Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 339

On the first mural, it is a frontal image drawn with simple lines.The protagonist of the portrait has protruding eyes that are slightly squinted like a big peach pit, and a pointed and long protruding mouth. Although it is not as obvious as a human fly, it is obviously longer than normal people.The sparse beard covered the upper lip and lower jaw, which looked more like the fluff of a fly, which made people extremely uncomfortable.

The clothes on his body and the crown on his head made Xiao Ran and Xu Er very familiar.Although the sage under the Xia Niang Temple, who had become a peat-tanned corpse, looked even dirtier and thinner, it was definitely the person in the mural.

Xiao Ran briefly described the sages under the Xia Niang Temple again. Hu Bayi thought about the Lord Fly he had seen before, combined with Xiao Ran's description, and said: "The murals in this tomb must follow the mainstream To beautify the aesthetics, the most basic thing is to make the painting as human as possible. According to the appearance of the sage you mentioned, it should basically be the one in the painting."

The attention of several people returned to the mural. Although this sage occupies the center of the mural, there are many gods flying around him, especially above his head, there is an image of a dancing goddess like Shiva.Needless to say, this goddess is naturally Empress Xia, even Xu Er can recognize her at a glance.

There are many densely packed characters engraved on both sides of the bottom of the portrait, and Xiao Ran really couldn't see this kind of font.Several people identified it for a long time, but they only recognized the words "Xia Boen", "Xia Mu", "Zhou" and so on.

Hu Bayi speculated: "This person should be Xia Boen. According to the title rules of the Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, it is a combination of fief name, title and human life, so this person is an earl sealed in Xiadi. What is his name? It should be that when Emperor Zhou was still alive, he inherited the title of his ancestors. As for this Mother Xia, it should be Empress Xia."

The fat man interjected: "You should answer every sentence. It seems that you don't know what it's talking about? Let's stop guessing and move on."

Hu Bayi sighed helplessly. These words are indeed not his field of expertise, and they can only be half-guessed.A few people then walked forward to see the content behind.

The following murals, no surprise, tell the life of Chabourne.The descriptions of these murals are very detailed, and the second painting even shows him lying in a round sphere with his eyes closed, referring to him in his mother's womb.Above the sphere, Empress Xia floated in mid-air and sprinkled something representing light.

According to Hu Bayi's explanation, this is called "Holy Spirit Pregnancy", which is an old method used by various nations in ancient times to brag about the birth of a great person. kind.

"It's nice to say, but they're all bastards, let those gods and fairies cuckold their father. These old feudal brains have been soaked in dung soup..." The fat man said disdainfully .

Xu Er laughed out loud after hearing Fatty's words.

Several people continued to move forward, most of them were Xia Boen, who had protruding eyes and a sharp mouth, who accepted the canonization of the emperor, hunted, led troops to go out, etc. What was more peculiar was that the six-handed and four-legged Xia Boen was always floating above his head. Empress, the eyes are kind and gratifying, really like a mother looking at her child.

Looking back, the picture suddenly became a little weird.Xia Boen sat in the middle, like Yama.Around him, there are some villains with six hands and four legs, torturing various creatures, including creatures with limbs like human beings, and some beasts with fur and horns.

These tortures are like scenes from the layers of hell. There are many kinds of torture, but the most common one is to cut open the skull of the victim, and there are six-handed and four-legged villains stretching their mouths to suck the brains. .

The place he was in seemed to be a huge room with ten doors around it.This made Xiao Ran involuntarily think of the hall with ten doors under Xia Niang Temple.

Could it be that the hall is drawn in this painting?

Xiao Ran immediately denied his own thoughts. After all, in the last catacomb, the Sanren of Tianling personally recorded the origin of that hall. Someone had already built it, and he just occupied the magpie's nest and rebuilt it.

So think about it the other way around, the reconstruction of the Sanren in Tianling is carried out according to this mural, and the intention is to restore the room where Xia Boen's painting is located?

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, so he continued to look behind.In the following painting, there is no Charburn, and three spheres appear in the sky. The left and right sides seem to be suns, which look exactly the same and shine.The sphere in the middle is slightly larger and drawn in a swirl shape, a bit like an over-distorted ambiguous diagram.

On the ground below the three spheres, Niang Niang stretched out her six arms, protecting the villains with six hands and four legs like an old hen guarding her cubs.Some of those villains fled in panic, some were burned all over their bodies, and some held unknown weapons and launched them towards the sky.

"Is this...the descendant shooting the sun? Or Nuwa patching up the sky? Why did such a painting suddenly appear? It's not right, these six arms should be that Empress Xia, and there are also three suns in the sky, one of which is still long." different, what does that mean?"

The fat man was completely confused, and Hu Bayi frowned and explained: "The myths and stories we heard have evolved over time and improved by absorbing new content. It’s the same story as Hou Yi’s shooting the sun. Later, with the rise of the patrilineal clan society, the credit for dealing with the extra suns was given to the men, and the three suns became nine suns. Who knows…”

The fat man was stunned for a while, then nodded and said, "Well... you are the one who said it the most clearly, so let's do what you said. Maybe the old myths were told one by one, and the most wonderful one was handed down at the end. ..."

Xiao Ran had already walked to the next painting, stared at it for a long time, took a deep breath and said: "There is also a possibility, that mural has nothing to do with our story at all, it is about other places..."

The others walked to Xiao Ran's side and looked at the painting in front of him.In this painting, at the very top is a door that opens horizontally, from which light shines.

Xia Boen still sat cross-legged in the middle, but changed from six hands and four legs to two hands and two legs.Right above his head, there is still Empress Xia hanging in the air, with two star maps of the South Dipper and the Big Dipper on the left and right.

On the ground below Xia Boen, there are all kinds of Huanian fish, insects, birds and beasts outlined by simple lines.The shape of these creatures is consistent with the common murals, but the strange and even deformed creatures that cannot be named in the previous murals have completely disappeared.

And around Xia Boen, there are still those six-handed and four-legged villains flying in the clouds.

Xiao Ran turned his head and looked at Hu Bayi and the others firmly, and said, "Could this Xia Boen, you say, be an alien..."

(End of this chapter)