Chapter 40: The Secret of the Bones

I am no stranger to the so-called human sacrifices, and in the era of ignorance in various parts of the world, there have almost always been acts of sacrificing living people to the gods. However, man is not a cow, a horse, a pig or a sheep after all, and although human sacrifices exist, they are not numerous, and they are almost quickly abandoned by people who have entered civilized society. What really shocked and frightened me was the number of bones. They were of all shapes, and they all looked awkward, as if they had endured considerable pain before dying.

Although Duan Yuwen's courage is very small, after all, this place is not as dark as the underground palace in the ancient village, there is still sunlight everywhere, and those white bones are much more beautiful than dried corpses, so he squatted down in front of a skeleton with the attitude of a scholar, and seemed to study it carefully. Seeing this, I also came to him and squatted down.

"How? Can you see what's boring? I asked.

Duan Yuwen sighed and said, "It's strange, this ...... How is that possible? ”

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Duan Yuwen pulled the skull with his hand and said, "These bones are not injured, ordinary living sacrifices are sacrificed by fire, but these bones are so intact, they will definitely not be burned by fire." ”

"Hey, that's all." I said somewhat disdainfully, "What's the matter, maybe people are bleeding with knives." ”

Duan Yuwen frowned and said, "This doesn't make sense!" Supposedly, the sacrificial activity of sacrificing a living person must be an extraordinary religious ritual, and since it is a religious activity, there must be some prescribed routines, and there are at least two hundred bones here, and if it is simply to bleed them and kill them, don't you think this is unreasonable? ”

I was about to answer Duan Yuwen's question, but a green light suddenly flashed in front of my eyes, and when I came back to my senses, I realized that the green light actually came from the skull's eye socket.

Although Duan Yuwen is old, his reaction speed is several times faster than mine, and he has already jumped to the side when I was still stunned. I scolded in my heart, no wonder this old thing could come out alive in the underground palace of the ancient village, this time I have been taught, and the kung fu of escaping is really a must. Thinking like this, I quickly flashed to Duan Yuwen's side.

Duan Yuwen pointed to the skull's head and shouted at Ryazan: "Skull, skull is alive." ”

Ryazan was standing beside Bu Jin and Teng Yi at this time, quite interested in the runes on the big stone pillar, listened to Duan Yuwen's shout, turned around, and said: "What nonsense is the old man talking about, can the skull still live?" ”

"Really, really, he—his eyes sparkled." Duan Yuwen argued.

"It's still shining, could it be that the skull still takes a fancy to you and secretly sends you autumn waves?" Although Ryazan said this, he still walked lazily in the direction of me and Duan Yuwen.

Coincidentally, just as Ryazan walked over, the skull's eye socket flashed with green light, and then a big black-haired mouse crawled out of the eye socket.

Duan Yuwen and I were both stunned, and our faces turned red unconsciously. Ryazan's eyes were sharp, his right arm was raised, and the improvised spear was plunged into the body of the mouse, and the mouse "squeaked" in pain, and its body kept writhing, and after a few seconds, after two strokes, it stopped moving.

Ryazan looked at me and Duan Yuwen with rather lazy and helpless eyes, and said, "I won't say anything more, just this one ......."

Ryazan looked at the mouse as he spoke, but the words that had already reached his mouth were stuck in his mouth. Duan Yuwen and I were curious, so we also stepped forward to watch.

I felt a little disgusted, after all, Ryazan's thorn, the internal organs of the mouse flowed out, but the most eye-catching part of the mouse was the faint green eyes.

In the dark, the reflectivity of the eyes increases, so that the eyes appear bright in the dark, but this does not happen to the eyes of these animals during the day. But, obviously, the mouse in front of him was an exception, and even though it was now in broad daylight, his eyes still glowed green, making people look very strange.

I had a vague premonition that something was going to happen, and sure enough, in a few moments, a red maggot the size of a little finger came out of the mouse's wound with an incomplete cargo.

It's this kind of bug again, exactly the same as the bugs in Bu Jin's box, I looked at the miserable death of the mouse, a strong feeling of vomiting instantly came up, I took a lot of effort to suppress this disgusting feeling, and then I heard Ryazan shout: "Stay away from these bones." ”

Ryazan and I didn't dare not listen to what Ryazan said, so we hurriedly stood to the side, but when we looked around, we found that in addition to the mountains and forests and the surroundings of the big stone pillars, there were those small stone pillars and bones all around. So, the two of us hurried to the perimeter of the big stone pillar, and stood with Bu Jin and Teng Yi, leaving Ryazan alone standing there vigilantly with a simple spear in his hand.

At this time, Bu Jin also noticed something unusual, she slowly walked to Ryazan's side, patted him on the shoulder, nodded at Ryazan, and then the two walked back to the big stone pillar together.

I wondered how the two of them looked like two old friends who had known each other for many years, not at all like someone they had just met.

When we got back to us, Ryazan motioned for us to lean aside, and we didn't know why, but we did so.

We made room for Bu Jin around the big stone pillar. Bu Jin actually touched the totem runes on the big stone pillar with her hand, and then, suddenly, the red light flashed in her eyes, and a sad emotion was revealed in her eyebrows, only to see that after she whispered two sentences, she actually knelt down.

I asked Teng Yi if he could understand the mantra that Bu Jin recited, but Teng Yi's answer surprised me, he said that he couldn't understand the incantation that Bu Jin recited, but what Bu Jin chanted just now did not seem to be a pure mantra, and there seemed to be a few words of Tumiao in those obscure mantras. I asked him what those words meant, and he replied, "The words she said were very illogical, and I heard a few words of thanksgiving, which seemed to be thanking the bones, but at other times it seemed to be complaining, or resentment, but above all, it seemed to be forgiveness and redemption." ”

"Forgiveness and redemption?" I was a little surprised when I heard it. Who to forgive? And to redeem whom? Are these bones? However, aren't these bones all human sacrifices, and since they are sacrifices, they are gifts to the gods, so how can we talk about forgiveness and redemption?

However, it didn't take long for me to notice something strange around me. I saw that Bu Jin knelt down for a long time after chanting, and gradually, a strong wind blew in the dead woods in all directions without warning. Although the wind was strong, it did not raise much dust, and the air currents passed through the trees, making a mournful "whine" sound, as if many people were crying.

As I listened, I felt very frightening, and then I heard a crisp sound of "pop", and looked around, but I didn't find where the sound came from. Just when I hesitated, there were several consecutive "pops" and "pops", and this time, I could hear clearly that it was the sound of a skull shattering.

Soon, the sound of "popping" exploded like raindrops around us, and the skulls of the more than 200 corpses all exploded. To our surprise, out of the shattered skulls were all red maggots the size of little fingers, and although there were not many bugs, they all crawled towards us in an unusually clear direction.

I knew how terrible these bugs were, and I couldn't believe them as they got closer to the big stone pillar we were, and they seemed to become adults all at once, the giant lobster-like worms with sharp chelae and teeth. By the time they were less than three meters away from us, they had reached nearly twenty centimeters in size, larger than the one in Bu Jin's box.

Seeing this, Teng Yi hurriedly pulled out the long knife on his waist, Duan Yuwen and I also took out our weapons to calm our guards, and Bu Jin was still kneeling there, watching everything expressionlessly.

As for Ryazan, alas, I really don't know how to describe his expression, he just smiled and said to us: "Take it easy, take it easy." ”

"Easy your sister, you don't know how powerful these insects are!" I had a long knife in my hand, but I hated to cut this nervous Ryazan first.

At this time, Ryazan grabbed my arm and suddenly said to me: "Don't move, otherwise it will ruin your girlfriend's affairs." ”

I was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ryazan didn't answer directly, but pointed at Bu Jin with his chin and said, "See for yourself." ”

Teng Yi and Duan Yuwen and I believed Ryazan's words suspiciously, but those insects did not attack us when they passed us, but they went straight to Bu Jin.

"Damn, we have to do Bu Jin!" As I spoke, I was about to rush forward with a knife in my hand, but Ryazan grabbed me by the collar behind me, dragged me back, and said with a smile: "Just your two hits, who are you going to save, stay well, you look down on your girlfriend too much." ”

I looked at Bu Jin with anxiety and found that the insects did not hurt her, but surrounded her in a circle. Then, Bu Jin made an unexpected move, she actually took the initiative to take out the white jade plate around her neck for the first time, put the jade card in the palm of her hand, and then handed the jade card to those insects.

Strange things happened, every time Bu Jin's jade plaque came close to those bugs, they would suddenly die without warning, and soon, after Bu Jin had swept for a week, all the bugs died around her.

A few of us stood aside and watched dumbfounded, and soon, Bu Jin's eyes returned to black, and our hanging heart finally fell.