Chapter 45: Noah's Ark
My eyes widened and I looked at the mural in shock for a long time.
According to historical records, Zheng He was sent by Ming Chengzu to the West since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and in his life, he made a total of seven missions, which is also the word of mouth that Zheng He went to the West seven times.
However, there are different opinions as to why Ming Chengzu sent Zheng He to the West.
Some people say that Chengzu was to expand the territory, others said that it was to find Emperor Jianwen, and even more people said that the reason why Ming Chengzu sent Zheng He to the West was to find the legendary elixir of immortality.
But either way, there is no clear conclusion.
And at this moment, I actually saw the picture of my ancestors sailing on the Atlantic Ocean in my ancestral tomb, so does it mean that this secret that has been hidden for hundreds of years may be about to be solved by me.
And my intuition tells me that the secret hidden by our Zheng family is absolutely inseparable from our ancestors' descent to the West.
The Thirteenth Master told me that the reason why the ancestor was hiding here was because he stole something from Ming Chengzu, and that thing could be that Ming Chengzu sent the ancestor to the West to bring it back?
I took a deep breath and patiently continued to look at it one by one.
The second mural is still the same scene, but the wind and rain are more urgent, and the sea that was originally dark has become turbulent in this mural, and there are even huge waves sweeping the ship.
The murals are so detailed that they feel like a long-range photograph. On the frescoes, there is not only one ship, behind the ship where the ancestors were, there are many densely packed ships, roughly calculated, there must be hundreds. At this moment, these hundreds of ships seem extremely small in the face of the big waves, and the waves are so big that you can imagine them.
Moreover, those with weapons in hand all seemed to be shouting at the waves, and the weapons in their hands were all pointing at the waves, giving the impression that something was hidden in the waves.
In particular, those iron locks that were originally submerged in the sea were carried into the air by the huge waves.
It was as if a behemoth was chained to it, but the behemoth suddenly rose into the air and was hidden in the waves.
I couldn't help but swallow and spat at the scene when I saw this, if my guess was correct, how big must that creature have to be, how big does it have to be to make such a big wave, and how strong does it have to be?
I continued to look at the third mural, however, when I saw the third mural, I couldn't help but be shocked.
In the third mural, the sea has returned to calm, the sun has risen, and the waves and the hundreds of ships have all disappeared, leaving only countless planks and all kinds of floating objects floating on the sea.
"This is ......" I was surprised, could it be that the hundreds of big ships have been overturned by the waves, or they have been directly smashed into pieces by the waves?
"This should be the first time your Zheng family ancestor went to the West, but you can also see that they failed, they didn't get what they wanted, and they suffered extremely heavy losses!" The voice of the corpse in the wedding dress sounded in my mind again, and I heard her continue: "But soon, the ancestor of your Zheng family began the second voyage under the dispatch of Ming Chengzu. This time, they went to sea with more momentum and more people than the first time. But this time, they still ended in failure. The second time didn't even go as smoothly as the first time, the first time they were only one step away from success, but the second time, they didn't even see what they wanted, and the fleet was destroyed, leaving only a few big ships to escape! ”
The corpse of the wedding dress seems to know very well about the past of my Zheng family's ancestors, and I can't help but be a little curious, how did she know so clearly?
She seemed to know what was going on in my mind, so she immediately 'giggled' and said, "If you count by age, my sister is thousands of years old." And the ancestor of your Zheng family is only less than 700 years old, and compared to me, you are simply a hairy little ghost! ”
I was horrified.
I'm grass, the corpses of the women in the wedding dress are thousands of years old?
This Nima, I was obsessed with her beauty, this is completely an old monster!
"You're the old monster!" She suddenly said with some warm anger: "I have been dead for thousands of years, and I just turned twenty when I died, if you count according to my age before my death, I am only twenty years old, even younger than you." But...... After all, I have existed for too long, I have been in this little wine capital for thousands of years, and I have seen a lot of things, so even if my appearance is still the same as that of a twenty-year-old, my state of mind has ...... Ay! ”
Speaking of this, she sighed, and in that sigh, there seemed to be endless loneliness, even me, after listening to it, I was infected by her emotions and became a little sad.
For a while, the two of us didn't continue to talk, I just silently continued to look at the next mural.
The next picture is the second voyage described by the corpse of the wedding dress, but only a mural describes this voyage.
In the frescoes, the flames soared into the sky, and hundreds of ships were almost buried in the flames. In the sky, a behemoth was hidden in the firelight, but the fire was so great that maybe the ancestors didn't see what it was, so they only drew a very vague outline.
Through the outline, I saw that the thing had a pair of large wings, and in the firelight, it seemed to be soaring for nine days with its wings spread.
After seeing this scene, I couldn't help but swallow and spit at the mouth, my God, what the hell is this, hundreds of ships, each ship has dozens of crew members and officers and soldiers, hundreds of ships together are tens of thousands of people, but under this raging flame, there is no chance to resist, so they can only flee in the wilderness.
I was overwhelmed, but I took a deep breath, calmed down, and continued to look at the next one.
The next mural is supposed to be the third voyage, but this fresco is similar to the scene of the first fresco, and you can see that on a large ship, the sailors are all holding iron locks, and the other end of the iron lock is submerged in the sea, and they are pulling up hard.
On hundreds of large ships, there are tens of thousands of people, dozens of people pull an iron cable, and there are hundreds of iron locks pulling together.
Oh my God, what a hundred iron locks can bind, how huge is that?
I continued to look at the next one, and I saw a black, mountain-like thing floating above the sea. The thing was extremely huge, covered with scales and barbs, but only a small part of the thing was exposed to the water, and more parts were still hidden underwater, because it was daytime, so through the sea, you could see a huge body of nearly 100 meters still hidden underwater.
"Did they catch that thing?" I was horrified, what did the ancestors catch, could it be a water monster?
Or is it a huge sea creature that has not yet been discovered by humans?
"Yes, your ancestor completed the feat of killing the god when he went to the West for the third time, but this time they did not bring back the body of the god, because the body of the god is too huge, even if they have hundreds of ships, they can't bring it back."
I was stunned when I heard the words of the corpse of the bridal woman.
My ancestor of the Zheng family actually accomplished the feat of killing the gods?
"Gods, is a name for ancient human beings who don't understand themselves and have destructive power creatures, they don't understand this kind of thing, and it just so happens that this kind of thing has the ability to move mountains and reclaim the sea, so they call it gods!"
For some reason, I heard a hint of concealment in the words of the bride girl, as if she had just said the wrong thing and let me know something that I shouldn't know now, so I was in a hurry to tell a lie.
However, I didn't continue to ask him this question, but asked, "Since they can't take it away, what happened after that?" ”
"So there was a fourth voyage, this time they built an unprecedented big ship, Ming Chengzu named this big ship Noah's Ark, and it was even rumored that even if this world was flooded, the Ming Dynasty would not fall, because Noah's Ark had enough space to accommodate the royal family members and important ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and even accommodate 100,000 elite soldiers."
The words of the corpse of the wedding dress shocked me again.
Because I've heard the legend of Noah's Ark, but isn't that a myth or legend?