Chapter 254: The Worshipper
This sudden scene in front of him made Xu Tianchuan immediately retract the steps he was about to take forward, and became cautious.
Not right!
"Shopkeeper Xu...... This...... What's going on? ”
Jiao San behind him was also shocked when he looked at the large area of bubbles in front of him.
"There's something down there, like it's breathing!"
Xing Chang widened his eyes and whispered.
Looking at the frequency of this bubble rising back and forth, it really looks like something is breathing underneath, and the wheezing is very heavy, and the number is very large.
If it's really a rice dumpling, you don't need to breathe, right?
With this doubt in his heart, Xu Tianchuan took a deep breath, and directly grabbed the Heavenly Sword and stabbed it under the milky white mucus of the bubbles in front of him.
It doesn't matter what he is, let's talk about it first!
Anyway, Xu Tianchuan didn't have a good impression of this ancient tomb, he didn't have the slightest good feeling, and even Xu Tianchuan originally came with hostility.
Therefore, Xu Tianchuan naturally did not consider the ideas and problems of showing mercy to the subordinates of this ancient tomb or protecting cultural relics, and he was also not afraid to use violent means in special times.
Poof!
Xu Tianchuan stabbed down with this sword.
The sharp Heavenly Sword pierced through the milky white slime, followed by a 'poof' sound from below.
Xu Tianchuan held the Youtian Sword tightly and passed on a very strong feeling, as if he had stabbed on something soft.
Immediately after, crimson blood seeped out of the milky white slime.
The opalescent color contrasts with the reddish blood.
Blood!
It's really blood!
And the blood was very red, as if it was fresh.
There's really something down there!
Judging by the bright red color and consistency of the blood that seeped out, it looked like a human!
As Xu Tianchuan pulled out his sword, there was no sign of movement and resistance under the milky white mucus, only a large amount of blood was like a spring gushing up, and it quickly became red, and as for the bubbles in place, they slowly became smaller until they disappeared completely.
From this point, it is almost certain that there are 100% living creatures below!
But judging by the bubbles, it's definitely 'dead' now.
Living creatures?
Could it be a living person?
This was Xu Tianchuan's first thought.
Can digging a grave dig up a living person who has been buried underground for more than 3,000 years, and dig up a real 'living antique'? This is absolutely unimaginable, I am afraid that even the tomb robbery codex would not dare to write like this, and no one will believe it if it is written.
But under the perverted antiseptic effect of this milky white mucus, nothing is impossible.
Even if it's impossible, it's possible!
"Shopkeeper Xu, I'll take a look!"
At this time, Jiao San behind him took a deep breath and walked to Xu Tianchuan's side from behind, with a resolute gaze on his face, and mustered up his courage.
Although in terms of momentum, Jiao San may be the most nervous one, but when it comes to doing things, he is not intimidated at all.
"San'er, be careful!"
Xu Tianchuan did not stop Jiao San.
Jiao San nodded, bent down after coming over, and used his hands to pick up the layer of mucus covered by Xu Tianchuan who had just stabbed down with the Youtian Sword.
Because a large amount of blood oozed from below, under the mixture of blood, the milky white mucus produced a certain dilution, and also greatly reduced the viscosity, like blood-red mud.
Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang stood behind Jiao San, engrossed, and nervously watched Jiao San pick up the mud with both hands.
Below is indeed a corpse!
A human corpse!
However, he did not look like a human sacrifice for sacrifice, and he wore a specially sewn animal skin and a necklace of white bones around his neck.
According to Xu Tianchuan's understanding of the Shang Dynasty society, judging from this animal skin alone, it is definitely not a human sacrifice used for sacrifice.
Although under the development of textile technology, the Shang Dynasty people have been able to weave extremely fine silk, but the clothing made of animal skins still has a very special importance, especially this kind of specially sewn animal skin, as a slave sacrifice is definitely not qualified to wear.
So judging from this outfit alone, it should be a worshipper!
That is, the people who participated in the sacrifice, not the sacrifice!
The Shang Dynasty attached great importance to sacrifices, so the social status of the worshippers at that time was very high.
In the sacrificial ceremony, the worshipper is the auxiliary priest on the altar, second only to the priest who presides over the sacrificial ceremony, and also has a certain deity in the body, and is considered to be able to communicate with the gods.
Therefore, in many ancient sacrificial scenes, you can basically see a shaman leading a large group of worshippers to carry out the sacrificial ceremony, and the shaman performs the practice, and a large group of worshippers wearing animal skins and carrying ox skulls dance around the bonfire or the statue of the gods.
And it just so happens that the owner of this ancient tomb is the high priest of the Shang Dynasty.
Priest and priest mean the same thing, but it's just a homonym.
To put it simply, the corpse in front of him is the owner of this ancient tomb, the younger brother of the high priest of the Shang Dynasty, and the worshipper!
As for Xu Tianchuan's sword just now, it happened to stab this worshipper in the neck, stabbing a bloody hole in the neck, and at the same time cutting the major artery in the neck, causing massive bleeding.
Even when Jiao San peeled off the layer of mucus covering it, the knife on his neck was still dripping with blood.
"Was he alive or dead?"
Almost all three of them were thinking about this serious question at the same time.
If Xu Tianchuan guessed correctly, under the cover of milky white mucus in front of him, all the bubbling positions, lying down are worshippers!
And all of them are alive, bubbles from breathing!
In addition, about these worshippers are alive, there is another thing that is ironclad, if a person dies, the blood on the body will quickly coagulate, let alone a stab, even if it is stabbed ten times, it is impossible to rush out so much blood, this is all common sense.
"Uncle, it seems that all of them are alive down here......"
Xing Chang took a deep breath, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might not have believed that there were still living people in the ancient tomb more than 3,000 years ago.
Are these worshippers already immortal?
Xu Tianchuan believes that it is because the slime with super antiseptic effects spit out by the devil is more likely.