Professor Ouyang led us to interpret the wall carvings as he spoke, and he sold them first: "Look at what these seemingly strange sculptures record?" ”

As soon as Professor Ouyang reminded me, I realized that I had forgotten the sculpture because of the fork just now, and when I entered the tomb, I analyzed that the sculpture was originally my strength, so I concentrated on looking at the sculpture.

The fat man on the side saw that I was fascinated by what I was looking at, and knew that I had seen something about it, so he asked, "Wang!" What's going on? That's pretty much it, quick! Go up and explain the commentary, so as to win back a game, you look at the face of "Ouyang Crazy". ”

"Ouyang is crazy? Why are you calling him Ouyang crazy? I asked softly.

The fat man smiled evilly and said, "Isn't it? Bringing a few stinky students to this kind of place, and knowing that this is a forbidden area for the sacrifice of the dead, not only did he not show fear, but he seemed to have found some treasure, and if he wanted me to say that he studied archaeology and studied him crazy, so I will aptly give him the nickname Ouyang Crazy. ”

The fat man said and gently nudged me, "Okay, no nonsense, go quickly." Then, regardless of whether I understood it or not, he pushed me out of the crowd, and immediately applauded loudly: "Okay! There is the erudite Ngawang. But no one played with him, and everyone just looked at him with very puzzled eyes, looking at freaks, and I guess everyone was wondering when this was coming

, Where it is, I don't know it, and I'm still in the mood to applaud, Dachangtong, who had just drummed, saw that no one followed the drum, and immediately put away the applause in embarrassment, and the whole audience was fat in the drum, which made him blushing in embarrassment, and slapped the applause smaller and smaller, and then smirked twice, and then quietly.

Professor Ouyang ignored him, and just asked in surprise, "Brother Wu Nian also has research on the mysterious race of the Ba people?" ”

I smiled and said, "No!" It's just that I know a little bit about sculpture, and I haven't read many sculpture books in the world. ”

"I want to hear about it!" Professor Ouyang leaned to the side with the attitude of research exchange.

I think it's all on anyway, just two sentences, the sculpture is presented in relief, not to record the truth as the theme, but the myth as the theme, among which the two most eye-catching reliefs on the two sides of the symmetry of the left and right, each has a fierce god and evil, with a blue-faced fanged beast mask of a burly man, although they can't see the true face with a mask, but from the left of the man holding a bronze sword in the python chopping, I guess it should be "Ban Yu Man", Ban Yu Man is one of the two most vital and influential branches of the ancient Ba people in history, Their totem is the python, and the other branch of the Cuban is the man on the right who shoots the white tiger and holds a bronze sword with a tiger head, and their totem is the white tiger.

I had a little understanding of Uncle Xu before, and according to legend, the ancestors of the Ba people came out of Fuxi, and their mother was Nuwa. It is one of the oldest ethnic groups in our country, and their initial activity area is said to be the Jialing River basin including Guang'an, and later some Ba people crossed the Three Gorges along the Yangtze River to the Qingjiang River basin in Hubei, bordering the Chu State at that time, which is the white tiger as the totem of the Liao Junman. And the indigenous Ba people who have been staying in the Jialing River region are the Ban Yuman who use the snake as a totem. ”

After looking at the two paintings of Ban Yu Man and Di Jun Man with Hundred Beast Masks, I turned my attention to one of the other two and motioned for everyone to follow my explanation.

And the remaining two, one of them is a dense hanging coffin, and there is a group of people under the hanging coffin, led by a person wearing a sackcloth and wearing leaves to cover his body, with a mask made of wings on his head and a strange figure, it is not difficult to see that this is a sacrificial sorcerer leading the people to worship the hanging coffin, and the hanging coffin is a mysterious and unsolvable mystery of the Ba people. "It's just that the shaman on the relief, the posture is particularly strange, he is not kneeling or lying on his stomach, but his feet are open, his body is bent down, his head is down, such a posture, I don't understand what this posture is for, I think it is a different custom, and then there is a strange relief on the hanging coffin, there are some superimposed techniques to express dense objects, although there is no clear sculpture of what it is, but you can feel that the number of these species is so large, they seem to be flying out of the hanging coffin under the call of the wizard, For a while, I couldn't understand what it was, so I ignored it.

Professor Ouyang was quite satisfied with my explanation, and said, "It seems that Brother Wu Nian has two brushes, and these are all true, but I only know one and I don't know the other. As he spoke, he added, "The Ba people originated more than 4,000 years ago, and this mysterious race has always been a controversial race in academic circles. ”

The earliest is to say that the Ba people have been active in Chongqing and other regions in present-day Sichuan during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and at the same time established the country of Ba, the capital of Jiangzhou is now Jiangbei District of Chongqing, the scope of southwest Chongqing and some areas in the east of Sichuan, and adjacent to the ancient Shu State, and was destroyed by the Qin State, and for the Ba County, the Ba people have also entered the Chinese civilization since then.

However, since the first excavation of the Luojiaba site in 1999, the mysterious Ba people's living area has been redefined, and the discovery of this archaeological excavation said that the Ba people are that is, north to the southern foot of Daba Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, east to western Hunan and western Hubei (including the Three Gorges), and west to the Jialing River basin. So far, this race has been shrouded in a veil of mystery, the Ba people have always been masters of salt practice, and there are many legends of the Ba people and the salt god, but according to my research, the Ba people still have records of practicing corpse oil, they worship their ancestors, and feel that the ancestral cemetery is sacrosanct, so they designed this kind of sacrificial area, used to punish the people who broke into the tomb, the sacrificial area is to worship the ancestors with human blood and soul, according to legend, there are only a few people who can come in and worship the Ba people, and there are only a handful of people who can come in and go out. ”

As he spoke, Professor Ouyang looked around with awe-struck eyes, and then muttered, "So the poisoning of the four people who just broke in just now is not accidental, but inevitable, if it weren't for Brother Wu Nian, your willpower is extraordinary, and you woke up from the hallucination in time, I'm afraid the four of us have become sacrifices of the Ba people." ”

Hearing Professor Ouyang say this, I couldn't help but feel a burst of fear in my heart, since we came in from the Xuanzhen Gate, we have already stepped into one trap after another, and who knows what dangers are waiting for us next?

"So what exactly did you get poisoned just now? Why did you just hallucinate and not die? Could it be that it is corpse oil poison? Blackboy, who had been relatively quiet since he came in, suddenly asked this question.

"No, no, no! Although the corpse oil is poisonous, it does not cause hallucinations, and there may be other reasons, and I guess these corpses will tell us the answer. As he spoke, Professor Ouyang slowly approached several strangely dead corpses, and said, "Seeing that they are not completely decomposed, there should still be residual poison in their lungs, so we should not prevent us from conducting an autopsy." ”

"How can this be tested? None of us understand! The officer, who had been videotaping, asked.

"Why don't I try it!" At this time, a young man's voice suddenly sounded in the crowd, although we all wore gas masks, and we couldn't see our faces clearly, but from the clothes we were wearing, and our height knew that it was the four people from the academy, the student who had just lined up in front of Ah Jian in the bottomless ghost cave, Professor Ouyang called him Xiao Kai.

When everyone turned all their eyes on Xiao Kai, he said a little unnaturally, "Don't look at me like that, in fact, I majored in archaeology in college, but I have elective biology and chemistry, and I also brought a microscope with me for this operation." As he spoke, he took out the microscope from the tool bag he was carrying, then looked at us and asked weakly, "I wonder what you think?" ”

"We have a good idea, it's you!" Before everyone could speak, the fat man babbled, pulled Xiao Kai and then casually dragged one out of the corpses, put it in front of Xiao Kai, and said, "Come on!" Let's get started! ”

"My fat man! You have to dissect his lungs first, and then extract a little liquid before you can check it out, you wait! I'll go get the tools. Saying that, Xiao Kai turned around to get the dissection tools, but just when Xiao Kai just squatted down, the fat man had already taken out an ice axe from his backpack, cleanly slammed it into the lungs of the corpse, and then brought out the liquid in the lungs, and said to Xiao Kai, who was dumbfounded, "Please use it slowly." ”

Xiao Kai was stupid by the fat man's simple and rough style, and was stunned for a long time before he reacted and started working.

Xiao Kai said while looking at the liquid of the corpse under the microscope, "This liquid contains some rod-shaped crystals, that is, powder. ”

"What kind of powder?" The fat man asked.

"Some of the powder from the plant embankment," Xiao Kai said while packing up his tools, "and from the microscope, it is made of two plants, if I am not miscalculated, it should be "mandala" and "corpse incense konjac" these two flower plants are refined, mandala is a kind of poisonous plant, the whole plant is poisonous, and the seeds are the most toxic, generally half an hour after eating, the fastest twenty minutes to appear symptoms, and no more than three hours at the latest, it has sedative, anesthesia and other effects, If the amount is too large, the poisoned person will be confused or even faint, and it is said that some drugs are practiced with mandala, so it also has an image alias, called "intoxicating heart flower". ”

"And as for the corpse incense konjac......" At this point, the fat man interrupted the others, and then said, "I know! Two years ago, Ngawang and I also had dealings with this kind of pollen, when we mistakenly ate a kind of Gu worm called "psychedelic Gu", this kind of Gu worm is the pollen of this corpse incense konjac, after accidentally eating the psychedelic Gu, the two of us hallucinated, this strange flower called corpse incense konjac, often used its weird fragrance, creating one after another traps composed of illusions, luring people to death. ”

After the fat man finished speaking, Xiao Kai continued, "I don't know what Gu worm the fat brother just said, but the pollen of this corpse incense konjac does have the function of making people hallucinate, and if you mix the pollen of the mandala and the corpse incense konjac, the hallucinations that make people appear are more weird and will last longer." After finishing speaking, Xiao Kai sighed heavily, and then his eyes fell on me, "Professor and Wu Niange, you can really be regarded as picking up a life, if you put on a gas mask later, I'm afraid that now I will test the fluid in your lungs, not this corpse." ”

After hearing this, the black boy patted me on the shoulder and said, "Although it is thrilling, it is finally a great disaster, so there must be a blessing in the future." ”

And Dachang, who has always maintained a sad face, said all the sad words, only to hear him say, "I don't think so, let's think about how to get out of this sacrificial area now, I'm afraid that staying like this is not a way, don't you think that although this place is very bright, it is gloomy?" I always feel like people are watching us. Saying that, Dachangtong looked at us, and then lowered his breath, "You say, will there be ghosts here?" I don't want to die here, I haven't won a mother-in-law at my age, and it's a shame to die. ”

"Don't be afraid! Don't I have no wife, I'm with you! Black Boy said in a teasing tone, Black Boy is like this, his heart is wider than the sky, he used to be in the martial arts school, every time we secretly went out to drink and was found by the coach, he was always more relaxed than me, in what he used to say, that is, "I actually did it, then I suddenly faced it, there is nothing that I can't pass, as long as my life is still there, Lao Tzu will still be a good man after 18 years." Only a few days ago at the bar he seemed to be a different person, but looking at his current words and deeds, I knew that the former "heartless" black boy was back, so I gently beat the black boy's developed chest muscles with my fist, "Is this your kid!" ”

The fat man listened to Dachangtong's words just now, and he put on a look of not being afraid of heaven and earth, and said, "Tong!" Don't be suspicious, don't say there are no ghosts here, even if there are really ghosts, there is my fat man, what are you afraid of, afraid of a ball. "As soon as the words fell, suddenly! There was a ping-pong sound from behind everyone, and the fat man was so frightened that he was the first to jump up, picked up the sapper shovel and turned around quickly, shouting, "What the hell?" ”

"I'm sorry guys, I accidentally knocked something over!" As he spoke, Professor Ouyang took a few steps back from the vessel he had knocked over, continued to look at the relief on the wall, and shouted, "Brother Wu Nian, please come over for a while, let's study this relief." ”

In the past, I teased in the fat man's ear, "The bull is blowing up, look at the scared you just now, are you ashamed?" ”

"You nonsense, fat man, how can I be so easily frightened, I was vigilant just now." When the fat man was quibbling, I had already walked towards Professor Ouyang, but he kept coming, and the words came to my ears, I ignored him, and when I got to Professor Ouyang, I asked, "What's wrong?" Professor! ”

Professor Ouyang turned on a flashlight, shook it on the relief, and said, "Look at this relief we didn't talk about just now, I just looked, in addition to the Ba people, there seem to be ancient Miao people on it." ”

I took a step forward and took a closer look, it is true, in addition to the Ba people, there are a few people dressed like the ancient Miao tribe on this relief, they are men and women kneeling next to a corpse, the corpse is also wearing a beast mask, and what is more strange is that there is a pumice stone suspended on the corpse, after seeing the shape of the pumice stone, I immediately felt like a thunderbolt in the sky, the shape of this pumice stone I saw twice two years ago, the first time was in the relief of the sinkhole crack of the ancient tomb of the demon man, and once it was under the ghost monument of Mount Everest, In the painting of the sarcophagus of the Gu girl in the ancient Xiangxiong underground palace, this pumice stone is the "Nuwa Stone".

In order to further confirm, I also asked the fat man to confirm it, and vaguely I always felt that this Nuwa stone was related to the identity of Yanyu? Because it has appeared many times in places related to the Demon Man and the Gu Girl, and the Gu Girl and the Demon Girl have a relationship with Yanyu, especially the Gu Girl is exactly the same as Yanyu, how can I believe that there is no connection between them?

The bizarre relief attracted everyone present, and everyone was talking about why this Ba people and these ancient Miao people appeared in the same relief, and what were they doing?

Just as everyone was talking to each other, the officer, who had been recording the video, may have noticed that the position of the Nuwa stone carved on the wall was wrong through the DV in his hand, and he said while looking at the DV in his hand, "Look, there seems to be a problem with the position of the pumice stone?" ”

After he reminded everyone to focus on the Nuwa Stone, the female student named Xiaoying found that there was a thin crack on the edge of the Nuwa Stone, and immediately said with joy, "Maybe this is the exit mechanism?" She didn't let us know how to press the mechanism......