At the top of the palace in Bansai City, the high priest Le Bang was wearing a gray-black robe. He wore a snake-shaped hood and pointed a scepter. In front of him, he was helping ten people, one of whom was Dai. Korea.
Delly struggled, trying to escape, but her struggles were of no use.
LeBang raised his scepter high into the sky. The clear sky had changed color, and a black bark book had risen. It was the Book of Life and Death.
"Teacher, you wanted to seal this book at first, but now, I will prove... the meaning of this book's existence!" Le Bang said. His makeup was very thick, and his eyeshadow was used during sacrifices. "Eye", it is said that the dark eye can look at the dead. No one knows whether he saw it or not.
Surrounding the altar are a large number of guards. The guards are shirtless and their lower bodies are only covered with armor. They hold sacrificial spears, wear dove tail feathers on their heads, and have battle stripes painted on their faces. His eyes were dull, looking ahead.
"Woo..." Delly was in pain. She didn't know that she would be here. However, when she appeared here, she could no longer break free and break away from all the constraints here.
Puff puff…
Suddenly, the braziers on the altar ignited on their own. The flames ignited were not the conventional red, but streaks of blue.
It was a fire of the underworld... full of death and sorrow.
"Sun God... Please accept my sacrifice and be reborn in this flame!" Le Bang raised his hands, and the blue flames around him suddenly shot up, like dozens of fire pillars.
At this time, the people who were tied to the pillars struggled one after another. They were in pain, and these people were all women. They were the most beautiful women in the entire Golden Hu Kingdom. Legend has it that the Sun God is a happy person, and his sacrifices , only accept beauty.
Delly's beauty is also one of the best in the Golden Amber Kingdom, so she is also one of the targets of the sacrifice.
The only difference is that the eyes of other women have dimmed. They have lost hope in life and are almost desperate for survival. They no longer want to survive.
But Delly still had thoughts in her heart. She wanted to come out and find Li Huguo, because Li Huguo had just mentioned that she was his woman.
The happy life was about to end before it could even begin. One can imagine how desperate Delly was at this moment. Not only was she desperate, she was also filled with hatred.
"Lebang, after the sacrifice is over, will I get eternal life?" The Pharaoh sitting on the throne in the distance looked at this scene. His face looked very bad, and his eyes were so heavy that they looked like they were painted with ink. .
Le Bang turned back with a smile, and said respectfully: "My Majesty, after this ceremony is completed, you will have eternal life, and like the Sun God, you will be bathed in the eternal glory of God! "
"Okay, hurry up, I... I can't wait any longer." Pharaoh said.
There is a huge iron basin in the middle of the entire altar. The iron plate looks like a big cauldron from a distance. There is a human face on all four sides of the cauldron, but it is not a human face, because the fangs on the face look like It looks like a wild boar tooth and looks quite scary.
In the middle of the cauldron is a mummy. The mummy is the body of an adult man. The mummy is very tall and must have been a very burly young man during his lifetime.
Next to the mummy is an earthen jar with viscera inside. This is also the way of making mummies in Jinhu Kingdom. The corpses of ordinary people may just be dried and buried deep in the ground with straw sweeps, but the nobles are different. They will make mummies after their death. Very sophisticated, people will use melted rosin to apply on the face to protect the facial image and prevent it from drying out too quickly.
Then the experienced master will use a special chisel to insert it through the left nostril, crush the ethmoid bone, then use the tool to rotate in the skull to destroy the brain, and use a very thin long-handled spoon to stab through the nostril. Enter the brain to scoop out the brain matter, and finally stuff some drugs and spices into the empty skull.
After completing the making of the head, the next step is the abdomen. The old master will make an opening on the left side of the deceased's abdomen, take out the stomach, intestines, liver, and lungs, and then clean the internal organs and organs with palm wine and herbs. The stomach, intestines, liver, and lungs were soaked in natron respectively, then treated with hot resin, wrapped with cloth tape, and placed in four separate jars.
So in this way, a complete corpse has been prepared, and then dehydrated. Dehydration is a very important drying process. It must first be filled with natron and other temporary fillers wrapped in cloth, and then placed in a dry Leave the natron powder inside for about a month. After the water is absorbed, take out the filling inside and replace it with a cloth bag filled with crushed myrrh, cinnamon, natron, sawdust, etc., and finally sew the incision.
Before wrapping the mummy in linen, in order to maintain its flexibility, people would selectively apply a mixture of cow's milk, wine, spices, beeswax, rosin and tar to the skin to beautify it. Here we have to talk about the mummies of the nobles. , because the mummies of nobles are only filled with linen and stones. However, after the royal family or monks have golden eyes, after they are encased, the craftsmen will add a step, which is to use artificially fired porcelain eyeballs and put them into the mummies. The eye sockets make the mummy's face more vivid and vivid.
The last step is the wrapping. The priests will send the deceased away with the incantation of the past life. After all preparations are completed, the burial will be carried out.
The mummy in front of him was obviously a person of noble status.
"ah!"
A woman screamed, and her body shriveled up quickly, and a black asphalt-like substance flowed from her eyes. She turned out to be a beauty, but at this time she gradually withered, and finally her hair began to turn white to the naked eye, and then The whole person quickly changed from a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old to an old woman of seventy or eighty years old.
While the body shriveled, the black liquid flowing from the eyes crawled towards the sacrificial cauldron as if alive, and then got into the mummy's mouth.
Delly was extremely frightened, because just at that moment, she saw the mummy's body suddenly... moved!
"Woo!" Delly began to struggle, but it was still to no avail.
The people around the altar thought this was a sacred ceremony, so they all lay down on the ground, crossed their hands on their chests, and pressed their foreheads against the ground, like a human-shaped arch bridge.
Suddenly, the second woman's body also began to wither, and a large amount of black liquid flowed out of his seven orifices and was absorbed by the mummy in the cauldron...