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Chapter 471 The Truth and the Smokescreen
The two hit it off immediately and rode quickly towards the southwest.

A quarter of an hour later, a half-high cliff appeared before their eyes.

As the sun sets, countless hawks and doves circle and cry above the cliffs, making hoarse calls.

This is the platform for rebirth.

Among the thirty-six tribes of Handong in the Northern Dynasties, it is the place where the souls of the Jiji tribe returned to their hometown for celestial burial.

The natural stone steps formed by the mountain had been polished smooth over the years. Xie Zhao and Zhuo Nan climbed up the steps until they stood in front of the platform.

Numerous corpses were scattered on the rooftop of the Platform of Rebirth. Some were relatively recent, still with some shriveled and dried flesh, while others were older and had long been eaten away by wind and snow, and minced by birds and beasts beyond recognition.

It can be seen that they were once arranged neatly and carefully.

However, some of the corpses were dragged by the eagles and were now scattered on the ground in very strange postures, some lying on their backs, some on their sides, or some lying on their backs.

This is a different kind of desolation and vastness from the corpses strewn all over the battlefield.

People eat birds and beasts, and birds and beasts eat people.

It comes from the cruelty and ruthlessness of nature, but also from the cause and effect of the endless cycle of life.

It is hard to imagine that this is the sky burial ceremony that is widely spread on the grassland and is passed down from mouth to mouth as a blessing from the gods.

If it happened in the Southern Dynasty Tianchen, this scene would be the worst possible outcome, just like being left exposed in the wilderness.

——No one collected the body, it lay lying in the wilderness, there was no incense or burning to offer sacrifices, and there was no posthumous honor.

Therefore, if other people from the Southern Dynasty Tianchen saw this scene, they would definitely feel extremely desolate and sad.

But Xie Zhao was not an ordinary person from the Southern Dynasty Tianchen. She had a rebellious nature in her that she concealed very well.

At this moment, she even had a faint smile on her lips, and then she looked out at the horizon at the end of the grassland not far away and the river running through the north and south, the beautiful scenery of the intersection and integration under the setting sun, and sighed softly:
"This place is actually very beautiful, the air is fresh and vast, you can see the blue mountains and white water in the distance, and sleep in the green rocks and frost and snow. It is indeed a good place to go."

Zhuo Nan also sighed, nodded and said, "The Jiji tribe has lived near this place for hundreds of years, living a nomadic life and rarely engaging in other livelihoods.

The Algai grassland is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and has the relatively warmest climate in the north.

In addition, it is adjacent to the powerful ally of the Yuwen tribe, and has always been a very suitable place for the thirty-six tribes of Handong in the Northern Dynasty to settle down. "

After that, he looked at Xie Zhao and said calmly: "Your hometown does support people."

Xie Zhao was stunned at first.

Then he remembered that he had lied a few days ago that his hometown was in the Jiji Department in the Algae Steppe, so he said vaguely:
"It's OK. It's definitely much warmer than the Kodalu tribe. At least the people there are not as barbaric and rude as them."

After she finished speaking, Xie Zhao suddenly saw something. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and she walked forward and made an excuse to observe the corpse on the death platform.

Those bones seemed to be left behind by herdsmen from the Jiji tribe who had died in the past year.

In fact, it is very easy to identify, because the bodies are in similar weathering conditions and are dozens of bodies from almost the same time, so they are placed together.

Xie Zhao was just thinking about what excuse he could use to see the bodies openly when he was stunned to see this scene.

Zhuo Nan, who was dressed in a cold and elegant manner, walked calmly to the row of corpses, waved his hand to drive away a hawk, then half-knelt down and looked at the wounds on the bodies in silence.

What do you mean?
In the Northern Dynasties, people worshipped sacrifices in Handong. Is this the popular process now?

This is not what is said in "The Northern Dynasty Hanyong Chronicles"
Xie Zhao was stunned by Zhuonan's actions. Zhuonan put on a pair of sheepskin gloves and opened the wound of the corpse on the ground without hesitation, and then said lightly: "At a glance, the wound looks a little deep and cone-shaped. It was a carbine."

Xie Zhao paused. Most people would come to this conclusion after examining the wound, so she was not surprised.

She just squatted down calmly, moved closer to Zhuonan, and leaned over to look over.

After thinking for a while, Xie Zhao squinted and asked tentatively:

"If, I mean if - if someone used a knife to cut open the wounds of the deceased, wouldn't it be a very immoral thing in Handong of the Northern Dynasty?"

Zhuonan paused.

He frowned and looked at her slowly, the corners of his mouth raised in a smile, and a hint of alertness flashed in his eyes.

"Miss Zhao is also from Handong, the Northern Dynasty. Even your family is from the Jiji tribe. Why do you need to ask me this question?"

".I'm just asking casually."

Xie Zhao paused, then apologized with a smile.

There is no such thing written in "Records of Handong in the Northern Dynasties", but the Southern Dynasty Tianchen emphasized that one's body and hair are given by one's parents and should not be damaged. I don't know what the rules are for the people of Handong in the Northern Dynasties.

Logically speaking, they don't even think sky burial is a big deal, so her secretly dissecting the corpse shouldn't be considered a heinous crime, right?

Let's put this matter aside. She will run back to the interior as soon as possible. It won't matter if Zhuonan suspects her by then, right?

Xie Zhao glanced at Zhuo Nan out of the corner of his eye, squatted down as if he didn't care, and then quickly pulled out the dagger from his calf boots.

He muttered "Don't blame me, don't blame me" in the Northern Dynasty's Handong dialect, and then gently cut open the wound of the dead man.

Zhuonan originally wanted to wait and see what this strange girl was going to do without making any expression, but when he saw that Xie Zhao actually used a dagger to destroy the body of the boarding herdsman, his eyebrows twitched violently and he immediately wanted to step forward to stop her.

But when his eyes inadvertently fell on the wound, he suddenly stopped his action of stopping Xie Zhao, then leaned over and read an issue together with his handsome brows tightly furrowed.

After a moment, Xie Zhao picked up the dry grass on the ground and wiped the dagger, then said slowly:
".really."

Zhuo Nan was silent for a moment, then stood up and said, "This is 'injury within injury'."

The so-called "wound within wound" means to make another "cut" along the wound to cover the original wound trace.

"Ah."

Xie Zhao was still squatting in front of the body. She finally verified her guess, so she nodded with mixed feelings and said:

“The damaged muscle texture deep inside the wound is actually two completely different marks.

This is the result of the intersection of two murder weapons. The victim was first killed by a thin sharp weapon, and then the carbine was used to "finish the wound" after the person died, which could cause a larger wound, to cover up the previous scars. "

Zhuo Nan walked to another corpse, pulled out the knife he carried with him, and also made a deep cut on the left chest of the victim. Then the next moment, he frowned slightly.

Because the wounds on the remains were indeed treated in the same way.

The two of them roughly examined the bodies of the herdsmen and finally confirmed that they were all killed by swords, not by carbines.

The so-called death by carbine of Nanchao Tianchen was nothing but a trick used by someone to deceive people by using the carbine as an excuse.