The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 798: Stone City

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A ruin!

After hearing this news, Hao Ren was taken aback, as much as it was when I just learned that the planet has two layers of crust, and the surface crust is actually a petrified crown of giant trees. He immediately zoomed in on those pictures to confirm the authenticity and approximate size of the ruins, and then asked ASanbaA to send everyone immediately: the ruins are quite far away from here, almost on the other side of the planet, and it takes too long to drive.

ASanbaA emits a halo of blue light, all of them disappear into the transmitted light curtain in an instant. At the next moment, they have reached the location of the long-distance probe.

This is also a vast prairie.

Hao Ren reached out to catch the probe flying towards him, put this small point of contribution into his personal space, and then climbed a high ground, overlooking the large buildings not far away, the vast and magnificent scenery here let One cannot help breathing.

The endless green grass spreads on the ground to the end of the line of sight. The vast prairie undulates like a gentle sea wave, and the magnificent scenery looks like an oil painting. On this prairie, a large stone is built The ancient city stood towering. The city has an Aztec-style architectural form. Although most of the surrounding walls have collapsed, the scale of the city can still be seen. Several large and small flat-topped pyramids can be seen in the center of the city and on the side of the highlands, and between these pyramids are broad avenues paved with giant stones that divide the city into orderly square areas. In each area there are stone houses lined up one after another. Except for the pyramids in the city, the height of most buildings is no more than three floors, which makes the pyramids particularly spectacular.

"Incredible ..." Hao Ren murmured to himself, "There are still such relics here ... I thought First born would produce earth-shaking vibrations when manufacturing those giant pillars of Tianzhu, and everything on the second layer of the crust should be all It ’s just destroyed. "

As he spoke, he looked up into the distance. At a distance of about ten kilometers from the city, he could see a magnificent black giant column connecting the heavens and the earth, and in the other direction of the horizon. Root such a "pillar". In fact, in this "underground world" with excellent air quality, you can always see the landscape of at least two giant pillars supporting the heavens and the earth at any time even if you are not standing high: the magnificent pillars are too large and extend all the time. As far as the rock domes, they can be seen from any angle.

The distance between the city and the giant tree of Tianzhu is only ten kilometers, but it is safe and sound. Hao Ren believes that this is an incredible miracle: he witnessed the scale of those giant trees, and the latter exposed the aerial roots of the surface as high as a thousand The mountain range of the rice, considering that these giant trees are evolved from First born with tentacles, their movement when drilling out of the surface should be devastating. Even if First born deliberately carries out everything, it will not be able to tear the earth. When opening a tens of kilometers wide, it did not hurt the city in close proximity, because this is an inevitable physical process. So there is only one conclusion ...

This city was built after the sky dome closed.

But judging by the crazy "third son" on the surface crust, this planet should have experienced a complete ecosystem reset, so who built the city on the original crust after the sky dome closed? Is it a mortal? Have they escaped the First born cleaning? In other words ... The big cleaning did not happen at all?

A lot of questions are entangled in the brain nerves of Hao Ren, and the answer seems to be in that city.

A group of people came to the ruins of the city. After getting close, this simple and majestic stone city even penetrated a desolate and heavy atmosphere: if the giant tree of Tianzhu and the dome of the canopy are the "natural power" made by First born Then, the ruins of this city are "human miracles" built by mortals with human power. Even if the scale is vastly different, it also has a shocking aspect. Even Lily couldn't help being serious. She didn't even pay attention to the small stones that were everywhere (to be collected in her Wang Zhibao's treasure), but rubbed the one passing by her hand. Square pillar: "It looks like it was made by hand, and you can still see the marks on the edges. It takes a lot of labor to build such a huge amount of stones into a city."

Stone buildings that have been asleep for thousands of years are silently standing on both sides of the road. Moss and vines have eroded the gaps of these buildings, leaving mottled green marks in the stone cracks. Many buildings have signs of cracking. Many houses have even completely collapsed into gravel. In the collapsed pile, tenacious grass and green vines still grow out of the cracks and flutter in the wind.

Some colors can still be seen on some ancient stone walls, that is the paintings and texts of the ancient times: the ancients who left this remains obviously have special techniques, and the pigments they made have experienced erosion and weathering for so many years After that, some parts still remain, which attracted the attention of Hao Ren.

He bent down in front of a broken and broken stone slab that used to be inlaid on a high platform in front. The high platform looked like a ceremonial place with a special regulation and solemn atmosphere. On the slate, Hao Ren saw mottled paint and some faintly embossed pictures.

The relief should be depicting a natural phenomenon. Hao Ren sees a radiating sphere above the screen, and below it is the undulating wavy line. I do n’t know whether it represents seawater or grassland: this "underground" There is no large-scale ocean in the world, only a large number of lakes and rivers, so I am not sure whether the ancient people who left these reliefs have the concept of "ocean".

Hao Ren found that there was still something under the slab, so he reached out to clean up the moss and weeds on it. He saw some symbols like text, which looked a bit like cuneiform.

"Terminal, translation."

ASanbaA came over to scan and floated to the side: "Wait, the machine needs more characters to form a sample library, there should be other texts nearby."

Lily shouted in front of a huge stone monument: "There is! There are many words here!"

ASanbaA flies around to collect text, and connects the character sample library to those relief pictures, and then returns to the slate: "This is written: Praise the sun, once brought light and heat to the earth, We firmly believe that it is still burning in the sky in our hometown, and its light shines in our spirit. "

Then it found another stone slab next to it. This stone slab depicts a large number of plants and animals, as well as the crooked symbols floating between animals and plants. There is also text under the stone slab: "Praise all beings, the goddess' excellence Creation, the soul circulates among all beings, the dead never die, and the living are also in death. We are with all the living and the dead. "

"These are religious tablets," Hao Ren stood up, and came to the stone tablet discovered by Lily, "What is this?"

"Spells, a lot of prayer words, no clear meaning," ASanbaA's light moved on the stone stele. "Calling for the power of the wind, calling for the power of the cloud, calling for the power of the earth, water, plants and stones, and more A large section of text that praises a certain natural phenomenon. This is like what will be used in magic rituals. According to the style of prayer, it is a bit like a druid or some kind of natural totem faith. "

Hao Ren Oh, he knew nothing about the magic itself, and even less popular with totem beliefs. But at this time, Nangong Sanba seemed to suddenly find something. He took out a small bottle from his arms: "Wait, I will try it."

As he spoke, he poured some off-white and translucent viscous grease from the bottle. After applying these greases to the surface of the stone tablet, he pressed his hands to apply magic to the grease. With a slight buzzing sound, layers of pale green shimmers appeared on the stele. This light resonated with the surrounding stone platforms and slabs. It continued after the Nangong March 8 took the hand away, until those The magic oil suddenly burned to ashes before stopping.

Lily did not understand: "What is this?"

"Check if there is any magic residue," Nangong Sanba wiped his hands. "The items that once carried magic power will leave more or less traces, which will change after being stimulated by the night owl potion. These slate And steles are not only ritual items, they really participated in magical reactions. "

"That is to say, the builder of this city is a magical civilization," Hao Ren knows. "No wonder it can build such a magnificent thing, it should be magically assisted."

At this time, a subtle outsider's breath suddenly appeared not far away. Everyone felt almost at the same time, and they raised their heads at the same time, and the next second, a whine of the blast of air broke towards the crowd. Lily immediately reached out and grabbed a green arrow in her hand.

Hao Ren looked in astonishment in the direction where the breath came, and he saw a tall and strong humanoid flash away from the top of a collapsed stone wall!

(Double monthly pass! Double monthly pass!) (Unfinished to be continued.)