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Gu Fengchun quickly analyzed these ruined pictures in his mind. It seemed that this was describing a large-scale sacrifice.

The relief carving techniques are ancient and clumsy, and the lines are relatively blunt, but Gu Fengchun can clearly see that the people on the portraits are very tall, and some people wear exaggerated and huge masks on their faces. These looks very powerful, so Gu Fengchun Chun judged that the identities of these masked people were very high.Gu Fengchun vaguely felt that this kind of attire was very familiar. Gu Fengchun knew very well that in ancient sacrificial rituals, wearing a mask to hold ceremonies was the most commonly used attire for wizards.

In the primitive period, the status of the people with theocratic power was very noble, because they were responsible for communicating with the gods, and they were equivalent to the spiritual leaders of the tribe, and some wizards also held the position of tribal leaders.

From the first relief, there are a total of eleven masked people kneeling on the high altar. People, in the depiction of rough lines, Gu Fengchun felt that, except for the priests kneeling on the altar wearing the same expressionless masks, the expressions of the people kneeling below seemed to be desperate.

What makes people so desperate?Gu Fengchun couldn't figure it out.The consecutive pictures are all describing the process of sacrifice.What surprised Gu Fengchun was that during the sacrificial process, eleven masked priests ended their lives with sharp weapons one after another.In every frame, a priest gave his life.

Gu Fengchun is familiar with the wars between tribes in ancient times, and the captured people in the wars are usually killed to sacrifice to the gods of the tribes. Only the strong labor force will be used as slaves to enslave them to obtain surplus value.But Gu Fengchun couldn't understand that in ancient times, the priests in the tribe were even asked to offer sacrifices.These all symbolize the authority and sacredness of the tribe!What happened to make these noble priests replace slaves as sacrifices on the altar?Gu Fengchun was very troubled by the contents of the relief.After watching these pictures, he had already walked several hundred meters slowly into the corridor.

Ye Ya was not idle for a moment, after he gave Zhou Dingxuan the potion, he dragged him and Liu Wensheng to one side, and after they were side by side, he took out a miniature camera to take pictures of the relief on the other side of the stone wall.Gu Fengchun only saw a relief on a stone wall, but Ye Ya took the initiative to take pictures of the ones that Gu Fengchun didn't see.Intuition told him that he must collect such precious information.He calculated the time in his mind, Zhou Dingxuan and Liu Wensheng would probably be able to wake up within 10 minutes, and after Zhou Dingxuan woke up, they would continue to move forward.

Pictures are different from words. Words from different eras may not be intelligible to people. As for patterns, as long as they are not the works of symbolist and abstract painters, most people should be able to understand what the painting is about.Although Ye Ya doesn't know much about ancient characters, the reliefs of the ancients are not hard to get him.From the first picture at the beginning, it depicts a war, a fight between tribes, the two sides are going on very tragically, and there are many aggressive animals involved in it, Ye Ya secretly wondered: What?In ancient times, were people able to domesticate tigers and lions?What made Ye Ya curious was that there was a circle and a square on top of people's heads.Because in the first few pictures, these two things almost appeared at the same time.The round one can be interpreted as the sun, but what is the square one?

As the picture continued to change, Ye Ya's expression gradually became serious.The people who were fighting in the picture suddenly scattered around, as if something was chasing them, and after a while, these fleeing people fell to the ground one after another, and the ground opened a huge gap, swallowing those who could not escape , Then the huge lang swept the earth, this huge lang was just like the ones they saw just now.There are fleeing people and animals everywhere, but their last struggle against the wrath of nature seems so powerless, and countless people and animals have been drowned.

Ye Ya was in a cold sweat watching this scene, if the ancients had not experienced it personally, it would be absolutely impossible to record this scene so realistically.Ye Ya immediately discovered that the tragedies depicted on the relief were not limited to this, the relief immediately behind the giant wolf was billowing thick smoke, covering the sky, magma spraying, of course there were many people running away in panic, more Many people lay on the ground and howled in despair, waiting for the final tragic encounter of fate.Although the relief pictures are rough, Ye Ya can clearly feel the panic and helplessness in the hearts of the characters inside.

Ye Ya sighed deeply. He turned his head to look at Gu Fengchun, who was still intoxicated by the relief pictures, and couldn't help but sigh loudly: "Looking at these pictures, it's the end of the world!"

Gu Fengchun was still burying his head in sorting out his own thoughts. After hearing Ye Ya's words, he asked strangely, "How?" What he saw was different from Ye Ya's. He only saw a group of priests wearing masks. Wiping neck.He was still thinking that these priests had a sense of déjà vu.

Ye Ya approached Gu Fengchun only to realize that the scenes they saw were not the same.Ye Ya's eyes quickly fixed on the last scene.The priests who poured the altar were all lying face up.He froze for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Why is this face so familiar?" Gu Fengchun also nodded, and said, "I remember these faces are very familiar, but even if I don't remember where I saw them?"

Zhou Dingxuan had come to his senses. Hearing the discussion between the two, he also slowly approached. He took a look and said, "Aren't these the bronze masks in the Sanxingdui cultural system?"

Of course the two of them knew what Zhou Dingxuan was talking about the bronze mask.The two thought about it carefully, and immediately thought of the thirteen huge bronze masks unearthed from Pit No. [-] of Yinxu in Henan Province and the mask on the head of the priest on the relief in front of them, and then they took a deep breath.That's right, you don't need to look at anything else, just look at the huge longitudinal eyes, and you can judge it immediately.I used to lie on the pile of bronze masks to do research for several days, how could I suddenly lose my memory and forget about it?But Ye Ya said dumbfounded: "Professor Zhou, are you saying that those bronze masks are worn by these people?" Ye Ya has not forgotten how wide these bronze masks are, and how terrifying their weight is; if they can really be worn On the face, how tall and big were the people in ancient times?When Ye Ya thought of this question, his heart skipped a beat, and he thought: Is such a person still a human being?

After hearing Ye Ya's puzzled words, Gu Fengchun's brains turned very quickly. He couldn't help but carefully looked at the mask on the priest's face, and he didn't forget to compare the people kneeling on the ground with the mask on the altar. The height ratio of the standing priest.He really found that there seems to be a big gap between the proportions of the priests on the altar and the kneeling people. At first he didn't take this issue to heart, because at the beginning he thought it was the original artists. Artistic processing, this is just to highlight the noble image of the priests.Gu Fengchun changed his mind: If this is all realistic, then wouldn't the priest on the altar be as tall as the sum of four or five normal people?God, is this possible?