Chapter 225: The Altar, Led by Blood
This hall, as Liu Cheng said, is very dilapidated, but in this dilapidation, you can still see the grandeur of the past.
Several steps are a symbol of the emperor, which shows that this place is also to show the identity of the builder.
Stepping up the nine steps, you will enter the main hall, which has only one entrance, and in the middle is placed a high platform in the shape of a square, surrounded by eight stone statues.
Other than that, there is no other decoration.
Shen Bao searched around suspiciously, frowning and puzzled.
"There's nothing strange here, how can you be feared by beasts?"
Generally speaking, the only thing that can affect a beast is either the presence of a special magnetic field or a unique smell that is enough to frighten the beast and make it afraid to approach.
But when they walked into the hall, they didn't find anything, which was really strange.
Liu Cheng nodded: "What the Second Young Master said is right, I searched in this hall a few times, and I didn't find anything special, so I haven't figured out what the hell is going on. :」
The two of them were puzzled, but Ye Fan had a calm face and walked slowly to the front of the platform.
The top of the platform is flat and smooth, with grooves along the edges, and in the middle of the platform is a hollow hole the size of a palm, which is connected to eight grooves around it, like the sun emitting rays, connected to the grooves on the edge.
On the side of the square platform, it is carved dragon and painted phoenix, the swimming dragon is tossed above the auspicious clouds, and the flying phoenix soars between the sea of clouds.
"Is there anything wrong with this platform?"
Seeing Ye Fan's calm face and looking at Fang Tai, Shen Bao asked in a low voice, for fear of disturbing Ye Fan's thinking.
saw Ye Fan shake his head: "This square platform always gives me a strange feeling, as if I have seen it somewhere."
"Have you seen it?"
Shen Bao frowned, "It's so tight here, you should be here for the first time, right?" How could you have seen it?"
Liu Cheng also frowned and looked at Ye Fan in confusion.
But Ye Fan nodded firmly: "There is indeed this pattern in my impression, this seems to be some kind of ancient sacrificial pattern, you see on this platform, the groove on the edge should flow into some kind of liquid, and then converge into the hole in the middle."
Ye Fan just explained one sentence, and Shen Bao and Liu Cheng's faces changed greatly.
"Blood?"
The two said almost in unison.
Glancing at the two of them, Ye Fan calmly nodded with a calm face.
"In ancient times, sacrifices mostly used living people as sacrifices, so this groove was used to put blood, and the blood gathered in the center, and the blood was used as a guide to achieve the purpose of their sacrifice."
Nowadays, people know that this kind of sacrifice is simply a matter of careless human life, but in those days, people believed in the gods, believing that if they made sacrifices, they could communicate with the gods and fulfill their wishes.
This kind of inhumane sacrifice naturally does not work in modern times.
"But what is this sacrifice for? Even if the ancients sacrificed, they had a purpose, what was their purpose?"
Liu Cheng's face was full of doubts.
"Dead and back from the dead."
Ye Fan opened his mouth heavily.
These four words made Shen Bao and Liu Cheng stunned again and looked at each other.
Naturally, they don't believe this kind of.
"How do you know?"
Ye Fan raised his hand and pointed to the side of the square platform.
"The dragon and phoenix are the symbols of the ancient emperors, and they are also the ideal things for people to communicate with the gods, after all, they are the supreme beings in the legend, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious, flying high in the sky, which symbolizes the ascension of the soul to heaven after death, and has achieved the goal of resurrection from the dead."
Immortality and resurrection from the dead have always existed in the 5,000-year history of China, which is not only the wish of the rulers, but also their nostalgia for the world.
"Why bother with disregard for human life for their unrealistic purposes?"
Liu Cheng sighed helplessly.
Ye Fan sneered: "It's just greed, whether it's ancient or not
People are still modern people, as long as they are human beings, human nature is greedy, this is not surprising, but today's society does not allow them to careless of human life, but conspiracies and tricks will harm more people, human nature is like this, it is unavoidable."
Shen Bao didn't care about these, as a law enforcer, he had long been accustomed to this kind of thing.
"But what effect does this altar have on those monsters? Why should they be afraid?"
Hearing Shen Bao's question, Liu Cheng also nodded: "Yes, even if this altar is terrifying, it won't make those beasts dare not approach, after all, this fear has not been used for hundreds of years, and there is no threat to those beasts at all."
Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two, Ye Fan smiled, "Just activate this altar."
Initiate?
At this moment, Shen Bao and Liu Cheng's faces showed horror at the same time.
"Do you know how to activate this altar?"
looked at Ye Fan as if he had seen a ghost.
You know, this is the altar of hundreds of years ago, not to mention whether it can be activated, even if it is to be activated, I am afraid it will have to be guided by blood, is Ye Fan crazy?
Seeing the horror in the expressions of the two, Ye Fan smiled.
"Don't be afraid, it's just activation, it's not a sacrifice, so there's no need for blood."
Then, Ye Fan stood in front of the square platform, examining carefully, and looking up at the surroundings from time to time.
After a while, he slowly raised his head.
"Second brother, Liu Cheng, help me push these stone statues over."
Although the two of them were puzzled, they still nodded when they looked at the serious expression on Ye Fan's face, and then pushed the stone statue effortlessly according to Ye Fan's request.
The statue was a man tall and looked very brave.
With a rumbling sound, the eight stone statues of the stone figures were pushed around the square platform, just in line with the eight grooves that stretched out.
"This is designed according to the eight trigrams, the dry is the head, the kun is the foot, the chest is the chest, the shock is the abdomen, the kan is the shoulder, the distance is the arm, the gen is the hand, and the leg is the leg.
Ye Fan said to himself, but for Shen Bao and them, these are simply fantasy and completely incomprehensible.
Immediately afterwards, I saw Ye Fan slowly walking behind the stone statue and constantly groping on it.
"What are you looking for?"
Seeing Ye Fan's movements, Shen Bao asked puzzled.
"Trigger the stoneman's trap."
Ye Fan responded lightly, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then, I saw him slowly twisting the stone man's head.
Suddenly, a hole suddenly appeared in the stone man's chest, and the next moment, a bright red liquid flowed out of the hole.
As concocted, Ye Fan touched the other seven stone figures to the mechanism.
As the liquid flows into the groove, it finally converges towards the middle.
"Boom."
In an instant, I saw that the square platform suddenly cracked from the middle, and a puff of yellow smoke erupted violently from it.
"Get out of the way."
Ye Fan shouted anxiously, and then pushed Shen Bao away, covering his mouth and nose tightly.
Shen Bao and Liu Cheng reacted quickly, and they all retreated when they saw this.