Paintings of Terror

Mu Yiran heard the words and sat over and looked at the screen with Ke Xun.

Ke Xun pointed to an icon on the screen: "The first thing I found was this guy. It's bigger than all the icons."

Mu Yiran stared at him for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, this symbol is'tall and burly' than other symbols. According to the painting psychology and habits of the ancients, usually people with high status will be drawn in the painting. Taller and more obvious than minor figures.

"So this icon is likely to represent a person with the status of a leader, and this person often appears in the following scenes.

"You see, the entire scene of the rock wall on side A, combined, seems to be a coherent and grand witch prayer scene, and the small part of the scene that we cleaned up first looks like some people or The spirits, dead people, beasts, and spirits that also seem to be dead, are placed in rows in a certain order, which is like a preparation for sacrificial or witch prayer.

"And this tall and burly'person' appears in every scene of the rock paintings on side A, which probably means that the whole process of witch prayer was presided over or guided by him, so this person's identity may also be of high status. Great witch."

Ke Xun made a clear expression, and Mu Yiran motioned him to continue talking. Ke Xun glanced at the people who went back to the tent after eating, and crowded to listen to him and Mu Yiran talking, and put them on the computer screen. The image of was shrunk to fit the entire petroglyph, and then I circled the picture with my finger: "The second discovery, you may need to make up your own brain, the screen is too small, the ratio is completely unclear-the second discovery is In this sacrificial ritual, all the dead people, dead beasts, and dead monsters that are suspected to be sacrifices, they seem to be separated by categories, and then they are arranged into a huge circle...Hello!"

As Ke Xun was talking, everyone struggling to move their heads in front of the screen, Ke Xun and Mu Yiran squeezed in two or three heads at once, and Luo Zhi directly put the weight of the whole body on Ke Xun, stretching. Look forward with your neck.

It's a pity that the screen is too small and the rock paintings are too big. When reduced to this ratio, the icons on the screen become fuzzy small black blocks, and you can't see anything at all.

However, Mu Yiran had clearly imagined the scene that Ke Xun was talking about. The fingertips phantomly pointed at the screen, and a three-ring concentric circle was drawn in the air, and asked Xiang Ke Xun, "Do you mean this?"

Ke Xun was squashed on the carpet and responded with difficulty from Luo Er's armpit: "Yes, that's it. The whole sacrificial scene is very grand. At first glance it looks a little messy, but you know, I've seen it since I was a child. Many group lineup scenes, especially good at finding my teammates from the 800 athletes in all kinds of sportswear on the playground, so the subconscious habit of'searching' and'sorting' has become my instinct Up.

"In this sacrificial scene, there are a lot of strange symbols mixed together, but when I look at it, I find that the location of each type of sacrificial offering is connected, which is a very regular big circle, and It spread out in circles, like water ripples.

"This is actually the same as the rock platform we saw at night. The rock platform is surrounded by dead animal carcasses, but the carcasses around the rock platform are not arranged in a regular circle.

"And what is very strange is that the dead bodies around the rock platform are at least spread out around the rock platform, but the center of these sacrifices on the rock paintings is nothing, a blank, no altar, and no idols. Marker, isn’t that weird?"

"It's really strange," Shao Ling was squeezed out of the crowd. "Any kind of idol or faith worship should have an image or totem."

"Are they offering sacrifices to invisible people?" Luo Ling said.

"Maybe it is really possible." Wu You nodded quickly, "Invisible people can't see it. If you put it plainly, isn't it a god, so what they worship is a god."

"Even if they are gods, people will give them an image," Shao Ling shook his head. "For example, Buddha, such as Sanqing, and even the black and white impermanence of the bull's head and horse face, will have a specific image as sustenance, otherwise the persuasive power of the people will be weak. Many, if you are asked to worship a cloud of air every day and tell you that this is the **** in charge of wealth, will you have confidence in the power of this cloud of air?"

"...No," Wu You shook his head, "Then instead of letting me worship the air, it is better to let me directly worship the chief shepherd. When the chief shepherd is happy to reward me, I will send out a big red envelope. The money will come sooner."

Mu Yiran: "..."

"So for the ancients who believed more in the power of gods and ghosts, if the object of worship is a mass of nothingness, it obviously does not meet the psychological expectations." Shao Ling said.

"I think we should carefully check every detail of the rock painting," Hua Jiqiu said, "and the whole is equally important. The composition and layout of a painting often contain countless deeper contents that are invisible on the surface. Unfortunately, The computer screen is too small to hold the entire picture at once."

"I have..." Mu Yiran said.

"Okay!" Luo Ge immediately jumped out of the tent to flip through the trunk.

No matter what, it's right anyway.

Then got back a projector.

Fortunately, the tent provided by Luo Wei is a military green marching tent, thick and strong, there is basically no light in the tent after the tent is closed. So Zhu Haowen was responsible for connecting the projector to the computer and adjusting the clarity of the image.

The equipment brought by the big animal husbandry is of course high-precision products. The image is enlarged to cover the entire tent wall, and it is still clear and delicate. In addition, these symbols have been processed by Weidong to reduce noise, and they look the same. Drawing directly on the computer by hand is no different.

However, even though these icons have been optimized to such an extreme point, it is still difficult for everyone to use their existing cognition to understand the images of these suspected humans and animals, and most of their behaviors.

Although these creatures are only represented on a plane in the form of simple strokes and icons, if you want to construct their appearance in reality based on this, they cannot be simulated in the brain only by human imagination. .

Their images can hardly be described in even the most abundant Chinese languages. Their behaviors are obscure and difficult to understand, and their expressions, bodies, movements, and even emotional atmosphere are extremely strange. Terrible.

And when the whole picture was enlarged to the size of a whole wall, the unspeakable emotions and atmosphere in the picture suddenly filled the airtight tent, and weighed on everyone's feelings. Heart.

Everyone was feeling a little frustrated, but when they heard Ke Xun suddenly speak, everyone's heart was slightly relaxed with the clear and comfortable voice: "Next, is my third discovery."

Everyone was startled, and hurriedly looked in the direction of his fingers.

Ke Xun stretched his arm and pointed his finger on the tall and burly symbol on the screen: "It's still it. I first discovered that it was larger than the other symbols, so I paid special attention to it, and then I observed it carefully for a while, except for its body shape, the place that caught my attention most was its head, or face.

"Look at its face carefully--did you find it? There is a small protrusion on the left and right sides of the line that seems to represent its face.

"If I changed it a long time ago, I might not care about these two small bumps at all, but what's interesting is—you should have seen my WeChat avatar—yes, it's the stick figure man.

"I drew the little man by myself. I am a drawing idiot. But my years of experience in watching cartoons and comics made me paint this little man with a lot of heart. Eyes.

"And those two eyes are almost exactly the same as the two small protrusions on the face of this symbol. Mr. Shao said that the original styles of ancient murals and rock carvings are very simple and simple, and I think they are similar to our modern stick figures. The painting method may also have similarities, which is why this coincidence is caused.

"Of course this is not the point. The point is that because of the stick figure of my WeChat profile picture, I automatically imagined the two small protrusions on this icon as its eyes, and then I found that the whole face In the petroglyphs, there is only one icon representing living organisms, with eyes on the face.

"It has the largest size, only it has eyes. It appears in various places in the entire rock painting. Obviously, as Yiran said, it is a ‘protagonist’.

"But I don’t think that other icons that represent living organisms have no eyes. The only thing that is shown in the picture is that it has eyes. I think it just means that it is different, or it can see other creatures. Things you can't. What do you think?"

Everyone's faces were somewhat surprised and enlightened.

If it weren't for Ke Xun's chance to use the stick figure that he drew as an avatar, I am afraid that such subtleties would not have been discovered.

"Xiao Ke's discovery is very important," Hua Jiqiu said, "I agree with saying that it may be able to see things that other creatures can't see. Does this explain the question that the center of the sacrificial scene is blank? What?—Because the general public cannot see the things they worship. Only the leader or the great witch can see it."

"Then, the eyes that grow on its face are probably what we mean by'observation' before." Zhu Haowen said, "It's probably a'person' with the power of'observation'. , It may even be gods, spirits or ghosts."

"Could it, what it observed were... those underground?" Wu You moved his **** on the blanket uncomfortably.

"I think we need to sort out the symbols on the other three rock walls and put them together as the whole picture shown on the rock wall before we can find more clues." Yue Cen said.

"Dongzi," Ke Xun said to Wei Dongdao who was dumbfounded next to him, "you hurry up and eat something, come over to work, and put the remaining three BCD pictures together as they are."

Wei Dong wiped his mouth: "Stop eating, I will fight now, and it will be done soon, so that you can see the hand speed of Tianxuan artist."

"It's the speed of a single dog." Ke Xun turned his head and quietly said with Mu Yiran beside him.

Mu Yi nodded his head.

The author has something to say:

Ke Xun: I run fast.

Fang Fei: I swim fast.

Qingqing: I remember fast.

Luo Wei: I cry fast...

Weidong: I...hands fast...

Gangster: I move fast.

Ke Xun:............