The entrance of the cave was not very large, and the two men each took a torch, one after the other, and walked into the hole.

Jing Liang walked very carefully in front, which added a bit of mysterious atmosphere.

The cave is not very deep, but the further you go inside, the more spacious it becomes.

Jing Liang used a torch to illuminate the road under his feet, while Ying Zheng used a torch to illuminate the surrounding mountain walls.

The mountain wall at the entrance of the cave is uneven, but after a few steps, the mountain wall is getting smoother and smoother, and there are traces of polishing.

Jing Liang also discovered this situation, turned around and whispered to Ying Zheng: "There are traces of polishing on the mountain wall, it seems that there are indeed people who have been active or lived here. ”

Ying Zheng nodded, and shone the torch on the other side of the mountain wall and the top.

"Brother Jing, look!" Ying Zheng stopped Jing Liang, with excitement in his voice.

Jing Liang turned around and looked at the torch held by Ying Zheng.

I saw a sheep painted on a smooth mountain wall, standing sideways, very strong, looking like an adult ram.

"Sure enough, this cave was once inhabited." Jing Liang looked at the sheep and said.

"Who is it?" Ying Zheng asked.

"It's not clear, but at least it was earlier than the Zhou Dynasty." Jing Liang said, "There should be more ahead." ”

Ying Zheng nodded and followed Jing Liang to move forward.

Sure enough, there were more similar murals, distributed on the stone walls, one after the other.

Most of these murals are mainly animals, in addition to cattle and sheep, there are also some small animals in the wild. Obviously, these were the food sources that people at that time relied on for their livelihoods.

In the deepest part of the cave is a corner, like a specially carved separate space. And on the innermost wall of this space, there is a whole mural.

At the top of the painting, a man stands with a stick-like object in his hand, which appears to be a scepter. Many people knelt down to him to worship, and there were slaughtered cattle and sheep in the middle. The outermost part is also painted with the skins and bones of livestock, stacked on top of each other.

It is a sacrificial picture, and although the lines are simple, the meaning expressed is clear enough.

The two looked elsewhere, found nothing, and sat down in front of the mural to take a closer look.

"Brother Jing, how many years have you said this mural has been painted?" Ying Zheng asked, staring at the murals on the mountain wall.

"I don't know, if this mural records the living conditions of people at that time, it is at least more than 2,000 years old." Jing Liang didn't stare at the mural.

"More than two thousand years......," Ying Zheng still stared at the mural and said, "The widow is thinking about a problem. ”

"What is the king thinking?" Jing Liang asked, sticking the torch diagonally into a crack in the stone.

Ying Zheng did not put down the torch, but held it higher and closer to the mural.

"What material is used to paint this mural, it can go through such a long time, and it will still be the same, it will not fade, it will not decay, it seems to be stronger than the rock here." Ying Zheng said.

"This ......," Jing Liang smiled and said, "I don't know." ”

Ying Zheng also smiled, he didn't want to get an answer, he just wanted to say his doubts, even Li Si might not know something, and Jing Liang couldn't even know.

"I feel that the materials of people at that time were quite limited, and the materials used should be a mixture of plant juice and animal blood." Ying Zheng said thoughtfully, "I can't guess what will be added to it." ”

"The ancients actually had many methods and skills, but they were actually lost to the world, just from the thousands of years of undamaged murals, the current craftsmen are estimated to be unable to do it." Jing Liang said.

Ying Zheng heard this familiar to him, and Lu Buwei had said something similar when he led Ying Zheng to check Jiuding before.

Thinking of the incredible places in Jiuding, these murals in front of me are nothing.

Thinking about it like this, Ying Zheng was also relieved and stopped staring at the mural.

Relaxed spirits, Ying Zheng yawned. This day was indeed a little tiring, competing with Princess Hu Yu, being chased and killed, and driving a long mountain road with Jing Liang, Ying Zheng had already felt tired, and drank a lot of wine with Jing Liang, and his sleepiness was even stronger.

Jing Liang brought some clothes and spread some under Ying Zheng's body, and the rest was covered on Ying Zheng's body.

In just a moment, Ying Zheng entered the dream. Jing Liang took off his armor again and put it on Yingzheng's body before turning around and exiting the cave.

Jing Liang did not light a fire in the cave, because the fire would consume the oxygen in the cave and would also smoke, but only added some firewood to the bonfire at the entrance of the cave to keep the cold air out of the cave.

I don't know how long I slept, Ying Zheng stretched, woke up leisurely, got out of several layers of clothes, rubbed his eyes and walked out of the hole.

It was already dawn, and the bonfire had not been extinguished, and the stars were scorching.

Not far from the bonfire, there was a basin of bone, probably made of the skull of some wild beast, filled with water, and beside it was a cloth for wiping the face.

No need to ask, this is all prepared by Jing Liang.

Ying Zheng simply washed his face, but he didn't look at the basin made of skulls.

"Your Majesty, you are awake." Jing Liang's voice came from not far away.

Ying Zheng looked up and saw Jing Liang holding a pheasant in his hand and walking towards him.

"Is this this this morning's game?" Ying Zhengle asked.

"yes." Jing Liang replied, "In the past few days, let the king taste all the game in this mountain." ”

The moment he saw the pheasant, Yingzheng's stomach growled.

After roasting the pheasant, the two did not drink, and there were still a few days to spend in the mountains, and they needed to save drink, and besides, they had to travel during the day, and they might encounter some danger.

"In which direction are you heading today?" Ying Zheng asked.

Jing Liang broke off a chicken leg and handed it to Ying Zheng, and said, "Let's still move towards the belly of the mountain, it's not far, and it shouldn't be far if you cross the mountain range in front." ”

Ying Zheng nodded: "Then continue our expedition." ”

The pheasant also suffered the fate of the hare last night, leaving only a pile of bones and a small pile of hair. If Yingzheng takes the dog out on a trip, there will only be that pile of hair left.

After eating, the two went into the cave again and packed up the clothes they had covered the night before.

Ying Zheng glanced at the murals in the entire cave again, and then walked out of the cave.

The bonfire was doused with water, the direction of the mountainside was chosen, and the two of them set out towards the mountainside.

Along the way, let's talk about it, the two of them are not traveling very fast, and every time they encounter a place that looks like a mausoleum or a monument, they will check it.

The intact mausoleum is not easy to find, and what Yingzheng and Jing Liang found were all stolen, and it seems that the scale of the mausoleum is not very large.

Similar to last night's cave, two more were found, and there are similar murals, but the content of the painting is different, the painting style is also different, and the age should be different.

At the end of the day, the harvest is not very big. When it was dark, Jing Liang found another cave, and the two nodded to each other, indicating that they would settle here tonight.

This cave is a little bigger, a little deeper, and has an irregular shape than the previous ones.

The two of them were still one in front of the other, each holding a torch, and walked forward slowly.

Strangely, there are no frescoes in this cave, and even the walls of the cave have no traces of polishing, everything seems to be natural, and no one has ever been there.

After turning three corners, the two of them reached the bottom, and the space was much more spacious, but they still didn't find anything.

"Brother Jing, there's something strange about this place." Ying Zheng said.

"It's just that there are no previous murals, what's so strange?" Jing Liang asked.

"Brother Jing said before that most of the paintings painted on the rock walls were made by ordinary people." Ying Zheng said.

"Well, but that's just speculation." Jing Liang said.

"If most of the caves have frescoes, then such a speculation is very likely." Ying Zheng said, "Most of the caves have murals, but there are no murals in this cave, so there are two possible reasons." ”

"What are the two reasons?" Jing Liang asked.

"One possibility is that the cave before this cave has not been discovered, and it has only been formed in recent years due to some external force, but it is not very far away." Ying Zheng paused for a moment, and then said, "The second possibility is that ordinary clansmen are not allowed to enter here, so there are no traces left by ordinary clansmen. ”

Jing Liang nodded and said, "What the king said is reasonable. ”

"And if it's the second possibility, then this is not the dwelling place of the clan chief, but the forbidden place of the clan's secrets." Ying Zheng said.

"It's not impossible." Jing Liang looked at Ying Zheng with approving eyes.

"Let's look closer, maybe we'll find something." Ying Zheng felt that this cave was weird and didn't plan to give up.

The two men picked up torches and carefully examined every inch of the ground and the mountain wall.

"Look, Your Majesty." I just listened to Jing Liang say.

Ying Zheng looked back at Jing Liang, who was standing next to a pile of rubble, holding a torch aloft and looking at the heights.

Ying Zheng walked over and looked in the direction Jing Liang was pointing.

There is a diagonal triangular gap above the slope of the mountain wall, and the gravel on the ground should have fallen from this gap.

"Probably because of an earthquake or something, the rocks fell." Jing Liang said, "However, it seems to be empty behind this. ”

"Can you go up and have a look?" Ying Zheng asked.

"Simple." Jing Liang handed the torch to Ying Zheng, and then used his hands and feet together, stepping on the raised rock on the mountain wall as a force point, and in a few strokes, he reached the edge of the gap, and with his arms forced, his feet stepped on the lower edge of the gap, and he squatted there.

"What's in there?" Ying Zheng asked eagerly.

"Hand over the torch first, it's like a separate enclosed space." Jing Liang said.

Ying Zheng cocked his toes and handed the torch back to Jing Liang.

Jing Liang stretched the torch into the gap, and the flame was not extinguished, indicating that there was air inside.

"I'll go take a look." After saying that, Jing Liang got in.

"Brother Jing, wait for the widow." Ying Zheng said a little anxiously.

After a while, Jing Liang poked his head out of the gap again and said, "Come in, there is no danger." ”

Ying Zheng looked at the few rocks that Jing Liang had just stepped on, and said, "But how can the widow go up." ”

"You can bring in a horse from outside and step on it." Jing Liang said.

Ying Zheng smiled awkwardly and turned around to go out to lead the horse.

The gap was not very high from the ground of the confined space inside, and it seemed that the two caves were not connected.

"Your Majesty, there's something here." Jing Liang pointed to the middle of the confined space and said.

Ying Zheng walked to the middle and squatted down.

I saw an oval thing, half of which was exposed, and the other half should be buried in the earth.

"It's a turtle shell with some strange patterns on it." Jing Liang said, "There are also several bones of beasts next to them, which are also engraved with similar patterns. ”

Ying Zheng touched the exposed turtle shell and said slowly: "Dig it out, it shouldn't be in the way, right?" ”

"It shouldn't get out of the way."

"Then do it." Ying Zheng got up and said.