Paintings of Terror

Chapter 355: Shan Hai 09 ┃ Scary icon

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Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Hua Jiqiu, and Gu Qingqing were responsible for arranging the photos taken last night on the laptop in order. Fortunately, most of the functions of the laptop can still be used.

The symbols displayed on the computer were still weird, everyone looked at the computer screen for a long time, and finally Shao Ling took the lead: "Maybe because I am engaged in writing work, I think these symbols are not only images of witchcraft, It is also like some kind of text, you see, this icon that folds the limbs and torso into a 'ぴ'-shaped symbol, it appears more than once, perhaps this is equivalent to a common character, often appearing in different sentences ."

"In this way, these symbols can also be regarded as pictographs in a certain sense." Qin Ci said.

Shao Ling nodded: "This is a necessary stage for the development of writing. However, from the perspective of the structure, style and regular system of these symbols, they are completely different from oracle bone inscriptions and our known writing systems. I have reason to suspect that this type of writing Belonging to another culture, or even another civilization, or even another world—thus, it may be presumed that this icon/text is a communication symbol from another realm.”

Wu You suddenly slapped his forehead when he heard the words: "When Mr. Shao said this, I suddenly remembered that when my great grandma used to chat with other colleagues, I overheard something.

"It was said that when she was young, she went with her master to cleanse a person who had fallen into evil. That person seemed to be caught by a very bad thing. Grandma and her master did the same thing as that person. The thing 'talks' and asks what the thing wants to do.

"But the thing seemed to be incomprehensible, screaming, and then biting her fingers and struggling to write a few words on the wall with blood. Grandma Tai's master turned her head away when she saw this, and refused to say anything. I helped the man to clean up the filth, but the man died not long after, and I heard that the death was particularly tragic.

"Everyone asked my grandmother, why didn't her master help people at that time? My grandma said, she also asked her master why at that time, and her master said that the words that that person wrote on the wall with blood did not belong to us. this world.

"Her master means that that kind of writing is very scary. If you see it, don't try to read it, let alone imitate it, stay away from it immediately, and never mess with it or do anything related to it. , don't even think about it all the time, and force my great grandma to forget the shape of those words.

"My grandma actually didn't read it carefully. At that time, when she was young and just debuted, she was frightened by that person's terrifying and weird appearance, and she didn't even bother to read those words. She went, but she was also very curious, so she asked the master what those words were.

"Her master said that that kind of writing is not created by human beings, and has different properties and functions from human writing. In addition to recording, human writing is also used for communication, and in addition to communication, it also has some powerful functions. The power of - this is what I have translated, the original words did not say so, but the main meaning is this.

"And what kind of power, even her master doesn't know, she only said that this kind of thing was told to him by her master's master, and her master's master was passed down by the higher-level master and master.

"But what they have passed down from generation to generation, there is no information about the shape and meaning of this type of script, just say, if you see... arts."

As soon as the word "Ghost Text" came out, several people shivered.

"That's right," Ke Xun pointed at the screen. "Doesn't this symbol look like a dead person? It's probably a ghost script, a script from another world."

Mu Yi nodded: "Then we may speculate that the ancient wizards mastered some ghost texts, and through this text, supplemented by the form of witchcraft, in order to achieve the purpose of communicating with another world."

"In this way, the high rock platform is likely to be a platform for sacrifice or witchcraft." Zhu Haowen said.

"In this case... Xiaomu Xiaoke, will it be dangerous if you climb up tonight?" Hua Jiqiu was very worried.

"We came for danger," Ke Xun said without any hesitation, "Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, we are inclined to walk in the mountains. It's not that we want to do this, but we have to do it. Father Hua, don't worry, I Thinking that as long as the thirteen of us don't go up together, it shouldn't trigger anything weird."

For the sake of discussion, there is no new progress for the time being, and it cannot change the direction of action tonight, so everyone put it down for the time being. stand up.

After breakfast, everyone who hadn't slept all night went back to their tents to rest, leaving two people on guard.

In the afternoon, everyone who was full of sleep got up and gathered in the big tent again.

"Make arrangements for tonight's action," Mu Yiran said, and everyone hurriedly stopped to listen to him, "Ke Xun and I are in charge of climbing the rock platform to check, but before that, Luo Yi, I remember you brought the drone with you. ?"

"Yes, brother-in-law, but didn't I use it once when I came here with my buddies before. All the drones failed, and they never came back after entering the canyon," Luo said.

"Let's try it in a while," Mu Yiran said, "If the remote control fails, I will try to get the camera directly on the high platform. I have a telescopic rod in the trunk, but it takes a little more effort, and it is not as convenient and flexible as a drone. ."

Everyone watched him silently, and Ke Xun said something fair: "Your Japanese name must be Doraemon."

There's nothing in the trunk.

Maybe a rocket launcher or a deep-water torpedo can be pulled out of it.

"What is Dora A Mu?" Mu Yiran asked him seriously.

Everyone: "… "

… Forget that the blind spot of the boss is a cartoon.

"Luo Yu will come to test the performance of the drone in a while," the boss continued to arrange, "I will teach Ke Xun the essentials of rock climbing.

"Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Sister Cen, Curator Hua, the four of you are responsible for continuing to ponder these 'ghost texts', starting from both images and words, and striving for breakthroughs.

"For the remaining six people, I carried some surveillance camera equipment in the trunk. Howen led the team and arranged these equipment around the location where the rock platform would appear. Tonight we will try to photograph how the rock platform appears and disappears. I hope It can help us in our next steps.”

Everyone responded in unison, and immediately split up.

The drone brought by Luo Yao really couldn't be used, and the underground magnetic field seemed to interfere more with wireless devices, while functions such as mobile phones and computers that could be operated by a single machine could still be used.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun Luo Xun took out the telescopic rod, fixed a high-definition camera on the head of the rod, and extended the telescopic rod to the longest length, but it was still not enough to reach the height on the top of the rock platform, so they connected it again. Several threaded steel pipes are barely usable, but I am afraid that I cannot fully photograph all the places on the top of the high platform, so I can only roughly observe whether there are other things.

After finishing this part, Mu Yiran went to teach Ke Xun the essentials of rock climbing. In the painting "Animal World", although Ke Xun had almost mastered some techniques, the rocks here are higher and the rock walls are more complicated. And considering that the rock skin is very crisp and is extremely prone to the danger of slipping, this is even more demanding for rock climbers.

"I carry a ladder in the trunk." Mu Yiran said to Ke Xun.

"..." Ke Xun was now accustomed to the phrase "I have... in the trunk", and listened very calmly to Doraemon continuing to speak.

"When the time comes, first drive the car to the side of the rock wall, and then put the ladder on the roof to shorten our climbing distance," Dora A Mu said, "In addition to the part of the mountain wall that we need to climb manually, we also You need to carry some heavy objects. Flashlights, weapons, cameras, ropes, so it will be more difficult. If you can't hold on by then, I won't allow you to hold on, you have to go back to the place, understand?"

"Hey, when it comes to ropes," Ke Xun playfully tries to get this out of the way, "I have an idea..."

"Do you understand?" The boss reached out to the back of his neck and tightly wrapped the back of his head, preventing him from talking about it, looking directly into his eyes, asking him to give a positive reply.

"Okay, I promise you." Ke Xun was helpless, "You don't want me to be in danger, but I don't want you to take risks alone, our love is not fair, I feel wronged, I want to cry, I need a big brother to kiss Only you can eat this loss.”

Mu Yiran pressed his dog's head to him, kissed him on the lips, and ignored Luo Yu's stance of watching hard while shouting, "Oh, it's not suitable for children", and pressed his forehead against Ke Xun's, and the tip of his nose touched it. Tip of the nose, said solemnly: "Don't worry, I won't do anything dangerous, I know you will be sad."

Ke Xun's eyes were hot, he put his arms up and kissed him hard.

For the first time, I thought... two men kissing is also very eye-catching. Luo Meng was thinking, when a hand reached over and pinched his ear, and then carried away alive, "Come and help." Fang Fei didn't care to take a second look at the pair of dog boys and boys who were showing their affection in public, cloth Monitoring this kind of work that requires very high skills and patience has made the heads of the others except Zhu Haowen bigger.

"...Speaking of the rope," Ke Xun hugged Mu Yiran's waist and took a few steps forward, pressing him against the car body, but he couldn't do anything else, so he could only continue the topic just now, "I think we'll go tonight. It is better to put a longer rope where the rock platform will appear, and stretch the rope so that both ends will be outside the range of the rock platform. When the rock platform appears, maybe the rope will be pushed up by it. The middle section will be on the rock platform, and the two ends will hang down, which will save us a lot of trouble, and then we only need to pull the rope to go up, what do you think?"

Mu Yi nodded: "It's a way. If the rock platform is arched from the ground, maybe this method can work."

After half an afternoon of hard work, the monitoring system was finally set up. There are two cameras on all four sides of the rock platform, and the pictures captured by all the cameras can be instantly transmitted to the computers they are connected to.

After a few tests with no problems, the installation team breathed a sigh of relief. Li Xiaochun went to prepare dinner, and Wu You and Gu Qingqing helped him.

However, the four people in the tent who were in charge of studying the symbols remained silent. Mu Yiran and Ke Xun went into the tent to have a look. They saw that the other three were surrounded by Wei Dong and the computer in his hand, staring intently at the screen. .

"What did you find?" Ke Xun walked over and watched the screen together.

Seeing that Wei Dong is using the mouse to operate several processed icons, moving back and forth in the drawing software.

"I denoised, sharpened, and repaired these icons to extract the most basic lines," Wei Dong said to Ke Xun and Mu Yi while he was operating, "It was originally to make it look clearer, but suddenly everyone suddenly I thought, can these symbols be put together like the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" on our bones to form a real picture? Then we want to try it. And the result of the test," Wei Dong said, biased. Leaning over, he turned his head to look at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran, "—they can really make a picture."

Ke Xun's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly looked at the picture on the screen carefully: "What is spelled out?"

"I don't know," Wei Dong shook his head, "the picture is not complete, only a few scattered parts are spelled out intermittently. We only cleaned out the circle of symbols below the rocky mountain, and the places that are out of reach are all out of reach. I haven't cleaned it up yet, I think I'm afraid I have to clear out all the symbols on the entire rock wall to make a complete picture."

"We suspect," Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "the picture formed by the symbols on this rock wall was lost in the vast river of history, that part of the original "Shan Hai Jing Tu"."

"The version of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" that we know today was constantly supplemented by later generations after the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties," Hua Jiqiu also nodded and said, "In this long period of change, some primitive The content will also be misrepresented, distorted and tampered with, so the later versions of "Shan Hai Jing Tu" have already changed the content and taste, and we have no way of knowing how much content of the original version is left. If the symbols on the stone walls are really missing parts of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu", it must be the most authentic and original version."

"Does the current pattern of these symbols overlap with the picture on our bones?" Mu Yiran was extremely careful and keen.

"No." Wei Dong shook his head, "but we all feel that the style of painting is similar."

"Have you tried dismantling our bones into 'ghost text'?" Ke Xun asked suddenly.

The author has something to say:

Ke Xun: Well, there is everything in the trunk. His Japanese name should be Dora Amu.

Yi Ran: What is the stalk of Dora A Mu

Luo Yao: But judging from my brother-in-law's knowledge and reasoning ability, he should be called Detective Ke Ran.

Yi Ran: What is Ke Ran

Weidong: The big guy is handsome and rich, and he is tall, rich and handsome. I think it should be called evening dress · fake Yi.

Yi Ran: What is the fake Yi of evening dress...

Wu You: Brother Mu has a high temperament and abstinence. I think it should be called Ruchuan Mu!

Yi Ran: Rukawa Mu is...

Howen: I think he is more like a Tibetan horse, um, Tibetan shepherd.

Yi Ran: …

Qin Ci: I look like Shajia and Sha Mu from Saint Seiya.

Shao Ling: Oh, he should be Ye Shenyi.

Father Hua: Xiaomu's intelligence is very similar to that of Yixiu.

Qingqing: Kuchiki Byakuya.

Yue Cen: The Smurfs are Cong Cong.

Fang Fei: Fujiwara Sawei.

Xiaochun: Captain Chrollo!

Yi Ran: …

Yi Ran: … not very happy.