Original War

There is still heavy snow outside the cave, and thick ice has formed on the river. Few people in the tribe go out now. If you stand outside and look around, your eyes are all white.

There was a fire in the cave, and the atmosphere was different from the warm atmosphere in the past.

After installing the ice cubes, the inside of the cave became brighter, and there was no need to blow the cold wind. This feeling made the children in the cave very novel. They were in an abnormal state of excitement for two consecutive days. They surrounded the fire and looked at the stone walls. Words, discuss each other.

Shao Xuan wrote the words on the animal skin scroll left by the old hunter who was in charge of teaching on the stone wall. There was light in the daytime, and the words on the stone wall could be clearly seen without a fire. After learning this, next time the old hunter doesn't need to teach from scratch every time he comes.

Different from others, Shao Xuan stayed in the stone room for the past two days except when he was eating, carefully wiping off the stone powder on the wall of the stone room.

The debris in the stone room has been moved to other places by Shao Xuan, and the paintings on the stone wall occupy a large area.

After finally cleaning the last corner, Shao Xuan straightened up and took a deep breath, moved his sore hands and feet, stepped back, and looked at the paintings on the stone wall with the light coming in.

The light is not bright, and the paintings in some places are not very clear. Shao Xuan still needs torches to see clearly.

In addition to the paintings in the two places that Shao Xuan saw at the beginning, there are some paintings that surprised Shao Xuan even more.

The above painting also involves farmland and animal husbandry, those who work in the farmland, those who drive sheep with whips...

There are people wearing furs and holding small and fancy wine glasses, people who are still standing on the boat and casting nets to fish, and there are groups of women picking with baskets...

There are even people riding horses. There is a picture of an adult and a child running on horseback.

There is also a painting that I don’t know if it is a battle or hunting. Compared with other paintings, this painting is longer, and it takes up almost half of the wall on the left. There is a tall horse in front of the painting, and one immediately wears a long head. The fighters with plumes and physiques are more sturdy than other riders, with their heads high and chest tall, and they look very imposing, and they should be the leaders of these people.

Behind the strong warrior, there are several horses galloping to follow. There are some...wolves next to it?

No, that's not a wolf.

Compared with Caesar, the animals on the painting have long and curled tails, and some have their tails curled upwards. Is it a hound?

Some of the hounds opened their mouths and seemed to be panting, and two of them turned their heads to the side of the rider, seeming to be listening to someone talking.

There are also some buildings in the background of these paintings, and those buildings are taller and larger than those seen by Shao Xuan in the tribe. Although it is said that the houses in Shangshan District are much better than those near the foot of the mountain, but Shao Xuan simulated it in his head based on the information he had heard. Even the houses where the people lived on the mountain might still be inferior to the paintings of these mansions.

I once again returned to the painting I saw at the beginning. The woman in the painting wears ornaments on her head. It is not as simple and crude as the ornaments worn by women in the tribe today, but more delicate and exquisite, as for the woman holding it. The jar...

Shao Xuan thought of a possibility-pottery, if the jars with complicated patterns and patterns were not stone jars.

How long have these paintings existed?

If it is almost as old as the excavation of this stone chamber, how can it be hundreds of thousands of years?

Thousands of years ago, there were agriculture such as animal husbandry and breeding, fisheries, and pottery, and there were more hunting tools than there are now. They even brought hunting dogs. They were real hunting dogs, not Caesars. The hard work of the wolf!

Shao Xuan suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to watch.

The painting on the stone wall on the left is obviously different from the stone wall on the right. At the place separating the left and right in the middle, Shao Xuan could not understand what the painting was. It was too abstract and seemed a little messy at first glance. Shao Xuan could not guess based on the front and back paintings. However, it is obvious that after this period of painting, the style of the painting seems to have suddenly dropped from the vigorous and confident before to a low state, and many paintings reveal a sense of bleak desolation.

The woman kneeling and crying, and the child standing on the ground who didn't know what she was looking at, seemed to be at a loss. The background picture was not the big houses, but the cave where Shao Xuan was now.

There are no more farming and livestock breeding, no more pictures collected by groups of women carrying baskets, no more riding and shooting, no more hunting dogs, no more pottery that is much more exquisite than stoneware... …

Regardless of whether it is on the stone wall on the left or on the right, there is a logo on the top of the carved painting-a totem of the tribe.

The totem of the Yanhorn tribe looks like the two horns of a double-horned rhinoceros, except that the horns are longer and carry flames, just like the tribe’s name.

So, what is portrayed above is the Yanjiao tribe?

Shao Xuan recalled what the archaeological classmate said in his previous life: murals and rock paintings are generally used to depict the life of people of that era, or what people imagined and hoped at that time was also a kind of human beings at that time. Spiritual sustenance.

The paintings carved on this stone room are definitely not something imagined out of thin air. The emotions in the carved paintings are too strong. Only real experiences and things can arouse people's deeper, richer, and thicker emotions.

What happened to the tribe?

Natural disasters?

Man-made disaster?

Or is it both?

At the end of the stone wall on the right, many palm-sized patterns are painted. These patterns have different styles. For example, the pattern on the upper left is painted like a spider resting on the web, and the picture on the right is bamboo again. What kind of plant is there, there is only one thing like a mask, looking at that grotesque...

These patterns have plants, animals, and various things that Shao Xuan can't imagine.

When Shao Xuan was studying these murals, someone outside called him.

"A Xuan, Uncle Ge is here! A Xuan, come here!"

The other children in the cave have no interest in the depths of the cave. During their years of life in the cave, except for peeing and shit in special places in the cave, they would not study deeper. They had no interest in seeing those places once. So, the child who called Shao Xuan did not go here, but directly shouted.

After returning to his senses, Shao Xuan realized that today seemed to be the day for Ge to deliver food.

Ge also sent food for three days at once. When Shao Xuan saw him, there was still a lot of snow on the fur that Ge was wearing, but Ge didn’t care at all, staring at the ice cubes. The vents were still playing with the stone plates in his hands. Obviously he didn't expect this thing to be in the cave. Ever since he was responsible for delivering food, the cave has been black in winter. He had heard people mention that there was something similar in the cave before, but he has never seen the children in the cave use it. Coupled with the situation in the cave before, he has nothing to do. He didn't expect to see it now.

Let the other children in the cave help "unload". Now the food is sufficient, and the children in the cave are not fighting as they once saw. After hearing Shao Xuan's words, they all go to help, and then Shao Xuan distributes them in groups. He doesn't need to worry about how to divide the group.

Today, Shao Xuan didn't let Ge leave immediately. Instead, he pulled Ge and asked him to tell the children in the cave about the tribe. Anyway, after Ge delivered the food, there was nothing else.

Shao Xuan just wanted to learn more from Ge and see if he could link it to the paintings on the stone wall. Unfortunately, what Ge said was similar to what Shao Xuan heard from Lang Ga and others, and he didn’t want it. Something to understand.

Holding a charred tree branch and drew a pattern on the ground, Shao Xuan knew Ge glanced over here. It was obvious that he saw what he drew, but there was nothing unusual. Obviously Ge did not recognize the pattern.

Shao Xuan drew one of the very different patterns on the last stone wall on the right of the stone room. Ge can be regarded as a veteran warrior in the tribe. He didn't know this pattern. Shao Xuan sighed. It seems that he wants to know more. The painting on the stone wall is a bit difficult.

In fact, at the very end of the painting on the stone wall on the right side of the stone room, under the patterns with different styles, there is another sentence, but Shao Xuan doesn't know a few words, and the sentence can't connect.

Although Shao Xuan can say things smoothly here, many words are still relatively unfamiliar. Counting the time when the old hunter came next time, Shao Xuan learned those words and asked again when he had a chance.

Ten days later, the old hunter finally came down the mountain again and came into the cave.

I was surprised to see the changes in the cave, and then checked and found that the children in the cave did understand a lot. The old hunter was very happy and took out a hide roll again to teach new things.

In the spare time of teaching, Shao Xuan asked him for a few words. Not all of these words were on the stone wall. Other words were mixed in them. Shao Xuan just didn't want the old hunter to doubt it.

However, it turns out that Shao Xuan thinks too much. The old hunter is very interested in teaching people, but he doesn’t think much about others. He only thought that Shao Xuan had seen these words from others, so he taught Shao Xuan with great interest. identify.

After teaching, the old hunter also praised Shao Xuan admiringly: "These words are well written and have momentum! I must be a brave soldier in the future!"

Shao Xuan just smiled and said nothing. The words that were praised were written by him imitating the characters on the stone wall, and they were not copied exactly as they were, but because they were copied, they also brought some of the charm and momentum of the original work.

In this way, the one who paints and writes in the stone room should also be a soldier, and he may also be very capable.

When the old hunter left, Shao Xuan wrote the words in the old hunter's new animal skin scroll on the stone wall for the children in the cave to review, and he went to the stone room again.

After recognizing the word, Shao Xuan finally knew what the sentence was written.

"One day, we will return to our place. The glory is still there, and the flames of the horns will never die."

There is also a "like" after this sentence, which is probably the name of the owner of this stone room and the person who carved and wrote this sentence on the stone wall.

The last sentence was carved very deep, deeper than the other paintings, especially the last few words, which shows how strong the other person’s feelings were when they wrote this sentence.

Although I don't know why the murals here were later painted with stone whitewash, Shao Xuan is very grateful and admires the people who wrote these words for the paintings here.

It can be seen from that sentence that the situation of the other party, or the situation of the entire tribe, is not good, and even desperate, but the other party still has not given up.

No matter how desperate the situation is, as long as you are alive, as long as the tribe is still there, it means that there is still hope.

Shao Xuan took the charred branches and drew a simple stroke of thumbs up behind the word "Like".

Give you a thumbs up.

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