Song Siyuan carefully observed these puppets, and then looked at the solidified candles and paper talisman ashes scattered on the ground, and her eyes lit up: "This is not for the sacrifice, there will be candles and incense burners in the sacrifice, in all the things we see, there are no traces of the incense burner at all, only the talisman seals all over the ground, I suspect it is a conjuring." ”

She paused and explained: "If you want to sacrifice, you need a god and a name, and if you curse, you need to have more birth dates and needles and nails, these two things do not appear, and there is a high probability that they are not the other, so if we regard the puppet as a container, these rituals are not holding something." ”

"Beifu Yin Soldiers."

Yue Qingshan stepped back.

Song Siyuan's eyes lit up: "Second uncle is right, I suspect that this is summoning the soul of the Yin soldiers of Beifu." ”

She was very curious about this point, and prompted: "It was recorded in the Xiangyang local chronicle that all the soldiers of Beifu were folded along the river, and Liu Yu was looking for the underworld back then, didn't he just want to sacrifice the heroic soul of Beifu?" These puppets are all in the style of soldiers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and they are carved in their own appearances, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be the appearance of the corpses of real death, and a large number of puppets appear in the hall, which is similar to the ancestral hall where the souls of the dead are stored, and it is not impossible to recruit heroic souls. ”

"Well, let's continue to look at the other temples and see what the other temples are like."

After that, they went out of the hall, each of them acted separately, walked up to the plank road grotto in all directions, and came to the other hanging halls, except for the different murals in the hall, these Beifu puppets are indeed the same system, and even the furnishings in the hall are almost the same.

By now, the conjecture in their hearts was clear, these things were probably the Soul Conjuring Hall left by the Beifu soldiers, and as for the scattered talismans and candles, most of them were traces left by the practice at that time.

"Come here, this palace is different from other halls of the Conjuring."

Tan Yanqiu's words passed from the position on the mountainside of the canyon, and everyone began to converge in his direction.

When I walked to the hall, this palace was really different from the layout of other palaces, and the hall was no longer a puppet shrine, but a huge stone tablet was erected.

This stele is equivalent to the screen, two meters high, four meters wide, square and long, standing on a huge pedestal half waist high, the material is very similar to the copper vein black stone they saw, there are finely carved dragon carvings around, the text of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is carved in three points into the wood, and then carved in it with some metal, it has not faded off for nearly a thousand years, and it is as clear as in the past.

If you look closely, these characters are about the size of a fist, horizontal and vertical, arranged compactly, densely distributed on the surface of the stone tablet, with text accounting for two-thirds of the length, and the remaining last part is a very strange symbol.

This talisman is not made of paper, but a thin sheet of gold wire, which looks like a huge flag half a person high, with auspicious cloud patterns up and down, the outer frame depicts the dragon and the phoenix, and the gold sheet in the middle is nailed to the end of the stone tablet, and some strange symbols are drawn on the gold sheet, and the cinnabar red curve is outlined to form a whole, which makes people very puzzled.

"Sacrifice the Heroic Soul Hall Monument of the North Mansion!"

Song Siyuan had some research on ancient characters, carefully observed the characters carved through the seal, and said carefully.

"What does the inscription on this mean?" Yue Guanchao didn't know the situation, so he had to ask Song Siyuan, who was the most knowledgeable in it.

The hall is dark and unknown, Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and carefully looked at the inscription, the gold wire inlay was particularly vivid in the light, and the black stones were shining with golden light, and she read according to the text: "Shi Wei Yongchu three years, the age of Renxu, Emperor Wu cast a merit monument in the Beifu Heroic Soul ......"

She carefully read the content of the inscription, and when she saw the end, she already knew the meaning of these words in her heart, and explained to everyone: "This stele is called "Sacrifice to the Heroic Soul Hall of Beifu", the content is mainly to record the history of Liu Yu ascending the throne and becoming emperor, and building the Beifu Tomb here, and at the same time, I also want to use these puppets to accommodate thousands of Beifu souls, so that they will not be reincarnated after death, and will always guard the rivers and mountains. ”

"Actually!" Song Siyuan's words changed: "Actually, this is more like a soul conjuring ceremony, which is equivalent to absorbing all the souls of the dead Beifu soldiers into these puppets in the hanging hall." ”

After that, Yue Guanchao observed these inscriptions: "Isn't it recorded where the clothes and tombs of Beifu are?" ”

Sun Daqiao waved his hand and said with a smile: "This will definitely not be recorded, since the Yiguan Mound in Beifu is a place where the soul of the heroes is buried, how can it be casually recorded on the inscription, when Liu Yu came here to build the Yiguan Mound, doesn't it mean that people will never find out here, and we will have it for a while." ”

"Why are they building these things on a stone wall? Is it just for the sake of solidity? Perhaps, there are other reasons, but it seems to me that this kind of cantilevered construction, although sturdy, is labor-intensive, and it would be easier to build on flat ground if there is no other will. ”

"Further, the surrounding mountain walls are full of these temples, and it takes so much effort just to accommodate these puppets?"

Her words meant something, and Yue Guanchao's eyes lit up: "What do the seniors mean, is there any other role here?" ”

"But what else does this do, is there any secret passage or mechanism here?" Yue Erpao scratched his head and shook his head in all directions.

"It's not the agency's problem, you go out with me to have a look."

Ban Wan took them out, standing on the covered bridge and looking at the valley: "I think, if these hanging halls have to be built, they must be to monitor these ghost people, we have also walked through many hanging halls just now, no matter which hanging hall can see the villages in the valley clearly." ”

She paused, and a bright light flashed in her eyes: "There are hanging halls on all sides, is it that the soldiers of Beifu also have the intention of monitoring the ghost people." ”

Her guess has not been thought about by this convenience, Yue Guanchao heard Ban Wan mention this, and also felt that the setting of the hanging hall did have some surveillance implications, and even, this is still a forbidden place for ghost people, and the sense of shock just now came from the pressure of the building.

Song Siyuan nodded: "Judging from the corpses of the Beifu soldiers in the cold and warm cave, there must be a contradiction between the ghost soldiers and the Beifu soldiers, otherwise, the Beifu soldiers will not be chased and killed by the ghost people, and combined with the current situation, it is very likely that these hanging halls are surveillance buildings, and the structure is close to the surveillance forts." ”

As they spoke, the sound of walking suddenly sounded in the hall, and Yue Guanchao noticed the strange sound in the hall, and quickly picked up the dagger and walked in.

"What's wrong?"

Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight and shone on the dim hall, Yue Guanchao took the opportunity to observe all parts of the space in the hall, trying to find the sound of moving, but unfortunately, except for the stone tablets and murals, there were no special items in the hall, let alone any living creatures that caught the eye.

When the two of them noticed this situation, not only did they not feel at ease, but they were shocked into a cold sweat!

"Just now, the feeling of being watched on us may be the thing hiding in the shadows."

Yue Guanchao spoke cautiously, and a drop of water fell to the ground on the top of his head, startling a dingdong sound, and the two of them invariably picked up the flashlight and looked at the caisson, and when they saw the situation clearly, their heartbeat almost missed half a beat.

Hey, at the corner of the pillars under the caisson, there is obviously an old face of Bai Sensen!

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