The bell was originally a percussion instrument, as the saying goes, "My Fair Lady", the bell and drum music. Later, it changed from a musical instrument to a bell in the temple, used for telling time, alarm, etc. The term "morning bell and evening drum" came from that time of.

But obviously, the species hanging in front of Lin Mo and Liu Jia at this moment is not the bell and drum of the fair lady, nor the morning bell and evening drum, but has another purpose.

This was the first time I met Lin Mo, but Liu Jia had been seeing him every day for the past five years, so he didn't have as many messy thoughts as Lin Mo.

She walked over, looked at it, and nodded.

"This is it. This is the ghost clock. Who put it here?"

After saying that, he started searching around.

Maybe I think there are some ghosts hiding around..

Lin Mo glanced at Liu Jia secretly, then walked to the ghost clock and whispered: "Xiao Yu, show me what's going on with this clock."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small white hand stretched out from Lin Mo's sleeve, gently placed it on the ghost clock, and then quickly retracted it.

There was no movement.

Lin Mo knew that Xiao Yu had not found out a reason. If there was, she would give a hint. If there was no hint, it meant that she could not tell.

Because this was the first time he saw a ghost clock, Lin Mo was very curious.

While Liu Jia was exploring the surrounding area, Lin Mo was exploring the ghost clock itself.

When I touched it, it was cold and hard.

There is a strong sense of heaviness.

There are patterns on the bell body, which are complex and difficult to understand, like some kind of mysterious symbols, representing unknown meanings.

After walking around and finding nothing, Lin Mo then squatted down and got under the ghost clock.

Looking up from this angle, it looked like a dark metal dome. Lin Mo shook the bricks and looked inside.

Under normal circumstances, there is nothing inside the clock. After all, it is not an important area.

But the ghost clock is different.

There are complex lines on the outside, like text.

And inside, there are various patterns, including mountains, rivers, lakes, things that look like people, and sun, moon and stars. From bottom to top, there is a ring about one foot high. There are nine rings superimposed, and each ring uses that A carving depicts an event.

Pictures are a form of expression that transcends language and writing. Even if people from different countries and races look at the same picture, they can see the specific meaning contained in it.

This is why pictures can be called works of art.

Lin Mo carefully studied the nine-layer carvings, which clearly recorded a series of events.

The bottom one is the first one, and the top one is the last one.

The first one is very ordinary, and it is also the most peaceful one among the nine ring carvings. There are mountains and rivers on it, people can be seen hunting and farming, and there are also some things that look like ancient beasts, but there is nothing weird about it.

What this describes is a picture of people’s life in ancient times.

But when it comes to the second picture, the style of painting is a bit off.

Compared with the people in the first picture wearing animal skins, the people in the second picture are already wearing robes, which is obviously a sign of cultural and technological progress.

There are troops on the battlefield, and there are also people wearing emperor's clothes, offering sacrifices to the sky, rivers, and mountains.

There is more killing. In one painting, dead bodies are everywhere and the bones are like a forest.

Lin Mo understood that fear, killing, suspicion, extreme, anger, desire, these dark sides also appear with the progress of human society.

This is the dark side of man.

The more developed and powerful human society is, the bigger and stronger this dark side will be.

It's like a mirror, reflecting the other side.

Although there is no text on it, Lin Mo can feel the meaning that the sculptor wants to express, and it is no exaggeration to say that Lin Mo was deeply attracted by just the second picture.

"It feels like the birth of the dark side." Lin Mo noticed that in the second pattern, the yin and yang pattern appeared, blending with each other, and below was the wise man's understanding.

Yin and Yang, one is black and the other is white.

What it expresses is that the dark side has always been there, which is also the foundation of many ancient people's thoughts.

Then comes the third picture.

Obviously, the civilization of the people above has improved again. They have carriages and copper-smelting technology, and there are also more killings. Naturally, the terrifying dark side is getting bigger and bigger.

There was a picture in it that impressed Lin Mo deeply.

There was a man kneeling on the ground, holding his head in his hands, seemingly roaring in pain. Above him, a shadow appeared, containing various frightening things.

The ferocious ghosts represent fear; corpses and rotting bones represent death.

Lin Mo looked at it for a while before he understood.

"The smarter this person is, the more these dark sides will appear. In comparison, those people in ancient times were happier. They have a simple mind, and there are advantages to being simple. At least, they won't think blindly. It is the so-called full and warm mind*

*, I see, I am not only thinking about those desires, but also something more terrifying."

Lin Mo felt what the creator of this relief wanted to express.

That was the birth of ‘weird’.

To put it simply, there are no ghosts in the world. If there are people, there will be ghosts!

At the end of the third picture, Lin Mo saw such a scene. After some people fell asleep, their fears would take advantage of them and then die.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Mo looked at the fourth picture.

Not to mention, it feels like catching up on a TV series. It's addictive. After watching one episode, you want to watch the next one. The author of this sculpture also knows the routine, and the escape of each picture leaves you with suspense and hooks you.

"It's really nothing." Lin Mo cursed.

In Lin Mo's opinion, the fourth picture is the most brilliant one.

If the former one represents disaster, then the fourth picture seems to represent a balance and a solution.

The entire article depicts one scene.

Smelting bronze!

You could see countless people mining ores and smelting copper under the orders of the ruler at that time. Lin Mo frowned at one scene.

During the smelting process, many people were thrown into the fire.

Others were thrown into the boiling copper water.

Lin Mo seemed to have heard of a similar situation somewhere.

By the way, it is said that there was a pair of famous swords in ancient times. During the smelting process, the rare metals could not be fused. At the last moment, the swordsmith's wife died on the sword and jumped into it. Then the sword was successfully smelted. This sword became

The famous sword through the ages is said to have spirituality.

It is estimated that this tradition of martyrdom began with this fourth painting.

Finally, the copper water mixed with countless human lives was cast into bronze doors of different sizes.

Seeing this, Lin Mo finally understood the origin of those terrifying bronze doors.

It turns out that these are indeed forged by humans themselves.

It seems to be to suppress those terrifying dark sides, but can these thinking things be suppressed?

Logically it doesn't work.

But in reality, it seems that it was really successful, because as far as Lin Mo knows, there is something terrifying behind every copper door.

This nightmare crisis was most likely caused by the opening of the bronze door.

And starting from the fifth picture, it seems that the original peace has been restored. The bronze door is buried and hidden deep underground, and the people on the ground are singing and laughing.

In the sixth picture, it can be seen that the copper doors buried underground began to seep out with black material. It may be that a few copper doors reappeared due to some natural disasters such as earthquakes.

There is something strange in the world again.

But compared to the horrific hell-like scenes in the previous pictures, it is obviously much better. Only a few people are affected, and the exposed copper door has also been collected by some people, or re-buried, sealed under the temple, and installed by eminent monks.

Chanting sutras day and night soothes and purifies.

It's a balance.

The weirdness, terror, and terrible darkness still exist, but it seems that the scale is not large, and there are people who guide it, either to ban it or to suppress it. In short, a balanced relationship has been reached.

Lin Mo was not in a hurry to look at the seventh picture at this moment.

He looked at the first picture and went through it again, and discovered a very important thing.

There seems to be a type of person in all the pictures.

This type of people does not have a specific name. Lin Mo will just call them wise men or sages.

The terrifying dark side was originally born from them.

Afterwards, they guided those in authority to smelt the copper gates, and then guided people to rebury them or seal them into temples, which were all related to these wise men.

Why do you say that?

After all, the people depicted above have similar shapes. How did Lin Mo tell that they were the same type of people?
To be continued...