0150 Chapter Four: The End of the Ordinary (Section 21)
With Ai Luogensi opening the way, the group carefully approached the rock wall ruins.
Except for the dry bones and mummies all over the ground, there is no trace of any scientific expedition team working here decades ago. Interestingly, the murals left by the ancestors in ancient times are still vivid.
They entered the semi-open cave and saw nothing unusual. Zhen Cheng turned on his mobile phone to fill in the light to illuminate the ancient paintings on the rock wall.
This is the real purpose of her going here.
From the previous photos on Anbis' cell phone, it can be seen that the mural shows the first appearance of [Antique Zero] on this planet.
Primitive people used its power to ignite fire and use it to make weapons.
Then, for some unknown reason, they began to try to destroy [Antique Zero], and after their attempts failed, they finally chose to bury it.
Later, there were Egyptian pharaohs and Greek emperors, and generations of owners tried to use it to seek immortality.
These not only exist in Anbisi's mobile phone, but also appear directly in Zhen Cheng's hazy memory.
She suspected that it was her own touching of that thing that caused the memories it carried to flood into her mind.
The Zhishi that touched it last, Anbis who touched it earlier, the chief researcher, and those big and small figures in ancient times...
Speaking of which, [Antique Zero] wouldn't be a mystical magnet prop like an "Echo Stone", right? Its characteristic is to record the memories of all those who come into contact and pass them on?
From a certain perspective, this seems to be a kind of immortality.
Anyway, Zhen Cheng would definitely not touch that thing with her own hands this time. She didn't know if there were any other side effects after touching it, but if she hadn't fallen into a coma due to a lot of extra memories last time, she probably would have too.
It's not that easy to be accidentally shot by Logansi.
This is a matter of course. As long as she hears her own voice in advance, Logans will not shoot without saying anything.
Since he didn't plan to experience it personally, Zhen Cheng decided to come here to trace its origins.
After a series of experiences like revolving around, falling into a dream, and traveling through other people's lives, she was very convinced that the so-called end of the world was inseparable from the "Antique Zero".
Similarly, my own destiny has already been involved in the same whirlpool.
Looking up, Zhen Cheng was shocked. She found the answer she wanted, but this answer... was a bit too shocking.
On the far left side of the rock wall, the missing part of the photo in the Metropolitan Museum archives, is actually a complete painting!
Although the entire mural still uses the simple symbolic lines of primitive people, Zhen Cheng has never seen any primitive people who can carry out such a macroscopic and rigorous composition design.
Create the world.
Hongmeng Creation.
When humans had just come down from the trees and had not yet learned how to use fire, the gods in the sky were engaged in an epic war that spanned the galaxy and shattered the universe.
Zhen Cheng can't understand this painting.
It's not that the picture is too abstract, but that what is depicted is far beyond her knowledge and imagination.
A tall fortress suspended in space; a demon with bat wings and ram horns; an angel with a halo above his head and many wings on his back; ghosts and gods with animal heads and human bodies, goddesses with radiant light, monks flying in the clouds and mist, magicians who cast forbidden spells...
She even found a large group of what looked like a fleet of spaceships and giant mechas attacking each other high above the screen.
Summarizing, she could only tell that the picture described a war. The complexity of the war was beyond imagination, with at least a dozen forces competing against each other.
On the far right side of the picture, following the part she saw in the information brought back by the archaeological team, there is a god with obvious female characteristics, fighting alone against the siege of at least six forces.
Many twisted and deformed things, such as balls of flesh with countless arms and densely packed ears, or towering trees that could only appear in nightmares after countless people were skinned and sewn together, rushed out of the encirclement.
Attack and kill the goddess on the right.
Finally... I don't know whether it was the fragments of the goddess's broken body or the fragments of some treasure in her hand, but this miraculous painting with a complete composition burst out.
It flew down in the air and flew into the normal mural on the right side which was still shocking, but at least it could be understood that it was made by primitive people.
This... is the [Antique Zero] with a regular octahedral structure.
Zhen Cheng had no way of judging whether these pictures were the reality preserved through some ancient mystery; or whether they were miracles created by primitive people's overly rich imagination and transcending thousands of years of history.
The simpler the technique, the more difficult it is to express artistically. But using original lines to embody an artistic conception that makes people feel like they are actually there, what kind of state would that be?
She just felt that in front of the shock outlined by these simple lines, Michelangelo's Creation was like a child's doodles.
Looking more closely, Zhen Cheng discovered that these magnificent scenes were not all of the murals. Those primitive people actually added a background grid to the painting!
At a glance, the entire war picture seems to be unfolded in a carefully measured array of equilateral triangles. It is surprising enough that precise geometric shapes can be measured on the uneven rock walls.
But what shocked Zhen Cheng even more was that there were fine crack-like dotted lines hidden in these regular triangles. If you look closely, they form a complex array of regular octahedrons that are closely connected to each other.
On top of this, more and smaller lines build this geometric world into a three-dimensional form that Zhen Cheng cannot understand at all.
Only the breath coming from the cracks in the mysterious door in his mind allowed Zhen Cheng to vaguely understand the structure of a higher dimension.
Three-dimensional life forms live in a three-dimensional world. It is not because the world only has three dimensions, but because lower life forms are blind to the wider world that is right in front of them...
It is difficult for ordinary people to feel the shock of tears coming to an artist's eyes when he sees a masterpiece for the first time.
In the field of art, Zhen Cheng believes that she is just an ordinary person. But she still dares to assert that even ignorant people who know nothing about art will not be any more shaken by this painting than she is now.
This picture is magical.
Obviously, this kind of relic that rewrote history would never be missed by the photographers of the archaeological team. However, the Metropolitan Museum and the information on Anbis’ mobile phone completely ignored its existence.
Zhen Cheng could only think that there was some force that erased this scene. Or... its existence could not be photographed at all?
At this moment, she was inclined to believe that the discovery of this miraculous mural by the archaeological team forgotten by history in 1964 led to their annihilation and burial in this desolate next door in the middle of the American continent.
At this point, Zhen Cheng, who had been shocked to the point of numbness by the series, thought that nothing could shake her. But when she observed the details of the scene in detail for the last time, she still managed to slap herself in the face.