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As soon as I heard what he said, I suddenly shivered, and a vague idea flashed through my mind. I murmured and repeated: "Running across the country."

The old man glanced at me suspiciously, and then confirmed: "Yes, you want to offer sacrifices to people who had a very high status in ancient times, equivalent to the prophets of the tribe. How could their corpses be casually leaked out, so there is a high chance that The location of the skull is the final burial place of the priest whose skull was pierced."

The old man is right. Due to the backwardness of production tools and medical facilities, a large number of people will be lost during the migration of tribes, which may be caused by diseases, plagues, or food shortages. Therefore, if it were not for natural disasters, there would be very few tribes in ancient times. Active migration.

From this point of view, there is only one explanation for the appearance of skulls with holes across the country, and it is not migration, but travel. At that time, the sacrifices went on the road with a certain purpose, and the tribe would send warriors to guard them. They left their homeland of Bashu and went to the land of China, the Far North, the Western Regions, the Central Plains, and the East China Sea. They might die on the way, or they might arrive there, but these None of it matters, what matters is his intention.

Judging from the actions derived from this intention, isn't it similar to that secret tribe of ghosts?

This kind of hole-opening civilization appeared early. Judging from the old man's inference, the Three Eyes Worship existed very early. So the appearance of this hole-opening technology was probably in the Sanxingdui period, or earlier. At the same time, the Central Plains area was about the same. It was the Shang Dynasty, which lasted for thousands of years, including Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Jin, etc., leaving their traces in countless underground tombs or ancient ruins.

The thread in my mind suddenly connected, and I really felt like I was enlightened.

That's it, the mysterious and weird three-eyed culture has not been lost, and its history has not been broken. They have been thriving in the darkness, performing the mission of sacrifice from generation to generation.

I rubbed my face. If all these conjectures are correct, then the group of sacrifices that entered the Central Plains three or four thousand years ago were the secret origin of all this.

The old man looked at me strangely, and I grinned. Although there is no conclusive evidence yet, I can convince myself that the truth is not far away from this. It is a knot in my mind that has been solved to some extent. It is really refreshing.

Now the question becomes two directions: what is the purpose of those people doing this? How did they perform craniotomy? Why did they believe that opening a hole could communicate with heaven and humans? Why did they set foot on the Central Plains? What connection did they find with those secret places and communication with heaven and humans? This is before.

From now on, there are the "ancestral problems" that I inherited from my father and second grandfather, and the new problems we discovered in a series of actions.

And I still remember a detail, that is when we discovered in the Lingtai of Kowloon Town that the predecessors planted trees and later generations picked the fruits. The plans of these people are not completed at one time, but require two or even several generations to execute. If this mode is a necessary link in the communication between those sacrifices and the gods after the head is opened, then this ritual must be Reproducible, or have the same process.

I slapped my thigh violently. I thought my rich expression at that time must have seemed very dramatic in the eyes of the old man. If I were to go back a few decades, he might call me a fool.

But I am too excited now to care whether it is rude or not. I just suddenly thought of the key point. If this process can be replicated, does that mean that other places will also have descendants of the sacrifices to "pick fruits"? My dad and the others have gone deep into the ruins tombs with the shadows of the ghost tribes many times. Does it mean that they have also deciphered this layer of clues?

If this is the case, then what is my father's plan? We compare the plans of the ghost tribes back then to "fruits". Each related tomb or ruins is a big tree with fruits on it, waiting for future generations who act strangely to pick them. However, after all the changes, Some of the fruits have been picked away and become dead trees, such as the Jiulong Zhenling Tower, and some may still be there, such as the Tomb of Chaoxian in Wumeng or the Qinling Underground Palace.

If I were my father, when I discovered this secret, what would I do next, I asked myself.

I thought about it, and the answer is always to pick fruits. Whether it is out of curiosity in human nature, or I want to dig up the relationship between the Cao family and those people back then. The next step for "I" must be to find these trees that are still alive and see what happened back then. What exactly is the result? Only by finding out the source of the problem can we prescribe the right remedy.

This gives rise to two other questions.

First, whether my father found a living tree and whether he got the fruit or not, my preference is actually that he got it.

Judging from my father's behavior after entering the tomb of the Immortal Dynasty and the message he left to the second master, it all points to what he found under the tomb. I guess it is the "fruit" planted by the ghost tribes' sacrifices thousands of years ago.

Second, the story is incomplete, or the clues are not closed.

If something has a motive, it must have a purpose. This is the most commonly used test formula in analysis. Getting the result is not the answer to the question. What happens next? What is the ultimate plan that the people of the ghost tribes have implemented over several generations? Picking fruits is not the purpose. I believe there is a deeper plan. We are always lingering outside the door. I think at least my father and second master have already walked in.

In addition to him, I believe there is another person who also knows about this matter, that is, the ancestor of the Cao family during the Daoguang period. He also understood this plan, so he took the Cao family members to travel throughout the Central Plains. From the second aunt, I know that the ancestor of the Cao family People are always looking for one thing, and I have reason to believe that that thing is the key to all this.

I even boldly guessed that the ancestor of the Cao family had already picked the fruit before my father and the others, so he seemed to be avoiding something.

Thinking of this, I believe my expression must be brighter.

Yes, that's right. The ancestors of the Cao family were hiding from something. Someone was chasing them to get the fruit back. Of course, the fruit was an abstract representative. This question would lead to another question. What did he get in the Qing Emperor's Mausoleum? Then he would take his things and disappear deep into the vast mountains deep in Shennongjia.

Let's close the question and go back to my dad's timeline. Thinking about the "rush for time" mentioned in my dad's diary, I think he must have gained insight into something after seeing the consequences. Maybe he already understood the meaning of "fruit". That's why we have to fight for time.

He is stopping those people's plans!

He is trying to stop another plan with one plan. I don't know whether the previous plan is successful or not, but I know that the Cao family has not given up. Even if my father's plan does not take effect, it has temporarily stopped the other party. Then he What's next... I don't know much about him, but judging from what people who have been in contact with him say about him, is all he really wants to do is involve the other party? Doesn't he have a back-up plan?

If I had not gone to the Qinling Mountains for the second time, maybe I would believe it, but I have met Dorje, and I know the story of Dorje. There are many doubts in his story for many years, but one thing is true. I can see When he came out, he was also very confused about how he came out of Shennongjia Qingshan. I bet that it must be my father's back-up plan. He was called the "Fairy Finisher" back then.

He must have worked hard on "posthumous matters". He calculated and used all the resources to the extreme, even including the second master. I didn't dare to think too much, whether it also included me...

Maybe I am just a chess piece that was activated too early in this big game. I don't know when I will appear, and I don't know when I will exit.

I let out a sigh of relief and connected everything. This feeling is like the World of Warcraft map I played when I was a child. The explored locations will light up. Although there are still blurry areas now, the entire map has been connected. And I will continue to explore more firmly. I don't know the position, but I want to clearly watch this game through my own efforts.

I thanked the old man. He seemed to see that I was thinking about something and did not disturb me during the whole process. When I came back to my senses, I saw that he was concentrating on reading a book. I showed an apologetic smile and said sincerely: " Sorry to keep you waiting for so long, your words made me want to ask a lot of key questions, thank you very much."

He didn't look up until he finished reading the page, then pressed a footer as a bookmark, closed the book and looked at me: "It doesn't matter, it's rare for young people to learn to think. I can see that you are very good at thinking, even though you don't want to Admit it, but the old man took in a good student."

I feel a little guilty. The old man shared his research sincerely and enthusiastically, but I was still lying to him. I hesitated for a moment, whether to tell the truth, and he asked me in confusion: "What?"

When he asked, I responded hastily: "Oh, I also want to hear some more conjectures from you about the three-eyed mark."

He pointed at his watch and said, "The bodies of the elderly are not as good as yours. Eat first. If you are not in a hurry, we will take your time."

All I have now is time, so of course it's not a problem. I agreed immediately and followed him to the staff canteen. At the same time, I sent a message to Lao He saying that he would be back late and would stay here for a day.

Many of the old man's research conclusions and conjectures were derived from his rich life experience and professional knowledge reserve. Even some research on the surroundings of the third eye has benefited me a lot. The old man himself was willing to share the results of this project, so we discussed it together for a long time until the evening. When the old man was about to get off work, he asked me if I would go back to live with him. I said that I had already booked a hotel nearby and I was tired today. Excuse me, I want to treat him to a drink tomorrow. Teacher Zhuo mentioned before that this "old friend" likes to drink. He agreed to come down.

When I got back to the hotel, I took a shower first, then dug out a pen and notebook from the drawer of my bedside table, and wrote down today's conjectures and conclusions one by one. I have the habit of drawing mind maps. After the drawing, the remaining problems will be clearly exposed. I took a photo of the above content and thought about going back and printing it out to hang on the wall to keep as analysis clues.

After a night of silence, I received a text message on the way to the archaeological institute the next day. Just yesterday afternoon, the people at Bashu Hall sent back news that they seemed to have found some clues. Han Sheng had flown over overnight for me.