Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen: The Hidden Mural

After the ape-man and I walked into this cave, we saw five ape-men inside, all looking fierce and vicious.Xinhong and Chen Jing were being crushed to the ground by the five ape-men, their bodies were covered with faint bloodstains by the ape-man's claws, and they looked in a state of embarrassment. 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 didn't you come to help us?"

"Didn't you tell me not to look back?" I replied aggrieved. "Okay, okay, Chen Jing, don't talk about it, if it weren't for Jinwei, we would have been eaten by them." Xinhong looked indifferent. 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 half a day since we went down to the cave, and now we are very hungry, and there is no food around, so we can't kill these ape-men to satisfy our hunger. At this time, an ape-man walked out of the cave with clumsy steps, not knowing what he was going for.It must be daytime now and we haven't slept for a second and are sore from exhaustion.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.Everyone saw that the ape-man would not harm us for the time being, so they all agreed to rest for a while, so that they could have the energy to cope with the future.

The deep fatigue made me fall asleep very quickly. In the dream, I saw my parents. They were running and I kept chasing, but they couldn't see me or hear me. my voice.At last they ran into the darkness, and at the end of the darkness appeared a great bird flying, which was extremely beautiful, but had never been seen before. 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.I wiped the cold sweat off my forehead. I have often had the same dream for more than ten years, and I don't know why.

Those apes have been watching us from the sidelines, and there are a few more fish beside them. I didn't expect them to get food while we were resting.Chen Jing said, since Dark Ape can get these fish, there must be an exit here!The meaning of the ape man may be to tell us to eat these fish to satisfy our hunger. We don't eat raw fish, but we are very hungry, so we gorge ourselves on it regardless of our image. The injured ape-man was very weak now, it was staring at me blankly, it was very awkward to be looked at by it like this, so I tore off a large piece of fish and handed it to its mouth, the ape-man immediately opened his mouth Eat the fish.I have seen the poison of Yinlihong before, but there is nothing I can do to save it now, thinking of this, I actually feel a little sad.

Chen Jing didn't seem to resist eating raw fish, but it tasted delicious. While eating, she stood beside a stone wall and touched the stone wall with her hands.There was nothing on the dark gray stone wall, but Chen Jing called us over to have a look, wondering what she was up to.I complained that she made a fuss, what's so good about a stone wall, but she asked us to take a closer look at the stone wall, but I still didn't see anything, isn't it just a stone wall, which made me think it was a wall made of gold.However, Xinhong frowned and said that this wall is indeed a bit weird.

"What's so weird, tell me freely, don't be coy like a woman!" I can't stand the torture of half-talking. "Didn't you notice that the color of this stone wall is different from the other stone walls?" Xinhong pointed to the four stone walls and said. I looked around, and 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. Could it be that the stone walls are man-made! ?

I quickly 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 I felt a familiar feeling when I touched it just now. Xinhong and Chen Jing also guessed that this is a man-made stone wall, but they just don’t understand why the ancients took so much trouble to build another stone wall here. Is it because the original The stone wall is ugly?

"Do you think there is such a stone wall here?" Chen Jing asked facing the stone wall. "Could it be that they were too bored and made it out of nothing." 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 trying to do with Sherlock Holmes at this moment. "In a novel he wrote, he said that a very lazy man suddenly changed his laziness in the past and painted the whole house. In fact, he killed his wife and the wife's lover and couldn't transport the corpse Get out, but the body has started to stink, so he uses the strong smell of paint to cover up the smell of corpses."

"So, you mean there are dead people 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 top of the original stone wall." Xinhong explained. "What's behind the stone wall that's worth covering it up like this?" I asked in bewilderment. "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 hit my nostrils, and my nose was almost paralyzed.

After finally pushing it away, 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 once very humid here, so the fake stone walls are not well preserved.I said it was once wet here because I saw stalactites thousands of years ago outside the cave, indicating that there used to be a lot of water here, but for some reason, the humid environment disappeared. Behind the artificial stone wall is a mural whose color has faded to a blur. We are all shocked, because no cave murals have been found in China, but many murals or petroglyphs outside the cave 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 paintings on the murals are very strange and very simple. The painting on it is a big bird, and there is something like a bell in front of the big bird, but it doesn't look like a bell.Those people are worshiping, and seem to respect these things.However, there was another picture below, in which the bell shook and the big bird fell to the ground.I stared at the mural for a long time, and felt that the mural was very ordinary. Why would someone hide it? Could there be some mystery inside that I didn't see. "These paintings are probably scribbled by the ancients without any deep meaning." I said to the murals. "You just scribbled, will you seal it up?" Chen Jing asked back. "Maybe he thought his paintings were ugly, so he hid them." I laughed at myself. "I think we'd better get out of here quickly and go up to the ground." Chen Jing could not understand the mural after looking at it for a while, so she suggested. "Okay, I can't bear the smell here." I said, holding my nose, just wishing for it. "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, and those filthy things are definitely not the feces of the dark ape, they must be human. "There is no one else here besides us, that foreigner is still above us!" Chen Jing said. "Let's go up first, these ape-men must know the way after being here for so long. Jin Wei, give it a try and tell 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 that we should go to the top of the cave, 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.After coming up, Chen Jing said that this place used to be a cave full of stalactites. For some reason, it became abnormally dry, so there was no way to maintain the original wet state.After a while, we started to circle in the cave again. We knew that we should have taken a compass when we came, otherwise we would not be unable to find the north as we are now. Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the roof of the cave above our heads, as if someone was dragging a heavy object.We were motionless in shock, trying to hear how the sound came from, but it was useless to think about it now, we had better find the hole first and then go up. "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 replied with difficulty. "Is there anything strange in the world, just tell me!" Chen Jing seemed very disapproving. "My father died in the woods, and I only found out three years later. Who knew that as soon as he entered the woods..." Xinhong thought of Uncle Zou, and suddenly felt sad. "That's strange, how did your father know about this place? And that foreigner, he is so familiar with this place!" Chen Jing said. "Actually, I don't know what my dad is doing here. We are here to find out how my dad died." Xinhong replied seriously. Xinhong calmly told Chen Jing everything about us. She seemed to be having a hard time accepting it. Looking at her like that, she probably thought we were lying to her.At this time, the dull sound came from above the cave again, one after another, like thunder. Suddenly, I dimly saw a person running past not far away, but he seemed to be naked.I hurriedly told Xinhong and Chen Jing, but they made it clear that they didn't believe me, as if they were looking at a mental patient.However, no one has approached here for a thousand years, so how could there be anyone? There should be no one else except us and Bauer, and that person is not wearing clothes.But having said that, didn't we see a lot of corpses in the Eight Arrays, and those corpses didn't wear clothes.Before I could express my thoughts, Chen Jing repeatedly scolded me for being unclean, saying that I always thought about other people not wearing clothes, and had great doubts about my character. Not long after, I saw a few naked people running around again, and they disappeared in a flash.I wanted to tell Xinhong and Chen Jing, but they still didn't believe me, in fact, even I couldn't believe 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.While thinking wildly, there was a continuous muffled sound from above the cave, from far to near, and from near to far. "What happened above, why are there always strange voices coming down." Chen Jing said strangely. "Could it be that Ball did something up there that made such a loud noise." I speculated. "He must have accomplices, could it be that they came in?" Xinhong was also a little nervous. "Ah!" A woman's scream came from the darkness, which made us all startled.Is there anyone else in the cave?This shouldn’t be possible, as soon as we entered and exited, we were sealed off by a huge boulder. Even those who had entered before, they should have starved to death. Besides, we didn’t see any traces of human life along the way, could it? Is it a ghost? The road surface of the stone cave began to appear an uphill road. Xinhong said that it might reach the ground, and we have to rush to the temple to stop Bauer.I raised the flashlight and looked forward, and another hole appeared, which should be the exit to the ground.I immediately felt very happy, and finally I could get rid of this inconvenient "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. However, just when we were rejoicing, a large group of unclothed and panicked people rushed out of the hole!