Daomu Biji

Under the waist-deep water, the mine light clearly illuminates the bottom of the water. I originally thought that I was stepping on those gravel stones, but I don't know when it will be different.In the gravel under our feet, some strangely shaped flaky stones appeared. I reached down and touched a piece, and found that it was actually the fragment of the clay pot we saw on the ancient shipwreck dug in the Devil City. .

These pottery pieces were buried in gravel to reveal only a small part. They must be carefully observed to be separated from the finely crushed stone. Obviously, here, traces of ancient activities appeared.But looking at the number, it seems that many of them are hidden under the gravel.

Everyone began to fiddle with the broken stones with their feet, and soon more debris came out.The fat man raised the miner's lamp high and took photos of the place where we stood, so that we could see the situation under the water more clearly.

Under the gravel here, a large number of clay pot fragments are mixed, not buried deeply, extending from the place where we stand to the distance from the bottom of the lake, without seeing the end, and further toward the mark left by the stagnant oil bottle Direction, the denser the number of these pottery pieces, I can see what force was rushing from there.

The fat man dug deep and found that there are still many deep under the gravel. At this scale, it is impossible to count how many jars were buried here.The fragments of these clay pots in the water are very sharp and sharp, like a blade, and the skull is mixed with the human skull. It is decaying and full of holes. It is basically incomplete, and some even have some hair stuck. It makes people shudder.

This kind of scene looks very similar to the sea floor where I saw Haila Porcelain near Xisha. At that time, the whole sea floor was made of porcelain.But the porcelain is buried in the white sea sand, it looks old and mysterious, and these ugly jars are in the gravel, plus the bones and hair inside, it only makes people feel sick.

Looking at the skulls, we all had goose bumps."What the hell are these?" The fat man said with a tongue.

I told them what happened after the wreck was excavated in Yadan's "Devil City", but they didn't know the details, so I explained to them that these were the clay pots found at the time.According to Wu Laosi's statement and the relief's display, this should be a sacrifice to the snake.

"Is there a sunken ship behind this?" The fat man said while stroking the miner's lamp.

I shook my head, it was estimated that it could not be a boat.At one time, no shipwreck would sink so deep underground, unless this lake has a waterway to the outside world.Secondly, these jars belong to the offerings of those snakes, and should be placed in places related to the sacrificial activities. I think it must be related to the religion of the Western Queen. There are so many. It seems that these jars were not rare at the time. .

Wu Lao Si still agrees with the idea that this is a sacrifice, but knowing this doesn't make much sense. I remembered the screams of Wu Lao Si at that time, and I couldn't help feeling the soles of my feet like needles.

Thinking of my experience in Devil City, I was still a little bit scared, but there should be no accident here.Looking at the damage of these jars, the insects inside must have been gone for a long time, and the human bones have also rotted, and they will be crisp when they are touched. These things have been soaked in water for thousands of years, and it is not bad to have no dust.And the pottery is water-absorbing. If there is a sealed pottery pot that has been buried in the water for so long, the water will penetrate through little by little. The inside must be filled with water and the insects should drown.

"With so many sacrifices, will this be the Queen Mother's tomb behind this?" Asked one of the three uncles.

I thought about it, and I ca n’t say that there is no such possibility, but this is also completely unfounded guess.Heart said it is best not to.

The fat man said: "No matter what it is, let's be careful. Don't step on the pottery pieces. I don't know if these bones are poisonous. Xiao Wu, please wash it quickly. Be careful of your wound infection. Wait for amputation. It's miserable. And since these are sacrifices dedicated to snakes, there may be that kind of pheasant neck here, we must be careful. "

"Thank you for your concern." I glared at him angrily.He didn't care at all and said strangely: "It's strange, when it comes to those snakes, it seems that they haven't seen them since entering this place. Where have all the hanging sausages gone?"

I broke my foot, I do n’t know if it ’s the bones of these skulls, or some pottery pieces were crushed by me, anyway, it ’s not a good thing.

At this time, the black blind man dived into the water and dug out half of the skull from the inside. The back of the head was gone. You can see the gray gum inside the brain cavity and the tissue like a honeycomb. This should be the masterpiece of those dead kings.Why there is a king of corpses in this head is completely untestable, but guessing from this meaning, it seems that these clay pots are sealed with human heads to feed this horrible bug, which is a bit like a modern man beekeeping.If Wu Lao Si's inference is correct, this behavior may have originated from some mysterious customs during the period of the Western Queen. I don't know where they caught this kind of insect that nests in the human brain.

We continue to move forward in the debris, paying special attention to the underwater to avoid being scratched by the pottery. The situation is becoming more and more clear. The more we go in, the more fragments of pottery pots under our feet.We walked for less than one kilometer in this way, and we found ourselves on a shoal made entirely of clay pot fragments.

The whole area is full of fragments of clay pots, large and small, and most of the colors are dark red and yellow pottery. Under these fragments of clay pots, you can see a lot of seemingly complete ghost head pots. There were several layers under the water.

We can't tell how many layers of this thing are buried under the debris, but the scene is creepy enough.Afraid of stepping on the ghost tank, we dared not push forward any more, so we stopped to find a way.

The fat man was not interested in these tatters, and the three uncles did not dare to touch them, drinking shochu to drive off the cold.The black blind man was very interested. He dived again and again to look carefully at these ghost pots, and the fat man said impatiently: "Four eyes, do you still see too few dead people? What are you doing with that thing."

I found a circle and it was like this all around. This area is very large. If you want to pass, you must either return to the side and find a way to go around, or just step on the sharp bones and pottery pieces.

Hesitating, I saw Wen Jin looking at her feet, and if she was thinking, she asked her what she thought of.She suddenly said: "Are we already here?"

"Here? What do you mean?" I was strange, and I understood immediately, "You mean, this is our destination?"

She nodded: "It seems that we have reached a place where sacrifices are piled up. This kind of place is generally a place of sacrifice, and there is a distance after walking. Is it possible that this place is our destination?"

I looked at my feet and the surrounding area, and it felt impossible. At least I couldn't accept it. What is this place? There is nothing here except these ghost pots. What are we doing here to do?I have to watch these jars carefully in Devil City.

Looking at the dull oil bottle, he still didn't speak. Wen Jin took out the glow sticks, folded a few of them to make them light up, threw them into the surrounding water, and illuminated them.Others looked at it and began to learn to play a light stick and thrown it out, and soon the surrounding water lit up with a faint green fluorescence.

We started to look for any suspicious things on the bottom of the water. The ghosts of the water surface under the green light were abnormal. This time we looked very carefully, but we still didn't have any strange things we wanted to find, except that the pottery pieces were pottery pieces.

We had some frustration. I looked at the bottom of the water and said, if this place is the destination, then the only possibility is that something is buried under these clay pots.But this should be impossible. If so many people have come here, if something is below this, it must have been dug up.Obviously this is not the end, we have to continue searching.

The most hateful thing is that I do n’t know what our destination looks like, and I ca n’t remember anything about the oil bottle.

I kicked some water to disperse my cold and tension.At this moment, I suddenly saw my reflection distorted into a weird look by water waves, then I saw my face and my lower body overlap, and the other areas reflected were dark.

My brain was agitated, and suddenly I realized something. I looked up directly above us and found that I do n’t know when we were. The top of our head was much higher and it looked dark.

I took the miner's lamp to illuminate it upwards, and the lamp shone into the darkness, and I couldn't see the ceiling.The low light of the miner's lamp is nearly forty meters away, and the top of the cave here exceeds this distance.I adjusted the lighting intensity of the miner's lamp to a strong light level, and the miner's lamp emitted an incandescent beam of light.

The people around me were attracted by the suddenly lit miner's lamp. I ignored it and shone the miner's lamp towards the top of the cave, which reflected the top of our head.

At that moment I was stunned.I saw a huge unspeakable object embedded in the rock on the top of the cave above our head.

This thing is huge, the part protruding from the top of the cave is spherical, and its diameter cannot be estimated at all, almost covering our entire field of vision.The texture seems to be rock, but the color is completely different from the surrounding pillars and cave ceilings.The strange thing is that the surface of this stone is full of asphalt barrel-sized holes, tens of thousands, dense and dense, and looks very ugly, like a lotus root that has been emptied.

Others looked up at the sky along with my lights. No one spoke at once, everyone was stiff, and the atmosphere seemed to freeze.

"What stuff?" The fat man muttered.

Wen Jin murmured: "Heaven, this ... this is a piece of heaven." )