Paintings of Terror

Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Hua Jiqiu, and Gu Qingqing are responsible for sorting out the photos taken last night on the laptop in order—fortunately, most of the functions of the laptop can still be used.

The icons displayed on the computer were still weird. Everyone stared at the computer screen for a long time, and finally Shao Ling spoke first: "Maybe because I am doing writing work, I think these icons are not only images of witch prayers, It is also like some kind of characters. You see, this icon that folds the limbs and torso into a 'ぴ'-shaped symbol appears more than once. Perhaps this is equivalent to the function of a common word, often appearing in different sentences. .”

"From this point of view, these icons can be regarded as hieroglyphs in a certain sense." Qin Ci said.

Shao Ling nodded: "This is an inevitable stage in the development of characters. However, judging from the structure, style and law system of these icons, they are completely different from oracle bone inscriptions and our known writing systems. I have reason to suspect that this kind of writing Belonging to another culture, or even another civilization, or even another world—thus, it may be presumed that this icon/text is a communication symbol from another field.”

Wu You suddenly slapped his head when he heard the words: "When Mr. Shao said this, I suddenly remembered that when my great-grandmother was chatting with other colleagues, I overheard something.

"It is said that when she was young, she went with her master to purify a person who was possessed by an evil spirit. That person seemed to be possessed by a very bad thing. When my great-grandmother and her master practiced the method, she and the person on that person Something 'talks', ask that thing what it wants to do.

"But that thing seemed to be incomprehensible, screaming and screaming, and then bit its finger and struggled to write a few words on the wall with blood. Grandma's master took her away after seeing this, and refused to say anything. Helped that person clean up, but that person died not long after, and I heard that his death was particularly miserable.

"Everyone asked my grandma, why didn't her master help others at that time? My grandma said that she also asked her master the reason at that time, and her master said that because the words written on the wall by that person with blood did not belong to us. this world.

"Her master meant that that kind of writing is very scary. If you see it, don't try to read it, let alone imitate it, stay away from it immediately, and absolutely don't mess with it or do anything related to it. , don’t even think about it all the time, and force my great-grandmother to quickly forget the shape of those words.

"My great-grandmother didn't actually read it carefully. At that time, she was young and had just debuted. She was frightened by that man's terrifying and weird appearance, and she didn't even bother to read those words. This matter is considered to be over. I went, but she was also very curious, so she asked Master what those words were.

"Her master said that that kind of writing is not created by human beings, and has different attributes and functions from human writing. Human writing is not only used for recording but also for communication, and that kind of writing has some powerful characters besides communication. The power of - I have translated the words, the original words are not like this, but the main meaning is this.

"As for what kind of power it is, even her master doesn't know. He only said that this kind of thing was told to him by her master's master, and her master's master passed it down from her master and ancestors.

"But they have passed down from generation to generation. They don't have any information about the shape and meaning of this kind of characters. They just say that if you see characters that look like... like dead people, don't pay attention to them, because that is Ghost text."

As soon as the word "ghost text" was uttered, several people trembled.

"That's right," Ke Xun pointed at the screen. "This kind of symbol looks like a dead person. It's probably a ghost script, a script from another world."

Mu Yi nodded abruptly: "Then we may infer that the ancient wizards mastered some ghost writing, and through this writing, supplemented by witch prayers, they can achieve the purpose of communicating with another world."

"From this point of view, the high rocky platform is likely to be used for sacrifices or witchcraft." Zhu Haowen said.

"In that case...Xiao Mu Xiao Ke, if you climb up tonight, will it be in danger?" Hua Jiqiu was very worried.

"We came here for danger," Ke Xun said without any fluctuations in his heart, "We know that there are tigers in the mountains, but we prefer to go to the mountains. It's not that we want to do this, but we have to do it. Don't worry, Dad Hua, I I figured that as long as the thirteen of us didn't go up together, there shouldn't be any weird things triggered."

For the sake of this discussion, there is no new progress for the time being, and the direction of action for tonight cannot be changed, so everyone puts it aside for the time being, washes up, makes breakfast, finds a convenient place to go, and the camp is bustling for a while stand up.

After breakfast, everyone who hadn't slept all night went back to their respective tents to rest, leaving two people standing guard.

In the afternoon, all the sleepy people got up one after another and gathered in the big tent again.

"Arrange tonight's action," Mu Yiran said, and everyone quickly quieted down to listen to him, "Ke Xun and I are in charge of going up to the rock platform to check, but before that, Luo Yu, I remember you brought the drone ?”

"Yes brother-in-law, but didn't I use it once when I came here with my buddies before, all the drones failed, and they never came back after entering the canyon." Luo Xie said.

"Let's try it in a while," Mu Yiran said, "If the remote control fails, try to find a way to put the camera directly on the high platform. I have a telescopic rod in the trunk, but it takes some effort, and it's not as convenient and flexible as a drone. .”

Everyone watched him silently, and Ke Xun said something fair: "Your Japanese name must be Doraemon."

Everything in the trunk.

Maybe you can pull out a bazooka or deep water torpedo from it.

"What is Doraemon Mu?" Mu Yiran asked him seriously.

Everyone: "..."

... Forgot that the big brother's blind spot is cartoons.

"Lao Luo will come to test the performance of the drone in a while," the boss continued to arrange, "I will teach Ke Xun the essentials of rock climbing.

"Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Sister Cen, Director Hua, the four of you are in charge of continuing to ponder these 'ghost texts', starting from the two aspects of images and text, and striving for breakthroughs.

"For the remaining six people, I carry some surveillance camera equipment in the trunk. Haowen leads the team and arranges these equipment around the location where the rocky platform will appear. Tonight we will try to capture how the rocky platform appears and disappears. I hope It can help us in our next steps.”

Everyone responded in unison, and immediately split up.

As expected, the drone brought by Luo Xie cannot be used. The underground magnetic field seems to interfere more with wireless devices, but functions that can be operated by a single machine, such as mobile phones and computers, can still be used.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xunluo took out the telescopic rod, fixed a high-definition camera on the head of the rod, and stretched the telescopic rod to the longest length, but it was still not enough to illuminate the height of the top of the rock platform, so they connected it again Several sections of threaded steel pipes are barely usable, but I'm afraid I can't take pictures of all the places on the top of the high platform. I can only roughly observe whether there are other things.

After finishing this part, Mu Yiran went to teach Ke Xun the essentials of rock climbing. Although Ke Xun almost mastered some techniques in the painting "Animal World", the rocks here are higher and the conditions of the rock walls are more complicated. And considering that the rock skin is very crisp and is extremely prone to the risk of slipping, this puts higher demands on rock climbers.

"I have a ladder in the trunk." Mu Yiran said to Ke Xun.

"..." Ke Xun is now accustomed to the sentence pattern "I have..." in the trunk, and he listened to Doraemon continue to speak very calmly.

"At that time, drive the car to the rock wall first, and then put the ladder on the roof to shorten our rock climbing distance," said Doraemon. You need to carry some heavy objects. Flashlights, weapons, cameras, ropes, so it will be more difficult, if you can’t hold on then, I won’t allow you to hold on, you have to go back to the original place, understand?”

"Hey, when it comes to ropes," Ke Xun pretended to be confused, "I have an idea..."

"Do you understand?" The boss reached out to the back of his neck, wrapping his head firmly around the back of his head, preventing him from talking about it, looking straight into his eyes, and asking him to give an affirmative reply.

"Okay, I promise you." Ke Xun said helplessly, "You don't want me to be in danger, but I don't want you to take risks alone, our love is unfair, I am wronged, I want to cry, I need a big brother to kiss me Only dear can suffer this loss."

Mu Yiran pressed his dog's head to himself, and kissed it on the lips, ignoring the posture of Luo Xie watching vigorously while shouting "Oh, it's not suitable for children", and put his forehead against Ke Xun's forehead, and the tip of his nose touched Nose tip, said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I won't do dangerous things, I know you will be sad."

Ke Xun's eyes turned hot, he embraced him with both arms, and kissed him hard.

For the first time, I felt that... two men kissing is also quite seductive.Just as Luo Kuo was thinking about it, a hand stretched out and pinched his ear, and then carried him away alive, "Come and help." Fang Fei didn't bother to take another look at the couple who showed their affection in public, and Bu Surveillance, a job that requires a lot of skill and patience, made everyone except Zhu Haowen feel overwhelmed.

"...Speaking of ropes," Ke Xun put his arms around Mu Yiran's waist and took a few steps forward, pressing him against the car body, but he couldn't do anything else, so he could only continue the topic just now, "I think we At night, it is better to put a longer rope on the place where the rock platform will appear, and straighten the rope so that the two ends will be outside the scope of the rock platform. When the rock platform appears, the rope may be lifted by it , the middle part will be on the rock platform, and the two ends hang down, which will save us a lot of trouble, and then we only need to pull the rope to go up, what do you think?"

Mu Yiran nodded: "It's a way. If the rock platform is raised from the ground, maybe this method can work."

After half an afternoon of hard work, the monitoring system was finally set up. There were two cameras on the four sides of the rock platform, and the pictures captured by all the cameras could be transmitted to the computers connected to them in real time.

After several trials without problems, the installation team was relieved. Li Xiaochun went to prepare dinner, and Wu You and Gu Qingqing helped him.

However, the four people who were in charge of studying the icons in the tent did not move at all. Mu Yiran and Ke Xun went into the tent to have a look, and saw the other three people surrounding Weidong and the computer in his hand, staring at the screen intently. .

"What did you find?" Ke Xun walked over to watch the screen together.

Seeing that Weidong is using the mouse to manipulate several processed icons, moving the position back and forth in the drawing software.

"I have denoised, sharpened, and repaired these icons to extract the most basic lines," Wei Dong said to Ke Xun and Mu Yiran while operating, "It was originally to look clearer, but suddenly everyone I thought, can these icons be put together like the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" on our bone phase before to form a real picture? Then we wanted to try it. The result of the experiment," Wei Dong said, was off the mark Turning around, turned to look at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran, "——they can really make up a picture."

Ke Xun's eyes lit up, and he quickly looked at the picture on the screen carefully: "What is spelled out?"

"I don't know yet," Wei Dong shook his head, "The picture is not complete, only a few scattered parts were spelled out intermittently, we only cleared out the circle of icons under the rocky mountain, those places that cannot be reached by hand It hasn’t been cleared yet, and I’m thinking that I might have to clear all the symbols on the entire rock wall to get a complete picture.”

"We suspect," Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "the picture formed by the symbols on this rock wall is lost in the long river of history, that part of the original "Shan Hai Jing Tu"."

"The version of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" we know today was continuously added by people after Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties," Hua Jiqiu also nodded, "During the long years of changes, some primitive The content will also be misrepresented, distorted and tampered with, so the "Shan Hai Jing Tu" of later generations has long been a version with changed content and taste. We have no way of knowing how much of the original version is left. If this rock If the symbols on the stone wall are indeed the missing parts of the "Shan Hai Jing Tu", then it must be the most authentic and original version."

"Does the current pattern of these icons coincide with the picture on our bone phase?" Mu Yiran was extremely careful and sensitive.

"No." Wei Dong shook his head, "But we both feel that the style of painting is similar."

"Then have you ever tried to disassemble our phrenogram into 'ghost writing'?" Ke Xun asked suddenly.

The author has something to say:

Ke Xun: Then there is everything in the trunk, his Japanese name should be Dora A Mu.

Yiran: What is Doraemon?

Luo Wei: But judging from my brother-in-law's knowledge and reasoning ability, he should be called Detective Ke Ran.

Yi Ran: What is Ke Ran?

Wei Dong: The boss is handsome and rich, and he is tall, rich and handsome. I think it should be called Evening Dress·Fake Yi.

Yiran: What is a fake evening dress...

Wu You: Brother Mu has a cold and abstinent temperament, I think he should be called Rukawa Mu the most!

Yiran: Rukawa Mu is...

Haowen: I think he is more like a Tibetan horse, um, a Tibetan herd.

Yi Ran: ...

Qin Ci: I look like Shaka and Shamu in Saint Seiya.

Shao Ling: Hehe, he should be Ye Shenyi.

Father Hua: Xiaomu's intelligence is very similar to Brother Yixiu.

Qingqing: Byakuya Kuchiki.

Yue Cen: The Smurf Cong Cong.

Fang Fei: Sakai Fujiwara.

Xiaochun: Captain Kurolo!

Yi Ran: ...

Yiran: ...not very happy.