Chapter 110 Corpses and Sheep

As the saying goes, "No matter how hard you try, you will never find what you want, but it is easy to find what you want."

After searching for so long, I finally found my true love. I was so happy and excited that I rushed into the cave. However, the situation inside was like a basin of cold water poured on my face, which made my smile disappear without a trace.

Where is my parents in the cave?

This cave is not very deep, at most three or four meters deep. The internal space is very narrow. The filthy air is filled with a strong fishy smell, mixed with a pungent smell of blood. There are several bloody sheep heads hanging on the wall of the cave, and some scattered bones are scattered on the ground. There is a thick pile of sheepskin in the corner. It looks like a slaughterhouse.

These sheep should have been killed not long ago, and there is still life on the bones. It is this life and blood that attracted the fishy hangers to rush in here.

"Why does it look so weird? It feels like an evil sacrificial scene?"

Zhang Xinya gently covered her mouth and nose: "Look at the ground, meat and bones are thrown here and there randomly, and some skins are plucked and cut into pieces. It doesn't look like they are trapped in the mountains and have no choice but to kill sheep to satisfy their hunger. It looks like something that some perverts who abuse animals would do!

I say, Lao Bai, are you reliable? Are we tracking the wrong person? Er Gouzi's parents can't do such a thing!"

Lao Bai looked at everything in front of him and was also in trouble. The situation in the cave was too different from what we imagined. For a while, no one could tell why. He scratched his head for a long time before muttering: "This matter is not my fault. I only know that there are two smells of living people at the scene of the corpse abandonment, but I haven't really come into contact with Xiao Weizi's parents, and I am not familiar with their breath. If I find it, of course I have to chase it down. Who knows who is the person I am chasing?"

"Good guy, I cried for a long time, but I still don't know who is lying in the coffin..."

Brother Yaozi shook his head, squatted in front of the black ashes in the center of the cave, put his hand into the ashes to test it, and said, "It's still warm, it should have been gone for a long time, keep chasing!"

"Chasing a ball!"

Lao Bai pointed at the fishy hangings that were clinging to the sheep's head like maggots in annoyance, and said, "Didn't you see that these ancestors have all laid down? They are all unwilling to move, which means that the vitality I want them to track has been cut off here. The matter is obvious. We have met a master. He knows everything about his every move. First, he cut off the smell and prevented me from tracking by following the smell. Then he even covered up the vitality, leaving the fishy hangings with nowhere to start, and became a headless fly. Anyway, at this point, I have no way out. I have never seen such a difficult master."

This time I am at a loss.

I sat down on the ground, and began to doubt whether the people we were tracking were my parents. Judging from the situation along the way, they were two great gods who had left us at our wits' end. How could my father have such a method?

While we were arguing, my master wandered around the cave for two circles, and then suddenly said, "Don't doubt it. The people we are chasing are indeed Jingzhe's parents. This is one of their hideouts. After chasing for so long, haven't you found it yet? In the eyes of Jingzhe's parents, this forest is no different from their own home. They have arranged it everywhere!

I guess we may have touched some of the traps they set up on the way and alarmed them. Don't forget that Jingzhe's father is also a ceremonial officer. He may not be able to fight against corpses, ghosts and demons, but he is definitely very experienced in traps. Ten Jingzhe stacked together can't compare with him. After all, he has been influenced by his ears and eyes for decades and has devoted himself to research. He has set up some tricks without anyone noticing, and it is hard to guard against.

Let's not chase them anymore. Let's take a break and go home. We have completely lost contact with them. They don't know who is chasing them. They will move away immediately at the slightest sign of trouble. It's impossible for us to find them here, no matter who comes!"

At this point, my master pointed to the mess and said with a smile: "As for all this, it is actually very normal. Jingzhe's parents are not perverts who abuse animals. These sheep should have been stolen from Shizui Bay. There are many shepherds there. It is not difficult to steal a few sheep in such a large grassland. The purpose is very simple. The two corpses we saw in the Xishan Funeral Home are these sheep!"

This statement is a bit confusing. We also saw the two corpses in the Xishan Funeral Home. They are obviously two people. How can they be sheep?

I really didn't understand what my master meant, and couldn't help but say, "Master, just tell me what you know, don't keep me in suspense. This involves my parents, and I'm so anxious right now. I'm holding my breath, and if I hold it any longer, I'll spit out a mouthful of blood and die in front of you."

"You little brat, you've learned to threaten your master."

My master patted me on the back of my head and said with a smile, "Then I'll test you today. If you answer correctly, I'll tell you everything I know, okay?"

I saw that he looked relaxed, and his tense nerves relaxed a lot, so I agreed immediately.

He picked a clean place to sit next to me, and asked Lao Bai to put away those fishy hangings, saying that those things were too evil and uncomfortable to look at. Then he took my hand and said softly: "You have been with the master for a short time, so I will not test your knowledge of Qingwei Dao. I will test whether your ability as a ritual officer is qualified. Tell me, what is the most powerful puppet in the world?"

Without thinking, I immediately said: "Of course it is the mechanical beast."

But my master shook his head: "The skilled craftsmen of the Mohist School are indeed powerful. Some of their mechanical beasts are cross-era. Even if they are put into the present, they can be called ingenious. But when it comes to puppets, mechanical beasts are not the best."

I said again: "There are animal trainers among the people who fight in the red enclosure in the mountain field in the north. They are proficient in the art of strange beasts, and the animal puppets they derive are also the best puppets."

Puppets are not only dead things, but also living things.

The fishing and hunting ethnic groups in Northeast China, such as Oroqen, Hezhe, and Ewenki, are probably the ones who know the most about wild animals. Among them, those who can play Hongwei are the most powerful. Among those who play Hongwei, some are very special. They are called animal trainers in the industry. However, these animal trainers not only tame wild animals, but also know how to breed wild animals. They can use various wild animals to breed some monsters. These monsters have strong bite force and agile movements. If you pull one out casually, it can knock down a dozen sturdy men. They are more ferocious and cruel than lions, tigers, and bears. We call them animal puppets.

However, this is not the method of our ceremonial officers.

Northeast China is the birthplace of the Manchus. Animal trainers have entered the sight of ceremonial officers since the Qing Dynasty. This thing often appears in some Qing Dynasty tombs as tomb-guarding beasts.

In the early years, someone dug up a tomb of a Qing noble during the Shunzhi period. Hundreds of huge monsters with wolf bodies and tiger heads suddenly emerged from it. In the blink of an eye, they ate up the group of tomb robbers. There were more than 20 people, all of whom had mirror boxes on their bodies, but they didn't even fire a single shot.

Later, some people said that the beast puppet with wolf bodies and tiger heads was called Dehele in Manchu, which almost means hook. It probably means that the bite force of this beast puppet is very strong. It is said that this monster eats everything, and even if it is raised in a tomb, it can still reproduce. The tomb must have only had a pair of Dehele, one male and one female, at first. After hundreds of years, hundreds of them have reproduced. This kind of tomb is a dead tomb. Unless you are the Dongling robber Sun Dianying, who is arrogant enough to bring a group of troops to rob the tomb, you will definitely not be able to get out if you go in.

Unfortunately, my master still shook his head: "Whether it is the Mohist school or the animal trainer, these are not considered powerful. The truly powerful puppets are made by you ritual officials with your own skills."

I thought about it and mentioned several puppets of our ritual officials, but unfortunately, my master shook his head.

"People must dare to think while they are alive!"

My master shook his head and sighed: "Since I asked you about the most powerful puppet, why don't you think about the one ranked first?"

"Ranked first? That's impossible!"

I didn't even think about it, and shook my head and rejected it: "That thing is like a legend, it can scare people to death when it is said..."

I didn't say anything else...

Thinking carefully about the current situation, my eyes widened, and I suddenly stood up to carefully observe the sheep heads, mutton, and even sheepskin in the cave.

After being swallowed by the fishy hanging, the sheep head has obvious signs of withering, but now I pay close attention, I find that the sheep head is not complete!

In fact, the eyes and teeth on the sheep's head have all disappeared...

The cut on the neck is very smooth. It looks like it was not cut off with an ordinary knife, and the technique is extremely skillful, which reminds me of the four words "Pao Ding butchers an ox"!

This should have been done with a small knife, which is very sharp and can be said to be able to cut through hair. The knife went directly through the bone gap of the neck bone and cut off the sheep's head cleanly. There was no knife mark on the bone, and the meat near the neck bone showed small diamond-like facets.

And the meat on the ground was very thin, and it was definitely carefully cut, and the sheepskin was the same!

"Oh my goodness, isn't it really that kind of puppet?"

I swallowed hard: "But, to make this kind of puppet, two things are needed. My ancestor's handwriting said that the two things were lost during the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms period. They should have been lost by the last Tianguan."

"Maybe, the ritual officials have lost their skills. In order to avoid the tragedy of innocent people being guilty of possessing treasures, they deliberately said so? In fact, the two things have been passed down!"

My master narrowed his eyes slightly, and his smile was a little elusive: "Moreover, the two things are likely hidden in your family's ancestral temple!!"

"I say... what are you talking about?"

Lao Bai was puzzled and shouted: "What on earth can make Xiao Weizi's expression look like he was struck by lightning?"

More than being struck by lightning!

It's like a comet hitting the earth!

I can't say a word. If my dad really had those two things, a hundred water kings would be fooled by him! !