Chapter 450 Labyrinth, Symbol 【Ask for a Monthly Pass】
Low and frantic curses echoed faintly in this underground passage.
But the Colorful Cat, Yu Chi, Kezia Mason and Gu Jun have been walking for half an hour without end. After turning several turns, no one was seen. The electric lights on the wall are exactly the same, and the vibration is still going on. And this
The faint sound has always been at this distance, as if there has been no change.
Once here, there is another passage connecting eight directions, and there is also an iron staircase leading down.
However, this is probably not the place where they first came, as the iron stairs are of different condition.
It was also because of this that the colorful cat, also known as Wu Shiyu, had to admit the fact that, well, he was lost.
"Meow." She spread her paws and fell in the middle of the passage to express the fact that she couldn't lead the way and that she needed to take a rest.
"Don't you feel anything?" Gu Jun asked. He didn't feel anything himself. His perception here was very confusing.
Wu Shiyu shook her head. She thought she had it, but it was just like a carrot hanging in front of the horse. If you take another step, it would be further away. She thought the best way would be to make the horse's mouth longer, or like an anteater.
If you have a long tongue, you can eat it.
Gu Jun looked around. He felt a panic just now. Something was happening...
There is only less than an hour and a half left.
Kezia Mason also seemed to have no idea. She was very interested in the electric lamp on the wall, which was a novelty for her.
"Captain Gu, I have some ideas." Yu Chi walked to the wall at this time, "Come and take a look at the carvings on these walls. I have been paying attention to them for a long time. From the entrance of the stairs to the bottom, all the way here, the walls
The body is covered with carvings.”
"Yeah." Gu Jun naturally noticed it. In fact, he had talked with Yu Chi before and thought it was part of the ceremony or the decoration of the altar building.
But now Yu Chi has some new ideas. His face is flushed and he is scratching his beard. He has a lot to say, but it is difficult to organize the words because of his abnormal ptsd.
"These are rock paintings, symbols, and words... How to say it, how to say it, rock is a visual medium! So all these images carved on rocks and mountain walls in ancient times, whether they are figurative images or geometric symbols
, can be regarded as marks and symbols.”
Gu Jun nodded, "Understood."
"Meow." Wu Shiyu over there was also listening. This is easy to understand. Men and women are all human beings.
"Symbols are words..." Yu Chi scratched his head, "It should be said that there are three oldest written languages in human civilization, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sumerian cuneiform, and Chinese characters are oracle bones. These are the development of hieroglyphic symbols in the past
of."
Through the hazy light, Gu Jun looked at the detailed symbols on the wall, "Yu Dui, do you want to say that these symbols on the wall actually have literal meanings?"
"Yes, I wanted to say this. These minutes may be a whole incantation, or a sacred inscription, or record some history."
Yu Chi said, his eyes a little fanatical. If he could extract all these symbols, how much could be discovered.
But Yu Chi didn't just want to say this, "I know some linguistics. The more I looked at the wall, the more I discovered some ancient hieroglyphics. Look, that is the word 'worm' in oracle bone inscriptions. Hieroglyphics
It’s a descriptive image of an object, concept, or behavior that looks like a bug.”
Gu Jun could indeed see traces in it, like a bug, a snake, or an iron hook that would only be found in later generations.
When I think about this matter carefully, I feel some inexplicable surges in my heart.
Although the characters they use now have evolved, they may have been using this kind of characters when their ancestors were still living a life of eating hair and drinking blood.
Among the three oldest hieroglyphics, it is the only one still used by humans.
What does it mean when they appear on the wall here?
"From the entrance of the iron ladder to the bottom, I found that the oracle bones appear less and less, the Sumerian cuneiforms appear more and more, and then the Egyptian hieroglyphs are the most, and the oracle bones are almost invisible. I guess this is related to time.
The further inside you go, the earlier the text and symbols on the wall were born."
"Captain Gu, everything will go back to the beginning of human civilization. We, the people at the end of civilization, will go back and connect the beginning with the end."
"Writing is one of the beginnings of civilization, and writing can be regarded as an important information technology."
Yu Chi spoke in confusion, but he also expressed his meaning: "The belief of these Locust God believers is not that simple. It may not be just about a bunch of bugs, but it is related to the power of time and space and the power of civilization development. That's the only way.
That's how their altar needs to be built. I feel like we're already on the altar."
Technology? This word made Gu Jun's brows wrinkle a little uncomfortably.
Technology is the means that humans and Yi people rely on to fight against the forces of darkness...
"Meow?" Wu Shiyu asked, then, what should we do to reach our destination?
Or have we already arrived, and now we are beating, smashing, biting and gnawing on the wall, so that we have destroyed the altar?
"She's asking what to do." Gu Jun could only hear the meaning.
"Let's go along the timeline and go back!" Yu Chi said, reaching out to touch the symbols on the concrete wall. "These symbols have their birth order. Human beings existed before the emergence of civilization, primitive humans, and apes.
...Look, there are almost no hieroglyphs here, but there are a lot of Stone Age symbols. These are the aurochs rock carvings, which are feather-shaped figures with three or four branches on each top. They are all Mesolithic rock paintings.
…”
Only Yu Chi knows this archaeological knowledge here.
So Gu Jun couldn't give any advice, Kezia Mason stood aside and didn't even understand, and Wu Shiyu just let it go.
"Team Yu, please lead the way." Gu Jun said, "Maybe this is the reason why you are here... We all have our own reasons."
"Okay, let me try. This is the Mesolithic Age..." Yu Chi walked a short distance to the other seven intersections, groped for the symbols on the wall, and judged the time points represented by each direction. Some
The intersection leads to the Neolithic Age, which is the future for the Mesolithic Age.
And if they want to go back in time and return to the starting point, they need to take the intersection leading to the Paleolithic Age.
However, there are three passages, all with obvious and comparable numbers of Paleolithic symbols.
But among them, there is only one passage with oracle bone inscriptions with the word "worm", the only oracle bone inscriptions.
"This word has always appeared and has never disappeared." Yu Chi scratched his head and said, "It shouldn't have appeared. It shouldn't have appeared a long time ago. Even Egyptian hieroglyphics are gone. How could there be oracle bones in the Paleolithic Age? Unless...
…It transcends time.”
Gu Jun looked at the word "worm", which looked like a snake and a hook.
Are they the followers of the Locust God who transcend time? Or are they interlopers?
There was less than an hour and ten minutes left. Now that they had chosen this passage, the three of them and the cat took another step and walked towards the depths of the passage.
I just don’t know if they were fish that took the bait after eating insect bait.