"Sacrifice, Lao Li, what kind of sacrifice are you talking about?"
As soon as he heard the word "sacrifice", Andrew was the first to react, and he rushed to our side at the speed of an arrow.
Lao Li didn't like Andrew in the first place, and since he had just pulled my leg to save his life, he had basically lost his skin with him, so he didn't want to pay attention to Andrew at all.
At this time, Xiangyu, Zhang Jisheng and others also came over, floating above the group of stone sculptures with hundreds of animals dancing.
"Brother Li, you just said that these stone sculptures are for sacrificial services. Is this a sacrificial site?" Xiang Yu's voice was so thin that no one could refuse to answer him.
"This is probably what Lao Li means, because our ancient sacrifices all included music and dance, and these stone figurines lying on the ground may also be a ritual of sacrifice. However, the function of these giant pottery xun pillars is
What, it’s a bit unclear, because if sacrifices are being held here, then it must be that before Poyang Lake was formed, no ethnic group would hold sacrificial ceremonies underwater. In this case, there would be no undercurrents under the water.
It is said that the pottery xun is allowed to vibrate to produce sound, so who can blow such a huge pottery xun?" I expressed the doubts in my heart.
"Zhou Cang, have you forgotten? When we first went to Laoye Temple, Miao Zhu once told us that the people living in Poyang Lake are the descendants of the Yufu King, and they can live in the water.
." Zhang Jisheng reminded.
This reminder instantly reminded me of the fish-faced people. Could it be that the strange shapes on their faces are because they have to breathe in the water? Those two shapes on both sides of their cheeks that I always thought were fish tails looked like triangles.
Could it be that the organ of the fish is not the tail of the fish, but the head of the fish, with the gills hidden inside?
Thinking of this, I remembered that in Wawu Mountain, Wang Zhishui had suggested many times that the ancient temple might have been built by the descendants of Cancong to worship him.
The ancient Shu civilization arose from the upper reaches of the Minjiang River. It is said that the Shu people originated from the Shushan clan. Starting from the time when the Cancong clan became king, they passed through the rule of five clans including Cancong, Baiguan, Yufu, Du Yu and Kaiming. According to current archaeological discoveries
, the ancient Shu Kingdom had developed bronze smelting technology and mature gold processing technology. It was also a country rich in witchcraft.
Is it possible that the ancient temple at Wawushan and the ancient buildings under the waters of Laoye Temple are really intrinsically linked to the ancient Shu Kingdom? But why is grandma’s family involved? This doesn’t make sense.
If the ancient Shu Kingdom, Wawu Mountain, and Poyang Lake all belong to the Yangtze River Basin, but grandma was born in Yunnan, does this have nothing to do with the Yangtze River Basin?
Or maybe I have overlooked some important information, or perhaps the most critical part of the information has been deliberately covered up.
"Zhou Cang, Zhou Cang," just as I was brainstorming with myself, Xiangyu beside me suddenly called me twice eagerly.
"What's wrong?" I asked a little confused. After all, the surrounding area seemed calm at the moment.
"When we were just circling the Wolf Tooth Stone Pillar, did you see a long staircase here?" Xiangyu said, pointing in front of him.
I raised my head and looked forward along the front where the hernia light was shining rapidly. Sure enough, on the stone pillar in front of us, there was a long staircase going straight upward.
At this moment, I even had the illusion that the altar in my dream had been moved here.
"It's strange. This staircase appeared out of thin air. Could it be that we touched some mechanism?" Andrew said.
"Xiangyu, did you touch that bone flute just now?" Zhang Jisheng suddenly asked.
"I just wiped the mud on it, just to confirm if it was just a bone flute." Xiangyu panicked all of a sudden, as if he had done something hugely wrong.
I don't know who comforted Xiangyu, but I never spoke, because at this time, my attention was completely on this staircase.
I drifted over unconsciously, trying to confirm in detail whether this staircase was the same as the one I walked up in my long dream.
The steps are carved from a huge white marble stone. On both sides of each step there is an animal head stone with a bird-body monster carved on it. On the side of the monster is a pattern of auspicious clouds.
I floated up the stairs, and at the end of the stairs, a black stone-carved earthworm stood in the middle of the top step.
"Brother Zhou, what are you doing? Wait for me." Lao Li saw that I had floated to the top of the stone pillar and couldn't help but catch up.
Probably after hearing Lao Li calling me, others followed him up.
I ignored Lao Li, and my heart was already led by that long dream to move forward. However, at the end of the stairs, there was actually a huge pothole surrounded by huge pottery xuns.
"How could this happen? The obvious function of these stone pillars is to support this thing. Why are they empty when we get up here?" Zhang Jisheng said.
In fact, I should be the one who feels the most confused. Everything in front of it is exactly the same as what I saw in my long dream. Why is this most crucial part missing?
"Zhou, you just kept floating up here, did you find something?" Andrew asked.
"Old Li is right. What is shown here is a sacrificial scene, but for some reason, the altar on the octagonal cone column is missing." I felt a little dizzy, wondering if I had just used my brain. Too much.
"Altar, what kind of altar, Zhou Cang, don't tell me that you have been here before." Zhang Jisheng said in an exaggerated tone.
"I've never been here, but I know what it looks like," I said, sinking down into a dark pit without any thought.
I felt like I hadn't dived very deep before the altar emerged from the darkness.
Sure enough, the decorations on the altar were almost the same as what I saw in my dream.
However, the altar in the long dream looked mysterious and unpredictable, while the altar in front of me felt like it had gone through years of hardships and was already stained.
"Zhou, do you have a clever plan? You actually know that there is an altar hidden in this cave." Andrew probably felt that it was very magical, so as soon as he got to the altar, he couldn't stop, floating here and there, and he was not interested in anything on it. They were all very interested, but they seemed to be afraid that there was a mechanism inside, so they only watched with their eyes and did not dare to do anything.
I walked to the altar and touched the Xumizuo on it with my hands. I could still vividly remember the scene of sitting on the altar with the fish-faced man, but now, it was covered with moss.
The tops of the two Xumi pedestals in front of you are embossed with full double-petaled lotuses, and four dragons linked head to tail are engraved on the bottom. The four walls of the base are embossed with wavy honeysuckle patterns and musicians with different postures. In the dream.
During the ceremony, my whole body was in a very tense state, so I didn't have the intention to observe everything about the altar carefully. Therefore, although I was sitting on the Xumizuo, I didn't feel its exquisiteness until this moment.
atmosphere.
Just when I was still immersed in the exquisiteness of these stone carvings on the altar, a melodious flute sound came, which made me instantly startled, and I actually had a thought in my heart that I was afraid of something.
This flute sound is the same tune as the flute sound I heard in the kitchen of Laoye Temple last night.
"Brother Zhou, the situation is not good, please be more careful," Lao Li's words came from the intercom.
"Old Li, this flute sound is the same as last night~"
"Yes, so just be careful, I'm afraid something might happen."
"What are you talking about? Why don't I understand a word?" Zhang Jisheng asked.
Before I had time to answer, I noticed a pair of green eyes appearing on the pottery pillar behind Zhang Jisheng.