Dong Yi Wen!

How can there be Eastern Yi here?

Lin Yi looked at the crooked black handwriting on the wall and fell into deep thought.

The Eastern Yi nationality is one of the important ethnic minorities in China, and is now mainly distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, among which the Eastern Yi people in the Bashu region mainly live in the dry mountains in the southwest.

According to the historical documents of the Eastern Yi people, they are the descendants of the Dongqiang tribe among the Chiyou Jiuli tribe, who migrated from the north and eventually settled in the southwest region.

After the multiplication of the times, from the earliest branch, to the later six branches, namely, Wu, Cha, Bu, Mo, Nuo, and Heng.

These six tribes became the foundation for the development and growth of the Eastern Yi.

The Eastern Yi script belongs to their internal use of script, which is one of the ancient hieroglyphs, and it is one of the very rare ancient scripts that can be passed down in an orderly manner.

However, Lin Yi and the others are obviously in the Meishan area, that is, the center of the Xichuan Basin.

The territory of the Eastern Yi people is located in the southwest of Sichuan. Could it be that this dark passage located under the Min River can actually give them a pole to the southwest of Sichuan?

"Brother Lin, what do you say this is?"

"Eastern Yi script, an ancient hieroglyph."

"Dong Yi? Aren't those who live there in Hanshan? We were swept up by the water to the dry mountain? ”

"It shouldn't be possible, ten minutes from Meishan to Hanshan? Then what kind of highway is to be built, just take the underwater passage. ”

Lin Yi answered Chen Erwa's question while holding a flashlight to carefully identify the words on it.

There are eight characters in total, written on a huge stalactite that has been artificially broken to form a smooth beveled surface.

Translated as "sacrificial land, the living should not be approached".

The handwriting is written with charcoal, and it is impossible to distinguish the age, and the Eastern Yi language has been passed down to this day, only lost, not expanded, and now many Eastern Yi people use a mixture of Eastern Yi and Chinese characters.

Literally, this should be an exclusive altar set up by the Eastern Yi people.

Could it be that this "King of the Great West" was bullied and snatched from the hands of the Eastern Yi people?

According to time calculation, during the period when Zhang Xianzhong occupied Xichuan, the Eastern Yi people in Hanshan were ruled by the Tusi Ankun family, the Eastern Yi people in southern Yunnan belonged to the people of the King of Yunnan, and the Eastern Yi people in QXN were ruled by the Luodian regime, also known as the "Luo ghost master".

In particular, the Ankun Tusi family in Hanshan still enjoyed the canonization of the imperial court from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It stands to reason that the Onishi regime will not be able to extend so far, not to mention that the Eastern Yi is a three-legged stand, and if one of them is in trouble, the other two will definitely come to support, and they will not watch their own people being bullied.

Moreover, the people of the Eastern Yi nationality are fierce and can fight well, and they have always been the object of competition by the border regimes.

After thinking about it, I couldn't think of a reason, so I could only record it with my camera first, and then continue to move forward.

The water beneath their feet grew deeper and deeper, gradually reaching their knees, and their waists were almost submerged to their chins, and they could only swim for a while.

Chen Erwa volunteered to explore the way.

Lin Yi repeatedly warned him not to be like last time, and he was accidentally caught in a trap.

Chen Erwa answered, carried her belongings, held a flashlight, and plunged into the water.

After swimming a short distance, I saw him "bounce" from underwater, his face pale, and he pointed to the incoherent language underwater.

"Brother Lin, ghosts, haunted, haunted, underwater."

As he spoke, he hurriedly swam to Lin Yi with his hands and feet.

"Calm down, calm down, tell me what you just saw?"

Chen Erwa swallowed her saliva, feeling that something was wrong, and quickly spit out a few more times, and then pointed to the water in front of her:

"A chain, which is worn with a skeleton of bones, a skeleton of human bones, is so long that it will open its mouth to speak."

"Dressed people in strings? Will you still open your mouth to speak? Did you hear that? ”

Chen Erwa nodded and shook her head again.

"Dressed in strings, I opened my mouth because I saw it, but I didn't hear what I said."

Lin Yi frowned in disbelief, turned on his flashlight, buckled the barrier knife in his hand, and swam in the direction of his fingers.

Chen Erwa followed him and swam over.

After the two of them swam through several large stalactites, they found the iron chain in the middle of the water, seven or eight meters long, connecting from one end of the water to the other, like a sling crossing the river.

The thickness of the chain is about three or four centimeters, and the three strands of the chopstick-thick lock are twisted into a twisted shape.

Sure enough, as Chen Erwa said, dozens of human bones were worn on it, some of which were still intact, and some of them only had a head and collarbone left.

Some only retain the upper body, and the lower body is gone.

Each skeleton is hooked to the mandible with a triangular buckle through the lute bone, and the upper end is pierced through the throat.

The triangular buckle was hung on the iron chain, making every skeleton here have its mouth wide open, and with the impact of the water flow and the shock of the water waves, the mouth opened and closed, no wonder it scared Chen Erwa like that.

"What is this for, Brother Lin? Why are people hanging here? ”

"Judging from the hint of Dong Yiwen just now, this is the place where they hold sacrifices, so this is likely to be some kind of sacrifice, these people may be their own people, or they may be enemies, as for when, there is no way to judge for the time being."

Although Lin Yi has some forensic skills, it is difficult to determine the time of death of this kind of skeleton that has been soaked underwater all year round.

However, from his close observation, it can be seen that these people were pierced to death by sharp objects before their deaths.

The mandible and clavicle are worn to varying degrees, and it is likely that they were hung alive on an iron hook before their death, and then sank underwater and drowned.

The Eastern Yi people have always maintained an ancient sacrificial custom, and this method of sacrifice is likely to be a means of treating prisoners of war.

But who will these people be?

Could it be that those blinding soldiers of the "Great Western Kingdom", relying on their own soldiers, came here to grab territory with the Eastern Yi people, and then there was a fire, and finally they were dressed as strings and made as part of the sacrificial ceremony?

There is no writing on the chain, and there is no obvious marking, and the ends of the chain are fastened to both sides by huge rivets.

After the two passed through this area one after the other, the water level gradually dropped, and after a few pulls, they had already touched the bottom.

He stood up and walked out of the water, facing a shallow shoal.

There are traces of a bonfire lit around the shoal, and a large clay pot with a wooden lid is placed not far away.

Lifting the lid and looking inside, there were three extremely rotten human heads that had been soaked inside.

(End of chapter)