A ruin!
Hao Ren was taken aback when he heard the news, and his surprise was no less than when he first learned that there were two layers of crust on this planet, and the surface crust was actually the petrified canopy of a group of giant trees.He immediately zoomed in on the images to confirm the authenticity and approximate size of the ruins, and then had the data terminal teleport everyone over at once: the ruins were quite far away, almost on the other side of the planet, and it would have been too time-consuming to drive there.The data terminal emitted an azure halo, and everyone's figures disappeared into the teleportation light curtain in an instant, and the next moment, they had arrived at the location of the distant probe.It's also a magnificent prairie.Hao Ren stretched out his hand to catch the probe flying towards him, put this small point of merit into his personal space, and then climbed up to a high ground, looking at the large buildings not far away, the vast and magnificent scenery here made people breathe.Endless green grass stretches across the land as far as the eye can see, the vast savannah undulates like gentle waves, and the magnificent scenery is like an oil painting, and on this prairie, an ancient city made of huge stones stands majestically.The city has an Aztec-like architectural form, and although most of the walls have collapsed, the size of the city can still be seen.In the center of the city and on the side of the high ground, you can see several large and small flat-topped pyramids, and between these pyramids are wide avenues paved with huge stones, which divide the city into orderly square areas, each with rows of stone houses.With the exception of the pyramids, most of the buildings in the city are no more than three stories high, which makes them even more spectacular."
Incredible......
Hao Ren muttered to himself, "there are still such ruins here......
I thought that the eldest son would have caused a seismic shock when he made those pillars, and that everything on the second layer of the earth's crust should have been destroyed. ”As he spoke, he looked up into the distance, and only a dozen kilometers away from the city, he could see a magnificent black pillar connecting the heavens and the earth, and one such "pillar" could also be seen in the other direction of the horizon.In fact, in this "underground world" with excellent air quality, even if you don't stand on a high place, you can see at least two giant pillars supporting the sky and the earth at any time: those magnificent pillars are so large that they stretch all the way to the rock dome, and you can see them from any angle.The distance between the city and the giant tree of the Heavenly Pillar is only a dozen kilometers, but it is safe and sound, Hao Ren thinks it is an incredible miracle: he has witnessed the scale of those giant trees, the latter exposes the aerial roots on the surface of the earth are mountains up to a thousand meters, and considering that these giant trees are evolved by the eldest son with tentacles, their movements when they burrow out of the surface should be devastating, even if the eldest son deliberately and carefully carried out everything, it is impossible for it to tear the earth open a crack more than ten kilometers wide without harming the nearby city at hand, Because it's an inevitable physical process.So there is only one conclusion......
This city was built after the vault of heaven was closed.But judging by the crazy "third son" on the surface crust, the planet must have undergone a complete biosphere reset, so who built the city on the original crust after the sky dome closed?
Is it mortal?
They escaped the purge of the eldest son?
Or rather......
The Great Purge didn't happen at all?
A large number of questions entangled Hao Ren's nerves, and the answers to the questions seemed to be in the city.The group arrived at the ruins of the city, and when they got closer, this quaint and solemn stone city permeated with a desolate and heavy atmosphere: if the giant tree of the pillar and the canopy dome were the "great force of nature" created by the eldest son, then the ruins of the city were the "miracle of mankind" built by mortals with human manpower, even if the scale was very different, but also with a shocking aspect.Even Lily couldn't help but get serious, and she didn't even pay attention to the small stones that were everywhere (which would normally be collected in her Wang's treasures), but rubbed her hand against a square pillar that passed by her: "It looks like it's handmade, and you can still see the marks of an axe chisel on the edge."
To pile up such a huge amount of stones to build a city, it requires a high labor cost. ”Stone buildings that have been dormant for thousands of years stand silently on both sides of the road, moss and vines have eroded the cracks of these buildings, leaving mottled green marks in the cracks of the stones, many of the buildings have signs of cracking, and many of the houses have even completely collapsed into rubble, and in the collapsed stone piles, there are still tenacious grass and green vines growing out of the cracks, fluttering in the wind.Some of the old stone walls can still be seen in some colors, which are paintings and texts from ancient times: the ancients who left this relic obviously had a special technique, and the pigment they made was still partially preserved after so many years of weathering and erosion, which caught Hao Ren's attention.He bent down in front of a detached and broken stone slab that was supposed to be embedded in front of him on a high platform that appeared to be a ceremonial place, with a special regulation and solemn atmosphere.On the stone slabs, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some vaguely recognizable relief pictures.Hao Ren saw a ball of light at the top of the picture, and below the picture were undulating wavy lines, I don't know whether it represented the sea or the grassland: this "underground" world did not have a large-scale ocean, only a large number of lakes and rivers, so I am not sure whether the ancients who left these reliefs had the concept of "ocean".Hao Ren noticed that there was something at the bottom of the slate, so he reached out to clean the moss and weeds from it, and he saw some symbols that looked like words, which looked a bit like cuneiform."
Terminal, translation."
The data terminal came over and swept it, and floated to the side: "Wait a minute, this machine needs more characters to form a sample library, and there should be other text near here." ”Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet and shouted, "This way!
There's a lot of words here!
”The data terminal flew around collecting the texts and associating the character samples with the reliefs, before returning to the slate: "It says: Praise the sun, which once brought light and heat to the earth, and we firmly believe that it still burns in the sky of our homeland, and its light shines in our spirit." ”Then it found another stone slab next to it, which depicted a large number of plants and animals, and curved symbols that fluttered between plants and animals, and this stone slab flowed between them, and the dead did not die, and the living were also in the dead, and we were with all the living and the dead. ”"These are religious tablets," Hao Ren stood up and came to the stele that Lily had found, "What's on it?"
”"Mantras, lots of prayers, no clear meaning," the light of the data terminal hovered over the stele, "calling for the power of the wind, calling for the power of the clouds, calling for the power of the earth, the currents, the plants and the stones, and there are also long paragraphs of text praising a certain natural phenomenon."
It's something that would be used in magical ceremonies, and depending on the style of the prayer, it's a bit like a druid or some kind of nature totem belief. ”Hao Ren sighed, he didn't know much about magic itself, and he was even less good at things like totem beliefs.But at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to have suddenly discovered something, and he took out a small bottle from his arms: "Wait a minute, I'll try it." ”As he spoke, he poured out some grayish-white translucent viscous grease from the bottle, smeared it on the surface of the stele, and pressed his hand to the place where the grease had been applied.With a slight humming sound, layers of pale green shimmer appeared on the stone tablet, and this light resonated with the surrounding stone platforms and stone slabs, and continued after Nangong Sanba took his hand away, until those magic oils suddenly burned into ashes.Lily didn't understand, "What is this?"
”"Detect if there is any residual magic power," Nangong Sanba wiped his hands, "Items that once carried magic power will more or less leave traces, and they will change after being activated by the night owl potion."
These tablets and steles are not just ritual objects, they have actually been involved in magical reactions. ”"In other words, the builder of this city is a magical civilization," Hao Ren understood, "No wonder such a magnificent thing can be built, it should be assisted by magic." ”At this time, a subtle outsider breath suddenly appeared not far away, and everyone sensed it almost at the same time, and raised their heads in unison, and in the next second, a sharp sound of "whoosh" flew towards everyone.Lily immediately reached out and grabbed it, and there was an arrow in her hand that had a green glow.Hao Ren looked in the direction where the breath came from in astonishment, and he saw a tall, sturdy humanoid creature flash away from the top of a collapsed stone wall!
(Double commuter pass!)
Double Commuter Pass!
）(To be continued.) )