Chapter 56: The Murals of the Main Tomb
"Fatty, are you okay?" I waited until I was panting enough, and then turned around and said to Ge Zhuang You weren't bitten, right? The Corpse Cockroach King uses carrion as his drive, and the toxicity is fierce, so Chen Yun also said that being bitten by that thing is worse than zongzi.
Xiaoyue's experience is vivid, and I don't want even Ge Zhuang to become like that. Ge Zhuang moved his muscles a few times, twisted his ass and said that I was fine, and I was a soft and fat man, or I would have been bitten. I turned back to Chen Yun and asked her how she found the door to the tomb.
Chen Yun pointed behind me, there was a raised place on the stone wall, "There is a mechanism here, but unfortunately it can only be used once, I checked it just now, the stone door has been sealed, and it can't be pressed again." I exhaled a long breath and said that it was dangerous, I didn't feed the zongzi, and I almost fed the corpse just now.
Ge Zhuang muttered, saying that this insect had never been seen before, how did it grow? Chen Yun explained to him that the environment under the tomb is very different from the outside, the humid land, the closed environment, and the air after deterioration will become the nutrients of the corpse, which is the same as the white maggot in the pit, as long as it is an old tomb, as long as the sealing is better, this may appear, but the corpse here is so big, it seems to be specially cultivated, I can't say for sure......
Seeing her frowning, I asked, "Will there be another corpse beetle king?" Chen Yun immediately shook his head, saying that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and it is impossible for two corpse cockroach kings to appear in one place at the same time, Ge Zhuang retorted, "One mountain cannot tolerate two, what if one is one male and one female?" ”
I pinched his big ass and said angrily, "You're a psycho, can you say something good?" You stinky mouth, I will definitely find a needle and thread to sew it up for you another day, good and bad spirits, let you say it every time! ”
Ge Zhuang didn't have the heart to argue with me, so he stood up, took the flashlight from my hand, and looked at the dark tomb. The burial chamber is very large, there is no tomb bed in the left and right ear chambers, and the place where we came is not the main burial chamber, but the side transept, and after a short rest, we will go to the real burial place.
Like the outside environment, the main tomb is still paved with Han bricks, very neat, the mud bricks are almost invisible cracks, the stone walls are built with bluestone, the rocks are regular, square, and it is a long tomb. There is a huge bluestone sarcophagus in the depths of the tomb, and near the coffin, there are several skeletons, and there are no traces of blunt chisel wounds on the body, and the bones are relatively intact.
Ge Zhuang went up to check it, took a flashlight to shine left and right, and said strangely, the people buried here are different from outside, how did they die? Chen Yun explained to him, "Those who can accompany the burial in the main tomb should be the cronies of the owner of the tomb, these people should be buried voluntarily, of course there are no chisel marks on their bodies, and the cause of their death should be starvation, or because the oxygen is consumed, so they are holding their breath to death." ”
Ge Zhuang shrank his neck, "It's better to plug in the antenna in your brain and have a good time with an arrow!" Chen Yun said that the ancients were very superstitious, and there must be many people under the owner of the tomb who were loyal to him, and there were not a few people who volunteered to be buried.
I retorted, "The ancients were stupid, he wasn't afraid of death?" "Chen Yun said that you don't know what faith is at all, Ge Zhuang and I are happy, Ge Zhuang said why don't I know how to believe? What I believe in the most is the RMB!
Chen Yun was very helpless, she didn't want to quarrel with us, so she grabbed the flashlight and swept towards the tomb wall, the flashlight beam passed through, and a lot of gray and white murals appeared, the characters in the painting were simple and lifelike, but they were old and had faded, and they should be very gorgeous and beautiful compared to thousands of years ago.
Writing is one of the most basic symbols for human beings to transmit information, but in ancient times, when writing had not yet been invented, murals became an important way for the ancients to record important events in their lives, which is an intuitive feeling, although not as accurate as the information contained in words.
The main function of the mural is to serve as a medium to record the life and deeds of the owner of the tomb, and it can also be regarded as a spiritual bridge between people in ancient times and modern people, which is of great significance to the archaeological community. As for the period in which the mural arose, it is now impossible to verify, the only thing known is that it originated from the totem, the earliest totem belonged to the derivative of the fertility cult, and slowly transformed into the worship of the gods later.
It's a pity that this kind of mural can't see the light, once the tomb is opened, after contact with the air, it will quickly oxidize, and now it looks quite complete, and it is estimated that it will peel off in a few hours.
Ge Zhuang poked my elbow and sighed, "Little pumpkin, who painted this mural, could it be that the dead man in the tomb is boring here, so it's okay to get up and add two strokes?" "I said shut up, believe it or not, pry your teeth!
Chen Yun looked at the mural intently, with a sad face, and said that it was a pity that we didn't bring a camera down, and these precious historical relics could only be scattered with the wind. I said leave that alone, look at the content on the mural, it seems to record the life of the owner of the tomb.
In order, the first mural depicts the birth of a baby in swaddling clothes, held in the hands of a man in a big black robe, with a full moon on his head, the moon is red, surrounded by a bonfire, and many people bow down reverently around the bonfire.
The second mural depicts many people hunting, the third and fourth depictions of the ancients' "going to court", and when we turn our attention to the fifth, it is a bloody scene: the ground is full of blood, piled with all kinds of skulls, thousands of people lying on the ground, rivers of blood, and at the end of the picture, a huge and hideous hand is depicted, and if you measure it proportionally, the beast is at least five or six stories tall.
And in front of the beasts, there were many more people clutching spears and awls, holding torches and throwing them vigorously, and one detail caught my attention, a woman standing in front of the crowd, with a graceful posture, looking very slender at the back, wearing a trench coat, shaking violently in the cold wind, and holding a wooden staff in her hand.
The sight shifted to the last portrait, which is the scene of the woman holding the animal bone in her hand and walking towards the circular altar, there are many clansmen lying on the edge of the mural, all bowing to her devoutly, and on the stone seat opposite the woman, there is also a particularly large figure, it seems, it should be the king of the tribe or the country.
I noticed that the side of the woman in the mural, her forehead is a little weird, as if there is an oval dot, I don't know if it is a decoration problem of the ancients, or this woman has three eyes, which is quite evil.
"Three-eyed!" Chen Yun exclaimed. Ge Zhuang and I both turned our gazes, "What is the Three-Eyed Clan?" ”
Chen Yun's face was very excited, and he couldn't suppress his excitement and said, "I can't tell, there are too many unsolved mysteries in human beings, and it is said that before the origin of human beings, there were four generations of human beings: the first generation of human beings was a giant race, with a height of more than four or five meters, and later they were destroyed and starved" The second generation of human beings was destroyed by a huge fire: the third generation of human beings was ape-man, and they were destroyed by cannibalism: Later, there was a fourth generation of human beings, that is, human beings in the stage of "sun and water", and human civilization in this stage was destroyed by a huge flood. ”