Chapter 221: So what about that great civilization?
The snake people caught a rare and very beautiful big fish this time, and without exception, they sent it to the Temple of Life to sacrifice to Sally, the Mother of Life.
But this time it was different. The Mother of Life looked at the big fish that was glowing silver under the sun, and then looked at the records in the book in her hand about the Three-Leaf People entering the Age of Miracles.
It records the lives of the Sanye nobles and the various delicacies on their tables.
It tells how the Sanye people make various snacks and foods, how to cook the ancestor fish and even some precious ingredients from the seabed.
Although the miraculous creations brought by Sha Rui from the Kingdom of God include complete sets of props for making various snacks, desserts, and drinks, there are countless such ordinary things in the Treasury of God.
Before that.
Even from the moment they were born, they were submerged in the ocean of props in God's Treasure House and have never been taken out.
It was Sally who made them leave the Kingdom of God and turned them from a collection into an everyday utensil.
Speaking of which, it feels like Sally has given them mission and meaning.
But when Sally saw the fish, an idea suddenly came to her mind.
What is the difference between the food directly produced by these props and the food actually cooked?
She wants to taste the cooked food.
The little girl stood up from the throne, walked step by step down to the center of the temple hall, and came to the prostrate snake mother Samos.
"My servant."
"This time, I accept your offering."
Samos was overjoyed: "Being able to please the gods is the honor of Samos and the snake people."
Sally asked Samos to use a fire and a stone basin to cook the fish into fish soup.
Then she added some sugar and seasonings she brought from the Kingdom of God, and the little fire demon curled up into a ball under the stone basin and released its own heat.
The soup gradually started to boil, bringing with it a rich aroma.
There is no skill involved, but it is delicious enough.
The dancing hands in the darkness picked up Sally's special tableware, filled a bowl and brought it to her.
Sally held the delicate small bowl and took a sip with a spoon.
It may not be more delicious than the food made by miracle props, but it does give people a completely different feeling and experience.
"hiss!"
Snake mother Samos looked at the fish soup in the stone basin, and involuntarily spit out the snake lettuce in her mouth, making an imperceptible hissing sound.
Even just by smelling it, she could feel the deliciousness of the fish soup.
This made her long for the fish soup in the stone basin, but because it was something belonging to God, she did not dare to be greedy at all.
"Do you want to eat too?" Sally asked her.
"Samus doesn't dare!" Snake Mother Samos said in awe.
"Take the rest!" Sally didn't bother to say more and gave her the things in a commanding voice.
After Sally had a brief taste of it, she gave the remaining reward to the snake mother, Samos.
Eating has no real meaning to the gods. The only function is to experience the delicious food and feel the taste.
However, Sally found that there were still many interesting things in the Trefoil Man's books, and there were many new and untried things.
Snake Mother Themes carried the stone basin and exited the temple backwards. She slithered down the right side of the stairs.
Although there are stairs in the temple, they are obviously prepared for creatures with two feet. Samos may walk there when going uphill, but when going downhill, she prefers to slide down directly from the slopes on both sides.
When she walked and twisted her snake tail, her slender waist also swayed, making her look glamorous just looking at her back.
She came to the corner under the temple and couldn't help smelling the fragrance.
She couldn't wait to take a sip of the fish soup and closed her eyes.
"hiss!"
Samos couldn't help but make a sound of pleasure.
For the first time in her life, she felt such joy in eating. She could not imagine that there were such delicious things in the world.
And it only needs to be cooked briefly, and then some sugar and seasonings are added.
But at this moment, in the eyes of Snake Mother Samos, the method of cooking food suddenly became mysterious. Even the simple sugars and seasonings added casually seemed to have become artifacts made by the gods.
generally.
Samos licked the stone basin clean, not daring to waste any of it.
After returning, she even treasured the stone basin as a sacred object.
Where the snake people live.
The other snake people were envious and curious after hearing the description of the snake mother, Samos.
"Grandma, is it really that delicious?" A snake man asked snake mother Samos.
"What's that smell?" A little snake-man was yearning for it. She even sniffed the stone basin brought back by the snake mother, Samos.
"Can we try such food?" Other snake people were also surrounding the stone basin, curious.
"What are you thinking about? That is an offering for the gods to enjoy." The older snake man immediately scolded them, while preaching his belief and respect for the Mother of Life.
"The method of processing food must contain magical power, and you can get some benefits by eating it." A snake man said this, and snake mother Samos seemed to feel that she had gained something special from the fish soup.
The strength seems to have become stronger.
On the other hand, Snake Mother Themes heard other snake people talk about how to handle food, and immediately recalled the scene at that time.
She was also eager to taste that taste again. Although she didn't have sugar or condiments, she could use the stone pot and flame.
and.
Isn't this what Snake Mother Themos has been looking for, another way to use flames?
With that said, the entire snake-men tribe immediately took action.
This time the ingredients include fish and other ingredients.
The mother snake put on a big pot and repeated the cooking scene.
Although there are no condiments, the taste is indeed much better than eating it raw.
"It's so delicious." The taste sensitivity of the snake people far exceeds that of the Sanye people, and their pursuit and feeling of food far exceeds that of the Sanye people. They are immersed in the taste of delicious food.
"Is this what the gods eat?" All the snake men around the flames and stone pots devoured it.
"If we do this, will the gods reprimand us?" Some snake people even burst into tears when they tasted this food, and they became frightened.
Because they feel that such delicious food should not be tasted by them at all. It is something unique to gods.
Samus remembered Sally's expression at that time and said to the other snake people: "God doesn't care about this."
Samos learned how to cook food from the Mother of Life, and slowly improved it.
She also put some edible plants from the seabed into the stone basin, and she even learned how to grill food.
Snake people regard delicious food as a gift from the gods, and even cooking food has become a sacred ritual.
Snake Mother Themes recorded the cooking methods and recipes, making them something that only those responsible for distributing food can master.
As night fell, flames burned in the square.
"here we go."
The snake people formed a circle around the flames and stone basin, and then began to dance.
This is their way of praying to God and thanking them for their gifts.
With that crude but very rhythmic dance.
After the dance was over, the snake mother Samos distributed the cooked food. Some of them were able to share more, while others received less. From this, we can also see the status of these people in the ethnic group.
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After learning to use flames to cook food, the snake people seem to have become stronger.
The group also expanded further at this time, and a new batch of little snake people were born.
But this also increased the pressure on the snake people, and the snake people had to find ways to obtain more food.
They formed an underwater hunting team, composed of the strongest and most powerful snake men.
But the leader of the hunting team is a female snake, a female snake who has mastered the power of the Petrified Eye to a very powerful level.
Because of the relationship between Snake Mother Themos, the status of women in the snake people group is higher than that of men. Other male snake people do not think there is any problem with this and automatically obey the snake mother Themos and the captain.
but.
As food increased, another problem arose.
With just one fire demon and snake mother Themes, cooking and distributing food has become a very arduous task.
Snake mother Samos made a decision in front of everyone: "Since one fire demon can't do it, let's find a way to catch another one!"
"But the fire demon captured this time will be given to the person who contributed the most."
"Whoever can do the best job in capturing the fire demon can make a contract with the fire demon and become its partner."
"And she will replace me as the one distributing food."
The words of Snake Mother Samos made many snake people below become excited.
The female snake leader of the hunting team was eager to try: "Mother!"
"You gave up this position to us, what about you?"
Samos said: "In the future, I will divide the residential area of the City of Life into areas. Everyone who can make a contract with the Fire Demon is a real strong snake man, and they will become the people who distribute food in this area.
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"but me."
"I am the guardian of the Temple of Life, a servant of God, and also your mother and clan leader."
"It is not my responsibility to distribute food. I will not only teach you how to control the fire demon in the future, but I will also teach you the secret recipe of cooking."
The snake people cheered and thanked the snake mother, Samos.
Some of the powerful snake men looked at each other, and you could see the competitive passion in their eyes.
The snake people also want to use the last method to capture a fire demon again, and then make a contract with it in front of the temple.
The team is still led by the snake mother. In addition to the members of the hunting team, some newly adult snake people will also join them.
The snake people joined in very enthusiastically. They were eager to have their own fire demon companions and to be the one who distributed the food.
They started preparations early. The snake people in the City of Life prepared dried food for the warriors who traveled far away. In the wilderness, you can also see the cooperation between some snake people training each other in magical arts, mastering the
The power of the curse comes from the divine brand that penetrates deep into the blood.
This time they did not take a detour, and it took them eleven days to arrive outside the fire demon's lair.
But when they came this time, they saw that the original swamp area had turned into a large green area and turned into a forest.
In the past ten years, earth-shaking changes have taken place here.
There are even some more amphibians in the swamp, most likely they swam up from the sea and then made their home in the swamp.
Under the arrangement of Snake Mother Themes, the snake people began to explore like last time to find the location of the fire demons.
The snake people lured out a little fire demon, and then trapped it in the forest through cooperation.
The little fire demon released flames crazily, igniting the surrounding trees.
However, in the end, he still failed to escape the siege of the snake people and was trapped inside by several stone walls.
The snake men who locked up the little fire demon were so excited: "I caught it."
"We caught it."
"We can master the power of fire."
Then, before he could be happy for a long time, the fire spread rapidly. When the wind blew, the flames continued to spread and ignited the entire forest.
What's even more frightening is that the flames also attracted more fire demons.
Fires were everywhere, and fire demons were attacking them in the sea of fire.
"Fire!" There was fire everywhere. It was the first time for the snake people to see this kind of scene.
"The fire is coming, everyone run away." The snake people immediately fled in all directions, twisting their tails and gliding very fast.
"Hiss, hiss." The snake people were stimulated by the thick smoke and high temperature and kept making hissing sounds.
The forest was set on fire, and a team of snakemen had no time to escape during the fire and were completely trapped in it.
Not every snake-man has mastered the spell of petrified eyes. This spell can only be awakened by the second level, which is also very rare among snake-men.
Most of the snake people here can only rely on their strong bodies to hold up stone shields and cooperate with those powerful snake people to intimidate and force the little fire demon.
Not to mention, in such a sea of fire, the power of petrification to resist flames has also been weakened to a certain extent.
"I'll save them."
When the snake mother Themos saw a trapped team, she immediately used magic to cover herself with a layer of stone armor, and then rushed into the sea of fire.
Samos rescued several people from the sea of fire, and even started a fierce battle with the fire demon, suffering some minor injuries herself.
But even so, most of the snake-men who were engulfed in the sea of fire were burned to death.
Several of those rescued were seriously burned and looked unlikely to survive.
The snake people could only watch them die.
The flames gradually extinguished when they reached the swamp, and the crazy and chaotic fire demons also left.
The snake people walked into the scorched earth and recovered the bodies of their companions.
They gathered around the square room where the little fire demon was trapped, but found that they could not feel the presence of the fire demon inside at all.
"Where is the little fire demon?" everyone asked.
The stone that trapped the fire demon was burnt black, and a crack opened in it. The little fire demon inside had escaped long ago.
"Run away?" So many people died but it was all in vain, which was hard for the snake people to accept.
The snake people's plan failed this time because the situation has changed.
Even Snake Mother Themes has a strong sense of frustration, but instead of showing her frustration, she has to inspire others.
At the same time, she also had to bury the dead snake man.
In front of the towering tomb, the snake people were angry, crying and howling.
"He died like this." Thinking of their brothers, sisters, or sons and daughters buried inside, the snake people howled for the fragility of life.
"We must make them pay the price." Someone looked angrily into the depths of the swamp.
"I will capture them and let them enslave us for generations." One failure did not make the snake people give up. They decided to come back next time when they were ready.
"The flames are more terrifying than we imagined." A snake man looked at the scorched earth and couldn't help but feel fear when he recalled the sea of fire just now.
They thought they could restrain the power of fire, or even control it; however, they learned a lesson this time, and it was painful.
Although Snake Mother Themes is sad, she has seen a lot of life and death over the years.
Some of her children died while hunting in the sea, some died at the hands of monsters, some died of diseases, and some died of a small accident.
This world is full of life, but also full of dangers. Sometimes an inconspicuous mistake or accident can take away their lives.
The snake mother Themes comforted her children and told them.
"do not be afraid!"
"After death we return to the kingdom of God, and we will get everything we want in the other world."
The snake people asked, "What is in the kingdom of God?"
Serpent Mother Themes told them: "Everything."
This gave the snake people endless longing in their eyes, imagining that after their relatives and friends died, they could enter the place where the gods lived, a kingdom of gods that had everything.
They fantasize about the Kingdom of God, which must be a place full of delicious food, beautiful scenery, warmth and comfort.
A place that has it all.
Thinking about it this way, death doesn't seem so terrible.
But they didn't expect that when they were burying the corpses of other snake men, they discovered something.
They dug out a dark thing from the ground. It looked like stone but was very hard.
There are also small holes and beautiful patterns on it.
"What is it?" The snake man who dug it out handled it carefully.
"Let me see?" Another snake man touched it.
But when he touched a certain part of the pattern, the thing immediately bloomed with light.
An illusory projection appeared in the open space.
A castle appeared in the projection, and a strange humanoid creature stood on the castle and played a musical instrument.
From its perspective, it is a glorious city with extremely tall buildings and densely packed people.
Those people were riding various trailers and two-wheelers coming and going.
Thousands of sails were racing past the pier in the distance. It was a time when civilization was at its most prosperous.
The snake people were frightened and threw the thing on the ground.
They have never seen anything like this, and they have no idea what the things in the picture represent.
Snake Mother Themes cautiously approached and touched the illusion with her fingers.
But as soon as I touched it, the illusion burst like a bubble, and then turned into foam and dispersed.
Snake mother Samos picked up something on the ground and turned it over and over again without understanding it.
But she said to the other snake people: "This must be a divine object."
"The great Mother of Life must have accidentally left it here. All the scenes recorded in it are the scenes of the Kingdom of God."
"If we dedicate it to the Mother of Life, we will surely be praised by God."
In this way, it seems that they have gained nothing.
Most of the sadness, depression and frustration just now were immediately washed away by the joy of finding the so-called lost "divine object" of the mother of life.
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After returning, all the snake people kept silent about their defeat.
Instead, they spread the word about the divine artifact they found.
It seemed that their trip this time was not to tame the fire demon, but to find the God's lost items.
Samos held the "divine object" and climbed up to the temple little by little, arriving in front of the throne of Sally, the Mother of Life.
"Dedicated to the great Lord of Life."
"The things you lost were accidentally picked up by us."
The little girl on the throne shifted her gaze, and the black shadow on the ground began to twist and cover the entire temple: "What did I lose?"
Samos still firmly believed in her previous opinion: "This is a creation of God, and it can only exist in the kingdom of gods."
"It also projects the scene in the Kingdom of God."
A tentacle took the "god object" from Samos' hand and sent it to Sally.
Sally stared at it for a while, and it took her a long time to recognize what it was.
This is a pottery xun, a musical instrument from the early stage of the Xiinsai civilization.
It's so early that it can't even be called a classic, it can only be called an ancient musical instrument.
However, it can be preserved until now because it is a magical item.
Sally took Tao Xun in her hand and started it.
"really……"
"It's something left by the Sanye people!"
Sally became curious.
Looking at the projected picture, the little head shook while listening to the sweet voice.
It was probably made from the remains of a small stone demon. Its function was to retain the music played by the caster and the scene at that time. It was just a small toy made by a priest.
It should have been born in the era of God's abandonment, which was the last afterglow and glorious moment of the Kingdom of Xiinsai.
therefore.
Although it can be seen that the city is still prosperous, the music played by the player is full of sadness and confusion.
However, as a magical item, it can only be regarded as the lowest level.
Although the production method of magical props became popular in the God Abandonment Era, the Sanye people at that time were no longer able to create powerful third-level magical props. They could only use the blood and bodies of monsters to make some such low-level magical props. .
But even so, this kind of magical prop is difficult to make.
Because in the age of god abandonment, it is no longer possible to conclude a spiritual contract with a monster because of the departure of the god. It is not that easy to deal with a monster.
Being able to use the remains of the little stone demon to create such a prop means that its former owner must have been a very famous person.
After Sally finished listening to the music, the illusion dissipated.
"My servant, I love the gift you gave me."
When Sally said this, Snake Mother Themes' face showed a look of joy.
But Sally continued: "But it's not my thing."
"This is something left by the Sanye people of the Xiinsai civilization, a low-level magical item."
After saying this, she laughed because of Samos' ignorance.
"and."
"This is not the scene of the kingdom of God. It is just an ordinary city of the Sanye people."
"The kingdom of God is not what you imagined. Don't use your poor knowledge and brain to guess the realm of gods."
Samos was a little disappointed. It turned out that this was not a "divine object" left by the gods, but just something left by another ethnic group.
But then I thought: "What a powerful ethnic group that is, able to create such a magical creation."
"Looking at the picture again, they once had such a huge ethnic group, with such magnificent cities and magical creations."
Trileaf Man, this is the second time Samos has heard this name.
Previously, Samos only knew that this was another ethnic group, an ethnic group loved by a god named Insai.
But at this moment, she saw the magnificence and greatness of this race from the small pottery xun and the phantom picture.
That shocked all of them, thinking it was a city from the Kingdom of God.
In the words of the Mother of Life, it is just an ordinary city. It sounds like the Sanye people once had many such cities, and the population was beyond their imagination.
Snake Mother Themos asked the Lord on the throne: "What about... that great race and civilization?"
"Where are they now?"
Sally smiled slightly: "Destroyed."
Snake Mother Themes immediately straightened up and looked at the Mother of Life with her mouth wide open: "Destroyed?"
Sally thought for a moment and said nonchalantly: "It perished tens of millions of years ago, or even 100 million years ago, right?"
Sally didn't know how long it was, but she felt that it should have been a long, long time, at least tens of millions of years.
"One hundred million years?"
Samos had never even heard of the words tens of millions and billions before, but after hearing the goddess of faith, the Mother of Life, explain this word to her, she only felt trembling and fear.
One hundred million years.
What a long period of time it was. Gods and another great race existed so long ago.
She even felt that this time exceeded the length of the world she imagined, and she could not think or imagine what a concept of 100 million years was.
However, what shocked Samos even more.
their god.
The great master of life, Sally, had already stood on this land so long ago.
It was the first time that she felt so insignificant, and it was also the first time that she realized what the concept of eternity in the words of the gods was.
Samos lay on the ground in fear. She didn't dare to look up at the little girl above.
She was so frightened by the 100-million-year-old words that she could not lift her waist. She was so frightened by the power and eternity of the gods that she lost consciousness.
"It turns out that not only life can die, but also such a powerful race can become extinct and die?"
Sally pursed her lips and said the cruelest words seemingly innocently.
"certainly!"
"Many races have disappeared in this world."
"They are not the first race to disappear, and they will not be the last."
Snake mother Samos shivered and asked herself in her heart.
"What about the snake people?"
"Are they going to be the next race and civilization to disappear?"
Sally seemed to see what Snake Mother Samos was thinking, and she said: "No, you can only call it a group now."
"Civilization is a word."
"You're still too far behind."
"Although you have gained wisdom, you are not much different from the fish in the sea or the beasts on the land."
The snake mother decided to hide this matter in her heart and not tell anyone.
Because this is a secret belonging to God, this is an amazing truth belonging to the previous era.
What she is even more afraid of is that her children will regret and feel despair after hearing such terrible news.
Such a powerful civilization has disappeared, but what about their weak ethnic group?
Sally put aside the gift given to her by the snake people, and shook her calves.
The soles of the small red leather boots hit the metal pedestal, making a rhythmic crisp sound.
Sally looked at Snake Mother Samus with a playful look and said something that made Snake Mother Samus excited and scared.
"There is not only this magical item on this island, there are many things left over from the previous era scattered everywhere. If you can find them, you can inherit the legacy of the previous era."
After speaking, Sally paused.
The corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"Because of this island."
"It's a tomb from a previous era."
After she finished speaking, she straightened up and returned to her normal expression, no longer looking at Snake Mother Samos.
"certainly."
"These things are usually buried very deep underground, and there are many dangers hidden in them."
"Because these props themselves have powerful power, and some even have traps and unlocking methods set by their previous owners."
"Whether you can find and use them depends on your ability."
Snake Mother Themes was excited that they had accepted the guidance of the Mother of Life, and they had another channel to increase their strength.
Strong strength allows them to survive in this world better and then truly build their own civilization.
But she was also afraid.
What scares me is that this island is the tomb of the previous era.
What a terrible and heavy sentence, the ancient truth that is so heavy that one cannot breathe, was spoken so lightly from the mouth of the god in front of him.