29: Chapter 29 Cave Murals! Amazingly Creative Ideas
In the mountain forest, the ground shook as two massive figures rushed out from the jungle.
When the Brown Bear and Giant Panda arrived, they just happened to see a white figure drifting into the cave; they had originally intended to follow it in.
But they stopped instantly, their paws frozen in mid-air, trembling slightly.
Their eyes stared in terror at the dark cave entrance not far ahead, which looked like the gaping maw of a prehistoric beast!
...
Ye Yang flapped his wings and crossed the red blockade line...
After entering the dark cave, he discovered that there was more to it than met the eye; not only was the entrance huge, but its depth was immense!
A pair of golden pupils reflected a greenish light in the darkness. The dark environment did not affect his Eagle Eye vision. He looked deep into the cave, unable to see the end at a glance.
Fortunately, he was certain the cave went straight through and didn't descend downwards; otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to explore it so recklessly.
"Just how deep is this profound cave?"
Ye Yang felt a bit nervous. While the darkness didn't affect him, the feeling of palpitations and weakness grew heavier as he went deeper.
"This must be the complex magnetic field mentioned in the notice at the entrance..."
"Charge!"
Ye Yang shook his somewhat weak and powerless body, forcing himself to focus as he flew into the cave.
He didn't know how much time had passed.
The darkness of the cave became deeper and deeper until, after a certain distance, there wasn't a single ray of light, and his body felt increasingly heavy under the influence of the cave's magnetic field.
Finally, as he ventured deeper into the cave, Ye Yang could no longer even control his balance to fly and was forced to land and walk on his talons.
He was panting, heat puffing from the nares on his beak as he dissipated the high temperatures generated by the heavy load on his body.
If birds had sweat glands and could sweat, he would have been drenched by now!
At this moment, his body was under immense pressure, as if an invisible mountain were pressing down on him, making him weak and exhausted. Yet, Ye Yang continued to walk slowly and painstakingly toward the depths of the cave.
The reason was that the mysterious magnetic pressure had actually piqued his competitive spirit; unless there was a life-threatening obstacle, he was determined to see what lay at the end of the cave!
Thus, fueled by a refusal to give in, Ye Yang actually managed to endure the magnetic pressure and reached the end of the cave.
"Are these murals?"
"Such imaginative content..."
Ye Yang looked up, his golden pupils unblinking, eyes locked onto the rock wall at the end of the cave, which featured several lifelike murals.
The aura emanating from these murals felt ancient. Even someone like Ye Yang, who knew nothing about human history, could tell at a glance... these murals were at least ten thousand years old.
He knew that murals were mostly created by ancient humans during hunting, sacrificial, or religious activities, leaving traces on stone walls to record their lives.
However, the content of the murals before him was different.
In the first mural, a group of scantily clad humans held stone spears and chased wild beasts; it was clearly a depiction of their daily life.
The second image was the same, but the third was not.
Instead, it depicted a night scene where a group of people sat in a cave gazing at the dark sky. In the sky... there was actually a full, bright red moon!
The red light emitted by the crimson moon stained the entire land!
As for how Ye Yang knew it was a red moon, it was because the moon in the picture was painted with a special red pigment. Even after ten thousand years, the red remained vivid—it was quite miraculous...
And within the red light covering the entire scene, there was a faint hint of eeriness.
If the murals ended there, Ye Yang would have simply thought that ancient humans from ten thousand years ago had vivid imaginations to leave behind such unrealistic images.
But there were two more murals!
The fourth mural.
It was still a scene of the red moon shrouding the land in crimson light, but various giant creatures had appeared on the ground. Ye Yang had never seen such creatures before; each was as large as a small mountain—not the size of the Great Black Wild Boar from before... but the size of a hill dozens of meters tall!
They were true giant beasts!
The fifth image.
The final image had a completely different art style from the previous four!
In this mural, humans actually moved mountains, tore apart Hill-sized Giant Beasts with their bare hands, and split the earth with a single kick! Some humans were even as large as the giant beasts themselves!
It was practically a myth!
Suddenly, Ye Yang's heart stirred as bits of knowledge from his past life flashed through his mind.
"That's not right... I remember reading in a book somewhere that the entertainment of ancient humans was extremely scarce. Even a modern children's fairy tale would have been a supreme artifact in the hands of a priest from that distant era to unify a tribe..."
"So it's impossible for ancient humans to have had such a rich imagination to record such miraculous murals!"
"Does that mean the images recorded on these stone walls are all real?!"
As soon as this thought occurred to him, Ye Yang's body jolted, and he almost took flight on the spot!
"Whew..."
Exhaling, he smiled self-deprecatingly. "I'm just scaring myself. There's no evidence, and the information from a few murals is too superficial. I'm no human historian either."
Moreover, rather than believing the murals were real, he was more inclined to believe that aliens had landed on Earth in a distant era and left these murals behind.
While the possibility of aliens was also a flight of fancy, it was more convincing than the idea that the events recorded in these murals were real.
He quickly put the matter of the murals out of his mind; there were so many strange mysteries on Earth, and he didn't have the time or the inclination to solve them.
Then, his gaze scanned the depths of the cave. Reaching the end and seeing the five murals had given him a glimpse of the ancient humans' wild imagination, and he wanted to see if there were any unexpected finds.
"Eh? This is a human measuring tool."
Ye Yang's eyes, reflecting green light in the dark, soon spotted a black measuring tape left in an inconspicuous corner of the cave. Approaching it, it was indeed a human tape measure, and there was a large Double-wing Logo on it.
"Which factory made this tape measure? It even has such a cool logo..."
The appearance of the tape measure gave Ye Yang a piece of information: humans had once entered this cave.
But this information was useless to him.
It was all too easy for human technological means to explore a cave with a complex magnetic field.
Just as he turned to walk back toward the cave entrance, his intuition suddenly tightened!
Looking up, a dark stone came into view.
Locking his gaze on the "stone," a sudden throb of excitement appeared in his heart!
This sparked a hint of interest in Ye Yang's heart...