36: Forgotten Legends
Giant orangutans, giant octopuses, giant moths, giant tortoises, giant birds, and monitor lizards?
Looking at these reliefs, Cheng Li couldn't help but be half shocked. Is it surprising that these terrible monsters really exist in the world? If there really are these monsters, why have they never been talked about?
But if you think about it, the reliefs on the walls are not necessarily the truth. Or maybe it's just the fantasy of the ancients.
Speaking of myths, there are actually more exaggerated myths than this. What is the Kunpeng of the Northern Stygian Heavenly Pool, what is the candle dragon that opens its eyes for the day and closes its eyes for the night, and what is the nine babies who have nine heads that can spew water and spit fire...... And so on, and so on. The ancients were convincing about this, but in reality, who has ever seen monsters like Kunpeng Candle Dragon Nine Infants?
This is a reasonable explanation, so Cheng Li was relieved for the time being, and then looked at the content behind the relief.
After those giant beasts appeared on the earth, human beings almost became vassals of these giant beasts. They worship the beast and even offer sacrifices to the beast or pray for their blessings.
Some behemoths will respond with kindness. There are also some behemoths that simply ignore this. There are even some giant beasts that will take advantage of the opportunity to labor or blackmail humans. From this point of view, it is reasonable to say that the giant beast is the god of mankind.
But those days apparently didn't last long. Because don't forget that it's not just giant beasts that benefit from the glass beads, but also humans.
The light and rain of glass beads have allowed human beings to get rid of the primitive life of drinking blood. But that's only part of the story. The real role of light and rain is actually to open up wisdom. With wisdom, some wise men among the human race have invented a weapon that is enough for humans to fight against giant beasts. The name of this weapon is called: martial arts.
The next few mural reliefs all tell the story of how human beings invented martial arts, and how they explored this path step by step, making the content of this road more perfect, richer, and more powerful. Finally, the strongest warrior among the human race has enough power to fight the giant beast.
The river overturned the sea, the sky collapsed, and the sun and the moon had no light, and a fierce battle broke out. Humans and giant beasts, in order to compete for dominance of this world, fight to the death, and they are incompatible. Behemoths have the advantage of their size and various special abilities. The advantage of human beings lies in their numbers and stable inheritance.
At the height of this great war, the Patron Saint, who had been standing by for a long time, finally made a move. Harnessing the light she rode on when she descended to Earth, she joined the human side.
As a result, the giant beasts were defeated one after another. Some were killed, some fled and hid, and some died, but laid eggs to hatch in the hope that one day he would make a comeback. All in all, the world that was once occupied by giant beasts has finally been reclaimed by humans.
In this battle, the glass sword held by the guardian god seems to play the most crucial role. On one of the reliefs, the patron saint is depicted holding a glazed sword, and then cutting out a majestic and majestic sword, as if it had opened the heavens and the earth. Cut the most ferocious and powerful of the giant beasts, the monitor lizard that knows how to breathe fire, in half.
It was this earth-shattering sword that laid the foundation for the final victory of mankind. But it seems that to cut such a knife, for the patron saint, it is not without a price. For after the war subsided, the light that flew in the sky fell to the ground, and then was buried in the earth, never to be seen again.
The patron saint, who no longer dwells in the light, has come to earth. And there is no longer a full head of snake hair, and human legs have also grown, no longer half-human, half-snake. Judging from her appearance alone, she is an ordinary beautiful woman.
It seems that humans no longer know the patron saint after the change of appearance. As a result, there is less awe. Soon, one of the most powerful warriors in the human race fell in love with the Guardian and became married. But......
The rest is gone. Because of the next relief, the powerful warrior has disappeared. Instead, standing with the Patronus was the young man.
No one knows exactly what happened. Where is that powerful warrior? What does this young man have to do with the warrior? Why is the patron saint who was still quite affectionate with the warrior in the last relief already so close to the young man the next moment?
All of these questions have no answers. It's as if someone is deliberately trying to hide something, erasing all the reliefs that depict these things.
Cheng Li pondered for a long time and continued to look down. But the next relief, there is almost nothing substantial.
It's nothing more than showing how the patronus and the boy are in love. The only thing that is commendable is that all these reliefs that show how they love each other are extraordinarily realistic and sensational, and it is impossible not to see that they are blood-soaked and red-hearted.
However, the boy was just an ordinary human after all. It seems that the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death cannot be avoided. So the last relief on the wall of the dungeon, the relief, depicts the young man lying on the hospital bed, dying. It looks like he is about to die.
But the patron saint on the relief is holding a glass treasure knife in his left hand, making a gesture to cut open the young man's chest. In his right hand, he held a glass crystal bead, as if to send it into the boy's chest.
The fresco reliefs on the walls, which ends here. Next, there was only the relief that Cheng Li saw at the beginning, paved at the bottom of the pool. Perhaps, this largest relief represents the boy who was able to come back to life after receiving the power of the glass orb, and live happily ever after being with the patron saint?
Cheng Li was taken aback, and secretly said Could it be that this glass orb really has the ability to bring the dead back to life? But it's not right. The orb is the treasure of the snake clan. And Xiaoqing is one of the only two remaining members of the snake clan. If Baozhu had such an ability, how could Xiaoqing not know about it? If she knew, how could she not tell Cheng Li?
But slowly. In retrospect, it was rumored before that Zhu You, the owner of the Moon Ming Mansion in Canghai, had tears and was suffering from a deep depression with no cure, and only by getting the glazed jewel could he live. At that time, I thought that this was just a *** deliberately released by Zhu Youxi, in order to make the real one virtual, the virtual one real, and lure the Badoutang President Lei to be fooled.
But in fact, did Zhu Youxian really get sick? Did he really get benefits from the glazed orbs? In fact, no one asked Zhu Youxian all these questions. He himself neither admitted, let alone denied. In retrospect, I always feel that there are many strange things in it, and it is really difficult to explain.
The soldering iron-headed viper that came in with Cheng Li naturally couldn't understand what the reliefs on the wall were. It saw Cheng Li standing there suddenly, motionless for a long time, and thought that something had happened to Cheng Li. So he tried to arch his body and put his head on Ding Chengli's calf.
Cheng Li woke up like a dream. He shook his head. It's too complicated to know the situation. If you just dream about it here, you won't have an answer to the question. Let's look again and see if there are any other entrances and exits.
But before Cheng Li could start to investigate, the wall on the other side of the dungeon suddenly made a "squeak~" friction sound. Immediately afterward, the wall was flipped open, forming another secret door. A figure stepped forward and leapt through the door.
This figure is tall and graceful, but it is only draped in a transparent light veil. Within the light yarn, there are only two short clothes on the top and bottom, barely covering the subtlety. But looking at his expression, there is no trace of desire, only a faction of piety.
Under the glimmer of light, Cheng Li suddenly discovered that this woman actually knew her. She is the personal maid of the only son of the head of the Chenzhou Yan family, the Miao man woman named Peacock. Yesterday, there was a big earthquake in Yongzhou City, and the carriage in which the Yan family and the peacock were riding fell into a crack, and it was Cheng Li who rescued them and saved them.
At the same time that Cheng Li saw the Miao barbarian woman, the other party also saw him. The underground palace, which was originally empty, suddenly had an extra Cheng Li, which surprised the woman. She cried out, "Who?" and instinctively made a defensive gesture.
Cheng Li took the initiative to wave his hand and said, "Miss Peacock, don't be afraid, it's me." Cheng Li. ”
The Miao Barbarian woman Peacock, when she heard Cheng Li speak like this, she was stunned. Then he suddenly said: "Ah, it's a black ...... No, it's Cheng Engong. How could Engong actually appear in this holy pool underground palace?"
Cheng Li said: "Oh, is this called the Holy Pond Underground Palace? I don't know. Truth be told, I'm here after a pretending to be a deceitful and demagoguery. Why is Miss Peacock here? By the way, what's the matter with your dress?"
Seeing Cheng Li ask like this, the peacock couldn't help but look very inexplicable. Strangely said, "I'm here for the water of this holy pool." Cheng Engong, is there anything wrong with me dressing up?"
The concept of Miao Man's women, compared with the Han women in the Central Plains, is actually more open. It's like exposing your body. If it is a woman from the Han family, she must be strictly guarded and never allow outsiders to peek into her privacy. But for peacocks, it seems that it is not a big deal.
Cheng Li himself was also raised by wolves in the wilderness. Therefore, some of the world's teachings or ideas that are taken for granted are also very insignificant to him. Since the peacocks don't care, then Cheng Li certainly doesn't care. He shook his head and said, "There's nothing wrong with that. But Miss Peacock, there must be some special reason why you dress up like this, right?"
Peacock said: "My dress? This is to pray for the blessing of the gods, and to get the holy pool water." ”
Cheng Li glanced at the pool and said, "The holy pool water, where is the saint, and what is the use of this water?"
The peacock sighed faintly and said, "This is a gift from the gods, and it can cure all kinds of diseases. The reason why Gongzi came to Yongzhou, in fact, is precisely for this holy water. If you don't have it...... Alas~ I'm afraid that Childe has been sleeping underground at this time. ”