Paintings of Terror

Chapter 355: Shanhai 09┃ Horror icon.

Weidong, Shao Ling, Hua Jiqiu, and Gu Qingqing are responsible for organizing the photos taken last night in the laptop computer in order-luckily most of the functions of the laptop computer are still available.

The symbols displayed on the computer are still weird. Everyone looked at the computer screen for a long time, and finally Shao Ling took the lead in speaking: "Perhaps because I'm doing text work, I think these symbols are like images of witch prayers. It's also like a kind of text. Look, this symbol that folds the limbs and torso into a'ぴ'-shaped symbol has appeared more than once. Perhaps it is equivalent to a common word, often appearing in different sentences. ."

"In this way, these symbols can be regarded as hieroglyphs in a certain sense." Qin Ci said.

Shao Ling nodded: "This is a necessary stage for the development of writing. However, judging from the structure, style and regular system of these symbols, they are completely different from the oracle bone inscriptions and the known writing system. I have reason to suspect that this kind of writing It belongs to another culture, even another civilization, and even another world-therefore, it may be presumed that this icon/text is a communication symbol from another field."

Wu You suddenly patted his forehead when he heard the words: "When Mr. Shao said this, I suddenly remembered that when my grandma was chatting with other colleagues in the past, I had accidentally heard something.

"Said that when she was young, she went with her master to clean up a person who had been caught by evil. That person seemed to have been embarrassed by a very bad thing. Too grandma, when her master was practicing Something'talks' and asks what that thing wants to do.

"But that thing seemed incomprehensible, yelling, and then bit his finger and struggled to write a few words on the wall with blood. The grandma's master took her and turned away, saying nothing. Helped that person clean up, but the person died not long after. I heard that the death was particularly miserable.

"Everyone asked my grandma, why didn't her master help others? My grandma said that she also asked her master the reason at that time, and her master said that the words written on the wall by that person in blood do not belong to us this world.

"Her master meant that that kind of text is very scary. If you see it, don't try to read it, let alone imitate it, stay away from it immediately, and never get involved with it or do things related to it. , Don’t even keep thinking about it in your mind, and force my grandma to forget the shape of those words.

"My grandma actually didn't take a close look. At that time, she was young and just debuted. She was terrified by the horrible and strange appearance of the man a long time ago, and she didn't even bother to read those words. This matter is considered to be turned over. I went, but she was also very curious, so she asked Master what those words were.

"She said that that kind of writing is not a human-created writing, and it has different attributes and functions from human writing. Human writing is not only used for recording but also used for communication, and that kind of writing has some powerful features besides communication. The power of —— I have translated words, the original words do not say that, but the main meaning is that.

"And what kind of power it is, she doesn't even know her master, she just said that this kind of thing was told to him by her master's master, and her master's master was passed down by the higher master and master.

"But they have been handed down from generation to generation. They don’t have any information about the shape and meaning of this type of text. They just say that if you see a text symbol like... like a dead person, don’t pay attention, because, it’s Ghost text."

As soon as the word "ghost text" was uttered, several people trembled.

"That's right," Ke Xun pointed at the screen. "Doesn't this kind of symbol look like a dead person? This is probably a ghost text, a text from another world."

Mu Yi nodded: "Then we may speculate that the ancient wizards have some ghost texts, and through this text, supplemented by the form of witch prayer, in order to achieve the purpose of communicating with another world."

"In this way, the high rock platform is probably a platform for sacrifices or witchcraft." Zhu Haowen said.

"In this case... Xiaomu Xiaoke, if you climb up tonight, will it be in danger?" Hua Jiqiu was very worried.

"We came for danger," Ke Xun didn't fluctuate in his heart. "Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, we prefer to walk towards the mountains. It's not that we want to do this, but we have to do it. Don't worry, Father Hua, I Thinking that as long as the 13 of us didn't go up together, it shouldn't trigger anything weird."

For the sake of this discussion, there is no new progress for the time being, nor can it change the direction of action tonight, so everyone puts it down for the time being, washing up, making breakfast, finding a convenient place to go, and for a while, the camp is also lively. stand up.

After breakfast, the people who hadn't slept all went back to their tents to rest, leaving two people on guard.

In the afternoon, all the people who were well asleep got up and gathered in the big tent again.

"Arrange for tonight's action," Mu Yiran said, and everyone quietly listened to him. "I and Ke Xun are in charge of climbing the rock platform to check, but before that, Luo Ge, I remember that you brought the drone. ?"

"Yes, brother-in-law, but haven't I used it once when I came here with my buddies? All the drones failed, and I never came back after entering the canyon." Luo Wei said.

"Let’s try it in a while," Mu Yiran said, "If the remote control fails, I just want to get the camera directly on the high platform. I have a telescopic pole in my trunk, but it takes some effort and it’s not as convenient and flexible as a drone. ."

The crowd watched him silently, and Ke Xun said something fair: "Your Japanese name must be Dora Amu."

Everything is in the trunk.

Maybe you can get a rocket launcher or deep-water torpedo out of it.

"What's the meaning of Dora Mu?" Mu Yiran asked him seriously.

Everyone: "..."

...Forget that the blind spot of the boss is cartoon.

"Luo Wei will come to test the performance of the drone in a while," the boss continued to arrange, "I'll teach Ke Xun the basics of rock climbing.

"Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Sister Cen, and Director Hua, the four of you are responsible for continuing to study these'ghost texts', starting with both images and text, and strive for breakthroughs.

"For the remaining six people, I carry some surveillance camera equipment in my trunk. Hao Wen leads the team and arranges these equipment around the place where the high rock platform will appear. Tonight, we strive to photograph how the rock platform appears and disappears, hopefully Can help us in our next move."

Everyone responded in unison, and immediately split up.

The unmanned aerial vehicle that Luo Ling brought is really unusable, the underground magnetic field seems to have greater interference to wireless devices, and functions such as mobile phones and computers that can be operated on a single machine can still be used.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun Luo Ge took out the telescopic rod, fixed a high-definition camera to the head of the rod, and extended the telescopic rod to the longest length, which was still not enough to reach the height of the rock platform, so he connected it again. A few pieces of threaded steel pipe can barely be used, but I am afraid that all the places on the top of the high platform cannot be fully photographed. I can only roughly observe whether there are other things.

After completing this part, Mu Yiran went to teach Ke Xun the basics of rock climbing. In the painting "Animal World", although Ke Xun has almost mastered some techniques, the rocks here are higher and the rock wall conditions are more complicated. And considering that the rock skin is very crisp and is extremely prone to the danger of slipping, this places higher demands on rock climbers.

"I carry a ladder in my trunk." Mu Yiran asked Ke Xun.

"..." Ke Xun is now accustomed to the sentence "I have..." in the trunk. He listened calmly to Dora Amu and continued to speak.

"When the time comes, drive the car to the side of the rock, and then put the ladder on the top of the car to shorten our climbing distance," Dora A Mudao, "The difficulty is in addition to the section of the wall that we need to climb manually, we also You need to carry some heavy objects. Flashlights, weapons, cameras, ropes, so it will be more difficult. If you can't hold on by then, I won't allow you to hold on. You must go back where you are. Do you understand?"

"Huh, speaking of ropes," Ke Xun tried to confuse this with a shame, "I have an idea..."

"Do you understand?" But the big man reached out to the back of his neck and held his head firmly to prevent him from talking about it. He looked directly into his eyes and asked him to give a positive reply.

"Okay, I promise you." Ke Xun helplessly, "You don't want me to be in danger, but I don't want you to take risks alone. Our love is not fair. I am wronged and want to cry. I need a big brother. Only parents can suffer this loss."

Mu Yiran pressed his dog's head against him and kissed his lips, ignoring Luo Gui's posture while he was yelling "Oh, it's not suitable for children", and he put his forehead against Ke Xun's forehead, and his nose touched The tip of the nose said solemnly: "Don't worry, I won't do dangerous things, I know you will be sad."

Ke Xun's eyes were hot, and he embraced his arms and kissed him hard.

For the first time, I felt that... the kissing of two men is also very seductive. Luo Ling was thinking about it, so he was stretched out with a hand to pinch his ears, and then took him away alive, "Come and help." Fang Fei completely ignored the pair of dog men who showed their affection in public. Monitoring this kind of work that requires very high technology and patience made several of them big heads except Zhu Haowen.

"... Speaking of ropes," Ke Xun took Mu Yiran's waist and walked forward a few steps, pressing him against the body, but he couldn't do anything else, so he could only continue the topic just now, "I see. At night, it is better to put a longer rope on the place where the rock platform will appear, and straighten the rope so that the two ends will be outside the range of the rock platform. When the rock platform appears, the rope may be lifted up by it. , The middle section will hang on the rock platform, and the two ends will hang down, which will save us a lot of things. At that time, we only need to pull the rope to go up, what do you think?

Mu Yi nodded his head: "It's a way. If the rock platform is arched from the ground, maybe this method can work."

After half an afternoon’s efforts, the monitoring system was finally set up. There are two cameras on all four sides of the rock platform, and the images captured by all cameras can be instantly transmitted to the computer they are connected to.

After several trials without any problems, the installation team was relieved. Li Xiaochun went to prepare dinner, and Wu You and Gu Qingqing laid hands on him.

However, the four people who were in charge of researching the symbols in the tent remained silent. Mu Yiran and Ke Xun entered the account to take a look and saw that the other three were surrounded by Weidong and his computer, staring at the screen intently. .

"What did you find?" Ke Xun walked over and watched the screen together.

See that Wei Dong is using the mouse to manipulate the processed icons, moving the position back and forth in the drawing software.

"I performed noise reduction, sharpening and repairing of these symbols to extract the most basic lines," Wei Dong said to Ke Xun and Mu stunned while operating. "It was originally to look clearer, but everyone suddenly I thought, can these symbols be put together like the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" on our bones to form a real picture? Then we want to try it. And the result of the experiment," Wei Dong said biased. Leaning back, turned his head to look at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran, "——They can really be put together into a picture."

Ke Xun's eyes lit up and he hurriedly looked at the picture on the screen: "What did you spell out?"

"I don't know yet," Wei Dong shook his head. "The picture is not complete. Only a few scattered parts are intermittently spelled out. We have only cleared out the symbols in the circle under the rocky mountain. Those places out of reach are all It hasn’t been cleaned up yet, I’m afraid I’ll have to clear out all the symbols on the entire rock wall to get a complete picture.”

"We suspect," Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "The picture formed by the symbols on this rock wall is lost in the long river of history, that part of the original "Shanhai Jingtu"."

"The version of "The Book of Mountains and Seas" we know today has been continuously added by later generations after the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties," Hua Jiqiu also nodded. "In these long years of change, there are some primitives. The content will also be misinformed, distorted and tampered with, so the later version of "Shan Hai Jing Tu" has long been a version with changed content and taste, and we have no way of knowing how much of the original version is left. If this schist If the symbols on the stone wall are really the missing part of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu", it must be the most authentic and original version."

"Does the patterns currently assembled by these symbols overlap with the pictures on our bones?" Mu Yiran was extremely careful and sensitive.

"No." Wei Dong shook his head, "but we all think the style of painting is similar."

"Have you ever tried to disassemble our bone-phase diagram into'ghost text'?" Ke Xun said suddenly.

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