The city, which has been abandoned for thousands of years, has been revitalized on this special day.

The fanaticism caused by religion is incomprehensible to ordinary people, and in the observation of the soldiers of the expeditionary force with amazement, the hundreds of thousands of local natives who followed the holy land were all busy, the gravel on the ground was carried out, the sturdy rattan was cut down, the thick moss was scraped clean with knives, and in their busyness, the ancient city, which had been abandoned for thousands of years, was re-revealed in a few days.

Although the years have passed in the ancient city, the traces of damage left on the pyramids are irreparable, but after a clean up, the towering and majestic city in the tropical rainforest is still majestic on the horizon, shining in the sun.

It's just that Li Dingguo is a little uncomfortable, he seems to have become an outsider, every day, Tianwu only discusses the details of the sacrifice with the descendants of the old nobles, and never has a branch with him, and the language barrier, he can't understand what these Aztecs are muttering every day.

On the other hand, Mao Yuer is also busy working all day long.

Under the pyramid, a wall has just been cleaned of moss, she and Xiao Duo immediately rushed up excitedly, labor expedition, she did not bring food in the box, did not bring gold and silver, stunned to bring a large number of good rice paper from Suzhou, rice paper dipped in water and pasted on the wall of the Mayan pyramid, and then wrapped the stone with a handkerchief stained with ink, hit the wall one by one, those Maya carvings, exquisite strokes and incomprehensible hieroglyphs were completely extended.

Mao Jue is willing to organize an expedition team to rub inscriptions and carvings in famous mountains and rivers around the world, and has organized painters and scientific expeditions to Dunhuang to protect and copy the local murals, and has also found a sealed Tibetan scripture hole, which caused a sensation, and has been in the newspaper for half a month, under his influence, Mao Yuer is also willing to have nothing to play archaeology.

It's just that Mao Yuer, who was full of interest, didn't know that her rubbings had become an extremely important material for the study of Maya in later generations, and after the destruction of the ancient city and holy land, it became the only treasure of the circulating event.

"Where is this like a princess, she is clearly a crazy girl, even the palace daughters around King Daxi are not as good, what kind of tutor is this royal family?"

There are still people who can't look at her, looking at her busy there, while squinting her eyes, Zuo Du Feng Shuangli snorted disdainfully, and when he heard this, Li Dingguo's ears were all deeply thoughtful and nodded slightly.

To tell the truth, after learning Mao Yuer's identity, he really moved a little crookedly, Mao Jue's pearl in the palm, the eldest princess of the empire, if he marries her, he Li Dingguo is a relative of the emperor, Mao Jue's concubine, the identity of the former thief can be washed away, and in the political arena of the Ming Empire, it can also be mixed smoothly.

However, after contact these days, even he Li Dingguo has a real headache, and he completely dispelled the idea of marrying this crazy girl, he is really afraid that he will be tossed crazy by Mao Yuer.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo asked sympathetically: "Song Yongzhong, Lord Song, what news has come from you?" ”

"Lord Hui, Lord Song has been staring at the scout camp with him, near Gutierrez, there are only a small group of Spaniards tentatively looking around, and there is no sign of a large-scale dispatch by the Western Barbarians!"

Not to mention, Song Yongzhong's reconnaissance and infiltration ability, even he Li Dingguo had to admire, listening to this, he nodded with satisfaction, and then his attention returned to the giant face carving carved on the cliff behind the big pyramid, and the fierce ambition couldn't stop burning in his pupils.

"That's good!"

"Accompany this group of gods to fool and play foolishly, and turn around to take this foreign country, when the time comes, you, Lao Liu, and our old brothers will be the founding fathers of this general! At that time, I will be the marquis and the prime minister for you, and the land will be sealed! ”

With Mao Jue opening the door to the world for the upper-class elites of the Ming Dynasty, people's concepts have unconsciously changed, since the Western barbarians can establish rule outside these territories, why can't they, overseas construction, the territory of the territory has become a fashion, listening to Li Dingguo's assurance, Feng Shuangli is also overjoyed, a pair of eight-character Hu Le are up, and Li Dingguo is also a heavy fist bow.

"Thank you to the three young masters for your support!"

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The preparation for this sacrifice lasted for several days, and 100,000 people tried their best to hunt in the nearby mountains, go to the sea to fish, and even catch a dolphin and come back, preparing full food and sacrifices, but despite this, it is still incomparable with the glorious Aztec festival a hundred years ago, after all, it was worshiped by 20 million Indians in the Mexican plateau and the Yucatan Peninsula at that time.

And compared to that time, there was one less important sacrifice, living slaves and animals.

Everyone is running over in revolt, one of the important reasons for the collapse of the Aztec Empire was that the conquered tribes were dissatisfied with the cruel sun sacrifice of the empire.

Compared with the glorious Sun Festival back then, this time there are also some more brilliant things, crystal skulls! And it's not just the one that Mao Yuer found from the ruins of Mertez in the north, the thirteen crystal skulls of Maya have all arrived, seven of them in Mexico City that were preserved by the Aztec royal family, and a few days ago, Li Dingguo was also a little surprised, and the five crystal skulls kept in the hands of the five major priests of the Inca Empire were also sent by hundreds of remnants of the Incas sacrifice.

Thousands of miles away, still under the rule of the Spaniards, organizing such a large sacrifice, even Li Dingguo had to wonder if these Zitianwu really had any magical means, otherwise in this era of no telephone and lack of effective communication, what would they be connected to.

However, no matter how emotional, after 112 years, the glorious Aztec Festival was once again held in a grand manner.

If it weren't for the bloody human sacrifice, every big sacrifice was actually a carnival for the Aztecs, and on the main square, there were I don't know how many barbecue pits, and the prey caught these days and all the food stocks carried by the team were not as good as the days, cooking in the barbecue pits, there was a billowing aroma, and in the center of the barbecue pit, the dolphin more than three meters long was also roasted with fragrant oil flowers.

The festival officially began at noon, tens of thousands of people formed a procession, smeared their faces with natural mineral pigments, imitated all kinds of gods and ghosts, screaming and dancing, and people wore two or three meters high peacock feather crowns on their heads, shaking grass skirts, and the carnival in Brazil in later generations may have its ancestral roots from here.

The first third of the procession, which was originally the position of the slaves who were about to be killed as sacrifices, was replaced by crystal skulls, a total of fourteen shoulder skulls, the first five were crystal skulls collected by the Incas, the last seven were crystal skulls collected by the Aztecs, and the last one was the one that Mao Yuer brought back from the north.

If you observe carefully, this is between the thirteen skulls, there are also very different differences, the first seven jaws are not carved open, can not move, the whole skull is a crystal, the last six are finely carved out of the chin, the mouth is movable, the back is called a singing skull, and the first skull eyebrow bone is towering, the jaw is hideous, faintly with fangs, it seems to still have some characteristics of the ancient ape, the last skull brought by Mao Yu'er, but it is a round water chestnut, and the muscle attachment point is exquisite, It is exactly the skull of a modern Homo sapiens.

As for the fourteenth shoulder chariot, Princess Yu'er sat there as a prophet with a back bone, and she also had more than a dozen tall colored feathers inserted in her head, and she was criticized with a large cape with Aztec characteristics, the cloak was embroidered with tropical rainforest, jaguar, Quetzalcoatl, the sun and various patterns of hieroglyphs that she couldn't understand, which was extraordinarily gorgeous.

But the princess is a princess after all, seeing her stay in the pile of natives, Feng Shuangli was rarely worried this time, and worriedly hugged his fist to Li Dingguo and asked for instructions.

"General, isn't it too dangerous to put the princess in the midst of these barbarians?"

"The indigenous monk asked, and the princess didn't refuse, what could Ben do?"

At the mention of this, Li Dingguo snorted a little angrily, but after snorting, he still shook his head helplessly: "Let Li Sheng take someone to protect the princess tightly, and order the whole army to be vigilant, maintain the formation, and not move, and those who violate the order will be killed!" Give Ben the eyes to deal with this pretending to be a ghost! ”

"The last general obeys!"

The whole sacrifice, the only one who did not move was the Ming army expeditionary force, more than 4,000 people from Li Dingguo's department, all of them sat in the southwest corner of the big pyramid, and the cavalry directly led the horse to the side, but everyone had curiosity, and some cavalry simply rode on the horse, looking at the lively parade and the slender thighs of the indigenous girls in the team.

Time passed little by little, in the noisy music and dance, the sun finally went west, and appeared heavily on the sea, and the sacrifice reached the climax here, and more than 100,000 Mexican Indians who followed the expedition to the holy land were scattered around the barbecue pits in the main square, and the crystal skull and Mao Yu'er were divided into two groups, climbing up the hill along the two-handed-bearded road of the huge god face behind the city, gathering in the two caves of the nostrils of the god face, drilling into the mountain, following Mao Yu'er, There are also more than 20 Ming army armor soldiers, protected by full armor.

After a while, Li Dingguo's face appeared in the upward gaze with a look of surprise, in his look, I don't know what mechanism was touched, pieces of dust fell, between the pupils of the god's face, about a few meters square rock retracted, a huge and hollow eye of heaven appeared there, the time was obviously accurately calculated, the afterglow of the pouring sun illuminated the Tianyan stone cave clearly, for the heavenly witch, the Aztec nobles and the pseudo-prophet Mao Yu'er were covered with a layer of golden clothes.

However, it was precisely because of this strong light that Li Dingguo ignored a detail and sat quietly on his shoulders, Mao Yuer's little face was full of panic at this time!