When did humans start using salt, or other condiments that allow humans to taste a variety of flavors?

A thousand years ago? Two thousand years ago? Five thousand years? Still is...... A longer past?

History does not give the answer.

Perhaps since the ancestors of human beings ate those meats, they have begun to get used to the trace elements in the meat, and the flesh and blood of those animals contain everything that human beings need, hot, with a fishy smell of flesh and blood.

Perhaps it is precisely after slash-and-burn cultivation that there is a demand for various condiments, cooked food represents the kind of deliciousness contained in raw food is replaced, less tasteless, it needs a variety of foreign substances to adjust and neutralize to satisfy the taste buds, and there are condiments.

According to legend, in the period of Emperor Yan, that is, in the new era of 4000 B.C., there was already a legend that Fengsha boiled the sea for salt, and salt has not only been a condiment since ancient times, but also a commodity.

In today's society, there are still many remote areas that still retain some ancient traditions, salt as a sacrifice, pure white salt crystals represent purity, can drive away evil spirits, and suppress demons. In the West, salt is a sacred thing.

But...... Black Salt ......

"Stuffed soil!"

Jin Nanliang, who was tied, suddenly spoke.

"This is brewed soil, legend has it that it is a divine soil only in the sky, and the soil has its own bitter, spicy, sweet, sour and salty, and brewed soil will only appear in the abode of the gods. In the mythological story, the emperor went to heaven to ask for five flavors, and on the way back, he accidentally dropped the brewed soil containing the five flavors into the water, so that today's sea was vast, and the ancestors of mankind precipitated the five flavors from the sea, and bid farewell to the era of Ru Mao drinking blood. ”

"No, if it's really the brewing soil you said, then it has to be all five flavors, not to mention that what you said is a mythical story, this stone wall is simply salty, maybe it is a salt mine excavation site in the ancient past."

No. 5 interrupted Jin Nanliang's words, reached out and touched the stone wall, and then stuffed it into his mouth.

The powder on the stone wall does taste like salt in your mouth, but it is more delicious than ordinary salt, and it is simply the taste of raw salt.

"Hey, isn't that weird what you understand? I said black salt because of its ingredients, didn't I just say that the reason why black salt is black is because it is mixed with volcanic ash, if this is really a salt mine, it means that there was once a volcano here! ”

It's hard for Ning Meng to be so logical and thoughtful all of a sudden, if Ku Ding was here, he would definitely have to praise him a few words.

However, Jin Li didn't understand.

"What's wrong with the volcano, even if the volcanic eruption created the black salt mine we are in now, but it must be a volcano I don't know how long ago, it is estimated that it is already an extinct volcano, and besides, a passage has been dug out here, what are we afraid of?"

"I didn't say I'm afraid, I mean, since there used to be a volcano here, then the geological environment here is more mysterious, I don't know the specifics, but let's go all the way down, the depth is definitely not shallow, who knows what will happen to the next down, the ancients who dug this tomb may have some purpose, if it is simply a salt mine, there is no need to dig such a tomb."

Lao Qi scraped some black salt with a knife and pretended it, he didn't know what he thought, anyway, he just wanted to keep some.

"Maybe in the beginning, this was a salt mine, and the ancients dug black salt here, but as they dug deeper, they probably found something, and they made it what it is now, and used it for other purposes. Later, it was discovered by Sun Selling Fish, and the dove occupied the magpie's nest. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Qi inexplicably thought of the boxy box in the mural, whether the box was a big tripod or not, that thing must not be simple.

"Anyway, there's no way back, let's move on, everyone pay attention to safety, we can't have any more problems."

Jin Li shone down with a flashlight, faintly, and seemed to be able to see the end, and the end seemed to be a huge space. He didn't know if it was his own dazzle, or some kind of subconscious hallucination, as if the road was not far away.

"Five, can you estimate our current depth?"

Number 5 shook his head, wrote and counted with his pen, and after a few discussions with a few buddies, replied.

"I'm not sure, several precision instruments, including the depth gauge, have been interfered with, and are basically useless, if we calculate according to the results of the measurements on the ground, plus the time we came down, and the approximate angle of the oblique angle of the tomb, we should be at the lower end of the pyramid now, probably."

Although they bypassed the third layer and avoided many unknown dangers later, everyone was not comfortable at all this time, and they were dead and missing, and they couldn't even figure out where they were now, so they could only guess, and it was unpredictable.

Fortunately, now that Ning Meng has woken up, there is nothing wrong with looking at him, but I don't know if there are any sequelae, anyway, on the way forward, he opened the way, which also made Jin Li feel a lot more at ease.

From the moment you step into the black salt channel, the surroundings feel very dry, probably because of the salt, there is a lot of dust on the rock wall, when no one is on the ground, but when people move, they will roll up some and float in the air, the salt dust powder breathes into the nose, with a salty taste, at first it makes people feel a little fresh, and even makes people feel uplifted, but when they are tired, they feel that even their nostrils have a slight burning feeling, and everyone's kettle is also more and more unscrewed, The consumption of fresh water increases with depth.

Ning Ran originally thought that this road should not be far away, but after five minutes of driving the road No. 1, the feeling that the front is the end is still the same, the illusion of looking at the mountain and running a dead horse made him a little restless, and the salty taste in his nose made him feel that he was about to be pickled.

"Whew...... Whew......"

Lao Qi gasped, he obviously felt that he was much more tired to move here than in the previous tomb, the physical exertion made him tired, and even his legs began to weaken, if it weren't for a guy to hold him, he couldn't take a break quickly.

"Lao Jin, do you feel that our physical strength is consumed too quickly, as if ...... It's as if it was drawn. ”

This sentence made the 5th next to him flash.

"Could it be that the passage that will absorb the essence and energy in my dream is not the circular tomb path before, but here?"

"Dreams? What dreams? ”

When No. 5 said his dream, Ning Meng was still dizzy, of course he didn't know, and No. 5 recounted the dream that he still remembers, including the giant and the giant tree that he saw later.

"Maybe your dreams really have something to do with this place, Giant Tree? Giant? ”