Chronicles of Primordial Wars

Shao Xuan sat on a modified bus and looked out the window at the mountain. Just after the summer solstice, the mountains were full of vibrant greenery. After living in the city for a long time, I saw this scenery, and I was much better off in a shady mood due to my bad career. Originally, Shao Xuan intended to invite several friends to go away for a relaxing time. He didn't want to meet his old classmate Shiqi, who studied archaeology, and was dragged to archaeology together.

This trip is going to a relatively small mountain village, saying that it was there that discovered something from the Stone Age, a group of people have passed, and now this is the second batch.

Shao Xuan listened to the old classmate from the skull bone of the original person to stoneware to rock mural painting, and took out several pictures to explain in detail, the researcher just like that, if you get into it, it is hard to pull out, Shao Xuan, though he doesn't understand, but he still gives it a good face to listen to.

The paper was full of rock drawings discovered by some archaeological studies. Shao Xuan looked at them and felt that his nephew and niece, who had not yet attended kindergarten, painted well.

Those lines are relatively simple, and you can almost see how some people are hunting with tools, and there are paintings of all kinds of animals, and the rest don't know exactly what they are.

“Is this a painted sheep? But the sheep are too big.” Shao Xuan pointed to a diagram.

The picture shows a sheep with a long, huge curved corner, and there's a man with a bow and arrow next to him, but the proportion doesn't look very normal, and the human head reaches the back of the sheep. And the next few pictures, the size ratio of the rabbit is like that of a lion, and the picture on the left of the horse riding, and the horse's tail is a little too short.

Of course, not every picture is the same scale, and the styles of rock murals found at different times from different provinces and cities are different, with some proportions close to reality behind them, and you can see a group of people hunting with dogs.

Flip it back, it's a couple of colour prints, and it looks clearer.

“Oh, this painting is more exaggerated, this antler is too big, and this guy, the guy in the picture just got to the back of the sheep, the guy in this picture is just a little bit taller than the deer leg... and what's in the lower right corner, the eight leg crocodile?” Shao Xuan can't really appreciate the original people's paintings.

“Primitive humankind does not necessarily pay much attention in this regard.” Shiqi explained.

“So you're saying that primitive human paintings are not ‘realistic’ in scale, but exaggerated?” Shao Xuan asked.

“I suppose so," Stone Kitchen grabbed the head: “After all, humans in that period were not aesthetically conscious, and might be purely symbolic, as a researcher once speculated when studying a particular rock painting, and then humans painted these paintings about hunting on the walls of a hole or on a rock, perhaps just giving hunting fighters a look before a tribal hunt, and there was a spectrum in their hearts, maybe some ritual that we didn't know about. Especially those painted by the Witch. ”

“O witch...” Shao Xuan's brain replenished the image of an old god dressed very differently.

“Hey, what's that look on your face, I'm telling you, 'witches' were not necessarily low in the human community at that time, but rather could be quite high. ”

“Yes, a god's stick.” Shao Xuan nodded.

Shiqi swings his finger and brings it to a folder. There are some scanned photocopies of the drawings, pointing to some of the drawings and text above, and says to Shao Xuan: “If the Totem consciousness shows the anthropomorphism of man to nature and the collective unity of himself, then the concept of witchcraft shows the proposed naturalization of man, the profession of ‘witch' actually appeared in the stone age...”

Shiqi was there to talk to herself about the research progress of the profession of "witch” from ancient times to the present, professional vocabulary also quoted the classics, heard Shao Xuanxin pain.

Shao Xuan doesn't know much about this, nor is he interested. Without such an archaeological hometown and old classmate, Shao Xuan would never have known that. Before, people said that archaeology directly thought of the valuable antiques, but Shiqi's research direction is really more antique than antiques, so there are not many people interested in antiques. Were you listening on the radio the other day to see if 'Darwin's theory of species evolution' was correct, or if 'alien creator's hypothesis' was correct? Shao Xuan also relaxed and nothing happened. After listening, he put it there. He won't think about it.

Instead, Shao Xuan knew that Xiaofa was very interested in ancient humans. In middle school, he frequently discussed with people a number of ancient human remains that had been unearthed and mysteriously disappeared in modern history.

“You don't understand professionally either, let's be simple." Shiqi dotted a diagram with her fingers, pointing somewhere on the diagram: “The word 'witch' is mentioned in both Buddhist and Golden, but here it is. ”

Shao Xuan looked at the place where Shiqi pointed. It was a symbol, and it looked like two ‘gong’ words intersecting each other.

“These duplex symbols appear on the heads of some of the ancient pottery mussels out of the earth. Speaking of witches, they also involve hunting, prayer, rescue and so on, and in a way, 'witches’ can be considered scientists of the time. But these are speculations, even if some of the ancient records are not necessarily true, after all, people at that time exaggerated, didn't there not be a saying, ‘history never has the truth’, archaeology is just digging out some corners, as for the real situation, who knows. ”

“The holes found this time are also related to 'witches', the last pictures you see, the first rock paintings from the past, and the duplex symbols found in that stone hole, so it's possible to speculate where some ‘witch’ cave is. There was a brief earthquake in the area where the village was located last month, and probably that's why the cave was exposed, something no one had ever heard before. ”

Speaking of this, Shiqiao put the folder together and looked around carefully. After seeing the mentor and other brothers didn't notice this side, he pressed down his voice and mysteriously said to Shao Xuando: “I heard that the first person to discover the hole was a child. Moreover, according to a message from a brother over there, the child who found the cave saw a strange watermelon large bug climbing out of the stone in his yard wall, the child was fat and followed the bug. Finally, the bug disappeared into the cave, and the child went back to tell the adult, so that he found the cave. ”

“Watermelon bugs?” Shao Xuan feels ridiculous. Whoever hears this for the first time feels too fake, "the kid lied? ”

The stone kick shook its head, "More strangely, according to the first past, there are fossils of paleontology in the stones used to build the courtyard walls.” Here, Stone Kilton rubbed the goose bumps on his arm and continued: “The kid who found the cave pointed to the stone that came out of the watermelon bug, and there was a fossil of the ancient creature, but it wasn't entirely, just part of the residue, but, according to professional speculation, if the creature was still alive, it might indeed be as big as the watermelon, and it also looked just like the kid described it. ”

“... sounds pretty subtle, but only the kid sees it, no one sees a bug climbing out of his wall?” Shao Xuan is a little interested.

Shiqi shook his head, “I don't know. Ask again when it's over. It's almost here anyway. ”

By the time the pedestrians arrived at their destination, Shao Xuan followed Shiqi for a simple lunch and returned to the bus.

Shiqi, they can't wait to finish eating and not rest, so they can start work.

Things to pay attention to here Shiqi has already told Shao Xuan, what can't be touched, where can't go, who can wait for Shao Xuan to have something in his heart.

“I'll tell you when it's done today. Take a stroll yourself. This place has a nice view. Green mountains, blue skies and water. Been out in hazy cities for a long time to wash your lungs. ”

Then Shiqi took the tools and waited to follow his mentor. Shao Xuan over there can't follow the past, and he's not very interested in following the past.

There was only Shao Xuan left in the car, and the doors and windows were quite quiet as soon as they closed. Shao Xuan hasn't slept well in the past few days. On the way, he went to listen to Shiqi, and now he is sleepy.

When he woke up again, it was after 2 pm. Shao Xuan was about to go out for a walk. He saw Shiqi in a work suit coming over. He got in the car and grabbed a document. After he took it, he had to rush over there to continue the work.

However, before getting out of the car, Shiqi pulled an egg-sized stone out of his pocket and threw it to Shao Xuan: “I picked it up in the hole and saw that no one else cared, it shouldn't be important, ‘antique’ can't be given to you, this stone is also in the hole, it looks smooth, who probably threw it there, keep a souvenir for you. ”

This stone is near the cave, there is some distance from the core of the cave, stone and other excavated items are obviously different, not to mention no markings, so the first people who came here focused on the "antiques” and rock paintings of the stone age, nobody cared about the stone near the cave, the stone kite looked fun and picked it up and put it in his pocket.

After taking the thrown stone, Shao Xuan took a closer look in his hand, the hand feel and other stones are no different, inky green, egg-like, the surface is quite smooth, like deliberately polished, it doesn't look ancient, even if it's not “antique”, it's good to have fun with, as a decoration.

Shao Xuan didn't care. He played with it in his hand for a while. He always felt that the stone was not hot. It had been in his hand for more than 10 minutes. It was still cold. Think about it. Shao Xuan took out the lighter and burned the stone with fire. In principle, the place where the fire was touched should be hot, but the fact is that it was still as cold as before after the fire.

After sweeping around his eyes, Shao Xuan grabbed a fruit knife on the table and put a sheet of paper on it. He was going to use the knife to scrape a little pieces of stone and take it to the archaeological car for help. However, Shao Xuan scraped the stone with a knife, but there was no trace on the stone, and no trace could be drilled with the tip of the knife.

The fire is not hot, the knife is not scratched... what a strange stone.

Shao Xuan got off with the stone and intends to have a closer look at it later.

The car park is close to the village, but the road ahead is not easy to follow.

Some villagers in the village went to work, while others went to the newly discovered cave to see the liveliness, so when Shao Xuan entered the village, he saw only three or two people walking.

There are two meters of stone and earth walls on the outskirts of the village. They were built decades ago to prevent wild animals. The stones come from the mountains, but in recent years there have been no large wild animals around, and nobody cares about these stone walls anymore.

At a glance, you can see the big, old stones on the stone walls, with a little bit of a Shawther feel.

Shao Xuan played with the stones and stared at them. Heard that the stones on these stone walls were found to contain paleozoic fossils, Shao Xuan remembered what Shiqi called the "watermelon bug” incident.

Looking away, Shao Xuan suddenly found a snake-like object on the stone wall, still creeping, the water cylinder thick, the squamous pattern was full of cold light, but a few meters apart, Shao Xuan felt a creepy cool, surprised Shao Xuan almost jumped. But when Shao Xuan blinked, he found nothing. The stone walls are still the broken stone walls with long periods of wind and rain.

Hallucinations?

Shao Xuan looked at the rest of the stone wall, and then his gaze fell on a gap in the stone wall. There was a large stone, which was left behind after the fall of the stone wall. The small points were picked up by the villagers to build their own walls, while the large ones stayed here. At this moment, Shao Xuan saw a green seedling emerge on the stone. The seedlings quickly drew leaves and grew tall, while several vines spread around. The gap, which was more than three metres long, was blinked by the vines and branches, and the nose seemed to smell of vegetation.

Shao Xuan took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and then looked at the past, but found that the vine branches had disappeared, the stone walls were still there, and the ground was that big, bare stone.

I noticed a slight movement in my hand. Shao Xuan looked down at the hand holding the stone.

The stone, which had not been cut by a burning knife, instantly weathered into sand and fell from Shao Xuan's fingers.

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