Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Four

Looking at the pictures on the cave wall, Di Renjie walked slowly in the same direction, saw Li Yuanfang and Di Chun beside him, and said with a smile; People's thoughts are chaotic, you just go on your own, I want to calm down and think about it." Li Yuanfang responded, saw that Di Chun helped Di Renjie, and sat down on a stone platform beside him, knowing Di Renjie's habits, it was not easy to disturb him at this time, so he turned to look at Hu Lvchong and Ayu. The two of them were standing behind the large shell mirror, only to hear Ayu say: "Why don't we destroy this fence."

Li Yuanfang walked around and saw that Hu Luchong seemed to be overwhelmed by Ayu, he was lying down, and wanted to use the Yuejing knife to cut those copper fences. He smiled and thought that he treated those horses and puppies like this, and listened to Ayu's request Letting the mermaid go fits his temperament, even if the sword is broken this time, he probably won't feel any pity. Sure enough, that Yuejing Knife was extremely sharp, cutting off several copper bars in a few strokes. Li Yuanfang praised: "It's a good knife." The cage is broken, you can go out." After speaking, he opened his eyes and stared at the water surface carefully, as if the water waves were shaking slightly, Ayu said happily: "Look, Brother Li, the mermaid must have heard it."

Li Yuanfang smiled, but did not answer.Hu Luchong caressed the precious knife lightly for Gu Zi, thinking to himself that the knife had been given to Li Yuanfang, although he didn't know what to say, he shouldn't have been so careless to chop it with the knife just now, seeing that the blade was intact, he sighed and was lazy Lazily said: "It's my sister, I'm afraid she is hundreds of years old." Ayu was happy, so she didn't pay any attention to it. In a blink of an eye, she saw the big rock in front of the cave wall that didn't fit well with her surroundings. She thought for a while and said, "This rock isn't lava in the cave. Could it be that it was moved here intentionally?"

Li Yuanfang had long thought that the boulder was weird. When Ayu mentioned it, she seemed to think of something. She looked at Hu Luchong and saw that he was also looking at her. The two eyes collided, and it was clear. Chong Tong walked to the side of the boulder and pushed it with all his strength. Although the boulder was big, how could it be stronger than the strength of the two of them? With a sound of "bang", it rolled half a circle, and the edge on the other side fell to the ground, and then it stabilized, only trembling its feet, A Yugang called softly: "Fortunately, this cave hall is strong." Said: "Look!"

When Li Yuanfang, Hu Luchong, and Ayu looked intently, a dark hole appeared behind the big rock, but they didn't know where it led. If you want to pass, you have to shrink your body and half-drill and half-crawl. It really doesn't look like a door.Li Yuanfang leaned over, there was no light inside, and it was not illuminated by those night pearls in the cave hall, there was a faint breeze blowing, it seemed to pass very far, listen carefully, there was also the sound of running water.Looking at the extremely rough edge of the hole, it seems that it was split open in a hurry without chiseling.Li Yuanfang looked back at Hu Lvchong and Ayu, and couldn't make up his mind for a while: whether to go and investigate first.

Just as I was about to tell Di Renjie, I heard Di Chun shout: "General Li, my master invites you all to come here." Di Renjie stood in front of those murals, his expression had disappeared just now, and he smiled and said to everyone: "I thought about it just now, and I roughly understand the ins and outs of this place. When I finish telling this story, you will understand, just as Hou Sizhi said: Don't come to this treasure for nothing. Thousands of years ago, I don't know if it was the ancient times of Fuxi or Dayu in the legend, a tribe lived on the shore of Yiluo, let's call him "Youluo clan". Very superb and unknown technologies, such as the weird bronze beasts we saw, and the turtle Luoshu who opened the cave, these mysterious powers that surprised us and could not be explained should only be in the hands of the tribal leaders at that time. In the hands of the people, they are regarded as gods by ordinary people.

From this point of view, the things hidden in this cave are naturally extraordinary. After seeing the spider, the mermaid, the silver fish and the copper tree, I have a faint feeling that there must be a connection between these things," Di Renjie said Arriving here, pointing to a mural, he said: "Look at this painting, there is a large net hanging on a tree. Although the painting is simple, you can see that this net is very simple and sparse, and there is a person on the left. It seems to be fishing, the net that catches the fish in the hand is obviously much tighter than the one hanging on the tree, the painter drew many lines outside the fish body to express this difference.So I thought that what was hanging was an unfinished fishing net, and judging from the appearance of the two trees, it was most likely the copper trees. "

Li Yuanfang caught Di Renjie's train of thought and guessed: "You mean, those copper trees are tools for weaving nets?" Di Renjie showed approval, nodded and said: "That's right. Moreover, this special fishnet is not entirely woven by humans. One of its makers is those black spiders. We have seen the viscosity of spider silk just now. It is safe and strong, so it may be speculated that people hung the bases of fishing nets on copper trees back then. These half-finished fishing nets are likely to be as in the picture, just a few simple hemp threads, and copper trees were placed by the water. Spiders feed on fish eggs in the river, so their webs are generally not very high. In this way, just like today's peasant women raise silkworms, they first set up a grassy hill and let the silkworms spin silk and cocoon on it. When the harvest season comes, Then it can be picked. In order to prey on food, spiders build their webs on the basis that people have set in advance, and after a while, people come to collect the woven fishnets, and this kind of fishnets is a clever combination of artificial and spider silk. The advantage is that when used, it must be better than a fishing net made of ordinary hemp thread, and more fish can be caught. For the ancestors who lived by the water and made a living by fishing, how important this is! Mastering this technique is equivalent to having divine power.

But spiders don't understand human language, and they can't be raised and domesticated like cattle and sheep. People found that the fish eggs it likes to eat are produced by those small silver fishes, and the small fish seem to be born attached to the "Luo Shen", that is to say Where there are mermaids, there are small silver fishes, and where there are small fishes, there are black spiders that eat fish eggs, so the tribe tried to raise mermaids so that the spiders could produce fishnets for them. net place. As for the entrance being so hidden and difficult to enter, for one thing, there were many tribes in the Central Plains at that time, and they often fought with each other. It seems very mysterious. Furthermore, perhaps people were deeply in awe of heaven and earth at that time. "Luo Shen" should be a holy god in people's hearts. The people respected her and worshiped her, thinking that she should not be disturbed or hurt by the outside world. So it can also be said that this is a temple where the Luo family sacrificed. Maybe they once held a ceremony here to thank the gods for granting them divine power-this is also on the murals. "Di Renjie looked around at the crowd and explained slowly.

Li Yuanfang, Hu Luchong, Ayu, and Di Chun listened quietly, and they really understood everything. Although it is unheard of to use spider silk to make fishing nets, but thousands of years ago, there were no written records. In the years?In the past half a day, which one of what I saw was what I wanted? Seeing the serious expressions on everyone's faces, Ayu stuck out her tongue and said, "In the legend of Luoshen, it was said that she taught people how to make nets and catch fish." Li Yuanfang said: "It seems that they kept the mermaid here. Although they took away her freedom, they also protected her. Otherwise, we would not have seen this mermaid, which may be the last one."

Di Renjie said with a smile: "This is not a case-solving, and there is no evidence. It is just deduced from what I have seen and legends. It seems that this is the only way to make sense." After a pause, he said again: "But this magical fishnet has finally attracted the attention of other tribes. Look at the several connected paintings here." Di Renjie pointed and said: "Here are two different colors. Come to draw people, one is vermilion, same as the people who spread fish and make sacrifices just now, it represents "You Luo Family", but the one they are fighting with is painted in black, it should be from another tribe Enemy, this battle was fought very fiercely. There are many people lying on the ground below, some red and some black. Looking to the right from the picture here, you can see a black team coming by boat. The strange thing is that on the bottom of the mountain and among the characters, there are nine sun-like patterns drawn on the high mountain. I think this may mean that the enemy army took a boat and traveled in the mountains for nine days before they fought against the Youluo clan. Looking to the left from this point, the picture becomes gradually scribbled, as if the painter had smeared a few strokes indiscriminately: all the black enemies have fallen, and there is only one left, chopping something with what looks like a big axe, and on the left, It should also be the end of the whole mural. The black man seems to have finally broken into a house, but was killed by a red man——I guess, this red man is the one who painted the last mural .” Li Yuanfang was already familiar with Di Renjie's deduction method. Hearing the words, he had roughly understood. His eyes flashed, and he said excitedly: "That is to say, there was a war outside this cave, and the cause was most likely because of the people in the cave." Luoshen', the enemy has spent a lot of effort to find a waterway leading here - looking at the painting, it should not be the entrance for us to come in, but need to travel by boat..." Hu Lvchong continued: "Those enemies came in along the underground river, but they were attacked by the Youluo family outside the cave. Many of them were killed in battle, and only one survived. He split the rock, and finally Entering here, it was a pity that they were killed by the "Youluo clan" who were still guarding in the cave. So the remaining people of "Youluo" drew this painting in the cave to record the war, and blocked it with stones The entrance of the cave opened by the enemy." Hu Lvchong spoke faster and faster, his eyes burning hot: "I don't know how long after that, everything in the cave hall has not changed, except for the two things that opened the entrance of 'You Luo' - the Japanese However, the soul mirror and Yuejing knife were scattered into the world, and passed into the hands of Khitan, Gao Changgong, An Jinzang, and me, and this is what happened today." After finishing speaking, he looked at Li Yuanfang, smiled knowingly, and said: "Behind the shell The opening of the cave, which was left during the invasion, should be able to lead to the outside."