I didn't care who the man was for the time being, I just followed the other person's train of thought and continued to think deeply.

In the field of art, there are indeed many famous painters whose amazing masterpieces have been found in the ruins, behind the stove, in the secret room of the attic, and in the wall of the dark side of the underground warehouse.

Masterpieces have the power to reach people's hearts and see the ugly, and they are the most vulnerable targets to persecution by the ruling class. Therefore, when these masterpieces were born at the beginning, it was decided that they could not achieve great success in contemporary times, but must go through the test of history, the pondering of time and space, and the process of human removal, so that they can last for a long time and shine.

Based on this consideration, the mural at the bottom of the cover must have the meaning of "offending the taboo of the ruler", and must be covered layer by layer or layer in order to keep the light and avoid the search of the ruler's henchmen.

There have been countless changes of dynasties in Chinese history, the big dynasties are Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, and the small dynasties have changed and the regional regimes have changed hands innumerable, many of which have not been recorded in writing, and within a hundred years, they have been annihilated by the wind and sand.

Analyzing the history of Dunhuang, it had great development and transformation in the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song and Song dynasties in the Central Plains, and gradually grew into a central city of the Gobi with abundant water and grass, merchants gathered, frequent transactions, and everyone yearned for. Just like Hong Kong Island during World War II, once it becomes a pearl, it will cause the covetousness of the powerful from all directions, and the war will be plundered.

In this case, speculation alone does not allow us to understand the truth hidden under the mural, and the most straightforward way to study it is to peel it down layer by layer, until the rock is exposed.

"Now, with no one around, I can tear off this first mural and see what's hidden beneath the world-famous bouncing lute picture. Unlike those notorious tomb robbers, I am not here for profit, but for the purpose of studying the hidden Dunhuang mysteries behind the Mogao Grottoes, and this reason is great enough to be correct. I recorded this passage with video and sound to show future generations that my starting point is historical research, not money and fame. The voice said again.

Immediately afterward, a serrated knife appears in the frame, with a blade about three inches long.

The knife was held in a large hand with bulging muscles and chapped skin, and when the tip of the knife pointed to the rebounding pipa diagram, the big hand trembled slightly, moving forward inch by inch, showing that this person was in a very worried mood.

In the new version of the "Regulations on the Protection of Dunhuang Murals", if someone destroys the murals with a sharp knife like the person in the picture, then no matter what the purpose, they will be immediately criminalized and punished for the crime of "serious damage to national cultural relics".

Most importantly, no one could have predicted what kind of vicious consequences would occur after the sharp knife pierced into the rebounding lute diagram.

I've been copying the bouncing pipa for so long, and even when no one is watching, I've only touched the dancing girl three or four times, and only touched the inconspicuous part of the hem of my clothes, and I never thought of touching her personally.

This is a national precious cultural relic, and there is no other copy. As long as you think of this, any person with a conscience and cultivation will consciously abide by the rules of the visit and dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool.

I understood the mood of the man in the picture, but it was true that the tip of the knife in his hand had touched the mural, and it was pointing at the arm of the dancing girl who was bounced the lute.

"With a single sword, you can pick open the mural and see what is hidden behind this dancing girl. The essence of the entire Mogao Grottoes murals is here, and the visual focus of all the portraits is also here. At this moment, I am about to uncover the secret of the rebounding pipa diagram in Cave 112 of the Mogao Caves, and I am so excited, it makes more sense than the archaeologists who opened the door of the tomb of the pharaoh pyramid—" the voice said.

The picture shook suddenly, and where the tip of the knife came into contact with the mural, something suddenly flickered several times, producing a series of dazzling sparks, like someone holding an iron tool and accidentally being electrocuted.

Of course, there is no leakage equipment in the Mogao Grottoes, and the only few power supplies are also repeatedly checked by special personnel every day for fear of causing fire. It is certain that the interior and surface of this mural are not electrified, and it is completely in its original state.

The man holding the knife falls, and the knife disappears from the frame.

I looked at the quartz clock on the wall and counted that normally, it would take at least two to three minutes for someone who had been electrocuted to recover. In other words, it takes two to three minutes for the person to speak again.

"Maybe it's not an electric shock, but another kind of protection for the mural?" I also became nervous.

What comes to mind is not the infrared protection system for murals commonly used in modern museums, but another means based on metaphysical meaning, that is, the original seal attached to the antiquity.

People with archaeological knowledge naturally understand that some "broken dynasties" antiquities that have been handed down from ancient times to the present must have their own "time and space seals", and certain opening rituals must be followed in order to ensure the integrity of the antiquities. Otherwise, if you open it blindly, the artifact will be wiped out in an instant.

Let me give you a small example to illustrate this point.

In the past, when the Mawangdui Ancient Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province was opened, there was burial food thousands of years ago in the tablet with a lid, and the shape and color basically did not change, as if it could be eaten when it was served. It is a pity that there was no expert who knew how to open the antiquities, and someone did not do any prayer or silent prayer at all, so he brought out the basin with no care, and in an instant, the food in the basin turned into smoke.

That kind of stunned mutation was caused by the seal in the Mawangdui Ancient Tomb.

Later, when the "tulle silk skirt" was unearthed in the same ancient tomb, the experts learned the previous lesson, first made full preparations to open the seal, and invited the top 100 sectarian monks in China at that time to be blessed, and then invited the two ancient gauze skirts that were "the first light in history and the second lightest in history" out of the tomb intact.

All of the above can be found in the "Memorandum of Excavation of the Mawangdui Ancient Tomb" in the Chinese Archives, and all of them are true and true.

In the past, I thought that when I really wanted to uncover the first and second floors of the murals of the Mogao Grottoes for research, I must be prepared to lift the seal. Otherwise, once the natural and man-made disasters come, the excavators will regret it.

The picture gradually zooms in, and the focus frame of the camera center envelops the contact between the tip of the knife and the mural.

"Just now I felt the tremendous force of a strong electric shock, but it couldn't have existed. There is no strong electricity in Cave 112, unless—" The voice stopped suddenly.

I was stunned when I saw the changes in the murals in the focus frame.

There was blood on the mural, and a trail of blood was oozing from Maihime's arm, slowly and jerky downward.

"Yes...... It's blood, it's real blood, it's real blood! The voice cried. Immediately, the sound of him sniffing sharply sounded in the recording. Anyone in that kind of environment will subconsciously do the same sniffing movements as him.

The smell of human blood is completely different from that of animal blood, and anyone with a little common sense can tell whether it is human blood or not.

I held my breath and couldn't explain what I was seeing.

This is a documentary, not a fictional feature film. The dancing girl who rebounds the pipa diagram can bleed, which is really a miracle through the ages.

"It's human blood, it's the blood of this dancing girl...... Could it be that there is a real person hidden under the mural? Isn't it the religious doll painting of the 18th century in Europe that is painted with real people? It's not a hallucination, it's a real thing, the dancing girl who bounces the pipa is a real person, 100 percent real......" The voice whispered breathlessly.

A finger appears in the frame, and the fingertip slowly touches the blood stain on the mural.

Next, another unbelievable thing happened, and there was an exclamation in the recording.

If this happened in real life, it would be very easy to explain. A girl's arm was stabbed, and before disinfection and bandaging, someone else touched the wound with their fingers, which naturally caused the girl to exclaim, and most of the time it would be called one word, that is, "pain".

"It hurts, Ah Ye!" A short, frightened, irritated, disgusted woman's voice rang out.

During the recording, the man's breathing stopped. Obviously, he held his breath at the same time as the woman's voice screamed in pain, exactly like me outside the picture.

The facts are as follows: first, the fresco was bleeding when the man touched it with the tip of his knife; Second, when the man touched the bleeding area with his fingertips, a female voice cried out in pain; Thirdly, if the two things are explained in a coherent way, it can only be that the man stabbed a woman with a knife, and the woman had been lying in the fresco, in the posture of the bouncing lute, and had been hiding for a thousand years; Fourth, after this scene, normal physical and biological explanations are meaningless, and only the masters of metaphysics can barely give explanations.

Zi Bu was silent, and in the face of this strange situation, this person could still stand on his feet, did not turn around and escape, and his courage was really great.

"Who's calling? Is that you? ...... of the bouncing lute Lady? The man asked.

This is a ridiculous question, but in that case, how can you ask it if you don't ask it that way?

In other words, we can only accept the fact that the mural bleeds and the dancing girl speaks, waiting for another possible explanation.

Strangely, the woman's voice only rang once, and then there was no movement.

In the focus frame, the blood stains on the mural faded. This is normal, because the interior of the Mogao Grottoes has always maintained a certain level of dryness, and the murals are able to absorb all water and liquids. The blood stains were originally faint, and they would be completely sucked up by the mural within ten seconds.

The camera pans and focuses on the face of the dancing girl who is bouncing the lute.

I don't know if it's because of psychological suggestion, I think the dancing girl's brows are slightly furrowed, and she seems to be very displeased.

"I'm not sure, were you talking just now? I know that this mural must be full of mysteries, and perhaps, as the rumors say, the mural is the entrance to the 'Golden Mountain and Silver Sea Jade Palace'. What is the point of being here? Based on your existence, the world has created the idiom of 'bouncing the lute'...... If you can hear me, can you give me another hint? Do you know? There are too many rough and reckless tomb robbers in the world, and once they get a glimpse of your secrets, the next time you will suffer is an indescribable act of shame. The voice said.