This woman...

Wu Liang subconsciously raised his head and compared it with the stone statue on the stone platform - it was very similar!

She also has curly long wavy hair and a plump figure. Although the "fangs" on the face are not clearly depicted in the pattern, there are more than twenty stone statues and patterns in the location visited by this stone statue.

The round-headed people in the picture have almost the same etiquette, so it is not difficult to judge that the two should be the same person.

It's just that there is a curved arc behind the woman in the pattern, and there seem to be some specially carved horizontal lines on the arc, which looks very much like a cylindrical tail...

etc!

When Wu Liang looked up to compare the stone statue, he suddenly discovered that it also seemed to have a tail.

However, due to the craftsmanship and materials, it is difficult to express the tail independently on this stone statue, so it has to be connected to her lower body, and a small tail is separated until it reaches the ankle. If you are not careful,

It's really hard to spot if you look at it.

Fangs...

Tail……

Wu Liang was surprised by this maverick image. Did the otaku culture of later generations, the beast mother, appear as early as thousands of years ago?

Obviously this is not the case. The beast girl in front of her is obviously a kind of faith, a kind of worship that is divorced from vulgar taste.

So……

Wu Liang thought deeply, and a female mythological image that appeared countless times in ancient books and legends of the Celestial Dynasty emerged—the Queen Mother of the West!

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness Western Classic" says: "To the south of the Western Sea, on the shore of the quicksand, behind the Chishui River, there is a big mountain called Kunlun Hill. There is a god with a human face and a tiger body, and all the writing and tail are white.

Below it is a gulf of weak water surrounding it, and outside it is a mountain of flaming fire, from which objects are thrown. There is a person with a hoopoe, a tiger's tooth, and a leopard's tail, and the cave is called the Queen Mother of the West."

Fluffy hair!

Tiger teeth!

Leopard tail!

These three extremely distinctive features are consistent with this stone statue one by one, and they are unique. It is not difficult for Wu Liang to associate her identity.

Records about the Queen Mother of the West have appeared as early as in the "Gui Zang" of the Shang Dynasty and the "Book of Changes" of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In these two ancient books, it is said that "The Queen Mother of the West possesses a magical elixir of immortality" or "The Queen Mother of the West can bestow immortality to people."

Years make people live longer."

"The Biography of Emperor Mu" also recorded the story of King Zhou Mu meeting the "Queen Mother of the West" when he led his army to the west for many times, and the relevant years were also corroborated by the bronze Gui inscriptions discovered in later generations. King Zhou Mu did indeed

It launched several wars against the Quanrong tribe entrenched in the northwest Gansu and Shaanxi areas.

In other words, the fact that King Zhou Mu met the "Queen Mother of the West" may not be a myth or legend, but a historical fact.

Here comes another problem.

The Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty were separated by hundreds of thousands of years. Records of the "Queen Mother of the West" appeared in the Shang Dynasty. In the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Mu personally met the "Queen Mother of the West". Could it be that the "Queen Mother of the West" really possessed the magic elixir of immortality?

To survive for hundreds or thousands of years?

Various speculations arose about this later life, and the "Queen Mother of the West" became more and more mythical, eventually becoming the supreme Queen Mother in Taoism.

However, some scholars have made another speculation based on fragments of historical materials from different periods. They believe that the "Queen Mother of the West" is not actually a certain person, but the leader of a powerful matrilineal clan tribe in the northwest region at that time. This tribe became powerful.

Hundreds of thousands of years, then the "Queen Mother of the West" will naturally exist for hundreds of thousands of years.

In this way, the Shang Dynasty already had the "Queen Mother of the West", and King Zhou Mu of the Zhou Dynasty personally met the "Queen Mother of the West". This situation can be explained without the need for mythological elements.

In his previous life, Wu Liang was more inclined to this more scientific and reasonable speculation.

He does not believe in the so-called "Elixir of Immortality" because there has never been an "Immortal" person in official history, and those who pursue the "Elixir of Immortality" often do not end well. The well-known First Emperor Ying Zheng

This is a very typical negative example.

However, before he traveled through time, scholars did not find any records or cultural relics from ancient countries, tribes or forces that could match the "Queen Mother of the West", so this speculation has not been confirmed.

But in this life, after experiencing many things that cannot be explained by science, Wu Liang will not jump to conclusions easily, lest he make mistakes because of any strange things he encounters.

But one thing Wu Liang is certain of.

The prototype of this stone statue is very likely to be the "Queen Mother of the West"!

The first is the geographical location. This place is located in the Western Region, very close to the Kunlun Mountains where the "Queen Mother of the West" is located in historical records. It may even have been the territory of the "Queen Mother of the West" a long time ago. Therefore, these people believe in or worship the "Queen Mother of the West" to a certain extent.

geographical factors;

The second is the shape. Although the shape of this stone statue cannot be said to be exactly the same as the "Queen Mother of the West" in the records, it can be said to be exactly the same.

And if this stone statue is directly regarded as the "Queen Mother of the West"...

Wu Liang looked at the six "comic pictures" again, trying to decipher the stories told in the "comic pictures".

Looking at his reading order just now, the stories he associates seem a bit weird and awkward:

A group of round-headed people got a "gem" or something else, and then they planted those weird plants outside, and then built a sun tomb, and then they started fighting with the square-headed people, fighting,

The round-headed people who were originally outnumbered and already sure of victory lost their advantage for some reason, and the square-headed people turned defeat into victory. In the end, the defeated round-headed people knelt in front of the "West Queen Mother" and became followers or prisoners of the "West Queen Mother".

?

"It's unreasonable..."

No matter how you look at it, this story is unreasonable and gives Wu Liang a strange feeling.

It is not difficult to see that those round-headed people are the protagonists of these "comic books", and the people who carved these patterns should also be round-headed people.

Otherwise, they should not occupy most of the "comic strip". They are present in every picture, while the square-headed man and the "Queen Mother of the West" only appear in one or two pictures.

But the story can be imagined according to Wu Liang’s reading order.

It is obviously a heartbreaking tragedy for these "protagonists". Not only does such a tragedy not have any sense of empathy for these "protagonists", it is even a great shame... It should be noted that it is not just the online novels of later generations that need a sense of empathy.

The stories and legends passed down by a nation or tribe also need a sense of substitution. Just like the "Qiang-Ge War" mentioned before, as an epic legend of the Qiang people, the Qiang people as the "protagonist" must win.

Otherwise, there would be no market, it would be impossible to pass it down, and it would be impossible to carve stone paintings.

Do you have the guts to live on your back?

Even if you try your best, the outcome must be a victory that turns defeat into victory, rather than a victory that turns defeat into defeat.

in addition.

Don’t forget the “jewel”-shaped thing in the pattern. It can be seen from the picture that it is something that the round-headed people regard as a treasure. But according to the story that Wu Liang has come up with now, that thing has no effect at all.

Its function has not been taken away by the square-headed man. It is like the protagonist in the novel obtained a heaven-defying artifact, but until the protagonist died in the battle at the end of the story, this heaven-defying artifact did not play any role and was not even shown.

Yes, how can this be justified?

There is also the weird plant grown by the round-headed people. That thing also plays no role and is completely dispensable. What is it carved for?

"Tomb of the Sun" too.

Archeology in later generations has determined that the "Tomb of the Sun" is an ancient tomb, not some other totem or other relics, but shouldn't the cemetery where the dead are buried be built after the war?

Therefore, there are many things that cannot be explained logically. Wu Liang feels that there should be something wrong with the order in which he read the "comic books"...

Fortunately, these patterns are there, just like giving Wu Liang a few words and asking him to form a smooth sentence.

This is a course that will be studied in primary school Chinese classes in later generations. It should even be simpler, because these "comic strips" must be in order, either starting from the left or from the right, and there will never be any confusion. Now he

You only need to find the first pattern and judge the correct sequence two years later to interpret the correct story.

I squatted beside the stone platform and meditated for a while.

"Could that be it?"

Wu Liang saw a story that had a happy ending for the round-headed people, and the "jewel"-shaped thing and the plants all played their due roles.

Still looking from left to right, but starting from the penultimate picture just now:

The Square-headed people relied on their numbers to launch a war against the Round-headed people, killing their relatives, occupying their homes, and burning down their houses.

The remaining Yuantou people had to leave their homes and go to the Kunlun Mountains to seek help from the Queen Mother of the West.

So the Queen Mother of the West gave them a strange "seed" instead of the gem Wu Liang had guessed before.

The round-headed people brought back the "seeds" and planted a strange plant.

Then they built the "Tomb of the Sun" according to the instructions of Queen Mother of the West.

With the "help" of this strange plant and the "Sun Tomb", the round-headed people had enough men and horses. In the end, they worked together to defeat the square-headed people and regained their homeland...

In this way, this "comic" has become a mythical story with the main theme of resisting the invaders and finally turning defeat into victory to defend the homeland.

Wu Liang made many attempts and determined that this was the most reasonable and fitting story among all the combinations, and that everything that appeared in the pattern had a corresponding purpose.

But there are still some bugs in this story that Wu Liang cannot explain.

What role did the strange plants and the "Tomb of the Sun" play in the story, or how did they play a role in making the round-headed men surpass the square-headed men and finally turn defeat into victory?

Wu Liang had seen the plants outside before, and they did not look like crops that could provide food for the round-headed people.

For the Yuantou people who have left their hometowns, the "Sun Tomb" will only consume their already insufficient labor force and cannot directly provide them with any help.

So it doesn’t seem very reasonable to say that the round-headed people relied on these two things to thrive, and after many years they finally became prosperous, and finally successfully completed their great cause of revenge...

in addition.
To be continued...