Savage Secret

() Those corpses hanging on the tree are all wearing a strangely shaped tiger face mask. Could the mask several feet high in front of you be worn by someone?If so, the person wearing the mask should be about the same size as a dinosaur. The mouth of the mask is two people tall. It is wide enough to place a pool table, and it is definitely not a problem to accommodate dozens of people.

Looking at the tiger face mask, one naturally thinks of a tiger.Tigers are big cats at the top of the food chain. They are solitary and ferocious.According to folklore, they are so brave that they are not even afraid of dragons, and they dare to fight with dragons, gradually evolving into a game of fighting dragons and tigers.

Dragons only exist in legends, but tigers live in reality and directly affect people's lives and lives. Therefore, tigers have even more influence on people than dragons.

The lives of tigers and humans are too close, and when the two inevitably meet, a life-and-death confrontation begins. It is difficult for ordinary people to compete with tigers, and they can only become a meal in their mouths amid painful struggles and wailing.Because of this, people who dared to fight tigers and killed them have been worshiped as gods since ancient times. There are not many such people: Zilu, a disciple of Confucius, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, both fought tigers, and Wu Song and Li Kui in novels even The well-known tiger fighting hero.

Most of the tigers in the New Year's paintings stand on the steep rocks of isolated peaks, with their heads soaring to the sky.The roar of the tiger may shock the sky, but it is only an instant.A tiger also needs to live, and it is impossible to raise its head and bark all day long, otherwise it will starve to death.The face of the tiger in front of us is different from the one in the New Year painting. It bows its head and lowers its eyebrows, gazing down. When we look up, we feel that we are small and fragile. The oppression and narrowness make us fearful, and we almost want to prostrate ourselves on the ground.

The tiger's face was so majestic that Lao Niu and I didn't even have the courage to look at it a few more times. We stood for a long time before daring to move, but we always felt that its eyeballs had never left us, so we quickly lowered our heads and hurried past, as if we had committed a big crime. wrong.

"Tie Yan, here, there are calligraphy and painting here!" When we wanted to go around behind the tiger's face, the old cow said suddenly.The words he said were engraved on the tall fangs, and were covered with thick black bloodstains, each of which pierced through a corpse that was about to be torn apart. The corpses were extremely pale. Although they did not rot, they were brutal , I didn't even look there.

Now after Lao Niu had spoken, he only glanced at it, and felt that the characters on it were very familiar, and they were very similar to the ghost symbols that were deeply imprinted in his mind.I thought of seeing the relief of the white tiger in the Tuwang Temple, where there are ghost-drawing characters, and there are ghost-drawing characters here, that is the white tiger relief, and this is the tiger face mask. Is there any connection between them?

The words on the fangs are already very blurred due to wind erosion and rain, and it is not easy to read. I can only read more intently. I have a vague feeling that if I understand it, I can understand the connection between the tiger face mask and the white tiger relief. To be precise, it is to understand the connection between the wild man and Zhiji Tima.

I looked at it and traced it with my hands in the air, hoping to recognize it faster according to my writing habits, but the old cow next to me exclaimed: "There are words on this one too!"

Lao Niu was also very interested in this text, and he looked at it carefully, as if trying to figure it out, but he was always frowning.And after repeated scrutiny based on the shape and meaning of the characters, I have a clear answer in my heart. There are four characters for each fang. The left side is: "Punishment from the sky!"

In layman's terms, "Punishment from Heaven" is the most fair judgment on people. To be precise, it is to punish those who have done bad things and bad things! "There is no pardon for you" means that this punishment is fair and without partiality, and no one can be pardoned for any reason or excuse!From ancient times to the present, people have always had a concept of heaven in their hearts: above the invisible clouds, there is a fairy mountain jade pavilion.In the auspicious clouds and mist, there are countless immortal gods living in the fairy mist, and they are the real masters of the world!People's every move on the ground can't escape their eyes. If they find people disrespecting them or violating human nature, they will punish them.People can lie to people, but they cannot lie to heaven, so many people hope that there will be such a just judge in the world who can "execute the punishment of heaven, and there will be no pardon!" But this is just a beautiful dream!It is a statement with the nature of religious deception!

A scene emerged in my mind: Thousands of years ago, a huge and ferocious white tiger jumped into a primitive tribe and injured many people and animals. Tribal leaders or wizards tried many times to capture it and avenge the tribe, but all failed. This incident made the heartbroken tribe gradually question the leader's ability.In order to maintain his authority and status, the leader came up with this sentence to deceive the foolish people, saying that those who were injured had done bad things and deserved their crimes. To make people believe, the face of the white tiger was also made into a mask, carved into a stone statue, and sacrificed to it.

"Tie Yan, do you know what is written on it?" Lao Niu pretended to be profound, and patted my shoulder mysteriously, as if he already knew the answer.

I didn't know the characters on it until my grandpa encountered the accident by accident, and tricked me into learning that ghost talisman.Zhiji Tima once said that this kind of script was used by Tujia ancestors in the early days, and even he didn't know it, let alone Lao Niu.Now that he pretends to understand, I can only pretend not to understand, so I said modestly: "Brother Niu is really well-versed in scriptures, he has learned a lot, and he can even recognize these words, hurry up and explain to my little brother!"

The old cow was not polite, rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his hands grinningly, pointed at the words on the tiger's face and fangs one by one, and read aloud: "Boy, you heard clearly, it says: Before the bed The bright moonlight is suspected to be frost on the ground!"

My mind was spinning and I almost fainted, so I quickly reminded him: "Brother Niu, let's stop for a moment, I have heard of 'Bright Moonlight Before the Bed', it is a poem by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty, and this is Shennongjia, which is rarely visited by people. , those savages..."

Before I finished speaking, Lao Niu snatched it up: "What's the matter? "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" was popularized 800 years ago, I don't believe that wild people can't recite it!"

I smiled wryly, and said with strong sarcasm: "Brother Niu, I suddenly feel that the gloomy sky has become brighter and brighter. Like washing. A long-haired, uncivilized little savage, sitting on a small bench in the middle of the yard, holding a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems", reading aloud: Moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground. Looking at the bright moon, looking down at the girl! By the way, do you think such a trance and desolate poem is suitable for this kind of bloody place?"

The old cow's face darkened, and he said with a little anger: "Tie Yan, wake up, I'm teasing you! You really think who you are! Even if Brother Niu is blind, he can see that there are only four Although I don’t know this word, I can guess based on the momentum: Isn’t it at the entrance of the Savage Valley? Is there a dead man hanging on the fangs? All kinds of evidence show that the above text is a warning: Savage forbidden land, trespassing die!"

Lao Niu's words were far-fetched, far from the original meaning of the text, but I could hear his worry: Although the tiger-faced corpse in the woods behind him didn't come after him, we didn't dare to go back.On the left and right are steep cliffs that are extremely difficult to climb, unless you fly up with wings.In other words, we can only move forward now.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, I hope that the god of fate will take care of us and stop us from getting into too much trouble.

The two checked the guns and ammunition and took a short rest. The old cow suddenly noticed the wolf teeth hanging on my wrist, and then talked about Zhang Xian's corpse toad pounced on me, happened to hit the wolf teeth, and then disappeared. , I lamented that the effect of wolf teeth to ward off evil spirits is good.

At that time, I pulled out all the teeth in the mouth of the donkey-headed wolf, and it was useless to use many, so I found a few and put them on for him, and explained to him: "There are several kinds of things to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. The first type is clever and witty things, the crystallization of human wisdom, such as ink fountains or something; the second type is things on ferocious or witty things: wolf teeth, dog teeth, tiger skins, and even kitchen knives; the third type It is a thing of the Legalists, and there are quite a few of this category. The magic weapons and magic weapons of Buddha, Taoism, and witches are different but have their own magical effects! In addition, according to folklore, pig and dog blood, copper coins, eggs, and red threads all have magical effects!"

After getting the equipment and getting up, I did not forget to tell the old cow in a showy tone: I really know the words on the fangs, and it says "Punishment from the sky, there is no pardon!"

I don't know if Lao Niu understands it, but I know someone understands it.Because just after I finished speaking, a strange voice came from my ear: "Hey!"

The voice came from the mouth of the huge mask, which was a little gloomy and frightened us. Lao Niu and I nervously raised our guns and aimed there: the mouth of the tiger face mask is about two feet deep. Although it is very dark, it can See the end, so we didn't pay much attention.Unexpectedly, a person came out of there, as if drilled out of a rock!