I said, "Even the zongzi is dead, you can't die anymore. Just commit suicide." In a blink of an eye, only we were left at the height of the stone steps. A strange picture formed in my mind. In the dark underground world, a bunch of zongzi came from the darkness, climbed to the highest point of the stone steps, and finally jumped down and climbed up.

This scene reminds me of the death cycle.

The death cycle is a folk superstitious saying, which means that some wandering ghosts cannot be reincarnated for certain reasons, so they stay in the place of death, repeating the scenes of death. For example, many ghost stories describe this scene: A person jumped off a building and committed suicide by suicide in a building. Later, at night, some late-returners occasionally see someone jumped off a building, but in fact nothing happened. This is the death cycle that the folk talked about.

Now, another batch of rice dumplings are walking towards us. Everyone dared not contact them. They flashed to the edge of the stone steps, watched their blurry faces walk towards the height of the stone steps, and then jumped down again. This was so strange.

Finally, Zhuan Rui turned his gaze to the object like a sarcophagus high on the stone steps, and did not say anything, but made a gesture to us to go up. In a moment, everyone stood at the highest point of the stone steps. What shocked us was that I thought that the end of the stone steps should be connected above, but the reality was contrary to what I imagined. The other side of the stone steps was not connected to the mountain wall, but was hanging in the air. On the other side of it, a stone steps also spread downwards, and the two stone steps were like an upside-down V-shaped character, and the point in the middle was where we are now.

I couldn't help but be surprised. You must know that the underground space is very vast, and the V-shaped character is also very deep. The only support point is that a large pillar will sink into the darkness every 100 meters. How did the people of Yaofang Ancient Kingdom achieve such a building structure?

What is their purpose in building such a place?

Based on the breadth of this cave, I am sure that this is definitely not excavated by human resources, and it is likely to be a natural product such as a sinkhole.

But what we mistakenly thought was a sarcophagus, and when we looked closer, we found that it was not a coffin, but a thing similar to a stone bed, with beast patterns and divine words carved around it, giving people a mysterious and ancient feeling. Through these ancient reliefs and words, I seemed to imagine what kind of country Yao Fang was. They must have a set of their own unique beliefs and civilizations. There were many such countries in the thousands of years of the Xia and Shang dynasties. Most of their final outcome was annexation, then Chineseized, and finally formed the various ethnic groups today.

It is unknown why Yao Fang was destroyed. Judging from the palace above, it is very likely that it was destroyed by war.

The stone bed in front of me is exquisitely shaped, meticulously carved, and the stone is grayish-white. Since I don’t know much about the stone, I can’t see what it is, but the tentacles are relatively hard. At this time, Tofu suddenly stretched out his hand and measured it, saying, “This stone bed is too short, and it is estimated that about 1.5 meters, how can people sleep? Could it be that the people in Yao Fangguo are all shorts?”

Zhang Wen said: "This is not a bed, it is a sacrificial platform. Look at the reliefs on it, which carved the scenes of sacrificial beasts. I suspect that this underground sky pit is a sacrificial place for Gu Yaofang."

As we were talking, Zhong Gong suddenly pointed to the darkness in our right hand and said, "It seems that there is something there." I followed his gaze, and the searchlight in my hand also moved over. At the junction of light and darkness, there seemed to be something vaguely. There was only a huge black shadow, and I couldn't even see the specific outline clearly.

I signaled everyone to gather all the searchlights in one place. As a result, the light increased a lot. In an instant, I discovered that there was a lonely circular platform about forty meters away from the stone steps.

The platform is supported independently by a large pillar, standing in the darkness, showing its unique position.

The round platform was incompatible with the gray and white surroundings and dark. It was painted red and looked bloody, which looked shocking and eye-catching. In the center of the platform, there was a masked corpse sitting upright. I don't know if it was a coincidence, the front of the corpse happened to face us, as if he had been staring at us in the dark before.

But soon I realized that it was not towards us, but towards the stone bed next to us.

The man was also in a mummy state, wrapped in a white leather body, which was well preserved and has not rotted. Outside the leather body, a dark brown feather was made of, like an eagle feather. Everyone stared at the old corpse sitting cross-legged, feeling extremely strange.

Death is actually a relatively painful process. Most people die of illness in the end, and some die unexpectedly or commit suicide. Only a small number of people will be "sleeping". The so-called "death of death" is a kind of painless natural death. Many elderly people die unknowingly in their sleep.

In traditional culture, a slept is actually a very beautiful wish. Although Chinese people avoid talking about death, they essentially understand that death is inevitable, so slept is actually a blessing. There have been few people in the slept, but most of these people are practitioners. There are often such scenes in TV dramas that a certain practitioner, such as a Taoist master or monk, who has achieved enlightenment, has a premonition that he is going to die, and after calmly commands the funeral, he closes his eyes, and then says he dies without any pain, and just sits and dies.

In fact, this kind of thing is not an artistic exaggeration, it is an unsolved mystery. In traditional mysterious culture, this phenomenon of calmness and silence is called sitting and transformation. The corpse in front of us is obviously not death in the traditional sense. It should be a sitting and transformation old corpse, but it is really puzzling to appear in this place.

Zhang Wen analyzed: "He has a Yupi. I think he should be Gu Yaofang's high priest. What do you think of that mask? "

The mask on the man's face was a pure black base, with Pisces eyes, shaped like water droplets, protruding very high at the nose, wearing a hook, shaped like an eagle's beak, and the most peculiar one was his mouth, which had no outline of the lips, but circles of spiral patterns of white lines. This reminded me of the spiral patterns I saw in the hall above before.

What does this spiral pattern mean?

At this time, Tofu suggested: "Why don't we go over and take a look?"

I find it strange that Tofu always proposes to take a detour when encountering such a thing. Why do you want to get in? Seeing my puzzled gaze, Tofu swallowed and said, "Anyway, I don't want to see Zongzi commit suicide, so let's fight quickly."

Zhuanrui took out the corpse-binding rope and the yin-detecting claw. The two were combined together and have always been a powerful tool for tomb robbers to retrieve corpses. Zhuanrui aimed at it, shot the yin-detecting claw first, accurately hooked the corpse's neck, and then the corpse-binding rope connected to the yin-detecting claw would slide down the yin-detecting claw and finally put it on the corpse.

Zhuanrui then pulled the locks and the corpse-bound rope tightly wrapped around the waist of the ancient corpse. We were about to pull the corpse over, but I didn't expect that when I tried hard, I found that the corpse was still motionless, as if it was nailed to that platform.

There were only two ropes and one corpse, so the rest of the people didn't help. Zhuanrui and I were ready to pull the corpse over. Unexpectedly, with the strength of our two, the corpse was as stable as Mount Tai. Instead, as the corpse tied up, something was squeezed out of the leather on the chest of the corpse.

The thing was brown and yellow. Since only a little appeared, most of it was hidden behind the leather, we couldn't see what was in his arms. Zhang Wen said: "Looking at his close body, it must be something important. This man is a clergyman from Yao Fang, and the things on his body must be extraordinary. We have to find a way to get it over and take a look."

I said, "The body cannot be pulled, and even if it is pulled over, the thing will definitely fall."

Tofu didn't believe in evil and said that a mummy couldn't pull it. He squeezed me away, twisted the rope with both hands and used force, and the body still remained motionless.

Everyone was helpless for a moment, and the corpse was sitting there upright, so why couldn't it be pulled?

Wanshitong speculated: "It's not petrochemical, right?"

Tofu was unknown, so he asked, "I have only heard of fossils, which took tens of thousands of years to form, but I have never heard of petrochemicals. What does petrochemical mean?"

I have heard of petrochemical theory, and have seen relevant reports on the news before, saying that there is an ancient village in northwestern Shaanxi in my country, which retains a bad habit called "Earth Immortal Burial". The locals have an ancient custom that has been passed down for a long time, that is, if the elderly live to the age of 88 and are not dead, they will have to perform Earth Immortal Burial. That is, children will choose a place for the elderly to become immortals, carry the alive elderly to that place, dig a huge earth pit tomb, put the elderly in, and then cover the earth pit with stone slabs that were laid in advance.

The old man couldn't get out of it, and he starved to death in a few days. This bad custom seems extremely cruel to us. At that time, some exploring hikers accidentally entered the village and found that the place had such a terrible custom, and immediately notified the local municipal journalists.
Chapter completed!