Chapter 50: Notes in the Scripture Pavilion

  Inside the grand ancient Qiang scripture hall, it is extremely quiet. The tall golden statue of the Sun Mother sits in the center, and under the illumination of the long-lit lamps on the four walls inside the great hall, one can see that her eyes are gentle, with a mysterious smile in front of her, like Mona Lisa.

  Above the Longming lamp, black oil dripped down, it should be the dripping oil from the corpse oil pool, but at this time, the corpse oil pool had basically burned out, and the oil here was already dripping very slowly. It is estimated that not long after, the great hall will permanently sink into darkness.

  Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard, and the belly of the golden statue of the Virgin Mary actually opened up, revealing a head. It wasn't anyone else, but Liu Yi himself.

  He carefully looked around, feeling no danger, and was about to crawl out when he suddenly felt his nose getting wet. He touched it with his hand and found it full of fresh blood, just like the time in Kekou Village when he had a nosebleed from smelling the bloody aura.

  Liu Yi looked at the blood on his hand and muttered: "What's going on?"

  He muttered to himself as he crawled out of the Virgin's belly.

  Then all the members of the expedition team crawled out of the statue of the Virgin one by one, as if they were born again, only to kneel on the ground and come out with their heads bowed.

  Originally, the well they dug was the armless sleeve of the statue of the Holy Mother. What Liu Yi saw at the bottom of the well was the elbow joint of the Holy Mother, which was extremely slippery. Ma Liuji jumped down and slid directly from the inside of the Holy Mother's arm to her belly.

  After everyone came out, they looked at the statue of the Virgin Mary and suddenly realized that they had actually entered the belly of the Virgin Mary.

  Liu Yi took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his nose, found a small stone, temporarily blocked the nostril, and tilted his head back to let the fresh blood flow back in.

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  His strange appearance aroused everyone's curiosity, and Malacca asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

  "It's just a minor illness, I just had a little nosebleed!"

  Everyone was sizing up the grand hall while they were waiting for him to appear.

  All that can be seen is that the entire grand hall has eight Longming lanterns on its four walls. There are eight pillars made of Kunlun jade stone, standing in the middle and divided into two sides, serving as supports.

  Eight stone pillars, every two in the middle, ten steps towards the wall, there is a side room with six rooms.

  In the center of the great hall, there is a circular platform about 2 meters high and 5 meters in diameter. The central and peripheral parts of the platform have thick stone pillars.

  Professor Zhou counted carefully and found that there were thirteen stone pillars, like plum blossom piles.

  "He guessed: 'This central round platform must be where the Sun Mother preached!'"

  "It should be like this!" Humphrey nodded in agreement, rarely saying a word.

  Professor Zhou thought to himself, "Isn't this guy a member of the protection station? How does he know about this too? Ah, it must be that he followed those poachers and overheard many secrets!"

  He didn't think much of it and started looking around everywhere.

  Kekesi ran up quickly, trying to feel the ancient aura left by the Sun Mother's lecture. Ma Liya was already moving around inside the temple, shining her flashlight everywhere to check if there were any treasures. Lu Zonghan climbed onto the statue of the Holy Mother like a monkey, using all four limbs, and peeked into the holy water bottle in her hand, not only that, but also reached out his hand to feel around inside, trying to find mechanisms or holy water.

  His facial expression changed from initial excitement to disappointment, and then to astonishment. He pulled his right hand out of the holy water bottle, and in it was a black notebook with two people's photos printed on the cover, apparently a personalized printing product.

  He looked around and saw no one paying attention, quickly stuffed the notebook into his bosom, then jumped down from the arm of the Virgin Mary as if nothing had happened.

  At this time, Liu Yi shouted loudly: "Who is it?!"

  The busy crowd suddenly stopped in their tracks, looking at Liu Yi, seeing him staring fixedly at a horizontal beam. Following his line of sight, they found that on the beam was a motionless person wearing camouflage clothes.

  Malacca, who rushed out from the side room after hearing the news, picked up a piece of "two-fist-sized" Kunlun jade stone somewhere and saw him raise his hand. The jade stone made a breaking sound in the air and hit the man directly, but the man did not dodge or avoid it, and was heavily hit by this blow.

  To say that Ma Liu Jia's strength was not small, this one move actually knocked that person down.

  With a loud "bang", he heavily fell to the ground.

  "It's a dead man!" Liu Yi walked forward and kicked the corpse, which was originally face down, but it turned over. The crowd was shocked, the entire face skin and flesh were gone, even half of the facial bones were missing, looking exactly like a yellow monkey that had been gnawed by a big rat for the first time.

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  "Damned mouse!"

  Liu Yi warned: "Everyone, don't scatter, be careful, there are corpse oil rats here!"

  The crowd reassembled and searched the great hall carefully, but there were no murals on the floor or walls of the great hall that recorded information, nor were there any treasures such as pearls. Malacca was extremely dissatisfied with this.

  At this time, Quasimodo, standing on the circular platform of the central pillar, pointed to a room on the right and shouted: "Dead people and big rats!"

  Liu Yi and the others rushed over to take a look, gazing at the corpses of the mouse and the poacher. "It seems that those foreign witches have beaten us to it," he said. "It looks like we won't be able to find anything here."

  His words, as expected, were prophetic. The crowd searched the main hall carefully and didn't find anything useful, then they started checking those four side rooms. Inside the side rooms, except for stone tables and stools, the walls were all hollowed out to form a built-in bookshelf style. It seemed that in the distant past, it should have been a place to store Elma scriptures, but now it was empty.

  Kork searched around with his head hung low in disappointment, originally thinking that coming here would allow him to obtain some scriptures and learn some magic, but unexpectedly he didn't even find a single hair.

  It's normal that they can't find anything, the scriptures and all items here were moved away by the members of Erma Teach under the instruction of Qiangmu Zhu during the great war of Qianggo, and hidden in a mysterious place.

  The last side room, inside there are the corpses of big rats and poachers, on the left wall there is a 90cm square passage, it seems that this is the destination of "Sheep's Intestine Black Hole".

  But where did these poachers go after leaving the grand hall?

  "There's a painting!" Malacca exclaimed, pointing at the wall on his right side.

  Everyone gathered around after hearing it.

  "Huh!" Liu Yi took a look at the painting and said: "Aren't these the murals we saw in the watchtower of Kek Village?"

  Professor Zhou nodded and said: "That's right! But this is more comprehensive..."

  He pointed to the last painting and said: "This mural is the one that was deliberately hidden by the ancestors of Keke Village!"

  Liu Yi looked at the painting and saw that it was an eight-grid comic strip, with exquisite carving techniques, and the characters on it were vividly lifelike.

  On the first grid mural, there are twelve beast-headed human monsters, corresponding to the twelve zodiac signs. They sit on plum blossom stone pillars, and in the middle is the Holy Mother of the Sun. The Holy Mother has a sun and moon on her head, emitting sacred light. It seems that they are listening to the Holy Mother's sermon on the plum blossom stone platform outside. Judging from their flowing clothes and beautiful figures, they should all be women, possibly at a time when matriarchal society was prevalent, so it is not surprising that they are all female.

  On the second panel of murals, there are nine beautiful women holding scriptures and having a conversation with a man.

  On the third panel of the mural is depicted a battle between two armies, with nine women casting spells in the sky.

  Upon seeing this, Liu Yi said: "It seems that these nine women are the Nine Heavenly Xuan Nü of legend who assisted the Yellow Emperor in battle. Could it be that the Nine Heavenly Xuan Nü were actually nine people?"

  Professor Zhou said, "It's not necessarily like that"

  "Perhaps the Nine Heavens Xuan Nü refers to the leader of these nine women, who knows!"

  For such a myth, no one can give an exact answer, and everyone is just guessing in their hearts.

  But from the murals, it can be seen that the Queen Mother of the West or the Queen Mother's country had a relatively strong power in ancient times, which can be seen from the fact that they sent troops to assist Huangdi in the war against Chiyou.

  What followed next shocked everyone:

  Nine female assistants returned to report after assisting the Yellow Emperor. Then, the Queen Mother of the West took them flying into the air. Next, a wonderful place appeared, with animals towering above and plants that seemed alive, smiling and showing their faces. The Queen Mother stood on a high mountain peak, surrounded by a scene of countless creatures bowing to the ground. Around her were twelve zodiac crystal carvings spouting water outward. Then, water flowed down from the mountain, and the animals drank it and transformed into human figures.

  Lu Zonghan asked strangely: "What does this mean? Drinking holy water to transform into a beast? And where is the place where the Holy Mother is?"

  Professor Zhou shook his head: "It seems that we still know too little, the secrets involved in this ancient Qiang are vast and profound. If these secrets are uncovered, they will surely shock people!"

  Liu Yi looked at his excited appearance and smiled: "The fallen flowers and flowing water all have their own meaning, there will always be a time when the water falls and the stone emerges!"

  Everyone laughed and looked at the last pattern.

  Only the Holy Mother in the middle of the twelve zodiac crystal beasts is seen, with a radiant glow emanating from her body towards the twelve crystal beasts. The glow appears to be composed of strange text characters. Then, the Holy Mother's twelve disciples are each holding a crystal beast head, flying in mid-air. Finally, they are each worshiped by the tribal people.

  Upon seeing this, Ma Liuji exclaimed: "I understand now, these twelve zodiac skulls must be hiding many ancient secrets. They don't know what method was used to input this information into the crystal skull!"

  Professor Zhou nodded and said, "It seems that's the case. Perhaps if we gather all twelve zodiac crystal beast heads, we'll get a complete answer! But I wonder what era this mural was painted in!"

  Malacca heard this, made a helpless gesture, and laughed: "We only know a little bit of information about the Lingyang Qiang and the Lingmou Qiang, but as for the other tribes, we don't know anything at all. Let alone gather the twelve crystal beast heads, we haven't even cracked the information about the crystal sheep head yet, this is too difficult!"

  The gourd was on one side with his hands clasped in front of his chest, looking nonchalant, while the rest of the people remained silent.

  Liu Yi furrowed his brow and said, "Let's not worry about these things for now. My goal is to find my father. As for the secrets of this ancient place, we can't force it, let nature take its course!"

  He said and led the way out of the stone room, walking towards the end of the main hall, with everyone following him.

  They skirted a massive stone pedestal and found a stone rat standing there, next to which was a dark cave, apparently those poachers must have entered the next level from this hole.

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