The lost ancient city is filled with a desolate and lonely atmosphere, the only thing that can be heard is the sound of the wind rolling in his ears from time to time and the footsteps of others around him, in the dusty old streets, Hao Ren and his party are still cautiously exploring.The data terminal floated at the front of the line, the scanning beam projected from the surface of the terminal constantly swept over every object that looked suspicious or might have the mystery of the ancient city's history, the collapsed sculptures and stone slabs scattered on the ground were the most valuable of them, and on some of the stone and clay tablet fragments, the data terminal found the kind of cuneiform script that Hethanna had mentioned.It's just that most of the text has been almost smoothed out by the wind and sand, and often there are no more than three or five recognizable symbols on an item."
These symbols are indeed very similar to the cuneiform scripts that were commonly used in the Mesopotamian Plains back then," Vivien looked at the text patterns that had been collected by the data terminal so far, and these patterns were suspended in front of her, "The clay tablets are standard cuneiform, and the stone tablets are some variations that have been processed to facilitate engraving, but it is not difficult to convert between the two fonts......
Hao Ren looked at these ancient characters curiously: "Can you translate them?"
”"No," Vivien shook her head, "while they are indeed cuneiform in form, they are not at all the same system as cuneiform scripts excavated by humans in modern times, and I don't have any way to interpret them in my memory. ”"Bat, you really don't remember this city?"
Lily still remembered this question, "This place may be the one that made you slaughter the city directly with a red moon, why don't you remember?"
”"I'm really not impressed," Vivien said, looking helpless, "and slaughtering the city......
This doesn't match my personality, even when I was delirious, I would have tried to stay away from the human ghetto before I lost control completely. ”"Let's talk about this kind of historical legacy later," Hao Ren shook his head and looked at the yellow sand street in front of him, "There is another building in front that looks like a temple, and there may be a relatively complete text in it, so you can probably figure out the origin of this city." ”Lily sighed, muttering as she stepped along, "Anyway, the largest area in this city is a temple, the ancients really wasted that little productivity in this kind of place......"
As Lily said, almost all of the buildings in this lost ancient city are temples, and they are recognizable from the appearance at a glance: the temple is tall, similar in form to a combination of pyramids and cubes, and there will be various powerful sculptures on the upper floor of the building and in front of the main entrance, and these sculptures are also unique, They are a combination of human torsos and the characteristics of various beasts, which may reflect the religious beliefs of this mysterious city at that time, and such crude and terrifying religious images can be seen everywhere in the primitive barbarian age.These temples occupy almost a third of the city's size—far more than is normally needed, and I wonder how many subordinate towns and human slaves were needed to support a religious system of this magnitude.Now, there is such a temple standing in front of Hao Ren and his party.It is not the huge temple in the middle of the city, but a smaller temple located near the central temple, which must be accessed via the avenue near the building.The "smaller" temple is also impressively large, consisting of a large pyramid-like body and two rectangular annexes arranged in front of the pyramid like the forelimbs of a prostrate lion poking forward, and in the square directly in front of the pyramid are two neatly arranged columns of stone statues guarding the passage to the depths of the temple.Before heading to the city's central temple, Hao Ren felt that he should first search for such subsidiary temples around the central area, so as not to miss important clues.Although the collapse of the alternate space continued, the complete collapse was at least a few days away, and he still had plenty of time to go.Elizabeth sat on the shoulders of Izzax, looking around at the magnificent buildings and stone statues around her, just like the religious stone statues in other parts of the city, these sculptures several meters high were also made of human torsos and beast limbs, they had the heads of lions, jackals, and crocodiles, and their bodies were twisted into a hideous posture, as if ready to fight, and the little devil observed for a long time and then concluded: "Wow, it's ugly." ”The little girl who is used to seeing the face of Izax can say the word "really ugly", which shows that these stone statues are really ugly.Vivien still plays the role of historical narrator: "In primitive religious worship, the mighty beasts always appeared as the guards of the gods and even as the image of the gods themselves, for two reasons, on the one hand, ancient humans were afraid of the power of those beasts, and they regarded the most powerful beasts as beings with special powers like the gods, and on the other hand, because of the earliest rulers of the earth."
A large number of the 'aliens' are subjugated by driving all kinds of beasts and monsters to subdue humans, and there are even many aliens who are not much better looking than beasts themselves - at least in human aesthetics, these 'primordial gods' are beast gods. ”Lorisa listened to Vivien's explanations without saying a word, and suddenly frowned and looked in a certain direction: "Who?!"
”Hao Ren immediately put the blade in his hand: "What's wrong?"
”Lorissa stared at the wind and sand at the end of the street behind her, her eyes slowly turning silver-white like holy flames, but after a moment her eyes returned to normal: "Maybe it's an illusion - I felt like someone was staring at me for a moment." ”"I don't feel it," Lily shook her ears, "I have a keen sense, I don't even feel it, then you must be delusional." ”"Probably."
Lorissa frowned, slowly withdrawing her gaze.The temple door was made of heavy ironwood wrapped in copper, and it was supposed to be the most impregnable gate of its time, but after thousands of years of wind and sand baptism in the other dimension, the door was still badly decayed, and the remnants of the tattered door panel were slanted in front of the entrance.Lily stepped forward and tossed aside two half-ton door panels, revealing the dark passage inside.The fire was very happy to light up the flames, and in the flickering light of the fire, the group stepped into this ancient ruin.Not long after they had advanced, they saw the same large stone statues of the guards appear on both sides of the corridor.It is still the kind of strange stone sculpture formed by the combination of the human body and the head of the beast, and it is still showing a posture of preparing for battle, and the stone statues in the temple are smaller than the stone statues outside, but they are also more than five meters high, and they look extremely powerful."
Strange......
Why are there so many stone statues......"
Vivien muttered with a frown.Hao Ren didn't know why: "Isn't it normal to have this kind of sculpture in the temple?"
”"It's normal to have sculptures like this, but it's not normal to have them, it's beyond the scale needed to be an ornament," Vivien shook her head, "It's a weird bad taste." ”At this time, the data terminal flying in front suddenly shouted: "Partner!
Partner!
The murals here are recognizable!
”Hao Ren hurriedly ran over, and saw the blue beam projected by the data terminal sweeping over a colorful relief on the stone wall - the relief was actually quite mottled and eroded, and it was almost impossible to see what the original appearance was with the human eye, even if an experienced archaeologist came over, it would probably require quite complex technical means as an aid to restore it to one or two, but compared to the stone and clay slabs on the outskirts of the city that were almost completely smoothed and broken, there are still many recognizable areas left on this mural.With the support of the computing power of the data terminal, the murals were quickly restored, and even the text underneath the murals was slowly pieced together and reassembled and presented on the stone walls through holographic projections – just as they were intact.In the first picture, Hao Ren saw an abstract and strange scene: he saw a very huge creature walking on the earth, or "floating", it was like a beetle with many slender pointed feet, from the layers of body creatures like bone plates on the ground, but the body was as close to the sun and the moon - this should be an exaggerated depiction of the ancients, but it is enough to make people guess how terrifying this beetle-like creature is, and it has such a terrifying size, However, it can walk on the ground with a few pairs of slender long legs, which is enough to show that its body is probably "floating" in mid-air, and it either has a large number of suspended air sac structures in its body, or it simply has the ability to manipulate gravity.The first image devotes almost all of its space to the details of the giant creature, and there is only one word under the screen, which the data terminal transliterates as Otos, or if nothing else, it is the name of the giant creature.The second image shows the destructive power of the creature: it is surrounded by thunder and lightning, and meteors of fire falling from the sky, and even the sun and moon are swallowed by the giant beetle, and the beetle's slender pointed feet invoke the supernatural power of lightning and fire, and it is very likely that it appeared during a solar or lunar eclipse, destroying the human city, and the human beings are helpless against it.Among the corpses, you can even see some extraordinarily tall humanoids with alien characteristics, those humanoids have diaphragm-like lines around them, and the data terminal said that they are the corpses of the "old gods" after translating the text under the screen.The creature named Ertos destroyed a "mythical city-state" ruled by aliens.And just as Hao Ren's gaze fell on the third picture, Lily beside him suddenly stood up."
Did you hear anything?"
The husky girl's ears kept turning in all directions, and her golden eyes sparkled in the dim environment.