11. The Land of Zheba

There was a "poof", followed by a terrifying scream echoing through the temple, and the two people on the ground were completely in place, they had probably never seen such a monster before, until half of a person's body became a monster's mouth, scarlet blood bloomed in the air, and the monster actually let out a giggle while chewing on the man's body, and this strange laughter made me shiver in the cold temple.

I actually laughed, even if I was standing on a high place, I couldn't help but subconsciously shrink my head, but when I stuck my head out again, I found that the thing had erected its upper body, and the two people below had fainted.

"Are they all dead?"

"Yes." Asuke whispered in my ear, "That woman was scared to death. ”

When he said this, I was first startled, and when I looked over there, it was really bleeding, and my face had stretched to an unbelievable level, and I was really scared to death. The next thing began to put the two of them in their mouths little by little, and I almost didn't spit it out when I saw it, and hurriedly turned my head aside and didn't look at it. Leaning against the stone statue, he said, "That's how this thing was released?" ”

"I don't think you should care where those people came from and where their teammates went?" Asuke said to me, glancing at me.

"I don't think those people could have made it this by such a coincidence." Assuke was blunt at me, "You also said don't believe in any coincidences, so I can just rule this out?" You tell me? ”

"Yes!" I said perfunctorily, thinking to myself, "What is there to explore about this place?" Expedition teams and scientific expeditions should have searched all over here, and besides, there will be flowers here every year, come to visit and worship. So there must be some mystery? ”

"There must be a mystery here." At the same time, Asuke said to me.

"That's right." I nodded, and then asked, "Do you mention anything about the Simu Temple in your Yi epic?" ”

He thought for a moment, maybe it was too hard for a rough man like him to remember, "I don't know. Sure enough, he said, "However, I don't think there should be, after all, it's just a temple, and each place is built in a different way, you must know that although the same Yi nationality, our beliefs in Guizhou, Yunnan and other places are completely different, and who will record the secrets of a building in a place in the ancient epic?" ”

"Don't you think that the secret is not only handed down by your local elders, but by your ancestors?" I tried to remind him, "You're thinking about epics about sacrificial architecture. ”

Unfortunately, he still shook his head and said to me, "I really don't remember, there are too many things in here, and I am not the ones who covet me, how can I remember so much." ”

"But you said it wouldn't be under the temple, you think! If there is a place under the ground here that can accommodate 'more from Hado', why can't there be a place where another area can be accommodated? ”

"Like a mausoleum?" It dawned on me.

"That's right." Asuke and I hit it off, and then he looked down, "Just wait for him to leave, we're trying to find a way to sneak in." ”

"Hmm." I nodded, and also looked at the dynamics below, the temple at this time, it was like a slaughterhouse of Shura, the brains and blood painted amazing patterns on the walls, like the Grim Reaper's record of everything, and the fishy smell in the air became bigger and bigger, and gradually came up.

"I can't stand it here, I can't stand it if it goes on like this." I asked about it now, and I felt sick to my stomach and almost vomited.

"What's this, we kill pigs and cattle here is also the same taste." Asuke continued to watch his every move below, talking casually.

"You die, I don't care, I'm going to keep climbing." I looked up and saw that a ray of moonlight was shining straight into the sky above the temple, pouring down on the wings of the statue like a miracle.

"What do you want to do? You don't just want to climb up to the roof, do you? It's in disrepair, and now it's a little hole, and if you go up, don't you think it will collapse? Asuke hurriedly stopped me and persuaded me.

"No, no, I'm just going to climb out of the roof, not standing on the bricks, it's too uncomfortable here, if I do throw up, maybe he'll all find us dead here." I thought of the woman who was scared to death, and I couldn't help but shake my body when I thought of that elongated face, and climbed up on my own.

But don't say it, the back side of this statue is really easy to climb, it seems like it's for people to crawl, I climbed up with all my hands, condescending, I tried not to look at the scene below, looked up, the broken roof was less than half a meter above me, I climbed all the way to his ear along the statue of Jumang, sat down, and let the moonlight play lightly.

I raised my head and tried to breathe in the fresh air that had been left out of it, and suddenly I realized how good it was to be alive, even if I lost the purpose of my life, but at least I was still alive. As I was thinking, I suddenly saw that the roof leak was a little different, I stood up and touched the edge of the hole with my hand, and in an instant, I actually found that the edge of the hole was smooth and flat, what does this mean? There was a big wave in my heart, which showed that this thing was probably broken by the builder of this temple himself, and I didn't know what force drove me, I pressed the roof with my hand and felt that it was still strong, and then jumped up and jumped up.

Behind the temple was the huge tree that reached to the sky, and there was an open space on all sides, and I could see it as far as I could see, but what was it? I stepped cautiously on the roof and walked here.

After a while, I found that there was nothing special about this place, until I walked under the giant tree, and I suddenly saw that there was an arc-shaped tree hole three meters high above my head, the tree hole was obviously naturally formed, and there was no trace of artificial digging, but there was a little difference, during this three meters, I saw that there was a crossbar on the trunk of the tree at intervals that people could grasp with their hands, and I slowly climbed up and drilled into the tree hole, only to find that there was a hole in it.

"Why is it that every year there are people here who come to worship but no one repairs the defect in the roof of the idol facing the god?" I suddenly thought of such a question, and hurriedly exited the tree hole, jumped onto the roof, and ran to the point of the leak in three steps and two steps in one step, and called to Asuke below, "Hurry up, I've found the entrance." "Actually, it's not wise to call it like this, but there is no way I can't climb down, you must know that climbing down is much more difficult than climbing up, not to mention that I was climbing down after the same monster is gone, but I don't think I can wait now, because I am too excited.

A few minutes later, Asuke climbed up, looking at me with a black line, I didn't care so much and pulled him directly to the entrance of the tree hole, I climbed in first, inside is an artificial rotating staircase, the ladder rotates up, in this diameter needs a few adult men to embrace the big tree seems more than enough, Asuke is obviously stunned, stunned and then rushed towards the top frantically, I know what that means, this place we will be the first strange invaders, in that place has a historical heritage, There is the secret of the Yi ancestors, and everything about me. At least that's what we thought.

The inside of the trunk was hollow, I couldn't even figure out how it survived, or if the tree was already a fossil, we ran for a distance and I slowly felt dizzy, so I had to call out to Asuke to stop, the space inside the tree was small, unusually depressing, and we had to keep turning our heads and hovering I was even more sad. I couldn't help but vomit after a churn in my stomach, and after a while, I gradually felt a little better, and we continued to walk upward.

The tree seemed to stretch upwards endlessly, and after a while I asked helplessly, "Haven't you reached it after walking for so long?" ”

Asuke smiled, looked at me who was about to lie down tired, gave me a firm and disdainful look, and then said to me, "The tree hole is already small, it is easy to give illusions, in fact, I think we have only climbed a few hundred meters, this tree is the largest in this primeval forest, how long do you think we will have left?" ”

"What." I sat down against the trunk of the tree, and on my right side was the endless downward darkness, and I could only cling to my left, complaining, "I'm dying of hunger, can you get me something to eat?" ”

"You're dreaming." Asuke laughed, "How can there be food in this place." Why don't we go faster? Maybe there will be fruit on it? ”

"Grass." I couldn't help but scold: "What kind of hope is this, hoping to quench your thirst?" But he stood up scolding, and I knew that now was not the time to waste time here. Then I shuffled upward, I don't know how long it took, I didn't even want to ask the time, we finally saw another tree hole?

We were all stunned, there was no road on it, obviously at the end, and our staircase was facing a passage that stretched horizontally, and Asuke walked in first with a torch and no ink, and I saw that this place was surrounded by old bark and tree patterns, and it was another tree pole, and from our route, it seemed that this was still the branch of the giant tree that had taught the sky, should we go on like this?

Just as the thought of giving up appeared in my mind, suddenly the torch of Asuke, who was walking in the front, shone on something, and I followed him up and found that it was actually a corpse.

I don't know how long it was, but there was not much left of the corpse's weathered clothes, and all that could be seen was the pile of white bones. "It's our Yi people's flowers, here are some straws, it should be their hats."

"Why can't it be someone else?"

"Who's going to bring a hat here?" Asuke said, glancing at the darkness in the distance and frowning, "We seem to have broken into the wizard's forbidden place. ”

"Isn't this the place we're coming to?" I raised an eyebrow.

"But don't you think it's strange? Why do they die here, why do they sit here? ”

"It shouldn't be sitting." I crouched down and fiddled with the pile of bones with my hands, and a rusty dagger was revealed among the bones, "He was killed here." ”

"How is that possible?" Asuke snatched the dagger from my hand and looked at it and suddenly fell silent. "No, no." He seemed to be a little demonic.

"Why not? You also know that there are only two kinds of people who can come here, the first one to receive the inheritance, and the other is to give the inheritance, either the master kills the apprentice, or the apprentice kills the master. I said coldly, "It seems that you are not very calm here, one Ali, and the other is a sworn teacher." ”

"How do you know it's a pledge?" Asuke suddenly fell to his knees weakly.

"An old man over half a hundred years old who is close to death will kill his apprentice? Why? Besides, don't be naΓ―ve to think that your village is full of naΓ―ve people, you must know that as long as people are greedy, no one will resist their selfish desires. I looked down at him, I guess Asuke must know who this man is? And it also seems to know who the murderer is? It's even possible that the killer isn't dead, but that's not what I need to care about.

"I'll go ahead first, and think for yourself. I'm hungry. I said to him without looking back, it seems that many people in this place want to come in?

The light poured in, and I stood at the mouth of the cave, and everything below was unobstructed, not a forest, nor a mountain, but a clearing, an open space exactly the same as before we came to the temple, except for the majestic temple and the towering sacred tree, which the outside world could never imitate.

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