Chapter 57 Comic Strip

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These stone murals don't occupy the entire wall, they just wrap around the stone house in strips, just at a height that makes people look comfortable. Unlike the brick carvings of the Western Han Dynasty, the stone murals here are large and divided into several small grids, just like the comic books that my parents used to read when they were children, but the painting on this stone carving is too rough and the lines are very simple, but with my ability to associate, I can still read the stories depicted in these stone murals.

At the beginning, I just had an attitude of going to the museum to look at it casually, but when I understood the content of the first picture, I could no longer suppress my curiosity, and even completely ignored Bu Jin, Teng Yi, and those strange-looking guys around me.

Each of the images here is roughly a square meter in size, and in the first picture there are seven people who are not riding horses or using any other means of transportation, but, to my surprise, in the picture, they are walking in a large river.

I don't want to speculate that it is a big river, first of all, in the distance of the picture, there are rolling mountains carved in Yangwen, and a river that resembles an auspicious cloud pattern bursts out of the valley. In the structural layout of the main picture, the seven people are actually drawn very small, except for the leader one, the other six people are bent down behind the man, if according to the normal proportions, these seven people are almost like ants on the river in the picture, and the huge river often stirs up huge waves, but the seven people walk on it so leisurely, as if they are about to rush somewhere.

I moved my steps to the right of the second stone mural, and when I looked at the picture, I frowned, and I was a little surprised, not because there was any bizarre story in the picture, but because of the characters in the picture.

In order to make sure that I was not dazzled, I went back to the first picture, and this time, I could see more clearly, and then it brought more doubt.

In the first picture, although the figures of the seven men were small, the leader of them could still be distinguished, he was dressed in a flowing long robe, but, looking at the size and the lofty demeanor, I was sure that it must be a man. However, in the second picture, there are still seven people, and the clothes of the other six people have not changed, and the leader is the same, the only thing that surprises me is that in this picture, the leader has become a woman!

The woman, with her long hair hanging down from her waist, was standing on a mountain overlooking a field, as if the seven had reached their destination.

I couldn't wait to look at the third painting again, and I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart - the man at the head has become a man again!

I wondered in my heart, and I thought to myself, what is the trouble, are there two leaders? Judging from the picture, this is simply impossible, but why is the person who is the leader a man and a woman for a while? Could this guy be like a flounder and change his sex at will according to different needs, hermaphroditic?

No, no, no, this is bullshit, I've only heard of shemales in Thailand, and I've seen on the Internet before that there are some people who have two opposite reproductive systems because of congenital defects, but, in general, one of these two reproductive systems must be defective, and the other is dominant.

However, the person in the picture is obviously changing his gender at will, can he still control this kind of thing?

Next, I will not describe those images in detail, but I will just talk about my speculation and understanding:

First of all, I want to make it clear that this whole stone mural does not describe the actual life of those seven people, it is more accurate to say that these stone murals are only describing a fragment of the lives of these seven people, although from the first stone mural to the last stone mural all have the figures of those seven people, but the whole mural is about these seven people coming to a certain place and bringing earth-shaking changes to this place.

If I were to tell it in the form of a story, it might be more fluent and easy to understand.

The story begins with seven people coming from a distant mountain, and the leader of the seven of them is a man who can change men and women at any time, they are obviously not mortals, and they can walk on the ground in the monstrous waters. I suspect that the river is either the Lancang or the Nu.

After several twists and turns, these seven people finally came to a certain place, although the people here did not live a life of drinking blood at this time, but their production skills were still very limited.

The seven men seemed to act as teachers of enlightenment, teaching the local natives how to farm and even refine bronze ware, and it didn't take long for the lives of the people here to change dramatically.

However, with the continuous development of the production technology of the people here, it also attracted the jealousy of other foreigners, and the foreigners began to wage large-scale wars in order to obtain advanced production technology, and although the local people had mastered the advanced productive forces taught by visitors from distant mountains, this kind of rapid development obviously did not conform to the normal law of development. The locals are well-skilled, but there are very few people, so they are quickly defeated by the foreigners.

In desperation, the visitor from the distant mountains had no choice but to lead the remaining remnants to flee here to another remote mountain forest.

Just when the people had just settled down and were waiting to be rebuilt, the leader from the distant mountains began to order all the local people to start refining the bronze coffin on a large scale!

Yes, although I have not seen the bronze coffin described by Duan Yuwen, I trust my own judgment that there was a picture in the stone mural that depicted the scene of countless strong men casting bronze coffins in succession—those bronze coffins were neatly arranged and placed into the ground.

However, the story that followed made me question the purpose of those bronze coffins - a very strong thought broke into my mind for a moment - maybe it was not a bronze coffin, but just a vessel made of bronze!

When thousands of bronze coffins were built, it was surprising that the leaders from the distant mountains were able to place some strange things in the bronze coffins (because some of the things are so small, the proportions between the things are obviously distorted in these stone murals, but this is precisely to highlight the surprising things).

I saw that the leader from the distant mountains ordered the people to divide more than 1,000 bronze coffins into two parts, one of which he (she) ordered people to put poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, centipedes, and earthworms into it, and the other part of the bronze coffin He (she) ordered people to put poisons such as toads and lizards into it. When all this was ready, the leader from the distant mountains began to perform an extremely horrific killing ritual - countless villagers were stabbed to death for no reason and then placed in bronze coffins.

Seeing this, it dawned on me that it was not a coffin, but a vessel for making Gu!!

Could it be that the leader from the distant mountains is a great wizard?

I don't understand what the local people think about such a thing, because it is clear that their race is not large in the first place, and in this case, many young lives have been slaughtered - there is no reason to explain all this except the so-called ritual of worship.

What makes me struggle is that I still need to use people for what kind of Gu system? Do you really want people to take their grievances and insects to take their poison? I can't wait to keep looking......

The next picture is a bit disconnected, because of my inference, a long time should have passed by this time. Because at this time, this group experienced another war.

In the picture, the leader from the distant mountains is standing on a huge bronze drum that I had heard when I was talking to my father that this huge bronze drum was not actually used as a musical instrument, but as a ritual utensil.

I saw that the leader was surrounded by countless bronze coffins, and around the bronze drum where the leader was standing stood his six attendants who were always with him or her.

I don't know what Lu Dao is for, although the portraits of these six people are very abstract, but I always unconsciously associate the six of them with the six coffin bearers encountered in the story of the Qin Guiren brothers told by Duan Yuwen.

Immediately afterwards, the leader standing on the bronze drum began to dance with his hair scattered, looking at the momentum, it should be a witch.

To my surprise, as the leader danced, those bronze coffins actually moved—from the bronze coffins, a group of extremely strong young people came out, and there were men and women, but without exception, they all became extremely manic, and their bodies also changed accordingly, some people grew tails, some people had strangely shaped arms, some people simply had an extra monster's head, and some people themselves did not change much, but everywhere they went, Monsters are bound to follow.

Of course, only most of the bronze coffins, and the other two more unique bronze coffins, no one came out. Out of one of the bronze coffins flew out a monster that looked like a dragon but was not a dragon, its body was covered with scales and many claws, and it did not have the domineering spirit that a dragon should have, but it looked evil and vicious, ugly and abnormal; And what flew out of the other bronze coffin was a monster in the shape of a unicorn, but like the previous monster, although it resembled a unicorn, it did not feel auspicious at all, but gave people a sense of ferocity and viciousness.

These two monsters and the half-human, half-beast people form an unusually strong army.

What happened next naturally doesn't need me to say more, this race relied on these half-human, half-beast monsters to easily win this war.

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