Merchant of the Underworld

After the main hall sank into the ground, the ground closed again. The flood receded slightly, but still submerged the nine steps and most of the tower.

The men were holding torches, and the women were holding children and old people on their hands, and they were walking towards the cave outside the temple, as if they were leaving here, and the tribe was migrating again.

In the next scene, a giant snake appeared, occupying the passage ahead, and many people were bitten in half.

A woman threw the baby out of her arms in panic. The giant snake swallowed it in one gulp and raised its head slightly to stare at everyone.

The old man wearing the animal tooth necklace seemed to understand what was going on, waving his arms and roaring something loudly.

Then several women were very reluctant to let go, but they threw out the babies even more helplessly.

The giant snake swallowed them one after another, turned around and left.

People continued to explore the cave and found that although the cave was intricate and extended in all directions, it was still buried deep underground and there was no path to the surface.

So, they began to build a new home in this cave...

They created checkpoints at the interface of each cave, and used stone bars to make gear-mounted mechanisms. Then they cut through the stone walls to draw water—this was the original form of the Kagong Lock. Of course, their initial idea may just be to avoid the attack of the big snake.

But that big snake will appear on time every year. On this day, the flowers and plants on the shore will sprout buds, the water will rise sharply, and hibernating turtles and snakes will emerge from the soil.

The helpless people could only continue to throw away their babies in order to protect the whole family. One of the women could not bear the pain of losing her child and jumped into the water.

While people were linking caves and rebuilding their homes, they also launched two other huge secret projects!

One is to dig a long passage diagonally into the ground. They still yearn for the light and want to return to life on the mainland.

Another item was completed by the old man wearing the animal tooth necklace and a child. He collected the heads of all the dead and hung them densely on the stone wall, as if setting up an extremely mysterious array.

The bones without heads were also stacked together, and many small snakes were put in. This seemed to be the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​snakes I had encountered before.

Human beings have gone through generation after generation, and the owners of the animal tooth necklace have also changed one after another.

These three huge projects are also being perfected day by day, and finally one day, the maze level was completed first!

When the giant snake appeared again and opened its bloody mouth, people no longer abandoned the baby, but hid in the maze to deal with the giant snake, and even threw spears and arrows to fight back.

The giant snake was angry, shaking its body covered with black scales, and hit the stone cave again and again.

The stones at the entrance of the cave fell one after another, and the ancient hall was shaking.

Just when humans were at a loss and were extremely panicked and wanted to snatch babies from women's hands as sacrifices, a group of fish swam from a distance.

The leader was a strange fish with a human head, long hair, and big eyes. It was clearly the woman who fell into the water and died earlier.

She swam over with a school of fish and laid a fish egg in front of the giant snake. The giant snake stopped attacking the cave and swallowed the fish eggs in large mouths.

From then on, whenever the big snake came again, the female fish would always swim up with a school of fish and lay a fish egg.

Year by year.

After an unknown number of generations of owners of the animal tooth necklace, the formation was finally completed.

The giant snake is locked in a body of water and cannot jump out, but on that day every year, it still hits the underwater foundation stone unwillingly.

As the cave trembled, another group of fish swam over to lay eggs and saved everyone.

As time went by, I don’t know how many years passed, but the path to the ground was finally opened. All the tribesmen happily entered the passage with all their belongings.

As they were about to emerge from the ground, everyone saw the legendary light...

The big snake woke up again.

It had grown a pair of sharp horns at this time, hitting the foundation stone hard, and the path leading to the outside world also collapsed.

The old people carried the boulders with their bodies and pushed some young people out desperately.

The school of fish swam over again, but the mermaid was missing.

Some people were very brave and jumped into the water through the gap in the channel, hoping to feed the snakes with themselves and buy some time for everyone. Some people are still struggling to carry the boulder, desperately trying to escape one more person and leave one more seed for the tribe...

The big snake became quiet after swallowing the fish eggs, but the passage leading to the outside world finally collapsed. Except for a few young people who escaped, the rest of the tribe were crushed by rocks and buried forever. Underground.

A huge boulder was turned up in the collapsed passage, and the old man with the animal tooth necklace stretched out his white-haired head.

He is the only survivor in the crypt.

He dug through rocks, trying to rescue another person, but in the end it was all in vain.

So he returned to the cave and kept carving on the stone wall.

The last mural in front of me is an old man wearing a beast's tooth necklace, chiseling at the stone surface.

Year after year, the old man became as skinny as a stick, but he never stopped...

In the end, the painting was only half completed, and a dead skeleton that had long been broken into pieces lay on the ground.

Although the withered bones have long been weathered and shapeless, I can still distinguish his final posture, holding a chisel that was already covered with light green rust in his hand.

It seems that this corpse is the only survivor, and the person who recorded this long scroll is the wizard from that ancient tribe.

However, the animal tooth necklace that had been worn on his chest was missing.

I read this long painting from beginning to end, and the more I looked at it, the more shocked I became.

The earth-shattering scenes and bloody scenes all made me extremely shocked.

Are these people the first humans? Are these murals the most authentic record of that period of history?

Are the group of young people who escaped the ancestors of China?

Legend has it that as early as before the Xia Dynasty, thousands of miles away on the north bank of the Yellow River, there was a group of ancestors living and multiplying.

Historically, these people were called Youyu clan.

There are records in many ancient books excavated by archaeologists, confirming that the Yu family did exist, but no traces of their lives have been found.

It turns out that they live here, why are they called the Yu family?

Is it commemorating the fish that saved the whole family, or the woman who was the first to jump into the water?

In mythology, the goddess Nuwa who created humans was a human body with a snake tail. Is this a mistake made in an era when there were no written records and word-of-mouth transmission? The so-called Nuwa is actually the female fish who saved mankind?

Could it be that the prehistoric flood that destroyed the world was also spread from this?

The giant snake with two horns was also given a new name by later generations - dragon!

They have always remembered the day when the dragon raised its head, which happened to be February 2 according to the ancient calendar.

The tribesmen initially hated and feared this dragon, but just like they were afraid of thunder and lightning, their fear turned into awe, and slowly turned into worship, so they called themselves descendants of the dragon?

Could it be that this is the true origin of Chinese civilization?