Paranormal incident investigation notes

After solving the matter here at Wen Cheng, the follow-up work will go smoothly.

Lu Ming first negotiated with the prison authorities and jointly dispatched staff with the local Public Security Bureau to take Wen Cheng into custody and take him out of the prison and to the university where he was before he was imprisoned.

The university had expelled Wen Cheng long before he was imprisoned. All his research materials have also been sealed. Now, with Lu Ming here, it will not be a problem to get the school's cooperation. So, after a long absence, Wen Cheng once again came into contact with these things that had accompanied him day and night in the past.

Numerous ancient books, documents, information, models, antiquities, etc.

Dali culture is indeed just a niche culture. Except for Wen Cheng, no one was really interested in this. After Wen Cheng was captured, no archaeologist had touched these things for several years.

At this moment, touching these things, Wen Cheng's eyes were filled with emotion.

Soon after, a piece of currently known information about Dali culture compiled by Wen Cheng was presented to Lu Ming.

After completing this work, Wen Cheng returned to prison to continue serving his sentence. Of course, if Lu Ming has any questions about this information, or if there is anything else that needs consultation or supplementation, you can contact him at any time very conveniently.

This information is very informative. It includes the development history and origin of Dali culture, population estimates, cultural models, food sources, production relations, etc., etc., all-inclusive.

But Lu Ming was completely uninterested in most of them. He patiently read through this information, and finally sifted out a few aspects that might be related to the sarcophagus in the Destiny Organization's sanctuary.

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7. Research on the worship of gods in Dali culture.

Like many early cultures, the worship of gods in Dali culture still remains in a rather primitive stage. They do not have a systematic organization for worshiping gods. They mainly believe in "animism" and their social organizational structure is divided into political leaders and theocratic leaders. The political leader is responsible for civil and military aspects of tribal management, but the theocratic leader has the final decision-making power.

Dali culture worships ‘death’, and their tomb culture is very developed. Compared with other cultures, they had the concept of ‘coffin’ earlier, and the deceased would be buried in the coffin.

Dali culture regards ‘death’ as a tribal totem. The embodied image of the concept of "death" can be found in some unearthed pottery, stone tools, a small number of bronze wares, jade wares, etc. used for sacrifices. What Dali culture uses to embody the concept of death is a coffin. "

The image of a coffin as the totem of his tribe caught Lu Ming's attention.

Wen Cheng's research conclusion is that the ancestors of the Dali culture worshiped death and the god of death, so they used a coffin as a totem pattern.

but……

After in-depth investigation of the destiny organization, Lu Ming had a different understanding of this.

The reason why the coffin is used as a totem is most likely not that the coffin means death, but that it means destiny.

The ancestors of Dali culture did not worship the God of Death, but the God of Destiny.

It is very likely that the ancestors of the Dali culture who lived in what is now Shanbei City discovered the sarcophagus by coincidence. The priests, wise men and other leaders with divine power in the tribe discovered it during a long search. The mystery of this sarcophagus, and then with this sarcophagus as the core, the culture and worship customs of worshiping the sarcophagus developed.

This explanation is more reasonable and more credible than Wen Cheng's speculation. However, it is normal for Wen Cheng to conclude that "the coffin means death" without knowing that the sarcophagus existed and that the sarcophagus possessed some "supernatural power".

Another thing that caught Lu Ming's attention was some of the sacrificial customs of the ancestors of Dali culture.

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8. Sacrifice customs of Dali culture.

According to research on some unearthed altars, the ancestors of the Dali culture had very cruel sacrificial customs.

The main body of the altar in Dali culture is a coffin, which means "death". In front of the altars in different regions of the six branches, a large number of corpses of pregnant women or pregnant animals have been found.

There is ample evidence that the ancestors of the Dali culture used pregnant women or pregnant animals as sacrifices to the ‘God of Death’. After the sacrifice, these pregnant women or pregnant animals will be killed.

The coffin means death, and the pregnant woman or pregnant animal means rebirth. It makes sense logically to sacrifice death with new life and please death with new life.

From the analysis of some graphic information, we know that whenever important events occur, such as wars between tribes, large-scale hunting activities, large-scale fishing activities, or the death or succession of tribal leaders, the ancestors of the Dali culture will make sacrifices to the God of Death. Activity. Depending on the specifications, the number of pregnant women or pregnant animals sacrificed also varies. There is at least one pregnant woman and ten pregnant animals, and the pregnant animals are mainly horses, cows, pigs, and sheep. The highest-level ones have ten pregnant women and one hundred pregnant animals.

The ancestors of Dali culture tried to use this to please the God of Death in exchange for the success of major events. "

Lu Ming was not horrified by the cruelty of the ancestors of Dali culture. Frankly speaking, this kind of thing was very common in the early days of human civilization. All over the world, no matter where the civilization is, there are similar customs. Even in the feudal era, large-scale burials were common.

Even rich men in the countryside had records of forcing their concubines to death and then burying them in their bodies.

Human life has never been a valuable or rare existence in history.

What attracted Lu Ming's attention was that the ancestor culture that appeared in the Shanbei City area actually had the same tradition of sacrificing pregnant women like the Destiny Organization.

Combining the known information, Lu Ming had reason to believe that part of Wen Cheng's research was wrong.

What the ancestors sacrificed was not the pregnant woman or the pregnant beast as Wen Cheng thought, but the fetus in the belly of the pregnant woman or the pregnant beast. The purpose of the ancestors' sacrifices was not to please the God of Death, but most likely to exchange for the gift of the God of Fate and complete the transfer of "luck".

However, although Wen Cheng's research process was wrong, the conclusion was correct.

"In exchange for the success of major events", it is essentially better luck.

Combining Wen Cheng's research data, Lu Ming was now able to determine that sacrificing pregnant women to this sarcophagus had already existed thousands of years ago. However, the ancestors thousands of years ago made sacrifices on a larger scale and with more cruel methods.

The Destiny Organization only sacrifices one person at a time, and the pregnant woman will not be executed after the sacrifice. It will only kill the fetus after the fetus is born, and the pregnant woman will be reused.

Moreover, the Destiny Organization at least knows that this kind of thing is not tolerated in the world, so it has been sneaky and tried every means to cover it up. The tribal ancestors thousands of years ago had no such scruples at all.

Not only are they aboveboard, they even regard this as a grand ceremony.

The third point that attracted Lu Ming's attention was the research on the reasons for the ultimate demise of Dali culture.

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16. The demise of Dali culture.

According to the study of geological faults, as well as the research of unearthed cultural relics and murals, it can be determined that the Dali culture perished due to natural disasters. Moreover, according to the research on the cultural relics unearthed from the Dali Culture, the distribution and posture of the remains, it can be confirmed that this natural disaster occurred suddenly.

A large number of weapons and a large number of bones had been unearthed from a certain altar before. In another place large quantities of grains were unearthed. There is reason to believe that the main tribes of Dali culture were planning a relatively large-scale military operation at that time. But before the army set out, a huge flood came, destroying all the buildings and drowning everyone. From then on, Dali culture was completely destroyed. "

Dali culture has thus withdrawn from the stage of history. Thousands of years later, only Wen Cheng worked tirelessly to uncover their stories. And it is certain that what Wen Cheng unearthed was only a small part of Dali culture.

More things about Dali culture were completely buried along with this flood and the passage of thousands of years, and will never be known to anyone again.

This ending made Lu Ming slightly sad.

"So many pregnant women and beasts were sacrificed, hoping to pray for good luck, but the good luck did not come, but a flood that destroyed the world. I don't know that the ancestors had just finished their sacrifices, and they had not yet How does it feel to see the overwhelming flood coming before you can set out?"

The ancestors of Dali culture had the tradition of offering sacrifices first when encountering important events. Then it can be determined that there will definitely be such a sacrifice before the start of this large-scale military operation. It is very likely that when the flood came, this kind of sacrifice was in progress or had just been completed.

Then came the flood.

Lu Ming shook his head and put the information together.

From this information and from Dali culture, there should be no more clues about this sarcophagus.

Lu Ming returned to the sanctuary.

At this moment, the manor clubhouse, which used to have beautiful scenery and full of elegance, has been turned into a breeding farm. Moos, bleats, and hums are endless. Even the air smelled like animal excrement.

A total of 3,000 pregnant animals, pregnant sows, cows, ewes, and accompanying staff from various breeding farms were mobilized from various breeding farms, almost filling the manor.

Before the entrance to the sanctuary, He Wei wore a mask to cover her mouth and nose, and carefully directed the staff to drive the pregnant beasts into the sanctuary.

In the sanctuary, in front of the sarcophagus, the Saint of the Destiny Organization, the goddess covered in oil paint, was ready at this moment.

Originally, Lu Ming thought that it might be a little difficult to extract the details of the sacrifice from the mouth of Saint Lao Shizi. After all, she was a saint, and her loyalty should be higher than that of ordinary believers. But unexpectedly, after hearing that cooperating with the sacrifices was regarded as meritorious service and would be of great benefit to subsequent sentencing, she almost immediately agreed to her request.

Now she was standing in front of the sarcophagus, preparing to perform the first ceremony.

I don’t know if she will feel the price has dropped now. After all, in previous ceremonies, humans were sacrificed, but this time, animals were sacrificed.

In addition to the Saint, there is another high-level member of the Destiny Organization who was so dedicated that he got the job of reciting the sacrificial inscriptions during the sacrificial ceremony in front of the sarcophagus.

In the past, this job was personally performed by the leader of the Destiny Organization.

Another senior member of the Destiny Organization won the role of beneficiary of the ceremony.

The purpose of this ceremony, in theory, is to "transfer" the luck of the fetuses in the bellies of pregnant female beasts to this senior executive of the destiny organization. Just like in the past, the luck of the fetus in a pregnant woman's belly was transferred to the core members of the destiny organization.

The difference is that it was a human before, but this time it is a beast.

The first batch of a hundred pregnant pigs, cattle and sheep were sent to the sarcophagus after preliminary processing.

According to the saint, a sacrifice is not just about placing a pregnant woman or a pregnant animal in front of a sarcophagus and then dancing a spiritual dance. Before this, more complicated preparations must be made.

For example, cleansing the body, burning incense and praying, carving runes, etc., there are more than thirty links in total. The final sacrifice and spiritual dance are just the ending.

Therefore, the first batch of one hundred pregnant beasts to be sacrificed were divided into categories and treated differently.

Some of the pregnant beasts were disposed of according to standard procedures, that is, these more than thirty procedures were completely carried out, exactly the same as when pregnant women were sacrificed in the past.

In the second part, Pregnant Beast, the first link was intentionally missing, but the remaining links were not missing at all. In the third part, the pregnant beast intentionally misses the second link, and the remaining links remain the same, and so on.

There will be more attempts by the pregnant beasts who perform subsequent sacrifices. For example, two links are intentionally missing, or three links are missing.

Lu Ming hoped to use this to test which aspects of the sacrifice were critical and indispensable, and which aspects were dispensable and could be omitted.

The mystery of sacrifice may be hidden in these links.

The rock experts and acoustic experts who had been temporarily withdrawn on standby also entered the scene at this moment and set up a working environment in front of the sarcophagus.

According to the classics of the Destiny Organization, the sign of a successful sacrifice is a banging sound coming from the sarcophagus. Now, experts are staying at the scene, so once the sacrifice is successful, they and the instruments and equipment they carry will be able to truly capture those sounds and conduct more in-depth research on them.

Now that everything is in place, the sacrifice really begins.

The pregnant animals injected with anesthesia were divided into several rows and placed in front of the sarcophagus. The smell is in the air. The Saint solemnly performed a spiritual dance, while another senior member of the Destiny Organization solemnly recited a sacrificial inscription.

The rituals organized by the worship of gods, advanced high-tech equipment, and many pregnant beasts with an agricultural atmosphere all intertwined together in this sanctuary to create such a slightly incongruous scene.

He Wei and Lu Ming watched carefully.

Ten minutes later, the goddess was already sweating slightly, and the ceremony was finally over. At this moment, everyone in the hall fell silent.

Lu Ming was waiting for the boom-boom sound to sound again.

There was silence in the hall.