Chapter Twenty-Six: A Strange Painting
Seeing that the wall was moving faster and faster, Mo Zhitian was in a hurry, grabbed the long whip that Xiao Xiao had dropped on the ground, and struck it towards the small hole where the hologram device was placed. The pyramids are all made of limestone. The rock is not hard and easy to cut and polish, and it was the Maya who saw it as the main material for construction. If enough force is applied to a certain point of this limestone brick, it is easy to destroy it.
Don't go against the sky and have this idea. Seeing that the long whip had already hooked the small hole in the roof of the hall, he immediately held the whip in his left hand, kicked his feet and jumped up, and at the same time the fist of his right hand also smashed out. With this blow, he used ten percent of his strength, but he smashed a big hole in the roof of the lime shed in one fell swoop. Although limestone is relatively easy to destroy, it is impossible for an ordinary person to smash bricks with their fists alone. Fortunately, Mo Zhitian drank the strengthening potion of the Golden Mask, and now his body indicators are different from ordinary people. This blow was another desperate effort, and of course it came naturally.
"Girl, grab my hand and come up!" Mo Zhitian shouted at the girl below.
Xiao Xiao naturally didn't dare to slack off, she had been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she was very good at bouncing, and she jumped in her right hand and grabbed Mo Beitian's outstretched arm.
"You go up first!" As soon as Mo Yantian's arm was exerted, Xiao Xiao was thrown into the big hole that had just been smashed. At this time, the walls on both sides were about to close, and Mo did not dare to stay for a long time, and he quickly climbed into the hole.
As soon as Mo Zhitian's mind was settled, he heard a boom, and the wall below instantly collapsed. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if he had been slow for a moment, he would have been squeezed into a meatloaf.
Mo Beitian and Xiao Xiao were both frightened just now, and the two of them gasped for breath in the dark environment, and it took a while to recover. At this moment, the voice of the devil crying sounded again. This was the upper floor of the hall, and this time the sound did not come from below, in fact it seemed to linger in the ears of a person, the sound that seemed to be far and near was ethereal but not as beautiful as Xianle, on the contrary, it was full of desolation and emptiness, so that the listener's blood coagulated to freezing point in an instant.
Mo Yitian couldn't care about Xiao Xiao's fear anymore, he just wanted to know what this chilling voice was now, he didn't want this thing to hinder their journey.
"What kind of person is pretending to be a ghost, so he can't show up? If you're a hero, talk to your face! Mo Yitian shouted in the darkness.
Suddenly, the surroundings lit up, and the terrible sound of Devil May Cry disappeared. Mo Beitian was a little uncomfortable with the light in front of him, and he looked forward with half-squinted eyes: this was another narrow tunnel, which could only accommodate two people side by side. On either side of the tunnel are two rows of copper lanterns, and the surrounding light is the flame in these lamps.
Mo Beitian pulled up Xiao Xiao, who was sitting on the side, and stood up. That's when he noticed the mural on the tunnel wall. The frescoes here were different from the Mayan frescoes he had seen before, and the scenes depicted inside were very similar to the sacrificial activities but different from the usual. The frescoes depict hundreds, standing in a large circle. Each of them carries something resembling a crown on their head. In the center of the circle is depicted an object that shimmers like the sun, and in the light it is the great god Izamna (who is the creator god of Mayan mythology and the highest god in the Mayan mythological system. The result is a distinctive bronze face. What does this painting mean? Are you talking about the birth of the Mayan gods? There has never been any book that mentions the birth of Izamna. In ancient texts, it is only mentioned that he had a large Roman nose and a full beard. He was the god of creation and destruction, the ruler of day and night, and the inventor of the Mayan script. His position is supreme, and even Quetzalcoatl is only his appearance.
How could such an important deity be born in an unknown cloud of golden light? According to Mo Zhitian's thinking, if it is the great god of creation, it must be inspired by heaven or go through countless calamities to become a god, and the scene depicted above is indeed so simple, which is obviously not in line with the common sense of his own cognition. However, for Mo Beitian, this mural is only interesting. Maybe the Mayans were too unproductive to paint a larger scene in such a limited space? It is also possible that this is not the process of the birth of the great god at all, and it may be just an ordinary sacrificial ritual. Mo thought like this. But when he pulled Xiao Xiao and walked forward a few more steps, he realized that something was wrong. There are many murals painted on this wall. Each painting depicts more or less the same scene, with hundreds of people celebrating something in a large circle with a strange crown. In the middle of the circle was still the unknown light. And the difference between each painting is that the gods depicted in these bright pictures are different. One painting depicts a god named Quetzalcoatl, a symbol of the sun, and another depicts thirteen good gods and nine evil gods (the god of heaven or underworld in Mayan mythology. The Mayans believed that there were thirteen levels of heaven and nine levels of hell. Each of these places is governed by a presiding deity. There are even depictions of Lu Xing (a god in Mayan mythology who directs directions, dispels evil, and enlightens wisdom) who blesses ordinary merchants and scholars. The mural.
Then things are not so simple. The Mayans were a very godly people. As far as the heavens know, their sacrificial activities are cumbersome and grand. When it comes to worshipping different gods, there are significant differences in the way they are used. But there is only one thing that people do in these paintings, which is to stand in a circle. This seems to be a celebration of something, as the Mayans only formed a large circle around a bonfire when they were festivating. But what these people gathered in the middle was not a campfire, and the object that shimmered with a huge light reminded Mo of the carvings on the outside of the pyramid and on the mirror just now. As if these three were the same thing, what exactly was it, and so on, Mo Zhitian found something unusual. He carefully peeled off the huge cobwebs from the walls with his hands, carefully identifying them for a while.
"This is"
"What's wrong, Brother Mo? What's so strange about it? Xiao Xiao asked puzzled.
Mo Beitian pointed to a mark on the mural and said, "Look, this is a mark carved by a knife." The traces are relatively new, and they should be from recent decades. ”
"You mean someone has been here?"
"Yes, people have been here before us. The holograms in the hall below are probably the tricks left by our predecessors. But I still can't figure out what kind of image they would leave behind. Now the things on this wall are even more puzzling, you see what is carved on it? ”
Xiao Xiao leaned in front of her eyes and couldn't understand the essentials for a long time, and asked in a daze: "What is this writing?" ”
"It's a capital L!" Mo replied.