What are these white lanterns and these weird empty coffins for? What's the point of getting these things?

There are so many puzzles in this Phoenix Village.

Inexplicably, Zhou Tao actually had a strong interest in these unsolved mysteries.

"Let's go, since there's nothing to be found here, let's go directly to that ancestral hall, I heard that there is a blood-colored coffin there, and the origin of all the strange things here comes from that coffin, maybe there is a mystery to everything there."

Without entering the other courtyards, Zhou Tao led everyone straight to the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

"Is this the ancestral hall of the bloodletting coffin?"

Zhou Tao looked at the brick house in front of him that was larger than the surrounding houses and said.

"That's it." Tang Can stepped forward and pushed the old wooden door open.

This wooden door should have fallen into disrepair, and with Tang Can's push, it made a squeaky and screeching sound.

"Whew!"

The door of the ancestral hall opened, and a gust of yin wind blew out from inside, accompanied by a pungent rancid smell and musty smell, heading straight for Zhou Tao and the others.

Zhou Tao was retched for a while, but looking at Tang Can's calm face, he didn't seem to smell the stench.

After retching for a while, Zhou Tao felt a little better in his stomach, he looked at Tang Can with a strange expression and said, "Didn't you kid smell that smell?" ”

Tang Can said with a normal expression: "I smell it." ”

"Don't you feel disgusting?" Zhou Tao admired this kid a little.

"I don't think, no matter how disgusting I am, when I was a child, in order to exercise my courage at home, I once lived in the same room with a highly decomposed corpse for five days, crawling white maggots all over the ground, and the smell of corpses all over the house, whether it was visual, or smell, it was much more disgusting than this."

"Hey, don't talk about it." With Tang Can's narration, Zhou Tao had a picture in his mind, which made his stomach, which had already calmed down, start to turn over the river and the sea again.

Seeing Zhou Tao's miserable appearance, Tang Can closed his mouth very cooperatively, and then looked into the ancestral hall.

Sure enough, as the intelligence said, there was a blood-colored coffin parked in the center of the ancestral hall.

Finally, Zhou Tao suppressed the strong feeling of nausea and looked at the coffin in the ancestral hall.

"It doesn't seem to be the same as what the intelligence says." Tang Can said with some doubts.

"It's really different, the intelligence says that this coffin was dug up from the ancestral hall, but there are no traces of digging in this ancestral hall." Zhou Tao looked at the coffin, and his eyes gradually narrowed.

Walking into the ancestral hall, Zhou Tao looked at the scattered soil on the ground and had a guess in his heart.

"This coffin seems to have been brought in from the outside." Tang Can touched the soil on the ground and said.

Zhou Tao nodded: "It's really moved from outside, but I don't know where this coffin was dug up." ”

Circling around this coffin, Zhou Tao did not open the coffin in a hurry, but looked at the ancestral hall left and right.

The layout in this ancestral hall is very simple, the walls of the ancestral hall are not scraped putty, and there are no portraits, in the innermost part of the ancestral hall, there are many spiritual tablets, and in front of the spiritual plaques is an offering table.

Zhou Tao walked to the table where the spirit cards were enshrined, and saw that those spirit cards were all written with Jiang Moumou, it seems that this Phoenix Village should be a family surnamed Jiang.

After turning around, there was nothing to gain, Tang Can asked Zhou Tao: "Young shopkeeper, do we want to open the coffin?" ”

"Wait a minute, you'll see." Zhou Tao saw that there were no useful clues in the ancestral hall, so he walked to the coffin again and studied it.

The blood-colored coffin seems to be made of jade, and on the coffin, there are many lines carved on it.

Due to the large amount of dirt covered on it, it is somewhat difficult to see.

Zhou Tao gently peeled off the dirt with his hands, and saw a carved picture appear on the coffin.

"What's carved on this?" Tang Can also walked over under Zhou Tao's shout, and peeled off the soil on the coffin lid to look at the carvings on it.

"It seems to be a sacrificial scene carved on it, you see, there is a large round platform carved in the middle of this coffin lid, and there seems to be a person with a mask standing on the platform, this person should be the person who presides over this sacrifice, there are some things on the platform, and under the platform, a large group of people are kneeling, is this a sacrifice to the sky?" Zhou Tao touched the nick on it with his hand and analyzed it carefully.

"Young shopkeeper, look at this, does this statue look like this coffin in front of us?" Tang Can asked, pointing to a square carving on the altar.

Zhou Tao looked at the position that Tang Can was pointing to, and sure enough, he saw a square coffin-like pattern, because the jade coffin that Zhou Tao and they were looking at now was rectangular, so it was still very recognizable.

"This coffin is in the center of the altar, and the person who sacrifices is facing the coffin, are they not sacrificing to the heavens, but to this coffin?"

Zhou Tao and the others were studying what they were sacrificing, and suddenly, a young man named Li Jiyun and their group shouted at Zhou Tao: "Young shopkeeper, you come to see this." ”

Zhou Tao hurriedly walked over, and the place Li Jiyun said was on the coffin of the coffin, which was also carved with a large number of patterns.

On the coffin, there are many people carved, these people are wearing linen and filial piety, some are holding mourning sticks, some are holding spirit flags, and some are scattering paper money, and in front of all of them, it seems that nine dragons are pulling a coffin.

"This is the Nine Dragons Coffin?" Tang Can exclaimed.

Zhou Tao shook his head, he carefully touched the dragon with his hand: "This is not a dragon, you touch it carefully, there are a lot of legs under this thing." “

Hearing this, Tang Can stretched out his hand and groped carefully on the bodies of those dragons, and sure enough, under the bodies of these dragons, he felt that there were a lot of legs densely packed.

"Could this be a thousand-legged demon dragon?"

"Thousand-legged demon dragon?" It is rumored that this thousand-legged demon dragon is not the totem of an ancient country in the Western Regions? How could it appear in the Central Plains. Zhou Tao didn't agree with what Tang Can said that this was a thousand-legged demon dragon.

"What the hell is it, you won't know if you open the coffin." Tang Ming, who was on the side, saw that he couldn't draw any conclusions from these carvings, so he put forward his own suggestions.

"At present, all clues point to this coffin, and now there is only one way to open the coffin." Seeing that Zhou Tao was still a little responsible, Tang Can also echoed on the side, and he was also very curious about what was in this coffin at this time.

"Okay, then let's open the coffin." Zhou Tao gritted his teeth and gave the order to open the coffin, he didn't want to open the coffin, mainly because he didn't know why those people had thirst before, and he didn't know what danger there would be if he opened the coffin rashly.

But right now, all the clues point to this blood-colored jade coffin, except for risking to open the coffin, Zhou Tao can't think of any other way.

Among the entourage, four people took out a pry bar and inserted one end into the coffin, and finally with the concerted efforts of the four people, with a "boom", the heavy jade coffin lid was pried open and fell heavily to the ground.

The most critical coffin was opened, and Zhou Tao hurriedly looked into the coffin, only to see that the coffin was full of blood-red coffin liquid.

"Is this blood?" One of them asked.

Zhou Tao stretched out his finger and dipped a little in the coffin, then put it under his nose and smelled it, the coffin did not have a rancid smell, but had a faint fragrance of herbs.

"This is supposed to be an antiseptic herb, not blood."

Zhou Tao wiped the coffin liquid on his hand, it was the first time he had seen this kind of coffin liquid.

The so-called coffin liquid is generally very common in the coffins in some ancient tombs, some are because of underground water seepage, the coffin is soaked in water, so there will be water in the coffin, the composition of which is not the same, also known as coffin liquid, and there is another one, which is artificially put in, used to embalm the corpse.

At the moment, these blood-red liquids should have been artificially put in, in order to prevent embalming.

Zhou Tao was thinking about how to release the liquid inside, when suddenly there was a clicking sound of gears turning from the coffin.

"Back off, watch out." Zhou Tao hurriedly reminded everyone to retreat.

With the sound of the gears, the blood-colored coffin bubbled and bubbled.

While everyone was watching this scene with a wary face, a corpse wearing a red robe with a mask on his head slowly emerged.

"This is the high priest in the painting?" Looking at the clothes of this corpse, Tang Ming immediately recognized that the clothes of this corpse were the same as the clothes worn by the priest depicted on the coffin.

After Tang Ming said this, Zhou Tao also felt that the clothes of the two were very similar.

"No wonder there is a scene of sacrifice depicted on it, it turned out to be the coffin of the high priest." Tang Can also showed a sudden expression.

"That's not right." Zhou Tao frowned and fell into deep thought.

He always felt that something was wrong.

If this is really the coffin of the high priest, then why is the high priest depicted presiding over the sacrifice of this coffin? And it's also a nine-dragon coffin, even if the nine dragons have a thousand feet, not a real dragon, but in ancient times, nine was the pole, and the number nine could be used, which was definitely at the emperor level, how could it be used for a small sacrifice?

Just as he was thinking, Zhou Tao suddenly heard someone shouting: "Look, what is that?" ”

Zhou Tao was awakened from his contemplation, and when he looked up sharply, he saw countless insects coming out of the priest's mouth.

This kind of insect Zhou Tao is very familiar, with a small body, many tiny legs, and a lot of fluff on the body, this kind of insect is very common in the countryside on his side, they are called Mao Tuosha, and this thing also has a scientific name called worm.

"It's not good, everyone get out of here, this thing seems to be poisonous." Zhou Tao saw that these worms turned out to be red.

Seeing that the situation was not good, everyone ran out, but the worm seemed to be endless, and more and more worms crawled out, crawling towards everyone at a very fast speed.

All the people present were the master elites selected by Zhao Chunxiang, and when they saw this situation, they did not panic, but used their spiritual power to protect themselves, and shot down the worms that rushed towards them while retreating.

However, there were too many worms, and inevitably one or two climbed onto their aura shield.