One hundred and forty-three. In Bell, Belfast, there are troubles and opportunities everywhere
After what seemed like a long wait, the businessman took out the reply letter from the backpack connected to the other world.
Only one of the two stone statues can communicate - the consciousness of the other has long since disappeared, leaving only instinct.
The answers and questions of previous generations were translated by [linguists] and written on parchment with the logo of the Wiener Port City Hall.
The exchange of lives between two generations separated by thousands of years.
Pusius thought romantically, picked up his chair and asked, "What did the previous generation answer?"
"It has experienced the entry of outsiders in the underground ruins. It could not imagine the relevance of the Eternal Dreamer's prophecy, but it knows an abyss."
That abyss was called the Bottom of Socrates by previous generations, and it was at the end of the Theaetetus Rift Valley in the Principality of Ctyras.
It’s just that there is no Principality of Ctyras in the Main Continent, nor is there the Theaetetus Rift Valley.
Pusius let out a small whimper, this was different from what he imagined...
"Are there any more later?"
Catalina looked at the paper full of words and felt that the words were not as unfamiliar as before.
"It asks me whether any previous generations have survived, and whether the disaster has passed."
The stone statue was brought directly into the other world from the underground ruins without setting foot on the surface, otherwise it would see the dark aura that existed in the previous generation still hanging in the void in despair.
The answer is none at all.
Let the businessman convey the answer, and at the same time prepare a map to send to the other world, and let the previous generations mark the location of Socrates' Bottom on the map.
But the problem is not that simple, the map sent back is empty.
Previous generations did not recognize the outline of the past from the map.
Perhaps the previous generation has lost its memory, but it is more likely that crustal movement or strange forces caused the continental shelf to change.
Lu Li asked [linguists] to unify length units with previous generations, and then draw a map of them.
After a longer wait, the scrawled map was delivered to her hand. In addition to the outline, there were also terrain and waves representing the ocean. But the units used by the previous generation made Catalina almost think that it had confused the length units——
Lu Li stared at this map drawn by people of the previous generation, and its territory was larger than the total landmass known to mankind. Filling it with the Main Continent and the Desolate Land was like a puzzle with more than a dozen parts.
It seems to be true.
Because Lu Li saw the mountains on the back of the world.
It is in the northernmost part of the barren land, and beyond that is the sea of mist that has not yet been explored by humans.
But in the maps of previous generations, it was the center of the continent, with irregular prototypes of land guarding the snow-capped mountains.
The Main Continent and the Desolate Land are one continent. The strait that separates them was once a plain. The Lennon Islands to the east are a swamp island. The Allen Peninsula is connected to the Main Continent, not as a peninsula but as a part of the land.
The map does not have the outline of the farmland. Because the land is large enough or for other reasons, previous generations did not develop navigation, and they knew less about the deep sea than humans do today.
Then what happened, the land subsided or the sea level rose, and most of the land was submerged
Based on the dividing line of the World Ridge Mountains, all the northern land disappeared, leaving only the barren land at the southern foot of the World Ridge Mountains and the southwest main continent, and the swamp islands became the Lennon Islands.
So humans know very little about previous generations.
The people of previous generations and their history have long since been submerged in the vast deep sea along with the earth.
Observing the maps drawn by previous generations, Catalina suddenly felt grateful for the current situation.
Although the world has become a strange hunting ground, and dangers and disasters are everywhere... there is always a glimmer of respite for mankind.
Lu Li asked the [linguist] to bring the news to the previous generation that the land was submerged, but no more parchment was sent for a long time. The merchant said that the stone statue fell silent.
After a long wait, the merchant took out the translated new parchment.
The stone statue finally marked its location. With the ruins, it roughly circled the location of Socrates: the northwest of the Kingdom of Allen.
Lu Li knew where it was.
At the excavation site in the Tashofik area, in the story told by Kig Foley, there was a gathering of several exorcists in the Royal City of Allen that night.
In the exorcism story he told, the place was occupied by a gray mist leading to another world.
So Lu Li wrote two more pieces of paper, one to Mayor Mateus to ask him to investigate the conditions of the excavation site in the Tashofik area, and the other to the stone statue to ask him to write down information about Socrates.
The replies from the previous generation arrived first. They didn’t know much about the Bottom of Socrates. They only knew that the abyss seemed to lead to another world——
The same thing happened at the excavation site in the Tashofik area.
Lu Li asked some more about the outsiders. Unfortunately, the stone statue was sleeping most of the time. It could only confirm that one of the outsiders had great power, and she could resurrect the dead people of the previous generation - the stone statue said that it was after the disaster.
The civilians who fled in were so timid that they would rather starve to death than step out of the outside world.
This is not an altar, but a place where previous generations recorded history.
Unfortunately, even rocks cannot withstand the erosion of time.
At the end of the conversation, Lu Li told it that if it wanted to, the businessman could send it to the Weina Freeze Port. Because of Lu Li, those congressmen would not throw it away to a museum for admission to the exhibition. At most, it would be for scholars who want to know the history of previous generations.
Come.
The stone statue expressed its gratitude but rejected the suggestion. It wanted nothing more than to be returned to the ruins. They wanted to stay in their homeland until they died.
Along with the parchment, there is a stone ball, which is the eyeball of the stone statue. It says that if it encounters other guardians, it will not be harmed.
After all, all guardians should only have instincts left, including it, but for unknown reasons, it regained consciousness over a long period of time.
Lu Li vaguely realized something, and then restrained himself from thinking further——
Promising to return them to the ruins tomorrow, this not-so-impressive conversation spanning two generations ended.
The sound of the waves enveloped Andrea, and everyone in the captain's cabin gradually fell into sleep.
…
"Woo!"
Catalina woke up due to Pusius's screams. Lu Li had already woken up, and Pusius was kicking his limbs to get up in fear.
"Are you having nightmares again?" Katerina asked as she looked out the white window.
"Well..." Pusius's face was covered with beads of sweat, and he stumbled in shock and said, "I... I'm too worried about whether I can find Miss Anna."
"Shall we go to Socrates' Bottom next?" Catalina looked at Lu Li.
"Go to Himfast first."
Lu Li answered.
After eating the cans brought by the merchant and waiting for the strange fog to dissipate, they left Andrea briefly and rowed a boat to land at the ruins, leaving behind two stone statues that had fallen asleep again. At the same time, they asked the merchant to convey the shelter and the guards to stay.
News about the ruins.
This is not bad news for them, at least the surface is protected.
Returning to Andrea, they sailed along the coastline of the Allen Peninsula to the port of Himfast, dozens of nautical miles away.