As Katrina said: the ocean is vast and it swallows everything.
Seventy percent of the planet's area is ruled by the ocean. The sea monsters are the most low-key, friendliest, and most uncontested race on the planet, but they are the rulers of the most extensive country on the planet. They have lived in this deep sea for ten thousand years, and the world on land has undergone vicissitudes and vicissitudes. Countless dynasties—even the dynasties of "gods"—have risen and fallen during these ten thousand years. The once glorious civilization creations have lost in the sinking, And among them, countless things fell into the deep sea by various chances and coincidences, and finally became the collections of the sirens.
These low-key but curious sea monsters are definitely the most undisputed collectors on this planet. They will collect almost all sunken objects found in the sea as treasures, which probably has something to do with their ancestors : As early as in the chaotic era of Io, the sea monsters of the deep sea gradually learned about the "upper world" by picking up the falling objects from the upper layer of the sea. Strange things are popular. Their ability to collect even made Lily amazed: husky girls usually like to bring all kinds of stones home... um, pick them up and store them at home, but the things collected by the Krakens of Nasathorn How high is Bi Lili's pile of broken rocks!
The collections in the collection are arranged according to time, and the age of the collections outside is closer to modern times. Hao Ren walked slowly along this "frozen time axis", almost feeling like he was reading the history of this planet.
On the most recent shelves, the most common objects are various human-made utensils, the latest being a small ring from an unnamed lovelorn girl on the west coast of the United States, whose owner sadly threw it into the water In the middle of the day, a sea monster who happened to be swimming below happily picked it up, and after playing for a few days, sent it to the collection. And go a little further, and you can see a metal plate with beautiful cursive letters, which is a relic of a sunken ship. go further. Hao Ren saw torpedoes and artillery shells, as well as submarine periscope parts and a broken metal nameplate: these things came from World War II.
He even saw fragments of the Bismarck's boilers—a collection that Katrina recovered herself. When Bismarck sank, the siren queen watched the gorgeous fireworks above in the deep water, and finally she cut a steel plate from Bismarck's boiler as a souvenir of this observation of human beings.
And further on, the collection becomes even older, and some curious and interesting objects begin to appear. The captain's log of the Spanish merchant ship and the pirate's machete are placed together with fragments of fishing gear swept out to sea by the tsunami. There are also strangely shaped binoculars and strange gadgets that look like magic tools that don't seem to work at all. Hao Ren's attention was attracted by a cylinder made of platinum, which was carved with exquisite patterns, depicting nine-headed monsters, sea waves, and six-pointed star symbols. Katrina introduced what was in front of him like a tour guide: "This is the 'gold-seeking tube' of the great pirate Poserbah, the last pirate captain who knew black magic. He can see through this special telescope Seeing any ship carrying gold from thousands of miles away on the sea, he became rich as a country, but in the end the pirate captain was stuck in the captain's cabin by a chicken bone, and his pirate ship was swallowed by a storm shortly afterwards. .”
"That era was shrouded in mystery and darkness," Vivian said, putting a small gold-decorated dagger back on the shelf. "Sailors are the most easily bewitched by black magic, because they are far away from the land, so they are far away from the influence of churches and demon hunters. Those superstitious and daring 'sea people' are always happy to discuss stories about magic and curses. So The influence of such things as 'magic' persisted in the sea long after the age of mythology on land ended."
Hao Ren nodded thoughtfully. Continue to walk forward along the time axis. He noticed that the things on the shelves on both sides gradually changed from gorgeous and delicate to simple and rough—he had just passed the glorious and splendid period of human civilization, and was gradually approaching the more primitive and ignorant Middle Ages, tattered fishing nets and old sword fragments became the shelves Among the main exhibits are a growing collection of lesser items related to magic, as well as some more surprising historical artifacts. There was an ugly boulder and a jumble of wooden splinters on a separate stack, next to a sign that read: RICHARD, KING OF HUMANS, ATTACKS CYPRUS WITH catapults.
"Do you know how valuable these things are?" Hao Ren couldn't help thinking of what Katrina said before that the collection was "not very important". . At first, when he saw several soldiers around the entrance of the collection hall, he felt that the place was well-secured. But now he felt that this place was wide open: the Krakens only sent four sentries to stand guard here, and they only guarded the treasure house with an antique iron gate!
"Is it important?" Katrina didn't feel it at all. "Anyway, people in the world above ground throw away unnecessary things..."
"I'm thinking that at least half of it wasn't thrown away voluntarily..." Lily stuck out her tongue, "Wrecks and shipwrecks are all accidents, okay?"
Katrina wagged her tail lightly, with a blank expression on her face: "Probably... almost the same meaning."
Hao Ren felt that he and the Siren Queen could not communicate in terms of values at all, so he curled his lips, turned his head and continued to swim forward. And after getting past the crude and rough medieval relics, he found that the things on the shelves became exquisite again.
There are fewer and fewer superficial human creations, and a harpoon used by fishermen has become the last human symbol ahead—of course, according to the timeline, this harpoon should be the first human item collected by the Kraken. Going forward, it is all things that were impossible to create in the human society at that time:
Exquisite machinery made of metal, strange devices made of crystal, colorful crystal crowns, exquisite canes that keep shining light, and various other wonderful products that obviously do not conform to the characteristics of human civilization. Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, then realized that he had reached the age of mythology.
He glanced back, but found that he had only advanced less than one-fifth of the distance beside the long exhibition shelf: in the history of this ten thousand years, it was almost just a fragment.
"Humans have only been able to dominate this planet for so long," Weiwei quietly looked at the crude human relics and the shiny alien "artifacts". People were speechless, "This is amazing, time goes back five hundred years, and human beings still pray every night that monsters don't come to take away their children, back one thousand and five hundred years, human beings are still afraid of werewolves every day Or the blood race broke into the town suddenly, and went back 2,500 years, they were still bowing down to the cruel alien gods, but now they are the only masters of this planet, and their creations only account for five points here One of the positions, but they have already occupied the entire planet on the surface."
"Those who don't think about making progress will eventually be eliminated." Hao Ren shook his head.
"This bow belongs to Artemis!" Vivian suddenly found something she recognized, it was a shining silver longbow, "... this bow after Mount Olympus fell into the space storm It was lost, and I didn't expect it to fall into the sea."
On the shelf not far away, Lily found a heavy trident made of black iron and emitting a faint blue light from the tip. She shouted in surprise: "Katrina! Isn't the trident the equipment of your sea monsters? Why? Throw it here?"
"That's not the model used by Kraken, that's Poseidon's. He once tried to force his way into Nasathorn, but was trapped on the bottom of the sea by the distortion field around the starship. Later, he used his trident as a bargaining chip to fight against the sea. We put him back after negotiating with the monsters," Katrina said while shaking her head slightly, "We are kind to people, but it doesn't mean that anyone can bother us."
Vivienne was a little surprised: "Poseidon's trident is here with you? Why didn't I know that he lost his weapon? At the end of Olympus, Poseidon used his trident to fight the witcher."
"Then I don't know. Maybe he has a lot of tridents. After all, it's a shameful thing. He won't spread the news when he loses his weapons." Katrina shrugged, "The world on land is too chaotic, don't we understand? Well, we didn't even know there was a 'god' in the ocean until that bearded man who claimed to be the sea god came and made trouble. The sea monster doesn't care about all this nonsense."
After a while, Lily yelled again: "Hey, why is there a sole here?"
"Those are Zeus' slippers."
Lily: "..."
The remnants of the Olympian gods aroused greater interest from everyone. These ancient artifacts still retain some power today, and we can vaguely glimpse the prosperity of the Zeus family in the past. Hao Ren turned around among these old antiques curiously. Suddenly, his sight was attracted by a gray-white thing that looked like a sculpture pedestal.
"Huh? This thing...why does it look familiar?" (To be continued~^~)