Chapter 82: The Mural
Next, we are presented with a large group of murals.
In front of the cave infested by the yin spirit, I had seen the mural on the mountain wall, but the situation was critical, I didn't have time to see more, I remember, the content of the mural, it should be a group of people on the way to worship the sky, and the war between two armies.
At this time, the murals in this mountain wall are a more complete set of narrative murals, and we start to look down one by one according to the positions indicated by the land, sea and air.
The first mural depicts an endless mountain range, and if you look closely, it looks like a dragon coiled on the earth, with the dragon's head raised and a huge pillar rising from the dragon's head, pointing straight to the sky.
In front of the dragon-shaped mountain range, there are countless people who have fallen to the ground, and on the opposite side of the mountain, there are two giant trees, like two towering giants.
Looking at the sky dome again, in a fog that seemed to be nothing, it seemed that a huge palm stretched out and pressed against the people on the earth.
This mural is simple and straightforward, not too complicated, I can see at a glance that this painting is the mountain range where the Black Water Demon Cave is located, and the two giant trees all prove this qiē.
But the giant hand on the heavenly dome makes me wonder, what does that mean, heaven, giant hand, is it immortal heaven?
I thought of this, and turned my head to look at Ansari, who seemed to have thought of this too, and his eyes were looking at the giant hand of the heavenly dome with a thoughtful look.
The meaning of this mural is to say that the people living on the earth are all the people of the Immortal Heaven, and people have to worship the Immortal Zenith and be ruled by the Immortal Heaven.
Other than that, it doesn't seem to mean anything else.
The second mural is a dragon in the air, fighting several vicious monsters alone, although majestic, but obviously a little weak, scarred, surrounded by the monsters, looking for opportunities to break through. There are still many people on the ground, who are chased by countless ghosts and monsters and run in panic, on the ground, in the sky, there are raging flames everywhere, scenes of fighting, corpses are everywhere, and rivers of blood are flowing.
Looking at this mural, I seem to have a realization, the dragon on it, it seems to symbolize the Chinese nation, to be precise, it should be the Manchu court at that time, and those monsters, should be a few foreign countries that invaded China at that time, and the Chinese people are being bullied, the ruthless war has covered the land of China, and look at the situation expressed on the mural, it should be very critical.
Looking down again, there is a third mural, which depicts a secret room, in which there is a huge stone pillar, on which is a dragon-like creature, the body looming, and a large shaman dressed as a man kneels on an altar, facing the dragon on the stone pillar, looking up to the sky and praying.
The great shaman held a drum in his hand and a bell in the other, and two bloody tears faintly flowed from his eyes, and his mouth was wide open, as if he was shouting and calling to the dragon on the stone pillar.
I don't have to guess about this mural, I can see at a glance that this is the secret room where we found the great shaman just now, but the dragon on the stone pillar makes me wonder, does this expression mean that there is really a dragon here, or is it just a metaphorical method?
If I hadn't seen the huge dragon bones in the Ten Thousand Corpses, maybe I wouldn't have thought like this at all, who would have believed that there were dragons in this world? But at this time, I couldn't help but think of the dragon bone, could it be the dragon on this stone pillar?
Further down, there was an unfinished mural, with only a few brushstrokes on it, as if to paint the sky and clouds, and as if to draw the mountains, but unfortunately, I couldn't guess what it was.
I turned my head and looked at Ansari, he also saw this, and his face was naturally the same puzzle as mine, in the three murals in front, it was very clear, and at the same time, it also explained the reason why the great shaman sacrificed to the heavens, which probably means that the great powers invaded China, and the people of the immortal heavens prayed to the heavens for protection.
A mystery in my heart has finally been solved, it turns out that this Black Water Demon Cave is a place used to worship the Immortal Heaven, but why does it have to be here? You must know that the Qing Dynasty rose in the eastern part of the country, and there should be many places to worship the immortal sky, and this Black Water Demon Cave is not only remote, far away, and dangerous, but also has an incomprehensible mysterious power, not to mention anything else, just this name, the Black Water Demon Cave, is not a place of sacrifice at all.
My eyes looked at the first mural again, and when I saw the dragon-shaped mountain range, I subconsciously muttered two sentences: "Dragon-shaped mountain range, dragon-shaped mountain range......"
My heart suddenly moved, dragon-shaped mountains, dragon veins?
Could it be that this is the dragon vein of the Great Qing Dynasty?
Thinking of this word, my heart suddenly jumped wildly, yes, yes, most likely, this mountain range is in the shape of a dragon, and the location of the Black Water Demon Cave is at the head of the dragon, and at the same time, there is a pillar that leads to the sky on the head of the dragon, pointing directly to the sky.
Ah, the Pillars of Heaven! My eyes lit up again, and I suddenly remembered the thick stone pillar in the secret room, could it be that the pillar of heaven in the mural, is that one?
What I thought of was naturally the stone pillar that was like a crutches on the top of a corpse lying on it for some reason, and the stone pillar in the secret room of the great shaman altar, and my mind was racing in my heart, those two secret rooms were connected up and down, and those two stone pillars were probably the same one!
Thinking of this, I screamed and hurriedly turned my head to look at Ansari, but blurted out at the same time as him: "I understand......"
When these words were spoken, both of us were stunned, and then hurriedly exchanged opinions in a low voice, his opinion was exactly the same as mine, they all thought that the mountain range where the Black Water Demon Cave was located should be where the Manchu Dragon Vein was located.
In this way, it can explain why the Qing court sent the great shaman to this black water demon cave with great difficulty.
And the most obvious evidence is that there is indeed a huge dragon bone in this black water demon cave, which can at least prove that there should really be a dragon here.
The two of us studied it, and the deputy commander of the Shenji Battalion, Lu Haikong, who had not spoken for a long time behind him, suddenly let out a long sigh and said: "The luck of the Great Qing Dynasty is exhausted, even if the sacrifice to the Immortal Heaven is useless, I have long thought that if the sacrifice to the Heaven is useful, how can those dynasties established by the Han people perish?" ”
In just a few words, he has directly affirmed that Ansari and I are right.
At the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the imperial court was incompetent, the foreign powers took the opportunity to invade, the world was in chaos, and the luck was exhausted.
"This is really a sacrifice to the Immortal Heaven, but such a heavy sacrifice to the heavens, to reverse the trend of a country, is by no means comparable to ordinary sacrifices to the heavens, and the price to be paid is even more incalculable, seniors, could it be said that the countless dry bones in the ten thousand corpse mounds are the human animals used in this sacrifice to the heavens?"
Ansari asked with a stern expression, but Lu Haikong smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "Those people are all the people of the Immortal Heaven, if they are used to worship the Heavens, if the Immortal Heaven really has a spirit, what do you think his old man's reaction will be?" ”
He got to the point with this sentence, in fact, I also vaguely thought of this just now, yes, these are people, they are the people of the Immortal Heaven, not the livestock used for sacrifice, nor the grain produced by the earth, wouldn't it provoke the wrath of the Immortal Heaven to sacrifice to the heavens?
"Senior, then you say, what's going on inside the Ten Thousand Corpses Grave? Where did the bones come from? Could it be that there are any more complicated and unknown secrets in this heavenly worship activity? ”
Ansari asked suspiciously, and I thought about it and added, "Also, who built the gutter outside?" ”
Lu Haikong put his hands behind his back, looking at the murals, the expression on his face was confused, and there was a hint of hesitation, I knew that his mood at this time was actually more complicated than anyone else's, after thousands of years of immortality, he suddenly woke up at this time, and found that a qiē had already been a person, if it was replaced by me, I am afraid that it would have collapsed.
"Next, what I want to tell you is the true secret of this Black Water Demon Cave, and I hope that after you hear it, you will keep it absolutely secret. No, not to keep it a secret, but to forget these words when you hear them, go back honestly, take the Great Shaman with you, fulfill your family's mission, and never come here again. There is no longer a zài in the Qing Dynasty, and the qiē here is actually just a joke for you......"
Lu Haikong's expression was extremely stern, looked at Ansari, and said slowly.
My heart was awe-struck, and I looked up at Ansari, who also nodded and said neatly, "Okay, I promise you that after completing the mission, I will never come back here." ”
Lu Haikong's expression slowed down a little, he glanced at me again, his gaze slowly wandered, and after a while, he finally spoke: "Do you know why those Maozi of Tsarist Russia forcibly occupied 64 Tun in Jiangdong and repeatedly invaded my Heilongjiang? ”