Shao Xuan sat on the modified bus and looked at the mountains that stretched out the window. Just after the summer solstice, the mountains were full of vitality. After living in the city for a long time, he saw such a scenery, and his mood was much better due to his career being unsuccessful. Originally, Shao Xuan planned to ask a few friends to go out for a long time to relax, but he met Shi Qi, a fellow villager and old classmate who was studying archaeology, and was pulled together to go for archaeology.

This trip was to go to a relatively remote mountain village. It was said that things from the Stone Age were discovered there. A group of people have already passed by, and now this is the second batch.

Shao Xuan listened to the old classmate talking about the primitive skull to the stone tools to the rock murals, and took out a few pictures to explain in detail. The researcher was like this, and it was rare to pull it out when he got in. Although Shao Xuan didn't understand, he still listened with great face.

The paper is full of rock paintings discovered by some archaeological research. Shao Xuan looked at it and felt that he was not as good as his nephew and nieces who had gone to kindergarten.

The lines of those drawings are relatively simple, and you can roughly see that some people are hunting with tools, and some drawings of various animals. I don’t know what the rest is.

"Is this the sheep drawn? But the sheep is too big." Shao Xuan pointed to a picture and said.

The picture shows a sheep with long, huge horns, and there is a person holding a bow and arrow next to it, but the proportion doesn't look normal, and the head of the person reaches the back of the sheep. The pictures in the back are also the same. The rabbit's body shape and proportion are similar to that of a lion, and the picture of riding a horse on the left, and the horse's tail is drawn too short.

Of course, not every picture has the same scale. The rock murals of different periods found in different provinces and cities are different in style. There are some scales drawn close to reality. You can also see a group of people hunting with dogs on the picture.

Turning backwards, there are a few color printing pictures that can be seen more clearly.

"Ha, this painting is even more exaggerated. The antlers are too big. There is also this person. The people in the picture just now reached the back of the sheep. The people in this picture are only a little higher than the legs of the deer... And what is there in the lower right corner, an eight-legged crocodile?" Shao Xuan really couldn't appreciate the primitive man's style.

"Primitive humans may not pay much attention to this aspect," Shi Qi explained.

"So what you mean is that when primitive humans painted, they did not use 'realistic' in proportion, but used exaggerated methods?" Shao Xuan asked.

"Okay," Shi Qi scratched his head: "After all, humans at that time did not pay attention to aesthetics, but might be purely a symbolic meaning. Just as a researcher once speculated when studying rock paintings in a certain place, humans at that time painted these hunting paintings on cave walls or rocks, which might just ask the hunting soldiers to take a look before the tribe hunting, and they had a score in their minds, and perhaps there were some rituals that we didn't know. Especially those rock paintings painted by the 'witch'."

"Witch..." Shao Xuannao made up the image of an old charlatan who dressed very alternatively.

"Hey, what's your expression? I tell you, the status of 'Witch' in the human community at that time might not be low, on the contrary, it might be quite high."

"I know, a charlatan." Shao Xuan nodded.

Shi Qi waved his finger and took a folder. There were some scanned copies of the pictures and texts on it and said to Shao Xuan: "If the totem consciousness expresses the personification of nature by man and his own collective unity, then the concept of witchcraft expresses the man's simile naturalization. The profession of 'wizard' actually appeared as early as the Stone Age..."

Shi Qi was there talking about the research progress of the profession of "witch" from ancient times to the present. His professional vocabulary was even cited by classics, which made Shao Xuan feel hurt.

Shao Xuan didn't know much about this and was not interested. If there weren't such a fellow and old classmate who studied archaeology, Shao Xuan wouldn't have known any of them. In the past, people said that archaeology would directly think of those valuable antiques, but Shi Qi's research direction was really antiques than antiques, so few people were interested in it. A few days ago, I heard on the radio that was correct whether the "Darwin's Species Evolutionary Theory" was correct or the "Alien Creation Species Assumption" was correct? Shao Xuan just ran into it without any trouble and put it there after listening, and wouldn't think about it anymore.

On the contrary, Shao Xuan knew that this childhood friend was very interested in ancient humans. When he was in middle school, he often discussed with people several ancient human remains that were excavated but mysteriously disappeared in modern history.

"You don't know what you say about professionalism, just talk about something simple. Look!" Shi Qi pointed a picture with his finger and pointed to a place on the picture: "The 'witch' is mentioned in both in inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, but this is the case."

Shao Xuan looked at the place where Shi Qi pointed. It was a symbol, which looked like two characters "官" interlaced.

"There are such duplex characters on the avatars of some ancient pottery and clam carvings unearthed. Speaking of which, witches also involve hunting, praying, rescue, etc. From a certain perspective, 'witches' can be regarded as scientists at that time. However, these are speculations. Even some records from ancient times may not be true. After all, people at that time like to exaggerate. Isn't there a saying, 'There will never be truthful', and archaeology is just digging out some edges and corners. As for the real situation, who knows?"

"The cave I discovered this time is also related to the 'Witch', which are the last pictures you saw, the rock paintings sent back by the first group of people from the past, and duplex characters were also found in the cave, so it is speculated that it may be the cave where a certain 'Witch' was living. A short-term earthquake occurred in the place where the village was located last month, and probably because of this, the cave was exposed. I have never heard of it before."

Speaking of this, Shi Qi closed the folder and looked around carefully. Seeing that the mentor and other brothers were not paying attention, he lowered his voice and said to Shao Xuan mysteriously: "I heard that the first person to discover the hole was a child. Moreover, according to the news from a junior brother over there, the child found that the cave saw a strange watermelon-sized bug crawling out of the stone on his yard wall. The child was so bold that he followed the bug. Finally, the bug disappeared in the cave. The child went back to tell the adults, so he discovered the cave."

"A bug that is the size of a watermelon?" Shao Xuan felt it was ridiculous. Anyone who heard this for the first time would think it was too fake. "Was that kid lied?"

Shi Qi shook his head, "What's even more strange is that according to the first people in the past, there were fossils of ancient creatures in the stones used to build the courtyard walls there." When Shi Qi said this, he paused, rubbed goosebumps on his arms, and continued: "I found that the kid in the cave pointed out that there were fossils of ancient creatures in the stone with big watermelon bugs that showed people. However, it was not entirely true, but only a part of the incompleteness. However, according to professional speculation, if the creature was still alive, it might indeed be as big as a watermelon, and it was about the same size as the child described."

"...It sounds quite mysterious, but only the child saw it, did anyone else see any bugs crawling out of their own wall?" Shao Xuan was a little interested.

Shi Qi shook his head, "I don't know, wait until it's over, I'll ask, it's almost here anyway."

When the group arrived at their destination, it was already eleven o'clock. Shao Xuan and Shi Qi and the others had a simple lunch and returned to the bus.

Shi Qi and the others couldn't wait, and they didn't have a rest after eating, so they planned to start work.

Things to note here Shi Qi had already told Shao Xuan that what should you not touch, where you can’t go, and who should you find something to ask for.

"I'll tell you when the construction is completed today. You can take a look first. The scenery here is nice, with green mountains, blue sky and clear water. I'll stay in the smoky city for a long time and come out to wash my lungs."

As he said that, Shi Qi followed his mentor with tools. Shao Xuan could not follow him, and he didn't have much interest in following him.

Shao Xuan was left in the car, and the doors and windows were quite quiet. Shao Xuan hadn't had a good sleep these days, so he just went to listen to Shi Qi's story on the road. Now he became sleepy after he calmed down.

When I woke up again, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. Shao Xuan was about to go out for a walk when he saw Shi Qi wearing work clothes coming over. He got into the car and got a document. After he took it, he had to rush over there to continue working.

However, before getting off the car, Shi Qi took out an egg-sized stone from his pocket and threw it to Shao Xuan: "I picked it up in the cave, and I took it over when I saw that others didn't care much. It should not be an important thing. I can't give you the 'antique'. The stone is from the cave at least, and it looks quite smooth. Maybe who threw it there, so I will leave it to you a souvenir."

The stone is near the entrance of the cave, and it is still a little far from the core of the cave. The stone is obviously different from other excavated items, and there is no mark. Therefore, the first people who came here focused on the "antiques" and rock paintings from the Stone Age. No one cares about the stone near the entrance of the cave. Shi Qi looked at it fun at the time and picked it up and put it in his pocket.

After taking the thrown stone, Shao Xuan took it in his hand and looked carefully. It felt no different from other stones. It was dark green, egg-shaped, and the surface was quite smooth. It seemed to be deliberately polished and it didn't look ancient. Even if it was not an "antique", it would be nice to play with it as a decoration.

Shao Xuan didn't care either. He held it in his hand and played for a while. He always felt that the stone was not covered with heat. He had been shook hands for ten minutes and was still chilly. After thinking about it, Shao Xuan took out a lighter and burned the stone with fire. Logically speaking, the place where the flames were exposed should be hot, but the fact is that it was still as cool as before after burning.

After scanning the eyes, Shao Xuan took a fruit knife on the table, put a piece of paper, and planned to use the knife to scrape some broken pieces from the stone to the archaeological vehicle to ask for help to inspect it. However, Shao Xuan took the knife and scraped the stone, but there was no trace on the stone, and there was no trace even when drilling with the tip of the knife.

The fire cannot be heated, the knife cannot be cut... It is a strange stone.

Shao Xuan got out of the car with stones and planned to let Shi Qi take a closer look later.

The place where the car parked was already very close to the village, but the road ahead was not easy to walk.

Some villagers in the village went to work, while those who were freed went to the newly discovered cave to watch the fun. Therefore, when Shao Xuan entered the village, he saw only three or two people walking around.

There are stone and earth walls about two meters high outside the village. I heard that they were built to prevent wild animals decades ago. The stones come from the mountains. However, in recent years, no large wild animals have been seen around them, and no one cares about these stone walls anymore.

At first glance, you can see large stones on the stone walls, which are old and have a sense of bleakness.

Shao Xuan was playing with stones in his hand and staring at the stones. Hearing that the stones on the stone walls were found with paleontological fossils, Shao Xuan remembered the "watermelon-sized bug" incident that Shi Qi mentioned.

Just as she was about to look away, Shao Xuan suddenly found that something like a snake appeared on the stone wall, which was still squirming. The thickness of the water tank and the scale patterns were shining with a cold light. It made Shao Xuan feel a creepy chill from several meters away, which made Shao Xuan feel a creepy chill, which was so shocked that Shao Xuan almost jumped up. However, when Shao Xuan blinked and looked again, he found that there was nothing. The stone and earth wall was still the broken stone and earth wall that had been exposed to the wind, sun and rain for a long time.

Hallucination?

Shao Xuan looked at other parts of the stone and earth wall, and then his eyes fell on a gap in the stone and earth wall. There was a large stone left behind after the collapse of the stone and earth wall. The small ones were picked up by the villagers to build their own wall, while the large ones remained here. At this moment, Shao Xuan saw a green seedling emerging from the stone. The seedlings quickly plucked their leaves and grew taller, and at the same time, several vines also stretched out around. The gap, which was originally more than three meters long, was blocked by the vines and branches in the blink of an eye, and there seemed to be a fragrance of plants in the nose.

Shao Xuan took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and looked over again, but found that the vines and branches had disappeared, the stone and earth walls were still there, and the big bare stone on the ground.

Seeing some unusual movement in his hand, Shao Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at the hand holding the stone.

The stone that was originally burned and not cut by a knife was instantly weathered into sand and fell from Shao Xuan's fingers.

When the last grain of sand fell, Shao Xuan's vision was dark.
Chapter completed!