Blind Chen sighed and instructed the big head to try to cut off the chain behind the thousand-year-old female corpse and put her down. Lao Wu said softly: "This is a ...... for studying the funeral customs of ancient Yunnan" He shook his head only halfway through the words, and did not object after all. People's hearts are flesh and blood, and no matter how persistent historical research is, it can only take a back seat in the face of human nature.

The big head didn't hesitate for a moment, found a raised stone wall to cushion, and slashed a few times, no matter how strong the rusty iron chain was, it couldn't withstand the brute force of the big head's body, and it was cut off in two or three strokes, and then the iron chain tied to the female corpse was untied and pulled out, and thrown aside. Lao Wu personally placed the woman's corpse in the recess of the stone wall, and the blind man Chen fumbled and put a towel over her face, and whispered a few words that no one could understand, which was regarded as a hasty burial of this poor woman after more than a thousand years.

After finishing this section, everyone suddenly felt a little relieved of conscience, and when they stepped down the stone steps, they had not yet walked ten meters away, only to see two ancient corpses appear in the stone wall next to them, leaning side by side in the shallow stone wall depression, their heads were cut off and placed at their feet, and the black and brown on their clothes did not know if it was the blood stains of the year.

Lao Wu leaned down and looked at it for a while, and when he straightened up, his expression was a little solemn, and he nodded: "The disposal and placement of the two corpses may be a form of burial in the ancient southwest region of the Two Jin Dynasty, and it is related to the mysterious worldview of these kings. ”

The feeling of indignation and depression unconsciously came to my heart, which is different from visiting ancient corpses in museums, each corpse maintains the posture of the last moment before death, after more than a thousand years, you can still imagine their pain back then, and the impact of facing the death of the same kind makes people forget their fear, and their hearts fall with an indescribable sadness and sadness.

When we walked down again, there were more and more ancient corpses of different shapes on the stone wall on our side, as if they were descending step by step to the legendary eighteen layers of hell, some of them were nailed to the stone wall with extremely thick steel nails through their chests and backs, a pair of dry black feet hung above our heads, and some were lying naked and lying on their sides in a few depressions, their heads either unknown or placed on their sides, without exception, all these dried corpses did not have even a collar of straw mats that wrapped the corpses, and all kinds of tragic conditions were unbearable to see.

After only walking for five or six minutes, there were already dozens of ancient corpses encountered, and Lao Wu said softly: "I have never seen this kind of human martyrdom on a scale that I have never seen before, and I have not seen the burial of chariots and horses until now, it seems that the customs of Miaojiang in that period are really very different from those in the Central Plains." ”

As if in order to fulfill Lao Wu's words, next to the stone steps, the corpses were next to each other, and gradually began to be densely packed, the skeletons of some corpses had been scattered, and the miserable white human bones were scattered at our feet. ”

There is a short flat stone road in front, after walking the stone steps along the goaf cylindrical ore body spiral downward direction has not changed, but gradually flattened, the corpses are still so many that all the eyes can see, not to mention the creepy perception, these with the corpse mountain and the sea of bones filled, unheard of large-scale human martyrdom, so that everyone's heart is heavy uncomfortable, I originally had the reverence for the heroic halo of the king of Luo Dian to dominate the country, but also has long been replaced by contempt and disgust, the heart said that the tomb of this kind of person, should have been stolen and sent out, the tomb robbers did a bad thing, I am afraid that the tomb owner will have more bad things during his lifetime.

People's adaptability is extremely strong, and they no longer feel afraid when they get used to this environment, and everyone chooses a place where there are not many corpses to sit down and rest for a while, and they are shocked by this scene for a while, and they are all a little gloomy and silent. Zhang Xuan asked Lao Wu softly, "Old Wu, so many corpses are placed layer by layer along the side of the spiraling stone steps, is there any specific metaphor?" ”

Lao Wu seemed to be reminded by Zhang Xuan's words, staring at Zhang Xuan motionless with a fixed expression, and after a while, he suddenly exclaimed: "Is it the Ten Thousand Corpses Tower?" This is not an ordinary funeral form, it is likely to be the Tower of Ten Thousand Corpses! Saying that, Huo Ran stood up, walked to a corpse, dug in the mouth of the skull for a long time, took out something, wiped it in his hand, and looked at it in front of his eyes, which was reflected by the dazzling beam of the miner's lamp.

Lao Wu squinted his eyes for a while, his expression softened slightly, "Sure enough, it is a 'Vi Ta He' god, the name is borrowed from the Sanskrit title in the Buddhist scriptures, this is the patron saint of a certain cult in the Nanyang area, according to legend, it is born from the hybrid of man and beast, and it is said to be one of the incarnations of Vishnu in Buddhism, in fact, it has nothing to do with Buddhism, and in the eyes of cult believers, there is an evil god with an immortal dharma body." ”

Everyone gathered over, only to see a small jade statue in the palm of Lao Wu's hand, although the carving was a little rough, but he could see the form of a half-man and a half-beast, baring his teeth and grinning with a very vicious and fierce appearance, and his eyes protruding outwards were like taking people's souls. It's strange to say, as soon as I stared at those eyes, I couldn't help but shudder, as if those eyes really had a demonic power to hook the soul, and quickly turned my head to avoid it, and I vaguely felt familiar in my heart, as if I had seen it somewhere.

Zhang Xuan sighed, "This cult seems to have borrowed a lot of things from Indian Buddhism, and the tower is the architectural form of Buddhism. The spiral staircase naturally formed by mining underground ore veins is too large, and the burial of the group is too bloody, and the number of corpses that can be seen all the way down from above is probably no less than a thousand. ”

The new historical discovery still made Lao Wu a little excited, "If it weren't for the influence of the cult, it would be almost impossible for such a large number of sacrifices and burials in ancient and modern China and foreign countries." This cult, known in Bahasa Malaysia, was once prevalent in much of Southeast Asia in the 14th century, but was forcibly exterminated by regimes throughout Southeast Asia because it was so cruel. ”

"There are many mysteries and strange things about the Uzla religion, the most notorious of which is the 'Tower of Ten Thousand Corpses', which is built of white stone, and the walls of the tower are covered with corpses, and there are hundreds of corpses in historical records. The metaphor of the Tower of Ten Thousand Corpses is to take the lives of others and pray to the hell god in the cult, hoping to resurrect after death. Judging from the statue of the evil god held in the mouth of the ancient corpse and the way in which the person is placed on the side of the tower-shaped spiral stone steps, this is a 'Ten Thousand Corpses Tower' of the Zila Sect, which has been discovered for the first time in China, but it is not known whether it is the origin or variant of this cult sacrifice ceremony. ”

After listening to Lao Wu's words, I instantly reacted to something in my mind, and I felt "Geden" in my heart, as if there was a layer of indescribable meaning that was almost pierced, and I couldn't wait to ask: "Old Wu, do you say that this kind of cult ritual also has the meaning of pursuing immortality?" ”