Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Whether you've ever robbed a tomb or read a tomb-robbing novel, you know that the ancients had the custom of carving important events from their lives on the walls of their tombs or painting content with special meanings inside the tomb mounds.

Previously, in the tomb of King Kang of Qishan, it was the murals in the tomb chamber that became the key to breaking the deadlock.

Murals were also found in the passageway of this Gu King's tomb, and these murals were all reliefs.

Relief carving creates a three-dimensional effect on a flat surface. This type of carving is far more difficult than ordinary stone carving and is extremely rare among tomb brick paintings throughout history.

In order to see all the contents of the reliefs on the corridor walls and avoid missing any key details, Chen Yibai simply used his crimson ancient sword to scrape off all the 'corpse spot moss' growing on the corridor walls.

The relief murals on the walls of the passageway are divided into many pieces, like a comic strip telling the story of an event.

The first mural depicts an old witch holding a newborn two-headed baby in her arms, the baby still connected by the umbilical cord. Next to her lies a woman with a pained expression and closed eyes, who appears to be dead. Various snakes, scorpions, insects, and ants crawl around the two-headed baby in the witch's arms.

The mural most likely depicts the birth of the Two-Headed Gu King.

After all, the birth of the Two-Headed Gu King, who led the Gu clan to grow into the ancient Gu Kingdom, was indeed one of the major events of the ancient Gu Kingdom, which is beyond doubt.

As for the various snakes, scorpions, insects, and ants crawling all around, it's somewhat like the birth of a strange person, an extraordinary phenomenon, with all things coming to celebrate. For example, unofficial historical records say that when Liu Bang was born, there was a strong wind and thunder and lightning. As for whether it's true or not, that's another matter.

The following images depict the two-headed Gu king leading the Gu clan to conquer other clans through war. There are seventeen images in total, from left to right, suggesting that the ancient Gu kingdom was formed by conquering seventeen Bi clans in the surrounding area through war.

However, these seventeen murals about war do not depict the grand scenes of swords and corpses that one might imagine. Instead, they depict the use of various evil and cruel sorcery to control all the non-clan members captured in the war and then invade other clans and tribes.

Upon seeing this, Chen Yibai had some doubts.

The causes of wars in ancient times were nothing more than the plunder of resources, the satisfaction of the desire for power, women, and the desire to escape exploitation.

The war initiated by this Gu clan turned all the people of other clans and tribes into monsters similar to Gu monkeys and bloodthirsty vines using Gu magic. What was the ultimate purpose of doing this?

Is it simply a psychological distortion, taking pleasure in inflicting pain to satisfy personal psychological desires?

This seems a bit unreasonable.

With this question in mind, Chen Yibai continued reading.

In addition to the question of what the purpose of the war was, Chen Yibai was more curious about how this evil ancient kingdom was ultimately destroyed.

This information is very important.

Because Chen Yibai is not yet 100% certain whether the place he is in is a tomb or a relic left behind by the ancient Gu Kingdom.

Since the first picture depicts the birth of the two-headed Gu King, and the following pictures show the conquest and establishment of a kingdom through war, there must also be a reason for its demise, which would make it a complete story.

As for the nineteenth mural, it is also the last mural in the passageway.

Just now, the Japanese soldiers left a scratch mark on this mural, as if they were giving some kind of hint or guidance.

However, to Chen Yibai's surprise, confusion, and bewilderment, this last mural was very 'plain', like a blank sheet of paper, with only an '0'-shaped circle embossed in the middle, which felt like a period.

The claw marks left by the Japanese soldiers were right above this '0' shaped pattern.

This is totally out of reach of Dapu!

Chen Yibai stared intently at the circle on the wall, his brows furrowed in confusion.

Did people in ancient times already use periods?

Is it over?

This doesn't make sense! It's absolutely unreasonable! The story definitely isn't over yet!

What was the purpose of the two-headed Gu King leading the Gu tribe to annex other clans and tribes?

How did the ancient Gu Kingdom ultimately perish?

Chen Yibai had neither of the two pieces of information he most wanted to know.

What was the purpose of leaving scratch marks on it earlier, and what was the intended message?

Chen Yibai scratched the back of his head vigorously, then scraped the 'corpse spot moss' off the other side of the corridor wall, but didn't see any other murals.

But Chen Yibai was certain that the content of these murals was definitely more than that.

There are only two possibilities: either the ancients deliberately left it as a mystery.

Secondly, for some purpose, the rise and fall of the ancient Gu Kingdom was divided into two parts, with the lower part being carved in other places.

Chen Yibai is more likely to favor the latter.

As for the final '0' symbol, it's definitely not just a period, but we have no clues right now, so guessing is definitely not going to work.

The feeling of only seeing half of the story and leaving the other half unresolved made Chen Yibai feel really disgusted.

[Captain Chen, why did you stop explaining? Could it be that you've strayed from your area of ​​knowledge?]

[What a joke! I, Captain Chen, am a man of vast knowledge, with absolutely no blind spots in my understanding!]

[Host, hurry up and tell us what these murals mean! Don't pretend to be deep and stay silent, I'll send you a gift, okay?]

My salary arrived at 2800 yuan, and I borrowed another 200 yuan from an online loan to round it up, so I bought a Carnival gift for the streamer. Quickly explain what's depicted on this mural!

I feel it should be a piece of history, a piece of history that could at least add dozens of pages to a history book...

[Bullshit, I think this is just an ancient comic book...]

Chen Yibai: "This is indeed just a comic strip; it doesn't have any special meaning..."

At this moment, Chen Yibai was scratching his head in confusion, so when he saw the comments in the live stream, he simply gave a perfunctory reply.

boom……

Just as Chen Yibai finished speaking, a huge explosion suddenly came from the depths of the tunnel.

blasting?

Chen Yibai couldn't care less about the murals in front of him and quickly turned his head to look into the depths of the passageway.

Without a doubt, this was definitely caused by the Skywalker Society!

boom……

The sound of the explosion had barely faded when another loud bang followed.

Two explosions in quick succession?

What trouble did the Skywalkers encounter up ahead? They actually used explosives twice in a row!

Chen Yibai immediately and cautiously followed into the depths of the tunnel.