Meng Zeyu really knew it, nodded and said: "That's a loquat tree spirit, which was planted by General Chen back then and was one of the few evil things that guarded the ancient tomb.
That grass-headed general lived here, but there was nothing, he actually wanted to dig the grave and search for treasures, so naturally he couldn't be kept.
But the loquat tree spirit can't be said to be protecting the ancient tomb, so he found a seemingly undoubted reason to covet the mana of the heavenly master, otherwise if someone escapes, they will inevitably suspect that there are good things under the ancient tomb, otherwise why do evil things come to guard it?
” Ye Xiaomu and Su Yan glanced at each other, and their hearts were full of emotion, this matter had already been reversed once, which surprised them, but they didn't expect another bigger reversal.
Before they came, they thought it was an ordinary supernatural event, but they thought that they would fall deeper and deeper into the White Lotus Sect hundreds of years ago, and the matter was not over, and there were still many things they didn't know.
Su Yan secretly took a breath and said, "What about the relatives of the general who lived in the village later, they were all killed?"
” "That's not true, those are ordinary people, they can't pose a threat, as soon as the thief leader and that heavenly master die, they will scatter as birds and beasts, and the rumors of the haunting of the closed door village were spread at that time, which is a good thing for the ancient tomb, and it can avoid being disturbed."
Ye Xiaomu listened and asked: "But until the seventies and eighties, there were still people living in this village, where did these people come from?"
” "The nearby homeless people, they don't know the existence of the ancient tomb, they have been safe for decades, and then a child in the village fell into the ancient well and died, the villagers salvaged the body, found the existence of caves and ancient tombs, caused the awakening of the evil creatures guarding the tomb, killed some people, and the rest all fled.
The village has been uninhabited since. ” "This ......
It's as simple as that. ” "It's as simple as that." , Meng Zeyu shrugged his shoulders, "Those speculations and rumors on the Internet are far-fetched and not worth mentioning, more than ten years ago, Fengmen Village was discovered by travel enthusiasts and gradually became famous, and people kept coming to explore, but because in modern society, the tomb guards did not dare to kill people casually, so as not to attract greater attention, so they just scared them away."
But the evil things guarding the tomb can't keep up with the times, what they don't know is that in the old times, if a place was haunted, everyone retreated and didn't dare to approach, and in this era, they all blamed Professor Yuan, what kind of hybrid rice, so that too many people had nothing to do when they were full, the more terrifying the place, but it made them feel more excited, and they came to watch one after another, endlessly.
Originally, the groundwater in this area is abundant, the well behind the village is full of water, no one can find the secret passage under the tomb, it is nothing, more than ten years ago, the groundwater here is exhausted, the well is also dry, it is easy to be found where the secret passage is, the secret of the ancient tomb can be maintained until now is not easy, sooner or later one day will be discovered by the world. ” Ye Xiaomu heard the end and made sure that what he said was true, when he searched for Fengmen Village on the Internet before, he saw someone analyzing the reasons why this place became a deserted village, one of the most scientific guesses is that the local mountain stream has dried up, and even a nearby reservoir has no water, and the people of Fengmen Village have no water, so the whole village moved out of the mountain.
The truth of the matter from beginning to end is completely clear.
Su Yan took a deep breath, looked at Meng Zeyu with a complicated expression, and said, "I have a few questions I want to ask, first, didn't you say that there are tomb guards here, why didn't we meet them when we came down?"
Not to mention the water corpses, they can't go to the ground and harm people. ” Meng Zeyu smiled: "You ask the second question." ” "Who are you, and why do you know all this so well?"
Su Yan plucked up his courage and asked, he realized that this matter was not so simple.
"Who am I?"
Meng Zeyu touched his chin with one hand and said slowly: "I mentioned before that General Chen sacrificed himself at the beginning of the sacrifice ceremony, and the ceremony was presided over by the high priest below him.
When everyone dies, he is also responsible for the aftermath.
He is the only person who survived the scene, and he must live, because first, the ancient tomb needs to be maintained by someone to avoid being destroyed by others, and second, the purpose of the sacrifice is to let the White Lotus Holy Maiden come after eighty-one years, and then someone needs to lead it and hold another unsealing ceremony.
This ritual had to be performed by a living person, so the high priest could marry and have children, and after his death, his son would inherit his legacy and continue to guard the tomb, and to put it bluntly, the family of the high priest was the guardian of the tomb. ” Hearing this, Ye Xiaomu and the three of them couldn't be more shocked in their hearts, recalling the scenes they experienced after going to the tomb, Meng Zeyu was familiar with the road, and opened the mechanism along the way, so that they could come here safely all the way - so the road was too peaceful, so they didn't have the feeling of adventure, and they didn't even have a tomb robbery novel like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
But Ye Xiaomu believes that a big tomb like this must be full of institutions and dangers, and they can only come here without panic under the leadership of Meng Zeyu.
"You're the High Priest?"
This sentence came out of Ye Xiaomu's mouth, and everyone was silent.
Meng Zeyu smiled lightly and said, "That's true, but it would be more accurate to say that I am the heir of the high priest family."
It was my ancestors who presided over the sacrificial ceremony. ” Ye Xiaomu and the three of them were silent, although they had guessed his identity before, but they were really confirmed, and they still felt a depressing shock.
"But don't worry, I'm not as idiotic as them, loyal to the White Lotus Holy Maiden."
Meng Zeyu snorted a little mockingly, and said: "My ancestors are also stupid enough, for the so-called saints, they have stayed here for generations, lived an ascetic life, and found someone to pass on the ancestry, all so that there can be descendants to carry out this mission."
However, this mission is destined to be ridiculous: they sacrificed the accumulation of the White Lotus Sect for many years, and the lives of so many people, in order to be able to drive out the Tartars and overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and the result is ......
Everyone knows that within a few decades, the Qing Dynasty will fall.
Even if the holy woman came out of the mountain, she lost the meaning of the struggle of the White Lotus Sect back then.
So my grandfather finally made the right decision, he gave up living here until he died of old age, and moved to a nearby city to live a normal life, and at the same time he could take care of the ancient tomb.
In my generation, I am no different from ordinary people.
The so-called sacrificial ceremony of the Holy Maiden seems to me to be an ugly joke, but it is not a sorrow that my ancestors were in it and could not see the truth clearly. ” Meng Zeyu walked to the end of the warehouse and turned his head to look at the treasures in this room, his eyes revealing a deep feeling.