Yao, in ancient times, was the same as "Yao", which means high mountain. The so-called Yao people cannot be called a nation or tribe. They should be a community in the mountainous areas where primitive society lived. With the development of society, the Yao people gradually merged with the communities in the plains.
, the Yao tribe in the true sense no longer exists. The ethnic group where the mysterious man belongs is the only place that still calls itself the Yao tribe.
Since childhood, Mysterious, like many children of the same age in the tribe, wanted to get a hunting knife of his own, but he even wanted to pass through the canyon in front of the village, cross a high mountain, and maybe even have a lush oak forest.
No one knows his name so far, only one person calls him "Shantai". Shantai heard his elders talk about the prosperity of Dali, and heard his father describe the majesty of the Jinsha River. His father also told him that people outside are sinister. His mother always said
She held a piece of potato and put it to his mouth, urging him to find a good girl and have a baby as soon as possible.
He sat on the bamboo building, watching the afterglow, worried that he would be like those uncles carrying hatchets. Day after day, the young man looked forward to the turning point of fate.
One calm morning, when he was about to collect firewood with his father, he saw a strange man in strange clothes, with a short stature and an exquisite scimitar hanging from his waist.
Because there were very few outsiders in the village, my father looked at this man a few more times, stepped forward and asked, "Who are you?"
But the man was hesitant and confused. The father shook his head and continued walking up the mountain.
The young man was attracted by the long knife on his waist and refused to leave, but his father dragged him forward. The man suddenly shouted: "I want to find the patriarch!"
The father looked at the strange man in confusion, then turned back. He didn't know what they talked about. The man looked a little depressed. Seeing his father turning back again, the boy was secretly happy, so he told his father that he wanted to go home to get something, and his father ordered
He nodded and went up the mountain first.
The young man walked up to the 'weirdo', smiled and said to him: 'You want to find the patriarch, right? I will take you there.' After saying that, he looked at the long knife on the man's waist with hope.
The man laughed loudly after hearing this, touched the young man's head, took off the long knife and handed it to him. The young man was filled with joy and led the man to the patriarch. The patriarch was surprised when he saw the man and waved his hand to let him
Back off.
The young man was playing with the long knife, not interested in chopping firewood. Seeing the slender blade and sharp blade, it actually split his bamboo stool in half.
At dusk, the young man kept wiping the sharp long knife with the corner of his clothes. When his father came back, he saw his son playing with the handle of the knife. Before the young man could react, he picked up the fat and beat him.
The young man hid in the corner and looked helplessly at his father, but suddenly he heard the sound of a gong, which was a signal for the Yao people to discuss urgent matters. His father turned around, cursed and ran out.
The young man followed his father and ran out of the house. The tribe surrounded the center of the village, with the patriarch and the weirdo standing in the middle. The young man couldn't help but wonder, the patriarch's position in the tribe was unshakable, and no one could do anything during the discussion.
Dare to be on an equal footing with the clan leader, I wonder what this weirdo is capable of.
The clan leader waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, pointed at the weirdo beside him, and said loudly to everyone: "This is a warrior from Japan. He wants to practice Gu magic here. Starting tomorrow, each family will send one person to help this distant warrior."
The warriors who come here practice.”
The clan members were puzzled after hearing this. They had never heard of Japan or warriors, but they had to obey the clan leader's orders.
The young man admired the warrior so much that he went to the patriarch's house early the next morning without his father's permission. The warrior always greeted him with a smile and looked very friendly.
When the clan leader saw that the people had almost arrived, he lay down and whispered in the warrior's ear for a while. The warrior nodded, and then the clan leader said to everyone: "The warrior wants you to configure the 'Five Poison Transformation'."
After everyone listened
He shook his head for a while, and realized that the Five Poison Transformation is a long-lost Gu technique. Legend has it that it can resurrect the dead, which is extremely vicious.
Not to mention that there are no people who can configure it, even if they do, they don't have that much energy. However, the only person in the clan who can configure the Five Poison Transformations was not present, that is, the young man's father.
The young man scratched his head and said to the patriarch: "As long as someone is willing to help me, I can!"
The clan leader nodded happily after hearing this, and the warrior also raised his lips slightly.
A few days passed. The young man's father didn't know what his son was doing every day, walking in and out of the house. Finally, he lost his temper and followed his son to the patriarch's house. When he saw a crowd of people waiting around his son, the father sniffed it with his nose.
, but heard a young voice in the crowd shout: "Haha, it worked!"
The father was stunned on the spot. He had smelled out the strange poison floating in the air - Five Poison Changes. The color of his face changed. He walked out of the patriarch's house when he mentioned his son.
The boy didn't understand why his father couldn't see his results. He just beat and scolded him, saying that he was in trouble.
That night, he and his father were upset and did not go home. They took the long knife and withered in the oak forest all night. When they woke up in the morning, their stomachs were pounding.
When they returned to the village, they were devastated. The mother was throwing down a child of the clan and biting her body. The clan leader staggered out of the house, only to be thrown to the ground by the crazy warrior. What he saw was...
It's not something an eleven or twelve-year-old child can bear.
After the warrior knocked down the clan leader, he rushed towards him with red eyes. He subconsciously pulled out the long knife, swung it in a round motion and slashed it on the warrior's neck. There was no blood, but his head flew far away.
He couldn't believe that what he saw was real, and he didn't dare to look at what was really happening before him. He only knew that he was the one who caused the trouble. He wanted to make amends and save his people, but now he could only run away.
He didn't know how far he ran, passed through the canyon, crossed a large mountain, an oak forest, and many villages. When he arrived in Dali, he passed out on the roadside.
He was rescued by a traveling shaman, but the young man was very stubborn and insisted on going back to see the village and his own people. He believed that he could undo the Five Poisons that he had randomly configured.
The priest saw that he had a stubborn temper and liked him very much, so he accepted him as his disciple. The young man studied with the priest for a few years, and his mind was somewhat stable, but he still felt guilty. He secretly prepared a medicinal poison that he thought could save the people, and traveled through the mountains and valleys with his junior brother.
After returning to the Yao tribe, the mysterious man saw the tribe members lying heavily on the ground, shouting excitedly, and wanted to use the medicinal poison he prepared to detoxify the tribe members.
But the junior brother next to him frowned, looking at the corpses lying on the ground. I don't know how old they were. These corpses were exposed but had not rotted. There was no telling when they would explode and hurt people. He looked at the crazy senior brother in the distance.
, I don’t know if I should stop it.
Sure enough, when the mysterious man was about to walk into a corpse, the corpse suddenly bounced up after receiving the breath of the stranger. The mysterious man did not expect that he was bitten by the walking corpse, but he was too numb to react.
, other corpses also got up one after another and rushed towards the mysterious man.
However, the mysterious man stayed there at this moment, looking at the familiar faces, full of hope, and dripped the poison on the head of the walking corpse. However, it did not have the effect he imagined, and more actions
The corpses rushed toward him one after another. The mysterious man collapsed on the ground, allowing the zombies to bite him.
When the junior brother saw this scene, he hurriedly pulled out his long sword and took the heads of the walking corpses. The heads flew into the air one after another, and the headsless bodies also fell to the ground. The mysterious man stared at the junior brother blankly and roared.
He threw the man down and bit his sword-holding right hand fiercely.
The junior brother did not struggle, but looked at the crazy senior brother and shed a line of pure tears.
From then on, the mysterious man drank and fought all day long, and later died
Si was so angry that he kicked him out of the school. However, he had no children and always regarded the mysterious man as his own son. Seeing the mysterious man degenerating all day long, he also got caught in a fire and fell on the bed.
The reason why Si Weiqi knew all this was because of the mysterious man's junior brother. It turned out that in order to investigate shamanism, Yu Ling sent a capable young man to work as an undercover agent, and successfully gained the trust of the priest and accepted him as his apprentice. God's will played a trick on people, and from then on.
I never thought that such a heinous person would have suffered so much in childhood. After Si Weiqi finished speaking, she shook her head and sighed softly.
"Sister Qi, what happened next?"
"Shamanism withdrew from the stage of history, but Shantai escaped. He later set up his own business, using the Blood Worship Cult, a branch of shamanism, as a banner, and attracted a group of followers, hiding in the mountains of western Zhejiang, although there was no climate.
, but we have been paying attention to him over the years."
"But this doesn't mean anything. His background is at best related to shamans. What does it have to do with 'Shadow'?"
"Maybe the 'shadow' you called him promised him some benefits. More than thirty years ago, the mysterious man began to use Yelang Town as a base to carry out criminal activities. The only thing he wanted was eternal life. As for this,
The essential."
I nodded, "So, he further controlled the Zhao family and his son and helped him do some shameful things."
The cold weather after the snow made my heart chill, and I couldn't help but shiver. After looking at it, Si Weiqi took off her robe and put it on me. She looked at the map again and nodded.
The wolves are still spying on us from a distance, and the cold wind cannot stop their desire for survival.
"Have we come to the end?" I asked Si Weiqi, looking at the deep valley in front of me.
Si Weiqi shook her head: "According to the instructions on the map, there should be an iron chain here, but..."
After listening to this, I looked around. Except for the white snow on the ground, there were only a few dead old trees left. There were no chains. I couldn't see clearly what was on the other side of the deep valley, but there seemed to be black shadows passing through it.
A shadow darker than the night.
I was beating a drum in my heart when I saw Si Weiqi rubbing her feet against the snow on the ground nearby. I also moved over and helped Si Weiqi clear the snow. After a large area of ​​snow was cleared away, the frozen ice surface was revealed.
.
Although winter has just entered at the foot of the mountain, the Changbai Mountain is frozen all year round, so it is not unusual to see ice. However, the next scene stunned me. I could vaguely see a dim light through the thick ice.
I looked at the sky. I don’t know when the waning moon was obscured by black clouds. Obviously this light could not be reflected by the moonlight. I held Si Weiqi’s clothes tightly and saw that her expression was solemn, as if she was not interested in the ice.
There is no scruple about the light.
Si Weiqi looked at the stars of light under the ice and said: "If there is firelight in the three-foot ice, it is a 'yellow spring lantern'. Under the ice, there are mostly boys holding a light in one hand. Most of the victims are buried in the mausoleum. There are also some
In extremely cold areas, in order to prevent strangers from getting lost, these lamps are buried, but most of them are held by cows and horses. I don’t know how to use a boy to hold the lamp. Is it possible that there is a mausoleum under my feet?"
I swallowed. Although I knew that with Si Weiqi, nothing could go wrong here, but across the deep valley was the "Ghost Pond" where evil beasts were infested in his words. It seemed that this place couldn't be clean either.
"This is the Yellow Spring Lantern? Who buried this thing on this mountain and what should it do?" I asked Si Weiqi doubtfully.
After hearing this, Si Weiqi shook her head and said to me: "The ghost cave in front of me was a confusion set up by Sima Yizhao to prevent idlers from entering. This place can also be regarded as the location of Sima Yizhao's mausoleum, although this tomb is not comparable.
Emperors, generals and ministers, but it can also be regarded as the Xiongling Tomb."
Chapter completed!