It was still snowing outside the cave, and thick ice had already formed by the river. Few people from the tribe went out now. If you stand outside and look around, you will see that it is all white.

The cave was burning and the atmosphere was different from the previous warmth.

After installing the ice cubes, the cave became much brighter and there was no need to blow the cold wind. This feeling made the children in the cave very strange. They were in an unusual state of excitement for two consecutive days, surrounding the fire, looking at the words on the stone wall, and discussing them with 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 coming in during the day, and the words on the stone wall could be clearly seen without ignition. After learning these, the old hunter would not need to start teaching from scratch next time every time he came over.

Unlike others, Shao Xuan has been staying in that stone chamber these two days except when he was eating, carefully wiping off the stone powder on the stone chamber wall.

The debris in the stone chamber have been transferred to other places by Shao Xuan, and the paintings drawn on the stone walls occupy a large area.

Finally clearing the last corner, Shao Xuan stood up and took a deep breath, moved his sore hands and feet, took a few steps back, and took advantage of the light that penetrated to look at the paintings on the stone wall.

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

In addition to the paintings from 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...

People wearing furs holding small and fancy wine glasses, and groups of women picking in baskets...

There are even people riding horses. One is a painting of adults and children riding on horseback.

There are also paintings next to it, whether to draw a battle or a hunting painting. This painting is longer than other paintings, and almost half of the wall on the left. There is a tall horse in front of the painting, and there is a warrior wearing a long feather ornament, with a body that is obviously stronger than other riders. He holds his head and chest up, and looks very imposing. He should be the leader of these people.

Behind the strong warrior there were several cavalry galloping and following. There were some...wolf next to it?

No, that's not a wolf.

Compared with Caesar, the animal in the painting has long and erect tails, and several of its tails are curled upwards. Is it a hunting dog?

Some of the hunting dogs opened their mouths and seemed to be gasping for breath, while two of them looked to the side of the rider, as if they were listening to someone talking.

The background of these paintings also painted some buildings, and those buildings were taller and larger than what Shao Xuan saw in the tribe. Although I heard that the houses in the mountains now live much better than those near the foot of the mountain, Shao Xuan and I simulated it in my mind based on the information they heard. Even the houses in the mountains live may not be as good as those in the paintings of these big houses.

My eyes returned to the painting I saw at first. The woman wearing jewelry on her head was not as simple and crude as the jewelry worn by women in the tribe today, but more delicate and exquisite. As for the jars held by the woman...

If it weren't for the stone jars, Shao Xuan thought of a possibility - pottery.

How long have these paintings been there?

If it was about the same age as the stone chamber was dug, it would have been hundreds or thousands of years, right?

Thousands of years ago, there were animal husbandry, breeding and other agriculture, as well as pottery, and hunting tools were more diverse than now. They even brought hunting dogs. They were real hunting dogs, not a bitter wolf like Caesar who was brought back to raise by chance!

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

The painting on the left stone wall is obviously different from the stone wall on the right. Shao Xuan can't understand what the painting is, which is too abstract and looks a bit messy at first glance, and Shao Xuan cannot speculate based on the front and back paintings. However, it is obvious that after this passage of painting, the style of the painting seems to suddenly drop from its previous vigorous and confident state to a low state, and many paintings exude a sense of desolation.

The woman kneeling on the ground and crying, standing on the ground, who was staring at something, as if she was infinity of confusion. The background picture was not those big houses, but the cave where Shao Xuan was now.

There is no longer agricultural and livestock breeding, no more pictures collected by women carrying baskets, no more riding and shooting, no more hunting dogs, no more pottery that is much more exquisite than stone tools...

Whether it is the stone wall on the left or the stone wall on the right, there is a logo picture above the carved painting - the tribe's totem.

The totem of the Yanjiao Tribe looks like two cow horns of a double-horned rhinoceros, but the horns are longer and have flames, just like the name of the tribe.

So, what is depicted on this is the Yanjiao Tribe?

Shao Xuan recalled the previous life of the archaeology classmate who studied archaeology said: murals and rock paintings are generally used to describe the lives of people in that era, or what people fantasized and hoped for at that time, and were also a kind of spiritual sustenance for human beings at that time.

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

What did the tribe encounter?

Natural disaster?

Man-made disaster?

Or are there both?

At the end of the stone wall on the right, there are many palm-sized patterns, and the styles of these patterns are very different, such as the pattern located on the upper left, which looks like a spider resting on the web, and the one at the right is a bamboo or a plant, and there is also only one that looks like a mask, looking at the creepy...

These patterns include plants, animals, and various things that Shao Xuan could not imagine.

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

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

The other children in the cave were not interested in the depths of the cave. During the years they lived in the cave, they would not study deeper except for going to special places in the cave to pee and shit. They had no interest in those places once, so the child who called Shao Xuan did not go here, but shouted directly.

After coming back to his senses, Shao Xuan realized that today seems to be a day for food delivery.

Ge also sent food for three days at one time. When Shao Xuan saw him, there was still a lot of snow on the fur he was wearing. Ge didn't care at all. He stared at the vents containing ice and was fiddling with the stone trays in his hand. Obviously, he didn't expect that there was such a thing in the cave. Since he was responsible for delivering food, the cave in winter has been dark. He had heard people mention that there were similar things in the cave, but he never saw children in the cave. In addition, in the situation in the cave before, he didn't have much trouble, and he didn't expect that he could see it now.

The other children in the cave helped to "unload the goods". Now there is enough food, and the children in the cave are not scrambling to see them like they used to. After hearing Shao Xuan's words, they all went to help. Then Shao Xuan was assigned according to the group. As for how to divide each group, he didn't have to worry about it.

Today, Shao Xuan didn't let Ge leave immediately, but pulled Ge and asked him to tell the children in the cave about the tribe. Anyway, Ge had nothing else to do after he sent the food.

Shao Xuan just wanted to learn more from Ge and see if it could be linked to the paintings on the stone wall. Unfortunately, Ge talked about something similar to what Shao Xuan said to Langga and others heard, and there was nothing he wanted to know.

He took the charred branches and drew a pattern on the ground. Shao Xuan knew that Ge glanced at this side a few times. It was obvious that he saw what he was painting, but there was nothing unusual. Obviously Ge did not recognize the pattern.

Shao Xuan painted one of the last patterns of different styles on the stone wall on the right side of the stone chamber. The grid can be regarded as a veteran soldier in the tribe. He didn't know this pattern. Shao Xuan sighed in his heart. It seemed that it was a bit difficult for him to learn more about the paintings on the stone wall.

In fact, at the end of the painting on the stone wall on the right side of the stone chamber, below the patterns with different styles, there is another sentence, but Shao Xuan doesn't know a few words, and he just can't understand one sentence.

Although Shao Xuan can say things smoothly here, many of the words are still relatively unfamiliar. Calculate the time when the old hunter comes next time, Shao Xuan will learn those words and ask again when he has the chance.

After another ten days, the old hunter finally went down the mountain and came into the cave again.

I looked at the changes in the hole in surprise and found that the children in the hole really understood a lot. The old hunter was very happy and took out a skin roll again to teach new things.

During his spare time during his teaching, Shao Xuan asked him a few words. These words were not all on the stone wall, and other words were mixed with them. Shao Xuan just didn't want the old hunter to doubt it.

However, the facts proved that Shao Xuan was thinking too much. The old hunter was very interested in teaching people, but he didn't think much about the others. He only thought that Shao Xuan had seen these words from others, so he was quite interested in teaching Shao Xuan to identify them one by one.

After teaching, the old hunter praised Shao Xuan with admiration: "These words are well written and have momentum! We will definitely be a heroic warrior in the future!"

Shao Xuan just smiled and didn't say anything. The words he was praised were written by him in imitating the words on the stone wall and were not completely copied as it was, but because it was written accordingly, it also brought some of the charm and momentum of the original work.

From this point of view, the person who painted and wrote in the stone chamber should be a soldier, and he may also have strong abilities.

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

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

"One day, we will return to our hometown. The glory remains, and the fire of the flame horn will never be extinguished."

There is also a word "如" behind this sentence, probably the name of the person who carved and wrote this sentence on the stone wall of the owner of this stone chamber.

The last sentence is engraved very deeply, more deeply than other paintings, and the last few words are especially serious, which shows how strong the other person's feelings are when writing this sentence.

Although I don’t know why the murals here were painted with stone later, Shao Xuan was still very grateful and admired the person who wrote these words for the paintings here.

From that sentence, we can see that the other party's situation, or the entire tribe's situation, is not good, and it even makes people desperate, but the other party has not given up.

Even if you are desperate, as long as you are alive and as long as the tribe is still there, it means that hope remains.

Shao Xuan took the charred branch and drew a simple sketch of a thumb behind the word "爱".

I'll give you another like.

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I will go to bed tomorrow.
Chapter completed!