Stepping over the white curtain, Yang Yu stepped steadily on a piece of ground that was faintly shining with a light blue light, and in front of him was a blue wall.
Ace was recorded whispering, "Don't move yet. Say this word silently with me, 'Luka—'."
Yang Yu and the others followed suit, and countless points of light gathered under their feet, forming a light platform.
Ace continued to guide, "The ruins are huge. Just think of the direction you want to go, and the light platform under your feet will lead you there. Follow me closely to avoid getting lost."
As he spoke, Ace slowly rose into the air.
Yang Yu just thought in his mind, "Follow him", and the light platform under his feet carried him high into the sky and caught up with Lu De Ace.
Bai Jin already knows how to use the [Air Dance Technique], so this level of difficulty is nothing to her.
He Meng lazily transformed into a slime form and hid in the hood of Bai Jin's robe.
Iyas and Lotkar, who had transformed into a human form, were obviously experiencing flying for the first time. They were a little unsure about it, but they were enjoying it.
It was recorded that Ace told Yang Yu that the people who first explored the ruins did not know the password. It was someone who accidentally discovered the password after getting drunk and talking nonsense.
With this password, they can move quickly in the ruins and reach where they want to go without spending too much time.
However, in order to quickly reach certain important locations, researchers have built several teleportation locations.
Yang Yu and his group came here for a visit, and most of the time they just walked around and listened to Ace's recorded explanations, so they didn't need to use those special teleportation locations.
After lightly touching a wall, a long passage appeared in front of Yang Yu and his friends. Ace flew into it first, and Yang Yu and his friends followed closely behind.
"I don't know where to start with you, but the ruins are well connected, so just take a look around."
The first place Yang Yu and his friends arrived at was a dormitory.
The hexagonal rooms form two "beehives". The passage that Yang Yu and his team walked through was the gap between the two honeycombs. It is roughly estimated to be two kilometers wide.
After obtaining consent, Yang Yu was allowed to enter a room to find out what was going on.
Most of the rooms were locked by something, and seemed to require some special rules to open. The only rooms Yang Yu could enter were a few destroyed rooms.
Unfortunately, although the room was spacious, all the things inside had been moved out, so it was empty and there was nothing to see.
This situation also occurs in many other areas.
Yang Yu could only get a glimpse of the original appearance of those areas from Lu De Ace's mouth, but Lu De Ace always used "new and strange things that have never been seen before" to describe the things that had been moved out.
Along the way, Yang Yu and his team saw many researchers. Some of them were transporting equipment, while others were squatting in front of instruments, tinkering with them aimlessly.
Seeing these people, Lude Ace suddenly said:
"Relic research is very hard work. Some people work day after day for decades, but in the end they may get nothing."
"Won't they regret it?" Yang Yu asked.
"Regret? Who knows? I think that rather than regret, they would rather find the answer they want with their own hands in their lifetime. Human life span is only a few decades, which is too short."
Ace could only smile bitterly. He didn't know whether he would be able to see the true secret of the ruins revealed in his lifetime.
Ace laughed and said, "Not everything is difficult to study, just like the area we are going to next."
The speed of movement gradually increased, and Yang Yu and his friends came to a bizarre world.
That is, a circular area with countless strange stones.
It's more like bone than stone.
The bones were arranged into the poses of various creatures.
Yang Yu knew what these things were.
It's a fossil.
Yes, fossils.
Fossils are the remains, relics or traces left behind by ancient organisms that once lived, which were eventually formed after geological changes.
Yang Yu had never thought that he would see such a thing in this world.
“The things here have been thoroughly studied.
It's just an ordinary stone, but it's more than just an ordinary stone.
There are two ways of saying this:
One type is artworks that were pieced together by people who once lived here for entertainment, using fossilized bones of different creatures.
Another possibility is that these creatures really existed, but for some reason, only their skeletons were left, and then, for some unknown reason, they all turned into stone.
Originally the first theory was the most popular, until a researcher remembered that he had seen something similar in the outside world and brought it back.
In any case, we cannot understand why people at that time placed all these stones here and occupied such a large circular area. "
Yang Yu directed the light platform under his feet to rise slowly. Looking down at the area from the top of the dome, he saw several highly recognizable fossils.
Sabre-toothed tiger, mammoth, moa, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Dunkleosteus
Flying back to the ground, the light platform under his feet disappeared, and Yang Yu officially stepped into this fossil area. He seemed to be attracted by something, walking step by step from the edge of the circle to the center.
How did humans come about
In some fantasy worlds, this question is either deliberately avoided or answered directly that humans were created by a certain god.
But in this relic, Yang Yu saw another explanation.
With every step he took, Yang Yu felt as if hundreds of thousands of years had passed by him. His posture gradually changed, and the fossils beside him gradually came to life.
He first turned into a hairy ape, with all kinds of giant beasts roaming around him. He was alone and weak, and his companions like him gathered around him. Suddenly, a sharp saber pierced his throat from behind.
The next moment, he became a strange monkey jumping in the woods, jumping in the woods occupied by the giant chocobo. He was so busy looking at the giant bird that he accidentally bumped into a branch and fell off the tree. The chocobo stepped on his body with its huge claws and the huge beak stabbed straight at him.
The next moment, the giant bird turned into a dinosaur and bit the Triceratops it had just captured, while he became even weaker and became a mouse hiding in a tree hole. A four-winged dinosaur found his nest and attacked it. He shrank back to the corner of the cave, but still could not escape the fate of death.
Step by step, death passed before Yang Yu's eyes. The enemies came in batches, but he was unable to defeat death every time.
His posture kept changing, he shed his hair and grew scales, he shed his scales and his skin became moist, then he grew scales again, he dived into the sea, swam and swam, his body became more and more primitive, he lost his limbs, lost his fins for paddling, lost his lower jaw, lost his spinal cord, lost his eyesight, and became smaller and smaller, until he turned into a tiny thing that no one could see.
Raising his hand, everything returned to normal. Yang Yu seemed to have traveled through billions of years and become who he is now.
In front of him was a glass box placed on a pillar, with nothing inside.
But Yang Yu knew what was inside.
"—LUCA."
The common ancestor of all living things.
(End of this chapter)