Passing through the dense forest, in front of us is a towering giant tree and the ancient and mysterious temple under the tree, the temple is a square setting, without too much decoration, in front of it stands a large stone stele, the stele is carved with various lines, I caressed it with my hand while feeling the delicate lines while feeling the baptism of time, I don't know how long it has been standing here.

Walking past the stele, you will see the moonlit temple, with two large round stones on each side of it, and several red cords tied to the stones, which are tied together and meet at the top of the temple and finally lead to the top of the tree, which is submerged into darkness.

"What is this?" After a long time, I asked Asuke in a daze, "What is this?" ”

"I don't know." Ah Zhu suddenly knelt down and bowed to the inside of the temple, "I never knew there was a Simu temple in here, and it was in such a deep jungle. He grabbed me by the collar excitedly, and kept tugging at me, his tone trembling a little, "I can't imagine that those wizards have been guarding this temple all along." ”

"What did you say?" I don't understand anymore? Is this thing man-made? But if I see a temple like this in a park forest in the city, or in a tourist attraction it is normal, but I am now in a primeval forest? Wait, wizard? Could it be that this is it?

"You got it?" Seeing the change in my eyes, Asuke said happily, "Do you really know this place?" You are truly a messenger of God. ”

"Khan, you're thinking too much, is it that you have seen so many unbelievable things in one day and started to pick up the lost faith, speaking of this nonsense, I'm just saying that this is the place where those wizards sit." I squinted at him kneeling on the ground and said disdainfully.

But he ignored my contempt, kept kneeling and bowed down while explaining to me, "This is our sacrifice in ancient times, usually chosen to be completed under the largest tree in the forest, we find the tree and position it as a sacred tree, set up a temple under the tree, and place two stones in the middle, the stone means yin and yang, that is, it represents all things in the world, and then the ancestors will hold the red thread on the stone and intersect together, which represents the intersection of yin and yang, that is, the birth of all things, and then pull this red rope all the way to the top of the sacred tree, Straight to the top of the tree, in order to show the aura of heaven and earth, but to breed people, animals and crops. ”

"I see." I nodded, "This is where the sorcerers sacrifice, they come to the forest every year without permission, so the red thread on the stone is still there. ”

"It's only once a year." Asuke said to me, "I've heard from the older generation that we were both very young, and when we were very young, we were brought to this place by our parents, and I didn't think that we would finally see each other now. Simu Temple. ”

"By the way, when he mentioned it, I thought why it was called Simu Temple?"

"You should know this!" After kowtowing a few times, Asuke stood up again and said to me, "The god of Simu, Jumang, we are sacrificing to the tree, of course, we are sacrificing to him, in the ancient mythology of the Yi people, there is a mythical tree called Fusang in a certain forest in the world, and the top of that sacred tree is Jumang. ”

"Oh."

"So you see." I looked at the place where his finger was pointing, and saw a black statue standing quietly in the gate of the temple, with a bird's head and a human body, a square face, and a long whip in his hand, looking up proudly in the distance.

"Jumang?" I looked at the statue that seemed to come from an ancient and said to myself, "So. The fast stele also has something to do with it? ”

"That's right." Asuke said to me, then turned his head to look in the direction of the temple, "Do you want to go in?" ”

"Don't worry, since we can find here, then there must be something in here that is guiding us, so let's take a look around."

"Okay!" I promise that as he wanders around, it is obviously not a special case to have a temple here, and I don't think this existence is meaningless, but there will be nothing in such a simple temple? The previous exploration team should have found this place, but its scientific research value is definitely not within the range of their economic acceptance, you must know that the budget for a day is very expensive, not to mention that it has to change with the change of weather.

"And could those people be here too?" I looked down to find some evidence to prove my idea. But suddenly he noticed a ravine-like mark underneath one of the round stones. What is that? I crouched down and flicked my hand through the dirt around him, when a bronze chain slowly appeared in front of me.

"Come and see the footprints of people here, and they are definitely not from our village." Asuke said to me suddenly, in a suppressed voice.

"How many?" I didn't look back, but I looked at the chain intently, as if by magic, and I reached out and slowly pulled it out.

"What are you doing?" Asuke saw my actions and yelled.

"Huh?" I looked back at him, "What's there." ”

"Squeak" Before my words fell, I heard the grinding sound of iron tools, this sound was surprisingly strange in the moonlight darkness, I looked at the face on the other side that had been distorted to the extreme, and suddenly thought of something? But it was too late, and the chains shrank toward the ground at an incredible speed, as if they were alive.

"That's the chains of the evil gods, are you looking for death?" Asuke roared. "Our ancestors crushed Bahá's tail into the ground with a stone so that he could not come out and do so, and this stone was the West African stone in front of the temple. What the hell do you see if you have blood on your hands? ”

I hurriedly spread out my palm, but found that I don't know when the palm of my right hand was cut, and now the blood was flowing out of my hand, and finally dripped on the ground, submerged into the ravine, and continued to flow underground with the chain. "What's going on?" I exclaimed that I really didn't know how my hand was cut, could it be in the wetland?

"Don't talk nonsense, this thing is handed down by the ancestors, and there is definitely nothing in it."

Asuke was only halfway through his words, and I saw the ground around the stone crack in vain, and I jumped away from the side with my eyes and hands, and at the same time threw away the torch and flashlight, and in a few seconds a deep cave emerged, and I grabbed the edge of the deep hole with one hand, fishing, I lowered my head, and felt the wind gusting in the darkness.

"Pull me up, there's something down there." I couldn't hold back the fear of the unknown, and I yelled at Asuke with a twisted face.

As soon as I called Asuke, he came back to his senses and pulled up, and at the same time I saw a colorful head sticking out of the cave, and it really looked like a snake's head. The green pupils glowed in the darkness, like two ghost fires, and then slowly its body also emerged, with a swollen neck and a fat body, if it weren't for the length of the body, I wouldn't have thought it was a footless reptile at all.

"Damn, look, let's go." Ah Zhu didn't say much, pulled me up, and ran to the temple, "It's okay for you to have a lot of trouble, damn it." ”

"How do I know, then, that you don't believe in command? Then I'll tell you it's fate, believe it or not. ”

Asuke glared at me and yelled, "I believe you." ”

Not long after we have rushed into the temple, backhand lock the door, and then look at the temple inside the layout is very simple, it seems that the political axe has not allocated much money, in the middle is a high three or four zhang Jumang statue, in front of him is an offering table, on the table put a few stones similar to food and fruit, looking to the side, there are two large red cloths each, the red cloth moves with the air flow at the moment we open the door, floating, in the dilapidated temple as if there is an invisible ghost.

"Boom." At this time, the impact of Baha from the outside could already be heard outside the door: "What? ”

"Shh Asuke covered my mouth. Then he put the torch to his mouth and said to me, "There is someone in the house." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately my heart was like a mirror, these people must have been separated from the big team, so they were left here, so they must also have full fear in this strange and strange place, so just take advantage of it a little. I then took a look at the temple, the walls were covered with frescoes, and there was a shrine high on all sides, and the only thing of value to me now was the statue of the god.

"Let's climb up, get out of the way first, and wait for that monster to eat those people."

"What?" Asuke obviously didn't expect me to say this, and at the same time I was also stunned, I thought Asuke was trying to use these people as bait, "But I can't care about that much." If people have no faith in life, they are all floating clouds. "I didn't care about Asuke, and I climbed up the stone platform first, and when I climbed up, I saw that the stone platform where the statue of Jumang was placed was actually in the shape of two dragons. I stepped on the dragon's head and climbed behind the sentence, and when I looked up from here, I felt more and more like what I felt. High, by the way, it's a word high, I put out the torch, put it in my pocket, hold the flashlight in one hand, and crawl towards the top of the idol little by little, and soon I reached the height of his wings, and I looked down at the same time, and found that the guy Asuke was gone, and at this angle I just saw two people behind the red curtain, they trembled and rolled their bodies and hugged there, it seemed to be a man and a woman.

"Your uncle, you really left me alone." Suddenly, Asuke's voice came out.

I looked down with a wild smile on my face, "You're not a saint like Lao Tzu." ”

"Don't mess with me. Listening to this sound, the door seemed to be about to be smashed. ”

Sure enough, I listened to the sound of the toothy boy, and then a huge worm-like creature crawled in little by little, crawling, not wriggling, for I could see rows of calves under the fat body, like centipedes, and I couldn't help but vomit when I looked at the monster like him.

At this time, Ah Zhu had already settled on the statue, this guy found a comfortable position to lean on it, and said to me without looking at the situation below, "There is such a legend about the origin of the snake in the Yi folk: a long time ago, there was a monster that sucked and ate people, and it would eat one person every day, and people were terrified but helpless. Later, an outsider came up with a way to get rid of the monster. He tied people to the central pillar of the house in advance, prepared a large basket, which was filled with wool and other easy things, when the monster appeared outside the door with a bloody mouth, suddenly opened the door, put a red-hot iron tool into the big basket, the monster sucked hard, the basket sucked away, the basket burned in the monster's body, and in an instant, the monster was killed, the body turned to ashes, only the tail remained. People pressed its tail under a large boulder, and later, the monster's tail turned into a snake. ”

"You mean this thing is the ancestor of the snake? Damn it, such an ugly ancestor. I laughed.

"The reason why people press the tail of the monster under the stone is precisely because the stone has a hard vitality, hoping that it can suppress the evil power and protect all beings. People pinned their hopes on the stone to personify it, but it didn't happen, and the life of the monster was continued in another form. ”

"All that West African stone?" I asked.

"Yes, the Yi people taboo the appearance of snakes in their homes, believing that it is a bad omen. Calling this phenomenon "West Africa", such as the snake entering the house, thinking that "West Africa" has arrived, often asks about Bi Mo, and invites Bi Mo to his home to do the exorcism ceremony, that is, "West Africa map", thinking that letting Bi Mo turn over the scriptures can reduce or even dissolve the power of "West Africa" to make trouble. And the stone is also the reason for repression, once me. ”

While we were still talking, there was a heart-rending cry below, and then a thick smell of blood wafted up.

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