"Have you examined these eyes carefully?"
Yue Guanchao asked Ghost Fangzong. Tan Yanqiu mentioned in his letter that the increase in white-haired animals probably happened in the past six months and a year. The ghost old man had a lot of time to observe these stones. Since they can see it with these eyes, It's the key. It's impossible for Gui Fangzong not to notice it at all.
Ghost Fangzong shook his head: "No, although the stone's eyes are strange, we didn't find anything strange. Of course, it's possible that we found the right place. We put up the shelf and you can go and see for yourself."
Guifang Zong looked at the craftsmen around him and pointed out that building escalators was his specialty. A dozen or so people were busy, and the escalators were quickly erected close to the giant statue, as if they had built a simple cage for the head.
Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan walked up the ladder to the bamboo platform near the giant statue's nose, which was just at eye level.
Just now, they had only seen a few eyes of the colossus from a distance nearby. Now, only half a meter away from the eyes, they turned on the flashlight, shining on the eyeballs in the eye sockets, and carefully observed more details.
The eyes of the colossus are actually as big as a half door panel that is one meter long and wide. Not to mention the narrowest point, the widest part of the slender eyes can completely fit a water tank, enough for an adult to curl up and stuff it inside.
Look carefully, the texture of the eyeball is close to translucent golden brown amber stone, it looks slightly transparent, and has a hazy feeling of being covered with gauze.
Among the yellow-brown eyeballs, black oval pupils are surrounded, just like egg yolks wrapped in egg white, showing a very real translucent eyeball. In the corners of the eyes and the subtleties of the eyelids, you can also see blood-red threads that are intentionally engraved. Wandering around the eyeballs.
When the flashlight light is swept onto the eyeball, the light is continuously reflected through the smooth surface, producing a very strange scattered reflection, just like the pupil in the human eye is clearly visible. If the eyes were not huge enough, they would really think that the eyeball in front of them is real. The human eye exists!
"There are some symbols in here."
Song Siyuan pressed the head of the flashlight completely on her eyeball, and the bright light penetrated deeply through the translucent eyeball, illuminating even the black pupil nucleus in the middle.
Yue Guanchao was reminded by Song Siyuan, and he stared closely at the eyeball. The black pupil inside was a sphere, with golden lines etched on the surface. These lines were like some kind of ancient writing, but also like simple totem symbols, arranged in rows and verticals. Evenly distributed on the surface of the pupil nucleus, it can be clearly felt that the text reflects light.
Gui Fangzong and Xu Xiake also felt a little strange when they saw the two of them approaching the eyes, and walked nearby on the bamboo platform.
"Mr. Kigata, what do you think of the words in these eyeballs?"
Song Siyuan wanted to see if Gui Fangzong had ever come into contact with the words in the eyeballs. Gui Fangzong looked confused, but he was not sure.
Guifangzong looked at it for a moment and nodded with a serious face: "The words in the eyeballs are the disappeared Guifang script. This is a pictographic totem script that originated in the early days of Guifang Kingdom. As the Guifang nobles were assimilated by merchants, this The totem script was no longer used, and by the end of the Shang Dynasty, ordinary people in Guifang had given up ghost script. Only the Guifang nobles near Chaoge City still retained the habit of using ghost script to worship their ancestors."
As for later, after the demise of the Shang Dynasty, the backers of Guifang Jiuhou had fallen. In order not to cause trouble, they were eager to integrate with other ethnic groups. Of course, they would also try their best to hide the traces of Guifangrao. The first to give up were those who used Guifangwen. Habit.
Yes, since the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Guifangwen has been completely dead and has become an ancient totem script that no one uses at all. The nobles with the nine surnames of Guihou only collected Guifangwen as a text classic and have never used it since. .
"You didn't notice this at first?" Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes. It would be a bit strange if Gui Fangzong discovered these words in advance but waited for them to discover them alone.
Guifang Zong nodded: "When we checked these eyes, we did find these Guifang characters. However, the words were all garbled and missing some key parts. It was impossible to decipher them at all. We can only guess that Guifang was missing Chu. Some strange sacrificial documents were left behind, or they were simply forged documents meant to confuse Rao."
Song Siyuan realized this, her eyes lit up and she shouted down: "Senior, class leader, you come up first, these eyes can probably sense Rao's movements."
Ban Shu came to the nearest place three times, five divided by two, and Song Siyuan explained: "These Guifang characters are indeed garbled, but I believe that the Guifang people can create this thing, and it will definitely not be empty decorations. Take a look and see if you can sense it." To what."
After finishing speaking, Bannu approached the boulder's eyes, put her hands on various parts of the boulder and kept groping. After opening her eyes, she looked at the brow between the boulder and slowly brought her hand closer to the brow.
"There is something here, but I can't open it."
Ban Shu understood it and replaced his sister to look carefully at the center of his eyebrows. On the red paint, he could clearly see the dried blood.
"Does it mean that ghost Fangrao's blood is needed?"
He made a slight cut on his hand and pressed it on the center of his eyebrows. He heard a roaring sound, and it could be seen that the stones on the center of his eyebrows opened to both sides, forming vertical slender eyes.
Observe carefully, the thing that appears in this eye is a spherical copper ball. The surface is like a pineapple peel and is full of ridges. The ridged fruit is similar to a single pine nut. The whole thing is the same size as the pot lid. There is a groove on the left and right, which can Put down the Rao mudra.
"Is it this thing?" Yue Guanchao shined his light at the pine cone.
"Yes, but, what is the use of this thing?"
They really didn't know what the use of this pine cone was. The Guifang culture was exterminated too early. They had to treat such a completely unfamiliar thing with caution.
"Could it be that it has something to do with the eyes?"
Ban Shu pointed to the position between the eyebrows of the stone statue: "This position is located between the eyebrows, which happens to be Ajie's eyes. Perhaps, this thing on the stone statue represents the eye worship in the brains of the ghost people. If it can be opened, it is most likely that someone organ."
Song Siyuan carefully observed the spherical shape and agreed: "It is possible. I just mentioned that the Guifang people may worship certain organs of the brain. This thing has been discovered by biologists as early as the 15th century. They call this thing the pineal gland, and this organ is located in the brain and is covered with concave and convex lines and looks like an oval pine cone."
"Anyway, the specific theory is very complicated. I can only conclude that they believe that the key factor in the development of the human brain is the pineal gland, which is like the key to the human brain. However, all the developed abilities of the human brain are due to the pineal gland producing certain Some changes."
When she mentioned this, her face became mysterious: "Since the Guifang people felt that there was something in their brains, and it was located between the eyebrows, maybe what they found was the mutated pineal gland. They might not have known what this thing was at the time. , but must have known about the existence of this pineal gland, because of its miraculous ability to call structures in the brain eyes, thus giving rise to eye worship.”
"Then, the modified pine cone structure between the eyebrows of the boulder statue can be explained. If there is really a mechanism, it is probably this pine cone copper ball."
Seeing that Song Siyuan had the same idea as him, Ban Shu placed his hands on the hand-shaped grooves on the copper pine cone. As he pressed the two hands firmly, the copper pine cone began to rotate, using the grooves of his hands as the central axis to rotate up and down. Each rotation Once, the fruits on the surface of the pine cone will continue to open and close with the rotation, rippling like breathing.
"It worked."
When Ban Shu pressed the copper pinecone, Song Siyuan kept staring at the eyeballs of the colossus. When the pinecones fully bloomed, the golden words in the eyeballs also changed. Some totems had obviously been completed with radicals, and some words were protruding from the eyes. Core, isolate the entire totem.
After Guifangzong noticed this, he looked at everyone with excited eyes: "I estimate that the changes in this mechanism have changed some of the mechanisms of the eyeballs, making these ghostly characters gradually complete the whole and become decipherable characters. And these specially isolated and highlighted words should be the main reminder information."
Song Siyuan looked at the old man Gui and asked: "In that case, can you decipher the ghost text? Still, you need our help."
Gui Fang Zong nodded: "I don't dare to be proficient, I can only understand it slightly. Gui Fang's script is a pictographic script and has been abandoned long ago. The nine surnames of Gui Hou are scattered, and these Gui Fang classics are also scattered everywhere. Our Gui Fang family What I can know is really limited, and I no longer know how to pronounce it, but it is still possible to understand what it means by reading Guifangwen."
Later, Guifang Zong signaled to the back, and another very old craftsman came up. This man picked up a strange-looking ancient book in his hand. He copied all the totem texts on the ancient book and marked the isolated and protruding text in the totem. Come out and combine.
In about one stick of incense, the results were already produced.
"The mountains are chaotic... mysterious traces, the deep gorges are home to strange tourists, the sun rises and the shadows set... Looking at the tide, the glaciers surge in the hot summer..."
The old craftsman was already old and struggled to explain. After listening to all the translated words, everyone felt like they had heard it somewhere.
"Hey, why do I feel like it's a bit like the Ten Monsters of Shen Nong mentioned by Tan Yanqiu and Sun Daqiao?"
Xu Xiake asked.
Song Siyuan probably had the same feeling. She took out her notes and looked at her previous records: "Going into the mountains and getting lost without a trace, encountering savages in the wild ridges and deep gorges, the sun rising and the moon rising, the tides rising, caves covered with glaciers in midsummer, strange livestock walking in circles, arrow bamboos An ownerless nest is built, the water is bright in the cold and warm caves, the ghost market and mountain mirages are charming, the stone house raises magic-headed chickens, and the ghosts in the pillar forest chatter endlessly."
She read to the end, and everyone had noticed that although the text descriptions were different, the proverbs of Shen Nong's Ten Monsters and the translations of these ghost scripts basically had the same meaning, but the ghost script was more simple and used The ancient rhythm of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
"It's hard to find anything even after you've worn iron shoes. It took no effort to get it. If we had known we had already obtained these words, why would we have to go in such a long circle."
