Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 450 Hands under the sand! (4000)

this woman...

Wu Liang raised his head subconsciously to compare with the stone statue on the stone platform—very similar!
It also has curly long wavy hair and a plump figure. Although the "fangs" on the face are not clearly depicted in the pattern, there are more than 20 stone statues and patterns in the location visited by this stone statue. The etiquette of those round-headed people is almost exactly the same, it is not difficult to judge that the two should be the same person.

It's just that there is a curved arc behind the woman in the pattern, and some horizontal lines seem to be specially carved on the arc, which looks very much like a cylindrical tail...

and many more!

When Wu Liang looked up to compare this stone statue again, he suddenly found that this stone statue also seemed to have a tail.

It's just that due to the craftsmanship and materials, it is difficult to express the tail independently on this stone statue, so it has to be connected with her lower body, and a small tail is separated until it reaches the ankle. If you don't pay attention It's really hard to find if you look at it.

Fangs...

Tail……

Wu Liang was very surprised by this maverick image. Did the more special otaku culture of the later generations appear as early as thousands of years ago?
Obviously not the case, the beast mother in front of her is obviously a kind of faith, a kind of worship that is out of vulgar taste.

So……

Wu Liang pondered deeply, and then a female mythical image that appeared countless times in the ancient books and legends of the Celestial Dynasty emerged—the Queen Mother of the West!

"Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Xi Jing" has a cloud: "South of the West Sea, on the shore of the quicksand, behind the Chishui, there is a big mountain called Kunlun Hill. There is a god, a human face and a tiger body, with writing and tail, all white. There is an abyss of weak water below it, and outside it is a mountain of flames, where things are thrown. There is a man with a hoopoe, tiger teeth, and a leopard tail. The hole is called Queen Mother of the West."

Fluffy hair!

Tiger teeth!

Leopard tail!

These three extremely distinctive features matched this stone statue one by one, and they were unique. It was not at all difficult for Wu Liang to think of her identity.

The records about the Queen Mother of the West appeared as early as the "Gui Zang" of the Shang Dynasty and the "Book of Changes" of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In both ancient books, it was said that "the Queen Mother of the West possesses a kind of immortality medicine" or "The Queen Mother of the West can give people Years make people live forever".

"Mu Tianzi Biography" also recorded that King Mu of Zhou met the "Queen Mother of the West" when he led his army to the west for many times, and the relevant year was also confirmed by the bronze guijin inscriptions discovered by later generations. King Mu of Zhou did indeed Several wars were launched against the Quanrong tribe occupying the northwest Gansu-Shaanxi area.

In other words, the fact that King Mu of Zhou met the "Queen Mother of the West" may not be a myth or legend, but a historical fact.

Here comes another problem.

The Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty were hundreds of thousands of years apart. In the Shang Dynasty, there was a record of the "Queen Mother of the West". In the Zhou Dynasty, King Mu of Zhou met the "Queen Mother of the West" in person. Could it be that the "Queen Mother of the West" really possessed the magic medicine of immortality, so Can it span hundreds of thousands of years without dying?

There have been various speculations about the later generations, and the "West Queen Mother" has become more and more mythical, and eventually became the supreme queen mother in Taoism.

However, some scholars have made another speculation based on a few words from historical materials in different periods. They believe that the "Queen Mother of the West" is not actually a certain person, but the leader of a powerful matrilineal clan tribe in the Northwest China at that time. Hundreds of thousands of years, then the "Queen Mother of the West" naturally existed for hundreds of thousands of years.

In this way, the Shang Dynasty already had the "Queen Mother of the West", and King Zhou Mu of the Zhou Dynasty personally met the "Queen Mother of the West", which can be explained without mythological elements.

In Wu Liang's previous life, he was more inclined to this more scientific and reasonable speculation.

He doesn't believe in the so-called "elixir of life", because there has never been an "immortal" person in official history, and those who are struggling to find the "elixir of life" often end up with nothing good. It is a very typical negative example.

It's just that before he traveled, scholars did not find any records and cultural relics of ancient countries, ancient tribes, or forces that could match the "Queen Mother of the West", so this speculation has not been confirmed.

And in this life, after experiencing many things that cannot be explained by science, Wu Liang will not jump to conclusions easily when encountering any strange things, so as not to make mistakes because of this.

But one thing Wu Liang is certain of.

It is very possible that the prototype of this stone statue is the "Queen Mother of the West"!
The first is the geographical location. It is located in the Western Regions, which is very close to the Kunlun Mountains where the "Queen Mother of the West" is located in the historical records. It may even be the site of the "Queen Mother of the West" a long time ago. geographical factors;

The second is the shape. Although the shape of this stone statue cannot be said to be exactly the same as the "Queen Mother of the West" in the records, it can be said to be exactly the same.

And if this stone statue is directly regarded as the "Queen Mother of the West"...

Wu Liang looked at the six "comics" again, trying to interpret the stories told in the "comics".

Looking at the order of his reading just now, the stories he associates seem a little weird and unsmooth:

A group of round-headed people got a "gem" or something, and then planted those weird plants outside, and then built the tomb of the sun, and then started fighting with the square-headed people, fighting, fighting, The round-headed man, who was originally outnumbered and powerful, lost his advantage for some reason, and the square-headed man turned defeat into victory. Finally, the defeated round-headed man knelt in front of the "Queen Mother of the West" and became a follower or captive of the "Queen Mother of the West". ?

"It's unreasonable..."

No matter how you look at this story, it is very unreasonable, and it gives Wu Liang a strange feeling.

It is not difficult to see that those round-headed people are the protagonists of these "comics", and the people who carved these patterns should also be on the side of the round-headed people.

Otherwise, they should not occupy most of the pages of the "comics", and they appear in every pattern, while Fangtouren and "Queen Mother of the West" only appear in one or two patterns.

But according to Wu Liang's reading order, the story is associated.

For these "protagonists", it is obviously a heart-wrenching tragedy. Not only does such a tragedy not have any sense of substitution for these "protagonists", it is even a great shame... It is not only the Internet novels of later generations that need a sense of substitution The stories and legends inherited by a nation or tribe also need a sense of substitution, just like the "Qiang Ge War" mentioned before, as an epic legend of the Qiang people, it must be the "protagonist" of the Qiang people who won the victory. Otherwise, there would be no market, and it would be impossible to pass it down, let alone engrave it into stone paintings.

Do you try your best?
Even if you try your best, you have to turn defeat into victory in the end, not turn victory into defeat.

Also.

Don't forget the "gem" in the pattern, it can be seen from the picture that it is something that the round-headed man regards as the most precious thing, but according to the story that Wu Liang now associates, that thing has no effect at all. Its role was not taken away by the Fangtouren, just like the protagonist in the novel got a heaven-defying artifact, but knowing that the protagonist died in battle at the end of the story, this heaven-defying artifact did not play any role, and did not even show his face But, how can this make sense?

There is also that kind of weird plant planted by the round-headed man. It didn't play any role, and it was completely dispensable. What was it carved out for?
"Tomb of the Sun" too.

Later generations of archeology have determined that the "Tomb of the Sun" is an ancient tomb, not any other relics of totems, but shouldn't the cemetery for burying the dead be built after the war?
Therefore, there are many places in the logic that cannot be explained. Wu Liang thinks that the order of reading the "comics" should be wrong...

Fortunately, these patterns are placed there, just like giving Wu Liang a few words and asking him to form a fluent sentence.

This is the course that later generations will learn in elementary school Chinese classes, and it should be even simpler, because these "comic strips" must be in order, either from the left or from the right, and they will never be disrupted. Now he You only need to find the first pattern, and judge the correct sequence two years later to interpret the correct story.

He squatted beside the stone platform and meditated for a moment.

"Could it be so?"

Wu Liang saw a story that was a happy ending for the round-headed man, and the "gem"-shaped thing and those plants all played their due roles.

It is still viewed from left to right, but from the penultimate pattern just now:
Relying on their large numbers, the square-headed people waged war against the round-headed people, killing their relatives, occupying their homes, and burning down their houses.

The remaining round-headed people had to leave their homes and go to Kunlun Mountains to ask the Queen Mother of the West for help.

So Queen Mother Xi gave them a strange "seed" instead of the gem that Wu Liang had guessed before.

The round-headed man brought the "seed" back and planted a strange plant.

Then they built the "Tomb of the Sun" according to the instructions of the Queen Mother of the West.

With the "help" of this strange plant and the "Tomb of the Sun", the round-headed people have enough troops, and finally they work together to defeat the square-headed people and regain their own home...

From this point of view, this "comic strip" has become a mythical story with the main theme of resisting the invaders and finally turning defeat into victory to defend their homeland.

Wu Liang made many attempts to determine that this is the most reasonable and reasonable story among all the combinations, and all the things that appear in the pattern have corresponding uses.

But there are still some bugs in this story that Wu Liang cannot explain.

What role did the peculiar plants and the "Tomb of the Sun" play in the story, or how did they play a role in making the round-headed people surpass the square-headed people, and finally turned defeat into victory?
Wu Liang had seen the plants outside before, and they didn't look like crops that could provide food for the round-headed people.

As for the "Tomb of the Sun", for the Yuantou people who left their hometowns, it will only consume their insufficient labor force and cannot directly provide them with any help.

So it doesn't seem very reasonable to say that the round-headed people rely on these two things to prosper, after many years, they finally prospered, and finally successfully completed their revenge...

Also.

The true ending of the story does not seem to be drawn in these "comic strips".

The real ending should be that these round-headed people did not die in the end. Although they defeated the square-headed people and took back their homeland, they did not know what happened. They all turned into lifelike stone statues and stayed forever in the Among the ruins of this strange world.

of course.

This ending may not necessarily have any direct connection with the content in the "comics", but it just provides a guessing possibility for Wu Liang, a passer-by who doesn't know the truth...

……

Keeping the content of the "comic picture" in his heart secretly, Wu Liang looked around the communal house again, but did not see anything else worthy of attention.

"Let's go out first and see if there are any other clues."

Wu Liang glanced at the statue of "Queen Mother of the West" for the last time, and finally said to Dian Wei.

He felt that it was necessary to further study the strange plants scattered throughout the ruins. Although he was not a professional botanist, he was able to further understand some of the characteristics of this plant through sampling, and try to figure out the difference between this plant and ordinary plants. difference between.

So far, the "Tomb of the Sun" has not been found, so the plants that also appear in the "comic strip" have become the most accessible breakthrough right now.

So come outside.

Wu Liang didn't touch the strange plants that were clinging to the wall, because this plant was like a creeper, and would protrude some tentacles-like tiny rhizomes at intervals, and these rhizomes had already grown into the outer layer of the wall. In the dry mud, if you pull it hard, it is likely to damage the wall, so there is no need for this.

He took out the copper dagger and chose to sample the plants growing in the sand under his feet.

"Crack!"

When the copper dagger was cutting down on a plant root about one finger thick, Wu Liang didn't feel any obvious resistance, just like cutting an extremely ordinary weed.

However, after cutting it off, there was a blood-like red mark on the side of the copper dagger.

"The sap of this plant is actually red?"

Wu Liang doesn’t know many plants with red juice. The more common ones are the fruits of some plants, such as red dragon fruit, cherry, tomato, etc., which are common in supermarkets, but these juices usually exist in the fruit. rather than in the roots.

Wu Liang glanced at the incision made by the copper dagger on the root of the plant.

There was indeed red juice oozing out slowly, and after a few seconds, it finally condensed into tiny droplets...

Just as Wu Liang was concentrating on checking.

"Shh!"

Suddenly a hand stretched out from the soft sand under his feet!
This hand seemed to have eyes, and it grabbed Wu Liang's ankle!

"!!!"

Wu Liang was completely unprepared, he just felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to the sky, and the hairs all over his body stood on end!

He jumped up like a conditioned reflex, but this hand held him tightly, and he couldn't jump up at all!

(End of this chapter)