Chapter 798: Stone city
A ruin!
After hearing this news, Hao Ren was shocked. The degree of surprise was even as good as when he learned that the planet had two layers of crust and the surface crust was actually a petrified canopy of a group of giant trees. He immediately zoomed in on those pictures, confirmed the authenticity and approximate size of the ruins, and then let the data terminal immediately pass everyone through: the ruins are quite far away from here, almost on the other side of the planet, it takes too much time to drive.
The data terminal emits a blue halo, and everyone's figure disappears in the transmitted light curtain for a moment. The next moment, they have reached the position where the far-reaching probe is located.
It is also a magnificent prairie here.
Hao Ren reached out and grabbed the probe that flew toward him. He took this little credit into the portable space, then climbed to a highland and looked at the large buildings not far away. The vast and magnificent scenery can't help. Take a breath.
The boundless green grass spreads on the earth to the end of the line of sight. The vast prairie is as soft and undulating as the gentle waves. The magnificent scenery is like a painting, and on this prairie, an ancient city built with boulder Standing upright. The city has an architectural style that resembles the Aztec style. Although most of the walls have collapsed, the scale has been seen. Large and small flat-topped pyramids can be seen in the center of the city and on the side of the high ground, and boulder is used between these pyramids. The wide boulevards that are laid out divide the city into several well-ordered areas, each with a row of stone houses lined up in rows. Most of the buildings in the city except the pyramids are no more than three stories high. This makes the pyramids even more spectacular.
"Unbelievable..." Hao Ren muttered to himself. "There are still such relics here... I thought that the eldest son would make a skyrocketing vibration when making the giant pillars of the Tianzhu. The things on the second layer of the earth's crust should all be destroyed. It’s right.”
As he spoke, he looked up and looked into the distance. At a distance of only a dozen kilometers from the city, he could see a spectacular black giant pillar connecting the heavens and the earth. One such "pillar" can 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 high, you can always see at least two Tianzhu giant trees supporting the landscape of the heavens and the earth: those magnificent pillars are too big and always extend. To the rock dome, you can see them from which angle.
The distance between the city and the Tianzhu giant tree is only a dozen kilometers, but it is safe and sound. Hao Ren thinks this is an incredible miracle: he witnessed the scale of the giant trees, and the latter revealed that the aerial roots of the earth are up to kilometers. The mountains, and then consider that these giant trees are the eldest sons evolved with tentacles, and the movements when they drilled the earth's surface were destroyed. Even if the eldest son deliberately carried out everything carefully, it would not be able to tear the earth apart by a crack of more than a dozen kilometers without injuring the city close at hand, because this is an inevitable physical process. So the conclusion is only one...
The city was built after the Scorpio was closed.
However, according to the crazy "third child" on the surface crust, the planet should have undergone a complete ecological reset. Then who built the city on the original crust after the scorpio was closed? Is it mortal? They escaped the great cleaning of the eldest son? Or... the big cleaning didn’t happen at all?
A lot of questions are entangled in Hao Ren's brain, and the answer to the question seems to be in that city.
A group of people came to the ruins of the city. After being close to it, this quaint and solemn stone city permeated a desolate and heavy atmosphere: if the Tianzhu giant tree and the canopy dome are the "natural power" made by the eldest son. Then the remains of this city are the "human miracles" built by mortals with human resources. Even if the scale is different, it also has a shocking side. Even Lily couldn't help but be serious. She didn't even pay attention to the small stones that could be seen everywhere (in the usual way, they would all be included in her treasure of the king). Instead, I rubbed the square pillar that passed by me: "It looks like it is hand-made, and the edge can also see the trace of the axe. Such a huge amount of stone has to be piled up into a city, which requires high labor costs."
Stone buildings that have been sleeping for thousands of years are silently standing on both sides of the road. Moss and vines erode the gaps in these buildings, leaving mottled green marks in the seams. Many buildings have signs of cracking, and many houses have even completely collapsed into gravel. In the collapsed stone pile, there are still stubborn grasses and green vines growing out of the gap and fluttering in the wind.
Some ancient stone walls can still see a little color, which is the paintings and words of the ancient times: the ancients who left this ruin obviously have special skills, and the pigments they produced have survived after so many years of weathering. There is part of the retention, which caused Hao Ren's attention.
He bent down in front of a broken slate. The slab was once set on a high platform in front. The high platform looks like an ceremonial place with a special regulation and solemn atmosphere. On the slate, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some faintly embossed relief images.
The relief should be depicting a natural phenomenon. Hao Ren sees a ball that emits light at the top of the picture, and below the picture is a undulating wave line. I don’t know whether it represents the sea or the grassland: this "underground" world does not. Large-scale oceans, only a large number of lakes and rivers, are not sure whether the ancients who left these reliefs have the concept of "ocean".
Hao Ren found something on the lower end of the slate, so he reached out and cleaned the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols like words, which looked a bit like cuneiform.
"Terminal, translation."
The data terminal swept the sweep and floated to the side: "Wait, the machine needs more characters to form a sample library, and there should be other text nearby."
Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet: "There is here! There are many words here!"
The data terminal flew around to collect the text, and linked the character sample library with those embossed pictures, and then returned to the slate: "This is written: praise the sun, once brought to the earth and heat, we firmly believe It still burns in the sky of the hometown, and its light shines in our spirit."
Then it found another slate next to it, which painted a lot of plants and animals, as well as the curved symbols floating between the plants and animals. The slate also has the following words: "praise all beings, the goddess' outstanding creation, the soul Between the sentient beings, the dead do not die, the living is also in death, we are with all the living and the dead."
"These are religious slate," Hao Ren stood up and went to the stone monument Lily found. "What is this?"
"The spell, a lot of prayers, has no clear meaning," the light of the data terminal moved up the stone monument. "Calling the power of the wind, calling for the power of the cloud, calling for the power of the earth, the water, the plants and the stones, and the big segment. A large paragraph that praises a certain natural phenomenon. This is like something that will be used in a magical ritual. According to the style of the prayer, it is a bit like a druid or a natural totem belief."
Hao Ren sighed, he was ignorant of the magic itself, and the instinct of the totem belief was even worse. However, at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to suddenly find something. He took a small bottle from his arms: "Wait, I will try."
As he spoke, he poured some gray-white translucent viscous grease from the bottle, applied the grease to the surface of the stone, and then applied it to the place where the grease was applied. With a slight humming sound, a layer of pale green shimmer appears on the stone tablet, which illuminates with the surrounding stone benches and slate, and continues until the Nangong Sanba handles it, until those The magic oil suddenly burned into ashes before stopping.
Lily didn't understand: "Is this what?"
“Check if there is magic residue,” Nangong Sanba wiped his hand. “The items that once carried magic power will leave more or less traces. It will change after being stimulated by the nightingale potion. These slate and stone monuments are not only They are ritual supplies, they really participated in the magic reaction."
“That is to say, the builder of this city is a magical civilization,” Hao Ren said. “No wonder it can build such a magnificent thing, it should be magically assisted.”
At this time, a subtle sense of outsiders suddenly appeared not far away, and everyone almost felt at the same time, and looked up at the same time, and the next second, a burst of "嗖" broke into the air and flew toward the crowd. Lily immediately reached for a grasp, and she had an arrow in her hand to quench the green light.
Hao Ren was horrified in the direction of the breath. He saw a tall and strong humanoid creature disappearing from the top of a collapsed stone wall!
(Double monthly pass! Double monthly pass!) (To be continued...)