Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

The reason why I thought of Taoist Master Zhang.

Because we were the only two people who entered the cave.

Besides, playing the flute is a technical job, and I don’t think that water monkey can play the flute well.

"Lao Zhang! Lao Zhang!"

I shouted and ran towards the direction where the flute sound came from.

After running a hundred meters forward along the cave, the flute sound gradually became clearer from being vague.

Strangely, my shouts received no response.

It was Taoist Master Zhang who didn’t hear my shout.

Or maybe he's not the one playing the flute? !

I was confused.

Just as I was about to slow down, I saw a light leaping out of the darkness ahead.

The light spot is orange-red.

Sometimes bright, sometimes dim, constantly beating in the darkness.

Soon after, more orange-red spots of light appeared, jumping out of the darkness.

What is this stuff?

I walked over curiously.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and those orange-red spots of light seemed to be frightened by my footsteps and quickly jumped away.

I just ran to catch up.

Finally I could see the light spot clearly.

It's a frog!

I have seen many frogs and toads, but I have never seen one that can glow.

But I've heard from Grandpa Tuo about glowing frogs before.

He said that if frogs eat fireflies, their bodies will glow.

Could it be that the frogs in front of me have eaten fireflies?

I chased the glowing frog for a short distance before my vision suddenly opened up.

What comes into view is a huge cave.

Countless fireflies fly up and down in the cave, making it look like a dream world.

There were many frogs on the ground, with their heads tilted back, waiting for the right opportunity to stick out their long tongues and wrap around the flying fireflies.

The fireflies were swallowed alive, and the light they emitted penetrated the frog's skin, causing spots of light to appear on its body.

I turned my gaze away from the frog devouring the fireflies and looked around the cave.

The cave chamber is a very wide circular shape.

The diameter is estimated to be over 100 meters.

Under the light of the flying fireflies, you can vaguely see the whole picture of the cave.

In the middle of the cave is a huge altar.

There is a tall stone throne on the altar.

The throne has become very dilapidated, perhaps due to its age, moisture and weathering, or human destruction.

The back of the throne was broken at an angle, with more than half of it missing.

There are obvious traces of carving on the remaining half of the chair back, but because the damage is so severe, it is impossible to tell what is carved.

His eyes moved down the back of the chair.

The square throne is full of potholes and many carvings are badly damaged. From the few remaining carvings, you can vaguely see the image of a monkey.

At the four corners of the base are four stone skulls crawling on the ground.

The heads of the stone skulls were broken flat, as if they had been chopped off.

Four skulls were scattered around the throne.

This seems a bit like human destruction.

Out of venting anger or showing off military power, they deliberately cut off the skull supporting the throne.

I think the throne represents the class structure of this tribe.

Humans are at the lowest level, monkeys are in the middle level, and the one sitting on the throne is at the highest level.

This corresponds to the mural just now.

The giant ape sitting on the throne enjoys the sacrifice.

The monkey-like young men who go up the mountains and down the water to hunt are the backbone of the tribe.

Ordinary people became sacrifices.

I looked towards the altar below the throne.

The altar was littered with various debris.

There are bronze, jade, pottery and so on, and all you can see are broken fragments.

Below the altar were bones lying in various postures.

Some were lying on their backs, some were lying on their backs, and some were lying on their knees...

I had a mental picture of the tribe being invaded.

Some fought hard and fell flat on their backs after battling the invaders.

Some turned to flee and were killed by the invaders, falling on their backs.

Some people even lay on the ground and begged for mercy, but they still couldn't escape being killed.

Apparently the tribe had been massacred.

All the ritual objects placed on the altar were smashed and destroyed.

This is to cut off the roots of the tribe.

The situation is similar at the Sanxingdui site.

Many experts claim that what was excavated was the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit, but this is actually not accurate.

The items buried in the pit were indeed sacrificial items.

However, the destruction and burial of a large number of sacrificial items was clearly an act of uprooting cultural beliefs.

It might be more accurate to call it a sacrificial burial pit.

Just like what I see before my eyes.

It is obvious that after the tribe was defeated, its totems and sacrificial utensils were destroyed, and its faith was uprooted.

As I was about to walk towards the altar to check the fragments, the flute sounded again.

The sound of the flute is very close.

It came from the center of the cave!

I walked towards the sound of the flute.

Click.

It seemed like I stepped on something, making a slight cracking sound.

But I was attracted by the sound of the flute and didn't even look at what was happening under my feet. I just thought I stepped on broken bones.

As we walked to the pile of bones in front of the altar, the crunching sounds under our feet became more and more frequent.

Only then did I look down at my feet.

There are insects swarming under my feet!

The insect is about the size of a fingernail, with a white spot on its black back and a pair of thick, pincer-like mouthparts protruding from its mouth. At first glance, it looks a bit like a longhorn beetle.

In the second or so I stopped, more bugs emerged from the bones.

There were even bugs that crawled onto the surface of my shoes and opened their mouths to bite the cloth shoes.

Some even crawled into my shoes and up my legs.

"hiss!"

There was a burning pain in my ankle, I was accidentally bitten by an insect.

The bitten area immediately became red and swollen.

Apparently the bugs are poisonous.

Click, click, click!

I quickly raised my feet and stepped hard on the bugs that kept popping out, while trying my best to shake off the bugs that had already crawled onto my body.

The bugs I crushed to death sprayed out a light red liquid.

Attracting other insects to come forward and devour it.

click!

I stepped on it again.

The reddish liquid sprayed from the crushed insects splashed even farther.

hum!

Insects from far away are also attracted.

It crawled out from the bones with a buzzing sound and rushed towards where I was.

The frog that was catching fireflies was frightened and jumped up and ran away croaking.

Some slow-running frogs were surrounded by dense swarms of insects and were bitten to pieces in an instant, leaving not a trace of flesh.

My scalp tingles when I see it.

If these bugs were crawling all over me...

Looking down at the piles of bones on the ground, I even felt that they were eaten into bones by these insects when they were still corpses.

run!

I dare not hesitate.

Run for your life to a place where there are fewer insects.

Click, click, click!

The sound of insects being crushed to death continued to be heard.

I also felt a burning pain in my calves.

But these pains are not a problem for the time being.

Wait until you get to a safe place and then find a way to deal with it.

Buzz!

The sound of insect wings flapping came from behind.

I turned my head and looked.

The bugs opened their shells and wings, and all flew towards me!

Fuck!

These bugs can fly!

No matter how fast you run on two legs, you can never fly faster than having wings!

When I wanted to run faster, my legs suddenly felt numb and I couldn't move them anymore.

It's really like a leaky roof when it rains!

At the critical moment of escaping, the poison from the insect bite on the leg took effect!

My legs felt like they were filled with lead and I ran slower and slower.

hum!

The insects chasing behind him surrounded him in a black mass.

They fell densely on me.

My head, face, neck, hands, arms, any part of me that was exposed was infested with bugs.

In an instant, I was crawling with bugs!

There were also a lot of bugs crawling into my clothes.

The burning pain from being bitten by insects came from the limbs and face one after another.

I felt like I was going to be bitten to death by bugs!