Chapter 2: Cave Darkroom
Although Lu Fan does not have much experience, after all, he was also born in archaeology, and the content described in those ancient rock paintings is the ancients who painted these portraits, deducing a war that occurred at the beginning, and perhaps the painter also added the mythological color of his own worship.
The petroglyphs lead from shallow to the depths of the narrow caves. The simple white lines depict a huge god descending from the sky, leading many warriors armed with spears to fight a tragic battle of life and death against countless fierce monsters.
Lu Fan looked at the story at the beginning of the rock painting one by one, and the people also walked into the cave with the content of the depiction. With the warriors participating in the mural, all the way over the mountains and mountains, across the rivers, the age has also changed from the sturdy young man at the time of departure to the hunchbacked old man.
In the end, the huge gods who radiated light led the warriors to defeat the monsters and return to heaven in a scene of singing, laughter and dancing.
After seeing the entire mural, Lu Fan was still immersed in this epic handed down by ancient humans, and he didn't come back to his senses until he heard someone call his name.
Before I knew it, I was at the end of the cave, but there was Professor Xu and several archaeologists who were carefully copying the rock paintings.
"Xiao Lu, have you finished reading the petroglyphs in the corridor? How does it feel? Professor Xu said with a smile on his face.
"Professor Xu, it's a miracle that these petroglyphs can still remain so intact to this day." Lu Fan couldn't help but let out a burst of admiration from the bottom of his heart.
"Professor, have you checked the approximate date?"
"These murals are about 8,000 years old, and the advanced degree of civilization of the entire tribe is really incredible......" Speaking of this, Professor Xu couldn't help but praise, and pointed to the top of his head: "Xiao Lu, there are more shocking things for us, haven't you found it yet?" ”
Looking up in the direction pointed by Professor Xu, the top of the entire cave turned out to be inverted figure-eight wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a huge petroglyph was painted on the high top of the cave.
The content of the whole description made Lu Fan stunned for a moment, and he almost sat on the ground with a butt.
That's a rudimentary star map, not bad...... Lu Fan thinks that it is a star map, and no matter how you look at it in the middle, it looks like our solar system. What is even more shocking is that the simple painting style of the ancients made it clear that the huge gods worshiped by the ancients were born from half-moon-shaped flying objects.
Although archaeologists have found visitors from the heavens mentioned in the cave culture in different areas over the years. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, many cave paintings depict gods that are very similar to the extraterrestrial visitors speculated by modern scientists.
Most people believe that the ancient civilization at that time was too backward, and there was no specific written record, and simple line drawings were even more difficult to prove anything. Perhaps, it's just an abstract coincidence.
can be displayed in front of Lu Fan's eyes, but it is a star map that looks more complicated. Could it be that the owner of this mural once had an astronomical telescope that could observe planets beyond the Earth? If it's a coincidence? The imagination of this primitive painter is also too incredible.
When Lu Fan turned around, he looked at Professor Xu with joy, hoping to get an answer from his mouth, but Professor Xu just looked at him and nodded solemnly, but he didn't make a sound.
For the next few days, Lu Fan was arranged to work in the deepest part of the cave. The knowledgeable Professor Xu, who taught by word and deed, also made Lu Fan's archaeological skills grow well. This made Lu Fan feel relieved and at the same time, he was deeply fascinated by the archaeology in front of him.
In the evening, the outside of the cave was shrouded in darkness, and the unpredictable mountain and forest climate was sparsely rained. In the cave that is still clear, there are only a few members of the archaeological team, still cleaning up the stone fragments in the soil.
And in the deepest part of the entire cave, Lu Fan was concentrating on using a brush to clean up some fossil fragments of unknown age. These fossils need to be taken back and passed through the carbon thirteen method to detect the specific age, whether they are left by the tribe that was entrenched in the cave at the beginning, which is also one of Lu Fan's main tasks now.
It's early summer, and although there are exhaust fans that keep the air inside the cave, it's still very hot inside. The long-term work had already made Lu Fan wet with sweat, and he could still hear the dull sound of explosion and thunder outside the cave, causing the miner's lamp above his head to brighten and dim for a while. …,
This made Lu Fan have to put down the work in his hand, and was about to tidy up and go out of the cave to rest. The miner's lamp above his head suddenly flickered a few times, and all of them turned into blind fire, and the cave was suddenly plunged into darkness.
I could still hear the questioning voices of several people who stayed in the cave: "What's going on?" Diesel generator broken by lightning? One of them said.
"Maybe I forgot to refuel." Another person then chimed in.
Lightning streaked across the sky from time to time, and also made the dark cave with no fingers visible light for a few seconds, which made Lu Fan, who was about to touch the cave, not break his head blindly.
Although Lu Fan also carried a few glow sticks with him, with the mentality that he could save money, in the end, he still didn't take them out and use them.
Holding on to the cave wall and walking a few steps in the dark, Lu Fan had a corner of his eyes, but under the light brought by the continuous lightning, he noticed a trace of strangeness.
The bright light that regained light and darkness made him notice that there was a different portrait at the end of the cave where there were no petroglyphs. Lu Fan was at the end of the cave, and he has been working until now, and almost all the murals around him can be memorized.
He was sure that under the bright light, this strange portrait could not be found, and only in this special environment of light and darkness could it be seen.
Could it be that the ancients still had any secrets hidden in this cave? Lu Fan, who couldn't help but be curious, walked back cautiously and observed carefully. This is a petroglyph that only depicts a single deity, and the lines drawn by the ancients are much more obvious, and you can clearly see the detailed face of this deity.
The thick limbs give people a sense of strength that destroys the world, and the rectangular face is majestic without the slightest expression. In each of the left and right hands, they hold a diamond-shaped object and a thin tube, all of which are vividly depicted by the painter.
And the huge god's chest has a hint of blur, and a small person can be vaguely seen. Wait a minute......! Villain? Could it be that the colossal deity is just a shell?
Lu Fan, who was taken aback by his thoughts, couldn't help but stretch out his fingers, wanting to wipe away the blur on the god's chest. After a few gentle wipes, the fallen soil revealed a thin hole.
This made Lu Fan secretly say "It's broken", he accidentally destroyed the precious rock paintings! While regretting it, I found that the inside of this small hole was extremely smooth! The texture of the thin holes gave him the illusion that it was made of metal.
The flashes of light made Lu Fan's eyes widen again, and he couldn't see the details clearly. Is it the organ of the ancients? Or is it a hole drilled by bugs? Lu Fan, who wanted to take a closer look, hurriedly took out a glow stick from his pocket, lit it and shone it over.
The hole isn't very deep, just enough for a finger to get into. At the bottom, there is an agate-like crystal object, like a button.
This made him almost certain that he had stumbled upon the hidden mechanism of the ancients, and that there must be a mysterious dark chamber in the cave that no one knew.
At this moment, Lu Fan was suddenly extremely excited, and couldn't wait to put his middle finger in, and after pressing it lightly, the button retracted. At the same time, there was a hint of pain at the tip of the finger, as if it had just been pricked by a thin needle.
Lu Fan couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and quickly pulled out his finger, and found that his finger had been pierced with a small hole, and there were still beads of blood flowing out.
He himself is an archaeology major, and he often likes to read some books on tomb robbing, and he knows that some of the ancients' dark rooms or tombs will have some anti-human mechanisms, and some may also be highly toxic, so he won't be so unlucky, right?
While secretly scolding himself for being reckless, he hurriedly sucked the wound of his finger with his mouth, and there was a burst of cranky thoughts in his heart. According to the professor, these petroglyphs have a history of nearly 8,000 years, so this mechanism, even if it is poisonous, should have deteriorated and expired a long time ago, right?
Lu Fan, who was hurriedly sucking out a lot of blood from his fingers and vomiting it out, only felt a slight vibration from the soles of his feet, and the cave wall in front of him silently opened a deep opening. At the same time, an extremely strong suction force instantly sucked Lu Fan in, and before he could react, the whole person had already slid down the passage.
"Help......!" At this moment, Lu Fan was about to slide down at a high speed, and he was suddenly and stunned, and found that even the voice that came out of his mouth was blocked by the strong wind.
The strong desire to survive forced him to keep scratching around, and the overly smooth passage, with no place to start, allowed him to slow down for himself. After roughly calculating the time of the slide, Lu Fan, who felt that he was going to die this time, simply gave up struggling in vain, sighed secretly and closed his eyes, waiting for the fate of turning into a lump of meatloaf after he hit the bottom of the cave.
It's over, it's really curiosity that kills people......! When I was in my twenties, I didn't even have a girlfriend, so I confessed here so unexplained, I was really jealous......
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