People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

This is the role of words.

If he only looked at the murals, even if Chen Ziyan had rich experience, he would probably be prejudiced and subconsciously estimate the strength of the combat power based on the body size.

In this way, it was difficult for him to realize that the actual positions of the two parties in the mural were actually reversed.

At this moment, Chen Ziyan inadvertently noticed that several pictures were selected and placed aside, and Shirley Yang did not mention the content on them when she translated them just now.

This made him feel puzzled, so he reached out and picked up the pictures, and asked, "Shirley, you didn't seem to tell me what's on it?"

Shirley Yang did not give a direct explanation, but said meaningfully:

"These pictures have no accompanying text, and the content is relatively simple, so I put them aside."

Chen Ziyan heard the subtext in her words. She felt that there might be something wrong with these pictures, but she didn't know where the problem was.

After looking through them, he understood why Shirley Yang put these drawings aside for the time being.

Because the scenes described above are all about sacrificial ceremonies, they are indeed not closely related to the main storyline, and studying them separately does not affect the overall effect of the translation.

Chen Ziyan agrees with Shirley Yang's approach.

Things have their priorities. It is a wise choice to put aside things that are doubtful but not too important for the time being.

After a quick look through them, Chen Ziyan found that the contents of these pictures were very similar, all describing some kind of sacrificial scenes.

Sacrificial activities were very common in ancient times and usually had special significance, so it is not surprising that they were recorded in murals.

But soon Chen Ziyan stopped thinking so.

Because he found that although the scene in the painting was the same, there was an obvious difference in one part of it.

Although the lines of the murals are very simple, all the necessary shapes are present. However, in these sacrificial scenes, some of the people have no legs. The lines representing the legs of the characters disappear, and are replaced by a winding curve.

In another part of the normal sacrificial content, even though it looks like a stick figure due to the proportions, it is still obvious that the lower body of the figure is legs.

If this was just an isolated case, it wouldn't be a big deal, but if it happens in several pictures, it means it was intentional.

Pointing to the problem he found, Chen Ziyan asked: "Is this the place where you feel something is wrong?"

"Well, there must be a purpose for doing this that we don't know about." Shirley Yang nodded.

She noticed this obvious difference when Chen Ziyan was painting.

"Sacrifice..." Chen Ziyan looked at the picture in front of him and quickly marked the order in his mind according to his memory.

He then discovered that the pictures of these sacrificial scenes seemed to have changed suddenly, but in fact there was a vague process of change.

In other words, the lines representing the legs gradually turned into a winding curve with each sacrifice.

A winding curve?
After staring at the last sacrificial scene for a while, Chen Ziyan suddenly thought of the black-scaled mermaid he met on the seabed.

Could there be a connection between the two?
The next second, he had the answer in his mind. There must be a connection!
Chen Ziyan still remembers the wisdom displayed by those black-scaled mermaids.

Previously he thought that this was the natural evolution of the tribe over a long period of time, but now after seeing the content of the mural in front of him, he felt that there might be another possibility.

That is the wisdom possessed by the black-scaled mermaids, which is not evolution, but degeneration!
Once you have a clue, many clues will naturally connect together.

For example, the content that Shirley Yang just translated did not mention what the people who hate the sky found on the seabed and what they did to it. It even only described the collapse of the island, but did not explain what happened to the people who lived here at the time.

If we follow normal thinking, if even the island on which they depend for survival sinks, then the people living on it will naturally be buried at the bottom of the sea.

But Chen Ziyan knew that this was not the correct answer.

Because a group of people who can mine underwater for a long time cannot be viewed from an ordinary perspective.

Where did the so-called Longhu Ota family come from? Weren’t they the displaced survivors of the Hateful Ones?
Furthermore, if the people who hated the sky had perished along with their city, then who created the underwater passage and murals?
If you look at the murals alone, the story does come to an abrupt end when the island sinks. That is the end of everything.

But Chen Ziyan, who has a better understanding of reality, knows that things are far from that simple.

And if his idea is correct, then many things can be explained.

Due to an accident, the island sank and the ancient city fell, but the people who hated the sky who lived here were not buried with them. Some of them may have fled here in the chaos, but more of them probably followed their city into the deep sea and transformed into another form of life.

As for why there is such speculation.

It was the trip to the underwater tomb not long ago that gave Chen Ziyan the inspiration. Even Wang Canghai could create the forbidden woman and the water monkey, so it seemed reasonable that the people of Hate Heaven could create a similar black-scaled mermaid.

Considering the age of the ancient country of Hentian, Chen Ziyan seriously doubted whether they had also embarked on the same path as the Queen Mother of the West.

Trying to gain immortality through ancient gods or the legacy of ancient gods.

There is nothing wrong with this starting point. As long as one lives in this world, it is hard for anyone not to be attracted by immortality. Otherwise, so many kings, princes, generals and ministers in ancient and modern times would not have been obsessed with it.

But the result was obvious. The people of Hate the Sky were not their ancestors who could hunt down the ancient gods. Although they possessed some strange abilities, they were not enough to support an experiment of this level, so they failed in the end.

The final result was that the island where they lived sank to the bottom of the sea, and they themselves turned into black-scaled mermaids.

Maybe in the beginning, the people of Hate Heaven who turned into black-scaled mermaids still retained human wisdom, so they built passages connecting all the ruins and collected bronze tools to cast the palace.

They also left murals on the passages and palaces to prove their existence.

But as time passed, the animal nature of the black-scaled mermaid became increasingly difficult to suppress, and finally it became what Chen Ziyan and the others had seen before.

This logic makes sense.

Just like Huo Ling and others in the original plot, after taking the corpse-eating pill, they did not transform immediately, but turned into forbidden women little by little.

The speed of the process may be different, but the principle should be the same. (End of this chapter)