Paintings of Terror

"Don't stop investigating the clues of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas," Ke Xun said, "and the coordinates of the art museum. These are likely to have an important relationship with the final breakthrough."

Shao Ling nodded: "You guys continue with yesterday's work, and hand over the information about investigating Qin Chao to me."

"I can help..." Gu Qingqing raised her hand.

"Okay," Shao Ling looked at Fang Fei and Wu You again, "If you two have no other arrangements, then come and help me."

Fang Fei and Wu You agreed.

After dinner, the girls were not in a hurry to leave, but seized the time to investigate clues with everyone.

Everyone is in front of computers, laptops, mobile phones and books, and there is no other sound in the room except the sound of typing keys and flipping books.

Ke Xun clicked on his Weibo, and found that there were more than 6000 comments, thousands of reposts, and hundreds of private messages. Checking them one by one is also a very energy-consuming and time-consuming thing, so he simply sat by the window, facing The dark night scene outside the window, feeling the slight chill seeping through the cracks of the window, cheered me up, and then clicked on the comment.

Most of the comments were nympho licking his face or making fun of him, and those who answered the questions seriously were almost all answers with high coincidence. Later, even Chinese knots and Yuelao red ropes came out. Although Ke Xun felt unreliable , but still wrote down everything related to the rope.

Just kept flipping through the comments one by one, until the eyes started to get tired, looked at the time, it was already past ten o'clock at night, then looked at Fang Fei and the other three girls, who were still checking with Shao Ling Information, completely forgetting the time, is enough to fight.

Ke Xun stretched his waist, and was about to ask the men to escort the three of them back to the hotel to rest, when a message was drawn in the comment area under his eyes, and he looked carefully, and saw that it was written: "Huainanzi · Tianwen Xun" There is a saying: The center is the land, and its emperor, the Yellow Emperor, and its assistant Houtu, hold the rope and control the four directions.It means that Houtu held the ink string to assist the Yellow Emperor in managing the things in the four directions. The ink string is a tool for carpentry. I don't know if it has the power of gods and ghosts.

Ke Xun quickly wrote down the ink rope, and then scrolled down, and found that this netizen with the ID "Knocking on papers will kill people" has posted more than one comment, and there are several more.

Knocking papers will kill people: "Taiping Yulan" has a saying: "As the saying goes, the world was opened, and there were no people. Nuwa made people out of loess. The theater work, too busy to do it, is to draw ropes in the mud and hold them as people. Therefore Those who are rich and honored are Master Huang. Those who are poor and mediocre are also those who are poor.”

Ke Xun: "..." So the three of us with the bones of Jomon are poor and lowly?

Looking further back——

Knocking out papers will kill people: If you say you want to know what is the most powerful rope in Chinese mythology, in fact, it is not the most powerful to use rope to manage things in all directions and use rope to create people. The most powerful rope is "Diwei ".

Knocking out papers will kill people: what is Diwei? "Liezi·Tang Wen" has a saying: "Afterwards, the Gonggong clan and Zhuanxu fought for the title of emperor, and in anger they touched the mountains of Buzhou, broke the pillars of heaven, and became a jeopardy." This "diwei" is the rope that maintains the earth.The ancients believed that the sky is round and the earth is square, and there are big ropes at the four corners of the earth to pull the sky pillars, so it is called Diwei.

Ke Xun stared at these words for a while, got up and went to Mu Yiran, and handed him all the names of the ropes listed on the phone: "Of course, I think the most meaningful thing here is this place." The rope used by Wei and Nuwa to make people, and if I had to choose, I think Diwei is the closest. What do you think?"

Mu Yiran stared at the screen of the mobile phone, his eyes moved slightly, and after a while he raised his eyes to look at Ke Xun: "Nuwa used only one rope to create humans, and Diwei has four in total. Now the three of us are covered with Jomon, maybe Another Jomon will appear on one of the other three other than ten of us. Therefore, I also think that 'Diwei' is the most likely."

Ke Xun scratched his hair and said, "The rope that holds the earth together is so...too grand. We are just the most ordinary people among hundreds of millions of people. When this kind of thing is added to us, it feels... ...Life is unbearable."

Mu Yiran rubbed his scratched hair, and said: "Maybe it's just an image, just like a tattoo, it's just a symbolic expression, like the door gods we stick on our doors are just two pictures , not two real gods, they are all the same, so there is no need to be too stressed. What we need to know is what kind of role this bone phase will play, or what it means."

Ke Xun looked at his mobile phone screen and sighed: "Either the power of the masses is great, but I didn't expect the answer to appear like this. How about I ask the masses about Shan Hai Jing again?"

"Yes." Mu Yiran looked at him and smiled slightly, "It seems that you are better than us."

"You still don't know if I can do it?" Ke Xun leaned his face in front of his, and the tip of his nose touched his, whispering.

"This statement is very ambiguous." Mu Yiran glanced at him, raised his hand to pinch his chin and shook it gently from side to side twice.

Ke Xun quickly kissed him on the cheek, then sat down again, and while writing a new Weibo content on his mobile phone, he said casually: "If there are four people whose bones are Diwei, then there are nine people whose bones are Diwei. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", so why the bones of the four of us are not "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" but Diwei? There must be a reason..."

"Nine people are "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"..." Mu Yiran's eyes suddenly focused, and Ke Xun hurriedly stopped and looked at him.

"I thought of a possibility." Mu Yiran pondered.

Xu Shi, the voices of the last few sentences of the two were a little louder, and everyone suspended their work and followed the prestige.

"About the origin of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu", there is another theory besides the 'Witch Tu'," Mu Yiran said slowly, "It is said that in the early summer, Dayu divided the world into Kyushu, and ordered the management of Kyushu Zhou Mu contributed bronze and used the bronze to cast nine tripods to symbolize the Kyushu.

"Da Yu sent people to paint pictures of the famous mountains, great rivers, places of beauty, and strange objects in the Kyushu, and selected skilled craftsmen to engrave these pictures on the Jiuding.

"Because each tripod covers the famous mountains and rivers, vegetation, beasts and monsters of a state, these nine tripods are equivalent to covering everything in the world, so from then on, 'Kyushu' has become synonymous with China, and 'Dingding' and "Aspiration" has become a symbolic word for the Lord of the World.

"Therefore, some scholars believe that the ancient map of the "Shan Hai Jing" originated from the engraved pictures on the Jiuding, and the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a legacy of the Jiu Ding.

"If there are indeed nine people who have the bone pictures of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu", then we may be able to determine which version of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is the version of the bone picture - the nine tripods made by Yu, and the mountains and seas engraved on the tripod. Our bone pictures The Map of Mountains and Seas is the original version, the Yu version."

Everyone was startled and stared, looking at each other.

In this vast history, every individual is just a grain of sand, a drop of water, humble and insignificant.And at the origin of the grand and turbulent river, in the age of myths where all the imagination can't describe the details, there is such an ancient artifact that can determine the universe, suppress mountains and rivers, and engrave ghosts and gods, just like the dust of them. The existence of is inextricably linked.

This really caught people off guard... For a moment, everyone felt the panic that Ke Xun had just had of "the unbearable weight of life".

"Really... will it really be like this?" Luo Yu still had a hard time believing that this unimaginable thing would happen to him.

"Ninety-nine percent of the possibilities are like this." Shao Ling took a breath, "...It's really 'only because I am in this mountain'. If Mu hadn't thought of this, I would not have thought of it. I also have some memories in my memory. relating documents.

"There is a detailed record of this in "Zuo Zhuan". The content roughly says that Yu asked people to engrave images of all kinds of things, ghosts and evil things, as well as ghosts, monsters, poisonous insects and beasts, and ghosts and spirits in the mountains and forests of Chuanze on the nine. Only on the tripod, let the common people know about them, so that they can take precautions, and when they go out and enter the mountains, forests, rivers and lakes, they can have countermeasures when encountering these things, and use them to ward off evil spirits, drive away demons, and send ghosts away. The ancients also believed that various gods and monsters were attached to the nine tripods, possessing supernatural powers.

"Yang Shen, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, also argued that the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a legacy of Yu Ding. He said that the images on the Jiu Ding include the wonders of mountains, water, grass, trees and birds. , the wonder of the beast, the nine tripods are completed, and you can see all nations.

"Bi Yuan, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, pointed out that all the names of countries, mountains and rivers, and strange gods in the "Shan Hai Jing" are the pictures on the Jiuding, while others, such as the "Da Huang Jing" among them, are the pictures of later generations. People added it.

"So, this further confirms that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a super painting that is different from all the paintings we have entered, and is equivalent to a large world. It can 'view all countries', and its world has It is completely different from the landscapes, plants, animals, spirits and monsters of our world.

"And the most important and most surprising thing is that the painting "Shan Hai Jing Tu" was not painted on paper or silk, it was 'painted' on nine tripods.

"If the "Book of Mountains and Seas" on the Jiuding is the origin of the entire painting event, then the first batch of painters, what they entered should be the "Book of Mountains and Seas" on the Jiuding. As for how they entered, perhaps It has something to do with "Shan Hai Jing Tu" being a witch map.

"Jiuding is made of bronze. Bronze is a 'sacred tool'. The ancients regarded it as a god. In the Xia and Shang dynasties, bronze ritual vessels were used to worship gods and ghosts, pay more attention to sacrifices, and practice witchcraft.

"The sacrificial vessels made of bronze are composed of food vessels, wine vessels, water vessels, musical instruments, weapons, etc. When used, these things have a strict arrangement order, and these arrangement orders are the rules to be followed when performing witchcraft. .

"So can we think that these nine bronze tripods were triggered by their divine power when they were performing the magic and witchcraft, so that the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" engraved on them was expanded into a painting that exists in the "painting" What about the real world?"

Shao Ling's analysis made everyone have to keep breathing. Ke Xun felt that he was about to suffer from oxygen poisoning, coughed twice, and said, "Mr. Shao, your analysis makes me feel very reasonable. Let’s take a look: Yu engraved all things in Kyushu on nine bronze tripods, because bronze is a magical weapon that can communicate with gods and ghosts. The map of mountains and seas has been materialized... This is not right, the mountains and seas of all things in Kyushu first existed, and then they were engraved on the tripod by Yu. The tripod was inspired by divine power, and it is impossible to materialize another world of Kyushu, because—— Yu and Ding are originally in the world of mountains and seas in Kyushu!"

Shao Ling was also taken aback for a moment, then felt that Ke Xun was becoming more and more like a logical genius.

This question made everyone think for a while, and time passed, Ke Xun saw that Luo Xie had started yawning non-stop, so he proposed to continue tomorrow and send the girls back to the hotel first.

Leave Luo Kuo at home to sleep first, and all the people go out together to see him off.

The snow outside is already very thick, and the snow flakes are still falling one after another. The street lamps in the community cast a thin yellowish light on the flat snow surface, like spreading an old rice paper on the ground.

"I have a question," Wei Dong said with a white breath, "how big is the tripod that can draw everything in Kyushu? Actually, I always thought that the "Shan Hai Jing" were all fairy tales, that Jiuding may also be made up from mythology, and it is not surprising that the things in mythology can describe all things in Kyushu, but now... It seems that mythology has been confirmed as reality, so we have to consider practical issues. I’m afraid it must be as big as a building?”

"No one knows how heavy the nine tripods made by Yu are," Shao Ling said, "but because the nine tripods symbolize the supreme power in the world, many monarchs in later generations have thought of recasting one set to demonstrate their imperial power.

"It is recorded in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" that Wu Zetian recast the nine tripods. The largest one is one foot and eight feet high, and the rest are one foot and four feet high. The nine tripods used a total of more than 56 catties of copper.

"As for Yu Ding, I think it will only be heavier and more majestic than Wu Zetian's Ding. You must know that in the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Ding was a symbol of power, status and wealth. , which marks the size of power. When enjoying rituals and sacrifices, only the emperor who is the lord of the world can enjoy Jiuding, and Dayu unified Kyushu. Such a power like heaven must represent this power. Jiuding will never be small.

"The nine tripods were mentioned in "Warring States Policy", one tripod needs 9 people to pull it, and the nine tripods need 81 people to pull it-of course, this must be an exaggeration, but Its true weight must not be underestimated."

"Where is the Jiuding made by Yu now?" Ke Xun asked, "Since we can't figure out the issue of the initial painting incident, why not go to Jiuding to investigate in person."

Shao Ling smiled wryly: "If I could go, I would have said so long ago. The Nine Tripods made by Yu disappeared as early as the Warring States Period."

The author has something to say:

Weidong: Wow!There are still snowflakes in the sky~ Huh?There seems to be something else flying in the sky besides snowflakes?

Ke Xun: That is the brain hole of the readers.

Weidong: Why do everyone's brains fly to the sky?

Ke Xun: Because it was blown away by the author.