Chapter 1401: Otos
The lost ancient city is full of desolate and lonely atmosphere. The only thing that can be heard is the sound of the wind blowing from time to time and the footsteps of others around. In the ancient streets covered by dust, Hao Ren and his entourage are still cautiously exploring. .
The data terminal floats at the forefront of the team, and the scanning beam projected from the surface of the terminal sweeps through every object that seems suspicious or may have the mystery of the ancient city. The collapsed sculpture and the scattered slate are the most valuable things. On some of the slate and mudboard fragments, the data terminal found the cuneiform text that Heather Anna had mentioned.
However, most of the text has been almost smoothed by sandstorms. Often, there are no more than three or five symbols that can be recognized on an item. Even in the case of a data terminal translation system, it is difficult to implement it. deal with.
“These symbols really look like the cuneiform texts that were common in the plains of Mesopotamia,” Vivienne looked at the text patterns that the data terminals had collected so far, and the patterns were suspended in front of her. The standard wedge shape, the slate is a variant that has been processed for ease of engraving, but it is not difficult to convert between the two fonts..."
Hao Ren looked at these ancient words curiously: "Can you translate it?"
“No,” Vivian shook her head. “Although it is indeed cuneiform in form, they are not a system of cuneiforms that humans have unearthed in modern times, and there is no way to interpret these things in my memory. ”
"Do you really remember this city in the bat?" Lily still remembered this question. "This place may be the embarrassment of a red moon directly killing the city. Why don't you remember it?"
"I really didn't have any impression," Vivian was helpless. "And the massacre... Is this not in line with my personality? Even when I was unconscious, I should try to stay away from the human settlements before I completely lose control. of."
"This kind of historical legacy will still be discussed later," Hao Ren shook his head and looked at the street in front of the yellow sand. "There is another building that looks like a temple in front. There may be more complete text in it. I can probably understand the origin of this city."
Lily snorted and stepped on the side and said: "The biggest part of the city is the temple. The ancients really waste that productivity in this place..."
As Lily said, the most occupied buildings in this lost ancient city are almost all temples. They can be recognized at a glance: the temple is tall and the structure is similar to the combination of pyramids and cubes. There are all kinds of mighty sculptures in front of the upper and front entrances, and these sculptures are also unique. They are the combination of human torso and various beasts. This may reflect the religious beliefs of this mysterious city. In the primitive barbaric generation, such a savage religious image can be seen everywhere.
These temples occupy almost one-third of the entire city and the area is far beyond normal. I really don't know how many dependent villages and towns and human slaves are needed to support this scale of religious system.
Now, Hao Ren and his party stood in front of a temple like this.
It is not a huge temple in the center of the city, but a smaller temple near the central temple. To go to the central temple, you must pass through the avenue near the building. This “smaller” temple also has a shocking scale. It consists of a huge pyramid-shaped main body and two rectangular annexed palaces. The two palaces are arranged in front of the pyramid, as if the lions lying on the ground are exploring. The forelimbs, and in the square directly in front of the pyramid, are two neat rows of stone statues that guard the passage to the depths of the temple as if they were guards.
Before going to the central temple of the city, Hao Ren felt that he should first search for such ancillary temples around the central area to avoid missing important clues. Although the collapse of the alien space continues, the complete collapse is at least a few days later, and he still has plenty of time.
Elizabeth rides on the shoulders of Izax and looks around at the magnificent buildings and stone statues around. Like the religious stone statues in other parts of the city, these several meters high sculptures are also composed of human torso and beast limbs. They have the heads of lions, jackals, and crocodiles, and their bodies are twisted into a sly posture, as if they are ready to fight. The little devil observes for a long time and concludes: "It’s ugly."
It is possible to let the little girl who used to see the face of Izaks say "true ugly", which shows that these stone statues are really ugly.
Vivian still plays the role of a historical commentator: "In the original religious worship, the powerful beast always appears as the guard of God and even as the image of God itself. There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, ancient humans are afraid of those The mighty beasts, they regard the most powerful beast as a special power with God, and on the other hand because a large number of the 'heterogene' that dominated the earth at the earliest stage were driven by various beasts and Warcraft came to surrender to humans, and even there are many different kinds of aliens that are longer than the beasts. At least in the human aesthetic, these 'primitive gods' are beasts."
Lolissa listened to Vivian's explanation without a word, and suddenly frowned and looked in a certain direction: "Who?!"
Hao Ren immediately pointed his hand: "What happened?"
Lolissa stared at the sand at the end of the rear street, her eyes slowly turned into silver-white like the flame, but after a moment her eyes returned to normal: "It may be an illusion. I felt like someone was there for a moment. Staring at yourself."
"I didn't feel it," Lily shook her ear. "I have a keen sense of the past. I don't feel that you are definitely an illusion."
"Probably." Lolissa frowned and slowly regained her gaze.
The gates of the temple were made of heavy iron wood wrapped in copper, which was the most indestructible door at that time. However, after suffering thousands of years of sand baptism in different spaces, the door was still badly damaged. The remaining broken door panels are slanted in front of the entrance. Lily stepped forward and dropped two half-ton door panels to the side, revealing the dark passage inside.
The fire was very happy to illuminate the blazing fire, and in the swaying of the fire, the pedestrians stepped into this ancient relic.
Not long after they moved forward, they saw a huge guard stone statue on both sides of the corridor.
It is still the kind of strange stone sculpture that combines the human body and the beast's head. It is still ready to go. The stone statues in the temple are smaller than the stone statues outside, but they also have a height of more than five meters. It looks like awesome.
"Weird... Why are there so many stone statues..." Vivienne frowned.
Hao Ren is not clear: "Is it not normal to have such a sculpture in the temple?"
"It's normal to have this kind of sculpture, but this number is not normal, it is beyond the scale required for the ornament," Vivian shook her head. "It's a weird taste."
At this time, the data terminal flying in front suddenly yelled: "Partner! Partner! The murals here are identifiable!"
Hao Ren rushed over and saw that the blue light beam projected by the data terminal swept across the stone wall. The embossed embossed was actually very mottled and eroded. It was almost impossible to see the original appearance by human eyes. Even if an experienced archaeologist comes over, I am afraid that it will require quite complicated technical means as an aid to restore it. However, this mural still remains on the slabs and slabs that are almost completely smoothed and fragmented outside the city. There are many identifiable areas.
Supported by the superb computing power of the data terminal, these murals were quickly restored, and the text below the murals was slowly reorganized and presented on the stone walls by holographic projection as they were intact.
On the first sub-picture, Hao Ren saw an abstract and strange scene: he saw a very large creature walking on the earth, or "floating", it was like a beetle with many slender spikes. From the layered, bone-like stacking body, there are several pairs of legs that are completely disproportionate to the body and thin and long. The creature's pointed feet are on the ground, but the body is comparable to the sun and the moon. This should be an exaggerated depiction of the ancients, but it is enough to make people guess how horrible the creature looks like a beetle, and it has such a horrible body shape, but it can walk on the ground by relying on a few pairs of pointed long legs. This is enough to show that its body is probably "floating" in the air, it has a large number of suspended airbag structures in the body, or simply has the ability to control gravity.
The first sub-picture uses almost all of the space to show the details of this huge creature. There is only one word under the picture. The data terminal transliterates it. It is called Etos. If there is no accident, it should be the name of a huge creature.
The second picture shows the destructive power of this creature: it is surrounded by thunder lightning, and the flames of the falling stars, even the sun and the moon are swallowed by the giant beetle, and the beetle's slender tip Below the foot, it is the collapsed wall and the dead human being. This means that this creature has the supernatural power to summon lightning and flame, and it is most likely to appear in a certain solar eclipse or lunar eclipse. It destroys the human city. Humans have nothing to do with it. Between those corpses, you can even see some humanoid creatures that are extraordinarily tall and have interracial features. Those humanoid creatures have a halo-like texture around them. After the data terminal translates the text under the screen, those are "old." The body of the gods.
The creature named Ertos destroyed a "mythical city state" ruled by a different kind.
And when Hao Ren’s eyes fell on the third picture, Lily next to him suddenly called and stood up.
"Have you heard anything?"
The husky girl’s ears continually turn in all directions, and the golden scorpion glows in a dimly lit environment.