After Lin Xuan walked for twenty minutes, he arrived at the end of the stone wall. According to a rough estimate, the width of this hall has reached about two thousand meters, which is quite amazing. Although there are many temples in Tibet, none of them can compare to this. However, this didn't mean anything, because Lin Xuan couldn't find a portal on the stone wall that he could pass through.

He could only go back the way he came, his left palm unconsciously slapping against the wall, making a dull "pop" sound.

Suddenly, the echo from one of the stones changed, and it turned out to be like a "bang" sound from a tambourine.

Lin Xuan stopped and struck again, and the stone, which was five feet wide and one foot five feet high, made a "bang" sound again, which was indeed an approximate drum sound.

"How is that possible?" Lin Xuan stroked the stone carefully, it was cold and hard, it could never be anything else, it could only be a boulder.

He slapped more than a dozen times in a row, and the sound was consistent, it was the sound of drums.

Lin Xuan thought for a few seconds, then leaned closer and gently sniffed the smell of the stone.

At first, the stone was tasteless, but soon Lin Xuan smelled a faint smell of blood. When his nose moved to the gap between the two stones, the bloody aura suddenly became stronger.

Anatomically speaking, the smell of blood varies depending on how long it has been placed. To put it simply, blood that has been coagulated for many days is fundamentally different from the blood that has just flowed out, and the shock it brings to people is also very different.

Now, what Lin Xuan smelled was an extremely fresh smell of human blood, which made him jump backwards as if he had been pricked by a needle, away from the stone crack.

He is a doctor and is more sensitive to blood than ordinary people.

If the stone wall had been built somewhere in Tibet, he would have determined that there was a corpse that had just lost its life, because the smell of blood was so fresh that only the people who had just been killed would release it.

"Who's there?" He asked in a low voice.

knew that he shouldn't have asked that, but at this moment, he could only ask that.

"Maybe there's just a murder outside the stone wall? The blood of a dead man seeped through a crack in the stone? If that is the case, there are gaps in this stone wall? Is it possible to see everything outside by picking out the stones? What kind of world is it out there? The White Lotus guided me here, what exactly do you want me to see......" In an instant, a thousand questions surged into his heart, each of which he couldn't answer himself.

By the time he had calmed down, the smell of blood in the air had disappeared.

He walked over and looked closely at the gap, and found that the wall had been built using an ancient technique of rice slurry and lime, and that there were no cracks in the wall at all, and that the stones were tightly sealed and could not be drunk. Also, he didn't find a drop of fresh blood from the dark red walls and cracks in the walls, and the bloody breath definitely didn't penetrate in.

"That's weird, where does the bloody gas come from?" He felt more and more strange.

He left the stone and found another stone that made a drum sound ten paces apart and one level higher, but the echo changed slightly.

Similarly, a strong smell of blood can be smelled near the stone where the drum sounds.

Lin Xuan calmed down, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly woke up: "It's a human skin drum!" ”

The legend of using human skin as a drum has a long history, outside Tibet, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have examples of using the skin of corrupt officials as drum surfaces and leg bones as drumsticks, which are placed on the thoroughfare for people to beat, in order to warn the officials in the world to be honest and honest. Human skin is different from animal fur, so the human skin drum will always carry the bloody smell that is terrifying to its own kind, and it will last for a hundred years.

When the Kangxi Emperor toured the northwest, the corrupt official Cheng Jinshan and his son were executed, and the skulls of his two sons were buckled together, and the middle was carved into two dragons playing with silver, inlaid into a drum frame, and the upper and lower drum surfaces were made of the skin mask on their backs to make a human skin drum, and then the back of Cheng Jinshan's head was made into a human head bowl. In order to warn future generations, Emperor Kangxi built a royal temple - Yongning Temple more than 200 meters northwest of Qiaowan City, hung human skin drums and human head bowls in the temple, and beat human skin drums every day to warn future generations. The head drum and head bowl have been displayed here, and the list of corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty and their fate are also listed in the cabinet window on the side, including the Minister of Military Aircraft He Shen, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Li Shiyao, etc. In the end, these people were all sentenced to death, and some of them were even of the nine tribes. On a larger display board, there is Emperor Kangxi's own book "Take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall; With copper as a mirror, you can be dressed; Take people as a mirror, you can understand philosophy", in order to warn all officials to keep in mind the official motto of "power is used by the people, feelings are related to the people, and benefits are sought by the people".

Lin Xuan's reaction was extremely fast, and after realizing this from the sound of drums and the smell of blood, he immediately thought: "China's remote ethnic groups have always had the custom of 'living sacrifice', could it be that this stone wall is actually the legendary 'wall of sacrifice'?" ”

Regarding the "sacrificial wall", there are many records in the history books of many ethnic minorities. Those who were ordered by the chiefs, toasts, and patriarchs to capture and sacrifice to the heavens and gods were all extremely evil criminals. The tribesmen believed that it was these wicked people who angered the gods of heaven and would inflict punishments on them such as droughts and floods, and that only by sacrificing their flesh and blood to the heavens could the wrath of the gods be appeased.

In China's Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Tibet and other places, almost every aboriginal village has such a sacrificial wall. After the villain is beheaded and sacrificed to the heavens, his head will fill the wall, meaning that "the soul is always for the gods to trample on".

Similarly, Lin Xuan had previously realized that the peasant leader Zhang Xianzhong had created the "Seven Killing Monuments" to worship the heavens and thank the heavens, which also had the same significance.

Lin Xuan perked up and returned along the stone wall, soon discovering seventeen stones that made a drum sound. As he struck them in order, the sounds of the stones converged into an ancient and bitter tune.

He rested for a while, and found seventeen "drum stones" in the right half of the stone wall, and the tune of the thirty-four stones striking them in succession made him feel thoughtful.

In that tune, there is an indescribable sadness.

If you insist on using words to describe it, Lin Xuan listened to this tune repeatedly, and immediately thought of the scene where the overlord of Western Chu killed himself in Wujiang. The beauty is in the twilight, the hero is at the end, and he understands that he is powerless to fight against the heavens, and can only succumb under the pressure. Of course, the result of submission is to survive at the feet of the victor, and the result of not giving in is to kill oneself.

Well, this tune is left by the subservient, humiliation, disgrace, prostration, slavery...... Do all the lowly things, just to make a living.

Thirty-four notes seem to be the most despicable thing in the world of thirty-four notes, and it is even more uncomfortable to ask a hero who stands up to the heavens and the earth to kneel down and do such a thing than to kill him.

The overlord of Western Chu was unwilling to be humiliated, and killed himself on the riverbank, and went to see the Jiangdong father and elder without face.

Han Xin was willing to suffer the humiliation of his crotch, and finally lived proudly in the temple and achieved a lifetime of fame.

This is what Lin Xuan can comprehend from the tune of "Drum Stone".

So, how many people who dare not be humiliated shed blood and sacrifice to build this "wailing wall" in front of them that can sing and cry?

The world's most famous "Wailing Wall", also known as the Western Wall, is a section of the Second Temple Parapet of the ancient Jewish State in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the only remaining remains of the Second Temple Parapet, about 50 meters long and 18 meters high, made of large stones. Judaism considers the wall to be the first holiest site, and it is customary for believers to weep at the wall in order to express their mourning for the ancient temple and look forward to its restoration. For thousands of years, when Jews from all corners of the world returned to the holy city of Jerusalem, they would come to this stone wall and whisper prayers and cry about the suffering of exile, so it was called the "Wailing Wall".

The wall is called the "Wailing Wall" because of the "tears" of the wall, but the stone wall in front of us is more mysterious than the "Wailing Wall" in Jerusalem because it can play a mournful tune and make people want to cry without tears.

When human beings are most sad, they can't cry, that kind of mourning comes from the bottom of their hearts, like the embers of an extinct volcano, they can't find an outlet for catharsis, and they have lost their power to vent.

Just like the plane that Lin Xuan and Mr. Wei were on was trapped outside the black hole, they couldn't survive, they couldn't die, they were in a dilemma, and they had no place to go.

Suddenly, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he laughed extremely bitterly, because this wall and this tune had touched his bottom line as a human being.

In the past, he has always been the overlord Xiang Yu who refused to surrender to the Han army and became Liu Bang's minister, and he would never do anything to survive.

What now? What this stone wall tells him is the cruel truth of "bleeding without tears, and turning around without bowing your head".

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