The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life

Dak never expected that Emma could actually find out the origin of the mural in such a short period of time.

She found an incomplete imprint from the corner of the mural, and then restored the imprint with the help of the senior sister.

Based on this imprint, the possible age of the mural was found.

Thanks to the completeness of the documents in the library, she was able to read the correct historical records according to the age.

The heel of the murals comes from the super ancient era four epochs ago, and a complete story is described on it.

Emma wrote excerpts of the story in a notebook.

Dake took the notebook, flipped through it carefully, and couldn't help hesitating: "The destruction of the Kingdom of Gold?"

"Yes." Emma pondered, "In fact, before I found this mural, I was already looking for information related to the Kingdom of Gold, so the progress was so fast."

As she spoke, she took a book from her hand and handed it over.

Dark took the book and looked it over carefully, but it was a novel called "The King of Gold and the Secret Treasure".

Duck had long discovered that Emma would sometimes read some novels and biographies, and this "The Golden King and the Secret Treasure" was the book she had been reading before Halloween.

"Is this the reason why those eight murals appeared in the secret passage?"

Dak flipped through the book a little bit, suddenly a little stunned.

This novel tells a relatively popular adventure story, and the background of the novel is set in an era when a certain gold rush started.

Someone discovered sand mixed with gold in the desert, and after the news spread, countless gold diggers were attracted.

Joshua, the protagonist who was born in a slum, was one of them.

Qiao Xiu's mother died of illness because she had no money to buy medicine.

Watching his mother close her eyes forever in pain, Qiao Xiu developed a strong desire and obsession with money.

He stole, gambled, robbed, and gradually fell into the abyss.

After the news of the Golden Sand came, Qiao Xiu joined the fanatical gold rush team without hesitation.

The golden sand gushing out from the ground has made countless people rich overnight.

Slaves, wine, estates...

Everything imaginable is easily available.

Joshua went back and forth between the desert and the market town tirelessly, immersed in the carnival day and night.

until a certain day.

The desert gushing out the golden sand suddenly collapsed, and all the gold diggers fell into an ancient city.

That city was the City of Gold, the last capital of the El Dorado.

And the King of El Dorado sleeps forever in the Golden City.

The surviving archaeologists identified the inscription on the place where they fell, and told Qiao Xiu and the other gold diggers that the Golden King buried endless treasures in his tomb—that's the secret treasure!

In order to find the golden king's secret treasure and become a new generation of gold kings, Qiao Xiu and the gold diggers were swallowed by huge greed and went deep into the city unprepared.

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This is how the story begins.

As for whether Qiao Xiu succeeded in obtaining the treasure in the end, or was he permanently lost underground?

Duck didn't see the end.

He put down "The Golden King and the Secret Treasure" and picked up Emma's notebook.

The excerpts in the notebook are the stories recorded in the murals, that is, "the fall of El Dorado".

There are eight murals in total.

In fact, it adopts a more abstract description method.

In the first painting, ragged paupers unearth cartloads of ore from a mine.

The ore inside is actually gold mine.

The painting shows the miners digging in the mine.

In the second painting, a half-naked blacksmith forges ore into standard square bricks.

Then you are actually casting gold bricks!

In the third painting, merchants in common clothes sold baskets of square bricks to nobles.

In fact, it was not a merchant, nor was it an ordinary aristocrat.

Rather architects and ministers.

The gold bricks are collected by the minister, implying that this is an order from the king.

In the fourth painting, nobles in luxurious clothes use square bricks to build towers on top of the altar.

Under the king's order, the minister began to build the golden pagoda.

The so-called "altar" means that the "golden pagoda" was built for sacrifice.

In other words, the entire golden pagoda is a sacrifice!

In the fifth painting, thousands of human beings are praying for the coming of a certain existence under the altar.

People prostrated themselves in front of the golden pagoda and began to sacrifice.

In the sixth painting, the shining monster emerges from the black hole in the sky during the sacrifice.

The golden beast god responded to the human sacrifice and woke up from deep sleep.

In the seventh painting, the ferocious and greedy monster roared and devoured all the sacrifices and humans.

Everything will be sacrificed.

In the eighth painting, human blood and corpses put together a strange pattern on the ground.

Only death is eternal!

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The story itself is very simple. It is nothing more than that the king at that time summoned the god for a certain purpose, but he was swallowed by the god.

The so-called "God" was originally a name full of awe created by human beings for individuals far stronger than themselves.

Whether it is a human-shaped, intelligent god, or a beast-shaped, ferocious god.

All are gods.

In the super ancient era, because of the preciousness and immortality of gold, human beings linked it with "eternity" and constructed the identity of "gold = eternity".

The King of Gold, who has infinite wealth, follows this identity, builds gold into a tower, and offers it as a sacrifice in exchange for eternal life.

But obviously, he failed.

And eventually led to the destruction of El Dorado!

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Emma talked about her own insights with great interest:

"The Kingdom of Gold has another name in historical records, the Kingdom of Eternity! The so-called alchemy is the refining of gold, the pursuit of eternity, and the pursuit of eternal life!"

"The Golden King is known as the earliest alchemist in many documents. He refined gold in order to seek the method of immortality, and El Dorado is just a by-product of the research process."

"El Dorado was originally a kingdom built on desire, and it was ultimately destroyed by desire."

"The animal gods depicted in the murals are not necessarily real gods, but may also be the embodiment of desire."

"And the essence of the whole mural is this last painting!"

"I suspect it is a pair of refined array!"

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"The Golden King and the Secret Treasure, the destruction of the El Dorado, the earliest ancient alchemist, the Golden King, and the last one, a suspected formation made of human blood and corpses."

Duck couldn't help thinking about it.

When he was copying the murals in the secret passage, he felt that the eighth painting was particularly weird, so he put in the most effort when copying it, and painted it very finely.

But even so, it is still an extremely huge project to restore the complete formation from a painting.

It can even be the subject of an entire college career!

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