The space here is more secretive than the location of the ancient Tongjing ancient city. It is roughly estimated that no one has discovered this place for at least hundreds of years.
Hu Ming was the only one in Nuoda's underground space. Hu Ming was not particular at all and just took off his wet clothes and threw them aside. The skilled man was bold and did not need other protection, so he looked around shirtless.
Rough and desolate.
This was Hu Ming's first impression of this place.
Ninety-nine percent of Nuoda's underground enclosed spaces are desolate, with no traces of human activities even visible.
There is only one altar in the center!!!
Obviously, this was a sacrificial site for the ancient ancestors. However, even though Hu Ming was well-informed, he was unable to detect which god was being worshiped on the altar.
Judging from the carving traces on the altar and the statues, this style is not the style of ancient Tongjing at all, but an even older style.
The human form of the statue is extremely weak and the workmanship is very rough. You can just barely tell that this thing is a human-shaped statue.
What surprised Hu Ming even more was that judging from the position of the altar, the statue of the god faced away from all sentient beings!
"What the hell is this? Is this still the Great Emperor Wu Shi written by Dong Dong?"
Hu Ming twitched the corner of his mouth, somewhat incomprehensible, and circled around the statue.
"Faceless statue?"
Hu Ming's brows furrowed.
The so-called gods are generally great beings who control the power of heaven and earth, imagined by ancient ancestors who were unable to understand natural disasters and fear of death.
Generally speaking, when a certain god becomes the consensus of the ancestors, the ancestors will always construct an appearance for the god.
Either coercive, kind-hearted, compassionate, or fierce.
All in all, the faces of the statues are often consistent with the ideas entrusted to the ancestors by the ancestors.
But, a faceless statue?
What were the ancestors worshiping here?
Besides, there was another point here that made Hu Ming a little concerned.
From the sacrificial traces left on the altar, we can conclude that this place has a very long history.
The remains and bones of some of the animals sacrificed have signs of becoming fossils!!!
You know, it takes a very long time for some animal bones to become fossils, so long that it makes everyone doubt life. It takes thousands of years to start!
In other words, the sacrificial activities here began at least 10,000 years ago!
You must know that the so-called sacrifice is also a manifestation of civilized activities.
And the so-called civilization...
According to previous studies in the field of history, it is generally accepted that the earliest civilization activities in the land of China were formed about five thousand years ago.
The ancient creatures inside the door also confirmed this.
Of course, if we are more rigorous and consider the emergence of Chinese writing to be the origin of civilization, we can probably push it back several thousand years.
But... the signs of existence here show that the sacrificial activities that once took place here were at least seven or eight thousand years ago, or even older!!!
"Damn it! Seven or eight thousand years ago? Look at the bones that are about to become fossils. That must be more than 10,000 years ago.
Isn’t it that the human species in this land of China has just entered the Neolithic Age?”
Hu Ming's eyelids twitched, and he felt as if he had unintentionally unearthed a huge secret!!!
Hu Ming even discovered some ancient carvings on the altar that were almost weathered to the point of being invisible.
These carvings were obviously not made randomly. Although they were simple and ancient, they were beyond Hu Ming's cognition.
But this does not affect Hu Ming's simple judgment. This is a simple text!
This point... conflicts with the date of the earliest writing discovered by the archaeological community.
"In other words, in an era when the creatures inside the door existed much earlier, in that lost era that is no longer reliable, there are still some ancient civilizations that cannot be investigated?"
Once the discovery here is revealed, there is no doubt that it will be an amazing discovery that shocks the whole world.
pity...…
Hu Ming came here not to do archaeological and historical research activities that fit his identity as an archeology professor and historian, but...
However, Hu Ming still planned to minimize the damage to the ruins, prepare the relevant information here, and then hand it over honestly!
Hu Ming's eyes flickered slightly, he put aside his doubts about the faceless god, squatted down, and rubbed his hands on the body of the faceless god.
Sure enough!
Hu Ming discovered a... obscure mechanism on the altar!
"The mechanism? It's so old. Did this kind of thing also exist in the Neolithic Age thousands of years ago?"
"Besides, it has been thousands of years, what kind of mechanism can operate for such a long time? You are so stupid, you can't really make some nonsense, is it left by aliens?"
Hu Ming took a deep breath to suppress the hemp in his heart, smashed away the hard layer of dust that had almost piled up into a rock, and pressed down hard...
After several minutes, there was still no movement.
This is natural and Hu Ming is not surprised.
If it can still operate after 10,000 years...Hu Ming, a master of mechanisms, will really doubt his life.
Hu Ming flipped his wrist, and the sword appeared in his hand. He secretly apologized to the faceless statue in his heart, and the indestructible sword was immersed in the altar.
Holding the knife in both hands, he drew a circle the size of a person. With a slight movement of Qiao Jin, he picked out a standard round stone slab.
Below, there is a small, dark compartment.
A strong flashlight shined in, and it was empty inside except for a black stone slab lying quietly inside.
It is neatly filled with ancient characters, which are in the same style and system as the characters on the altar.
Hu Ming fished up the slate, looked at it carefully, and frowned.
The characters that appear in this space look a bit like the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed from the Celestial Dynasty, but they are more crude and ancient. They are a kind of hieroglyphics that are so ancient that no one recognizes them.
Oracle bone inscriptions appeared approximately during the Shang Dynasty and have a history of approximately 3,600 years.
The characters that appear here are somewhat similar to oracle bone inscriptions, but they are much older, making it hard to let go.
Hu Ming first found a camera in the system space to take photos and videos!
Hu Ming then spent another full day searching this space, but unfortunately, still found nothing.
In addition, there are no traces of man-made artifacts, and there are no secret rooms hidden in the dark.
"A simple guess is that for the human tribes at that time, this place should have been an extremely secret and unknown place...or it could be said that it was a small-scale sacrificial activity that they didn't want people to know about."
"The so-called sacrifice to gods, except for devout believers such as fanatics, the rest of the people's sacrifices are nothing more than asking for gods."
"But the faceless gods... after all, the ancestors of that ancient era did not have the consciousness to fabricate faces for the gods, and..."
After replenishing food and water, Hu Ming sat cross-legged under the statue, leaning against the statue, playing with the black slate in his hands, and murmuring to himself.