The next morning, it actually started to rain slightly in the mountains. We had a simple breakfast and walked up the mountain, hoping to go to the observatory that Wang Zhishui discovered last night to see if there were any clues about the ancient temple.
When he woke up early in the morning, the old man's poison must have been eliminated after decomposition overnight. Because he looked like he didn't know what happened last night. He was eating, drinking and packing as usual. He didn't ask, and none of us understood it.
Xuan didn't mention it.
It's just because after what happened last night, I now boil and fill the water for my teammates myself. I don't want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don't want to cause any problems.
Because the rain made the road very slippery, we walked for more than an hour before reaching the top of the mountain.
I seemed to suddenly understand why this place is called Wawu Mountain, because looking at the rolling mountains, all the mountains really look like a tile roof.
On the top of the mountain is a spacious flat land, surrounded by rabbit sunflowers. The small purple-black flowers are densely packed, surrounding the observatory in the middle.
The observatory is about four or five meters high. It is composed of a stone pedestal and a stone pillar standing on it. The stone pillar is covered with moss, and the pedestal is engraved with the word "ji".
"This is obviously a star observatory, why is there the word "sacrifice" engraved here?" Zhang Jisheng stood beside the stone pillar, using a tissue to wipe the lenses of his glasses that had been splashed by raindrops, and said in confusion.
"Let's go to the back and have a look." Wang Zhishui said and walked to the front.
Behind the stone pillars is the main building of the observatory.
The observatory is a tall blue brick structural building, consisting of a platform body and a sky measuring ruler. The platform body is shaped like an overturned bucket, and together with the two small rooms on the left and right of the platform, it is about ten meters high by visual inspection. There are two sides at the bottom of the north wall.
There are two symmetrical passage openings, from which you can climb to the top of the platform. There are short railings and low walls on both sides of the passage and the top. In the groove on the north wall of the platform, there are stone guis tiled to the north, but they are all dilapidated.
"This measuring ruler is a bit special." Xiangyu pointed at Shi Gui and said.
"It's very special." Wang Zhishui nodded, "There is something like a window in the middle of a normal observatory. Every day at noon, the sun's rays will shine through the hole onto the celestial ruler," he said with his fingers.
It is marked on the stone gui, "But this stone gui does not have the scales of the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice. Today is June 21, which is the summer solstice, but it is difficult to reflect it from this stone gui, or we cannot judge it.
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June 21st. Why does this date sound a bit familiar? A trace of doubt passed through my mind.
Xiangyu was also confused. He looked at Wang Zhishui and pointed at Shi Gui, "Professor Wang, do you think we may have preconceived ideas? This is actually not a ruler for measuring the sky." He then pointed around and said, "This is not the case either.
It’s not a stargazing platform, but an altar.”
"There is a possibility." Wang Zhishui pointed at the word "sacrifice" and nodded.
Xiangyu continued: "One more thing is strange. Have you noticed that there are moss-type bryophytes everywhere around here, but this Shigui is unusually clean. I don't know if the material of this stone is special."
"Let's go up and have a look." Wang Zhishui said.
Several of us divided into two groups and boarded the observatory, but the old man did not come up.
The top of the observatory is very empty. Except for the two stone chambers on the left and right in the front, there is also a very large stone table standing in the middle. In the open space around the stone table, there are many stone sculptures that are as tall as half a person.
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But when our eyes fell on the stone table, we were stunned.
"What are those?" Xiangyu pointed at the stone table, her expression suddenly changed.
On the stone table, there are six bunches of white thatch on each side, and in the center are nine bowls of blood. The dark red blood in the bowl was splashed by the rain and splashed all over the table. It was flowing to the ground along the edge of the stone table.
Drops. On the ground are burned ashes, red and black in color, staggered and scattered on the ground.
"It seems that this is really not a star observatory, but an altar." Xiangyu's voice was a little trembling.
No one in our group made a sound, and everyone was silent.
Obviously, no one can explain what is going on. The stone table is obviously an offering table, and it was offered not long ago...
My eyes fell on Shi Gui, and suddenly, I thought about why I felt that that date was a bit familiar when Wang Zhishui mentioned June 21 just now.
June 21st, isn’t this date the date that Chen Mo told me that the professor will be buried?
Could it be that the offering table just now was the offering table used when the professor was buried?
Is it possible that the professor is really buried here?
The rain suddenly started getting heavier, so Zhang Jisheng said he should take shelter in the two small rooms in front of him.
Just as I was walking by the stone table, I took another look at the stone figures around me and felt a little awkward, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.
I couldn't help but stop and look at these stone figures carefully.
These stone figures are all petite, but their heads are a bit big and disproportionate to their bodies. They all have the faces of men, but they wear women's clothes. There is only one stone figure, because it wears a mask, and I can't see it.
Find out its true face.
Somehow, I couldn't restrain my impulse and walked among the stone figures. After walking around the masked stone figure, I reached out and touched its mask.
With my touch, the mask seemed to gradually disappear, and the face behind the mask gradually appeared, and the face seemed to be grinning at me.
I suddenly felt something was wrong. How could the stone statue smile? This was not a good situation!