According to previous speculation, the clone was the product of Sima Tian's strong obsession with survival, and its ability to appear outside the mausoleum was also due to the special mechanism of the mausoleum.

But why was the mausoleum designed to contain a machine capable of replicating living organisms?

Not only does it have such a fine funerary object, but it also has the facilities to send the replica out, which is very puzzling at the original drive level.

"Are you already confused about the existence of replicants?

Judging from the pattern of this mausoleum, its builder may be at the stage when the Western Queen Mother clan turned from prosperity to decline.

Having a strong inheritance of wisdom and knowledge, but suffering from not having any inheritors, this will inevitably lead to the heart disease of becoming a top wise man.

In the previous speculation, we felt that the builders of this mausoleum were using this mausoleum to compete with the later wise ones, and the winner would gain some respect and inheritance from him.

But now, it doesn't look like a contest, but like a test, a test for one's own inheritor.

No one wants to see the extinction of their own race, everyone wants to see the hope of revival of their race, and this mausoleum is a concentrated expression of this hope for inheritance. ”

Bai Ning reinterpreted the overall mentality of the mausoleum builders, and saw the appearance of replicants as a symbol of testing.

"Do you mean that in order to start this test of inheritance, it is necessary to sacrifice blood to the mausoleum?

As in a slave society, the great nobles would sacrifice slaves on important occasions to sacrifice some important tombs.

Such bloody and cruel forms of sacrifice would only seem to meaninglessly reduce the overall labor force of society in a low-productivity slave society.

However, this phenomenon of human sacrifice was still passed down and gradually decreased until the Warring States period, which shows that when it was prescribed, its significance must have been more than ceremonial in nature. ”

Bai Ning's interpretation of the origin of the clone made Jiang Yingxue have a new reflection on the cruel behavior of human sacrifice in the slave society.

The lack of population in the slave society, and the need to kill a large number of laborers for sacrifices and sacrifices, this kind of extremely cost-effective thing can be continued, and it must be more than just cultural inheritance.

Even so-called replicants, in the absence of raw materials, are likely to use fresh corpses as basic raw materials.

"We weren't sure what the source of energy the replicants used before, but now it seems likely that the source of energy is also the soul of the normal reproductive population.

In other words, the soul is a very important part of the replicant machine.

Sima Tian and his party, who entered by mistake before, became human sacrifices in this mausoleum by coincidence, and the test mechanism was also triggered.

As a result, a replicant was released to notify the examiners to come over for the trial.

It's only because our probing act has ruined the course of this trial that the mausoleum triggers the defense mechanism. ”

Bai Ning's guess at this time was very bold, and he explained the reason for the creation of replicants in detail, which instantly pulled Jiang Yingxue into another level of thinking.

In other words, the bluebird relief is indeed the meaning of feeding for the Queen Mother of the West.

This feeding means offering sacrifices.

These offerings need to be guaranteed not only in quantity but also in quality.

After all, the greater the quantity and quality of human sacrifices, the stronger and more robust the development of the ethnic group.

Only such descendants are qualified to inherit the knowledge system of the mausoleum, which requires a large population and high-quality personnel.

Those who can't pass the trap will become the blood sacrifice of the mausoleum, and those who can pass the trap, even if the test is successful, will be controlled by the copy machine and become the tool population of the subsequent trial. ”

Jiang Yingxue's brain supplement is very interesting, explaining the meaning of the existence of replicants more clearly.

In her explanation, the death of the replicant is clearly a disadvantage, and may cause them some unexpected disadvantages.

"If the clone is a messenger, a key booster used to assist in the follow-up test mechanism, then his death will indeed cause unnecessary trouble.

If you think about it a little deeper, if the replication machine can receive the death process of the replicant in real time, then the transformation of the mausoleum from the blue bird state to the demon state is likely to be caused by the death signal of the replicant.

According to such a logical chain, the road of we, the invaders, will become more and more difficult in the future. ”

The current process of discussion has set a good underlying logic for the appearance of the clones, and also indicates that the road ahead will be increasingly difficult for them to follow.

Even thinking a little pessimistic, what awaits them is no longer the basic pattern of nine deaths and one life, or even the killing mode of destruction for the sake of destruction.

If you don't want to suffer heavy casualties or even annihilation in the next operation, then you should retreat in time.

"Why, is the death of the clone already a warning?

If we want to leave now, we can have it at any time. ”

Jiang Yingxue didn't believe that Bai Ning would hesitate on the issue of adventure, she could clearly feel a kind of madness from the depths of her soul in Bai Ning's coldness.

It is precisely because of this crazy appreciation that she said this with a bit of light-hearted ridicule.

It's like a kind of knowingly asking jokes and teasing.

"Whether it's attacking or retreating, we have to be prepared.

You may not know how difficult it will be to explore the future, but it's not like uncovering a few stone slabs to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

In view of the ingenuity of the above-ground part of this mausoleum, the scale of the underground part of the mausoleum must be far beyond our expectations.

Trying to avoid possible risks by dismantling is tantamount to excavating the ancient ruins of Tunguska. ”

As if it was a deliberate mention, Bai Ning's words seemed extremely serious, which made Jiang Yingxue, who was smiling, stunned.

In this inexplicably oppressive silence, several people quickly returned to the camp, and as soon as they entered, they saw Liu Cheng running over in a hurry.

"Boss, Professor Huang said that there was a problem, it seems that the drone saw something terrible."

Liu Cheng's face was full of excitement, and the strange characteristics of the clone made him see the magic of this expedition, and his expectations for the entire mausoleum also came to a peak.

Bai Ning didn't respond to anything, just quickened his pace to the tent he had booked.

I saw that the people operating the drone were very excited, as if they had discovered something terrible.

"Come and see, the whole stone forest has changed again."

Professor Huang greeted him, and the magnitude of this change could be predicted from the look of joy on his face.

However, judging from the previous speculation between Bai Ning and Jiang Yingxue, the greater the changes in the mausoleum after the death of the clones, the greater the predicament they will face.

After taking over the control tablet in three or two steps, Bai Ning saw a scene that surprised him.

I saw that most of the stone pillars suddenly disappeared, leaving only a sparse stone forest, which looked like an abstract ancient graffiti in its overall pattern.

Seeing that Bai Ning was puzzled, Jiang Yingxue, who was watching from the side, also showed a thoughtful look on her face, and Professor Huang hurriedly explained excitedly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you lack the process of changing the stone pillars, and naturally you cannot find some clues from this rough dotted and linear structure.

Now to give a hint, this contains a picture of the Seven Nights of the Dragon. ”

Professor Huang pretended to be mysterious, and seemed to be quite proud of the changes in this stone forest, and wanted to deliberately test Bai Ning and others.

"Please ask Professor Huang to point it out directly."

Bai Ning didn't want to waste too much time on these things, and besides, he was not very good at the constellation chart, and it was really difficult to distinguish between these chaotic stone pillars.

"You see, the way these 186 stone pillars are connected is very much like a green dragon?

The dragon characters in the oracle bone inscription and the golden inscription evolved from this green dragon star map. ”

Professor Huang picked up a tablet, called up an overhead picture of the stone forest, and slowly hooked up the 186 stone pillars.

After such a hint, the whole does look like a complete star map.

"This Qinglong star map is hidden in the stone forest, and it still exists in the form of fixed stone pillars, what is its overall significance?"

Jiang Yingxue didn't know much about this, so she simply asked the questions in her heart directly.

In the Book of Changes, there is a proverb of "Ninety-Five, the Flying Dragon is in the sky, and the Lord is benefited", in which the cognition of the flying dragon in the sky is related to the ancient astrological culture, which originates from the dragon totem worship in ancient times.

The dragon mentioned here is the elaboration of the operation of the dragon stars at four times of the year.

The dragon star in midsummer flies in the middle of the sky in the south, so it is called "flying dragon in the sky", symbolizing that things are at their peak.

At this time, such a great change occurred in the stone forest, showing the star map of the Seven Nights of the Green Dragon, does it mean that our follow-up actions will be unusually smooth? ”

Professor Huang's profound personal archaeological skills were undoubtedly revealed at this time, and he was also very excited about the current "flying dragon in the sky" hexagram.

But such a response made Bai Ning's heart sink.

The flying dragon in the sky is a metaphor for things in their heyday, which is a code phrase and a hint to the tester.

If the tribe is not in its prime, and is not qualified to continue this prosperity, then do not touch the inheritance in this mausoleum.

"This is indeed a good hexagram, and judging from the current heyday of mankind, we do have the qualifications to inherit the legacy of the tomb."

Hearing Professor Huang's explanation, Jiang Yingxue also had the same idea as Bai Ning.

At this time, she seemed very excited, because as far as she knew, they did have the qualifications to inherit the ancient heritage in the mausoleum.

"You can't be so blindly confident.

You must know that the inheritor of such an inheritance is the West Queen Mother clan.

In other words, the half-orcs of the tiger tooth and leopard tail series are probably completely different from our current human concept.

Judging from some of the information I have before, our human race, in the fourth civilization, the overall social status is likely to be inferior to that of the orcs subspecies. ”

As soon as Bai Ning's view was given, it was like a basin of cold water splashed on everyone's heads, the residual smile turned into an embarrassing appearance, and the atmosphere returned to seriousness and silence.

Discussing the phenomenon of human sacrifice in slave society before, why the customary object of sacrifice would be a human being, has been highlighted in Bai Ning's speech at this time.