Just when Chen Ziyang was thinking about where this strange ancient tree was growing, he found that Instructor Liu, who was standing next to him, had his eyes lit up after seeing this picture, and even his hands were trembling slightly because of excitement, obviously he saw something very important.

Instructor Liu stretched out his hand and stroked the giant tree-shaped pattern for a while, then he turned his head and ran to the next stone monument. Chen Ziyang didn't follow him to join in the fun. Since entering this underground passage, Instructor Liu has always been very interested in the plants on both sides of the passage, and from this point, Chen Ziyang judged that what Instructor Liu was looking for was likely to be related to these plants, so it was normal for him to have such a move.

Stopping in place, Chen Ziyang looked carefully at the giant tree in front of him, trying to figure out what kind of plant it was.

The tree is so leafy that it is at least more than 30 meters tall if you calculate the height of the people in the picture. The tree was covered with round fruits, which looked a little like tomatoes, and in addition to that, there were long aerial roots hanging from the tree, but these things did not provide any clues, so Chen Ziyang turned to the next picture.

At this time, he found that Instructor Liu had already run into the distance, and there were three or four stone tablets between the two people, it seemed that this Instructor Liu did not find what he wanted to see on the stone tablet, so he looked at it so fast.

And Chen Ziyang's mentality is different, he doesn't care about the treasures here at all, and now he is most worried about whether he and Yang Lei can leave here safely. Therefore, it is necessary to take a look at the content of the pictures on these stone tablets, and you can know more about this ancient country, which will make the two people safer in the next treasure hunting process.

When he saw the next picture, Chen Ziyang found that this picture was exactly the same as the previous picture, and he had an idea, did he just have a delusion? I didn't move on to the next picture at all, but still looked at the pattern just now.

After being stunned for a moment, Chen Ziyang walked back to the previous stone tablet, no mistake, not his own illusion, these two pictures turned out to be exactly the same!

"That's weird, what the hell is going on? Why are there two identical patterns here? This is very unreasonable, how can anyone carve two identical pictures in such an important place. Unsure of the situation, he walked over to the next stone monument and looked at it carefully.

After studying this picture for a long time, Chen Ziyang realized that it was not that the two pictures were exactly the same, but that the differences in the pictures were so subtle that he didn't even notice them.

The overall composition of this picture looks exactly the same as the previous picture, except that he, Chen Ziyang, noticed that the figures of these people kneeling in front of this big tree have changed somewhat. All the people who knelt on the ground seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and several of them had a few more wrinkles on the side of their faces.

"What does this mean? Could it be that these people have been prostrating here for a long time? Growing up to the point that these people are already getting old? ”

All the people in the picture look exhausted and very unmotivated, as if they have lost their energy. Because the difference between the two pictures was so small, Chen Ziyang couldn't grasp the subtle differences, so he had to walk back and forth between the two pictures, constantly making comparisons.

In addition to the difference between these kneeling people in the two pictures, there is another obvious difference, that is, the fruit on this giant tree.

In the second picture, the fruits on the giant tree seem to be larger, and there are some wrinkles on the fruits, which look as if they are about to ripen, and the skin of the fruits is already a little shriveled.

Chen Ziyang, who couldn't figure out the meaning, had to turn to the next picture, which surprised him.

In this picture, the number of people kneeling in front of the giant tree has decreased significantly, and the most surprising thing is that many people have been hanged from the giant tree.

Hanging from the massive aerial roots of the giant tree hung dead people one by one, their hands and legs hanging limply, and their heads drooping. The air roots were wrapped around the necks of these people, and all the hanged people were all shriveled and looked like a dried corpse, and even many of them were already skinny and bone, and the whole person looked like a skeleton.

Because of noticing this, Chen Ziyang noticed that all the people kneeling in front of the big tree seemed to have lost some weight, and at the same time, these people had more wrinkles on their bodies. At the same time, the fruit on the tree is also larger, and the fruit is already covered with cracks, and the whole fruit looks like a football.

"What do these three pictures really mean?" Chen Ziyang couldn't figure out the key, and after glancing at the words under the stone tablet, he gritted his teeth. It would be nice to be able to understand these words, and I guess these words are the stories told on the screen, but unfortunately, no one in the team of five people will know these words.

Chen Ziyang had noticed before that when all the people looked at these steles, they only looked at the upper part of the steles, that is, the part of the pictures, and no one leaned down to look at the words under the steles.

At this time, Instructor Liu had already finished reading all the stone tablets, and he sat there quietly, stroking his chin with his hand, as if he was pondering something.

Judging from Instructor Liu's expression, Chen Ziyang judged that he should not have fully understood the meaning of these pictures, and it seemed that what he most wanted to see did not appear on these pictures.

At this time, Xiao Ren and the team doctor had also lost interest in these patterns, eating lunch on the side, Xiao Ren whispered a few words in the team doctor's ear from time to time, and at the same time, the two of them kept staring at Yang Lei, who was sorting out the jar not far away, with a mocking smile on their faces. It seems that the two of them are laughing at Yang Lei's money-obsessed mentality.

But Yang Lei didn't care about it, he was still there constantly sorting out the piles of jars and jars in front of the stele, trying to pick out some more valuable ones to put in his backpack as much as possible.

Now Chen Ziyang was full of questions, but no one could answer them, so he had to continue to look at the pictures on these stone tablets.

The next picture still depicts the tree, but this one has a very bleak feeling. A shriveled corpse hung from the aerial roots of the tree, but there were no kneeling people in front of the tree.

Many of the altars and jars that were used as sacrifices were broken, and several offering tables were all overturned, and it can really be said that the ground is in shambles. Seeing this, Chen Ziyang estimated that the purpose of these people's sacrifice was not achieved, maybe this ancient tree did not meet their requirements, but he didn't know why these people were hanged on this tree.

The next picture finally stopped depicting this strange tree, and returned to the palace of the ancient kingdom of Sumi.

Although there was still a caravan leading a camel walking by on this picture, Chen Ziyang found that there were obviously fewer characters in this picture, as if the number of people walking on the streets of the ancient kingdom of Sumi was much less, and the caravan was also much less.

All the people who appeared in the pictures were thin, the old people were all skinny, and the children were sitting on the side of the street. Even the fountain in front of the palace looked a little weak.

Seeing this, Chen Ziyang knew that this ancient country had begun to decline. So far, all the pictures are actually telling the story of this ancient country, from decline to prosperity, and from prosperity to decline, and there are two very key things in between.

The first is the mysterious woman who brought the diamond, and it was the diamond she brought that made the ancient country of Mimi an ancient country of oasis in the desert, but this woman mysteriously disappeared.

The second is this strange tree, and after the appearance of the tree, all the pictures on the stone tablets give people a sense of silence. And the turning point between the two is that strange eye-shaped pattern.

This feeling is even stronger in the next painting, in which there are no caravans on the streets of the ancient country, all the villagers are in no spirits, one by one depressed, the old man is staggering down the street on crutches, and the others are leaning weakly against the side wall of the house.

Chen Ziyang saw that on one of the streets, there was a person lying there, and from the expression and body movements of this person, he judged that this person should be dead.

But next to the dead man, several people were sitting there, and they were indifferent to the death of this man, as if they had expected such a thing to happen.

Seeing this, Chen Ziyang's heart chuckled, and he suddenly thought of the thousands of loess tombs he had passed before. "Is it because the plague has broken out?"

The next picture shows even more dead people, with several dead bodies lying on almost every street, and some men in soldier armor carrying them off into the distance with something resembling a door panel.

Although Chen Ziyang had been prepared for seeing this picture for a long time, when he really saw the dead bodies painted on the pattern and the desolation of the entire ancient city, he still had a sour feeling in his heart.

These drawings are so realistic that it's easy to relate to. It seems that the person who carved this pattern is not only skilled, but also carves with his heart, which can render the feeling in his heart so vividly.

In the next picture, there was nothing left but dead bodies in the streets except for the people still standing in front of the palace gates, and there were not even any people who collected the bodies of these people.

Dozens of people stood in front of the palace, these people were obviously divided into two groups, one group was more numerous, but these people were ragged and looked like they should be civilians, while there were a few dozen people standing in front of the palace door, dressed more gorgeously. Among these people, Chen Ziyang saw the king of the ancient kingdom of Sumi who had bowed down in front of that big tree before.

At this time, the king was holding his mouth open, stretching out his hand to gesture something, as if he was telling the commoners in front of him something. And there were a few people in the front of the ranks of the commoners, telling the king something. It seems that the two groups are arguing.

Although there were several ministers standing behind the king, these people were all looking at the king with disdain in their eyes. Chen Ziyang estimated that if it weren't for the identity of these people who had to stand behind the king, it was very likely that they would stand on the opposite side of the king.

"What is it that would cause a quarrel between the commoners and the king?" Chen Ziyang couldn't understand this. You must know that in that feudal era, the king was high, unless the commoners took up arms to overthrow the king, otherwise, these commoners would only be the lambs to be slaughtered, and it was impossible to blatantly contradict the king in this way.

And the king seemed to know that he was at a loss, and Chen Ziyang could see from his expression that even he didn't quite believe what he said. It seems that this king will not be in office for long, and it seems that everyone else in the entire ancient kingdom of Sumi is against him except for the king himself.

Seeing this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly looked at the next picture, just as he had just guessed, the king at this time had become a prisoner, and he was firmly tied up into a zongzi. Dozens of men, armed with torches and weapons, pulled the bound king to the front of the giant tree. Among them were commoners, as well as former ministers, and it seemed that the king had finally rebelled and left.

Chen Ziyang, who was anxious to know what was going to happen next, hurriedly looked down, and the next picture actually depicted the battle between these people and the huge ancient tree.

The king, who had become a prisoner, was tossed aside, and the others, armed with torches or daggers and spears, wrestled with the aerial roots of the giant trees that flew in mid-air.

This discovery startled Chen Ziyang, and he quickly looked at the roots of those plants on the side wall of the passage, "Could it be that these things can move?" After looking at them for a while, and seeing that nothing strange had happened to these roots, he continued to look at them.

There were a lot of corpses lying on the ground, it seemed that the people who fought with the giant tree had suffered heavy casualties, and the big tree was not much better at this time, the whole big tree was burned, swallowed by the flames, the fruit of the big tree fell to the ground, and many branches of the big tree had been burned.

The battle between people and trees is depicted here, and in the next picture, some ragged people are depicted standing in the distance of the ancient city, looking in the direction of the ancient city. These people were all carrying their bags and lined up, and there was a long row of footprints on the ground that stretched from the ancient city to the crowd, and it seemed that these people were moving away from the ancient kingdom of Sumi.

At this time, half of the ancient city was already blurred, and a large dark cloud-like thing was devouring the ancient city, and the exposed part of the ancient city was already dilapidated.