Hearing this, Uncle Huang focused on the painting and took a closer look. I also watched and handed over the phone to Mei Ling, so that she could pick up the call from Yu Mingjie for me.
Soon, I found the strangeness.
The door broke open, and the afterglow of the setting sun outside the house was shining with candles. Through the vacant crack of the door, it dripped into the house filled with the cold light of the electronic screen, and it was reflected on the cold coffin opposite the door.
Although the lid of the cold coffin is open, the head and feet are covered with artificial quartz.
The red glow fell on the crystal at the corner of the cold coffin, and it was subtly refracted to the middle part of the LCD screen. That position was the hunter walking on the mountain in the painting.
What's unbelievable is that there are a few lines hooked into hunters, under the shroud of sunlight, they actually appear distorted, like earthworms digging and digging the ground. After a few twists and turns, it finally freezes, forming a complicated and incomplete pattern, which seems to be a corner of something.
"Meiling, go and open the door!" Uncle Huang said to Mei Ling with a tight face.
As soon as the door opened, there was more sunlight coming in, and the entire huge screen was like a black snake crawling over a foot long, and the snake body, which was covered with ink, began to twist at this moment.
After a while, after all the lines stopped, the whole picture changed completely. On one side, the shape of a compass, painted with various weird patterns, is presented in front of us.
At the center of the disc, there are two circles, one up and down, like the yin and yang fisheyes in the Tai Chi diagram, but the position is straight up and down. On the outer side of the circle, there are some very short and short'spikes', but the bottom is only It's a smooth circle.
On the periphery of these two circles, there are a lot of small floating points, densely packed, but very regular, divided into areas, and each area is vaguely constructed into a strange-looking figure.
There are also many, like a pair of spread wings, like a big cat's open mouth, and more like the shape of an animal's body. There are so many patterns. In detail, there are about 28 patterns in total.
In addition to the twenty-eight figures, there were twelve more easily recognizable animal patterns, such as the zodiac signs, but they were somewhat different.
Among them, the four zodiac signs of ox, rat, horse and sheep are replaced by two birds, one person, and a figure that looks like an ant.
All in all, as soon as this "disc" appeared, it instantly reminded me of the complex and abstract astrological map of ancient times.
"This is...?" Uncle Huang immediately thought of something and looked at Wenfang in shock.
Wen Fang nodded: "That's right!"
"This is an astrological map of the ancient Yi people... The twelve animals on the periphery correspond to the twelve zodiac signs worshiped by the ancient Yi people. The twenty-eight patterns in the middle are their 28 constellations. The two circles in the inner circle are the sun and the moon."
Wen Fang then changed his words and praised sincerely: "I have to say that the ancient people's accomplishments in painting are really incredible. This painting should be the same painting technique used in the Western "Smile of the Mona Lisa". , Fade method."
"This kind of painting method is also called picture-in-picture. The difference in light and angle is used to hide the real thing to be painted under the disguise of the surface."
"If it hadn't been for Miss Meiling to suddenly open the door just now, let the light from outside, let the light refract, this astrological map, we guess we wouldn't be able to find it in a lifetime!"
When Wen Fang said this, she looked at Mei Ling.
Meiling shook her head and said: "Miss Wen is serious! I just made a mistake, and the most important thing is that Miss Wen has eyes like torches and knows everything!"
"Miss Wen, these are the numbers that Mr. Yu just reported through his mobile phone!" While talking, Mei Ling handed Wen Fang a mobile phone with the screen on.
Wen Fang received his hand, nodded at her, and said thank you.
After listening to Wenfang's explanation, the seven faculties have passed the six faculties, but the last one is still missing.
At this time, Uncle Huang patted the table and confided the biggest doubt in my heart at the moment: "Oh, this painter, his mother is absolutely amazing! Picture-in-picture, he can't think of it!"
"However, my little niece, this person has hidden the astrological map under the painting, which must have its purpose. Could it be that this astrological map is the map that Qin Wen said?"
Wen Fang stopped.
Uncle Huang grinned his teeth and asked her, my little niece, can you understand this special map if you look like this
Wen Fang smiled confidently and said: "The ancient Yi people are said to have originated from the ancient Qiang people, and the Qiang people were once tied with Xia and Shang. The astronomical calendars of the two are very close."
"However, the twenty-eight constellations that we are familiar with are divided according to the five stars of the sun, the moon and the moon! The twenty-eight constellations of the ancient Yi people are centered on the moon and divide the stars in the orbit of the moon into twenty-eight constellations. "
"Furthermore, the astrological map of the ancient Yi people is different from the ordinary astrological map and can be used as a detailed map."
"For example, in the ancient Yi people, the twelve zodiac signs are not only used to record the year. Among them, the four zodiac signs of the Ox, Dragon, Dog, and Sheep also refer to four sub-directions respectively."
"Otherwise, the sun and the moon are things, the head of the water is the north, and the tail of the water is the south!"
Wen Fang talked, and gradually I couldn't keep up with her thoughts.
I risked being held hostage by her and smiled bitterly: "Wen Fang, that, can you make it simpler? From this astrological map, can I find the relics of the ancient cloud country?"
Sure enough, Wen Fang Tan Xing was swept away by me, took a cold look at me, and hummed: "If it's not good, it depends on whether the numbers found in Yuan Qitian's wallet were used to decode this astrological chart! "
Wen Fang said, seemingly out of anger, and hummed heavily.
Immediately, Uncle Huang didn't give any face, and let him walk away with us loudly, frowned, looked down at the phone from time to time, and then looked at the astrological chart opposite.
From what she looked like, she had already devoted herself to the work of cracking the astrological map and the digital code.
The three of us did not dare to breathe, and stood silently for more than an hour.
The sun has faded into silk threads. When our legs were numb, Wen Fang, who was like a statue, finally moved. She leaned back, sat on the chair, exhaled, turned her head and pursed her mouth: "found it!"
Uncle Huang couldn't help but rub his hands and asked, "Hey, little niece, come on, where are the ruins of the ancient cloud country?"
As soon as Wen Fang put the phone on the table, Uncle Huang and I hurriedly gathered around.
On the screen of the mobile phone, there is a webpage now with a line of big characters on the top that is very conspicuous, "The Great Rift Valley of Wuling Mountain", and underneath, there are densely packed texts, which are an introduction to the Great Rift Valley.
Actually, I don't need to read the introduction below, I also know the place of the Great Rift Valley. From today's regional division, this place is not strictly within the scope of Xiangxi, it is in Chongqing.
However, the geographical divisions between ancient and modern are extremely different.
In the past, the genus of the Great Rift Valley did not belong to Xiangxi, we would never know!
The Wuling Mountain Rift Valley is located at the northwest end of the Wuling Mountains and the lower reaches of the Wujiang River. It is the oldest'scar' on the earth. The peaks, terraces, and valleys are scattered in height and rich in layers. The mountains are so beautiful and steep as a knife.
The entire rift valley is naturally closed, the mountains and wilderness are old and inaccessible, and it is still full of mystery.
I can know this place, or I mentioned it when I heard people talk about the mountains... It is said that under a gorge in the Great Rift Valley, there is a bottomless cave, which the locals call Wanzhang Pit.
This Wanzhang Pit seems to go straight to the center of the earth. The rainwater from streams and rivers gathered in the canyon for thousands of years all flowed into it, but it could not be filled.
The mouth of the Wanzhangkeng is elliptical, about ten meters in diameter, with smooth walls and no way down the hole. According to elderly people in the area, there is a big python in the cave underneath the cave leading to the big Yin River. No one knows how thick and big it is. However, that snake is a pet of Lord Yama.
There is also a legend that walking along the Yin River, you can reach the capital city where the Lord Yan lives. That big python was sent by Lord Yan to catch him alive and make sacrifices.
All in all, there are many legends about this Wanzhang Pit among the locals. How true is it? I'm afraid it can only be determined by visiting it in person.
However, I now see some other information about the Wanzhangkeng from my mobile phone.
At the end of the last century, a group of adventurous explorers formed an expedition and descended into this pit. Sure enough, they found a forty to fifty meters wide, surging turbulently, like a big river like a black dragon hung in the ground.
This river is very similar to the big Yin River in the mouth of the villagers.
They went two kilometers deep into the Dayin River and encountered a group of'monsters', with a big salamander head, small eyes, big mouth, four feet and five claws, and a long and flat tail. The back of the head is black, the tail is transparent, and the dark red intestines are vividly visible. The expedition was attacked by these monsters.
Because the expedition team was not fully prepared to deal with the temporary crisis at that time, they were forced to escape from the Wanzhang Pit.
However, they brought out two'monsters'. After identification, these two monsters are new species, and no one has discovered it before. This is the first time they have appeared, which is what we know today as the'battlefish'. (End of this chapter)