We swam forward about a few dozen meters, and the style of the murals on the tunnel wall suddenly changed. Instead of mainly auspicious clouds and carved lines, a large number of patterns appeared.
A few of us lined up in a row and focused the light from our overhead xenon lamps on the murals so that we could observe the pictures painted on the tunnel walls in more detail.
This is a huge picture, but its narrative method is different from our traditional paintings. It lists all the things to be painted in a linear way. At the top is a huge oval
Something similar to a fireball, the surface of the fireball is filled with a thin layer of black mist.
"The front piece seems to depict a sun, but why is the sun covered with a layer of black mist?" Zhang Jisheng said in confusion as he hovered in front of the mural.
"Starting from this fireball, the painting technique has become very different, as if it has returned to the original state. It is very childish. I don't understand why for the time being. Let's take a look below." Andrew said.
After hearing what Andrew said, we swam a little further along the mural, and the next scene was shocking.
It was a picture of thousands of woolly mammoths, coming from a distance as if they were rushing towards the sun-like fireball painted at the front of the mural.
The level of detail of the woolly mammoths painted on this mural is impossible to imagine unless you see it with your own eyes. It is really comparable to the photos taken by the most advanced modern SLR cameras, and the painting above.
Similar to the randomness of the sun's fireball, it forms a sharp contrast.
"The mammoth was a giant of the Ice Age and became extinct around 2,000 BC. Why can the murals in this tunnel depict them in such detail? I feel that the owner of this painting was particularly interested in the appearance of the mammoth.
They understand each other very well, as if they have lived together for a long time." Zhang Jisheng said.
"Around 2,000 BC, this happened to be the era when the pyramids were built in Egypt. I don't know if there is any connection between them." Xiangyu continued what Zhang Jisheng said.
Star maps, Egyptian pyramids, and the drama at the bottom of Poyang Lake seem to be getting more and more complicated, and the things involved have gradually exceeded my knowledge base. I can only act as an observer like Lao Li.
It's just that I really don't understand, and I don't know whether Lao Li can't speak or doesn't want to speak.
They also discussed the reasons why mammoths could not appear in the Yangtze River Basin from aspects such as their habitat, living habits, and eating habits, and then analyzed the reason why this tunnel made of mammoth bones appeared here.
various unreasonable factors.
I didn't understand most of them, so I thought it was pointless to follow them where they were studying mammoths, so I walked on alone.
At this time, I discovered that the tens of thousands of mammoths we just saw were only a small part of the elephant herd, and a large part was in the murals behind. Moreover, these mammoths seemed to be frozen.
, they stood there, their bodies covered with a thick layer of ice, and their faces were basically invisible, leaving only a basic outline.
Why did the climate suddenly change so drastically? Behind the frozen mammoth is a large area of plants.
"Professor, why do I feel that this entire mural is connected, as if it is describing the Younger Dryas incident." Xiangyu swam to my side at some point. She was suspended in front of the mural, her eyes staring like ice sculptures.
the mammoth said.
"It's not like it's describing this phenomenon at all. Look at the large plant behind it, it's the Younger Dryas." Andrew said, standing between the two of us.
"Xiangyu, what are you talking about? What's the Younger Dryas incident?" I was confused and couldn't help but ask.
"The Younger Dryas event refers to a typical non-orbital event in which the earth suddenly cooled during the continuous warming process during the last deglaciation period. It probably occurred 12,900 years ago. This sudden cooling caused the North American woolly mammoth to
Saber-toothed tigers, camels, cougars, etc. became extinct one after another. The reason why it is called the Younger Dryas event is because the remains of a herbaceous plant in the Arctic, the Dryas, were found in the sediments of this period."
Andrew said.
"There is currently a hypothesis in the scientific community that it may have been a comet that hit the Earth and produced a huge amount of heat that melted the Greenland ice, changed the airflow and had an impact on the climate, and the dust produced by the explosion obscured the sun, thus reducing the
The temperature has increased, which is why global temperatures have dropped rapidly." Xiangyu went on to explain.
"So, the sphere covered with black mist at the front of the mural is really the sun." After hearing this, this was the first thing that came to my mind. It felt a bit strange.
"Yes, this entire mural, taken together, is describing the Younger Dryas Incident. However, even in modern times, the Younger Dryas Incident took several generations of scientists to conduct difficult research before they could be concluded. The purpose of building this tunnel
From what channels did the master understand such an event so comprehensively?" Zhang Jisheng asked doubtfully.
"This is indeed another unreasonable point. How about we look back first and maybe we will gain more." Xiangyu said.
However, the mural behind this shocked us all, especially me.
The inner wall of the tunnel in front of us is densely covered with graffiti, which is exactly the same as the graffiti I saw in the cave of the ancient pagoda in Wawushan - all originated from my father's handwriting.
At first, I always wondered why my father imitated the words in the ancient temple on the wall of the cave. He always lives with pen and paper. Wouldn't it be easier to write directly on paper with a pen?
?
Now I finally understand that he painted these graffiti on the walls of the cave to actually cover up the murals above. Just like the scene in front of me, these murals must be able to convey some important information, but my father
Don't want this information to leak out.
What did my father find among these murals?
I can't figure it out.
There are also murals of auspicious clouds in the underground palace of the ancient pagoda. That mural should depict the nebula represented by the dark red stone piece in my hand now, but I failed to see the mystery at the time, so
It is still unclear which constellation in the universe the nebula represented by this dark red stone piece corresponds to.
Oops, my brain is really stupid. I always let information slip away in my hands. My grandfather and father are so wise, and my grandmother and mother are also very smart women. Why did I come here?
Didn’t my generation inherit those excellent genes?
I cursed myself secretly.
"The mural behind this has been deliberately damaged. I don't know who is so heartless as to kill such a precious cultural relic." Andrew stood in front of the mural and sighed.
As soon as I heard the word "lack of heart", fire suddenly burst out from my heart. I wanted to go up and punch this foreign devil. I cursed in my heart: Even if I destroy it, it will be better than being spied on by a foreign devil like you.
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"It's a pity that we are underwater now and in the depths of Poyang Lake. We don't have any instruments on hand. Otherwise, we can identify which pigments are new and which are old by simply detecting them.
In this case, we will slowly be able to restore this mural." Zhang Jisheng said regretfully.
"I really want to see the person who painted these graffiti, how he painted in the water, and what kind of special treatment the paints underwent so that they would not dissolve in the water." Xiang
Jade is also feeling emotional.
"The person who can get here must not be a simple person, and that person must have been here more than once. Otherwise, he would not have known in advance that there were murals here, and after getting the information in the murals, he would have
The mural was destroyed," Andrew said.
Andrew's analysis was quite reasonable. What kind of powerful driving force drove his father to enter the dangerous depths of Wawu Mountain and the hinterland of Poyang Lake many times? When he did this, did he take his mother with him?
What are you doing? Do your grandparents know?
The Zhou family has more and more secrets, and even my companions know much more than me. I seem to have become an outsider to the Zhou family.
A feeling of sadness arose spontaneously, and I felt that my chest was so clogged that I could hardly breathe.