Holy Bone

Chapter 426 The Lord of the Black Rain Country and the Shady Tree with a Human Face (5k Chapter)

"Do you have anything else to say?"

Seeing that Yali was still standing behind him, Jin An suddenly became very quiet, and he didn't turn his head to ask.

The ancient ship at this time.

Still in the deep cave, continue to move forward.

Yali hesitated for a while and said, "Master Jin'an... I don't understand one thing. I don't know if I should ask this question or not?"

"Aren't you a desert warrior, Yali? When did you become so hesitant to speak?" Jin An turned around and looked at Yali who was standing nervously behind him, not daring to take a breath, and said with a smile.

Yali, who was still worried that Jin An would be in a bad mood, felt relieved when he saw Jin An regain his smile, and then said with a wry smile: "Master Jin An, our desert warriors are not afraid of the living, no matter how fierce they are, they will always be in vain." Knives go in and red knives come out, one knife kills, but the devil has no blood and flesh, and can't be killed by a knife... I'm just a little curious, Daoist Jin'an, when did you realize that old bastard Amur is not human?"

Jin An smiled: "Just because of this matter?"

Yali scratched his head and smiled a little silly.

Jin An asked back: "Yari, do you still remember the night we met Amur?"

"Remember, wasn't it Amur who was rescued in the storm? Don't you remember such a recent incident, Daoist Jin'an?" Yali was puzzled.

Jin An explained: "Even you said that there was a storm that night, and the sky and the earth were angry, how can human beings be able to counteract it? No matter how loudly people cry for help, can it be louder than the sound of the storm and the sound of raging waves?"

Yali is not stupid, otherwise he would not have been left by Jin'an's side by General Kulijiang to do errands. When Jin'an touched him, he immediately slapped his head: "Look at my stupid brain, why didn't I think of this?" Well, it turns out that Daoist Jin'an discovered that the old bastard Amuer was not alive at the very beginning."

Yali looked at Jin'an's back and admired him even more.

"Hey, there is one thing that Yali still can't figure out. Since Amur is the owner of the ship who makes a living for Guchi, and he said that he himself died on the ship, why was he outside when we met Amur? In the desert sea?" Yali said in surprise.

Jin An: "Someone came out with his corpse on his back."

Back corpse?

Yali was startled slightly numb: "Who?"

Jin'an: "Do you still remember the story of 'The Four Devils of the Black Rain Country' passed down by the old people in the desert? We are not the first batch of people who found the holy mountain of Guchi Country. The lord of the country spent countless manpower, material and financial resources to search in the desert for more than ten years and finally found the country of Guchi, and then led the army into the country of Guchi to find the kingdom of the immortal gods to find the secret of the river of eternal life and the secret of immortality... but later did not know what happened What happened, the entire army was wiped out, and only the lord and a few people fled back sporadically, like dogs that lost their homes. After this death, the national power quickly declined, and soon the lord and his country were destroyed by the joint efforts of all countries."

"And when the lord entered the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom, he also encountered the strange ship that ran aground just like us. The experience of the strange ship that we heard about the Amur expedition was precisely the lord who led the people. The personal experience of exploring the monster ship. At that time, the devil Amur bewitched the lord in order to escape from the Guchi Kingdom. The skin, the seal of the lifespan, can achieve immortality in another way..."

"At the beginning, the lord didn't believe that a small person would have the secret of immortality that he had been looking for so hard, but when the army was destroyed in the depths of the desert, the search for the kingdom of immortality failed, and the fate of the country was seriously injured. The king's lifespan has also come to an end. Knowing that time is running out, he can only choose to believe in Amur's words. When he passed the stranded strange ship again on the way back, the king made a lot of sacrifices and finally stole the mummified body of Amur. And after such a toss, the few people around the lord died, and only the lord escaped with the mummified body of Amur."

"However, the lord of the country is also a ruthless and ruthless character. He not only makes deals with the devil, but also dares to deceive the devil. He knows that people who die in the water want to find someone to go ashore for the dead ghost, so he came from Amur. After cheating the skinning secret of the Guchi Kingdom, he directly threw Amur in the desert sea, and did not actually carry the body ashore."

The answer Jin An gave was too powerful.

Yali was stunned for a while before he sorted out the cause and effect. He took a breath and said in shock: "The ruler Jin'an mentioned...is the old ruler of Heiyu Kingdom?"

"The national teacher among the four devils of the Black Rain Kingdom... is the king!"

Yali was not stupid, so he reacted immediately.

Jin An glanced at the bright-minded Yali, nodded in approval and said, "Yari, you react very quickly."

"That's right, the skinning master is the old master in his twilight years. The old master is the peeling master, one of the four great devils of the Black Rain Kingdom. The old master wants to peel people's skin to refine the elixir of life, but he doesn't want to be exposed. So there is such a false figure as the national teacher."

"Do you still remember the description of the national teacher in the story of the four great devils in the Black Rain Kingdom?" The national teacher claimed to be from the most mysterious kingdom of the undead in the desert. Heiyu Kingdom's national teacher', so it is not difficult to deduce that the Heiyu country's national teacher is the old lord of Heiyu country."

Yali was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he sincerely gave a thumbs up and said in admiration: "Why does Priest Jin'an know so many secrets about Heiyu Kingdom and Guchi Kingdom?"

Jin An stared at the abyss he was going to: "These are all I have been interrogating Amur one after another these days."

"Amur was deceived by the lord of the Black Rain Country, and after he was thrown into the desert sea, he was trapped in the desert and could not escape. He was resentful, and he was waiting for the opportunity of revenge, waiting for the lord of the Black Rain Country to be unwilling to continue. He waited for 100 years and 100 years in the desert basin to search for the kingdom of the undead, but he never waited for the ruler of the Black Rain Kingdom to enter the desert. He didn't know that the ruler of the Black Rain Kingdom was affected by the skinning technique, and his nature became more brutal and lost his mind , made the people miserable, plus the search for the kingdom of the undead led to the annihilation of the army, and under internal and external troubles, the Black Rain Kingdom disappeared in the desert within a few years."

This can also be explained.

Why is it that Amur is so much weaker than the Lord of Teng as a thousand-year-old corpse? His bones are trapped in the desert, and the sun burns every day. It is difficult to practice.

However, there was a little doubt, and Jin An didn't take the initiative to say it.

The desert is not peaceful recently, someone is spreading news about the Guchi Kingdom in the desert, and the most likely person who spread the news is the leader of the Heiyu Kingdom.

It seems that the other party is still unwilling to give up.

Still looking for clues to the kingdom of the undead.

If the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom has lived for so long and is still alive, does he not know that he is counting people now?Or is it dead?
"Daoist Jin'an...why did you suddenly say so much to me today?" After a while, Yali recovered from the shock in his heart and asked carefully looking at Jin'an's back.

Jin An said with a smile: "These are not too important things, anyway, you will know sooner or later."

Ari showed a grateful expression.

Although Jin'an didn't say it clearly, he knew very well that Daoist Jin'an really trusted them, and he also trusted Yueqiang Kingdom, so he knew everything about them.

Along the way, Yali has long regarded Jin'an as an omnipotent god-man like a desert god, as tall and majestic as Tianshan Mountain, which can only be seen from a distance, but unattainable.To gain the trust of Daoist Jin'an, he was extremely excited.

He felt his blood was boiling right now, and he immediately drew his sword and was willing to throw his head and blood for Daoist Jin'an.

……

The ship kept going.

Soon after, two bottle stones appeared in front of them.

The two bottle stones were carved from huge rock pillars, with lifelike female faces engraved on the surface. In this dark and deep cave, they really scared the people on board.

The stonemason's technique is exquisite, and it is really scary to carve.

Jin An recognized at a glance that the two bottle stones were carved with reference to the mold of the clay pot with human face.

And along the way, human face carvings began to appear frequently on the rock walls on both sides and the top of the cave. These human face carvings all have a characteristic, expressionless, cold and numb, watching them outsiders who are advancing along the water.

These evil and strange face carvings seem to be the guardians of the cemetery of the Guchi Kingdom. After advancing for a while, they began to see a large number of cliff holes.

There is a dead body in each cliff cave, covered with thick dust.

"Hmm, strange?" Looking at the rotting cave, Jin An let out a gasp in surprise.

"What's wrong with Daoist Jin'an?" Yali and Su Reti asked nervously at the same time.

Jin An pointed to the bones in the cliff cave, and said in amazement: "Looking at these bones, don't you find it strange?"

"The climate in the desert is dry, and there is a lack of rain and water all year round. The corpses of the dead buried in the corpse ridge should be dehydrated corpses. But look at the dead corpses in these cliff caves, all of which have rotted into dry bones, and none of them are mummies. "

"Maybe they were eaten by those corpses?" Su Reti spoke, and Yali translated.

Jin An shook his head in thought: "Corpse weeds like to grow in dark and humid places all year round. It is rare to see such a large group of breeding in arid places. I guess there should be an underground river in this mountain that has not yet dried up. It's no wonder there are many dead weeters."

In fact, there was still a word in his heart that he didn't say.

If there really is an underground river here, then those human-face painted pottery pots and human-faced bugs that flowed out would all make sense.

"Daoist Jin'an is really insightful, insightful and careful." Yali flattered him.

Jin'an was amused: "Yari, this is the first time I know that you will flatter people."

Yali flattered again cheekily: "It's all thanks to Daoist Jin'an. I don't know why, but I always feel very clear-headed when I'm with Daoist Jin'an, and I can learn everything quickly."

When Jin An heard this, he always felt that everything was wrong. Didn't this point at Sang and scold Huai, saying that he was flattering like him.

Jin An's face darkened.

How can this be said.

……

As we went deeper into Zangshi Ridge, the density of cliff caves became more and more dense, and we saw more and more corpses, but it was too peaceful, and we didn't encounter any danger along the way.

Jin'an originally thought that the Tibetan Corpse Ridge would be a mountain of evil virtue.

As a result, since entering the mountain, he hasn't even picked up a single Yinde.

What about the giant corpse with a human face the size of a camel?

This road to the cliff cave is very long, twisting and winding in the mountains. There are many bones of Guchi people buried in the cliff caves. After a rough calculation, they have seen no less than a thousand cliff caves along the way.

It can be seen that the scale here is huge.

But along the way, they only saw the cliff caves used to bury the bones of ordinary people, and they never saw the place used to bury the nobles of the royal family of Guchi, which shows that there is still a long way to go in the corpse hiding mountain.

Going around, rumbling!
Rumble!
In the originally quiet cave, there was a loud noise like galloping horses, and the sound echoed far in the claustrophobic cave.

"what sound?"

All the people in the boat looked forward in surprise, trying to see the source of the sound, but it was too dark ahead to see anything.

Only Jin An's expression changed: "It's a waterfall!"

Jin An was no stranger to the sound of underground waterfalls. Whether it was the tomb of the Dragon King in the Yinyi River or the tomb of the mountain god in the Yin Tomb of the Dojo, he always escaped from the underground river waterfall in the end.

So as long as he heard a little movement, he immediately recognized what it was.

"Su Reti, take a few people and go to the cabin to see if our camels, sheep, supplies and water are securely tied up!"

"Yari, tell everyone to go back to the boat tower, and tie ropes around their waists to fix it with the boat tower, so as not to cause chaos later and be thrown out of the boat!"

In fact, they could hear the sound of the waterfall, and they were already not far from the waterfall. It didn't take long for people, no matter how unresponsive, to notice that the boat was speeding up.

The closer you get, the more deafening the sound of the waterfall.

The cave was filled with steam.

The waterfall splashes countless water vapor.

Under the illumination of the torches, there was indeed a drop in front of their eyes, boom, and with the violent shock of the ship, the environment on the ship suddenly went dark, all the torches inserted on the side of the ship were shaken off, and the mountain was so dark that they couldn't reach out. Five fingers.

"Ah! I can't see anything!"

"Is everyone okay?"

"Jin'an Daoist, Jin'an Daoist..."

"I'm here, I'm fine."

In the chaos and noise, someone touched a torch and lit it, and then counted the number of people. Thanks to Jin An's warning in advance, there were not many people. Except for a few bruises, everyone was fine.

As more torches were lit, everyone began to look at the environment in front of them.

Suddenly there was a terrified scream, and a person paralyzed to the ground with the finger on his head.
This is a huge cave.

On the top of their heads, there are countless dead people with their faces cut upside down, their hands, feet and torso are tightly bound, and their bodies have not turned into mummies or signs of decay.

Especially the black face without nose and mouth after being cut off, it is indescribably creepy in such a gloomy environment.

And under these hanged dead people, there is an altar with a dead tree with a human face growing on it.

On the bare crown of the dead giant tree with human face, there are more than a dozen painted pottery pots with human face.

"Why are there so many dead people here!"

"These hanging corpses seem to be the corpses of women!"

An ordinary person would never experience this kind of battle in front of him. There was chaos on the boat, and there were all kinds of panic and frightened voices.

In the end, it was Yali and Su Reti who came forward at the same time to temporarily suppress the noise on the boat.

At this moment, Jin An came to the bow of the boat, held a torch in his hand, looked at the strange and huge cave in front of him, and frowned.

Because he felt a strong sense of resentment from those hanged people above his head. So many people who were skinned and tortured lead to a deep yin here, and they gather together for a long time, forming an artificial place for gathering yin. It is moistened by air, so it will not rot for a long time.

"What's the matter with Daoist Jin'an's tree? How can a tree grow a human face? Also, I don't know why the clay pots on the tree are so familiar to me, as if I've seen them somewhere ?”

After finally calming down the morale of the team, Yali and Su Reti came to Jin'an, and they also looked at the huge cave full of dead people with chills in their hearts.

"Because the carving techniques of the human faces on those pottery pots are the same as the carving techniques of the human faces on the stone vases and cliffs that we met on the road before." Jin An held a torch in his hand and glanced at the still shocked team, He asked Yali and Su Reti to bring up some corpses from the water with net ropes.

The movement of the ancient boat falling into the waterfall just now was a bit loud, and the water surged up very high, and many corpses fell down from the top of the cave.

It was also thanks to the huge momentum of the waterfall, but because the water surface widened and the current became faster, the drop of the waterfall itself was not high, and it did not cause much damage to the hull.

This old object and ancient ship looks like it will fall apart at any time, but it always helps them save the day.

The body was salvaged smoothly, and Jin An did not avoid suspicion in conducting the autopsy in public.

The autopsy process was very fast. When Jin An stood up again, Yali and Su Reti, who couldn't hold back their curiosity, hurriedly asked: "Is there anything weird about these women's corpses? Did the Taoist priest Jin'an find anything?" , why should they be dissected for autopsy?"

"That's right, I did make a lot of discoveries." Jin An nodded and said.

"The pottery pots on the tree are called painted pottery pots, and there is a kind of stink bug in the pots that eats the organ sacrifices of living people."

While looking at the environment around the cave calmly, he continued to explain: "According to the form of this cave, it should be a place for offering sacrifices to the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom. After the Guchi Kingdom peeled the faces of these living people, they hung them alive upside down on the top of the cave, offering them to the human face stinkbugs to eat, and by the way, let the face stinkbugs lay eggs in the living people, because I just now When several corpses were dissected, eggs were found in their bodies."

"You don't have to worry, Guchi Kingdom has been subjugated for thousands of years. These insect eggs are all dead without follow-up sacrifices. Don't be afraid of these corpses." Jin An comforted everyone when he saw that everyone was frightened.

"According to my speculation, this tree should also be an important part of the sacrificial ceremony of the Guchi Kingdom. The steps of the entire sacrificial ceremony should be like this—"

"The people of Guchi country first abducted and sold women or plundered women through war, and then peeled off their faces and suffered all kinds of pain. The more miserable they were in life, the greater the resentment after death, and the sacrificed human faces are more sinister and evil. The strongest..."

"After peeling off the skin, people at this time will utter the most painful screams and the most resentful curses when all thoughts are lost. When the living person's resentment is the most serious, he will hang the living person upside down on the top of the cave, dripping with resentment and blood. The altar, nourish this evil human-mask tree, and become the nutrient for the growth of the evil human-mask tree..."

"As the ceremony began, the human-faced stinkbug on the human-faced evil tree woke up, and penetrated into the human body through the mouth and nose holes after the face was cut, or ate the living person's internal organs or laid eggs in the living person's body... This is a In the process of the evil sacrifice, human life has become the least valuable sacrifice in this sacrificial ceremony, and this kind of evil sacrifice is held once a year in Guchi Kingdom!"

Jin An's mood became heavier as he spoke. His piercing gaze finally looked at the human-face painted pottery pot hanging on the human-faced evil tree on the altar: "Later, Guchi Kingdom perished and was buried under the vast yellow sand by a desert storm. This tree The evil human face tree lacked the nourishment of the blood of the living, and finally withered and died along with the eggs."

(End of this chapter)