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Chapter 360 Rock Painting
The three of them walked in a V-shape along the tunnel.

The further you go, the fewer signs of human construction there are in the tunnel, and it begins to twist and turn like a natural cave.

"How long have we been walking?"

Sikong Lan was a little out of breath. Since last night, everyone had not had a drop of water or a grain of rice. Even for a warrior's physique, it was a little too much to bear.

"About two hours."

Zhang Fuluan stretched out his hands to support the wall, slowing down his slightly disordered breathing. At the same time, he circulated his internal energy to produce saliva in his mouth to alleviate his increasingly intense thirst.

"Chew, chew."

The sound of chewing was heard in the darkness ahead. Zhang Fuluan and Sikong Lan were startled at first, and then they saw Li Sheng holding a large pancake in his left hand and a water bag in his right hand, eating and drinking at the same time.

Sikong Lan said with a pained look on his face: "Where did you get this food from, Brother Ant?"

"I always carry it with me."

Li Sheng said as a matter of course: "Don't you bring any food with you when you come out to steal things in your night clothes? What if you faint from low blood sugar and wake up to find yourself tied to a chair by a beautiful rich lady with fair skin?"

That makes a lot of sense.

Sikong Lan covered his face with his hands in silence. He was really a little afraid that this tunnel had no end. He even began to doubt whether he should have used the magnification and shrinking mechanism of the stone chamber to magnify the sweat from his feet to obtain food as Li Sheng said before.

Zhang Fuluan swallowed his saliva and said, "Brother Xiao, do you have any extra food?"

"besides."

Li Sheng reached into his arms, quietly activated the three-dimensional warehouse, took out two large cakes and threw them to the two of them, saying casually: "Alas, when I was imprisoned in the army, I almost starved to death. It was my wife who secretly brought me cakes. Later, it spread and became wife cakes."

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Hey, your name is Zhu Chongba, right?
Your nine tribes seem to be a bit too many.jpg
Sikong Lan buried his head in eating the cake, pretending not to hear Li Sheng's words "loyal or not, unfaithful or not", but Zhang Fuluan noticed something, and walked forward quickly with the cake in his mouth.

The tunnel ahead suddenly opens up, with the rock walls extending to both sides to form an elliptical space like a square. In the middle is a natural stone pillar connected to the dome of the cave.

"This is."

Zhang Fuluan held up the Night Pearl. On both sides of the rock wall, there were a large number of pictures with people, animals, and utensils as the theme. He subconsciously asked in amazement: "Huashan Rock Paintings?"

The Ming Dynasty's "Yiwenlu" records that "there is a cliff several miles high in Taiping Prefecture, Guangxi, where soldiers and horses holding swords and sticks appeared, some of whom were headless."

Huashan Rock Paintings are located on the east bank of the Ming River in Taiping Prefecture, Guangxi (Huashan Village, Yaoda Village, Tuolong Township, Ningming County, CZ City). They are a group of rock paintings painted on the inner sloping cliff by the ancestors of the Luoyue Kingdom two thousand years ago. In the real world, they were listed in the World Heritage List in 2016.

"The Huashan rock paintings use ochre-red hematite powder as pigment, and are mostly red. The painting style is simple and rough, and the figures only have heads, necks, torsos and limbs. It depicts the scenes of ancient people holding sacrificial activities.

In the paintings here, the red color of hematite powder accounts for about 50%, the painting technique is more delicate, and the characters have specific outlines. "

Li Sheng squinted his eyes and observed the murals carefully. He stretched out his hand to scratch the surface of the rock paintings and said, "The similarity is that both of them used animal fat as a blending material and adhesive.

Essentially, it is not the rock paintings of the Luoyue Kingdom, but it is inextricably linked to the latter. "Li Sheng could report the above information directly without using the information integration glasses.

As to why he knew.
Well, it was mainly because of Hui Yu—she was an alien who claimed to be the chosen Chinese. She unilaterally obtained naturalization and kept saying “Han and Tang style” and “I’ve been a Han Chinese for a long time.”

In order to prepare for getting an ID card in the future, I actually watched a lot of short videos, including but not limited to the history, clothing, literature, food, and customs of various parts of ancient and modern China.
It also served as background music for Li Sheng when he was screwing the screws.

Sikong Lan was surprised and murmured, "Luoyue State. Could it be that the rumors are true?"

Li Sheng and Zhang Fuluan turned to look at him, and Sikong Lan explained: "You two should know that the Tu family claims to be of Tanka descent, right? Tanka people are mostly found along the southern coast, scattered across the sea, and their ancestors can be traced back to the Baiyue."

Baiyue, also known as the Yue people or the ancient Yue people, is a general term for the ancient ethnic groups in the southeastern region of the region during the pre-Qin period. It has a very large range, including branches such as Wuyue, Yangyue, Nanyue, Xiou, and Luoyue, and has formed ancient countries such as the Fulou Ancient State and the Luoyue Fang State.

The Huashan Rock Paintings are the remains of the Luoyue Kingdom.

"One of the main rules of the Jinyiwei is to avoid asking about things that you shouldn't ask about, but I heard a few words from my superiors."

Sikong Lan said solemnly: "It is rumored that the jewelry that Tu's ancestors used to make their fortune and sell on the shore did not come from the South Pearls on the seabed or from ancient shipwrecks, but from the remains of the ancient Cangze State among the Baiyue States that sank into the sea.

The Tu family has all kinds of strange customs, such as building their mansion on the island instead of on the shore, marrying outsiders and never marrying out, etc., because they consider themselves to be the descendants of the ancient Cangze Kingdom among the Tanka people, rather than the people of our Ming Dynasty. "

Zhang Fuluan had never heard of the name "Ancient Cangze Kingdom" and immediately frowned and asked, "Then what?"

“And then it was gone.”

Sikong Lan scratched his head. "That's all the captain told me. He said the Tu family refused to obey the king's rule, accumulated wealth, and secretly carried out illegal rituals. They were suspected of treason. I came here to find evidence."

What you said is the same as saying nothing.

Zhang Fuluan's eyes twitched, and he silently took a few steps back, examining the rock paintings carefully.

The walls of the entire oval hall are covered with murals, narrating a complete story of "Prince's Revenge" in a clockwise order.

The story begins with the king of the kingdom (who wore feather decorations and a wooden mask and may have served as both king and high priest in ancient times) being murdered and usurped by his own ministers.

The rebels killed the king and his family, and sent the prince to the altar on the cliff, chopped his body into several pieces, and threw it into the sea - human sacrifice was not uncommon in that era. In the ancient worldview, the higher the status and the more precious the human sacrifice, the more it could please the heaven and earth, ancestors, ghosts and gods.

The people of the Shang Dynasty even invented a bunch of words for this purpose, such as 伐, 熙, 卯, 、 岁, 烄, 俎, 而, all of which describe how to kill human sacrifices.

In short, the dismembered prince sank into the sea, and his head, with its eyes open, drifted along the ocean current to the deepest part of the seabed, where he saw a strange three-legged frog-shaped rock that combined the shapes of snakes, fish, newts, salamanders and other creatures.

The various branches of the Baiyue people widely worship frogs, which originated from primitive fertility beliefs and was the same as snake worship. This is not surprising, but what happened next is puzzling.

The prince's severed head began to speak, telling the stone about his grievances. Blood flowed from the stone's eyes, and the marine creatures in the surrounding sea took the prince's severed limbs and pieced them together to form a human figure.

However, after being corroded by sea water and eaten by shrimps and crabs, the trunk was severely damaged. The prince's severed head begged again, so the strange stone shed tears of blood again and replaced the prince with fish gills, whale tendons, seahorse belly, pearl eyes, and frog tongue, allowing him to be resurrected and return to shore.

(End of this chapter)