Chapter 135: Marumatsu 1 (II)
Kerry had a natural sensitivity to words, and when he casually caught a glimpse of these crooked marks on the stone walls, his natural sensitivity made him immediately realize that what was recorded here was extraordinary, and that there were many strange rules in many strange religious ceremonies of antiquity, and he believed that the reason why the cannibals religiously withdrew was not because they did not want to hunt them, but because the area was extraordinary, and he judged that this unusualness was related to some kind of ritual, but the words were really jerky and difficult to understand, These texts are similar to those found in the caves by the sea, but they are much older and more difficult to decipher.
The totem worship and rituals of the ancient peoples are varied, but there are always several main rules, one is the ignorance of the natural world, the worship of natural phenomena, so that different gods are established, different peoples worship different gods to different degrees, in popular terms, the gods are also hierarchical. One is the worship of a certain creature, such as the eagle of many peoples, while some people worship the virtual creature of the dragon, and some people worship creatures that make people look ridiculous, such as sheep or even ants. One is the worship of death, which is common to all peoples, and almost all peoples have their own rituals for death, although their purposes are different, perhaps because they believe in eternal life, or because they want to communicate with God through their ancestors......
Kerry struggled to decipher these words, these words are old because of their age, many places are blurred, some passages are intermittent, Kerry can only guess the meaning behind the words from a few words, just now Sharjah let a casual sentence, so that Kerry suddenly realized, this is a cannibal holy place, is a holy place related to death......
Now Kerry finally knew that there was a passage that had been repeated many times, and she had never been able to figure out the meaning of the passage just now, but now that she understood, she pointed to a clearer trace and whispered, "Death...... It's just time...... Issue...... Eternal ...... Olo ...... Emissary? Steer...... They? Not...... Maybe the ancestors are better...... Ancestors receive eternal life...... Land of Marumazu...... Don't bother...... Glory...... Shine upon...... The Road to Heaven...... This should be a road or something...... Disturbing people...... Will Oloto condemn him? Or you? Flood...... Break through your home...... Diseases ravage your family...... Not...... I can't see the rest clearly, but I think it's some cursed words......"
"You mean, this is a cemetery?" Sharjah's eyes widened, and he looked around incredulously, if this was really a cemetery, no one would have come to sweep the grave for too long, right?
"I think it should be......" Kerry didn't read it very quickly, the words were too old, he hadn't found the pattern of the arrangement yet, it would take more time, find more words, but luckily at least now the cannibals wouldn't attack under the threat of the curse.
"Hmph...... Cemetery? Where is there such a deserted cemetery? Sharjah snorted, for the attitude of scientists, Sharjah Jean has always thought that they are ancient wizards, but wizards use incomprehensible language and beautiful names called incantations to talk nonsense, and now scientists are just talking nonsense in a language you understand......
"An abandoned cemetery, perhaps?" Wang Xingguo said that his lack of understanding does not mean that it does not exist, and he believes that the facts exist.
"Hmm...... Disuse...... Do you think these strong cannibals will easily abandon this important cemetery? If it's a cemetery...... Not...... I guess no one has cleaned it for at least a hundred years, right? Sharjah smiled dumbly, and pointed to those primitive vines and trees, at a glance, it was a primeval jungle, but the relative trees were shorter and less dense than the outside, but the shrubs and rattans occupied almost the entire valley, almost impassable, if it was really a cemetery, such unscrupulous descendants did not clean up, then it really can't be said, if it was an abandoned cemetery, why should those cannibals be frightened? At this time, he should have rushed up and flayed himself alive......
Wang Xingguo did not quarrel with Sharjah, because this dispute is meaningless, no one can prove that he must be right, now Wang Xingguo hopes that Chen Badai can find other ways out in the valley, whether this is a cemetery or some other place, in short, the cannibals do not dare to cross the thunder pond one step, which can create time and opportunity for themselves to escape......
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"Where is this? Hey...... "Chen Badai took a machete to open the way, here really made him a little collapsed, if it is a jungle, the trees here are not dense, but rattan and shrubs occupy the entire ground, Chen Badai can only use a machete to chop, those rattan shrubs are still very hard, more than half an hour has passed, the cliff that can be seen at a glance, at this time is still "thousands of miles away", if calculated according to the average speed, Chen Badai advanced less than a hundred meters in an hour......
"Hey...... Mr. Min ...... It's your turn...... I can't cut it! Chen Badai shouted, he is now slashing his hands softly, although Mr. Min is the boss, but now he can't take care of so much.
Mr. Min did not answer, and when Chen Badai turned around, he saw him squatting on the edge of a stone, not knowing what he was looking at, and turned a deaf ear to Chen Badai's words......
"Mr. Min!" Chen Badai was a little impatient, and shouted in a long voice.
"Chen Badai, don't you think this stone is a little strange?" Mr. Min tugged at the rattan sticks that were crawling on the stone, and the half-man-high stone was partially exposed.
"What's so strange about the stones...... Mr. Min ...... Those cannibals are outside, they are looking for an opportunity to roast us all......" Chen Badai felt that Mr. Min was infected by Kerry, and at this time he couldn't tell the priority: "We have to find a way to escape quickly...... Escape ......"
"There's not much time to lose." Mr. Min ignored Chen Badai's muttering, and pulled a thick rattan with all his strength in his hand, and with a bang, the rattan was pulled off, and the stone basically revealed its true face......
"Huh? Why is this stone so strange? Chen Badai wanted to mumble a few more words, but when he saw the exposed stones, he was stunned for a moment.
It is a stone about half a man high, but it is more appropriate to say that it is a stone platform or stone bed - about 1 meter wide and 1.7 meters long, the square shape is certainly not naturally formed, and there are some strange symbols and patterns carved around it, and there is a groove of about 10 centimeters dug into the stone platform, judging by the shape of the groove, it is a human figure lying on his back with slightly spread limbs, and there are patterns and symbols carved next to the head.
"It's man-made......," Chen Badai affirmed.
"Of course...... But what does that mean? Kerry thinks that what Chen Badai said is all nonsense, who has ever seen a naturally formed stone so smooth and engraved? Importantly, how did this man-made thing end up here, and what does the pattern on it mean?
"How do I know? I didn't even graduate from elementary school...... "Chen Badai thinks that Mr. Min is talking nonsense, if he wants to know archaeology, he would have gone to dig graves as a tomb robber expert, and he would still be a hunter in this forbidden land?
Mr. Min cleaned the rattan moss on the stone platform, and saw that around the silhouette of the human figure, there were two circles of patterns and lines that seemed to be ancient characters
"Words? I'll take a look at ......" Chen Badai leaned up, and sure enough, those patterns were somewhat similar to the characters at the mouth of the canyon, some places were densely carved, some places were sparse, and there were some inexplicable symbols and patterns......
"Alright, alright...... We have to find a way out now. Chen Badai looked at the time, he had been entangled with this stone for almost 20 minutes, and there was no result, no matter how he came here, but it couldn't show him the way out......
Chen Badai brandished a machete to open the way, walked forward for dozens of meters, and suddenly found a "highway", this is a dry stream, the vegetation next to the stream is relatively not so dense, it seems that the stream is flowing from the cliff in the distance, Chen Badai went up this dry waterway, and it was much smoother to walk here.
But just after walking far, Mr. Min's eyes were attracted by the things on the side of the waterway, he deviated from the waterway, Chen Badai was just about to go crazy, Mr. Min shouted: "Chen Badai...... Come and see...... There's it here, there's it there...... Oh my God, there are dozens of ......."