Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 234 The Living Sacrifice
After Wen Cheng's matter was settled, the follow-up work went smoothly.

Lu Ming first negotiated with the prison, and together with the local public security bureau, dispatched staff to guard Wen Cheng, took him out of the prison, and brought him to the university he was in before he was imprisoned.

Long before Wen Cheng went to prison, the university had already expelled him.All his research materials have also been sealed.Now, with Lu Ming around, getting the school's cooperation is naturally not a problem.So, after a long absence, Wen Cheng came into contact with these things that he used to accompany day and night again.

Numerous ancient books, documents, materials, models, antiquities, etc.

Dali culture is indeed just a minority culture.Except for Wen Cheng, no one was really interested in it.Since Wen Cheng was taken away, no archaeologist has touched these things for several years.

At this moment, touching these things, Wen Cheng's eyes were full of emotion.

Not long after, a copy of the currently known information about Dali culture compiled by Wen Cheng was presented to Lu Ming.

After completing this work, Wen Cheng returned to the prison to continue serving his sentence.Of course, if Lu Ming has any questions about this information, or if there is anything else that needs to be consulted or supplemented, he can also contact him at any time very conveniently.

This information is very detailed.It includes the development process, origin, population estimation, cultural model, food source, production relationship, etc. of Dali culture, etc., all-encompassing.

But most of them, Lu Ming is not interested at all.He patiently read through this document, and finally screened out a few aspects that might be related to the sarcophagus in the Sanctuary of the Fate Organization.

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[-]. Research on the worship of gods in Dali culture.

Like many early cultures, the worship of gods in the Dali culture is still at a rather primitive stage.They do not have a systematic organization for worshiping gods, and they mainly believe in "animism". The social organization structure is divided into political leaders and theocratic leaders.Political leaders are responsible for tribal management such as civil and military affairs, but theocratic leaders have the final decision-making power.

Dali culture worships 'death', and their burial culture is very developed. Compared with other cultures, they have the concept of 'coffin' earlier, and the dead will be buried in the coffin.

Dali culture uses 'death' as ​​a tribal totem.The embodied image of the concept of 'death' can be found in some unearthed pottery, stone tools, a small amount of bronze wares and jade wares used for sacrifices.What Dali culture used to realize the concept of death is a coffin. "

Using the image of a coffin as the totem of his own tribe caught Lu Ming's attention.

The conclusion of Wen Cheng's research is that the ancestors of Dali culture worshiped death and the god of death, so they used a coffin as a totem pattern.

but……

After in-depth investigation of the Fate organization, Lu Ming had a different understanding of it.

The reason why the coffin is used as a totem is most likely not that the coffin means death, but fate.

The ancestors of Dali culture worshiped not the god of death, but the god of destiny.

It is very possible that the ancestors of the Dali culture who lived in today's Shanbei City area discovered the sarcophagus by coincidence, and the priests, wise men and other leaders of the tribe who held theocratic power discovered it after a long search. The mystery of this sarcophagus, and then with this sarcophagus as the core, the culture and worship customs of worshiping the sarcophagus developed.

This explanation is more reasonable and more credible than Wen Cheng's speculation.However, it is normal for Wen Cheng to come to the conclusion that "the coffin means death" without knowing the existence of the sarcophagus and that the sarcophagus possesses some kind of "supernatural power".

Another thing that caught Lu Ming's attention was some sacrificial customs of the ancestors of Dali culture.

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Eighth, the sacrificial customs of Dali culture.

According to the research on some unearthed altars, the ancestors of Dali culture had very cruel sacrifice customs.

The main body of the altar of the Dali culture is a coffin that means "death". Before the altars in six places in different regions, large-scale corpses of pregnant women or pregnant animals were found.

There is sufficient evidence to show that the ancestors of the Dali culture sacrificed pregnant women or pregnant animals to the "God of Death".After the sacrifice, these pregnant women or pregnant animals will be executed.

A coffin signifies death, a pregnant woman or a pregnant animal signifies new life.It makes logical sense to sacrifice new life to death and to please death with new life.

According to the analysis of some graphic information, whenever important events, such as wars between tribes, such as large-scale hunting activities, large-scale fishing activities, or the death and succession of tribal leaders, the ancestors of the Dali culture will carry out sacrifices to the god of death Activity.According to different specifications, the number of pregnant women or pregnant animals sacrificed also varies.There is at least one pregnant woman and ten pregnant animals. The pregnant animals are mainly horses, cows, pigs, and sheep. For the highest specification, there are ten pregnant women and a hundred pregnant animals.

The ancestors of Dali culture tried to please the god of death in exchange for the smoothness of major events. "

Lu Ming was not horrified by the cruelty of the ancestors of Dali culture.Frankly speaking, this kind of thing was very common in the early days of human civilization.All over the world, no matter which civilization has similar customs.Even in the feudal era, large-scale sacrificial burials were not uncommon.

Even the wealthy landowners in the countryside have records of forcing their concubines to death and burying them.

Human life has never been the same valuable and rare existence in history.

What attracted Lu Ming's attention was that this ancestor culture that appeared in the Shanbei City area, like the Fate Organization, had the tradition of sacrificing pregnant women.

Based on the known information, Lu Ming has reason to believe that part of Wen Cheng's research is wrong.

What the ancestors sacrificed was not pregnant women or pregnant animals as Wen Cheng thought, but the fetuses in the wombs of pregnant women or pregnant animals.The purpose of the ancestors' offering sacrifices was not to please the god of death, but most likely in exchange for the gift of the god of destiny to complete the transfer of "luck".

However, although Wen Cheng's research process was wrong, the conclusion was right.

"In exchange for the smoothness of major events" is essentially better luck.

Combining Wen Cheng's research data, Lu Ming can now confirm that the sacrifice of pregnant women to this sarcophagus has existed thousands of years ago.It's just that the ancestors thousands of years ago sacrificed on a larger scale and used more cruel methods.

The Destiny Organization only sacrifices one at a time, and after the sacrifice, the pregnant woman will not be executed, but the fetus will be executed after the fetus is born, and the pregnant woman will reuse it.

Moreover, the Destiny Organization at least knows that this kind of thing is not tolerated in the world, so it has been sneaking around and trying its best to cover it up.The tribal ancestors thousands of years ago had no such scruples at all.

Not only are they aboveboard, they even regard this as a grand ceremony.

The third point that attracted Lu Ming's attention was the research on the cause of the ultimate demise of Dali culture.

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Sixteen, the demise of Dali culture.

According to the study of geological faults, as well as the study of unearthed cultural relics and murals, it can be determined that the Dali culture perished due to natural disasters.Moreover, according to research on cultural relics unearthed from the Dali Culture, the distribution of remains, and postures, it can be confirmed that this natural disaster occurred suddenly.

A certain altar had previously unearthed a large number of weapons, as well as a large number of remains.In another place, a large amount of grain has been unearthed.There is reason to believe that the major tribes of the Dali culture were planning a large-scale military operation at that time.But before the army set out, a huge flood came rushing in, destroying all buildings and drowning everyone.Since then, Dali culture has completely perished. "

Dali culture thus withdrew from the stage of history.Thousands of years later, only Wen Cheng tirelessly excavated their stories.And it can be confirmed that what Wen Cheng unearthed is only a small part of the Dali culture.

More things about Dali culture were completely buried along with this flood and the passage of thousands of years, and could never be known again.

This ending made Lu Ming feel a little sad.

"Sacrificing so many pregnant women and beasts, I wanted to pray for good luck, but the good luck didn't come, but a devastating flood. I don't know that the ancestors just finished the sacrifice, and they haven't seen it yet. What kind of mood is it to see the flood flooding the sky and covering the sky before leaving in time?"

The ancestors of the Dali culture had a tradition of offering sacrifices first when encountering important events.Then it can be determined that before the start of this large-scale military operation, there will inevitably be such sacrifices.It is very likely that when the flood came, this kind of sacrifice was in progress or had just been completed.

Then the flood came.

Lu Ming shook his head and closed the document.

From this information, from the Dali culture, there should be no more clues about this sarcophagus.

Lu Ming returned to the Sanctuary.

At this moment, the manor clubhouse, which was originally beautiful and full of elegance, has now become a breeding farm.Mooing, bleating, humming.Even the air wafts the smell of animal excrement.

A total of 3000 pregnant animals mobilized from various farms, pregnant sows, cows, ewes, and accompanying staff from various farms almost occupied this manor.

Before the entrance of the sanctuary, He Wei wore a mask to cover her mouth and nose, and carefully directed the staff to drive the pregnant beasts into the sanctuary.

Inside the sanctuary, in front of the sarcophagus, the Saintess of the Fate Organization—the sorceress covered in oil paint, is ready at this moment.

Originally, Lu Ming thought that it might be a little difficult to extract the details of the sacrifice from the mouth of the Raoshizi saint. She is a saint after all, and her loyalty should be higher than that of ordinary believers.But unexpectedly, after hearing that cooperating with the sacrifice was considered meritorious service and would be of great benefit to the subsequent sentencing, she almost immediately agreed to her request.

Right now she was standing in front of the sarcophagus, ready to perform the first ceremony.

I don't know if she will feel a drop in price now.After all, previous ceremonies were performed to sacrifice humans, but this time they were sacrificed to animals.

In addition to the saint, there was another high-level member of the destiny organization who was eager to make contributions and won the job of reciting the sacrificial oracle when the sacrificial ceremony was held in front of the sarcophagus.

In the past, this errand was performed by the leader of the destiny organization himself.

Another senior member of the Fate organization won the role of beneficiary of the ceremony.

The purpose of this ceremony, in theory, is to "transfer" the luck of the fetuses in the wombs of those pregnant mother beasts to this high-level destiny organization.It's like transferring the luck of the fetus in the pregnant woman's womb to the core members of the fate organization in the past.

The difference is that it was a human before, but this time it is a beast.

The first batch of one hundred pregnant pigs, cattle and sheep were sent to the sarcophagus after preliminary treatment.

According to the saint, a sacrifice is not just about putting a pregnant woman or a pregnant animal in front of the sarcophagus, and then doing a spiritual dance.Before that, more complex preparations have to be made.

For example, cleansing the body, burning incense and praying, carving runes, etc., there are more than [-] links in all.The final sacrifice and spiritual dance are just the end.

Therefore, the first batch of one hundred pregnant beasts sacrificed were divided into categories and treated differently.

Some of the pregnant beasts were disposed of according to the standard steps, that is, the more than [-] steps were completely implemented, which was exactly the same as when sacrificing pregnant women in the past.

In the second part, the pregnant beast deliberately missed the first link, and the rest of the links are not bad at all.In the third part, the pregnant beast deliberately lacks the second link, and the rest of the links remain the same, and so on.

The pregnant beasts who perform the sacrifices will have more attempts.For example, two or three links are intentionally missing.

Lu Ming hopes to use this to test out which link is crucial and indispensable in the sacrifice, and which link is dispensable and can be omitted.

The mystery of sacrifice may be hidden in these links.

The rock experts and acoustic experts who were temporarily withdrawn on standby also entered the scene at this moment, and set up a working environment in front of the sarcophagus.

According to the records of the Destiny Organization, the sign of a successful sacrifice is the booming sound coming from the sarcophagus.Now, the experts are on the scene, so once the sacrifice is successful, they, and the instruments and equipment they carry, can truly capture those sounds and conduct more in-depth research on them.

Now that everything is in place, the sacrifice really begins.

The pregnant animals injected with anesthesia were divided into several rows and placed in front of the sarcophagus.The smell is in the air.The saint solemnly danced the spirit dance, and another high-ranking member of the destiny organization solemnly recited the sacrificial oration.

The ceremonies of the god worship organization, advanced high-tech equipment, and many pregnant beasts full of agricultural atmosphere, all interweave such a slightly incongruous scene in this sanctuary.

He Wei and Lu Ming watched carefully.

After ten minutes passed, the sorceress was sweating slightly, and the ceremony was finally over.At this moment, everyone in the hall fell silent.

Lu Ming was waiting for the bang bang to sound again.

There was silence in the hall.

(End of this chapter)