What is going on here? Chongyang and I slowly withdrew from the pit. The two of us were making a fire in the snow. I said, "The bottom is collapsed."
"It collapsed?" Yuan Zhi looked up: "Why did it collapse?"
"A hole is exposed, and I am about to take a flashlight in and take a look."
"The hole is good." Yuan Zhi nodded, "I have left the time to dig the shelter. Hurry up, go in and see."
The flashlight and Chongyang plunged into it, and I took a shovel to expand the edge of the hole a bit, and took the lamp to shine inside. The entrance of the cave is dark and more than two meters above the ground. "I don't know if there is any poisonous gas. It is estimated that it has been sealed for many years."
Chongyang sniffed in the air: "There is no unusual smell, so let's come in after a while."
To be safe, I said: "Success."
After the hole was dry for a while, the two of them got in through the hole with flashlights, jumped, and landed on the slate floor.
Obviously this is not a naturally formed cave, there are artificial traces inside. I bent down and looked at the ground. The stones were rough, basically just rough polished, bumpy.
Li Yuanyi and Yuanzhi also got in and looked around. Four flashlights shone around. It was a small sealed cave with a depth of less than ten meters, and the highest point of the cave was less than two meters. The ground is covered with rough artificially polished stones. The inner wall is part of the stone, and the grass is carved with primitive things similar to hunting pictures.
It should be a relic left by a group of people who lived in the primeval forest.
I took the lamp and shook Yuanzhi's face: "Cheng Ah Yuan Wizard, are you from the North School or the South School? Pick a place and shovel down to get the goods?"
Yuan Zhi said with a sad face: "This is too unlucky, how can I dig out such a place, why is it still buried so shallow?"
Together with Li Yuan: “It’s not a coincidence. This location belongs to the intersection of the surrounding mountains. It is considered a traffic hub. Moreover, Yuanzhi chooses places that are sheltered from wind and water and have good terrain. If there are ethnic groups living nearby, it is better to choose one. If it's a little bit, it will definitely be picked here."
Yuan Zhi nodded: "It's still Captain Li who understands."
"Then let's look inside again." I said.
In fact, there is nothing to look at, it's over after a few steps. There are few wall carvings on the stone walls on both sides. The style is primitive and there is no specific content. It is nothing more than the primitive fishing and hunting life of hunting, gathering, and farming.
The most noticeable thing is to draw a person on the ground in the deepest part of the cave.
It's still very abstract, with rough and simple lines, but you can see the difference between this person and the others on the wall.
Whether it is the Central Plains civilization or the surrounding nomadic civilization, fishing and hunting civilization, there will be a certain exaggeration when painting figures, highlighting important figures in the paintings.
The same is true for the person painted on the ground right now. First of all, its body shape is several sizes larger than the engraved on the wall. Its eyes are also drawn very strangely. The corners of the eyes are not drawn horizontally, but drawn vertically.
This is different from the group portraits on the wall, indicating that this person's identity is extremely special.
Why do you want to draw such a person on the ground? Generally speaking, if you exaggerate the body shape, it means that your identity is respected, and painting on the ground is not justified.
"Let's see what hurts again." Yuan Zhi said.
Basically there is nothing left. The cave is originally small, and it is impossible to have such things as organs. If the light is flooded, the internal structure can be seen clearly at a glance.
After turning around, I found nothing: "Forget it, I guess it's a cultural exhibition hall of a minority tribe. It's pretty good. It's gone tonight. Put all the equipment in."
At the exit of the ground, he took branches and set up a small shed to prevent snow from falling in and block the hole. Then he dragged all the equipment and prepared firewood into the hole, and then just waited for it to get dark.
It was getting dark quickly, and the sky was just getting darker outside, and the wind blew up. Even if I chose a shelter from the wind, the small shed at the entrance of the cave fell apart before it lasted for long. There is no other way but to follow him. Go, it's a big deal when you go out tomorrow, take a bit of work to pull the snow away.
The snow fell after eight o'clock, and the temperature dropped quite sharply. Fortunately, the firewood was prepared and lit near the entrance of the cave. "No way." I said, "When the wind blows, the smoke will pour into it. It has to be burned with anthracite on the hour."
"Cough cough cough cough..." Yuan Zhi coughed as he said: "Hurry up, hurry up and put it out, it's going to be choked to death."
Together with Li Yuan: "There is no way. Put up the tent and sleep in a sleeping bag. Use all the things that can protect you from the cold. It should be able to survive."
"I'm sure it can." Yuan Zhi shivered: "Although the temperature in the cave is not high, it won't freeze to death anymore. Hurry up."
Halfway through the tent, Chongyang suddenly squatted on the ground to buckle the floor tiles.
"What are you doing?" I said.
"These tiles are loose."
"It's loose." I said: "You still count on someone to pave you solid wood floors when you are so backward."
"No." He shook his head: "I think there is something underneath."
As soon as I heard this, I became interested and hurriedly gathered around to watch. The floor tiles he was talking about were at the feet of the man's stick figure on the ground.
Chongyang used a shovel to poke into the cracks in the bricks, and when it was lifted, a small hole was exposed.
"What's this?" Yuan Zhi came up and took the lamp to shine inside. The small holes hidden under the stone bricks are square, less than a foot wide and high, but they are all embedded with stones.
There is a...
The skull of an animal who doesn't know what it is.
Li Yuanyi took a shovel and knocked around the figures on the ground, and then opened a few more pieces, revealing more hidden stone boxes.
Without exception, there are all kinds of skulls inside, depending on the shape, these skulls are not only livestock, but also human.
Yuan Zhi said: "What is this? Is this a magic trick? Why am I panicking when I look at it?"
I was panicked when I watched. The abstract image of the weird character on the ground was expressionless, but the two vertical eyes seemed to be staring at me all the time. I took a flashlight and took a few shots at it carefully, but suddenly, I had forgotten it!
"Do you remember some things Liu Wendao told Xiang Shui?"
Chongyang Road: "Which one do you mean."
"Liu Wendao first found Longshan Mountain because he successively found the people of Wuluohou Kingdom in various places in the Greater Xing'an Mountains to sacrifice something like ruins deep underground. He relied on these ruins to determine the location of Longshan Mountain, thinking that it was under Longshan Mountain. The buried thing is the thing deep underground where the people of Wuluo Hou Kingdom sacrificed."
Chongyang also remembered, and nodded: "He also said that in order to get closer to the gods who were worshipping, they set up all the sacrifice points underground." (End of this chapter)