The peak level of development of the Dali culture is probably located at the end of the Neolithic period and the beginning of the Bronze Age. It has not developed its own writing system, and what is used to record events is still some symbols, murals and the like.

But even these things were only mastered by the extremely high-ranking wizards, chiefs and others in the tribe at the beginning.

At this stage, what Wen Cheng needs to do is to decipher the information he needs in these symbols like children's graffiti. In particular, what happened during the last large-scale sacrifice before the last great war was to be waged against the tribe that was located by the river, was deciphered.

Because there is enough evidence to show that this "war" has not yet had time to start, and the Dali culture has already ushered in its demise. And Wen Cheng believes that the final demise of Dali culture may be related to what happened during this last sacrifice.

But at this moment, the lines that appeared on the sarcophagus, similar to those in children's graffiti, made Wen Cheng fall into deep doubts.

Why does the sarcophagus glow? What does it mean for a sarcophagus to glow?

This question made him puzzled. He could only continue to compare the rest of the symbols, study the rest of the pottery, jade, bone, bronze and other artifacts, hoping to find clues from them.

Just as he was feeling more and more irritable, the symbol on a pottery shard stacked in the corner caught his attention.

A few simple lines outline an animal with a thick body and a long nose. Although it was rudimentary, it was still obvious that it was an elephant.

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Like the sarcophagus at this moment, there are lines around the elephant. It's like ...... The elephant is also glowing.

But elephants are clearly impossible to shine.

Or is it that the ancestors of the Dali culture used this kind of glowing line to foreshadow and create a certain message? For example, the ancestors of the Dali culture may have thought that the elephant was a sacred creature or a sacred beast, and when they depicted it, they added lines to show that it was different?

This pottery shard seems to record the process of the ancestors hunting elephants. But unexpectedly, in the early and late stages of this luminous elephant, there is no such glowing line on the elephant depicted in the image.

"This ......"

After pondering for a moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Wen Cheng's mind. The next moment, he was like being struck by thunder, and his whole body froze there.

Suddenly, another possibility occurred to him. And as soon as this possibility appeared, he immediately realized that it was very likely to be true. For in whatever case this possibility is placed, it can be perfectly explained.

"I see, I see, I ...... so"

Wen Cheng has a dry mouth.

The so-called lines, in fact, represent not light, not luminous, but ...... Sound.

If you look at the information on the pottery slab at this moment according to this explanation, it is easy to understand.

First of all, the ancestors of the Dali culture set out to hunt elephants. In the early days, the elephants did not notice the people, so they did not run away, did not howl, did not make a sound. So, it doesn't have that kind of line around it.

Later, the ancestors surrounded the elephant with spears, bows and arrows, etc. The elephant began to howl, and there were lines around it.

Later, the elephant was killed by the ancestors. It doesn't bark anymore, and the lines disappear again.

In particular, the length, spacing, and density of such lines also seem to represent different types of sounds.

What the elephant's cry looked like, Wen Cheng certainly knew. He saw that on the pottery shards, which most likely represented the lines of the elephant's call, were thicker and longer, but there was no separation in the middle, and the density was higher.

From the superficial meaning, this seems to represent this kind of sound, loud and high-pitched, and relatively long, loud sound.

And this, in line with the actual call of the elephant.

Wen Cheng got up, knelt down in front of the table again, and took the rubbing book with lines around the sarcophagus. Then he saw that the lines around the sarcophagus were divided into sections, medium density, long and thin.

Taken in this logic, it seems to mean that the sound is rhythmic, incoherent, and intermittent. Longer and thinner lines mean that the sound is high-pitched and high-pitched, but smaller? Or maybe it's loud but muffled?

It doesn't matter what type of sound it is. At least at this point, the meaning of these lines is probably clear.

The sarcophagus is making sounds.

But......

Something is still wrong.

According to the logic of "the lines around the sarcophagus represent that the sarcophagus is making a sound, not glowing", and then looking back at the images and symbols in the past, Wen Cheng can easily find that under normal times, the sarcophagus does not make a sound. It is only during the sacrifice that lines appear around the sarcophagus and make sounds.

Moreover, these lines that represent sound are constantly thickening and growing, which seems to mean that the sound is getting louder and louder.

But when there is no sacrifice, the sarcophagus has no sound.

Why did this time, before the sacrifice was carried out, there was a sound in the sarcophagus?

Moreover...... So loud?

Thinking of the information that Lu Ming handed over to him, this kind of sacrifice was most likely a means to promote the resurrection of the god of fate, Wen Cheng once again had a little realization in his heart.

He pulled out another picture.

The picture depicts a different kind of scene. In this picture, the sarcophagus, which usually appears as a single symbol, has been opened. A simple, unambiguous figure sat up from the sarcophagus. In front of the sarcophagus, there was a dense crowd of people kneeling on the ground, as if they were worshipping the figure in the sarcophagus.

Unlike the rest of the images, this one also has a line around it, which alternates end to end and circles it. Through previous research, Wen Cheng has made it clear that the meaning of this circled image represents the future tense, that is, the situation that has not yet happened at this moment, but will happen in the future.

And this scene appeared in the conversation between a small man with three feathers on his head and a small man in an animal skin skirt.

The man with the three feathers is a tribal shaman. The villain, dressed in a fur skirt, is the leader of the tribe.

While thinking, some scattered clues were slowly connected.

That's how it should have happened.

The ancestors of the Dali culture planned to launch a large-scale war against a tribe near a river. To ensure victory, the sorcerer consulted with the tribal leader to once again make a massive sacrifice to the sarcophagus.

Prior to this, the sarcophagus had already appeared the phenomenon of "making its own voice without sacrifice". Wizards believe that this is a sign of the imminent resurrection of the god of fate. He told the chief that if there was another large-scale sacrifice, the god of fate would be truly resurrected.

And the resurrected god of fate can bless the ancestors of the Dazato culture to win the war.

It can be confirmed that the tribal leader agreed to the wizard's proposal.

Although no symbols or images of the sacrifice site remained, Wen Cheng found some of the rest. In those images, a large number of people with their bellies raised high — which clearly means pregnant women — are escorted to the site of the sacrifice with their hands tied behind their backs.

In addition to this, there are some animals such as sheep, pigs, and cows with bulging bellies.

Based on the counting method of the Dali culture, Wen Cheng roughly estimated that the scale of the sacrifice this time was indeed very large. During this sacrifice, about 200 pregnant slaves and thousands of animals of all kinds were sacrificed.

This is the image that Wen Cheng can find, the closest to the time of the demise of the Dali culture.

After this, there is nothing else.

There is no record of whether or not that large-scale sacrifice was carried out, what happened during the process, whether the god of fate was resurrected, and what happened after its resurrection.

But......

Geological studies have found that the Dali culture was destroyed by a flood.

The flood came so suddenly that the Dali culture had been completely wiped out before they could wage war against the tribe near the river.

A large amount of food, bones, and weapons remain to prove this.

At that time, they had already completed the assembly, completed the food reserves, and brought enough weapons. But they all died in the place of the Dali culture, and they didn't even have time to leave here.

Combined with this clue, a conjecture appeared in Wen Cheng's mind.

Maybe...... The god of fate has truly been resurrected. What went wrong was that the resurrection of the god of fate did not contribute to the war of Dali culture. The resurrection of the god of fate, on the contrary, caused a flood that destroyed them.

I don't know how many generations and years it lasted, and I don't know how many pregnant women and pregnant beasts were sacrificed to the god of fate as sacrifices, and finally got its resurrection. But the first thing it did after its resurrection was to destroy those who awakened it.

Of course, it is also possible that the demise of the Dazato culture has nothing to do with the so-called resurrection of the god of fate. Maybe the flood was already brewing, but it was just a coincidence.

But...... Don't forget, the god of fate, who dominates fate. It can take away the luck of the fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman.

If this is a myth or legend, that's fine. However, the materials provided by Lu Ming confirmed the existence of this ability.

So, the army is assembled and ushered in a catastrophe before it sets off, this can't be considered luck, right? Since the luck is bad, and it is extremely bad, who believes that it has nothing to do with the god of fate who holds the destiny in his hands?

It is more likely that the resurrected god of fate took away the luck of all the ancestors of the Dali culture, making everyone's luck extremely bad. However, it was everyone's extremely bad luck that triggered this flood, which caused everyone to be drowned.

Wen Cheng felt that it was necessary for him to make a report to Lu Ming.

He contacted Lu Ming, and a moment later, a guard arrived and invited him to an office.

In the office, Lu Ming and He Wei were both present. There was also a laptop open, and Lu Qingliang also participated in this report in this way.

After sorting out his thoughts, Wen Cheng slowly narrated, telling all his discoveries and guesses.

Of course, these are just his speculations and speculations based on existing clues. He can't vouch for the correctness of these things. No one asked him to make sure it was right.

These are just some references.

In the office, Lu Ming and the three of them fell silent. After a moment, Lu Ming waved his hand: "Thank you." These things of yours are very valuable for reference. In this case, you go back first to continue serving your sentence, and if you have any questions in the future, we will contact you again. Or if you have something new to discover, you can also contact me. ”

Wen Cheng stood up and said respectfully, "Okay." ”

"Your meritorious service materials, I will submit them to the prison where you are when I go back."

"Thank you."

Wen Cheng left, and Lu Ming looked at He Wei and Lu Qingliang: "What do you think?" ”

He Wei frowned and said: "There are too many missing information, and there are too many places that cannot be determined." The story of the resurrection of the god of fate in the last large-scale sacrifice of the Dazato culture and the eventual destruction of the Dazato culture is even more ethereal. But...... I think there is a real possibility that this will happen. It deserves our attention. ”

"I agree."

On the screen, Lu Qingliang also nodded solemnly: "The resurrection of the god of fate may cause disaster." We have to pay attention to it. ”

If in the past, his own concern and speculation that "if the god of fate is resurrected, it may not be a good thing" was just an instinctive worry, then now, this can be regarded as a weak evidence for the study of Dali culture.

However, no matter how weak the effectiveness is, it is also a support. However, there is a huge difference between supported and unsupported.

Lu Ming said slowly: "That's true. What I'm thinking, though...... If this speculation is true, what is the scope of the destruction of the god of fate? What is it in? ”

"Huh?"

This question made Lu Qingliang and He Wei a little puzzled.

Lu Ming continued: "There is evidence that the only one who was destroyed by the God of Destiny was Dali Culture. Many of the remaining cultures that existed on Earth at that time were not affected. Otherwise, humanity would have been extinct long ago, and we would not have existed. From this point of view, it seems that the scope of the destruction of the god of fate is not too large.

But...... In this matter, the Dali culture emerged as a whole. It is the Dazato culture that sacrifices sacrifices to the god of fate. In the end, it was also the Dali culture that was destroyed by the god of fate.

So at this moment, the sacrifice of that sarcophagus is made as an individual, or a single organization of the fate organization and our action team, after the resurrection of the god of fate, it is only the fate organization and us that will be destroyed, or ...... What human civilization do we represent? ”

Is it human civilization that sacrifices to the god of fate? If, in the eyes of the god of fate, human civilization, like the Dazato culture, appears as a whole, then ......

He Wei was shocked.