Chapter 398 The So-Called Afterlife

Even so, the corpse on the back of the humanoid cage still did not fall off.

The corpse was still hanging tightly on the flower stalk.

Eggplant sat down on the open ground, leaning on a stone and jokingly said:

"Ji Han, just now you said it looked like a ginseng fruit tree, but I didn't think it looked like it. But now I see it, it's just that the fruit is not very edible."

Ji Han replied:

"Come on, this thing is definitely not for eating. Chen Ke, check the condition of the body."

Chen Ke skillfully put on his gloves and squatted down to check briefly and said:

"It looks like he is a male of sixteen or seventeen years old. He has no external injuries and the cause of death cannot be confirmed. However, like the ghosts from Dizu Village we met before, he has many branches growing on his body. He should be a villager from Dizu Village."

Song Qian was surprised and said:

"So the villagers in Dizu Village all grow from trees? Isn't this beyond common sense?"

Ji Han gently turned the human-shaped cage over and said:

"Even if this sacred tree can really kill people and then create new lives with the blood of others, where did they capture so many people and dedicate them to this tree? In that era, this number was basically equivalent to killing one person. tribe."

Eggplant raised his hand and said:

"This shouldn't be a problem, because the time span may be relatively large. Some of the cages I just pushed down along the way are still very strong, and some are broken when touched. It is estimated that the time span is very large. It may be decades or even Accumulated over hundreds of years.”

At this time, Chen Ke, who was squatting on the ground, took out a bone from the humanoid cage and looked at it carefully.

Before Ji Han could ask, Chen Ke took the bone and compared it with the bones in the human-shaped cage hanging nearby. He also took off his gloves and popped out a small instrument to test it.

Eggplant shouted:

"Chen Ke, that's alright. I'm not asking you to write a lab report."

As he spoke, Eggplant stretched back, but the stone behind him could not withstand the heavy blow from his mountain of flesh. He fell to the ground with a "pop", which shocked everyone.

Eggplant also sat up suddenly and said:

"Is everything okay? Wait a minute, Ji Han, come here and take a look at this."

Eggplant said as he blew off the dust on the stone he had just leaned on, revealing a strange shape on the stone.

Ji Han, Song Qian and Chen Ke, who was holding the bone, also gathered over.

The pattern on the stone is a huge oval, with several walking little people carved on it.

Chen Ke asked:

"Is this the logo of their ancestral village? All tribes at that time did this."

I tried to use the quantum wave reading method to decipher, and actually parsed out two words:

Afterlife.

Ji Han explained:

"This logo should roughly mean 'rebirth'."

Rebirth is a Buddhist term, which is the process of getting rid of the shackles of past bad karma and gaining new life, commonly known as death.

Eggplant grinned upon hearing this and said:

"Hey, I'm most annoyed by the Buddhist teachings, which lie to people to suffer in this life and enjoy happiness in the next life."

Song Qian explained:

"This Dizu Village is probably older than Sakyamuni. The word 'rebirth' should be a free translation by Brother Han."

Ji Han pinched his chin and thought:

…

"But what does this place have to do with the afterlife?"

At this time, Chen Ke, who was holding two bones, suddenly bumped the bones together and shouted:

"Fuck, that's it!"

The startled Eggplant cursed:

"Chen Ke! If you are surprised again next time, I will give you a damn shot!"

"I'm sorry, I'm so excited. Brother Ji, I seem to understand. Look at these two bones."

Ji Han took it over and looked at it carefully, but found nothing:

"What's wrong with this bone?"

"One of these two pieces was from the cage on the ground just now, and the other was taken from another cage. I also compared it with the ones in other cages. I found that the people in these cages have one thing in common: they are all It’s an old man!”

"elder?"

"That's right, judging from the bone age, he is at least sixty or seventy years old."

Song Qian continued:

"No wonder the people in these cages show no signs of resistance. It turns out they are all elderly people."

Eggplant was also surprised and said:

"Sixty or seventy years old, good guy. At that time, you could even be rated as a super longevity village!"

Ji Han knew that Chen Ke's statement that the people in these cages were all old people was definitely not superficial, but had something to do with the stone in front of him that was engraved with the pattern of "past life".

Suddenly remembering that Chen Ke had said before that the person with the fruit on the pedicle was sixteen or seventeen years old, Ji Han instantly understood what Chen Ke meant.

"Chen Ke, do you want to say that this ancestral village put the old people into human cages formed by this sacred tree to suck blood, and then formed a new younger version of themselves behind their backs?"

Chen Ke nodded deeply and said:

"I think this is what 'passing on' means."

Not to mention Eggplant and Song Qian, even Ji Han himself was shocked by this speculation.

Eggplant frowned and said:

"I said there isn't even a cemetery here, but is this sacred tree really that powerful? Can it clone itself?"

Chen Ke explained:

"Brother Qie, are you still

Dear, this chapter is not finished yet, there is still the next page^0^ Remember the world of consciousness we entered, right? Since this sacred tree can simulate human nervous feelings, simulated cloning is really possible. "

Song Qian responded:

"Just jealous and a little crazy."

Eggplant said:

"What does this mean? Do you still remember the black shadow that changed its head when you saw it on Kunlun Mountain? The ancients would do anything to live forever."

Seeing Ji Han staring at the cage on the ground without saying anything, Chen Ke thought Ji Han was frightened, so he stepped forward and patted him and said:

"Brother Ji, do you think my guess should be okay?"

Ji Han did not nod, but said doubtfully:

"I have a question. If it is really possible to be reborn like this, then why did they seal this place below? And it seems that their reincarnation only lasted one round, and then this place was abandoned and covered below. It's like I don’t want to use it again or let future generations or others see it.”

"Brother Ji, what do you mean?"

Ji Han did not say it directly, but recalled:

"I watched "Doraemon" when I was a child. The prop in one of the episodes was a mirror, which could reflect a person's shadow and order the shadow to do things. However, the protagonist Nobita was too lazy, allowing the shadow to have a self outside for a long time. Consciousness, the shadow threw Nobita into the mirror and hid the mirror, almost turning Nobita into a shadow."

After hearing this, Eggplant spread his hands and said:

"So what does this have to do with what's going on here?"

Song Qian immediately understood what Ji Han meant:

"Brother Han, do you mean that the people in this humanoid cage are the real old Dizu Village villagers, and the young people who grew out of their backs relying on their blood may not be the reincarnated Dizu Village villagers, so After they were all reincarnated, they sealed this place."

"That's right!"

I like this game and I don’t dare to play it anymore

Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^