I also walked over, "It's not as early as you, you early fat bird has worms!" ”

Lantern Xiao looked at me helplessly, "That can't stand it, as soon as I took out the worms, other birds flew to grab food!" ”

At this time, Anado, who was making breakfast, spoke, "Don't go too far, you two, who are the worms!" ”

Lantern Xiao hurriedly snorted, "It's just a metaphor!" Hey, is it cooked? Is it edible or not! ”

......

After breakfast, we packed up our things and walked through the woods again to the place we had seen last night.

When we returned to the edge of the woods, and saw the slightly desolate wasteland in front of us for the second time, I wondered why I suddenly had a sense of pathos, three huge stone pillars spanning countless years, as if to tell us about what had happened here in those years.

To our surprise, the ground in this peculiar area took on a dark red color. In stark contrast to the surrounding ground, it is clear that this place has been artificially modified.

Standing on the outer edge of the dark red ground, I didn't dare to take this step for a while, until I saw Wenmo stepping on it without hesitation, and I followed.

I asked Wenmo, "Last night, why did you hold me and not let me step on it?" And now you can enter this area without hesitation? ”

Wen Mo kicked the ground with his foot, "There is a lot of iron doped in the sand, gravel and soil here, so it will show this color, plus this basin is located on a mountain, and the air pressure is relatively high, so when there is thunder and lightning in the sky, it is easy to be attracted by the metal doped in the strata here." In particular, there are three such big 'lightning rods'. As he spoke, Wen Mo pointed to the three tall stone towers.

I roughly understood what he meant, and said, "You're saying that if I had rushed in yesterday, I would have been struck by lightning. ”

Wen Mo nodded, "That's the case, but now the sky is clear, so ......" said and pointed to the sky, the matter was already obvious, and he didn't need to continue.

We stepped on these dark red ground and kept walking. As we move forward, the things on earth become more and more abundant. There are broken pottery shards scattered on the ground, some dead branches, and even some metal pieces that are close to decay, and the color should be bronze.

Obviously, there were some events here in the beginning, and combined with the construction of this place, I speculate that it may have been some ritual activities, but I can't be sure yet. In ancient times, the ancient ancestors revered all things in the world, which also gave rise to totem worship, and sometimes even a tribe would have several totems. Because of this, the ritual has become an indispensable part of their daily life.

As we walked on, we approached the three large stone towers when we suddenly noticed a lot of bones scattered around the towers.

In fact, as long as you have a little experience, it will be easy to judge the origin of the bone. So we quickly saw that these bones were human bones all year round. If this is really an altar, then it means that human sacrifices must have been performed here in the past.

This discovery really frightened me, and Anado scoffed at this cruel sacrifice, and said with some disgust: "Barbarism is really terrible, and it can kill people like this!" ”

Lantern Xiao didn't seem to expect to see traces of human sacrifice here, and it seemed that his heart was a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing as he looked at the skeletons under his feet.

In fact, I was equally shocked when I saw such a thing. However, this situation was also caused by the defects of people's thinking at that time, so it was an inevitable phenomenon, and in the current concept, it must be inhumane, but at that time, it was very likely that everyone could readily accept it.

As I thought, I looked up at a tall stone pillar next to me. When I looked closer, I saw that the stones used to build the pillars had been reinforced with something similar to a binder, so it was no wonder that they could be stacked so high. What amazes me even more is that this adhesive can remain so strong after so many years, which is even more powerful than today's reinforced concrete!

I noticed that there were two small holes about a person high below the stone pillar. It looks as if something was fixed here before.

I looked down and saw that a little beside me there was a U-shaped metal bar, which was already covered with a thick patina, and I was a little worried that it would shatter if I exerted my strength. I noticed that there were two barbs on either side of the cut metal bar. I picked up the metal strip and inserted it into the small hole in the stone pillar, and it was just right to fit it perfectly.

It seems that this thing was originally fixed here, and I see that there is not only one hole in the stone pillar like this.

Suddenly, an idea popped into my head, and I said, "I don't think I'm going to think this is an altar for sacrifice. ”

"Not for sacrifices?" Probably before entering here, everyone already had a preconceived concept, and Lantern Festival and Anador probably felt that this was the altar. So when I said this, both of them suddenly felt a little strange. "And what do you say you're for?"

"At first, I also had to be here to have something to do with some kind of ritual activity of the ancestors, but until I found this just now," I said, shaking the metal bar in my hand towards the Lantern Festival, "You think about it, if you fix a lot of things here, what will it do, obviously it is used to fix something, and it can be inferred from the human bone fragments on the ground here that this thing is used to tie people." People were tied up here and killed, so I think this is a place of execution. ”

"Execution ground?" Lantern Xiao and Anaduo blurted out in unison, and then Anaduo thought for a while and said, "However, if it is an altar and tying people here as sacrifices, they will also be killed." Is there any difference between the execution ground and the altar? ”

"No, there is a difference," I squatted down and picked up a piece of human bone, "From ancient times to the present, the most important thing as a sacrifice is to maintain the integrity of the sacrifice, and in some places even before the sacrifice, the sacrifice is decorated properly. Therefore, judging from the ancient qualifications, the creatures that are sacrificed, whether they are humans or other animals, basically die in one way, that is, bloodletting. In this way, the sacrifice can be killed without destroying the appearance of the sacrifice. ”