The ominous premonition of their own destiny made everyone feel heavy for a while, and no one spoke for a long time, until Yue Cen suddenly opened his mouth to break the extremely uncomfortable silence: "Let's not forget that there are still two problems in these four rock carvings that have not been solved. .
"One is the arrangement order of the four paintings. This issue is very important. The content and meaning expressed by different orders may even be quite different, which also affects our judgment of the final truth;
"Another question is the content on the 'Sacrificial Prayer'-themed rock wall. What does the blank space at the center of the circle worshipped by these symbols represent."
"Xiaoyue is right," Hua Jiqiu said, "The order of the rock paintings is very important. Xiaoshao's view is that all living beings → flood → death → sacrifice; my view is flood → death → sacrifice → all beings.
"Look, these are two different directions. The sequence of Xiao Shao makes the entire event recorded on the rock art stay in an uncertain stage. What is the result of the sacrifice? Is it a god-given new life, or is it like death? peace
"And my order may be idealized, I gave them a new ending, but it is difficult to say whether the reality can be so beautiful.
"And what if we change the order? For example... sentient beings → sacrifice → flood → death.
"Look, this has become another story, full of conspiracy, cruelty and tyranny. In the world where all living beings were prosperous, some people developed desires, it could be greed, it could be the desire for power, it could be any kind of desire to control all beings. Or a desire above everything else, or maybe even anti-human and anti-social exterminationism.
"So this person, or this group with a common belief, used the method of sacrifice to perform witchcraft, for the sake of selfishness or the extreme beliefs of the individual, let the world flood into the sky.
"In the end, this reckless catastrophe caused by selfish desires brought death to the world, or, in other words, it was the evil result of annihilation of life.
"The story depicted in this order also fits the clues implied by the painting "Reboot" that you told me. The demise of every civilization is inseparable from the advanced intelligent creatures that dominate it. War, power, wealth, greed, and hostility can all be the culprits of destroying one's own civilization.
"If a civilization destroys itself, then correspondingly, another new civilization will take over and replace it. Therefore, after this death, a new world may be ushered in, but the one who carved these petroglyphs People of the times have no way to see the birth of a new civilization."
"What Curator Hua said is very reasonable," Shao Ling said, "Some people say that our current civilization is not the first generation of human civilization on the earth. It is said that more ancient civilizations have been discovered in many parts of the world.
"I remember that it seems that in Africa, a nuclear reactor 2 billion years ago was discovered, and some scientists have speculated that the last human civilization was destroyed by nuclear war.
"So can we infer that the world of mountains and seas is likely to be between 2 billion years ago and modern human civilization, the real last civilization
"It may not be considered human civilization, but it must be a high-level intelligent civilization that dominated the world, and then it was destroyed in the prehistoric flood. After that, it didn't take a long time for human civilization to be born. , it is even very possible... Human beings are actually descendants of the Shanhai civilization!"
"So... the wall carvings on this rock platform are likely to be recorded by the ancestors of human beings and the ancestors of mountains and seas, in order to prevent people from forgetting that history and that world?" Gu Qingqing's eyes were filled with disappointment.
"In order to prevent future generations from forgetting that period of history, do you want to harm your own children and grandchildren with this form of painting?" Ke Xun put his chin in one hand and raised his eyebrows, "This doesn't make sense. And don't forget, they prayed for sacrifices. It's a blank space. If they want to ask for a big flood, it's better to draw a flood symbol in the middle. It's not that they can't draw, or it's not so direct. They can also draw a dragon or something, right? Dragons don't control water. Is it God? Anyway, I feel that this blank is not because I can’t draw it, nor because I can’t draw it, it must have a purpose.”
"Could it be that what they prayed for was actually... death?" Qin Ci said, "Death also means nothingness, so the center of the sacrificial ceremony is blank, and the flood is just a means to cause the consequences of death. If It’s not a flood, there may be other ways, such as an earthquake, such as a tornado, but it just happened to be a natural disaster such as a flood. If you look at it this way, the order of the rock art should be sentient beings → sacrifice → flood → death.”
"Then why do they pray for death to come?" Wu You asked, "Is it really like what Uncle Hua said, a group of anti-human and anti-social guys who want to perish with everyone?"
"I really want to know what connection these four petroglyphs have with another world," Ke Xun sat up straight, "remember Yi Ran's previous guess, the scene in the Valley of Death is probably a superposition of two worlds, In other words, the day is our world, the night is another world, and the two worlds appear alternately - don't forget the clues that each of the paintings we have summarized before hints us, it is already certain that there are two worlds. something happened.
"And that rock platform, it's from another world, why is there another half of the "Shan Hai Tu" on its rock wall, why is half of the "Shan Hai Tu" in our world and the other half in that world
"Why are the contents of these four paintings depicted in half of that world?"
"We can use common sense to push this issue," Shao Ling said. "After the flood, a lot of people and animals died. What kind of mental state would the people be at that time?"
"Of course I'm sad," Wei Dong said, "It's very likely that my family and friends were buried in the flood, my home, fields, and property are gone. That feeling must be very hopeless. For a moment, I might feel like I don't know how to live, helpless and sad."
"But grief must prevail over helplessness." Ke Xun's voice was a little dull.
Wei Dong looked at him and knew that he had touched the most painful scar in his heart again. He was thinking about how to comfort him, but when he saw him scratching his hair, he continued to say calmly on his face: "They will definitely be incomparable. I miss my deceased relatives and hope that they can come back to life. This is the strongest wish. If this wish cannot be realized, I will settle for the next best thing. I hope that even if I can see my relatives again, it would be good to have a look or say a word. , In short... I just hope to communicate with my relatives again... Cough."
Mu Yiran, who had been listening to everyone's analysis without saying a word, heard that he used a cough to cover up his slightly changed voice, reached out and patted his back lightly, and then his hand stopped on his body. , gently holding the back of his neck, passing the temperature of his palm to him.
Ke Xun took a deep breath without showing any trace, and said, "If the wish to communicate cannot be fulfilled, we can only choose the last wish, which is to hope that our loved ones live well in another world, pray for them, and pray for them."
"So—" Shao Ling said, "Throughout the ages, people's hearts and feelings have been the same. After the great flood, the mental states of the survivors must be the same as what Ke Xun said.
"Then the point is here, the ancients believed in the power of ghosts and gods, maybe they would believe that the power of ghosts and gods can bring their relatives back to life, let them communicate with relatives in a world that is already dead, or, at least, They also have to offer prayers and prayers for their deceased loved ones.
"That's what the great witches did in ancient times, so this grand sacrifice and prayer event on the rock carvings happened naturally.
"If ghost writing is the text or medium of another world, then engrave ghost writing on the altar and on the sacrificial vessel to describe the cause and effect of the whole event, and use it to express the grief and wishes of the living for the deceased, or even use ghost writing to communicate with each other. It is a very reasonable explanation for the master of another world to communicate, negotiate, and beg in order to achieve his wish to bring him back to life.
"So these four paintings were engraved on the rock platform and passed on to another world in a certain way, which is the proof of using witchcraft to communicate with ghosts and gods. And I still insist on my previous view on the order of rock paintings, that is, sentient beings → flood →Death →Sacrificial Prayer."
"Then what? Your reasoning can't explain the follow-up problem," Zhu Haowen said. "All living beings prospered in the mountain and sea era, and a prehistoric flood suddenly broke out, causing all living beings to be devastated. After the flood, the human beings who survived the flood offered sacrifices to cherish the memory of their deceased relatives and friends. And hope to use the power of ghosts and gods to resurrect relatives and friends, or hope that they can live well in another world.
"In order to achieve this goal, they divided a "Shan Hai Tu" into two parts, one part was cast on the nine tripods used as the sacrificial vessel, and the other part was carved on the rock used as the sacrificial altar. Taiwan is sent to another world, echoing the nine tripods of this world, achieving the effect of connecting the two worlds.
"So far, everything seems to make sense, but what about the follow-up? Why did the "Shan Hai Tu" on Jiuding become our bones? Do you want us to replace Jiuding and continue to keep in touch with another world? For thousands of years It's over, isn't this sacrifice still unwilling to stop
"And why should we be included in the painting? Why is the tornado column getting bigger and bigger every night? What about the clues in each painting that another world wants to take over and replace this world?"
A series of questions made it difficult for Shao Ling to answer for a while, and Hua Jiqiu was also lost in thought. After a difficult silence, Shao Ling raised his eyes and looked at Mu Yiran, who was always listening and pondering alone, and said, "I should say Speaking of your ideas, I don’t believe you haven’t figured out a line of thinking of your own yet.”
"I do have a thread of my own, which is completely different from the views of all of you." Mu Yiran finally spoke, and everyone's eyes were fixed on him, listening to him say each word clearly, "I think this The 'protagonist' is not the Great Yu, nor the leader of the world or the great shaman, but a great shaman with the 'power of observation' from another world.
"This rock altar does not belong to the human world, it belongs to another world.
"The petroglyphs on the rock do not record human sacrifices or witchcraft, but - from another world, witchcraft."