Simple complications?

This kind of thing is not surprising, after all, modern people and people who have seen it before are different. In this era of information explosion, people are accustomed to thinking too much, and sometimes a sentence that the other party says unintentionally will be triggered by several different meanings.

This is not to say that the ancients were necessarily simple, but that the knowledge at that time was limited, even if they designed a very ingenious mechanism. After so many years, it has already been cracked.

For example, the familiar nine-square grid that we have been playing for a long time, as well as interesting games such as Han Xin's soldiers, chickens and ducks in the same cage, etc., were placed in ancient times, but they were the secrets of many families. There is also the legendary trap array, which is generally shelved by the royal family, and can only be used when the imperial tomb is built. But now? Not to mention any arrays, you can even find out how to make the atomic bomb.

Well, now the problem is back to square one.

How can we find that very magical underground building in the simplest way? This place is a little bigger, about one-fifth the size of Tianshan Tianchi. Saying that this is a lake is a bit of a suspicion of bragging. According to China's statement, it should be classified as a tank. Not only that, but it is surrounded by high mountains. Standing on a high vantage point, you can see the entire lake clearly.

"You said your uncle from the side branch is a paleographer?"

"Yes, I remember that he and Professor Yang had an academic discussion at a seminar in Tehran a few years ago, mainly about the disagreement on the meaning of certain words in the oracle bone inscriptions. ”

"Then did you say that he had seen the relevant records elsewhere, so he thought of the method of opening?"

"It's unlikely, if that's the case, my uncle will definitely append the relevant entries to the work diary, which is his habit. ”

Xing Jie and Britta discuss possible methods, while Alyssa is involved in petroglyphs. Indeed, she is ready to wash away her shame with professional knowledge. If luck is not as good as Xing Jie, she admits it. But if she still loses to others in the area of professional knowledge, then she will really lose confidence completely, and then she will be completely decadent, and in the end she may return to her hometown to become a teacher in an unknown small village.

There are more than 900 petroglyphs, except for some life descriptions and war descriptions, the rest are divided according to the time period when the chieftain ascended to the throne, and the indispensable part is naturally the sacrifice. Seeing this, Alyssa already felt that her brain was completely messed up. Because although the steps of the sacrifice are the same, the techniques described are mixed with the carving techniques of various civilizations.

This is simply unlikely.

What kind of place is this? Judging from the location, it should be a sacred place specially set up by the local indigenous people. Since petroglyphs are sacred, they should follow the ancient system. But instead of doing so, the people here absorbed the superb carving craftsmanship of various civilizations in various places. It's not like a holy place at all, but like a carved exhibition area for various civilizations.

The Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Mayan and Aztec civilizations, all the exquisite carving techniques of ancient civilizations are on display here. Not only the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl, but even in the last few pages, the head of the famous Inca Empire's sun god Inti also appears in the sacrificial scene.

It's incredible.

Who doesn't know that the Aztecs and the Inca Empire were both aggressive, and in this small country not too far from La Paz, there will be their carving skills and even their main gods, and they can still keep their own gods, if you don't see it with your own eyes, Alyssa will definitely think that the person who raised this topic is talking nonsense.

If this small country is really as it is speculated, there are only two reasons.

First, the status is transcendent.

Second, the armed forces are strong!

However, no matter how you look at it, neither of these assumptions seems to be valid.

I don't know how powerful this so-called 'country' is, but this place is so big, how many people can there be, and if this place is really that transcendent, why hasn't it ever been repeated in the history of South America?

What is even more puzzling is that on this extremely murderous continent, countless civilizations have flourished and destroyed, but the people of this 'small country' can last for thousands of years, and even their war dead will be sent to the canyon of Machu Picchu, building a wall of corpses of thousands of meters!

If you bite the bullet and say that this is a gathering place of South American culture, then it can be justified. Although there is no direct evidence, if this place exists, then there is a reason for it. But there is one thing that makes Alyssa a little confused.

It was a very peculiar pattern that ran through the entire rock wall. As long as there is a scene of sacrifice, no matter how the sun god above changes, the pattern below the body pattern remains the same. From the first pattern to the end of the last one.

No exceptions!

Although there are variants, they are always the same, and the marker in the middle has always been there.

It was a semicircle, and then there was a vertical in the middle.

Sometimes it's a whole circle, or at some point the whole circle is missing a corner, and sometimes it's completely inscribed.

But that one has always existed!

"Brita, do you know what this figure means?" said Alyssa, pointing to the strange figure.

"We've been debating this pattern, but there's never been clear evidence of what it is. Some say it's the god of the underworld in Mayan culture, while others say it's the god of brutality, Tezka Ripoca. Anyway, it's an abstract description of the gods as opposed to the sun god. Britta said with a smile.

However, Xing Jie's attention was attracted and stared at those patterns for a long time. I always had an idea in my mind, but I felt a little ridiculous. After all, this thing looks very similar to the Chinese word, but there are too many changes.

Another point is that, if it is true, then the subsequent deformation can be perfectly explained.

"Take a high-resolution picture for me, I'd like to check it out. Xing Jie looked at Britta and said.

When Xing Jie finished filming, he sent it out directly.

After watching Xing Jie finish his work, Britta and Alyssa asked in unison, "Jie, what is that? What do you want to confirm?"

Xing Jie smiled, pointed to the semicircular pattern and said, "This pattern is very similar to the word 'moon' in the oracle bone inscription of the Yin Shang period in our country. Not very similar, but quite identical. Then I'll make a bold guess. The ones in the back should be the lunar eclipse diagram, and as for the ones engraved in the shadow, I think they are total lunar eclipses. In fact, if you want to check it, it's very simple, just check the lunar eclipse records here. ”

Alyssa was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said with a smile: "No need to check, we just need to calculate it, determine the latest lunar eclipse record, and then subtract eighteen years and one-third days, and then take into account the influence of leap years, synodic months and node months, then it will be simple......"

Xing Jie felt extremely depressed about this, Alyssa, you are a top student, don't show it off, okay? Consider the mood of the scumbag, Sharo cycle? What the hell is that?