Chapter 39: The Monster in the Mural
Sure enough, he was pointing in the right direction, and this time it only took ten minutes to completely shake off the black wall and see a severely weathered and dilapidated ruins.
The ruins of the ancient city that revealed the tip of the iceberg in the darkness made Li Zhibao excited.
"This is really the site of the Yu Dynasty civilization, this discovery will definitely shock the whole world, which will push the origin of our Chinese civilization forward by thousands of years, and this gap in the archaeological world has finally been filled."
Xiao Ling could understand Li Zhibao's excitement, he glanced at Wang Weiguo, who was standing on the side, and felt a slight strangeness in his heart.
He remembered that Zhou Kesheng once introduced that Wang Weiguo was an archaeologist, and for archaeologists, he should be as excited as Li Zhibao when he suddenly discovered the ruins of the Yu Dynasty civilization, or even more excited, but now Wang Weiguo just stood silently in the dark, and did not react much.
In Xiao Ling's eyes, this move made him feel that Wang Weiguo was a little abnormal.
Li Zhibao took the lead and walked up, and Sun Tao followed closely beside him, reminding everyone to be vigilant.
In the beam of the searchlight and the soft light emitted by the camping lantern, everyone could only see that there were a large number of broken walls in front of them, and some walls still had vague words left, according to Li Zhibao's identification, these were all Yu Dynasty characters, and it could be concluded that the ruins in front of them must be the relics left by the Yu Dynasty civilization.
Everyone walked through this wall of broken walls and the remains of buildings, saying that it was the remains of an ancient civilization, but in fact, because the age was too old, it had long been weathered, and the remaining ruins were seriously damaged.
As they continued to go deeper, everyone gradually noticed that the ruins of the ancient city had changed somewhat, and relatively well-preserved buildings began to appear in front of them.
Along the way, everyone felt the power of the passage of time, as if they had unconsciously traveled through time and space, and returned from the original modern society to the ancient era when the Yu Dynasty civilization was at its peak thousands of years ago.
This eerie feeling enveloped everyone, and the buildings around them became taller, more complete, and more colorful.
Li Zhibao was excited, but the fear in Xiao Ling's heart was deepening, all this in front of him was really abnormal.
In a trance, they seemed to have walked into the capital of the Yu Dynasty, which was once the peak of civilization, except for the absence of Yu Dynasty people, everything else returned to a new appearance.
Finally, the crowd stopped in front of a tall temple.
The walls of the shrine used for worship are painted with brightly colored murals, and the contents of the murals are strange and rich, and the people are completely fascinated.
Li Zhibao looked at the murals, the old professor who had been calm and calm was full of excitement, and said loudly: "Look, these murals show the civilization of the Yu Dynasty, this is a hunting picture, this is a sacrificial picture, this is a depiction of war scenes......
Xiao Ling looked at the past one by one, these murals are rich in expression, there are murals depicting all kinds of strange creatures, and villains are painted around, according to Li Zhibao's explanation, this is the Yu Dynasty people are hunting.
These strange creatures represent the animals that appeared in that era, and represent that some legendary creatures are real, but now they are extinct, which will be a major discovery, and he anxiously asked Pang Yan to take pictures of them all.
There is also a mural in which many villains are dancing, and a huge sun is painted above, which Li Zhibao believes is a sacrificial activity.
There are also murals depicting groups of villains, divided into black and white, mixed together, which Li Zhibao explained as representing the Yu Dynasty's conquest with the enemy.
Xiao Ling looked all the way, most of these murals show the peak of the Yu Dynasty civilization, although the painting is relatively rough, but the general meaning of the expression can still be easily recognized, when he saw the latter few paintings, Xiao Ling was a little incomprehensible.
"Professor Li, what does this one mean?" Xiao Ling stretched out his hand and pointed, there were many kneeling villains painted under this mural, and in the center was a huge sun, the sun dragged its tail, which seemed to fall from the sky, and cracks appeared in the ground below.
"Does this mean that the sun fell from the sky and crashed?" Xiao Ling looked a little puzzled.
Li Zhibao frowned, then shook his head and said: "It's not the sun, it's a meteor, you see, there is a very small circle on it that represents the sun, this represents a certain day, there is a meteor falling from the sky, and the people of the Yu Dynasty who are kneeling down below show that they are in awe of this natural power." ”
Xiao Ling had to be explained by Li Zhibao before he suddenly realized.
"This should be a disaster for the Yu Dynasty, the meteor fell to the ground, and the earth was shattered, so the Yu Dynasty would kneel down and worship, and they would think that the gods were angry."
Li Zhibao said as he looked at the next mural, and suddenly his mouth pouted.
Xiao Ling also saw the next one, and the villains who were originally kneeling in this painting all stood up, densely surrounded by a group, and the center was the meteor that fell to the ground, but this meteor was no longer the sun, but a pitch black, with claws.
"Professor, why did this meteor grow claws? What does this claw mean? The more Xiao Ling looked at it, the more strange it became.
Li Zhibao's face also became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Many of the expressions on the mural are very abstract, and the claws painted on it do not mean that the meteor really has any claws, but that the meteor is a devil and a monster." ”
Xiao Ling said: "The meteor is a monster? "I understand in my heart that the ancient ancestors thousands of years ago were ignorant of the world, and it is not uncommon for this meteor to fall and destroy the earth, and it is not uncommon to be called a disaster and a monster.
Li Zhibao looked at the mural carefully and said: "According to the mural, the consequences of the meteor falling to the ground this time are extremely terrifying, so the Yu Dynasty will draw this meteor into a monster." ”
Xiao Ling stretched out his hand and pointed to the bottom of the meteor with claws painted on it and said, "The meteor is depicted as a monster, so what does the vortex below mean?" ”
On the mural, a blood-red color is used to paint a huge swirl pattern, which is particularly distinctive.
Li Zhibao fell into deep thought and muttered: "This vortex represents an unpredictable force and phenomenon, when the meteor fell to the ground, causing an unimaginable disaster, or a phenomenon that the people of the Yu Dynasty could not understand, as for what kind of terrible disaster or phenomenon it is, it cannot be seen through this mural." ”
After that, I continued to look at the next mural, which was relatively simple, only seeing the shattered earth, and a group of Yu Chao people walking towards the depths of the crack.