Chapter 16 Chapter 16 The Hidden Mural

When the ape-man and I walked into the cave, we saw five ape-men inside, all looking fierce and vicious, while Xinhong and Chen Jing were being crushed to the ground by those five ape-men, and their bodies were drawn out by the ape-man's claws. There was a little blood.At this time, the ape-man next to me staggered over and murmured at those ape-men, and they let go of Xinhong and Chen Jing. I also breathed a sigh of relief.I'm so happy to have found them again, I was really scared to death just now in that muddy hole that forked.Xinhong and the others struggled to stand up from the ground, and Chen Jing immediately opened fire: "We were captured by these things just now, why did you go on your own and not come to help us?"

"Didn't you tell me not to look back?" I was really wronged. "Okay, okay, Chen Jing, don't talk about it, if it weren't for Jinwei, we would have been eaten by them." It's better to believe in Hong, knowing how to tell right from wrong.I told them what happened later, and Chen Jing was surprised that there were such complicated caves and rare ape-man under the temple.It has been almost two days since we went down to the cave, and now we are very hungry, but there is no food around us, so we can't kill these apes to eat.At this time, an ape-man walked out of the cave with clumsy steps.For two days, we have not slept for two days in a row.Although the place is full of the stench of apes, we have no choice but to make up for it first, and just sleep for a while.The deep fatigue made me fall asleep quickly.In the dream I saw my parents, they were running and I kept chasing, but they couldn't seem to see me or hear my voice.In the end they ran into the darkness, and Uncle Zou appeared in front of me in costumes from the Eastern Han Dynasty. He said, "After you find it, I will tell you a secret...but...kill the king... ...Otherwise..." Uncle Zou disappeared again.There are still some trivial past events in the dream. Mom and Dad come and go in front of me, go and come again, over and over again.I don't know how long we slept, and finally woke up.Those apes were watching us from the sidelines, there were a few fish beside them, they were fish!How did they get it? There really is an exit here!The ape-man probably meant to tell us to eat these fish to satisfy our hunger, so we put the fish on the endless wood and roasted it for a while before gobbling it up.The wounded simian, now very weak, stared blankly at me.It was awkward to be looked at by him like this, so I tore off a large piece of fish meat and handed it to its mouth, and the ape man immediately opened his mouth and ate the fish meat.I have seen the poison of Yinlihong before, but there is no way to save it now. I have to find Paul and take back Jiusuihe to save this ape-man.

"By the way, Jinwei. In a dream just now..." Xinhong dragged on for a long time. I knew he dreamed about his father too, and I said, "What's that secret? What secret is Uncle Zou going to tell us, and what will that 'king' be?" "I think there is a reason for him to say that. As for the 'king', I don't know. I can only take one step at a time." Xinhong said while eating fish. I suddenly remembered that Chen Jing hadn't told us what the last spirit tree was, and just as I was about to ask her something, I heard her shout: "Come and see here."

Chen Jing stood beside a stone wall, feeling the stone wall with her hands, but she didn't know what she was doing.There is nothing on the dark gray stone wall, I really don't know what Chen Jing told us to look at.I complained about her fuss, what's so good about a stone wall.She asked us to take a closer look at the stone wall, but I still didn't see anything, it was just a stone wall, which made me think it was a wall made of gold.Xinhong said that this wall is indeed a bit weird. "What's so weird, tell me, don't be so mysterious!" I really can't bear the torture of half-speaking.

"Didn't you notice that the color of this stone wall is different from the other stone walls?" Xinhong pointed it out to me.Sure enough, except for this stone wall which is dark gray, the other sides are all dark black.Although thousands of years have passed here, why is the color of the stone wall different?This should not be a masterpiece of nature.I also imitated Chen Jing and touched the stone wall with her hands. The feeling on the hands was very rough.I ran to the other stone walls and touched them. It felt very smooth in my hands. That stone wall is man-made!I remembered that there was no concrete in ancient times. When we Chinese built the Great Wall, the bricks were fermented with glutinous rice, eggs and lime.When I was in college, I went to the Great Wall once, and touched the bricks there, and the feeling was exactly the same as when I touched this stone wall!No wonder it felt so familiar to me just now.Xinhong and Chen Jing also guessed that this is a man-made stone wall, but they don't understand why the ancients took so much trouble to build another stone wall here. Is it because the original stone wall is ugly?

"Can you tell me why there is such a stone wall here?" Chen Jing said. "Could it be that they made it out of their idle time?" I couldn't think of any tricks. "Have you ever read a Sherlock Holmes written by Conan Doyle?" Xinhong asked. "What did you say?" I didn't understand what Xinhong was saying at this time. "The novel tells about a very lazy man who suddenly changed his laziness in the past and painted the whole house. In fact, he couldn't transport the corpse out after killing his wife and the wife's lover, but the corpse It was starting to rot and stink so he used the strong smell of paint to cover up the stench."

"What did you say, you said there was a dead person behind?" I was surprised by Xinhong's answer. "It doesn't have to be a dead person, it's just to cover up something, so I made a fake stone wall on the distant stone wall." Xinhong said. "What's in that wall that's worth covering it up like this?" I said. "Break it open and see if you can see." After Chen Jing finished speaking, she looked for stones in the cave, but there was not a single movable stone in the cave. The three of us turned around and couldn't find it. Finally, I found a relatively large stone under the buttocks of an ape-man.Chen Jing wanted to drive away the ape-man, but it refused to give up, insisting on sitting on it.I walked over to hug it, and the stench from it immediately came to my nostrils.I pushed it with great difficulty, and I lifted the stone and smashed it on the artificial stone wall. After hitting it for a while, the stone wall fell down one after another.Maybe it was very humid here, because there are stalactites thousands of years ago outside this cave, so it means that there used to be a lot of water here.Behind the man-made stone wall is a mural that has faded to a blurred color. It turned out to be a mural in a cave!I was really shocked, because no cave paintings have been found in China so far, but many murals or petroglyphs outside caves have been found.In recent decades, Chinese archaeologists have successively discovered cliff paintings in fifteen provinces and autonomous regions, from Heilongjiang in the north to Cangyuan in Yunnan in the south; from Taiwan in the east to Kunlun Mountain in Xinjiang in the west. Cliff paintings of different eras, themes and styles.This is the first time that ancient cave paintings have been discovered!The murals are very strange and very simple.The paintings on the top are scattered places, each place seems to have something in it, and the paintings on the bottom of the stone wall are a group of people or should be said to be gods, because they are all stepping on clouds under their feet.Those people are worshiping, and seem to respect these things.This painting is very ordinary. Why did someone hide it? There must be some mystery in it that we haven't guessed.

"Where do you think these ten places are?" Chen Jing said while looking at the mural carefully. "Then do you think these places are arranged in order on purpose or drawn randomly?" Xinhong didn't answer Chen Jing, but asked her this way. "Don't you think that the first place will be the Tianshan Temple?" I said. These ten places are from left to right. The first one is a mountain with three peaks, and then there is a hole below it. There is something in the hole. It is hard to see what it is.The reason why I think the first one is the Tianshan Temple is because of the top of Bogda Peak, three peaks stand side by side, and the easternmost peak is Bogda Peak, which is 5445 meters above sea level. It is known as "the first peak of Eastern Tianshan Mountain"; Peak"; the westernmost is "Holy Peak".And isn't there a temple under these three peaks?I think the first picture must be the Tianshan Temple.And the things placed in this Tianshan Temple are likely to be the handed down fetishes that Chen Jing said.It's just that I don't know if these ten murals are arranged in a certain way on purpose, and I don't know where the rest of these ten places are except Tianshan Mountain.

"I think we'd better get out of here quickly and go up to the ground." Chen Jing said. "Okay, I can't stand the smell here either." I said, holding my nose. "It seems that you didn't step on these ape man's feces just now." Xinhong squatted down while talking. "Why do I feel like it belongs to us humans?" I looked carefully under the shoes again. "There is no one else here besides us, that foreigner is still above us!" Chen Jing said. "Let's go up first, these apes must know the way after being here for so long. Jin Wei, try asking them to take us out." Xinhong said, patting me on the shoulder.

The rough black skin of the wounded ape-man had already glowed a lot of red, and it seemed that it would not be able to hold on any longer.I walked over and gestured with my hand, indicating to them that we should go to the top of the hole, and asked them if they knew where the exit was.The few apes barked uncontrollably after realizing it, as if they were afraid of something.I stroked the injured ape-man lightly, then stood up and shook my head helplessly at Xinhong and the others. "Could it be that there are some scary things on it, why are they so scared?" Chen Jing asked uneasily.

"It doesn't matter, we can only find our own way, we can't stay here forever." I shrugged. After a short rest, we slowly climbed up and left the ape-man cave.The ape-men stayed behind to take care of the wounded ape-man.After we came up, Chen Jing said that this place used to be a cave full of stalactites. I don't know what made it dry, so there is no way to maintain the original state.No wonder there are so many protruding stones here.We started circling in this cave again, we should have brought a compass when we came here, otherwise we wouldn't be unable to find our way like now.Suddenly, there were loud noises from the roof of the cave above our heads, as if someone was dragging a heavy object.It's useless to think wildly now, I'd better find the hole and go up first. "It seems that you haven't told me how you know there is such a temple on Tianshan Mountain." Chen Jing asked suddenly. "I don't know how to say it, I'm afraid you won't believe me if I tell you." Xinhong said. "Is there anything strange in the world, just tell me!" Chen Jing seemed very disapproving. "My father asked me to come here. The only words he left me before he died." Xinhong thought of Uncle Zou, and felt a little sad again. "I'm wondering, how did your father know about this place? And that Paul, he is so familiar with this place, it's really hard to understand!" Chen Jing said. "Actually, I don't know what my dad wants us to do here. We are here to find out how my dad died." Xinhong replied. "Don't you know how your father died?" Chen Jing asked suspiciously. Xinhong calmly told Chen Jing about our affairs one by one. She seemed to be having a hard time accepting it. Looking at her, she probably thought that we were lying to her.At this time, the dull sound came from above the cave again, one after another.I suddenly saw a person running past not far away, but he seemed to be naked.I told Xinhong and Chen Jing what I had discovered, and they seemed to be looking at a mental patient, clearly not believing me.However, how could there still be people in this temple that has gone through thousands of years, there should be no one else except us and Paul, and that person is not wearing clothes.Chen Jing repeatedly scolded me for being unclean and had great doubts about my character.I also prefer that I have been in the dark for a long time before I have strange hallucinations. Not long after, I saw a few naked people running around again, and they disappeared in a flash.I want to tell Xinhong and Chen Jing, but they won't believe me, not even myself.How could there be so many people in this cave, and they didn't come here to go to the market, and they didn't wear clothes.Suddenly there was a continuous muffled sound from above the cave, from far to near, and from near to far. "What's going on here, why are there always strange voices coming down here." Chen Jing said. "Could it be that Paul was doing something up there that made such a loud noise." I said. "He said that he still has a sister here. I'm afraid that his sister will bring people here to grab cultural relics, but the exit has been sealed, and they can't come in again." Xinhong said. "Ah!" A woman's scream came from the darkness, which shocked us all.Is there anyone else in this cave?Impossible, as soon as we came in, the exit was blocked by a huge boulder.Is it someone who came in before?It's not right, when we fell in, we walked all the way from there and didn't find any traces of anyone who had been here recently.Could it be that ghosts are doing strange things?A broken road began to appear in the cave, and Xinhong said that it might be reaching the ground.We have to rush to the temple to stop Paul from violating our country's cultural relics.Xinhong kicked the endless wood up, and another hole appeared, which should be the exit to the ground.I'm so happy, I can finally get rid of this inconvenient "underground and underground cave".I think it is right to call it this way, we did fall from the ground to the ground, and then from the ground to the ground.I haven't asked Xi Jing what the last of the four spirit trees is.Just as I was about to ask, a large crowd of people with no clothes on and panicked rushed out of the hole!