Chapter 27 Stone Terrace
"President Zhang, come and take a look at these..." Just as Zhang Guozhong thanked Liu, Qin Ge slipped to the stone platform not far away and began to carefully examine the stone platform.
"Huh? What?" Although Zhang Guozhong also saw these strange stone platforms when he came up, he was not interested in archaeology, especially such unclean monuments, so he didn't pay attention. He saw Qin Ge half-squatting on the edge of the stone platform and rubbing and smelling it, and he couldn't help but feel a little curious.
"I suspect... this is a stone bed..." Qin Ge stretched out his finger and crushed it hard on the stone platform, and then began to smell his fingers with his nose, "And, it seems to be some kind of torture instrument."
"Torture instrument?" Zhang Guozhong came to the edge of the stone platform and found that these stone platforms were indeed a bit strange: the entire stone platform was in a trapezoidal shape, narrow and wide on the left. There were sunkens on both ends of the stone platform, and there was only one sunken on the narrow end on the left, but it was relatively large. Although there were two sunkens on the right, they were both small. There were several metal buckles embedded in the stone platform below both sides of the stone platform. Judging from the length of the stone platform, if an adult lies on the stone platform to the left, then the larger sunken on the left side of the stone platform was just right.
The two smaller depressions can be used to place feet. If a person needs to tie it to the stone platform, the metal buckles on both sides can be used to fix the rope. "It seems... it is indeed for tie it to people..." Zhang Guozhong came to the right side of the stone platform and reached out to compare the distance between the two depressions. He couldn't help but frown. It turned out that there was at least one meter five meters away between the depressions at the two ends of the stone platform. In other words, if a person really put his feet in these two depressions, he had to chop his legs, and the amplitude was quite large.
"This..." Zhang Guozhong was thinking in his mind, "Mr. Qin, did you say this thing suffer from that punishment..."
"Which punishment?" Qin Ge also came to Zhang Guozhong's position and gestured with his hand to the distance between the two depressions, "Zheng Zhang, do you mean castration...!?"
"Hey...? I think..." Zhang Guozhong cheated, "Mr. Qin, I think this platform is probably for binding people. If you really lie on this position and you have to tie your whole body tightly. If you don't cut that game, what else can you do?"
"It's unlikely..." Qin Ge pondered for a moment and began to carefully examine the details of the stone platform. "This place is thousands of miles away from Xianyang, how could it be possible to bring such irrelevant things like purging yourself here...?"
"President Zhang... look here..." As he said halfway, Qin Ge seemed to have discovered a secret from this stone platform again. Under the flashlight, Qin Ge saw a small hole in the lower center of the stone bed. The size of a beer bottle cap seemed to be sealed with mud stains just now, so it was not discovered until now.
"This..." Zhang Guozhong was stunned and subconsciously squatted down and lowered his gaze to a height parallel to the stone platform. "As expected..." Zhang Guozhong nodded slightly. It turned out that the stone platform was actually in the shape of a "funnel", and the middle of the four outer highs was slightly lower. The small hole that Qin Ge found happened to be at the lowest point of the entire "funnel". If torture was really performed on this platform, the blood of the tortured person would flow into the small hole along the funnel.
"It seems that this is for blood discharge..." Zhang Guozhong couldn't help feeling uncomfortable all over his body. He was just a crime even if it was an enemy. Isn't it over to behead his head? Why do you have to study such an inexplicable and cruel method? "...Cat first and then kill? Mr. Qin, was there such a fine line in ancient times?"
"I think... this should be part of the sacrificial ritual..." Qin Ge seemed serious at this moment, and from time to time he put the dry things in the small hole in front of his nose and smelled it, making Zhang Guozhong suck his teeth. "Mr. Qin, I have studied the sacrificial rituals of most metaphysical sects since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and I have never heard of the need to cut that thing..." To be honest, so far, Zhang Guozhong still believes that this kind of stone platform is for castration...
"President Zhang... I think it's much more than that..." Qin Ge began to squat down and search under the stone table. "I understand traditional Chinese medicine, and Western medicine has also studied it. Although the male genitals are dense, there is no main static artery. There is no need to make a special 'sewer' to cut off the blood flowing there! And I think that if they spared this kind of engineering quantity to build this funnel-shaped stone table, there might be another purpose! That is to collect blood...!"
"Collect blood?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned. Although there are many places in Maoshan Technique that require blood, most of them are animal blood. Only when it is absolutely necessary, the caster uses his own blood, and there are very few. In most cases, the blood biting the tip of his tongue is enough. The formation that requires a lot of blood is the "Qinglong Red Blood Formation" that reverses the Yin and Yang. However, this formation was invented by the Song Dynasty, which is more than a thousand years later than the Qin Dynasty...
"Dad! I want to pee...!" Not far away, Zhang Yicheng suddenly said.
"Just stay away from that hole..." Zhang Guozhong said in disgust, "The lazy donkey is on the grinding...!" To be honest, the two black grandfathers under the patio should be in a "blind state". It seems that they can only find prey through yang energy, so they will not be able to find it if they dive into the water. Urination belongs to the category of "release of yang". Moreover, Zhang Yicheng is still a boy, and his yang energy is heavier. If this rushing down from the patio, wouldn't it lead to that thing?
"I know..." Zhang Yicheng stood up, walked to a place four or five meters away from the patio and took off his pants and started peeing.
"Here!" At this time, Qin Ge screamed as if he had discovered a new continent. Zhang Guozhong hurriedly squatted down when he heard this. He saw a small semicircular stone cave at the bottom of the stone platform, which was about the size of a ping-pong ball. There was a very shallow draw on the ground outside the cave and leading to the "pattern" when he came up. Because the draw was too shallow and the depth was less than one centimeter, it was regarded as a pattern on the ground by everyone just now without paying attention.
"I understand..." Looking at the draw below the stone platform, Qin Ge suddenly realized, and his face seemed a little excited, "The hall on the ancient map is here! Those fine clauses are likely to refer to these draws! The ancients who drew the drawings passed by here! It is very likely that the water level in the passage was higher than that now when he went down, and he was diving, so he made the wrong ratio, making the passage on the ancient map look at least fifty meters long! From here, you may be able to find where he came in!"
"Is this..." Zhang Guozhong suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart. He quickly stood up and looked around the stone tables around him. He found that each stone table had a tangible draw, all leading to the "pattern" when he came up.
"I understand..." Zhang Guozhong said slowly, "This is the formation...it is probably similar to the Qinglong Red Blood Formation..."
"Are the Qinglong Red Blood Formation, is it the kind of formation that makes water tumbling?" When Lao Liu set up the Qinglong Red Blood Formation in the inverted pyramid in Egypt, although Qin Ge was pressed by a helmet on Dedevra's coffin, he saw nothing, but this formation was described by Alxun to himself. It is said that the scene was quite spectacular, but the formation was cut into veins, which was similar to suicide.
"That's right..." Zhang Guozhong walked straight to the edge of the patio, and was about to look down at these shallow draws carefully, but suddenly he found a piece of water flowing slowly to the patio. "What's going on...!" Zhang Guozhong suddenly looked up and found that Zhang Yicheng was standing aside to pull the trouser chain. "Let you stay away...!" Seeing that the urine was about to flow to the patio, Zhang Guozhong took off his wet clothes and threw it on his urine.
"What's wrong?" Old Liu kept pushing Sun Ting's back and rubbing the acupoints, and did not pay attention to what was happening here.
"Senior brother... this room should be used for blood..." Zhang Guozhong pointed at the stone platform not far away, "The person lay on it... cut the artery... and then the blood flowed down from the platform and flowed down through these draws..." Zhang Guozhong squatted down and pointed to the draws leading to the edge of the patio. "Now it seems... the whole house seems to be a funnel... the ground seems to have a slope, but we can't feel it..."
"What a mess..." Old Liu was confused by Zhang Guozhong. "Isn't it over to just bleed in this place? Why did you even repair these things and take off your pants and fart...?"
"The stone platform is very strange. I suspect it was used to cut the play..." Zhang Guozhong pointed to his crotch with his finger, "It seems like he has to lie on his head with a fork..."
"Axun..." At this moment, Sun Ting woke up and was about to stand up.
"Slow down..." Alxun stepped forward and held Sun Ting, "I'm fine..."
Seeing that Sun Ting woke up, Qin Ge also returned to the courtyard. After referring to the direction of the passage below, he led everyone to the direction of the "entry" marked on the ancient map. During the process, Zhang Guozhong roughly counted the stone platforms visible on both sides of the hall, and there were at least one hundred. "Ancient people..." Zhang Guozhong sighed while walking. Fortunately, he was not born in that barbaric era. Not to mention the fact that he could not eat enough or wear warm, there was still the danger of being castrated at any time...
Just as Zhang Guozhong was thinking while walking, he suddenly felt that a figure flashed not far from the side, "It's coming again..." Zhang Guozhong pulled out the Juque Sword, and Old Liu also heard a little movement next to him, but his posture was not as exaggerated as Zhang Guozhong. He just put his hand on the hilt of the sword. According to his experience just now, if it was an iron-locked corpse, no matter what action it did, there would be a sound of iron chains. At this moment, the sound that Old Liu heard was only a few "stop", and at best, like a mouse.
Turn on the flashlight, Zhang Guozhong walked towards the place where the figure flashed just now with a sword in his hand, "It's weird, it's obviously here..." He illuminated the flashlight everywhere. Within a radius of more than 30 meters, there were stone pillars and no figure at all. Although the iron-locked corpse just now was very strong, it seemed that it was not as quick as it was in a fleeting state...
"Everyone be careful..." Zhang Guozhong began to walk back carefully. At this moment, he suddenly felt a storm on his head, "It's true that there is something..." Zhang Guozhong quickly rolled forward, and there was a thud from behind, which scared Zhang Guozhong torture, "It's over... It's really that thing..."
Standing up, Zhang Guozhong was about to notify everyone to escape when he suddenly saw Liu jumping towards him. He was still waiting for him to come forward to stop him and rushed over. His agility was really a bit half-human and half-god, "Brother Liu! Come back! That thing can't be touched..." Zhang Guozhong turned around and shouted, it doesn't matter if he didn't turn around. When he turned around, Zhang Guozhong almost spit out.
At this time, Old Liu also arrived, and he was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him...
To be continued
Chapter completed!