Although Gu Tongjing was mentioned, Chen Ziyan did not intend to tell his own story.
You must know that Gutongjing is now a mysterious place that is only known by name even to people in the Nine Sects. It is not appropriate for an outsider to mention him too much, as it can easily cause unnecessary trouble.
It is enough to reach this step by throwing some bricks to attract new ideas.
"What a pity." Wu Laogou was not surprised by this answer, but he was just a little regretful.
He is now basically certain that Gu Tongjing hides a shocking secret, but he has no chance to see it.
Firstly, it was because the location of Gutongjing was very special, and there was no corresponding method that could not be found. Secondly, Lord Zhang was very concerned about that place, and Wu Laogou didn't want to touch this brow.
After sighing for a moment, Wu Laogou put the matter aside for the time being and said, "Let's go to the front and have a look."
Although there are many questions in my mind, they cannot be solved by just thinking. Instead of wasting time on this, it is better to use the time to explore this underground space, maybe you can still find something.
Chen Ziyan nodded lightly and walked forward simply.
Now he also wants to find out what is going on in this underground space.
Seeing them both starting to take action, Li Wu and others did not dare to neglect and quickly followed.
The group of people just left the land of snake bones behind them and headed towards the unknown darkness.
After walking like this for nearly ten minutes, the unchanging scene around him finally changed.
The ruins of a dilapidated building appeared in front of them.
It can be seen from the remaining parts that this is a product completely made of rocks.
"This style is quite ancient!" Li Wu said, looking at the ruins in front of him.
Although he didn't do much research on ancient architecture, he also knew that this type of architecture was definitely a product of a long time ago.
Chen Ziyan nodded: "At least it must be the Shang and Zhou dynasties."
Although only a small part of this building is left, it is not difficult to see that it is not an underground palace, but an ordinary Yangzhai.
However, Wu Laogou's eyes moved slightly, he was silent for a moment and then slowly said: "I have seen similar buildings in the ruins of that country."
"Oh?" Chen Ziyan looked at him and asked curiously: "Fifth Master, are you sure?"
It's not that he doesn't believe Wu Laogou, but that there is nothing special about the building in front of him except for its simple style. He can only roughly infer a specific era, but there is no way to distinguish the style.
Now that Wu Laogou has so categorically said that he is like the State of She, he must give a reasonable reason.
"Look here." Wu Laogou also understood this truth. After Chen Ziyan finished speaking, he shined his flashlight at the bottom of the ruins.
Most of the ruins of this building are the lower half, so the bottom of the wall is still intact.
Chen Ziyan looked along the light and discovered that the bottom row of stone bricks on the wall were engraved with a snake-shaped pattern.
Obviously, this is the reason why Wu Laogou made the inference.
Chen Ziyan did not go to Wu Laogou to verify his guess, but walked directly to the ruined wall, squatted down and observed the snake-shaped patterns on it up close.
But it is a pity that these lines can only show the snake shape, and nothing else is reflected. It is impossible to tell which period it comes from.
"Fifth Master, what period do you think the She Kingdom was in?" Li Wu asked.
He wasn't interested in observing the lines up close. If he had the time, he might as well ask directly.
"It's hard to explain clearly. This ancient country is too mysterious. There are very few historical materials left, and even if there are, they are mostly just a few words." Wu Laogou shook his head and said.
If they hadn't actually discovered the ruins of the ancient She Kingdom in the Qinling Mountains, he wouldn't have even known that such an ancient kingdom had ever existed.
You must know that people who work in their profession are not said to be familiar with history, but they are also considered experts. Even he has never heard of an ancient country, so you can imagine how mysterious it must be.
"Fifth Master, please tell me what you discovered at the beginning. No accident, this place should have some connection with the ancient She Kingdom." Chen Ziyan stood up and asked directly.
He didn't believe that Wu Laogou and the others didn't find anything in the Qinling Mountains. They didn't know the specific period of the She Kingdom's existence, so they should know something else.
Wu Laogou did not sell out, and said after hearing this: "There were a lot of discoveries at that time, but not much about the She Kingdom. In the ruins we discovered, the She Kingdom people had a crazy worship of snakes, but they worshiped snakes at the same time. Living with snakes and feeding on them is a very contradictory country."
Regarding the secrets in the Qinling Mountains, although Wu Laogou gave a straightforward answer, he did not tell all the findings.
I just selected some content that was helpful for this operation and briefly talked about it.
"It is indeed a bit contradictory to worship snakes but eat them." Chen Ziyan nodded slightly, but it was not too difficult to understand.
After all, in such a long time ago, it is not surprising that weird things would happen.
"But there were no black-haired snakes in that site." Wu Laogou added.
This was also the main reason why he failed to connect them together at the first time. If the black-haired snake also appeared on the Qinling Mountains, he would connect the two places together without going down here.
"Have other snakes appeared?" Chen Ziyan asked.
He remembered Zhu Jiuyin that Wu Xie had met, and he didn't know if it had appeared when Wu Laogou and the others went.
Although in the original plot, Zhu Jiuyin might be the embodiment of fear, Chen Ziyan felt that this was not the case.
"I've encountered it before. It's a strange snake with an extremely terrifying size. It would take four or five people hugging it to surround it." Wu Laogou took a deep look at Chen Ziyan and said.
From this question, he knew that Chen Ziyan knew just as much as he did.
Unless someone has been to the deepest place, there is no way to know about that kind of strange snake, because there is no room for it to move up there.
"You two gentlemen, are there that kind of snake here?" Li Wu asked suddenly, thinking of the giant snake bone he just saw.
He didn't want to encounter that kind of behemoth. One or two would be fine, but if there were more, it would definitely be a narrow escape.
"It's really hard to tell." Chen Ziyan pondered slightly and touched his chin.
He didn't lie to Li Wu, but he was really not sure whether there would be Zhu Jiuyin here.
Although he has not yet figured out whether there is a relationship between Zhu Jiuyin and the Black Haired Snake, he feels that there should be some connection between the two.
The basis for his judgment came from the Snake Marsh where the ancient Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West was located. According to Chen Ziyan’s knowledge, the black-haired snake and the cock-crested snake are very closely related. The latter is likely to be a variant of the former, while the black-haired snake and the cock-crested snake are very close. However, there are all superior bodies, and the most important one is the existence of the Snake Mother.
The size of the snake mother is displayed there, and any snake that does not exceed it can have something to do with it.
What's more, these two places also have the She country in common, so it is not easy to distinguish them clearly.
Hearing this, Li Wu frowned slightly and looked around with some caution.
He was very dissatisfied with his current situation, which made him feel like he would be in danger at any time.
But he could only think about it in his heart, but he couldn't do anything.
Because looking at the looks of Chen Ziyan and Wu Laogou, we knew that these two people must continue to explore. No one would stop him if he wanted to leave, but as the supervisor here, how could he leave at this time.
If he does that, it is estimated that when this matter is over, it will be time for him to step down.
Chen Ziyan and the others did not stay too long in front of the ruins of the building. After confirming that there were no other valuable clues, they left here and continued to delve deeper.
This time they were not allowed to walk for too long, and soon another building ruins appeared in their field of vision, but this time it was not a single building, but a group of buildings directly appeared.
They look similar to the previous ruins. They are both very simple rock structures with snake-like patterns carved at the bottom. The only difference is that the buildings are larger and smaller.
Because there was no danger in the ruins in front, Chen Ziyan and the others chose to split up this time in order to save time.
After all, there are dozens of ruins here. If you go to see them one by one, it will definitely take some time. There is no danger anyway, so it is better to disperse everyone.
Chen Ziyan started searching from the edge, but after searching several ruins, he couldn't find anything.
I don't know whether it is because they are too old or because of other reasons. Apart from some furniture and utensils made of the same stone, there is nothing else at all in these ruins.
"Master Chen, Master Fifth, come and take a look!"
And just when Chen Ziyan was about to go to the next ruins, he suddenly heard Li Wu's cry.
After hearing the sound, Chen Ziyan immediately walked towards the place where the sound came from.
There seemed to be dozens of houses in the ruins, but they were not far from each other, so he quickly arrived at where Li Wu was.
As soon as he walked into this dilapidated building, Chen Ziyan already noticed something was wrong.
If the buildings he had just searched were residential buildings, then this place was already a building like an auditorium.
It can be seen from the incomplete walls that there are no compartments in the building where Li Wu lives, but a whole hall. There are also several incomplete stone pillars in the hall, which were obviously structures that were once used for support.
After Chen Ziyan entered, he found that Wu Laogou had arrived one step ahead and was standing with Li Wu in front of a relatively well-preserved wall.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ziyan already knew in his mind that it was probably Li Wu who discovered the mural or something like that.
But after walking over, Chen Ziyan found that his guess was only half correct. There were indeed murals, but there were still some words carved on the walls.
Seeing Chen Ziyan arriving, Li Wu hurriedly said: "Mr. Chen, do you know the words on this?"
You know without asking that he and Wu Laogou probably don't know each other, otherwise they wouldn't have asked this in the first sentence.
Chen Ziyan did not answer immediately, but carefully looked at the fonts on the wall before replying: "I can recognize part of it, but not all of it."
Naturally, Chen Ziyan didn't recognize the writing on the wall in front of him. It was obvious at first glance that it was a very unorthodox thing, but there happened to be some of this in his inheritance, so he said he could recognize part of it.
"It's good to know each other." Li Wu was already very satisfied with this.
You should know that Wu Laogou doesn't even know anyone.
Wu Laogou also heard Chen Ziyan's words and looked at him in surprise: "Can Xiaoyou Chen recognize the words on this?"
"I can only recognize a few." Chen Ziyan said.
Wu Laogou's eyes flickered, but he didn't say anything more.
However, he had secretly made up his mind to find an opportunity to invite Chen Ziyan to his home after finishing the things here.
When the time comes, show him what you got from Qinling and see if he can translate it.
In the process of reminiscing, he discovered that if there was any difference between Zhang Dafo and the ruins of the ancient She Kingdom in the Qinling Mountains, it was that the other party had brought back all the murals and texts found there.
If he remembered correctly, the writing found in Qinling was very similar to the writing on the wall in front of him, and should come from the same system.
"Master Chen, what font is this?" Li Wu asked at this time.
The writing on the wall in front of him was crooked and looked like oracle bone inscriptions, but it didn't quite look like it, so he was very curious.
Moreover, Li Wu also noticed that this so-called ancient She Kingdom hid many secrets, and wanted to make some insinuations about it.
"This is a very ancient font. It is said to have come from underground. It is most likely a product of ancient times." Chen Ziyan thought for a while and said.
There is no record of the origin of this font in his inheritance. The senior who left the inheritance discovered this font in an underground ruins. After decades of research, he could only decipher it.
However, Chen Ziyan had some guesses about this. He felt that this font was probably the text used by snake worshipers in ancient times, but there was no clear evidence.
There are almost zero records of snake worshipers. The things that have been handed down from that period, even on the surface, are only scattered myths and stories. It is not even sure whether they really exist, let alone those who live deep underground. Worship the snake.
If Chen Ziyan hadn't been sure that the snake worshiper really existed, he wouldn't have thought about it.
"Ancient..." Upon hearing these two words, Wu Laogou immediately became silent.
That era is so far away from now that even the archaeological community cannot prove whether it really existed.
But he finally understood why he couldn't translate the words found in Qinling.
To put it simply, it is a lack of foundation, which is purely something that is out of reach.
In the entire Nine Sects, only Zhang Dafoye can play well. After all, the Zhang family is not inferior to Xiling in this aspect, and may even surpass it.
Although Li Wu was a little confused, he could see something from Wu Laogou's reaction and knew the value of the words on the wall in front of him.
Turning his eyes slightly, he urged: "Master Chen, let's quickly decipher what's on it and see if there is any useful content?"
After finishing speaking, he concentrated his attention and planned to remember every word Chen Ziyan said.
(End of chapter)
