Chapter 19: Murals

With a heavy heart, I walked into the graveyard with heavy steps. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The bluestone slab steps were covered with a layer of grease, very slippery, Rao was very careful, or a few times I almost fell, I had to hold on to the wall and move slowly, only a few dozen meters away, but I walked for ten minutes.

The tomb was filled with the fragrance of mermaid candles, the narrow space, the warm red candlelight, and the smell of sandalwood, which made my restless heart slowly calm down, and I felt less afraid.

I stumbled upon the mural on the tomb wall, and I was fascinated by it.

I gently touched the wall, and found that the mural was very slippery, as if it was covered with a layer of grease-like substance, and I scraped it down with my fingernails to take a closer look, only to find that it was the condensation of the anointing oil volatilized in the air after the mermaid candle was burned.

This mural is very well preserved, I don't know what material it was painted with, the colors are very bright, just like the one I just painted, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a fake, or a very unqualified kind.

Moreover, the frescoes are very realistic, not at all different from the traditional frescoes, more like paintings on the dome of medieval European churches, and there can be such murals in ancient tombs in China, except for this tomb, there is only the one on Python Mountain.

Is there really any connection between the two?

It is such a colorful mural, in this gloomy tomb, against the backdrop of blood-red candlelight, revealing an indescribable weirdness.

Curiosity and imagination are taboos in the tomb robbing industry, and sadly, I just have all of them, so at this juncture, I still finished reading this mural little by little.

After looking at this mural, my mind went blank, and the only thing left was extreme shock.

This mural is actually related to the tomb of King Zhou Xun in Python Mountain, and some of the things I have heard and encountered recently are also inextricably linked.

I leaned against the wall, I felt that I was on the verge of collapse, I even began to doubt the matter and science, and even the world I lived in, my writing skills were very limited, I could not describe the feeling I had after seeing the mural, even if it was only one ten-thousandth, I could only use a relatively plain brushwork, to describe what I saw.

At the beginning of the mural, it is about a war, but the two sides of this war are not human.

On one side were some soldiers wearing strange armor and riding on all kinds of strange beasts, and behind them were some very large beasts: a white horse with horns, a tiger with two wings, a giant bird with three feet full of fire, and many monsters that could not be described in words and words, similar to the monsters recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and these can be found to be at least twice the size of normal people when compared with the trees next to them.

The leader wore a hideous mask and stood on a chariot pulled by a nine-headed dragon, I don't know if it was to deliberately highlight the greatness of this man, his figure looked very burly, and his body was much larger than those soldiers.

On the other side of the war, there are only some black mist-like humanoid shadows, behind them, there is a rift that runs through the whole land, and many humanoid shadows are crawling out of the rift, as if they are evil spirits crawling out of hell.

The painting of the mural is very fine, and it is also very realistic, and I can even see the hideous and distorted expression on the soldier's face before he dies because of pain, I don't know if it is to deliberately create the cruelty of war, the style of the whole picture is an unusually poignant red, I can even feel the blood rushing on the mural drowning me, and I actually began to feel suffocated.

I immediately looked away and turned my gaze to the picture behind me, and in the end, the entity side emerged victorious, and they absorbed the mist with something special, and I called them "things" because they were in boxes, and I couldn't see what they were, maybe it was the boxes that absorbed the mist.

Immediately afterwards, the perspective changes to a bird's-eye view, and a comparison with the soldiers standing next to him shows that the rift is very wide, and its length, which is not clearly delineated in the painting, is impossible to judge.

The whole rift valley is like a giant python that reaches the sky, and the person standing next to it looks extremely small, as if it is like countless small black dots, in the depths of the rift, you can see a huge spherical object inlaid on the rock wall, which seems to be a stone, with some transparency, the texture is a bit like jade, and some strange lines can be faintly seen on it, I don't know if it is artificially carved.

Then the picture seems to switch to a few years later, this seems to be a very huge sacrificial activity, dozens of very huge stone pillars have been driven deep into the ground, the interesting thing is that the places where these stone pillars are laid are very scattered, there are mountains, seas, rivers and lakes, almost all over the entire land of China, magnificent.

The pillar looked very smooth, it could be said to be natural, and there were many deep lines on it, as if it was an ancient script that I did not recognize, and the stone pillar was very large compared to the surrounding mountains, and the whole mountain range was like a reptile crawling at its feet.

It is absolutely impossible for such a pillar to be carved even now, not only because we have not yet mastered such advanced technology, but also because we cannot find such a huge rough stone.

Then there are two possible explanations for the appearance of these stone pillars, first, it may be just the imagination of ancient people, and second, it is a miracle.

I don't really believe in the existence of God, but there are many things that have happened in this world that cannot be explained by modern scientific theories.

Moreover, I am not unfamiliar with this stone pillar, I also saw one not long ago, it is the trapped dragon nail on the tomb of King Zhou Xun of Python Mountain, when the trapped dragon nail was surrounded by vines, and we also regarded it as a towering giant tree.

The next sacrifice was more cruel, many slaves were nailed to the top of the stone pillar, and the blood slowly flowed down the lines, seeping into the solemn earth, and constantly gathering underground, forming a huge eye, which was exactly the same as the one on the sarcophagus outside, and looked at me so coldly, I could see that the blood in my whole body was about to coagulate.

It's so familiar, I'm so familiar with that eye that I can say that as long as I look at it, I will never forget it in my life.

Isn't this the eye of the one-eyed witch king I saw on the mural of the tomb of King Zhou, which arouses the deepest fear in people's hearts?!