Ye Xun looked in the direction of my finger: "What is this? It seems to be a word."
"It's a seal character." I pointed to the characters engraved near the fire tank. "In ancient times, craftsmen also had situations similar to checking the quality of projects. Craftsmen usually left names or marks on the work sections they were responsible for. This should be the mark left by the craftsmen.”
Ye Xun suddenly woke up and said: "You mean, the people who massacred the Fuxian Lake tribe were not the nearby natives, but some powerful foreign enemy, and the other party's civilization has reached a certain height?"
"Yes!" I nodded, "Now we have very few clues at hand, so I can only guess. If my guess is correct, this piece of engineering work should have been done by craftsmen from the ancient Dian Kingdom."
I slowly explained: "According to historical records, in 278 BC, which was the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu State sent Chu general Zhuang Qiao to lead a team to the Dianchi Lake area to conquer the local tribes. Later, the return route was cut off by the Qin State. , Zhuang Qiao stayed in the Dian Lake area and established the Dian Kingdom."
"The Dian Kingdom existed in the history of Yunnan for about five hundred years. It appeared in the early Warring States Period and disappeared in the early Western Han Dynasty. Around 109 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to conquer Yunnan, and the King of Dian surrendered to the Han Dynasty. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty that Yunnan was considered a It was nominally incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty. However, the Dian Kingdom had no writing, so the history of the ancient Dian Kingdom has always been a mystery in the historians."
I drew a circle on the rock wall with my hand: "Academia believes that the Dian Kingdom region is in the central and eastern part of Yunnan, with the Dianchi Lake area as the center, connecting Yangzonghai, Fuxian Lake, Xingyun Lake, and Qilu Lake. I Guess, even if the ancient city below Fuxian Lake is not the capital of the Dian Kingdom, it should still be an extremely important city."
I continued to explain: "The Han Dynasty has established a complete official system, but there is no record of the sinking of the city in the documents after the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, the secret of Fuxian Lake should have surfaced long ago. So I think that The ancient city should have sunk to the bottom of the lake before the Han Dynasty. "
I stopped here, but Dong Xiaowei shook his head and said: "I think you are wrong. Since you said that the generals of the Chu State occupied Yunnan, then the ancient Dian Kingdom should at least leave traces of the Chu State. At that time, Chu The country already had written language, so wasn’t Qu Yuan a native of Chu? Why is there no document to be found in the ancient Dian Kingdom?"
I frowned and said, "Maybe it's because the documents were lost! After all, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only a very small number of people were qualified to study culture, and many documents are very likely to be lost."
Dong Xiaowei questioned again: "Even if you are right, then look at the murals on the wall. They are obviously witchcraft. Do people in Chu also believe in witchcraft?"
"You're right." I nodded. "Due to its geographical location and other reasons, witchcraft has always been prevalent in Chu State. Even Qu Yuan was influenced by witch culture. "Nine Songs" and "The Soul Calling" written by Qu Yuan all have Strong color of shamanic culture.”
"During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yunnan did not form a later religious culture. It was still an era when witchcraft dominated the world. After the establishment of the Dian Kingdom, even for the sake of long-term peace and stability, some local witchcraft culture should be integrated."
I pointed to the stone steps and said: "After Zhuang Qiao occupied Fuxian Lake, he should continue to regard Gushan as a sacred mountain and establish his own sacrifice. I even think that Zhuang Qiao was the one who really discovered Jianmu, and he was the one who sublimated The local Wu culture.”
Ye Xun suddenly looked at me: "Before you came here, I had been walking around for a long time. The most common images of snakes and bronze drums in the shaman culture of Dian Kingdom are the snakes and bronze drums under Fuxian Lake. Could the water god come from the Dian Kingdom?"
"It's hard to say." I shook my head. "If we want to uncover this secret, we have to go up."
"No, no..." Zhang Shu was trembling with fear when he heard that I was going to go deeper into the secret cave of Gushan. "We'd better go out! Who knows what else we will encounter when we go up the mountain..."
I looked back at the water half-lit by the fire: "If possible, I don't want to go into the mountains. But we can't go back by water unless you are prepared to die in the lake."
Zhang Shu said: "Aren't there two of you? You protect Dong Xiaowei, Ye Xun... Ye Xun protects me, I will definitely be able to get out."
Before I could say anything, Dong Xiaowei had already refuted in a cold voice: "What should the others do?"
This time, there were ten people captured by the Water God into the cave, including me and Ye Xun. According to Zhang Shu, when we go out, the other six people will have to be thrown here. Who knows what will happen next
As soon as Zhang Shu finished speaking, someone shouted sharply: "What should we do? Why didn't you tell Wang Huan to take us out and leave you behind?"
Zhang Shu shouted sharply: "At least I didn't push Wang Huan into the water!"
"Fuck you!" The speaker's eyes were red, and he stared at Zhang Shu as he approached step by step, "If you say that again, I will throw you into the water right now!"
"What are you doing?" Dong Xiaoyi stood in front of Zhang Shu, "Go back!"
"Stop it!" I said angrily, "How long have we been fighting among ourselves? I will kill anyone who keeps fooling around!"
Dong Xiaowei was so anxious that she burst into tears: "Wang Huan, please stop saying a few words!"
I suppressed my anger and stood in the distance. Dong Xiaowei said cautiously: "Wang Huan, how about you and Ye Xun go out by the waterway, and we wait here. After you go out, go find the police and ask them to take the boat." Come and save us?”
"This is a way..." I couldn't help but feel excited.
If Ye Xun and I are faster, maybe we can really rush out. Anyway, we are at the foot of Lonely Mountain. As long as we can climb the rocks, we might be able to climb Lonely Mountain. There is a tourist area there and we can contact the police.
When I was thinking about whether I should take the risk to go out and try, someone suddenly said: "Who knows if he will call the police if he goes out? If he walks away, don't we have to stay and wait to die?"
"Who said that?" Dong Xiaowei said angrily, "Wang Huan is not that kind of person! Who said that? Come forward if you have the guts!"
I know who said that, but I'm too lazy to argue with him now.
Ye Xun said at this time: "I don't agree with walking by water. In the water, we are no match for the water gods. We don't know how many water gods there are, and we don't know if they are guarding outside. As long as there are more than four water gods guarding If we go out without diving equipment, we will definitely die."
Ye Xun is right, we are not as flexible as water gods in the water. As long as they block the entrance, we can't even get out of the tunnel under the lake, so how can we escape
I looked at the stairs in the cave: "Go up, maybe there is a way to survive."
Zhang Shu said in a trembling voice: "Do you really want to go up?"
I ignored the other party, pulled out the long knife from my body, and said as I walked: "I will go in front, you follow, and Ye Xun will break the rear."
I don't know how high the stairs are, but I am careful every step I take.
Although I deduced the origin of the Gushan Mysterious Cave, the origin of the Water God puzzled me. What exactly the Water God is and how he appears in Fuxian Lake has always been a mystery in my mind.
What I am sure of is that when Gushan was occupied, the water god did not appear. The water god only appeared after the Chu army came and wiped out the tribe. Are those water gods the original residents of the tribe, or the products of the Dian King's sacrifice
I have always had a terrible conjecture in my mind, but until the end, I couldn't be sure whether this conjecture was right or wrong.
I walked up the stairs step by step and saw a closed bronze door from a distance. The two opposite doors were exactly the same as the stone doors I saw in the secret cave under the Jieyu Stone. In other words, the four stone doors were The depiction of this bronze door.
My heart suddenly sank.
The stone door of the secret cave is opened when the Water God worships. Where is this bronze door
After I took two steps, a platform appeared above the stairs. On the left side of the platform is a wellhead built with stones; on the right side is a dark corridor. The rolling cold air rolls from the bottomless corridor, making people tremble; in the middle of the platform is That bronze door with a keyhole.
When I stopped on the platform, Dong Xiaowei, who was following me, grabbed the corner of my clothes tightly and said, "Wang Huan, what on earth is this place? The things on those murals are so scary."
On the string of murals on the left side of the gate, there are scenes of wizards making sacrifices. Four soldiers in armor are carrying a man and throwing him to the wellhead under the guidance of the wizard, and the bronze door opens.
On the right side of the door, on the contrary, there are no wizards in the mural, only three warriors wearing armor and equipped with long swords. The warrior resolutely walked towards the bottomless corridor, retrieved a key from there, and opened the bronze door.
Ye Xun whispered: "Wang Huan, do you understand what the mural means?"
I said in a calm voice: "Those are two ways to open the bronze door. One way is to sacrifice a living person, and the other way is to go to the abyss to find the key. But, look at the painting on the right, there are three warriors going down, But only one person came back, which means that it is extremely dangerous under the abyss, and if you go down, you will have a narrow escape. And... "
I paused slightly and said, "The warrior who came up at the end doesn't look like a living person. Didn't you see that his feet didn't touch the ground?"
Ye Xun clasped his hands behind his back and stopped talking. He was waiting for my decision.
My classmates, except Dong Xiaowei, subconsciously took a few steps away. None of them wanted to be sacrificed.
I patted Dong Xiaowei on the shoulder: "Ye Xun and I will go down and take a look. You guys wait above. Don't worry, we will be fine."
While I was talking, I blocked other people's sight with my body and quietly put the dagger into Dong Xiaowei's hand.
A day ago, I would not have believed that my classmates would sacrifice human beings; now, I cannot guarantee that such a thing will not happen.