The low and frantic murmuring sound echoed faintly in this underground passage.
But Motley Cat, Yu Chi, Kezia Mason, and Gu Jun walked for half an hour without end, turned a few turns, and saw no one, the lights on the wall were exactly the same, the vibration was still going on, and this The faint voices have always been at such a distance, as if there has been no change.
Arriving here, there is another passageway, which connects eight directions, and there is also an iron staircase in the sky leading down.
But this is probably not where they first came, the old and new iron stairs are not the same.
It was also because of this that the motley cat, that is, Wu Shiyu, had to admit the fact that, well, it was lost.
"Meow." She spread her paws and fell in the middle of the aisle, expressing the fact that she couldn't lead the way, and she needed to rest.
"Don't you feel anything?" Gu Jun asked, he didn't have any, and his perception here was very confusing.
Wu Shiyu shook her head, she thought she had it, but like a carrot hanging in front of a horse, one more step would lead to a further distance. She thought the best way was to grow the horse's mouth a little longer, or have a long tongue like an anteater, so that she could eat it.
Gu Jun looked around, just now there was a panic in his heart, something is happening...
Time, less than an hour and a half left.
Kezia Mason also seemed to have no idea, she was very interested in the electric light on the wall, which was a novelty for her.
"Captain Gu, I have some ideas." Yu Chi walked to the wall at this time, "Take a look at these carvings on the wall. I have noticed them for a long time. From the entrance of the stairs to the bottom, all the way here, the wall The body is covered with carvings."
"Hmm." Gu Jun naturally also noticed that, 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, he is scratching his beard, he has a lot to say, but it is difficult to organize his words because of abnormal ptsd.
"These are petroglyphs, they are symbols, and they are also words... how to put it, how to put it, rocks are a visual medium! So all these images carved on stones and mountain walls in ancient times, whether they are concrete images or geometric symbols, They can all be regarded as marks and symbols.”
Gu Jun nodded, "Understood."
"Meow." Wu Shiyu over there was also listening, which is easy to understand, men and women are 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 hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform, and Chinese characters—that is, oracle bone inscriptions. These are the development of pictographic symbols in the past of."
Through the dim light, Gu Jun looked at the detailed symbols on the wall, "Yu Team, do you want to say that these symbols on the wall actually have the meaning of words?"
"Yes, I want to say this. These minutes may be a whole mantra, or sacrificial text, or record some history."
As Yu Chi said, his eyes were a little fanatical. If he could develop all these symbols, how many things would he be able to find out.
But Yu Chi didn't just want to say this, "I know some linguistics. The more I looked at this wall, the more I found some ancient hieroglyphs. Look, that is the word 'worm' in oracle bone inscriptions. Hieroglyphs A descriptive image of objects, concepts, and behaviors, that's like a worm."
Gu Jun could indeed see traces in it, like a worm, a snake, or an iron hook only found in later generations.
Thinking about this matter carefully, I felt some inexplicable surges in my heart.
Although the characters they are using now have evolved, they may have been using this kind of characters when their ancestors were still living the days of drinking blood.
Among the three oldest pictographs, the only one still used by humans.
What do they mean when they appear on the wall here
"From the entrance of the iron ladder to the bottom here, I found that the oracle bone inscriptions appeared less and less, and the Sumerian cuneiform became more and more, and then the Egyptian hieroglyphs were the most, and the oracle bone inscriptions were almost invisible. I guess this is related to time. The further you go in, the earlier the written symbols on the wall were born."
"Captain Gu, everything will go back to the beginning of human civilization, and those of us who are at the end of civilization will go back, and the beginning and the end will be connected together."
"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 beliefs of these locust god believers are not that simple. It may not be just a matter of 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. Their altar needs to be built like this. I think we're already in the altar."
Technology? This word made Gu Jun frowned uncomfortably.
Technology is the means by which human beings and Yisi people rely on to fight against the forces of darkness...
"Meow?" Wu Shiyu asked, then, what should we do to reach our destination
Or has it arrived, and now it is smashing and smashing, biting and gnawing on the wall, so that it is considered as destroying the altar
"She's asking what to do then." Gu Jun could only hear this meaning.
"Let's go along the timeline and go back!" Yu Chi said while reaching out to touch the symbols on the concrete wall, "These symbols have their order of birth, human beings existed before the emergence of civilization, primitive man, orangutan … You see, there are almost no pictographs here, but there are a lot of Stone Age symbols, this is a proto-ox rock carving, and this is a pinnate figure - each with three or four forks on it, all Mesolithic petroglyphs …”
Only Yu Chi himself understands these archaeological knowledge.
So Gu Jun couldn't give any advice, and Kezia Mason stood aside as if she didn't understand, and Wu Shiyu followed suit.
"Captain Yu, lead the way." Gu Jun said, "Maybe this is 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, fumbled through the symbols on the wall, and judged the time points represented by each direction. is to the Neolithic, and that is the future for the Mesolithic.
And if they want to go back to the past and the original point, they need to take the intersection leading to the Paleolithic Age.
There are, however, three passages, all with distinct and comparable numbers of Paleolithic symbols.
But among them, there is only one passageway with oracle bone inscriptions with the word "worm", the only oracle bone inscriptions.
"This character has been appearing all the time, and it has never disappeared." Yu Chi scratched his head and said, "It shouldn't have appeared, it shouldn't have appeared long ago, even Egyptian hieroglyphs are gone, how could there be oracle bone inscriptions in the Paleolithic Age? Unless... It transcends time."
Gu Jun looked at the worm character like a snake like a hook.
Are the Locust God believers who transcend time? Or are they intruders
There was less than an hour and ten minutes left. Now that this passage had been selected, the three of them and the cat stepped out again and walked deep into the passage.
It's just that they don't know if they are fish that have eaten insect bait and taken the bait.