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The carving is only the size of a palm, but it is particularly finely carved. I don't know what material the pen is www.biquge.info, it's a little heavy in my hand, and it's a little cold.

My first reaction was a little surprised, the old god stick is recuperating from his injuries, and he won't be idle and send me a plaything, it must have a special meaning. In particular, Sister Hua also said a word, which was sent by the team leader after hearing that I was investigating Zhangxiong's case.

A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, does it have anything to do with the case?

When you take it to your eyes, you can see that the carved monster looks like a mixture of a cow and a lion, and its characteristics are very obvious, which is in line with Lu Jie's description.

I brought the carving to Lu Jie and asked, "Like a monster you see?"

Lu Jie's face changed, she took the carving with a trembling hand, returned the carving to me after a glance, and said in horror: "That's it!"

Basically, I was sure, but she only looked at it for a minute, and I was worried that something was missing, and said, "This is important, do you see it clearly?"

"I'm 100% sure!" Lu Jie said hesitantly: "If you want to say different, there is only one difference, the monster I saw had very fierce eyes, and the carved monster had closed eyes." ”

I didn't even notice this detail, and when I took the carving and looked closely, the eyes of the black monster were really closed.

"Awesome!" Gray said, taking the carving from my hand, "We all know what we need to recuperate, does the old god stick mean that we should be careful of this monster?"

"Old God Stick, do you still have a connection with him?" Lu Jie had seen the old God Stick's ability with his own eyes, and his eyes lit up when he heard his name.

"Well, I forgot to tell you!" I scratched my head and said, "The old god stick is the leader of our task force, and he is the one who brought us into the group!"

"Ah, where is he?" Lu Jie was very excited

Gray said with a little regret: "The old god stick is injured, I don't know where to recuperate, we don't know when we will come back." ”

Lu Jie was a little disappointed, she looked out the window, the sun was setting, and the night was about to be a general. She was terrified again.

"Don't worry, with us here, we won't let you have any problems!" I know what she needs most at this time is confidence.

Gray took the carving of the black monster and said, "The old god stick must have other intentions when he handed this over to us, but he didn't have a hint of anything. ”

"Perhaps, Sister Hua was too busy to forget. I'll give you a call and ask. "I dialed Sister Hua's phone number, and the reply I got was only two words, no!

Before I could thank him, the other party hung up. It seems that we will have to find out for ourselves.

"There seems to be a word underneath the carving. The careful Lu Jie made a discovery.

Turning it over, there are indeed three words below, but the font is too weird, and the three of us stared at it for a long time, and we didn't recognize a word.

"I have a way!" I used my phone to send a photo, and then used the trying software to find similar text and find the closest font from it.

I thought it would take a lot of effort, but there was only one result from the search, the Chu script of the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Chu Yan.

Gray and I shouted in unison, "Damn! It's Chu State again!"

I don't know what kind of luck I've been going on lately, I often encounter things that have something to do with the state of Chu, and the big tomb under the university town is also the state of Chu, as long as it has something to do with the state of Chu, it will become very weird and dangerous.

"What's wrong with Chu State?" Lu Jie saw from our reaction that something was wrong, and immediately asked.

Gray replied: "How to say it, anyway, as long as you have a relationship with the Chu State, you will be particularly unlucky, and every time you get a little life, you almost lose your life." ”

"So serious?" Lu Jie became even more nervous.

"Let's figure out what those three words mean first!" I continued.

Because Chu is located between Jianghan and Hanhuai, the Huaxia language in the north, the Tibeto-Burman language in the west, the Miao Yao language in the south and the Zhuang-Dong language in the southeast are all in contact and communication in Chu, and the Chu language formed is naturally a dialect that absorbs a variety of language components and has a rich and colorful vocabulary and unique sound. And the text of the state of Chu is vigorous, regular, and slightly twists and turns. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the middle of the Warring States Period, the shape of Chu characters gradually tended to be slender, the strokes were thin and the end was the same, the arrangement was relatively neat and beautiful, the gestures were round and smooth, and the style was free and unrestrained.

Before I could finish speaking, Gray shouted, "Don't read it, it gives me a headache to hear, it's useless, just say what these three words mean." ”

"Then we'll have to wait a little bit. "I found a Chu State text library on a very unpopular website on the Internet, and the three of us compared it together, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to find these three words, which were translated into modern Chinese as the tomb beast!

Lu Jie asked nervously, "What is the Tomb Beast?"

"Literally, it should be what is in the grave. Right!" Gray asked.

This time he really analyzed it correctly, I thought about it carefully, when I entered the tomb of Princess Chu, I saw the carvings of two monsters at the entrance of the tomb, which were really similar to this

。 It's just that why did the tomb beast run out to harm people, and they also found Zhang Xiong.

"Let's take a look at what this town monster is. Gray continued to search online.

Judging from the information on the Internet, the tomb beast was a special funeral custom of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was only seen in the tombs of men. The Tomb Beasts have different forms, but they have a common characteristic. There is a square seat underneath, with a torso and a head on top, with antlers on the top. The early tomb beasts only had a rudimentary form, with a simple shape, no organs on the face, a straight neck and a straight body, and a high trapezoidal surface on the square seat. The shape of the middle period is complex, divided into two types, single-headed and double-headed, with a tiger's head, a complete facial features, a hideous face, a bent neck and a bent body, most of them are erect without limbs, and some kneeling have limbs. The biggest change is from the rudimentary shape of the head and face to the head and tiger face, from the straight neck and straight body to the bent neck and bent body, and the body from standing without limbs to kneeling with all four limbs.

Lu Jie's face was getting worse and worse, the description of the Demon Suppression Beast was very similar to the monster she had seen, and that was enough. The old god used a statue to tell us who is really behind the case, or what is it?

Greggie said: "This is strange, the information says that there are tomb beasts only in men's tombs, why do we also see tomb beasts in the tomb of Princess Chu?"

"This ......" I couldn't answer, so I paused and said, "If you want to know, you can ask Princess Chu!"

"Forget it, I don't want to see her again in my life. Anyway, it's already over, so there's no need to dwell on it. ”

Lu Jie asked a little confused: "I don't understand a little, since it is a tomb beast, how can it come out to harm people? ”

"Theoretically, so. I said: "The tomb beast is in the tomb, and it has been infested by the earth's qi and yin qi for a long time, and it will inevitably give birth to some changes over time. This is not a concern for us. ”

"What do you mean?" asked Lu Jie.

"If you want to solve the problem completely, you must find out where Zhang Xiong met the Tomb Beast. I analyzed.

But today is no time, the window is gray, night is about to fall, we have to prepare for the night ghost call.

Gray said, "The room is almost cleaned up, let's go out to eat." ”

Lu Jie had no appetite at all, and shirked it a few times, but she couldn't resist Gray's invitation, so she could only agree.

"I'll start the car first!" Gray threw down the carving of the black monster and ran.

Lu Jie and I walked to the door, turned around and came back to pick up the carving. The old god stick sent us this thing, it can't just remind us who the murderer is, maybe it will be like a soul eater, it can protect us.

When I walked downstairs, it was already dark, I opened the car door and made a gesture of please, but Lu Jie didn't get into the car.

When I looked back, Lu Jie's body was standing in place, her body stiff, her eyes staring straight ahead, and her face showed a look of fear.

The place where she looked was a cloud of air and nothing.

"What are you looking at?" I gently nudged Lu Jie and woke her up.

"Didn't you see it?" Lu Jie said in horror: "Zhang Xiong is standing there, what do you want to say to me?"

"Where is Zhang Xiong?" Gray poked his head out and looked around.

I quickly took out the small bottle containing the cow's tears, touched my eyelids a little, and looked around, but I didn't see anything, there was no Zhang Xiong at all.