Murder

The bone village was built on the stone beams, so no one went to explore what was going on under the stone beams.The stone beam looked solid and abnormal, and there was nothing suspicious about it.

But as soon as Sima Feng mentioned it, everyone immediately thought that under the stone beams they hadn't checked.

Sima Feng didn't wait for the other people's response, he turned over and landed on the stone beam, ready to carefully turn down to check.He didn't have any ropes on him, and apart from his hands and feet, he had nothing to rely on. Before turning over to the side, Qing Yuanzi jumped off the tree and stopped in front of him.

"Don't court death, baby." He snapped, "Get up and let me go."

"You are too old." Sima Feng said.

Qing Yuanzi became unhappy: "But my martial arts are higher than yours. You are absolutely no better than me in skills such as climbing trees and mountains."

Sima Feng wanted to say more, but then thought of Qing Yuanzi living alone on the island, what he said was indeed the truth.He wanted to enter the bone village immediately and bring Chi Yebai out, but the situation is unclear now, so it is most appropriate for Qing Yuanzi to go and investigate.

He just nodded and agreed.

With agility, Qing Yuanzi flipped over to the bottom of the stone beam and crawled towards the bottom of the bone village.

As soon as his figure disappeared, everyone heard the sound of messy footsteps on the stone steps behind him, and then Tian Ku's voice sounded: "Chi Yebai! Chi Yebai!"

"Brother Chi is in the bone village." Shen Guangming said to him.

Tian Ku, who was rushing over, was taken aback when he heard the words, and his anxious face suddenly turned into astonishment.

Shen Guangming stared at him, surprised and amused: "What's wrong with your face? Who is so courageous to hit you?"

The rest of the people looked at Tian Ku.On Tian Ku's left cheek was a slap print, fresh and hot.

"I was beaten by your sister." Tian Ku replied quickly without being shy.

Shen Guangming nodded immediately: "Then she must have a reason for beating. Well beating, very good."

Tian Ku didn't dare to complain to his eldest brother, rubbed his face, and said, "Why is Chi Yebai the only one going in?"

Sima Feng told him the situation, Tian Ku took a deep breath: "I see, I know how to get in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qing Yuanzi turned up from below: "The bottom is full of stones, and there is no way. There are many roots and vines, and they hang down all the way to the bottom."

Sima Feng has already dragged Tian Ku to the stockade: "Open it quickly."

"It can't be opened now." Tian Ku ran all the way over, panting, and calmed down a little at this time, "The entrance is closed at Xu time every day, and it will be opened at Mao time the next day. From Mao time to Xu time, as long as you know how to open the entrance, you can You can go in."

Song Beiyan was stunned: "So clever? Who controlled it?"

"Water." Tian Ku pointed to the ground, "The lake in Tiansheng Valley is not dead, it is a dark lake connected to Caiquejian, a tributary of Yulan River. The rise and fall. Because there are many mountains here, the underground water veins are very complicated. The tide rise and fall of Caiquejian is mainly affected by these water veins, which is different from the tide ebb and flow of Yulan River. Another high tide."

"It will only be turned on and off when the tide is high... You mean, there is a mechanism in the lake of Tiansheng Valley connected to the Bone Village?" Sima Feng asked.

Tian Ku nodded: "Yes. Just now, the old man said that there are many roots and vines below. It is estimated that the wiring of the mechanism is hidden between the roots and vines. This is a movable mechanism. The walls of the bone village are more than On the first floor, the mechanism is buried in the wall. The principle of this mechanism is very simple..."

"Needless to say that." Sima Feng interrupted him, "Are we going to wait here until the next day?"

"There are still five hours." Tang Ou looked at the stars above his head, "Tian Ku, how do you know so many things about the bone village?"

Shen Guangming also asked: "This land also belongs to Jiezilou? You big landlord."

"No." Tian Ku shook his head, "I saw it just now. The design of this village is recorded in Shenying Ce's documents."

Tian Ku left the rest of Shenying Ce's information and hurried out after seeing the relevant content of Gu Guzhai.Just after leaving the fifteenth floor, she was immediately slapped by Shen Qing who was guarding the door.Tian Ku didn't bother to explain to her, he kissed his wife a few times with a burning face, and then ran out to find Chi Yebai with a torch.

Unexpectedly, Chi Yebai actually set off for the bone village, which made Tian Ku panic.

Although Jiezilou is rich, he is indeed a big landlord, but Tianshenggu does not belong to them.

In this mountain range, in addition to Jiezilou, there are many villages scattered around, and Tiansheng Valley is the land of one of the villages.Although this piece of land cannot be planted or produced, it is a piece of land anyway, and it is considered precious, and no one is willing to give it up.

Tian Ku always thought that the bone village was just an ordinary village, but he did not expect to see the record of the bone village in the files of the Shenying Camp.

The Bones Village is a place of worship, which originally belonged to a native sect called Wu'e Sect.

No one knows where this sect originated or how it took root here.The dossier only records the connection between the Bone Village and the Wu'e religion in a very earnest tone.

The Uer Sect is a mysterious sect hidden in this mountain range. It believes that the death of a person is a kind of elution: to wash away the disasters of this world, to get rid of the embarrassment of this world, and to enter the reincarnation of the next life cleanly and freely.

Perhaps it was because the age was too bitter, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and the people in the mountains were also very difficult. Many people began to believe in the Wuer religion and pin their hopes on the afterlife.

The way of "cleansing" of the Wuer religion is very strange: it will organize the believers to commit suicide, and the suicide rituals will be taught and executed by the elders of the religion.

After Tian Ku read this, he already felt that it was very inappropriate: this is clearly an evil sect.

But Tian Ku soon discovered that the specific self-inflicted rituals were even more cruel—religionists bled each other, cut flesh, and beheaded each other. With the help of others, they completed the process of "washing out".

A simple image of the bone village is attached to the dossier, which has five layers.Except for the fifth floor, where the elders are, starting from the fourth floor, it is full of bloody slaughterhouses.There is a beheading platform on the fourth floor of the bone village. The believers will press the companions who have recited the scriptures and sacrificed all their belongings on the beheading platform, and slowly cut the throat to let blood.The beheading platform is exquisitely designed, and the blood will flow down a thick rope under the beheading platform, from the fourth floor to the first floor.There are countless lines engraved on the stone floor of the first floor. The fresh blood accumulates in the bowl at the end of the rope. After a certain amount of time, it will spread over the edge of the bowl and flow out in all directions along the lines.Because the "bowl" is slightly higher than the ground, the flow of blood is not blocked.

After the bloodletting is over, the corpses that are more complete because they don’t struggle will be given preferential treatment: they cut off the heads of the corpses and put them in the fourth layer, watching every subsequent "washing out" ceremony: for the believers , which is a glory far higher than death.

The decapitated corpses are placed in rooms on the third floor. These intact corpses have another benefit that can only be enjoyed after death: they can still live with their families, so that after reincarnation, they will still be family members.

The corpses that were not complete, or that were not beautiful enough, or that did not meet the elders' preferences, were stripped of their skin and flesh, leaving only the bones.The flesh was thrown into the natural valley to feed the beasts, and the bones were thrown into the second layer.

Every believer who entered the Bone Village and was preparing for the "washing out" ceremony climbed up to the fourth floor via ropes.They will see elaborate floors, carefully laid out bones, mummified corpses still together after death, and heads that look eagerly at everything.

Tian Ku couldn't understand: Seeing these things, how could he still go to the beheading stage safely?

But the followers of the Wuer religion are obviously not something he can understand.

This cruel, torture-based "washing out" ceremony has its own meaning: people should wash away disasters by torturing their physical bodies so that they can re-enter reincarnation cleanly.

The book analyzes the structure of the Bones Village in detail, and explains that the Bones Village was built in the Tiansheng Valley, and how dexterous, clever and bold the person who first designed this village was—the person who recorded all this was surprisingly eager and revered, and Tian Ku has always It was only after seeing the end and the inscription that I vaguely realized.

The person who collected and recorded the bone village was none other than Wen Xuanzhou.

He not only recorded the bone village in detail, but also brought this record back to the Shenying camp.

Wen Xuanzhou affectionately mentioned his long-dead sister.

Only now did Tian Ku know that Wen Xuanzhou's sister was actually a person of memory just like himself and Chi Yebai.It’s just that the little girl was tortured to death that day. When Wen Xuanzhou mentioned her, he never forgot to say, “My sister’s death has inspired a lot. .

When he said "a lot of enlightenment", he meant "when the water is full, it overflows".

Based on the information he brought back, the staff of the Shenying Camp really designed a trap specifically for Shen Yiren.

When Sima Feng heard this, he finally understood: "The information on Shenying Ce and Shenying Camp in Yingbeishe is incomplete, and Xiaobai didn't read everything about Guzhai."

"If he finishes reading it, he will never touch that door rashly."

Shen Guangming was very curious: "What is the trap like?"

"To put it simply, it is to put Shen Yiren in a place full of chaotic information, and let him absorb a large amount of this information in a very short period of time." Tian Ku said concisely, "In order to achieve the effect of overflowing when the water is full .”

"Isn't it difficult to build this trap?" Shen Guangming asked again, "When setting the trap, do you have to write on the wall? What do you usually write?"

"Writing is very easy, just paste hundreds or thousands of sheets of paper. I don't know what's going on inside the Guzhai, but the key is what the information says." Tian Ku said seriously, "In everyday, easy Information that is easy to read and understand will be filled with messy and difficult content."