I couldn't help but stretched out my hand and touched the mural. I felt a cold touch penetrate into the palm of my hand, but it was different from the smooth and shiny feeling of gemstones. Instead, there were bumps one by one, and the overall material seemed...
It's a bit rough, and compared to the luster it looks like, the friction is much greater than expected.
Obviously these murals are composed of rougher materials, similar to animal carapace or insect chitin shell, and the pigments are all natural plant pigments, revealing a primitive style.
I don’t know where this corridor is geographically located, but since it is hidden deep underground and cannot be easily accessed by people, only members who are recognized by the evil witch cult and can enter the sacrificial domain and have good roots in Miaohong can
While reciting the scriptures, I came here unknowingly.
It is impossible for them to touch the surrounding murals casually like me, so these antiquities are extremely well preserved. Although the painting style and color have a strong sense of age and vicissitudes of history, the dust
The peeling effect of the blowing did not leave a single trace on it. Each painting was placed in the corridor intact as if it had been newly painted.
Looking closely, the patterns of these murals are very bright. Even if they only use the most primitive natural pigments, compared with the mainstream landscape paintings or elegant paintings in ancient China, they can be said to be extremely gorgeous, with bright reds and greens, bright yellow tiles and blue,
The colorful colors give people a strong visual impact at first sight.
But this is different from the greasy and heavy color sense of Western oil paintings. Their color levels are not as rich as Western styles. They are as light and clear as Chinese paintings. I am afraid it has something to do with the way of coloring and the material of the paint.
Unlike Western paints that are mixed with oil and glue like toothpaste, it is probably more like ink.
It's just that Chinese paintings are usually painted on rice paper, which is highly absorbent. Therefore, even if the viscosity of the ink is lighter, it can be easily adsorbed on the finished product and the painting will not appear too thin.
As for these murals made of carapace, it is obvious that thin ink cannot easily retain the color on them, because as soon as they are applied, if they are swung at a slightly larger angle, they will easily flow down and destroy the integrity of the entire picture.
Because of its structure, it needs to be exposed to the sun or lightly fanned to accelerate the volatilization of the pigment, leaving a layer of color on the carapace.
Generally speaking, a single application of coloring can only leave a very light and very light layer of color, so you have to go through the steps of coloring - drying - and coloring again, if you want to make the painting as bright and eye-catching as the one in front of you.
The mural needs to be repeated at least a dozen times, and each part of the picture is a different color, so both the manpower and time consumed are measured in years at least.
I looked at the surrounding picture frames. Although they were just ordinary wooden picture frames, there were signs of burnt black, as if they had been burned by smoke. It seemed that the smoke was used to accelerate the condensation of the paint.
I can't help but sigh with emotion at the creativity and patience of the ancients. They used the only primitive resources at hand, through dozens and hundreds of cycles of labor and ingenious techniques, to create cultural treasures that can rival the artistic masterpieces of any era.
The contents of these murals are very simple. They are the stories mentioned in the previous scriptures of the "Gu God Purana". They are almost exactly the same as the scenes that appeared in my mind before. It's just that the originally dynamic pictures have been completely replaced.
Fixed in one mural after another.
It's so amazing. Is it really as simple as reciting scriptures to open this corridor? You don't even need the original text. No matter what language you use, you just need to recite the general meaning and you can enter.
I don't know whether this is an underground passage or a different space.
After walking for a full five minutes, the surrounding murals also changed one after another. The patterns were similar, like animation storyboards that were frozen one after another. Now we have just progressed to the arrival of the Moon God, who has just turned into the Gu God.
Judging from the content of the scriptures, the first third of the stage has only passed. I guess that when the content of the mural reaches the end of the scriptures, it will be the end of this corridor.
The strange thing is that I was walking towards the underground sacrificial area, but I didn't feel the downward slope at all. It was as if I was just walking on flat ground. Could it be that the corridor was too long so I couldn't feel the slope?
What?
After a while, the appearance of the Moon God on the mural had completely dissipated and turned into various Gu insects in the forest. At the same time, I felt that the light around me also dimmed a lot, as if the lighting in the corridor had dimmed.
At least half of it.
Wait, lighting?
Only then did I realize a strange question, where did the light around me come from? I looked around, and of course there couldn't be any electric lights, oil lamps or lanterns, not even the ever-burning lamps that are common in tombs, but in all directions
, from head to toe, it is always filled with light and clear light, and I don’t know where it comes from.
Sunlight or moonlight? It's even more impossible. The surrounding walls and ceilings are tightly sealed, not to mention it's underground. How can there be natural light coming in?
After realizing this problem, I felt very strange. The omnipresent sourceless light is like a tree without roots and a soul without feet. It is extremely evil. There are often horrifying facts hidden behind it.
I don't know if it was because of my heart, but I felt a slight chill around me, and I got goosebumps all over my body. Looking at those green lights, I vaguely felt that something bad would appear later, and I felt uneasy.
I quickened my pace, just wanting to get out of here as soon as possible.
Wait, is the surrounding getting darker and darker? I feel that the light in my field of vision is getting less and less, and there are sporadic spider webs hanging on the wall. Originally, this corridor exuded a smell like an art museum.
The atmosphere, even if there is no clear light source, combined with the murals and the colorful patterns on the wall, does convey an aesthetic enjoyment to people.
However, as the content of the mural changed to about the deeds of the Gu God in the human world, the sense of weirdness and decay in the surrounding environment became more and more intense. The sticky and scattered spider webs became larger and larger. At first, they only appeared on the edges of some corners.
Then the ground and walls were covered with cobwebs, and now, even a few murals are covered with gray-white cobwebs.
Since there are spider webs, does it mean that there are spiders here? The spiders of the evil witch cult cannot be good, at least they are at the level of Gu, and they can live in such a corridor with a sacred religious color. It is very strange to think about it.
It may be a kind of existence similar to the Suppressing Monster.