Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1882 Gold and Bronze Portrait
After that, they left this place and continued to walk forward.

This hall is very large. It seems that keeping this dragon turtle in captivity consumed a lot of manpower and material resources in the palace, and this hall should also be the largest space in the palace.

And behind this large stone room, there are many partitions. After passing through one partition after another, they arrived at a relatively clean space, where the rotten smell just now could not pass through.

From the feeling, this place should be a relatively sacred place in the royal palace at that time...

According to legend, this tortoise was kept in the ancestral temple of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty, which symbolized the unchanging royal power of the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty.

But looking at it now, this is indeed true...

After passing through several partitions, they entered an area full of brown-red. The color in this area is very strong, and the brown-red is also permeated with purple, which seems to have a sense of unspoken nobility.

Moreover, it is very clean here, and everything is spotless. When you look carefully, it turns out that both the walls and the ground are made of red precious stones.

Chen Zhi still remembered this kind of stone, which was described in the treasure book of Zangshu Pavilion. This kind of stone can remove dust and produce fragrance naturally.

It is said that putting a piece on it can keep the dust from falling in a place, and it is a natural vacuum cleaner.

And walking forward, you will find bursts of golden light coming over. Although those lights are small, they are very dazzling.

They turned on the searchlight in their hands, and as the light was reflected, it was a golden light.

Those rays of light are very dazzling, so bright that they can almost take away people's eyes.

When I looked carefully, I found that this is another treasure exhibition room, and the treasures here are all life-size portraits made of copper and gold, which is a golden world.

Chen Zhi once heard that in ancient times, both gold and copper were precious metals. Metals of these two properties were very rare at that time. At that time, some people even believed that copper was more precious than gold.

I saw golden dolls displayed one after another in front of me, filling the room like a bionic statue hall.

Chen Zhi realized that this place should be the ancestral temple of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty.

In the earliest days, the land of China was actually very similar to the ancient Greek empire. It was customary to carve out the ancestors and gods worshiped in people's hearts in the form of statues.

Those huge ones are usually gods, and the ones that are the same size are usually their lost ancestors.

The later incense sticks, altar offerings, and spirit cards all came into being after religion became the mainstream in the later period.

Although these statues are all golden, they are very realistic. If they are not golden all over, then the degree of simulation of their carvings is really the same as the current wax figures...

Judging from the height and body of these people, these ancient people were slightly taller than modern humans, and their foreheads and cheeks have the characteristics of protruding primitive people.

From the perspective of clothing, the clothes of these people are not recorded in the current history books.

They should all be people from before the Shang Dynasty, most likely the oldest ancestors of the merchants, the old merchants.

These people have very tall nose bridges, some of the characteristics of Western Europeans, and their arms are very strong, some of them even exceed the knees, just like gorillas.

Each of them is holding various types of ancient weapons and is in a fighting state, but there is no target to fight.

While Chen Zhi was observing these sculptures, Fat Wei discovered something strange...

It turned out that the light of these golden and bronze figures was too dazzling just now, so they didn't notice the wall here.

When you look carefully, these walls are covered with very original murals. Although the paintings are very rough, they can express the characteristics of the characters very well.

And the amazing thing is that every character in that painting can find the exact object in these gold and bronze portraits.

It means that these gold and bronze statues are real images, and those murals are to record what these people did before their lives...

Judging from this mural, the ancestors of these merchants were very good at fighting.

But their enemies are obviously not humans. Some of those enemies have feet like rhinos, some have wings like eagles, and some have huge tails like lizards.

And this image is exactly the same as the blue ghost I saw just now...

And every time an enemy is defeated, the ancestors of those merchants will cut off the heads of these creatures, engrave a golden symbol on their foreheads, and send them to a hall.

On the murals, the pavilion is very simple, with only a roof and a few pillars, and there are several curved partitions inside.

And just these few simple lines have fully expressed the characteristics of the entire building. Chen Zhi is very sure that this is the room where the blue ghosts were just now.

And at the top of the hall, there is a small plaque with a few vague characters engraved in divine script. Chen Zhi took out a magnifying glass to identify it carefully.

It says, "Demon Pavilion"

After seeing these murals, Chen Zhi immediately understood.

The intangible blue ghosts I encountered before are the so-called "demons".

In some ancient summaries of Jiang's Collection of Books, there are a few sentences about demons...

[The demon is not a thing of this world, but a legacy of the previous life. Those who are equivalent to beast monsters have been punished. 】

It means that in the last civilized world where human civilization has not yet appeared, there are some special creatures left behind, which are collectively called demons.

This kind of creature has high intelligence like a human, and its ears are as powerful as a monster, but it has been killed.

And the ancestors of the merchants were the heroes who killed these creatures. According to the logic of human civilization, what is described in this mural is the historical song of the ancestors of the merchants fighting these monsters...

This information is too old, so old that people don't want to study it carefully.

But these ancient murals conveyed an important message to them.

That was the blue ghosts they had seen before, their bodies destroyed long ago.

Then their current form in this world is...

(End of this chapter)