The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 517 Stone Wood Fish

I said: "People in our country use incense, candles, water and wine, and they sacrifice, do they use the heads of foreigners?"

Zhou Xuanye shook his head, and said: "I'm afraid not, that stone pillar was used for sacrifices, and the heads around it were placed according to the burial specifications, so they were not the heads of captives, they should have other sacrifices method." After finishing speaking, he continued to walk up.

Then, every time we turn one floor, we can see the same space, but when we turn to the third floor, there is a sudden change.I saw that in the center of the circular stone chamber, there was no longer a sacrificial stone pillar, but a very strange thing.

That thing is very big, made of stone, like a wooden fish used by monks, standing in the center, looking carefully, there is a gap in the middle of the wooden fish, obviously it can be opened or moved.

"What's that?" I just said, Tan Ren has already jumped down the stone steps, and walked directly to the center of the stone room to observe. As a corpse king, why is she more curious than me? To be exact, probably It is the desire to explore.Some people will ponder and explore as soon as they are curious, while some people will become curious after being curious and will never act.It is said that the former is often the standard for successful people.

Well, to be honest, I really don't see any success in Tan Guimao, I am really ashamed of his desire to explore.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye and I also walked over.When I walked in, I found that there are many patterns on the surface of the stone wood fish. These patterns have been washed and polished by sea water all year round. In fact, these patterns are already very light, but the shape is regular and rigorous, very abstract, as if composed of countless geometric figures, so when When they are connected together and densely covered with this stone wood fish, they are still quite eye-catching.

I said: "These islanders built such a stone wooden fish and put it here. Could it be that they still believe in Buddhism, so they knock the wooden fish here when they have nothing to do?"

Tan Ren ignored me and turned around to look around the circular grotto. The surroundings are different from the previous two stone rooms. There are some stone paintings carved on the walls here. The ancient carving style without layers is different from the sacrificial stone pillars below. Almost exactly the same.

At this moment, I felt that the pattern on the stone wood fish was too different in style. It gave me a more post-modern feeling, as if it came from two different civilizations, showing a Chinese and Western style. Compared.

Soon, my idea was confirmed.The stone paintings on the surrounding stone walls, although the simple notation looks a little difficult, but they vividly depict the origin of this stone wood fish.

Stone paintings depict waves, lightning, torrential rain, and islanders sheltering in their houses.The islanders in the paintings are generally tall and thin, with broad shoulders and big hands and feet. There is no fat one, which is probably related to their living environment and living habits.

Not only that, but on this stone painting, there is also an original map, which is the complete island map of the Sea Snake Kingdom.This picture is quite shocking to me. The entire sea snake country is actually composed of nearly a dozen large and small islands connected in series.The distance between the islands is not far, and most of the sea dwellers can swim there directly. Since most of the sea dwellers don't wear clothes, they only cover their lower body, so swimming is commonplace for them.

Islanders with higher status wear cloth or silk clothing, which seems to be the product of maritime trade.

In addition, the exchange of materials between the islands is by boat, like a Venice on the sea.

The entire island has a very large area, and its overall shape is like a big bird with wings spread. The ghost island is located on the wing of the big bird. It is an island that looks like a five-pointed star, which is quite eye-catching.

Immediately after the storm, a very large ship appears in the stone painting.The islanders of the Sea Snake Kingdom are not very accomplished in art, so the ship only has the outline of a big ship, but the specific details are not highlighted, but there are no hooks at the bow and stern. It seems that it is about an oriental ship. , probably a Chinese merchant ship at that time.

The islanders are very resistant to outsiders, but they are very welcome to Chinese merchant ships, probably because of the long-term trade relationship.

The people on this Chinese merchant ship shrugged their eyes and drooped the corners of their mouths, looking very tired, as if they had experienced something.

Immediately afterwards, they lifted a stone wood fish from the boat, handed it to the islanders, and then sailed away.

This stone wood fish has been placed in the gathering place of the islanders, and it is easy to keep people away.It looked like a precious gift, and it seemed that the people on the merchant ship had left it in the hands of the islanders, so it was protected.

The content of the next few paintings is somewhat thought-provoking, because the suspected Chinese merchant ship has returned, but there is no one on the merchant ship.The merchant ship just ran aground on the shore.

After the people on the merchant ship disappeared, the islanders began to study the stone wood fish. Of course, they also found that this stone wood fish could be opened, but it was probably kept for others before, so they never opened it.

Now, all the people on the merchant ship disappeared, and the islanders opened the stone wood fish.

I stared at the last picture, and couldn't help but stare. There was a person lying among the stone and wood fish, and it was a person we had seen before, a mermaid, also known as a mermaid. not beautiful.

The moment the stone wood fish was opened, the merman inside opened its eyes and tried to jump up from inside, but the islander closed the stone wood fish at once.Finally, the stone wood fish was placed here.

The three of us looked at each other, I couldn't help swallowing, and said, "That is to say, it's pretending to be a merman?" I still remember the experience of dealing with merman in the lake of Thunder Valley last time. Well, these things are not that scary when they land on the shore, but their voices can make Zhou Xuanye's personality go crazy and release the crazy personality.

Normal people would definitely feel pain when they heard its sound.

According to myths and legends, mermen guide merchant ships with their beautiful singing voices. Only after experiencing it will they know that their terrifying voices can almost defeat people's sanity.

After I finished speaking, Tan Ren said calmly; "It should be a shark corpse now."

This is obviously nonsense, I don't know how many years have passed, and the shark has been out of the water again, it must be a shark corpse.

While speaking, Tan Ren stretched out his hand to push the stone wood fish, and I was surprised: "Boss, what are you doing?"

Tan Ren said: "Dig for shark oil."

Zhou Xuanye immediately slapped his forehead, and said: "Yes, this thing is very precious. In ancient times, if the emperor wanted to get shark oil, he had to form a navy to go to sea, and often he could only get a shark to scrape shark oil. Darling Delivered to the door, can not give up."

"..." Brother Zhou, didn't you used to be so glamorous that you treated money like dung?
The two brothers, while talking, started to move the stone wood fish, trying to open it, but it was very heavy, the two of them struggled for a long time, and they were barely able to do it, so I had to help, and the three of them worked together, With all his strength, he finally slowly pushed the upper half of the stone wood fish aside.

As the stone wood fish opened, the situation inside was instantly exposed.

I saw a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail lying among the stone wood fish. The mermaid has the same lower body. It is said that the genitals are hidden in the tail.

It doesn't look quite like the merman we saw in Thunder Valley last time, or is merman also divided into regions?The sharks in different sea areas probably have different appearances.This merman is curled up in a C shape inside the wooden fish, with red scales, which reminds me of Tan Renyang's Arowana.

The hands are very big and long, with webbed and sharp claws. There are no scales on the upper body, but there is a kind of oily feeling. The epidermis should have some special tissue. The face is very similar to human beings, except that the forehead, eyelids and jaw. The thin scales make it difficult to distinguish between male and female. If you don't look at those scales, it feels like a human face.

I thought what I saw would be a greasy mummy, but I didn't expect that the merman in the stone wood fish was so lifelike, I couldn't help being shocked for a moment.Tan Ren and Zhou Xuanye obviously didn't expect it either, they looked at each other and became a little vigilant.

Soon, Zhou Xuanye took out the speargun from his waist, and twisted the screw next to it to expose the hook that was retracted, forming a harpoon with a hook.Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye put the harpoon on the merman's neck, probably worried that the merman would have something weird, and motioned Tan Ren and me to collect shark oil.

I feel that there is a lot of pressure. To collect shark oil, in fact, this shark has to be cut open, but this thing is like a living thing. It is really difficult to start with it.

Another reason that makes me feel uncomfortable is that in the past, Zhou Xuanye would never do such a thing. He has always adhered to the concept that the dead are the greatest. A branch of Australopithecus, similar to Australopithecus or Savage.

Amway, Zhou Xuanye would not attack it, but now, he even used a harpoon to spear the corpse.

Probably saw what I was thinking, Zhou Xuanye glanced at me, pondered for a moment, put away the harpoon, and said: "Forget it, actually shark oil is not very useful to us, at most we can exchange something with others. This shark corpse It’s rare to have such a well-preserved one, so don’t worry about it.”

After speaking, he put away the harpoon and motioned us to cover the stone wood fish back.

Tan Ren didn't have any objection to this. In fact, for his kind of human contact cleanliness, even though the mermaid is not a real person, he is still not very happy to let him dissect such a thing.

At that moment, the three of us tried to close the sarcophagus, but at this moment, the merman in the wooden fish suddenly opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)