Shao Xuan sat on a modified bus and looked out the window at the mountains stretching out. Just after the summer solstice, the mountains are full of vibrant green, and after living in the city for a long time, seeing such a scenery makes me feel much better because of my unsuccessful career. Originally, Shao Xuan planned to call a few friends to go out to relax, but he didn't expect to meet Shi Qi, a fellow and old classmate who studied archaeology, and was dragged to archaeology together.

This trip is going to a relatively small mountain village, saying that there are Stone Age things there, and a group of people have already passed, and now this is the second batch.

Shao Xuan listened to this old classmate from the skull of primitive people to stone tools and then to rock paintings, and also took out a few drawings to explain in detail, people who are engaged in research are like this, it is difficult to pull out when they get in, although Shao Xuan doesn't understand, but he still listens to it very respectfully.

The paper is full of rock paintings from some archaeological research, Shao Xuan looked at it, and felt that he was not as good as his nephew and niece who went to kindergarten.

The lines of those drawings are relatively simple, and you can roughly see that some people are hunting with tools, and there are some drawings of various animals, and the rest of them don't know what they are.

"This is a sheep, but it's too big. Shao Xuan pointed to a picture.

The picture showed a sheep with long, huge curved horns, and a man with a bow and arrow, but the proportions were not very normal, and the head of the man was only up to the back of the sheep. In the next few pictures, too, the rabbit has the proportions of a lion, and the one on the left is riding a horse, and the tail of the horse is drawn too short.

Of course, not the proportions of each picture are like that, and the style of the rock paintings from different provinces and cities is different in different periods, and there are some proportions that are close to reality, and a group of people can be seen hunting with dogs.

Flipping back further, there are a few color prints, which can be seen more clearly.

"Oh, this picture is even more exaggerated, this antler is too big, and this person, the person in the picture just now is only on the back of a sheep, and the person in this picture is only a little taller than the deer's legs...... And what's in the lower right corner, the eight-legged crocodile?" Shao Xuan really couldn't appreciate the painting style of primitive people.

"Primitive humans didn't necessarily pay much attention to this. Shi Qi explained.

"So you mean that primitive humans did not 'realistic' in terms of proportions when painting, but used exaggerated techniques?" asked Shao Xuan.

"It should be," Shi Qi scratched his head: "After all, the humans of that period were not particular about aesthetics, and it may be purely symbolic, just like a researcher once speculated when he was studying a certain rock art, the humans at that time painted these paintings about hunting on the cave walls or rocks, maybe just to let the hunting warriors take a look before the tribe hunted, and there was a spectrum in mind, and maybe there were some rituals that we didn't know." Especially the petroglyphs painted by 'witches'. ”

"Wu, ......" Shao Xuannao made up an image of an old god stick dressed very differently.

"Hey, what kind of expression do you have, let me tell you, the status of 'witch' in the human community at that time may not be low, on the contrary, it may be quite high. ”

"Yes, God's stick. Shao Xuan nodded.

Shi Qi waved his fingers, took over a text jiàn folder, which contained some scanned copies of pictures, pointed to some pictures and words on it and said to Shao Xuan: "If the totem consciousness is the anthropomorphism of nature by man, and the expression is the collective unity of oneself, then the concept of witchcraft is the pseudo-naturalization of man, and the profession of 'wizard' actually appeared as early as the Stone Age......"

Shi Qi was there to talk to himself about the research progress of the profession of "witch" from ancient times to the present, and the professional vocabulary was thrown and quoted from the classics, which made Shao Xuan's brain hurt.

Shao Xuan doesn't know much about this, and he is not interested, if it weren't for such a fellow and old classmate who studied archaeology, Shao Xuan wouldn't know about it at all, he used to hear people talk about archaeology and directly thought of those valuable antiques, but Shi Qi's research direction is really more antique than antiques, so old that not many people are interested. A few days ago, I listened to the discussion on the radio about whether the 'Darwinian theory of the evolution of species' is correct, or the 'hypothesis of aliens creating zào species' is correct? Shao Xuan was idle and had nothing to do, and he just put it there after listening to it, and he didn't think about it anymore.

On the contrary, Shao Xuan knew that this young man was very interested in ancient humans, and when he was in middle school, he often discussed with people several ancient human bones in modern history that were excavated but mysteriously disappeared.

"You don't understand the profession, let's talk about something simple. Shi Qi pointed to a picture with his finger and pointed to a place on the map: "'Wu' is mentioned in the divination and the golden text, but it is like this. ”

Shao Xuan looked at the place where Shi Qi was pointing, it was a symbol, which looked like two 'work' characters crisscrossed and crisscrossed.

"This duplex symbol has appeared on some ancient pottery mussel carving human heads unearthed. Speaking of which, witches are also involved in hunting, prayer, rescue, etc., and from a certain point of view, 'witches' can be regarded as scientists at that time. But these are all speculations, even if some records in ancient times, they may not be true, after all, people at that time loved to exaggerate, isn't there a saying, 'history never has the truth', archaeology is just excavating some corners, as for the real situation, who knows. ”

"The current cave is also related to 'Wu', that is, the last few pictures you saw, the first petroglyphs handed back by people from the past, and the double character symbol also appeared in the cave, so it is speculated that it may be the cave dwelling of a certain 'Wu'. There was a brief earthquake in the area where the village was located last month, and it was probably because of this that the cave was exposed, and no one had ever heard of it before. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Qi closed the above jiàn clip, looked around carefully, and saw that the tutor and other junior brothers did not pay attention to this side, so he lowered his voice and said to Shao Xuan mysteriously: "I heard that the first person to appear in the hole was a child, and, according to the news from a junior brother over there, the child in the cave saw a strange watermelon-sized insect crawling out of the stone of his courtyard wall, and the child was bold, so he followed the worm, and finally the insect disappeared in the cave, and the child went back to tell the adult, so that the cave appeared." ”

"Watermelon-sized bugs?" Shao Xuan felt ridiculous, anyone who heard this for the first time would think it was too fake, "That kid lied?"

Shi Qi shook his head, "What's even stranger is that according to the first batch of people who passed by, there are fossils of ancient creatures in the stones used to build the courtyard wall over there. Speaking of this, Shi Qi paused, rubbed the goosebumps on his arm, and continued: "In the stone where the big watermelon worm emerged from the stone that the child in the cave pointed out to people, there are fossils of ancient creatures, but it is not complete, only a part of the mutilation, but, according to the speculation of professionals, if the creature is still alive, it may indeed be the size of a watermelon, and it looks not far from what the child described. ”

“...... It sounds quite mysterious, but only the kid saw it, and no one else saw any insects crawling out of the wall of his house?" Shao Xuan was a little interested.

Shi Qi shook his head, "I don't know, I'll ask when it's over, it's almost there anyway." ”

When the group arrived at their destination, it was already eleven o'clock at noon, Shao Xuan followed Shi Qi and them to have a simple lunch, and then returned to the bus.

Shi Qi and they couldn't wait, and they didn't rest after eating, and they planned to start work immediately.

The things to pay attention to here Shi Qi has already told Shao Xuan, what things can't be touched, where you can't go, who to find if you have something, etc., Shao Xuan has a spectrum in his heart.

"I'll tell you when it's done today. You go around it yourself, this place has a good scenery, green mountains, blue sky and clear water, stay in the haze city for a long time and come out to wash your lungs. ”

As he spoke, Shi Qi took the tools and followed his mentor away. Shao Xuan couldn't follow the past, and he didn't have much interest in following him.

Shao Xuan was the only one left in the car, and it was quite quiet as soon as the doors and windows were closed. Shao Xuan hasn't slept well in the past few days, and he went to listen to Shi Qi on the road, and now he feels sleepy when he calms down.

When I woke up again, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and Shao Xuan was about to go out for a walk, when he saw Shi Qi in work clothes coming over, got in the car and got a copy of the text, and after taking it, he had to rush over there to continue the construction.

However, before getting out of the car, Shi Qi took out an egg-sized stone from his pocket and threw it to Shao Xuan: "I picked it up in the hole, I saw that others didn't care much and took it, it shouldn't be an important thing, 'antique' can't be given to you, this stone is also in the hole, it looks quite smooth, probably who threw it there, leave you a souvenir." ”

This stone is near the entrance of the cave, some distance from the core of the cave, the stone is obviously different from other excavated items, and there is no mark, so the first batch of people who came to focus on those Stone Age "antiques" and petroglyphs, no one cares about this stone near the entrance of the cave, Shi Qi was looking at it for fun, and picked it up and put it in his pocket.

took the thrown stone, Shao Xuan took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, the feel was no different from other stones, dark green, egg-shaped, the surface was quite smooth, as if it had been deliberately polished, it didn't look ancient, even if it wasn't an "antique", it was good to play with it, as an ornament.

Shao Xuan didn't care, he played with it in his hand for a while, he always felt that the stone was not hot, he shook hands in his heart for more than ten minutes, and it was still cold, after thinking about it, Shao Xuan took out a lighter and burned the stone with fire, it stands to reason that the place where the flame touches should be hot, but the fact is that it is still as cool as before after burning.

Glancing around, Shao Xuan took a fruit knife on the table, padd a piece of paper, and planned to use the knife to scrape a little scrap on the stone and take it to the archaeological vehicle for someone to help test it. However, Shao Xuan took the knife and scraped the stone, but there was no trace on the stone, and he couldn't drill the slightest trace with the tip of the knife.

The fire is not hot, and the knife does not hurt...... What a strange stone.

Shao Xuan got out of the car with the stone, planning to let Shi Qi take a closer look later.

The place where the car was parked was already very close to the village, but the road ahead was not easy to walk.

Some of the villagers in the village went to work, and the more idle ones went to the newly emerged cave to watch the excitement, so when Shao Xuan entered the village, he only saw three or two people walking around.

There are two meters high stone and earth walls on the periphery of the village, I say they were built decades ago to protect against wild beasts, and the stones come from the mountains, but in recent years there have been no large beasts around, and no one cares about these stone walls anymore.

At a glance, you can see large pieces of stone on the stone and earth wall, which are old and have a sense of depression.

Shao Xuan was playing with stones in his hands, his eyes staring at them. Hearing that the stones on these stone and earth walls were fossilized by existing paleontology, Shao Xuan remembered the "watermelon-sized bug" incident that Shi Qi said.

Just as he was about to look away, Shao Xuan suddenly saw a snake-like thing on the stone wall, still wriggling, the thickness of the water tank, the scaly pattern glowed with cold light, and it was a few meters away, but Shao Xuan felt a chilling chill, so startled that Shao Xuan almost jumped up. It's just that when Shao Xuan blinked and looked again, there was nothing, and the stone and earth wall was still the broken stone and earth wall that had been exposed to the wind and rain for a long time.

Hallucination?

Shao Xuan looked at the rest of the stone and earth wall, and then, his eyes fell on a gap in the stone and earth wall, there was a large stone on that side, which was left after the collapse of the stone and earth wall, the smaller ones were picked up by the villagers and built their own walls, and the larger ones were left here. At this moment, Shao Xuan saw a small blue-green seedling emerging from the stone, the small seedling quickly pulled its leaves and grew taller, and at the same time, several vines also stretched out in all directions. The gap, which was originally more than three meters long, was blocked by those vines and branches in the blink of an eye, and there seemed to be a fragrance of plants in the nose.

Shao Xuan took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and when he looked at it again, he saw that the vines and branches had disappeared, the stone and earth walls were still there, and the ground was the big bare stone.

Sensing some movement in his hand, Shao Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at the hand holding the stone.

The stone, which was originally not burned by the fire and could not be scratched by the knife, weathered into sand in an instant, and fell from Shao Xuan's fingers.

When the last grain of sand fell, Shao Xuan's vision was dark.

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