Just when Nina was about to run to the second floor to say hello, Duncan appeared on the stairs.
He heard the noise coming from downstairs.
"Mr. Duncan," Morris came to the stairs and looked up at the "Captain" who was looking down, "I found the symbol you showed me in a document about the ancient kingdom of Crete...
…at least very close.”
Duncan noticed the slight bloodshot eyes and slightly swollen eyelids of Morris. Obviously, the old scholar had spent a lot of time searching for these information, but there was a hint of excitement in his eyes, and his mental state seemed extremely exciting.
——This is the feeling you get when you are immersed in research and finally achieve something.
Duncan glanced at Nina, Alice and others downstairs, and nodded slightly: "You guys are looking at the store."
Then he looked at Morris: "Let's go upstairs and talk."
The old gentleman stepped up the stairs with the big book under his arm. The old wooden steps made a creaking sound. He followed Duncan to the master bedroom on the second floor - this was his first time coming to this place.
Judging from the standards of a warp shadow's residence, this bedroom is a bit plain, but considering Mr. Duncan's special "hobby" of "playing mortals", this simple room seems quite normal.
Morris carefully controlled his actions, satisfying his curiosity without making any unnecessary prying eyes. Duncan pulled two chairs from the side and motioned to the old gentleman to place the big book on the desk by the window.
"Tell me about your discovery," Duncan said after sitting down. "What does that symbol mean?"
"As for its meaning... I don't have a clue yet. I just found the most likely source of it." Morris calmed down, opened the seemingly valuable document, and found the bookmark inside.
Page, "Did you notice this location? It appears here."
Duncan frowned slightly. He saw that the page was a picture, a rather exquisite hand-drawn illustration, which should be part of a large building. It looked like the main entrance of a palace, and the one with a hexagonal
The symbols of the frame and broken cross structure appear in the relief above the main entrance, occupying the center of the entire picture.
As for the content of the relief...it seems to be just some patterns with no apparent meaning.
As Morris said when he was downstairs just now, this symbol is in a very inconspicuous place - it is just a small decorative part on an illustration, accounting for less than ten percent of the entire picture.
One of them has not been specially marked.
It's really hard for Morris to find this book among piles of documents and find such a corner in this book.
"I have a vague impression. I should have seen it a long time ago. Thanks to the blessing of the God of Wisdom, this 'impression' can still be used today, allowing me to find this 'little gadget'
," Morris explained, "This illustration is a copy. Its original manuscript originally appeared in a document on the study of the architectural remains of the ancient Kingdom of Crete. That document is not currently in Pland, but I believe some of my
Friends in academia should be able to help...
"Of course, even without the original manuscript, the content recorded in this book is very useful. It mentions that this hand-drawn illustration depicts a lost ruin that was once located in the border waters. The ruins were located on an unnamed desert island, and the island
Around the year 223 of the New City State calendar, it mysteriously disappeared in a thick fog. Before disappearing completely, several expeditions successfully landed on the island and verified the shape and age of the ruins, confirming that it should be a product of the Ancient Kingdom of Crete.
Judging from the surface decoration and reliefs of the building, the entire facility should be some kind of large-scale building with both academic and religious significance..."
As Morris spoke, he pointed to the text description on the page adjacent to the illustration. Among the slightly yellowed pages, you can see the annotations written by the old scholar in his early years.
"This kind of relief with strong and deep lines and a large number of rhombus elements in the pattern are the architectural characteristics of the ancient Kingdom of Crete. They advocated an architectural style with thick lines and a sense of power. Most of the main parts of their palace buildings were in the shape of various rectangular parallelepipeds.
or pyramid shape, this building perfectly fits these characteristics..."
While listening to Mr. Morris' interpretation, Duncan's eyes slowly swept across the pictures and words. His attention fell on the hexagonal pattern in the center of the relief of the main entrance in the picture, and his brows frowned slightly: "
There is no specific interpretation of this symbol."
"...Unfortunately, this document is only a general introduction and does not involve a detailed interpretation of the various details of the ruins." Morris shook his head, "But this is an unavoidable situation - the ancient kingdom of Crete has a long history.
It has been thousands of years, and the relics left behind are very few and most of them are seriously damaged. Coupled with the loss or "contamination" of various materials, the knowledge that can be analyzed by future generations is already fragmented. It should be difficult for us to find one.
An article dedicated to researching a certain pattern on a certain door in the Ancient Kingdom..."
"Academic or religious facilities, the emblem at the entrance..." Duncan touched his chin thoughtfully, "Why would a group of 'ascetics' ten thousand years later carry with them a symbol from the ancient kingdom of Crete?
talisman?"
He turned his head and looked at Maurice: "Do you think it is possible that there is a 'Crete family' that has been passed down for ten thousand years?"
"...Some people have said that rigorous scholars should not blindly deny any possibility, even if its probability is extremely slim. But from my personal point of view, I think this is really impossible."
Morris said cautiously while thinking.
"A group similar to ascetics, whose number may be very small and whose activities are extremely secretive, has experienced the great chaos after the collapse of the ancient kingdom, the years of strife, and the wars of the old city-states, and has been passed down for ten thousand years without interruption.
They have not been discovered for generations... If this possibility is true, I am more willing to believe that they are a secret cult group that was established in modern times. Because they accidentally discovered some ancient documents or similar relics, they put Crete
It is more likely that a certain symbol of the period was used as one’s own mark.”
Duncan listened to the old gentleman's thoughts, hummed noncommittally, and glanced at the written materials again.
In terms of data, there are some passages that are obviously quoted from the original documents, describing the few words left by the explorers more than a thousand years ago:
"...It stands in the center of the island. The main building and surrounding ancillary buildings occupy almost the entire island. It seems that the island was created specifically for this building...
"...The main material of the building appears to be stone, but it is tougher than stone and pale in color. The soldier used an ice pick to try to carve out one of the wall bricks, and it took a lot of effort to succeed...The ice pick and the wall brick collided with an exaggerated firelight.
, where the broken wall tiles have a silvery gray texture.
"There are several small islands near the island. They are all desolate, with sparse plants and few insects... There are no buildings left. There may have been some, but they are too small and have been swallowed up by time...
"...On the evening of the third day, the boat patrolled the island and found that a collapse point that was originally above the water had been submerged at some point. However, there was no sign of rising tide... The nearby sea area began to fog, and the pastor was in trouble.
After praying to Bartok, the god of death, and seeking enlightenment, he suggested that we stay away from the island immediately."
Duncan looked directly at the end of this quote and saw that the author of the document recorded this:
"On the seventh day after the exploration team evacuated, the fog dissipated and another team arrived near the sea area and could no longer find the unnamed island."
Duncan couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
"It was just swallowed up by the thick fog..." He sighed softly, "It sounds like the result of the border collapse."
"It looks very similar - but at that time there was not very mature Holy Emblem beacon technology, and there were not enough accurate observation methods. Several abnormal phenomena including border collapse and the 'fog eating' phenomenon could easily be confused together."
"The fog-eating phenomenon..." Duncan recalled briefly and found the corresponding knowledge in his mind - he had been supplementing his knowledge in this area through books during this period. "If it is really the fog-eating phenomenon, then this island may still be
It briefly reappeared in the world in similar dense fog in the future, but it seems that no records of this have been handed down."
"That's true, but it's also possible that the relevant information has been lost."
Duncan hummed, and his fingers involuntarily brushed over the illustration and the small broken cross mark on it.
"This picture... shouldn't be possible for the copyist to 'play freely', right?" He suddenly asked uneasily.
"I don't think so," Morris replied immediately. "This is a very rigorous document. The painters of the illustrations and the compilers of the original documents are academic authorities with rigorous reputations. When leaving these documents, they would rather
They will leave the ambiguities intact to future generations, and they will not make any 'additional adjustments' without authorization in the absence of evidence. In other words, even if they make adjustments, they will definitely explain the corresponding details in the notes.