Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 49 The Inheritor

The ground below the cliff is not flat, but there is a slope.There are also spike-like things on it.

Those colorful colors emanate from those things.

This appears to be a stalactite.Here, it looks like a small cave.

The densely packed human skeletons were scattered among the stalactites one after another, discarded at random like garbage.

He Wei stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the scene under her feet through the goggles on the helmet, with a stern expression.

An idea rose from her mind uncontrollably.

Are these bones left behind after being eaten by the mountain god after offering sacrifices to the mountain god?
Are these people eaten by mountain gods?
She turned around subconsciously, and once again cast her sight on the statue of the mountain god full of weird aura.

The firearms in the hands of more than a dozen elite soldiers were always aiming at it.

Suppressing a trace of emotional fluctuations in her heart, she picked up the communicator and said something.After a while, more personnel wearing full-body protective suits came in and brought enough climbing equipment.

Several soldiers escorted several archaeologists, and under the leadership of He Wei, the rope descended to the bottom of the cliff.

At this time, she discovered that these bones should not have been eaten by the mountain god, but should be left over from the natural decay of the corpse.

There are still traces of clothing left on these skeletons, and there are still ropes left between their wrists, ankles, and chest and abdomen.

On some of the bones, the scars left by the sword chopping can be clearly seen.There were also some obvious fractures in the bones. It is not known whether they were interrupted during their lifetime or were broken when they were thrown off the cliff.

In addition to the bones, there are many ancient objects left in the cave and between the stalactites.

There was woodwork that was so decayed that it was barely recognizable, pockets, clothing, metal objects, and so on.

Under the protection of the soldiers, the archaeologists began to clean up these things.Various relics were carefully put away, and different bones were sorted out separately.

Looking at the mess, He Wei thought silently.

Logically speaking, even if there were bones in this place where the mountain god was worshipped, they should have been left behind after being eaten by the mountain god. There is no reason for so many inexplicable corpses to appear.

If it is a sacrifice, then sacrifice it to the mountain god, if it is not a sacrifice, how can you die here?
There may be something hidden in it that I don't know.

"Officer He, there is writing here."

While thinking, the voice of an archaeologist came.When He Wei walked over, she saw the archaeologist through the gloves, and took out a rotten thing that looked like a wooden sign from the mud-like thing in the ground.

Carefully cleaned up the sundries on it, and the self on it was revealed.

He Wei frowned, and slowly read: "...Yun Guan Tang Yuan...?"

I can't see clearly before the word cloud, and I can't see the handwriting after the word yuan.

She looked at the archaeologist with a little doubt.

The archaeologist carefully flipped through it, thought for a moment, and then said: "It looks like a Taoist disc, which is used by ancient Taoist priests to identify themselves, the Taoist temple where they are, and their hometown. It is usually issued by the government. Yes. Of course, only serious Taoist priests have this thing, and wild Taoist priests don’t have it.”

The wooden sign was found next to a skeleton.There are still some fabric residues in there, what seems to be some kind of pocket.Originally, there should have been some things in the pocket, such as paper, but now they are completely rotten, and the original appearance cannot be seen.

And this skeleton was clearly killed by a gunshot - it had obvious bullet holes in its skull.In the hollow skull, the brain tissue completely rotted and disappeared, but there was a rusty warhead left behind.

He Wei observed it carefully and came to a conclusion in her heart.

"This is left over from a certain type of old-fashioned firearm. It is a certain age, with a low rate of fire and low power."

"Not bad." The archaeologist agreed, "A comprehensive analysis shows that this skeleton should have appeared about 100 years ago. Well, it was about the time after the fall of the Qing Dynasty."

The era of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China is indeed not too far away from now.

"Then the meaning of this disc is that its owner is a Taoist named Tang Yuan from a certain cloud temple?"

"This should be."

He Wei felt a little strange in her heart.How could a Taoist priest appear here inexplicably?Inexplicably, he was directly shot through the head with a gun and died here.

But suddenly, she remembered that through gene tracing and historical investigation, the first generation of ancestors with the Hag.1 gene probably appeared between Emperor Zhengtong and Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.

In the ancient books and materials collected by Lu Ming and Huang Weimin, it is already clear that the inheritance of "sacrificing mountain gods" first came from the period between Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Wanli. kid.After that, there was the Tang family that appeared in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Tang family lasted until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was only in a strange "bandit attack" that it ushered in its demise.

And this Taoist disk shows that the era of this Taoist priest was probably in the period of the Republic of China.

The Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty was not too far away from the period of the Republic of China.After all, the Daoguang period can be regarded as the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, this Taoist priest is also surnamed Tang.

So... Could he be the inheritor of the Tang family back then?In this way, there is a connection between him and the mountain god, and it will not seem abrupt to appear here.

Of course, these are just speculations, without any evidence.

But this guess is enough to make He Wei feel excited.

After the other conventional methods failed in the investigation of the X organization, the second team of the operation finally chose the route of looking for their clues through historical inheritance.

And from the poor boy, to the Tang family, and now to this Taoist priest surnamed Tang—if this Taoist priest is really the inheritor, then this inheritance from history has been advanced to only about 100 years from the present age. It's time, this can't be regarded as a major breakthrough.

As long as the next successor is found, it is almost possible to step from history into reality, and really bring out the X organization!

Is the important clue that may be hidden in the real place of worship of the mountain god, and the X organization will not hesitate to confront its own side to destroy it, is it the information of the next generation of inheritors after this Taoist surnamed Tang?

"Keep searching!"

Due to space constraints, there cannot be room for too many people.What's more, a part of the space has to be reserved for security personnel to deal with possible accidents.

The search progress is a bit slow.But He Wei was not in a hurry.

After the armed forces belonging to the human world have paid attention to this place and have taken over the task of confronting the X organization head-on, the second operation team has enough time to slowly investigate.

At this moment, on the cliff, in front of Zhang Dingshan, the personnel in charge of the search also found something.

"This is porcelain! It should be a porcelain bowl."

"Here is a piece of wood, there seems to be writing on it, but it is completely decayed, and I can't tell what the writing is."

"Send the board to the lab for testing."

Through precise trace residues, indentations, etc., it may be possible to restore the writing on the wooden board.

Time passed slowly, and several hours passed in the blink of an eye, and the news from the outside world finally came back.

Before, not only these tiles and wooden boards, but also a large number of other specimens from this cave were also transported to the outside world, and received detailed inspections by professional testing agencies.

"Human blood and fabric residues were detected in the specimens. Fruits, grains, and animal fat residues were detected in the specimens near the altar, which are suspected tributes."

"Traces of gunpowder were detected in the cave, and a firearm should have been fired at that time."

"Examination of the bones shows that all the bones are from the same age, about a hundred years ago."

"The restoration of the writing on the wooden board has been completed. The writing on it reads 'Sincerely, Xinnan, Shang Jilong'."

Shang Jilong?
This is an unfamiliar name.The meaning of this line of words seems to indicate the identity of the person who presided over the sacrifice at the beginning, and it was a man named Shang Jilong.This person sacrificed many melons, fruits, animal meat, etc., and most likely also a certain person with the Hag.1 gene who was lying on the altar at that time, to the mountain god, the so-called "respect".

"Could it be that this Shang Jilong is the inheritor of 'sacrificing mountain gods' after the Tang family was destroyed?"

He Wei's words were full of irrepressible excitement.Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice, "Immediately check the information of this Shang Jilong."

The numerous skeletons, swords, gunpowder residues, bullet holes, etc. all indicate that the host of all this, that is, "Xinnan Shang Jilong" may not be an ordinary person.

Even if it is only a hundred years old, it is enough to obliterate all traces of an ordinary person.But if he wasn't ordinary, there's a good chance that relevant information has survived.After all, in an absolute sense, a hundred years is not too long.

Zhang Dingshan's order was quickly spread to the outside world. The headquarters of the Planetary Security Bureau, the second team of the Operation Department, and the logistics personnel who stayed there immediately started searching.

Somewhat beyond He Wei and Zhang Dingshan's expectations, they thought it would take a lot of effort to find out the information about Shang Jilong.But what I didn't expect was that in less than half an hour, a lot of information was passed on.

When she opened the details of the information, He Wei was full of surprises.

"I never thought that this Shang Jilong would be a celebrity."

He is indeed a celebrity.At least for his age.

It was the era when the warlords fought and the world was in chaos.During that era, in the Taihang Mountains area, this man named Shang Jilong had the largest number of subordinates, and even gathered more than 1 horses. He was famous and dominated one side.

(End of this chapter)