Chapter 25 Chapter 25 The Third Night: Reliefs

We brought almost everything we could use, and a few buckets of sludge.I didn't dare to light a big bonfire anymore, so I made a small carbon pile, and the fat man didn't dare to cook canned food in it for dinner, so he set up the stove outside the ruins. We estimated that those snakes would definitely start to move after the mist filled, so we didn’t panic at dusk. I helped the fat man cook, and Poker Bottle watched from above to help us watch the wind. But the fat man moved very quickly, and I couldn't really help him. After opening the can, I just stood there in a daze. The fat man annoys me the most. He said that I am just Lin Daiyu. I don’t know how to think about things all day long. How can there be so many things in this world to think about? If you live without heart and lungs, you will die with your legs. Kick your legs to death, the ending is the same anyway, what the hell is the fetter in the middle.

I was a little surprised when I heard that the fat man would use the word fetter, but after thinking about it, I realized that he said "dick eggs", and I couldn't help but smile wryly. As I was thinking about it, I heard the fat man call me: "I mean naive, what do you think my brother is doing?" I regained my senses, looked up and saw that the oil bottle in the temple was wiping the stone wall with something, and I called out, "What's wrong?" Poker-Face ignored me and continued to work, or maybe he didn't hear me. I have almost done the things here, and I am interested, put down the can knife and climb up.Walking around him from the cloister of the temple, I saw him wiping the wall with the carbon from the bonfire, as if he wanted to rub something.I asked him what he was doing, and he pointed to the stone next to it, "I just discovered it."

A large piece of the wall was painted black, I blew it with my mouth, and found that there were reliefs on these stone walls that had been almost smoothed. "It's basically invisible in the sun. Only by applying toner can there be shadows, and you can distinguish them." He said, picking another piece from the campfire to smear. The black carbon black was smeared on the rock, and the light and shadow changed. I shook it and found a suitable position, and the relief on the stone appeared.At first sight I saw a lot of snakes.It's hard to distinguish, the light and shadow are moving, and the snake's shadow is erratic as if it is alive.

Poker bottle continued to smear, and we saw a series of ancient reliefs appearing on the rocks here. After so many years, they still exist in form and spirit, and they emerged like magic under the smear of Poker bottle. He couldn't stand upright after painting, I immediately supported him, looked at it once, and he said: "This is about those snakes." "Speaking of what?" I asked.Because I can't see clearly. "I can't understand it all at once." He said, "You have to think about it slowly." I am very interested in these, and I have not seen many historical relics here along the way.I don't know anything about this place is the most direct reason for our current situation, so I moved my body to find the best angle, and took a closer look.

Looking at one by one, I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what it means. There are many things expressed on the reliefs. Some seem to be sacrifices, and some seem to be rituals. I really can’t say anything Come. Looking at it half-guessed and half-thought, I feel that there are a few pictures that seem to say that the ancestors here enshrined these poisonous snakes with cockscombs. They threw clay pots into some holes one by one, as if they were the ones seen on the road. Stone towers with square holes, a large number of poisonous snakes began to drill into the broken clay pots.There are priests presiding over the ceremony, and many people kneel around.

It turns out that these sacrifices are dedicated to the snakes here. Do people here regard this poisonous snake as a god?However, this is not surprising. The worship of poisonous snakes is very common. The ancients did not know the poison of poisonous snakes. They only knew that they would die after being bitten. Seeing such a small wound kill a person, they would think it was caused by magic.Many ethnic minorities in China worship snakes. These cockscomb snakes may like to eat the eggs of the corpse turtle king, but the corpse turtle king's eggs should be highly poisonous. Which one is more poisonous, this snake or the corpse turtle?

Poker Bottle moved his body, and the relief on the side showed many figures holding spears, fighting with those dressed as ancestors. Many people's bodies were pierced by spears, which seemed to be a war. The battle situation seems to be unfavorable for the West Queen Mother country, because the number of West Queen Mother is obviously much smaller than that of the other side.And the Queen Mother of the West is all infantry, and cavalry can also be seen in the opponent's team.The enemy's commander-in-chief was at the back of the line, sitting in a cart drawn by eight horses.There is no figure of the Queen Mother of the West in the relief.All the reliefs are exquisite in shape, and even the facial features are meticulously considered, lifelike, obviously from the craftsmanship of top craftsmen.

"This is, war..." Poker-Face murmured. "It seems that the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West has been invaded, and the opponent is a relatively powerful civilization, it may be Loulan or the Northern Huns." I said. "These people can't tell the style of the clothes, but the weapons look like the Central Plains, and they should be Loulan's army. The one on the chariot should be the King of Loulan." After I finished speaking, I felt that it made sense, but Poker-Face didn't pay attention to my words. Instead, he touched the commander on the chariot with his hand and frowned.

I thought what's wrong?He suddenly raised his finger and pointed at the enemy leader, and said to me: "I know this person."