Chapter 213: The Story of the Mural
The light in this huge cave is not dim, it may be that the rocks here will glow, the cave is unfathomably deep and twisting, the hole is set of holes, the holes are linked, and the deeper and deeper, from time to time a cave hall is revealed. The scenery here is extremely beautiful, everything is not known how many years to conceive, it is the ingenuity of nature, looking at the whole of China can be compared with this cave landscape of a slap absolutely counted. Having said that, Merlin was still extremely cautious with every step he took, and he didn't forget that this was the depths of Snake Mountain just because the scenery here was different from other places, but perhaps it was because of his caution that he happened to take in all the views here.
At this time, Mo Lin suddenly saw that there seemed to be murals on the stone wall in front of him, because the gap between the rock texture and the natural formation there was too large.
He hurried over and looked closely at the murals on the rocks, the first of which depicted a mountain, the second of a bamboo forest, the third of a lake, the fourth of a mountain, and the fifth of a huge cave.
Mo Lin looked at these murals, which made him fall into deep thought, for nearly a hundred years, the villagers under the snake mountain were afraid of the existence of the snake god, and no one should have climbed the snake mountain, but these murals were definitely carved by people.
Morin paced back and forth thinking, first of all, the source of the mural, and then his intuition told him that these five paintings definitely had any meaning, looking at this pattern had been carved a long time ago, just these five paintings, there were more than ten meters away, and they were carved on the stone wall with rocks, and any one could not be completed in ten days and half a month.
With such time and effort, what exactly do the authors of these five paintings want to express?
There were still too few clues to these frescoes, so Merlin had to keep walking, but he didn't go far before he reached a fork in the road, and in front of him were four caves, and it became a question of which one to take.
Merlin was not a casual man, nor did he believe in his luck, the ghost knew where his luck would take him, he looked at all four caves at present, and when he entered the third cave on the right, he was shocked to find that there were murals on the stone walls of this cave.
This time the mural first painted a huge cave, the cave is full of strange rocks, and there are countless sharp stones hanging on the top of the cave, Mo Lin looked at it carefully, and found that this painting is not painted here!
The first one may be Snake Mountain, the second is the Purple Bamboo Forest, the third is the Snake Pond, the fourth is the Eight Snake Ridge, and the fifth is the entrance to this cave.
Merlin walked out of the cave and took a look at the fourth cave, and sure enough, only the third cave had frescoes, and the other three were none, so he had a guess that these frescoes might have been left by the author to lure people who came here to a certain place.
Immediately after the following painting is four snakes of different shapes, some are rolled into a ball, crawling on the ground, and the front painting of the snake in an attacking posture, but it is strange why there is a pair of cockscombs on the top of the heads of these snakes, and there seems to be no such snake in Huaxia! Or are these snakes mutated?
Anyway, I finally gave Morin another useful message, this is still the world of snakes!
This was the end of the mural, and Merlin continued to walk, walking for a long time without seeing the mural again, but he believed that there would be more.
At last he reached a fork in the road, which had four caves as before, and Morin found a fresco in one of them.
This time, the painting level of the mural has dropped a lot, it can be seen that it is not painted by one person, this mural is painted with the back of an adult with two children, the next painting is a vacant space, there is only a seat in the center of the clearing, Mo Lin is a little confused when he sees this, he only knows that he has not been to this place, it may be the next stop where he is going to, but what can this mean?
The next painting is another person's painting style, which depicts a monster with a human body and a snake head, and the strange thing is that the snake head of this monster also has a cockscomb.
Combined with the previous mural, Morin already had a complete guess, but he didn't know the truth and accuracy of this guess, after all, it was only his own guess based on the content of the mural.
Forty years ago, the snake god of Snake Mountain was because of Snake Mountain Village
The people trespassed into the depths of the Snake Mountain and were furious, and ordered the villagers of Snake Mountain to make a small sacrifice every five years, a big sacrifice in ten years, and a pair of boys and girls to be sacrificed during the ten years of the big sacrifice, according to Zhou Qiang's description, the villagers would put the prepared children in the snake temple on the night of the end of the sacrifice, and the snake god himself would come to receive it, so an adult on the mural led two children, and the human body and snake head are likely to be the snake god himself!
As for the author of the mural, I can't help but say that it must be the children who have been brought to Snake Mountain by the snake god in the past forty years, as mentioned earlier, the snake god asked the villagers of Snake Mountain to sacrifice virgins and boys not to eat them, but to absorb the yin and yang essence of the boys and girls, this essence is helpful to its cultivation, but the children who absorb the yin and yang essence will not die immediately, they can still survive for a long time.
These children, all under the age of five, did not know how to express their thoughts in words, so they described the situation here through paintings, hoping that one day someone would reach this place and they would be rescued by this person's arrival.
Unfortunately, the truth is not as they hoped, and counting the days, these children have been dead for at least ten years.
Maureen continued to walk forward, and the next stop should be the location on the mural, I don't know if there is any exit there.
Suddenly, Mo Lin walked more than ten meters and saw a mural, he hurriedly stepped forward to continue to watch, this time the mural was clearer than the previous one, although the painting style is another person's, but it can be inferred that this mural is the latest carved so far.
The mural depicts a pregnant woman with a big belly lying on the bed, her face painful, as if she is about to give birth, but to Morin's horror, there is a baby drawn in the belly of the pregnant woman, and a snake is drawn inside the baby!
In the next painting, a baby is born with an evil smile on its face......
At the back of this painting, there is a line of text! Seeing a line of text, Morin was shocked.
"The snake demon needs to be reborn in the womb for a hundred years!"
The meaning of these nine words could not be clearer, as we all know, no matter what kind of snake has to molt, although the snake god has attained enlightenment, but still inevitably molt, but the way he molts naturally cannot be the same as ordinary snakes, this rebirth by the abdomen is a way for him to molt!
It seems that the villagers of the five villages of Snake Mountain are not all obedient, some of them must want to completely eliminate the snake god, and this child who can write should be the most valuable victim they focused on cultivating in their early years, the purpose is to break into the snake mountain, dig out the secret of the snake god, and leave it for future generations to find an opportunity to defeat the snake god.
I have to say that this child did not live up to the villagers of Snake Mountain, this news was very helpful to Mo Lin, he connected the whole thing and completely understood everything, Ding Fanglan of the Bai family was in the belly of the snake god who was about to be reborn in the belly.
When he found out that there was a snake in Ding Fanglan's stomach, he felt strange, and in line with the principle of not provoking things that are not clear, he went to Snake Mountain to investigate, and now that the matter is clear, Mo Lin feels that there are some gains and losses.
The snake god borrowed the womb to be reborn after the strength could not recover in a short period of time, and when the pregnant woman was in the womb, there was no power to fight back, if he gambled at that time, he could really destroy the snake god who had dominated the snake mountain for a hundred years.
The snake god chose Ding Fanglan and killed her probably for the sake of his own safety, he knew that his body was weak during this time period, and it was not something that could be completed in three or five days, seven or eight days, at least a month was enough.
The snake god killed Ding Fanglan, it did not affect his rebirth through his abdomen, no matter whether the Bai family chose cremation or burial in the end, he had a way to make himself reborn safely.
In fact, everything that is happening now is in the hands of this snake god, the Bai family plans to bury Bai Baocheng and Ding Fanglan together in the way of burial, the only variable is that Mo Lin went to the depths of the snake mountain and knew everything, as long as he can leave the snake mountain alive, the snake god will definitely die.
Mo Lin wanted to understand these and was even more anxious to go out, according to what Zhou Qiang said, the snake god has been cultivating for 1,700 years, calling for wind and rain, sprinkling beans into forests, it can be said that he is omnipotent, and only his rebirth in the womb for a hundred years is his most vulnerable time, if he misses this time, he can only wait a hundred years to destroy him!
"Hiss!"
Suddenly, Morin had a terrifying voice and looked back, no
At some point, his back was crawling with countless poisonous snakes with cockscombs!
This time, Mo Lin saw the real thing, and he finally understood that the snake with the cockscomb on the mural was actually the cockscomb snake in ancient Chinese folklore!
Cockscomb snake, also known as the snake of revenge, is the most mysterious poisonous snake in ancient Chinese folklore, the head is long red cockscomb, the body color is different, extremely fast, its poison is incomparable, anyone who is bitten will die undoubtedly, can stand upright, it is said that they will also fly in the air, more than one meter long, is a snake without feet and with a red crown on the head.
Morin has only read relevant information in books and folklore, but the information is also very limited, only introducing the appearance of cockscomb snakes and their main lives in dark cemeteries or deserted death areas, I didn't expect to see cockscomb snakes here today.
At this time, the cockscomb snake continued to drill out of the cave behind, although the number was not as numerous as the Purple Bamboo Forest and the Eight Snake Ridge, but it was still not something that Mo Lin could clean up alone.