Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Seeing that the last of them went in, we also started to act.

At first, the space in the cave was very small and low, and we all had to walk on our backs. If we accidentally straightened our waists, we would hit our heads.

We can no longer see the shadows of those things, so we speed up.

Walking and walking, the space is getting bigger and bigger.

A door-like exit appeared in front of it, with faint light coming out.

"Is this the end?" Chen Jiansheng asked.

Sister Hong shook her head, "I don't know, hurry over and have a look, don't lose track of me."

I am flexible and run the fastest.

As a result, the car did not brake to the front and almost fell.

The gravel rolled down, and Chen Jiansheng grabbed me from behind.

"What are you panicking, don't die!"

Shocked, I took two steps back.

In front of you, the height from this cave to the ground below is at least 20 meters.

There was a rope of vines hanging down, and it was evident that this was the only way to get down.

"Chen Houqin, can you do it with thin arms and legs?" Chen Jiansheng turned his head and asked.

"Just don't fall to your death yourself, you don't need to worry about others," Sister Hong rebuked him.

"That's fine," he said, grabbing the vine, "then I'll slide down first and help you find the way."

From the way he slid down, it can be seen that this is an old hand who knows how to use his legs to push against the wall to adjust the speed of his descent.

At a height of more than 20 meters, he slid to the bottom in only five or six minutes.

Chen Jiansheng let go of the rope below, and he shook his arms at Sister Hong and me, motioning for us to come down.

Sister Hong was the second to give birth. She was not as fast as Chen Jian, but she was very steady. It could be seen that she also had a foundation.

Compared to the two of them, I looked a little clumsy.Because I have no skills, the vines hurt my hand during the descent.

When I got down, I saw that the palms of my hands were worn out.

Seeing my miserable state, Chen Jiansheng laughed at me and said: "Practice more in the future, boy, use your legs when sliding the rope, don't hold it so tight."

The three of us moved on.

There is a large space below, and there are traces of man-made excavations on the walls, and there are two stone pillars standing in the middle, and there is a step leading to the ground in the middle of the stone pillars.very dark.

"Is the flashlight still on, Yunfeng?" Sister Hong asked.

I turned on the flashlight and tried it.

"There is still a little Miss Dianhong, I guess it won't last an hour."

"Well," she frowned and looked at the steps leading to the ground in front of her, "Go down and have a look."

In this way, we began to walk down the steps.

After getting down, we turned on the flashlight at first, but as we walked, the light of torches appeared in front of us.

Chen Jiansheng scolded secretly: "It's a fucking evil thing. I didn't expect to use fire. I don't know if I can cook. I really want to taste the food made by mandrill."

After he finished speaking, I didn't know what happened. For a moment, I suddenly regarded him as the second brother. After recovering, I felt a little uncomfortable, because the second brother was also like this, and he didn't know the door, regardless of the occasion. environment, say what comes to mind.

The cobblestone road under my feet, I just walked along the road for a few minutes, when Sister Hong suddenly reminded me: "Don't go, listen, do you hear me?"

There was a turn ahead, so I listened carefully with my ears up. Indeed, I heard a creaking sound coming from the front.

It's those things.

Hiding around the corner, we cautiously looked inside.

I saw that those short things were squeaking.

There was a round stone platform in front of them, and the dead one was lying on the round stone platform.

Soon, they stopped squeaking, as if they had unified their opinions.

Suddenly, one of them jumped onto the stone platform. It groped around for a while, and found a bluish-white thing that looked like a small axe.

Chen Jiansheng's eyes widened, and he suppressed his excitement and said: "Look, did you see that? That's what I said before, and these bastards really stole it! That's the axe! This proves that I didn't lie to you, look quickly! "

"Crack!" I saw that the thing raised the green ax high up, and smashed it with its hand.

One by one smashed.

The picture is very bloody, just a few strokes, the dead head was smashed, and yellow and white things flowed everywhere on the round stone platform.

Seeing this, the others swarmed up and jumped onto the stone platform. They didn't pay attention to their hats, and started licking those yellow and white things frantically.

This scene is not only scary, but also disgusting.

The smell of blood was everywhere in the air, and my stomach was churning, and I wanted to vomit with nausea.

Miss Hong is not much better.

The two of us were disgusted, but unexpectedly, I heard Chen Jiansheng complaining in a low voice: "I'll go, what are they doing, drinking tofu nao."

After licking it clean, these things moved forward one after another and disappeared into the darkness.

They left, and the three of us came out naturally.

On the round stone platform, that thing's head was already disfigured, and his accomplices had eaten it clean.There are still some yellow and white things left.

Chen Jiansheng was the first to discover that there were traces of lettering on the round stone platform.

The engraving should be bird seals. Due to the long time, some of the calligraphy and painting radicals of some bird seals can no longer be seen clearly. Suppressing the nausea, we pushed the corpse down. The row of bird seals below is the most clearly visible. .

"Sister Hong, do you know her?" I asked.

She shook her head, "I can only recognize one of the dozens of characters in this paragraph." She pointed to one of the bird script characters and said, "I've seen this on other bronze wares before, and it should be a sacrificial character."

"Sacrifice?" I asked curiously, "Is it a sacrificial offering?"

"Yes," she nodded solemnly.

"Looking at it this way, this is the altar," Chen Jiansheng said after looking around for a week.

The culture of sacrifice has existed since ancient times, and it still exists until now. Burning paper in Qingming Festival and burning incense in temples are also a kind of sacrifice.

However, in the Shang Dynasty and the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the word "sacrifice" represented blood and death.

Because of the prevalence of slavery, sacrifices to six animals were seldom performed during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. On the contrary, sacrifices with living people were very popular.

Slaves will be beheaded on the sacrificial altar, and then their heads will be put into a bronze vessel called a dowry. In the bronze dome, the wizard in charge of the sacrifice will find a knife and poke a small circle on the celestial cover of the head. Hole.The reason why the round hole was opened was that people at that time believed that the sky was round.

This move means offering tribute, releasing the soul of the tribute, and dedicating it to the gods.This is just one usage of the altar in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and there are many other usages. In the final analysis, they are all painful and vicious sorcery.

In the tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is often a rule, that is, once the sacrificial altar is found, within five meters of the sacrificial altar, there must be human heads or human bones in the pit.

And we did find the sacrificial pit.

Just to the northwest of the round altar.