Zhang Zhuxun pinched the two black beads that came out of the clay figurine's eyelids and fumbled with them with his fingertips, as if he was pondering something.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Xie saw him holding the bead close to the tip of his nose and sniffing it, with a strange look on his face.
"?" Wu Xie took the bead that the fat man had just taken out, followed his example and got closer to smell it, with a look of surprise on his face.
"It's so strange, this stuff actually smells good."
A very special, indescribable fragrance.
The fragrance is very light and comes out bit by bit from the beads. You can't smell it unless you get close to it.
Strangely, Wu Xie's originally insignificant hunger was suddenly aroused, and he even had the urge to swallow the beads in one gulp.
Wu Xie was startled by this impulse, and he immediately came to his senses. Seeing Zhang Zhuxun reaching out for it, he quickly threw it to him and told him what he had just felt.
"You should also be careful."
Although Muyu's willpower is much stronger than his, he can't imagine the scene of Muyu eating unknown things dug out of other people's corpses. It's simply too damn scary.
"Well, it's indeed the fragrance on the beads."
Zhang Zhuoxun nodded and explained: "There are three beads like this in total. The one I have seen before should have been taken out of this man's mouth."
"What's in the mouth is still fragrant? Tongue jade." The fat man suddenly became interested and gestured with his hands, "The golden fragrant jade taken out of the ancient corpse's mouth is worth the old nose's money."
"It's not tongue jade, nor gold fragrant jade." Zhang Zhu asked.
"I just heard the old patriarch mentioned that there is a mountain god stone called Kunmupan. It is said that a long time ago, when offering sacrifices to the mountain gods, these beads would be sealed into the seven orifices of the person who was the sacrifice. These tiny beads
The fine pores will filter out the dirty smell of the human body, leaving only the fragrance of the flesh itself in the beads."
The fat man gasped, "This is a special spice for curing meat?!"
Everyone was stunned. No wonder Zhang Zhuoxun said that this man was a sacrifice just now.
Zhang Haixing was more interested in where Zhang Chuxun had seen such beads.
"The one I've seen was taken out by Zhang Qiling from a machine box." Zhang Zhu asked, "The machine box and the notebook were left by the Germans. As for how they got out of the closed bronze door.
How to get the beads out through the mud, I don't know."
Zhang Haixing frowned and thought for a while, "You continue."
"Although it is a sacrifice, I feel that this person should have been stuffed with Kun Mu Pan and locked here on his own initiative." Zhang Zhu said, "This thing was originally a sacrifice, but now it has become a cocoon."
"Peel all the mud off him."
Everyone started working together, and soon, a translucent human body appeared in front of several people. To their surprise, most of the clothes on his body were still intact. It was a leather coat that was soaked and hardened by mud. It was very long and very old.
The style, the hem almost reaches the ankle.
The fat man scraped the fabric with the tip of a knife, "Who is this person? He is so great. Is he a Tibetan?"
"No, he's a Han." Zhang Zhuxun stretched out his hand and pulled out an ornament from the man's neck. It was a white sapphire pendant with a warm texture.
He looked at the pattern on the jade pendant, then looked at Zhang Haixing, "The Qilin card belongs to the Zhang family."
Zhang Haixing was stunned for a moment, his face changed drastically, he grabbed the jade pendant and saw that there was really a fire-walking unicorn engraved on it.
Everyone fell silent for a moment. If it was the Zhang family, it would be more likely that they would take the initiative to become sacrifices.
Zhang Haixing said softly, "This is actually a personal transformation. There is no name on the Qilin card. Although I don't know why he appears here, I don't completely know what it is."
Fatty Congshan Ruliu asked, "So what is this."
"I came prepared. I didn't expect anything we could see." Zhang Haixing said.
"This is corpse jade, which is a strange kind of jade that is petrified by human corpses under certain circumstances." Zhang Haixing put away the jade pendant and continued, "We have opened many ancient tombs that are more than thirty centuries old, and we often find
Some similar situations.”
"This kind of corpse jade takes a long time to evolve and requires a very stable environment."
"In other words, a specific environment can accelerate the rate of petrification of a corpse, and can even maintain the basic shape of the corpse." Zhang Haixing pointed to the cocoon on the ground, "But if the entire corpse becomes like this, I
Never seen it before, it's very special."
Wu Xie said silently in his heart that the Zhang family is such a unique and awesome family.
"I think I've seen it before." Wu Xie's mind flashed, and the white light passed by too fast, and he couldn't catch it.
"Since it is a sacrifice, what is the object of his sacrifice?" He asked, "Are there any other living creatures here?"
He suddenly thought about the moment when Zhang Zhuoxun was vigilant just now. Could there really be some weird creature observing them secretly?
If it really existed, the horror would be far beyond imagination.
Wu Xie raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Zhuxun, his face solemn.
Zhang Zhuoxun paid more attention to the blood that had just dripped on the pattern. Feeling Wu Xie's gaze, he turned to him and nodded gently.
Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief. The light of the flashlight focused on the chest of the corpse jade. He found that all the black cotton patterns gathered into a black mass on the chest.
"I don't know." Zhang Haixing answered his question and looked around.
"Even if there is anything alive, it must have been washed out by the previous mud."
"Then what is this black mass? Was this man poisoned before his death?" the fat man asked.
"I only know that from our family's records, there seems to be something taking shape in the chests of all corpse jade." Zhang Haixing took off the mountaineering pick hanging on his backpack and tapped the black mass in the air, "It should be this.
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"Look at these black cotton wool, all the corpse jade we saw before, these cotton wool are scattered in the corpse, but there are signs of gathering in the chest cavity."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "As for this one, all the cotton wool is almost concentrated in the chest. This corpse jade has probably been here for thousands of years." Zhang Haixing's eyes started to tremble.
Shining light, "Come, let's open its chest and see what's inside."
The fat man was on the other side of the corpse jade. When he heard this, he waved his hand and said, "No need to knock, it's already broken here."
As he spoke, he tore off the clothes on the back of the corpse, shaking out a pile of black cotton crumbs.
The fat man bent down and pointed out to everyone that there was a big hole on the back of the body. Just now he and Zhang Haixing kicked and pushed the body, and all the spider webs on the back were broken into small pieces and fell off into powder.
"Empty?" Wu Xie wondered, "Could this be just a natural phenomenon? Have you ever opened a corpse jade like this before?"
"It's not what you think." Zhang Haixing looked grim, "Did the things inside escape just now?"
"Damn, is it alive?" The fat man quickly threw away the rag in his hand and picked up the shovel at hand. "Where did it go? Did it get mixed in the mud and rush outside."
"It's possible." Zhang Haixing knelt down and looked at the corpse jade carefully. "This curled up posture is not for protection, but to trap something in the body."
"not necessarily."
The fat man held the shovel and glanced around. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of something and shouted, "Over there!"
Everyone turned around instantly and saw a black shadow appearing where Zhang Zhuoxun had been staring at before.
In the darkness, the shadow was half-bent and seemed to be staring at them.
Zhang Zhuoxun took aim and threw a cold firework. In the flickering light of the fire, they saw clearly that the thing was actually a pillar rising slowly from the edge of a bronze disc. It was about the thickness of a bowl and half a person tall.
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The pillars are also made of bronze, with very complex patterns engraved on them, a hundred times more delicate than those on the surrounding cave walls.
There are two wing-like things inlaid on both sides of the pillar, making the entire pillar look like a tall bird standing on the ground.
"A flying stick?" the fat man asked curiously.
"It's a mechanism." Zhang Zhuoxun moved a few steps and saw another pillar rising not far from the one just now.
Then it was passed around, with them and the corpse as the center, and one appeared every four or five steps, forming a circle around the corpse.
Wu Xie and others looked at each other and waited quietly for a while, but the imagined danger did not appear.
"What do you mean these sticks suddenly appeared?" Fatty murmured, "If it's just for decoration, I have to say, it's a bit boring."
Wu Xie thought for a while, "It must be a mechanism related to gravity. We must have accidentally encountered something and triggered it."
Zhang Zhuoxun squinted at the blood stains on the carvings, and just now he suddenly shrank back more than ten centimeters. Obviously, they were not the main ones who triggered the mechanism.
"Exit and try." He asked Wu Xie and Fatty to retreat toward the bronze door without leaving a trace.
Several people left the disc, and the blood stains on the carvings quickly spread forward for a while, and the thing also exited.
Sure enough, after a moment of hesitation, the surrounding pillars quietly sank into the ground.
Zhang Haixing squatted down and looked at the edges where the pillars connected with the ground. "The gaps between the pillars are cleverly hidden in the patterns. I'm afraid there will be many mechanisms in this cave, so be careful."
"No, there is only this one mechanism." Zhang Zhu asked.
Several people looked at him in confusion, and Zhang Haixing asked, "How do you know?"
A strange smile appeared on Zhang Zhuxun's lips, "I discovered it from the beginning."
"What?" Zhang Haixing put his hands behind his back without leaving a trace.
"There is a big thing here." Zhang Zhuxun let go of his right hand that he had been holding, and the blood on his palm had dried. "It's in this cave."
"What?" Zhang Haixing asked.
"Stop pretending." Zhang Zhuoxun chuckled, "You must have guessed it, right?"
"When did you get injured?!" Wu Xie was burned by the dazzling red blood in his palm, his heart sank suddenly, and he pursed his lips, but the situation was tense at the moment, so he had to suppress his doubts.
Although he was as confused as the fat man, he still stood beside Zhang Zhuxun tactfully.
Zhang Haixing almost thought that his vest was about to fall off, and almost jumped up to take action.
When she heard what Zhang Shuxun was talking about, she quietly let go of her hands behind her back, "So what are you going to do?"
After a pause, she added: "Let me tell you in advance that this is a matter for you Kangbalo people and I will not participate."
Zhang Zhuoxun smiled, thinking that you won't be able to help him when the time comes.
"Find that thing first," he said.
"How to find it?" Wu Xie actively participated.
Not to be outdone, the fat man looked left and right, "Why, what you Zhang family calls the ultimate bird is here, and you have to find it yourself?"
Zhang Haixing glanced at him speechlessly and rolled his eyes.
Zhang Zhuxun reached out to the fat man for a kettle, "Try to circle its location first."
"What for? We only have half a bottle of water left." The fat man said, but still took it out of his backpack and handed it to him.
Wu Xie keenly caught something from Zhang Zhuxun's actions and exclaimed, "Blood channel!"
He lowered his head and glanced at the patterns on the ground, and murmured, "No wonder I always feel that this thing looks familiar. I saw a similar large iron plate like this when I was in Siguniang Mountain, and there were many such carvings on it.
It took a lot of pig blood to activate the mechanism."
Zhang Zhu looked at the blade on his hand and said suddenly: "You reminded me."
"The important thing is participation." He closed the lid of the kettle and scanned the faces of everyone present, "Who comes first."
Zhang Haixing reluctantly said, "Aren't you planning to water it down?"
Without saying anything, the fat man grabbed Feng, who was pretending to be dead, and scratched his arm.
Feng screamed, and after the blood flowed out, it slowly seeped into the gap and began to flow along the gap little by little, blooming like a flower on the bronze floor full of gaps.
The fat man clicked his tongue and sighed, "This thing is a bit cool."
A few minutes later, the wound on Feng's arm had stopped bleeding on its own, and a complex pattern appeared on the ground that they could not describe.
Everyone gathered around, staring down at the bloody pattern that was no longer spreading into the distance, and then fell into silence.
After a long while, the fat man broke the silence and said, "Is this a straw horse?"
Feng's eyes almost flew out of his head, obviously he couldn't believe that the blood on his body turned out to be such a sand sculpture.
He collapsed a little, "Oh God! Why is it an alpaca?"
Wu Xie sighed, "If that thing is your God, then your God is obviously expressing anger and is not satisfied with your blood."
Feng glared at him angrily, "It's not my God, he's the God of Praise!"
"Congratulations to Dad." The fat man pushed him aside and said, "Don't block the way. Who will be replaced next? Forgive me, fat man, let me be frank. If you can only use this method to find Dad, I'm afraid ordinary blood will be useless."
Just when Wu Xie was about to speak, Zhang Haixing stepped forward and cut his hand, then changed the direction to squeeze out the blood, "I'll come first."
Her purpose is very clear, to get rid of the problem as soon as possible.
Since ordinary people's blood is useless, her "unordinary" blood will have to try this sooner or later.