Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 449 Comics in the Ruins (4000)

"Is there something down there?"

Wu Liang looked back at the thick sand under Dianwei's feet, and then took the engineering shovel in his hand, "You back away first, I'll dig it out and see what it is."

"promise."

Dian Wei didn't volunteer, he just responded and retreated to the side to be careful.

Having excavated so many tombs together, he already knew Wu Liang's habits like the back of his hand. Whenever he encountered a similar situation, Wu Liang usually would do it himself, using his gentle method like treating a lover to clean it up bit by bit. Accidentally broke those things.

Dian Wei didn't really understand this, but as long as it was something Wu Liang wanted to do, Dian Wei would cooperate unconditionally without asking why.

Wu Liang lay down on the ground first, and lightly pressed the sand that Dian Wei stepped on just now with his hand, and roughly estimated the depth of the hard object.

Then gently shovel out the top layer of sand with an engineer shovel, and then take out a small broom tied with sorghum millet from a suggested tool kit, and sweep the sand inside out little by little .

After cleaning up for a few minutes, Wu Liang finally found something under the ground of more than ten centimeters.

That thing looks like a stone tool, because only a small part is exposed, and there is no way to judge the shape of the stone tool for the time being.

What's more strange is that at this moment, a layer of white fluff has grown on the surface of this stone tool for some reason.

This kind of fluff is only a few millimeters long, and it feels relatively hard when you touch it lightly through the glove. Wu Liang's leather gloves have a very obvious damping feeling when they pass through this layer of fluff.

"Son!"

Seeing this scene, Dian Wei immediately became nervous.

In his cognition, as long as this kind of place has hair, it must not be taken lightly.

"Don't worry too much, this layer of fluff may be a product of salting out."

Wu Liang patiently explained what he saw, but after he finished speaking, he felt that Dian Wei might not understand what he was talking about, so he deliberately explained, "Salt precipitation is a very common natural phenomenon. , This phenomenon may appear in both stone tools and pottery with a relatively long time."

When he was in school, he learned about the treatment and maintenance of pottery and stone artifacts, including the introduction of this salt precipitation phenomenon.

The specific performance is generally the same as the surface of the stone tool in front of us. To deal with this problem, we need to control the temperature and humidity of the storage environment, and also need to carry out some special desalination treatment.

"Young Master, as long as there is nothing wrong."

Dian Wei still didn't seem to fully understand what Wu Liang said, but he felt a little relieved when he said that, at least he wasn't as nervous as before.

Wu Liang continued to clean up the sand covering the stone tool.

The sand is relatively loose, so it doesn't take much effort to clean it up.

But as more and more parts were exposed to cover up the stone tool, Wu Liang became more and more startled.

Because soon he discovered that what he was digging was not an ordinary stone tool, but a human head... At this moment, he could clearly distinguish the hair, forehead, eyes and bridge of the nose of this head!

The details on this head are extremely realistic, and it looks like the same thing as Fang Qiong's "stone statue" before. Not to mention the carving technology of this era, even the carving technology of later generations may be extremely difficult to achieve this kind of thing. degree……

"The stone statue..."

Wu Liang no longer wanted to continue digging.

Fang Qiong once talked about the resurrection of the "stone statue", and the biography of the first king of Loulan also mentioned the resurrection of the "stone statue", and now, he dug up such a "stone statue" in this kind of place...

If only one person mentioned the matter, Wu Liang could doubt the authenticity of the matter.

But two people who have been separated by hundreds of years have talked about this matter, and there is almost no difference in the details, and Wu Liang really found such a "stone statue" in this strange world that Fang Qiong and the first king of Loulan have both arrived. Well, if Wu Liang didn't think about it, it would be really unreasonable.

"Let's put this aside for now, let's go to other places first."

Wu Liang stood up resolutely, buried the head again with an engineering shovel, and then said to Dian Wei.

"..."

Dian Wei had been watching from the side, and knew something about the "stone statue", so he naturally knew what Wu Liang was worried about, so he didn't speak, and followed behind silently.

……

Getting out of this stone house, Wu Liang looked around for a week, and finally chose the largest and tallest house in this area of ​​buildings to investigate.

From the perspective of scale and height, if this building is compared to a village or a tribe, the smaller houses are residential buildings, then the largest and tallest house should be a community house or temple, usually a village or a tribe Meetings are held to discuss affairs, or some important sacrifices are held, they will be held in community houses or community temples.

This house is also wrapped in that strange unknown plant, but its door is much larger than those of the smaller houses. Even if it is submerged in sand, it is still at least two meters high and wide. It's almost two meters, and it shouldn't be a problem for three or four people to walk down side by side.

Pushing aside the weird plants hanging from the door, Dian Wei still walked in first.

"My lord, it's safe for now, but there may be more stone statues buried under the sand here..."

Dian Wei's voice soon came from inside.

Wu Liang went in and took a look, his heart trembled again.

Although the bottom of this big room has been partially covered by the sand, it is different from the previous small room in that the "stone statues" here are not completely buried in the sand, but all reveal the upper part of the chest .

Wu Liang took a quick glance and found that there are more than 20 "stone statues" here.

These stone statues include men and women, old and young. These "stone statues" form a circle, all facing the circle and maintaining a pious posture, with their heads slightly lowered and their eyes closed, with their hands on their chests. It seems that some kind of religious ceremony or sacrificial activity is going on.

And in the middle of them is a circular stone platform with a diameter of about rice.

On this circular stone platform, Wu Liang saw a real stone statue.

The painting style of this stone statue is obviously completely different from those "stone statues" that Wu Liang saw before. The lines on its body are slightly abstract, and the traces of carving are also slightly rough. It can be seen that it was made in an era when productivity and tools were relatively low. Made of stone carvings.

However, Wu Liang can still tell from the figure that the prototype of this stone statue should be a standing woman.

From the rough lines on the stone carving, it can be seen that the woman's hair is very long and curly, her figure is also relatively plump, and her face is round and very affluent, but inside her slightly opened mouth, for some reason, a Four sharp and huge canine teeth that are very similar to the image of a vampire... Wu Liang even felt that such teeth could no longer be called "tiger fangs", but more precisely, they should be called "fangs".

"What kind of shape is this..."

It may be that Wu Liang is ignorant, he turned around in his mind, but he couldn't think of any religious belief that had such a female image of a god.

"My lord, there seems to be something engraved on this stone platform, which looks like some patterns."

Dian Wei had already stepped through the gaps between those "stone statues", and when he came to the stone platform for careful inspection, he suddenly said to Wu Liang again.

"I see?"

Wu Liang had no choice but to take his eyes back temporarily, and followed Dian Wei to check in front of the stone platform.

There are indeed very obvious traces of man-made carvings on the stone platform. The entire stone platform is divided into six fan-shaped areas, and the patterns in each fan-shaped area are different.

In these patterns, some rather abstract portraits can be clearly seen.

How abstract are these portraits...

Wu Liang felt that it must be much more specific than the simple stick figures, but that was all. Through the patterns, he could only distinguish the heads, arms, legs and some simple movements of these figures, and even the facial features were engraved. is not very clear.

But Wu Liang is still full of interest in these patterns.

At least the pattern is easier to convey some specific information than the ancient characters found on the stele that no one can understand.

It's a pity that the six divided patterns are not marked in order like comic strips. Wu Liang couldn't determine which one he should start from, nor whether he should look from left to right or right to left, so he had to choose randomly. After picking up a picture and starting to look at it, after writing down the content of each picture, try to piece it together again to see whether the six pictures are independent or form a complete event together.

In the first pattern he saw:

Wu Liang saw a group of people stretching their arms around a... It seemed to be a gem, or something else that could be represented by a "dot". The faces of this group of people could clearly see Seeing a smiling face with its mouth bent upwards, it feels like getting a treasure.

Then Wu Liang continued to look to the right in order, in the second picture:
Wu Liang looked as if someone was digging a pit, and someone was watering the pit. It was a scene similar to farming, and there were strips of... plants growing in the pit?The rhizome of the plant is replaced by a single continuous line, with oval leaves growing on it, winding and winding in this way, filling all the empty spaces in the pattern.

"If this is a plant, doesn't it mean those weird plants outside?"

Wu Liang guessed in his heart, then looked at the three patterns, in this pattern:
Wu Liang saw that some people were cutting down trees, some were lifting logs, and some people were squatting on the ground... It seemed that they were making something that was not expressed in the pattern, and beside these people, there appeared a series of pillars made of columns one by one. Something with a sun pattern composed of small dots.

Tomb of the Sun? !

Wu Liang deliberately counted, there are seven circles on the periphery of these small dots, and in its center, there are very regular concentric circles. The tomb of the sun discovered by later generations is arranged in this way!
Therefore, this weird green space, as well as the buildings and "stone statues" in the green space, should have a lot to do with the tomb of the sun that he was looking for!

For Wu Liang, this was naturally a rather surprising discovery.

This proved that he was getting closer to the destination of this trip... But at the same time, he also realized the importance of this ruin.

Until Wu Liang crossed over, the "Tomb of the Sun" was still an unsolved mystery that puzzled the archaeological community.

Which ethnic group is it the cemetery of?
And why is it buried here?

Where do these people live?
Did they use the sun as a totem to build this tomb or does it have other meanings?

To solve the mystery of the "Tomb of the Sun", this relic may be more important than the "Tomb of the Sun" itself, because this relic is the last trace of the life and humanity of the owners of the "Tomb of the Sun" The "Tomb of the Sun" is just a mausoleum where the dead are buried.

Suppressing his excitement, Wu Liang looked at the fourth pattern, in this pattern:

Wu Liang felt that the pattern depicted should be a scene of a war, but it was a war with a huge disparity in the number of people and the outcome was already divided.

The portraits in the pattern are obviously divided into two groups.

The first group is the round-headed people depicted in the previous pattern. These round-headed people are the most numerous and are about to win the wave, because they all maintain a standing posture, and the mouths on their faces are carved with upward provocations. smile.

The other group is square-headed people. The number of these square-headed people is not large, and many people have fallen to the ground. Some people have even separated their heads, and the mouths of these square-headed people are unified. Skimming, looks like a very depressed look.

This is obviously a very biased work.

But in the fifth pattern, the situation has a huge and puzzling reversal:

This should also be a pattern depicting a war scene.

It's just that in this pattern, the square-headed people have become the party with the obvious advantage in numbers. They all maintain a standing posture, and the mouths on their faces are engraved with upward-provoking smiley expressions.

As for the round-headed people, many of them fell to the ground, some of them had their heads separated, and their mouths were all turned downwards.

In addition, there are some square patterns of suspected houses drawn on the back of the round-headed figure in this picture, and on top of these square patterns, some small round-headed figures suspected of being babies are drawn. The mouth is also curled downwards, and there are a few small dots engraved on both sides of the head, which seems to be crying...

In the sixth pattern:

A group of round-headed people kneeled neatly at the foot of a big mountain, with their heads lowered and their arms crossed. They looked very similar to the twenty or so "stone statues" in this room.

On the top of the mountain, there stood a portrait with many more details than the round-headed man and the square-headed man.

This portrait has a head of hair that looks like an afro, and has extremely obvious gender characteristics. This portrait is [-]% a woman.

(End of this chapter)