Daomu Biji

The eyes of the mummy have completely shrunk, leaving only two black eye sockets. The mouth is incredibly wide open, revealing incomplete teeth. The entire face is deformed due to dehydration, showing a rather ferocious expression that makes people dare not look at it. It can be seen from his teeth that this mummy is not that of a monkey, but that of a genuine human being.

Lao Itch was stunned for a moment and said: What's going on, Lao Wu, didn't you just say it was a monkey? This... this... is clearly a human being.

I stuttered: I...I don't know. When I cracked the mask just now, I saw that it was indeed a monkey, or a big monkey with yellow hair. This...this...really confused me. As I said this, I wanted to poke my head over to see if I was wrong because of the light.

Master Liang suddenly waved his hand and told me not to touch the body. He carefully stood up straight and turned the mask over in his hand. I saw that behind the mask, where the mouth was, there was a fist-sized snail shell. A spiral protrusion with a small hole in it. Master Liang gestured with the mask to his face, then turned to us and said, It seems that you have to open your mouth to wear this mask.

Lao Itch wondered: With your mouth open, it's like a respirator is stuffed in your mouth. How uncomfortable it is.

I saw the mummy, with its mouth wide open, and said to Master Liang: Is there something fishy in this snail shell? You smash it and take a look. These masks are all grown into the flesh of these monkeys, with their mouths and eyes All covered up, they must have other ways of eating and seeing.

Master Liang inserted his own pen into the hole and pried it hard, and the snail shell shattered, revealing what looked like a crab's leg inside. Master Liang pulled the thing out and found that it was a bug that he had never seen before. It had turned into a fossil shape and would break into several pieces if you exerted a little force.

It seems that this mask was not brought up voluntarily. Master Liang frowned and said: But this thing is indeed man-made. You can see that the lines inside the mask are roughly the same as the cloud and thunder patterns on the tree. It must be cast. The people of this copper tree are related.”

Lao Itch took the mask in, looked at it with great interest for a long time, and said: This should be an old insect from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Maybe it is extinct now. No wonder we don't recognize it. Huh? Look, this insect seems to have only half.

After saying that, he looked at us. Asked: Where did the other half go?

The bug was curled up in a raised cavity at the mouth of the mask, so to speak. There is only one place where the other half of the worm is. I thought about this and subconsciously looked into the mouth of the mummy. Sure enough, I saw that in the big black mouth, there was another half of the worm attached to the tongue, dry and dry. The insect body has been inserted into the throat of the corpse, and it is unknown what organ it entered. Because the shrunken muscles of the dried corpse are very similar to the fossilized insect body, if you don't look carefully, you would think that the insect is a dried tongue.

Master Liang saw this situation.

His face changed, and he shouted, Throw it away, throw it away! Oh my god, throw it away! This mask might be alive! After saying that, he smacked it over and removed the mask from Lao Chi's hand. Knocked off, the mask quickly fell into the darkness. It hit a branch and shattered into pieces with a snap.

Lao Itch was startled by him and almost lost his grip and fell down. He quickly asked him what was wrong with him and what did he mean by the mask being alive?

Master Liang coughed, seemed to be very regretful, scratched his head and pinched his brows, and said: I'm so ashamed, why are you so stupid? Why didn't you think of this earlier... Bronze Tree, this method of sacrifice, It’s clear that it’s not something that belongs to us Han people, hey, I’m such a fool, so stupid!”

What the hell are you breaking off? Old Itch became angry, What idiot, what does it have to do with masks? If you have anything to say, please just say it.

Master Liang waved his hand and said: No, please be patient and listen to me. I have to start from the beginning, but how should I talk about it? Then we have to start from the blood sacrifice we just talked about.

It turns out that blood sacrifice, a sacrificial method, was mainly used in the sacrificial activities of ethnic minorities during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Of course, the ethnic minorities at that time were completely different from us now. Most of these ethnic groups have disappeared or merged into the Han people. Large-scale blood sacrifices are not recorded in the official history of the Han people, but sporadic discoveries have been made in some ethnic minority sites. Unfortunately, due to the loss of language and writing, there is no more detailed information.

Master Liang believes that this huge sacred tree may not have been created by the rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty at that time, but by the leaders of ethnic minorities. At that time, the Western Zhou Dynasty was surrounded by a large number of ethnic minorities such as Sushen, Shanrong, Guifang, Qiang, and Puyue. Most of them were still in slave societies. These ethnic minorities accepted the advanced metallurgical technology of the Western Zhou Dynasty and learned the culture of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The bronzes have very obvious characteristics of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so I didn't expect this at first. Looking back now, the slave society's efficient control of the labor force was much more convenient for building such extraordinary things.

The sacred places of worship of ethnic minorities are very sacred. Not only are they guarded, but the priests also perform some kind of magic to protect their gods from being disturbed. In the legends of ethnic minorities, the process of casting spells is very mysterious. This strange technique has been passed down to this day and has been deified into an omnipotent voodoo technique in novels.

Mr. Liang also said that voodoo techniques have been divided since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and then again in the Song Dynasty. The voodoo techniques before the Qin Dynasty were very powerful, almost like superpowers today, but all voodoos are made of insects. At that time, Gu technique was called insect technique. These masked monkeys and mummies are mysterious and inexplicable, and may be the product of this ancient poison.

He had once heard of a kind of poison called Chi Gu, which could make people very aggressive. But the bugs that are hidden in the cavity behind the mouth of the mask and go deep into people's throats may be ancient The original form of the chigus bug may affect the nervous system of animals or people and attack strangers. So when I smashed their masks, the monkey returned to its true nature and began to instinctively stay away from us.

Chi Gu can reproduce in the host's body. After the host dies, they will attach themselves to a certain place, such as the cavity of this mask, wait for the next host to approach, and then parasitize it in some way.

This mummy might be a worker who was mining here at that time. Unlucky enough, he came across a dormant chigus, and was struck by this ancient evil spell.

Of course, there is no record of this kind of thing at all, and I don’t know if it is real. However, it is an indisputable fact that there are bugs hidden in the mask and can penetrate into people’s throats. This is definitely not an ordinary thing, so be careful and guard against it.

Hearing Master Liang say this, I got goosebumps all over my body. I thought to myself, isn't this the same plot as in American movies? I didn't expect that old and American science fiction movies have to draw on the technology of our ancestors. I really don't know whether to say glorious or glorious. Feeling ashamed, I turned around and saw that the strange mummy was still hanging there motionless. The pale mask seemed to be smiling but not smiling, as if it was waiting for us to get closer.

Lao Itch's face was a little ugly. He muttered angrily and asked Master Liang: What you said is too scary. So if the chigu is attached to it, it will be fine if it is pulled off immediately. There won't be any hidden dangers, right?

Master Liang said: I haven't been hit by it either. It's very difficult to get rid of Chi Gu. I think it's attached and there's no way to just pull it off. For this kind of thing, we still give priority to prevention. We try our best to protect these mummies. Don't come any closer. Uncle Tai also fell from this time. For a veteran like him, he probably won't make a mistake, so be careful.

Lao Itch frowned and wanted to say something, but he didn't say it. I asked him how long it would take to climb like this. If the top was covered with such dense branches, he would probably be exhausted even if he couldn't reach the top. Itch told me that there would be sparseness at the top. When he climbed, he only had a small flashlight and the lighting was very poor. He did not notice these mummies. However, since ancient times, there is a pillar in Huashan Mountain. You will never reach it if you climb up. Go somewhere else.

I felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so I asked them to go through this section first. There was a fat boss with Mr. Liang. If this person is not here, he is probably still above us. If he reaches the top first, we will be in trouble. , if there is an ambush, the three of us might die in unknown ways.

Lao Itch said: That makes sense. Just wait a moment. I'll fire a flare to see if there's any ambush above. Then he took out the flare gun, pointed it straight upward, and fired a shot.

The flare flew to the top without hitting my head. I thought in my heart, this kind of bullet can reach a height of more than 200 meters at least. Is there still more than 200 meters to climb? Haha, that would be really fatal.

The flare started burning, and I looked up. Sure enough, not far up, the branches were sparse again. I couldn't figure out why it was designed like this. And from below, the 200-meter range was not impossible to see. I could still see it. He saw something, although he couldn't say what it was.

When the flare fell, Lao Itch watched it for a while and said: It seems that the fat Guangdong boss didn't ambush up there. Maybe Uncle Tai got in here alive alone. After all, the coffin array outside is not that good... Hey, What are those?

When the signal bomb fell about 60 meters away from us, we saw a lot of protrusions on the copper tree pole in that section. When we looked carefully, the back of my head felt numb, and cold sweat broke out all over the soles of my feet. At a distance of ten meters, the bronze tree pole was covered with faces one after another, which should be said to be weird masks.