Chapter 48: Strange Human Skin
Just as I felt like I was about to cross this hurdle, I suddenly heard the sound of branches and leaves coming from not far ahead of me. I heard the trend and was moving towards me.
I stopped quickly, feeling a little nervous, but I still forced myself to stretch out my hand to open a leaf in front of me.
Suddenly, a blood-red face suddenly flashed in front of me, less than half a foot away from my face. A strange smile hangs on the corner of its mouth, staring at me with a pair of black big eyes.
All the sweat on my body suddenly stood up. This time I finally saw it clearly. It was indeed a human skin, and it was so close to me that I could even see the heavy sweat on the face.
Subconsciously, I wanted to shrink back, but the human skin suddenly rushed over. A mere human skin was even more agile than me. I pinched my neck with one hand and pressed it on me, wrapping my body tightly.
I quickly grabbed its arms with both hands and tried to pull it away, but I forgot that I was on the tree now. When my feet slipped under me, I felt my body empty and I fell down.
During the fall, my body hit the hard branches several times, but it did not stop me, but rolled down. The human skin wrapped around me tightly, without any intention of letting go. On several occasions, I kicked it with my feet, but it didn't work at all like kicking it on cotton.
Finally, I fell heavily to the ground, and I almost vomited blood after falling straight. The terrifying human skin was getting stronger and stronger, and I began to feel suffocating.
Suddenly, it cracked its big mouth, revealing two rows of dark red teeth inside, and some minced meat hung on it. It seemed that it wanted to bite me.
But I was stunned. It was not that I was scared, but that I discovered something. In an instant, I understood the matter. I quickly took out the troll from my waist and shot the human skin twice in the waist.
The human skin screamed in a shrill voice, suddenly jumped away from me, quickly twisted and rushed towards the darkness beside him. But after just two steps, it fell to the ground, screaming shrillly, while climbing forward with its hands, and the ground was dragged out of a bright red color.
I didn't care about the pain on my body and quickly got up. Half of the human skin had already crawled into the bushes. At this time, I was angry and walked over with a troll. The human skin twisted and rolled on the ground for a while, and its movements slowly slowed down, and finally stopped moving.
"Tiger head, where are you? What happened to you?" The monkey shouted anxiously, it must be because he heard my gunshots. I shouted to indicate my current location. Soon he and Shuiyue each came out of the bushes on one side.
"Damn, tiger head, did you do it?" The monkey looked at the human skin in a daze. I forced a smile and felt a burning pain all over my body. I said no, this thing is so difficult and tight, it almost killed me. I guess if it weren't for my luck, I might be me who was lying on the ground now.
After saying that, I walked over and asked the long-handled knife in his hand to come over, and then cut a big hole in the back of the human skin.
"Tiger head, we don't have to do this. Even if you want to vent your anger, people are dead. No, people have died twice. Let's not bother them? It's so disgusting. Huh? Why is this person still wearing long hair in his skin?"
The monkey came over curiously. I had already cut the human skin for half, and soon a dark thing was exposed.
When we got it out, we found that this thing looked very weird. It looked a bit like a monkey, but it was much larger. It also had black hair, its mouth was very big, and its eyes were painted black.
"So I'm pretending. I'll just say, if even the human skin can move by itself, then how should we do it? But what exactly is this? It looks like a monkey but not like it, and it always feels a little weird." The monkey said.
Actually, at the beginning, I couldn't believe that something was dressed in human skin to attack me, but at that moment when I saw its dark red teeth, I was sure that the human skin was strange, and the skinned man's teeth were still there, so I hit it with a troll. But I can't tell what this thing is. It looks like a monkey's habit, but it doesn't look like a mandrill. To be precise, it is a creature between a monkey and a mandrill.
"This is a scoundrel." Shui Yue's voice suddenly rang.
"Money? Isn't that still a monkey?"
"No, monkeys are just one of the sacs, and this thing is the offspring of the macaque and mandrills, because it has no name and can only be called a sac."
"Have you seen this before?" I asked.
Shuiyue shook her head and said that this kind of thing is cruel by nature, but it is very smart. It likes to imitate all creatures she has seen, and it is extremely large. It may be just a female, and if it is a male, it may be twice as big. However, the number of this sacred sac is very small, so people are not common, and many people don’t even know that there is such a creature. Therefore, she said that we don’t actually need to worry too much about this kind of thing, maybe there is only one here.
After hearing this, I felt much more at ease. The habits of this kind of creature are just a group of people. What I fear most is that a large group suddenly pops up, and then things will be big. Fortunately, the number of these scattered animals is very small, otherwise it would be a problem to escape.
Now we have climbed into this "fence", but what we see is a huge ball. These ghost locust trees tangle branches and leaves together to form a huge tree ball. If we want to go there, we must open the tree ball.
The monkey started cutting down the branches with a long-handled knife. We saw a strange scene. This huge tree ball actually trembled slightly after the monkey chopped it. The branches shrank toward the middle, wrapping closer together.
"Oh, I still dare to hide, but I don't believe me, I can't deal with you today."
The monkey worked harder. Perhaps because of fear, the branches finally began to gather to the side, and forced out a portal that was more than two meters high and one meter wide.
"Haha, I thought these ghosts were so difficult. It turned out that they were also some things that bully the weak and fear the strong. Now, how arrogant you are now." The monkey smiled proudly, and I couldn't help but smile. These trees could move, and I had been mentally prepared for a long time, but they did not seem to have the ability to hurt people, but only the instinct to avoid danger. In this way, we don't need to worry too much.
After checking that there was no danger around, we walked into the portal one after another. Suddenly, a huge tree trunk appeared in front of us.
The trunk of the same ghost locust tree is just too big. It is estimated that its diameter is at least ten meters, with gullies on it, which looks very ancient. The most strange thing is that there is a hole in the trunk, which is enough to accommodate two people passing side by side. It is pitch black inside and there is nothing to see.
The three of us looked at each other, and then shone the lights in our hands together. It immediately became clear inside. The first thing that came into our sight was a magic platform, with a bronze statue of three heads and six arms standing on it. The tree trunk inside was cleared out into a blank space, and a line of complicated ancient texts were written.
We walked in. The space in the tree cave was very large, enough to accommodate the three of us doing anything in it. I focused my attention on the line of ancient characters. This kind of characters was very ancient. I could only recognize one of the characters "Zhou". I couldn't help but wonder if this was built during the Zhou Dynasty? I asked Shuiyue if she knew it. She shook her head, but she said that these things must have been before the Zhou Dynasty, because the style of this bronze statue did not look like it was from the Zhou Dynasty, but should have been a product between the Xia and Shang Dynasty. The characters might have been carved later.
Since we couldn't figure it out, we didn't go into it in depth, and this did not mean much to us anyway. At this time, the monkey had already walked to the stage and picked up something from it.
"Monkey, what are you holding?" I asked curiously. I was just looking at the words and didn't notice anything on the table.
The monkey turned around and looked at me, then handed the thing in his hand to me.
When I saw the thing, I couldn't help but feel shocked. It was a unique bronze ware, only about half a foot long. It was a strange-looking monster, holding a man with both claws. The monster's huge mouth bit the man's head, and blood dripped down his head, and below was a container similar to a wine glass. I saw some brown powdery things in the container. I guess it should be something left after the blood was dried up. Of course, the blood in it was added to the person.
This bronze ware looks very exquisite, it is simply the most exquisite bronze ware I have ever seen. I watched this monster repeatedly for a long time before I confirmed it was a silhouette. The legendary dragon gave birth to nine sons, one of which was a silhouette.
From its overall shape, it looks like a sacrificial, but it doesn't look like a bit inconsistent. However, one thing is certain, this is a sacrificial vessel, and the blood in it is a sacrifice. In ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties, there was a kind of witchcraft called "cursing and killing", which placed the opponent of war or hatred at the mouth of a beast and used it to sacrifice to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, that is, praying for victory and revenge on the opponent.
Such a thing appeared here, allowing me to see some information from it. Could it be that the people of this tribe encountered war and prayed for victory and revenge on their opponents in this way? Is the reason why this tribe declined and disappeared was because of that war?
"Tiger head, what is this?" The monkey couldn't help asking when he saw that I didn't say anything.
Chapter completed!