Chapter 91 Chapter 91: Living Figurines

If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't speak in the water, I'm afraid I would have yelled out a long time ago, and hurriedly pushed down the water vigorously, sticking my head out of the water.I wiped the water on my face with my hand, I don't know if it's because of psychological effects, but I always feel that even the river here has a stench, which made me unable to open my eyes. After I calmed down, I realized that this end of the stone wall is indeed a hole in the sky. It is a large open space, not smaller than the other side of the stone wall. I looked around here and there, and suddenly found a person lying on the shore.

Even though I had made full preparations and had enough estimates for this place, I never dreamed that there would be people here.In an instant, I was completely stunned like five thunderbolts, and I didn't care about anything else, so I quickly shrank my neck and dived into the water again.Pedaling and pawing with all the strength in my body, I managed to swim back with great difficulty, and as soon as I poked my head out of the water, I hurriedly called out to Da Ya, asking Da Ya to give me a hand. After getting out of the water and turning over and sitting on the shore, I only knew that I was panting heavily and couldn't say a word.

Seeing my flustered look, Liu Ye realized that something was wrong, and quickly took a photo on the water surface with a flashlight, and found nothing unusual, then turned around and asked me what happened and why I looked so bad. I tried my best to calm down my nervous mood, and then I told about the pile of carrion corpses I saw under the water and the person lying on the shore just now. After I finished speaking, Liu Ye and Da Ya also gasped.Da Ya looked into the water, stared at me and asked me: "Lai Liang, can you see clearly, what does that person on the shore look like? Male or female? Dead or alive?"

I shook my head: "I don't have the mood to look carefully. It looks like a man, staring at me. If I didn't react quickly, I probably wouldn't be able to come back!" However, as I spoke, I felt a little guilty myself.In the environment at that time, I was only concerned about being afraid, but I didn't really look at it carefully. After taking a look, I was so scared that I dived into the water. As for what that person looked like, whether it was a living person or a dead person, I didn't see clearly.Thinking of this, I glanced at Big Ya and Liu Ye, and said to myself: "Could it be a dead person?"

Liu Ye didn't make a sound all the time. After handing me a bottle of water, she shook her head and said, "Since there are rotting corpses under the water, it means that people have come here before, and they also passed through the water. In fact, it's not all bad. From the other side From a perspective, this place is really the King Khan's treasure we are looking for!" I glanced at Liu Ye, and immediately understood what Liu Ye meant. I stroked my neck with my hand, and asked Liu Ye: "You mean, killing people to silence them? These people are those who participated in the buried treasure back then. killed?"

In the past era, such things were indeed commonplace, and in order to keep a secret, it was a last resort.The ruling class does not regard these lower classes as human beings at all. They believe that only the dead can keep secrets.Perhaps these people who died in vain also lost their lives because of this. Da Ya rolled his eyes, stretched his neck to look over, and said hesitantly: "It seems that we are getting closer and closer to this treasure, and we are almost one foot in and one foot out of the door! Otherwise, we Go and have a look again?" When I heard this, my heart tightened, I waved my hands at Da Ya repeatedly, pointed to my stomach, and told them that I almost vomited on it earlier.It was another toss just now, and now the arm has no strength at all, and the physical strength is exhausted. It is better to take a rest first, eat something, and only with physical strength can we bear the toss.In case the master lying on the bank over there is not a dead person, let's call it Yijing braking!

When Da Ya heard what I said, he touched his stomach and nodded in agreement: "Don't say it, my stomach is a little bit responsive when you say it like this, so let's rest for a while, and I'm afraid he won't make it if he runs away." , When Master Cheng, I have eaten and drank enough, take care of my head, and watch me take the lead!" Seeing Da Yayan's naked face, I have nothing to do.Looking around, there was no way to light a fire here, so everyone had to chew some bread and biscuits, then swallowed them with cold water.It's also hungry, so I don't care if it's delicious or not, the real thing is to fill the stomach.He ate and drank voraciously, and after a short time, he ate until his belly swelled and he couldn't swallow.

Da Ya had been thinking about the treasure all the time, seeing that I had finished eating, he quickly clapped his hands and stood up.After jumping on the spot a few times, he patted his body again, seeing that it didn't mean to enter the water, but to take off, I couldn't help but sarcasm him. Da Ya gave me two "tsk tsk" sounds: "You know six, this is similar to winter swimming, you have to warm up in advance, or you will get cramps if you go down. You think I don't know that the water is cold, like your stupid head It was as green as green, and it was stabbed down with a single slash, and if it could crawl back alive, it would be burnt with incense!"

As soon as I heard this, I became very angry. Da Ya knew the taste of the water was not good, so he pretended to be dumb all the time. Now that he heard that the treasure was found, he was fighting for it.After thinking about it, let's not talk about whether there is any treasure, just the pile of rotten meat and scum under the water is enough for people to suffer. I don't want to see that pile of workmen anymore. No, no worries. Seeing that Da Ya was almost active, I told Da Ya again that the things in the water are easy to handle, just hold back and don’t vomit, or simply don’t look at it.But the guy on the shore, it is not clear whether he is alive or dead, enemy or friend, so he must be more careful, and if he can't do it, he has to withdraw quickly.If there is no danger on the other side, blow the whistle three times and we will follow.

After Da Ya gestured to us, he jumped into the water with a "plop" and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Liu Ye and I stood on the shore, not daring to go far, listening to the movement with trepidation. Five or six minutes later, the whistle was indeed heard, and it seemed that everything should be peaceful with Da Ya. I glanced at Liu Ye, smiled, put the backpack behind Liu Ye on my body, and repeatedly told Liu Ye not to look around in the water, just follow me.Liu Ye smiled at me gratefully, and knew that I was worried that she couldn't help but make trouble after seeing those rotting corpses.

This time I had a long memory underwater, so I didn't look there at all.Swimming far away in one breath, I saw a bright light in front of me, which must have been the light cast by Da Ya on the shore to mark us, so I quickly swam over with all my strength, stepping on the water with both feet, and poking my head out. Da Ya pulled me and Liu Ye to the shore, pointed to the front, and raised his head at me: "Here, this is the guy you mentioned who was staring at you, he has died a long time ago. I don't know who It’s okay to be idle, but my body is still covered with a layer of mud, and my lower body is covered, and I’m so ghostly, it scared me a lot.” Liu Ye and I were a little surprised, so we hurried forward a few steps.As expected, as Da Ya said, the upper body of this skeleton was naked and severely decomposed. It was lying on the ground with its back up and face down, exposing rows of ribs.The lower body was covered in a thick layer of black mud, which looked weird. Liu Ye looked at it, suddenly her face changed, she covered her mouth with her hand, and turned around quickly. I thought it was because she was a little disgusted when she saw the skeleton, so I quickly pulled her back a few steps. Liu Ye shook her head, stroked her chest with her hand, and told me that it was a living figurine. Living figurines? I've heard of the use of living people to be buried, but what's the matter with these living figurines?Could it be that the living people were directly made into clay figurines? Liu Ye frowned and glanced at the dead body again, telling us that making "living figurines" is a very cruel thing.According to some ancient records, the living people were stunned by drugs first, then their bodies were used as a model, and then they were directly covered with clay mud to suffocate the people to death, and finally suffocated to death, and made into clay figurines.After the figurines are finished, these figurines are placed according to their identities during their lifetime, such as soldiers, coachmen, maids and so on.This method naturally makes the final clay figurines as lifelike as a living person, with lifelike facial features, and can also highlight the noble status of the deceased. Hearing such a heinous thing, Da Ya and I were also taken aback. Suddenly, I remembered something, and asked Liu Ye: "Could the clay figurine that floated up under the water be this kind of living person?" Figurines?" Liu Ye shook her head and said: "It's hard to say, it's too far away to see clearly. However, seeing this clay figurine, I think that's about the same!" Da Ya shook his head, and said to Liu Ye: "Sister, you said that the lower body of this 'dead' is muddy, but the upper body is flesh. Could it be that, as you said, after getting dizzy, doing something? Alright figurine, he woke up again, did he take off the shell by himself?" Liu Ye frowned, looked at the shattered clod next to the corpse, and nodded without comment. In ancient times, human sacrifice was practiced. After the death of the slave owner, the slave was buried with the slave owner, and the living person was sacrificed as a sacrificial object. This is also a feature of the slavery society.After entering the feudal society, this kind of sacrificial burial was gradually replaced by figurines because it was too cruel, which can be regarded as a symbol of the progress of human society.This kind of figurines usually only appear in tombs. Since there are figurines here, is there a tomb here?Who were these figurines buried with? I sighed, and was about to tell Da Ya and Liu Ye to continue walking, when I accidentally saw a steel knife in the figurine's hand. It was blank for a moment. I bravely walked up to it, lifted my nose and sniffed it carefully, and sure enough, there was a faint musty smell, like something moldy and hairy.It is estimated that the temperature here is low and the temperature environment is constant, so the rotting speed of the bones is extremely slow, and there are some skins and flesh attached to the bones. Judging from the fallen hair, it is obviously not the dress of our era. I looked carefully for a long time, and finally found a few blue marks on the only remaining flesh on the back. The color was purple and black, and they were deeply sunken in the flesh. At first glance, they were caused by being squeezed by something. There was a faint fishy smell everywhere. Da Ya and Liu Ye saw me staring at this rotting corpse non-stop, they were a little curious, they didn't know what I was going to do, they were afraid that something might happen to me, they yelled loudly from a distance, asking me if I found anything. I nodded at them and told them as I walked back that I finally figured out how so many dead people in the water died. When Da Ya and Liu Ye heard this, they were obviously a little surprised. They stared at me, and subconsciously glanced underwater again, asking me to tell you something. I pointed at this figurine, laughed, and told them that he was the murderer! When Da Ya heard this, he grinned wildly, and pointed at the figurine, "What, him? He couldn't save himself, and he still killed people? Oh, you mean he killed these people before he was alive? Became a figurine?" I shook my head, stared at Da Ya and Liu Ye, and said word for word: "No, it happened after he died!" "Ah? How is this possible? A ghost is taking his life?" Da Ya obviously didn't believe it, his mouth curled up like a ladle, and then he seemed to think of something again, and nodded again, "It's also possible, I used to I heard that this person who died unjustly has a lot of grievances, and he can easily turn into a ghost after death, looking for his enemy to ask for his life, could it be that this is a wronged soul asking for his life?" After listening to Da Ya for a long time, Liu Ye was also ambiguous, not knowing whether to believe it or not, and finally stared at me and stopped talking. I sighed at Da Ya and told them that things were much more complicated than that.If my guess is correct, this figurine and those people in the river are all together, and they should all be workers who built this place and participated in the work here.After the work was over, they were wiped out again.It’s just that the way of silence is a bit too surprising. Some people deliberately turned living people into figurines to make them full of resentment, and then invited ghost soldiers to possess them, which is similar to "ghost upper body", making them kill each other. This ghost was naturally brave and invincible, and those ordinary migrant workers were naturally no match for him, and they were killed by his knife one after another. To put it bluntly, if the dead are used to kill the living, they will all become dead in the end, and no one will leak the secret. Liu Ye stared at me and rolled her eyes, and asked how I knew it was a ghost?You can't say that the figurine killed someone just because he had a knife in his hand, right? I pointed to the underground river and told her that when I saw the carrion corpses in the water, I was still a little puzzled, why their heads were tilted and their necks seemed to be broken. He cut it with great strength and heavy momentum, and killed him with one blow.I saw the single knife in the figurine's hand just now, and the blade was already curled, which was obviously caused by continuous and vigorous slashing. Speaking of this, I pointed to the figurine again: "And the most important point, I checked carefully just now, and I smelled a faint fishy smell on his body, and there were streaks of purple and blue marks on his body, very It was obviously left behind after the ghost got on his body." When I said this, Liu Ye was obviously a little scared, she hugged her shoulders and glanced over there, smiled wryly, and fell silent. Da Ya clicked his mouth, and nodded seriously: "Gao, this move is too high. It really doesn't leave any traces, and it's too terrific, but who made this ghost's upper body?" ?” He paused, as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked me cautiously with his eyes wide open: "Pojun?" I nodded, this kind of method does not rule out that others will also do it, but the most suspected one is "breaking the army", this kind of thing is a piece of cake for him.In addition to the "smoke spirit" I encountered in the palace of the Princess Mausoleum, I feel that this matter is likely to happen, and he cannot escape. Although Liu Ye didn't see the main body of the "Smoke Spirit" and always said it was a black mist, but I was in a haze, and I don't think what I saw should be hallucinations.Since Po Jun appeared here, and so many people died, is it possible that this place has really reached the place where the treasure is hidden?