The ground below the cliff is not flat, but has a slope. There are spikes on top of it.

Those colorful colors emanate from those things.

This seems to be stalactites. Here, it's like a small cave.

The dense human bones, scattered among the stalactites one after another, were discarded like garbage.

He Wei stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the scene under his feet through the goggles on his helmet, with a grim expression.

A thought arose uncontrollably from her mind.

Could it be that these bones were left behind after the sacrifices made to the mountain gods were eaten by the mountain gods?

These people were all eaten by the mountain gods?

She subconsciously turned around and once again cast her gaze on the statue of the mountain god full of strange aura.

The guns in the hands of more than a dozen elite fighters were always aimed at it.

Suppressing a trace of emotional turmoil in her heart, she picked up the intercom and said something. In a matter of moments, more personnel in full-body hazmat suits entered, bringing enough climbing gear.

Several warriors escorted several archaeologists, and under the leadership of He Wei, they abseiled down to the bottom of the cliff.

It was only then that she realized that the bones were not eaten by the mountain god, but should have been left after the corpse had naturally decomposed.

There were still traces of clothing on the bones, and there were still remnants of rope left between their wrists, ankles, chests and abdomen.

Some of the bones can still be seen clearly from the slashes of the sword. There are also some bones that have been clearly broken, and it is not known whether they were broken by someone before their death, or if they were broken when they were thrown off a cliff.

In addition to the bones, in this cave, in the cracks of stalactites, there are many antiquities left.

There are decayed wooden objects, pockets, clothing, metal objects, etc., etc., which are so rotten that they can barely be seen in their original face.

The archaeologists, under the protection of the warriors, began to clean up the objects. The various relics were carefully put away, and the different bones were organized separately.

Looking at this mess, He Wei thought silently.

It stands to reason that in this place of sacrifice to the mountain god, even if there are bones, they should be left after being eaten by the mountain god, and there is no reason for so many inexplicable corpses to appear.

If it is a sacrifice, then it is sacrificed to the mountain god, if it is not a sacrifice, then how can it die here?

There may be something hidden in this that you don't know.

"Officer He, there's handwriting here."

Just as he was thinking, the voice of an archaeologist came. He Wei walked over and saw that the archaeologist had found a decayed thing that looked like a wooden plaque from the mud-like thing in the ground through his gloves.

Carefully cleaned up the debris on it, and the self on it was revealed.

He Wei frowned and read slowly: "...... Yunguan Tang Yuan ......? ”

I can't see clearly before the cloud word, and I can't see the handwriting after the yuan word clearly.

She looked at the archaeologist with a slight puzzle.

The archaeologist looked at it cautiously, thought for a moment, and then said: "It seems that this is like a Taoist disc, which is what ancient Taoist priests used to show their identity, the Taoist temple where they are located, and the place of origin, which are generally issued by the government." Of course, only serious Taoists have this thing, and wild Taoists don't have it. ”

The wooden plaque was found next to a skeleton. There was also some remnant of fabric, which seemed to be some kind of pocket. Originally, there should have been some things in the pocket, such as paper, but now they are completely rotten, and they can't be seen in their original faces.

The skeleton apparently died from a gunshot – it had obvious bullet holes in its skull. In the cavity of the skull, the brain tissue was completely decomposed and gone, but a rusty warhead remained.

He Wei took a closer look and came to a conclusion in her heart.

"This is a certain model of old-fashioned firearm, some years old, low rate of fire, low power."

"Not bad." Archaeologists agree: "On a comprehensive analysis, the skeleton should have appeared about 100 years ago. Well, it was about the time after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. ”

The era of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China is indeed not far away.

"Then what this dish means is that its owner is a Taoist priest named Tang Yuan from a certain cloud temple?"

"That's how it should be."

He Wei felt a little strange in her heart. How could a Taoist priest appear here inexplicably? was inexplicably shot through the head with a gun and died here.

But suddenly, she remembered that through genetic tracing and historical investigation, the first generation of ancestors with Hag.1 genes probably appeared between the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Jiajing emperor.

In the ancient books collected by Lu Ming and Huang Weimin, it has been clear that the inheritance of "sacrificing to the mountain god" was originally from the era of Emperor Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty to Emperor Wanli, the poor boy who did not leave his name. After that, it was the Tang family that appeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang family continued until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and only then did it usher in its demise in a slightly strange "bandit attack".

And this Taoist disc shows that the era in which this Taoist priest lived was probably in the Republic of China.

The Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty was not far away from the Republic of China. After all, the Daoguang period can already be regarded as the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, this Taoist priest is also surnamed Tang.

So...... Could he be the inheritor of the Tang family at the beginning? In this way, he has a connection with the mountain god, and his appearance here does not seem abrupt.

Of course, this is just speculation, and there is no empirical evidence.

But this guess was enough to make He Wei feel excited.

After the other conventional methods of investigation against Organization X have failed, the final route chosen by the second team is to find their clues through historical inheritance.

And from the poor boy, to the Tang family, and then to the current Taoist priest surnamed Tang - if this Taoist priest is really the inheritor, then this inheritance from history has been advanced to only about a hundred years away from the present day, which cannot be regarded as a major breakthrough.

As long as you find the next inheritor, you can almost go from history to reality, and really find out the X organization!

The major clue that may be hidden in the real mountain god's sacrificial place, so that the X organization will not hesitate to confront its own side and destroy it, is it the information of the next generation of inheritors after this Taoist priest surnamed Tang?

"Keep searching!"

Due to space constraints, there is not much room for people. Not to mention the need to set aside some space for security personnel to deal with possible accidents.

The search is a bit slow. But He Wei is not in a hurry.

After the armed forces belonging to the human world have watched this place and taken over the task of confronting Organization X head-on, Operation Team 2 has enough time to slowly investigate.

At this moment, on the cliff, in front of Zhang Dingshan, the person in charge of the search also made a discovery.

"It's porcelain! It should be a porcelain bowl. ”

"There's a wooden board here, and it seems to have handwriting on it, but it's completely rotten, and I can't tell what it is."

"Send the planks to the lab for testing."

Through precise trace residues, indentations, etc., it may be possible to restore the handwriting on the wooden board.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, hours passed, and the news from the outside world finally came back.

Previously, not only these porcelain tiles and wooden boards, but also a large number of other specimens from this cave were transported to the outside world and subjected to detailed testing by professional testing institutions.

"Human blood residues and fabric residues were detected in the specimens. Specimens near the altar were found to contain remnants of fruits and grains, as well as animal fat, suspected to be tribute. ”

"Traces of gunpowder were detected in the cave, and there should have been a firearm fired at that time."

"Examination of the bones shows that all the bones are from the same age, about 100 years ago."

"The restoration of the wooden board handwriting is complete. The handwriting on it reads: 'Letter to the male businessman Jilong respectfully'. ”

Shang Jilong?

It's an unfamiliar name. The meaning of this line of words seems to indicate the identity of the person who presided over the sacrifice at the beginning, a person named Shang Jilong. This person sacrificed a large number of melons, fruits, animal meat, etc., and most likely a certain person with the Hag.1 gene who was lying on the altar at the time, to the mountain god, the so-called "worship".

"Could it be that this Shang Jilong is the inheritor of the 'sacrificial mountain god' after the fall of the Tang family?"

He Wei's words were full of irrepressible excitement. Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice: "Go and check the information of this Shang Jilong immediately." ”

These numerous bones, swords, gunpowder residues, bullet holes, etc., all show that the person in charge of all this, that is, the "letter man businessman Jilong", may not be an ordinary person.

Even if it is only a hundred years old, it is enough to annihilate all traces of an ordinary person. But if he is not ordinary, it is highly likely that there is information that has been handed down. After all, in an absolute sense, 100 years is not too long.

Zhang Dingshan's order quickly spread to the outside world, and the headquarters of the Planetary Security Agency, the second team of the Operations Department, and the logistics personnel who stayed there immediately began to search.

What He Wei and Zhang Dingshan expected was that they originally thought that it might take a lot of effort to find out the information about this Shang Jilong. But what I didn't expect was that in less than half an hour, a lot of information came over.

Opening the details of the profile, He Wei was full of surprises.

"I didn't expect that this Shang Jilong would still be a celebrity."

He is indeed a celebrity. At least for his time.

It was the era when warlords were fighting each other and the world was in chaos. In that era, in this Taihang Mountain area, this person named Shang Jilong, when he had the most command, even gathered more than 10,000 horses, and was famous and dominated one side.