Chapter 44: The Mystery

I raised my head and lit the last fresco in the tomb with the lamp in my hand, fantasizing that I could find some clues in it, and a vast green grassland came into view. In the middle of the grassland www.biquge.info the pen & fun & pavilion, a pool of lake water ripples, and a Taoist priest sits in front of the lake and looks up at the starry night sky. In the sky, there are mysterious colorful clouds, shining with colorful light, and the bright stars reflect each other, just like a fairyland on earth.

If you look at these alone, this is undoubtedly a dreamy beauty like heaven, but this mural still continues the strange and inexplicable depiction method before, and the contrast is very great, and there are countless horrific corpses lying on the grassland in the distance behind this Taoist priest.

The original green grassland under these corpses has also been dyed red with blood, and what is even more strange is that when I carefully observed those corpses, I found that these corpses piled up everywhere were not humans, they were actually those terrifying evil ghosts that appeared in the previous murals! It feels like a hell of evil spirits, and it makes people hairy.

Throughout the mural, the strong contrast between heaven and hell gives people a sense of déjà vu that is extremely uncomfortable, revealing an indescribable horror and weirdness......

What exactly is this mural trying to illustrate? Could it be a metaphor that this Taoist priest killed all the evil ghosts and finally became an immortal? I pondered for a moment, and this strange idea popped into my head, and then I rejected it in an instant. Become an immortal? What are you kidding, even if this Taoist priest depicts himself with great powers, isn't he still buried in this ancient tomb at the bottom of the lake in the end?

I thought about the skull and skulls nailed to the walls of the skull chamber in front of me, and I looked at the corpses of demons everywhere in the frescoes, and a thought that made me even more frightened, couldn't it...... Aren't the skulls human? But the evil ghost that this Taoist priest killed? No way! Then why does Gao Lengru bow down to these skulls? Isn't he human!?

After a while, I was amused by my own even more unreliable ridiculous idea, hehe smirked, ghostism? In this last moment of waiting for death, I can't help but classify this unsolvable mystery on the ghost and deism that I never believed, which is really ridiculous.

There was a brief pause in the sound of the armory shovel banging on the wall in the distance, and I clearly heard Jin Buchang sigh heavily: "Hey, fuck, this kid, it looks like he's gone crazy." Then the knocking sound sounded again.

I continued to giggle self-deprecatingly, and I didn't want to explain anything to him, in this last moment of life and death, anyone who saw a person facing the wall and smirking incessantly would probably think that he couldn't bear the stimulation and had gone completely crazy, in fact, even I began to wonder if I was on the verge of collapse......

I stopped laughing, took my composure, sat down on the floor, crossed my legs, supported my head with one hand, tilted my head, and began to gather my thoughts.

First of all, from the analysis of the different ages of the upper and lower tombs, this steppe tomb is undoubtedly two ancient tombs built in different periods, respectively, where a Mongolian magnate and a Taoist priest who thought he had divine skills were buried. The reason why I think I think it is, of course, because of the murals depicting those brave fighting monster pythons, summoning heavenly soldiers, killing evil ghosts, etc., I didn't believe it at all, talking to myself, boasting about myself, is the only impression that the owner of this tomb gave me.

Secondly, according to this line of continuous analysis, the first person buried here is undoubtedly the Taoist priest in the mural. After a thousand years, the Mongolian magnates, for some unknown special reasons, chose to be buried here with this Taoist priest, and carried out a large-scale expansion on the tomb of the original Taoist priest, and finally completed a virtual tomb that covers people's ears. As for why this Mongolian magnate had to be buried with this Taoist priest, I regret that I didn't see all the murals in the tomb above, and if I did, I might be able to sort out the relationship between the two clearly.

The next mystery is the two identical sarcophagi in the ancient tomb, and the first sarcophagus we opened was a monster corpse covered in black hair and like a beast. Thinking of this, I turned my head to look at the two black-haired jerky on the ground in the distance, and my heart had long since lost my previous fear of this monster, sighed, turned back again, and continued to think. I don't want to think about why this monster would cheat corpses, why it would suddenly grow black hair and attack us like a wild beast, which is beyond the scope of my knowledge.

But no matter how the monster had bounced before, at least it was still a corpse when it lay in the sarcophagus. Since it is a corpse, then what is he a Taoist priest? Or the Mongol magnates? Two people buried here, two identical sarcophagi, but now there is only one body, so where did the other one go?

I pondered the reason for this, but in the end I still didn't come up with a reason, and I naturally didn't know who this Taoist priest and the Mongolian magnate were.

I still refused to give up, and once again stood up, took the lamp, and looked backwards at the last mural in front of me, only this time I looked more closely, trying to see if I had missed any key details.

But when I saw the mural of the Taoist priest fighting evil ghosts before this last mural, a strange detail instantly caught my attention! I quickly looked at all the other murals again, reaffirming my thoughts on the details, but at the same time I was once again in a state of confusion and confusion......

Art is the field I am involved in in college, of course, my attainments in art are naturally more than 108,000 miles away from those who have become famous, but although I can't memorize some of the knowledge in books, at least I still know a thing or two.

The earliest history of human beings using color in painting can be traced back to the Stone Age, so the production of pigments in traditional Chinese painting also has a long history. In the early days, painting pigments were almost all made by painters or painters who made their own hands, grinding plants and extracting pigments, and the degree of time and effort was self-evident.

In Chinese history, many alchemists were often also the discoverers and makers of new pigments, and in the process of refining pills, alchemists often discovered some new colors unexpectedly. These colors were later refined and produced into classic painting pigments, the more famous ones being cinnabar, lead dan and pulan......

It was probably not until the 17th century, when small-scale pigment manufacturing began in Europe, that it really changed into industrial manufacturing.

Even in the history of Chinese archaeology, those who have been explored in ancient tombs, in fact, murals are rare, after all, this requires the tomb owner to have a strong ability to mobilize manpower at that time to complete such a huge workload.

Of course, I am not struggling with whether the Mongol magnate or the Taoist priest was the kind of man who responded to the situation in his own era, but I was puzzled by the extremely obvious difference in color in this mural.

Generally speaking, the painter will give an approximate amount of paint after outlining the general pattern and structure of the main and secondary murals, and most of the painters under his hands will make the pigment with a standard that exceeds this amount in the actual production, after all, in the actual painting process, it is inevitable that there will be some other accidents such as paint errors, paint waste and so on.

Even if there is a spare, there is sometimes a chance that there will be a shortage of pigments, and it is natural that it will need to be re-sharpened.

However, the re-milled pigment often produces a small color difference with the previously milled pigment due to the different pigment content within the plant. For example, if you are holding two leaves that are also green in your hand, if you look closely, you will find that although both leaves are green, there will be subtle differences between the two greens due to different external factors such as light and moisture.

At this moment, what I noticed was a problem in the use of paint in all the murals.

The murals of the fighting demons in the Taoist forest are obviously not the same as the other murals! ……