But the content of the subsequent murals is quite lackluster.
Through bloodline memory and an auxiliary memory organ located in the back of the brain, not only ordinary people, but at least the leaders and professionals of the past generations can maintain their professional abilities and lead their people to live.
Sequoia Base originally functions as a doomsday fortress, with all the internal facilities available. As long as you don't forget how to operate it, there will be absolutely no problem in survival.
After several generations of life and death, gradually, the employees with different functions and professional abilities led by the four leaders gradually transformed into the four major tribes within the base, and the four leaders became the four tribes passed down from generation to generation.
Great Elder.
Although the social structure has degenerated into the tribal system of elders over time, due to the number of people, this may be the most efficient and stable method of governance.
The four major tribes communicate with each other and compete for power. However, because the internal resources of the ruins are indeed rich and all parties need the technology of each party to ensure the quality of life, there is no real conflict between them.
When we got here, the colors of the murals suddenly became brighter and the content was much more interesting.
Ian saw an image of a tall, resolute man with gray hair, sky-blue eyes, and a confident smile located in the center of this mural.
The man looks ambitious, and four keys surround him.
Obviously, this man should be the great elder during the period when the murals were painted - he gathered four keys, unified the four major tribes, and gathered the power of the Sequoia leaders into one person.
The mural ends abruptly here.
Ian closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he breathed out: "It seems that the reason why the natives left the base has something to do with this great elder."
If you want to enter or leave the gate of Sequoia Base, you must collect four keys. In the past, Sequoia people did not have this idea, nor did they have this right. Sequoia people were not allowed to enter many dangerous and high-tech areas at will.
No need for premonition, Ian can be 100% sure that all the changes happened precisely because of this guy.
Beneath the unfinished mural is a corpse.
The clothes and tools in the hands of the corpse are still quite intact. It sits under the mural it painted and died peacefully.
Ian had no intention of disturbing the ancient Sequoia Man's rest at first. There were many reasons why the other person did not complete the next mural, but the cause of his death was very simple.
He could tell through the silver chip that the other party committed suicide by taking poison, and there were a lot of highly toxic substances remaining on the bones.
However, it was precisely because Ian used the silver chip to scan that he realized something was wrong.
"Hey, behind this painter..."
With a slight sigh, Ian frowned slightly. He stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and tilted the corpse forward slightly, revealing the wall blocked by the corpse.
There is a mess of handwriting on the wall that looks like rotten hemp. It can be seen that when writing it, the owner of the handwriting was very excited, even desperate. The trembling handwriting is so obvious.
If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely not be able to identify these fonts.
But Ian can see it.
With the auxiliary correction of the silver chip, he read the words softly.
"Madara Qunsen, the great elder of the Four Keys. He went crazy, opened the forbidden door, and modified the blood echo of the ancestors..."
The more he looked at it, the more Ian frowned: "The inheritance mastermind is replaced by him, and we will all become him... We will all die completely, and even our souls will not have peace!"
"Monster, vicious madman, devil who wants immortality! I curse you..."
The handwriting was corroded by blood and can no longer be seen clearly, but it was originally just a curse, so there was no need to pay attention to it.
Ian fell silent, staring at this place and muttering to himself.
"Echo?" The young man frowned, "Eternal life?"
"Is it a coincidence?"
The white people that Ian belongs to used to be the famous family of labyrinth scholars in the imperial capital, the "Cejalrovo Family".
They originally prospered due to the new pioneering movement and the 'labyrinth development discipline' launched by the late Emperor Inaga II, and enjoyed a lot of glory. However, due to an extremely secret mistake, the entire family was exiled, and their practice was sublimated by the inheritance of the Silver Peak Messenger.
The inheritance was abolished one by one, and even all of them were executed.
Outsiders don't know, and don't care about this, because during the period of the Black Tyrant's rule, it was not uncommon for families and organizations to have similar endings... although the Cejalrovo family was indeed the largest of all the families that were dealt with.
That, but at most it is just another footnote in the tyrant’s blood debt.
To outsiders, everything looks like this.
But Ian knew that the reason why the Cejalrovo family was dealt with was an 'mystery of immortality' related to the 'Echo'.
As for the other families that Inaga II dealt with, they were either engaging in blood sacrifices, intending to rebel, or they were really corrupt and committed big mistakes - to be honest, when knowing these things, Ian's family has nothing to do with it.
People with a sense of honor tend to want to avenge their own families.
——To compare with these insects is to lower one’s own style!
And right here, at the end of the world that is so far away from the imperial capital, in the Nanling ruins.
Ian saw the same words again.
"Echoes... and immortality."
Standing there, Ian was a little confused: "Is it the same thing, or is it a coincidence?"
"Could it be that the family found the 'Echo' in large ruins like the Sequoia Base?"
It is possible. Sequoia Base, as a relic, can be said to have almost everything. Apart from anything else, it also gathers key facilities for space engineering, alien ecology, energy core and bioengineering department... Even for pre-era civilizations,
I'm afraid it would be difficult to find a few bases that are larger and more comprehensive than the Sequoia Base.
Moreover, just as Inaga II angrily scolded.
Also related to Echo, the ancient Sequoia Elder was hated and feared by his people as the "devil who wants eternal life."
With such doubts, Ian returned to the crowd.
He had no intention of telling Master Gosei and Ethan about this matter, not because he was out of touch, but because he didn't know how to talk about it - if these two guys misunderstood that he wanted to ask them to help restore Cejalolvo
What to do with family honor?
Recovery is definitely needed. Exiled people are not discriminated against in Nanling, just because Nanling is a large exile place, and 80% of the ancestors of the residents are exiles. There is no telling who will be discriminated against here.
However, the status of ‘exile’ brings many inconveniences in other places.
Apart from anything else, it is a huge inconvenience that there is no way to legally organize a chamber of commerce, purchase land, and set up a monster breeding industry.
The Ellen family and Master Gosei are definitely capable of speaking out in front of the emperor and helping the Cejalrovo family restore their reputation.
But not now.
Now, Ian must figure out the identity of the 'Echo' before he can predict the fate of the Cejalrovo family.
Otherwise, Inaga II can exile his family, just as Axel, the guardian of the land, can - even if he doesn't know what the taboos are, how can he predict the good or bad future?
With such worries, Ian originally planned to go to Isengard and inquire about the team's situation.