Chapter 64: New Discoveries
"The Feathered Snake God, this is the Feathered Snake God. My guess is correct. The Moskitians are indeed related to the Aztecs." The professor said to himself loudly, "Look, what a beautiful carving, and the Aztec pyramids."
After seeing the entire mural, Li began to observe the entire stone chamber.
This is a square stone chamber. There is a table in the center of the stone chamber. There is a stone spoon that seems to be magnified dozens of times. Li walked up to the stone stage and looked at it. There was a circle around the spoon with 10 words engraved on it.
"Professor, come and see what the word is."
Professor Miles turned around reluctantly and came to the stone platform to study it carefully.
As he observed, his brows gradually frowned. "It's so strange. This is not like Mayan characters. It's very similar to Chinese oracle bone script."
Hearing this, Li's uneasiness increased again. He smiled bitterly. Master, is the divination technique you taught? If it is as I guess, this journey will not be safe.
After a while, he patted the professor on the shoulder, "Professor, the time is almost over, we have to go back, otherwise they should worry about us."
The professor took a camera in his hand to take a picture of the mural and the strange spoon on the stone platform, and turned around and walked towards the corridor with Li and the others.
Back in the hall, Locke and the others had arrived long ago. Seeing that they were safe and sound, Li quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"How is it, what's the discovery?"
Hal and Dom turned around and jumped up excitedly when they saw the professor, "Professor, come and see what we have discovered. This is a major discovery in the history of Central America. There is a feathered snake god here."
"Relax, don't be excited. As scientific researchers, we must always be calm. Come and let me see the photos you took."
Li and Jessica looked at the old professor squintedly. Your performance just now didn't seem to be much better.
When Dom played the photos they took, Lee and Jessica also came over.
The murals in the passage are not very different from theirs, and they also depict the daily life of the Moskitians. The difference is that there are more scenes of fighting here, such as using spears to fight wild animals such as jaguars, and also the scenes of fishing and chasing deer.
When the photo was turned to the back, Jessica said happily: "Oh, this room is the same as we found it."
"Yes." The professor nodded, "The layout is almost exactly the same, and the mural is also a feathered snake god."
"Somewhat difference." The sharp-eyed Li discovered the difference.
He pointed to the photo and said, "Look, the moon above the head of the Feathered Snake God here, not the sun in our room."
Hearing this, the professor quickly pulled out the photos from his camera and put them together to compare them.
"Yes, the moon is on this mural. It's so strange, what does this mean?"
Continue to look back, and the spoon also appeared in their photos.
Jessica curled her lips, "They are too greedy, there are two large spoons on both sides."
"Wait, turn it back and zoom in." Li discovered something wrong again.
The photo flips back to the spoon and enlarges it. Li pointed to the text next to the spoon and asked, "Professor, is this word in the 10 words you just read?"
The professor hurriedly came up and carefully distinguished it.
"10?" Dom, who had been silent, said in confusion, "I remember that I counted it and it was 12 words."
Twelve? Li thought hard, spoon, ten, twelve, sun, moon.
He suddenly raised his head and scared everyone.
"I think I know what this is."
Everyone looked up at him, and the professor asked quickly, "What is it? You know?"
Li Xian pressed his hands down to prevent them from being excited, and then said, "If I expected it to be right, these two spoon-like things should be a tool in ancient China to indicate directions, called Sinan. These two sets of numbers also represent a Chinese chronological method called the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches."
"China, how could this Central American civilization be related to such a distant civilization?" The old professor frowned and raised objections.
Li spread his hands, "I'm just guessing, and I suspect these two Si Nans are a kind of mechanism. Let me calculate it first."
Not long after, Li said to everyone, "Fenley, go to the left, turn the spoon clockwise, pointing to the fifth word with the handle of the spoon. Locke, go to the right, turn the spoon counterclockwise, pointing to the first number."
The two nodded, ran over without asking anything.
"Professor, I can't explain it clearly for a while, so wait first. If it's really like I thought, you will never forget this adventure." There was another sentence that Li didn't say, and he smiled bitterly in his heart, and I will never forget it forever.
Not long after, a rattle sound came from the walls of the entire building. Before the sound could be finished, Locke and the others ran back from the passage.
Everyone stood in the middle of the hall and looked around motionlessly. Soon, Finley pointed in the direction of the statue and shouted: "Look!"
With a loud bang, a burst of soil and gravel fell above the statue, and a burst of smoke and dust filled the entire hall.
"Don't panic!" Li grabbed the professor who was about to run out. When he heard his shout, Hal and Dom also stopped.
There was a loud noise, and everyone looked at the top of the statue, where a sculpture that looked like a waterfall slowly rose with the sound of Galagala.
The sculpture rose to its head, revealing a wide passage, from which a faint light penetrated into the hall, and a humid air followed.
Everyone opened their mouths and looked at this scene. The wonderful mechanism that originally thought would only appear in the adventure movie was opened in front of their eyes, and the unknown world behind them was waving to them.
"Come on, go, don't stand there."
Everyone put away their wide mouths and found that Li had walked along the stairs on both sides of the statue to the entrance of the passage and greeted them.
Jessica and the other two walked towards the stairs without saying a word.
The professor and the others swallowed, looked at each other, and the three of them followed.
After passing through the stone passage, they walked towards the light. This time, there were no longer murals carved on both sides of the passage, but there was a stone platform every distance, which should be the place where the ancients put on torches.
After walking out of the passage, everyone entered the petrochemical state again.
Chapter completed!