Chapter 10: The Smell of Coolness

Walking down the bottom of the cliff, we changed torches along the way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The phone is out of battery, and even the watch was scratched when I just fell off the cliff, so I took the watch off and put it in my pocket so as not to scratch it, and the watch was broken; I couldn't help but feel down.

Following the team silently, I don't know how long I walked, and gradually I could feel the steps slowly descending, and I could vaguely see the top of the stone stairs when I looked up.

"I think we're here." Suddenly, there was the sound of a sub-car ahead.

The word "婩" kept spinning in my head, and I was so engrossed that I didn't pay much attention to the changes in the surrounding environment, until the person in front of me spoke up, and I realized that we had gradually come out of the darkness.

I looked around the back of the car and saw a breathtaking sight of a patio sea cave at the end of the stone staircase.

The lime-white rock pillars are stacked on top of each other to form a crescent moon around the sea, and the moonlight spills from the mouth of the patio cave, and the sea water blooms into a clean lake green under the refraction of the moonlight, and even the surrounding rock walls also reflect waves of pale blue-green. The whole scene is extremely peaceful and charming, and it is fascinating.

This situation is like accidentally entering an uninhabited island while traveling on an island, and the solution is stumbling into a secret place in the world that no one has ever visited.

When I saw this beautiful scenery, I couldn't help but speed up my pace.

I kept walking towards the clean water, and before I knew it, I was at the forefront, but the place was getting more and more hanging, and the scenery that was clearly in front of me could not be reached in any way, and it felt colder and colder. But the cold feeling did not prevent me from rushing to get rid of the dark longing, and I was in a hurry, and turned back to shout at them, trying to call them to follow, only to find that there was no one behind me.

Except for the stone staircase and the bend of the sea in front of me, I was the only one left in the entire sea cave.

I was so desolate that I ran back and forth in the cave, spinning around, shouting their names, but there was still no response. I thought of the picture of being suddenly attacked by a strange fish in the stalactite cave before, and I was also inexplicably left like this, and I was the only one left inexplicably.

I touched my backpack and there was nothing left on me to use as a weapon to attack. It seems that it is impossible to go back, and if I encounter another giant insect or that strange fish, I have absolutely no chance of winning. At the moment, the only way to go is to go out to sea, maybe I just follow the path under the sea to the nearby outlying islands, swim around the rock walls, and if I am lucky, I may even meet fishing boats or yacht tourists.

Originally, I was quite worried about them, but when I thought that I was also involved for no reason, and that they were all extraordinary, it was no matter how I could worry about them, I felt better to convince myself in this way.

Quietly gazing at the beautiful green sea, I closed my eyes, and I felt an inexplicable sense of nostalgia in my heart.

A sharp pain forced me to open my eyes, and suddenly I felt a heat in my face, and my whole mind was spinning. The slap was so hard that my left ear buzzed and stinged. I fixed my mind and saw that it was Feng Xin.

"Woo......

I saw that he had raised his right hand and wanted to fight again, but when he heard my voice, he stopped in mid-air in time.

Feng Xin said, "You have fallen for illusion."

"Illusion?" I felt ringing in my left ear and couldn't hear what he was saying.

"Am I in illusion? Then you ......" I spit out a mouthful of blood, there were already a lot of wounds in my mouth, which would double the pain, and it was estimated that Feng Xin slapped me more than once.

Ziche shook his head at me, "It's just you."

"It's just me?"

"You're suddenly stunned, and you're still muttering to yourself." Qian Yan looked worried, and kept touching my face.

"What did I say?"

"I don't know, I can't hear clearly. You speak very quietly."

I shook my head, looked up and found that it was still in the original place, still next to the stone staircase, not only was there no clean sea, no patio cave, and no moonlight, but the place that was originally sea still retained a crescent-shaped landform, and the whole cave felt familiar.

I told them what I had just seen, and Feng Xin's face turned blue instantly.

I found that his face was so miserable that I couldn't do it, and the more I spoke, the more I spoke, the quieter I became, and finally like a mosquito, I couldn't even hear what I was talking about.

He squatted down and looked at me, his eyebrows furrowed together, his expression solemn, and he couldn't tell whether he was angry or sad.

He looked at me, just at me, but I felt like he was looking at ...... It doesn't seem like me......

"That's not an illusion...... That's your memory......" It took a while for him to squeeze the words out of his mouth, and he could barely hear what he was saying, and he could only vaguely divide them by the shape of his mouth. Feng Xin's voice was very floating and empty, as if he hadn't spoken before, and after speaking, he turned his head and immediately changed back to his original stinky face.

My memory? Gene? Opportunity? In the continuous tinnitus in my left ear, I am not sure if he is talking about these words, maybe I heard it wrong, or maybe it is my auditory hallucination, in short, I didn't pay much attention to it, and the wound in my mouth deprived me of too much attention.

Fucking Feng Xin was also quite ruthless, I spit out another mouthful of blood, and felt it back and forth with my tongue, and the bleeding should have stopped.

Qian Cai helped me stand up and patted me on the back, thinking that it would be warmer to have a girl by my side.

Feng Xin pointed with his chin, "It looks like we should go to the main hall of sacrifice."

Looking around, we have come to the end of the stone staircase. The last step of the stone staircase is connected with a small earthen platform of more than ten pings, climb up and take a look, the side loess of the earthen platform has been sandified after many years, and only the pure white marble bricks laid in the middle are still firmly there.

Pure white marble is also known as white marble in ancient times, I don't know whether it is precious or not, but the texture of white marble is light and elegant, and the Buddhist hall near the home also offers a Buddha statue carved with white marble.

It always felt like it was getting colder and colder, and I shivered slightly. Suddenly, a familiar smell wafted through the surrounding air.

My five senses were magnified hundreds of times, and my cold hairs stood on end.

I recognize the cold smell......

That's the smell of human corpses.

When my mother died suddenly due to illness, there were not many days suitable for funeral, and it was the New Year's Festival, and the days were compact. In the end, some elders decided to stop the coffin at home instead of going through the hospital process.

So I rented a large freezer from the funeral director to my home, placed my mother's body in the living room of the home, and waited until the day of the funeral to be helped by professionals to apply makeup and leave the body to the official.

When the empty freezer arrives at home, the whole home, from the front hall to the most remote kitchen, is covered with a cool smell.

The freezer where the body was temporarily stored was a large rectangular gray iron box, which weighed heavily due to the cold motor inside. Although the wheels were installed underneath, it took a lot of effort for several men to push them into the house. There is also a square skylight on the freezer, which is about the face of the deceased, and the window is equipped with glass so that the family can easily see the face of the deceased.

I have always thought that after death, the body is at best a large piece of meat, just like other pigs and cows after death, no different.

But within two days of moving my mother to the freezer, I understood that the indescribable smell was the smell of human corpses. I don't know how many deceased people have been frozen in that freezer before, and it has accumulated that smell, which is a very subtle smell.

It didn't stink, but it was weird, and the smell didn't overlap with anything I remembered.

Until the day before my mother's funeral, all I had to do every day was to look out the little window of the freezer and imagine that she would open her eyes and get up and tell me it was a joke.

The quilt that my mother sewed for me is still on my bed.

Helplessly, the reality has never responded to my earnest hope for retention.

For more than ten years, I thought I had forgotten the smell that made me feel so painful.

I unconsciously searched for the source of the smell, and the others apparently smelled it, nodding at each other and walking in the same direction. Ziche seemed to be quite repulsed by the smell, and covered his mouth and nose slightly with his hands.

But the smell of this is quite strange, in addition to the smell of corpses, mixed with a faint fragrance, it is indescribable.

At the very front end of the earthen platform, there are several large tripods cast in bronze, and there are a few damaged corners from a distance, but it can still be seen that the relief design on the tripod is very chic, and the shape of two human-faced fish bodies and human-faced snake bodies are entangled, surrounding the entire tripod, from the hair, knuckles to scales. I'm very curious about what kind of ancient bronze casting technology has reached, this Ding is very big, and I feel that it can be used as a bathtub.

The closer to the ding, the stronger the smell, although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I already have a bottom in my heart, what is in this ding. It is estimated that these dozen or so tripods are all the same thing.

We approached one of them, and when we looked closely, we realized that this was not a bronze tripod, but a jade tripod. I thought it was a broken and missing corner, but it turned out to be a frozen frost everywhere, and when the torch approached, a string of water droplets melted, and behind the main relief of the human snake and mermaid were carved small human faces, which could not be said to be strange, and people with dense phobia were really not suitable for studying this thing.

It was a head above me, and I put my feet on my hands, unreasonable.

The knuckles that were cut by the handle of the knife were still faintly painful, and they couldn't use their strength, so they sighed happily, so they could only be responsible for holding the torch below, and the three people next to him turned over like cats.

"It's a human animal."

Sure enough, it was a human animal. In many civilizations in the world, there are cases where living people are used as sacrifices, in addition to human blood and human heads, some cultures even have to burn their children to show their loyalty and respect to the gods. Since this is Nuwa's sacrificial mausoleum, human and animal must be inevitable......

Ziche pouted, "This pot is quite lively, there are five roommates."

Feng Xin and Qian Yi jumped down and probed to the other jade tripods, and made a gesture respectively, meaning that there were five people in each of the other tripods. The sub-station was liquidated on the jade tripod, "Sixty people, not too many, but not a lot."

No way! Sixty people is not too much? I was still secretly horrified in my heart when I heard an exclamation from Qianyu.

I saw Qian Yan's whole person fall into the ding, struggling to climb out, and yelling at us with all his might, "Hurry up! They're still alive!"