Chapter 341: Ghosts and Gods
What is this savage doing?
Although he was the only person in the scene who was dressed decently, the wild man was still a wild man, he didn't even have shoes, his pants didn't exist, and only a sackcloth covered his upper body.
The rest of the savages were naturally even worse, and there were many people who only covered their crotches with animal skins, which were even worse than the African natives.
Chen Shi looked at this savage bowing his head to himself and making strange gestures, and he didn't know what this savage was doing, the only thing he knew was that this place seemed to be divided into two savage forces at present, and what they were doing now was fighting.
And his arrival seems to have caused a change in the situation on the battlefield.
"These savages have enough hair...... I don't shave my beard, I don't take care of my hair...... But it still looks like an Asian, am I in East Asia? ”
Chen Shi saw that this wild man seemed to be very respectful to him, and there was no hostility, so he didn't make a move, and after waiting for a while, this wild man did not leave, and many wild people came to surround him, chattering and talking, obviously they already had a language to communicate.
I just don't know if there is a text or not.
The group of savages still did not leave, and it didn't take long for Chen Shi to hear a burst of cheers, and when he looked back, he saw continuous cheers in the distance.
"Have the savages on this side won?"
Chen Shigang was still looking at the animal skin totem here, and after hearing the cheers for a while, he realized that this side had won the war.
"Human beings really like war, such primitive antiquity, so many people died in one battle."
It was the first time for Chen Shi to see a place where so many humans had died, but fortunately, he had come through the experience, and he was unmoved when he looked at the corpses dead at his feet.
The war was over, but he couldn't leave like this, he stood in place and waited for almost forty minutes, but he didn't wait for the mysterious man, which couldn't help but make Chen Shi very puzzled, and the different encounters from the previous two made him suspicious.
Could it be that the mysterious man has appeared somewhere else?
Chen Shi traveled through time and space twice, both of which were related to that mysterious person, and this time he didn't see that mysterious person, so he couldn't know what the connection was this time, let alone how to leave.
"The wild man has been talking since now...... Hmm, you want to invite me? ”
Chen Shi finally understood the meaning of this leading savage, the evil result of the language barrier is here, and it does not mean that they cannot speak to each other, and the gestures will definitely be effective, and often the gestures are also given different meanings in the cultural development of the times.
The two basically belong to the chicken and duck.
After the difficult first exchange, Chen Shi thought about it, it didn't work to stay here, so he just followed over and had a look.
As the wild man led by him stepped forward, the surrounding wild people did not dare to get too close, and they all stared at Chen Shi with awe-inspiring eyes.
Not long after walking, Chen Shi saw the settlement of savages.
He didn't know if to describe it as a settlement, but instead of pitching tents, these wildlings used leaves and hides under the trees to use as a simple canopy.
Many of the badly wounded savages lay on the banana leaves, snorting in pain from time to time, while others were feeding the wounded savages water with wooden bowls.
Other supplies were piled up here, filled with sacks, what appeared to be food for them. The whole environment can be said to be quite bad, the feces and urine are pulled aside, there is no idea of garbage classification, and the wet mud from the rain is simply a collection of stench and dirt.
And here, Chen Shi was shocked to find a clue.
"That's Oracle?"
He was shocked to see several animal skin flags, in addition to the totems, there were some hieroglyphs appearing, and the type was very similar to the oracle bone inscriptions he had seen on TV before.
"If it's an oracle, is it the Xia Shang Dynasty now?"
"No, if it was the Xia Shang Dynasty, it wouldn't be dressed like a savage, bronze weapons are so rare, almost all of them use stone tools."
Chen Shi looked carefully: "Moreover, it doesn't exactly look like an oracle bone ......."
The oracle bone inscription is the earliest written text found in the Chinese system, and the legend comes from the Yellow Emperor let Cangjie "see the traces of birds and beasts in the distance, know the difference between the reason, and make the first book deed".
But in fact, the text excavated by archaeology does not mean that the oracle bone inscription of the Yin Shang period is the earliest writing, because the oracle bone inscription is already a relatively mature writing system, and the development of writing cannot progress to the level of oracle bone inscription all at once.
For example, the Jiahu script 8,000 years ago is the earliest script discovered.
Compared with the oracle bone inscription, the Jiahu inscription is more graphic, more similar to what it looks like and the appearance of a stick figure.
The words on the banner that Chen Shi saw now, weren't they just two axes?
Although it resembles a stick figure, but it has obvious brushstrokes, it is not a simple picture, it must be a text.
Older scripts than oracles?
Chen Shi was still thinking about it, and the leader of the wild man over there had already respectfully brought banana leaves and spread them on the ground, as if to let Chen Shi sit down.
Another savage brought some fruit and the turbid liquid contained in the wooden bowl, Chen Shi sat down cross-legged like a savage, picked up the wooden bowl and smelled it, a bit like rancid fruit wine.
There were many incomprehensible spots floating on the surface of the liquid, as if it was moldy, and his eyes condensed, and he even found an unknown hair.
How the do you dare to drink this!
Chen Shi bet that he would definitely die here if he drank it, and he would die of diarrhea.
Chen Shi put down the bowl and didn't drink it, the wild man seemed to be very puzzled, and finally waved his hand, and another wild man came over, brought some bone fragments, and began to painstakingly carve on the bone fragments with sharp stones.
After depicting the old man for a long time, the savage handed more than a dozen bone fragments to the first savage, and then the first savage respectfully handed them to Chen Shi's feet.
Chen Shi picked it up casually and looked at it, well, I don't understand.
It's like a child's fantasy graffiti stick figure, although there will definitely be a connection between these words, and if it is handed over to an archaeologist who may decipher it, he really does not recognize it.
I can only use my imagination, this text like a ship, is it a boat?
This one by one, and a picture of a head, is it a human being?
After pondering for half a minute, Chen Shi chose to give up.
He threw the bone fragment on the banana leaf, for some reason, the leader of the wild man suddenly panicked, he shouted a few words, not long after, Chen Shi turned around, he saw a few wild people pulled a tall bison, a few stone knives over, took a large bowl of blood water, hurriedly and respectfully sent it.
"Is this to make yourself drink blood?"
Chen Shi smiled dumbly, his head turned, did these savages want to use this as a sacrifice?
Looking at the tone and demeanor of these savages, Chen Shi understood their thoughts, primitive humans would call the unknown things they didn't understand, and these savages might regard themselves as incomprehensible ghosts and gods.