Daomu Biji

Chapter 25 Third Night: Relief

We have moved almost everything that can be used and prepared several buckets of silt.I didn't dare to light the big campfire, and made a small charcoal pile. Even the fat man cooked canned food for dinner and dared not cook it inside. He put the stove over the ruins.

We estimate that the snakes will definitely start to move after the mist is filled, so I do n’t panic at dusk. I help the fat guy cook and the oil bottle on top helps us look at the wind.

But the fat man moved quickly, and I couldn't help much. After opening the tin, I was dazed.

The fat man is annoying me this way. He said that I am Lin Daiyu. I do n’t know what I ’m thinking about all day long. There are so many things in this world that I ca n’t think about. The leg kicks to death, the ending is the same anyway, you care what the bond in the middle does.

I was a little surprised to hear that the fat man would even use the word "fetter", and he only found the "** egg" he said after a bit of laughter.

Thinking about it, I heard the fat man call me: "What do you think, brother?"

I retracted my god and looked up to see what stuffy oil bottle in the temple was rubbing on the stone wall with it. I cried, "What's wrong?"

The dull oil bottle ignores me and continues to work, or it may not be heard.

I've done almost everything here, and I'm also interested. I put down the canning knife and climbed up.From the corridor of the temple to his side, he saw that he was using charcoal in the campfire to wipe the wall, as if he wanted to print something.I asked him why, he pointed to the stone beside him: "I just found it."

A large piece of wall was painted black, and I blew it with my mouth, and found that these stone walls had almost flat reliefs.

"It's basically invisible in daylight. Only when charcoal powder is applied, there will be shadows, and you can tell." He said, picking another piece from the campfire to apply.

The black carbon black smeared the rock, and the light and shadow changed. I shook it and found a suitable place. The relief on the stone appeared.At first glance, I saw a large number of snakes. It was difficult to distinguish them. Lights and shadows were moving, and snake shadows seemed to be alive.

After the smoldering oil bottle continued to be painted, we saw an ancient relief appearing on the rocks here. After so many years, it was still in shape, and it appeared like magic under the smearing of the smoldering oil bottle.

After painting, he stood unsteady, and I immediately supported him.After reading it again, he said, "Here are the snakes."

"What are you talking about?" I asked.Because I can't see clearly.

"I can't understand it at once," he said, "you have to think slowly."

I'm very interested in these, and I haven't seen much of the history here.Ignorance of what is happening here is the most direct cause of our current situation, so I moved my body to find the best angle and took a closer look.

Looking at them one by one, I do n’t know what they mean, I do n’t know what it means. There are many expressions on the relief, some seem to be a sacrifice, and some seem to be a ritual. Come.

Looking at it half guessing, I feel that there are a few pictures that seem to be talking about the ancestors here, enshrining these poisonous snakes with cockscombs. With a stone tower with square holes, a large number of poisonous snakes began to drill into the broken clay pots.There are rituals presided over the ceremony, many people kneel around.

It turns out that these sacrifices are the sacrifices here. Do the people here regard this poisonous snake as a god?However, this is not uncommon. Venomous snake worship is very common. The ancients did not know the toxicity of viper snakes. They only knew that they would die after a bite. Looking at such a small wound to death, they would think it was caused by magic.Many Chinese ethnic minorities worship snakes.

These cockscomb snakes may like to eat the eggs of the corpse king, but the eggs of the corpse king should be toxic. Which of the snake and the corpse is more poisonous?

The stuffy oil bottle moves in shape, and the reliefs on the sides are many people holding spears. They are killed together with the ancestors. Many people's bodies were pierced by the spears.

The battle situation seems to be detrimental to the Western Queen Motherland, because the number of Western Queen Mothers is obviously much smaller than that of the other party.The Western Queen Motherland is all infantry, and cavalry can also be seen in the opposing team.The enemy's commander is behind the team, sitting in an eight horse-drawn car.There was no Queen Mother in the relief.All the relief shapes are exquisite, and even the facial features are meticulously pondered, but they are brilliant, obviously from the craftsmanship of top craftsmen.

"This is, war ..." The muffled oil bottle murmured.

"It seems that the Western Queen Motherland has been invaded, and the other party is a relatively strong civilization, which may be Loulan or Northern Huns." I said, "These people can't see the style of clothing, but the weapon looks like the Central Plains, it should be Loulan ’s army. This one on the tank should be King Loulan. "

After I finished speaking, I felt very reasonable, but the dull oil bottle did not pay attention to my words, but touched the commander on the tank with his hand, frowned.

I said to my heart: What's wrong?He suddenly raised his finger at the enemy leader and said to me: "I know this person."

Chapter 26 The Third Night: Deja vu

"Ah?" I froze for a moment.Xin said: Do you know him, he is your second uncle?

The muffled oil bottle said something later, and I immediately realized that I had misunderstood. He said: "These eight horses ... this man is King Zhou Mu."

"Wang Zhou Mu? Is that the one that wrote the biography of Mu Tianzi?"

I am also very familiar with the legend of Mu Tianzi. Before his coming, the people often mentioned that the legend of Mu Tianzi mainly recorded that the King Zhou Mu led the seven-dead soldiers and drove the red jelly, the thief, the Bai Yi, the round, the mountain, the Qu Huang. Horses, , green ears and other horses, chased by the Cepheus, Bo Yao as a guide, starting from Zong Zhou, crossing Zhangshui, passing Hezong, Yangshan Mountain, Qunyu Mountain and other places, west to the state of Western Queen Mother, and Western Queen Mother Feast and drink.

In other words, he traveled to the Western Queen's Palace with eight horses, and was graciously treated by the Western Queen.

However, from the perspective of the relief, this Mu Tianzi does not seem to be traveling. Is the legend wrong? At that time, King Zhou Mu did come to the West Queen Motherland, but was he here to fight?

I immediately continued to look at the relief, and the next painting made me take a breath. I saw King Zhou Mu ’s army killed a palace, and there were many women with snake heads on the screen. They poured a thing into it. In the hole of that tower, countless cockscomb crawled out of the tower and bite with King Zhou Mu's army.

Seeing this, I immediately understood the significance of these stone towers in the rainforest: "It seems that King Zhou Mu did attack here, but was defeated by the poisonous snakes here. Perhaps to conceal his failure, he compiled that story. These poisonous snakes Protecting the West Queen Motherland, it is no wonder that they will raise this kind of snake as a god. It is like the Manchus do not kill crows. "

After thinking about it, I feel that it is more than that. It seems that these stone towers must be interconnected. The snake lives in the passage below the city and is fed by people with human head. enemy.This is a well-designed defense method. This snake is so poisonous and fast, no one can stop it.

That is to say, people live in the city, and snakes live below the city. Now that all people are dead, the snake will come to the ground.The civilization of the Western Queen is similar to that of the Amazons, where piranhas are used to defend against enemies and fierce beasts. They also sacrifice piranhas, use living and living creatures, and use human heads here.

Looking back, the more we look at it, the more it fits our inference.My mind gradually became clear about the concept here.

In the dark, the sight of the dull oil bottle stopped, and I saw the most central part of the stone wall. The relief here is a huge circular pattern, which is obviously the central part of the whole rock stone carving composition.It is carved with a huge snake surrounded by many small cockscombs and fighting each other.The huge snake was wrapped around a huge tree, and the cockscomb snake was wrapped around it like a decorative pattern.

"This is the kind of double-skinned python fighting with the cockscomb snake here. It seems that during the Western Queen, there are already two kinds of snakes. This kind of double-skinned python may be the natural enemy of the cockscomb here." I said.

The dull oil bottle touched the stone inscription and shook his head: "No, this is mating."

"Mating?" I was stunned for a moment, a little bit incomprehensible. After thinking about it, I understood what he meant, "You mean, the cockscomb and this double-squamous python are copulating and mating? But these are completely different. Snakes, and they are so different in size, how can they mate? "

"Do you know what an old bustard is?" Suddenly asked me.

"Old Bustard?" I was baffled, and he said why he suddenly asked this, "Old Bustard opened a brothel."

"That's a joke. The old bustard is actually a bird. In ancient times, some people found that the old bustard had only female birds and no male birds. They had to breed offspring and could mate with any other species of birds. Wife, so people use "old bustard" as a prostitute. "The oil bottle said lightly," However, in fact, the ancients said that the old bustard was completely wrong. The old bustard actually had a male bird, but , This kind of bird, their male and female individual differences are too great, male birds are several times larger than female birds, so they are mistaken for two different birds. "

I understood what he said, and immediately understood what it meant: "In this way, you think these two kinds of snakes are actually a kind of snake, but only two genders have two body shapes. Then which one do you say is a male snake? Which one is a female snake? "

"According to the quantitative analysis, the small one should be a male snake, and the large one should be a female snake. However, it may be the opposite." He touched the surface of the rock and suddenly stretched out his long fingers to touch the twining snake. The pattern of the giant tree, "Strange."

"What's wrong?" I touched it too, but couldn't figure it out, just looked at him.He frowned, and then took a few steps back, then picked up the charcoal and painted the unpainted parts above and below the relief.

Soon the relief on the whole stone wall appeared, and I took a step back to look at it. At the moment when I saw the panorama, I opened my mouth and froze.

I saw on the relief that the giant tree twined by the giant snake with double scales, when viewed from a distance, was not a tree at all, but a larger snake that became a circle.Because this snake is too big, the giant double-snake snake is like chopsticks and rolling pin compared to it, and the cockscomb is simply a toothpick, so when you look at the part, you can't see that it is a snake.

"This ... what is this thing? Dragon?" I stunned.The twin-scale giant snake is already huge. This snake is so much larger than it. It is almost the same diameter as the Liberation Truck. Can this kind of thing be a snake?

The dull oil bottle stared blankly, without talking, while touching the patterns of the cockscomb snakes one by one, and for a while, I said: "Look, these little snakes are not coiled on this golden python, they It's just clustered on the brocade python to help it not slide down. It is this double-scaled python and this giant snake that are really mating ... "

I immediately followed the lines of the snakes, and I found that the snakes were only entangled with each other, and did not coil around the double-scale python, and the double-scale python was tightly coiled around the snake. I was surprised, Suddenly realizing something, he took a cold breath and said: "My God, the fat man is right!" (To be continued, if you want to know the future, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support Genuine reading!)