Chapter 1407 History (1/2)

As he walked past the cave walls, Li Du kept seeing colorful images.

In front of him was a drawing of a red buffalo, surrounded by small figures from all directions. They were simple matchstick man drawings.

The little men were holding sticks, and the bison had sticks stuck in its body. The whole clearly depicted a hunting scene.

Looking at the painting, Li Du reached out his hand and touched it. It was not actually painted, he realized, but chiseled in stone. Then the lines were daubed with red pigment. It was still well-preserved even after so many years.

He knew these were rock paintings, but he didn't know which era they were from.

Petroglyphs were a kind of stone carving culture. Ancient humans used stone tools depict and record their life and struggles with rough, simple and natural stone carving methods.

The earliest pictures of ancient humans left in caves were supposedly from around 40,000 years ago, and the primitive tribes that still exist today still use cave-painting as a form of self-expression. Rock paintings have been discovered all over the world, mainly including Europe, Africa, Asia, India, and China.

There was no doubt that ancient petroglyphs were the most valuable. However, some primitive tribes in modern times also painted petroglyphs, which were of less value.

For example, some tribes in Africa and some native tribes in North America have adhered to their ancestral ways until relatively recently, and they still kept the tradition of rock painting.

Some rock paintings by native tribes have been found in North America, and they were considered to be of relatively low value because their history was difficult to trace.

Li Du thought about it for a while and released the space-time bug to reverse time to observe the paintings.

The space-time bugs have grown and were now able to reverse thousands of years.

Unfortunately, when he went back in time, Li Du saw what the rock carvers looked like. They were natives dressed in plain clothes.

He could see the origins of the rock carvings, which meant they were less than a thousand years old. Second, the clothes of the carvers looked like they were made of linen, which meant this couldn't have happened more than 500 years ago.

Li Du smiled at himself. What are you thinking? These rock paintings could not be very old, because there was a stream inside the cave, and the moisture would damage the color of rock paintings very badly. If they were thousands of years old, the rock paintings would have lost their color.

Since they were only a few hundred years old, the value of these petroglyphs was small.

However, it was a coincidence to find these things, too much of a coincidence. Big Markelov ran into the cave along the stream when he was escaping and found them. It was dramatic.

In any case, the petroglyphs had some history, and therefore some value, and could be useful for studying the history of Native American tribes.

The others came in. They made torches and went down the stream.

”I was hiding here and the sun was shining and I looked up and I found these things and I was like, oh my god, I must be so tired and hallucinating. But in the end, I realized it wasn't an illusion, it was real!” said Big Markelov.

Li Du said, ”So you had the idea of using this thing to bargain with me?”

”That was the worst possible scenario,” said Big Markelov with a wry smile. ”I didn't think you'll keep chasing after me.”

After a pause, he added, ”I felt like I've made enough obstacles to stop you, but I couldn't do that. It was unbelievable.”

Li Du patted him on the shoulder and said, ”That's because your opponents were one of the strongest G9 frontier brigades.”

Big Markov was then relieved. ”When you appeared at the mouth of the cave I knew that I must have met a worthy adversary, but I did not expect to face elite German troops.”