Chen Mo heard the sound of the bronze mask falling to the ground behind me, and hurriedly asked: "Zhou Cang, what's wrong? Have you discovered anything?"
I didn't recover for a while, I just stood there, unable to say a word, and my body was shaking like a sieve.
"Zhou Cang," Chen Mo probably called me again when he saw that I didn't respond.
"Oh," I responded blankly, for fear that Chen Mo would be impatient.
However, my chest was still beating rapidly.
The mask I just picked up casually had a human face stuck to the back.
And that face, at first glance, looks exactly like mine.
At this time, I felt something tap on my shoulder.
When I turned around, I saw a withered hand.
"Ah," I was shocked again.
"You, who are you?"
Although I asked this question, I already had some answers in my heart, because the owner of the withered hand was an old man wearing blue cotton and linen.
The old man's face full of grooves made me suddenly wonder whether the person in front of me was real.
Because he is really too old, so old that I even wonder, are there any such old people in this world?
"You are a descendant of Nuwa!" The old man stared straight at me with his severely sunken eyes.
He didn't answer my question, and said this suddenly, which made me break out in cold sweat on my back.
I know that the descendants of Nuwa in his mouth are not as simple as we usually say that we are the descendants of Nuwa, but are probably referring to the blood of the Sirius people in me.
"Old man, is your surname Gu?" I immediately realized that the old man in front of me was very likely to be able to help us find the astrolabe hidden in Shennongjia, so I hurriedly changed my tone.
Despite my sincere attitude, the old man still didn't answer my questions and kept mumbling to himself in a language I couldn't understand.
Looking at this strange old man in front of me, I felt uncomfortable in my heart. I felt that his eyes seemed to be full of hostility towards me.
Coupled with that human skin mask, I felt really scared.
"Zhou Cang," I don't know when, Chen Mo came behind me.
"Chen Mo, look at this strange old man." I felt like I was starting to panic.
At this moment, Chen Mo came over. I seemed a little confused about what to say, and then I said this.
Chen Mo glanced at me and didn't speak, but squeezed my wrist firmly.
Then he squatted down.
I saw Chen Mo pick up the bronze mask that had just fallen from my hand, and then put it in the palm of his hand and observed it carefully. Biquku
Then, he put down the mask and picked up another mask in the pile.
After looking at about a dozen masks, he slowly stood up.
I was about to ask him if he had seen something wrong, but Chen Mo made a gesture towards me not to say anything yet.
I saw Chen Mo walking towards the old man, and then staring hard at the chattering old man.
Chen Mo's fierce eyes were also particularly sharp.
The old man was probably frightened by his stare. After a while, his mouth stopped.
I don't know why, but when the old man calmed down, my heart, which was so irritable that I wanted to hit someone, suddenly calmed down.
However, at this time it was Chen Mo's turn to speak.
I saw him say a few words in the old man's language.
Chen Mo's speaking speed was much slower than that of the old man, and it could be seen that every word was gritted with teeth.
The old man's face suddenly changed.
"Brother Chen," the old man suddenly changed his language into Mandarin with a heavy accent, which I couldn't accept for a moment.
He should be calling Chen Mo!
However, Chen Mo did not respond to him, but turned around and returned to me.
"Brother Chen," the old man repeated, "look at his face, he is a descendant of Nuwa."
Chen Mo turned around and glanced at the old man, and then said: "We want to know where the astrolabe is."
"Brother Chen, I don't know. The Gu family are the gatekeepers of Shennongjia. How can they know the affairs of the master's family?" The old man spoke in broken Mandarin. Although he spoke slowly every word, I
It's still hard to hear.
"Who is your master?" I couldn't help but interjected and asked.
The old man glanced at me, then at Chen Mo, but did not speak.
"She must be Empress Houtu." Chen Mo said calmly.
The old man was obviously shocked, and then his expression returned to calm.
"Yes, our host is Empress Houtu," the old man said softly.
He coughed lightly, then actually found an open space and sat on the ground.
Chen Mo and I looked at each other helplessly, wondering what kind of medicine this old man was selling in his gourd.
"Then what kind of place is the place we are standing at now, and why are you here?" I asked.
"This is a burial mausoleum for Empress Houtu," the old man said.
When he said this, both Chen Mo and I were shocked.
This is actually Houtu Empress
If we think about it according to this thinking, will the new plate in Shennongjia be in the main tomb of Houtu Niangniang's tomb?
Since this old man can appear here, could he be the keeper of the tomb of Empress Houtu?
"Buried in a mausoleum?" I repeated half of the old man's last sentence, and at the same time, I glanced around.
The old man said that this place was the burial mausoleum of Empress Houtu. Could it be that the masks with human skins piled on the ground were the burial objects of Empress Houtu?
When I heard about burial, I immediately thought of the human skin that looked exactly like me piled on the masks on the ground, and I couldn't help but get goosebumps.
Suddenly, I saw something inside the pile of masks on the ground.
Chen Mo seemed to have asked the old man something at this time, but I couldn't hear the specific content. I couldn't help but squat down, and then pushed the masks away from the pile of masks one by one.
"Zhou Cang, what are you doing?" Chen Mo asked puzzledly when he saw this, and then squatted down behind me.
After Chen Mo squatted down, he probably saw what was inside the pile of masks.
Although he was squatting behind me, I could still clearly feel him taking a deep breath of cold air.
Because at this time, the things hidden in the mask pile have gradually surfaced.
The first thing that caught my eye was a curled-up mummy.
From the appearance, the corpse should be that of an adult, but his body is smaller than that of ordinary people, and upon closer inspection, the lower body of the mummy seems invisible.
The most surprising thing is that this mummy is actually tightly tied with a bundle of hemp rope.
And the weirdest thing is that the hands of these mummies cover their faces, so from Chen Mo and I's perspective, there is no way to see any of the mummy's faces.
"Zhou Cang, I feel that there must be more than one mummy here. Let's dig deeper." Chen Mo said, continuing to pick up the masks on the mask pile one by one and throw them behind him.
When I saw Chen Mo doing this, I also followed suit.
Sure enough, not long after, another mummy appeared in front of us.
Moreover, the basic body shape of this mummy that appeared later was exactly the same as the one just now.
We didn't stop and continued to take off the masks.
In the end, seven mummies were hidden in the pile of masks.
All the mummies were tied up with hemp ropes and their faces were covered with their hands.
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