We can't think too much, the water has already rushed the bamboo raft to the beast gate in the cave, and the natural stone beads hanging in the air are extremely low, so we quickly leaned down and clinged to the bamboo raft to avoid the stone beads in the middle.

Just as the bamboo raft was about to float into it, the bright searchlight on the front of the bamboo raft flashed twice, and it could no longer light up, probably because the battery ran out of power due to the long continuous use.

I thought to myself: "Oops, I ran out of batteries at this time, the cave in front of me is very weird, I can't be careless here, I must change the battery first, so as not to crash into the stones and capsize the boat after entering." ”

I raised my fist to the fat man and Shirley Yang in the back, made a stop gesture, and asked the two of them to help me stop the bamboo raft at the entrance of the hole, and then used the bamboo pole in my hand as a brake to insert it into the water, and stopped the bamboo raft, fortunately, the water flow here is slow, otherwise a bamboo pole alone really can't support the weight of the whole bamboo raft.

I replaced the battery of the bright searchlight and made it light up again, and under the illumination of the orange strong light column, I saw the natural beast head formed by the lava rock, like a strange-shaped dragon head, its shape has been blurred, and it is impossible to see whether there are traces of human processing.

The fat man tapped me on the shoulder from behind, signaling that they had removed the balance pole, and I pulled the bamboo pole out of the water, and the raft followed the current into the cave from the strange and ugly dragon's mouth.

This stretch of river is extremely narrow, but deep, straight forward, and we poke the stones on the wall of the cave with bamboo poles to slow down the raft, and take a closer look at the stone figurines hanging upside down in the cave with their heads and feet.

The figurines are all in a tied posture with their hands behind their backs, and due to the dampness and coldness of the underground environment, the surface of the figurines has taken on a grayish-brown color, and the outlines of their facial features are completely blurred, as if they are covered with a layer of "burn"1.

From the appearance, basically can not distinguish the male and female appearance of the stone figurines, only from the figure, there are tall and short, fat and thin, it seems that in addition to the prime of life, there are some young people who have not yet grown up, and it is not according to the unified standard of the system, completely different from the figurines who accompanied the burial in the Qin and Han dynasties, they are all sergeants and figurines.

On the top of the cave, there are green copper chains hanging these stone figurines on both sides, some of the chains have fallen off, and some are empty, probably for a long time, many stone figurines have fallen into the water. A stone figurine is like a hanged ghost, hanging less than a foot from the water, in this dark and dark cave, how to suddenly see these guys, how not to make people frightened.

Shirley Yang asked us to stop the bamboo raft first, and by the waterway, there was a stone figurine that fell off the copper chain and fell to the ground, Shirley Yang pointed to the stone figurines and said: "Although these stone figurines are vague in appearance, they look a little like the Han Dynasty from the outline of the hair clothes." I'll go down and take a look. As he spoke, he adjusted the head light circle of his mountaineering helmet to be more concentrated, jumped off the bamboo raft, and squatted down to look at the stone figurines on the ground.

I reminded Shirley Young: "Wear gloves and be careful that there are bacteria on them, if you are infected by bacteria, even if you do 10,000 artificial respirations, you will not be saved." ”

Shirley Yang waved her hand, let me and the fat man not distract her, she seemed to have found something on the stone figurines, put on rubber gloves at the moment, scraped the stone figurines twice with the paratrooper knife, and then reversed the paratrooper knife and raised it in front of her eyes, sniffed lightly with her nose, turned her head to us and said: "This humanoid figurine does not seem to be made of stone." ”

The fat man said strangely: "It's not a stone? Is it still muddy? ”

I think of a scene on the highway by the Lancang River, sitting on a bamboo raft and saying to Shirley Yang, "So you say that a living person did it? You cut open a part with a knife to see what's inside the figurine. The human skin map clearly records that there are several burial pits near the tomb of King Xian, but the specific location is not marked, maybe this Longkou Cave is one of the burial pits. ”

Shirley Young used a paratrooper knife to cut off a small piece of the figurine's leg, and sure enough, as seen on the road, the figurine's skin was tough, but it was only a thin shell, and the inside was full of rotten dead maggots. Shirley Yang couldn't help frowning when he saw those dried maggots, and used his paratrooper knife to pierce two holes in the figurines' chests, and the inside was the same, full of dead insects and insect eggs.

Shirley Young said to me and the fat man, "It doesn't seem to be a burial pit, but it's certain that these figurines are made of living people, and they must be related to the sacrifice of the king." This should be the ancient evil and notorious trick in southern Yunnan during the period of King Xian. ”

In addition to more than 100 figurines and chains, there are all craggy and abrupt alien-shaped rocks in the cave, and nothing extra was found, so Shirley Yang returned to the bamboo raft, and we continued to slowly move along the river in the cave.

While driving on the bamboo raft, I asked Shirley Yang where he could see that these figurines were made of living people, and how could he be sure that they were related to the king's resonance technique.

On the way to Yunnan, in order to grasp more information, Shirley Yang made a lot of effort, and before setting off in Beijing, he searched all the historical materials he could find, and kept looking at them along the way. A European scholar once said that under every tombstone is a novel, and the tombs of some important figures in history contain a lot of historical information at that time. The king's tomb can be said to be the crystallization of the socio-economic, cultural, religious and other aspects of the time, the more you know about these historical materials, the more handy it will be to fight, so the most outstanding tomb robbers in history are all people who are well-versed in the past and the present without exception.

Offering kings, there are many in Chinese history, but not the same era, except for the dedication of the king of the Dian Kingdom, the rest of the dedication kings are not in Yunnan, and even the peasant rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have been crowned a dedication king after the founding of Tianjing, and in the Warring States and the Five Dynasties and other periods, there have been the title of dedication kings. Just like the title of Zhongshan in history, it has also appeared in history as a national name and a king name, and those who offer kings are not related to each other.

The Xianwang we are about to attack is a generation of witch kings in the ancient Dian period, and his magic is to use the spirits of the dead as a medium, and the greater the number of unjust souls, the greater the power of this kind of evil art. There are many processes and means of using the dead to make "hemorrhoids", and these living figurines in the cave, from the strange way of death and the process of transformation, are all consistent with the means of offering the king. This shows that this should be a secret place to practice the art of scabies in ancient times.

Shirley Yang judged that the river that crossed the mountain should have been built when the king was consecrating the tomb, and the use of natural karst caves and manpower to repair and dredge them in order to transport materials for the construction of the king's tomb, and the use of water transportation here should be the most appropriate shortcut.

In order to keep the secret of the tomb of the king, these people were loyal to the king's subordinates, tied up and strong all over the body, forced to swallow a kind of "scarcity", and sealed the seven orifices of the human body, and then hung in the cave with a large chain, suffocated alive, one can keep the secret in the king's tomb, and the other can use them to scare away outsiders who have strayed into it in this secret waterway.

The so-called hemorrhoid, is a pill necessary to perform a certain kind of scabium, after being swallowed by a living person, it will parasitize in the body to lay eggs, it only takes about three to five days, and the flesh and internal organs in the human body have all become the nutrients of the larvae, and instead fill it. Because it is a rapid loss of moisture in a short period of time, the human skin will quickly dry up, as hard as the bark and stone shell, the eggs will not become larvae without seeing the air, and they will always maintain a state of hibernation, and can be maintained for more than a thousand years in a cool environment. So to this day, when the human skin is cut through, there may still be countless live "lure" larvae like fat maggots at once, but depending on the preservation process, it is also possible that the eggs inside are already dried up.

Due to the relatively small number of records in various classics, including wild histories, Shirley Yang has only found this information these days, and there is no way to know what the living people are used for as insect chrysalis and what the purpose of these insects is.

Not only are there a large number of figurines in Shalong Mountain, but there should also be a few more in the nearby mountains. The figurines we encountered on the cliff road by the river may have been washed away by the rain, causing the rocks to collapse and fall onto the road. Although the rule of King Xian is only a corner of southern Xinjiang, from this large number of slaves who have been made into figurines, we can get a glimpse of the cruelty and ruthlessness of the western Yunnan region under the rule of King Xian in ancient times.

After listening to Shirley Yang's analysis, the fat man and I both felt that there was a layer of goosebumps on our bodies, and at first it was a clay statue like a terracotta army, but it turned out to be made by a real person, and I couldn't help but look back, but those hanged ghost-like figurines had long disappeared into the dark cave behind them, and they were never seen again.

The more I thought about it, the more brutal I felt, and I couldn't help but scold: "These ancient princes of his mother really don't treat people as human beings, and in the eyes of the nobles, those slaves are not even as good as cattle and horses." If a fat man is like you, if he were a slave, he would definitely be able to mix a sacrifice head and a top man in ancient times. ”

The fat man in the middle of the bamboo raft was fiddling with the spotlight on the helmet that had been extinguished, and after two strokes, he finally returned to normal, and when I heard him talk about him, he said to me: "Fuck your uncle's old Hu, your words have fully exposed your true colors of ignorance and inskill." As far as I know, in ancient times people were proud to be chosen as a martyr or sacrifice, and that was a great honor. The selection of the martyrs is extremely strict, you have to check the three generations of ancestors, there is not the slightest problem with the political face, and many people can't line up to write blood applications, which is most suitable for a guy like you who pretends to be positive. You must have been energetic at that time, jumping on your feet and shouting, take me to the sky, I am the most suitable to light the sky lantern, let the people of the motherland wait for my good news, for the sake of victory, take me to light the lantern......"

I was furious when I heard it, and the fat man's grandson was too immoral: "I don't have as much fat as you, how can I be suitable for lighting a sky lantern, you ......"

Shirley Young interrupted me and the fat man: "You two are endless, how are you talking and talking again." Did you see anything wrong? This waterway is not at all like the proprietress of the Caiyun Inn described......"

The fat man said, "The proprietress has never come in herself, didn't she also listen to the stone miners?" It's inevitable that there will be some errors, so we don't need to be suspicious. ”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "It's not necessarily that the proprietress is wrong, the water flow is very fast in a section of the river we passed through before, which may be related to the heavy rain in the past few days; The channel is wide, perhaps connecting the two rivers together. We only care about mastering the balance of the bamboo raft, the angle of the searchlight is very small, and the field of vision is also limited, so we may have entered a fork in the road. ”

The fat man hurriedly said: "That's troublesome, it's better to turn around and go back to find the way, don't follow us back in the spider's nest, get into the maze, and in the end you can't get out." We don't have too much dry food with us. ”

I said to the fat man, "If it's really just a fork in the river, don't worry, these streams all flow in one direction, and eventually they will pass through the Shalong Mountain and join the valley of the Snake River, so there will definitely be no problem of zài getting lost." And the river is very straight, obviously artificially processed, as Shirley Young said, it may have been a waterway to transport materials during the construction of the king's tomb, and from here, it must be right. ”

Shirley Yang said: "Lao Hu is right, in ancient times, when building large mausoleums, rivers would be used to transport stones, and the craftsmen who repaired the Qin Tombs would sing when they were working: Take the stone from the mouth of the spring, and the Weishui will not flow." From these two short sentences, you can imagine the huge construction of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor back then, because of the transportation of stones, the Weishui was blocked. ”

The fat man said: "We saw the Wei River last time we went to Shaanxi, and compared to that big river, this place is at most a sewer. Compared with Qin Shi Huang, the king is probably a poor man from a small family, and if we go to pour his fight, it will be regarded as giving him face...... Alas...... What's wrong? ”

The bamboo raft that slowly went down the river suddenly seemed to have hit something in the river, and it jolted violently, and then it returned to normal, but I heard a loud bang in the river and the sound of heavy heavy metal stirring up, and I and the fat man Shirley Yang and the three of them had a sense of foreboding at the same time, not good, I am afraid that the bamboo raft has hit the trap that is ambushed in the river......

1. Burn, a mildew substance produced by rocks in a special environment, non-toxic.