Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 204 Tips from Guangxi

During this period, the folks at the bottom of the cliff went to the nearby village once a day to confirm the news with the phone there. There was no news for the first few days, but on the third day, a huge envelope was hung up from the bottom of the cliff.

They opened it up and found it was full of papers and photos.

The first one is a group photo of the little brother and the others. The fat man is wearing a pair of shorts and doing a golden pose by the familiar stream. The little brother and Mengli are sitting on a rock beside him, and Aning is standing not far away. , Yun Cai posed a pose with Fatty, she may be wearing the ELAND girly outfit that Fatty brought her, pure and sexy with a hint of sexiness, which fits Fatty's bad taste.

The fat man wrote three words on the back of the photo: Be envious.

Wu Xie cursed secretly, and looked at Xie Yuchen who was wearing a bloody vest, did he stand in the wrong team?

Many of the remaining photos were taken when they entered the mountain, and Agui was also there. It seems that they led the team into the mountain, and Mrs. Huo was sitting on the car, looking like an old Buddha.

Most of the photos were their daily actions. Xie Yuchen looked impatient, so he flipped through them quickly until he found a photo marked with a red pen, and took it out.

It was a section of rock passage, and the color of the passage wall was very bleak under the flashlight, but I could see that the little brother was at the front, stepped aside, and let the people behind him take pictures of what he was blocking. It turned out to be a stone slab. Embossed with a round pattern similar to an astrolabe.

The photo was taken very clearly, and Wu Xie immediately realized that the pattern must be what they saw on the iron plate at the end of the hole full of hair.There are many small patterns engraved around the iron plate, and the following photos are all about the details of those patterns.

Xie Yuchen looked at it and took a deep breath, obviously not understanding what it meant, Wu Xie asked him to turn it over, look at the back of the photo, and sure enough someone wrote a line:

[Going 700 meters from the entrance, you will encounter the first obstacle. The key to unraveling this obstacle should be in your place. I don’t know your situation, please try your best to analyze it. 】

Very clear and to the point.

Wu Xie immediately understood that the little brother's actions are related to their actions, and their destination is also related to their destination.

Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen clamped the key photos one by one on the steel bars of our "nest", and observed them carefully one by one.

Wu Xie was almost certain that the relief on that stone wall was carved with an iron plate, and the round relief should be the iron plate itself.

The patterns engraved around the iron plate are worth savoring carefully.From the point of view of the engraving of the relief, the relief on the entire stone wall cannot be regarded as a high-quality goods, that is to say, it does not have much artistic value, and many lines are not even completed. This relief must be just a blank without fine polishing.

In terms of style, it has very clear characteristics of the Qing Dynasty, which should be inseparable from the style.If it was the design presided over by Style Lei, but it was a bit perfunctory, it can be seen that the purpose of this design must be more functional than decorative. It seems that this stone wall blocking the road will not be so simple.

They arranged the photos in order, starting at twelve o'clock.

The relief in the first photo is a strange animal, it is a "Ju".

There are two different theories about the "Yu" kind of thing. One is the grandfather of Qilin. Qilin is regarded as an ancient beast, but it is generally believed that it is inferior to dragons. "Ji" is the ancestor of Qilin. It eats dragons and belongs to the food chain. The top floor.The other is considered to be a kind of "魃", which is a very special kind of rice dumpling.

The "犼" in the relief is bound by a strange thing, and it is connected with the iron plate relief below.

The relief in the second photo seems to be connected with the one in the first photo. The whole pattern is a whole, but Wu Xie can see that it is for decoration. There are several people, but it can be seen , Those people don't have right hands.

There are a total of nine people without a right hand. There are long-range and close-up views. They are all topless, with tiled trousers on the lower body, and they are running away, but they are not panicked.

Wu Xie is well versed in this way. When he saw a good thing, he couldn't help showing off. He pointed to those people and said: "There is no carving, and there is no trace of repeated corner trimming. These people were almost carved out in one go. Even so, But the dynamic figure of the characters, jumping forward and backward on the wall, is done by a top craftsman. Although he doesn't pay attention to it, many years of techniques allow him to carve out his own charm with just a few knives."

Xie Yuchen didn't pay attention here, but asked, "Why don't you pay attention?"

Wu Xie said: "There are two types of craftsmen in ancient times. One is skillful and proficient in various engineering techniques. They are called desk-handlers. But this kind of people usually only make small and delicate things. This kind of rough work of polishing stones should not be theirs. Dry, the other is the pure manual craftsmen we call skilled craftsmen. These people have unique skills, but work all day long, relying on physical strength and craftsmanship to make a living. This kind of people are craftsmen rather than artists, so they will not be strict with themselves , those who can be lazy will definitely be lazy."

Wu Xie just judged that the relief on this stone wall is functional, and based on this, there is only one way to make the craftsmen go all out, and that is to have a boss who is difficult to serve.

Xie Yuchen nodded, signaling him to continue looking down.

The next photo is at the six o'clock position, and the engraving is a bit difficult to understand. It is still a group of people, but it is obviously not the group of people who escaped just now, because these people have healthy hands, and, There are obvious clothing features.That's definitely not Han Chinese.

This group of people all held long knives in their hands and wore strange crowns.There are a lot of people, and the craftsmen used overlapping compositions here, so it is impossible to count how many people there are, and judging from their posture, they seem to be ambushing.

Wu Xie found it difficult to understand. According to the general practice, from the perspective of the overall composition, all the pictures are independently expressing a meaning, but the relief here, three pictures connected together, is also very natural.It's hard to say whether there are two meanings.

In this way, the last relief is very important, and he immediately went to the last picture.

The relief in the last photo was beyond his expectation. It wasn't that the things on the relief were unimaginable, but that there was no relief at all in that place, but three deep holes arranged in a plum blossom shape.

The four main patterns are all seamlessly connected by a large number of decorative lines, and with relief, it looks like a weird clock.

Seeing this, Xie Yuchen raised his eyebrows at Wu Xie, not sure if he thought of something or wanted to express some objection.Then I asked him, "What do you think?"

Wu Xie gave a "tsk", but still couldn't let go of her heart. Are these patterns connected or independent?If it is connected, then he seems to have a little eyebrow.

If the relief carved around the iron plate is represented on a straight line, then the leftmost of this large relief is a "jack", the middle one is a few people who are running away, and the rightmost , a group of ethnic minorities wearing strange clothes.And at the end of the carving, there are three holes.

What concerned him most was the orientation of the composition inside. Judging from the content, although Ji was locked on the iron plate, it was still a chasing movement.

The person in the middle does not have a right hand, and his back is turned to Ji, showing the appearance of running away.But the key point is that the image of the group of ethnic minorities is facing the fleeing people, that is to say, the ethnic minority swordsman and the couple in the middle formed a double-team form.

This can be understood in many ways. Wu Xie's first feeling was, could it be that this was a fight, two parties, one beast and one human, besieged and killed these people without right hands?

From the picture, this is the most reasonable understanding, but what is the point of such an understanding?He really couldn't figure it out.

He was almost certain that this kind of specific relief carving must be conveying some meaning. It could not be a simple decoration. The decoration is generally a dragon and phoenix pattern that can be copied infinitely and is easy to give people a sense of the whole.

If you don't understand it that way, then, there are still some things that need to be figured out. For example, is this an ambush?

The swordsmen of ethnic minorities are in ambush in front, and the men without right hands are responsible for making bait. However, if the opponent is a jiao—Wu Xie doesn’t believe there is such a creature—these swordsmen probably won’t be able to catch it for a second. , were all burned to slag.

Relief sculptures are generally exaggerated. It is very likely that they could not explain what they encountered at the time, so they used an image from a myth.

With such speculation, he had no direction at all. He looked closely at all the details of the reliefs. Thanks to the professional SLR camera, the details were completely clear.

However, if you look closely, you will be even more disappointed. The relief has no details at all.

If it is assumed that they are not continuous and that each piece of relief has a separate meaning, it will be even more difficult to analyze.

No matter how you look at it, you shake your head, because you don't even have a direction to think. Xie Yuchen leaned back and said, "This is a bit like a thousand-mile lock. It seems that you may have to go back to that iron plate to get some clues."

Wu Xie nodded silently. The thousand-mile lock is a strategy, not a real lock, but a very effective preventive measure. The best way to increase the operating cost of a thing is to make it a success. The elements are far enough apart, for example, the door is at the south pole and the key is at the north pole.In Norse mythology, slain demons are often cut into countless pieces and scattered in all corners of the world. In this way, conspiracy theorists have to travel for centuries to resurrect the demon god.

However, since there is an opening mechanism, it means that this ancient building of the Zhang family is not a tomb. Wu Xie guessed that it may have something to do with this system of mass burials. They will be moved into this ancient building.

It's just that I don't know how this matter is related to Shibing Lei. Shibing Lei's surname is Lei, and the royal family's surname is Aixinjueluo. There is no reason to pay for this mysterious "Zhangjialou".

What the little brother is facing is an ingenious mechanism sealing stone, the key to unlocking the sealing stone should be in these four graphics, and the iron plate here may be the decoding disk that uncovers the information contained in these four graphics .The specifics, indeed, can only be known when you get to the edge of the iron pan.

Mengli: When will Wu Xie be able to untie it?I'm almost growing mushrooms (╥ω╥`)

Wu Xie: We just received it here, please wait slowly.

(End of this chapter)