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Chapter 189 Prehistoric Murals
Under Zheng Lei's surprised eyes, several other people below also walked up slowly and cautiously.Halfway through those vines that looked like pythons lying on the ground and resting, there was no reaction at all, as if the scene just now had never happened.

Now there is really no way to explain it. Even Professor Cui, who is well-informed and has a deep research on prehistoric civilization, can only stare at Zheng Lei at this moment, puzzled.It was as if the opponent who had been extremely hostile suddenly became inexplicably calm, and Zheng Lei and his party also became inexplicably strange.

"In short, be careful and be ready to withdraw at any time!" Although Zheng Lei was at a loss, but now he didn't know what was going on in the temple, so he hurriedly continued: "Let's go in first!"

The group of people carefully avoided the thin vines hanging down like long hair from the ceiling of the temple intertwined with unknown huge flowers, for fear of being accidentally bounced down like just now.

The space inside the temple is not big. Although the space is not big, it gives people an illusion of emptiness visually.The patterns on the walls inside are much more complicated. In addition to the countless lines of vines representing plants, there are also many huge clusters of corollas.Zheng Lei had never seen a flower grow like this, and asked Zhang Yinlan—her expression had returned to normal—she also said that she had never seen such a strange flower.

And Professor Cui has already immersed himself in drawing the structure and shape of the temple, the strokes and decorations inside the temple, and so on. He hesitated to draw it very well. The text makes supplementary explanations, which also affects the progress of the group.

But this also gave others time to curiously look at the things inside the temple.

"Look, here is a humanoid mural!" Zhang Yinlan suddenly pointed to a shaped stone wall in front of her and shouted excitedly: "My God! Did humans look like this in the era tens of thousands of years ago?! Unexpectedly seen……"

"Where?! Let me see!" As soon as Professor Cui heard the humanoid creature mural, he immediately ended a section of the description written by his pen, and then ran over.

The humanoid creatures on the murals look different from human beings. Judging from the appearance and facial features alone, those people are like the apes that Zheng Lei has seen in the book, but their bodies are more slender and taller, and there is nothing on their bodies. He has long hair and a very different temperament. He doesn't have the sluggish appearance of ape-man, but looks full of spirituality and wisdom.

"Well, the craftsmanship of the mural is very superb..." Professor Cui muttered to himself while recording in his notebook: "The mural tends to be realistic. It seems that it should have been painted in the past. The details of the human body are very realistic. His facial expressions are also very lively…”

Zheng Lei looked at the humanoid creature on the mural, is this the "human" that existed on the earth at that time?Judging from the demeanor and expression, it seems to be very peaceful and friendly, but...why does it seem familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere before, but I can't remember it for a while...It's because the facial features look like apes what?
"Well, this stone wall is very valuable, but unfortunately, it would be great if there is a super clear camera!" Professor Cui's voice came from the other side of the stone wall, and Zheng Lei suddenly woke up, strange, why was he distracted again?

Zheng Lei walked around to the other side of the stone wall, and found that the murals on that side looked like a city. It was a little mottled, but it could still be seen that it should be a town distributed in concentric circles. One ring, like a target, the position of the bull's eye is a tower-shaped building, and the top seems to be connected to something, but it is peeled off and cannot be seen.The tiny portraits in the streets are also extremely detailed, and pedestrians and street vendors can be vaguely identified.

"Is this the city of that era?!" Zhang Yinlan blushed with excitement: "A city of this size existed tens of thousands of years ago! I really want to see it personally!"

While Professor Cui and Zhang Yinlan were looking at the murals carefully, Zheng Lei continued to walk into the temple. In the middle of the end of the temple, there is a flower-shaped sculpture, [-] to [-] centimeters high, completely made of the kind that emits a faint blue color. Carved from crystals of light, it exudes a soft blue light, and the whole body is crystal clear, dazzling like blue crystals and attracting people's attention.

"It's so beautiful!" Zhang Yinlan, who came behind Zheng Lei, sighed, and Professor Cui who came along with her nodded in agreement, and even Xia Luoli stared at the flower sculpture with a curious look on her face.

"For things like this, either there are traps, or they are deliberately diverting the view away. It must be a trick!" Zheng Lei looked away from the flower sculpture, and then waved his hands pretending to be experienced.

Zhang Yinlan covered her mouth and smiled lightly, seeing Zheng Lei's eyes glanced over, she immediately nodded vigorously as if in agreement, which made Zheng Lei's face immediately proud.

"Don't worry, there may be something under here." Professor Cui squatted down and raised his hand to knock a few times under the base of the flower-shaped sculpture, but the sound did not sound hollow.

Professor Cui thought for a while, then raised his head and carefully stared at the ceiling directly above the flower-shaped sculpture.

Zheng Lei followed Professor Cui's eyes and saw that the patterns of flowering vines on the ceiling were intricate and intertwined with each other, dotted with a blue crystal at intervals, and the thicker ones represented the lines of the torso Gathered together, just above this flower-shaped sculpture.

"En..." Professor Cui frowned and turned to Zheng Lei and said, "Take me up there to have a look."

Zheng Lei nodded, and glanced at Xia Luoli next to her, only to see a thin vine protruding from Xia Luoli's back, wrapping around Professor Cui's waist and sending Professor Cui up.

Professor Cui buried himself in the notebook and drew circles on the notebook for a while, indicating that he could come down.

After getting down, Professor Cui simply sat down on the ground, thinking hard in front of his notebook.Zheng Lei went over to have a look, and saw that Professor Cui had drawn a rough ball on the ceiling in his notebook, omitting those branches and flowers, leaving only the main thick lines. From this point of view, the ball on the ceiling looks like a It's like a vortex, and the center of the vortex is right above the flower sculpture.

After a long while, Professor Cui suddenly stood up and strode towards the mural just now. Zheng Lei and the others hurriedly followed, and saw Professor Cui stop at the side of the mural with town patterns, facing Holding the notebook, he raised his finger and gestured on it.

"Professor Cui, what did you find?" Zheng Lei asked curiously.

"En..." Professor Cui was immersed in his own thoughts, and just responded casually, then looked at the notes for a while, and compared the murals for a while.

Breaking in, Professor Cui took the notebook to the opposite side of the mural, pointed the page with the ceiling pattern to the town pattern, then stood in the middle and looked left and right, then stretched out his finger from the center of the ceiling pattern to the tower-like building in the center of the town There is a line.

"Look!" Professor Cui signaled Zheng Lei to come over, and Zheng Lei hurried over, only to see Professor Cui pointing to the circle in the ceiling pattern on the notebook, and said: "Except for the branches and corollas, the shape of those lines is like this, these The small circles are where the crystals are embedded..."

Zheng Lei looked up at the ceiling, then at the pattern on Professor Cui's notebook, and nodded.

"This small circle is here at the outermost circle..." Professor Cui pointed to the notebook, and then pointed to the city pattern on the mural: "Look at this tower-like building, is it also on the outermost circle? Location?"

Zheng Lei looked back and forth, then nodded again.

"Looking at the murals, the tower-like buildings in the city correspond to the crystals inlaid on the ceiling. I think the thick line pattern on the ceiling is the epitome of the city pattern, and these crystals represent these tower-like buildings." Professor Cui Pointing at the mural, he explained to others: "The only difference is that the town center on the mural has a larger tower-like building, um, let's call it the central tower, but the center of the line pattern on the ceiling is not Mosaic crystals..."

"In other words, that flower-shaped sculpture may be a substitute for the central lighthouse?" Zheng Lei immediately understood what Professor Cui meant, and continued.

"Yes!" Professor Cui nodded: "Either the flower sculpture is placed in the center of the ceiling pattern, or there is something hidden in the center of the ceiling that can correspond to the central tower."

Then, Professor Cui strode back to the front of the flower-shaped sculpture, and said: "Since the central tower on the mural is connected to something, I am more inclined to the latter. Is there something in the center of the ceiling pattern that can connect with the flower-shaped sculpture?" Connected, as for the effect, I can’t guess.”

"I understand!" Zheng Lei said, then nodded to Xia Luoli, Xia Luoli sent Zheng Lei up with vines.

Zheng Lei tapped lightly on the ceiling directly above the flower-shaped sculpture with the handle of a Tang knife, and then tapped around. After careful identification for a while, he found that the sound was different.In other places around, it sounds like hitting a stone wall quickly, and the sound is dull, but the position directly above the flower-shaped sculpture is slightly crisp, similar to hitting metal.

Zheng Lei nodded downward, indicating that he found something different.

Professor Cui immediately became excited, looking up at the ceiling in Qiji.

But how to open it?

Zheng Lei frowned and thought for a while, then asked Xia Luoli to move him to the nearest inlaid crystal, reached out and tried to press the crystal, and sure enough, the crystal sank, accompanied by There was a slight click, like a button was pressed.

Zheng Lei quickly followed suit and pressed all the crystals on the ceiling.

When the last piece of crystal was pressed down, there was only a sound of metal rubbing, and a circular hole appeared in the ceiling directly above the flower-shaped sculpture, and then a flower bud protruded from it. The flower bud bloomed layer by layer, revealing an upside-down A similar flower sculpture hanging down!

Suddenly, I saw a burst of dazzling blue light shining from the two flower-shaped sculptures, condensing into two straight lines, one from top to bottom, the other from bottom to top, gradually converging together!

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(End of this chapter)