The petroglyph that the fat man was referring to was similar to the one he had seen earlier, except that the man lying in the middle was painted with an oval-shaped circle around him, and the man standing in the middle was holding a rod in both hands and inserting it in the chest of the man lying horizontally. The surrounding people are kneeling, their heads up, and their hands are raised upward, and the whole picture looks like a sacrificial ceremony. I think this petroglyph should be the same scene as the one I just saw, and the ancestors who painted it were like drawing a grid caricature, drawing everything that happened at different times in the same scene.

"This is a picture of murder." The fat man pointed to the petroglyphs and said to me: "Waste, you see that the person in the middle stabbed the one on the ground to death with a knife, and the circles painted around the person on the ground should indicate that the blood flowed all over the ground, and the scene should be very cruel, and the people around him raised their heads and did not dare to look directly." ”

I was already immune to the fat man's strange brain circuits, so I didn't express an opinion, just gave him a thumbs up, and then went to see the petroglyphs. At this time, Liu Rumei gently floated from the side: "Look here, this painting is similar to the one you discussed." ”

"Oh." I looked over curiously, and the fat man next to me also cast his gaze. The petroglyphs are also a group of people in a circle, and the people standing in the middle have not changed much, the only big change is that the people lying on the ground are gone, but the oval shape painted on the ground is still there.

"Look, I'm right." The fat man felt that this confirmed his understanding, and he leaned over and pointed to the petroglyphs and said, "This must have been disposed of, and there is only blood left on the ground." ”

"There's another one here." Liu Rumei pointed to another petroglyph and said. This petroglyph is slightly different from the other three, with no oval and reclining man in the middle, and a skeleton lying horizontally in that position.

"This one...... the fat man stared at it for a while, then smacked his lips and said, "Hey! I understand. ”

Liu Rumei asked, "What do you understand?" ”

The fat man pointed to the first petroglyph and said, "You see, this first painting is that these people have captured a man, and he is probably lying on the ground because he was knocked unconscious." ”

"Somewhat." Liu Rumei and I nodded and motioned for him to continue.

The fat man pointed to the second and third petroglyphs and said, "This one is the beginning of the killing, and this one is the corpse that has been divided." ”

"Dismemberment?" Liu Rumei's tone was suspicious, and she wondered if she had heard it wrong.

"Hmm." The fat man nodded, pointed to the last petroglyph and said, "Look at the bits and pieces of this skeleton painting, this is definitely the last to pile up, so it is not only the corpse that is divided, but it is also possible that this person was eaten by these people." ”

"Eating human flesh...... Liu Rumei frowned and thought about it, obviously unable to keep up with the rhythm of the fat man's thinking off the line.

"Yes, look at this ......," the fat man continued to point to the petroglyphs, determined to perfect his theory of killing and eating flesh.

"Xiaoyanagi, don't listen to his nonsense." I interrupted their discussion, reached out and patted the fat man on the back of the neck, and said, "Look at your fat man, you can eat people, and I will eat you if you want to eat." ”

"Oops, I think that's it......" the fat man said as he dodged my slap.

After me and the fat man had such a fight, the atmosphere on the scene eased a lot, and Liu Rumei also pursed her lips and retreated with a smile.

"I think what Wang Bo said makes a lot of sense." Wen Xianbao came over at some point, and said while looking at the petroglyphs on the cave wall: "Archaeological work requires such imagination, and solidified thinking is not necessarily the historical truth. ”

"Team Wen, that's right." The fat man could be regarded as having found a supporter, and turned to me seriously: "Waste, did you hear it, the Wen team thinks what I said makes sense." ”

“……”

I was speechless, so I simply ignored him and turned to look at the petroglyphs. I think this petroglyph is a sacrifice, and it was common to sacrifice and kill people in ancient times, but I really dare not agree with the fat man's theory of killing people and eating meat.

"Team Wen, here's a discovery." I don't know who shouted on the side, Wen Xianbao didn't pay attention to the rock paintings, and after answering, he walked over quickly to see. Out of curiosity, the fat man and I also leaned over to look, only Liu Rumei remained in place, fiddling with the camera in his hand on the petroglyphs.

When the fat man and I walked over, Wen Xianbao and the others were already half-squatting on the ground in a circle, and the person in charge of cleaning up was gently brushing a piece of pottery on the ground with a fine-bristled brush, a pottery piece of similar material to the jar picked up by the sixth master.

"This pattern looks familiar." Some people in the crowd of onlookers spoke up, and the people next to them nodded in agreement.

"It's similar to the pattern on a clay pot." I don't know who interjected, and it attracted a burst of echo. I took a closer look at the pattern on the pottery shard, it was not too complete, but it was definitely the same as the pattern on the clay pot that the sixth master brought back. I have already removed the three words "Yuren Witch" at a glance, and the fourth word is a little incomplete, and I am not sure if it is the word "Yan". This at least shows that this cave has a great relationship with the cave discovered by the Sixth Master, and the ancient Feather People have left traces of existence in these two caves. I was suddenly full of curiosity about the cave that the sixth master had discovered, and I wanted to go in and see what the ancient feather people would leave there.

Wen Xianbao half-squatted on the ground, carefully looking at the pattern on the picture. I inadvertently saw a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth, and the smile was fleeting. He cleared his throat and said to those present: "This is a major discovery, not only in the city, but also in the province, so I hope that everyone present can take it seriously and do their current work well." ”

Everyone nodded yes, Wen Xianbao said a few more irrelevant words, and then got up and walked outside the cave, saying that he was going out to make a phone call and report to the superiors.

The fat man looked at the piece of pottery that had been cleaned up on the ground, gestured at the pottery shard with his own palm, pouted, and then looked up at the excited appearance of the people around him, shook his head again, stood up and stretched, and walked slowly towards the outside of the cave.

After seeing the pattern on the picture, I was also a little interested, so I turned around and walked towards Liu Rumei, wanting to continue studying the four petroglyphs on the rock wall that I thought were sacrificial scenes.

"Qin Fen, what's the situation over there?" Liu Rumei saw me coming over, so she asked me casually.

I replied truthfully, "I found patterned pottery shards, similar to those on those pots, probably from the same period." ”

Liu Rumei just said "um" softly, not showing too much surprise, and then continued to look at the petroglyphs on the cave wall with his eyebrows twisted. I saw that she looked serious, and thought that she might have seen some eyebrows about these petroglyphs, so I asked, "Xiaoyanagi, have you found anything here?" ”

"Hmm." She nodded at me, then pointed to the rock wall and said, "Look over here." ”

I looked in the direction she pointed, and there seemed to be a petroglyph on the cave wall near the top of the cave, because the color of that part of the rock was relatively dark, so the whole petroglyph was very inconspicuous, and the position was too high, so we didn't notice it at first. After I saw the contents of the rock, I couldn't help but frown, because I realized that this petroglyph was the same scene as the petroglyph that several of us just talked about. There is a circle of people who seem to be raising their hands in worship, and the two people in the middle are still standing in the middle, the difference is that the person who was lying on the ground is also standing in the middle, and the other is still holding a stick in his hands, as if praying.

I'm almost certain that this petroglyph is coherent with the other four, but the location of the painting strikes me as very incomprehensible. It is not next to the other four paintings, but is painted independently in the upper position, and below it is a hunting scene, and next to the hunting scene are the four petroglyphs. It gives the impression that the painter is painting side by side, and finally finds that the cave is full of murals, so he simply finds a place near the top to finish the painting. If this is the case, this petroglyph is the last, and the petroglyph with a skeleton lying on the ground at the other end is the first. Then the scenes on these five paintings are even more difficult to understand, from skeletons to standing people, which is far more bizarre than the fat man's cannibalistic theory.

Liu Rumei said lightly: "If we read the order correctly, then this ritual may be a resurrection." ”

"It can't be, right?" I couldn't help but exclaim, "There is no such thing in this world." ”

Liu Rumei shook her head and quietly looked at the petroglyphs on the cave wall, obviously she didn't have an answer.

I was silent for a while, and then said to her, "Don't think about it, such a thing as resurrecting people can only be found in mythological stories, not to mention that the petroglyphs on the wall of this cave do not directly explain anything." ”

Liu Rumei nodded, and then seemed to think of something, and asked me: "Qin Fen, have you heard of the Yuren Clan?" ”

Liu Rumei's question surprised me, you must know that I learned that the pattern on the clay pot is about the Feather Clan, only my grandfather and I know, even the fat man because he is busy going up the mountain every day. Moreover, listening to the meaning of Liu Rumei's question, she should not know that I have interpreted the pattern on the clay pot, how did she know that this relic is related to the feather people, could it be that Uncle Zhou's interpretation has also progressed?

"I've heard that there is a legend about one of the eighty-one clans of Jiuli." I asked curiously, "How do you know that this place is related to the Feather Clan, is it that the pattern on the clay pot on Uncle Zhou's side has been interpreted?" ”

"Patterns on clay pots?" Liu Rumei looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Listen to what you mean, is the pattern on the clay pot about the Feather Human Clan?" ”

I asked her, "Don't you know?" ”

Seeing her shake her head, I was a little confused, and asked, "Then how did you know that this is the ruins of the Feather Human Clan?" ”

She looked at the petroglyphs on the cave wall seriously, and said word by word: "I didn't know that this was the remains of the Feather Clan, but after seeing these petroglyphs, I remembered that I had read an ancient book before, which recorded the legend that the Feather Race could resurrect the dead." ”