Paintings of Terror

"The writing date of "Shan Hai Jing" cannot be tested, but this book has already been mentioned in "Historical Records". There is a saying that it was written by Chu or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States period to the early and middle Han Dynasty. Earlier, it was made by Yu or Boyi.” Shao Ling said, “However, during the Song Dynasty, the study of epigraphy rose and the retro style prevailed, and many artifacts made in antiques or copycats appeared. So I mean, we may be able to learn from them. It is possible to delineate the origin of the whole thing, at least from the Warring States Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, but we may be able to focus on the Warring States, the Han Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty."

"The analysis is reasonable," Ke Xun said, "but I still can't explain why the inexplicable power generated during that period wanted to get the "Shan Hai Jing" on our bones. This is to let us help pass this strange book to the world. Go down?"

Everyone: "..."

"I don't see it like this," Shao Ling said. "In the next few days, let's seize the time to check historical materials related to the "Shan Hai Jing" and the bizarre events that occurred during the Warring States Period, the Han Dynasties, and the Song Dynasties-although possible There is little hope of finding clues, but I always have to try."

Everyone had no objections. They said goodbye to grandma, and they went to the hotel where they were staying, and rushed to check online at all times.

The entry time of the next painting is just in time for the first day of the new year. There are still a few days before that day. After discussing it, everyone decided not to return to their respective cities, so as not to waste time. On the way, he flew directly to Ke Xun's home, lived there two or three days before entering the painting, and then flew to K City, where the next art gallery is located, first stepped on the spot, prepared all the information and prepared enough, and then entered the painting on time.

Of course, it would be great if we could crack the behind-the-scenes of the entire painting incident before this, and terminate this terrible incident in time.

The plane to Z city took off in the afternoon. When everyone arrived in Z city, it was 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. Koxun took them to the restaurant for dinner, and then sent the girls to the hotel booked by Koxun. The next group of men went to the home of Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.

Shao Ling and Zhu Haowen brought their own laptops. Luo Ge’s laptop was bought before boarding the plane. Mu Yiran gave his laptop to Qin Ci. Ke Xun used a computer. Channels and online platforms collect information on "Shan Hai Jing" and bizarre events that occurred during the Warring States, Han Dynasty, and Song Dynasties.

Mu Yiran assisted Wei Dong in drawing the bone photo taken on the phone on paper.

Weidong drew until midnight, and finally finished painting, and everyone temporarily stopped their work and came together to watch.

"Now that I can visually see these pictures on the skeleton, I can be more sure that the style of these images is absolutely different from the ancient version of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" circulating on the market," Shao Ling said, "the ancient pictures we can see at present It is a picture book circulated in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Earlier, some painters Zhang Sengyou from the Southern Dynasties and Shu Ya from the Song Dynasty drew the 10-volume "Shanhaijing Tu". Unfortunately, neither of the two painted versions could pass down.

"And if you go back further, it should be the oldest version of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu". Lu Xun once pointed out in the "A Brief History of Chinese Novels" that the "Shan Hai Jing" is the ancient witch book, and the witch book is The book of prayers used by wizards, so its author is Wu. This version of "Shan Hai Jing Tu" written by Wu should be the original and earliest version, but it has long been lost.

"Look at the style of these pictures on our bones. Compared to the lines of the Ming and Qing editions, they are more concise and simple, and they have a very profound sense of mystery because of the extremely'simple'. So I think we The pattern on the bones should be dated earlier, at least it must be the version from the Southern Liang or Song Dynasty, or even...the original version."

"What does praying mean?" Ke Xun asked.

"Literally it means praying and resolving disasters. It belongs to a Taoist magic," Shao Ling said. "The content of prayer includes praying for sunshine, praying for rain, locusts, curing diseases, and plagues, etc. The content of disasters includes resolving Fires, floods, droughts, wind disasters, earthquakes, fleeting disadvantages, etc."

"Wait..." Wei Dong said, "Isn't the "Shan Hai Jing" talking about the mountains and rivers, rare and exotic animals, there are Taoist spells in it?"

"It is more appropriate to say that it is not so much Taoist magic as it is witchcraft." Shao Ling said, "A considerable part of the "Shan Hai Jing" is said to be based on ancient wizards who worship ancestors, call souls, send souls, and reach heaven and earth. Written in witch pictures or words used in rituals such as sacrifices.

"The original version of "The Book of Mountains and Seas" was actually just a map. No words appeared at that time, and the witchcraft was only passed down orally.

"Later text versions were all transformed into text descriptions based on graphs, just like sentences such as'Fake a fish with each hand,' all describing the content of the graph."

"I always thought that "Shan Hai Jing" first had the text, and later generations gave it to the picture." Ke Xun looked with a new posture expression, "It turned out that there was a picture first, so the original version If it is the real genuine version, that is to say, "Shan Hai Jing" should actually be...a painting?"

The three words "a painting" are as straight as a divine enlightenment, making everyone excited.

Just focusing on the analysis of the origin and content of "Shan Hai Jing", no one was able to think about it for a while. Now, listening to Ke Xun's words, the thinking in front of him seems to be broadened suddenly.

"So is the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" the source of the entire painting incident?" Zhu Haowen looked at the drawings, "If it is also a painting, then are all the landscapes, beasts, and spirits recorded in it... …"

"It's all the scenes of the world in the painting expanded by the painting "Shan Hai Jing Tu"?" Qin Ci took his words, and the two looked at each other and saw the indescribable emotions in each other's eyes.

Luo Yu shivered firmly and squeezed towards Ke Xun's side.

"A painting that appeared in the ancient times can expand the world in the painting. The world in this painting has about 40 strange countries, more than 500 mountains, more than 300 waterways, and more than 400 Spiritual monsters, it also includes geography, astronomy, meteorology, plants, animals, geology, ocean, minerals, properties, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folklore, economy... and even science, philosophy and anthropology. And organizational structure," Shao Ling raised his eyes to look at everyone, with the same unspeakable emotions as Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen, "this is simply...this is just like another big world like the world we live in now. Unlike any painting we have entered before, it has a larger volume and a more magnificent world view. It has a logical and rigorous coordinate axis. It is mature and perfect whether viewed horizontally or vertically. The world it sets is almost endless and endless."

"In other words, it is like another universe in the theory of multiple universes," Zhu Haowen said. "The frame, or the axis of the drawing, is the door to this other universe."

"I have a chilling thought," Ke Xun said.

"You said, the world we live in or the world in the book "Shan Hai Jing", which one is true?"

These words of Ke Xun made everyone gasp in their minds.

"If the coordinates of all art galleries are connected together as a signature, does it mean that the world we live in is actually... a painting?" Ke Xun didn't mean to take care of everyone's fearful emotions, and licked Some dry lips continue to throw a guess bomb on everyone’s nerves that people don’t want to face directly, "If our world is a painting, then what are we? The'real' outside of this painting What is the world like?

"What is the ‘human’ that exists in that ‘real world’ and created us?

"We have always thought that we are the spirit of all things, the top of the biological chain, and the master of the world, but in fact, maybe we are just a bunch of... a bunch of symbols created by the real'spirit of all things'?

"Then follow the destiny and life trajectory they set for us, from birth to death, no matter how hard you struggle and think, you will always be in their routines, always on this track, and you will never be able to derail and escape this. Dimension..."

Luo Ling's eyes were red, but it was not because of fear, but an inexplicable sorrow that swept through his body after rising from his heart.

-It turns out that we are just a bunch of symbols.

In that "real world", we are not even the lowest creature...

Our joys, angers and sorrows, our memories and longings, all of us who have tried our best to say goodbye to each other... are just a bunch of symbols, a bunch of ridiculous sad and humble symbols.

Luo Ling buried his head in his knees and burst into tears.

"You, don't scare the child..." Wei Dong paled, and patted Luo Ling on the shoulder with a trembling hand.

"So," Zhu Haowen's voice was also slightly dry. "Is the painting of "Schrodinger's Cat" that we have speculated before, and one of the two forces that play against each other suggests to us?

"It implies that outside our world, there is a consciousness that is higher than our material world, so for us, consciousness creates matter.

"And what we are to that kind of advanced consciousness is the same as two-dimensional creatures to three-dimensional creatures. In our two-dimensional world, three-dimensional creatures cannot be seen. We can only feel their projection...

"It's like a saying in the scientific community-high-dimensional creatures are like gods to low-dimensional creatures. The force they add to the low-dimensional world is very unbelievable to low-dimensional creatures. What is unimaginable is something that only God can do, because low-dimensional creatures can never imagine the appearance of high-dimensional creatures, and their attributes, or abilities, just as we can never imagine four-dimensional space, ten The one-dimensional space looks mediocre."

"If our destiny has been set by the advanced consciousness, what is the use of all our efforts now? Anyway, the result is doomed, and the **** will die. What else can we struggle with? ?" Wei Dong said in despair.

Ke Xun rubbed his face fiercely with his hands, and laughed: "I was wrong. I blamed me for spreading pessimistic thoughts. Brothers, this is just a guess. There may be thousands of possibilities for painting events, but this is just one of them. .

"When you get your spirits up, my family suddenly said that the consciousness is also a kind of mental power. Spiritual power is different from matter. It has no upper limit. No one knows how strong one's mental power can be. If we compare it on a spiritual level, we may not necessarily lose.

"Let’s pause for a while and relax, so what? Why don’t you watch the movie together? It just so happens that the female compatriots are not there. I have the latest European and American hunk movies, just like the FBI warning in the opening. ..."

Everyone: "..."

Wei Dong: "Get out of here! A good sad mood ruined you!"

Ke Xun stood up: "I will take a rest, I will give you all night supper, Ko's delicious, the cliff made you eat all night and sleep well, spring dreams again and again."

Everyone: "..."

Ke's delicious supper is a hot, golden and fragrant mutton and millet porridge, topped with finely chopped carrots and chopped green onions, and adorned with a few bright red goji berries.

The golden orange, green and red, the bright colors and the whiteness of the heat immediately diminished the sorrow and depression that enveloped the hearts of everyone. Even Mu Yiran, Qin Ci and Shao Ling, who have always had a rather self-disciplined lifestyle, couldn't help but pick it up. Spoon, broke his habit of not eating after eight o'clock in the evening.

"Is there any dry food?" Weidong may be frightened, and his appetite was instantly appetite, so he ordered food on the spot.

Ke Xun went into the kitchen and heated a dozen small milk buns the size of pigeon eggs.

Luo Ling sucked his snot while sucking his tongue burned by the porridge. Ke Xun sat aside and tilted his head to look at him: "Looking at you so good, you can cry with a few words-hey! Nose! It's going to fall into the **** porridge! Can I go blow it first?!"

"What are you afraid of..." Luo Ling raised his head and sniffed again, "Anyway, I am a symbol, and my snot is also a symbol. When I drop the porridge, I will eat it as a symbol."

Ke Xun: "..."

A hot meal of porridge in the midwinter night made everyone relax a lot from physical to psychological. After eating, they sat on the thick carpet on the floor of the living room and continued to sort out clues about the "Shan Hai Jing".

"I think we can put aside the idea of'advanced consciousness' and'painting outside of painting' first," Mu Yiran said, "otherwise our thoughts are easily constrained here. No matter whether we are just a painting of a higher world.' Symbol', we should all strive to survive in our own world and find a way to crack it."

"Yan Ran is right!" Ke Xun said.

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