Chapter 25 Eyes on the Stone Wall
I carefully looked closer and realized that there were some murals on the wall. Only because it was too old, the color of the murals had almost completely fallen off, and only some lines were left to be vaguely distinguishable.
This time we made special preparations for the light source and specially bought several professional LED light source flashlights with long battery life. With the lumens down, each can last for more than 100 hours in a row.
I turned on the flashlight in my hand, looked at the mural on the stone wall, and recognized it for a while before I suddenly realized that what I described here was the terrible scene when I offered sacrifices to the altar and worshiping strange beasts!
It is actually not an exaggeration to say that it is terrible. Although the murals at that time were single in color and simple in lines, they did not hinder their clear expression ability and appeal.
The picture is the altar at our feet. Some people are standing here, and there are strips tied to the altar, and I don’t know if it is a rope or a chain. At the front of the altar, a man in black clothes is doing some movement.
Below the altar is the surging river water. Many people throw various things into the water. It looks like some food and other sacrifices are what we just saw in the shallows.
And in the surging river water, a large animal opened its bloody mouth to enjoy these sacrifices. Based on the shape drawn on it, we infer that it should be a snake.
However, seeing this, I had a question, was the snake in the picture dead in the shallow below? Unconsciously, I expressed my thoughts.
Yuanxiao also came over at this time, looked carefully and said, "I think it should be that the size and thickness of the snake in the water in the picture are compared with the people painting above. The thickness of the above is about the same as that of a person. Your idea of looking at these paintings is at least more than a thousand years ago. In a thousand years, it has grown to the bottom..." As he said, Yuanxiao pointed to the snake bones in the shallows below, "It should be similar to that of such a big one."
But I shook my head, "Maybe, it's enough for it to grow into the bigger one."
"A bigger one?" Yuanxiao was a little puzzled, "What are you talking about?"
Before I answered him, Wen Mo next to me spoke, "No, the bigger one is actually here!"
After hearing what he said, I immediately walked over. Wen Mo was facing the position of the whole mural at a relatively front, which is the part of the picture close to the river.
At first, I didn't notice anything when I stood in front of the stone wall. Just when I was puzzled, Wen Mo reached out to gesture on the stone wall a few times. I looked along the place where he gestured, and sure enough, I vaguely saw some light black lines. I squinted my eyes and looked carefully, and my heart suddenly became tight.
I found that I didn't notice these lines just now, not only because they became less obvious, but more importantly, I didn't think that the location of the mural was painted with such a huge guy. I looked up along these black lines. Judging from the size of this thing, it should be something like snakes.
Unfortunately, the murals in this part fell off too seriously, and I could no longer see the full picture. The murals of that period were mostly black, red and white. Therefore, I saw two dots circled in red at the top of these blurred lines, which were the eyes of this snake!
From the perspective of the proportion of the mural, this snake is so big that it is unimaginable. I don’t think it is smaller than the one we saw in the Qilian Mountains.
If the smaller snake in the mural is the one that has died in the shallows outside, then where has that giant snake gone? Did you go to Qilian Mountain? How could it be? If a snake of such a huge size is like a train outside, it will cause a sensation unless... I couldn't help but look at the dark cave where the river water poured into the outside.
At this moment, Yuanxiao said, "Okay, stop reading it! The drawing on it is similar to what we thought, and it doesn't make any sense to look at it, and you can't pick it up and take it away!"
In the eyes of Yuanxiao, what can be taken away are good underworld weapons, and what cannot be taken away is worthless.
I asked Yuanxiao, "What is the situation with the passage above? Will it be open further?"
Yuanxiao blinked and thought for a while, "I don't know! I didn't pay attention! It seems to be understandable, but I can't figure it out. I'm so dark that I can't see it clearly!"
I couldn't help but hold my forehead, "Come on, let's do a question and answer question, what is the difference between this sentence and fart?"
Yuanxiao competed at me with the middle finger. I looked at the front, "How can we go? This passage was discovered unexpectedly just now, so Annaduo could not have walked here. I think we should go back to the original path."
But Lantern Festival seemed to be more interested in this place, "This passage is specially used for sacrifices, and maybe it is a shortcut."
I immediately retorted, "It's nonsense. We are looking for someone now, why are we going to do a shortcut?"
Lantern Festival and I were arguing endlessly, and suddenly Wenmo said, "Don't speak out, listen!"
Yuanxiao and I immediately shut up, held our breath, and listened carefully as Wen Mo said. After listening for a while, Yuanxiao shook her head blankly. But after listening carefully, I quickly felt a burst of crisp impact, just like a wind chime, "Dingdinglinglinglinglingling".
I also looked at them with some surprise: "What's the sound?"
Yuanxiao waved his hand, "Don't ask me, I didn't hear anything!"
Wen Mo wiped the short knife in his hand and stood up and walked towards the direction that made the sound. "You will know if you go over and take a look. Maybe you will get unexpected results!"
Yuanxiao and I hurriedly followed. The passage was not long and was tilted upward. As we moved forward, the crisp jingle sound I heard became clearer. In such an environment, the sound seemed ethereal and a little weird. I was attracted by this sound and was a little lost.
Suddenly I noticed that Yuanxiao was behind me, running back and forth between the two sides, not knowing what they were searching for. I asked curiously: "What are you doing in Lanxiao?"
Yuanxiao stretched out his hand to me, and saw that he was holding several turquoise stones in his hand, which looked very well-proportioned and should have a good color. I asked him where he found it.
He raised his hand and pointed to the wall next to him, "You can find the ones embedded in the stone wall from time to time on both sides."
Why is this kind of thing inlaid on the stone walls of the passageway? After Yuanxiao said this, I began to pay attention to the stone walls on both sides. Sure enough, after walking not far, I found a turquoise inlaid on the wall.
I looked over in confusion, looked carefully, and then touched the wall with my hand. Suddenly I found that there was a circle engraved on the periphery of the turquoise. However, after a long time, the circle seemed very insignificant.
Why should I put a turquoise in the circle? What is this purpose? Is it another strange symbol?
I would take a step back when I touched my chin, look at the symbols of the stone wall, search for my previous memories, hoping to find some relevant clues.
Suddenly, I noticed that what I saw was not complete, and there seemed to be some lines outside the circle. I immediately stepped forward and wiped some lime dust stuck to the stone wall with my hands.
Hearing my movements, Lantern Festival and Wen Mo came over. Lantern Festival looked strangely, so he asked, "Zhuoran, what are you doing? Help the ancient ancestors clean up?"
I pointed to the wall, "Look!" Another spindle-shaped pattern appeared on the round outer edge. Now the whole pattern was complete, and it was obvious. When Lanxiao looked at it, she blurted out, "This is an eye!"
I nodded, "There should be many such eye patterns on the stone walls on both sides, but I don't know what the purpose is." I said to Yuanxiao again, "And the turquoise you dug down is the eyeballs of these eyes."
Yuanxiao looked at the turquoise in his hand and then fumbled on the wall next to him, "You see, there is also an eye here, but its eyeballs are not inlaid with turquoise, but are sunken. What's going on?"
I leaned over and took a look. As Lantern Festival said, the eye pattern engraved on the stone wall was not inlaid with turquoise as eyeballs, but dug this position into the wall about one centimeter of depth.
Now we are even more confused and don’t understand what this means?
At this time, Wen Mo said behind us: "This is the legendary virtual eyes."
Xu Yan's eyes? I suddenly felt that this word sounded very familiar, but I couldn't remember it for a while. Yuanxiao's memory seemed much better than mine. When I saw him hear Wen Mo say this, his face immediately changed.
I asked Yuanxiao, "What are the empty eyes?"
Yuanxiao looked at me and said, "If I say something, you will remember it."
"What?" I asked quickly.
Lantern Festival said five words one by one: "Alimoke!"
"But, Alimoke has four, no, six eyes!" I was a little confused and didn't react, but soon, I still reacted, "Does the empty eyes here mean..."
Wen Mo didn't say anything, just nodded. As expected, the here is indeed a mysterious connection with the Qilian Mountain ruins and the ancient country of Shanhuan. The word "Xuqi" made me think of the huge Eye of Vulva under the island cemetery!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but have a headache. I rubbed my temples. These seemingly unrelated places are thousands of miles apart. What kind of connection do they have?
I was a little confused about these things. I didn't hear anything about Lanxiao and Wenmo next to me. It was not until Lanxiao patted my shoulder that I came to my senses. When I turned around and looked over, Wenmo had already walked out a long way.
Chapter completed!