When I heard the petroglyphs, the haze on my face was swept away, and I picked up Lu Keqin and ran into the stone room: "Where is it?" Where is it? ”

Liu Fashan looked at me with a happy look, shook his head and said to himself: "What a child." ”

"On the wall, where! And in my face. Lu Dachuan scolded me. But there was not the slightest hint of reproach in his tone.

Lu Dachuan said a word to me, then turned his face and looked at the rock paintings intently, and pointed at Liu Changjiao, analyzing and guessing the meaning of the painting.

I glanced at Lu Keqin, smiled embarrassedly, and then looked up at the wall. What caught my eye was a rough inverted tick line more than a foot high, with a two-centimeter-high "n" drawn on the lower right of the inverted hook, and a set of overlapping irregular circles on the left side of n, and many "eights" were messily drawn underneath the circles. Looking around, it's all blank.

"What did you draw?" I didn't get it.

Lu Dachuan told me by drawing simple lines on the wall: "This thickest line represents a mountain, and the small n character covered by the thick line is a hole in the mountain, and the group of overlapping and messy lines on the left depicts a group of people running towards the cave." ”

"People!?" I wanted to cry and laugh, "How can anyone draw people like this, not as good as kindergarten children." ”

Lu Dachuan shook his head: "When you look at a narrative painting, you mainly look at the storyline it represents. You see these people, not only are they crowded together, but their heads are swaying from side to side very much, and their arms and legs are almost separated, and you can tell that they are desperately running into the cave. Why run desperately into the cave? I think it's to avoid some danger. If you use such simple lines to make the characters neatly drawn, without even noses and eyes, what can you tell what they are doing? Sightseeing? Or are you exploring like us? ”

"Oh, I see." After Lu Dachuan's explanation, I looked at the overlapping circles and "eight", and I didn't feel messy at all, "But what danger are they avoiding?" ”

"This should be said earlier." Lu Dachuan moved the light to the left, and sure enough, there was another one.

There is no background to the painting, just a group of people running around, interspersed with a few large animals. The whole picture is still outlined by the simple engraved lines of the previous painting, and people and animals have no noses and eyes, but I used the method given to him by Lu Dachuan to comprehend the meaning of the painting, and I actually felt that they were extraordinarily expressive.

"It's kind of funny, at first glance this painting looks like a hunting picture, but on closer inspection, it's actually a man and an animal running away...... Well! It's running away, and there's a guy riding on an animal. I looked at it and said to myself, "What kind of guy is this, huge, rhinoceros?" No, rhinoceros has two horns, this one is one, two, three......" I said what was on my mind, "the animals here are really strange, it's strange enough to have one horn on the head of a snake, and there are three horns in the painting of this thing!" ”

"Hey, why don't you speak?" I turned my face and saw them staring at the painting with wide eyes, and curiously turned their faces back to the picture, "What do you see?" One by one, the eyes are weird and scary. ”

Lu Dachuan spoke: "Zheng Shuang, what is this animal painted on the wall?" Like a dinosaur? ”

"Dinosaurs!? Three horns, triceratops! "I searched for all the lines of each animal in the arms and legs of the crowd in the picture, and my eyes couldn't help but widen wider and wider. In addition to the triceratops, I also recognized a stegosaurus that looked like a stegosaurus: "Are these paintings documentary?" ”

Lu Dachuan said: "It's documentary! ”

"That'...... Human, dinosaur, dinosaur, human ...... How do you ......" I was incoherent.

"It's incomprehensible! How did people appear in the age of dinosaurs? Or how did people appear in the age of dinosaurs? ”

I took two deep breaths to calm myself down: "The last picture only had people, and this one has dinosaurs in it, is it incoherent?" ”

Lu Dachuan took two steps back and looked at the two paintings at the same time: "People and animals fled together, and then people fled into the cave...... That's right! ”

"But why did they run away?" I searched around people and animals, but I didn't see anything else.

Lu Dachuan pointed his finger on the picture and analyzed: "They are running forward, but their heads are turned behind them." The danger should not be far behind, and the three dinosaurs that are most obvious in the middle of the crowd, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and this Brontosaurus are all grass-eating, and it is possible that carnivorous dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Tyrannosaurus rex are chasing them...... It's a little strange that this wasn't drawn! ”

The long lines of the Brontosaurus's body were hidden from one end to the other in the lines of other people and animals, and I only recognized them under Lu Dachuan's guidance.

My consciousness suddenly flickered: "Are we looking backwards from behind?" ”

"It's looking backwards!" Lu Dachuan felt that the question I asked was very mentally retarded.

"Then why are we bothering so much!? If you look at it from the front and back, you can understand everything. ”

Lu Dachuan realized that he was pretending to be smart, and the flashlight subconsciously shone forward: "Fuck, cover up!" ”

I followed the light and looked forward, and saw that there was a noticeable layer of covering on the left wall.

I stepped forward, scraped it with my fingernails, and said with a sad face, "Same as over there." ”

Lu Dachuan turned around and pointed to the other three walls and said, "Over there, over there, see if there is anything exposed." ”

In front of us is the wall on the right hand side of the entrance. As soon as he entered, Lu Dachuan saw the painting of a group of people running away, and the rest of the place had not had time to take a closer look. Now that the walls were covered with a substance almost the same color as the stone walls, we looked at the four walls of the stone chamber with great anxiety.

This stone chamber is also square, nearly twice as large as the previous one, and has a circular opening in the wall opposite the stone door that leads to the outside. After looking at the four walls, our boiling blood fell below zero.

Lu Dachuan hated it so much that he scolded the people who painted the walls for not being kind. I was utterly hopeless. Liu Fashan had to talk hard again.

This time, Lu Dachuan did not follow Liu Fashan, but interrupted him: "Can you shut up and let people be quiet for a while?" We all know what you say, but the petroglyphs here, even if they have nothing to do with what we're looking for, are priceless. Now it's all ruined, ruined! ”

Liu Fashan was so choked that he couldn't speak.

After saying it in one breath, Lu Dachuan realized that he was out of control again, put down his arms dancing up and down, and touched them in the pockets of his clothes.

Liu Fashan took out a cigarette and handed it to Lu Dachuan, and then took out a lighter and lit it for him.

After a short silence, Lu Dachuan said, "Cook something to eat, find a place to rest for a while." It's been four or five days since we've been in, and we've only cooked twice and slept once, so don't break down. ”

Liu Changleg said: "We have to hurry up and go out, if we delay any longer, the water will be cut off." ”

"How much longer?"

"Save up to two days."

"Why so little?"

"Huzi ......" Liu Chang's eyes were red again.

"It's a big trouble to have no water! What about eating? ”

"Most of the food is in the fairy and Keqin bags, no problem."

"Oh...... Don't worry too much. Judging from the passage at the back, the caves are connected, so it's not a big problem for us to hurry up and finish it in one day. It shouldn't be a problem to stay out for a day. ”

Liu Fashan took out the pot stove and lit a fire to boil water. Lin Xian'er and Lu Keqin cooked by hand. After a while, the aroma of rice overflowed.

Hu Fatzi was worried, and asked with a snort: "What do you mean by saving money?" ”

"It's just enough for people to sustain life, and no pigs to feed their stomachs."

"I'll admit I'm a pig, you've got to give me a little more."

"The skin is really thick-skinned, I can't care if you drink the portion you carry more, why should the collective give you more?"

"I'm a pig!"

"It's not a pig, you have to drink more and drink what you carry."

"I'm done." Hu Fatman's voice was so small that he could barely hear it.

"Drink the big pot when you eat, and you have drunk more than a dozen bottles of mineral water yourself, you are really a pig!"

"I'm carrying almost ten kilograms more than you, is it easy for me?" Hu Fat pretended to be pitiful.

"If you haven't drunk it into someone else's stomach, you deserve to carry an extra twenty kilograms!"

"Why don't you have any sympathy!?"

"It's not like I didn't warn you."

Lu Dachuan said: "You two are endless, close your mouth and save some saliva, and you can swallow two more mouthfuls when the water is cut off." ”

They stopped talking, waiting for the meal to be cooked.

After the meal was cooked, we put all our worries aside for a moment and devoured it.

The heat was so hot that we were full of fatigue, as if we had just eaten not food, but sleeping pills.

We're sleepy, and we're having trouble with where to sleep. As long as there is one person on duty, he is not afraid of being discovered by those two groups. And Zhang Xiaohu and Cai Zhengdong's inexplicable disappearance made us feel bottomless. What if I wake up and open my eyes, and someone else is gone? Or what if you fall asleep and never wake up again?

After discussing several methods, I felt that it was inappropriate. In the end, Lu Dachuan pointed to the entrance to the outside and said, "Let's go and sleep in the aisle outside, set up a tent to block both ends, and sleep in the middle, how much safer." ”

I said, "That's an idea." ”

The others did not object. So, we walked into the hole opposite the stone door that we came in, leading to the outside.

This hole was a little higher and much wider than the one we walked in when we came in. After walking more than ten meters inside, Lu Dachuan said, "It's here!" ”

Liu Changjiao put the bag on the ground and said, "You guys are ready, I'll go and take a look." ”

Lu Dachuan stopped him and said, "Don't go, hurry up and rest, and strive to get out early." ”

Liu looked at the swarthy cave in the distance and said, "In case ......"

Lu Dachuan knew what he was worried about, and said: "I mean that our cats sleeping here may not be discovered by anything, and it is easy to be exposed when we walk around." ”

In the past, Liu Changleg believed in Lu Dachuan's judgment, but this time he felt a little hanging: "Can it work?" It feels like a bit of a cover-up. ”

"Listen to me."

"Okay then." Liu Changleg opened the backpack and pulled out the things he needed from inside.

Hu Fatzi, Liu Fashan and others also started to clean up, I wanted to help, but the cave was narrow and a little unwieldy, so I sat on the side with nothing to do and watched them busy, and inadvertently turned around and saw that there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at us in the dark stone room inside.