convinced, throw one into his city, the whole fucking city may die!
Now I can only abandon the camp and run for my life, I rushed to the tent, and the people who were resting there had already heard the movement and walked out, and when they saw me running over, they asked me what was going on, and I couldn't tell me clearly, so I yelled not to ask, run for my life, and go to the car outside!
Several Tibetan drivers carried the Caucasian out of the tent, and Tashi carried the master Dolma on his back and ran all the way away.
Seeing that people ran out one after another, I felt a little relieved and ran to call A-Ning. A-Ning had already woken up, and as soon as she stood up, I rushed over and pulled her up and ran, and she broke free of me and asked me what was wrong.
I'll just tell you to run, ask about the birds! Before I finished speaking, suddenly a king flew over my forehead with a buzz, bumped into A-Ning's shoulder, rolled over and stopped.
A-Ning looked down, startled, and wanted to shoot it with his hand. When I saw it, I grabbed her hand, and then blew the king away, and pulled her up and ran out.
Stuffy bottles and black glasses were looking at the car outside, and we had to run to that place first. I ran all the way, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, ran out three or four hundred meters, and saw a stone mark, my brain froze, and suddenly realized that I didn't know how to get out at all, and only Tashi could understand the stone mark here.