Paintings of Terror

Early the next morning, everyone hurriedly washed up, then lined up to bring breakfast to the big tent, sat on the blanket and continued to analyze the four rock paintings.

This time Weidong separated the four rock paintings and only projected one on the screen at a time.

The feeling of despair and depression was reduced a lot, but it didn't disappear completely, but it was barely within the range that everyone could bear.

Except for the petroglyphs on side A that I had seen in detail yesterday, everyone observed the three BCD petroglyphs for a long time. Most of the pictures were weird and obscure. After staring at the walking dead-like symbols for a long time, my heart will gradually come out The terrifying fear came.

Seeing that everyone couldn't come to any conclusions for a while, Shao Ling walked to the computer and sat down, manipulating the screen with the mouse, and said, "When thinking is confused, the most effective way is to summarize first and then generalize.

"We don't need to generalize these four paintings. Each painting is a category. What we can do now is to first summarize a concise central idea for these four paintings.

"Let’s talk about the rock paintings on side A. Yesterday we have carefully analyzed them. For the time being, we will set the theme of sacrificial or witch prayer ceremony.

"The rock painting on side B is a bit messy and messy. It is probably the one with the most symbols in the paintings. What I just focused on was the overall structure of this painting. I didn’t find anything similar to the rock painting on side A. The layout of the symbols is regular, there is no circle, and there is no sign of the distribution according to the classification of the symbols. I don't know if you have any other findings about this rock painting?"

"I found that there seem to be a lot of animals in this painting," Luo Ge replied, raising his hand, "maybe because I like animals very much. Although there are many symbols in it that seem to be incompatible with animals, I always feel that Their image and behavior are particularly in line with the characteristics of some animals."

"Yes, some symbols in it are very similar to creatures in the sea." Fang Fei said.

"And there seems to be a lot of plants, mountains and rivers." Yue Cen added.

"In this way, maybe we guessed that the wall carvings on this rock platform are part of the missing original mountain and sea map. It is very likely." Qin Ci said, "Could it be that the rock wall on B side is the mountain and sea. The natural outlook of the world?"

"It's very likely." Shao Ling and Hua Jiqiu agreed.

"Dongzi, what did you find?" Ke Xun noticed that Weidong had been using another laptop to twist his eyebrows and lower his head.

"I feel that some of the symbols on the rock paintings on the B side are similar to the pictures of mountains and seas on our bones..." Wei Dong said without stopping, "I want to compare the two, but it may take a long time. time……"

"You keep doing it, don't worry about anything else, leave it to us." Ke Xun patted him on the back.

Shao Ling went on to say: "Then we will regard the B-face rock painting as a depiction of natural scenery for the time being, and its theme will first be'creature'.

"Look at the rock painting on side C again. The rock painting on side C should be regarded as the most weird and terrifying of the few paintings.

"If it is said that the pictorial symbols in the rock paintings on side A that are suspected to be sacrifices and appear as humanoids are like being forcibly broken off limbs, necks, and even torso, showing a strange dead state, then side C All the symbols in the petroglyphs that are embodied as living organisms are depicted in a state that does not seem to be alive at all.

"I don’t know if it’s my preconceivedness or other reasons. In my opinion, although the pictograms on the rock paintings on side C are no different from similar pictograms on the rock paintings on side B, I don’t know why. Fu was filled with a thick breath of death.

"Each icon has no vitality. Even if it looks like walking, it looks like a walking corpse. It is dazed and numb. I don't know if you feel this way? Or do you have different opinions?"

"That's how I feel." Luo Yi nodded repeatedly, "Maybe because I have been raising a lot of various animals in my family since I was a child, I am very sensitive to the very small emotions they reveal. Of course, The dead things like pictograms may be different from animals, but I don’t know where these pictograms can exude a particularly depressing and desperate atmosphere... Hey, I seem to be a little affected by these pictures. I was bewildered and felt very uncomfortable... Sister Qingqing, let me breathe in your oxygen cylinder for a while..."

"Have you noticed," Qin Ci has the meticulousness of being a healer. "On the upper part of the rock painting on surface C, these symbols seem to have their heads up, but when they reach the lower part, they all have their heads down. If the upper part of the symbol is still dazed and stiff, then the lower part of the symbol is numb and dull, like withered and dry grass."

"Perhaps this is to express the class hierarchy?" Shao Ling thought, "The upper class is the upper class, and the lower class is the lower class?"

"But all the symbols on this rock painting don't seem to be alive," Ke Xun asked. "Are dead creatures divided into classes?"

These words caused Shao Ling to choke for a while, and then said for a while: "If there is any thing in this world that is the most fair, it is death. Therefore, there is no difference between high and low death."

"Then this is not the level of performance?" Ke Xun said, "Look, there is still the'protagonist' with eyes in the rock painting on face C. It is also looking up. Do you think it is watching? what?"

"Maybe the observation is the invisible mass in the rock painting on side A." Yue Cen said.

"So what is the theme of this painting?" Hua Jiqiu thought, "Is it death? Observation? Or numbness?"

"Maybe it's better to live than to die." Ke Xun spread his hands, "I just said it casually. When I looked at these icons, the word suddenly came to my mind."

"For the time being, let's set it as'death'." Shao Ling said, "Next is the rock painting on the D surface. There are some symbols on it that look like ripples of water. I think it is relatively easy to understand. They occupy the entire rock wall. Most of the spaces, and those symbolic symbols that represent creatures, although they don’t have facial features, judging from their body language and the atmosphere of the entire graphic, they are very frightened and painful. The entire rock painting is terrified by this doomsday. Feeling flooded, it looked shocking.

"We can set the theme of this painting as'flood.'

"So now we look at the themes of these four paintings: sacrifice or witch prayer, life, death, flood.

"I think the order of the four petroglyphs should be like this: life, flood, death, prayer.

"The reason for this order is based on the speculation made by the great flood in ancient times. In fact, the'life' here reflects the prosperity of all living beings at that time. The rock paintings on the B side have all kinds of landscapes, animals, There are so many kinds of plants that the other three paintings do not have.

"Immediately there was a great flood, that is, the great flood that Gun and Yu ruled for more than 20 years. Of course, the great flood brought a lot of deaths, so there was an act of prayer to pray for the sky to stop the water. And save the dead. I don’t know what you think?"

Hua Jiqiu thought about it and said: "My thoughts are a little bit different from Xiao Shao. I think the order is flood, death, prayer, sentient beings-I think changing'living spirits' to'all beings' is closer.

"After the Great Flood of the ancient times, there was a large number of deaths of humans and animals, so the ancients who believed in the power of ghosts and gods carried out prayer activities, praying for retreat, praying for the blessing of the heavens, and more likely praying for the gods to help humans.

"So there was a great Yu in the world, who controlled the waters, and then sentient beings prospered."

"Although the two have different speculations on the order of the rock paintings, looking at these four rock carvings against the historical background of Dayu's water control, I think this idea is correct." Qin Ci said, "In this view, the four rock carvings The content of the performance is basically connected."

"To sum up, it is to tell why the sacrifice, the process of the sacrifice, the result of the sacrifice, or the expected result of the sacrifice." Zhu Haowen said.

Hua Jiqiu nodded: "This is in line with all the elements of the witchcraft drawing society."

"Then you said, did Dayu have these four rock carvings?" Li Xiaochun asked.

Luo Ling pointed to the symbol of the "protagonist" and said, "I think he is Dayu."

"If he were Dayu, then these rock paintings would have part of the historical basis." Shao Ling said, "Dayu traveled the world and had seen all kinds of strange animals, monsters, and monsters—this is what this B-faced rock painting embodies. Subject: living beings, or sentient beings;

"Then the theme of "flood" embodied in D rock painting occurred. As we all know, the flood was controlled by Yu;

"Followed by the'death' of C rock painting. After the flood, the lives were burnt. This is an inevitable loss;

"Finally, this prayer may be after Jiuding was cast--don’t forget, the Ding is also a kind of sacrificial vessel. The bones on our bodies are made of ghost writings. The petroglyphs on the rock walls are also made of ghost writings. What is cast is a map of mountains and seas composed of ghost texts—it is obvious that this prayer is inseparable from ghost texts, Jiuding, and the "Shanhai Jingtu"."

"Let's take a look, can you find Jiuding on the rock painting on side A that represents prayer?" Ke Xun said hurriedly.

Shao Ling switched the projection screen to the rock painting on side A, and the group looked for it with wide-eyed eyes.

However, his eyes were going blind, and he still couldn't find the symbol that looked like a tripod.

"Could the shape of Jiuding be different from ordinary tripods?" Gu Qingqing said, "After all, there is no historical material that records the shape of Jiuding in detail."

"It's possible to say that, maybe Jiuding's appearance is as square as the rock platform." Ke Xun said.

"Don't all Ding have three legs? Is Ding without three legs still called Ding?" Li Xiaochun said.

"No, the tripod does not necessarily have three legs," Hua Jiqiu said, "Simuwu Fangding has four legs."

"Fang Ding..." Ke Xun rubbed his chin and pondered, "The rock platform is also square. Could it be that there are four legs under it, buried deep in the ground?"

These words made people's eyes bright, and they said: "It's very possible!"

"Comrades!" Wei Dong suddenly yelled, "The comparison between the bone-phase mountain chart and the rock paintings on surface B has a preliminary result!"

After hearing the words, everyone hurriedly gathered around him, and followed the direction of his fingers and looked at the computer screen.

"I took out a small part of the skeletal mountain and sea map," Wei Dong gestured, "Look, these parts are the outline of a certain mountain. Look at this picture again. This picture is on the rock mural on side B. Part of the icons, after they are connected-do you see it, is it similar to the outline of the mountain?

"Of course, this is only an approximation, and many details are different, but I think the two mountains are probably the same mountain!

"For an analogy, this is like two painters with the same painting style. Let them paint the same mountain, and the paintings they draw must be different. The two pictures we see are from different media. This is the case, so I think they all represent the same mountain, but they are portrayed by different painters or craftsmen."

"Weidong's discovery is very important," Shao Ling nodded. "This progress is confirmed. The drawings on the rock wall are part of the mountain and sea map. The picture is like two components of a piece of Jue. Together, they are the most original and complete authentic "Mountain and Sea Map"!

"Then the question is," Ke Xun said, "what is the relationship between this rock platform and Jiuding? They each have half of the "Mountain and Sea Map" on each of them. Does it mean that they need to be combined to trigger the final step? Now that there is no trace of Jiuding, we who possess the bones of Jiuding are equivalent to Jiuding, right? Is it...in the end, we really need to merge with this rock platform?"