Chapter 59: The Exquisite Box

This sound aroused everyone's curiosity, and we all watched the old cat's every move intently. He didn't stop, but continued to shift his hands around the box in an attempt to turn the box.

Seeing these actions of the old cat, I feel a bit fantastical, no matter how magical this box is, but after all, it is just a "pull-out" box, a pull-out box, and not a Rubik's cube, how can it be rotated out of thin air?

At this time, there were a few "clicks" inside the box, and then a surprising scene appeared, only to see that the box actually "moved" in the hands of the old cat. The box seemed to have really become a Rubik's cube, and its two sides were closed to the top, and then from the original inner layer, a small wooden black board stretched out, and the two layers of box surfaces below and above actually stretched out from the seams to both sides, and four thin wooden boards about three centimeters long stretched out. Then the top of the box also unfolded, and a small square object spat out from inside. I looked at it, and this "little thing" that I spit out turned out to be another box! The size of this box is almost the same as the size of the box when the box had not "changed". That's when I saw that the box was a lot bigger than what we saw.

Several of us were dumbfounded, this little box had just been "transformed" in front of our eyes like a Transformer. And it's made of wood! This is all the more surprising to us.

The box is indeed very delicate now, like a work of art that has been carved several times, and it looks pleasing to the eye. From a distance, it looks more like a carved flower made of wood. I saw that the wooden planks protruding from the ground were carved with delicate patterns, and these patterns changed color with the surrounding light.

The old cat opened the box spit out at the top, this box is not difficult to open, it is an ordinary push-pull box, the old cat took out a similar "cloth" from the box, and soon the old cat unfolded this "cloth", I saw that there were many signs densely packed on this "cloth".

"There's always a "rag" coming out of such a damn valuable box. Little brother, you can be careful, you look at the rag is sallow, it is not poisonous. The bald head said.

As soon as the bald voice fell, Lin Xihui immediately said seriously, "This is the map, and it's the map here!" Judging from the scale marks on the map, it is believed that the map was carved from snake skin. After Lin Xihui finished speaking, he immediately motioned for us to take a closer look at the picture.

She pointed to the map and continued to tell us that what we had experienced before, whether it was a bloody corpse or a Yin soldier, was shown on this map, and even the "wolf plague" we had just experienced was shown by the "wolf" icon on this map. Lin Xihui also judged that the location where we are now should be marked here by "wolf".

Although the image of the scenery on this map is very small, it is very clear when you look closely, and it is not blurry at all. In a small space, a huge scene can be depicted vividly, which has to be amazing.

I stared at the map and noticed something strange about it, so I took it from the old cat's hand.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xihui asked me carefully.

I let out a sigh of relief and told everyone that the texture of this map is not snakeskin, but a human skin! The snakeskin is rough to the touch and has clear lines. In this way, there will be obvious knife marks in some places, and cold weapons are not advanced in ancient times, so it is inevitable that they will not help but improve when dealing with them. However, the map in front of us is almost a "one-size-fits-all" approach, peeling off the skin directly, and at the edge of the leather, there are obvious arc-shaped knife marks.

As I spoke, I took out the wolf's eye flashlight, and the light was pointed at the map, and when the bright light passed through, the surface of the map appeared slightly transparent, and a hideous face appeared under the light!

What surprised me about this picture is that the skin of the face is peeled off completely, even the eyelids, lips, etc., and then after special treatment, these things have turned waxy yellow.

"We obviously saw that they were snake scales." Said the bald head.

"It's a human skin with snake scales." I explained that I was no stranger to the situation.

By the way, I told them that this kind of map should be taken off in a special way when the whole skin on the person's face is alive, that is to say, the person, when he is alive, can even see the expression on his own face. The purpose of this is to ensure that there can be a person's facial features and expressions on this piece of face, and that expression is the last expression of this person when he is peeled off. Then use hot sulfur sand to quickly cover the bloody skin of the face, and a small non-natural particle will be formed in the place where there are people's facial features, which can make this piece of human skin reproduce the expression on the face under certain circumstances.

The more I talked, the more I felt that this practice was indeed too cruel, that human face was full of resentment, and the hideous facial features were also distorted, and it must have been in unimaginable pain when it was skinned. Peeling off the face of a living person, and the person being flayed can even see their own appearance alive, this kind of scene is creepy just to think about.

I know that there were many vicious tortures in ancient times, and when it comes to torture and skinning, our ancestors can be described as experts. My country has one of the oldest histories of torture in the world and one of the last to disappear.

I've heard that there used to be a punishment called the "temporal body". This is a kind of peeling, when peeling, the spine is knifed, the back skin is divided into two halves, and the skin and muscles are slowly separated with a knife, and the wings of a butterfly are torn apart. There is another method of peeling, in which a person is buried in the earth, only one head is exposed, a cross is cut with a knife on the top of the head, the scalp is pulled apart, and mercury is poured into it. Due to the heavy gravity of mercury, it will pull the muscles and skin apart, and the person buried in the soil will writhe in pain, and will not be able to break free, and finally the body will jump out of the mouth of the congding, leaving only a piece of skin in the soil. After peeling off the skin, it was made into a two-sided drum and hung at the entrance of the yamen to show the ring.

The earliest skinning was done after death, and later developed into live skinning. Like similar torture, cannon branding, Ling Chi, car cracking, cooking, etc., are even more cruel. But as we see now, it is unheard of to find a way to retain the expression of a person after peeling off the skin.

At this moment, there was a faint "giggle" laugh behind us!