Chapter 80: Civilization Beyond the Ages
I saw that in the relief in front of me, whether it was under the huge hell tree or the bone cave full of corpses, there were many people worshipping reverently, and these people were without exception, and each of them had a strange vertical eye on their foreheads.
I was stunned at the first sight of these three-eyed people, and the first thing I thought of was not the Erlang God Yang Jian in myths and legends, nor the Wen Taishi in the god list, but the relief of the three-eyed people in the underground ruins of Fengyang that we had just been to not long ago.
In that ruins, I saw with my own eyes many reliefs related to myths and legends, such as Dayi shooting the sun, Dayu controlling the water, etc., and the characters in the reliefs all have a common feature, that is, they all have vertical eyes on their foreheads.
The Taoist priest also saw these reliefs in front of him, and immediately exclaimed: "Reporter, look, these people in the reliefs don't look like the three-eyed people we see in the underground ruins of Fengyang?" ”
I took a deep breath and told myself to be calm, calm, but I still couldn't suppress my excitement.
"It's not like, it's totally!"
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, it's strange, Fengyang is six or seven hundred kilometers away from here, why are these three-eyed people here again?"
I also think this is very unusual, the Hell Tree is under the sinkhole, and the ruins of Fengyang are also deep underground, could the two be related before?
Looking at these reliefs, both of them were shocked and speechless, the entire stone pillar was carved on the outside, but it was all about the Hell Tree and the sinkhole. I grasp the iron chain, my feet on the surface of the stone pillar tied to the iron chain of the stone buckle to climb down, the Taoist priest is very flexible, he does not need to hold the iron chain at all, only need to keep jumping from the top of the chain to the bottom of the chain, the speed is very fast, and the rise is also very steady, I see a period of envy.
As I climbed all the way down, the Taoist priest illuminated me, and I observed the reliefs on the stone pillars all the way. At first, there were only a few carvings, and the content of the reliefs was very mixed, including the Hell Tree, the sinkhole, the corpse cave, and even the Yeling at the top of the sinkhole, and a large number of people kneeling and praying under the tree, which should be a record of an event!
There were many reliefs looking down, and the corpse cave and Yeling slowly disappeared, and all the reliefs were left with the huge hell tree and the sinkhole that could not be seen at a glance. Continuing down, the Helltree began to change, and the drooping fibrous roots of the tree began to dance wildly, some of them poked into the wormholes of the dome of the underground forest, some rushed directly out of the sinkhole, and some scattered to the three-eyed people who prayed under the hell tree.
The more I looked, the more dizzy I felt, and I couldn't figure out what the meaning of these reliefs was trying to express, and the Taoist priest on one side expressed his opinion, saying that this stone pillar should be from the bottom to the top when it was excavated, and we are now from the top down, and the order of looking is wrong, so there will be a strange feeling.
It dawned on me that I recalled the contents of the reliefs I had just seen, and found that what the Taoist priest said was really good, these reliefs described the beginning and end of an incident about the Hell Tree, and what I just saw was only the tip of the iceberg of the whole event, even if the order was correct, I still couldn't know what the reliefs described.
Besides, the pillars were extremely thick, and there were reliefs all around them, and all I saw was what I was down the line, so it was almost impossible to know the details of what had happened, unless I could take a closer look at the whole pillar.
Because there are too many reliefs, and I am looking at the starting point in the middle, it is like reading a very long comic in the middle, and I go back to read it backwards, I don't know the ending, I don't know the cause, if it's a little shorter, at least I can roughly remember the story fragments I have seen, and finally put them together in my head, but now I have seen dozens of carvings, and my brain can't remember it at all.
I simply took out my camera, hung it around my neck, and climbed down to take pictures of the reliefs I had seen, and when I reached the bottom, I looked at them in detail in the correct order.
Nevertheless, I still saw a lot of useful things and learned a few things from the scattered reliefs.
In this vast underground forest, there are indeed many people who have lived hundreds of meters underground, and have regarded the glowing hell tree as a sacred tree, and the sinkhole as a Shinto that leads to heaven, but from the first few reliefs I saw depicting the sinkhole, they obviously knew that there was another world above the sinkhole, but judging from the description of the surface world in the reliefs, they seemed to regard the surface as a paradise, a world of gods, and a forbidden place for them to set foot in.
I was extremely puzzled by this, and after hearing my thoughts, the Taoist priest shook his head and said, "According to the Taoist master, you are in the middle of the game and don't know the situation. You think, these Three-Eyed People have lived in this underground world for generations, and the only light source they can access is the light emitted by the Hell Tree, just like before the human race appeared as a source of fire, the sons of Emperor Yu and Prometheus, who stole fire in Eastern and Western myths and legends, mastered the source of fire and are the gods in everyone's hearts. In the same way, the Hell Tree may seem ghostly to those of us who are accustomed to seeing the sun, but for those who live in the darkness of the earth, the glowing Hell Tree is their god. ”
"A glowing hell tree is already a miracle for them, and the sinkhole must have three or four hundred meters from here to the top, such a height, for these primitive three-eyed people is undoubtedly an insurmountable distance, even if a few people really climb up and see the never-before-seen daylight and colorful world, it will definitely be regarded as a paradise, so it spreads, the outside world becomes a paradise, and it is logical that the sinkhole becomes a god."
The words of the Taoist priest are very reasonable, and backward civilizations often have an insurmountable understanding of reality, just like today's airplanes and rockets placed in ancient times a long time ago, they will definitely be worshipped as miracles.
But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not right, so he said to the Taoist priest: "Hey, you said that the civilization of the Three-Eyed people is backward, have you forgotten the things we saw in the ruins under Fengyang?" Their urban planning, architectural design, and that mysterious white light are obviously a defensive weapon beyond our knowledge, and they have even mastered artificial sun and wormhole technology, will they not be able to build a tool to get out of the sinkhole? ”
The Taoist priest was speechless by my question, but he still didn't think his reasoning was wrong, and gritted his teeth and argued: "Maybe the underground ruins are not left by the Three-Eyed People, but another civilization left after the Three-Eyed Civilization, maybe it's just their predecessor or their ancestor is the Three-Eyed People." ”