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I said, "Our people use incense, candles, water and wine, and they sacrifice, do they use the heads of outsiders?" ”

Zhou Xuanye shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not, that stone pillar is used for sacrifice, and the heads around here are all placed according to the specifications of the burial, so it is not the head of the captive, they should have other sacrificial methods." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" and continued to walk up.

Then, with each turn on the first floor, we can see the same space, but when we turn to the third floor, it suddenly changes. I saw that in the center of the circular stone chamber, it was no longer a sacrificial stone pillar, but a very strange thing.

It was a large, stone, monk's wooden fish, standing in the center, and if you looked closely, there was a gap in the middle of the wooden fish, which could obviously be opened or moved.

"What's that?" As soon as I said a word, Tan Jian had already jumped down the stone steps and walked directly to the center of the stone room to observe, this girl as a corpse king, how can her curiosity be heavier than mine, to be exact, probably the desire to explore. When some people are curious, they will ponder and explore, while some people, when they are curious, will never act. It is said that the former is often the standard of successful people.

Well, to be honest, I really can't see any success in Tan Guimao, I'm really ashamed of his desire to explore.

Immediately after, Zhou Xuanye and I also walked over. Walking in to take a look, but found that there are many patterns on the surface of this stone and wood fish, these patterns have been washed and polished by the sea water all the year round, in fact, it is already very light, but the shape is regular and rigorous, very abstract, as if it is composed of countless geometric figures, so when they are connected together, densely covered with this stone and wood fish, it is still quite eye-catching.

I said, "These islanders, if you make such a stone and wood fish and put it here, can it be that they still believe in Buddhism, so they knock on the wood fish here when they have nothing to do?" ”

Tan Jian ignored me, turned around and looked around the circular grotto, which was different from the previous two stone chambers, and there were some stone paintings carved on the walls here, the ancient carving style without layers, which was almost exactly the same as the sacrificial stone pillars below.

At this moment, I felt that the pattern on the stone and wood fish was too different in style, and it gave me a more post-modern feeling, as if it was from the hands of two different civilizations, highlighting a contrast between China and the West.

Soon, my idea was confirmed. The stone paintings on the surrounding stone walls, although they are simple and look a little difficult, but they very vividly depict the origin of this stone and wood fish.

The stone paintings depict waves, lightning, torrential rain, and islanders hiding in their houses to take shelter from the rain. The islanders in the painting are generally slender and long, broad-shouldered, with big hands and feet, and they can't see a fat one, which is probably related to their living environment and living habits.

Not only that, but on this stone painting, there is also a primitive map, that is, a complete map of the islands of the Sea Snake Country. This picture gives me a pretty shocking feeling, the entire Sea Snake Country is actually made up of nearly a dozen large and small islands in series. The distance between the islands is not far, and most of the seafarers can swim directly to swim there, and since most of the seafarers do not wear clothes and only cover their lower bodies, swimming is also a daily routine for them.

The higher-ranking islanders wore cloth or silk clothing, which seemed to be a product of maritime trade.

In addition, the exchange of goods between the islands is by boat, like a Venice on the sea.

The whole island is very large, and the overall shape is like a big bird with wings spread, and Ghost Island is located in the part of the big bird's wings, an island that resembles a five-pointed star, which is quite eye-catching.

Immediately after, after the storm, a very large ship appeared in the stone paintings. The islanders of the Sea Snake Country are really not very successful in art, so the ship has only the outline of a large ship, and the specific details are not highlighted, but the bow and stern have no hook angles, and it seems that it is about an oriental ship, which is likely to be a Chinese merchant ship at that time.

The islanders were very resistant to outsiders, but were very welcoming to Chinese merchant ships, presumably because of their long-standing trade relations.

The people on this Chinese merchant ship, their eyes shrugged, the corners of their mouths drooped, and they looked very tired, as if they had experienced something.

Immediately afterward, they lifted a stone wood fish off the boat, handed it to the islanders, and drove away.

This stone fish has always been placed in the gathering place of the islanders, and it is easy for people to get close. It looked like some precious gift, and it looked like the people on the merchant ship had been deposited in the hands of the islanders, so it was protected.

The content of the latter paintings is a bit thought-provoking, because the merchant ship suspected of being Chinese has returned, but there is no one on the merchant ship. This merchant ship ran aground on the shore.

After the disappearance of the people on the merchant ship, the islanders began to study the stone and wood fish, and of course they also found that this could be opened, but it was probably kept for people before, so it was not opened.

Now, the people on the merchant ship have mysteriously disappeared, and the islanders have opened the stone and wood fish.

I stared at the last picture, and couldn't help but widen my eyes, and among the stone and wood fish, there was a person lying there, and it was the one we had ever seen, the mermaids, which are commonly known as mermaids, of course, in fact, they were not beautiful at all.

The moment the stone wood fish opened, the merman inside opened his eyes and tried to jump up from it, but the islanders turned off the stone wood fish at once. Finally, this stone wood fish was placed here.

The three of us looked at each other, and I couldn't help but swallow my saliva and said, "In other words, there is a merman in this?" "The last time I was in the lake of Thundering Valley, I still remember the experience of dealing with mermaids, this thing came ashore, in fact, it was not too scary, but their voices could make Zhou Xuanye's personality abnormal, and release the crazy master's personality.

Normal people are absolutely in pain when they hear its voice.

Myths and legends say that the mermaids guide merchant ships with their singing every second, and only after experiencing it can they know that they use their terrifying voices to defeat people's sanity.

After I finished speaking, Tan Jian said without being salty; "It's supposed to be a shark corpse now."

This is obviously nonsense, I don't know how many years, the merman is out of the water again, it must be a merman corpse.

As he spoke, Tan Jian reached out to push the stone and wood fish, and I was surprised: "Boss, what are you doing?" ”

Tan Jian said: "Dig up shark oil." ”

Zhou Xuanye immediately patted his head and said: "Yes, this thing is very precious, the emperors in ancient times wanted to get shark oil, they had to form a navy to go to sea, and they often could get a shark to scrape shark oil." The baby is delivered to the door and cannot be given up. ”

"...... "Brother Zhou, didn't you use to be glorious and treat money like dung!"

The two brothers and sisters began to move the stone and wood fish while talking, trying to open it, but this thing was very heavy, and the two of them made it for a long time, and they were almost tired, so I had to follow to take a hand, and the three of them worked together to make use of the strength of the milk, and finally pushed the upper half of the stone and wood fish to the side slowly.

As the stone wood fish opened, the situation inside was instantly exposed.

I saw that in this stone and wood fish, there was a shark with a fishtail lying on the body, the merman this thing, the lower body is the same, it is said that the genitals are hidden in the tail, and the male and female are flat-chested, so I can't see the male and female.

It's not quite like the last time we saw the shark in Thundering Valley, or maybe the shark is also divided into regions? The mermaids in different seas also have different appearances. This mermaid curls up in a C-shape inside the wooden fish, and the scales are red, which reminds me of the Arowana raised by Tan Blade.

The hands are very large and long, with webbing and sharp claws, and there are no scales on the upper body, but there is a shiny feeling, the epidermis should have some special tissue, and the face is extremely similar to that of humans, except that there are fine scales on the forehead, eyelids and jaws, and the appearance is difficult to distinguish between male and female.

I thought what I saw would be a greasy and dry corpse, but I didn't expect that the merman in this stone and wood fish would be lifelike, and I couldn't help but be startled for a while. Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye obviously didn't expect it, the two glanced at each other, a little vigilant.

Soon, Zhou Xuanye took out the speargun from his waist and twisted the screw next to it, so that the hook it put away was exposed, forming a harpoon with a hook. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye put the harpoon on the merman's neck, probably worried that there would be something strange about the merman, and motioned to me and Tan Jian to collect the shark oil.

I think it's a bit of a pressure, collecting shark oil, in fact, I have to cut open this shark, but this thing is just like a living thing, and it's really difficult to attack it.

Another reason that makes me feel uncomfortable is that in the past, Zhou Xuanye would never do such a thing, he has always adhered to the concept that the dead are great, and the merman, according to modern evolutionary inference, can be said to be a branch of human evolution, similar to the ancient ape or savage.

Amway, Zhou Xuanye would not attack it, but now, he is still harpooning the corpse.

Eighty percent saw what I was thinking, Zhou Xuanye glanced at me, pondered for a moment, put away the harpoon, and said: "Forget it, in fact, shark oil is of little use to us, at most we can exchange some things with others." It's rare that this merman's body is so well preserved, so don't want it. ”

With that, he put away the harpoon and motioned for us to put the stone fish back.

Tan Jian didn't have any opinion on this, in fact, for a human contact cleanliness like him, although this merman was not a real person, he was still not very happy to let him dissect such a thing.

At that moment, the three of us tried to close the sarcophagus, but at this moment, the mermaid in the wooden fish opened his eyes violently.

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