Because these three heads had been soaked in the soup for many years and the cave was damp, they had almost rotted into piles of carrion, which were rotten and sticky at the bottom of the jar.
Three huge skulls are displayed in a chaotic manner.
Chen Erwa took one look, and a sour smell hit his face, and he almost vomited on the spot.
He quickly covered his mouth and ran to the side to vomit.
Lin Yi had seen this kind of scene many times. He first looked at the quality of the pottery pot.
It is simple and unpretentious, and is a large-scale civilian utensil fired. It should be dated to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, not to the Kangxi and Yong dynasties at the latest.
This timeline is consistent with the existence time of the "Daxi Dynasty".
But this habit of treating human heads as sacrificial objects, cooking them and eating them, was originally the way the Yin Shang treated the Qiang people.
Among the cultural relics unearthed from the Yin Ruins are utensils for cooking human heads.
Moreover, at that time, the use of human sacrifices was already considered a very normal and traditional way of worship. It was not only used by the rulers, but was even imitated by the people.
As the descendants of Dong Qiang, it is normal for the Dong Yi people to have this kind of sacrificial behavior.
Moreover, according to historical records, the Ming Dynasty had the most records of "thousands of miles of bare land, people dying of hunger everywhere, and people eating each other", which occurred twenty-five times.
The number of peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty was second only to the Song and Tang dynasties.
Even if the boiled human head in this jar is not used for sacrifice, it can be used as food.
At least it can be inferred from this that no one has set foot in this cave for more than two hundred years.
The good news is that no one has touched anything in here, and it's probably still lying untouched somewhere.
The bad news is that this is the altar of the Dong Yi people. The Dong Yi people are very famous for their witchcraft, so there might be some kind of curse here.
Moreover, the fact that no one has set foot in it for so long may mean that this cave has no exit at all.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi sighed and closed the lid of the clay pot.
Turning on the flashlight, I looked around the shoal.
Chen Erwa was almost done adjusting, so she quickly moved closer to Lin Yi, raised a strong flashlight with him, and looked at the surrounding environment.
It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. This look frightened him so much that he almost sat on the ground.
Around this shoal, there is a circle of wrist-thick wooden stakes inserted.
On each wooden stake was a naked mummy.
These corpses had their hands tied behind their backs, their feet were firmly fixed with hemp ropes, and wooden stakes were driven from between their legs to their throats.
Finally it sticks out of the mouth.
Each body maintains the same posture.
The body's belly had been cut open, and its internal organs and key parts were missing.
There were also three corpses whose heads were missing.
Presumably what is boiling in this clay pot is their heads.
"Oh my God, this place is so evil. Brother Lin, we'd better not stay here and leave quickly!"
Chen Erwa has been behind Lin Yi, urging him to leave this place quickly.
Lin Yi took out a piece of rag cut from the diving suit and used it as a face towel to cover his mouth and nose. He reached into his bag with one hand, held a black donkey's hoof, and held a knife across the other hand, and walked up to the mummies.
Turn on the flashlight and prepare to find some useful information on these corpses.
When he got closer and observed, he discovered that these mummified corpses were not directly nailed to death with wooden stakes.
Judging from the marks on the wooden stakes and the quality of the mummies, they survived for some time after being nailed to the wooden stakes.
In some mummies, it can be seen that after the muscle fibers have been cut, there are still body tissues trying to heal the wound.
This kind of cruel punishment, which can be called "cutting alive", seems to have broken away from the scope of sacrifice.
It’s just that the identities of these mummies cannot be determined at all.
Was it the men of the "Daxi King" who forcibly occupied the sacred sacrificial sites of the Eastern Yi people and turned these Eastern Yi people into human beings?
Or did they mistakenly believe that this is an unclaimed land, and they couldn’t understand Dong Yi script, so they forced their way in? Finally became the food ration of the Eastern Yi people?
So, what is the explanation for this carefully constructed underwater secret tunnel?
In other words, they had reached some kind of tacit understanding or agreement long ago. These people who were made into human beings did not belong to either of them, but Zhang Xianzhong used the sacred place of worship of the Dong Yi people, so he gave these people to The leader of the Eastern Yi people as a tribute?
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel chills running down his back.
Chen Erwa over there stood far away, not daring to come over and face these mummies.
He kept waving to Lin Yi, telling him to leave quickly and stop dealing with these mummies.
Lin Yi observed for a long time and did not find any valuable information.
All the previous ones are based on his guesses.
Now that they have lost contact with the outside world, time is very important to them and they need to find what they are looking for as soon as possible.
If that doesn't work, you have to find an exit first before making any plans.
Lin Yi stood up and was about to join Chen Erwa, but found that Chen Erwa, who was standing there just now, had disappeared.
What disappeared with him was the light of the strong flashlight he held in his hand.
Almost as soon as he lowered his head and raised his head again, a living person disappeared.
"Erwazi! Erwazi!"
Lin Yi shouted twice, but Chen Erwa didn't respond.
Only his own voice floated back and forth in the empty shallows.
At the same time, Lin Yi's ears suddenly heard the vibration and friction of the iron ropes.
"咣啷~咣啷~~"
At the same time, it was accompanied by the sound of rushing water, echoing in this empty space.
The light in Lin Yi's hand suddenly shined on the water, and the voice stopped immediately.
Immediately afterwards, there was another burst of noise behind him.
"Creak~Creak~~"
Another sound of swaying wooden wedges reached his ears.
Lin Yi suddenly turned the light behind him, shining on the mummies nailed to the wooden stakes, and the sound immediately stopped.
The sound of iron chains in the water appeared in his ears again.
When his light came back this time, the human skeletons on the chains had already crawled to the shore with their claws and teeth.
He was crawling towards Lin Yi's position.
The mummies that were nailed to the wooden stakes behind them suddenly became alive. One by one, they climbed along the wooden stakes to the top, landed on all fours, and surrounded Lin Yi in various strange postures.
These things didn't bother him at all.
The witchcraft and blessing inheritance of the Eastern Yi people is closely related to the witchcraft and blessing culture of the Central Plains.
Moreover, in the "October Celestial Calendar" they used, male and female are used to refer to yin and yang, and there are many theories on yin and yang of the five elements.
So Lin Yi didn't panic at all when he saw the scene in front of him.
This kind of witchcraft is called "spiritual magic". It is not a brilliant witchcraft. As long as a living creature touches a certain medium set by the caster, it will be triggered.
It is not difficult for Lin Yi to break this witchcraft.
But the difficulty before him now is, where has Chen Erwa gone?
Is there more than one kind of witchcraft being cast here?
(End of chapter)
