Daomu Biji

"In the past, the local people here called the shadows in these stones Miluo Tuo." The ghost man said, "We always thought that they meant that the things in these stones were Miluo Tuo. However, after research on ancient books, , we found out we were wrong.

Milotuo does not refer to these things. Milotuo means old grandmother in the language of the Yao people. The Milotuo they were referring to was the entire mountain here. "

"Mountain?" I echoed.

"The mountain is the old grandmother, and these shadows are the children born of the old grandmother. When we arrived here, the Yao people were not yet fully civilized, and they still attached great importance to the taboo parts of their culture.

During our inspection at that time, we discovered that some of the best adult hunters here would have a strange tattoo on their bodies when they became adults. The pattern of the tattoo was an animal similar to a unicorn. We did a lot of in-depth research on this behavior in the early stage.

Through their understanding of the evolution of tattoos and some legends, we discovered that there are two key points in the origin of this tattoo. "

The first point is the tattoo masters from the Han nationality. In their legends, the old man remembered that someone said that their initial tattoos were not like this. Both the tattoo technique and the shape of the tattoo were very simple and primitive.

Later, a Han tattoo master came and taught me slowly, and tattooing finally became like this.

When did this Han tattoo master come to Banai? According to their speculation, it should be during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

There is very little information about him. Only one legend mentions that he came to escape sin, which cannot be verified.

But this is not important. The first thing we know is that this tattoo was improved by a Han Chinese hundreds of years ago.

So. No one knows what the previous tattoo looked like. But, very lucky. In their subsequent investigation, in other Yao villages. Got some circumstantial information.

Legend has it that the Banai hunter tattoo has regional restrictions. It is said that only hunters who hunt in the deep areas of Yangjiao Mountain need to be tattooed.

It seems that the place Yangjiao Mountain is different from other places in the hearts of Cuban people.

Secondly, what is the meaning of this tattoo?

Is it to ward off evil spirits? Their folklore experts dismissed this claim. Because if it is a pattern to ward off evil spirits. There should be a culture passed down in the village, but if you ask them, no one knows the purpose of tattoos.

It is just a custom, and the patterns used to ward off evil cannot be changed. If a Han master changes the pattern, it would be a major event comparable to the genocide.

It would be nice if this master didn't get ripped off.

There were many twists and turns in the textual research process. The textual research work of that generation was very powerful. On the one hand, the real masters of the previous generation were still alive.

There are always some clues if you ask, and secondly, the various old materials are better preserved than the current ones, so they finally discovered the reason.

That tattoo. It is a very precise topographic map, of course not in the current sense, but after the ancient Yao people experienced countless attempts and dangers on that land.

Find the safest hunting roads in that area. This road is very complicated. In an era without maps and writing, the ancient Yao people had it tattooed on their bodies.

At that time, the tattoo was just for simply recording the route. Later, due to various historical reasons such as war, the original intention of the tattoo was forgotten.

It became a custom without a reason. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a Han man who jumped into the Yao ethnic group and possessed tattooing skills improved these crude patterns and finally turned them into the tattoos they are today.

"So. The tattoo pattern on the Banai hunter is actually the route of the Yao Kingdom's ancient road." I thought of Menyou Ping's tattoo. I can’t think too deeply about it yet, but I know what this ghostly man said should be right. We've found that too.

"Later we entered the Yangjiao Mountain area. Gradually a doubt arose." He said, "Why should we have the route tattooed on our bodies? Can't we remember it in our brains?

In other words, if the mountain roads here are so complicated and weird, why don't you just go in? Why do you have to go in?

If an iron mine is located in a place that is very difficult to access and it costs one kilogram of gold to mine one kilogram of iron, then why do we still need to mine it? "

"Is it really that complicated?" I can't remember the details of the oil bottle tattoo, but I do have the impression that the tattoo is quite complicated.

"It's so complicated that it's impossible for people to remember it with their brains or instincts. If it weren't for the tattooed map, they would have given up less than a third of the way. That road would be too difficult."

The ghost said, "In this world, I am the only person who can walk that path without that tattoo."

They tried to find the end point of this ancient road based on this tattoo, because they found that this ancient road had no hunting value, obviously.

The ancient Yao people spent so much energy to open up this ancient Yao road, it must be for something more important.

They were working on the archaeological project of the Zhangjia Ancient Building at the time, so they naturally thought of the two in the same place. They speculated that the location of the Zhangjia Ancient Building here would be related to the very important things hidden in this tattoo map. What connection.

So the team where the ghost man belonged began to explore the ancient road.

But what they didn't expect was that the ancient road had no end and the entire road was a closed loop.

"What does this have to do with this mountain?" the fat man asked impatiently, as the shadows on the wall gradually faded due to the evaporation of water vapor.

"Don't you understand?" the ghost said, stepping on his feet.

We lowered our heads, and it took me a while to realize: "Is this the ancient road?"

“Yes, this ancient road has always been built close to the rocks, and almost all sections of the ancient road are on the edge of the rocks.

And all the rocks beside the ancient roads are full of things like this.

The entire ancient road is like a very complex spell pattern, encircling the entire mountain here.

All these Milotuos are only found in this circle. They swim extremely slowly among the rocks, but when they reach the edge of the stone path, they can no longer get out. "

"Yes, it's interesting. Keep talking." The fat man seemed to be in high spirits.

"This ancient road is like a fence?"

"Yes, it seems that the ancient Yao people were raising these things." The ghost man said, "This is our conclusion, and some people have further speculated that these ancient Yao people's roads are the carvings on the rubber trees, and they followed these roads.

Cut off the surface of the mountain. These things are very sensitive to heat sources, so they light a stove near the mountain path, lead them to the surface of the mountain, and dig out these monsters.

We don't know why these monsters spawn in the mountains or what their value is, but there are plenty of signs that this is what they do. "

"Is it possible that the ones born are all beautiful girls?" The fat man touched his chin, "It's so cute. I didn't expect the people here to have such awesome skills."

"It's not like you haven't seen these monsters before. They are green like beer bottles. Even if they are girls, would you kill them?" I couldn't help but laugh or cry.

"The ones we see may not be well developed yet. When Bai Suzhen was not well developed, her lower body was not a big fat." The fat man said, "I don't have any taboos about being fat. If it's green, just be green. Anyway, it doesn't matter if it's not a green hat. "

I shook my head and looked at the ghost man. No changes could be seen on the ghost man's face, and he continued: "The question is, since we are raising them, what does Milotuo eat?"

The ghostly figure extinguished the torch and walked back, "Wu Sansheng, you know what I want to say." To be continued