The lost ancient city was filled with a desolate and lonely atmosphere. The only things that could be heard were the sound of wind blowing by the ears from time to time and the footsteps of other people around them. On the ancient streets covered with dust, Hao Ren and his party were still cautiously exploring
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The data terminal floated at the front of the team. The scanning beam projected from the surface of the terminal continuously scanned every object around that looked suspicious or might contain the historical mysteries of the ancient city. The collapsed sculptures and scattered stone slabs were the most valuable items among them.
, on some of the stone tablets and clay tablet fragments, the data terminal found the kind of cuneiform writing that Hesiana had mentioned.
However, most of the text has been almost worn away by wind and sand, and often no more than three or five symbols can be recognized on an item. When the words cannot be connected at all, even the translation system of the data terminal has difficulty in interpreting them.
deal with.
"These symbols are indeed very similar to the cuneiform writing that was used on the Mesopotamian plains back then." Vivian looked at the text patterns that the data terminal had collected so far. These patterns were suspended in front of her, "The clay tablet
The one on the slate is a standard wedge-shaped font, while the slate is a variation that has been processed to facilitate engraving, but it is not difficult to convert between the two fonts..."
Hao Ren looked at these ancient words curiously: "Can you translate them?"
"No," Vivian shook her head, "Although they are indeed cuneiform in shape, they are completely different from the cuneiform scripts excavated by humans in modern times, and there is no interpretation method for these things in my memory.
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"Bat, do you really not remember this city?" Lily was still obsessed with this question, "This place might have let you massacre the city with just one red moon. Why don't you remember it?"
"I really have no impression," Vivian said with a helpless face, "And massacre... this doesn't fit with my personality, okay? Even when I was delirious, I should try to stay away from human settlements before I completely lose control.
of."
"We'll discuss this kind of historical legacy later," Hao Ren shook his head and looked at the sandy street in front of him, "There is another building in front that looks like a temple. There may be relatively complete texts in it.
, we can probably understand the origin of this city."
Lily yelled, and murmured as she stepped to follow: "By the way, the largest area in this city is the temple. Ancient people really wasted all their productivity in places like this..."
As Lily said, almost all the buildings with the largest area in this lost ancient city are temples. They can be recognized at a glance from their appearance: the temple is tall and similar in shape to a combination of pyramid and cube.
There are various mighty sculptures on the upper floors and in front of the main entrance, and these sculptures are also unique. They are images composed of human torsos and the characteristics of various beasts. This may reflect the religious beliefs of this mysterious city at that time.
In the primitive barbaric era, such crude and terrifying religious images could be seen everywhere.
These temples occupy almost one-third of the entire city's area, which is far beyond normal needs. I really don't know how many auxiliary villages, towns and human slaves were needed to support a religious system of this scale back then.
Now, there is such a temple standing in front of Hao Ren and his party.
It is not the huge temple in the center of the city, but a smaller temple located near the central temple. To go to the central temple, you must pass through the avenue near this building. This "smaller" temple is also
With a shocking scale, it consists of a huge pyramid-shaped main body and two rectangular subsidiary palaces. The two palaces are arranged in front of the pyramid, just like the forelimbs of a prostrate lion reaching forward, and directly in front of the pyramid
In the square, there are two rows of stone statues arranged neatly, guarding the passage leading to the depths of the temple like guards.
Before going to the central temple of the city, Hao Ren thought that he should first search for such auxiliary temples around the central area to avoid missing important clues. Although the collapse of the different space is still continuing, the complete collapse will be at least a few days away.
He still has plenty of time now.
Elizabeth was riding on the shoulders of Isaacs, looking around at the magnificent buildings and stone statues. Just like the religious stone statues in other areas of the city, these several-meter-high sculptures were also composed of human torsos and beast limbs.
They have the heads of lions, jackals, and crocodiles, and their bodies are twisted into ferocious postures, as if they are ready to fight at any time. After observing them for a long time, the little devil concluded: "Oh, it's so ugly."
A little girl who is used to looking at Yizhaks's face can make the two words "so ugly" say, which shows that these stone statues are really ugly.
Vivian still plays the role of historical commentator: "In primitive religious worship, powerful beasts always appeared as the guards of gods or even as the image of gods themselves. There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, ancient humans were afraid of those
The power of beasts, they regard the most powerful beasts as beings with special powers like gods. On the other hand, it is because a large number of the earliest "alien" who ruled the earth did so by driving various beasts and
Warcraft came to subdue humans, and there are even many aliens who are not much better-looking than beasts. At least in human aesthetics, these 'original gods' are beast gods."
Lorissa listened to Vivian's explanation word by word, and suddenly frowned and looked in a certain direction: "Who?!"
Hao Ren immediately had the weapon in hand: "What's wrong?"
Lorissa stared closely at a ball of sand at the end of the street behind her, her eyes slowly turned silvery white like a holy flame, but after a moment her eyes returned to normal: "Maybe it was an illusion. Just for a moment, I felt like someone was there.
It’s like staring at yourself.”
"I don't feel it," Lily shook her ears, "My six senses are sharp, and if I don't feel anything, then you must be delusional."
"Probably." Lorissa frowned and slowly looked away.
The door of the temple is made of heavy iron wood wrapped with copper. It should have been the most indestructible door at that time. However, after being baptized by wind and sand for thousands of years in another space, this door is still severely decayed.
, the remaining broken door panels were crookedly blocking the entrance. Lily stepped forward and threw the two half-ton door panels aside, revealing the dark passage inside.
Huozhi was very happy to light up the blazing fire. In the swaying light of the fire, a group of people stepped into this ancient ruins.
Not long after they advanced, they saw huge stone guard statues appearing on both sides of the corridor.
It is still the weird stone sculpture that combines the human body and the head of a beast, still showing a posture of preparing for war. The stone statues in the temple are smaller than those outside, but they are still more than five meters in height.
, looks extremely powerful.
"Strange... why are there so many stone statues..." Vivian frowned and muttered.
Hao Ren didn't understand why: "Isn't it normal to have this kind of sculpture in the temple?"
"It's normal to have this kind of sculpture, but this number is not normal. It has exceeded the scale required as a decoration." Vivian shook her head, "It's really weird and bad taste."
At this time, the data terminal flying in front suddenly shouted: "Partner! Partner! The mural here is identifiable!"
Hao Ren hurried over and saw the blue light beam projected by the data terminal sweeping across a colorful relief on the stone wall. The relief was actually also mottled and eroded quite severely, and it was almost impossible to tell what the original appearance looked like to the naked eye.
Even if experienced archaeologists come here, they will probably need quite complicated technical means to restore it. However, compared with the almost completely smoothed and fragmented stone slabs and clay tablets outside the city, this mural still remains.
There are many identifiable areas.
With the support of the super computing power of the data terminal, these murals were quickly restored, and the text under the murals were slowly pieced together and reorganized, and presented on the stone wall through holographic projection, just as they were when they were intact.
On the first screen, Hao Ren saw an abstract and strange scene: he saw a very huge creature walking, or "floating" on the ground. It was like a beetle with many slender pointed legs.
, extending from the layer-by-layer body that looks like stacks of bone plates are several pairs of thin and long legs that are completely disproportionate to the body. This creature's pointed feet step on the ground, but its body is as tall as the sun and the moon.
This should be an exaggerated description by the ancients, but it is enough to make people guess how terrifying this beetle-looking creature is. And it has such a terrifying size, but it can walk on the ground with a few pairs of long, pointed legs.
This is enough to show that its body is probably "floating" in mid-air. It either has a large number of suspended air bag structures in its body, or it simply has the ability to control gravity.
The first screen used almost the entire space to show the details of this huge creature. There was only one word under the screen. The data terminal transliterated it, and its name was Etos. If nothing unexpected happened, that should be the name of the huge creature.
The second picture shows the destructive power of this creature: it is surrounded by thunder and lightning, as well as flaming meteors falling from the sky. Even the sun and moon were swallowed into the body by this giant beetle, and on the slender tip of the beetle
Under its feet, there are collapsed city walls and dead humans. This means that this creature has the supernatural power to summon lightning and fire, and it most likely appeared during a solar or lunar eclipse, destroying human cities.
, but humans are helpless against it. Among the corpses, you can even see some extraordinarily tall humanoid creatures with alien characteristics. Those humanoid creatures have aperture-like patterns around them. The data terminal has translated the text under the screen.
It was later stated that those were the corpses of "old gods".
A creature named Ethos destroyed a "mythical city-state" ruled by aliens.
And just when Hao Ren's eyes fell on the third picture, Lily beside him suddenly stood up with a sigh.
"Did you hear anything?"
The Husky girl's ears kept turning in various directions, and her golden eyes shone brightly in the dim environment.