Zishang trotted to the petroglyphs, snatched the torch from Huafan's hand, and studied the content of the painting.

He touched the rock wall first, then rubbed his fingers.

"What are you doing?" said Hua Fan in confusion.

"It's nothing, I just think there's something special about this petroglyph. Then he added: "This petroglyph is not handed down from ancient times, it should have been painted by the person who built this ruin." ”

"How do you know?"

Zishang touched the petroglyphs again and said, "Look at this rock wall, there are not too many scattered dust on the surface that have fallen off due to time, which means that this is not painted by the people of the Suiming tribe ten thousand years ago!"

"The Suiming Tribe, the clan tribe formed by the Suihuang Emperor 30,000 years ago, how can you be sure that this painting is the Suiming Tribe?"

"It's simple, look what this is!"

Zishang asked, pointing to the patterns on several stone pillars in the painting.

Hua Fan frowned slightly, and replied, "It seems to be some kind of totem emblem." ”

Zishang nodded and said, "That's right, the Suiming tribe founded the clan totem emblem system more than 16,000 years ago, and since then, various tribes have followed suit, forming a Chinese totem culture system. ”

"Do you know the totem emblem of the Suiming tribe?" asked Hua Fan with a glance at him.

"I didn't know it before. ”

"And you know each other now?"

"Hmm. Zishang nodded and said, "I didn't confirm that this is from the Suiming tribe through this totem emblem. ”

“…… Then what are you referring to for?" Hua Fan was a little speechless.

"I thought you might know!" Zishang said with a serious face.

“……”

Then he pointed to the star map above the petroglyphs and asked, "Brother Hua, can you find the extreme north star of the sky?"

Hua Fan said: "Of course, isn't that the ...... Huh?"

He glanced at the star map and casually pointed to the brightest star, but then he sensed something was wrong.

"This star map ......"

Zishang said: "The position of the stars is slowly changing, the star map of 20,000 years ago is naturally different from now, as far as I know, the Suiming tribe has two star map changes, one is about 25,000 years ago, with the current right pivot Tianyi Star as the pole star, and the other is 20,000 years ago with Taiyi Tiansun Star as the pole star. ”

After a closer look, Hua Fan also saw that although this star map was a little different from the current one, the relative positions of the stars were basically the same, so it was not a mistake.

Hua Fan was still a little unskeptical, and said, "Maybe this is another tribe in the same period?"

Zishang shook his head, pointed to a lake and said, "You're looking here!"

"Where is this?

"Lei Ze! That is, Lei Xia Ze, the mountain next to it is Lishan, the reason why it is judged to be Lei Xia Ze is because whether it is ancient or now, Lei Xia Ze and Heze are close to each other, but they are not merged. ”

There is indeed a small lake not far northeast of Lezer on the petroglyphs, and there is a short river channel between the two lakes.

Zishang continued: "The Suiming tribe is mainly in the old capital of the Great Shang and is active in the area of Lei Ze. ”

Without waiting for Hua Fan to question, he said without pause: "In addition, there is another point that can be completely proven, this is the Suiming tribe!"

He pointed to the petroglyphs, some men holding flaming sticks, others and some women holding flints, tapping in front of a pile of firewood.

Hua Fan looked dazed, and the meaning was obvious: What does this mean? It is possible for other tribes to learn this technique from the Suiming tribe!

Zishang said with a smile: "Among the many methods of making fire invented by the Suihuang Emperor, drilling wood to make fire and lighting stones to make fire are the most commonly used by the tribes. ”

But the other tribes are still afraid of fire, and they mainly use these two methods to light a fire, use it as a fire, and then send someone to watch over it and keep the fire burning. ”

"Only the Suiming tribe soon fully embraced the use of drilling wood for fire and stone for fire, and the later it was, the more frequent the use of stone for fire, gradually replacing the use of wood for fire. ”

"Only the whole people of their tribe are not afraid of fire and dare to play with fire! Therefore, judging from this, the content of this rock painting is the daily life of the Suiming tribe. ”

Hua Fan suddenly realized, his mouth suddenly opened, and he nodded frequently.

Zishang thought of more questions and pondered.

Why was such a relic of an institution built in this remote area between Dongyi and the Central Plains? And why did you paint a petroglyph of a tribe that operated 2,000 miles away? And an ancient tribe 20,000 or 30,000 years ago?

Counting it, the Suiming tribe where Suihuang is located can also be regarded as the first ancestor of Central Plains China and the ancestor of ten thousand surnames......

"Is it ......?"

Zishang suddenly had a shocking idea, could it be that Huaxia Dongyi is a family? !

"No, this petroglyph was painted later, and it's just a high imitation. The construction of this ruin may be a group of boring Saint Realm powers, they should be from the Central Plains, and later traveled to Dongyi by accident to come here, and then painted it. ”

"It's still not right! If it is the power of the Holy Realm, why do they need to cut off the river and then build it? With their means, they can directly open such a hole in the cliff with a few casual strokes, and it is simply too much to cut off the river. ”

"And...... The Central Plains has long been enshrined with Yanhuang as the main ancestor, and the particularly ancient ancestor of Suihuang is only the second 'batch' of ancestors enshrined in local areas, and the builders have no reason to draw them......"

"Could it be that the Dongyi tribe in Huaxia is really a family? In the past, a certain tribe of Dongyi developed to such a strong point that it built magnificent relics and painted the life scenes of the ancestors, and admired them?"

Zishang kept guessing in his mind, and there were still too few clues at present, so he could only come up with some guesses.

Once again, he carefully studied the petroglyph in front of him, carefully observing all the details of each person and object.

"What is this?"

At the far left end of the petroglyph, there is an ancient tree with a curved plate, which is infinitely large from the perspective of the painting, and a group of primitive people wearing animal skins are picking up branches under the tree, and a strange animal image is set up on the side.

"Owl?"

In folk rumors and some wild histories, there is a fire tree in the Suiming tribe, the name is flint, Qupan is ten thousand acres, the clouds and mist come out of it, Suihuang is to see an owl with a chew to peck at the flint, emitting firelight, inspired by it, so he broke off the flint branch, invented the drill wood to make fire.

However, Zishang is deeply skeptical of this claim.

The owl is also known as the owl, and there are many other names for the folk: the owl, the soul-chasing bird, the king of the presley bird, the ghost car, the ghost or the wandering, etc., although it is considered to be an ominous thing, but it is a beneficial creature.

Owls are mainly rodent-eaters, so why do they peck wood? That should be what they do, that is, woodpeckers, right?

And their sacred tree is also very "strong", and it was pecked out of Mars by woodpeckers!

Some woodpeckers can peck at twice the speed of sound, but they have not heard of a tree pecking out of fire.

Anyway, the rumor says that the bird's head in the petroglyph has not yet been built, otherwise it would have been easily recognized.

The most distinctive feature of the owl is that it looks like a cat.

Zishang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and looked at the twenty-eight stone statues in the cave.

It happened that Han Wu got down from one stone statue and walked to another, and through the torch he was holding, Zishang saw the stone statue that Han Wu had climbed up just now, and the image was a bit like an owl.

The difference is that it has a long, sharp beak, two thick eyebrows on its eyes, an angry face, and a pair of provocative ears!

After going back and continuing to study the petroglyphs, Zishang did not see other creatures on the stone statues appear in the paintings, nor did he find any other mechanical instruments.

The only valuable thing is a stone tablet at the entrance of the village in the petroglyphs.

There are more than a hundred and ten characters written on it, and it does not seem to be an ancient tadpole inscription, nor a Xia seal of the Xia Dynasty, but an early oracle bone inscription.

The ancient books that Zishang has dabbled in are all translated and written in corrugated inscriptions, also known as gold scripts.

The oracle bone inscription is mainly produced from the words obtained from divination, so it contains some heaven and earth truths, which are difficult to understand, difficult to recognize, and difficult to write.

There are more than 4,500 oracle bone inscriptions, and the merchant only knows about 50.

Through his efforts to discern, only a complete sentence was translated:

"Fire is a breath of the world, respect, fear, sacrifice, and worship ......"

After thinking about it, he secretly took out a pen and paper from the storage ring while no one was around, and copied this text down, so that he would have the opportunity to study it in the future.

It is not easy to copy the oracle bone inscription, you must be very, very concentrated, and there can be no pause or hesitation in the pen, otherwise the charm will be greatly reduced, and even the final writing will become four dislikes.

Although Xun and Huafan also saw Zishang copying, they didn't know the oracle bone inscriptions, but they just thought these characters were very unusual.

The two of them stood on either side of Zishang, Hua Fan stared at these oracle bone inscriptions, and a sharp gaze flashed in his eyes from time to time, although Zishang didn't look at him, he could still feel the sharp heroic spirit from the side.

Xun Ji was divining as always, as if he had calculated something interesting, and he actually laughed and continued to divinate with interest.

The scene was awkward for a while, and the three of them stood together "with their own thoughts", staring at the petroglyphs motionless.

Zishang can't be distracted, so he can't care about the two of them, they are both unusual masters, and he can't guess what they are doing.

The Baili brothers fiddled with a bunch of stone tools and drew cicadas to help with the drawing, and Han Wu tapped on those large stone statues, looking for "treasures", and each did not affect each other.

After a stick of incense, Zishang finally completed the copying, and almost at the same time, the aura of Huafan changed suddenly, and the heroic spirit on his body was revealed, several times stronger than before.

After just two breaths, he quickly converged and became a gentle scholar, without showing a little heroism.

The changes here also made Xun He stop, looked at Hua Fan, and showed a hint of surprise.

After reining in his breath, Hua Fan smiled happily, took out a folding fan and fanned it coquettishly.

"You seem to have made a breakthrough!" Zishang said tentatively.

In fact, there is no need to tempt, this is an unknown matter!

"Hey, a little bit. Hua Fan looked smug and smiled lightly.

Xun He said on the side: "The young man has such strength at a young age, it is really terrifying!"

"Huh?"

Zishang squinted at Xun He strangely, he was so tall and cold that an old man would praise Hua Fan, are they very familiar?

It's amazing!

Xun and the quilt merchant blushed a little, and realized that he seemed to be a little too "affectionate", which did not conform to his image and style, so he quickly put away the "not good-looking" smile, tilted his head to the side and stopped talking.

"This old man...... Why do you seem to be so happy?"

Zishang looked ignorant, these two people actually realized something from the words on the painting.

He, the first discoverer, couldn't even recognize these words, and he took great pains to copy them, but they miraculously gained insights in such a short time!

What the hell? What's wrong with the world?