The chasm is very empty. After walking for a while, there is still nothing found, which makes people full of doubts.

As a tomb, any arrangement is not superfluous, either due to etiquette considerations or civil structure considerations. Even the theory of yin and yang metaphysics must have a reason.

But this gap seems superfluous. At first glance, it looks like it is arranged to prevent theft. It is like an isolation zone set up in a bush fire. It is a way of abandoning the car to protect the handsome. However, a ropeway is erected above it, making this speculation impossible.

Just as bankrupt.

Green moss lay like a carpet in the chasm, and clusters of brightly colored fungi sprouted on both sides, as if welcoming us along the road. The further we walked, the more they became more and more lush.

This is a kind of fungus that we have never seen before. It looks like a pair of open flower umbrellas. It looks very similar to Ganoderma lucidum, but the color is so bright that it makes people numb. It is comparable to some Amanita fungus. Looking at it,

It's not a good thing.

While drinking water and chewing the hard and salty air-dried beef, my eyes kept wandering around without slacking off. The more unknown the destination, the more dangerous it seemed to me.

There were more and more brightly colored fungi, but a bitter taste gradually developed in my mouth. It was very damp and cold down there, and there seemed to be a faint bitter apricot smell in the musty smell.

"Isn't it poisonous?"

My face was a little ugly, and the experience in Donghu's tomb was just like what happened yesterday. So I became alert to the bitter almond smell that gradually emerged. I immediately stopped and turned to look at Brother Yaozi: "Don't you smell this?"

Does it taste good?"

Brother Yaozi took off his backpack and was about to take out the gas mask, but after pulling it open, he gritted his teeth.

The gas mask was completely shattered!

It is estimated that after the ropeway broke, he hit the wall when he swayed down, squeezing it into pieces.

"The ancient tombs have been covered in dust for thousands of years, and I'm afraid it has spread everywhere. It's just that it's particularly rich here, so you can taste and smell it. If this smell is really poisonous, we would have been infected long ago, but you

Feeling a little uncomfortable?"

Zhang Xinya looked around everyone's faces with a gloomy expression: "Did you all smell that smell?"

Everyone nodded solemnly.

"That's right, this is not hydrogen cyanide."

Zhang Xinya beamed: "Have you forgotten? The smell of hydrogen cyanide can only be smelled by a few people!"

I breathed a sigh of relief, and in my nervousness I actually forgot about this incident. The analysis was well-founded and made people feel at ease for no reason. This is indeed the case. If it was poisonous, we would have been infected long ago.

"Scared me!"

Lao Bai cursed, but his eyes drifted to the bright fungi on both sides. There were only moss and these things here, and the smell could only come from these things.

There were already a lot of fungi here, and there was only a narrow path left. Lao Bai was probably too angry and frightened, so he kicked it hard to the side.

puff!

Several mushrooms were kicked to pieces and almost exploded. Thick plasma flew everywhere, and for a moment the place was filled with an extremely stench.

"Fuck! What kind of monster is this?"

Lao Bai yelled and jumped aside immediately.

I thought it was just an unknown poisonous bacteria growing in a strange environment, but it turned out to be filled with red blood. It looked evil no matter how you looked at it.

Almost instinctively, everyone immediately crowded together back to back, guarding in all directions. We had no choice but to reach this point, we had almost entered a sea of ​​poisonous bacteria.

After not seeing any movement for a long time, I felt relieved and stabbed the nearest toadstool with the tip of the Baipi Knife. There was no feeling of any blockage. The blade tore through the toadstool easily, and the blood immediately flowed along the blade. "Pfft"

It splashed out with a pop, and then I picked it up and prepared to take a closer look, but I didn't expect that after lifting the soil, there was a round thing hanging under the toadstool.

Taking a closer look, I found that it seemed to be a bone fragment, but there were cracks everywhere on it. The toadstools were clearly rooted in the bones. The roots of the toadstools could be seen spreading through the bones. Some places were slightly raised, like

It's like a raised blood vessel, and it's indescribably ferocious and oozing.

"Such bones..."

Wushuang exclaimed: "This looks like a skull. Grandpa Li showed me every bone in the human body. They are very similar to the human skull, but they are not human bones. The human skull is larger than this, and not as big as this."

It’s round, it’s round like a teapot lid, as if it’s been polished.”

"Nonsense, how could it be a human skull?"

Lao Bai glanced sideways at Wushuang and said angrily: "After your family died, did mushrooms grow on your forehead?"

Wushuang glanced at Lao Bai coldly, and Lao Bai suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was an inexperienced young man. He immediately closed his anus, and Wushuang turned his head away.

In order to test my guess, I picked up several toadstools one after another.

Under each toadstool, there is a skull hanging.

Looking around, there are toadstools everywhere. Wouldn’t it mean that there are skulls everywhere?

This thought made people shudder. Zhang Xinya almost blurted out: "What kind of bones do these belong to? Why did they die here? It's like..."

“A mass grave!!”

Brother Yaozi blurted out, breaking the weird feeling.

"I can probably guess what kind of place this is..."

Zhang Yao, who had been watching with a cold eye, suddenly spoke with a strange look on his face: "You have also seen the situation in the tomb. There are many tiger warriors buried vertically, and this, if nothing unexpected happens, is where their trophies are stored!"

"The spoils of war?"

Lao Bai pointed to the skull under the toadstool and said speechlessly: "You mean, this is their trophy?"

Chang Yao nodded solemnly and said slowly: "You don't know something. After the soldiers of Hu Biao won the battle, they did not loot gold, silver and jewels. They only took away the scalp in the center of the person's head together with the skull as a reward.

My own collection...

I heard my mother-in-law talk about this when I was young. Unfortunately, it has been so long ago that I have forgotten a lot of it. The story was passed down from when my family became Tang and conquered the country. Some people have seen with their own eyes the terror of the tiger warriors.

I can’t remember clearly what the story is about, but the practice of hunting scalps and taking skulls seems to be a custom in the Daze before summer. They believe that human souls will live on scalps, and they can only harvest them.

The scalp and skull are the only way to completely kill the enemy. This custom was brought out by Limu from Daze. He trained the tiger warriors with his own hands, so this became a part of the tiger warriors.

a habit.

Gradually, these skulls harvested by them have become symbols of their military exploits, and they are often treasured for life, and will be buried with them when they die. The more skulls people have, the more honor they will have when they die!"

"Why does this tradition sound a bit familiar..."

Zhang Xinya hesitated and said: "If I remember correctly, it seems that when the American continent was just discovered, European whites used similar methods to carry out genocidal genocide against the Indians, offering heavy bounties for the scalps of the Indians. This habit itself

It belongs to the Indians. They believe that after death, the spiritual energy will gather on the scalp.

Does this have something to do with it? Some people have speculated that the Indians may have some blood relationship with us in China..."

Whether it is related or not is not our concern, that is what historians should consider.

I picked up the toadstools and observed them for a while, and saw no reaction. In addition, the residence time was quite long, and we did not experience any obvious symptoms. This means that the smell of this thing is probably not fatal. Of course, the result may not be the same after eating it. How many people

After discussing it together for a while, we decided to go deeper and see if we could find any other discoveries or a way out.

Throwing the toadstools and skull to one side, we set out again.

The length of the chasm is beyond imagination, which shows that the scale of the tombs has reached an unimaginable level. After walking for a long time, there is almost no path on the ground. At first glance, they are all covered with this kind of poisonous bacteria. It is inevitable that they will be crushed under their feet.

There were two of them, and the soles of my feet were wet and slippery. In addition, I already knew that these things grew out of the skull, and I felt extremely awkward and uncomfortable. I always felt as if I was stepping on some minced meat.

At this point, the long chasm has finally come to an end, and the evil miasma is permeating the air. On the right side of the end, there seems to be a huge portal. Only when you get closer can you see clearly. The giant door is completely made of bronze, and it looks like a monster in the mountains.

The king's cave has a huge animal head on each of the two doors, which is ferocious and terrifying, but there are two simple large characters engraved on the door.

These large characters look more like patterns than words. They should be the earliest writing, but they are not oracle bone inscriptions. I don't recognize them at all. I vaguely feel that the structure is very familiar.

After thinking for a moment, I gradually gained some insights.

Westerners have always refused to admit that China has a civilization of 5,000 years. They believe that oracle bone inscriptions are the earliest Chinese writing, and believe that Chinese civilization is actually only 3,600 years old.

However, with the continuous archaeological excavations, this fallacy is no longer tenable.

In the 1960s, 17 mysterious glyphs appeared in the Jiahu ruins in Wuyang, Henan. They were obviously a kind of writing, and this kind of writing was more than 4,000 years earlier than oracle bone inscriptions. According to this, the Chinese

I am afraid that civilization will not be able to survive for five thousand years, at least seven or eight thousand years away. Not to mention the Xia that is not recognized by the West, even Yu existed before the Xia!!

The two ancient characters on the bronze gate are very similar to the seventeen glyphs that appeared in the Jiahu ruins, both in structure and appearance!

This kind of writing should have a very close blood relationship.

Unfortunately, no one in today's world can decipher this kind of writing.

These two words must be very important. They will at least tell us what kind of place is behind the door, whether it is good or bad.

I couldn't understand it, so I could only turn to Qian Yao for help. This kind of writing was somewhat closer to her time. Maybe she could recognize it?

"According to legend, Fuxi was the first to create writing, leaving behind the earliest Fuxi characters..."

Chang Yao said softly: "I have some collections and records at home. It's hard to say whether it was Fuxi's handiwork. Anyway, everyone said it was created by Fuxi, and it was very ancient!

These are very similar to the earliest Fuxi characters, but they should have undergone some modifications and are not like the original Fuxi characters. The general meaning of these two characters should be - my life's achievements."

A place where achievements are recorded...

In other words, is it a place similar to the descendants’ ancestral hall?

I was overjoyed and pushed the door directly: "Here, help me!! Aren't you curious why the tiger warriors disappeared mysteriously during the Battle of Mingtiao? I guess there is an answer 80% of the time!!"
Chapter completed!