Chapter 240 The ancient country that moved far away

The layout and layout of the cave are actually more or less beyond my expectations.

How to say...

More exquisite than I imagined!!

The entrance of the cave is an uneven oval, but the inside of the cave is square. The top, bottom, left and right are all reinforced by flat boulders. Even though countless years have passed, there is no sign of collapse.

On the stone walls on the left and right sides, petroglyphs are neatly arranged. The lines of these petroglyphs are very rough. They should have been polished with stone knives or other crude tools. The grooves are filled with a dull red color.

The traces should be filled with ocher as a pigment, which is what we often call hematite. This kind of thing was once used as a pigment, but that was an extremely long time ago. After humans invented paint with tree sap and other things, basically

It was eliminated directly.

This coincides with our inference not long ago. This place appeared far earlier than Shi Kuang's era!

In the very center of the cave, there is a well-built pedestrian passage, two or three meters wide, with white marble guardrails on both sides...

After we entered, we naturally walked onto this pedestrian passage.

"Like a corridor, more like... a sightseeing tour?"

Zhang Xinya said: "Do you feel this way?"

"really."

Brother Yaozi nodded: "It's a very strange feeling. Walking on this luxurious cave corridor, you can observe the petroglyphs on the stone walls on the left and right sides. This is very similar to some modern tourist attractions, or

A museum, to put it in an elegant way, oh, yes, it is a walk in the long river of history. As you go deeper step by step, you can see the glory of this mysterious ancient civilization!"

I looked at Brother Kite a little strangely. He obviously had a plain appearance, but he sounded like a pheasant tour guide. The feeling was really hard to describe.

However, their description is accurate.

This is indeed a bit like some of our current tourist attractions and even museums...

"We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors and look at the future. We can see eternal life through the experiences of countless people."

I carefully savored the sentence that Lao Bai deciphered, and gradually smiled. That's right. Everything about this unknown civilization is indeed recorded in it, but obviously, it is not for outsiders like us.

I was not in a hurry to view these rock paintings, but chose to continue moving forward, trying to confirm some of my guesses.

Sure enough, the rock paintings in the cave are constantly changing!

In the beginning, the rock paintings were only seen in the primitive savagery period. The lines were rough and the patterns were very simple. They were like primary school students painting, using ocher as the pigment to draw. But gradually, the colors of the murals began to become richer.

I have already seen mineral pigments such as azurite, chalk, lead powder and ore powder, and even later I discovered plant pigments such as cyanine and gardenia, and the pictures began to gradually become richer, no longer

It is a simple line, which has already reached the benchmark of a mural.

What does this mean?

It shows that the murals in the cave were not painted all at once. They spanned countless years and were completed by countless generations of talents. All the achievements of each generation are recorded on them!

This road is not long, only a few dozen meters, and we soon reached the end. At this time, the murals were extremely rich, directly forming reliefs, and the characters in the reliefs were lifelike, with typical mural characteristics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

!

The mural came to an abrupt end...

In other words, after a long period of time, this unknown civilization... perished during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period!!

"Hey, look at this!"

Lao Bai suddenly spoke up, pointed at one of the murals and said, "Have you noticed... the person on the mural looks a lot like Xiao Weizi!!"

Before that, I was just casually observing, not observing in detail at all, let alone paying special attention to one of the murals. When Lao Bai said this, he immediately got closer.

This is a character mural. There is only one person in the entire picture. There are other murals similar to this, and they should all be people who have made outstanding contributions to this unknown civilization.

The person in the painting in front of me is dressed in purple, wearing a high crown, and is kneeling on a futon. He looks really prosperous and magnificent. At first glance, he doesn't match me at all, and his temperament is completely the same as mine.

They are not on the same level. There is a difference between cloud and mud. The mud is me and the cloud is him.

It is precisely because of this huge difference in temperament that people will subconsciously ignore his appearance. In fact, if you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find that the man in the painting looks strikingly similar to me, whether it is the facial features or the space between the eyebrows.

, as if they were carved out of the same mold!

However, the other party has obviously entered middle age and is much older than me!

"Heavenly Official!!"

Several of us said these two words almost at the same time.

In the sea of ​​mercury, I was almost blamed to death. I was a huge sufferer. Undoubtedly, the person in front of me was the one who blamed me.

"Things seem to be getting more and more interesting."

I rubbed my chin and thought quietly.

Many things have gradually come to light now. This underground ruins should be divided into two parts.

Part of it was built by my ancestors and Shi Kuang.

The other part completely belongs to an unknown ancient civilization!

This civilization may have arrived here thousands of years ago. The cave we are in right now is the place where this civilization recorded its history. It may also be an entrance to their settlement. When everyone returns home, they immediately

Passing through this cave and observing the wisdom of their ancestors and the history of the entire ethnic group is a constant edification of the patriotic spirit!

So, why does that heavenly official appear in the historical records of this unknown civilization? And it seems that he has become a very important part, with a very high status.

In the mercury sea, the strong man yelled angrily, saying that the heavenly official was a liar.

What kind of secret is there in this?!

"It seems that we really need to study this cave carefully. The information contained may be very large."

I looked around and whispered: "Why does the stone tablet at the entrance of the cave say that eternal life can be seen through the experiences of countless people? Could it be that eternal life is the ultimate pursuit of this unknown civilization?!"

This almost immediately reminded me of the thing that saved my master, which is also our ultimate goal. We must thoroughly study what happened here before what we are looking for can surface!!

The tens of meters of caves, countless rock paintings, murals, and reliefs record the thousands of years of history of this unknown civilization. If you want to understand it thoroughly, this is a huge project.

However, I was not in a hurry, I had to eat in one bite. We just vaguely knew that there was something here that could save my master, and then we plunged into such a completely unknown ancient ruins. We are still confused now.

This is not a good sign. Spend a little more time and analyze the direction. There are too many benefits. Sharpening the knife will not waste time chopping wood. That's it!

So, I went back and read the contents recorded in the cave from the beginning.

These earliest rock paintings are actually the most difficult to decipher because they are too simple and rough, but they may express many meanings.

The first rock painting is made up of many wavy lines. On top of the wavy lines, there is something like a circle, but it is irregular. It is as if the person who painted the rock painting has a particularly severe form of Parkinson's disease.

I kept shaking, shaking, shaking, and even with all my strength, I couldn't complete a serious eight hundred circle.

The second rock painting is not much different from the first one, but suddenly there are many red dots in the circle, in the shape of a spray...

I can understand the third rock painting. They are all simplified paintings of people. There is a circle on the top, representing the head, and five lines below, representing the torso and limbs. Among them, four people are gathered together, and the surroundings are all painted red.

, this should represent a large group of people, and there is one person who is standing alone outside. The painting is extraordinarily large, as if he is their leader. This should be a large group of people gathered together for a meeting...

…

After reading it, I was dumbfounded. Who the hell can understand this, so I pulled Lao Bai over. The meaning was very obvious, you are innocent, come and see.

Lao Bai lived up to his expectations. He just glanced at it and said with a smile: "Are you idiots? This painting is so clear and clear. It should record a disaster and the great migration of an ancient country!!"

Lao Bai pointed to the first rock painting and said that this should be the homeland of this unknown civilization. The countless wavy lines represent water, endless water, and the irregular circle looks very much like a map...

Okay, forgive me for being blind, I really didn’t see that it looked like a map.

Lao Bai was very sure, and directly said that this first rock painting was saying that their ancestral land was actually on a small island isolated offshore.

As for the second painting, it is about a huge disaster. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a volcano erupting!

Those jet-like red dots are the erupted magma.

Just like the destruction of Pompeii, the homeland of this unknown civilization was also destroyed by the eruption of a volcano...

As for the third picture, the meaning is very simple. Their sages told them to go to the East.

The big person in the painting is their sage.

This method highlights the status of the leader and appears endlessly in ancient paintings. Look at some portraits of emperors. He is the biggest in the whole picture. Others can't wait to compete with the ants on the ground. I believe that if the paper is big enough, those who flatter him will

The wicked painter wished he could paint the emperor's buttocks into a sun.

"You are right, everything you said is right, okay?"

Zhang Xinya said: "But please tell me how you can tell from this painting that they are going to the east."

Lao Bai pointed at the leader in the painting and said, "Look, how long his right hand is. It even catches up with the two left hands. This clearly points out the direction, up, north, south, left, west, right, east. The right hand is longer."

Doesn't that mean it points to the east?

Zhang Xinya glanced at him and sighed with almost despair, you are a living god!

The most interesting thing is that what Lao Bai said is very smooth, and it makes me think a lot!!

"If you say that, I can probably guess where these people come from!"

I looked at the rock paintings in front of me and sighed: "They are indeed not Chinese."
To be continued...