Seven hundred and ninetieth eight chapters stone city
A ruin!
After hearing the news, Hao Ren was shocked. He was as surprised as when he had just learned that the planet had two layers of crust, and that the surface crust was actually the petrified crowns of a group of giant trees. He immediately zoomed in on the pictures and confirmed the remains.
authenticity and approximate scale, and then let the data terminal transmit everyone there immediately: the ruins are quite far away from here, almost on the other side of the planet, and it would be too time-consuming to drive there.
The data terminal emitted a blue halo, and everyone's figures disappeared in the transmitted light curtain in an instant. The next moment, they had arrived at the location of the long-distance probe.
Here is also a magnificent prairie.
Hao Ren stretched out his hand to catch the probe that was flying towards him, put this little guy who had made great contributions into his pocket, then climbed up to a high ground and looked at the large buildings not far away. The vast and magnificent scenery here was unbearable.
Take a breath.
Boundless green grass spreads on the land to the end of the sight. The vast prairie undulates slightly like gentle waves. The magnificent scenery is like an oil painting. And on this prairie, an ancient city built with huge rocks towers.
Standing tall. The city has an architectural form that looks like the Aztec style. Although most of the walls have collapsed, the scale of the past can still be seen. You can see large and small numbers in the center of the city and on the side of the highlands.
There is a flat-topped pyramid, and between these pyramids are wide avenues paved with huge stones. These roads divide the city into several square areas in an orderly manner. Each area has stone houses lined up in rows. The city
Except for those pyramids, most of the buildings are no more than three stories high. This makes those pyramids even more spectacular.
"It's unbelievable..." Hao Ren murmured to himself, "There are such ruins here... I thought that when the eldest son created those giant trees, there would be earth-shaking vibrations. Everything on the second layer of the earth's crust should have been destroyed.
That’s right.”
As he spoke, he looked up into the distance. Only about ten kilometers away from the city, he could see a spectacular black giant pillar connecting the sky and the earth. And in the other direction of the horizon, you could also see a similar pillar.
"Pillars". In fact, in this "underground world" with excellent air quality, even if you are not standing at a high place, you can always see at least two giant trees supporting the sky and the earth: those magnificent pillars are really too big.
, and extends all the way to the rock dome, they can be seen from any angle.
The distance between the city and the giant Tianzhu trees is only a dozen kilometers, but they are safe and sound. Hao Ren thinks this is an incredible miracle: he has witnessed the scale of those giant trees with his own eyes, and the aerial roots exposed on the surface of the latter are thousands of meters high.
Mountains, and considering that these giant trees evolved from the tentacles of the eldest son, their movements when they drilled out of the earth should be devastating. Even if the eldest son did everything carefully and deliberately, it would not be able to tear the earth apart.
A crack that is more than ten kilometers wide does not harm the nearby city at all, because this is an inevitable physical process. So there is only one conclusion...
This city was built after the sky closed.
But according to the judgment of those crazy "Third Sons" on the surface crust, this planet should have experienced a complete ecological reset. So who built this city on the original crust after the sky closed? Is it a mortal?
Did they escape the eldest son's purge? Or... the purge didn't happen at all?
A lot of questions are tangled in Hao Ren's brain, and the answer to the questions seems to be in that city.
The group came to the ruins of the city. After getting closer, this simple and solemn stone city exuded a desolate and heavy atmosphere: If the giant tree and the canopy dome are the "power of nature" created by the eldest son, then this
The ruins of this city are "human miracles" built by mortals with human power. Even though the scale is vastly different, it still has a shocking aspect. Even Lily couldn't help becoming serious, and she didn't even pay attention to those things.
There were small stones everywhere (normally these would be included in her Wang Zhi treasure). Instead, she rubbed a square pillar passing by with her hand: "It looks like it is handmade, and you can still see the edges.
Traces of axe-cutting. To build such a huge amount of stones into a city would require a high labor cost."
Stone buildings that have been dormant for thousands of years stand silently on both sides of the road. Moss and vines have eroded the gaps in these buildings, leaving mottled green traces in the stone gaps. Many buildings show signs of cracking, and many houses
It has even completely collapsed into rubble. In the collapsed rocks, there are still tenacious green grass and green vines growing out of the gaps and fluttering in the wind.
Some colors can still be seen on some ancient stone walls, which are paintings and writings from ancient times: the ancients who left this ruins obviously had special skills, and the pigments they made still survived after so many years of weathering and erosion.
Some of them survived, which caught Hao Ren's attention.
He bent down in front of a broken stone slab. This stone slab should have been inlaid on a high platform in front of him. The high platform seemed to be a ceremonial place with special regulations and solemn atmosphere. On the stone slab,
Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some vaguely discernible relief images.
The relief should be depicting some kind of natural phenomenon. Hao Ren saw a radiating sphere at the top of the picture, and at the bottom of the picture were undulating wavy lines. He didn't know whether it represented sea water or grassland: this "underground" world has no
A large-scale ocean only consists of a large number of lakes and rivers, so I am not sure whether the ancients who left these reliefs had the concept of "ocean".
Hao Ren found that there was something at the bottom of the stone slab, so he reached out and cleaned away the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols that looked like writing, which looked a bit like cuneiform writing.
"Terminal, translator."
The data terminal came over, scanned it, and drifted to the side: "Wait a minute, this machine needs more characters to form a sample library. There should be other characters nearby."
Lily stood in front of a huge stone tablet and shouted: "There is it over here! There are many words over here!"
The data terminal flew around to collect text, and connected the character sample library with the relief images, and then returned to the stone slab: "What is written here is: Praise the sun, which once brought light and heat to the earth. We firmly believe
It still burns in the skies of its homeland, and its light shines in our spirits."
Then it found another stone slab next to it. This stone slab depicts a large number of plants and animals, as well as curved symbols floating among the animals and plants. There is also text under this stone slab: "Praise all living things, the outstanding creation of the goddess, the soul."
Moving among all living beings, the dead are never dead, and the living are also in death. We are with all the living and the dead.”
"These are religious stone tablets," Hao Ren stood up and came to the stone tablet Lily found, "What's on this?"
"Spells, a lot of prayers, no clear meaning," the light of the data terminal moved on the stone tablet, "calling on the power of the wind, calling on the power of clouds, calling on the power of the earth, water flow, plants and stones, and there are also large paragraphs
A large piece of text praising a certain natural phenomenon. It looks like something that would be used in magic rituals. Based on the prayer style, it’s a bit like Druidry or some kind of natural totem belief.”
Hao Ren snorted. He knew only a little about magic itself, and he was even less familiar with such unpopular things as totem belief. But at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to suddenly discover something. He took out a small bottle from his arms:
"Wait a minute, I'll try it."
As he spoke, he poured out some grey-white translucent viscous grease from the bottle, smeared the grease on the surface of the stone monument and then pressed his hand on the area where the grease was applied to inject magic into it. With a slight buzzing sound, the stone monument
Layers of light green light appeared on the surface, which resonated with the surrounding stone platforms and slabs. It continued after Nangong Sanba took his hand away, and did not stop until the magic oil suddenly burned into ashes.
Lily didn't understand: "What is this?"
"Detect whether there is any magic left," Nangong Sanba wiped his hands, "items that once carried magic will leave more or less traces, and will change after being stimulated by the night owl potion. These stone slabs and stone tablets are not only
They are ritual objects, and they really participate in magical reactions."
"In other words, the builder of this city is a magical civilization," Hao Ren understood. "No wonder they can build such a magnificent thing. It must be assisted by magic."
At this time, a subtle outsider's breath suddenly appeared not far away. Everyone felt it almost at the same time and raised their heads in unison. And the next second, a sharp "whoosh" sound flew towards everyone. Lily immediately reached out her hand.
As soon as she grabbed it, there was an arrow quenched with green light in her hand.
Hao Ren looked in the direction of the breath in shock. He saw a tall and strong humanoid creature flashing away from the top of a collapsed stone wall!
(Double monthly pass! Double monthly pass!) (To be continued...)