Chapter 144

Dake did not expect that Emma could find the origin of the mural in such a short time.

She found a incomplete mark from the corner of the mural, and then restored it with the help of her senior sister.

According to this mark, we can find the possible age of the mural.

Thanks to the completeness of the documents in the library, she was able to read the correct historical records according to the time.

The footstep of the mural is from the super ancient era four years ago, which records a complete story.

Emma excerpted the story in her notebook.

Dake took the notebook and looked through it carefully. He could not help hesitating and said, "the fall of the kingdom of gold?"

"Yes." Emma pondered, "in fact, I was looking for information about the kingdom of gold before I found this mural. That's why the progress is so fast."

Then she took a book from her hand and handed it back.

Dake took the book and looked at it carefully, but it was a novel called the king of gold and the secret treasure.

Dake has long discovered that Emma sometimes reads biographies of novels. This book "the Golden King and the secret treasure" is a book she had been reading before Halloween. Remember the website novelhall.com

"Is that why the eight murals appear in the secret passage?"

Dake flipped through the book a little, and suddenly he felt a little surprised.

This novel is a popular adventure story, the background of the novel is set in a gold rush era.

Someone found the sand mixed with gold in the desert. After the news came out, it attracted countless gold prospectors.

One of them is the slum born hero Joe.

Joe's mother died of illness because she had no money to buy medicine.

Seeing his mother close her eyes forever in pain, Joe had a strong desire and obsession for money.

He stole, gambled, robbed, and gradually fell into the abyss.

After the news of the golden sand came, Joe joined the fanatical gold rush without hesitation.

The sand of gold gushing from the bottom of the earth has made countless people rich overnight.

Slaves, wine, manors

Everything you can think of is easy to get.

Joe worked tirelessly between the desert and the market town, immersed in the carnival day and night.

Until one day.

The sand of gold suddenly collapsed, and all the gold miners fell into an ancient city.

That city is the city of gold, the last capital of the golden kingdom.

And the king of the golden kingdom will always sleep in the city of gold.

The surviving archaeologists identified the inscription of the falling place and told Qiao Xiu and other gold diggers that the Gold King buried the endless treasure in his mausoleum - that is the secret treasure!

In order to find the secret treasure of the king of gold and become a new generation of the king of gold, Joe Xiu and the gold diggers were engulfed by the huge greed and went deep into the city unprepared.

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This is the beginning of the story.

As for Joe, did he succeed in acquiring the treasure, or was he lost in the earth forever?

Duck didn't see the end.

He put down the Golden King and the secret treasure and picked up Emma's notebook.

The notebook extracts the story recorded in the mural, that is, "the fall of the golden kingdom".

There are eight murals.

In fact, it uses a more abstract description method.

In the first picture, a ragged pauper digs cars of ore from a mine.

The ore inside is actually gold.

The picture shows miners digging in the mine.

In the second picture, a half naked blacksmith forges the ore into standard square bricks.

It's actually casting BRICs!

In the third painting, merchants in cloth clothes sell baskets of square bricks to nobles.

In fact, it was not a merchant or an ordinary nobleman.

It's architects and ministers.

It means that it is the king's order for the minister to collect the gold bricks.

In the fourth painting, the nobles in luxurious clothes use square bricks to build a tower on the altar.

At the king's command, the minister began to build the pagoda.

Among them, the so-called "altar" represents that the "golden pagoda" was built for sacrifice.

In other words, the whole pagoda is a sacrifice!

In the fifth painting, thousands of people pray for the coming of some existence under the altar.

People prostrate in front of the pagoda and begin to sacrifice.

In the sixth picture, the shining giant animal emerges from the black hole in the sky in the sacrifice.

The golden beast God responds to the sacrifice of human beings and wakes up in deep sleep.

In the seventh picture, the ferocious and greedy beast roars and devours all the sacrifices and human beings.

Everything will be a sacrifice.

The eighth painting, human blood and corpses on the ground to piece together a strange pattern.

Only death is eternal!

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The story itself is very simple. It's just that the king at that time summoned God for a certain purpose, but he was devoured by God.

The so-called "God" was originally a name full of awe created by human beings for individuals far stronger than themselves.

Whether it's a human, intelligent God, or a beast, cruel God.

It's all gods.

In the super ancient times, because of the precious and immortality of gold, human beings linked it with "eternity" and constructed the identity of "gold = eternity".

The king of gold, who had infinite wealth, followed this equation and built a tower of gold as a sacrifice in exchange for eternal life.

But clearly, he failed.

And eventually led to the collapse of the Golden State!

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Emma excitedly tells her own opinion:

"The country of gold has another name in the historical records, which is the eternal country! The so-called alchemy is to refine gold, to pursue eternity, and to pursue immortality! "

"The king of gold is called the earliest alchemist in many literatures. He made gold in search of immortality. The golden kingdom is only a by-product of the research process. "

"The golden kingdom is originally built on desire, and ultimately destroyed by desire."

"The animal God depicted in the mural is not necessarily the real God, but also the embodiment of desire."

"And the essence of the whole mural is the last one!"

"I suspect it's a refined array!"

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"The king of gold and the secret treasure, the fall of the kingdom of gold, the first ancient alchemist, the king of gold, and the last one, which was made up of human blood and corpses."

Duck couldn't help thinking about it.

When he copied the mural in the secret passage, he felt that the eighth painting was particularly weird, so he made the greatest effort and described it very carefully.

But even so, it is still a huge project to restore a complete refining array from a painting.

It can even be used as a whole college career topic!

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