"In the past, the locals here called the shadows in these stones Milota." "We always thought that they meant that the contents of these stones were Milota, but then after researching the ancient books, we found out that we were wrong.

Milota does not refer to these things, Milota means old grandmother in the language of the Yao people. The Milota they were referring to was the whole mountain here. ”

"Mountain?" I chimed in.

"The mountains are the old grandmothers, these shadows are the children born of the old grandmothers, and when we arrived here, the Yao people were not yet fully civilized, and they still attached great importance to the taboo parts of their culture.

When we were on our way, we found that some of the best adult hunters here would have a strange tattoo on their body when they became adults, and the tattoo pattern was an animal similar to a unicorn. We did a deep push back on this behavior in the early stage.

Through their understanding of the evolution of tattoos and some legends, we find that there are two key points in the origin of this tattoo. ”

The first point is the tattoo master from the Han nationality, in their legend, the old man remembers that someone said that their tattoo at the beginning was not like this, whether it is the technique of tattooing, or the shape of the tattoo, it is very simple and primitive.

Later, a Han tattoo master came, and he slowly taught here, and the tattoo finally became like this.

When did this Han tattoo master come to Banai, according to their speculation, it should be in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There is very little information about him, and there is only one legend that he came to escape his crimes, and it is impossible to verify it.

But it doesn't matter, the first thing we know is that this tattoo was improved by a Han Chinese a few hundred years ago.

So. What the previous tattoo looked like, no one knows. Luckily, though. In their next investigation, in other Yao villages. Got some circumstantial information.

Legend has it that the tattoo of Banai Hunter is regionally restricted. It is said that only hunters who hunt in the depths of Giethoorn Mountain need to be tattooed.

It seems that this place is different from other places in the hearts of the people of Cuba.

Second, what is the significance of the tattoo?

Is it to ward off evil spirits? Their folklore experts deny this claim. Because if it's a pattern to ward off evil spirits. There should be a culture in the village that has been passed down, but if you ask them, none of them know the use of tattoos.

It is only said that it is a custom, and the pattern of warding off evil spirits cannot be changed, if there is a master of the Han nationality who modifies the pattern, it is simply a major event comparable to the extermination of the clan. It's good if this master doesn't get picked.

There were a lot of twists and turns in the process of researching, and the research work of that generation was very powerful, on the one hand, the real masters of the previous generation were still alive.

There are always some clues to ask, and secondly, all kinds of old materials are slightly better than the current ones, so they finally found out the reason.

That tattoo. It is a very precise topographic map, of course, not in the current sense, but after Gu Yaomin has experienced countless attempts and dangers in that land.

Find out the safest hunting path in the area. This road is very complicated, and in the era when there were no maps and words, Gu Yaomin wrote it on his own body.

At that time, the tattoo was just for a simple record of the route, but later due to various historical reasons such as war, the original purpose of the tattoo was forgotten.

It became a custom for no reason. By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a Han man who jumped into the Yao tribe, with the skill of tattooing, improved these crude patterns, and finally became the tattoo like this.

"So to speak. The tattoo pattern on the body of the Banai hunter is actually the route of the ancient road of the Yao Kingdom. "I remembered the tattoo in the stuffy oil bottle. I can't think too much about it yet, but I know that what the ghost man said should be right. We've found out as well.

"Then we entered the Giethoorn area. Slowly, a doubt arose. He said, "Why do you want to write the route on your body, can't you remember it with your brain?"

In other words, if the mountain road here is complicated and weird to such an extent, why do you have to go in?

If an iron mine is located in a very difficult place to access, and it costs a kilogram of gold to mine a kilogram of iron, then why should it be mined? ”

"Is it really that complicated?" I can't remember the details of the stuffy oil bottle tattoo, but I do have the impression that the tattoo is quite complicated.

"It's complicated, so complicated that it's impossible for people to remember with their minds or instincts, if it weren't for the tattooed map, they would inevitably give up if they couldn't walk a third of the way, and the road was too difficult to walk."

"In this world, I am the only one who can walk that path without that tattoo. ”

They tried to find the end of the trail based on the tattoo, because they found that the trail had no hunting value, obviously.

Gu Yaomin spent so much energy to open up this Gu Yao Road, it must be for something more important.

The archaeological project of Zhangjia Ancient Building, which they were working on at that time, naturally thought about the two in one place, and they speculated that the location of Zhangjia Ancient Building here would have some connection with the very important things hidden in this tattoo map.

So the team of the ghost man began to explore the ancient road.

But what they didn't expect was that the ancient road had no end, and the whole road was a closed ring.

"What does this have to do with this mountain?" The fat man said impatiently, because the shadow on the wall had gradually faded because of the evaporation of the water vapor.

"Don't you understand?" The ghost said, stomping on his feet.

We looked down, and it took me a moment to react: "This is the ancient way?" ”

"Yes, this ancient road has always been built against the mountain rocks, and almost all the sections of the ancient road are on the edge of the mountain rocks.

And all the rocks on the side of the ancient road are all like this.

The whole ancient road is like a very complex spell pattern, enclosing the entire mountain here.

All of these Milothars, which are found only in this circle, wander very slowly through the rocks, but when they reach the edge of the path, they can no longer get out. ”

"Yes, that's kind of interesting, go on." The fat man seems to be coming hard.

"This ancient road is like a fence?"

"Yes, it seems that the ancient Yao people were raising these things." "This is our conclusion, and some people further speculate that these Yao people ancient roads are the carvings on rubber trees, and they follow these roads.

Cut off the skin of the mountain, these things are sensitive to heat, so a fire was built near the mountain road, and they were lured to the surface of the mountain to dig up these monsters.

We don't know why these monsters spawn in the mountains, or what they are worth, but there are many indications that they did. ”

"It's hard to make all the beautiful girls." The fat man touched his chin, "This dare is good, I didn't expect that the people here still have such awesome skills." ”

"It's not like you haven't seen these monsters, green like beer bottles, even if it's a girl, do you do it?" I couldn't stop laughing.

"The ones we saw may not have developed well, when Bai Suzhen was not well developed, the lower half of her body was not a big *." The fat man said, "I don't have any taboos about the fat man, green is green, anyway, it's not a green hat." ”

I shook my head and looked at the ghost shadow man, who couldn't see any change on his face, and continued, "The question is, since it's breeding, what does Milota eat?" ”

The ghost man extinguished the torch and walked back, "Wu Sanxing, you know what I want to say. (To be continued)