The clay tablet with a weak psionic response was placed on the coffee table in the center of the living room. Half of the family gathered around it, curiously looking at this unattractive thing. The fox himself who brought the clay tablet back
But as if it had nothing to do with her, she swung her tail not far away: she had just been ordered to take a bath, and the down on her tail was too thick to dry easily, and now she looked like a drowned rat.
"It was confirmed to be a psionic reaction, and an extremely small amount of psionic crystal debris was found in the clay tablet material."
Shandora used her nails to scrape a little bit of debris from the clay tablet. Her eyes were filled with golden light, and she had entered the high-speed analysis mode. This ancient artifact that had been buried for thousands of years was scanned by Shandora.
The cocoon was peeled off, revealing a little secret, "I estimate that there should be more psionic energy left at the excavation site. The crystal fragments mixed here may not have been consciously added by the ancients. The psionic energy crystal is extremely strong, and it is impossible for primitive humans to master it.
Method of grinding crystals: And grinding psionic crystals itself is an act of seeking death."
To be honest, if it was a few years ago, the appearance of such a clay tablet might have made our family act for a while, but now, as the scale of the empire expands, the things we have to pay attention to every day become more and more complicated, such as the appearance of imperial ruins on the earth.
Or things like the aborigines from somewhere in the universe have their brains ripped out again, these are no longer "incidents". Usually we can send out a few agents or an action team to get the job done. There is no need for trivial things like this.
A group of Xiling leaders were dispatched. But this time, we all gathered around such a dark patch of mud for only one reason:
Xiaoxue jumped nearly two meters when she saw the clay tablet, and then she said that this thing would reveal a huge secret...
I think the naughty kid was overreacting, but her work ethic as a prophet is pretty good. The tablet must not be as simple as it looks - but what does it say on it?
Although Shandora is knowledgeable and has learned about the history of the people on earth out of curiosity, she has not really studied this aspect. The cuneiform characters in front of us that look like tadpoles look like heavenly books to us.
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"Do you know Qianqian?" I poked Qianqian's arm, wondering why she was also an archaeologist. Uncle Xu spends his days studying the ancestral graves of all mankind, and claims to be proficient in ten ancient texts that have become extinct on the earth, and said
Maybe Qianqian...
"Is it possible?" He gave me a brief glance, "Do you think cuneiform is the Xinhua Dictionary? Not many people in the world know this thing. My dad said that he knows ten ancient languages, but he is just bragging to you..."
Me: "...Then let's find an expert who knows cuneiform and let love know no bounds..."
"What are you looking at here?! Let me go in and have a look!" Just when I was wondering where to get a paleographer to translate this clay tablet, a girl's voice with a high pitch suddenly came from the circle of people.
The news from outside came in, and I was stunned for a moment, and then I saw a blond head struggling to squeeze through the gap between Qian Qian and her sister and appear in front of me. It was the idiot, smelly, short-breasted and pretentious...
...Niang Shining. Oh, by the way, I am used to calling her nanny now.
The moment I saw this flat-chested dwarf, I was a little stunned, not because of anything else. It was because this guy had been invisible at home for a long time. Since becoming Little Paopao's nanny, Niang Xingxin found that she couldn't
Rebelling against fate, she decided to lower her sense of existence infinitely to show that she was not defeated by fate but was too lazy to toss with fate. All her daily activities were to follow Little Bubble around and provide toys at any time. Other than that, she did not interfere with the family.
Anything. As you know, we are a noisy family, and the most indispensable thing in the whole big house is guys jumping up and down. In such a big environment, if you are less active, you will have no sense of presence, let alone my mother.
Twinkle is also determined to make herself transparent (the main purpose is to not be able to embarrass this person?), if she didn't show up today, maybe I would have completely forgotten that there is such a troublesome girl in the family...
After sighing for a moment about the existence of this airport, I suddenly remembered one thing: cuneiform writing, Sumerian culture, Mesopotamia, and free coolies...
"Jill, do you recognize these characters?" I waved to my mother, called her to me, and pointed to the cuneiform characters on the clay tablets that looked like dried tadpoles.
If I remember correctly, Gilmei's true identity is the king of the Uruk city-state in another world, and the Uruk city-state is an important part of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization in the Mesopotamia - okay, I
I know that we went to a strange world with a strange history. And Gilmei is also a strange ancient heroic spirit, but generally speaking, the surface world of that world is 100% different from the earth here.
Ninety percent of the places are similar. The two are considered to be high imitations of parallel universes. Now I desperately hope that the era that Gilmei lived in also used the same cuneiform script as the Sumerians here, so that we don’t have to go
The archaeologist is tied up...
"What do you want from me?" Gilmei's eyes suddenly lit up. She keenly noticed that the moment for her to resist her fate may have come, "Then respectfully let me..."
"Pickled vegetables and pancakes for two weeks, or you will have the same amount of pocket money as Little Paopao from now on, it's your choice." I looked at the nanny with a straight face expressionlessly. She was already well pampered at home, even though she occasionally
She was bullied for a while, but in the empire, the status of "Princess's Best Friend" is already half of the royal family, but her bad temper has not been satisfied at all: You can't spoil her at this time.
Jill was stunned for a while, then she held up the clay tablet obediently with her mouth flat, but soon her dissatisfaction was attracted by the thing in front of her that made her full of nostalgia. She sighed softly: "Hometown, and...
The memories of this king’s lifetime...this is really distressing.”
I was silent for a moment, then stepped forward and patted her hair. Although I would occasionally bully this unlucky nanny, she was now a member of the family. When I heard her lamenting about her hometown and the things she had done during her lifetime, I felt
Still a bit...
"Looking at this thing reminds me of the days when I was reading and literacy," Jill cried bitterly, "You don't know how troublesome it is to write this thing. If possible, I really don't want to see this thing again..."
Me: "..." All the feelings I had just now were in vain, right?
"How about it?" Qianqian jumped forward impatiently, "What's written on it?"
"Wait a minute, I haven't smoothed it out yet," Niang Xingxuan waved her hand impatiently, "This is not the same as the hometown characters in my impression. It seems that the grammar is a little deformed, and many characters... seem to be older
Style. But don’t worry, as long as you have time, you can always translate it slowly. Now I can understand the first sentence. It is saying that this clay tablet records a story from afar. And it seems to be related to mythology. In addition, here -
—”
As Ji Shanshan spoke, she pointed to a few symbols in the corner of the clay tablet. The place had been damaged and some words might be missing, but she still saw something: "The clay tablet can only hold a limited amount of text. So there are many long texts.
Books are composed of many clay tablets. At the end of each 'page', this will be used to mark its 'page number' and how many clay tablets there should be in the entire set of books. But there is something missing here.
I can only tell that the entire set of clay tablets should be composed of seven parts, but I can’t tell which part this one is.”
It seems that asking Ji Shanshan to help translate this thing is indeed the right choice. These mud bumps look like heavenly books to our eyes. Ji Shanshan can even read the page numbers!
But I'm a little worried about one thing now: the entire set of clay tablets consists of seven "pages", and God knows if the remaining six clay tablets are still there. This thing looks brittle than Lilina's lower limit, and it's buried underground again.
For thousands of years, it is a miracle that a piece of it can be preserved intact. Nowadays, most of the clay tablets unearthed by archaeologists around the world are incomplete, because these things will be ruined if they are not careful.
The most terrible thing is the water seeping underground... According to the fox's description, she dug this thing from a stone cave, and she didn't see other clay tablets nearby at that time, so could the other parts have been destroyed?
"I don't know what's going on," Ji Shanshan frowned and studied the words on the clay tablet while responding to my concerns without raising his head. "Books are precious - in my time,
Even though it is a clay tablet book like this, it must be classified as a treasure of the palace for safekeeping, because only a few nobles and scribes understand these words, and writing a "book" is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, each book is like this
The clay tablets will be kept in pottery boxes that are moisture-proof and very strong. Like this... fox, please confirm..."
Ji Shanshan was interrupted rudely by the fox girl at the beginning of her words: "I am not a fox, I am the fox fairy!"
Me: "..." In fact, when other people in the family call this nine-tailed girl a fox, the latter has given up on refuting it. Only Ji Shanshan will be pushed back on the spot when she calls it like this. Sure enough, this second-rate fox can only be in the house now.
Are you left destitute in front of an unlucky nanny?
But Ji Shanshan is not a good-tempered guy. It's okay for her to be bullied by others. How can she be bullied by a nine-tailed husky? So she turned a blind eye to the stern look of the demon fox girl: "Fox, please confirm this mud
Are the editions scattered?"
"Of course," the fox's ears twitched, feeling a little depressed that he couldn't even calm down a nanny, "I have a very strong memory, and I still remember the situation in the cave. This lump of mud.
It was laid flat on the ground. There was nothing around it, and there was no ceramic book box like you mentioned. Moreover, the cave looked very small, and it didn’t look like it could hide anything..."
"It shouldn't be," Ji Shanshan raised his head and said decisively, "This clay tablet records a story about a god. It also records the names of priests and elders, and has symbols of stars and rivers: these contents are in
That era had extremely serious meanings. The person responsible for recording them should be someone from the royal family or a priest. Moreover, this clay tablet should be properly preserved in a gorgeous place and would never be scattered around randomly.
The kind of cave mentioned above. And there is another thing that I am very concerned about: I don’t know the god recorded on it. When I was alive, I traveled to many places, the whole world... Well, I mean the entire two countries.
There is no god named 'Xin' in the river basin. The alternation of gods in that era was of great significance. Although I don't have a good impression of gods, I must know about these things. According to the customs and customs shown on this clay tablet, it
The writing time is not much different from the time period in my memory. Where did this god named 'Xin' come from?"
"You forgot one thing," I reminded Ji Shanshan, "you are from another world... Although there is also a city-state of Uruk over there, there may be differences between the two worlds, and maybe the two rivers on this earth
Was there a god named 'Xin' who once appeared in the basin?"
Ji Shanshan said oh. It seemed that she also thought this was possible, and then she pointed at the clay tablet: "Anyway, the things on this are not complete, so I can only translate it slowly first. If you can find a way to find all the other clay tablets,
Even better, with the context, I will soon know the origin of the god it talks about."
I patted the head of the demon fox girl next to me who was playing with her tail. "Fox, can you still find that place?"
"Yes!" the fox said confidently, while continuing to shake his wet tail, causing water to be everywhere in the living room: long-haired guys are in trouble after taking a bath. My sister finally couldn't help it when she looked at the water stains on the ground,
He took out nine hair dryers from his pocket and gave them to the fox, who suddenly realized. He rolled up a hair dryer with his tail and started drying himself like a jet fighter...
"Tomorrow, take a few imperial agents with you and go to that place again," I said casually. "And don't shake the water in the living room after taking a shower. Remember to use a hair dryer..."
The fox nodded in the hot whirlwind she created, not knowing what she heard...
After breakfast the next day, Fox set off with a dozen imperial agents. Those agents had all been active on the earth. They had excavated all the Xiling ruins found on the earth, so they were rich in experience. I guess
At the latest that afternoon, the excavation team will receive new news. Ji Shanshan continued to study the black mud lump. He didn't know if the psionic crystal dust mixed in the clay tablet played a role.
The clay tablet seems to be easily weathered and not well preserved. In fact, 10% of the text is still clearly legible, as if it has not been corroded by thousands of years of underground humid environment. However, Ji Shanshan’s translation work
It still seems a bit difficult: the clay tablets are indeed the cuneiform script used by the Sumerian civilization, but the two worlds are two worlds after all, even if information disturbance makes the two worlds almost completely overlap in a certain period of history,
There are also many deviations in this coincidence point. The manifestation is that the cuneiform characters are different from the characters in Gilmei's memory. There are errors in grammar and individual characters. She needs to reorganize and guess for a long time before she can smooth out what is said in one sentence.
I guess her reading of those clay tablet books is similar to how I used to read physics books: she basically knows every word, but she just doesn’t know what she’s talking about...
And while I was waiting for the reply from the fox, an emergency call came from Shadow City.
The information came from Sivis, who found "something astonishing" from the pile of broken stones of the Fialli people.
At that moment, I immediately took Sandora and Xiaoxue to the headquarters. The reason why I took Xiaoxue with me was because I thought this girl's prophecy ability might be useful - Miss Lin will be at home with her parents these two days, so I explained by the way.
Every now and then, she would ask for leave from her family and tell her about going to the Antarctic Circle to catch penguins (it was just such a messy excuse anyway), so she could only run around with Xiaoxue, an unreliable girl. According to
Experience, whenever we find something that no one knows what it is used for, bringing a prophet to the scene can always help.
The strange large rocks unloaded from the Fialli merchant ship were piled in a small garna behind the headquarters. It seems a bit strange to build a warehouse next to the headquarters, but there is a reason for this: for a long time
Since then, we have always picked up some weird things when we go out. Sometimes they are research samples, sometimes they are unknown substances, and sometimes they are captured fallen apostle armaments. When this goes on for a long time, Tavel and Sivis simply come back.
A large number of such temporary warehouses were built inside and outside the Shadow Fortress for stacking junk—well, for stacking treasures. The warehouse behind the headquarters was used as a temporary workstation, and the stones unloaded from the Fialli merchant ship were sorted on site here.
Picking, scanning, Sivis personally oversees the work here.
When we arrived, Sivis, a group of assistant technicians, and Tavel's god-knows-what-mass projection had been waiting for a long time. The inner space of the Gnaku was expanded to an extremely huge size, and countless anti-gravity platforms were suspended.
There were various ore samples, and Sivis and her assistants were pointing at the largest one, and various scanning equipment was placed in a circle along the stone.
"Is this what it is?"
I looked at the huge meteorite sample in front of me, and I couldn't see anything special about it. It was an inconspicuous iron-grey color, with a rough surface and pits, and the overall shape was irregular and fusiform, with an overall height of
About five or six meters: It looks like the size of a small house.
I have seen too many of these stones. They are the most indispensable in the asteroid belt. They are generally rich in iron and other rich minerals in the universe. There may be ice crystals or heavy metals inside.
"Core". Just from the appearance, I don't see anything about it that would make a calm person like Sivis "stunned".
"Inside the meteorite." Tavel's mass projection pointed at the fixed data terminal about half a person's height next to it. On the projection displayed in front of the terminal, I saw that there seemed to be a dense core inside the meteorite: this core is different from the surrounding rocks.
The color, luster and texture of the substance are completely different, it seems to be a piece of foreign matter wrapped in it.
"What is this?" I raised my eyebrows curiously.
Tavel and Sivis said in unison: "Something from... my hometown!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone