City Primordial Witch King

Chapter 270 Ancient Ruins
In the valley more than ten miles away from the camp, a majestic ruin is slowly showing its face, unfolding in front of Professor Yao and others.

Passing through the shade of a tree, the world in front of me seemed to open up suddenly. There was a long and narrow crack between two towering mountains. In the middle of the crack was a huge valley. It is a moss-covered rock, which looks extremely desolate.

In the middle of the valley, there is a rather wide river passing through it, like a transparent jade belt.

All this looks extremely ordinary, not like the legendary ruins at all!
Li Jiuhuan and Huanhuan couldn't help being a little puzzled, and turned their heads to look at Professor Yao, asking with their eyes.

Professor Yao smiled slightly, without saying a word, but pushed aside Deputy Qin, and walked through the last shade of trees first, and entered the valley.

The two students looked at each other, shrugged at the same time, and had no choice but to follow.

When they entered the valley, Professor Yao became a little more energetic, and his footsteps became much more vigorous. He strode forward, not at all slower than the two students behind him.

After walking for more than ten minutes, when he came near the desolate pile of rocks, Professor Yao Xinyu stopped, pointed to a place in the mountain, and said:
"That's the ruin we're looking for!"

The two were shocked after hearing this, and hurriedly looked in the direction of the teacher's finger. What they saw was a huge stone wall. There were countless dense rock paintings on the stone wall, which looked chaotic, but implied law.

The eyes of everyone looked farther and farther, starting from the place pointed by Professor Yao to the end of the valley, on the rock wall of the mountain peak, there were red petroglyphs everywhere, and it seemed that there was no end in sight at first glance.

These petroglyphs are painted on bare cliffs. The highest point is about 40 meters above the ground, and the lowest is five or six meters high. The detailed description, the style is simple, the style is rough, and the scene is very spectacular.

The contents of the petroglyphs include people, animals and objects, as well as natural imaginations such as flames, wind and thunder, and floods. These things are integrated to form a picture with rich content and deep artistic conception, which truly reflects the ancient times that have disappeared for a long time. Scenes of social life.

Everyone looked up for more than ten minutes, until their necks were sore, and then they came back to their senses, and found that they hadn't even read half of it.

"Wow! That's amazing!" Huanhuan sighed as she rubbed her sore neck.

Li Jiuhuan nodded approvingly, gave a thumbs up to the rock painting, and said, "A miracle of humanity, uncanny workmanship!"

Professor Yao also withdrew his gaze. With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he looked at the two students who were amazed, and said, "Do you know how powerful this is? This is the object of our research. Although it looks shocking now, we found that For so long, there has been no progress in its research, so just stop complaining when the time comes!"

Seeing the enthusiasm of the two students, who looked eager to try, he couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water on them to prepare them mentally, and don't run out of enthusiasm all at once, and then lose interest.

"Impossible, teacher! I think we will make new discoveries soon." Huanhuan's face was full of confidence.

"Oh?" Professor Yao was a little curious: "How should I say it?"

"Because we are here!" Huanhuan hopped and ran towards the stone wall, shouting mischievously while running: "This is a girl's intuition!"

"Hahaha..." Everyone was amused and laughed.

Professor Yao was also overjoyed, and laughed heartily, sweeping away his previous depressed mood.

While talking and laughing, everyone walked towards the bottom of the petroglyphs. After slowly approaching, they found a temporary resting place in a slightly flat place, put down their backpacks, took out the tools they needed, and got ready to start working.

The location of these petroglyphs is too high, the lowest is five or six meters, and the highest is even about 40 meters. Even with the help of tools, it is difficult to observe at close range.

Moreover, there is a big river under the rock wall, and if you want to get close, you have to cross this river at least.

Therefore, the method of archaeologists is to first take pictures of it with a digital camera, and then study the pictures.This method is cumbersome, and you can't touch the rock paintings in person, and you don't have any feeling, so it is difficult to achieve results.

Professor Yao and the others were no exception. They quickly took out two cameras from their backpacks, approached the petroglyphs, found a suitable location, and took pictures slowly.

Li Jiuhuan and Huanhuan are in charge of this work. They are both young people, and they are much more proficient in taking pictures than Professor Yao.

Moreover, they have never seen these petroglyphs before, so they will not be constrained by the inherent research results, and the angles for taking pictures will not be too fixed, so they may be able to discover some novel things.

Holding a brand-new digital video camera, Huanhuan found the boat that had been left by the river before. After boarding the boat, she rowed leisurely while carefully watching the petroglyphs on the rock wall without blinking her eyes.

She has already crossed Haikou before, and she wants to discover something in this archaeological work. Although everyone thinks she is joking, she herself is very serious. The most important thing is that she wants to prove it to Wei Xiao Let's take a look.

As I thought before, I envy him to death!
Thinking about it, Huanhuan smiled, raised the digital camera in his hand from time to time, and took a few photos towards the rock wall.

Her selection method is very simple. Since these petroglyphs are all painted by people, first take pictures of all the "human patterns", study this part first, and see if you can find any rules or clues, and then look at other rock paintings. of.

Along the way, through the magnification function of the camera, she saw countless personal images, most of which were portraits in front and portraits in profile.

Among them, the body portraits are tall, the largest being more than 2 meters high, with arms stretched out to the sides, elbows raised, legs spread apart, knees bent and half squatting, and a long knife or sword is worn across the waist.There are a large number of side portraits, and their bodies are small. Most of them are arms stretched out from the chest and lifted up, legs stepping forward, facing one side, in a jumping shape.

The classic combination that impressed her the most is: centered on a tall and burly man wearing a sword, with a dog under his feet, one or several bronze drums under his crotch or beside him, and many short figures around or on the left and right sides sideways person.

This picture looks like a ritual of sacrificial activities, which is quite similar to the ancient war sacrifices.

(End of this chapter)