Vivian's appearance caused a sensation in this peaceful settlement.
Geisel held up the holy blade and spread the news throughout the tribe. Seven warriors dressed the same as him gathered from all over the settlement. These warriors were both male and female. What they had in common were the strange patterns on their faces and the special short swords worn on their waists.
.They gathered around Vivian and Hesiana. When the dagger sensed the magic resonance and glowed red, these warriors, regarded as "sacred carriers", loudly announced the fact that the goddess appeared.
After the entire settlement woke up from the huge shock, they started a grand celebration. Men, women, old and children brought out drinks that could only be enjoyed during the festival from their yurts. The strong men, led by some old men, slaughtered the livestock and prepared
An all-night feast began, and some women with strange headdresses took out pottery jars with ancient patterns from a special yurt. They distributed the spices stored in the jars evenly to everyone in the settlement, letting them
Sprinkling spices on the meat at the beginning of the dinner. This spice is a luxury that can only be enjoyed at religious events. The cheerful and loud singing and the slightly noisy but invigorating music come from the settlement.
The music rang out from every corner, and even if you didn't understand the customs of these indigenous peoples, you could feel the joy that permeated everyone's heart. Lily looked at this exotic celebration scene in the open space by the river, and couldn't bear to
He couldn't help but poke Vivian's arm: "Bat, is this all to welcome you?"
Vivian was not as nervous as everyone thought. She was just a little uncomfortable with the looks of awe and admiration thrown at her from time to time, but other than that, she still maintained a calm attitude. At the same time, she whispered to Lily: "Speaking of which
I really didn’t expect them to make such a big fuss.”
After seeing Vivian's reaction, Hao Ren was a little curious: "Are you quite calm?"
"It's not like I've never been worshiped like this before," Vivian looked a little helpless and a little self-deprecating, "Didn't I tell you before? In ancient times, I was occasionally mistaken for a god, and I even had the experience of being worshiped in a temple.
Yes."
Lily was very curious about Vivian's experience: "Is it so awesome? It must be pretty cool, right?"
"Don't make trouble, I'm bored," Vivian sighed, "It's almost impossible to communicate with them. They can sum up a quotation for you just by sneezing. If I hadn't been really hungry and couldn't do anything, I would have
If I didn't go to the temple, I would just sit there like a fool for several years."
Hao Ren didn't say anything. He just listened quietly to Vivian and Lily chatting about old things that had been enshrined in the temple until his group was led by Geisel and several great warriors.
In front of a yurt that looks slightly special.
This yurt is not much more gorgeous than other houses. Except for its larger size, it looks no different from ordinary houses. Standing in front of the yurt is an old man with dark skin and a full face. He seems to have been waiting for a long time.
When he saw Vivian, he immediately bowed to the ground and saluted, and Hao Ren couldn't stop him.
"This is the elder, the wise Gotalug," Geisel introduced the old man respectfully, "He is the leader of the West Wind tribe."
Hao Ren stepped forward to help the old man up, and half forcefully stopped the other party from following the red tape: "Okay, okay. Your goddess knows how pious you are, but she just wants to be quiet for a while and let's go into the house.
Huh? I have a lot of questions to ask."
Old Man Gotalug looked at Hao Ren in shock, as if he didn't understand what the relationship between this man and the goddess was. Vivian nodded upon seeing this: "What he said is equivalent to what I said."
She was used to asking Hao Ren to negotiate when something happened. The latter was somewhat more professional.
The interior of the yurt was large enough to accommodate everyone, but the soldiers who were traveling with Geisel still respectfully stayed at the door to stand guard. Only Geisel, as the first warrior to meet the goddess, got the chance to talk to the elders.
Although no one asked them to have the opportunity to talk to the goddess together. However, both the warriors and the tribal elders had their own strict system, and Hao Ren and the others were not allowed to interfere.
The furnishings inside the yurt are very simple. Most of them are surrounded by wooden or rattan furniture and utensils. Some of them can be seen for their functions, while others can only be roughly judged to be containers. In the middle of the yurt, there is a layer of furniture with
There is a patterned thick blanket with a finely crafted wooden table on it. This is the most exquisite furniture in the room. There is also an object made of metal that looks like a mini obelisk on the ground next to the blanket.
, there are some rough patterns carved on this object, and a layer of orange light emanates from its surface, with a soft temperature. It is obviously a heating device.
Magic powered heating equipment.
Hao Ren and the others sat on the floor on the blanket like Gotalug. In fact, Gotalug and Geisel didn't dare to sit down so carelessly in front of the goddess at first. It was Vivian who looked angry and told them to act as usual.
They dared to sit down only after doing something. Lily's attention was quickly attracted by the metal appliance that emitted light and heat. She curiously poked the shell of the thing with her paws: "What is this?"
Gotalug did not expect that the other party would ask these "common sense" questions, but he still replied respectfully: "This is a phlogiston lamp, a precious knowledge passed down from ancient times."
"In ancient times..." Hao Ren nodded slightly, "How much do you still remember about the inheritance from ancient times?"
He began to ask the old man questions about the calendar, legends, beliefs, and customs. These various questions came to his mind on the road. Since he had many experiences communicating with different civilizations, Hao Ren knew that he should
What questions were asked, so I quickly got a rough grasp of the current situation of these survivors living in the "underground world".
There are only two stages in their historical period, namely the Sun Dynasty in ancient times and the Jade Annals that have continued to this day. The Sun Dynasty is considered to be an era when ancient civilization was extremely prosperous and the goddess was with everyone, while the Jade Annals is
Mortals returned from advanced civilization to the state of primitive civilization. The giant stone city "Dorasil" located on the prairie is the symbol of the Sun Dynasty. Its remaining technological traces are enough to make people imagine how powerful human beings were in that era.
Brilliant Magic Skills However, now, the technology in this world has degraded to the point where it can only produce gadgets like phlogiston lamps.
Hao Ren first carefully inquired about the other party's calendar method, converted the calendars of this world and the earth, and found that a "year" in this underground world is about a few days more than two years on the earth, and then asked about the specifics of the Sun Dynasty.
The end of the year.
Gotalug took out a set of carefully protected leather scrolls from an old rattan box. This scroll may have been hand-copied and passed down to this day by countless generations. It is quite thick and has a strong smell of spices.
: People in this world believe that various spices have different sacred effects. Just like the spices that Geisel lit in the stone ruins can talk to the ancestors, the spices sprinkled in the books can also comfort and protect knowledge.
Gotalug carefully found records about the Sun Dynasty in the scroll. He pointed to the hieroglyphics and said: "The last ray of sunlight fell on the earth five thousand six hundred years ago, because the age of the sun ended, and the goddess closed up.
The sky commanded the giants underground to stretch their hands to the sky, and the giants' arms became pillars of eternity, supporting the sky and the earth in the next era."
Hao Ren then asked: "What about the stone city? Was Dorasil built before the sky closed?"
He did not believe that an artificial stone city could withstand the vibrations caused by the growth of the Firstborn's tentacles: especially when those tentacles were creating a new layer of earth's crust, this vibration was definitely enough to destroy any trace of humanity.
Sure enough, Gotalug shook his head: "The Sun Dynasty was the end of the old world. When the sky closed, everything in the old dynasty was swallowed up by the earth. God guided the chosen remnants to the highlands and waited for the world to be reshaped.
, this process lasted for a hundred years. Then the world stabilized, and the remnants of the Sun Dynasty built the last city on the earth, which was the royal city of Dorasil. This city was not used, it only served as the Sun Dynasty
The evidence of its former existence was left on the earth. People built it and abandoned it under the order of the goddess. This is how the old era ended, and we welcomed the Emerald Anniversary on the fertile land."
"That is to say, the Sun Dynasty officially ended more than a hundred years after the sky closed, and that city became the only remaining urban ruins on the surface, and it was still a ruin that had never been used," Hao Ren frowned, "
You built it just to abandon it, and something of such a large scale is just a souvenir... What’s the point of this?”
Gotalug put his hand on his chest: "The goddess asked us to do this, this is the meaning." (To be continued...)