This song was not an ordinary song. There were no lyrics. It was just a tune hummed from the nose. It was long and distant, very ancient. I couldn't help but think of Indian music. It seemed to be of that style, desolate and sad.
Unconsciously, I was already in tears. The moment I turned around, I saw a small figure jumping out of the Three Gods Temple.
This was the girl's mechanical puppet!!
At first, the other party just cooperated with the boy and said some words to each other, making people think it was just a strange puppet. Now it seems that it is not that simple. It can sing and dance. The desolate and distant humming comes from it, and it is dancing a very strange dance. The body twists simply, giving people a very primitive feeling.
Nuo dance!!
This is dancing Nuo!!
Such a word popped up in my not-so-clear consciousness.
In the ancient Chinese civilization, Nuo dance is related to primitive hunting, totem worship, and even witchcraft consciousness. It can even be said that it is a kind of witchcraft behavior. Even now, many places still dance Nuo, but it is basically on the verge of extinction.
But in feudal society, this thing is very popular. Generally speaking, it is related to praying for population growth, protecting children and agricultural harvest, and it is probably not much different from sacrifice.
To put it bluntly, this Nuo dance is full of vitality and joy, and it is a kind of white witchcraft.
I have studied this kind of thing before, and I am familiar with many body expressions of Nuo dance, but I have never seen the Nuo dance performed by the girl mechanical doll in front of me, and I can only understand a few simple movements.
For example, she suddenly knelt down with her arms open, as if embracing the sky.
This is telling the heavens that there is a dying person here, asking the gods to embrace him and take him away...
For another example, she hunched over, twisted her upper body back and forth, and kept swinging her head towards me...
This is praying for the dying person!!
"Kill her, kill her..."
I yelled, pointed the Baipi knife in my hand at the other party, and shouted: "She is going to kill me!!"
A black shadow suddenly pounced on me and threw me to the ground. With a "clang", the Baipi knife in my hand fell to the side. Xiao Mi rode on my chest like crazy, and her two little arms pressed my neck tightly, preventing me from moving.
"You...you want to hurt me?"
I looked at Xiao Mi, and my breathing became more and more difficult, my vision became more and more blurred, and finally I slowly fell into the darkness...
When I woke up again, I found myself lying in the Three Gods Temple, my limbs were weak, and the moment I opened my eyes, I had a splitting headache.
Xiao Mi was sitting in front of me, holding her cheek with her hands and looking at me steadily, but when she saw me wake up, she immediately snorted coldly, turned her head and didn't talk to me.
I recalled the situation before I fainted, and for a moment I was a little confused. At that time, I clearly saw Xiao Mi riding on me with a ferocious face, suffocating me and fainting, but now I can feel my heartbeat, I am clearly not dead.
What is going on?
"Xiao Mi?"
I called her weakly.
Xiao Mi pursed her lips, got up and ran away.
"What an ungrateful brat! It was Xiao Mi who saved you, but you said Xiao Mi wanted to hurt you. Who wouldn't be angry?"
A sarcastic voice came, and the ghost old man appeared on the side with a sinister look, saying unhappily: "What the hell are you doing? You suddenly jumped up for no reason, picked up a knife and was about to cut your neck, and yelled something, you just watch me laugh, I won't fall down, and I dare not fall down, I will never let you have the opportunity to laugh at me again in this life. If Xiao Mi hadn't been quick and pressed you to the ground, you would have died by now!"
So that's it!
I fell silent, maybe this is the infinite magnification of my inner sadness?
After the college entrance examination, there was a period of time when I looked back on my life and felt that it was a mess and pathetic. I also had a strong desire to make money, but unfortunately, after running the Baisang shop, I almost lost all my pants...
A failed life is inevitably accompanied by an inner world that is unbearable to look at...
Now, all the filth in my heart has been dug out, like an explosion, and like a kind of... self-destruction.
After a while, I insisted on getting up and said that I wanted to find Xiao Mi, but An Ru came out from behind the Three Gods Temple and stopped me, saying that Xiao Mi also knew that I was not sober at that time, but the words hurt her. It's a child's temper, and it will be fine after a while.
Now, I still have to worry about our situation. I was unconscious for a long time and wasted too much time.
After a pause, she took out a small cloth bag from her body and handed it to me, saying: "These are some things I collected from the statue when I just returned to the Three Gods Temple. There is a jar stuffed inside the statue of the god, and there are some dregs in it. I think it may be useful to you."
I took the cloth bag, and this should be the dregs in the cloth bag.
I took a look, and the things inside looked like some medicine dregs. They looked quite moist, but not like water. They seemed to be soaked in some liquid. I am not a Chinese medicine practitioner, so I don't know what these medicine dregs are, but one of them was preserved quite intact. It was shaped like an umbrella, and it seemed to be a...mushroom?
"Witch medicine!"
I uttered these two words with great difficulty.
Witch medicine, of course, is the medicine of wizards...
This kind of medicine has unknown effects. Most of them are poisons, but some of them have very strong hallucinogenic effects!
Undoubtedly, what I encountered was this kind of hallucinogenic witch medicine.
This mushroom is the main medicine in this witch medicine. There is a famous name all over the world - hallucinogenic mushrooms!
Psychedelic mushrooms contain psilocybin. Many people who ingest this psychedelic substance have hallucinations and choose to commit suicide...
Such cases are real, especially in foreign countries. Living in this era of information explosion, I naturally know about it!
Those drug residues should be auxiliary drugs. Together with psychedelic mushrooms, they form a kind of witchcraft liquid with strong hallucinogenic effects. They are placed in a jar and sealed with potassium in a completely vacuum groove. Once the mechanism is activated and the seal is opened, the potassium automatically burns, and the heat released makes the witchcraft liquid evaporate. With the thick smoke produced by the burning potassium as a cover, people don't even know that they have been poisoned by a strong hallucinogenic witchcraft after inhaling it.
At this time, with the activation of the mechanism, some hidden mechanisms on the two Yanshi puppets may also be triggered, and then, the Yanshi puppets who can only mock begin to dance Nuo dance and sing...
Whether it is Nuo dance or singing, they have obvious guiding effects.
I have read a report before, saying that singing can arouse people's emotions, and even dominate people's emotions. The singing of Yanshi puppets will undoubtedly make people go to the most tragic place. People who are trapped in hallucinations will easily become depressed and choose to commit suicide after hearing the singing...
This should be the entire arrangement of this mechanism!
Although it feels a bit hindsight, I still can't help but sigh: "Yanshi's mechanism is really well-deserved. It is weird enough and hard to guard against. Even killing people will not be done by themselves, but let people end their lives by themselves. It's really cruel..."
But why did I bump into this mechanism?
I thought about it, this mechanism should exist to protect the inheritance, just to deal with people like me!
Yanshi's mechanism has never been passed on to outsiders. It is estimated that the descendants of Yanshi who built this place are also afraid that the unique skills will be taken away by outsiders, so this kind of mechanism is set up to prevent people who know the foundation of this place and come here specifically to find Yanshi's inheritance.
It can be said that the descendant of Yanshi who set up this mechanism had guessed my inner thoughts about a thousand years ago. He knew that since I had tracked here, he must have known some information related to Yanshi's mechanism, and the only way to know it was from the book left by Yanshi's disciples. According to the logic in that book, he must have chosen the statue of the god of heaven, so he simply set a vicious mechanism on the statue of the god of heaven to kill me!
After thinking about this, I was sweating coldly, looking at the three statues in front of me, and I no longer felt that this place was safe.
"The inheritance must be left for the descendants with a predestined relationship, so how did they guide the descendants to find the safe mechanism?"
There was only this question left in my mind. After thinking about it, the villagers came here for only one activity - worship!
Then, this kind of hint and guidance must be in the worship. Their worship requirements must be very strict, and the villagers are absolutely not allowed to touch those killing mechanisms. After all, those mechanisms are left for people with evil intentions, not for killing descendants! !
I immediately called the old ghost and asked him to tell me the whole process of the worship in detail! !
The old ghost was reluctant, but he also knew that he could only rely on me now, so he told me very carefully.
In fact, this worship is similar to the worship of most gods in China.
At the beginning, you have to bathe and purify yourself. Seven days before and after the worship, the couple is not allowed to do bad things or hold small meetings. Then you have to prepare the sacrifices and burn incense...
However, these have nothing to do with the Three Gods Temple, and the problem should not be in this link.
Until the old ghost said that after the worship, everyone should embrace the earth god, my mind became clear...
The Ran tribe is a war-torn nation. Due to internal tribal wars and the pressure from the Central Plains dynasty, the living space has been decreasing. Men are almost always fighting, and only mothers are responsible for taking care of children. Therefore, the Ran people have a special love for their mothers...
The god of heaven is the father, and the earth god is the mother. The earth god nurtures all people and is the incarnation of all mothers. Embracing the earth god is embracing your own mother...
I noticed that there are indeed steps on the left side of the altar, which should be convenient for villagers to walk up...
Thinking of this, I almost spit out a mouthful of blood - the inheritance is underground, so the mechanism to enter the underground is of course on the earth god. After all, the earth god controls the earth. The worship link of embracing the earth god is to let those descendants discover the inheritance. After all, only the most pious people will devote themselves wholeheartedly when embracing the earth god and find warmth from their "mother". Such pious people have the highest possibility of discovering the mechanism! !
Such piety...shouldn't I be rewarded?
This principle is very simple...
I wanted to smash my head into a dog's head with a hammer. Why didn't I think of this before I was beaten?
The gods of heaven and earth, it sounds like heaven and earth, but in fact, they are only one step away from each other on the platform, but this one step is the distance between life and death! !
With red eyes and gnashing teeth, I rushed towards the gods of earth!