Chapter 315 Altar Relief
“Let’s get out of here first.”
After thinking about this, Chen Ziyan said without thinking.
If the underwater situation does not deviate from the original plot, then there will never be only this giant toad under the water now, so in order to prevent all the other parties from being alarmed, it is better to leave now.
Hearing Chen Ziyan’s words and looking at the giant toad that didn’t know whether to live or die, Hu Bayi immediately understood and immediately greeted Wang Kaixuan:
"Fat man, hurry up and help. There is probably this thing in the water."
"Come on!"
After hearing this, Wang Kaixuan immediately gave up studying the toad and walked to Hu Bayi He picked up the spare oar next to him and worked hard with him to row the boat forward.
As the hovercraft slowly picked up speed, Chen Ziyan looked away from Hu Bayi and the two, and saw Ding Sitian squatting in front of the toad, holding a knife in his hand and doing something unknown.
Perhaps feeling his gaze, Ding Sitian subconsciously raised her head and saw that it was Chen Ziyan, so she explained:
"The back of this toad is a poison gland. I collected some for later use."
Hearing this, Chen Ziyan nodded clearly.
It was not surprising to him that Ding Sitian was interested in poison. The pharmacist was not only good at medicine, but also an expert in playing with poison.
"How is it? Did you find anything?"
Then Chen Ziyan came to Shirley Yang. After she came out of the water from the flower fox, she was studying the picking from toads. The aquatic weeds we planted should bear fruit by now.
Shirley Yang fiddled with the aquatic plants in front of her and said without raising her head: "I have already checked and the aquatic plants here are indeed thicker than those outside."
"Does this mean that the aquatic plants here are stronger than those outside." Everything must be bigger than outside?" Chen Ziyan asked.
If this is the case, it can be proved that they themselves have not changed, but the environment here has.
This means that there is something wrong with this space, at least it has some mysterious ability that they are not aware of yet.
But unexpectedly, Shirley Yang shook her head: "That's right, but it doesn't seem to be entirely right."
"Look at this."
Then she picked up a waterweed.
Chen Ziyan looked over and found that it was a very ordinary water plant. He was about to ask about it, but his words stopped abruptly when he reached his lips.
Seeing him like this, Shirley Yang knew that he had understood the meaning of all his expressions.
Chen Ziyan stared at the water plant closely and asked, "Is this something from outside?"
"It should be, judging from the marks at the break, it has been broken for a while...but it doesn't prove anything."
After speaking, she sighed slightly, there was still too little evidence that could be used.
Even after discovering this plant that is different from other aquatic plants, there is no way to make a final conclusion.
Hu Bayi and the others have been listening to the conversation here. When they heard such words, they couldn't help but look at each other.
No way, the facts are too incredible.
Although Shirley Yang said that it was impossible to draw a conclusion, it can be judged from the previous words that this place basically has some kind of characteristic that amplifies the size of living creatures.
They have seen many strange things, but this is the first time they have seen such a place in their lives, which somewhat breaks their worldview.
After all, sustainable range-wide capabilities are far more rare than a specific single entity.
Chen Ziyan took a deep breath, and then said: "There will be no results if we continue to delve into this matter for a while, so let's leave it like this for now. When we get to King Xian's Tomb, we may be able to get relevant information. Information, it’s not too late to study it then.”
Although he also wanted to get to the bottom of the matter and find out the strange reasons for this place, he still knew the priorities.
Just like the corpse of the high priest they encountered earlier, it would take unique timing to deal with King Xian, and they couldn't waste all their time here.
And this is also very reasonable. Since this place was used by King Xian, the other party who had been here for a long time must know something, so they went to find the answer in King Xian’s tomb, but it was far better than in the tomb of King Xian. This blind fumbling is much better.
The other people had no objections to Chen Ziyan's proposal. Although they were full of curiosity, they also knew that this was the best way to deal with it at present.
Rather than wasting time here in vain, it is better to solve the main Tomb of King Xian first. After successfully obtaining the Muchen Bead, it doesn't matter how long you want to study here.
But at this moment, the sound of flapping wings came from the front again.
The moment he heard this familiar sound, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan stopped the hovercraft.
Then they saw a swarm of black flying insects flying in front of them again, but this time they were larger. They should be the adults of the midge larvae just now.
However, these adults, like the larvae, all headed straight for the plant roots hanging from the roof of the cave, not paying attention to Chen Ziyan and others on the water below.
“No, let’s leave quickly!”
Seeing this familiar scene, Chen Ziyan immediately thought of something and reminded him in a low voice.
Seeing his solemn expression, the others didn't care to look at the giant swarm of midges and quickly drove the hovercraft forward.
But just as the hovercraft took off, a series of sound breaking through the air came from behind.
Everyone turned around following the sound, and saw from the water behind them, giant tongues several feet long suddenly sprang out, attacking the midges in the air with lightning speed.
When these long tongues swept up the midges and returned, countless huge mouths emerged from the water, swallowing the midges wrapped in the long bloody tongues.
This scene happened very quickly, and it could be said that it was over in the blink of an eye.
So by the time Chen Ziyan and others realized what was going on, the giant toads hiding in the water had already launched their third attack.
Chen Ziyan subconsciously glanced at the giant toad on the boat, knowing that this should be the purpose of these guys gathering here.
Seeing the situation behind becoming increasingly chaotic, Chen Ziyan quietly signaled to Hu Bayi, and then their hovercraft started moving again, quietly heading away into the distance. The situation in this place is too chaotic, and it is very likely to affect them, so it is better to leave as soon as possible.
Thanks to the fact that both the giant toad in the water and the scurrying midges were focusing on each other at this moment, Chen Ziyan and the others escaped without incident. .
"Wait a minute, look over there!"
Not long after leaving the chaotic waters behind, Chen Ziyan, who had been paying attention to the surrounding mountain walls, finally found another thing that he was 'familiar' with.
After hearing his call to stop, Hu Bayi and others subconsciously stopped what they were doing and looked over with some confusion.
Looking in the direction pointed by Chen Ziyan, they saw a stone platform on the mountain wall on the left.
This stone platform is extremely square and regular, obviously the product of man-made chiseling.
Now that an artifact has been discovered, it would be unreasonable not to check it out, so the hovercraft immediately moved closer to the stone platform.
After climbing up the stone platform, Chen Ziyan and the others saw at first glance that the place had been abandoned for a long time. It was covered with vines, moss and other things, and no details could be seen at all.
"This should have existed for a long time, but I don't know when it was a product? And whether it has a unique function?" Chen Ziyan looked at the tightly covered stone platform in front of him and pretended to be confused.
"It should be a product of the King Xian period. I guess it is a relic left when the tomb was repaired." Hu Bayi thought for a while and said.
Wang Kaixuan said with an excited expression: "I would say that this is probably the place where bright objects are placed!"
After saying this, the guy pulled out his engineering shovel, apparently wanting to clean the surface of the stone platform to see if there were any hidden compartments underneath.
Hu Bayi subconsciously wanted to stop him when he saw this, but was stopped by Chen Ziyan.
Then he shook his head slightly at Hu Bayi, who looked puzzled, and took the initiative to pick up the flashlight to illuminate the busy Wang Kaixuan.
He remembered that some very important information was recorded here. If these clutter were not cleaned up, it would be difficult to find what was hidden underneath.
Hu Ba took back his hand as soon as he saw this. Since his boss had acquiesced in Fatty's behavior, there was no need for him to stop it.
Wang Kaixuan, a fat man, has never been very active when it comes to matters involving bright weapons, so at this moment he was as quick as the wind and cleared the surface of the stone platform in front of him in the blink of an eye.
But what disappointed him was that there was no mechanism stone box under these debris, only one relief after another.
More importantly, the composition of these reliefs was very complicated, so he couldn't understand what was on them at all.
So after taking a few glances, Wang Kaixuan took a few steps back angrily and gave up his seat in the front row.
Faced with Wang Kaixuan's "sensibleness", everyone else cast admiring glances at him, and then began to study the reliefs on the stone platform.
"These reliefs should be records of some ancient secret sacrificial ritual. According to the content above, this bizarre and mysterious ancient ritual was probably held in this gourd cave, and the stone platform under our feet is not The accident was one of the altars where the ceremony was held.”
After observing for a while, Shirley Yang slowly revealed his findings.
Then she quickly selected the reliefs in front of her, eliminating those that had no substantive meaning, and pointed out the first one in the true sense.
This is also the best-preserved one on the entire altar, but this is just a relative term. After all, thousands of years of erosion are there. If these reliefs had not been chiseled first and then carved. Special craftsmanship, I am afraid that even these cannot be preserved now.
This first relief mainly depicts a tall humanoid creature with broad ears and a high nose. It has thick black hair on its face and holds a skull in its mouth. The shape is simple but Impressive.
Hu Bayi took a closer look at the humanoid creature on it, and asked a little uncertainly: "When you look at the thing above, does it look like the black-faced god enshrined in the temple at the entrance?"
Hearing what he said, Wang Kaixuan behind him also looked over, and then said: "Hey, they really look alike. If we paint those two Yaksha followers again, wouldn't they look like that temple? It’s exactly the same inside. It turns out that Hulu Cave is also this guy’s territory. I don’t know where this grandson is from, but he’s quite generous!”
Ding Sitian also agreed: “Although the image is good. There are some differences, but some core things are the same. I also think this should be the same person."
Chen Ziyan put forward the opposite opinion at this time, only to hear him say: "I think there is a connection. It’s true, but they may not necessarily be the same existence. The statues in the mountain temple have a very obvious style of the Qin and Han Dynasties. , but it always reveals the freehand color of primitive wilderness. It is estimated that it must have been at least three to four thousand years ago, and 80% of it is a relic left by the ancestors of southern Xinjiang before the Warring States Period."
"If we go by this time. Judging from the lines, the reason why the two are similar is probably that King Xian borrowed the image of this god when he built the temple, but it should not be the same god. After all, one emperor and one courtier, King Xian may not necessarily be the same god. Will be willing to recognize the mountain god of the Yi people in southern Xinjiang.”
After listening to Chen Ziyan's words, the others remained silent for a long time.
Although they still wanted to stick to their own ideas, they had to admit that Chen Ziyan's words made more sense.
In particular, it is impossible for King Xian to continue to recognize the Yiren Mountain God. This is simply a fact that cannot be argued.
Then the few people had a tacit understanding and did not continue this topic, and began to focus on other relief contents.
The second relief depicts a slightly strange scene.
The scene above was exactly the fossil forest they passed through before. A group of natives with feathers on their heads were riding on a raft, holding long poles in their hands.
There were also many large toads that were tied tightly on the raft, which looked like the ones they had encountered before.
The depictions of these toads are very detailed, and you can clearly see the frightened expressions on their struggling faces, as if they are afraid of what will happen next.
The depiction of this relief vividly creates a tragic atmosphere before mass killing is imminent.
Then I continued to look and saw the natives with feathers on their heads. Under the command of a leader wearing a horn helmet, they simultaneously hoisted large toads on long poles and sent them into the In a cave with billowing black smoke on the mountain wall.
In the relief at the back, the scene has returned to the raft. At this time, there are several toads that have been greatly reduced in size. These toads have expressions of death, and their original round and fat bodies have also changed. As dry as paper.
When Chen Ziyan saw this, he immediately deduced the meaning of the objects in the hands of the two yakshas in the mountain temple based on the memory in his mind.
The gourd is undoubtedly saying that the mountain god lives in the gourd cave, and the toad represents the mountain god’s favorite food.
How should I put it? It’s very simple and unpretentious.
It completely explains the mountain god’s love for life. In today’s words, it is quite down-to-earth.
But this also raised a new doubt in Chen Ziyan's heart, that is, does the so-called mountain god really refer to Huo's undead insect?
(End of this chapter)