Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 423 Sky burial, go away

Tao Ran and I looked at each other with a smile, and went to see the situation of Lao Jiu. Lao Jiu was lying on the hospital bed weakly. When he saw us coming in, he asked: "What happened outside just now, I heard you crying and howling."

"It's okay, it's all over." I said, "How did you deal with those six guys just now? What about the explosives on your body?"

I suddenly found that the explosives tied to Lao Jiu's waist were gone. Lao Jiu said: "You think I'm stupid, I can really kill myself. The explosives are empty and have no medicine inside. They were thrown away when they were useless, of course we worked together to solve those six guys, thanks to Tao Ran, this girl is really skilled, she poisoned them without knowing it, and we will attack them when they attack It's that simple, alas, Lin Tianyi, you have to be careful in the future."

Of course I understood that there was something in Lao Jiu's words, so I gave him a sideways look: "You should worry about your own affairs."

The episode of practicing Haitang surprised us a lot. After we calmed down, we each found a place to rest. After a peaceful night, Tao Ran and I left alone early the next morning and went to a celestial burial ground in the mountains. Before we set off, we After inquiring, it turned out that there is a special sky burial platform in this place. Some Tibetans still maintain the custom of sky burial, and there are sky burial masters among them.

The celestial burial master is responsible for helping the reincarnation of the same family. They will first send the body to the Buddhist academy for the lama to recite the sutras. The Dharma King has rules. Reciting the sutras for the deceased is equivalent to fulfilling the obligations of the family and cannot increase the financial burden on the family of the deceased. In other words, the celestial burial master sent the corpse to the celestial burial altar. Although there was a fee, it was only paid by the family members at will. Therefore, they did not rely on it for a living, but only as a sacred responsibility.

Two corpses of sea holly are lying in the back seat. I can’t hear their long howls. A mountain towering straight into the clouds, the hands holding the steering wheel tightened, and Tao Ran beside him kept silent. When we reached the foot of the mountain, we stopped the car and took Hai Dongqing to the top of the mountain. The celestial burial platform on the top of the mountain is actually a flat mountain top. We had just emerged, and in the clear sky, a mass of black vultures flew in. They had a clear goal, and it was this celestial burial platform!
Tao Ran and I lowered our heads subconsciously. Those vulture eagles were not interested in living people. The vulture eagles hovering in the sky landed not far from the celestial burial platform, and the overwhelming vulture eagles also landed around the celestial burial platform.They stared at the corpse in front of them, but did not move rashly.

There was already a corpse on the celestial burial platform, its limbs were broken, and there were obvious marks of being smashed. This was for the vulture eagle to eat better. Just looking at it, I felt sick, and a voice suddenly sounded behind me: "Look! It seems cruel, but in fact this is the real sky burial."

When we turned around, there was an extra person behind us. He looked to be in his sixties, with a thin body. "In this area, after the death of the leaders of the past, the wizards would secretly transport the corpses to the most dangerous and remote places." Hiding, but only did not escape the vulture's sight. Heaven followed the wishes of the people, and the sacred mission of transporting the leader's corpse back to the heaven was finally fulfilled by the vulture by accident. Since then, the vulture has become the only one who can bring the king's corpse to the heaven. A god with magical functions. This tradition has been passed down from then on. Being eaten by vultures is not cruelty, but salvation."

The man came up with a corpse on his back, ignoring that we carried the corpse up to the celestial burial altar. He was dressed in red. After taking the corpse out of the body bag, he began to fold the limbs of the corpse. He looked thin but was weak. Dawu, he broke an arm at once, and broke another arm with another sound. He tore open the skin in the center and shoulders of the corpse to expose the muscles, and then backed away, and the vultures overwhelmingly competed for food.When the skeletons were left on the celestial burial platform, the celestial burial master used stones to knock the skeletons into bone paste and knead them into a ball. The vultures once again covered the sky and the ground, and the man in red began to salute, as if he was seeing these vultures off!

After everything was over, the man in red put his hands behind his back: "Do you want to help?"

I took out the two sea holly corpses and placed them in his hands respectfully. The man in red glanced at them and shook his head: "I've never seen such a huge eagle before."

He went over with two sea holly in his arms, and saw all the vultures coming to meet them, looking very solemn. The man in red was taken aback for a moment, then turned around and said, "I've never seen such a formation before, what are the origins of these two eagles?"

I smiled wryly. I only knew that the person who trained them was called Abujiang, but where they came from is completely unknown. The man in red put the two sea holly corpses on the ground and clasped his hands together. At this moment, All the bald eagles rushed up, grabbed the bodies of two sea holly together, spread their wings and flew up, seeing them take sea holly away, soaring into the sky, like a funeral procession, carrying the body of sea holly away...

The man in red was stunned. I think he is the celestial burial master in this area. He clasped his hands together and muttered something until the vultures disappeared without a trace. Then he turned around and said respectfully: :"goodbye."

Tao Ran and I are still in a dream. What happened just now is too unreal. Afterwards, Tao Ran still feels a bit miraculous. The idea of ​​sky burial came out of her suddenly, but it made Hai Dongqing experience the most special "" Funeral", the man in red behind him walked farther and farther, I watched his figure go farther and farther, and then turned to look at the disappearing Hai Dongqing, only to realize that what happened just now was real, Tao Ran said: "They Where will you take them?"

"I don't know. Could it be that they were originally born in this place?" I felt relieved suddenly: "Those vultures seem to recognize them."

"If this is the case, they will be considered as Ye Luo's roots," Tao Ran said.

I closed my eyes and listened to the wind in the mountains, feeling inexplicably comfortable. Tao Ran said, "Lin Tianyi, should we go back?"

I looked at the place where Hai Dongqing disappeared, and nodded: "Go back."

After we got out of the car, we bumped into the man in red. There was something wrong with his car and he was tossing around. We invited him to take our car back, fixed his motorcycle on the roof, and sat on the car. He didn't talk much at the beginning, he just asked us where we came from and what we were doing here, and then he got involved with Hai Dongqing. The man in red is the celestial burial master in this area. He sighed in the car that he was getting old. After a few more years, I couldn’t do it any more, so I smiled and asked him how many celestial burials can be held in a year because this place is sparsely populated. He was about to go to the home of the celestial burial master, and he suddenly said: " By the way, I think you look familiar, have you been here before? No, no."

I was taken aback: "This is my first time here."

"Ah, they look really similar." The celestial burial master said, "But the time is wrong, I'm too confused, it happened decades ago, hehe, I got hooked just now."

My back straightened suddenly: "Is there a person who looks like me decades ago?"

"I can't remember, I can't remember, I'm here, stop, thank you." The celestial burial master got out of the car, we helped him get off the car, and watched him get into the low house, Tao Ran turned around and said: " There are too many people in this world who look very similar to you, and it's normal to look alike, so don't think too much about it."

It seemed that I must have thought something else, I shrugged: "Maybe it's just a coincidence."

We rushed back to the hospital, and Lian Haitang changed the ward. Although his complexion was weak, he no longer vomited blood. Batu was by his side all the time. In Lao Jiu's ward, Lao Jiu was drinking soup, which Meng Luo bought outside. Seeing us come back, Lao Jiu said, "Is Hai Dongqing buried?"

I told the story of the top of the mountain one by one, Lao Jiu was dumbfounded, wanted to sit up and scratched his own wound, I went to Lao Jiu's backpack to find out the medicine from the Green Tiger Club and put it on Lao Jiu: "You are so anxious now , get well sooner, let's go back sooner."

Lao Jiu, who was still smiling at first, had a heavy expression on his face, and said: "Yes, the matter is settled, but for me, the matter has just begun, the two of them will not just walk away, where can they be? Older people won't hide in any corner and ignore their son, right?"

It got farther and farther away, I comforted Lao Jiu for a while, and then I felt very sleepy, and fell asleep lying on the bed next to me, and when I woke up again, it was already noon the next day, and the bed board was frighteningly hard. When I woke up, my whole body was sore, and I couldn’t walk on both feet. I gradually got used to the rough environment. In order to save time, Tao Ran contacted Huacheng and asked him to search for the last place of Mr. K’s group. We stayed in the Waiting here for Lao Jiu and Lian Haitang to recover a bit, before embarking on the journey back to the imperial capital after ten days.

During these ten days, Hwaseong has completed some things, such as finding the final foothold, where the bodies of Professor Lin and Mr. K were found, and the physical evidence at the scene was collected and tested. When we returned to the imperial capital, we directly Went to the morgue of the police station, opened the refrigerator, and saw Professor Lin's face frosted and stiff body, Lao Jiu unconsciously leaned over: "My big brother, why did you just leave..."

On the other side, Lian Haitang had mixed feelings towards his father in the refrigerator. The father he had hated all his life was just a puppet, and he had never had a chance to express his true feelings for his daughter, nor could he protect his wife. I don't know how Lian Haitang feels about just performing the duty of a puppet and passing away so hastily. From the perspective of an outsider like me, this is a pity, a pity that can never be made up for.

Leaving the morgue, we went to the evidence room, the so-called evidence can't help us, there is no news of the whereabouts of Lao Jiu's parents...

(End of this chapter)