Chapter 222: Ornamentation
"This, this is ......"
My eyelids fluttered as I looked at the dense lines carved into the walls, and I spun around and ran to the side of the dragon, trying to see what was carved into the walls.
"Holy!-"
Perhaps I was in too much of a hurry, so I brought a strong gust of wind with me—and so, as soon as I approached the dragon, which was snaking upward, I lifted a "tongue of fire" and burned a strand of hair on my forehead.
"Scald, hot!"
While I hurriedly extinguished the spark that had just been "burning the plain", I couldn't wait to look at the wall in front of me - I saw that strips of black paint, carved on the jasper-like wall, twisted and twisted like a small snake, neatly arranged in the center of the two circles of flames, outlining a very strange shape-
"This, how does this look, it looks like the cloud patterns on those bronze tripods in the Shang and Zhou dynasties?"
I looked at the identical and orderly patterns on the walls, and when I made them out of detail, I felt very familiar, just like the moire on the bronzes I had seen in books—they were all curly, boxy little squares.
"Moire ......"
Hearing my words, Bing Cube Ling repeated it in a low voice, and then said to me in his cold voice:
"Let's look at the rest of the place. ”
"Uh...... Good. ”
Hearing his words, I nodded, and looked around the wall where the "moire" was located—the dragon had divided the entire jasper-like wall into five layers, each with a different pattern painted on it.
Looking at the patterns arranged in an orderly manner on the walls, I couldn't help but mutter: where is this place? Look at the green walls with this bronze inscription on them...... Here, it can't be a huge bronze cast by anyone, right? Okay, if this is really a bronze, I look at the name of Simu Wuding, the world's largest bronze, I'm afraid it's going to be Xian......
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder in my heart, and reached out and touched the green wall. However, the slippery feeling on my hand clearly told me that this was not a bronze object. I was even more surprised when I felt the cold touch like jasper---who built this? It's too fucking tyrant, isn't it? It's not bronze, it's jade?......
While thinking about this mess in my mind. I lowered my head and looked at the bottom layer - I saw that the bottom layer was engraved with many patterns that I couldn't understand, but with those outlines, I could probably guess it: this layer was engraved. It seems to be the ornament of some fierce beasts.
"What kind of animals are these?"
Looking at the strange beast ornaments, I muttered to myself. However, after looking at it for a long time, I still couldn't make out what kind of animal these beast patterns represented, so I reached out and touched it, and turned my head to the ice cube Ling who was standing in place and didn't know what he was thinking, and shouted:
"Hey, Chief of Staff Ling, you're always well-informed. Come and see, what kind of animals are these messy ghost paintings?"
Hearing my shout, Bing Cube Ling raised his head slightly, glanced at where I was, stared at the jasper-like wall with a pair of deep eyes, and after a while, he slowly raised his legs and walked towards me.
Walking to my side, he crouched down. Reached out and touched the strange pattern-
"It's ...... glass"
When his slender fingers touched the jasper-like wall, a cold voice came from his mouth.
"Glass?"
Hearing him say a word that I had never heard at all, I was immediately slightly stunned, and scratched my head in some confusion:
"What is a glass? Are you saying that this pattern is engraved with 'glass'?"
"Materials. ”
Bing Cube Ling's boy looked carefully at the ornament in front of him. A faint reply:
"It's something that's specifically designed to imitate jade. ”
"Ahh
Hearing Bing Cube Ling's words, I couldn't help but suddenly realize: after a long time, this seemingly "local tyrant" hall is actually made of fake and shoddy products!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but breathe a faint sigh of relief: if this entire hall was made of real jasper, then I might not be able to look directly here......
Just when I was immersed in my own world. Bing Cube Ling stood up, lowered his head, looked at the bottom layer of the wall decorated with animal patterns with a solemn face, pursed his lips, and was silent.
Looking at his appearance, I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart: looking at the appearance of this guy, I probably already have the answer in my heart-
"Uh...... Chief of Staff Ling, do you know what kind of animal this ornament is?"
I was silent with him for a while, but the curiosity in my heart was really uncontrollable, and then I opened my mouth and asked cautiously.
"Just speculation. ”
Bing Cube Ling's eyes still did not leave the glass wall, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said in a deep voice without looking back:
"This beast pattern should be the truth. ”
"Huh?"
Hearing Bing Cu Ling's words, I couldn't help but be stunned, and stammered a little:
"Truth, truth?"
"Haven't you heard of it?"
Seeing my look of surprise, Bing Cu Ling said lightly to me while looking elsewhere.
"Ah, no, I've heard of it,"
When I heard his voice, which was neither salty nor light, I couldn't help but feel a little resentful in my heart: Hey, who do you look down on? Immediately, I put on a "cold" look, squinted at him and said:
"Listen, isn't it the mythical beast in Journey to the West, who identifies the 'real and false Monkey King'?"
"Do you know what it stands for?"
Hearing my words, Bing Cube Ling asked absentmindedly as he walked past me and carefully began to identify the patterns on the second layer.
"Uh......"
Hearing that he actually tested me in reverse, I couldn't help but feel a little weak in my heart:
"It, isn't it a divine beast next to King Jizo Bodhisattva—"
"Hmm. ”
Hearing my words that were obviously trying to fool me through, Bing Cube Ling didn't demolish me, but just responded lightly, and didn't want to speak anymore.
I couldn't help but feel a pang of anger in my heart when I felt that this guy was ignoring me—but I couldn't blame him for anything, after all, I was not as knowledgeable and unskilled as others. However, I still have some wonder in my heart, how did this guy see at a glance that the strange beast pattern is depicted, that is, Di Ting?
"Hey, I said Chief of Staff Ling, how do you always judge that this pattern is the truth? Why do I think it looks quite similar to a unicorn, a fox, a pixiu, or something?"
Feeling confused, I followed him and asked repeatedly.
"If you could judge, you wouldn't have asked me. ”
Bing Cube Ling replied that the question was not answered.
"You!—"
When I heard what he said, I was so angry that I looked at the back of his head with hatred, but I couldn't say a word - after all, what this guy said was indeed the truth!
After swallowing this breath, I could only follow him trembling angrily, and while greeting the whole family in my heart, I looked with him at the second layer of patterns.
"What the hell is this......"
Looking at the right-angle pattern that was turning around on the second layer, I couldn't help but collapse my face in an instant, and one head and two big ones stood in place frowning and muttering quietly.
"If you look closely, what does this look like. ”
Bing Cube Ling began to "trick" me again—I couldn't help but have the illusion of being a gorilla in a circus practicing arithmetic, and asked me to identify the second layer of ornamentation.
“……”
Listening to his words, I gave him a sneaky glance - but although I was unhappy in my heart, I honestly lowered my head and began to carefully identify the ornaments arranged on the second floor.
"This, is this ...... Thunder Pattern?"
As I stroked the ornaments of the small squares that were connected one after the other, half-opened but arranged like a tree, I suddenly remembered the lines on those bronzes again: looking at the square patterns of the tree, it seemed that they were really similar to the "thunder patterns......
"It's smart. ”
Bing Cube Ling Na used a tone like a breeder, and lightly spit out this sentence-
"Shhhh
Hearing his tone, the resentment in my heart was even worse, and just as I wanted to say something, Bing Cube Ling took the lead and said:
"This fourth row is an empty ......" (to be continued.) )