Chapter 104: Retail

Not allowing us to think too much, the current had already rushed the raft towards the beast door in the cave, the natural stone bead hanging in mid-air was in an extremely low position, only half a meter or so above the river surface, just stopping the going, we hurriedly leaned down, sticking tightly to the raft to avoid the stone bead in the middle.

Just when the raft is about to drift into the inside, set in the raft front end of the strong light searchlight flashed two flashes, and no longer light up, probably because the water accelerated after the current has not been turned off, the continuous use of time is too long, the power in the battery is exhausted.

I thought to myself, “Oh no, I’ve run out of batteries at this time, the cave in front of that looks very weird, I can’t be careless here, I must change the batteries first before I say anything else, lest I go in and crash into a rock and capsize the boat.”

I raised my fist to Fatty and Shirley Yang at the back and made a stop gesture, so that the two of them assisted me to stop the raft at the entrance of the cave, and then inserted the bamboo pole in my hand into the water as a brake, and stopped the raft, it’s good that the water current here is slow, otherwise just one bamboo pole can’t really hold up the weight of this whole raft.

Because we in the subsequent action, it is impossible to obtain any additional supplies, so the battery this kind of energy consumption, must be retained as far as possible, but this cave in the stone figurines, seems to be and “King Xian’s Tomb” between the existence of some kind of connection, there is a need to carefully investigate, see if we can get some information about the “King Xian’s Tomb”, and the “King Xian’s Tomb”. It is necessary to investigate carefully to see if we can get some clues about the main tomb of “King Xian’s Tomb”, after all, we still have too little information about the main tomb.

I replaced the batteries to the strong searchlight, so that it re-lighted, in the searchlight orange light column irradiation, only to see that the melted rock formation of the natural animal head, like a strange shaped dragon head, but after a thousand years of cumulus tuff dissolved, its shape has been blurred, completely unable to see whether there are traces of man-made processing.

Fatty tapped me on the shoulder at the back, signaling that they had removed the balancing pole, so I also pulled the front end of the bamboo pole out of the water, and the raft followed the current, sailing into the cave through the mouth of this oddly ugly-looking dragon.

This section of the river is very narrow, but very deep, straight forward, the distance is also very long, we went in, with bamboo poles to poke the rocks of the cave wall, so that the raft slowed down, and carefully observe the head and feet, hanging upside down in the cave of stone figurines.

These stone figurines are all upside down with their hands behind their backs, posing in a bound posture, due to the damp and cold underground environment, the surface of the stone figurines has been gray-brown, the contours of the features are completely blurred, and it seems to be a layer of “Bracken” (a kind of moldy substance produced by rocks in a special environment, non-toxic) has grown all over the surface.

From the appearance, basically can not identify the human stone human figurines of men and women, only from the stature, there are tall and short, fat and thin, it seems that in addition to the strong man, in which there are a number of young people who have not yet grown up, and is not in accordance with the uniform standards of the system, completely different from the Qin and Han period accompanied by the human figurines, are sergeants and a hundred theater figurines.

On the top of the cave, there are green stained copper chain, these stone human commissions hanging on both sides, some chains have fallen off, there are some empty, may be years and days, stone human figurines have fallen into the water, a stone figurine is just like hanging ghosts, hanging less than a foot from the water, in this dark dark cave, suddenly see these guys, how to not let a person be alarmed.

Shirley Yang in the back let us stop the raft first, the waterway side, there is a from the copper chain fell off on the ground of the stone figurines, Shirley Yang pointed to the stone figurines, said: “These stone figurines although the shape of the vague, but from the outline of the hair clothes, there is a little like the Han Dynasty, I think there is something wrong, I go down to see. ” Said his mountaineering helmet headlight ring adjusted a little, so that the light more gathered, then jumped off the raft, squatting down to watch the ground that stone figurines.

I reminded Shirley Yang: “Wear gloves, be careful there are bacteria on this, infected by bacteria, even if you do ten thousand times artificial respiration is not saved.”

Shirley Yang waved her hand, let me and Fatty not to distract her attention, she seems to find something on the stone human figurine, at that moment put on the rubber gloves, with the parachute knife on the body of the stone human figurine scraped twice, and then inverted the parachute knife lifted up to the eye to look at it, with the nose gently sniffing, turned his head to us and said, “This human figurine seems to be not made of stone. ”

Fatty wondered: “Not stone? Then is it still made of clay?”

I thought of the scene on the highway along the “Lan Cang River” and said to Shirley Yang while sitting on the raft, “Is it made by a living person? You use the knife to cut open a part of the human figurine to see what is inside, the human skin map is very clear, there are a number of martyrdom pits in the vicinity of King Xian’s tomb, but there is no indication of where the specific location is, maybe this Longkou Cave, is one of the martyrdom pits.”

Shirley Yang with umbrella knife, the human figurine legs cut down a small piece, really and in the highway to see the same, the human figurine skin, although tough, but only a thin layer of shell, inside all the dead maggots rot, Shirley Yang saw those dry maggots, can not help but frown, and then use the umbrella knife in the human figurine chest to tie two holes, it is the same, full of dead maggots and eggs.

Shirley Yang said to Fatty and I, “It seems that it is not a martyrdom pit either, but we can be sure that all these human figurines are made with living people, and they must be related to King Xian, this should be the ancient evil and infamous Mistletoe Technique that was practiced in Yunnan during the period of King Xian.”

In addition to more than a hundred human figurines and chains, there are all the jagged and shaped mountain rocks in the cave, and there is nothing more to be found, so Shirley Yang returned to the bamboo raft, and we continued to follow the river in the cave and slowly moved forward.

I control the raft traveling, while asking Shirley Yang from what can be seen from these human figurines are made of living people? And how could we be sure that it was related to King Xian’s Mistletoe Technique?

On the way to Yunnan, in order to get hold of some more information, Shirley Yang did not put in a lot of effort, before the departure of Beijing, wherever you can find historical information are looking for a whole, all the way to see, hoping to increase the number of points to pour King Xian’s Tomb of the grasp of a scholar in Europe once said that every tombstone is a long novel, and in the tombs of some historically important figures, but also contains a large number of historical information, the King’s Tomb can be said to be the most important historical information, the King’s Tomb can be said to be the most important historical information, the King’s Tomb can be said to be the most important historical information. In the tombs of some important figures in history, there is a great deal of historical information, and the tomb of the king can be said to be a crystallized synthesis of the socio-economic, cultural and religious aspects of the time. The more you know about these historical data, the more comfortable you are in pouring up the bucket, so the most outstanding tomb robbers in history, without exception, are all people who know a great deal about the past and present.

“King Xian”, in Chinese history, there are many, but not the same era, in addition to the king of Dian, the rest of the king of Xian are not in Yunnan, and even the peasants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebels in the establishment of the state in the Tianjing, also had a king of Xian, in the warring states, as well as the Five Dynasties and other periods, there have been king of Xian’s title, like the history of the zhongshan The title of King Xian also appeared in history as the name of the country and the king, and those kings of Xian were just taking the meaning of the word “Xian”, not that these kings of Xian had any connection with each other.

We are ready to start the target, this King Xian, is a generation of ancient Dian Dynasty witch king, his “痋术”, is the use of the deceased’s spirits as a medium, and the greater the number of souls, this “痋术”‘the power of the correspondingly greater, the use of the dead to make the “痋术”, “痋术”. The process and means of “痋” are very varied. These living figurines in the cave, from the weird way of death, and the degree of brain damage, all match with the means of King Xian, which indicates that this should be a secret place to exercise “痋” in ancient times.

Shirley Yang judged that the river passing through the mountain should be built when King Xian repaired the mausoleum, using the original natural formation of the melting hole. And then manpower to repair and dredge the river, in order to transport materials for the construction of the King’s mausoleum, from here to use the waterway transportation, should be the most appropriate shortcut.

These dead people in the cave who were made to look like human figurines were probably the slaves and craftsmen who built the King’s Tomb. In order to keep the secret of “King Xian’s Tomb”, these people were taken away after the project was completed or after the body of “King Xian” had been converged. “King Xian” loyal men, in accordance with the “痋术”, to give them the whole body tied up, forced to swallow a kind of “痋引”, and sealing the body seven orifices, and then hanging in the hole with a big chain, alive! Suffocation, one can keep the secrets of the king’s tomb, two can use them, in this secret waterway to scare off the outsiders who mistakenly enter it.

The so-called “痋引”, is the implementation of a “痋术 “必须的药丸, was swallowed by the living, will be parasitized in the body to spawn, only about three to five days, the more the eggs are produced more and more, the human body in the flesh and blood of the viscera all the larvae of the nourishment to take the place of the filler! Inside, due to the rapid loss of water in a short period of time, the human skin will quickly dry up, hard as a bark shell, in the shell formed by the human corpse, when the eggs suction furrowed all the human body in the sap and bone marrow, a vacuum will be formed, the eggs do not see the air will not become larvae, always maintain a hibernation state, in a cool environment, can be maintained for more than a thousand years, so until today, cut through the skin, the inside will still have the possibility of immediately appearing countless larvae. So until now, cut the human skin, there may still appear countless live “痋引” larvae like fat maggots, but according to the degree of preservation of different, there may also be inside are long dried up eggs.

“Mistletoe” in the various canonical books, including the wild history of the records are relatively small, so Shirley Yang these days only found this information, as for the living as a pupa what is the purpose of the human skin like fat maggots in the worms, what is the use of all this there is no way to know.

Not only in the Chalong Mountain has a large number of human figurines, in the nearby mountains, there should also be a few, we encountered in the riverside cliff road, the human figurines, is due to the rain wash, so that the mountain rock spoiled, fell to the highway, although the king of the consecrated jurisdiction is only a corner of the southern border, but from this large number of slaves made into a human figurine, peep into the ancient western Yunnan region under the rule of the king of the consecrated cruelty and heartlessness.

Listened to Shirley Yang’s analysis, fat man and I feel a layer of goose bumps, initially also said that the terracotta warriors like clay statues, but it turned out to be a real person to do, could not help but look back at the two eyes, those who hanged like the human figurines have long disappeared behind the darkness of the cave, can no longer be seen.

The more I think the more I feel too brutal, can not help but curse: “Fuck these ancient princes, really do not take people as people, in the eyes of the nobles, those slaves even cattle and horses like animals are worse than the fat man like your body plate, if you are a slave, in ancient times, surely can be mixed with a sacrificial head, a top three.”

In the raft in the middle of the fat man is fiddling with the helmet on the extinguished spotlight, shot two, finally back to normal, listen to me to him, said to me: “Go to your grandfather’s old Hu, you say this fully exposed your true face of uneducated, as far as I know in the ancient times, people are proud to be chosen as a martyr or sacrifice, that is a supreme honor, the selection of martyrs The selection of martyrs is extremely strict, have to check the ancestors three generations, there is a slight problem with the political face are not, many people write blood letters to apply for can not line up, the most suitable for you to pretend to be positive guys, you must be strong at that time, jumping feet shouting, take me to sacrifice to the sky, I’m best suited to light the lanterns of the heavens, let the people of the motherland to wait for my good news, for the sake of the victory, take me to light the lanterns … … …”

I heard a great anger, fat this grandson mouth is also too lack of virtue: “I am not as much fat as you, how can I be suitable for lighting the heavenly lantern, you ……”

Shirley Yang interrupted me and Fatty’s words: “You two have finished, how to talk and trip on the mouth, have you found something wrong? This waterway is completely unlike what the boss’s wife of the colorful cloud inn described ……”

Fatty said, “The boss’s wife didn’t come in personally, she didn’t also listen to the workers at the quarry head, it’s inevitable that there is a bit of error, we don’t need to be paranoid.”

I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty: “may not be the boss’s wife said wrong, we previously passed through a section of the river, the water flow is very fast, may be and these days, continuous heavy rainfall related to the rapid flow of that section of the river is very wide, perhaps the two rivers together, we only focus on mastering the balance of the raft, the light of the illuminating lamp is very small angle of illumination, the field of view also have limitations, it is possible to travel into a fork in the road.”

Fatty said anxiously, “That could be troublesome, why don’t we turn around and go back to look for the road, don’t be like last time we were in the spider’s nest, drilled into the labyrinth, and in the end can’t go out, we don’t have too much dry food with us.”

I said to Fatty: “If it’s really just a fork in the river there’s no need to worry, these currents are all flowing in one direction, and in the end they will all pass through the Chalong Mountain and merge into the valley of the Snake River, so there’s absolutely no question of getting lost, and this river is very straight, it’s obviously artificially processed, just like what Shirley Yang said, it could be the transportation waterway that transported the materials for the construction of the King’s Tomb, going down from here, we’ll have to find our way back. Transportation waterway, going down from here is definitely right.”

Shirley Yang said: “Lao Hu is right, the construction of large tombs in ancient times, will use the river to transport the stone, when the repair of the Qin mausoleum craftsmen at work will sing: to take the stone Ganquan mouth, said the water for the non-flow. From these two short lines, you can imagine the huge project of the first emperor’s mausoleum back then, due to the transportation of stone, the predicate water is blocked.”

The fat man said, “The predicate river we went to Shaanxi last time is seen, compared to that big river, here is at most a sewer, that Xian Wang compared to the Qin Shi Huang, probably even a small family of poor people, we go to pour his bucket, but also counted on his face……. Alas… …What’s the matter?”

Slowly downstream of the raft is suddenly like hanging to something in the river, violent bumps, and then returned to normal, but listen to the river there is a “Kala Kala” heavy and rusty thick metal stirring sound up, I and Fatty Shirley Yang three people, the heart of the same time a burst of unsettling feeling, not good, afraid of! It is the raft hit the ambush in the river channel of the organs and traps ……