The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded: "Pindao has also suspected before that there are tunnels connecting up and down the entire mountain. Siniang's statement further deepens the possibility of this speculation. But having said that, if Xiao Zhang really escaped from the tunnel inside, Coming out, doesn’t that mean that if you follow this path, you can return to the upper tunnel?”
"That's the truth. It's just that I'm worried that the road inside may be dangerous."
"Perhaps the danger Xiao Zhang encountered was the idea of Shimenwai?"
"Taoist Master, do you think Xiao Zhang was chased out by this monster?"
"Yes, the timeline and path are correct. Xiao Zhang was chased out of the cave by a monster. He was killed as soon as he called for help. Then the monster climbed up the cliff again and quietly attacked the edge of the cliff. The lively Ma Qingshou, when we fell out of the pit of the trap, we got behind the monster by accident, and that was how we used the stone door to block the monster."
"This analysis is reasonable." He Siniang said: "So the Taoist leader thinks that the path inside is safe now, which way should we go?"
"The safest choice is definitely to climb out from there." The Taoist Priest with a grimace pointed at the hole diagonally above and continued: "Although it takes some effort, it is better than safety, but after all, we have our own goals in entering Tibet this time. , if we go back to join the main force now, wouldn’t we become that ‘fish meat’ controlled by others again?”
"Does the Taoist Master want to take this opportunity to escape?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace shook his head: "Even if we can escape from here, how can we escape from this vast snowfield without supplies? The poor Taoist intends to take this opportunity to completely separate from the large army. If there is really a way to the tunnel, On the path to Hades, the three of us will simply take the first step, then step on the plate and find out the details, so as to plan the next move."
"Since the Taoist Master already has a plan in mind, just take action. I will naturally listen to you."
"Okay, let's set off now. We'll leave the flying lock above our heads for now so we can have an escape route in case we encounter any situation."
After the three of them finished speaking, they immediately packed up and set off.
The hole on the inside of the cave is about the same size as the one on the outside, but there is no stone door. The Taoist priest with a grimace walked into the cave first, holding the Long Ming knife tightly in his right hand, always guarding against the situation ahead.
The tunnel behind the cave is very long, and there is no sign of the end after walking for dozens of steps. As he goes deeper into the tunnel, the grimace Taoist priest feels that the air around him is getting darker and darker, and there is even an indescribable wave coming from between his breaths. Fishy smell.
The Taoist priest with a grimace felt that this might be because the tunnel was too deep and the air was stagnant. He patiently walked forward another twenty or thirty steps, and finally saw a dark hole at the end.
At this time, the fishy smell in the air decreased instead of increasing. Even Luo Laoqi, who was at the end, was so smoked that he complained: "Taoist priest, who the hell is pickling salted fish in front of you?!"
The grimace Taoist waved his hand to silence him, and walked quickly to the entrance of the cave. As the torch illuminated the front, the grimace Taoist discovered that there was a wider cave connected to the back of the cave, and the layers piled up in the cave were like bones high in the mountains. He was immediately shocked.
"This...this..." The grim-faced Taoist priest was speechless at all. When He Siniang and Luo Laoqi came over, they both showed frightened expressions.
"This... this damn salted fish is not a salted fish!" Luo Laoqi exclaimed in shock: "This is a salted fish!"
"Isn't this a place where corpses are buried?" He Siniang looked at the Taoist priest with a grimace: "There are too many corpses, they have already piled up into a mountain!"
The grim-faced Taoist priest had been stunned when he looked at the pile of bones just now. When he heard this, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said suddenly: "I know this! This is the corpse in the sacrificial pit!"
"Sacrifice pit?" He Siniang was a little confused.
"It's the cave where we fell." The grim-faced Taoist priest replied: "The poor Taoist had previously guessed that there might be a sacrificial pit where corpses were thrown, but there were only blood stains on the ground but no bones. Now it seems that all the bones should have been moved to this cave. Come, so there will be only black blood stains left on the potholes and the ground outside."
"I see." He Siniang nodded and said, "So the hole is not a trap at all, but a 'wellhead' specially used to throw corpses into the sacrificial pit."
"Yes! The 'well mouth' used by Siniang is very vivid, and only if the sacrifices thrown down are live sacrifices, can the walls of the deep well be dyed red."
"That makes sense, but since the ones thrown down are all corpses, how can they be moved... could it be that monster?!"
The Taoist Priest with a grimace nodded and said, "You and I have the same idea. The sacrificial pit may be specially prepared for the monster, and the cave we are in now is probably its lair."
"Oh my god! Did it eat all the bones in the cave?! There must be tens of thousands of them?!"
"The key point is that we don't know how many years it has lived. Pindao is now more curious about what the monster is. It can actually allow the Shangzung people to sacrifice human beings and eat them alive throughout the cave. In addition, Bacho City It has been abandoned for hundreds of years, how did this monster survive without a sacrifice?"
"Maybe it can hunt by itself." Luo Laoqi pointed behind him: "Didn't the stone door outside open early in the morning? If this idiot is hungry and anxious, he can't tell if he runs out to grab something to eat."
"This is possible, but why did the ancient Xiangxiong people sacrifice to feed it?"
"Could it be some kind of custom of the Bon religion?" He Siniang said: "The ancient Xiangxiong people believed in the Bon religion, and the Bon religion was also called the 'black religion'. The custom of killing animals and blood sacrifices is very common in the religion. Maybe this The monster corresponds to a certain symbol in Bon religion, which led the Xiangzhong people to sacrifice human flesh and blood to it."
The grim-faced Taoist priest thought thoughtfully after hearing this. He knew more about Bon Religion than He Siniang and Luo Laoqi. In fact, after Xinrao Miwo integrated and reformed the original Bon religion and founded the Yongzhong Bon religion, the evil custom of human blood sacrifice has been abandoned. Judging from the statue of the Big Loving Mother Buddha outside, this place obviously belongs to Yongzhong. Zhong Bon, so the idea of using living people to sacrifice blood for something may be difficult to hold.
However, the Taoist priest with a grimace also knows that the branches of Bon religion are very wide. In addition, the inconvenience of travel between different parts of the plateau has caused many differences in cognitive biases and specific customs. Therefore, everything cannot be easily generalized. In case there are forces who believe in primitive Bon religion here. It is also very large, so it is not surprising that there is a custom of human blood sacrifice.
Thinking of this, the grimace Taoist priest was not in a hurry to answer He Siniang's words. After all, the matter of living sacrifice was basically a certainty. He had no time to care about the monster's survival now, because there seemed to be more urgent problems to deal with at the moment - that If this place is really the monster's lair, wouldn't it try its best to rush back?
