MTL - Chronicles of Primordial Wars-~ wedge

Shao Xuan sat on the modified bus and looked at the mountains stretching outside the window. Just after the summer solstice, the mountain is full of vibrant green. After living in the city for a long time, I saw such a landscape. The mood of the haze was much better because of my unsatisfactory career. Originally, Shao Xuan planned to call a few friends out of the door to distract the heart. He did not want to encounter the archaeological fellow and old classmate Shi Yan, who was dragged together to go to the archaeological site.

This trip is going to a relatively small mountain village. It is said that there was something in the Stone Age found there. A group of people have passed, and now this is the second batch.

Shao Xuan listened to the old classmate from the primitive man's skull to the stone tools and then to the rock murals. He also took out a few pictures to explain in detail. The person who did the research is like this. It is rare to pull it out. Shao Xuan does not. Understand, but still listen to the face.

On the paper, there are some rock paintings discovered by archaeological research. Shao Xuan looked at it and felt that he had not painted his own nephew and niece in kindergarten.

The lines of the maps are relatively simple. It can be seen that some people are holding tools and hunting, and there are some kinds of animal paintings. The rest of them do not know what it is.

"This is the sheep of the painting? But this sheep is too big." Shao Xuan pointed at a picture.

The picture shows a sheep with a long, huge corner, and there are individuals holding bows and arrows, but the ratio is not normal, and the head of the person is on the back of the sheep. The next few pictures are also the rabbit's body proportions like the lion, and the horse riding on the left, the horse tail is too short.

Of course, not every ratio of the maps is the same. The styles of rock murals found in different periods from different provinces and cities are different. There are some proportions drawn closer to reality, and a group of people can be seen on the map. Hunt with a dog.

Turning it back, it is a few color prints, which are more clear.

"Oh, this painting is more exaggerated. This antler is too big. There is this person. The talent in the picture just went to the back of the sheep. The person on this picture is only a little higher than the deer leg... and right. What is there in the lower corner, eight-legged crocodile?" Shao Xuan really can't appreciate the original painting style.

"Original humans may not be very concerned about this aspect." Shi Jie explained.

"So what do you mean when the original human painting was not ‘realistic’ in terms of proportion, but an exaggerated approach?” Shao Xuan asked.

"Should," Shi Jie grabbed his head: "After all, humans in that period were not aesthetically pleasing, and may be purely symbolic, just as a researcher once speculated when studying some rock art, then The humans painted these paintings about hunting on the walls of the caves or on the rocks. They might just let the hunting warriors take a look before the tribal hunting. There is a spectrum in the heart, and perhaps some rituals we don't know. Especially those rock paintings painted by 'Witch'."

"Witch..." Shao Xuan brain made up a very old-fashioned image of an old god.

"Hey, what kind of expression do you have, I told you that the status of 'Wu' in the human community at that time may not be low, on the contrary, it may be quite high."

"Know, **** stick." Shao Xuan nodded.

Shi Yan put his fingers and took a folder. There were some scanned copies of the pictures. He pointed to some of the pictures and words above and said to Shao Xuan: "If the totem consciousness is a person's anthropomorphization of nature, What is expressed is the collective unity of oneself. Then, the concept of witchcraft represents the naturalization of human beings. The profession of 'Witches' actually appeared in the Stone Age..."

Shi Yan was there to talk about the research progress of the "Wu" profession from ancient times to the present. The professional vocabulary has also attracted the classics, and he heard Shao Xuan’s brain hurt.

Shao Xuan does not know much about this aspect, and he is not interested. If there is such a fellow villager and old classmate, Shao Xuan will not know those. He used to say that archaeology directly thinks of those valuable ones. Antiques, but the research direction of Ishigaki is actually more antique than antiques, and there are not many people interested in it. A few days ago, I was still listening to the discussion in the broadcast whether the 'Darwin species into the chemical theory' is correct, or is the 'aliens creating species hypothesis' correct? Shao Xuan is also idle and has nothing to listen to, listen to it and put it there, no longer ponder.

On the contrary, Shao Xuan knew that this small hair was very interested in ancient humans. When he was in middle school, he often discussed with several ancient human remains that were discovered but mysteriously disappeared in modern history.

"You don't understand professional, don't talk about it. Hey!" Shi Yan pointed a picture with his finger and pointed to somewhere on the map: "'Wu' is mentioned in both the inscription and the Jinwen, but Is such that."

Shao Xuan looked at the place pointed by Shi Jie. It was a symbol that looked like two ‘work’ words criss-crossed.

"There are such duplex characters on the heads of some ancient pottery figurines unearthed. In fact, witches also involve hunting, prayer, ambulance, etc. From a certain perspective, 'Witch' can It was a scientist at that time. But these are all speculations. Even some records in ancient times may not be true. After all, people at that time love to exaggerate, is there a sentence? 'History never has the truth', archaeology is no more It is to dig out some corners and corners. As for the real situation, who knows."

"The hole that was discovered this time is also related to 'Witch'. It is the last picture you saw. The first batch of rock paintings from the past people also found the duplex character in the cave, so it is speculated that It was a burrowing place for a 'Witch'. There was a short-term earthquake in the village where the village was located last month. Probably because of this, the cave was exposed and I have never heard of it before."

Speaking of this, Shi Yan closed the folder, carefully looked around, see the mentor and other brothers and brothers did not pay attention to this side, they pressed down the voice, mysteriously stunned Shao Xuandao: "I heard that the first to find the hole It was a child, and, according to the news from a younger brother there, the child who discovered the cave saw a strange watermelon big worm in the stone of his own wall. The child was fat and followed the worm. Finally The bug disappeared into the cave, and the child went back and told the grown-up to discover the cave."

"Watermelon big bug?" Shao Xuan feels ridiculous. Anyone who listens to this for the first time will feel too fake. "Is the child lying?"

Shi Yan shook his head. "What's even more strange is that according to the people in the past, the stones used to build the walls there are fossils of ancient creatures." The goose bumps continue: "The child who discovered the cave refers to the stone that appears to be the big worm of watermelon. There are fossils of paleontology, but it is not complete, but it is only a part of the defect, but according to the speculation of professionals If the creature is still alive, it may indeed be as big as a watermelon, and it is not far from the description of the child."

"...It’s quite confusing, but only the child saw that others haven’t seen bugs crawling out of their walls?” Shao Xuan was a little interested.

Shi Yan shook his head. "I don't know. I will wait until I have asked again. Anyway, it is coming soon."

When the group arrived at the destination, it was already 11 o'clock at noon. Shao Xuan followed Shi Jie and they had a simple lunch and returned to the bus.

They can't wait for the stone sarcophagus. They have no rest after eating, and they are ready to start work.

Things to pay attention to here, Shi Jie has already said with Shao Xuan, what can't be touched, where can't go, who is looking for something, and so on.

"When I am finished today, I will tell you. You should go shopping first. This place has a good view. The blue sky and blue water of the mountains have been in the misty city for a long time to wash the lungs."

Speaking of Shi Yan, he followed his mentor with tools and so on. Shao Xuan couldn’t follow the past and didn’t have much interest in the past.

There is only one person left in the car, and the door of the car door is quite quiet. In the past few days, Shao Xuan did not sleep well. The road went to listen to Shijie, and now it is sleepy.

When I woke up, it was already more than two in the afternoon. Shao Xuanzheng was going to go out and walk. I saw the stone scorpion in the overalls coming over, got a document on the train, and had to rush over to continue work.

However, before getting off the bus, Shi Jie took out a large egg from his pocket and threw it to Shao Xuan: "The hole is smashing, seeing others take care of it, it should not be something important, 'antique' can't To you, this stone is also in the hole, it looks quite smooth, probably who throws it, give you a commemoration."

The stone is near the hole, and there is still some distance from the core of the cave. The stone and other excavated items are also obviously different, and there is no mark, so the first batch of people will focus on those Stone Age. On the antiques and rock paintings, no one cares about the stone near the mouth of the cave. The stone sarcophagus was having fun at the time and slammed it into his pocket.

After picking up the thrown stones, Shao Xuan took a closer look in his hand. The feel was no different from other stones. It was dark green, egg-shaped, and the surface was still smooth. It was like a deliberately polished one. It looked nothing. Meaning, even if it is not an "antique", holding it is not bad, when it is an ornament.

Shao Xuan did not care, took it in his hands for a while, always felt that the stone was not hot, shaking hands for ten minutes, or cold, thinking, Shao Xuan took out a lighter, burned with fire Stone, it stands to reason that the place that touches the flame should be hot, but the fact is that it is still as cool as before.

After sweeping his eyes around, Shao Xuan took a fruit knife on the table and padded a piece of paper. He planned to use a knife to scrape a piece of stone on the stone and take it to the archaeological car to help him check it. However, Shao Xuan scraped the knife against the stone, but there was no trace on the stone, and there was no trace of the drill with the knife tip.

The fire is not hot, the knife does not hurt... It is a strange stone.

Shao Xuan took the stone and got off the bus. He planned to let Shi Yan look at it later.

The place where the car stopped was very close to the village, but the road ahead was not easy to walk.

Some of the villagers in the village went to work, and when they were free, they went to the newly discovered caves to watch the excitement. Therefore, when Shao Xuanjin entered the village, only three or two people walked.

There are two meters high stone walls outside the village. I heard that it was built decades ago to prevent wild beasts. The stones came from the mountains. However, in recent years, there have been no large beasts around, and no one cares about them. Stone wall.

At first glance, I can see large chunks of stone on the stone wall, which has been around for a long time, with some sorrow.

Shao Xuan played with stones in his hands and stared at the stones. I heard that the stones on these stone walls were found to have fossils of paleontology, and Shao Xuan remembered the "big watermelon bug" that Shi Yan said.

I was planning to remove my sight. Shao Xuan suddenly found a snake-like thing on the stone wall. It was still creeping. The water tank was thick and the scaly pattern was glowing. It was a few meters away, but Shao Xuan felt it. The chilly coolness of the stocks, and Shao Xuan almost jumped up. It was only when Shao Xuan’s eyes looked again, but he found nothing. The stone wall was still the broken stone wall that had been exposed to the sun and rain.

Illusion?

Shao Xuan looked at the rest of the stone wall. Then, the line of sight fell on a gap in the stone wall. There was a big stone on the other side, which was left after the collapse of the stone wall. I went back to build my own wall, and the big one stayed here. At this moment, Shao Xuan saw a blue-green seedling on the stone, and the seedlings quickly rose and grew tall, and several vines also spread out. The gap of more than three meters long was blocked by the vines and branches in the blink of an eye, and the nose seemed to be filled with a fragrance of plants.

Shao Xuan stepped back a few steps, took a deep breath, and then fixed the look of the past, but found that the vine branches have disappeared, the stone wall is still the same, the ground is the bare big stone.

Perceived that there was some change in his hand, Shao Xuan looked down at the hand holding the stone.

The stone that was not burned by the hot knife was instantly weathered into sand and fell from Shao Xuan's finger joints.

When the last sand fell, Shao Xuan’s vision was dark.