Between mountains and seas

Chapter 118 The Sinner

The idea of ​​"climbing up to take a look" was probably only Shao Jingxing's idea, but when he said this, Huo Qing felt helpless -- anyway, he couldn't do without it for a while, so let's climb up and take a look.

So the two really climbed up.

The pillar is not very difficult to climb.Sea turtles—or tortoises, anyway, no matter what kind of turtle, the skin is not so smooth, and it is even more obvious after being magnified hundreds or thousands of times.It is reflected in this pillar that there is a gap here and a bulge there, so it is not afraid that there is no point of strength.

And there is Huo Qing.Although the skin of this giant turtle is hard, Huo Qing can find a gap to drive a nail in. Coupled with the safety rope of mountain spider silk or thin metal chain, Shao Jingxing is not afraid of falling off.On the other hand, he has to be careful where there are engravings in the lower half, for fear that if he steps on it, these puppets will rush up and beat him.

However, nothing happened that he feared.These puppets didn't react at all to their "disrespectful" act of climbing the pillar, which made Shao Jingxing even more sure that they were guarding the pillar so that no one would leave.

"Don't let people leave, does it prove that there are people here?" Shao Jingxing couldn't help talking to Huo Qing about his new ideas while crawling, "It won't be like building some emperor's tomb..." After repairing In order to prevent the organs from being leaked out, the craftsmen were buried alive.

Huo Qing carefully walked around an engraved text, feeling a little helpless: "Nuwa set up the foot to set up the four poles..." It's not to build the mausoleum for himself.

"Let me make an analogy." Shao Jingxing was still following his own brain hole, "Besides, the four poles and so on, according to the original records, it is because Nuwa mended the 'sky', and the ancients believed that the sky was like an egg. The shell is buckled on the ground, so I think that the broken claw feet are used to put four pillars to support the sky. But we have now known that these four claw feet are not used for "support", so they are used as "four pillars" Pole, what's the use?"

This is really a problem, to be honest Huo Qing hasn't thought about it yet.He couldn't help but also frowned—at first he thought about whether this was used for formation eyes, but now it seems that he didn't find any rune formations here—except for the four moving clay puppets, there It looks like a desert.

The two of them chatted one after another while climbing up.Shao Jingxing turned his head and glanced down: "Hey, we've climbed pretty high—hey, no, look up!"

They had climbed over the part where the inscription was written.Seen from below, this pillar is so high that it can't see the end at all, but now that they climbed over the part with the text, and looked up, they found that the pillar is not so endless.

"It turns out there is an end!" Shao Jingxing murmured, "Is this—is it a trick?" At the beginning, when he said to climb up to have a look, he was actually saying "As high as you can climb, look at the top Is there any text in the higher place", but I didn't expect it-this can really climb to the top!

"Yes, it's an illusion." Huo Qing looked down at the "words" below again, "Maybe it's a talisman..." Or some of them are words, and talisman arrays are interspersed in them, so that it can be seen from below. I feel that the height of this giant column is infinite.

Shao Jingxing sighed regretfully: "If I knew it earlier, I should have learned the talismans well!" Therefore, it is true what the ancients said, that the book will be used when it is used.

Huo Qing moved his lips, but then changed his words: "After you get back, you can learn from Xiaojiu."

"Ah?" Shao Jingxing suddenly had a bitter face, "Well, I just said it casually..." Talismans are too complicated, it's like learning another language, maybe it's a small language.He doesn't even like to learn English, he doesn't want to work hard...

However, seeing Huo Qing's gaze, Shao Jingxing bit the bullet and added, "I, I'll try to learn when I get back..." It would be great if Ji Xiaojiu couldn't.

Huo Qing looked away, and turned his head sideways to cover up the dimples on his cheeks: "Okay. You will be in charge of the spells when there are missions in the future."

Shao Jingxing continued to climb the pillars with his head down, hating himself for his quick talk.But after a few ten minutes he forgot about it, because they finally made it to the top.

The pillars became thicker and thicker as they went up, until finally Shao Jingxing and both of them were almost half-hanging and climbing.If it had been changed to the time when he was still a dandy, it would be absolutely impossible for Shao Jingxing to climb up.But even now, after he climbed to the top, he sat down immediately: "Oh my god..." Not only is he tired, but he is also tall...

Think about it, when this pillar climbed to the top, it was already dozens of stories high. If you were hanging on the outer wall of a tall building with dozens of floors, and there was no safety rope—well, if Huo Qing put safety nails on it, There is still a safety rope, but if Huo Qing——no, no, no, no matter what, he has already climbed up, don't think about those things.

On the top of the Aozu pillar, the outer edge is a platform with a width of three meters. Shao Jingxing sat on it and panted for a while before realizing that it should be the thickness of Aopi.If this is the case, then further inside are the muscles and bones of the giant turtle.So he climbed inside—then, he saw the abyss inside the leather shell, and a snow-white, thick bone pillar erected in the abyss.

"I, my god—" Shao Jingxing opened his mouth involuntarily, and let out another exclamation—he wanted to crawl inside before lying down, so as not to roll to the edge of the foot pillar, but it turned out that the inside was also It's empty, it's not the same as falling to death!

"It's been too long, the muscle tissue has rotted and dried up..." Huo Qing grabbed Shao Jingxing's clothes and looked behind, "Only the skin and bones are still there."

Shao Jingxing tremblingly climbed to the inner edge of the leather shell, carefully stretched his head to look down, and he let out a surprise after just one glance: "Huo Qing, look quickly!"

There are other things on those bone pillars!Looking down from here, you can clearly see that the one closest to them is a white bone, which is stuck to the bone pillar by something, hanging in the air like that.The upper part of the white bone looks like a human being, but from the waist down, it is a slender spine hanging down like a snake's tail. The total length is about four meters...

Although the muscles have basically disappeared, there are still some tendon-like things left, and a series of dark red rope-like bridges have been built between the leather shell and the bone pillars. Huo Qing tried it. It has been many years, but still retains a little toughness - at least it is no problem to bear the weight of two or three people.

Shao Jingxing followed Huo Qing tremblingly, and climbed from these tendon bridges to the bone pillars, almost urinating twice during the process.

But before he climbed up to the bone pillar, he didn't care about his fear, because the snake tail bones fixed on the bone pillar were not one or two, but dozens or hundreds of them, hanging on the bone pillar in random places, It extends all the way to the abyss—no, the part of the foot is gone.

"What is this—" Shao Jingxing leaned on the bone pillar, looked at the white bone next to him, and didn't know what to call it.Is this a human or a beast?

Shao Jingxing remembers that there are several creatures in the APP that have the characteristic of a snake tail, the most famous one is of course the beautiful snake!

Of course, this is most famous in Shao Jingxing’s impression. As for the APP, people first mentioned Fuxi and Nuwa. These brothers and sisters have human bodies and snake tails. Some murals depict the legend of Fuxi and Nuwa’s brother and sister getting married and multiplying human beings. , it is simply the image of two snake tails intertwined.

In addition, when it comes to alien beasts, there are also some.This kind of strange beast is called Wei Snake, by the way, it is the "Wui Snake" in "Xu and Wei Snake".This thing is recorded in "Zhuangzi", it is said that it is as big as a hub, as long as a shaft, with purple clothes and a red crown.It is a special thing, and when it hears the sound of thunder and chariots, it holds its head and stands, and those who see it are almost domineering.

It means that this snake is a kind of boa constrictor, but people still wear clothes and hats——Ji Xiaojiu explained: It should be that this thing often loses its skin, and some people regard the half-faded purple snake skin as purple clothes , and the red meat crown growing on the top of the head is regarded as Zhuguan. This is because the upper body of this thing looks like a person, so people who see it will subconsciously think that this thing is wearing clothes.

As for "Hearing the sound of thunder and chariot, hold its head and stand", it is a typical movement of snakes to stand up when they are alarmed.As for why no one sees the snake that hasn't shed its skin, Ji Xiaojiu put it more simply: the snake only comes out when its skin is about to fade, and after the skin is peeled off, people go back to the swamp to play, of course they can't see it. arrive.The so-called "there are mountains, there are hesitation in the wild, and there are snakes in the marsh", it has already explained that the range of activities of people is in the swamp, and they generally don't like to come out.

Huo Qing was on the other side of the bone, and a spider silk rope was connected between them. The central part of the spider silk rope passed through a gap in the bone column, serving as a safety rope.He took a closer look at the head of the bone, and first ruled out the option of being a snake: "There is no meat crown."

It is said to be a "meat" crown, but there is always a piece of cartilage to support it, otherwise it would not be able to stand up with the flesh alone.This cartilage, since it existed, would leave a little mark on the skull.But now it seems that the head of the white bone is exactly the same as the human skull, and there is no trace of cartilage, so it is not a snake.

"Could it be Fuxi or Nuwa?" Shao Jingxing knew he was stupid as soon as he said this, "I mean, their clansman?" Oh, that's not right either, why did Nuwa leave her clansman here for nothing?And seeing that these bones are obviously imprisoned here, although there is no chain, the five points used to fix them are the neck, waist, hands and tail. This is simply the posture of Jesus being crucified.

Nuwa killed her own people?It is impossible to think about it.

Huo Qing pondered for a while: "Go and see the other bones."

"Do you have an idea?" Although Huo Qing's face was always paralyzed, Shao Jingxing knew a lot about him now, and he quickly discovered the clue.

"We'll have to see it to find out."

"Tell me first." Shao Jingxing climbed down anxiously, while trying to rub Huo Qing, "Tell me, Ah Qing—at least tell me what evidence you want to find." Hey, hasn't he already confessed his love? Did you make it?Why is Huo Qing still acting like a businessman?They're on their honeymoon—well, cross that word out—on an adventure.

Huo Qing held him helplessly: "Be careful, don't fall!" He was trembling when he crawled over just now, as if he was going to cry at any moment, but now he's not afraid anymore?Forget it, tell him.

"The Gonggong clan is also a snake tail."

"Gonggong——" Shao Jingxing slapped the bone pillar, "That's right!" Ji Xiaojiu told him that the Gonggong family has the "human face, snake body, and red hair", and this family is most likely to develop water abilities—OK Well, this is useless now, because it is impossible to tell what kind of power it is from the bones, but if you can find a few "red hairs", wouldn't it be all right?

However, the heads of these bones have long been bare.Because the inside of the feet is too open, there is wind, so even if the hair is not so perishable, it will be blown away by the wind.They didn't even find any hair on more than a dozen corpses, Shao Jingxing couldn't help complaining: "Could they be all bald!"

Huo Qing was hanging in the air, almost laughed out of his teasing, his feet slipped, and he almost fell: "Don't talk nonsense." Just kidding at such a high place...

Shao Jingxing was also taken aback, and quickly shut up.However, he searched a few more corpses, and he became a little impatient: "When will this be found..." As for the hundreds of corpses, if they didn't find any hair, would they have to climb down again?To be honest, it's better when climbing up, but climbing down is a bit of a test of courage.Moreover, this bone pillar is much more difficult to climb than the surface of the claw foot, especially the position in the middle of each bone, where there is no hand to support the foot or step on it, it is really difficult to get off.

"You wait here for me." Huo Qing looked at him clumsily, but actually his heart was also trembling - it would be fine if he fell!Might as well wait on it so he doesn't worry.Of course, when you go back, you must draw up a training plan. Fighting and climbing must be included in the schedule.

But Huo Qing had only crawled down for a while, when Shao Jingxing shouted from above: "Hair, hair! Ah Qing, I found it!"

Found it?Huo Qing looked up, only to see Shao Jingxing pointing at a place, and was still trying to crawl over.

When Huo Qing saw where he pointed, he immediately understood, and couldn't help but whispered in his heart: "Smart."

The place Shao Jingxing pointed to was one of the remaining tendon bridges.

Before being completely disassembled and air-dried, these bridges were once flesh and blood tissue, and the surface was of course wet, able to stick to something, naturally including hair.

Of course, in fact, Shao Jingxing only found a hair, probably because this tendon is relatively short and thick, with a relatively large cross-sectional area, and it keeps moist for a long time, or no matter what the reason is, anyway, it is in its tight tissue , with a long hair embedded in it, about 50 centimeters in length, and the color is already a little gray, but after careful identification, it can be seen that its original color is reddish.

Human head, snake body, red hair.

"So, this must be a member of the Gonggong tribe?" Shao Jingxing looked at the corpses, and suddenly felt a little nervous, "Is this——because Gonggong knocked down Mount Buzhou?"

"It's punishment." Huo Qing sat with him at the joint between the two bones, forming a narrow platform just enough for the two of them to squeeze together, "No wonder the puppet outside..." That was a precaution The clan members of the Gonggong clan fled.The words inscribed on the outside of the Aozuzhu may be about this content.

Shao Jingxing scratched his head, a little hairy: "But Gonggong knocked down Buzhoushan, so he will give his whole family..." Even sitting?

"It's just adults." Huo Qing pointed to the bones, "At least I haven't seen children yet."

Indeed, these bones are all about four meters in length, and their basic body shapes are about the same. They are obviously all adults of the Gonggong tribe.

"Also, do you think that Gonggong was the only one who knocked down Mount Buzhou?" Huo Qing shook his head, "At that time, there were many people who wanted to open the barrier, led by the Gonggong clan."

"But why are they killed here?" Shao Jingxing was still puzzled, "If you want to judge crimes, shouldn't you be executed in public?" Not to mention exposing corpses and hanging their heads or something, put all the corpses on this foot Pillar why?

And there is another question, did the foot pillar be hollowed out first, and then people were tied to it and killed?With such a big claw foot, let alone how to empty out the meat inside, digging out the meat and then tying people up is too troublesome, right?What is Nu Wa doing all this effort?Nailing these people directly on the outer shell of the Aozu Zhu, wouldn't the effect be the same?

"There must be something different..." Huo Qing murmured.Just like what Shao Jingxing said, if all this is meaningless, is it because Nuwa is full?Thinking about the catastrophe in the world at that time, it was too late for Nuwa to rescue the disaster, so she still wanted to do these tricks?So there must be something special about that.

Huo Qing's first thought was to sacrifice.

"Use the blood of these sinners to make sacrifices and activate certain talisman formations. Maybe it's possible to 'repair the sky', just rely on such power."

But it's a pity that such a talisman array is generally a secret that is not passed on, and Huo Qing is not a talisman school, so he really can't tell what kind of talisman array it is.However, he could tell that the arrangement of these bones was in a certain order, not randomly.Otherwise, why bother to fix them in batches, wouldn't it be over if they were all tied up and thrown away?

And if it is a talisman, then they have another stupid way...

"Write down all the distribution of these bones?" Shao Jingxing's eyes were straightened, "Should we still climb down?" He wanted to die.

Huo Qing hesitated for a moment: "Let me come. Are you hungry? Eat something here first." Fortunately, the backpack is still there, and there are grilled fish, grilled shrimp, grilled shellfish and so on. eat.

"Of course everyone came together..." Shao Jingxing wept.He just confessed his love to Huo Qing, and then let his boyfriend climb up and down here by himself, and he sat beside him eating snacks?

So, the two of them ate two pieces of grilled fish - each piece was broken into two by Shao Jingxing, and each of them got half - then got up, and climbed down along the bone pillar...