Chapter 125 – Golden Mask
I wondered: “How these female corpses face up to the sky, but the limbs are hanging towards an incredible angle?” But then I thought of the “dead float” that I just saw in the water, could it be that there are more of these “dead floats” in the cave in front of us?
These female corpses are too strange, what kind of people are they? Their bodies have been in the water for thousands of years, why haven’t they decayed yet? And I always feel that this kind of “dead drift”, not like what we usually say floating corpse, that kind of strong resentment is to convey what? I repeatedly looked at the “fossilized altar” several times, but the altar’s “rubbing paintings” so far preserved, still recognizable part is too small, can no longer find any clues.
At this time, those big toads nearby and have to dive into the water, the water suddenly calm down, I looked around, this piece of fossilized altar nearby is still safe, due to swimming in the water for a long time, the three of us are feeling a little tired, so we decided to temporarily rest here for a moment, eat some supplemental calorie food, but also according to the current situation, re-adjustment of the plan of action.
I was a little hesitant, past experience gave me a sense of foreboding, it is difficult to decide, had to consult Shirley Yang and Fatty’s opinion, this gourd-shaped ancient cave, the location of the gourd mouth, is the “Tomb of the Consecrated King” of the Palace, but the last part of the journey is unpredictable, no one can not figure out! No one knows the true nature of the “Master of the Mountain God” and those “dead floats”, the most immediate threat we face is the “dead female body” that appears underwater, if we go back the way we came. Of course, but may not be able to find another way to enter the “King Xian’s Tomb” entrance, the key is now need to assess whether it is worth the risk.
Shirley Yang said to me: “In fact, there is more information conveyed in the painting, only you didn’t find it, look at the painting of the natives all have feather plumes on their heads, and only the head of the leader is wearing a horned helmet, and the composition of the painting is too simple, so it’s easy to ignore this detail, and we found a mask worn in a witchcraft ceremony in the jade coffin of the High Priest of King Hian. In the jade coffin of the High Priest of the Sacrificial King, we once found a mask worn during a sorcery ceremony, and I think that the golden mask is related to this.”
The leader of the natives in the “Mill Painting” is wearing a helmet or a mask on his head. It is difficult to distinguish, only the two long curved horns are very conspicuous, marking the status of this person is different, even if it is not the chief of all the people, but also a high priest in charge of the important ritual activities.
I let the fat man to take out that pair of gold masks to take a look again, that several pieces of sacrificial artifacts fat man has never been reluctant to leave his body, a loaded in his own carry bag, at this moment will come out to take a look at the gold mask is two open top of the head of the dragon’s horns, or antlers, lion’s eyes and tiger’s mouth, the ear is the shape of the fish ear, synthesized a variety of animals, the modeling of a very strange, and the mask of the decoration, casting a number of concave and convex undulation of the Eyeballs, a look and the desert in the ancient city of the Jingjie people worship totem the same, so against a look, “grinding painting” in the barbarian leader’s horns helmet, there are indeed a few points like the shape of this gold mask.
Shirley Yang said, “The fossilized altar is painted first, at least 3,000 years of history, while King Xian’s tomb is only 2,000 years after the tomb, I think that perhaps this secret cave in the ground is the only path to the King’s tomb from the outside world, and the so-called mountain god in the cave is the local barbarians from ancient times is the object of worship and sacrifice, so the King’s henchmen, using the ancient traditional rituals of the barbarians in the region, the King’s henchmen. The ancient traditional sacrificial rituals of the barbarians, after the closure of the king’s tomb, if you want to enter the Minglou to sacrifice to the King of Consecration, you do it according to the law, only need to have made offerings of a sufficient number of large toads to the gods in the cave, you can pass through the place without any problems, at the end of the martyrdom ditch, some Qin and Han Dynasty styled wooden boats, and those decayed long poles, it is possible to prove that after the closure of the king’s tomb, at least more than once such sacrificial rituals have been carried out. ”
Shirley Yang paused and continued, “In addition, according to my understanding of animals, the large toads in the nearby waters should not be living here, but rather gathered somewhere in the wet plains in the stream valley, and it is only due to the fact that the insects that have recently been breeding underground are in the midst of their egg-laying season that they have attracted these many large toads.”
I listened to Shirley Yang’s analysis, which was really well said, and exclaimed, “Chief of Staff Yang is far-sighted, and has analyzed so much information only from a mask that has not attracted our attention in the slightest, and I think that King Xian is also an outsider, and there is a saying that a strong dragon is still not a snake that oppresses the ground. …… ”
The fat man is quite unconvinced, not waiting for me to finish my sentence, then said to Shirley Yang: “This gourd hole leads to the tomb of the King of Xian, as early as before we did not come in, I was the first to see out, you say that the God of the Mountain and the female corpse is something, this gourd in the sale of the drug is what exactly is it?”
Shirley Yang shook her head and said: “I am not a prophet, how would I know those, I just based on the clues to make the inference, exactly what is going on, do not see with their own eyes, how to do accurate? But I think the information on this altar, should be true, the mountain god and those female corpses all exist, even if their original form is very different from the ancient people’s knowledge, but there must be some weird things in that cave.”
Shirley Yang asked me again, “Old Hu, you are a person who has seen a lot, in your opinion, what would be the original form of this Mountain God? Are we sure we can get through this gourd cave?”
I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty: “As I see it, the black-faced mountain god has hard hair on his face, and his face is lifeless, it must be an old zombie spirit living in a cave for thousands of years, and there is a large amount of corpse poison in his body, and the meaning of the grinding paintings on the altar is very clear, the razorbacks caught a big toad, and hanged it into the cave with a long pole, and it is not eaten by anything, but due to the poison glands in the toad itself, once it encounters a poison gland, the toad will have poison gland. itself has poison glands, once encountered more fierce poisonous gas attack, it will be through the back of the poison glands to release poison to fight, and finally by the corpse poison exhausted blood, so take it out of the time, only became a toad jerky, only so that the old zombie is induced to put the corpse poison temporarily net, and then use the gold mask to suppress him, only from the gourd hole through, usually if there is no this set of means, do not know the bottom of the outsiders into the hole, not the face of the corpse poison and die, the old days of the zombies in the hole, the old zombies in the hole, the old zombies in the hole. The corpse poison and die, once upon a time in Yunnan has had such folklore, I have reasoned this inference, not I made up, but that kind of dead floating floating corpse, I can’t really say, unheard of, unheard of, I don’t know that those female corpses and that thousand years old zongzi essence can be involved with what relationship.”
Although the fat man is not strong goods, but at the moment heard me say that there are three thousand years ago the old zombies into essence, also some of the virtual, after all, those things who have not seen, with the black donkey’s hooves and glutinous rice who is sure to be able to get it, so they said: “Hu political commissar, you just said what the strongest dragon does not suppress the head of the snake, this is too good to say, said in the right ah, do not care how to say that, that old Zombie has lived here for so many years, and did not break the law and discipline, and did not make trouble in society, which shows what ah, that people are very good people, did not recruit who, did not mess with whom, if we have to go through with people, hard to force through from here, with our hands, is not not impossible, but that would appear to be we do not understand the reasoning of the matter, I think we might as well spare the road to the past, and each other to give face, each other and peace and quiet is over. I think we might as well spare the road, give each other face, and let’s just get on with it.”
Shirley Yang said: “with the toad consumed the poisonous gas in the hole this matter, very possible, but I do not think there may not be any old zombie into the essence of the ancients and how the zombie as a mountain god, which is never possible, but the body of the naked corpse under the water, the whole body naked, vaguely covered in a layer of darkness halo, the female body once appeared, will make people feel a burst of inexplicable Sadness, like there is some kind of strong resentment, it looks like there will be more in the hole ahead, I don’t know what the name of it is, but this has to be guarded against.”
Fatty and I heard Shirley Yang say the word “naked corpse” and exclaimed in the same voice: “Bare-assed female corpse!” I know that I misspeak, hastily cover my mouth with my hand, but it is already too late, my heart is very strange: “How this guy Fatty and I say the same thing? And even a word is not bad, this guy really enough rogue.”
Just now I saw that suddenly floated up from under the water, and quietly disappeared female body, due to the suddenness of the incident, did not pay attention to see whether the female body is naked, only noticed that the floating body is a woman, look at that figure is very young, the body is covered with a layer of cold bleak white light, and now in retrospect, it seems that it is indeed a naked body, but why is she not wearing clothes? Could it be that the water soaked rotten? Even if it is really a zombie, naked but also fragrant, I curiosity, suddenly arose a kind of want to take a closer look at the idea.
I think I just said that the words of the bare ass female zombie words some embarrassment, so pretended to cough twice, opened to Shirley Yang and fat man said: “has come here, there is not exhaustive anti-retreat reason, we should now move, you if you are brave enough, with me to put on a gas mask, drilling into this gourd hole in the last section, regardless of what ghosts and zombies, all with the black donkey hooves! Even nest end off, let’s come a single knife straight into the lair of the King of Xian, no matter what is in that hole, as long as we are not afraid of sacrifice, remove all difficulties, we will be able to fight to the final victory.”
The fat man is a heart loaded with things, this time looks a little excited, a pat on the thigh said: “That’s it, Professor Chen that the old man’s life is at stake, can not afford to delay, we save people to save the end, send Buddha to the West, the heavy responsibility on the shoulders, so that we can not stop not to go forward, to strike the iron while it’s hot in order to be successful, and that’s the final struggle, inte ntnaxonel on the Will surely be realized, the mountains are fierce and dangerous, can not block the ambition, the sky is high and cloudy, can not frame the eagle strikes the sky, tomorrow morning when the sun rises, we are going to take the joy of victory, return to the home of the long parted, think back to the days and nights of the battle, the passion in the chest has not dried up, we have to motherland solemn report, for the sake of the happiness of mankind… …”
Fatty and I on whether to continue to walk through the “gourd” hole the last section of the attitude, suddenly became positive, making Shirley Yang somewhat puzzled, with a curious look at us, I see the fat man nagging endless, hastily pulled him a hand, whispered: “Toilet drop cans, you’re the one who stinks of words. You’re the one who stinks words flying around, what the hell is a grandson, you don’t just want to see the naked corpse, don’t talk nonsense, hurry to copy on the guy to open the road.”