Divide into several small teams to hunt heads. At dusk and dusk, it is the time for the tired birds to return to their nests and the villagers to return home. The strong men sharpen their long knives and lie in ambush where pedestrians must pass. When people pass by, they rush away. The superior quickly beheaded him, and then called Jin to withdraw his troops, and happily returned to the stockade holding the head.
When approaching the stockade, the men would hit each other with their long knives and make clanking noises, which meant to inform the people in the stockade that they had found a head and that they could prepare for the head sacrifice.
The left-behind villagers will beat the wooden drum, one is to tell the people in the village not to go up the mountain and down the river; the other is to tell the people who have not returned to return to the village quickly. The headman in the village will bring a red bag, a bowl of rice, and an egg together with the prestigious old man to the holy place to welcome the headman. Waiting for the men to return with the hunted heads, they put red envelopes on the heads, and fed rice grains and eggs to the heads to "eat"; after that, they prayed devoutly and toasted the heads... Finally, a few women were on their side Weeping while washing the head.
After the head sacrifice is over. Amidst the shouts of the villagers and the sound of wooden drums, the mature men in the family of the officiant will send the heads into the holy place for placement.
Afterwards, the officiant will prepare a yellow ox to wash the knife, and use the long knife to cut off the head to steal the cow. After washing the knife "clean", the yellow ox will be used to entertain the villagers.
—These are all the information that Jiang Greed found when he was on the way to Yunsheng.
But right now, the clanging of soldiers and the sound of wooden drums sounded one after another, obviously the head sacrifice was about to begin.
Jiang Greed quietly hid in the dense canopy, looking towards the exit through the gaps in the branches. After waiting for about ten minutes, I saw a winding fire dragon stop at the entrance of the Holy Land.
Then came the lengthy and cumbersome head sacrifice.
The roars of the men and the cries of the women were mixed with the wind in the mountains. At first glance, it seemed like wild beasts roaring.
After the sacrificial process was over, a group of people carried their heads into the holy place.
Jiang Tan looked intently, and sure enough, he saw a few familiar faces in the crowd—the eldest sister who had talked to them, and the old man sitting at the door smoking a hookah.
Faces that were once kind and harmless now looked extremely strange under the interlacing of firelight and darkness.
But Jiang Li still couldn't find anything unusual about them, and couldn't even tell them apart. In the current situation, whether the village is too remote and backward and still quietly retains the old custom of hunting head sacrifices, or they are the ancient Wa people in the video.
All the previous guesses were overturned at this moment.
In front of Jiang Li's eyes, it was clearly a group of living villagers, so real that they couldn't tell them apart.
Jiang Greed's heart sank slightly. Seeing that the sacrifice had come to an end and the villagers were ready to return, he moved quietly among the branches, preparing to return to the village first.
It's just that as soon as he moved, a black shadow on a branch not far away flashed across in an instant, and before he could see it clearly, it was gone.
Jiang Greed hesitated between chasing after him for a look and going back to the village first, but in the end he chose to go back first—Song Yu was still in the village.
Even he didn't realize the abnormality of the village and the villagers, so Song Yu must have been kept in the dark. He was a little worried that something would happen if the other party stayed alone in the village.
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Hurrying back to the village before the villagers, Jiang Li saw that the lights were still on in every house.
A bonfire was lit on the square in the middle of the village. An old scalper was tied under the big tree at the entrance of the village. A few people sat around the bonfire, including Song Yu.
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Jiang Li messed up his clothes, turned on the flashlight, pretended to be lost and just found it, and walked forward, pretending to be pleasantly surprised: "It's really you, I thought I went to another village."
He sat down next to Song Yu, glanced calmly at several villagers, gasped for breath, and asked Song Yu for water.
Song Yu didn't know why, but he cooperatively handed him a cup of tea: "Didn't you say that you just walked around the village? I was thinking that if you don't come back, I will ask the people in the village to help you find you."
Jiang Li took a sip of his tea and said with a smile, "I wanted to turn around and go back, but I went astray and it was getting dark again. If I hadn't brought a compass and a flashlight, I almost wouldn't be able to come back."
"Fortunately, when I was walking around in the woods, I saw a light in this direction, so I followed the light." He asked casually, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"I'm going to go to the village to slaughter a cow for a banquet tonight." An old man sitting opposite Jiang Li said cheerfully in a strong dialect.
Jiang Greed understood what he said, but Song Yu had a strange expression on his face.
After the two found an excuse to go back to the house, he said to Jiang Li with some hesitation: "I think something is wrong in the village. Why does their formation look like a head sacrifice?"
Song Yu's cultivation level is not high, but his mind is cautious. When he was walking around the village and chatting in the evening, he noticed that the villagers were all in high spirits. It seemed that there was something important in the village. After dark, he went back to the house, and has been quietly watching the movement of the hostel and the village. He noticed that every house in the village was lit and no one was asleep.
At about eight o'clock, the sound of clanging metal and drums suddenly sounded outside, and the villagers also erupted. The more Song Yu thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, so he pretended to be woken up, and went to sit in front of the bonfire.
Until Jiang Greed came back, he was trying to formulate the words, but no matter how he asked, the villagers just mentioned it vaguely, and didn't mention anything about the sacrifice.
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"It's the head sacrifice. There is something wrong with the stockade." Jiang Greed affirmed his guess, and briefly told him about the head sacrifice in the Holy Land.
Guessing is one thing, guessing confirmed is another.
Song Yu opened his mouth and murmured in disbelief: "This is the 'Ancient Wa' we are looking for? But they seem to be normal people."
"I thought those 'ancient Wa people' were some kind of projected illusion, or they weren't people at all..."
These villagers are obviously ordinary people, how could they be the ancient Wa people
"Could it be a coincidence that this village is remote and backward, and still retains the old custom of head sacrifice?" Song Yu asked.
"It's not impossible."
Jiang Li also considered the possibility Song Yu mentioned, but he didn't take chances: "But I think it's more likely that these villagers are the 'ancient Wa people'."
It is even very possible that after entering the mountain, they have entered the overlapping space unconsciously.
Jiang Greed took out his phone and looked at it, but there was still no signal;
Seeing this, Song Yu also glanced at the phone, and then turned the screen to him. There was also a blank space: "Not long after entering the mountain, I checked the time. Although the signal was poor at that time, there was still there."
Both of them only focused on the sunset, and no one paid special attention to the time. No one could tell exactly when the mobile phone signal was lost.
Song Yu clutched his mobile phone with no signal, his expression was a little anxious.
"If you come, you will be safe." Seeing this, Jiang Greed reassured him: "Let's pass tonight first, and I will send you out of the village early tomorrow morning. After you go out, you will notify the branch office immediately when you go out to a place with a signal, and then try again. Come in, if you can't, you go back directly. I will wait for you at the same place for an hour. If you don't come back after an hour, then you can't come in again after going out. I will stay in the stockade for five days, whether I find someone or not , I will come out in five days."
"Aren't you going out with me?" Song Yu was stunned.
"No, if you go out, you may not be able to come in again."
Jiang Li shook his head, and arranged in an orderly manner: "If you can't go back to the village tomorrow, let your bureau chief contact Ying Qiao and tell them not to worry."
Knowing that he had to go back alone, Song Yu was a little uneasy. But before he came, the director had told him that Jiang Li had a private matter to attend to during his trip, so he didn't need to interfere.
Thinking about whether the other party was Taotie, he could only suppress his worries and obey the arrangement rationally.
…
Early the next morning, Song Yu excused that something happened at home, and hurriedly proposed to go back. Jiang Li said that his collection of songs was not over yet, and wanted to stay for a while, so he sent Song Yu down the mountain.
The author has something to say:
Greedy Zai (sigh): The mountains are poor and remote, there is no supper or takeaway.
Song Yu: Huh
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good night everyone~
ps: Baidu Encyclopedia for the relevant content of the head sacrifice of the Wa people.
Chapter 182
Getting out of the village was easier than expected. The villagers did not do much to stop them, but enthusiastically sent them out of the village.
Song Yu was a little bit guilty at first, but when he saw that the villagers did not stop them from leaving, he became a little uncertain. On the way down the mountain, he was still talking to Jiang Li: "I still think that these villagers look like the ancient Wa people." Can't match it."
There is really nothing in speech and behavior that can match the terrifying and gloomy ancient Wa people in the video.
If Jiang Greed hadn't witnessed the head sacrifice in the Holy Land with his own eyes, he would probably have doubts about honor.
These villagers are too ordinary. Except for the weird head sacrifice last night, at other times, the villagers are enthusiastic and harmless.
But no matter how normal and harmless the villagers looked, Jiang Li still believed in what he saw with his own eyes.
After all, facts speak louder than words.
Jiang Li shook his head, thinking that Song Yu was about to leave, so he didn't talk to him any more, only reminding him to pay attention to the mobile phone signal.
When the two of them walked halfway up the mountain, Song Yu's mobile phone signal space finally jumped out weakly, but quickly jumped back to the space.
He raised his phone in surprise, and said, "It seems that there is a signal!"
Jiang Greed stopped, stood on the spot and raised his chin at him: "Go a little further and try