Chapter 683 Biographies and Invitation to the Church (4,000 words)
"I'm happy to oblige." Faced with Prince Nolan's request, Cheng Lin readily agreed.
However, they did not get up immediately. Instead, they chatted while eating dinner. The content of the conversation was nothing more than two:
Cheng Lin's inquiry into the details of this era and Nolan's exploration of the so-called "catastrophic era" and "ancient civilization" that were annihilated in history.
Dealing with these problems is naturally simple, and Cheng Lin answered them casually.
Since most of them were true, these explanations became particularly credible in the young prince's ears, and he became less and less suspicious of Cheng Lin's identity and origin.
During the conversation, Cheng Lin mainly paid attention to the extraordinary people in this world. Unfortunately, he found that there were no longer nine levels of division here. However, he also found out from the sidelines that there were indeed high-level powerful people in this era.
The quantity is limited by the total population of the three kingdoms, so naturally it cannot be compared with the original, but the quality does not seem to be much inferior.
This made Cheng Lin have another doubt in his mind:
"Since there is not much difference between the current combat power level and the original level, why do these people all agree that the extraordinary people, that is, the monks in the 'Era of Catastrophe' and earlier were far more powerful than they are now?"
Yes, from the previous exploration team to today's Nolan, they all held similar views and always described the monks in history as extremely powerful. This made Cheng Lin slightly confused.
"Did the human monks in the Era of Catastrophe really become stronger? It doesn't make sense. It stands to reason that such an environment is not suitable for cultivation at all... Well, it's hard to say. It's understandable that adversity forces masters..."
With these doubts in mind, Cheng Lin ended this "pleasant" dinner calmly on the surface. Well, objectively speaking, the food here was not to his liking.
Instructing the servant to pull off the cup and plate, Nolan stood up and invited: "Please come with me. My treasured items are placed in the collection room. Well...this is only part of it. Most of them are still in the royal capital..."
As he walked, the lord of the Extreme South introduced, talking non-stop, with bright eyes. It could be seen that he was indeed very interested in collecting these. Well, this was probably one of the reasons why he was keen on exploring.
During the conversation, the two walked through the corridor and finally stopped outside a room at the end.
It was a heavy iron door, embedded in a solid rock wall, and seemed extremely solid.
Nolan took a key from his waist and turned it with a "clunk" sound. The door was opened, and the "wall lamp" driven by psychic energy in the room automatically turned on, illuminating the room.
"Please see, this is part of my collection." Nolan pointed to the shelves inside and said with a little pride, "Many of them are from other kingdoms. Ha, these are relatively well preserved.
Items that are rotten or severely rusted are generally not valuable..."
Cheng Lin nodded, looked at the layout of the room, and found two rows of shelves fixed around the wall, and a long table in the center of the room, with many familiar gadgets placed on it.
Different from the severely decayed ones seen in the "relics" before, these are actually in good condition. I don't know how they were preserved. Well... it may have something to do with the low oxygen environment during that period.
Especially since the relics are hidden underground and preserved for a long time in low oxygen or even vacuum environments, it is not difficult to understand.
As for the item itself, it is more complicated...
There are several spiritual swords and various firearms hanging on the wall on the left. Some of them can be seen as psychic weapons, and some are ordinary firearms. There are also various gadgets, metal clocks, bearings, some kind of
Machine engines, car logos, induction cookers...etc.
On the long table in the middle, there are some more exquisite things, such as a batch of porcelain with Jingdezhen printed on the bottom, glasses, pens... What surprised Cheng Lin the most was that there were several mobile phones on the table, as well as
A laptop, well, and a mechanical keyboard!
"These things are very weird. I tried to dismantle them and found that the structure inside is extremely exquisite and amazing. I can't understand how it was made. According to my judgment, it should be unable to start because of lack of energy." Nolan saw.
Cheng Lin stared at these things and spoke quickly.
Cheng Lin took a breath and said, "There is indeed a lack of an energy source called electricity."
"It is indeed electricity!" Nolan was a little excited. "Through research on ancient books, we found that electricity seemed to be an extremely important energy source for that ancient civilization. I also speculated that these strange things may be related to it."
"It seems that your history is much better than I thought. At least you still remember this." Cheng Lin was slightly surprised, nodded and pointed to several electrical appliances in the room, and casually talked about their uses, "These are all based on electricity.
driven.”
Prince Nolan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded repeatedly, as if he was remembering. Cheng Lin sighed with emotion, continued to walk in, and then let out a light sigh: "This is... a book? No way, after so many years, how could it be possible?
Are there any such new books left?"
I saw a thick book with a black hard shell cover placed on the table. I didn't know what was inside.
Nolan hurriedly explained: "This is a copybook. In our history, many relics have been excavated, some are large, some are small, and they are all different. However, there are indeed very few written records, and most of them are damaged. However, there were also
After great discoveries, a ruins buried deep underground were opened in history, and a large number of books were buried inside.
The three kingdoms carried out rescue work and successfully recorded part of the text and hand-copied it into text. This is just one of them. Unfortunately, most of the ancient 'Chinese characters' used in the rescued documents have been lost, and only
Only those senior scholars of textual archeology and history understand a little bit, and through translation, they have successfully reproduced some of the information recorded in these ancient books."
After a pause, Nolan suddenly said with longing:
"A lot of our understanding of the Catastrophic Era and the more distant 'ancient civilization' is also based on this. For example, a large part of the biographies are extremely valuable. It is because of the existence of these ancient biographies that we know,
There used to be such extremely powerful humans in this world.
They can punch through mountains and split the ocean with just their fists. They possess all kinds of magical and indescribable spells. They can use their power to create wings out of thin air, fly, and even enlarge their bodies countless times to leave this world and travel among the stars.
There are power levels that are difficult for us to understand, and there seems to be no unified system...
This one, for example, records the growth of a powerful ‘Fighting Emperor’. Unfortunately, only part of this biography remains…”
Cheng Lin was still listening carefully at first, but the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong, and the expression on his face gradually turned from a sighing smile to a stiff one, which was weird... When he heard the next thing, he swallowed quietly and felt a little bad.
premonition.
"Wait a minute..." Cheng Lin interrupted Nolan's narration, and immediately asked in the prince's confused eyes, "Your Highness Nolan, you mean... your knowledge of the ancient extraordinary beings.
From the ancient books unearthed from the 'ruins'?"
"To be precise, it's a biography," Nolan said seriously. "The era you lived in seemed to be very popular in writing biographies of powerful extraordinary people."
"I...can I take a look?" Cheng Lin took a deep breath and pointed at the "manuscript".
"Of course." Nolan said generously, and at the same time he vaguely noticed something unusual - Mr. Newton seemed to be very concerned about these ancient books... Well, maybe he was moved by the scene.
Perhaps, some of the characters recorded in the biographies lived in the same era as Mr. Newton, but now only a few words are left. It is only natural to feel some emotion.
Nolan thought in his heart.
Next to him, Cheng Lin held up the "manuscript" with a solemn expression, then slowly opened the cover and looked at the first page...
What comes into view are five slightly distorted Chinese characters:
The power of fighting, three stages!
"Pa!" Cheng Lin suddenly closed the book. This action was so fast that it startled Prince Nolan. He quickly looked over nervously and asked cautiously: "Your Excellency... what are you..."
Cheng Lin closed his eyes, pressed the "ancient book", took a deep breath, and was silent for three seconds. Then he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Prince Nolan, with a sad smile on his face:
"Nothing...just...remembering some things from the past..."
Seeing Nolan's relieved expression, Cheng Lin felt mixed emotions in his heart. At this moment, he finally understood why people in this era believed that the "Era of Catastrophe" and those powerful people before it were far superior to today...
"Ancient books... biographies... you co-authored a batch of networks that you rescued from the 'relics', right? You really treat the plot as a biography... Don't you think something is wrong? The backgrounds and eras are different... Hmm
, maybe they will think that this is a story from a different era, or something from a different region..."
"It's okay, okay, Doupo's level of force has not broken through the sky yet, and it is not much stronger than real practitioners... Well, fortunately what you see is this. If the ancient book you found is not 'Doupo'
Emperor' but 'Immortal Emperor'... I can't even think of it."
Cheng Lin breathed out a breath, put the book back, and then started to leave, but when he subconsciously glanced at the innermost part of the collection room, Cheng Lin suddenly stopped and his eyes widened slightly.
"That's...what?"
Cheng Lin instantly calmed down from his "absurd" mood, looked steadily into the depths of the room, and asked.
"What you said is..."
"Skeletons," Cheng Lin said, "What's going on with these skeletons?"
I saw that in the slightly dark collection room, next to the innermost wall, there were two half-human skeletons standing in the corner!
Pale human bones!
There is no doubt that they are human bones, skulls, spines, ribs, arms...
They were piled up in such a crude manner, two of them were complete, and half of them were damaged, with only parts remaining.
Because it was piled in a corner and the lights were dim, Cheng Lin didn't notice it immediately. If he hadn't glanced at it subconsciously, he would have almost missed it.
"Ah, these human bones were discovered from the Extreme South Territory." Nolan suddenly understood and immediately explained, "During the development of the territory, the underground civilians accidentally dug them out while digging rocks in the mountains. At first, I thought it was an accident.
The hunter who lost his life, after all, there are many ferocious beasts in the undeveloped forest, and generally only hunters will enter such a remote place."
After a pause, the Extreme South Lord said again:
"However, after careful observation, I found that this is probably not the case. You see, their bones are different from ordinary human bones. They are more like jade. They are very strange. I asked the experienced warrior below to see them too, and he was sure that they were
It is definitely not an ordinary human bone, and it should have experienced a long history. I suspect it is an item from the 'Catastrophic Era'. I thought it might be a jade carving art, so I put it here."
artwork?
Cheng Lin frowned and walked over, stretched out his hand to touch these human bones, and found that they were indeed different from ordinary bones. Moreover, if they had been preserved for so long, they would never be in such good condition and would have rotted long ago. But... who can carve them?
A piece of art that looks like this?
Especially... Cheng Lin suddenly recalled the mountains of white bones he had seen in the "ruins" before, and then his muscles tensed subconsciously.
"If the skeletons in the ruins are those of people who were suffocated or starved to death in the underground fortifications, then could the ones dug out from the nearby mountains be the same? But the texture... is a bit strange."
Cheng Lin secretly shook his head, but had no clue. After observing for a while, he could only leave with doubts. His face returned to calmness, and he left here with Prince Nolan.
When the door to the room was locked again, the small room fell into darkness again, but the two motionless human skeletons suddenly gained a strange "vitality".
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That night, Cheng Lin had a long conversation with Prince Nolan, and was then arranged to sleep in the castle. Cheng Lin didn't know what to do next, so he happily accepted the offer.
There was nothing to say all night. When the next morning came, the warm and warm sunshine rose from the distant mountains and illuminated the huge Southern Territory. In this pioneering city full of vitality, soldiers and civilians got up one after another and began to get busy.
.
After Cheng Lin woke up, he felt a little uncomfortable and washed up under the service of the castle maid, got dressed, and had breakfast before going down to the first floor of the castle. As soon as he arrived at the hall, he saw the man in the castle
The steward came over and said with a respectful expression:
"Your Highness the Prince invites you."
"Lead the way." Cheng Lin blinked, spoke calmly, and immediately followed the butler out of the hall and into the wide circular courtyard of the castle.
In midsummer, the courtyard was lush with flowers and plants. Lord Nolan was standing in the courtyard, talking to a man wearing what looked like a clergyman's robe. When he saw Cheng Lin approaching, the prince hurriedly greeted him warmly:
"Sir Newton, how did you sleep last night?"
"Very good, thank you for the hospitality." Cheng Lin smiled and nodded. The environment in the castle was naturally incomparable with that in the villa in the spiritual world, but it was not bad either.
After saying that, he turned to look at the ordinary-looking guy in strange clothes standing with his hands tied: "This is..."
Nolan immediately introduced: "This is Emporio, the priest of the temple branch in the Southern Territory."
As he said that, the priest named "Amborio" looked at Cheng Lin seriously, then lowered his head and spoke seriously:
"The high priest of the church learned of your existence and sent a letter early in the morning, inviting you to go to the church headquarters to talk."