Listening to Song Siyuan's explanation, everyone believed her guess a little more, but legends were just legends after all, and the statue of the god that appeared in front of them still couldn't be explained.
"If we follow the meaning of the murals, the statue here should be their Witch King, but who is this Witch King?"
Xu Xiake was full of doubts about this. Yue Qingshan frowned and said slowly: "It can't be the god Chi You. Rumor has it that Chi You founded the Jiuli tribe and competed with Emperors Yan and Huang for the Central Plains of Jianghan. In the end, he was beheaded in Zhulu. , the Jiuli tribe was dispersed and expelled to the coastal areas."
Song Siyuan is well versed in folklore and has heard many myths about Chi You. She looked at the crowd and nodded: "According to the meaning of these ancestors, the Witch Emperor refers to Chi You, and the Hezhong tribe and the Red Kingdom probably refer to Jiang He. The Yandi and Huangdi tribes in the plains, but in the eyes of these ancestors of the Wu tribe, always use their own history to record historical events, and the names for these countries are completely different. In fact, it is the myth of Chi You's battle with the Yanhuang tribe! "
"You are right to say that. I remember that the Gu people in the old areas of Sichuan and Hunan also said that they are the descendants of Chi You. They were defeated in the war with the Yanhuang tribe and were demoted to the southwest. The Eighty-one Village of the Gu people is actually Inherited the eighty ordinary weapons of creation from Chi You."
As soon as Ren Peacock finished speaking, everyone already had speculations in their minds. Once the identity of the god Chi You was finalized, the true form of the statue would be almost certain. It was probably a statue created by the ancient shamans in the image of Chi You and used as a ghost. The Gao Media Temple is a good place to pass on the culture of the witch-god civilization!
"Old lady, there are more than a dozen corpses upstairs!"
Yue Guanchao looked at the corridor on the second floor. All the windows were closed. The soldiers and bandits had just gone up to check on the spot. Judging from the meaning of the words, they discovered a new situation.
They bid farewell to the murals for the time being, followed the sound and pushed open the wooden door of the side hall, and then walked up the stairs to the corridor floor. The bones that appeared here made people's brows jump and their throats felt sick.
Looking around, the corridor looks like a mass grave, filled with corpses that have corroded to the point where only their skeletons are left. The corpses are either lying on the ground, leaning against the wall, leaning against stone pillars, or crawling on their backs. ...In short, there are various forms of death.
Most of them have been corroded to the point where only mottled white bones are left. Even if they are lucky enough to be wrapped in skin and flesh, they stick to the bones like dried meat strips. The eye sockets are black and full of dried meat ash. The soaked clothes are covered with spider webs and The insect corpses are like a mosquito net.
Yue Guanchao picked up the dagger, tore open the dense cobwebs, and looked at the clothes carefully.
The wounds on these clothes are mostly concentrated on the chest, back, neck, head, and joints. They can be anywhere that can cost half a life. The holes in the clothes are not regular sword scratches, but more like the bites and pokes of wild animals. The bloody holes in the teeth left by the thorns.
It was obvious that he had probably been pierced by the sharp weapon on the beast and bled to death.
"Who are these people? Why did they die here?"
Song Siyuan used a flashlight to observe the clothes carefully. The clothes of these corpses looked in a bad state, and they still retained their specific shapes. There were only two types, one was wearing black clothes, and the other was wearing casual clothes!
Let’s talk about the corpse in black first.
These corpses wore buttoned black coats on the upper body and black pleated trousers on the lower body. There were cloth belts around the waist to tighten the upper and lower garments. At the same time, eight copper coins were tied on a red rope and hung around the waist. The same was true for the tips of black cloth shoes, tied Wearing a copper coin on a red string.
Let’s talk about the plainclothes corpses!
This kind of plainclothes corpse was dressed in a lot of ordinary clothes, including a gray sweatshirt, bloomers, a sheep's belly scarf on the head, a human oil torch in the hand, and old cloth shoes on the feet. The oil on the ground was scattered all over the ground and had long since evaporated.
"Looking at the shape of the clothes, it's already close to the Republic of China, which is only more than thirty years ago. I remember Uncle Tang said that a group of tomb robbers entered the Soul Palace with the villagers decades ago, and they never came out again. Uncle Tang said he was eaten by the soul mist, but looking at it now, it seems that he was attacked by some wild beast. Although he was lucky enough to hide here, he died because of too much blood loss."
Song Siyuan thought that these people were the ancestors of the Chao family. Seeing that the shape of the clothes did not match, she was probably overjoyed in vain.
"When we came in, the paper talisman at the door had not been touched, which means they did not come in through the main entrance. There were only horn corridors on both sides that could be climbed over. They probably hid in there for refuge!"
After Song Siyuan finished speaking, she lowered her head and looked at the ground. The blood had long since dried and turned into mottled black spots that spread outside the side hall door. Yue Guanchao followed her and passed the many corpses to open the verandah door. When he walked out of the hall door, he saw the Niujiao Corridor.
They lowered their heads and observed that there was a hemp rope for climbing tied to the cast iron stone fence. This kind of rope was very strong for lifting heavy objects. After decades, it had only loosened slightly, but it was still strong. Look at the fence. and the bloodstains in the corridor. Their path was probably from the verandah to the second floor of the temple.
