We couldn't bear to think too much. The water flow had already rushed the bamboo raft to the beast gate in the cave. The natural stone beads hanging in the air were extremely low, only half a meter high from the river surface. They just stopped us. We quickly bent down and hurriedly attached to the bamboo raft to avoid the stone beads in the middle.

Just as the bamboo raft was about to float inside, the strong light searchlight set at the front of the bamboo raft flashed twice, and it could no longer light up. Perhaps because the water flow accelerated and it was not turned off. It was used continuously for too long and the electricity in the battery ran out of power.

I thought to myself, "Oh no, I just ran out of the battery at this time. The cave in front seemed very strange. I was careless here. I had to change the battery first, so I would not fall into the stone and capsize after entering."

I raised my fists to the fat man and Shirley Yang behind me and made a stop gesture, asking them to help me park the bamboo raft at the entrance of the cave, and then inserted the bamboo pole in my hand into the water as a brake, and stopped the bamboo raft. Fortunately, the water flows slowly here, otherwise just one bamboo pole would not be able to hold on to the weight of the entire bamboo raft.

Since we cannot obtain any additional supplies in our subsequent actions, the battery, such energy consumption, must be retained to the greatest extent possible. However, the stone figures in this cave seem to have some connection with the "King of King Xian". It is necessary to investigate carefully to see if we can obtain some clues about the main tomb of the "King of King Xian". After all, we still have too little information about the main tomb.

I replaced the battery of the strong searchlight and made it light up again. Under the light column of orange-yellow light of the searchlight, I saw the natural beast head formed by the melting rock, like a strange-shaped cathode, but after the dissolution of the limestone for thousands of years, its shape has become blurred, and it is impossible to see whether there have been traces of human processing.

The fat man patted my shoulder from behind, indicating that they had removed the balance rod, so I also pulled out the bamboo pole at the front from the water, and the bamboo raft followed the water flow and drove into the cave from the mouth of such a strange and ugly dragon.

This section of the river is very narrow, but very deep, straight forward and the distance is very long. After we entered, we poked the stones on the wall of the cave with bamboo poles to slow down the speed of the bamboo raft. We carefully observed the stone figures hanging upside down in the cave on our heads and feet.

These stone figurines all carried their hands behind their backs and posed in a tied posture. Due to the damp and cold underground environment, the surface of the stone figurines had gray-brown, and their facial features were completely blurred, as if they were covered with a layer of "burning" (a moldy substance produced by rocks in special environments, which is non-toxic).

From the appearance, the appearance of the man and woman of the human stone figures is basically impossible to tell. Judging from the figure only, they are tall and short, and fat and thin. It seems that in addition to the middle-aged people, there are also some young people who have not yet grown up. They are not according to the standard and are completely different from the figurines buried in the Qin and Han dynasties. They are all sergeants and hundreds of opera figurines.

On the top of the cave, there are colorful copper chains with green traces, hanging these stone man servants on both sides. Some of them have fallen off, and some are empty. Perhaps over the years, the stone man figurines have fallen into the water. The stone figurines are like hanged ghosts, hanging less than a foot from the water. How can they not be shocked when they suddenly see these guys in this dark and dark cave?

Shirley Yang asked us to stop the bamboo raft first. Next to the waterway, there was a stone figure that fell off the copper chain and fell on the ground. Shirley Yang pointed to the stone figure and said, "Although these stone figures are blurry in appearance, they look a little from the outline of the hair, and I think something is wrong, so I will go down and take a look." As he said that, he adjusted the aperture of his headlight on the mountaineering helmet to make the light more concentrated, so he jumped off the bamboo raft and squatted down to see the stone figure on the ground.

I reminded Shirley Yang: "Wear gloves and be careful that there are bacteria on it and are infected by bacteria. Even if you have ten thousand artificial respirations, there will be no help."

Shirley Yang waved his hand and told me and the fat man not to distract her. She seemed to have found something on the stone figurine. She immediately put on rubber gloves and scraped it twice with a paratrooper knife. Then she turned the paratrooper knife to look in front of her eyes, sniffed it gently with her nose, turned her head to us and said, "This human figure does not seem to be made of stone."

The fat man said wonderingly: "It's not a stone? Then can't it be made of mud?"

I thought of a scene on the road beside the "Lancang River" and sat on a bamboo raft and said to Shirley Yang: "Why are the living people doing it? Use a knife to cut a part of it and see what is inside the human figurine. The human skin map records it very clearly. There are several burial pits near the tomb of King Xian, but there is no specific location. Maybe this Longkou Cave is one of the burial pits."

Shirley Yang used a paratrooper knife to cut off a small piece of the human figurine's legs. As expected, the skin of the human figurine was tough, but there was only a thin shell, and the inside was full of rotten dead maggots. When Shirley Yang saw the dry maggots, he couldn't help but frown, and used the paratrooper knife to pierce two holes in the human figurine's chest. The same was true inside, full of dead maggots and insect eggs.

Shirley Yang said to me and the fat man: "It seems that it is not a burial pit, but it is certain that these figurines are made of living people, and they must be related to King Xian. This should be the ancient and evil and notorious art of King Xian during the period of King Xian.

Apart from more than a hundred human figurines and chains, there are all rugged and shaped rocks in the cave, and no extras are found. So Shirley Yang returned to the bamboo raft and we continued to move slowly along the river in the cave.

While controlling the bamboo raft, I asked Shirley Yang where could I see that these figurines were made of living people? How could I be sure that they were related to King Xian’s art?

On the way to Yunnan, in order to obtain more information, Shirley Yang worked hard. Before leaving, he searched all the historical information he could find in Beijing, and kept reading it all the way, hoping to increase the confidence of the King's Tomb. A European scholar once said that under each tombstone is a novel, and some important historical tombs of historical figures contain a large amount of historical information at that time. The tomb of the King can be said to be a crystallization complex of social, economic, cultural, religious and other aspects at that time. The more you know about these historical materials, the more you can get into the fight. Therefore, the most outstanding tomb robbers in history are all, without exception, and they are all people who are well-versed in the past.

"King Xian" has many positions in Chinese history, but it was not in the same era. Except for King Xian of Dian Kingdom, the other Kings of Xian were not in Yunnan. Even the peasant uprising army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a title of King Xian after the founding of the Kingdom of Tianjing. During the Warring States Period and the Five Dynasties, they all had the title of King Xian. Just like the title of Zhongshan in history, it also appeared separately in history as the country name and the king number. Those Kings of Xian were just the meaning of the word "Xian", and it was not that these Kings of Xian had any connection with each other.

The goal we are preparing to start is that King Xian is a generation of witch kings in the ancient Dian period. His "sorry" uses the dead's souls as a medium. Moreover, the more numerous unjust souls, the greater the power of this "sorry". The process and means of using the dead to make "sorry" are very numerous. The living figurines in the cave, from the strange way of death and the degree of change, are consistent with King Xian's methods. This shows that this should be a secret place to exercise "sorry" in ancient times.

Shirley Yang judged that this river that passed through the mountains should have been built when King Xian built the tomb, and used the originally naturally formed melting hole. In addition, manpower repaired and unblocked the river to transport materials for the construction of the tomb. From here, water transportation should be the most appropriate shortcut.

The dead people in the cave who were made into human figurines are likely to be slaves and craftsmen who built the royal tombs. In order to keep the secret of the "King Xian tomb", these people were bound by the loyal subordinates of the "King Xian" according to the "Take of the King" according to the "Take of the King", and forced to swallow a "Take" and seal the seven orifices of the human body, and then hang them in the cave with a large chain, suffocating them to death. On the one hand, they can keep the secrets in the tombs, and on the other hand, they can use them to scare away the outsiders who fell into it in this secret waterway.

The so-called "sucking" is a pill necessary for a certain "sucking" that will parasitize in the body after being swallowed by a living person. It only takes about three to five days. The more eggs are laid, the more and more eggs are laid, and the flesh and internal organs in the human body become nutrients of larvae and are replaced by filling them. Since the water is quickly lost in a short period of time, the human skin will quickly dry up, as hard as a bark stone shell. In the shell formed by the human corpse, when the worm eggs suck all the juice and bone marrow in the human body, a vacuum environment will be formed. The worm eggs will not turn into larvae without air, and will always remain hibernating. In a cool environment, it can last for more than a thousand years. So until today, when the human skin is cut, countless "sucking" larvae like fat maggots may appear immediately. However, depending on the degree of preservation, it is also possible that there are already dry insect eggs inside.

Since "arthritis" is rarely recorded in various classics, including unofficial history, Shirley Yang has only found this information these days. As for the purpose of treating living people as insect pupas, what are the uses of insects like fat maggots in the human skin, there is no way to know.

Not only are there a large number of human figurines in Zhalong Mountain, but there should be several nearby mountainous areas. The human figurine we encountered on the cliff road by the river was washed away by the rain, causing the mountains to fall and fall on the road. Although the rule of King Xian was only a corner of the southern border, from these large numbers of slaves who were made into human figurines, we could see the cruelty and ruthlessness of the western Yunnan region under the rule of King Xian in ancient times.

After listening to Shirley Yang's analysis, the fat man and I felt a layer of goose bumps on our bodies. At first, we thought it was a statue of Nitao like Terracotta Warriors, but it turned out to be made by a real person. We couldn't help but look back and look at the figures of hanged ghosts had already disappeared in the dark cave behind us and could never be seen again.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt too cruel, and I couldn't help but curse: "These ancient princes really don't treat people as human beings. In the eyes of the nobles, those slaves were even worse than animals like cattle and horses. Fatty people were like you. If they were slaves, they would definitely be able to make a sacrifice in ancient times, and each one was worth three."

The fat man in the middle of the bamboo raft was fiddling with the spotlights that were turned off on his helmet. After slapping it twice, he finally returned to normal. When I heard me talk about him, he said to me: "Go to your uncle's old Hu, your words fully exposed your true face of ignorance. As far as I know, in ancient times, people were proud of being selected as a burialist or a sacrifice. It was a supreme honor. The selection of the burialist was extremely strict. We had to check the three generations of ancestors. There was no problem with the political face. Many people could not queue up for blood letters. It was the most suitable for you to pretend to be active. At that time, you must be vigorous and shouted, "Take me to sacrifice to the sky. I'm the most suitable for lighting the sky lanterns, let the people of the motherland wait for my good news. For victory, light the lamp..."

I was furious when I heard this. The fat grandson was too immoral: "I am not as fat as you, how could I be suitable for lighting the sky lanterns? You..."

Shirley Yang interrupted the fat man and me: "Are you two finished? Why did you stumble again as you said? Have you noticed something wrong? This waterway is not as described by the owner of Caiyun Inn…"

The fat man said, "The boss lady has never come in in person. Didn't she also listen to the workers who are picking stones? There is inevitably some error. We don't need to be suspicious."

I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty, "It's not necessarily the boss's wife who said it was wrong. The water flow was very fast in a section of the river we passed before. It might be related to the heavy rainfall in the past few days. The section of the river with rapid water flow was very wide. Maybe it connected the two channels together. We only care about grasping the balance of bamboo rafts. The angle of the light beam of the strong searchlight is very small, and there are limitations in the field of view. It is possible that we have entered a fork in the road."

The fat man said anxiously: "That's a problem. Why not turn around and look for a way. Don't follow the last time we were in a spider's nest and got into the maze. In the end, we couldn't get out. We didn't bring too much dry food."

I said to the fat man: "If it is really just a fork in the river, don't worry. These water flows in one direction and will eventually pass through Zhalong Mountain and flow into the valley of the Snake River, so there will definitely be no problem of getting lost. Moreover, this river is very straight, obviously processed by hand. Just as Shirley Yang said, it may be the transportation waterway for transporting materials when building the King's Tomb. From here, it is definitely correct."

Shirley Yang said: "Old Hu is right. In ancient times, when large tombs were built, rivers would be used to transport stones. When the craftsmen built Qin Mausoleum would sing: Take the stones and the spring mouths, saying that water is not flowing. From these two short sentences, you can imagine the huge size of the Mausoleum of the Shihuang that year, because of the transportation of stones, the water was blocked."

The fat man said, "We saw the river last time we went to Shaanxi. Compared to that big river, there is at most a sewer. Compared to Qin Shihuang, King Xian is probably a poor man with a small family. If we go to throw his fight, it will be considered as a face for him... Oh...why?"
Chapter completed!