People in Zong Tomb, Jieling Pirates

Chapter 331 Putting the cart before the horse

In order to search for clues more efficiently, everyone began to split up after confirming that there was no danger in the apse.

They first targeted the pictures on the surrounding walls.

In addition to the large murals, there are many small murals on these walls, which can be regarded as historical records of the King Xian period. For scholars who study this area, they are absolutely priceless treasures.

It's a pity that none of them are interested in studying chronological history, so they just browse selectively at a very fast speed.

The two walls in front of Chen Ziyan, or war scrolls, mainly record the two most memorable wars in King Xian's life.

The first was the war with the Yelang Kingdom. Yelang and the Dian Kingdom were both located in the southwest border, so there were many conflicts between the two.

The second time is the record of King Xian’s conquest of the Zhelong Mountain area after he left the ancient Dian Kingdom.

Of course, it is a bit inaccurate to say it was a conquest. A more accurate term would be a massacre.

The Yelang Kingdom is doing better, and it has begun to break away from slavery. However, the social form of the Yi tribe is in the late stage of slave ownership, and the means of production are extremely backward. How can it be the opponent of King Xian who inherited the bronze smelting technology of the Pre-Qin Dynasty?

The whole process can be described as breaking down at the first touch.

So after a series of hearty and overwhelming battle depictions, the main content of the mural turned to the scene of capturing slaves.

"Look here!"

Just when Chen Ziyan was about to look at the next wall, he heard Shirley Yang's voice.

After arriving at Shirley Yang, the group of people saw a small mural on the top of the wall under her guidance.

What is described in this mural is exactly the origin of the six-legged bronze tripod.

"According to the description above, this six-legged bronze tripod is a treasure that King Xian found in the holy land of the Yi tribe after he captured them." Hu Bayi translated.

"Why does this holy land look so familiar to me?" Wang Kaixuan said with some confusion after looking at the mural.

There wasn't much description of the environment. It looked like a cave, but he just felt that the cave looked familiar.

Chen Ziyan took a closer look at the mural and said, "That's because you just came from this holy place, so it looks familiar to you."

He recognized it. Wasn't this holy land the same as the Calabash Cave they had just passed by?

Hearing Chen Ziyan's words, Wang Kaixuan suddenly slapped his head: "I mean, isn't this the place where the strange insect lives in the innermost part of Calabash Cave!"

"Look at the mural next to it, King Xian seems to have taken something out of it." At this moment, Ding Sitian reminded.

Chen Ziyan and the others quickly looked over and found that in the mural nearby, the lid of the six-legged ancient tripod had been opened, and King Xian was standing next to it holding a square object in his hand.

"A box like this..."

Chen Ziyan initially thought that the box was a bronze letter containing a three-legged toad in his hand, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was not what he thought. The box on the mural was much smaller than the bronze letter.

Just when Chen Ziyan was thinking about what this thing was, he heard Shirley Yang say:

"It seems that the six-legged ancient cauldron in the apse must have some relationship with the one I know. It may even be a set of cauldrons."

Compared to the other contents above, she paid more attention to the origins of these six groups of ancient tripods.

The existence of this mural undoubtedly proves that the sacrificial vessel that Xian Wang attaches great importance to was not cast by himself, but also came from elsewhere.

After the topic returned to the ancient tripod again, Hu Bayi put forward a different meaning: "I think this is probably not a tripod, but maybe a cauldron used for cooking."

If this is a tripod, it is too unusual in terms of specifications.

The ancients had a unique set of standards for cauldrons. He had never even heard of a round cauldron with six strange beasts as its legs.

Therefore, Hu Bayi suspected that the strange cauldron in front of him was not a cauldron at all, but a copper cauldron.

After all, wasn't King Fu cooked by this thing? King Chuang's method of using it speaks volumes.

"Cauldron?" Shirley Yang's expression froze, and she subconsciously looked at Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan rubbed his chin habitually and said thoughtfully: "It's really not impossible. Whether it is a cauldron or a cauldron, we don't have clear evidence yet."

But he then said: "But, what is this thing, and is it important to us?"

Their purpose was very clear, which was to offer the Muchen Pearl in the king's hand. It didn't matter what the murder weapon was for cooking corpses. As long as it didn't hinder their ultimate goal, it didn't matter whether it was a cauldron or a cauldron.

If you want to know what this is, you will have plenty of time to research it after you get the thing back.

"Yeah, no matter what it is, it can't be sold anyway, so there's no need to bother with it." Wang Kaixuan agreed.

Although this six-legged ancient tripod was truly a priceless treasure, he was not interested at all because he knew very well that even if he could get this kind of thing back, it would have to be sent to a museum.

No matter how precious the thing is, the fat man will not care about something that cannot create actual value for him.

The others looked at each other a little bit in shock when they heard this, but they immediately realized that this was just an old habit of theirs, and they subconsciously wanted to figure out the reason.

"Let's put aside the matter of whether it is a cauldron or a cauldron." When Chen Ziyan saw this, he called out to attract everyone's attention, and then said: "Now we already know that this bronze vessel was brought by King Xian from the Yi people's holy land in Zhelong Mountain.

If it is obtained, then we might as well study its function, which should be more helpful to us."

Compared with the type of this thing, its function deserves more attention.

If it is really filled with corpses as described in the mural, it means that both King Xian and King Chuang believed that this kind of bronze vessel should be used in this way.

It also means that they still have key information that they have not discovered.

It can be seen from the human figurines, infants and other objects in front that King Xian pays attention to the interlocking of everything he does, so Chen Ziyan feels that they need to figure out this key, otherwise it may affect what they want to do next.

After all, this is just a bright building in front of them, and they haven't even entered the real main tomb. If this causes problems in any subsequent links, it will be too late to regret it.

"Mr. Chen, do you think it is possible that when King Xian attacked the Yi tribe in Zhelong Mountain, the fundamental reason was the things we have seen?" Hu Bayi thought for a while and suddenly asked.

He felt that he and others might have put the cart before the horse.

Perhaps it was not after King Xian captured this place that he discovered the many miraculous things here, but it was most likely that King Xian discovered the many miraculous things here before he captured this area.

(End of chapter)