Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 668 The ancient altar!

The space here is even more secretive than the location of the ancient city of Gutongjing. It is estimated that it has not been discovered by others for at least hundreds of years.

Hu Ming was the only one in the huge underground space. Hu Ming didn't care at all and simply took off his wet clothes and threw them aside. Being skilled and bold, he didn't need any other protection and looked around with his bare chest.

Rough and desolate.

This was Hu Ming’s first impression of this place.

In the huge enclosed underground space, ninety-nine percent of it is desolate, and there is not even any trace of human activity.

There is only one altar in the center!!!
Obviously, this is a sacrificial site of ancient ancestors. However, even though Hu Ming is knowledgeable, he cannot tell which god is being worshipped on the altar.

Judging from the carvings on the altar and statues, this style is not that of ancient Tongjing at all, but a more ancient style.

The human form of the statue is extremely vague and the workmanship is crude, so one can only barely tell that it is a human-shaped statue.

What surprised Hu Ming even more was that, judging from the orientation of the altar, the statue was facing away from the living beings!
"What the hell is this? Is this the Emperor Wu Shi created by someone else?"

Hu Ming's mouth twitched, he was a little confused and walked around the statue.

"The faceless statue?"

Hu Ming frowned.

The so-called gods are generally great beings that hold the power of heaven and earth and were imagined by ancient ancestors who could not understand natural disasters and were afraid of death.

Generally speaking, when a certain god becomes a consensus among the ancestors, they will always construct the appearance of the god.

It could be intimidating, kind, compassionate, or ferocious.

In short, the faces of the statues often match the ideas that our ancestors placed on the robes.

But, a faceless statue?
What exactly were the ancestors here worshipping?
Moreover, there was another point that concerned Hu Ming.

From the traces of sacrifices left on the altar, it can be concluded that the history of this place is extremely long.

The remains of some of the livestock used in the sacrifice actually showed signs of becoming fossils!!!
You know, it takes a very long time for some animal bones to become fossils, so long that it makes everyone doubt their lives. It takes at least 10,000 years!
In other words, the sacrificial activities here began at least 10,000 years ago!
You know, the so-called sacrifice is also a manifestation of civilized activities.

The so-called civilization...

According to previous research by historians, it is generally recognized that the earliest civilization activities in China were formed about 5,000 years ago.

The ancient creatures inside the gate also confirmed this.

Of course, if we are more rigorous and consider the emergence of Chinese characters as the origin of civilization, then we can probably push it back thousands of years.

But. The existence signs here show that the sacrificial activities that took place here were at least seven or eight thousand years ago, or even older!!!
"Damn it! Seven or eight thousand years ago? Look at these bones that are almost fossilized, so it must be more than ten thousand years old.

Isn't it that the human species on this land of China has just entered the Neolithic Age?"

Hu Ming's eyelids jumped, and he felt as if he had accidentally unearthed a huge secret!!!
Hu Ming even found some ancient carvings on the altar that were almost weathered to the point of being unrecognizable.

These carvings were obviously not made randomly. Although they were simple and ancient, they were beyond Hu Ming's cognition.

But this does not affect Hu Ming's simple judgment. This is a simple text!
This point...is in conflict with the earliest text found by archaeologists. "In other words, the creatures in the gate existed in an even longer time, in that lost era that can no longer be trusted, there are still some ancient civilizations that cannot be investigated?"

If the discovery here were to be revealed, there would be no doubt that it would be an astonishing discovery that would shock the whole world.

pity…

Hu Ming did not come here to conduct archaeological and historical research activities in accordance with his identity as an archaeology professor and historian, but...

However, Hu Ming still planned to minimize the damage to the ruins, prepare the relevant information here, and then hand it over honestly!
Hu Ming's eyes flickered slightly. He put aside his doubts about the Faceless God, squatted down, and rubbed his hands on the body of the Faceless God statue.

as predicted!
Hu Ming discovered a hidden mechanism on the altar!
"Mechanism? Damn it, did something like this exist in the Neolithic Age thousands of years ago?"

"Besides, it's been thousands of years. What kind of mechanism can operate for such a long time? Mom, you can't really be talking nonsense. Is it left by aliens?"

Hu Ming took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart, smashed the hard layer of dust that had almost piled up like rock, and pressed down hard...

After several minutes, there was still no movement.

This was natural and Hu Ming was not surprised.

If it could really still function after ten thousand years...Hu Ming, the master of mechanisms, would really have to doubt his life.

Hu Ming turned his wrist and a precious sword appeared in his hand. He secretly apologized to the faceless statue in his heart, and the indestructible sword sank into the altar.

He held the knife in both hands and drew a circle the size of a person. Then, with a slight flick of his skill, he picked out a standard round stone slab.

Below is a small, dark compartment.

A strong flashlight shone the light inside, and it was empty except for a black stone slab lying quietly inside.

It is neatly carved with ancient characters, in the same style and system as the characters on the altar.

Hu Ming fished up the stone slab, looked at it carefully, and frowned.

The characters that appeared in this space looked somewhat like the oracle bones unearthed in the Celestial Empire, but were more rugged and ancient. They were a type of pictographic writing so ancient that no one could recognize it.

Oracle bone inscriptions appeared around the Shang Dynasty, which means it has a history of about 3,600 years.

The characters that appear here are somewhat similar to oracle bone inscriptions, but are even more ancient, making them hard to accept.

Hu Ming first found the camera in the system space to take photos and record videos!
Hu Ming then spent another whole day searching this space, but unfortunately, he still found nothing.

Apart from this, there are no traces of human intervention, let alone any secret rooms hidden in the dark.

"Based on a simple guess, for the human tribe at that time, this should be a very secret, unknown, or even a small-scale sacrificial activity that they did not want others to know about."

"The so-called sacrifice to the gods, except for the devout believers like the fanatics, the rest of the people are just offering sacrifices to the gods for something."

"But the faceless gods... maybe the ancient people didn't have the idea to create faces for the gods, or..."

After replenishing food and water, Hu Ming sat cross-legged under the statue, leaning against it, playing with the black stone slab in his hands, and muttering to himself.

"Place…"