The most important affairs of a country are sacrifice and war.
The meaning of this is simple. The most important affairs of a country are sacrifice and war.
We ritual officers have no control over war, but when it comes to sacrifice, this is our specialty.
This sacrifice is not only a sacrifice to heaven, but also a kind of ritual, which is the rule of ancient society.
Funeral rituals are naturally the most important part of it, and when it comes to funeral rituals, we have to mention the most terrible human sacrifice in ancient times.
When those ancient dignitaries closed their eyes, they died not only themselves, but also took away a large number of people. These people who were buried with them were divided into many types. Some were the people they loved during their lifetime, such as wives, concubines, and favorite generals. These people died more beautifully, basically like euthanasia, very decent. Of course, some tough men stood on the grave and yelled "Lord, I'm here", and then cut their necks with a knife. That's not impossible. After all, our ritual officers in charge of funeral rituals generally don't intervene in this part of human sacrifice.
There are only two types of human sacrifices that ritual officials intervene in, one is called "Wang Xun" and the other is called "Qiu Xun"!
The word "Wang Xun" is actually what we dare to say in private. If we put it openly, it means that we don't take the lives of the whole family seriously. The so-called "Wang Xun", as the name suggests, is a large number of unlucky people and ghosts who died in vain. They are basically slaves. They are tied up tightly and pressed on the edge of the burial pit and their heads are chopped off with a knife. Of course, there are also craftsmen. They are more miserable. They are basically sealed alive in the tomb and left alone. This is one of the methods to prevent tomb robbery. Although it is cruel, it is simple and practical. After all, the mouths of the dead are more reliable.
As for Qiu Xun, this is worth talking about.
Qiu Xun buried all the people who the dignitaries hated the most during their lifetime, so they had to be taken with them when they died.
In order to let these dignitaries die comfortably and thoroughly, the ritual officials, as loyal lackeys, will of course try every possible means to kill the enemy, and the means are cruel and cruel beyond imagination.
Mercury helmet is the most vicious kind of enemy, which is more perverted than cutting off the human basket and sending a hundred peerless beauties to serve every day!
In the concept of helmet, there is only one in our ritual officials' concept, that is, human helmet, which is a very terrible resentful corpse, probably some corpses with huge resentment, and some beasts or resentful ghosts have drilled into it, using this corpse with strong resentment as armor. The combination of the two is extremely difficult to deal with.
Mercury helmet is such a resentful corpse. They were killed by mercury when they were alive. Mercury enters the stomach, not only poisoning, but also constantly sinking, which will cause the internal organs to rupture. The process of death is quite painful, and the resentment after death is extremely great.
The ritual officer naturally did not create this thing to give him the power to take revenge, so after creating the human helmet, he would not give those beasts or lonely ghosts the opportunity to take over, but directly seal the soul of the victim in his body. The victim knew that he was dead, but could not reincarnate. Moreover, the body would be covered with realgar and then sealed with wax to prevent the realgar from dispersing. Realgar originally restrained the ghost, so doing this was equivalent to putting a layer of red-hot iron clothes on the soul. After 1,800 years of torture, the soul was confused and suffered pain all the time.
In the final analysis, this mercury helmet is to make the dead never reincarnate and constantly torture the other party!
Because this method is too cruel and violates the harmony of heaven, even the ritual officer rarely uses it. I guess the last heavenly official must have hated those Jie people so much that he did this.
Looking at the endless mercury helmets in front of me, my scalp tingled. I have never heard of any ceremonial officer making so many mercury helmets at one time. I couldn't help but think about what my master said about the so-called balance and not being involved in the secular world. Maybe he is right. The world has its own way. Excessive interference will not end well. The tragedy of the ceremonial officer for thousands of years may be related to this.
I can't think too much about these things. Thinking too much makes me feel hairy all over, as if there is a pair of eyes staring at me in the dark. I can only put a series of random thoughts behind my head. Those things are too far away, but these mercury helmets in front of me are indeed troublesome.
This thing is used to torture the person being killed, but in principle, it can also be regarded as a kind of human helmet! !
However, the bodies filled with mercury for thousands of years are his own souls. He has imprisoned his souls in his body. After thousands of years of torture, his souls are now confused and dormant most of the time. That's why they didn't jump up to attack us. If they wake up, those crazy souls will see me, the descendant of a ceremonial officer, and they will torture me to death.
This is definitely not a good place. It's better to leave early!
I pulled Zhang Xinya up without saying anything and ran towards the place where we came in.
It was a downward sloping corridor leading directly to this mercury armor burial ground. At this time, the water rushing here has become very small, like a gurgling stream.
When we rushed to the entrance and saw the situation clearly, we were immediately dumbfounded.
"Why is it blocked?"
Zhang Xinya's face turned pale: "It was fine before!!"
However, in the narrow corridor of one meter square, a stone gate had fallen, blocking the road, and only a small amount of water poured in from the gap.
I was wondering why the water ran out so quickly. Although the small pool in the upper layer of the water burial tomb is not big, it stores a lot of red water. It is impossible for all of it to flow back in a short time.
It turned out that it was blocked by the mechanism!
"It may be a mechanism to prevent the mercury helmet here from escaping."
I smiled bitterly and said, "It's just that these mechanisms have existed for too long and are a bit out of order. It should have been triggered when we passed by, but it took a long time to fall down, and it happened that we were all trapped. This is to catch us all in one fell swoop."
Except for a Tianguan Blade and a string of wind chimes, almost all other things on me were lost, including the clean water and dry food we carried with us, which were lost somewhere in the process of being carried by the water.
Not only me, Zhang Xinya was almost the same, with only a flashlight left on her body.
The situation couldn't be worse, it was almost a desperate situation. If we were really locked up here, even if these mercury helmets didn't jump up and kill us two, we would starve to death here.
"Try not to make too much noise, let's go around here first, maybe there are other ways!"
I forced myself to calm down: "This tomb has a complex structure, the tomb passage is winding, a bit like a maze, more like a cage. When these Jie people were buried, because of the cruel means, these people would definitely cause trouble after death. Such a tomb was also made in various ways to prevent them from leaving. There is no way to have a dead end in a tomb structure like this. We will find it if we look patiently!"
This place is extremely vast, and I don't know how the last heavenly official excavated such an underground relic by himself. Along the way, we saw no less than thousands of mercury helmets, and the scale was shocking.
These mercury helmets were in different postures, sitting or lying, and some even had smiles on their faces. All the signs told me that these Jie people were made into mercury helmets without knowing it.
Moreover, without exception, all of them were soldiers holding weapons.
This should be a Jie army thousands of years ago, which was collectively buried here.
"Squeak..."
Suddenly, a wailing sound came, like a dog whose tail was stepped on.
This was a dead world, except for the dead, and suddenly such a sound came out, and Zhang Xinya was shocked.
"What is it?"
She immediately stretched her neck, looked around, and then pointed forward: "The sound seems to come from that place!"
The first thing I thought of was the black-haired monster under the water. I secretly said in my heart, "Oh no, don't let this thing alarm the mercury helmets here." Holding the Tianguan Blade in one hand, I quickly rushed to the sound. After a while, I saw the real owner. Isn't it that monster? !
It was washed to the end of the burial ground, where there was a stone tomb door. No one knew where it led to.
The monster ran aground on the steps in front of the tomb door. It was very ferocious in the water, but once it ran aground, it was like a tiger in the open. It was thin, its fur was wet, and its hair was almost all stuck to its back. Its limbs were weak, and it tried to stand up countless times but failed. The steps were covered with moss and were very slippery. Every time it stood up, it would immediately slip to the ground, extremely embarrassed.
"This is a water monkey!"
Perhaps because she saw the road, Zhang Xinya was in a good mood and could even laugh: "Some people who drowned in the water accidentally formed it. It is very powerful in the water, but once it is on land, its limbs are weak and the threat is not as big as a small Pekingese. Don't worry!"
The water monkey also noticed us at this time. It ignored Zhang Xinya at all and stared at me. Its white and transparent pupils flashed with gloom and hatred, as if it was blaming me, believing that if it weren't for me, it wouldn't have fallen to this point!
As the saying goes, enemies are particularly jealous when they meet.
It blames me, and I blame it. I rushed towards it with the Tianguan Blade...
"Together... die..."
The water monkey didn't panic and dodge, but sat there leaning against the steps, spitting out three hard words from his mouth.
The water monkey is almost like a wild beast. Although it is a water ghost formed by a drowned person, it has a physical body and no consciousness. I have never heard of a talking water monkey.
Regardless of why it is so special, the fact that it can talk is enough to prove that it has a thinking ability close to that of a human!
I was half-hearted and had a bad premonition. I moved faster than ever before, but I was still three minutes late. Before I arrived, the water monkey raised its head and screamed "Wow"...