"What the hell are you talking about?"
Lao Bai didn't hear what I was mumbling, and immediately asked a question.
I repeated the sentence again, looking at these pottery figurines and the statues on the altar with sparkling eyes, and whispered: "I vaguely feel that this place is very important, and it may be related to the resurrection of the two evil things!"
"This kid is a little crazy."
Lao Bai curled his lips and laughed: "Do you really believe what the snake spirit said? Can dead things really be resurrected?"
I shook my head and didn't explain too much.
The words of the great wizard may not be all false. It is true that it tested the Gu King and wanted us to do things for them. It is not necessary for it to make up the last wish of the Donghu survivors and this tomb. After all, in its view, this is their biggest bargaining chip, provided that they really believe that the two evil things can stir up trouble.
"Ghosts are really afraid of worship.
If it's just the descendants who worship their ancestors, it's fine, and there are even some benefits, but ghosts are ghosts. If there are too many people worshipping them and the incense is too strong, it's easy to get into trouble!
I've heard of such a thing before. An unclean thing cultivated an immortal body, was not afraid of the sun, was not afraid of the execution ground, sneaked into the temple, and lived on the Buddha statue. People worshipped the Buddha statue, which was equivalent to worshipping it. In the end, it almost got it, and all the masters killed it!"
Brother Yaozi shook his head, his mouth slightly raised: "What the great wizard said is indeed interesting. These two evil things, since they can deceive the Donghu and worship them as gods, they must have some tricks. Maybe resurrection after death is not something that cannot be achieved.
Jingzhe, ignore Lao Bai, continue talking!"
I nodded, combined with what I saw and heard along the way, and expressed my guess.
I always feel vaguely that these two evil things are not from outside the Great Wall, but seem to have come from the inland.
The reason is very simple. The great wizard once said that everything here originated from the wisdom of the great god Panshe. In other words, many of the methods in this tomb were passed down from the great god Panshe.
The nomadic people in the past did not take life and death so seriously, so they were far less rich in civil engineering technology, secret passages, and Feng Shui in tombs than Zhongyan. The talc rope we first saw was born in the Central Plains and only appeared in the late Warring States Period.
Since this technology was brought by the great god Panshe, the origin of this thing can naturally be guessed.
Next is the pottery figurine!
Before the evil thing passed away, it said that as long as there are people in the world who believe in me, one day, I will return.
So, the role played by these pottery figurines in this tomb is similar to that of humans!
It is also the Central Plains that is so particular!
The Chinese have been an agricultural nation since ancient times, and have a particularly deep affection for the earth. When it comes to playing with mud, no one in the world can play better than the Chinese.
Early printing, ceramics, etc., are all related to mud!
In Chinese mythology, it was also Nuwa who molded people out of mud, unlike the Nordic mythology, where Odin carved people out of driftwood from the sea.
Pottery is made of clay, so pottery figures, in a sense, can represent people, especially in tombs.
After entering the feudal era, the rulers believed that human sacrifice would waste a lot of population resources. After a clear ban, it became a tradition to use pottery figures instead of people for burial!
Here, the pottery figures worship the statue, which is equivalent to someone believing in him and worshiping him. Although the effect is not as good as that of a living person, the key is that it lasts. Who can kneel here for two thousand years? A nation that has lost its country and family probably has no time to promote its beliefs and let more people worship it at the last moment. Using pottery figures instead of living people to worship here for two thousand years will accumulate a lot, which is probably the best choice.
"But, I still can't figure out what the old fox wants to do by taking so many people from the pastoral area?"
I was puzzled: "According to their routine, so many Tao people have been worshiping and believing in them here. The souls of the two evil things should be immortal and will appear sooner or later. They can just wait honestly. Why do they have to capture some living people for no reason and attract the attention of the people from the Xuanmen outside?"
"Maybe there are places we overlooked. It's not that simple."
Zhang Xinya frowned and said: "The old fox and the corpse of the demon Luo have not appeared yet, and the coffin of the last queen of Donghu mentioned by the great wizard has not been seen, which means that this is not the end of the tomb.
Those two evil things have so many plans. They don't just want someone to miss them after death, so that they don't have to reincarnate and can live in the world forever. Their plans should be bigger!"
I nodded, and I agreed with the other party's statement from the bottom of my heart.
Unconsciously, we have walked into these pottery figurines, and walked towards the altar step by step, where we might find something.
"Oh my god!"
Suddenly, Lao Bai yelled and jumped back. I was frowning and thinking about the little things I found along the way. I was caught off guard and stepped on by him. I felt that my big toe was about to be crushed into a meat pie. The pain filled my eyes with tears. I pushed him away and angrily scolded him for having eyes on his butt.
"Not... alive... alive..."
Lao Bai had a cold war, his lips were trembling, and his fingers were trembling as he pointed at a pottery figurine next to him.
I subconsciously took a look and suddenly couldn't keep calm.
Judging from the face and body shape of this pottery figurine, it should be a woman. There was a stone beside it, which was obviously the stone that the old man dropped. It happened to hit the front of the pottery figurine's head, and a large piece of pottery was broken. However, the bottom was not empty...
To be precise, there was a person inside! ! !
Because the broken pottery was in the front jaw position, I could see black hair and a smooth forehead! !
This scene was really too scary. We thought we had encountered something evil again. Our hair stood on end and we retreated.
But where can we retreat to?
There are such things everywhere here! !
However, after a brief panic, it was the layman Lao Diaoye who first noticed something was wrong and whispered, "Don't you think it's strange? If it's a zombie, the body should have signs of decay, but look at this one, it doesn't look like a corpse, it looks like a living person, and it's well-maintained, with white and tender skin!"
After he reminded me, I stopped looking around. After thinking carefully, it was the case. So I held the Tianguan Blade in one hand and was on guard, while gradually approaching the pottery figurine in front of me. Seeing that the other party was still kneeling there motionless, I reached out and knocked on the other party's head.
Ding Ding!
The sound coming from the other party's head was very crisp.
I raised my eyebrows and touched the other party's forehead again.
Very slippery...
But this slippery is not the slippery of human skin, but the slippery of porcelain. When I raised my finger, I found that it was stained with some white powder. I put it to the tip of my nose and sniffed it. There was no corpse odor, but a faint fragrance.
This fragrance is hard to describe. It is a bit similar to the pearl powder sold in the water towns of Jiangnan, but the smell is very light...
"This is indeed a human!"
I thought about it and said, "It is a processed corpse!"
If we talk about the preservation and embalming of corpses, there are many ways, including removing the internal organs and pickling.
But there is a most advanced method, but it has been lost.
It is not that this method of preserving corpses has been lost, but that there is no such material.
This material is called crocodile pearl powder.
The so-called crocodile has nothing to do with the Yangtze alligator we are talking about now. It is a land turtle that has been extinct for more than 2,000 years. It is pure white all over, and it is not an occasional albino. It is born like this and has always been regarded as sacred.
This white turtle is very interesting. Some tumors will continue to grow inside their shells. The texture is like stone, which is definitely not comfortable. These tumors will constantly rub the flesh of the white turtle and gradually form a kind of precious pearl.
This formation process is very similar to the formation of pearls. This kind of pearl is a crocodile pearl. When it is crushed into powder, it is a crocodile pearl powder.
However, crocodile pearl powder is different from pearl powder. It cannot be used for beauty. On the contrary, this thing is a highly toxic substance. After it is mixed with water and made into a paste and drunk by people, it will penetrate your flesh and internal organs, kill all the microorganisms in the body, and finally penetrate from the epidermis to form a glass-like crystal!
In the past, some people used crocodile pearl powder to preserve corpses. The flesh and blood of corpses treated with this thing were crystal clear, and the dead appearance was very beautiful. As the saying goes, a white skin can cover up all ugliness. All the dirty bacteria in the body are killed, the skin color is clear, and the ugly monster becomes a great beauty. Moreover, because of the glass-like crystals on the surface of the body, there is no problem in preserving the corpse for a thousand years!
Unfortunately, the white turtle has too harsh requirements for the living environment. It is said that this thing is only a flash in the pan in NMG. Because of the unique climate of NMG, a peculiar landform was once created two thousand years ago. It is a heavy alkaline land of lime. Nothing can grow on this soil. Except for white turtles, nothing can survive. Unfortunately, the sandification is very fast. After it became a desert, the habitat of white turtles was destroyed and they became extinct.
In the past thousand years, no one has seen this thing again.
The corpse in front of me is obviously treated with crocodile pearl powder, but I don't quite understand what the effect is. Can it enhance the power of the pottery figurines?
"Is the body still fresh? Just like when he died?"
Lao Bai asked curiously, "Do you think it's still warm inside?"
"Why are you curious about everything?"
I said unhappily, "Can the heat be preserved after the person dies?"
Lao Bai chuckled and seemed to want to try again, so he poked the eyeball of the terracotta figurine. However, the pottery pieces there were very thin, like cicada wings, and the crystals formed in the eyes after the crocodile pearl powder was poured into the body were also very thin. His finger poked in, and it went straight in, and dirty blood immediately flowed out.
Even he himself probably didn't expect this to happen. He looked up at us in a daze and said in a lost voice: "It's really hot, it really has body temperature..."
After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and immediately squatted down, put his ear to the chest of the terracotta figurine, and in an instant, his whole face drooped, and he cried: "Damn it, this is not a corpse, not only is it hot, but it has a heartbeat..."