I climbed ashore at the same time as Qianjue, people came to rest after completing the task, and I came up to ventilate in embarrassment, seeing Qianjue sitting on the shore, I couldn't hold on, so I simply sat next to him, and my legs were still in the water.

"Am I really wrong?" I asked myself and talked to myself.

"No, I'm sure you're not wrong, but we haven't found out at the moment, probably because our method is wrong." Qian Jue looked at the water surface thoughtfully and said quietly.

"You believe me?" I was a little surprised, all along, I thought that Qianjue was accommodating to me before going into the water with me to look for it, and the purpose was probably to let me recognize the facts by myself, and I was just dead.

Qian Jue blinked his eyes, his expression was a little cute, "Of course I believe you, otherwise why would I waste time here with you, it's just that we haven't learned anything at the moment, boss, tell me what you think." ”

I thought that at this point both of us were exhausted, and if we rushed into the water again, in case we encountered something in the water, we didn't even have the spirit to run for our lives and fight in the water, so I told him what I thought in my heart, but when I finished speaking, he actually asked me what the basis was, to be honest, in my place, most of the news is unfounded, a lot of it is hearsay, some are true, some are false, true and false are mixed together, this is the rule of our road.

My idea is actually very simple, so simple that it can be described in one sentence: "Underground fortifications, above-ground sacrificial temples, and there may be even bigger secrets hidden in the mountains behind them." ”

According to some of the news I have heard, let's not talk about the truth or falsehood, but about the matter.

Legend has it that a long time ago, this long time was probably counted in "thousand years", when the Yellow River often flooded, after each flood. A large amount of sediment carried by the water of the Yellow River from the upper reaches will accumulate in the terrain gently, slowly sink, and over time it will form a plain area, and then there will be human beings living on this plain, forming villages, and then there will be the development of cities. And then there was the Yellow River culture.

However, most of the places where the Yellow River flows down are mountains, and some are still dangerous shoals like sharp turns, due to the special underground environment, there are often undercurrents or whirlpools in those places, and passing ships often go missing in the case of unclear geographical location, once or twice or three times. More and more accidents, unknown local residents will associate this natural phenomenon with ghosts and gods, what Yellow River ghosts, the Yellow River corpse, the Yellow River giant coffin and so on rumors have come out one after another, in order to ensure the safety of the ships and people and goods out, the local people began to look for solutions, some gods began to be active in the Yellow River area. Various sacrificial ceremonies are endless, but the disappearance of boats in the Yellow River inlet still occurs. The villagers were angry and also sprinkled their grievances on some people who were said to have a bad life, life and water backlash, etc., and these people were often the daughters of poor people who had no family background, after all, in ancient times, boys occupied the most important position in a family. Naturally, those gods were not willing to put their ideas on those boys.

At first, the sacrificial ritual was only used with some fruits, but later it evolved into the use of cattle and sheep, and then even the use of people.

Dressed in a white dress and holding a ritual rune written by the village chief or a larger official, she sat on a special wooden boat and waited until it was almost time. The strong men who escorted the wooden boat would withdraw and let the wooden boat drift down the current to the death zone, and after the wooden boat sank, the sacrificial ceremony would be completed, and then there would be a few days or even a dozen days of good weather in the local area.

Of course, from the perspective of current scientific knowledge, this is just the rainy season and flood season of the Yellow River, and the good weather is because the flood season has not yet arrived or the intermittent period of heavy rain during the rainy season, but the people at that time did not understand this, they simply thought that this was the result of human sacrifice, so the ritual of living human sacrifice in the Yellow River has been popular for hundreds of years.

During the Han Dynasty, the culture of the Yellow River progressed, but the local people still maintained the custom of sacrificing to the river god every year, and later, a woman named Ruoren came to a place called Huze, this place I had found on the map, but there is no record of this place in the existing information, but then I got a clue from my predecessors, I didn't take it seriously at that time, just as a story to listen, now I think about it, that place is actually in today's Sichuan section, as for more specific, there is no following.

When the woman named Ruoren came to the lake, she was the first to be chosen as a sacrifice, but this girl from another place was not afraid, but on the night before the ceremony, she killed all the men in the village, including boys, and even the livestock raised by the farmers, as long as they were male, and did not leave any one alive.

Early the next morning, the thick smell of blood permeated the entire lake, and the women who woke up from their sleep saw their own men and children in different places, and for a while, crazy crazy, stupid, stupid, suicide, throwing into the well, and a village disappeared because of this woman of unknown origin.

In the decades that followed, the place called Kozawa seemed to disappear, and the original surviving villagers of the village disappeared as well.

What I said is a little unclear, but I can't be blamed for that, after all, I just heard what people said, that's all.

Qian Jue listened, this information was like data, after his brain CPU told the operation, Qian Jue seemed to understand something, he said: "Do you remember the swallow tower we saw under the West Night Ancient City?" ”

I was said to be a clever man, and what does my heart say has to do with it?

Qian Jue asked, "Do you remember what is in the Swallow Tower?" ”

I sat there and kicked the water twice, the water splashing, "Fragment, prophecy, it's her." ”

Qian Jue showed a hint of a smile, "Prophecy, princess of the Western Night Kingdom." ”

"How could it be her, prophecy, if people, transliterated can be said to be in the past, but this prophecy princess is just a legendary figure, and has not been recorded in the official history, but folk rumors say that the prophecy princess died of illness at the age of seventeen, so that the harmony could not be completed, and almost caused a war."

Qian Jue looked at me expressionlessly and said, "If it is really this prophecy princess, then some of the unexplained phenomena we encountered before can be explained." ”

"What do you mean?" I say.

Qianjue looked at his watch and said, "Time is running out, I'll explain to you later, I'll go down with you to check the rest of the area, if you don't find it, we'll go out quickly." ”

"Why?" To be honest, I still don't understand why he keeps looking at the time, and says it's running out.

Qian Jue pointed to the hands of the watch and said, "Can't you see it?" The hands of the watch are retrograde. ”

"Ahh I screamed in my heart, but I didn't scream.

I looked at my watch, staring at the dial for a full minute, the second hand reversed, the time went backwards, and everything seemed to go backwards.

I didn't understand what that meant, but I also felt uneasy, turning back time, which meant that if we went back in time, we would become babies and disappear. (To be continued.) )