Paintings of Terror

Shao Ling's statement gave everyone another way of thinking, but it also made the source of the painting incident even more confusing.

Gu Qingqing summarized in the notebook:

The first possibility is that the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a painting, the origin of the painting event, and the first painting that the painter entered. The reason may be that during the witchcraft activity, a different world was triggered for some reason. It also led to the dark power, and then the dark power sought the opportunity to break through the barrier and enter the world in the form of attracting people into the painting.

The second possibility is that the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a symbol of witchcraft, or witchcraft, and it is used with Jiuding and Diwei to suppress the dark power that originally exists. For some reason, the dark power is set to attract people. Form, looking for an opportunity to break through the barrier and enter the world.

For the time being, everyone was unable to determine which one of these two possibilities belonged. They all fell into thinking. After a while, they heard Ke Xun say: “In fact, we don’t need to fight with these two questions for the time being, because no matter which one is possible, we All need to find Jiuding, so the current investigation direction can be slightly changed, which is to collect information about Jiuding and investigate whether there was anything worthy of attention in Dayu’s era."

Shao Ling looked at him amusedly when he heard the words: "It is probably very difficult to investigate the data of that era, because there is no written evidence passed down in the Xia Dynasty. Even in the Shang Dynasty that followed, there is nothing in the unearthed oracle bone relics. There are only a few words about the existence of the Xia Dynasty, so some historians believe that the Xia Dynasty may never even exist.

"Of course, some cultural relics were later unearthed in our country to prove that they existed in the Xia Dynasty, but the history of the entire Xia Dynasty, except for some records in historical books such as "Shi Ji" and "Zhou Shu", is mostly blank. .

"However, there are dozens of text-like symbols on the Xia Dynasty pottery unearthed at the Erlitou site. Some people speculate that this is the predecessor of the oracle bone inscriptions. However, some scholars say that people in the Xia Dynasty used more wood carvings and knots for notes. , I oppose treating these symbols as words..."

"——Symbol?!" Ke Xun raised his brows suddenly, "Comrades, maybe all the art museum coordinates are connected not as a signature, but a symbol?"

"Haowen, have the simulator results come out?" Mu Yiran asked Zhu Haowen almost immediately when Ke Xun's voice fell.

Zhu Haowen's reaction was not slow, and he immediately showed his laptop display to everyone. The fourteen coordinates plus the coordinates of the next museum to go to are connected, and there may be thousands of graphics that can be formed. Excluding the results of English letters and traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and then importing the Oracle, Bronze and Seal fonts, the images that match the fonts of the fonts will be filtered out."

Everyone stared at the screening program running fast on the screen, waiting for the establishment of an important inference that might come true.

The screen switched rapidly, and the contrast images of various fonts and coordinate points flashed continuously, and just three minutes later, the screen suddenly stopped, a gold inscription and the coordinate point image were superimposed, and the screen displayed: coincidence degree 90 %.

This is the word with the highest degree of coincidence with the coordinate graph in the font library.

Say it is a character, it is more like a kind of pictograph, the center of the character is a cross, the two ends of a horizontal are slightly upturned, there is a point on the left and right, the lower end of a vertical, and then a softened version. The glyph of the word "bow".

The whole character looks like a person kneeling there religiously, raising his arms and holding a flame.

"This word is..." Everyone looked at the comparison table of ancient characters and modern characters that Zhu Haowen tuned out—

"Light!"

"—Light! The white and black in "Shadow"—+ and—positive and negative—additive color mixing is the “light” of all colors mixed together, and the mixed result is the “light” of the “white” color!— -Right!" Wei Dong was incoherent with excitement.

"What is the Bronze inscription?" Fang Fei asked Shao Ling next to him.

"In the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, copper was called gold," Shao Lingqiang suppressed some emotions, and answered her steadily. "The ritual vessels made of bronze are represented by the tripod. The inscription on the tripod is called Zhong Dingwen, also called Zhong Dingwen. Bronze."

"--Ding! Bronze! Light!" Luo Yu shouted, clenched his fists with both hands.

"What's the difference between Bronze and Oracle?" Zhu Haowen asked Shao Ling next to him.

"Bronze inscriptions were born out of oracle bone inscriptions, and it is said that it began in the late Shang Dynasty," Shao Ling said while thinking. "Although there is no record of written circulation in the Xia Dynasty, the absence of excavations does not mean that there is no.

"You must know that during the Shang Dynasty, Oracle already had a fairly mature and complete writing system, which proves that the Oracle before the Shang must have a gradual process of maturity.

"And it was Xia before the Shang. In a sense, the Xia Dynasty probably had the embryonic form of the early oracle bone inscriptions. The inscriptions were born out of oracle bone inscriptions, and the oracle bone inscriptions were probably born out of - let's call it'Xia Wen' for now. The word'light', it is not impossible to say that it is a'Xia Wen'!"

"I didn't understand until now," Ke Xun said, "It turns out that the hint of the painting "Funny Days" may not only be witches, but-text. This oracle bone inscription composed of art gallery coordinate points is "Funny Days" A hint to us!"

"Oh, my goose bumps are all up!" Wu You exclaimed and rubbed his arms straight.

"Then the word'light' here, is it a signature or a symbol?" Qin Ci asked.

"...It feels possible." Wei Dong said.

"If it's a signature, I'm afraid it's really scary to think carefully," Zhu Haowen said, "As Ke Xun suspected before, the real world we are in is probably a painting, and the word'light' , Maybe it is the signature of the author of this painting."

"Brother Wen'er--you scared me to death--" Luo Ling was particularly afraid of hearing this, and pulled the down jacket that someone had thrown on the sofa into a ball and hugged him tightly.

Shao Ling: "..." Mine. Let it go.

"And if it's a symbol," Mu Yiran, who hadn't spoken for a long time, answered Zhu Haowen's words, "it is very likely to be a witch talisman, then maybe it confirms our other guess: the map of mountains and seas on Jiuding, In fact, they are all graphics related to witchcraft. There are witch dances, witch costumes, methods of witchcraft, and symbols that represent the content of witchcraft."

"Actually... the most incredible thing is the scale of the word'light'," Gu Qingqing had awe and a little dazed in his eyes. "If it is a witchcraft, then who can'depict' this symbol on such a large span? What about the ground? People in the Xia Dynasty want to walk all over these places, I am afraid it will take a lifetime..."

"...So, in fact, the word'light' is still a signature?" Wei Dong swallowed, "So this world is still a painting, and people outside of the painting sign their names on the painting. Of course there is no difficulty..."

Luo Yu: "Hey..."

"The program just now shows that the coincidence degree is 90%, that is, the coordinate points that have appeared are connected to complete 90% of the word'light'," Ke Xun felt his chin, "Ge Qin said of the painting "Lingshu" It implies the relationship between each art museum and the entire painting event. I think this is only one of them. It also implies one point, that is, every time we conquer a painting, it is like opening up an acupuncture point on the Rendu Meridian. Similarly, now we have cleared 90% of the acupuncture points. When we clear all the acupuncture points, we will complete a complete signature. Maybe then we will find the signature just like every painting we conquered. You can leave the world of painting."

Luo Yu: "Hey... Brother, what do you mean is that we might leave the current world at that time and go to the world that we have never seen before? But we... We were born in this world. Yes, what can you do outside? There is no home outside without relatives and friends, and the creatures in the outside world are uncertain what kind of creatures are like, we...paper people, go outside and not be blown when the wind blows Has it disappeared?"

Everyone: "..."

Ke Xun: "You have a lot of imagination."

Luo Wei: "Now is not the time to praise me, brother."

"Stupid boy, do you think we have other choices?" Ke Xun looked at him, "We only have two choices. Either all die in the painting, or we can only do our best to reach the end, even if we wait at the end. It may be unimaginable for us. Anyway, I am not reconciled to just die like this. Which one do you want to choose?"

Luo Ling rubbed his eyes: "Of course I will follow you."

"Then come back to the word'light'," Ke Xun looked at everyone, "If it is a signature, then we can only continue to break through the painting, try to'write' the word completely, and then see what happens. . And if it is a witch charm, it is likely to have some witchcraft power, according to Yi Ran’s previous speculation, perhaps the word “light” is used to seal the dark power beneath the ground, do you think What?"

"Then, what do our Jiuding and Diwei bones do?" Wei Dong asked.

"Maybe it's for'blessing'." Wu You said, "My grandmother writes a lot of amulets in cinnabar and yellow paper every New Year's Eve. They are used to give to friends and relatives who come to ask for amulet. Take the paper directly to someone, but sew it into a red small bag, or wrap it in red paper and make a triangle. I feel that this red cloth or paper bag is a kind of yellow paper talisman inside. Blessing, maybe Jiuding and Diwei also have this role."

"It makes sense." Everyone nodded in agreement with this speculation.

"So sum it up," Zhu Haowen said, "This character'light', which is connected to a huge witch talisman with landmarks as nodes, was produced in the Xia Dynasty. If it was used to suppress the dark power beneath the ground, it would indicate This power came into being during the Xia Dynasty and had a bad influence-otherwise there is no need to restrain it, then the question is here: What major incident happened during the Xia Dynasty?"

"But Mr. Shao said, the historical records of the Xia Dynasty are almost blank. Where can I check this?" Weidong worried.

"If such a strange and bizarre thing can happen, I don't believe that there will be no relevant records at that time." Ke Xun said, "Even if there are few or no words, images can always be drawn? The mountain and sea can be drawn, but Wouldn't it be possible to draw a major event related to witchcraft? President Shao, think about it again, have Xia Dynasty unearthed cultural relics with paintings?

Shao Ling reluctantly shook his head: "I told you this-the historical period before the Xia Dynasty, there were no written records, only oral legends, so it is called the age of legends or the age of myths. There are written records or unearthed cultural relics. The era of social conditions at that time, called the era of letter history, began at the end of the Shang Dynasty.

"The period between the age of legend and the age of letter history is called the age of half-believing history. This'half-believing' does not mean half-believing, but during this period, some historical events were confirmed to exist through unearthed cultural relics, and some, Such as those half-human and half-god heroes, weird and bizarre spirits and monsters still appear in the oral history of this period. Therefore, the half-belief history era is a real and proven historical event, with myths and legends and oral history. The era of coexistence of events.

"The semi-belief history period can be regarded as a transitional period from the legendary period to the believing history period. This transitional period is very long, more than 1,500 years. And it has a very significant feature, that is, the blank period.

"If you compare the semi-belief history period to a long white paper banner, then the real historical events that have been proven to exist are like a few ink marks that only appear every tens or hundreds of meters on this white banner. Most of the places on the banners are blank.

"This kind of empty blank period has appeared many times, sometimes even for hundreds of years. It has no historical records, no myths and legends. It is like being drawn away from all the vacuums. It was terribly quiet, and posterity had no idea what had happened in such a long time.

"The entire early period of the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty were in the semi-belief history period. The historical blank time was too long and too much. It is not that it is difficult to check the information, but there is no information to check..."

"...This period of half-belief history is really mysterious..." Wu You exclaimed, "I feel that there is a kind of... weird and deliberately quiet in those completely blank time periods, as if a long piece of text was deliberately used. The eraser erased a few words in it."

"--Wait," Ke Xun opened his eyes, looking at Mu Yiran and Shao Ling, "Wu You's words are very reasonable-will those blank periods be erased from history by some force? 'What about it?"

This remark made everyone shocked by the tiger's body. Shao Ling's breathing was a little bit short, and he raised his eyebrows: "It's not impossible... But it should also be considered whether there is actually written text at the time, if there is no text Of course, there is no historical record left...nor...there are still historical facts confirmed by unearthed cultural relics. It is unreasonable that historical traces appear again after a few hundred years. These hundreds of years are blank. ......It is not normal......"

Mu Yiran was more composed than him. After thinking about it, he said, "Perhaps, this is the real reason why Dayu cast Jiuding?"

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This painting is over, welcome everyone to join me in the next painting, which is also the penultimate painting~

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