Chapter 104: Strange Murals
The walls of the tomb are full of frescoes, which are very simple, large but only with some simple lines and no colors, as if they were painted with charcoal, the lines are exaggerated and distorted, and they don't look as good as kindergarten children.
This was the first coffin we saw on our trip!
I couldn't help but get nervous, I didn't have the heart to look at the murals, and when I saw this sarcophagus, it seemed that everything I had experienced before was not important, and we were now really in the tomb.
"Jade here?" I asked.
Brother Shen shook his head, he didn't care about the sarcophagus at all, just went to see those murals, Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi both walked over, I saw Brother Shen shaking his head, and I couldn't help but be disappointed.
There is also a tomb passage on the other side of the tomb, this tomb is huge, and the main tomb cannot be so shabby, this should be a high-status burial.
I also went up to see the mural, but I couldn't understand anything, the mural was so rudimentary, not as vivid as the stone carvings outside, and I didn't understand why the important burial chamber was painted like this.
I glanced at it casually, it seemed to be all twisted insects and snakes, but there was no body, everything was replaced by lines, a zigzag line plus two circles, probably the appearance of a bug, I saw that there were spider-like insects drawn more obviously, but it was only a round body with the same legs, if it wasn't for some of it before, it would definitely not be able to understand anything if it came in suddenly.
Ah Chuan: They had already turned to the other side of the tomb, and I walked over, only to find that there were two huge murals on this side, occupying the entire stone wall, which was much more complex than the murals on the opposite side, and it was narrative.
Although the lines are simple, I can see at a glance: "Why does this place look like that pit?" ”
I saw a big pit painted on the stone wall, and there was a hole in the hole, and there was a stone bridge over the pit, which was exactly the same as the pit we had just walked through, but this pit was painted very deep, and there were no white bones in the pit, but a person sitting.
"It's not like, it's the pit." Ah Chuan spoke.
I was shocked, and when I looked closely, the scene in the painting was very strange, the man was sitting at the bottom of the pit, and there was a circle of strange things around him, like fish bones, but they were not straight, but curved, they were very large, about the same height as the person who was sitting, and I couldn't see what they were.
On the walls of the pit were circles with a vertical line drawn in the middle of the circle that divided them in half, and the crematorium outside the pit was full of kneeling people, and although there were only a few small lines, I could tell that they were all facing the pit, their heads bowed, and they looked respectful.
In the center of the stone bridge stood a man who waved his arms like a "big" character, and everyone here had no face, including the one in the pit, but the man standing not only had a face, but was also painted so large that it looked very abrupt.
His facial features were drawn, but unfortunately the level was very poor, the nose, eyes and mouth were all simple circles, and the most bizarre place was his right eye, which was nearly four times larger than the left eye, and the proportion of the nose and mouth was very incongruous, and there was a vertical line in the right eye, as if it had been split in half by a knife.
"It's Yin Human Eyes, this person has successfully raised the Gu King in his eyes, he should be a priest, the power of the former tribal priests is comparable to that of the clan leader, they worship the Gu King in his eyes will be extraordinarily exaggerated, this should be a sacrifice." Ah Chuan said.
Although the mural is simple, it is obvious that those circles with vertical lines in the middle are indeed the appearance of Gu Kings, which also makes sense, these Gu Kings are all densely pasted on the stone walls of the pit, the same as what we see.
But this is different from the pit that is said to be good, the pit is the place where the Gu King is selected, and the insects should be put in it, what is going on with this person?
"Are they using people to sacrifice the Gu King?" I couldn't help but ask.
Ah Chuan shook his head, it is difficult to see the intention of this scene, it is not the same as what we see, now that pit is obviously stuffed with white bones, it is impossible to hold the sacrifice only once, if it was empty at the beginning, why did so many people stuff it later?
What we see now are white bones, which were probably corpses or living people in the past, and the place of sacrifice should be sacred, not like a burial pit.
I followed Ah Chuan to the second mural, this mural is almost the same as the first one, the only difference is the person in the pit, he used to sit there, but now he is standing up, he has a crown on his head, and his body is painted with horizontal lines, like a monster with many hands.
But his hands were still there, hanging down like the first fresco, and the horizontal lines appeared abruptly, and looked very strange, like * a lot of knives.
I felt very uncomfortable, as if I understood and as if I didn't, and despite the extreme simplicity of the lines, I could still feel an evil aura coming over my face.
"What do you mean? This person is dead? Do you see if this is a rib? Lao Huang looked at Ah Chuan.
Ah Chuan was noncommittal, he walked back to the first mural, stared intently at the man, and soon walked back again.
Lao Huang's imagination is also possible, I can even think of ribs, I look at the mural, I don't know why the more I look at it, the more I feel like ribs, in fact, this is the reaction of normal people, it is obviously what ribs look like.
Could it be that this man is really dead? But how could a dead man stand up, and that crown-like thing, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it is being crowned.
"Is this the crown? Did he die to become a leader? "Somehow, I asked what was on my mind.
Ah Chuan was still staring at the mural, he seemed to have found something, smiled but didn't say, he walked to the sarcophagus, raised his hand to touch the weird and terrifying pattern on it, his hand was very light, like touching a priceless work of art.
"Let's open it and take a look." There was no hint of inquiry in his tone.
I somehow panicked: "The jade is not here again, so don't open it, who knows what's inside?" ”
"You don't even know who the owner of the tomb is, so you're at ease?" Ah Chuan smiled, keeping his eyes on the sarcophagus.
I looked at the sarcophagus, earlier I only saw that the sides and corners of the sarcophagus were full of serpentine patterns, but now I found that the sarcophagus was still engraved with simple animal patterns, which seemed to be somewhat deformed, and there was a serpentine pattern entwined outside, and with exaggerated techniques, I could hardly see what it was, only that it should be a large beast.
"Dragon and tiger stripes, Gu Yelang advocates tiger power, and has dragon patterns, this is likely to be a clan leader." Achuan said.
"Are you sure it's Yoro?" I blurted out, thinking about it and feeling that something was wrong, "They worship tiger stripes, why are there all insects and snakes outside?" ”
"It's just that I'm not sure to open it and take a look," Ah Chuan smiled again, "This tomb may not be as simple as we thought, this is not the main tomb, and the clan leader can be the burial companion, who do you think?" ”
He laughed very wildly, I felt a palpitation, this tomb is too strange, there are many Gu insects here, it is understandable that they worship poisonous insects, the tiger stripes belong to the spiritual totem of the clan, and it is understandable that they are engraved on the sarcophagus, but there are too many things in the tomb that should not appear, such as the Three Realms Bridge and the inexplicable ghost path.
The Three Realms Bridge is to pursue the path of becoming immortals, Qin Shi has not yet formed a specific system, it is just circulating the immortal magic, if this is really the tomb of Gu Yelang, then they should never appear, unless they really see a miracle, they will be so respected.
The owner of this tomb is definitely not a clan leader, but a native of the Central Plains!
Ah Chuan has long talked about the possibility of Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo, but this history has been broken for several generations, no one knows the real whereabouts of jade, who knows who will be in the hands of the jade after the war and strife, and what happened here?
It's a mess, we're completely exploring a blank piece of history, and every discovery we make is new, a secret that only a few of us know.
There may be a record of the tomb owner in the sarcophagus, although the jade is not here, but it never hurts to know about it, and I am also curious to say it.
Brother Shen and Xiao Qi didn't object, they seemed to think that it wouldn't take much effort to take a look, Lao Huang had been watching the show like an outsider, Xiao Qi didn't object, and he had nothing to object.
Just do it, Ah Chuan and Brother Shen took the sapper shovel and went to pry the sarcophagus, I didn't get close, I was full of curiosity about this ancient tomb, but I knew that even if there was any information, I couldn't understand it, so I should leave these things to Ah Chuan.
"Come, one, two, up!"
Ah Chuan and Brother Shen exerted force at the same time, and the heavy coffin lid was immediately cocked up with a black slit, and the dust and smoke were squeezed out of the crack, Ah Chuan and Brother Shen retreated in unison, watching the smoke dissipate little by little.
An old smell of decay crept into my nostrils, but it didn't have the smell of corpses as I had imagined, and it was quiet inside, nothing out of the ordinary.
I breathed a sigh of relief, Ah Chuan turned on the flashlight and shone it into the crack, and quickly straightened up: "What, it turns out that there is a wooden coffin, this is a stone coffin." ”
It is certainly not a simple person who has both a coffin and a coffin, and my heart is raised again, is it really as Ah Chuan said, there is a clan leader buried here?
Ah Chuan and the others didn't have much effort to lift the coffin cover to the side, and the heavy coffin lid smashed on the ground with a loud bang, and there were a few more white marks on the ground in an instant.
A beautiful wooden coffin was exposed in front of me, very well preserved, and I saw that the lid of the coffin was engraved with gilded dragon and tiger stripes, but unfortunately it came into contact with the air, and the golden glittering color quickly dimmed, but it still could not hide its luxury and exquisiteness.
This is absolutely priceless, I actually have some expectations, I don't know what kind of exquisite burial will be in the wooden coffin, even if I can't take it, it is pleasing to the eye.
"Tsk, the clan leader didn't run away." Ah Chuan's eyes were full of excitement that he couldn't hide.
Lao Huang and I couldn't help but go up, only Xiao Qi stood by the stone wall, not interested at all, Ah Chuan rubbed his hands and was about to pry the lid of the coffin, but there was a sudden loud noise in the wooden coffin.