mousepad-d2 Chapter 16 Ancient Legend
Chapter 16 Ancient Legend
Chapter No.16 Ancient Legends
The lotus-like stone steps meander all the way, but because no one has visited this place for a long time, new karst stalagmites, stone flowers and other wonders have grown on some stone steps. The beauty is beautiful, but for those who want to walk on it , adding great difficulty.There was the sound of water droplets in the cave from time to time, and there were several ups and downs along the way, and finally the terrain gradually became flat.
This place is another scene.
Several huge stalactites stand in the center of the cave, but these stalactites have obviously been carved.
The people who carved these stones made full use of the natural landscapes such as stalagmites, stone lotuses, ganoderma lucidum in stones, and giant stone waterfalls in the cave landscape. After carving these stones, they connected with the natural landscape to form a giant story scene.
war.
This story scene describes tribal wars in ancient times.
Xing Tian stood in a dangerous place, one man was in charge of the gate, and ten thousand men were not allowed to open it.
His head had just been beheaded, but it was still standing.
Chi You stood on a high place, seeming to be howling angrily.In the course of the war, big events happened—rivers diverted and floods raged.
Afterwards, the world became a huge battlefield between Nvwa and Queen Mother Xi. In the end, both sides suffered losses. Queen Mother West's tribe retreated to the west, borrowed from Chiyou's tribe, and returned to Chiyou's tribe the huge horn they had captured in the war with Nüwa's tribe.
This is the severed horn that Chi You was beheaded by Huang Di and Nu Wa's tribe during the war.
"This...how many years will it take to complete..."
Aning was shocked by this scene, but Zhang Qiling didn't stop, but went all the way, passing through these huge stone sculptures, the black blind man reminded everyone:
"The stone paths here are staggered, be careful not to lose track."
Although this is the reason, it is still difficult to breathe when traveling under these huge stone carvings.Zhang Qiling seemed to feel this too, and gradually slowed down his pace.
"If Chiyou, Nuwa, and the Queen Mother of the West are all half-human, half-beast monsters, but they are the ancestors of different branches of Chinese culture, so we are not descendants of monsters?" One of the people brought by Ah Ning was muttering. , the black blind man smiled:
"The monsters you are talking about were not born through normal reproduction in ancient times, but were born by conception. For example, the ancestor of Shang, who was considered to be the Nine Heavens Xuannv, was a bird. The original text of the ancient book is the destiny The mysterious bird came down to give birth to Shang, and the image of Chi You also has bird culture. Therefore, many people believe that Yin Shang is actually Chi You's survivor. However, the image of the Nine-Heaven Xuannv is handed down in later generations. It overlaps with the Queen Mother of the West, and some people even believe that the Queen Mother of the West replaced Chi You as the God of War, and the totem cultures of the two are in the same line."
"This sounds contradictory." Aning said, "If so, why did wars break out between these tribes in ancient times?"
"Perhaps it is the commonality that caused the war." Heixia said.
"Commonness leads to war..." Aning repeated this sentence, and then stopped talking. A group of people meandered along the bottom of this magnificent war scene, and snaked all the way to the other end of the cave.
There is a dark entrance at the end of the cave. If you shine it with a wolf-eyed flashlight, you can see very steep stone steps going down.
Zhang Qiling didn't say much. He found a stone pillar near the entrance, tied a rope around the stone pillar, and pulled the rope down.The others followed him one by one, grabbing the rope as a handrail and going down. This section of the road was very narrow and steep, and there were bursts of whining, like a ghost crying.
At the end of this steep stone step is a rocky will-o'-the-wisp.The flashlight shines down, and there is a dry underground river in front of me, but there are jagged bones everywhere.
"Could it be a sacrificial burial?" There was uncertainty in Aning's voice. Could there be such a large sacrificial burial in ancient times?
"No." The black blind man had squatted down to dig out tools from his body to clean and observe one of the bones: "This should be caused by special burial customs and the river turning underground. And the one under our feet The river should have dried up not long ago. The reason for the dryness may be that it went deeper underground, or it may be something else, but the time will not be too long."
"Why?" Although Ah Ning was bold, she was a woman after all, and she didn't squat down like a blind man to study those white bones.
"Here is a pair of glasses." The black blind man stretched out his hand, pinched the thing that was buried in the soil and only exposed a little, and he would not notice it if he didn't pay attention to it. He pulled it out and saw that it was indeed a pair of glasses.
"And this." The black blind man took out something in the palm of a white bone. Although it was so mottled that the original color could not be seen, but from the shape, it could be vaguely seen that it was a medal.
"I think there are many bones that may be people who died unjustly in a special era. Because there are too many corpses, they are thrown into the river, and the accumulation of corpses brought about by some special burial customs makes this scene of bones everywhere. After the river flows into some caves that people cannot enter, it flows into the underground river from the dark cave. But it is ventilated. The ghost cry we heard just now is the sound of the wind passing through the dark holes and gaps in many caves that cannot be seen here.
"But why did the road in Chi You's tomb lead us to such a river full of bones?"
"I don't know about that." The blind man shrugged, and pointed to the stone pillars that now seem to be nearly two people tall, "Perhaps, that is the bridge from the past?"
"When the water rises, it hides, and when the water falls, it appears." The Dong wizard hadn't spoken since he asked the Yin soldiers to clear the way, but now he spoke, "It's here."
"Then why do the stone steps have to be built to the end instead of being directly connected to the stone pillar?" Aning felt that the design of the tomb was a bit weird.
"Because the mechanism that allows people to go from the stone steps to the stone pillars is under the water." Zhang Qiling spoke at this time, "But it's useless, we can walk over directly when the river is dry."
After finishing speaking, he really walked along the bottom of the stone pillar, among the dense white bones. Some people in the team were somewhat worried and fearful, but they could only bite the bullet and keep up. However, the road was very peaceful, except for halfway Someone accidentally crushed half of his skull, which made him apologize repeatedly, but there was nothing special about it.The traps at both ends were under the water, so the group did not spend much effort. However, after they walked along the steep stone steps at the other end, they found that there were two roads ahead.
"Which way to go?" Ah Ning was also unsure, and asked Zhang Qiling.
"I also have to explore the way before I can answer." Zhang Qiling said, "I will go in with the person I brought." After speaking, he pointed to the wizard of the Dong nationality, obviously meaning to enter one of the roads with that person. road.
The blind man whistled untimely.
Zhang Qiling glanced at him, didn't say anything, and chose a road together with the Dong wizard.
However, after a while, suddenly there was a rumbling sound from the passage Zhang Qiling entered, and then a huge stone fell from above the intersection of the road Zhang Qiling entered.